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EXHIBIT 10.1

 

 

 

 

CREDIT AGREEMENT

Dated as of December 8, 2016,

among

MEDPACE ACQUISITION, INC.,
as Parent,

MEDPACE INTERMEDIATECO, INC.,
as Borrower,

WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Administrative Agent and L/C Issuer,

PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

as Lender, Swingline Lender and L/C Issuer,

The other Lenders party hereto,

PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

as Syndication Agent,

and

BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,

as Co-Documentation Agents

 

WELLS FARGO SECURITIES, LLC,
PNC CAPITAL MARKETS LLC,
MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH, INCORPORATED, and
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,
as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners

 

 

 

 

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ARTICLE I

Definitions and Accounting Terms1

 

 

Section 1.01

Defined Terms1

 

 

Section 1.02

Other Interpretive Provisions55

 

 

Section 1.03

Accounting Terms56

 

 

Section 1.04

Rounding56

 

 

Section 1.05

References to Agreements and Laws56

 

 

Section 1.06

Times of Day57

 

 

Section 1.07

Timing of Payment or Performance57

 

 

Section 1.08

Currency Equivalents Generally57

 

 

Section 1.09

Change in Currency57

 

 

Section 1.10

Letter of Credit Amounts58

 

 

Section 1.11

Pro Forma Calculations58

 

 

Section 1.12

Calculation of Baskets58

 

 

Section 1.13

No Personal Liability59

 

ARTICLE II

THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS59

 

 

Section 2.01

The Loans59

 

 

Section 2.02

Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Loans60

 

 

Section 2.03

Letters of Credit62

 

 

Section 2.04

Swingline Loans71

 

 

Section 2.05

Prepayments73

 

 

Section 2.06

Termination or Reduction of Commitments78

 

 

Section 2.07

Repayment of Loans79

 

 

Section 2.08

Interest80

 

 

Section 2.09

Fees81

 

 

Section 2.10

Computation of Interest and Fees; Retroactive Adjustments of Applicable Rate82

 

 

Section 2.11

Evidence of Indebtedness82

 

 

Section 2.12

Payments Generally; Administrative Agent’s Clawback83

 

 

Section 2.13

Sharing of Payments85

 

 

Section 2.14

Incremental Facilities85

 

 

Section 2.15

New Incremental Notes90

 

 

Section 2.16

Cash Collateral91

 

 

Section 2.17

Defaulting Lenders92

 

 

Section 2.18

Specified Refinancing Debt94

 

 

Section 2.19

Extensions of Term Loans and Revolving Credit Commitments96

 

ARTICLE III

TAXES, CURRENCY EQUIVALENTS, INCREASED COSTS PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY99

 

 

Section 3.01

Taxes99

 

 

Section 3.02

Currency Equivalents103

 

 

Section 3.03

Illegality103

 

 

Section 3.04

Inability to Determine Rates104

 

 

Section 3.05

Increased Cost and Reduced Return; Capital Adequacy105

 

 

Section 3.06

Funding Losses106

 

 

Section 3.07

Matters Applicable to All Requests for Compensation107

 

 

Section 3.08

Replacement of Lenders under Certain Circumstances108

 

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ARTICLE IV

CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO CREDIT EXTENSIONS110

 

 

Section 4.01

Conditions to the Initial Credit Extension on the Closing Date110

 

 

Section 4.02

Conditions to All Credit Extensions112

 

ARTICLE V

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES113

 

 

Section 5.01

Existence, Qualification and Power; Compliance with Laws113

 

 

Section 5.02

Authorization; No Contravention113

 

 

Section 5.03

Governmental Authorization; Other Consents113

 

 

Section 5.04

Binding Effect114

 

 

Section 5.05

Financial Statements; No Material Adverse Effect114

 

 

Section 5.06

Litigation114

 

 

Section 5.07

Use of Proceeds114

 

 

Section 5.08

Ownership of Property; Liens115

 

 

Section 5.09

Environmental Compliance115

 

 

Section 5.10

Taxes115

 

 

Section 5.11

Employee Benefits Plans; Labor Matters116

 

 

Section 5.12

Subsidiaries; Equity Interests117

 

 

Section 5.13

Margin Regulations; Investment Company Act117

 

 

Section 5.14

Disclosure117

 

 

Section 5.15

Compliance with Laws117

 

 

Section 5.16

Intellectual Property; Licenses, etc118

 

 

Section 5.17

Solvency118

 

 

Section 5.18

Perfection, etc118

 

 

Section 5.19

Anti-Corruption Laws; Anti-Money Laundering Laws and Sanctions118

 

 

Section 5.20

EEA Financial Institutions119

 

ARTICLE VI

AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS119

 

 

Section 6.01

Financial Statements119

 

 

Section 6.02

Certificates; Other Information120

 

 

Section 6.03

Notices122

 

 

Section 6.04

Payment of Taxes123

 

 

Section 6.05

Preservation of Existence, etc123

 

 

Section 6.06

Maintenance of Properties123

 

 

Section 6.07

Maintenance of Insurance123

 

 

Section 6.08

Compliance with Laws124

 

 

Section 6.09

Books and Records124

 

 

Section 6.10

Inspection Rights124

 

 

Section 6.11

Use of Proceeds124

 

 

Section 6.12

Covenant to Guarantee Obligations and Give Security124

 

 

Section 6.13

Compliance with Environmental Laws126

 

 

Section 6.14

Further Assurances126

 

 

Section 6.15

Post-Closing Undertakings126

 

ARTICLE VII

NEGATIVE COVENANTS126

 

 

Section 7.01

Liens127

 

 

Section 7.02

Investments131

 

 

Section 7.03

Indebtedness135

 

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Section 7.04

Fundamental Changes137

 

 

Section 7.05

Dispositions138

 

 

Section 7.06

Restricted Payments140

 

 

Section 7.07

Change in Nature of Business143

 

 

Section 7.08

Transactions with Affiliates143

 

 

Section 7.09

Burdensome Agreements145

 

 

Section 7.10

Financial Covenants147

 

 

Section 7.11

Accounting Changes147

 

 

Section 7.12

Prepayments, etc147

 

 

Section 7.13

Use of Proceeds148

 

 

Section 7.14

Holding Company148

 

ARTICLE VIII

EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES150

 

 

Section 8.01

Events of Default150

 

 

Section 8.02

Remedies Upon Event of Default152

 

 

Section 8.03

Application of Funds152

 

ARTICLE IX

ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND OTHER AGENTS154

 

 

Section 9.01

Appointment and Authorization of Agents154

 

 

Section 9.02

Delegation of Duties155

 

 

Section 9.03

Liability of Agents156

 

 

Section 9.04

Reliance by Agents157

 

 

Section 9.05

Notice of Default157

 

 

Section 9.06

Credit Decision; Disclosure of Information by Agents158

 

 

Section 9.07

Indemnification of Agents158

 

 

Section 9.08

Agents in their Individual Capacities159

 

 

Section 9.09

Successor Agents159

 

 

Section 9.10

Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim160

 

 

Section 9.11

Collateral and Guaranty Matters161

 

 

Section 9.12

Other Agents; Arranger and Managers162

 

 

Section 9.13

Secured Cash Management Agreements and Secured Hedge Agreements162

 

 

Section 9.14

Appointment of Supplemental Agents162

 

 

Section 9.15

Intercreditor Agreement163

 

 

Section 9.16

Withholding Tax163

 

ARTICLE X

MISCELLANEOUS164

 

 

Section 10.01

Amendments, etc164

 

 

Section 10.02

Notices; Electronic Communications166

 

 

Section 10.03

No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies; Enforcement168

 

 

Section 10.04

Expenses and Taxes169

 

 

Section 10.05

Indemnification by the Borrower169

 

 

Section 10.06

Payments Set Aside171

 

 

Section 10.07

Successors and Assigns171

 

 

Section 10.08

Confidentiality177

 

 

Section 10.09

Setoff178

 

 

Section 10.10

Interest Rate Limitation179

 

 

Section 10.11

Counterparts179

 

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Section 10.12

Integration; Effectiveness179

 

 

Section 10.13

Survival of Representations and Warranties180

 

 

Section 10.14

Severability180

 

 

Section 10.15

Governing Law; Jurisdiction; etc180

 

 

Section 10.16

SERVICE OF PROCESS181

 

 

Section 10.17

WAIVER OF RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY181

 

 

Section 10.18

Binding Effect181

 

 

Section 10.19

No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility182

 

 

Section 10.20

Affiliate Activities182

 

 

Section 10.21

Electronic Execution of Assignments and Certain Other Documents183

 

 

Section 10.22

USA PATRIOT ACT183

 

 

Section 10.23

Judgment Currency183

 

 

Section 10.24

Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of EEA Financial Institutions183

 

 

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SCHEDULES

1--Subsidiary Guarantors

1.01(e)--Contracts Prohibiting Subsidiary Guarantees

2.01--Commitments and Pro Rata Shares

2.03--Existing Letters of Credit

4.01(a)(ii)--Closing Security Documents

5.12--Subsidiaries and Other Equity Investments

5.16--Intellectual Property Matters

6.15--Post-Closing Undertakings

7.01--Existing Liens

7.02--Existing Investments

7.03--Existing Indebtedness

7.08--Transactions with Affiliates

7.09--Burdensome Agreements

10.02--Administrative Agent’s Office, Certain Addresses for Notices

EXHIBITS

A-1--Committed Loan Notice

A-2--Request for L/C Credit Extension

A-3--Swingline Loan Notice

B-1--Term Note

B-2--Revolving Credit Note

B-3--Swingline Note

C--Compliance Certificate

D--Assignment and Assumption

E--Guaranty

F-1--Security Agreement

F-2--Pledge Agreement

G--Intercompany Subordination Agreement

H--Solvency Certificate

I-1--U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate

I-2--U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate

I-3--U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate

I-4--U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate

J--Optional Prepayment of Loans

 

 

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This CREDIT AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is entered into as of December 8, 2016, among Medpace IntermediateCo, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Borrower”), Medpace Acquisition, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Parent”), each lender from time to time party hereto (collectively, the “Lenders” and individually, a “Lender”), PNC Bank, National Association, as Swingline Lender and L/C Issuer and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Administrative Agent and L/C Issuer.

PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS

WHEREAS, to fund the repayment of certain outstanding Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries and certain other permitted uses, the Borrower has requested that the Lenders enter into this Agreement to extend credit in the form of Term Loans on the Closing Date, in an aggregate principal amount not in excess of $165,000,000.

WHEREAS, to fund the working capital and other general corporate purposes of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, the Borrower has requested that the Lenders extend Revolving Credit Loans at any time and from time to time prior to the Original Revolving Maturity Date, in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding not in excess of $150,000,000.

WHEREAS, the Borrower has requested that the Swingline Lender make Swingline Loans, at any time and from time to time after the Closing Date and prior to the Original Revolving Maturity Date, in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding not in excess of the Swingline Sublimit.

WHEREAS, the Borrower has requested that the L/C Issuers issue letters of credit, in an aggregate face amount at any time outstanding not in excess of the Letter of Credit Sublimit, to support certain payment obligations incurred by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries.

In consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained, the parties hereto covenant and agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

Definitions and Accounting Terms

Section 1.01Defined Terms.  As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:

Adjusted Eurocurrency Rate” means, with respect to any Eurocurrency Rate Borrowing for any Interest Period, an interest rate per annum equal to (a) with respect to any Eurocurrency Rate Borrowing denominated in Dollars, the Eurocurrency Rate based on clause (a) of the definition of “Eurocurrency Rate” with respect to Dollars for such Interest Period, multiplied by the Statutory Reserve Rate, (b) with respect to any Eurocurrency Rate Borrowing denominated in Euros, the Eurocurrency Rate based on clause (b) of the definition of “Eurocurrency Rate” with respect to Euros for such Interest Period, and (c) with respect to any Eurocurrency Rate Borrowing denominated in any Alternative Currency other than Euros, the Eurocurrency Rate based on clause (c) of the definition of “Eurocurrency Rate” with respect to such other Alternative Currency for such Interest Period.  The Adjusted Eurocurrency Rate for any Eurocurrency Rate Borrowing that includes the Statutory Reserve Rate as a component of the calculation will be adjusted automatically with respect to all such Eurocurrency Rate Borrowings then outstanding as of the effective date of any change in the Statutory Reserve Rate.

Administrative Agent” means Wells Fargo Bank, in its capacity as administrative agent under any of the Loan Documents, or any successor administrative agent permitted by the terms hereof.

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Administrative Agent’s Office” means, with respect to any currency, the Administrative Agent’s address and, as appropriate, account as set forth on Schedule 10.02, with respect to such currency, or such other address or account with respect to such currency as the Administrative Agent may from time to time notify the Borrower and the Lenders.

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

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

Agent-Related Persons” means each Agent, together with its Related Parties.

Agents” means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Arrangers, the Co-Documentation Agents, the Syndication Agent and the Supplemental Agents (if any).

Aggregate Commitments” means the Commitments of all the Lenders.

Agreement” means this Credit Agreement.

Agreement Currency” has the meaning specified in Section 10.23.

Alternative Currency” means Euros, Pounds Sterling and any other currency agreed to by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower and (a) in the case of any Revolving Credit Loan denominated in an Alternative Currency, each Revolving Credit Lender and (b) in the case of any Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency, the applicable L/C Issuer and each Revolving Credit Lender; provided that each such currency is a lawful currency that is readily available, freely transferable and not restricted, able to be converted into Dollars and available in the London interbank deposit market.

Alternative Currency Sublimit” means an amount equal to the lesser of the Revolving Credit Commitments and $50,000,000.  The Alternative Currency Sublimit is a part of, and not in addition to, the Revolving Credit Commitments.

Anti-Corruption Laws” means all laws, rules and regulations of any jurisdiction applicable to the Borrower or its Subsidiaries from time to time concerning or relating to bribery or corruption (including the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977).

Anti-Money Laundering Laws” means any and all laws, statutes, regulations or obligatory government orders, decrees, ordinances or rules applicable to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries from time to time related to terrorism financing or money laundering, including any applicable provision of the Patriot Act and The Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act (also known as the “Bank Secrecy Act,” 31 U.S.C. §§ 5311-5330 and 12U.S.C. §§ 1818(s), 1820(b) and 1951-1959).

Applicable Commitment Fee” means a percentage per annum equal to (a) from the Closing Date until the first Business Day that immediately follows the date on which a Compliance Certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(b) in respect of the first full fiscal quarter ending after the Closing Date, 0.375% per annum, and (b) thereafter, for any day, the applicable percentage per annum set forth below, as determined by reference to the Total Net Leverage Ratio, as set forth in the then most recent Compliance Certificate received by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 6.02(b) prior to such day (or if such day is not a Business Day, prior to the Business Day immediately preceding such day):

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Pricing Level

Total Net Leverage

Applicable Commitment
Fee rate
per annum

1

< 3.00:1.00

0.375%

2

≥ 3.00:1.00

0.500%

 

 

 

Any increase or decrease in the Applicable Commitment Fee resulting from a change in the Total Net Leverage Ratio shall become effective as of the first Business Day immediately following the date a Compliance Certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(b); provided, however, that “Pricing Level 2” shall apply without regard to the Total Net Leverage Ratio at any time after the date on which any annual or quarterly financial statement was required to have been delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or Section 6.01(b) but was not delivered (or the Compliance Certificate related to such financial statement was required to have been delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(b) but was not delivered), commencing with the first Business Day immediately following such date and continuing until the first Business Day immediately following the date on which such financial statement (or, if later, the Compliance Certificate related to such financial statement) is delivered and indicates that “Pricing Level 1” shall apply.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this definition, the determination of the Applicable Commitment Fee for any period shall be subject to the provisions of Section 2.10.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained above in this definition or elsewhere in this Agreement, if it is subsequently determined that the Total Net Leverage Ratio set forth in any Compliance Certificate delivered for any period is inaccurate for any reason and the result thereof is that the respective Lenders received payments for any period based on an Applicable Commitment Fee that is less than that which would have been applicable had the Total Net Leverage Ratio been accurately determined, then, for all purposes of this Agreement, the “Applicable Commitment Fee” for any day occurring within the period covered by such Compliance Certificate shall retroactively be deemed to be the relevant percentage as based upon the accurately determined Total Net Leverage Ratio for such period, and any shortfall in the payments theretofore paid by the Borrower for the relevant period as a result of the miscalculation of the Total Net Leverage Ratio shall be due and payable within three Business Days after the Borrower obtains knowledge (including by way of notification thereof from the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders) that the Total Net Leverage Ratio was inaccurately computed; provided, however, if an Event of Default under Section 8.01(f) or (g) then exists, such payments shall be deemed to have been due and payable under the relevant provisions at the time the payments for such period were required to have been paid pursuant to said provisions on the same basis as if the Total Net Leverage Ratio had been accurately set forth in such Compliance Certificate (together with all amounts owing as default interest). Upon the payment in full of any accrued additional payments pursuant to this paragraph, any Default or Event of Default that may have arisen solely as a result of the Compliance Certificate miscalculating the Total Net Leverage Ratio for purposes of calculating the Applicable Commitment Fee (but not for purposes of calculating the Total Net Leverage Ratio under Section 7.10 or any other Section of this Agreement or as a result of any other inaccuracy or misrepresentation set forth in such Compliance Certificate) shall be deemed cured.

Applicable Rate” means a percentage per annum equal to, with respect to the Initial Term Loans and Revolving Credit Loans (a) from the Closing Date until the first Business Day that immediately follows the date on which a Compliance Certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(b) in respect of the first full fiscal quarter ending after the Closing Date, 1.50% per annum for Eurocurrency Rate Loans and Letter of Credit fees, and 0.50% per annum for Base Rate Loans, and (b) thereafter, for any day, the applicable percentage per annum set forth below, as determined by reference to the Total Net Leverage Ratio, as set forth in the then most recent Compliance Certificate received by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 6.02(b) prior to such day (or if such day is not a Business Day, prior to the Business Day immediately preceding such day):

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Applicable Rate

Pricing Level

Total Net Leverage Ratio

Eurocurrency Rate Loans / Letter of Credit fees

Base Rate Loans

1

< 1.50:1.00

1.25%

0.25%

2

≥ 1.50:1.00 but < 2.25:1.00

1.50%

0.50%

3

≥ 2.25:1.00 but < 3.00:1.00

1.75%

0.75%

4

≥ 3.00:1.00 but < 3.75:1.00

2.00%

1.00%

5

≥ 3.75:1.00

2.25%

1.25%

 

 

 

 

Any increase or decrease in the Applicable Rate resulting from a change in the Total Net Leverage Ratio shall become effective as of the first Business Day immediately following the date a Compliance Certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(b); provided, however, that “Pricing Level 5” shall apply without regard to the Total Net Leverage Ratio at any time after the date on which any annual or quarterly financial statement was required to have been delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or Section 6.01(b) but was not delivered (or the Compliance Certificate related to such financial statement was required to have been delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(b) but was not delivered), commencing with the first Business Day immediately following such date and continuing until the first Business Day immediately following the date on which such financial statement (or, if later, the Compliance Certificate related to such financial statement) is delivered.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this definition, the determination of the Applicable Rate for any period shall be subject to the provisions of Section 2.10.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained above in this definition or elsewhere in this Agreement, if it is subsequently determined that the Total Net Leverage Ratio set forth in any Compliance Certificate delivered for any period is inaccurate for any reason and the result thereof is that the respective Lenders received interest or Letter of Credit fees for any period based on an Applicable Rate that is less than that which would have been applicable had the Total Net Leverage Ratio been accurately determined, then, for all purposes of this Agreement, the “Applicable Rate” for any day occurring within the period covered by such Compliance Certificate shall retroactively be deemed to be the relevant percentage as based upon the accurately determined Total Net Leverage Ratio for such period, and any shortfall in the interest or Letter of Credit fees theretofore paid by the Borrower for the relevant period as a result of the miscalculation of the Total Net Leverage Ratio shall be due and payable within three Business Days after the Borrower obtains knowledge (including by way of notification thereof from the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders) that the Total Net Leverage Ratio was inaccurately computed; provided, however, if an Event of Default under Section 8.01(f) or (g) then exists, such interest and Letter of Credit fees shall be deemed to have been due and payable under the relevant provisions at the time the interest or Letter of Credit fees for such period was required to have been paid pursuant to said provisions on the same basis as if the Total Net Leverage Ratio had been accurately set forth in such Compliance Certificate (together with all amounts owing as default interest).  Upon the payment in full of any accrued additional interest and Letter of Credit fees pursuant to this paragraph, any Default or Event of Default that may have arisen solely as a result of the Compliance Certificate miscalculating the Total Net Leverage Ratio for purposes of calculating the Applicable Rates (but not for purposes of calculating the Total Net Leverage Ratio under Section 7.10 or any other Section of this Agreement or as a result of any other inaccuracy or misrepresentation set forth in such Compliance Certificate) shall be deemed cured.

Appropriate Lender” means, at any time, (a) with respect to any Term Facility or Revolving Facility, a Lender that has a Commitment with respect to such Facility or holds a Term Loan with respect to such Term Facility or a Revolving Credit Loan with respect to such Revolving Facility, respectively, at such time, (b) with respect to the Letter of Credit Sublimit, (i) each L/C Issuer and (ii) if

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any Letters of Credit have been issued pursuant to Section 2.03(a), the Revolving Credit Lenders, and (c) with respect to the Swingline Facility, (i) the Swingline Lender and (ii) if any Swingline Loans are outstanding pursuant to Section 2.04(a), the Revolving Credit Lenders.

Approved Bank” has the meaning specified in clause (d) of the definition of “Cash Equivalents”.

Approved Fund” means any Fund that is administered, advised or managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender or (c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers, advises or manages a Lender.

Arrangers” means each of Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, PNC Capital Markets LLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

Assignee Group” means two or more Lenders or Eligible Assignees that are Affiliates of one another or two or more Approved Funds managed or advised by the same investment advisor or manager or by an Affiliate of such investment advisor or manager.

Assignment and Assumption” means an Assignment and Assumption substantially in the form of Exhibit D, or otherwise in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent.

Attributable Indebtedness” means, on any date, (a) in respect of any Capitalized Lease of any Person, the capitalized amount thereof that would appear on a balance sheet of such Person prepared as of such date in accordance with GAAP, and (b) in respect of any Synthetic Lease Obligation, the capitalized amount of the remaining lease payments under the relevant lease that would appear on a balance sheet of such Person prepared as of such date in accordance with GAAP if such lease were accounted for as a capital lease.

Auto-Renewal Letter of Credit” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(b)(iii).

Available Revolving Credit Commitment” means, in respect of any Revolving Facility, a Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment in respect of such Revolving Facility minus the Dollar Amount of its participation in any Revolving Credit Outstandings under such Facility.

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

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

Base Rate” means, for any day, a fluctuating rate per annum equal to the highest of (a) the Federal Funds Rate on such day plus 1/2 of 1%, (b) the Prime Lending Rate on such day and (c) the Adjusted Eurocurrency Rate for Loans denominated in Dollars published on such day (or if such day is not a Business Day the next previous Business Day) for an Interest Period of one month plus 1%.  Any change in the Base Rate due to a change in the Federal Funds Rate, the Prime Lending Rate or the Adjusted Eurocurrency Rate shall be effective as of the opening of business on the effective day of such change in the Federal Funds Rate, Prime Lending Rate or the Adjusted Eurocurrency Rate, as the case may be.

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Base Rate Loan” means a Loan denominated in Dollars that bears interest based on the Base Rate.

Borrower” has the meaning specified in the preamble hereto.

Borrower Materials” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02.

Borrowing” means a Revolving Credit Borrowing, a Swingline Borrowing or a Term Borrowing, as the context may require.

Business Day” means: (a) any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks are authorized to close under the Laws of, or are in fact closed in, the state where the Administrative Agent’s Office with respect to Loans denominated in Dollars is located; and (b) if such day relates to any interest rate settings as to a Eurocurrency Rate Loan or Letter of Credit denominated in:

(i)Dollars, any fundings, settlements, payments and disbursements in Dollars in respect of any such Eurocurrency Rate Loan or Letter of Credit, or any other dealings in Dollars to be carried out pursuant to this Agreement in respect of any such Eurocurrency Rate Loan or Letter of Credit, means any such day described in clause (a) above that is also a London Banking Day;

(ii)an Alternative Currency other than Euros, any fundings, settlements, payments and disbursements in such Alternative Currency, or any other dealings in such Alternative Currency to be carried out pursuant to this Agreement in respect of any such Eurocurrency Rate Loan or Letter of Credit, means any such day described in clause (a) above which is also a day on which dealings in deposits in such Alternative Currency are conducted by and between banks in the London interbank market and (other than any date that relates to any interest rate setting in respect of such Alternative Currency) any such day on which banks are open for foreign exchange business in the principal financial center of the country of such Alternative Currency; and

(iii)Euros, any fundings, disbursements, settlements and payments in Euros in respect of any such Eurocurrency Rate Loan or Letter of Credit, or any other dealings in Euros to be carried out pursuant to this Agreement in respect of any such Eurocurrency Rate Loan or Letter of Credit, means any such day described in clause (a) above that is also a TARGET Day.

Capitalized Leases” means all leases that have been or are required to be, in accordance with GAAP, recorded as capitalized leases; provided that obligations or liabilities of any Person to pay rent or other amounts under any lease of (or other arrangement conveying the right to use) real or personal property, or a combination thereof, which obligations would be required to be classified and accounted for as an operating lease under GAAP as existing on the Closing Date that are recharacterized as Capitalized Leases due to a change in GAAP after the Closing Date shall not be treated as Capitalized Leases for any purpose under this Agreement, but instead shall be accounted for as if they were operating leases for all purposes under this Agreement as determined under GAAP as in effect on the Closing Date.

Cash Collateralize” means to pledge and deposit with or deliver to the Administrative Agent, in respect of L/C Obligations or Obligations in respect of Swingline Loans, for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, the Swingline Lender or the applicable L/C Issuer (as applicable) and the Lenders, as collateral for L/C Obligations, Obligations in respect of Swingline Loans or obligations of Lenders to fund participations in respect of either thereof (as the context may require), cash or deposit account balances (in the case of L/C Obligations, in the respective currency or currencies in which the applicable L/C Obligations are denominated), if the Administrative Agent, the applicable L/C Issuer or the Swingline Lender benefiting from such collateral shall agree in its sole discretion, other credit support, in each case

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pursuant to documentation in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to (a) the Administrative Agent and (b) the applicable L/C Issuer or the Swingline Lender, as applicable (which documents are hereby consented to by the Lenders).  “Cash Collateral” and “Cash Collateralized” shall have a meaning correlative to the foregoing and shall include the proceeds of such cash collateral and other credit support.

Cash Equivalents” means any of the following types of Investments, to the extent owned by any member of the Restricted Group:

(a)Euros;

(b)Dollars or Sterling;

(c)readily marketable obligations issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the United States or any agency or instrumentality thereof having maturities of not more than 12 months from the date of acquisition thereof; provided that the full faith and credit of the United States is pledged in support thereof;

(d)time deposits with, or insured certificates of deposit or bankers’ acceptances of, any domestic or foreign commercial bank that (i) issues (or the parent of which issues) commercial paper rated at least P-2 (or the then equivalent grade) by Moody’s or at least A-2 (or the then equivalent grade) by S&P and (ii) has combined capital and surplus of at least $250,000,000 (or the equivalent in any other currency as of the date of determination in the case of any non-U.S. banks) (any such bank being an “Approved Bank”), in each case with maturities of not more than 360 days from the date of acquisition thereof;

(e)commercial paper and variable or fixed rate notes issued by an Approved Bank (or by the parent company thereof) or any variable rate note issued by, or guaranteed by a domestic corporation rated A-2 (or the equivalent thereof) or better by S&P or P-2 (or the equivalent thereof) or better by Moody’s, in each case with maturities of not more than 270 days from the date of acquisition thereof;

(f)marketable short-term money market and similar funds (including such funds investing a portion of their assets in municipal securities) having a rating of at least P-2 or A-2 from either Moody’s or S&P, respectively (or, if at any time neither Moody’s nor S&P shall be rating such obligations, an equivalent rating from another nationally recognized statistical rating agency selected by the Borrower);

(g)repurchase agreements entered into by any Person with a bank or trust company (including any of the Lenders) or recognized securities dealer having capital and surplus in excess of $250,000,000 (or the equivalent in any other currency as of the date of determination in the case of any non-U.S. banks) for direct obligations issued by or fully guaranteed or insured by the United States government or any agency or instrumentality of the United States in which such Person shall have a perfected first priority security interest (subject to no other Liens) and having, on the date of purchase thereof, a fair market value of at least 100% of the amount of the repurchase obligations;

(h)Investments, classified in accordance with GAAP as Current Assets of any member of the Restricted Group, in money market investment programs registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, which are administered by financial institutions having capital of at least $250,000,000 (or the equivalent in any other currency as of the date of determination in the case of any non-U.S. banks), and the portfolios of which are limited such that at least 95% of

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such investments are of the character, quality and maturity described in clauses (c) through (g) above;

(i)investment funds investing at least 95% of their assets in securities of the types (including as to credit quality and maturity) described in clauses (c) through (h) above; and

(j)solely with respect to any Restricted Subsidiary that is a Foreign Subsidiary, (x) such local currencies in those countries in which such Foreign Subsidiary transacts business from time to time in the ordinary course of business and (y) investments of comparable tenor and credit quality to those described in clauses (c) through (i) above customarily utilized in countries in which such Foreign Subsidiary operates for short term cash management purposes.

Cash Management Agreement” means any agreement to provide cash management services, including treasury, depository, overdraft, credit, purchasing or debit card, electronic funds transfer, cash pooling and other cash management arrangements to any Loan Party.

Cash Management Bank” means any Person that (a) at the time it enters into a Cash Management Agreement, is a Lender or an Agent or an Affiliate of a Lender or an Agent, (b) in the case of any Cash Management Agreement in effect on or prior to the Closing Date, is, as of the Closing Date or within 30 days thereafter, a Lender or an Agent or an Affiliate of a Lender or an Agent and a party to a Cash Management Agreement or (c) within 30 days after the time it enters into the applicable Cash Management Agreement, becomes a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender or an Agent, in each case, in its capacity as a party to such Cash Management Agreement.

Casualty Event” means any event that gives rise to the receipt by any member of the Restricted Group of any casualty insurance proceeds or condemnation awards or that gives rise to a taking by a Governmental Authority in respect of any equipment, fixed assets or real property (including any improvements thereon) to replace, restore or repair, or compensate for the loss of, such equipment, fixed assets or real property.

CERCLA” means the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980.

CERCLIS” means the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Information System maintained by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Change of Control” means:  (a) for any reason whatsoever Parent shall cease to own, directly, 100% of the Equity Interests of the Borrower; (b) for any reason whatsoever Holdings shall cease to own, directly or indirectly, 100% of the Equity Interests of the Borrower, (c) for any reason whatsoever, any “person” or “group” (within the meaning of Rule 13d-5 of the Exchange Act as in effect on the Closing Date) other than the Permitted Holders shall beneficially own a percentage of the then outstanding Voting Equity Interests of Holdings that is more than the greater of (i) 35% of the outstanding Voting Equity Interests of Parent and (ii) the percentage of such Voting Equity Interests owned, directly or indirectly, beneficially by the Permitted Holders; or (d) any “Change of Control” (or any comparable term) in any document pertaining to any Refinancing Notes, any New Incremental Notes, any Permitted Additional Debt, or any Permitted Refinancing of any of the foregoing (or successive Permitted Refinancings thereof), in each case with an aggregate outstanding principal amount at the time of determination in excess of $30,000,000.

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Closing Date” means the first date all the conditions precedent in Section 4.01 are satisfied or waived in accordance with such Section 4.01, and on which the Initial Term Loans are advanced, which date shall be December 8, 2016.

Closing Security Documents” means each of the documents listed on Schedule 4.01(a)(ii).

Co-Documentation Agents” means each of Bank of America, N.A. and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

Code” means the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

Collateral” means all of the “Collateral”, “Pledged Collateral”, “Pledged Assets” or any similar terms referred to in the Collateral Documents and all of the other property and assets that are or are required under the terms of the Collateral Documents to be subject to Liens in favor of (a) the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties and/or (b) the Secured Parties in their capacities as such (or any of them) to the extent required by applicable Law.

Collateral Documents” means, collectively, the Security Agreements, the other Closing Security Documents, collateral assignments, Security Agreement Supplements, Intellectual Property Security Agreements, security agreements, pledge agreements or other similar agreements delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 4.01, 6.12, 6.14 or 6.15, and each of the other agreements, instruments or documents that creates or purports to create a Lien in favor of (a) the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties and/or (b) the Secured Parties in their capacities as such (or any of them) to the extent required by applicable Law.

Commitment” means a Term Commitment and/or a Revolving Credit Commitment, as the context may require.

Committed Loan Notice” means a notice of (a) a Term Borrowing, (b) a Revolving Credit Borrowing, (c) a conversion of Loans from one Type to the other or (d) a continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, pursuant to Section 2.02(a), which, if in writing, shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A‑1.

Commodity Exchange Act” means the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.), as amended from time to time, and any successor statute.

Company Competitor” means any Person whose primary business is substantially similar or in competition to that carried out by the Restricted Group, which is the business of a contract research organization primarily focused on Phase I-IV clinical development and related activities.

Compliance Certificate” means a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C or such other form as may be agreed between the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.

Consolidated EBITDA” means, as of any date for the applicable period ending on such date with respect to any Person and its Subsidiaries which are the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, the sum of:

(a)Consolidated Net Income; plus

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(b)an amount which, in the determination of Consolidated Net Income for such period, has been deducted (and not added back) (or, in the case of amounts pursuant to clause (vii) below, not already included in Consolidated Net Income) for, without duplication,

(i)Consolidated Interest Expense,

(ii)provision for taxes based on income, gross receipts, profits or capital of any member of the Restricted Group, including federal, state, local, franchise, excise and similar taxes and foreign withholding taxes paid or accrued during such period including (A) penalties and interest related to such taxes or arising from any tax examinations and (B) in respect of repatriated funds (whether imposed on payor or payee and including any dividend distribution taxes),

(iii)depreciation and amortization expense and impairment charges (including amortization of intangible assets (including goodwill) and deferred financing fees or costs, including any deferred financing fees, original issue discount and/or upfront fees paid in connection with the Existing Credit Agreement Refinancing),

(iv)unusual or non-recurring charges, expenses or losses (including accruals and payments for amounts payable (A) under executive employment agreements, severance costs, relocation costs, signing, retention and completion bonuses and (B) losses realized on disposition of property outside of the ordinary course of business),

(v)other non-cash charges, expenses or losses (excluding any such non-cash charge, expense or loss to the extent that it represents an accrual of or reserve for cash expenses in any future period, an amortization of a prepaid cash expense that was paid in a prior period, or write-off or write-down of reserves with respect to current assets but including (A) any non-cash increase in expenses resulting from the revaluation of inventory (including any impact of changes to inventory valuation policy methods including changes in capitalization and variances), (B) charges recognized in relation to post-retirement benefits as a result of the application of FASB ASC 715 or other charges necessary to adjust the defined benefit pension expense to reflect service cost only, (C) non-cash losses on minority interests owned by any member of the Restricted Group, (D) the non-cash impact of accounting changes or restatements, (E) non-cash fair value adjustments in Investments, and (F) any other non-cash losses and expenses resulting from fair value accounting required by the applicable standard under GAAP and related interpretations) all as determined on a consolidated basis,

(vi)restructuring charges, accruals or reserves and business optimization expense, including any restructuring costs and integration costs incurred in connection with Permitted Acquisitions after the Closing Date, project start-up costs, costs related to the closure, relocation, reconfiguration and/or consolidation of facilities and costs to relocate employees, integration and transaction costs, retention charges, severance, contract termination costs, recruiting and signing bonuses and expenses, future lease commitments, systems establishment costs, conversion costs and excess pension charges and consulting fees, expenses attributable to the implementation of costs savings initiatives, costs associated with tax projects/audits and costs consisting of professional consulting or other fees relating to any of the foregoing,

(vii)the amount of net cost savings, operating expense reductions, other operating improvements and acquisition synergies projected by the Borrower in good faith

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to be realized (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis as though such items had been realized on the first day of such period) as a result of actions taken or to be taken by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, net of the amount of actual benefits realized during such period that are otherwise included in the calculation of Consolidated EBITDA from such actions; provided that (A) in the case of any net cost savings, operating expense reductions, other operating improvements and acquisition synergies, a duly completed certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower shall be delivered to the Administrative Agent together with the Compliance Certificate required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(b), certifying that (x) such cost savings, operating expense reductions, other operating improvements and synergies are reasonably anticipated to be realized within the timeframe set forth in clause (y) below and factually supportable and as determined in good faith by the Borrower and (y) such actions have been taken or are to be taken within 12 months after the consummation of any such action which is expected to result in such cost savings, operating expense reductions, other operating improvements or synergies, (B) no cost savings, operating expense reductions, operating improvements and synergies shall be added pursuant to this clause (vii) to the extent duplicative of any expenses or charges otherwise added to Consolidated Net Income, whether through a pro forma adjustment or otherwise, for such period, (C) projected amounts (that are not yet realized) may no longer be added in calculating Consolidated EBITDA pursuant to this clause (vii) to the extent occurring more than six full fiscal quarters after the specified action taken in order to realize such projected cost savings, operating expense reductions, operating improvements and synergies, and (D) such cost savings, operating expense reductions, other operating improvements and synergies shall not exceed 15% of Consolidated EBITDA (calculated without giving effect to this clause (vii)),

(viii)non-cash expenses resulting from any employee benefit or management compensation plan or the grant of stock and stock options and other equity and equity-based interests to employees or other service providers of any member of the Restricted Group pursuant to a written plan or agreement (including expenses arising from the grant of stock and stock options and other equity and equity-based interests prior to the Closing Date) or the treatment of such options and other equity and equity-based interests under variable plan accounting,

(ix)Transaction Costs,

(x)the amount of expenses, if any relating to payments made to holders of stock options or other compensatory equity-based awards in Parent or any other Parent Holding Company in connection with, or as a result of, any distribution being made to equity holders or unit holders of such Person or its direct or indirect parent companies, which payments are being made to compensate such holders of compensatory equity-based awards as though they were shareholders or unit holders at the time entitled to share in such distribution, in each case to the extent permitted by this Agreement,

(xi)any costs or expenses incurred pursuant to any management equity plan or share or unit option plan or any other management or employee benefit plan or agreement or share or unit subscription or shareholder or similar agreement, to the extent such costs or expenses are funded with cash proceeds Not Otherwise Applied of an equity contribution to the capital of Parent, and by Parent to the capital of the Borrower, or the Net Cash Proceeds Not Otherwise Applied of any issuance of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests) of Parent or any other Parent Holding Company, the proceeds of which are contributed to the capital of the Borrower,

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(xii)transaction fees and expenses incurred, or amortization thereof, in connection with, to the extent permitted hereunder, any Investment, any Debt Issuance, any Equity Issuance, any Disposition, any Casualty Event, recapitalization or any amendments or waivers of the Loan Documents and Permitted Refinancings in connection therewith, in each case, whether or not consummated,

(xiii)proceeds from business interruption insurance (to the extent not reflected as revenue or income in Consolidated Net Income and to the extent that the related loss was deducted in the determination of Consolidated Net Income),

(xiv)charges, losses, lost profits, expenses or write-offs to the extent indemnified or insured by a third party, including expenses covered by indemnification provisions in connection with a Permitted Acquisition or any other acquisition permitted by Section 7.02 or any transaction permitted by Section 7.04 or 7.05, in each case, to the extent that coverage has not been denied and so long as such amounts are actually reimbursed to a member of the Restricted Group in cash within one year after the related amount is first added to Consolidated EBITDA pursuant to this clause (xiv) (and if not so reimbursed within one year, such amount shall be deducted from Consolidated EBITDA during the next measurement period),

(xv)Synthetic Lease Obligations, to the extent deducted as an expense in such period,

(xvi)any losses realized upon a Disposition of property outside of the ordinary course of business,

(xvii)cash receipts (or any netting arrangements resulting in reduced cash expenses) not included in Consolidated EBITDA in any period to the extent non-cash gains relating to such receipts were deducted in the calculation of Consolidated EBITDA pursuant to clause (c) below for any previous period and not added back,

(xviii)net realized losses relating to amounts denominated in foreign currencies resulting from the application of FASB ASC 830 (including net realized losses from exchange rate fluctuations on intercompany balances and balance sheet items, net of realized gains from related Swap Contracts (entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice)),

(xix)cash expenses relating to earn outs and similar obligations,

(xx)costs incurred prior to the Closing Date associated with the initial public offering of Holdings of its Equity Interests pursuant to the prospectus dated August 10, 2016,

(xxi)costs incurred in connection with any secondary public offering and/or new registrations of Holdings or its Equity Interests, and

(xxii)any loss relating to Swap Contracts (excluding Swap Contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice); minus

(c)an amount which, in the determination of Consolidated Net Income, has been included for,

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(i)all non-recurring or unusual gains and non-cash income during such period (including income related to any purchase of Loans by Parent or any of its Subsidiaries),

(ii)other non-cash income or gains, including (A) any non-cash increase in income resulting from the revaluation of inventory (including any impact of changes to inventory valuation policy methods including changes in capitalization and variances) and the non-cash portion of “straight line” rent expense, (B) credits recognized in relation to post-retirement benefits as a result of the application of FASB ASC 715 or other credits necessary to adjust the defined benefit pension income to reflect service cost only, (C) non‑cash gains on minority interests owned by any member of the Restricted Group, (D) the non-cash impact of accounting changes or restatements, (E) non-cash fair value adjustments in Investments but excluding (x) accrual of revenue in the ordinary course, (y) any such items in respect of which cash was received in a prior period or will be received in a future period (and, in the case of cash that was received in a prior period, such amounts previously reduced Consolidated Net Income in a prior period (and would not have been required to be added back pursuant to clause (b) of this definition)) or (z) any such items which represent the reversal in such period of any accrual of, or reserve for, anticipated cash charges in any prior period where such accrual or reserve is no longer required (and where such accrual or reserve previously reduced Consolidated Net Income in a prior period (and would not have been required to be added back pursuant to clause (b) of this definition)), (F) non-cash gains in respect of “cancellation of indebtedness” resulting from the cancellation of any Term Loans purchased by any Parent, member of the Restricted Group or any of their Subsidiaries; and (G) any other non-cash gains and income resulting from fair value accounting required by the applicable standard under GAAP and related interpretations, all as determined on a consolidated basis,

(iii)any gains realized upon the Disposition of property outside of the ordinary course of business,

(iv)the amount of cash received in such period in respect of any non-cash income or gain in a prior period (and such non-cash income or gain previously increased Consolidated Net Income in a prior period (and would not have been required to be deducted pursuant to clause (c)(ii) of this definition)),

(v)net realized gains relating to amounts denominated in foreign currencies resulting from the application of FASB ASC 830 (including net realized gains from exchange rate fluctuations on intercompany balances and balance sheet items, net of realized losses from related Swap Contracts (entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice)), and

(vi)any gain related to Swap Contracts (excluding Swap Contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice).

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary and without duplication of any adjustment provided for in paragraphs (a) to (c) above, to the extent that such amounts were included in the determination of Consolidated Net Income, any calculation of Consolidated EBITDA shall exclude for any period, any income (loss) for such period attributable to the early extinguishment of (i) Indebtedness, (ii) obligations under any Swap Contracts and (iii) other derivative instruments.

Consolidated Funded Indebtedness” means, without duplication, all Indebtedness of the type described in clauses (a), (b)(i), (f) and (h) (provided that Indebtedness of the type described in

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clause (h) of the definition thereof shall only be included if it is in respect of Indebtedness described in clause (a), (b)(i) or (f) of the definition thereof) of the definition of “Indebtedness”, of the Restricted Group on a consolidated basis, in an amount that would be reflected on a balance sheet prepared as of such date on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP (but (x) excluding the effects of any discounting of Indebtedness resulting from the application of purchase accounting in connection with any Permitted Acquisition and (y) any Indebtedness that is issued at a discount to its initial principal amount shall be calculated based on the entire stated principal amount thereof, without giving effect to any discounts or upfront payments), excluding (i) obligations in respect of letters of credit (including Letters of Credit), except to the extent of unreimbursed amounts thereunder and (ii) Attributable Indebtedness of the type described in clause (b) of the definition of “Attributable Indebtedness”.

Consolidated Interest Expense” means, for any period, interest expense (including, without limitation, interest expense attributable to Capitalized Leases and all net payment obligations pursuant to Swap Contracts) for such period including, to the extent deducted and not added back in computing Consolidated Net Income, (A) amortization of original issue discount resulting from the issuance of Indebtedness at less than par, (B) all commissions, discounts and other fees and charges owed with respect to letters of credit or bankers’ acceptances, (C) non-cash interest payments, (D) the interest component of Capitalized Leases, (E) net payments, if any, made (less net amounts, if any, received) pursuant to interest rate Swap Contracts with respect to Indebtedness, (F) amortization or write-off of deferred financing fees (other than, for purposes of the Interest Coverage Ratio, deferred financing fees paid in connection with the Existing Credit Agreement Refinancing), debt issuance costs, commissions, fees and expenses, including commitment, letter of credit and administrative fees and charges with respect to the Facilities and with respect to other Indebtedness permitted to be incurred hereunder and (G) any expensing of bridge, commitment and other financing fees, but excluding total interest expense associated with Synthetic Lease Obligations) and, to the extent not reflected in such total interest expense, any losses on hedging obligations or other derivative instruments entered into for the purpose of hedging interest rate risk, net of interest income or gains on such hedging obligations, and costs of surety bonds in connection with financing activities (whether amortized or immediately expensed), determined on a consolidated basis, without duplication, for the Restricted Group in accordance with GAAP.

Consolidated Net Income” means, as of any date for the applicable period ending on such date with respect to the Restricted Group on a consolidated basis, net income (excluding, without duplication, (i) extraordinary items, (ii) any amounts attributable to Investments in any Unrestricted Subsidiary or Joint Venture to the extent that such amounts have not been distributed in cash or Cash Equivalents to a member of the Restricted Group during such applicable period; (iii)(x) any net unrealized gains and losses resulting from fair value accounting required by FASB ASC 825 (including as a result of the mark-to-market of obligations of Swap Contracts and other derivative instruments) and (y) any net unrealized gains and losses relating to mark-to-market of amounts denominated in foreign currencies resulting from the application of FASB ASC 830 (including net unrealized gains and losses from exchange rate fluctuations on intercompany balances and balance sheet items) to the extent included in Consolidated Net Income, (iv) the income (or loss) of any member of the Restricted Group accrued prior to the date it became a member of the Restricted Group or is merged into or consolidated with a member of the Restricted Group (except to the extent required for any calculation of Consolidated EBITDA on a Pro Forma Basis), (v) for purposes of calculating Cumulative Credit, either during such period or in respect of any future period, net income of any Restricted Subsidiary (other than a Loan Party) for any period to the extent that, during such period, there exists any encumbrance or restriction on the ability of such Restricted Subsidiary to pay dividends or make any other distributions in cash on the Equity Interests of such Restricted Subsidiary held by such Person and its Subsidiaries that are Restricted Subsidiaries, except to the extent of cash actually distributed during such period to such Person or to a Restricted Subsidiary of such Person that is not itself subject to any such encumbrance or restriction, and (vi) the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principles during such period) as determined in accordance with GAAP.  There shall be

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excluded from Consolidated Net Income for any period the accounting effects of adjustments to inventory, property and equipment, software and other intangible assets and deferred revenue required or permitted by GAAP and related authoritative pronouncements (including the effects of such adjustments pushed down to the Borrower and/or the Restricted Subsidiaries), as a result of any acquisition consummated prior to the Closing Date, and any Permitted Acquisitions (or Investments similar to those made for Permitted Acquisitions) or any Investment permitted under Section 7.02 or the amortization or write-off of any amounts thereof.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, for the purpose of calculating the Cumulative Credit only, there shall be excluded from Consolidated Net Income, without duplication, any income consisting of dividends, repayments of loans or advances or other transfers of assets from Unrestricted Subsidiaries or Joint Ventures to a Restricted Subsidiary, and any income consisting of return of capital, repayment or other proceeds from dispositions or repayments of Investments, in each case to the extent such income would be included in Consolidated Net Income and such related dividends, repayments, transfers, return of capital or other proceeds are applied by the Restricted Group to increase the Cumulative Credit.

Consolidated Secured Indebtedness” means Consolidated Funded Indebtedness that is secured, or purported to be secured, by a Lien on any asset or property of a member of the Restricted Group.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained above in this definition, Consolidated Secured Indebtedness shall include, to the extent provided in the definitions of Maximum Secured Net Leverage Requirement, any New Incremental Notes, any Refinancing Notes and any Specified Refinancing Debt (and any Permitted Refinancing of any of the foregoing), whether or not such Indebtedness is unsecured.

Consolidated Total Assets” means, the consolidated total assets of the Restricted Group as set forth on the consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower as of the most recent period for which financial statements were required to have been delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b); provided further that, at all times prior to the first delivery of financial statements pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b), this definition shall be applied based on the financial statements of the Borrower in respect of its fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2016.

Contractual Obligation” means, as to any Person, any provision of any security issued by such Person or of any agreement, loan agreement, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, lease, instrument or other undertaking to which such Person is a party or by which it or any of its property is bound.

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

Control Investment Affiliate” means, as to any Person, any other Person that (a) directly or indirectly, is in Control of, is Controlled by, or is under common Control with, such Person and (b) is organized by such Person primarily for the purpose of making equity investments in one or more companies.

Controlled Foreign Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Borrower that is a “controlled foreign corporation” within the meaning of Section 957 of the Code.

Corrective Revolving Credit Extension Amendment” has the meaning specified in Section 2.19(e).

Corrective Term Loan Extension Amendment” has the meaning specified in Section 2.19(f).

Credit Extension” means each of the following:  (a) a Borrowing and (b) an L/C Credit Extension.

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Cumulative Credit” means, at any date, an amount, not less than zero in the aggregate, determined on a cumulative basis equal to the sum of (without duplication):

(a)$25,000,000, plus

(b)an amount, not less than zero, equal to 50% of Consolidated Net Income of the Restricted Group for the period (taken as one accounting period) commencing on January 1, 2017 and ending on the last day of the most recent fiscal year for which financial statements required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a), and the related Compliance Certificate required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(b), have been received by the Administrative Agent or, in the case such Consolidated Net Income for such period is a deficit, minus 100% of such deficit, plus

(c)the Net Cash Proceeds of any Permitted Equity Issuance after the Closing Date (including the Net Cash Proceeds of issuances or incurrences of Indebtedness or Disqualified Equity Interests by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary owed or issued, as applicable, to a Person other than the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary after the Closing Date which shall have been subsequently exchanged for or converted into Permitted Equity Issuances of Parent or any other Parent Holding Company) at such time Not Otherwise Applied, plus

(d)in the event that all or a portion of the Cumulative Credit has been applied to make an Investment pursuant to Section 7.02(s) in connection with the designation of a Restricted Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, the acquisition of Equity Interests of an Unrestricted Subsidiary or the acquisition of any Investment, an amount equal to the aggregate amount received by the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries in cash and Cash Equivalents from: (i) the sale (other than to the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries) of any such Equity Interests of any such Unrestricted Subsidiary or any such Investment less any amounts that would be deducted pursuant to clause (a)(ii) of the definition of “Net Cash Proceeds” if such sale constituted a Disposition, (ii) any dividend or other distribution by any such Unrestricted Subsidiary or received in respect of any such Investment or (iii) interest, returns of principal, repayments and similar payments by any such Unrestricted Subsidiary or received in respect of any such Investment; provided that the amount added to the Cumulative Credit pursuant to this clause (d) with respect to any Unrestricted Subsidiary shall not exceed the amount of the Investment made in such Subsidiary pursuant to Section7.02(s), plus

(e)in the event that all or a portion of the Cumulative Credit has been applied to make an Investment pursuant to Section 7.02(s) in connection with the designation of a Restricted Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary and such Unrestricted Subsidiary is thereafter redesignated as a Restricted Subsidiary or is merged, consolidated or amalgamated with or into, or transfers or conveys its assets to, or is liquidated into, the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries, an amount equal to the fair market value of the Investments of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries in such Unrestricted Subsidiary at the time of such redesignation, combination or transfer (or of the assets transferred or conveyed, as applicable); provided that with respect to any Unrestricted Subsidiary, the amount added pursuant to this clause (e) shall not exceed the fair market value (valued at the time of the making of such Investment) of the Investment  made in such Subsidiary pursuant to Section 7.02(s),

as such amount shall be reduced dollar for dollar from time to time to the extent that all or a portion of the Cumulative Credit is applied prior to such date to make Investments, Restricted Payments or prepayments of any Junior Financing or Unsecured Financing to the extent permitted hereunder.

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Current Assets” means, with respect to any Person, all assets of such Person that, in accordance with GAAP, would be classified as current assets on the balance sheet of a company conducting a business the same as or similar to that of such Person, after deducting appropriate and adequate reserves therefrom in each case in which a reserve is proper in accordance with GAAP, but excluding (i) cash, (ii) Cash Equivalents, (iii) Swap Contracts to the extent that the mark-to-market Swap Termination Value would be reflected as an asset on the consolidated balance sheet of such Person, (iv) deferred financing fees, (v) payment for deferred taxes (so long as the items described in clauses (iv) and (v) are non-cash items) and (vi) in the event that a Permitted Receivables Financing is accounted for off balance sheet, (x) gross accounts receivables comprising part of the receivables and other related assets subject to such Permitted Receivables Financing minus (y) collection by such Person against the amounts sold pursuant to preceding clause (x).

Debt Issuance” means the issuance by any Person of any Indebtedness for borrowed money.

Debtor Relief Laws” means the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, administration, insolvency, reorganization, or similar debtor relief Laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect and affecting the rights of creditors generally.

Default” means any event or condition that constitutes an Event of Default or that, with the giving of any notice, the passage of time, or both, would be an Event of Default.

Default Rate” means an interest rate equal to (after as well as before judgment), (a) with respect to any overdue principal for any Loan, the applicable interest rate for such Loan plus 2.00% per annum (provided that with respect to Eurocurrency Rate Loans, the determination of the applicable interest rate is subject to Section 2.02(c) to the extent that Eurocurrency Rate Loans may not be converted to, or continued as, Eurocurrency Rate Loans, pursuant thereto) and (b) with respect to any other overdue amount, including overdue interest, the interest rate applicable to Base Rate Loans that are Term Loans plus 2.00% per annum, in each case, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.

Defaulting Lender” means, subject to Section 2.17(b), any Lender that (a) has failed to perform any of its funding obligations hereunder, including in respect of its Loans or participations in respect of Letters of Credit or Swingline Loans within three Business Days of the date required to be funded by it hereunder, unless such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent in writing that such failure is the result of such Lender’s good faith determination that a condition precedent to funding (specifically identified and including the particular default, if any) has not been satisfied, (b) has notified the Borrower or the Administrative Agent that it does not intend to comply with its funding obligations (unless such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent in writing that such failure is the result of such Lender’s good faith determination that a condition precedent to funding (specifically identified and including the particular default, if any) has not been satisfied) or has made a public statement to that effect with respect to its funding obligations hereunder or, solely with respect to a Revolving Credit Lender, under other agreements generally in which it commits to extend credit, (c) has failed, within three Business Days after reasonable request by the Administrative Agent, to confirm in a manner satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that it will comply with its funding obligations (provided that such Lender shall cease to be a Defaulting Lender pursuant to this clause (c) upon receipt of such confirmation by the Administrative Agent) or (d) has, or has a direct or indirect parent company that has, (i) become the subject of a proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law, (ii) had a receiver, conservator, trustee, administrator, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with reorganization or liquidation of its business or a custodian appointed for it, (iii) taken any action in furtherance of, or indicated its consent to, approval of or acquiescence in any such proceeding or appointment or (iv) become the subject of a Bail-In Action; provided that no Lender shall be a Defaulting

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Lender solely by virtue of (x) the ownership or acquisition by a Governmental Authority of any Equity Interest in that Lender or any direct or indirect parent company thereof so long as such ownership interest does not result in or provide such Lender with immunity from the jurisdiction of courts within the United States or from the enforcement of judgments or writs of attachment on its assets or permit such Lender (or such Governmental Authority) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made with such Lender, or (y) the occurrence of any of the events described in clause (d)(i), (d)(ii) or (d)(iii) of this definition which in each case has been dismissed or terminated prior to the date of this Agreement.

Designated Non-Cash Consideration” means the fair market value of non-cash consideration received by the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with a Disposition made pursuant to Section 7.05(p) that is designated as “Designated Non-Cash Consideration” on the date received pursuant to a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower setting forth the basis of such fair market value (with the amount of Designated Non-Cash Consideration in respect of any Disposition being reduced for purposes of Section 7.05(p) to the extent the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries converts the same to cash or Cash Equivalents within 180 days following the closing of the applicable Disposition).

Disposition” or “Dispose” means the sale, transfer, license, lease, conveyance or other disposition of any property by any Person (including any sale and leaseback transaction and any issuance of Equity Interests by a Restricted Subsidiary of such Person), including any sale, assignment, transfer or other disposal, with or without recourse, of any notes or accounts receivable or any rights and claims associated therewith; provided, however, that “Disposition” and “Dispose” shall not be deemed to include any issuance by Parent of any of its Equity Interests to another Person.

Disqualified Equity Interests” means any Equity Interest which, by its terms (or by the terms of any security or other Equity Interests into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable), or upon the happening of any event or condition (a) matures or is mandatorily redeemable (other than solely for Equity Interests that are not Disqualified Equity Interests), pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise (except as a result of a change of control or asset sale so long as any rights of the holders thereof upon the occurrence of a change of control or asset sale event shall be subject to the prior repayment in full of the Loans and all other Obligations that are accrued and payable and the termination of the Commitments), (b) is redeemable at the option of the holder thereof (except as a result of a change of control or asset sale so long as any rights of the holders thereof upon the occurrence of a change of control or asset sale event shall be subject to the prior repayment in full of the Loans and all other Obligations that are accrued and payable), in whole or in part, (c) provides for the scheduled payments of dividends in cash or (d) is or becomes convertible into or exchangeable for Indebtedness or any other Equity Interests that would constitute Disqualified Equity Interests, in each case, prior to the date that is 91 days after the Latest Maturity Date of the Term Loan Tranches at the time of issuance of the respective Disqualified Equity Interests; provided that if such Equity Interests are issued pursuant to a plan for the benefit of employees or other service providers of any Parent Holding Company, the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries, or by any such plan to such employees, such Equity Interests shall not constitute Disqualified Equity Interests solely because they may be required to be repurchased by Parent, the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries in order to satisfy applicable statutory or regulatory obligations or in connection with such employee’s or other service provider’s termination, death or disability.

Disqualified Institution” means (i) each Person that is engaged as principal primarily in mezzanine financing or venture capital and each bank, financial institution, other institutional lender, in each case, identified on a list agreed by Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Arrangers prior to December 7, 2016 and (ii) Company Competitors on a list agreed by Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Arrangers prior to December 7, 2016, as such list of Company Competitors may be updated by delivery by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent of written supplements, identifying each such

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additional Company Competitor by legal name, which updates shall become effective two Business Days after delivery thereof to the Administrative Agent; provided that in no event shall such a supplement apply retroactively to disqualify any Lender or participant prior to such supplement becoming effective or apply prior to the date which the assigning Lender entered into a binding agreement to sell and assign or participate all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement to such Person (clauses (i) and (ii), the “Primary Disqualified Institutions”) and, in each case, any readily identifiable Affiliate thereof, based on its name (other than any such Affiliate that is engaged in the making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans, bonds and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of business and to which a Primary Disqualified Institution does not, directly or indirectly, possess the power to direct or cause the direction of the investment policies of such entity).

Dollar” and “$” mean lawful currency of the United States of America.

Dollar Amount” means, at any time:

(a)with respect to any Loan denominated in Dollars (including, with respect to any Swingline Loan, any funded participation therein), the principal amount thereof then outstanding (or in which such participation is held);

(b)with respect to any Loan denominated in any Alternative Currency, the principal amount thereof then outstanding in the relevant Alternative Currency, converted to Dollars in accordance with Section 1.08; and

(c)with respect to any L/C Obligation (or any risk participation therein), (i) if denominated in Dollars, the amount thereof and (ii) if denominated in any Alternative Currency, the amount thereof converted to Dollars in accordance with Section 1.08, Section 2.03(c) and Section 3.02.

Dollar Capped Incremental Amount” means $100,000,000.

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

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

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

Eligible Assignee” means any Person that meets the requirements to be an assignee under Section 10.07(b) (subject to receipt of such consents, if any, as may be required for the assignment of the applicable Loan and/or Commitments to such Person under Section 10.07(b)(iii)).

EMU Legislation” means the legislative measures of the European Council for the introduction of, changeover to or operation of a single or unified European currency.

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Environmental Laws” means any and all applicable federal, state, local and foreign statutes, laws, including common law, regulations, ordinances, rules, judgments, orders, decrees, permits, concessions, grants, franchises or licenses promulgated or issued by a Governmental Authority relating to pollution, the protection of the environment, human health (to the extent relating to exposure to Hazardous Materials) or safety, including those related to Hazardous Materials.

Environmental Liability” means any liability, contingent or otherwise (including any liability for damages, costs of environmental remediation, monitoring or oversight by a Governmental Authority, fines, penalties or indemnities), of the Borrower, any other Loan Party or any of their respective Subsidiaries directly or indirectly resulting from or based upon (a) any actual or alleged violation of any Environmental Law, (b) the generation, use, handling, transportation, storage, treatment or disposal of any Hazardous Materials, (c) human exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the release or threatened release of any Hazardous Materials into the environment or (e) any contract, agreement or other binding consensual arrangement pursuant to which liability is assumed or imposed with respect to any of the foregoing.

Environmental Permit” means any permit, approval, identification number, license or other authorization required under any Environmental Law.

Equity Interests” means, with respect to any Person, all of the shares, equity certificates, 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).

Equity Issuance” means any issuance for cash by any Person to any other Person of (a) its Equity Interests, (b) any of its Equity Interests pursuant to the exercise of options or warrants, (c) any of its Equity Interests pursuant to the conversion of any debt securities to equity or (d) any options or warrants relating to its Equity Interests.

ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the rules and regulations thereunder, each as amended or modified from time to time.

ERISA Affiliate” means any Person who together with any Loan Party is treated as a single employer within the meaning of Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code (and Sections 414(m) and (o) of the Code for purposes of provisions relating to Section 412 of the Code) or Section 4001 of ERISA.

ERISA Event” means (a) a Reportable Event with respect to a Plan; (b) the withdrawal of any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate from a Plan subject to Section 4063 of ERISA during a plan year in which such entity was a “substantial employer” (as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA) or a cessation of operations that is treated as such a withdrawal under Section 4062(e) of ERISA; (c) a complete or partial withdrawal by any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate from a Multiemployer Plan or notification that a Multiemployer Plan is insolvent (within the meaning of Section 4245 of ERISA); (d) the filing of a notice of intent to terminate a Plan or the treatment of a Plan or Multiemployer Plan amendment as a termination under Section 4041 or 4041A of ERISA, respectively, (e) the institution by the PBGC of proceedings to terminate a Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (f) an event or condition which constitutes grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (g) the determination that any Plan is considered an at risk plan within the meaning of Section 430 of the Code or Section 303 of ERISA; (h) the determination that any Multiemployer Plan is considered a plan in endangered or critical status within the meaning of Section 432 of the Code or Section  305 of ERISA; (i) the imposition of any liability under Title IV of ERISA, other than for PBGC premiums due but not delinquent under Section 4007 of ERISA, upon any Loan Party or any ERISA

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Affiliate; (j) the conditions for the imposition of a lien under Section 430(k) of the Code or Section 303(k) of ERISA shall have been met with respect to any Plan; or (k) any Foreign Benefit Event.

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

Eurocurrency Rate” means, for any Interest Period:

(a)in the case of any Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in Dollars:

(i)the rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent to be the London interbank offered rate as administered by ICE Benchmark Administration Limited (or any other Person that takes over the administration of such rate) that appears on the Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page (or, in the event such rate does not appear on a Reuters page or screen, on any successor or substitute page on such screen that displays such rate, or on the appropriate page of such other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion, in each case, the “LIBOR Screen Rate”) for deposits in Dollars (for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period) with a term equivalent to such Interest Period, determined as of approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) two Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period, or, if different, the date on which quotations would customarily be provided by leading banks in the London interbank market for deposits of amounts in Dollars for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period, provided that if such rate is below zero, the Eurocurrency Rate will be deemed to be zero; or

(ii)if the rates referenced in the preceding clause (a)(i) are not available, the rate per annum equal to the rate at which the Administrative Agent is offered deposits in Dollars at approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time), two Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period in the London interbank market for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period for the number of days comprised therein and in an amount comparable to its portion of the amount of such Eurodollar Borrowing to be outstanding during such Interest Period or, if different, the date on which quotations would customarily be provided by leading banks in the London interbank market for deposits of amounts in Dollars for delivery of the first day of such Interest Period.  “Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page” shall mean the display designated on the Reuters 3000 Xtra Page (or such other page as may replace such page on such service for the purpose of displaying the rates at which Dollar deposits are offered by leading banks in the London interbank deposit market).

(b)in the case of any Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in Euros:

(i)the rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent to be the offered rate that appears on Reuters Page EURIBOR01 (or, in the event such rate does not appear on a Reuters page or screen, on any successor or substitute page on such screen that displays such rate, or on the appropriate page of such other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion, in each case, the “EURIBOR Screen Rate”) for deposits in Euros (for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period) with a term equivalent to such Interest Period, determined as of approximately 11:00 a.m. (Brussels time) two Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period, or, if different, the date on which quotations would customarily be provided by leading banks in the European interbank market for deposits

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of amounts in Euros for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period, provided that if such rate is below zero, the Eurocurrency Rate will be deemed to be zero; or

(ii)if the rates referenced in the preceding clause (b)(i) are not available, the rate per annum equal to the rate at which the Administrative Agent is offered deposits in Euros at approximately 11:00 a.m. (Brussels time) two Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period in the European interbank market for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period for the number of days comprised therein and in an amount comparable to its portion of the amount of such Eurodollar Borrowing to be outstanding during such Interest Period or, if different, the date on which quotations would customarily be provided by leading banks in the European interbank market for deposits of amounts in Euros for delivery of the first day of such Interest Period; and

(c)in the case of any Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in an Alternative Currency other than Euros:

(i)the rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent to be the offered rate that appears on Reuters Page LIBOR01 (or, in the event such rate does not appear on a Reuters page or screen, on any successor or substitute page on such screen that displays such rate, or on the appropriate page of such other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion, in each case, the “Screen Rate”) that displays an average ICE Benchmark Administration Limited Interest Settlement Rate (or any other Person which takes over the administration of that rate) for deposits in such Alternative Currency (for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period) with a term equivalent to such Interest Period, determined as of approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) two Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period, or, if different, the date on which quotations would customarily be provided by leading banks in the London interbank market for deposits of amounts in the relevant Alternative Currency for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period, provided that if such rate is below zero, the Eurocurrency Rate will be deemed to be zero; or

(ii)if the rates referenced in the preceding clause (c)(i) are not available, the rate per annum equal to the rate at which the Administrative Agent is offered deposits in the respective Alternative Currency at approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) two Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period or, if different, the date on which quotations would customarily be provided by leading banks in the London interbank market for deposits of amounts in the relevant currency for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period.

Eurocurrency Rate Loan” means a Loan, whether denominated in Dollars or in an Alternative Currency, which bears interest at a rate based on the applicable Adjusted Eurocurrency Rate.

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

Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 8.01.

Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

Exchange Rate” means and refers to the nominal rate of exchange (vis-à-vis Dollars) for a currency other than Dollars that appears on the Reuters World Currency Page for such currency on the

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date of determination (or, in the event such rate does not appear on such Reuters page or screen, on any successor or substitute page on such screen that displays such rate, or on the appropriate page of such other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion), expressed as the number of units of such other currency per one Dollar.

Exchange Rate Reset Date” has the meaning specified in Section 3.02(a).

Excluded Property” means, with respect to any Loan Party,

(a)any fee owned real property and any leasehold real property,

(b)motor vehicles and other assets subject to certificates of title, letter of credit rights (to the extent that a lien thereon cannot be perfected by the filing of a UCC financing statement) and commercial tort claims with a value not in excess of $2,000,000,

(c)assets to the extent a security interest in such assets would result in material adverse tax consequences (including as a result of the operation of Section 956 of the Code or any similar law or regulation in any applicable jurisdiction) to the Borrower as reasonably determined by the Borrower,

(d)pledges of, and security interests in, certain assets, in favor of the Administrative Agent which are prohibited by applicable Law; provided, that (i) any such limitation described in this clause (d) on the security interests granted hereunder shall only apply to the extent that any such prohibition could not be rendered ineffective pursuant to the UCC or any other applicable Law or principles of equity and shall not apply to any proceeds or receivables thereof, the assignment of which is expressly deemed effective under the UCC or any other applicable Law or principles of equity notwithstanding such prohibition and (ii) in the event of the termination or elimination of any such prohibition contained in any applicable Law, a security interest in such assets shall be automatically and simultaneously granted under the applicable Collateral Documents and shall be included as Collateral,

(e)any governmental licenses (but not the proceeds thereof) or state or local franchises, charters and authorizations, to the extent security interests in favor of the Administrative Agent in such licenses, franchises, charters or authorizations are prohibited or restricted thereby after giving effect to the applicable anti-assignment provisions of the UCC or any other applicable Law or principles of equity other than proceeds and receivables thereof, the assignment of which is expressly deemed effective under the UCC or any other applicable Law or principles of equity notwithstanding such prohibition; provided that (i) any such limitation described in this clause (e) on the security interests granted hereunder shall only apply to the extent that any such prohibition or restriction could not be rendered ineffective pursuant to the UCC or any other applicable Law or principles of equity and (ii) in the event of the termination or elimination of any such prohibition or restriction contained in any applicable license, franchise, charter or authorization, a security interest in such licenses, franchises, charters or authorizations shall be automatically and simultaneously granted under the applicable Collateral Documents and shall be included as Collateral,

(f)Equity Interests in any Person other than wholly owned Restricted Subsidiaries of the Borrower to the extent not permitted by the terms of such Person’s Organization Documents,

(g)any lease, license or other agreement or any property subject to a purchase money security interest, capital lease obligation or similar arrangement in each case permitted to be

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incurred under this Agreement, to the extent that a grant of a security interest therein would violate or invalidate such lease, license or agreement or purchase money, capital lease or a similar arrangement or create a right of termination in favor of any other party thereto (other than a Loan Party or their wholly owned Subsidiaries) or otherwise give rise to any consent rights of any such other party or result in a default, in each case,  after giving effect to the applicable anti-assignment provisions of the UCC, other than proceeds and receivables thereof, the assignment of which is expressly deemed effective under the UCC or any other applicable Law or principles of equity notwithstanding such prohibition,

(h)any “intent-to-use” trademark or service mark applications prior to the filing of a “Statement of Use” or “Amendment to Allege Use” with respect thereto, only to the extent, if any, that, and solely during the period, if any, in which, the grant of a security interest therein would impair the validity or enforceability of such intent-to-use applications under applicable federal law,

(i)any assets specifically requiring perfection through control, control agreements or other control arrangements (other than delivery of certificated pledged Equity Interests), including deposit accounts, securities and commodities accounts, and

(j)any Permitted Receivables Financing Assets sold pursuant to a Permitted Receivables Financing and

(k)Equity Interests in excess of 65% of the voting capital stock of (A) any Controlled Foreign Subsidiary or (B) any FSHCO.  

Other assets shall be deemed to be “Excluded Property” if the Administrative Agent and the Borrower reasonably agree in writing that the cost of obtaining or perfecting a security interest in such assets is excessive in relation to the value of such assets as Collateral.  Further, no actions shall be required in order to create or perfect any security interest in any assets located outside of the United States and no foreign law security or pledge agreements, foreign law mortgages or deeds or foreign intellectual property filings or searches shall be required.  Notwithstanding anything herein or the Collateral Documents to the contrary, Excluded Property shall not include any Proceeds (as defined in the UCC), substitutions or replacements of any Excluded Property (unless such Proceeds, substitutions or replacements would otherwise constitute Excluded Property referred to above).

Excluded Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that is (a) an Unrestricted Subsidiary, (b) not wholly owned directly by the Borrower or one or more of its wholly owned Restricted Subsidiaries, (c) an Immaterial Subsidiary, (d) a FSHCO or Controlled Foreign Subsidiary, (e) established or created pursuant to Section 7.02(w) and meeting the requirements of the proviso thereto; provided that such Subsidiary shall only be an Excluded Subsidiary for the period immediately prior to such acquisition, (f) a Subsidiary that is prohibited by applicable Law from guaranteeing the Facilities, or which would require governmental (including regulatory) consent, approval, license or authorization to provide a guarantee unless such consent, approval, license or authorization has been received, in each case so long as the Administrative Agent shall have received a certification from a Responsible Officer of the Borrower as to the existence of such prohibition or consent, approval, license or authorization requirement, (g) a Subsidiary that is prohibited from guaranteeing the Facilities by any Contractual Obligation in existence on the Closing Date and is listed on Schedule 1.01(e) (or, in the case of any newly acquired Subsidiary, in existence at the time of acquisition thereof but not entered into in contemplation thereof), (h) any Permitted Receivables Financing Subsidiary, (i) not-for-profit subsidiaries, (j) any Foreign Subsidiary, (k) Subsidiaries that are special purpose entities, and (l) any other Subsidiary with respect to which the Borrower and the Administrative Agent reasonably agree that the cost or other consequences (including any adverse tax consequences) of guaranteeing the Facilities shall be excessive in view of the benefits to be obtained by the

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Lenders therefrom; provided that if a Subsidiary executes the Guaranty as a “Subsidiary Guarantor,” then it shall not constitute an “Excluded Subsidiary” (unless released from its obligations under the Guaranty as a “Subsidiary Guarantor” in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof); provided further, that no Subsidiary of the Borrower shall be an Excluded Subsidiary if such Subsidiary guarantees any Refinancing Notes, any New Incremental Notes or any Permitted Additional Debt.

Excluded Swap Obligation” means, with respect to any Guarantor, (x) as it relates to all or a portion of the Guarantee of such Guarantor, any Swap Obligation if, and to the extent that, such Swap Obligation (or any Guarantee thereof) is or becomes illegal under the Commodity Exchange Act or any rule, regulation or order of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (or the application or official interpretation of any thereof) by virtue of such Guarantor’s failure for any reason to constitute an “eligible contract participant” as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act and the regulations thereunder at the time the Guarantee of such Guarantor becomes or would become effective with respect to such Swap Obligation or (y) as it relates to all or a portion of the grant by such Guarantor of a security interest, any Swap Obligation if, and to the extent that, such Swap Obligation (or such security interest in respect thereof) is or becomes illegal under the Commodity Exchange Act or any rule, regulation or order of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (or the application or official interpretation of any thereof) by virtue of such Guarantor’s failure for any reason to constitute an “eligible contract participant” as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act and the regulations thereunder at the time the security interest of such Guarantor becomes or would become effective with respect to such Swap Obligation, in each case after giving effect to any applicable “keepwell” provision in the applicable Guarantee.  If a Swap Obligation arises under a master agreement governing more than one Swap, such exclusion shall apply only to the portion of such Swap Obligation that is attributable to Swaps for which such Guarantee or security interest is or becomes illegal.

Excluded Taxes” means any of the following Taxes imposed on or with respect to a Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to a Recipient:  (a) Taxes imposed on or measured by such Recipient’s net income (however denominated), franchise Taxes, and branch profits Taxes, in each case, (i) imposed as a result of such Recipient being organized under the laws of, or having its principal office or, in the case of any Lender, its applicable lending office located in, the jurisdiction imposing such Tax or (ii) that are imposed as a result of any other present or former connection between such Recipient and the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (other than connections arising solely from such Recipient having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, received or perfected a security interest under, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to and/or enforced any Loan Document), (b) in the case of a Lender (other than any Lender becoming a party hereto pursuant to a request by any Loan Party under Section 3.08), any U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed pursuant to a Law in effect on the date on which such Lender becomes a party hereto or changes its lending office, except in each case to the extent that, pursuant to Section 3.01, additional amounts with respect to such Taxes were payable either to such Lender’s assignor immediately before such Lender became a party hereto or to such Lender immediately before it changed its lending office, (c) Taxes attributable to such Recipient’s failure to comply with Section 3.01(h) and (d) any Taxes imposed under FATCA.

Existing Credit Agreement Refinancing” means the payment in full of all principal, premium, if any, interest, fees and other amounts due or outstanding under the Existing Senior Facilities Agreement, the termination of commitments thereunder and the discharge and release of all Guarantees and Liens existing in connection therewith.

Existing Letters of Credit” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03.

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Existing Senior Facilities Agreement” means the Borrower’s Credit Agreement dated as of April 1, 2014, among the Borrower, Parent, the lenders party thereto and Jefferies Finance LLC, as administrative agent, as amended.

Extended Revolving Credit Commitment” has the meaning specified in Section 2.19(a)(ii).

Extended Revolving Credit Loans” has the meaning specified in Section 2.19(a)(ii).

Extended Term Loans” has the meaning specified in Section 2.19(a)(iii).

Extending Term Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 2.19(a)(iii).

Extension” has the meaning specified in Section 2.19(a).

Extension Offer” has the meaning specified in Section 2.19(a).

Facility” means the Term Facilities, the Revolving Facilities, the Swingline Facility or the Letter of Credit Sublimit, as the context may require.

FATCA” means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of the date of this Agreement (or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with), any current or future Treasury regulations or official administrative interpretations thereof, or any treaty, law, regulation or other official guidance enacted by any other jurisdiction relating to an intergovernmental agreement between the United States and such other jurisdiction, which facilitates the implementation of Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code or an intergovernmental agreement relating to FATCA, any intergovernmental agreements implementing the foregoing and any legislation or official guidance or other official requirements adopted in accordance with any such intergovernmental agreements.

Federal Funds Rate” means, for any day, the rate per annum equal to the weighted average of the rates on overnight federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System, as published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on the Business Day next succeeding such day; provided that (a) if such day is not a Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be such rate on such transactions on the next preceding Business Day as so published on the next succeeding Business Day and (b) if no such rate is so published on such next succeeding Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be the average rate (rounded upward, if necessary, to a whole multiple of 1/100 of 1%) charged to the Administrative Agent on such day on such transactions as determined by the Administrative Agent.

Fee Letters” means, collectively, (a) the confidential Fee Letter, dated November 5, 2016, among the Borrower, Wells Fargo Bank and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, (b) the confidential Fee Letter, dated, December 7, 2016, between the Borrower and PNC Capital Markets LLC, (c) the confidential Fee Letter, dated December 7, 2016, between the Borrower and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and (d) the confidential Fee Letter, dated December 7, 2016, between the Borrower and JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A.

Foreign Benefit Event” means, with respect to any Foreign Plan, (a) the existence of unfunded liabilities in excess of the amount permitted under any applicable Law, or in excess of the amount that would be permitted absent a waiver from a Governmental Authority, (b) the failure to make the required contributions or payments, under any applicable Law, on or before the due date for such contributions or

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payments, (c) the receipt of a notice by a Governmental Authority relating to (i) the intention to terminate any such Foreign Plan or to appoint a trustee or similar official to administer any such Foreign Plan or (ii) the insolvency of any such Foreign Plan, (d) the incurrence of any liability by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries under applicable Law on account of the complete or partial termination of such Foreign Plan or the complete or partial withdrawal of any participating employer therein or (e) the occurrence of any transaction that is prohibited under any applicable Law and that could reasonably be expected to result in the incurrence of any liability by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or the imposition on the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries of, any fine, excise tax or penalty resulting from any noncompliance with any applicable Law.

Foreign Casualty Event” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.05(b)(viii).

Foreign Disposition” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.05(b)(viii).

Foreign Lender” means a Lender that is not a U.S. Person.

Foreign Plan” means any pension plan, benefit plan, fund (including any superannuation fund) or other similar program that, under the applicable Law of any jurisdiction other than the United States, is required to be funded through a trust or other funding vehicle (other than a trust or funding vehicle maintained exclusively by a Governmental Authority) by a Loan Party primarily for the benefit of employees employed and residing outside the United States.

Foreign Subsidiary” means any direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Borrower that is not a U.S. Subsidiary.

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

Fronting Exposure” means, at any time there is a Defaulting Lender under any Revolving Facility, (a) such Defaulting Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the outstanding L/C Obligations under such Revolving Facility (other than L/C Obligations as to which such Defaulting Lender’s participation obligation has been reallocated to other Non-Defaulting Lenders under such Revolving Facility or Cash Collateralized in accordance with the terms hereof) and (b) such Defaulting Lender’s Pro Rata Share of Swingline Loans (other than Swingline Loans as to which such Defaulting Lender’s participation obligation has been reallocated to other Non-Defaulting Lenders or Cash Collateralized in accordance with the terms hereof).

FSHCO” means any Subsidiary (a) that is organized under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and (b) that owns no material assets other than equity interests of one or more Controlled Foreign Subsidiaries.

Fund” means any Person (other than a natural person) that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business.

GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States as in effect from time to time; provided, however, that if the Borrower notifies the Administrative Agent that the Borrower requests an amendment to any provision hereof to eliminate the effect of any change occurring after the Closing Date in GAAP or in the application thereof on the operation of such provision (or if the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower that the Required Lenders request an amendment to any

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provision hereof for such purpose), regardless of whether any such notice is given before or after such change in GAAP or in the application thereof, then such provision shall be interpreted on the basis of GAAP as in effect and applied immediately before such change shall have become effective until such notice shall have been withdrawn or such provision amended in accordance herewith.

Governmental Authority” means any nation or government, any state or other political subdivision thereof, any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, administrative tribunal, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government (including any supra-national body exercising such powers or functions, such as the European Union or the European Central Bank).

Granting Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(h).

Guarantee” means, as to any Person, without duplication, (a) any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of such Person guaranteeing or having the economic effect of guaranteeing any Indebtedness or other monetary obligation payable or performable by another Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of such Person, direct or indirect, (i) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation, (ii) to purchase or lease property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the obligee in respect of such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation of the payment or performance of such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation, (iii) to maintain working capital, equity capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity or level of income or cash flow of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation or (iv) entered into for the purpose of assuring in any other manner the obligee in respect of such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation of the payment or performance thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part) or (b) any Lien on any assets of such Person securing any Indebtedness or other monetary obligation of any other Person, whether or not such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation is assumed by such Person (or any right, contingent or otherwise, of any holder of such Indebtedness to obtain any such Lien); provided that the term “Guarantee” shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit, in either case in the ordinary course of business, or customary and reasonable indemnity obligations in effect on the Closing Date, or entered into in connection with any acquisition or Disposition of assets permitted under this Agreement (other than such obligations with respect to Indebtedness).  The amount of any Guarantee shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the related primary obligation, or portion thereof, in respect of which such Guarantee is made or, if not stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by the guaranteeing Person in good faith.  The term “Guarantee” as a verb has a corresponding meaning.

Guarantors” means, collectively, Parent, the Borrower (except in respect of its respective primary obligations), the Subsidiaries of the Borrower listed on Schedule 1, and each other Subsidiary of the Borrower that shall execute and deliver a guaranty or guaranty supplement from time to time pursuant to Section 6.12 or Section 6.15.

Guaranty” means, collectively, the Guaranty made by the Guarantors in favor of the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties, substantially in the form of Exhibit E, together with each other guaranty and guaranty supplement delivered pursuant to Section 6.12, 6.14 or 6.15.

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

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Hedge Bank” means any Person that (a) at the time it enters into a Swap Contract, is a Lender or an Agent or an Affiliate of a Lender or an Agent, (b) within 30 days after the time it enters into a Swap Contract, becomes a Lender or an Agent or an Affiliate of a Lender or an Agent, or (c) with respect to Swap Contracts in effect as of the Closing Date, is, as of the Closing Date or within 30 days after the Closing Date, a Lender or an Agent or an Affiliate of a Lender or an Agent and a party to a Swap Contract, in each case, in its capacity as a party to such Swap Contract.

Holdings” means Medpace Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

Honor Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(c)(i).

Immaterial Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Borrower that, as of the date of the most recent financial statements required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b), does not have (a) assets (when consolidated with the assets of all other Immaterial Subsidiaries, after eliminating intercompany obligations) in excess of 5.0% of Consolidated Total Assets or (b) revenues (when consolidated with the revenues of all other Immaterial Subsidiaries, after eliminating intercompany obligations) for the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters ending on such date in excess of 5.0% of the consolidated revenues of the Restricted Group for such period; provided that, at all times prior to the first delivery of financial statements pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b), this definition shall be applied based on the financial statements of the Borrower in respect of its fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2016.

Increase Effective Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(c).

Incremental Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(a).

Indebtedness” means, as to any Person at a particular time, without duplication, all of the following, whether or not included as indebtedness or liabilities in accordance with GAAP:

(a)all obligations of such Person for borrowed money and all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes, loan agreements or other similar instruments;

(b)the maximum amount of (i) all letters of credit (including standby and commercial), bankers’ acceptances, bank guaranties, and (ii) surety bonds, performance bonds and similar instruments issued or created by or for the account of such Person;

(c)net obligations of such Person under any Swap Contract;

(d)all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than (x) trade accounts payable in the ordinary course of business, (y) any earn out obligation until such obligation becomes a liability on the balance sheet of such Person in accordance with GAAP and (z) expenses accrued in the ordinary course of business);

(e)indebtedness (excluding prepaid interest thereon) secured by a Lien on property owned or being purchased by such Person (including indebtedness arising under conditional sales or other title retention agreements and mortgage, industrial revenue bond, industrial development bond and similar financings), whether or not such indebtedness shall have been assumed by such Person or is limited in recourse;

(f)all Attributable Indebtedness;

(g)all obligations of such Person in respect of Disqualified Equity Interests; and

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(h)all Guarantees of such Person in respect of any of the foregoing.

For all purposes hereof, the Indebtedness of any Person shall include the Indebtedness of any partnership or Joint Venture (other than a Joint Venture that is itself a corporation or limited liability company or the foreign equivalent thereof) in which such Person is a general partner or a joint venturer, (i) unless such Indebtedness is expressly made non-recourse to such Person or (ii) except to the extent such Person’s liability for such Indebtedness is otherwise limited in recourse or amount, but only up to the amount of the value of the assets to which recourse is limited or the amount of such limit.  The amount of any net obligation under any Swap Contract on any date shall be deemed to be the Swap Termination Value thereof as of such date.  The amount of Indebtedness of any Person for purposes of clause (e) shall be deemed to be equal to the lesser of (i) the aggregate unpaid amount of such Indebtedness and (ii) the fair market value of the property encumbered thereby as determined by such Person in good faith.

Indemnified Liabilities” has the meaning specified in Section 10.05.

Indemnified Taxes” means (a) all Taxes imposed on or with respect to any payment made by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document and (b) to the extent not otherwise described in (a), all Other Taxes, in each case other than Excluded Taxes.

Indemnitees” has the meaning specified in Section 10.05.

Information” has the meaning specified in Section 10.08.

Initial Term Borrowings” means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous Initial Term Loans having the same Interest Period made by each of the Term Lenders with an Initial Term Commitment pursuant to Section 2.01(a) on the Closing Date.

Initial Term Commitments” means, as to each Term Lender, its obligation to make Initial Term Loans to the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.01(a) in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Term Lender’s name on Schedule 2.01 under the caption “Initial Term Commitment” or opposite such caption in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Term Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with this Agreement including as such amount may be reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.06 or reduced or increased from time to time pursuant to assignments by or to such Term Lender pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption.  The initial aggregate amount of the Initial Term Commitments is $165,000,000.

Initial Term Loans” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(a).

Intellectual Property Security Agreements” means, collectively, the intellectual property security agreements, substantially in the form of Exhibit B, C or D to the Security Agreement in the form of Exhibit F-1 entered into by the applicable Loan Parties dated the date of this Agreement executed and delivered pursuant to Section 6.12, 6.14 or 6.15.

Intercompany Subordination Agreement” means the Intercompany Subordination Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, among Parent, the Borrower, its Subsidiaries and the Administrative Agent, substantially in the form of Exhibit G.

Interest Coverage Ratio” means, as of any date of determination, with respect to the Restricted Group on a consolidated basis, the ratio of (a) Consolidated EBITDA for the four fiscal quarter

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period most recently then ended for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b), as applicable, to (b) Consolidated Interest Expense for such period.

Interest Payment Date” means, (a) as to any Loan other than a Base Rate Loan, the last day of each Interest Period applicable to such Loan and the Maturity Date of the Facility under which such Loan was made; provided, however, that if any Interest Period for a Eurocurrency Rate Loan exceeds three months, the respective dates that fall every three months after the beginning of such Interest Period shall also be Interest Payment Dates; and (b) as to any Base Rate Loan (including a Swingline Loan), the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December and the Maturity Date of the Facility under which such Loan was made (commencing with the last Business Day of December 2016).

Interest Period” means, as to each Eurocurrency Rate Loan, the period commencing on the date such Eurocurrency Rate Loan is disbursed or converted to or continued as a Eurocurrency Rate Loan and ending on the date one, two, three or six months thereafter (or, with respect to the Interest Period beginning on the Closing Date, an Interest Period ending on December 30, 2016), or to the extent consented to by all Appropriate Lenders, twelve months thereafter (or such shorter interest period as may be agreed to by all Appropriate Lenders), as selected by the Borrower in a Committed Loan Notice; provided that:

(a)any Interest Period that would otherwise end on a day that is not a Business Day shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless such Business Day falls in another calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day;

(b)any Interest Period that begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period; and

(c)no Interest Period shall extend beyond the scheduled Maturity Date of the Facility under which such Loan was made.

Investment” means, as to any Person, any direct or indirect acquisition or investment by such Person, whether by means of (a) the purchase or other acquisition of Equity Interests or debt or other securities of another Person, (b) a loan, advance or capital contribution to, Guarantee or assumption of debt of, or purchase or other acquisition of any other debt or equity participation or interest in, another Person, including any partnership or joint venture interest in such other Person and any arrangement pursuant to which the investor incurs debt of the type referred to in clause (h) of the definition of “Indebtedness” in respect of such Person or (c) the purchase or other acquisition (in one transaction or a series of transactions) of all or substantially all of the property and assets or business of another Person or assets constituting a business unit, line of business or division of such Person.  For purposes of covenant compliance, the amount of any Investment shall be the amount actually invested (measured at the time made), without adjustment for subsequent increases or decreases in the value of such Investment but, giving effect to any returns or distributions of capital or repayment of principal actually received in cash by such Person with respect thereto (but only to the extent that the aggregate amount of all such returns, distributions and repayments with respect to such Investment does not exceed the principal amount of such Investment and less any such amounts which increase the Cumulative Credit).

IP Rights” has the meaning specified in Section 5.16.

IRS” means the United States Internal Revenue Service.

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ISP” means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, the “International Standby Practices 1998” published by the Institute of International Banking Law & Practice, Inc. (or such later version thereof as may be in effect at the time of issuance).

Issuer Documents” means with respect to any Letter of Credit, the Letter of Credit Application, and any other document, agreement and instrument entered into by the applicable L/C Issuer and the Borrower (or any applicable Restricted Subsidiary) or in favor of such L/C Issuer and relating to such Letter of Credit.

Joint Venture” means (a) any Person that is not a Subsidiary of the Borrower that would constitute an “equity method investee” of the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries and (b) any Person other than a Subsidiary of the Borrower (i) in which the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary holds or acquires a beneficial ownership interest (by way of ownership of Equity Interests or other evidence of ownership) in excess of 10% of the Equity Interests of such Person and (ii) which is engaged in a business permitted by Section 7.07.

Judgment Currency” has the meaning specified in Section 10.23.

Junior Financing” has the meaning specified in Section 7.12(a).

Junior Financing Documentation” means any documentation governing any Junior Financing.

Latest Maturity Date” means, at any date of determination, the latest maturity or expiration date applicable to any Term Loan Tranche or Revolving Facility at such time under this Agreement (including the latest maturity date or expiration date of any Extended Revolving Credit Commitment or any Extended Term Loan, in each case as extended in accordance with this Agreement from time to time).

Laws” means, collectively, all applicable international, foreign, federal, provincial, state and local statutes, treaties, rules, guidelines, regulations, ordinances, codes and administrative or judicial precedents or authorities, including the interpretation or administration thereof by any Governmental Authority charged with the enforcement, interpretation or administration thereof, and all applicable administrative orders, directed duties, requests, licenses, authorizations and permits of, and agreements with, any Governmental Authority.

L/C Advance” means, with respect to each Revolving Credit Lender, such Lender’s funding of its participation in any L/C Borrowing in accordance with its Pro Rata Share.

L/C Borrowing” means an extension of credit resulting from a drawing under any Letter of Credit which has not been reimbursed by the Borrower on the date required under Section 2.03(c)(i) or refinanced as a Revolving Credit Borrowing.

L/C Commitment” means, as to each L/C Issuer, its obligation to issue Letters of Credit in an aggregate principal stated amount at any one time outstanding as set forth on Schedule 2.01 (or such other amount as separately agreed to in a written agreement between the Borrower and such L/C Issuer, which such agreement shall be promptly delivered to the Administrative Agent upon execution).

L/C Credit Extension” means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, the issuance thereof or extension of the expiry date thereof, or the renewal or increase of the amount thereof.

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L/C Issuer” means as the context may require, (a) each of Wells Fargo Bank, (b), PNC Bank, National Association, (c) any other Lender reasonably acceptable to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent that agrees to issue Letters of Credit pursuant hereto, in each case in its capacity as an issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder, or any successor issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder; and/or (d) collectively, all of the foregoing.  Any L/C Issuer may, in its discretion, arrange for one or more Letters of Credit to be issued by one or more Affiliates of such L/C Issuer (and such Affiliate shall be deemed to be an “L/C Issuer” for all purposes of the Loan Documents).  In the event that there is more than one L/C Issuer at any time, references herein and in the other Loan Documents to the L/C Issuer shall be deemed to refer to the L/C Issuer in respect of the applicable Letter of Credit or to all L/C Issuers, as the context requires.

L/C Obligations” means, as at any date of determination, the aggregate amount available to be drawn under all outstanding Letters of Credit plus the aggregate of all outstanding Unreimbursed Amounts, including all L/C Borrowings.  For purposes of computing the amount available to be drawn under any Letter of Credit, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be determined in accordance with Section 1.10.  For all purposes of this Agreement, if on any date of determination a Letter of Credit has expired by its terms but any amount may still be drawn thereunder by reason of the operation of Rule 3.13 or 3.14 of the ISP, such Letter of Credit shall be deemed to be “outstanding” and not have expired or terminated in the amount so remaining available to be drawn.

Lender” has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph to this Agreement and, as the context requires, includes each L/C Issuer and the Swingline Lender.

Lending Office” means, as to any Lender, the office or offices of such Lender described as such in such Lender’s Administrative Questionnaire, or such other office or offices as a Lender may from time to time notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.

Letter of Credit” means any letter of credit issued hereunder.  A Letter of Credit may be a commercial letter of credit or a standby letter of credit.

Letter of Credit Application” means an application and agreement for the issuance or amendment of a Letter of Credit in the form from time to time in use by the applicable L/C Issuer, together with a request for L/C Credit Extension, substantially in the form of Exhibit A-2 hereto.

Letter of Credit Expiration Date” means, subject to Section 2.03(a)(i)(C), the day that is five Business Days prior to the scheduled Maturity Date then in effect for the applicable Revolving Facility.

Letter of Credit Sublimit” means a Dollar Amount equal to $10,000,000.  The Letter of Credit Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Revolving Credit Facility.

Lien” means any mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, collateral assignment, deposit arrangement, encumbrance having the effect of security, lien (statutory or other), charge, or preference, priority or other security interest or preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever (including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, any Capitalized Lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing).

Limited Condition Acquisition” means any Permitted Acquisition or permitted Investment that constitutes an acquisition (other than an intercompany Investment) by the Borrower or one or more of the Restricted Subsidiaries whose consummation is not conditioned on the availability of, or on obtaining, third party financing.

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Limited Condition Acquisition Proviso” has the meaning specified in Section 1.11.

Loan” means an extension of credit by a Lender to the Borrower under Article II in the form of a Term Loan, a Revolving Credit Loan or a Swingline Loan.

Loan Documents” means, collectively, (a) this Agreement, (b) the Notes, (c) the Guaranty, (d) the Collateral Documents, (e) each Letter of Credit Application, (f) any intercreditor agreement required to be entered into pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, (g) any agreement creating or perfecting rights in Cash Collateral pursuant to the provisions of Section 2.16, (h) any Refinancing Amendment, (i) the Intercompany Subordination Agreement and (j) any other document designated as a Loan Document by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower.

Loan Parties” means, collectively, the Borrower and each Guarantor.

London Banking Day” means any day on which dealings in Dollar deposits are conducted by and between banks in the London interbank market.

Majority Lenders” of any Tranche, means those Non-Defaulting Lenders which would constitute the Required Lenders under, and as defined in, this Agreement if all outstanding Obligations of the other Tranches under this Agreement were repaid in full and all Commitments with respect thereto were terminated.

Material Adverse Effect” means (a) a material adverse effect on the business, assets, property, liabilities (actual or contingent), financial condition or results of operations of the Restricted Group, taken as a whole, (b) a material adverse effect on the ability of the Loan Parties (taken as a whole) to perform their respective obligations under the Loan Documents or (c) a material adverse effect on the rights and remedies of the Agents or the Lenders under the Loan Documents.

Maturity Date” means: (a) with respect to the Revolving Credit Facility, the earlier of (i) December 8, 2021 (the “Original Revolving Maturity Date”) and (ii) the date of termination in whole of the Revolving Credit Commitments in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility pursuant to Section 2.06(a) or 8.02; and (b) with respect to the Initial Term Loans, the earliest of (i) December 8, 2021 (the “Original Term Maturity Date”), (ii) the date of termination in whole of the Initial Term Commitments pursuant to Section 2.06(a) prior to any Initial Term Borrowing and (iii) the date that the Initial Term Loans are declared due and payable pursuant to Section 8.02; provided that the reference to Maturity Date with respect to (i) Term Loans and Revolving Credit Commitments that are the subject of a loan modification offer pursuant to Section 10.01, (ii) Term Loans and Revolving Credit Commitments that are incurred pursuant to Sections 2.14 or 2.18 and (iii) Extended Term Loans and Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, shall, in each case, be the final maturity date as specified in the loan modification documentation, incremental documentation, specified refinancing documentation or Extension Offer, as applicable thereto.

Maximum Secured Net Leverage Requirement” means, with respect to any request pursuant to Article II for an increase in any Revolving Facility or any Term Loan Tranche, for a New Term Facility or for the issuance of New Incremental Notes, the requirement that, on a Pro Forma Basis, after giving effect to such increase, such new Facility (assuming all commitments thereunder are fully drawn) or such New Incremental Notes (including, in each case, any acquisition consummated concurrently therewith), the Secured Net Leverage Ratio as of the date of the most recent financial statements required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(a) or (b) does not exceed 2.50:1.00; provided, that solely for the purpose of calculating the Secured Net Leverage Ratio pursuant to this definition (including pursuant to Sections 2.14, 2.15 and 2.18), any identifiable proceeds of Indebtedness incurred pursuant to Sections 2.14

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and 2.15, and any identifiable proceeds of New Incremental Notes and any Refinancing Notes (in the case of Refinancing Notes, to the extent that such Refinancing Notes refinance Indebtedness incurred pursuant to Sections 2.14 and 2.15 or any identifiable proceeds of New Incremental Notes) and any Specified Refinancing Debt incurred pursuant to Section 2.18 (to the extent that such Specified Refinancing Debt refinances Indebtedness incurred pursuant to Sections 2.14 and 2.15 or any identifiable proceeds of New Incremental Notes) in each case, whether or not such Indebtedness is unsecured or is secured by Liens that rank junior in priority to the Liens securing the Obligations (i) shall be deemed to constitute Consolidated Secured Indebtedness and (ii) shall not qualify as “cash and Cash Equivalents of the Restricted Group” for the purposes of calculating any net obligations or liabilities under the terms of this Agreement.

Maximum Rate” has the meaning specified in Section 10.10.

Minimum Extension Condition” has the meaning specified in Section 2.19(b).

MNPI” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02.

Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. and any successor thereto.

Multiemployer Plan” means a “multiemployer plan” as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA, to which any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate makes or is obligated to make contributions.

Net Cash Proceeds” means:

(a)with respect to the Disposition of any asset by any member of the Restricted Group (other than any Disposition of any Permitted Receivables Financing Assets by any member of the Restricted Group to a Permitted Receivables Financing Subsidiary in connection with a Permitted Receivables Financing) or any Casualty Event, the excess, if any, of (i) the sum of cash and Cash Equivalents received in connection with such Disposition or Casualty Event (including any cash or Cash Equivalents received by way of deferred payment pursuant to, or by monetization of, a note receivable or otherwise, but only as and when so received and, with respect to any Casualty Event, any insurance proceeds or condemnation awards in respect of such Casualty Event received by or paid to or for the account of any member of the Restricted Group and including any proceeds received as a result of unwinding any related Swap Contract in connection with such related transaction) over (ii) the sum of (A) the principal amount of any Indebtedness that is secured by the asset subject to such Disposition or Casualty Event and that is required to be repaid in connection with such Disposition or Casualty Event (other than (x) Indebtedness under the Loan Documents and, if such asset constitutes Collateral, any Indebtedness secured by such asset with a Lien ranking junior to the Lien securing the Obligations and (y) in the case of any New Incremental Notes and Refinancing Notes that are secured by Collateral on a first lien “equal and ratable” basis with Liens securing the Obligations, if such asset constitutes Collateral, any amounts in excess of the ratable portion (based on any then outstanding Term Loan Tranches and any then outstanding New Incremental Notes and Refinancing Notes that are secured by Collateral on a first lien “equal and ratable” basis with the Liens securing the Obligations) attributable to such New Incremental Notes and Refinancing Notes, as applicable), (B) the out-of-pocket expenses incurred by any member of the Restricted Group in connection with such Disposition or Casualty Event (including attorneys’ fees, accountants’ fees, investment banking fees, survey costs, title insurance premiums, and related search and recording charges, transfer taxes, deed or mortgage recording taxes, other customary expenses and brokerage, consultant and other customary fees actually incurred in connection therewith), (C) income taxes reasonably estimated to be payable in connection with such Disposition or Casualty Event (or any tax distribution any member of the Restricted Group may be required to make as a result of such Disposition or Casualty Event) and any repatriation

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costs associated with receipt by the applicable taxpayer of such proceeds, (D) any costs associated with unwinding any related Swap Contract in connection with such transaction, (E) any reserve for adjustment in respect of (x) the sale price of the property that is the subject of such Disposition established in accordance with GAAP and (y) any liabilities associated with such property and retained by any member of the Restricted Group after such Disposition, including pension and other post-employment benefit liabilities and liabilities related to environmental matters or against any indemnification obligations associated with such transaction, and (F) any customer deposits required to be returned as a result of such Disposition, and it being understood that “Net Cash Proceeds” shall include any cash or Cash Equivalents (i) received upon the Disposition of any non-cash consideration received by any member of the Restricted Group in any such Disposition, (ii) if any income taxes estimated to be payable as described in clause (C) are not required to be paid and (iii) upon the reversal (without the satisfaction of any applicable liabilities in cash in a corresponding amount) of any reserve described in clause (E) above or, if such liabilities have not been satisfied in cash and such reserve not reversed within two years after such Disposition or Casualty Event, the amount of such reserve;

(b)with respect to the issuance of any Equity Interest by any Parent Holding Company, the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, the excess of (i) the sum of the cash and Cash Equivalents received in connection with such issuance and in connection with unwinding any related Swap Contract in connection therewith over (ii) the investment banking fees, underwriting discounts, premiums, commissions, other out-of-pocket expenses and other customary expenses and fees related thereto, incurred by any Parent Holding Company, the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary in connection with such issuance and any costs associated with unwinding any related Swap Contract in connection therewith;

(c)with respect to the incurrence or issuance of any Indebtedness by any member of the Restricted Group, the excess, if any, of (i) the sum of the cash received in connection with such incurrence or issuance and in connection with unwinding any related Swap Contract in connection therewith over (ii) the investment banking fees, underwriting discounts and commissions, premiums, expenses, accrued interest and fees related thereto, taxes reasonably estimated to be payable and other out-of-pocket expenses and other customary expenses, incurred by such member of the Restricted Group in connection with such incurrence or issuance and any costs associated with unwinding any related Swap Contract in connection therewith and, in the case of Indebtedness of any Subsidiary not organized under the laws of the United States (or any state thereof), deductions in respect of withholding taxes, if any, that are or would otherwise be payable in cash if such funds were repatriated to the United States for the purpose of making a prepayment of Loans incurred by the Borrower; and

(d)with respect to the Disposition of any Permitted Receivables Financing Assets by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to a Permitted Receivables Financing Subsidiary, the excess, if any, of (x) the cash and Cash Equivalents that at any time exceed (when taken together with all amounts that at such time have been received by a Permitted Receivables Financing Subsidiary pursuant to Section 7.02(x) and not repaid) $5,000,000 received in connection with (i) any sale of Permitted Receivables Financing Assets by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, (ii) the repayment to the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of any loan solely to finance the purchase from the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of Permitted Receivables Financing Assets and (iii) any return of capital invested by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in a Permitted Receivables Financing Subsidiary for such Permitted Receivables Financing over (y) customary upfront fees (including investment banking fees and discounts), commissions, costs and other expenses, in each case incurred in connection with such

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Permitted Receivables Financing and not already deducted from the amounts received pursuant to clause (x) above.

New Incremental Notes” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(a).

New Incremental Notes Indentures” means, collectively, the indentures or other similar agreements pursuant to which any New Incremental Notes are issued, together with all instruments and other agreements in connection therewith, as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof, but only to the extent permitted under the terms of the Loan Documents.

New Loan Commitments” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(a)(iii).

New Term Commitment” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(a)(iii).

New Term Facility” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(a)(iii).

New Term Loan” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(a)(iii).

Non-Consenting Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 3.08(c).

Non-Defaulting Lender” means any Lender other than a Defaulting Lender.

Non-Renewal Notice Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(b)(iii).

Not Otherwise Applied” means, with reference to any proceeds of any transaction or event or the Cumulative Credit that is proposed to be applied to a particular use or transaction, that such amount has not previously been (and is not simultaneously being) applied to anything other than such particular use or transaction.

Note” means a Term Note, a Revolving Credit Note or the Swingline Note, as the context may require.

NPL” means the National Priorities List under CERCLA.

Obligations” means all advances to, and debts, liabilities, obligations, covenants and duties of, any Loan Party arising under any Loan Document or otherwise with respect to any Loan, Letter of Credit, Secured Cash Management Agreement or Secured Hedge Agreement, in each case whether direct or indirect (including those acquired by assumption), absolute or contingent, due or to become due, now existing or hereafter arising and including interest, fees and expenses that accrue after the commencement by or against any Loan Party of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws naming such Person as the debtor in such proceeding, regardless of whether such interest, fees and expenses are allowed claims in such proceeding; provided that (a) obligations of any Loan Party under any Secured Cash Management Agreement or Secured Hedge Agreement shall be secured and guaranteed pursuant to the Collateral Documents only to the extent that, and for so long as, the other Obligations are so secured and guaranteed and (b) any release of Collateral or Guarantors effected in the manner permitted by this Agreement shall not require the consent of holders of obligations under Secured Hedge Agreements or Secured Cash Management Agreements.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Obligations of the Loan Parties under the Loan Documents include (x) the obligation to pay principal, premium, interest, Letter of Credit commissions, charges, expenses, fees, indemnities and other amounts payable by any Loan Party under any Loan Document and (y) the obligation of any Loan Party to reimburse any amount in respect of

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any of the foregoing that any Lender, in its sole discretion, may elect to pay or advance on behalf of such Loan Party.

Organization Documents” means (a) with respect to any corporation, the certificate or articles of incorporation or articles of association and the bylaws or articles of association (or equivalent or comparable constitutive documents with respect to any non-U.S. jurisdiction), (b) with respect to any limited liability company, the certificate or articles of formation or organization and operating or limited liability company agreement (or equivalent or comparable constitutive documents with respect to any non-U.S. jurisdiction) and (c) with respect to any partnership, joint venture, trust or other form of business entity, the partnership, joint venture, trust or other applicable agreement of formation or organization and any agreement, instrument, filing or notice with respect thereto filed in connection with its formation or organization with the applicable Governmental Authority in the jurisdiction of its formation or organization and, if applicable, any certificate or articles of formation or organization of such entity.

Original Revolving Maturity Date” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Maturity Date”.

Original Term Maturity Date” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Maturity Date”.

Other Taxes” means all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, recording, excise, filing or similar Taxes that arise from any payment made under, from the execution, delivery, performance, enforcement or registration of, from the receipt or perfection of a security interest under, or otherwise with respect to, any Loan Document, except any such Taxes that are imposed with respect to an assignment (other than an assignment made pursuant to Section 3.08).

Outstanding Amount” means: (a) with respect to the Term Loans, Revolving Credit Loans and Swingline Loans on any date, the aggregate outstanding principal Dollar Amount thereof after giving effect to any borrowings and prepayments or repayments of the Term Loans, Revolving Credit Loans (including any refinancing of outstanding unpaid drawings under Letters of Credit or L/C Credit Extensions as a Revolving Credit Borrowing) and Swingline Loans occurring on such date; and (b) with respect to any L/C Obligations with respect to any Revolving Facility on any date, the Dollar Amount of such L/C Obligations on such date after giving effect to any L/C Credit Extension with respect to such Revolving Facility occurring on such date and any other changes in the aggregate amount of the L/C Obligations with respect to such Revolving Facility as of such date, including as a result of any reimbursements of outstanding unpaid drawings under any Letters of Credit (including any refinancing of outstanding unpaid drawings under Letters of Credit or L/C Credit Extensions as a Revolving Credit Borrowing under such Revolving Facility) or any reductions in the maximum amount available for drawing under Letters of Credit taking effect on such date.

Overnight Rate” means, for any day, (a) with respect to any amount denominated in Dollars, the Federal Funds Rate and (b) with respect to any amount denominated in any Alternative Currency, the rate of interest per annum at which overnight deposits in such currency, in an amount approximately equal to the amount with respect to which such rate is being determined, would be offered for such day by a branch or Affiliate of the Administrative Agent in the applicable offshore interbank market for such currency to major banks in such interbank market.

Parent” has the meaning specified in the preamble hereto.

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Parent Holding Company” means Parent and any direct or indirect parent entity of Parent which does not hold Equity Interests in any other Person (except for any other Parent Holding Company) including, without limitation, Holdings.

Participant” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(d).

Participant Register” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(k).

Participating Member State” means any member state of the European Union that has the Euro as its lawful currency in accordance with EMU Legislation.

PATRIOT Act” has the meaning specified in Section 10.22.

PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.

Pension Funding Rules” means the rules of the Code and ERISA regarding minimum required contributions (including any installment payment thereof) to Plans and set forth in Section 412, 430, 431 and 436 of the Code and Sections 302 and 303 of ERISA.

Permitted Acquisition” has the meaning specified in Section 7.02(i).

Permitted Acquisition Provisions” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(d).

Permitted Additional Debt” means unsecured Indebtedness consisting of notes or loans under credit agreements, indentures or other similar agreements or instruments; provided that as a condition precedent to the incurrence of such Permitted Additional Debt the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent a certificate dated as of the date of incurrence of such Permitted Additional Debt signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, certifying and attaching the resolutions adopted by the Loan Party incurring such Permitted Additional Debt approving such Permitted Additional Debt, and certifying that the applicable conditions precedent set forth in the following subclauses are satisfied (which certificate shall, if applicable, include supporting calculations demonstrating compliance with the Secured Net Leverage Ratio and financial covenants under Section 7.10 set out below):

(a)immediately before and immediately after giving Pro Forma Effect to the incurrence of such Indebtedness, no Default shall have occurred and be continuing;

(b)for any such Indebtedness in excess of $15,000,000, the terms of such Indebtedness do not provide for any scheduled repayment (other than nominal amortization payments (in an amount not to exceed 1.00% of the principal amount thereof per year)), mandatory redemption or sinking fund obligations prior to the date that is 91 days after the Latest Maturity Date in effect at the time of the incurrence or issuance of such Permitted Additional Debt (which, in the case of bridge loans, shall be determined by reference to the notes or term loans into which such bridge loans are converted to or exchanged for at maturity, and other than customary offers to repurchase or mandatory prepayments upon a change of control, asset sale or event of loss and customary acceleration rights after an event of default);

(c)(i) such Permitted Additional Debt shall only be incurred by Parent, the Borrower or another Loan Party (or, to the extent expressly permitted by Section 7.03(r), the Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties) and (ii) the covenants, events of default, guarantees and other terms of such Permitted Additional Debt are customary for similar Indebtedness in light of then prevailing market conditions (it being understood that such Permitted Additional Debt shall not

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include any financial maintenance covenants, but that customary cross-default and cross-acceleration provisions may be included and that any negative covenants shall be incurrence-based) and in any event, when taken as a whole (other than interest rate and redemption premiums), are not more restrictive to the Restricted Group than those set forth in this Agreement (provided that a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower delivered to the Administrative Agent in good faith at least five Business Days prior to the incurrence of such Permitted Additional Debt, together with a reasonably detailed description of the material terms and conditions of such Indebtedness or drafts of the documentation relating thereto, stating that the Borrower has determined in good faith that such terms and conditions satisfy the requirement set out in this clause (ii), shall be conclusive evidence that such terms and conditions satisfy such requirement unless the Administrative Agent provides notice to the Borrower of an objection during such five Business Day period (including a reasonable description of the basis upon which it objects)); and

(d)the Restricted Group shall be in compliance, on a Pro Forma Basis after giving effect to the incurrence of such Indebtedness and any substantially concurrent prepayment or repayment of Indebtedness with all or a portion of the proceeds of such Indebtedness, with (i) a Secured Net Leverage Ratio of no greater than 3.00:1.00 and (ii) the financial covenants set forth in Section 7.10, in each case such compliance to be determined on the basis of the financial information most recently delivered to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b) (it being understood that Pro Forma Effect shall be given to the entire committed amount of any such Indebtedness, and any such committed amount may thereafter be borrowed and reborrowed, in whole or in part, from time to time, without further compliance with this clause (d)); provided that, solely for the purpose of calculating the Secured Net Leverage Ratio and the financial covenants under Section 7.10 pursuant to this definition, the proceeds of all such Permitted Additional Debt (and any Permitted Refinancing thereof) incurred under this Agreement shall not qualify as “cash and Cash Equivalents of the Restricted Group” for the purposes of calculating any net obligations or liabilities under the terms of this Agreement.

Permitted Equity Issuance” means any sale or issuance of any Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests) of any Parent Holding Company, the proceeds of which are contributed to the equity of the Borrower.

Permitted Holders” means the collective reference to the Sponsor and its Control Investment Affiliates (but excluding any operating portfolio companies of the foregoing), managers and members of management of Parent or any Parent Holding Company and their respective Subsidiaries that have ownership interests in Parent or such Parent Holding Company (for so long as the ownership interests held by such managers or members of management are less than the ownership interests held by the Sponsor).

Permitted Receivables Financing” means any Receivables Financing of a Permitted Receivables Financing Subsidiary that meets all of the following conditions:  (a) such Permitted Receivables Financing (including financing terms, covenants, termination events and other provisions) shall be in the aggregate economically fair and reasonable to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (other than any Permitted Receivables Financing Subsidiary), on the one hand, and the Permitted Receivables Financing Subsidiary, on the other, (b) all sales and/or contributions of Permitted Receivables Financing Assets to the Permitted Receivables Financing Subsidiary shall be made at fair market value and (c) the financing terms, covenants, termination events and other provisions thereof shall be market terms for similar transactions and may include Standard Securitization Undertakings; provided that a Responsible Officer of the Borrower shall have provided a certificate to such effect to the Administrative Agent at least five Business Days prior to the incurrence of such Permitted Receivables Financing, together with a reasonably detailed description of the material terms and conditions of such Permitted Receivables

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Financing or drafts of the documentation relating thereto, stating that the Borrower has determined in good faith that such terms and conditions satisfy the requirements set forth in the foregoing clauses (a), (b) and (c), which certificate shall be conclusive evidence that such terms and conditions satisfy such requirements unless the Administrative Agent provides notice to the Borrower of its objection during such five Business Day period (including a reasonable description of the basis upon which it objects).

Permitted Receivables Financing Assets” means the accounts receivable subject to a Permitted Receivables Financing, and related assets (including contract rights) which are of the type customarily transferred or in respect of which security interests are customarily granted in connection with securitizations of accounts receivables, and the proceeds thereof.

Permitted Receivables Financing Fees” means reasonable and customary distributions or payments made directly or by means of discounts with respect to any participation interest issued or sold in connection with, and other fees paid to a Person that is not a Permitted Receivables Financing Subsidiary in connection with, any Permitted Receivables Financing.

Permitted Receivables Financing Subsidiary” means a wholly owned Subsidiary of the Borrower (or another Person formed for the purposes of engaging in a Permitted Receivables Financing in which the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries make an Investment and to which the Borrower or any of its respective Restricted Subsidiaries transfer Permitted Receivables Financing Assets) that engages in no activities other than in connection with the financing of Permitted Receivables Financing Assets of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, all proceeds thereof and all rights (contingent and other), collateral and other assets relating thereto, and any business or activities incidental or related to such business, and which is designated by the board of directors of the Borrower (as provided below) as a Permitted Receivables Financing Subsidiary and (a) no portion of the Indebtedness or any other obligations (contingent or otherwise) of which (i) is guaranteed by Parent, the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, other than another Permitted Receivables Financing Subsidiary (excluding guarantees of obligations (other than the principal of, and interest on, Indebtedness) pursuant to Standard Securitization Undertakings), (ii) is recourse to or obligates Parent, the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, other than another Permitted Receivables Financing Subsidiary, in any way other than pursuant to Standard Securitization Undertakings or (iii) subjects any property or asset of Parent, the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries, other than another Permitted Receivables Financing Subsidiary, directly or indirectly, contingently or otherwise, to the satisfaction thereof, other than pursuant to Standard Securitization Undertakings, (b) with which none of Parent, the Borrower nor any of the Restricted Subsidiaries, other than another Permitted Receivables Financing Subsidiary, has any material contract, agreement, arrangement or understanding other than on terms no less favorable to Parent, the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary than those that might be obtained at the time from Persons that are not Affiliates of the Borrower and (c) to which none of Parent, the Borrower nor any of the Restricted Subsidiaries, other than another Permitted Receivables Financing Subsidiary, has any obligation to maintain or preserve such entity’s financial condition or cause such entity to achieve certain levels of operating results. Any such designation by the board of directors of the Borrower shall be evidenced to the Administrative Agent by delivery to the Administrative Agent of a certified copy of the resolution of the board of directors of the Borrower giving effect to such designation and a certificate executed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower certifying that such designation complied with the foregoing conditions.

Permitted Refinancing” means, with respect to any Indebtedness, any modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal, replacement, exchange or extension (in whole or in part) of such Indebtedness; provided that:

(a)the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) thereof does not exceed the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of the Indebtedness so modified, refinanced,

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refunded, renewed, replaced, exchanged or extended except by an amount equal to accrued and unpaid interest and premium thereon plus other amounts paid, and fees and expenses incurred (including original issue discount and upfront fees), in connection with such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal, replacement, exchange or extension and by an amount equal to any existing commitments unutilized thereunder;

(b)other than with respect to Section 7.03(e), such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal, replacement, exchange or extension has a final maturity date equal to or later than the final maturity date of, and has a Weighted Average Life to Maturity equal to or greater than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of, the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed, replaced, exchanged or extended;

(c)if the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed, replaced, exchanged or extended is subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations, such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal, replacement, exchange or extension is subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations on terms, taken as a whole, as favorable in all material respects to the Lenders (including, if applicable, as to Collateral) as those contained in the documentation governing the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed, replaced, exchanged or extended;

(d)if the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed, replaced, exchanged or extended (i) is unsecured, such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal, replacement, exchange or extension is unsecured and (ii) is secured (x) such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal, replacement, exchange or extension shall be secured only by the collateral securing such refinanced Indebtedness and (y) if secured by Liens on the Collateral, such modification, refinancing, refunding, replacement, renewal or extension is secured to the same extent, including with respect to any subordination provisions, as the Indebtedness being refinanced and subject to intercreditor arrangements reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent or, in each case with respect to clause (y), to a lesser extent;

(e)such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal, replacement, exchange or extension is incurred by the Person who is or would have been permitted to be the obligor or guarantor on the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed, replaced or extended; and

(f)at the time thereof, no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.

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

Plan” means any “employee benefit plan” (other than a Multiemployer Plan) within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA that is maintained or is contributed to by a Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate and is subject to Title IV of ERISA or the minimum funding standards under Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA.

Platform” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02.

Pledged Interests” means “Pledged Securities” (or similar term) as defined in the applicable Security Agreement and each other applicable Collateral Document.

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Preferred” as applied to the Equity Interests of any Person, means any Equity Interests of such Person (other than common Equity Interests of such Person) of any class or classes (however designed) that rank prior, as to the payment of dividends or as to the distribution of assets upon any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of such Person, to the Equity Interests of any other class of such Person.

Prepay Incremental Amount” means an amount equal to all voluntary prepayments of Loans (including New Term Loans) pursuant to Section 2.05(a); provided that (a) to the extent that any prepayments of Revolving Credit Loans will count for purposes of the Prepay Incremental Amount, such prepayments must be accompanied by a permanent reduction in the Revolving Credit Commitments pursuant to Section 2.06(a) and (b) any such prepayments are not made with the proceeds of any long-term Indebtedness.  

Prime Lending Rate” means, at any time, the rate of interest per annum publicly announced from time to time by the Administrative Agent as its prime rate.  Each change in the Prime Lending Rate shall be effective as of the opening of business on the day such change in such prime rate occurs.  The parties hereto acknowledge that the rate announced publicly by the Administrative Agent as its prime rate is an index or base rate and shall not necessarily be its lowest or best rate charged to its customers or other banks.

Pro Forma Basis,” “Pro Forma Compliance” and “Pro Forma Effect” means, in respect of a Specified Transaction, that such Specified Transaction and the following transactions in connection therewith (to the extent applicable) shall be deemed to have occurred as of the first day of the applicable period of measurement for the applicable covenant or requirement:  (a) historical income statement items (whether positive or negative) attributable to the property or Person, if any, subject to such Specified Transaction shall be (i) excluded (in the case of a Disposition of all or substantially all Equity Interests in any Restricted Subsidiary or any division, product line or facility used for operations of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary or a designation of a Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary) and (ii) included (in the case of a purchase or other acquisition of all or substantially all of the property and assets or business of any Person, or of assets constituting a business unit, a line of business or division of such Person, or of all or substantially all of the Equity Interests in a Person or a designation of a Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary), (b) any retirement of Indebtedness and (c) if and to the extent applicable hereunder, any incurrence or assumption of Indebtedness by any member of the Restricted Group (and if such Indebtedness has a floating or formula rate, such Indebtedness shall have an implied rate of interest for the applicable period for purposes of this definition determined by utilizing the rate which is or would be in effect with respect to such Indebtedness as at the relevant date of determination); provided that (A) Pro Forma Basis, Pro Forma Compliance and Pro Forma Effect in respect of any Specified Transaction shall be calculated in a reasonable and factually supportable manner and certified by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower and (B) any such calculation shall be subject to the applicable limitations set forth in the definition of “Consolidated EBITDA”; provided further that, at all times prior to the first delivery of financial statements pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b), this definition shall be applied based on the financial statements of the Borrower in respect of its fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2016.

Pro Rata Share” means, with respect to each Lender and any Facility or all the Facilities or any Tranche or all the Tranches (as the case may be) at any time, a fraction (expressed as a percentage, carried out to the ninth decimal place, and subject to adjustment as provided in Section 2.17), the numerator of which is the amount of the Commitments of such Lender under the applicable Facility or the Facilities or Tranche or Tranches (and, in the case of any Term Loan Tranche after the applicable borrowing date and without duplication, the outstanding principal amount of Term Loans under such Tranche, of such Lender, at such time) at such time and the denominator of which is the amount of the Aggregate Commitments under the applicable Facility or the Facilities or Tranche or Tranches at such time (and, in the case of any

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Term Loan Tranche and without duplication, the outstanding principal amount of Term Loans under such Tranche, at such time); provided that if the commitment of each Lender to make Loans and the obligation of each L/C Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions have been terminated pursuant to Section 8.02, then the Pro Rata Share of each Lender shall be determined based on the Pro Rata Share of such Lender immediately prior to such termination and after giving effect to any subsequent assignments made pursuant to the terms hereof.  The initial Pro Rata Share of each Lender as of the Closing Date is set forth opposite the name of such Lender on Schedule 2.01 or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender became a party hereto, as applicable.

Public Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02.

Qualified ECP Guarantor” means, in respect of any Swap Obligation, each Guarantor that, at the time the relevant Guarantee (or grant of the relevant security interest, as applicable) becomes effective with respect to such Swap Obligation, has total assets exceeding $10,000,000 at the time such Swap Obligation is incurred or such other Person as constitutes an “eligible contract participant” under the Commodity Exchange Act or any regulations promulgated thereunder and can cause another Person to qualify as an “eligible contract participant” with respect to such Swap Obligation at such time by entering into a cross-guaranty pursuant to section 1a(18)(A)(v)(II) of the Commodity Exchange Act.

Ratio-Based Incremental Facility” has the meaning specified in the Section 2.14(a).

Receivables Financing” means any transaction or series of transactions that may be entered into by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to which the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell, convey or otherwise transfer to (a) a Permitted Receivables Financing Subsidiary (in the case of a transfer by the Borrower or any such Restricted Subsidiary) or (b) any other Person (in the case of a transfer by a Permitted Receivables Financing Subsidiary), or a Permitted Receivables Financing Subsidiary may grant a security interest in, any Permitted Receivables Financing Assets of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries sold in connection with a Permitted Receivables Financing.

Recipient” means the Administrative Agent, Lender any L/C Issuer, any Swingline Lender or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party hereunder or under any other Loan Document, as applicable.

Refinancing Amendment” means an amendment to this Agreement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, among the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders providing Specified Refinancing Debt, effecting the incurrence of such Specified Refinancing Debt in accordance with Section 2.18.

Refinancing Notes” means one or more series of (1) senior secured notes secured by the Collateral on a first lien “equal and ratable” basis with the Liens securing the Obligations or (2) senior unsecured notes or senior secured notes secured by the Collateral on a “junior” basis with the Liens securing the Obligations, in each case, in respect of a refinancing of outstanding Indebtedness of the Borrower under any one or more Term Loan Tranches; provided that, (a) if such Refinancing Notes shall be secured, (i) then such Refinancing Notes shall only be secured by a security interest in the Collateral that secured the Term Loan Tranche being refinanced or a lesser amount, and (ii) then such Refinancing Notes shall be issued subject to customary intercreditor arrangements that are reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent; (b) no Refinancing Notes shall (i) mature prior to the date that is 91 days after the Latest Maturity Date with respect to Term Loans then in effect immediately after giving effect to such refinancing or (ii) be subject to any amortization prior to the final maturity thereof, or be subject to any mandatory redemption or prepayment provisions or rights (except customary assets sale or change of control provisions); (c) the

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covenants, events of default, guarantees, collateral and other terms of such Refinancing Notes are customary for similar debt securities in light of then prevailing market conditions at the time of issuance (it being understood that no Refinancing Notes shall include any financial maintenance covenants (including indirectly by way of a cross-default to this Agreement), but that customary cross-acceleration provisions may be included and that any negative covenants with respect to indebtedness, investments, liens or restricted payments shall be incurrence-based) and in any event are not more restrictive, when taken as a whole, to the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries than those set forth in this Agreement (other than with respect to interest rate, prepayment premiums and redemption provisions), except for covenants or other provisions applicable only to periods after the Latest Maturity Date then in effect immediately after giving effect to such refinancing (provided that a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower delivered to the Administrative Agent in good faith at least five Business Days prior to the incurrence of such Refinancing Notes, together with a reasonably detailed description of the material terms and conditions of such Refinancing Notes or drafts of the documentation relating thereto, stating that the Borrower has determined in good faith that such terms and conditions satisfy the requirement set forth in this clause (c), shall be conclusive evidence that such terms and conditions satisfy such requirement unless the Administrative Agent provides notice to the Borrower of its objection during such five Business Day period (including a reasonable description of the basis upon which it objects)); (d) such Refinancing Notes may not have Liens that are more extensive (or on different collateral) than those which applied to the Term Loans being refinanced; the borrower of the Refinancing Notes shall be the Borrower with respect to the Term Loans being refinanced or Parent; and the guarantors with respect to the Refinancing Notes are not changed (except that any Subsidiary may guarantee the Refinancing Notes if concurrently with granting such guaranty, such Subsidiary executes and delivers a guaranty or guaranty supplement pursuant to Section 6.12); and (e) the Net Cash Proceeds of such Refinancing Notes shall be applied, substantially concurrently with the incurrence thereof, to the pro rata prepayment of outstanding Term Loans under the applicable Term Loan Tranche being so refinanced.

Refinancing Notes Indentures” means, collectively, the indentures or other similar agreements pursuant to which any Refinancing Notes are issued, together with all instruments and other agreements in connection therewith, as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof, but only to the extent permitted under the terms of the Loan Documents.

Register” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(c).

Related Parties” means, with respect to any Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the partners, members, directors, managers, officers, employees, agents, attorneys-in-fact, trustees and advisors of such Person and of such Person’s Affiliates.

Relevant Transaction” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(b)(i).

Replaceable Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 3.08(a).

Reportable Event” means any of the events set forth in Section 4043(c) of ERISA, other than events for which the 30-day notice period has been waived.

Request for Credit Extension” means (a) with respect to a Borrowing, conversion or continuation of Loans (other than Swingline Loans), a Committed Loan Notice, (b) with respect to an L/C Credit Extension, a Letter of Credit Application and (c) with respect to a Swingline Loan, a Swingline Loan Notice.

Required Lenders” means, as of any date of determination, Lenders having more than 50% of the sum of the (a) Total Outstandings (with the aggregate Dollar Amount of each Lender’s risk

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participation and funded participation in L/C Obligations and Swingline Loans being deemed “held” by such Lender for purposes of this definition), (b) aggregate unused Term Commitments and (c) aggregate unused Revolving Credit Commitments; provided that the unused Revolving Credit Commitment of, and the portion of the Total Revolving Credit Outstandings held or deemed held by, any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making a determination of Required Lenders.

Required Revolving Lenders” means, as of any date of determination, Revolving Credit Lenders holding more than 50% of the sum of the Dollar Amount of the (a) Total Revolving Credit Outstandings (with the aggregate amount of each Revolving Credit Lender’s risk participation and funded participation in L/C Obligations and Swingline Loans being deemed “held” by such Revolving Credit Lender for purposes of this definition) and (b) aggregate unused Revolving Credit Commitments; provided that the unused Revolving Credit Commitment of, and the portion of the Total Revolving Credit Outstandings held or deemed held by, any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making a determination of Required Revolving Lenders.

Responsible Officer” means the chief executive officer, representative, director, manager, president, vice president, executive vice president, chief financial officer, treasurer or assistant treasurer, secretary or assistant secretary, an authorized signatory, an attorney-in-fact (to the extent empowered by the board of directors/managers of the Borrower), or other similar officer of a Loan Party.  Any document delivered hereunder that is signed by a Responsible Officer of a Loan Party shall be conclusively presumed to have been authorized by all necessary corporate, partnership and/or other action on the part of such Loan Party and such Responsible Officer shall be conclusively presumed to have acted on behalf of such Loan Party.

Restricted Group” means the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries.

Restricted Payment” means any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) with respect to any Equity Interest of any Person, or any payment (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, defeasance, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any such Equity Interest, or on account of any return of capital to such Person’s stockholders, partners or members (or the equivalent Persons thereof).

Restricted Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Borrower that is not an Unrestricted Subsidiary.

Revolving Commitment Increase Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(e).

Revolving Credit Borrowing” means a borrowing of any Tranche of the Revolving Facility consisting of simultaneous Revolving Credit Loans of the same Type and currency and, in the case of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, having the same Interest Period made by each of the Revolving Credit Lenders pursuant to Section 2.01(b).

Revolving Credit Commitment” means, as to each Revolving Credit Lender, (a) its obligation to make Revolving Credit Loans to the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.01(b) and (b) its obligation to purchase participations in L/C Obligations and (c) its obligation to purchase participations in Swingline Loans, in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 2.01 under the caption “Revolving Credit Commitment” or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with this Agreement.  The Revolving Credit Commitments shall include all Revolving Credit Commitment Increases, Specified Refinancing

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Revolving Credit Commitments and Extended Revolving Credit Commitments.  The aggregate Revolving Credit Commitment of all Revolving Credit Lenders on the Closing Date shall be $150,000,000.

Revolving Credit Commitment Increase” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(a)(i).

Revolving Credit Facility” means, at any time, the aggregate amount of the Revolving Credit Lenders’ Revolving Credit Commitments (without giving effect to any Specified Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments or Extended Revolving Credit Commitments) and the extensions of credit thereunder.

Revolving Credit Lender” means, at any time, any Lender that has a Revolving Credit Commitment at such time (and after the termination of all Revolving Credit Commitments, any Lender that holds any Outstanding Amount in respect of Revolving Credit Loans, Swingline Loans and/or L/C Obligations).

Revolving Credit Loan” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(b); provided that at any time that any Specified Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments or Extended Revolving Credit Commitments have been made available or that any Revolving Credit Commitment Increase has been effected, the loans outstanding in respect thereof shall be Revolving Credit Loans.

Revolving Credit Note” means a promissory note of the Borrower payable to any Revolving Credit Lender or its registered assigns, in substantially the form of Exhibit B-2, evidencing the aggregate indebtedness of the Borrower to such Revolving Credit Lender resulting from the Revolving Credit Loans made by such Revolving Credit Lender.

Revolving Credit Outstandings” means, with respect to any Revolving Credit Lender, such Revolving Credit Lender’s Outstanding Amount of Revolving Credit Loans and/or its share of L/C Obligations and Swingline Loans.

Revolving Facilities” means  (a) the Revolving Credit Facility, (b) any Specified Refinancing Debt constituting revolving credit facility commitments and (c) the aggregate principal amount of the Revolving Credit Lenders’ Extended Revolving Credit Commitments in respect of any Extension, in each case, including the extensions of credit made thereunder.

S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC, and any successor thereto.

Sale Leasebacks” means any sale leaseback transaction with respect to all or any portion of any real property owned by a member of the Restricted Group that is permitted pursuant to Section 7.05(p).

Same Day Funds” means disbursements and payments in immediately available funds.

Sanctioned Country” means, at any time, a country, region or territory that is the subject of a general export, import, financial, investment or other trade-related embargo under any Sanctions Laws and Regulations, which countries as of the date of this Agreement, include Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria and the Crimea Region.

Sanctioned Person” means, at any time, (a) any Person listed in any Sanctions Laws and Regulations-related list of designated Persons maintained by the U.S. government, including the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”), the U.S. Department of State, the

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U.S. Department of Commerce, the United Nations Security Council, Her Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom, the European Union or any European Union member state, (b) any Person operating, organized or resident in a Sanctioned Country or (c) any Person owned or controlled by any such Person.

Sanctions Laws and Regulations” means any sanctions or requirements imposed by, or based upon the obligations or authorities set forth in, the PATRIOT Act, or any of the foreign assets control regulations or any other law or executive order relating thereto administered by OFAC, the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Department of Commerce, or any other agency of the U.S. government, the United Nations, Her Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom, the European Union or any member state thereof.

SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any of its principal functions.

Secured Cash Management Agreement” means any Cash Management Agreement that is entered into by and between any Loan Party and any Cash Management Bank, except for any such Cash Management Agreement designated by the Borrower in writing to the Administrative Agent as an “unsecured cash management agreement” as of the Closing Date or, if later, as of the time of becoming a Cash Management Bank (or such later date as agreed by the Borrower, the applicable Cash Management Bank and the Administrative Agent).

Secured Hedge Agreement” means any Swap Contract permitted under Article VII that is entered into by and between any Loan Party and any Hedge Bank, except for any such Swap Contract designated by the Borrower in writing to the Administrative Agent as an “unsecured hedge agreement” as of the Closing Date or, if later, as of the time of becoming a Hedge Bank; provided that for the purposes of the Loan Documents in no circumstances shall any Excluded Swap Obligations constitute Obligations with respect to any Secured Hedge Agreement.

Secured Net Leverage Ratio” means, on any date of determination, with respect to the Restricted Group on a consolidated basis, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Secured Indebtedness (less the unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents of the Restricted Group as of such date in an amount not to exceed $50,000,000, of which not more than $25,000,000 shall be foreign cash and Cash Equivalents) of the Restricted Group on such date to (b) Consolidated EBITDA of the Restricted Group for the four fiscal quarter period most recently then ended for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b), as applicable.

Secured Obligations” means the collective Obligations of the Loan Parties now or hereafter existing under the Loan Documents, any Secured Cash Management Agreement or any Secured Hedge Agreement (as such Loan Documents, Secured Cash Management Agreements and/or Secured Hedge Agreements may be amended, amended and restated, supplemented, replaced, refinanced or otherwise modified from time to time (including any increases of the principal amount outstanding thereunder)), whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, and whether for principal, reimbursement obligations, interest, fees, premiums, penalties, indemnifications, contract causes of action, costs, expenses or otherwise.

Secured Parties” means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the Hedge Banks to the extent they are party to one or more Secured Hedge Agreements, the Cash Management Banks to the extent they are party to one or more Secured Cash Management Agreements, any Supplemental Agent and each co-agent or subagent appointed by the Administrative Agent from time to time pursuant to Article IX.

Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

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Security Agreement” means, collectively, the Security Agreement dated as of the date hereof executed by the Loan Parties party thereto, substantially in the form of Exhibit F-1 and the Pledge Agreement dated as of the date hereof executed by the Loan Parties party thereto, substantially in the form of Exhibit F-2, together with each other security agreement and security agreement supplement executed and delivered pursuant to Section 6.12, 6.14 or 6.15.

Security Agreement Supplement” has the meaning specified in the Security Agreement.

Solvent” means, with respect to any Person on any date of determination, that on such date (a) the fair value of the assets of such Person is greater than the total amount of debts and other liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, of such Person, (b) the present fair saleable value of the assets of such Person is greater than the total amount that will be required to pay the liability of such Person on its debts and other liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, as such debts and other liabilities become absolute and matured, (c) such Person is able to pay its debts and liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, as such liabilities become absolute and matured and (d) such Person is not engaged in, and is not about to engage in, business for which it has unreasonably small capital.  The amount of contingent liabilities at any time shall be computed as the amount that, in light of all the facts and circumstances existing at such time, represents the amounts that would reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability or, if a different methodology is prescribed by applicable Laws, as prescribed by such Laws.

SPC” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(h).

Specified Refinancing Debt” has the meaning specified in Section 2.18(a).

Specified Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitment” has the meaning specified in Section 2.18(a).

Specified Refinancing Term Commitment” has the meaning specified in Section 2.18(a).

Specified Refinancing Term Loans” means Specified Refinancing Debt constituting term loans.

Specified Transaction” means (a) any incurrence or repayment of Indebtedness (excluding Indebtedness incurred for working capital purposes other than pursuant to this Agreement) in an aggregate amount exceeding $10,000,000, (b) any Investment that results in a Person becoming a Subsidiary, (c) any designation of a Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary or as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, (d) any Permitted Acquisition, (e) any Disposition that results in a Restricted Subsidiary ceasing to be a Subsidiary of the Borrower, (f) any Investment constituting an acquisition of assets constituting a business unit, line of business or division of another Person, (g) any Disposition of a business unit, line of business or division of the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case whether by merger, consolidation, amalgamation or otherwise or (h) any material restructuring of the Borrower or implementation of any initiative not in the ordinary course of business.

Sponsor” means Cinven Capital Management (V) General Partner Limited and its Control Investment Affiliates (excluding, for purposes of the definitions of Change of Control and Permitted Holders, any operating portfolio companies of the foregoing).

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Standard Securitization Undertakings” means reasonable and customary representations, warranties, covenants and indemnities made or provided by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with a Permitted Receivables Financing.

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

Sterling”, “Pounds Sterling” and “£” mean the lawful currency of the United Kingdom.

Subsidiary” of a Person means a corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company or other business entity (a) of which a majority of the shares of securities or other Equity Interests having ordinary voting power for the election of directors, managers or other governing body (other than securities or interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) are at the time beneficially owned, or (b) the management of which is otherwise controlled, directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, or both, by such Person and, in the case of this clause (b), which is treated as a consolidated subsidiary for accounting purposes.  Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to a “Subsidiary” or to “Subsidiaries” shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Borrower.

Subsidiary Guarantor” means, collectively, the Restricted Subsidiaries of the Borrower that are Guarantors; provided that notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, no Subsidiary shall be excluded as a Subsidiary Guarantor if such Subsidiary enters into, or is required to enter into, a guarantee in respect of (or is required to become a borrower or other obligor under) any Refinancing Notes, any New Incremental Notes or any Permitted Additional Debt (except, in the case of Permitted Additional Debt, to the extent that a Restricted Subsidiary that is a Foreign Subsidiary is the issuer or borrower of such Permitted Additional Debt as permitted by Section 7.03(r)).

Subsidiary Redesignation” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Unrestricted Subsidiary”.

Supplemental Agent” has the meaning specified in Section 9.14(a).

Swap” means any agreement, contract or transaction that constitutes a “swap” within the meaning of section 1a(47) of the Commodity Exchange Act.

Swap Contract” means (a) any and all rate swap transactions, basis swaps, credit derivative transactions, forward rate transactions, commodity swaps, commodity options, forward commodity contracts, equity or equity index swaps or options, bond or bond price or bond index swaps or options or forward bond or forward bond price or forward bond index transactions, interest rate options, forward foreign exchange transactions, cap transactions, floor transactions, collar transactions, currency swap transactions, cross-currency rate swap transactions, currency options, spot contracts, or any other similar transactions or any combination of any of the foregoing (including any options to enter into any of the foregoing), whether or not any such transaction is governed by or subject to any master agreement, and

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(b) any and all transactions of any kind, and the related confirmations, which are subject to the terms and conditions of, or governed by, any form of master agreement published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., any International Foreign Exchange Master Agreement, or any other master agreement, including any obligations or liabilities under any such master agreement.

Swap Obligation” means, with respect to any Guarantor, any obligation to pay or perform under any Swap.

Swap Termination Value” means, in respect of any one or more Swap Contracts, after taking into account the effect of any legally enforceable netting agreement relating to such Swap Contracts, (a) for any date on or after the date such Swap Contracts have been closed out and termination value(s) determined in accordance therewith, such termination value(s), and (b) for any date prior to the date referenced in clause (a), the amount(s) determined as the mark-to-market value(s) for such Swap Contracts, as determined based upon one or more mid-market or other readily available quotations provided by any recognized dealer in such Swap Contracts (which may include a Lender or any Affiliate of a Lender).

Swingline Borrowing” means a borrowing of a Swingline Loan pursuant to Section 2.04.

Swingline Facility” means the revolving credit facility made available by the Swingline Lender pursuant to Section 2.04.

Swingline Lender” means PNC Bank, National Association in its capacity as provider of Swingline Loans, or any successor Swingline Lender hereunder.

Swingline Loan” has the meaning specified in Section 2.04(a).

Swingline Note” means a promissory note of the Borrower payable to the Swingline Lender or its registered assigns, in substantially the form of Exhibit B-3, evidencing the aggregate indebtedness of the Borrower to the Swingline Lender resulting from the Swingline Loans made by the Swingline Lender.

Swingline Loan Notice” means a notice of a Swingline Borrowing pursuant to Section 2.04(b), which, if in writing, shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A-3.

Swingline Sublimit” means an amount equal to the lesser of (a) $10,000,000 and (b) the Revolving Credit Facility of such time.  The Swingline Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Revolving Credit Facility.

Syndication Agent” means PNC Bank, National Association.

Synthetic Lease Obligation” means the monetary obligation of a Person under a so-called synthetic, off-balance sheet or tax retention lease.

TARGET Day” means any day on which the Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross Settlement Express Transfer (TARGET) payment system (or, if such payment system ceases to be operative, such other payment system (if any) determined by the Administrative Agent to be a suitable replacement) is open for the settlement of payments in Euros.

Tax Group” has the meaning specified in Section 7.06(d)(ii).

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Taxes” means all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings (including backup withholding), assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.

Term Borrowing” means a borrowing of the same Type of Term Loan of a single Tranche from all the Lenders having Term Commitments of the respective Tranche on a given date (or resulting from a conversion or conversions on such date) having in the case of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, the same Interest Period.

Term Commitment” means, as to each Term Lender, (a) the Initial Term Commitments, (b) a Term Commitment Increase, (c) a New Term Commitment or (d) a Specified Refinancing Term Commitment.  The amount of each Lender’s Initial Term Commitment is as set forth in the definition thereof and the amount of each Lender’s other Term Commitments shall be as set forth in the Assignment and Assumption, or in the amendment or agreement relating to the respective Term Commitment Increase, New Term Commitment or Specified Refinancing Term Commitment pursuant to which such Lender shall have assumed its Term Commitment, as the case may be, as such amounts may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with this Agreement.

Term Commitment Increase” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(a)(ii).

Term Facility” means a facility in respect of any Term Loan Tranche, as the context requires.

Term Lender” means (a) at any time on or prior to the Closing Date, any Lender that has an Initial Term Commitment at such time and (b) at any time after the Closing Date, any Lender that holds Term Loans and/or Term Commitments at such time.

Term Loan” means an advance made by any Term Lender under any Term Facility.

Term Loan Tranche” means the respective facility and commitments utilized in making Term Loans hereunder, including (a) as of the Closing Date, the Initial Term Loans and (b) additional Term Loan Tranches that may be added after the Closing Date, i.e., New Term Loans, Specified Refinancing Term Loans, Extended Term Loans, New Term Commitments and Specified Refinancing Term Commitments.

Term Note” means a promissory note of the Borrower payable to the order of any Term Lender or its registered assigns, in substantially the form of Exhibit B-1, evidencing the indebtedness of the Borrower to such Term Lender resulting from the Term Loans under the same Term Loan Tranche made or held by such Term Lender.

Total Net Leverage Ratio” means, on any date of determination, with respect to the Restricted Group on a consolidated basis, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Funded Indebtedness (less the unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents of the Restricted Group as of such date in an amount not to exceed $50,000,000, of which not more than $25,000,000 shall be foreign cash and Cash Equivalents) of the Restricted Group on such date to (b) Consolidated EBITDA of the Restricted Group for the four fiscal quarter period most recently then ended for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b), as applicable.

Total Outstandings” means the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Loans and all L/C Obligations.

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Total Revolving Credit Outstandings” means the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Revolving Credit Loans, Swingline Loans and L/C Obligations.

Tranche” means any Term Loan Tranche or any Revolving Facility.

Transaction” means, collectively, (a) the Borrower obtaining the Facilities and the initial borrowings of Loans on the Closing Date, (b) the Existing Credit Agreement Refinancing, (c) the financing on the Closing Date of working capital requirements and other general corporate purposes of the Borrower (including share repurchases) and (d) the payment of all fees, costs and expenses incurred in connection with the transactions described in the foregoing provisions of this definition (the “Transaction Costs”), and “Transactions” shall have a corresponding meaning.

Transaction Costs” has the meaning given to such term in the definition of “Transaction”.

Type” means, with respect to a Loan, its character as a Base Rate Loan or a Eurocurrency Rate Loan.

Unfunded Advances/Participations” means (a) with respect to the Administrative Agent, the aggregate amount, if any (i) made available to the Borrower on the assumption that each Lender has made available to the Administrative Agent such Lender’s share of the applicable Borrowing available to the Administrative Agent as contemplated by Section 2.12(b) and (ii) with respect to which a corresponding amount shall not in fact have been returned to the Administrative Agent by the Borrower or made available to the Administrative Agent by any such Lender, (b) with respect to the Swingline Lender, the aggregate amount, if any, of outstanding Swingline Loans in respect of which any Revolving Credit Lender fails to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Swingline Lender any amount required to be paid by such Revolving Credit Lender pursuant to Section 2.04(c) and (c) with respect to any L/C Issuer, the aggregate amount, if any, of amounts drawn under Letters of Credit in respect of which a Revolving Credit Lender shall have failed to make Revolving Credit Loans or L/C Advances to reimburse such L/C Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03(c).

Unfunded Pension Liability” means the excess of the present value of a Plan’s benefit liabilities under Section 4001(a) of ERISA over the current value of such Plan’s assets, determined in accordance with assumptions used by the actuary to such Plan in its most recent valuation.

Uniform Commercial Code” or “UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code as the same may from time to time be in effect in the State of New York or the Uniform Commercial Code (or similar code or statute) of another jurisdiction, to the extent it may be required to apply to any item or items of Collateral.

United States” and “U.S.” mean the United States of America.

Unreimbursed Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(c)(i).

Unrestricted Subsidiary” means (a) any Subsidiary of the Borrower designated by the Borrower as an Unrestricted Subsidiary hereunder by written notice to the Administrative Agent; provided that the Borrower shall only be permitted to so designate an Unrestricted Subsidiary after the Closing Date and so long as (i) no Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, (ii) no such Subsidiary or any of its Subsidiaries owns any Equity Interests or Indebtedness of, or owns or holds any Lien on any property of, the Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower that is not a Subsidiary of the Subsidiary to be so designated, (iii) such Unrestricted Subsidiary shall be capitalized (to

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the extent capitalized by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary) through Investments as permitted by, and in compliance with, Section 7.02 and valued at its fair market value (as determined by the Borrower in good faith) at the time of such designation, (iv) without duplication of preceding clause (iii), any assets owned by such Unrestricted Subsidiary at the time of the initial designation thereof shall be treated as Investments pursuant to Section 7.02 and valued at their fair market value (as determined by the Borrower in good faith) at the time of such designation, (v) such Subsidiary shall have been or will promptly be designated an “unrestricted subsidiary” (or otherwise not be subject to the covenants) under (x) any Refinancing Notes, any New Incremental Notes and all Permitted Refinancings in respect thereof and (y) any Permitted Additional Debt or any Permitted Refinancing thereof with an aggregate outstanding principal amount in excess of $12,500,000, (vi) the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries are in Pro Forma Compliance with the financial covenants set forth in Section 7.10 and (vii) the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent a certificate executed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, certifying compliance with the requirements of preceding clauses (i) through (vi) and (b) any Subsidiary of an Unrestricted Subsidiary.  The Borrower may designate any Unrestricted Subsidiary to be a Restricted Subsidiary for purposes of this Agreement (each, a “Subsidiary Redesignation”); provided that (A) no Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, (B) any Indebtedness of the applicable Subsidiary and any Liens encumbering its property existing as of the time of such Subsidiary Redesignation shall be deemed newly incurred or established, as applicable, at such time and (C) the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent a certificate executed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, certifying compliance with the requirements of preceding clause (A); provided, further, that no Unrestricted Subsidiary that has been designated as a Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to a Subsidiary Redesignation may again be designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary.

Unsecured Financing” means, collectively, any New Incremental Notes, any Refinancing Notes and any Permitted Additional Debt, in each case, that is unsecured and not expressly subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations, together with any Permitted Refinancings thereof.

Unsecured Financing Documentation” means any documentation governing any Unsecured Financing.

U.S. Bankruptcy Code” means Title 11 of the Bankruptcy Code of the United States or any successor thereof (as amended).

U.S. Person” means any Person that is a “United States person” as defined in Section  701(a)(30) of the Code.

U.S. Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Borrower that (a) is organized under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, (b) is not a Subsidiary of a Controlled Foreign Subsidiary and (c) is not a FSHCO.

U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.01(h)(ii).

Voting Equity Interests” means, with respect to any Person, the outstanding Equity Interests of a Person having the power, directly or indirectly, to designate the board of directors (or equivalent governing body) of such Person.

Weighted Average Life to Maturity” means, when applied to any Indebtedness at any date, the number of years (and/or portion thereof) obtained by dividing:  (a) the sum of the products obtained by multiplying (i) the amount of each then remaining installment, sinking fund, serial maturity or other required payments of principal, including payment at final maturity, in respect thereof, by (ii) the number

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of years (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth) that will elapse between such date and the making of such payment; by (b) the then outstanding principal amount of such Indebtedness.

Wells Fargo Bank” means Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, a national banking association.

wholly owned” means, with respect to a Subsidiary of a Person, a Subsidiary of such Person all of the outstanding Equity Interests of which (other than (x) director’s qualifying shares and (y) shares issued to foreign nationals to the extent required by applicable Law) are owned by such Person and/or by one or more wholly owned Subsidiaries of such Person.

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

Section 1.02Other Interpretive Provisions.  With reference to this Agreement and each other Loan Document, unless otherwise specified herein or in such other Loan Document:

(a)The meanings of defined terms are equally applicable to the singular and plural forms of the defined terms.

(b)The words “herein,” “hereto,” “hereof” and “hereunder” and words of similar import when used in any Loan Document shall refer to such Loan Document as a whole and not to any particular provision thereof.

(c)References in this Agreement to an Exhibit, Schedule, Article, Section, clause or sub-clause refer (i) to the appropriate Exhibit or Schedule to, or Article, Section, clause or sub-clause in this Agreement or (ii) to the extent such references are not present in this Agreement, to the Loan Document in which such reference appears.

(d)The term “including” is by way of example and not limitation.

(e)The term “documents” includes any and all instruments, documents, agreements, certificates, notices, reports, financial statements and other writings, however evidenced, whether in physical or electronic form.

(f)Unless the context requires otherwise, (A) any definition or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document (including any Organization Document) shall be construed in referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, supplements or modifications set forth herein or in any other Loan Document).

(g)Any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns.

(h)In the computation of periods of time from a specified date to a later specified date, the word “from” means “from and including;” the words “to” and “until” each mean “to but excluding;” and the word “through” means “to and including”.

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(i)Section headings herein and in the other Loan Documents are included for convenience of reference only and shall not affect the interpretation of this Agreement or any other Loan Document.

Section 1.03Accounting Terms.

(a)All accounting terms not specifically or completely defined herein shall be construed in conformity with, and all financial data (including financial ratios and other financial calculations) required to be submitted pursuant to this Agreement shall be prepared in conformity with GAAP, as in effect from time to time.

(b)If at any time any change in GAAP or the application thereof would affect the computation or interpretation of any financial ratio, basket, requirement or other provision set forth in any Loan Document, and either the Borrower or the Required Lenders shall so request, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower shall negotiate in good faith to amend such ratio, basket, requirement or other provision to preserve the original intent thereof in light of such change in GAAP or the application thereof (subject to the approval of the Required Lenders not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed); provided that, until so amended, (i) (A) such ratio, basket, requirement or other provision shall continue to be computed or interpreted in accordance with GAAP or the application thereof prior to such change therein and (B) the Borrower shall provide to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders a written reconciliation in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, between calculations of such ratio, basket, requirement or other provision made before and after giving effect to such change in GAAP or the application thereof or (ii) subject to the rights of the Required Lenders set forth in this Section 1.03(b), the Borrower may elect to fix GAAP (for purposes of such ratio, basket, requirement or other provision) as of another later date notified in writing to the Administrative Agent from time to time.

(c)Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, all such financial statements shall be prepared, and all financial covenants contained herein or in any other Loan Document shall be calculated, in each case, without giving effect to any election under FASB ASC 825 (or any similar accounting principle) permitting a Person to value its financial liabilities at the fair value thereof.

(d)Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, including the definitions of “Total Net Leverage Ratio”, “Secured Net Leverage Ratio”, “Consolidated EBITDA”, “Capitalized Lease” and “Indebtedness”, for purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, any lease by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of real property shall be treated as an operating lease and not as a Capitalized Lease.

Section 1.04Rounding.  Any financial ratios required to be maintained by the Borrower, or satisfied in order for a specific action to be permitted, under this Agreement shall be calculated by dividing the appropriate component by the other component, carrying the result to one place more than the number of places by which such ratio is expressed herein and rounding the result up or down to the nearest number (with a rounding-up if there is no nearest number).

Section 1.05References to Agreements and Laws.  Unless otherwise expressly provided herein, (a) references to Organization Documents, agreements (including the Loan Documents) and other contractual instruments shall be deemed to include all subsequent amendments, restatements, extensions, supplements and other modifications thereto, but only to the extent that such amendments, restatements, extensions, supplements and other modifications are permitted by any Loan Document and (b) references to any Law shall include all statutory and regulatory provisions consolidating, amending, replacing, supplementing or interpreting such Law.

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Section 1.06Times of Day.  Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to times of day shall be references to Eastern time (daylight savings or standard, as applicable).

Section 1.07Timing of Payment or Performance.  When the payment of any obligation or the performance of any covenant, duty or obligation is stated to be due or performance required on a day which is not a Business Day, the date of such payment (other than as specifically provided in Section 2.12 or as described in the definition of “Interest Period”) or performance shall extend to the immediately succeeding Business Day and such extension of time shall be reflected in computing interest or fees, as the case may be.

Section 1.08Currency Equivalents Generally.

(a)Any amount specified in this Agreement (other than in Articles II, IX and X or as set forth in clause (b) of this Section 1.08) or any of the other Loan Documents to be in Dollars shall also include the equivalent of such amount in any currency other than Dollars, such equivalent amount to be determined at the applicable Exchange Rate; provided that the determination of any Dollar Amount shall be made in accordance with Section 3.02; provided further that if any basket amount expressed in Dollars is exceeded solely as a result of fluctuations in applicable currency exchange rates after the last time such basket was utilized, such basket will not be deemed to have been exceeded solely as a result of such fluctuations in currency exchange rates.

(b)For purposes of determining the Secured Net Leverage Ratio and the Total Net Leverage Ratio, amounts denominated in a currency other than Dollars will be converted to Dollars for the purposes of (A) testing the financial covenants under Section 7.10, at the Exchange Rate in respect thereof as of the last day of the fiscal quarter for which such measurement is being made, and (B) calculating any Secured Net Leverage Ratio and any Total Net Leverage Ratio (other than for the purposes of determining compliance with Section 7.10), at the Exchange Rate as of the date of calculation, and will, in the case of Indebtedness, reflect the currency translation effects, determined in accordance with GAAP, of Swap Contracts permitted hereunder for currency exchange risks with respect to the applicable currency in effect on the date of determination of the Dollar equivalent of such Indebtedness.

(c)For the purposes of determining the Dollar Amount of any amount specified in Article II on any date, any amount in a currency other than Dollars shall be converted to Dollars at the Exchange Rate as of the most recent Exchange Rate Reset Date occurring on or prior to such date.

Section 1.09Change in Currency.

(a)Each obligation of any Loan Party to make a payment denominated in the national currency unit of any member state of the European Union that adopts the Euro as its lawful currency after the date hereof shall be redenominated into Euro at the time of such adoption (in accordance with the EMU Legislation).  If, in relation to the currency of any such member state, the basis of accrual of interest expressed in this Agreement in respect of that currency shall be inconsistent with any convention or practice in the London interbank market for the basis of accrual of interest in respect of the Euro, such expressed basis shall be replaced by such convention or practice with effect from the date on which such member state adopts the Euro as its lawful currency; provided that if any Borrowing in the currency of such member state is outstanding immediately prior to such date, such replacement shall take effect, with respect to such Borrowing, at the end of the then current Interest Period.

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adoption of the Euro by any member state of the European Union and any relevant market conventions or practices relating to the Euro.

(c)If a change in any currency of a country occurs, this Agreement will, to the extent the Administrative Agent (acting reasonably and after consultation with the Borrower) specifies to be necessary, be amended to comply with any generally accepted conventions and market practice relating to the applicable currency and otherwise to reflect the change in currency.

Section 1.10Letter of Credit Amounts.  Unless otherwise specified herein, the amount of a Letter of Credit at any time shall be deemed to be the stated amount of such Letter of Credit in effect at such time after giving effect to any expiration periods applicable thereto; provided, however, that with respect to any Letter of Credit that, by its terms or the terms of any Issuer Document related thereto, provides for one or more automatic increases in the stated amount thereof, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be deemed to be the maximum stated amount of such Letter of Credit after giving effect to all such increases, whether or not such maximum stated amount is in effect at such time.

Section 1.11Pro Forma Calculations.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Secured Net Leverage Ratio and the Total Net Leverage Ratio shall be calculated on a Pro Forma Basis with respect to each Specified Transaction occurring during the applicable four quarter period to which such calculation relates, and/or subsequent to the end of such four-quarter period but not later than the date of such calculation; provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, when calculating the Secured Net Leverage Ratio for purposes of determining actual compliance (and not Pro Forma Compliance or compliance on a Pro Forma Basis) with the financial covenants set forth in Section 7.10, any Specified Transaction and any related adjustment contemplated in the definition of “Pro Forma Basis” (and corresponding provisions of the definition of “Consolidated EBITDA”) that occurred subsequent to the end of the applicable four quarter period shall not be given Pro Forma Effect.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any Limited Condition Acquisition only, at the Borrower’s option, the Secured Net Leverage Ratio and the Total Net Leverage Ratio shall be determined, and any default or event of default blocker shall be tested, as of the date the definitive acquisition agreement for such Limited Condition Acquisition is entered into and calculated as if the acquisition and other pro forma events in connection therewith were consummated on such date, provided that (i) other than as specifically provided below in this Section 1.11, the Consolidated Net Income (and any other financial defined term derived therefrom) shall not include any Consolidated Net Income of, or attributable to, the target company or assets associated with any such Limited Condition Acquisition for usages other than in connection with the applicable transaction pertaining to such Limited Condition Acquisition unless and until the closing of such Limited Condition Acquisition shall have actually occurred, (ii) the determination of the Secured Net Leverage Ratio and the Total Net Leverage Ratio on or following the date of the definitive acquisition agreement and prior to the earlier of the date on which such acquisition is consummated or the definitive agreement for such acquisition is terminated shall be calculated on a pro forma basis assuming such acquisition and other pro forma events in connection therewith (including any incurrence of Indebtedness) have been consummated, and (iii) after the signing date but before the closing date for a Limited Condition Acquisition, the determination of ratios and baskets for purposes not related to such Limited Condition Acquisition shall be made as if the closing date had occurred on the same date as the signing date until such earlier time on which the applicable Limited Condition Acquisition is consummated, terminated or abandoned (the proviso of this sentence shall be referred to as the “Limited Condition Acquisition Proviso”).

Section 1.12Calculation of Baskets.  If any of the baskets set forth in Article VII of this Agreement are exceeded solely as a result of fluctuations to Consolidated EBITDA for the most recently completed fiscal quarter after the last time such baskets were calculated for any purpose under Article VII, such baskets will not be deemed to have been exceeded solely as a result of such fluctuations.  For the avoidance of doubt, if the Borrower has made an election to utilize the Limited Condition Acquisition

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Proviso and any of the ratios or baskets for which compliance was determined or tested as such date are exceeded as a result of fluctuations in any such ratio or basket, including due to fluctuations in  Consolidated EBITDA of the Borrower or the Person subject to such Limited Condition Acquisition, at or prior to the consummation of the relevant transaction or action, such baskets or ratios will be deemed to not have been exceeded as a result of such fluctuations.

Section 1.13No Personal Liability.  Where any person gives a certificate (or other document), makes any statement or makes a representation in each case on behalf of any of the parties to the Loan Documents pursuant to any provision thereof and such certificate, document, statement or representation proves to be incorrect, the individual shall incur no personal liability in consequence of such certificate, document, statement or undertaking being incorrect (save in the case of fraud, gross negligence or willful misconduct, in which case any liability of such individual shall be determined in accordance with applicable law).

ARTICLE II

THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS

Section 2.01The Loans.

(a)The Initial Term Borrowings.  Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Term Lender with an Initial Term Commitment severally agrees to make a single loan denominated in Dollars to the Borrower (the “Initial Term Loans”) on the Closing Date in an amount not to exceed such Term Lender’s Initial Term Commitment.  The Initial Term Borrowing shall consist of Initial Term Loans made simultaneously by the Term Lenders in accordance with their respective Initial Term Commitments.  Amounts borrowed under this Section 2.01(a) and subsequently repaid or prepaid may not be reborrowed.  Initial Term Loans may be Base Rate Loans or Eurocurrency Rate Loans as further provided herein.

(b)The Revolving Credit Borrowings.  Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Revolving Credit Lender severally agrees to make loans denominated in Dollars or in one or more Alternative Currencies (each such loan, a “Revolving Credit Loan”) to the Borrower from time to time on and after the Closing Date, on any Business Day until and excluding the Business Day preceding the Maturity Date for the applicable Revolving Facility, in an aggregate Dollar Amount not to exceed at any time outstanding the amount of such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment in respect of the applicable Revolving Facility; provided, however, that after giving effect to any Revolving Credit Borrowing under the applicable Revolving Facility, (i) the aggregate Dollar Amount of the Total Revolving Credit Outstandings under such Revolving Facility shall not exceed the Revolving Credit Commitments in respect of such Facility, (ii) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Revolving Credit Loans and L/C Obligations denominated in Alternative Currencies shall not exceed the Alternative Currency Sublimit, and (iii) the aggregate Dollar Amount of the Outstanding Amount of the Revolving Credit Loans under such Revolving Facility of any Lender, plus such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the Dollar Amount of the Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations under such Revolving Facility, plus the Dollar Amount of such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the Outstanding Amount of all Swingline Loans shall not exceed such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment in respect of such Revolving Facility.  Within the limits of each Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment, and subject to the other terms and conditions hereof, the Borrower may borrow under this Section 2.01(b), prepay under Section 2.05, and reborrow under this Section 2.01(b).  Revolving Credit Loans may be Base Rate Loans (if denominated in Dollars) or Eurocurrency Rate Loans, as further provided herein.

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

Section 2.02Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Loans.

(a)Each Term Borrowing, each Revolving Credit Borrowing, each conversion of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans from one Type to the other, and each continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be made upon irrevocable notice by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent; provided that Revolving Credit Loans denominated in an Alternative Currency may not be converted into Base Rate Loans.  Each such notice must be in writing and must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 p.m. (New York City time) (i) three Business Days prior to the requested date of any Borrowing of, conversion of Base Rate Loans to, or continuation of, Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Dollars, (ii) four Business Days prior to the requested date of any Borrowing or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in any Alternative Currency, (iii) three Business Days prior to the requested date of any conversion of Eurocurrency Rate Loans to Base Rate Loans denominated in Dollars and (iv) one Business Day prior to the requested date of any Borrowing of Base Rate Loans denominated in Dollars; provided, however, that if the Borrower wishes to request Eurocurrency Rate Loans in an Alternative Currency having an Interest Period other than one, two, three or six months in duration (or, with respect to the Interest Period beginning on the Closing Date, an Interest Period ending on December 30, 2016) as provided in the definition of “Interest Period”, the applicable notice from the Borrower must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 p.m. (New York City time) five Business Days prior to the requested date of such Borrowing, conversion or continuation, whereupon the Administrative Agent shall give prompt notice to the Appropriate Lenders of such request and determine whether the requested Interest Period is acceptable to all of them.  Not later than 10:00 a.m. (New York City time) three Business Days before the requested date of such Borrowing, conversion or continuation, the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower whether or not the requested Interest Period has been consented to by all the Appropriate Lenders.  Each notice by the Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.02(a) shall be delivered to the Administrative Agent in the form of a written Committed Loan Notice, appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower.  Each Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of not less than (x) of $1,000,000 or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof if denominated in Dollars, (y) €1,000,000 or a whole multiple of €1,000,000 in excess thereof if denominated in Euros, or (z) a Dollar Amount of $1,000,000 or a whole multiple of a Dollar Amount of $1,000,000 in excess thereof if denominated in an Alternative Currency other than Euros.  Except as provided in Sections 2.03(d) and 2.04(c), each Borrowing of, or conversion to, Base Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $1,000,000 or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof.  Each Committed Loan Notice shall specify (i) whether the Borrower is requesting a Term Borrowing (and, other than with respect to the Initial Term Loans (which shall be denominated in Dollars), whether such Term Borrowing shall be denominated in Dollars or in Euros), a Revolving Credit Borrowing, a conversion of a Tranche of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans from one Type to the other, or a continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, (ii) the requested date of the Borrowing, conversion or continuation, as the case may be (which shall be a Business Day), (iii) the principal amount of Loans to be borrowed, converted or continued, (iv) in the case of Revolving Credit Loans, the currency in which the Revolving Credit Loans to be borrowed are to be denominated, (v) the Type of Loans to be borrowed or to which an existing Tranche of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans are to be converted, (vi) if applicable, the duration of the Interest Period with respect thereto and (vii) the account of the Borrower to be credited with the proceeds of such Borrowing.  If, (x) with respect to any Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Dollars, the Borrower fails to specify a Type of Loan in a Committed Loan Notice or if the Borrower fails to give a timely notice requesting a conversion or continuation, then the applicable Tranche of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans shall be made as, or converted to, a Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in

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Dollars with an Interest Period of one month or (y) with respect to any Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in any Alternative Currency, the Borrower fails to specify a Type of Loan in a Committed Loan Notice or if the Borrower fails to give a timely notice requesting a conversion or continuation, then the applicable Tranche of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans shall be made as, or converted to, a Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in such Alternative Currency with an Interest Period of one month.  Any such automatic conversion or continuation pursuant to the immediately preceding sentence shall be effective as of the last day of the Interest Period then in effect with respect to the applicable Eurocurrency Rate Loans.  If the Borrower requests a Borrowing of, conversion to, or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans in any such Committed Loan Notice, but fails to specify an Interest Period (or fails to give a timely notice requesting a continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans), it will be deemed to have specified an Interest Period of one month.  If no currency is specified, the requested Borrowing shall be in Dollars.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, a Swingline Loan may not be converted to a Eurocurrency Rate Loan.

(b)Following receipt of a Committed Loan Notice, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Appropriate Lender of the amount of its Pro Rata Share of the applicable Tranche of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans, and if no timely notice of a conversion or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loan is provided by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Lender of the details of any automatic conversion to Eurocurrency Rate Loans with an Interest Period of one month as described in Section 2.02(a).  In the case of a Term Borrowing or a Revolving Credit Borrowing, each Appropriate Lender shall make the amount of its Loan available to the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds at the Administrative Agent’s Office not later than 12:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the Business Day specified in the applicable Committed Loan Notice.  Upon satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (or, if such Borrowing is the initial Credit Extension, Section 4.01), the Administrative Agent shall make all funds so received available to the Borrower in like funds as received by the Administrative Agent by wire transfer of such funds, in each case in accordance with instructions provided to (and reasonably acceptable to) the Administrative Agent by the Borrower; provided, however, that if, on the date the Committed Loan Notice with respect to Revolving Credit Borrowing is given by the Borrower, there are Swingline Loans or L/C Borrowings outstanding, then the proceeds of such Revolving Borrowing shall be applied, first, to the payment in full of any such L/C Borrowings, second, to the payment in full of any such Swingline Loans and third, to the Borrower as provided above.

(c)Except as otherwise provided herein, a Eurocurrency Rate Loan may be continued or converted only on the last day of an Interest Period for such Eurocurrency Rate Loan unless the Borrower pays the amount due under Section 3.06 in connection therewith.  During the existence of an Event of Default, at the election of the Administrative Agent or if directed to do so by the Required Lenders, no Loans denominated in Dollars may be requested as, converted to or continued as Eurocurrency Rate Loans.

(d)The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders of the interest rate applicable to any Interest Period for Eurocurrency Rate Loans upon determination of such interest rate.  The determination of the Eurocurrency Rate by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error.

(e)After giving effect to all Term Borrowings, all Revolving Credit Borrowings, all conversions of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans from one Type to the other, and all continuations of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans of the same Type, there shall not be more than ten Interest Periods in effect (or such greater number of Interest Periods as may be acceptable to the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion).

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date of such Borrowing, but no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to make the Loan to be made by such other Lender on the date of any Borrowing.

Section 2.03Letters of Credit.

(a)The Letter of Credit Commitment.  Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, (A) each L/C Issuer agrees, in reliance upon the agreements of the other Revolving Credit Lenders set forth in this Section 2.03, (1) from time to time on any Business Day during the period from the Closing Date until the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, to issue Letters of Credit for the account of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (provided that the Borrower hereby irrevocably agrees to reimburse the applicable L/C Issuer for amounts drawn on any Letters of Credit issued for the account of its Restricted Subsidiary on a joint and several basis with such Restricted Subsidiary) and to amend or renew Letters of Credit previously issued by it, in accordance with Section 2.03(b), and (2) to honor drafts under the Letters of Credit issued by such L/C Issuer and (B) the Revolving Credit Lenders under any Revolving Facility severally agree to participate in Letters of Credit issued for the account of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary; provided that no L/C Issuer shall issue any Letter of Credit if, as of the date of such issuance (and after giving effect thereto) (u) with respect to any Revolving Facility, the sum of the Dollar Amount of the Total Revolving Credit Outstandings under such Revolving Facility would exceed the Revolving Credit Commitments in respect of such Revolving Facility, (v) with respect to any Revolving Facility, the aggregate Dollar Amount of the Outstanding Amount of the Revolving Credit Loans of any Lender under such Revolving Facility, plus the Dollar Amount of such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations under such Revolving Facility, plus the Dollar Amount of such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the Outstanding Amount of all Swingline Loans would exceed such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment under such Revolving Facility, (w) the Dollar Amount of the Outstanding Amount of the L/C Obligations would exceed the Letter of Credit Sublimit, (x) the Letter of Credit is denominated in an Alternative Currency other than Euros or Pounds Sterling which has not been agreed to by the Administrative Agent, such L/C Issuer, all of the Revolving Credit Lenders and the Borrower, (y) the Dollar Amount of the Outstanding Amount of such L/C Issuer’s L/C Obligations would exceed such L/C Issuer’s L/C Commitment or (z) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Revolving Credit Loans and L/C Obligations denominated in Alternative Currencies would exceed the Alternative Currency Sublimit.  Within the foregoing limits, and subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Borrower’s ability to obtain Letters of Credit shall be fully revolving, and accordingly the Borrower may, during the foregoing period, obtain Letters of Credit to replace Letters of Credit that have expired or that have been drawn upon and reimbursed.

(i)No L/C Issuer shall be under any obligation to issue any Letter of Credit if:

(A)any order, judgment or decree of any Governmental Authority or arbitrator shall by its terms purport to enjoin or restrain such L/C Issuer from issuing such Letter of Credit, or any Law applicable to such L/C Issuer or any request or directive (whether or not having the force of Law) from any Governmental Authority with jurisdiction over such L/C Issuer shall prohibit, or request that such L/C Issuer refrain from, the issuance of letters of credit generally or such Letter of Credit in particular or shall impose upon such L/C Issuer with respect to such Letter of Credit any restriction, reserve or capital requirement (for which such L/C Issuer is not otherwise compensated hereunder) not in effect on the Closing Date, or shall impose upon such L/C Issuer any unreimbursed loss, cost or expense which was not applicable on the Closing Date and which, in each case, such L/C Issuer in good faith deems material to it;

(B)subject to Section 2.03(b)(iii), the expiry date of such requested Letter of Credit (other than an Existing Letter of Credit) would occur more than 12 months after the

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date of issuance or last renewal, unless the Required Revolving Lenders and the L/C Issuer, in their sole discretion, have approved such expiry date;

(C)the expiry date of such requested Letter of Credit would occur after the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, unless (i) all the Revolving Credit Lenders and the L/C Issuer have approved such expiry date and (ii) such requested Letter of Credit has been Cash Collateralized by the applicant requesting such Letter of Credit in accordance with Section 2.16 at least five Business Days prior to the Letter of Credit Expiration Date;

(D)the issuance of such Letter of Credit would violate one or more generally applicable policies of such L/C Issuer in place at the time of such request;

(E)such Letter of Credit is in an initial stated amount of less than a Dollar Amount equal to $50,000 or such lesser amount as is acceptable to the applicable L/C Issuer in its sole discretion;

(F)the L/C Issuer does not as of the issuance date of such requested Letter of Credit issue Letters of Credit in the requested currency; or

(G)any Revolving Credit Lender is at that time a Defaulting Lender, unless the applicable L/C Issuer has entered into arrangements reasonably satisfactory to it and the Borrower to eliminate the L/C Issuer’s risk with respect to the participation in Letters of Credit by all such Defaulting Lenders, including, first by reallocation of the Defaulting Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the outstanding L/C Obligations pursuant to Section 2.17(a)(iv) and thereafter by the delivery of Cash Collateral in accordance with Section 2.16 with the Borrower or such Lender to eliminate such L/C Issuer’s actual or potential Fronting Exposure (after giving effect to Section 2.17(a)(iv)) with respect to a Defaulting Lender arising from either the Letter of Credit then proposed to be issued or that Letter of Credit and all other L/C Obligations as to which such L/C Issuer has actual or potential Fronting Exposure.

(ii)No L/C Issuer shall be under any obligation to amend any Letter of Credit if (A) such L/C Issuer would have no obligation at such time to issue such Letter of Credit in its amended form under the terms hereof or (B) the beneficiary of such Letter of Credit does not accept the proposed amendment to such Letter of Credit.

(iii)Each L/C Issuer shall act on behalf of the Revolving Credit Lenders under the applicable Revolving Facility with respect to any Letters of Credit issued by it and the documents associated therewith, and each L/C Issuer shall have all of the benefits and immunities (A) provided to the Administrative Agent in Article IX with respect to any acts taken or omissions suffered by such L/C Issuer in connection with Letters of Credit issued by it or proposed to be issued by it and Issuer Documents pertaining to such Letters of Credit as fully as if the term “Administrative Agent” as used in Article IX included each L/C Issuer with respect to such acts or omissions, and (B) as additionally provided herein with respect to each L/C Issuer.

(iv)Schedule 2.03 contains a description of certain letters of credit that were previously issued by an L/C Issuer for the account of the Borrower or a wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary thereof pursuant to the Existing Senior Facilities Agreement and which remain outstanding on the Closing Date and which will be deemed issued under this Agreement (and setting forth, with respect to each such letter of credit, (i) the name of the L/C Issuer, (ii) the letter of credit number, (iii) the name(s) of the account party or account parties, (iv) the stated amount, (v) the currency in which

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the letter of credit is denominated, (vi) the name of the beneficiary, (vii) the expiry date and (viii) whether such letter of credit constitutes a standby letter of credit or a commercial letter of credit.  Each such letter of credit, including any extension or renewal thereof in accordance with the terms thereof and hereof (each, as amended from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof and hereof, an “Existing Letter of Credit”), shall constitute a “Letter of Credit” for all purposes of this Agreement and shall be deemed issued on the Closing Date.  

(b)Procedures for Issuance and Amendment of Letters of Credit; Auto-Renewal Letters of Credit.  (i) Each Letter of Credit shall be issued (other than an Existing Letter of Credit) or amended, as the case may be, upon the request of the Borrower delivered to the applicable L/C Issuer (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) in the form of a Letter of Credit Application, including agreed-upon draft language for such Letter of Credit reasonably acceptable to the applicable L/C Issuer (it being understood that such draft language for each such Letter of Credit must be in English or, if agreed to in the sole discretion of the applicable L/C Issuer, accompanied by an English translation certified by the Borrower to be a true and correct English translation), appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower.  Such Letter of Credit Application must be received by the applicable L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) at least three Business Days in the case of a Letter of Credit to be denominated in Dollars, or at least five Business Days in the case of a Letter of Credit to be denominated in any Alternative Currency (or, in either case, such shorter period as such L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent may agree in a particular instance in their sole discretion) prior to the proposed issuance date or date of amendment, as the case may be.  In the case of a request for an initial issuance of a Letter of Credit, such Letter of Credit Application shall specify in form and detail reasonably satisfactory to the applicable L/C Issuer:  (A) the proposed issuance date of the requested Letter of Credit (which shall be a Business Day not later than 30 days prior to the Maturity Date of the Revolving Credit Facility, unless the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer otherwise agree); (B) the amount thereof; (C) the expiry date thereof; (D) the name and address of the beneficiary thereof; (E) the documents to be presented by such beneficiary in case of any drawing thereunder; (F) the full text of any certificate to be presented by such beneficiary in case of any drawing thereunder; (G) the currency in which the requested Letter of Credit will be denominated (which must be Dollars, Euros, Pounds Sterling or such other Alternative Currency); (H) the Person for whose account the requested Letter of Credit is to be issued (which must be a member of the Restricted Group); and (I) such other matters as the applicable L/C Issuer may reasonably request.  In the case of a request for an amendment of any outstanding Letter of Credit, such Letter of Credit Application shall specify in form and detail reasonably satisfactory to the applicable L/C Issuer:  (1) the Letter of Credit to be amended; (2) the proposed date of amendment thereof (which shall be a Business Day); (3) the nature of the proposed amendment and (4) such other matters as the applicable L/C Issuer may reasonably request.

(ii)Promptly after receipt of any Letter of Credit Application, the applicable L/C Issuer will confirm with the Administrative Agent that the Administrative Agent has received a copy of such Letter of Credit Application from the Borrower and, if not, such L/C Issuer will provide the Administrative Agent with a copy thereof.  Upon receipt by such L/C Issuer of confirmation from the Administrative Agent that the requested issuance or amendment is permitted in accordance with the terms hereof, then, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, such L/C Issuer shall, on the requested date, issue a Letter of Credit for the account of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary (as designated in the Letter of Credit Application) or enter into the applicable amendment, as the case may be.  Immediately upon the issuance of each Letter of Credit under any Revolving Facility, each Revolving Credit Lender under such Revolving Facility shall be deemed to, and hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to, purchase from the applicable L/C Issuer an unfunded risk participation in such Letter of Credit in an amount equal to such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of such Revolving Facility multiplied by the amount of such Letter of Credit.

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(iii)If the Borrower so requests in any applicable Letter of Credit Application, the applicable L/C Issuer may, in its sole discretion, agree to issue a Letter of Credit that has automatic renewal provisions (each, an “Auto-Renewal Letter of Credit”); provided that any such Auto-Renewal Letter of Credit (other than an Existing Letter of Credit) must permit such L/C Issuer to prevent any such renewal at least once in each twelve-month period (commencing with the date of issuance of such Letter of Credit) by giving prior notice to the beneficiary thereof not later than a day (the “Non-Renewal Notice Date”) in each such twelve-month period to be agreed upon at the time such Letter of Credit is issued.  Unless otherwise directed by the applicable L/C Issuer, the Borrower shall not be required to make a specific request to such L/C Issuer for any such renewal.  Once an Auto-Renewal Letter of Credit has been issued, the Revolving Credit Lenders under the applicable Revolving Facility shall be deemed to have authorized (but may not require) the applicable L/C Issuer to permit the renewal of such Letter of Credit at any time to an expiry date not later than the Letter of Credit Expiration Date; provided, however, that such L/C Issuer shall not permit any such renewal if (A) such L/C Issuer has determined that it would have no obligation at such time to issue such Letter of Credit in its renewed form under the terms hereof (by reason of the provisions of Section 2.03(a)(i) or otherwise) , or (B) it has received notice on or before the day that is five Business Days before the Nonrenewal Notice Date from the Administrative Agent, any Revolving Credit Lender or the Borrower that one or more of the applicable conditions specified in Section 4.02 is not then satisfied.

(iv)Promptly after its delivery of any Letter of Credit or any amendment to a Letter of Credit to an advising bank with respect thereto or to the beneficiary thereof, the applicable L/C Issuer will also (A) deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent a true and complete copy of such Letter of Credit or amendment and (B) notify each Revolving Credit Lender of such issuance or amendment and the amount of such Revolving Credit Lender’s Pro Rata Share therein.

(c)Drawings and Reimbursements; Funding of Participations.  (i) Upon receipt from the beneficiary of any Letter of Credit of any notice of a drawing under such Letter of Credit, the applicable L/C Issuer shall notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent thereof.  Each L/C Issuer shall notify the Borrower on the date of any payment by such L/C Issuer under a Letter of Credit (each such date, an “Honor Date”), and the Borrower shall reimburse such L/C Issuer through the Administrative Agent in an amount equal to the amount of such drawing (and in the same currency in which such drawing was made) no later than on the next succeeding Business Day (and any reimbursement made on such next Business Day shall be taken into account in computing interest and fees in respect of any such Letter of Credit) after the Borrower shall have received notice of such payment with interest on the amount so paid or disbursed by such L/C Issuer, to the extent not reimbursed prior to 12:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the respective Honor Date, from and including the date paid or disbursed to but excluding the date such L/C Issuer was reimbursed by the Borrower therefor at a rate per annum equal to the Base Rate as in effect from time to time plus the Applicable Rate as in effect from time to time for Revolving Credit Loans that are maintained as Base Rate Loans.  If the Borrower fails to so reimburse such L/C Issuer on such next Business Day, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Revolving Credit Lender of the applicable Revolving Facility of the Honor Date, the amount of the unreimbursed drawing (expressed in the Dollar Amount thereof in the case of an Alternative Currency) (the “Unreimbursed Amount”), and the amount of such Revolving Credit Lender’s Pro Rata Share thereof.  In such event, (x) in the case of an Unreimbursed Amount denominated in Dollars, the Borrower shall be deemed to have requested a Revolving Credit Borrowing of Base Rate Loans and (y) in the case of an Unreimbursed Amount denominated in an Alternative Currency (but expressed in its Dollar Amount), the Borrower shall be deemed to have requested a Revolving Credit Borrowing of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Dollars, in each case, under the applicable Revolving Facility and to be disbursed on such date in an amount equal to (A) the Dollar Amount of the Unreimbursed Amount plus (B) in the case of any Unreimbursed Amount denominated in any Alternative Currency (but expressed in its Dollar Amount), an additional amount equal to the amount

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required to convert Dollars into the currency of the unreimbursed drawing, without regard to the minimum and multiples specified in Section 2.02 for the principal amount of Base Rate Loans or Eurocurrency Rate Loans, as the case may be, but subject to the Available Revolving Credit Commitments under the applicable Revolving Facility.  Any notice given by an L/C Issuer or the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section 2.03(c)(i) may be given by telephone if promptly confirmed in writing; provided that the lack of such a prompt confirmation shall not affect the conclusiveness or binding effect of such notice.

(ii)Each Revolving Credit Lender under the applicable Revolving Facility (including each Lender acting as an L/C Issuer) shall upon any notice pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(i) make funds available (and the Administrative Agent may apply Cash Collateral provided for this purpose) for the account of the applicable L/C Issuer, in Dollars or the applicable Alternative Currency, at the Administrative Agent’s Office in an amount equal to its Pro Rata Share of Dollar Amount of the Unreimbursed Amount not later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the Business Day specified in such notice by the Administrative Agent, whereupon, subject to the provisions of Section 2.03(c)(iii), each Revolving Credit Lender that so makes funds available shall be deemed to have made a Revolving Credit Loan in the form of in the case of a Letter of Credit (x) denominated in Dollars, a Base Rate Loan to the Borrower in such amount and (y) denominated in an Alternative Currency, a Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in Dollars to the Borrower in such amount plus, in the case of any Unreimbursed Amount denominated in any Alternative Currency (but expressed in its Dollar Amount), an additional amount equal to the amount required to convert Dollars into the currency of the unreimbursed drawing.  The Administrative Agent shall remit the funds so received to the applicable L/C Issuer.

(iii)With respect to any Unreimbursed Amount that is not fully refinanced by a Revolving Credit Borrowing of Base Rate Loans for Letters of Credit denominated in Dollars or Eurocurrency Rate Loans for Letters of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency, as the case may be, because the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 cannot be satisfied or for any other reason, the Borrower shall be deemed to have incurred from the applicable L/C Issuer an L/C Borrowing in the amount of the Unreimbursed Amount that is not so refinanced plus, in the case of any Unreimbursed Amount denominated in any Alternative Currency (but expressed in its Dollar Amount), an additional amount equal to the amount required to convert Dollars into the currency of the unreimbursed drawing, which L/C Borrowing shall be due and payable on demand (together with interest) and shall bear interest at the Default Rate then applicable to Revolving Credit Loans.  In such event, each Revolving Credit Lender’s payment to the Administrative Agent for the account of the applicable L/C Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(ii) shall be deemed payment in respect of its participation in such L/C Borrowing and shall constitute an L/C Advance from such Lender in satisfaction of its participation obligation under this Section 2.03.

(iv)Until each Revolving Credit Lender under the applicable Revolving Facility funds its Revolving Credit Loan or L/C Advance pursuant to this Section 2.03(c) to reimburse the applicable L/C Issuer for any amount drawn under any Letter of Credit, interest in respect of such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of such amount shall be solely for the account of such L/C Issuer.

(v)Each Revolving Credit Lender’s obligation to make Revolving Credit Loans or L/C Advances to reimburse the applicable L/C Issuer for amounts drawn under Letters of Credit, as contemplated by this Section 2.03(c), shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including (A) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right which such Lender may have against such L/C Issuer, the Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever, (B) the unavailability of any currency, (C) the occurrence or continuance of a Default or (D) any other occurrence, event or condition, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Borrower Cash Collateralizes Letters of Credit as

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required pursuant to Section 2.03(a)(i)(C) with respect to any Letter of Credit that matures after the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, then on the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, the Revolving Credit Lenders shall have no further obligations to make Revolving Credit Loans or L/C Advances or reimburse the applicable L/C Issuer for amounts drawn under Letters of Credit.  No such making of an L/C Advance shall relieve or otherwise impair the obligation of the Borrower to reimburse the applicable L/C Issuer for the amount of any payment made by the applicable L/C Issuer under any Letter of Credit, together with interest as provided herein.

(vi)If any Revolving Credit Lender fails to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the applicable L/C Issuer any amount required to be paid by such Lender pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.03(c) by the time specified in Section 2.03(c)(ii), then, without limiting the other provisions of this Agreement, such L/C Issuer shall be entitled to recover from such Lender (acting through the Administrative Agent), on demand, such amount with interest thereon for the period from the date such payment is required to the date on which such payment is immediately available to such L/C Issuer at a rate per annum equal to the greater of the applicable Overnight Rate from time to time in effect and a rate reasonably determined by such L/C Issuer in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation, plus any reasonable administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such L/C Issuer in connection with the foregoing.  If such Lender pays such amount (with interest and fees as aforesaid), the amount so paid shall constitute such Lender’s Loan included in the relevant Borrowing or L/C Advance in respect of the relevant L/C Borrowing, as the case may be.  A certificate of the applicable L/C Issuer submitted to any Revolving Credit Lender (through the Administrative Agent) with respect to any amounts owing under this Section 2.03(c)(vi) shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

(d)Repayment of Participations.  (i) If, at any time after an L/C Issuer under any Revolving Facility has made a payment under any Letter of Credit issued by it and has received from any Revolving Credit Lender under such Revolving Facility such Lender’s L/C Advance in respect of such payment in accordance with Section 2.03(c), the Administrative Agent receives for the account of such L/C Issuer any payment in respect of the related Unreimbursed Amount or, in the case of any Unreimbursed Amount denominated in any Alternative Currency (but expressed in its Dollar Amount), an additional amount equal to the amount required to convert Dollars into the currency of the unreimbursed drawing or, in each case interest thereon (whether directly from the Borrower or otherwise, including proceeds of Cash Collateral applied thereto by the Administrative Agent), the Administrative Agent will distribute to such Lender its Pro Rata Share thereof (appropriately adjusted, in the case of interest payments, to reflect the period of time during which such Lender’s L/C Advance was outstanding) in the same funds as those received by the Administrative Agent.

(ii)If any payment received by the Administrative Agent for the account of an L/C Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(i) is required to be returned under any of the circumstances described in Section 10.06 (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by such L/C Issuer in its discretion), each Revolving Credit Lender under the applicable Revolving Facility shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such L/C Issuer its Pro Rata Share thereof on demand of the Administrative Agent, plus interest thereon from the date of such demand to the date such amount is returned by such Lender, at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Rate from time to time in effect.  The obligations of the Revolving Credit Lenders under this clause (ii) shall survive the payment in full of the Obligations and the termination of this Agreement.

(e)Obligations Absolute.  The obligation of the Borrower to reimburse the applicable L/C Issuer for each drawing under each Letter of Credit and to repay each L/C Borrowing shall be absolute,

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unconditional and irrevocable, and shall be paid strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement under all circumstances, including the following:

(i)any lack of validity or enforceability of such Letter of Credit, this Agreement, or any other agreement or instrument relating thereto;

(ii)the existence of any claim, counterclaim, setoff, defense or other right that the Borrower or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary may have at any time against any beneficiary or any transferee of such Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such beneficiary or any such transferee may be acting), the applicable L/C Issuer or any other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, the transactions contemplated hereby or by such Letter of Credit or any agreement or instrument relating thereto, or any unrelated transaction;

(iii)any draft, demand, certificate or other document presented under such Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect; or any loss or delay in the transmission or otherwise of any document required in order to make a drawing under such Letter of Credit;

(iv)any payment by the applicable L/C Issuer under such Letter of Credit against presentation of a draft or certificate that does not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit; or any payment made by the applicable L/C Issuer under such Letter of Credit to any Person purporting to be a trustee in bankruptcy, debtor-in-possession, assignee for the benefit of creditors, administrator, administrative receiver, judicial manager, liquidator, receiver or other representative of or successor to any beneficiary or any transferee of such Letter of Credit, including any arising in connection with any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law;

(v)any exchange, release or non-perfection of any Collateral, or any release or amendment or waiver of or consent to departure from the Guaranty or any other guarantee, for all or any of the Obligations of the Borrower or any other account party in respect of such Letter of Credit; or

(vi)any other circumstance or happening whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing, including any other circumstance that might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a discharge of, the Borrower.

The Borrower shall promptly examine a copy of each Letter of Credit and each amendment thereto that is delivered to it and, in the event of any claim of noncompliance with the instructions of the Borrower or other irregularity, the Borrower will promptly notify the applicable L/C Issuer.  The Borrower shall be conclusively deemed to have waived any such claim against any L/C Issuer and its correspondents unless such notice is given as aforesaid.

(f)Role of L/C Issuer.  Each Lender and the Borrower agree that, in paying any drawing under a Letter of Credit, the applicable L/C Issuer shall not have any responsibility to obtain any document (other than any sight draft, certificates and documents expressly required by the Letter of Credit) or to ascertain or inquire as to the validity or accuracy of any such document or the authority of the Person executing or delivering any such document.  None of the applicable L/C Issuer, any Agent-Related Person nor any of the respective correspondents, participants or assignees of the applicable L/C Issuer shall be liable to any Lender for (i) any action taken or omitted in connection herewith at the request or with the approval of the Revolving Credit Lenders or the Required Revolving Lenders, as applicable; (ii) any action taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence, or willful misconduct (as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final, non-appealable judgment) or (iii) the due execution, effectiveness, validity

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or enforceability of any document or instrument related to any Letter of Credit or Letter of Credit Application.  The Borrower hereby assumes all risks of the acts or omissions of any beneficiary or transferee with respect to its use of any Letter of Credit; provided, however, that this assumption is not intended to, and shall not, preclude the Borrower from pursuing such rights and remedies as it may have against the beneficiary or transferee at Law or under any other agreement.  None of the applicable L/C Issuer, any Agent-Related Person, nor any of the respective correspondents, participants or assignees of such L/C Issuer, shall be liable or responsible for any of the matters described in clauses (i) through (v) of Section 2.03(e); provided, however, that anything in such clauses to the contrary notwithstanding, the Borrower may have a claim against such L/C Issuer, and such L/C Issuer may be liable to the Borrower, to the extent, but only to the extent, of any direct, as opposed to indirect, special, punitive, consequential or exemplary, damages suffered by the Borrower which a court of competent jurisdiction determines in a final non-appealable judgment were caused by such L/C Issuer’s willful misconduct or gross negligence.  In furtherance and not in limitation of the foregoing, the applicable L/C Issuer may accept documents that appear on their face to be in order, without responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any notice or information to the contrary, and such L/C Issuer shall not be responsible for the validity or sufficiency of any instrument transferring or assigning or purporting to transfer or assign a Letter of Credit or the rights or benefits thereunder or proceeds thereof, in whole or in part, which may prove to be invalid or ineffective for any reason.

(g)Letter of Credit Fees.  The Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving Credit Lender in accordance with its Pro Rata Share, a Letter of Credit fee which shall accrue for each Letter of Credit of each Revolving Facility in an amount equal to the Applicable Rate then in effect for Eurocurrency Rate Loans with respect to the Revolving Credit Facility multiplied by the daily maximum amount then available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit (whether or not such maximum amount is then in effect under such Letter of Credit if such maximum amount increases periodically pursuant to the terms of such Letter of Credit); provided, however, that any Letter of Credit fees otherwise payable for the account of a Defaulting Lender with respect to any Letter of Credit as to which such Defaulting Lender has not provided Cash Collateral satisfactory to the applicable L/C Issuer pursuant to this Section 2.03 shall be payable, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable Law, to the other Revolving Credit Lenders under the applicable Revolving Facility in accordance with the upward adjustments in their respective Pro Rata Shares allocable to such Letter of Credit pursuant to Section 2.17(a)(iv), with the balance of such fee, if any, payable to the applicable L/C Issuer for its own account.  Such Letter of Credit fees shall be computed on a quarterly basis in arrears and shall be due and payable on the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December, in respect of the quarterly period then ending (or portion thereof, in the case of the first payment), commencing with the first such date to occur after the issuance of such Letter of Credit, on the Letter of Credit Expiration Date (or on the date of termination of such Letter of Credit, if earlier) and thereafter on demand.  If there is any change in the Applicable Rate during any quarter, the daily maximum amount of each Letter of Credit shall be computed and multiplied by the Applicable Rate separately for each period during such quarter that such Applicable Rate was in effect.  Each payment of fees under this clause (g) on any Letters of Credit shall be made in Dollars in accordance with the Dollar Amount thereof (calculated as of the date of payment of such fees).

(h)Fronting Fee and Documentary and Processing Charges Payable to an L/C Issuer.  The Borrower shall pay directly to the applicable L/C Issuer for its own account a fronting fee at a rate equal to 0.125% per annum computed on the maximum daily Dollar Amount of the amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit on a quarterly basis in arrears.  Such fronting fee shall be due and payable on the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December in respect of the quarterly period then ending (or portion thereof, in the case of the first payment), commencing with the first such date to occur after the issuance of such Letter of Credit, on the Letter of Credit Expiration Date and thereafter on demand.  For purposes of computing the maximum daily Dollar Amount of the amount available to be

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drawn under any Letter of Credit (including for purposes of Section 2.03(g)), the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be determined in accordance with Section 1.10.  Each payment of fees required above under this clause (h) on any Letters of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency shall be made in Dollars.  In addition, the Borrower shall pay directly to the applicable L/C Issuer for its own account the customary issuance, presentation, administration, amendment and other processing fees, and other standard costs and charges, of such L/C Issuer relating to letters of credit as from time to time in effect.  Such customary fees and standard costs and charges are due and payable within five Business Days of demand and are non‑refundable.

(i)Conflict with Letter of Credit Application.  In the event of any conflict between the terms hereof and the terms of any Letter of Credit Application, the terms hereof shall control.

(j)Reporting.  To the extent that any Letters of Credit are issued by an L/C Issuer other than the Administrative Agent, each such L/C Issuer shall furnish to the Administrative Agent a report detailing the daily L/C Obligations outstanding under all Letters of Credit issued by it under any Revolving Facility, such report to be in a form and at reporting intervals as shall be agreed between the Administrative Agent and such L/C Issuer; provided that in no event shall such reports be furnished at intervals greater than 31 days.  In addition, each L/C Issuer shall provide notice to the Administrative Agent of its L/C Commitment, or any change thereto, promptly upon it becoming an L/C Issuer or making any change to its L/C Commitment.

(k)Provisions Related to Extended Revolving Credit Commitments.  If the Maturity Date in respect of any Revolving Facility of Revolving Credit Commitments occurs prior to the expiration of any Letter of Credit, then (i) if one or more other tranches of Revolving Credit Commitments in respect of which the Maturity Date shall not have occurred are then in effect, such Letters of Credit shall automatically be deemed to have been issued (including for purposes of the obligations of the Revolving Credit Lenders to purchase participations therein and to make Revolving Credit Loans and payments in respect thereof pursuant to this Section 2.03) under (and ratably participated in by Lenders pursuant to) the Revolving Credit Commitments in respect of such non-terminating Revolving Facilities up to an aggregate amount not to exceed the aggregate principal amount of the Available Revolving Credit Commitments thereunder at such time (it being understood that no partial face amount of any Letter of Credit may be so reallocated) and to the extent any Letters of Credit are not able to be reallocated pursuant to this clause (i) and there are outstanding Revolving Credit Loans under the non-terminating Revolving Facilities, the Borrower agrees to repay all such Revolving Credit Loans (or such lesser amount as is necessary to reallocate all Letters of Credit pursuant to this clause (i)) or (ii) to the extent not reallocated pursuant to immediately preceding clause (i), the Borrower shall Cash Collateralize any such Letter of Credit in accordance with Section 2.16 but only up to the amount of such Letter of Credit not so reallocated.  Except to the extent of reallocations of participations pursuant to clause (i) of the immediately preceding sentence, the occurrence of a Maturity Date with respect to a given tranche of Revolving Credit Commitments shall have no effect upon (and shall not diminish) the percentage participations of the Revolving Credit Lenders in any Letter of Credit issued before such Maturity Date.

(l)Applicability of ISP98 and UCP.  Unless otherwise expressly agreed by the applicable L/C Issuer and the Borrower when a Letter of Credit is issued, (i) either (A) the rules of the “International Standby Practices 1998” published by the Institute of International Banking Law & Practice (or such later version thereof as may be in effect at the time of issuance) or (B) the rules of the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits, as most recently published by the International Chamber of Commerce, at the election of the applicable L/C Issuer, shall apply to each standby Letter of Credit and (ii) the rules of the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits, as most recently published by the International Chamber of Commerce at the time of issuance, shall apply to each commercial Letter of Credit.

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Section 2.04Swingline Loans.

(a)Swingline Borrowings.  Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Swingline Lender, in reliance upon the agreements of the Revolving Credit Lenders set forth in this Section 2.04, shall make loans in Dollars (each such loan, a “Swingline Loan”) to the Borrower from time to time on any Business Day (other than the Closing Date) until the Maturity Date for the Revolving Credit Facility in an aggregate amount not to exceed at any time outstanding the Swingline Sublimit; provided, however, that after giving effect to any Swingline Loan, (i) the Total Revolving Credit Outstandings shall not exceed the aggregate amount of the Revolving Credit Commitments and (ii) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Revolving Credit Loans of any Revolving Credit Lender, plus such Revolving Credit Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations at such time, plus such Revolving Credit Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the Outstanding Amount of all Swingline Loans at such time shall not exceed such Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment; provided further, that the Borrower shall not use the proceeds of any Swingline Loan to refinance any outstanding Swingline Loan.  Within the foregoing limits, and subject to the other terms and conditions hereof, the Borrower may borrow under this Section 2.04, prepay under Section 2.05, and reborrow under this Section 2.04.  Each Swingline Loan shall bear interest only at a rate based on the Base Rate.  Immediately upon the making of a Swingline Loan, each Revolving Credit Lender shall be deemed to, and hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to, purchase from the Swingline Lender a risk participation in such Swingline Loan in an amount equal to such Revolving Credit Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the Revolving Facility multiplied by the amount of such Swingline Loan.

(b)Borrowing Procedures.  Each Swingline Borrowing shall be made upon the irrevocable notice by the Borrower to the Swingline Lender and the Administrative Agent, which notice may be by telephone (which telephonic notice shall be promptly confirmed in writing).  Each such notice must be received by the Swingline Lender and the Administrative Agent not later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the requested borrowing date, and shall specify (i) the amount to be borrowed, which shall be a minimum of $500,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof, (ii) the requested borrowing date, which shall be a Business Day and (iii) the account of the Borrower to be credited with the proceeds of such Swingline Borrowing.  The Borrower shall deliver to the Swingline Lender and the Administrative Agent a written Swingline Loan Notice, appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower.  Promptly after receipt by the Swingline Lender of any Swingline Loan Notice, the Swingline Lender will confirm with the Administrative Agent that the Administrative Agent has also received such Swingline Loan Notice and, if not, the Swingline Lender will notify the Administrative Agent of the contents thereof.  Unless the Swingline Lender has received notice from the Administrative Agent (including at the request of any Revolving Credit Lender) prior to 2:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the date of the proposed Swingline Borrowing (A) directing the Swingline Lender not to make such Swingline Loan as a result of the limitations set forth in the first proviso to the first sentence of Section 2.04(a) or (B) that one or more of the applicable conditions specified in Section 4.02 is not then satisfied, then, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Swingline Lender will, not later than 3:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the borrowing date specified in such Swingline Loan Notice, make the amount of its Swingline Loan available to the Borrower.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 2.04 or elsewhere in this Agreement, the Swingline Lender shall not be obligated to make any Swingline Loan at a time when a Revolving Credit Lender is a Defaulting Lender unless the Swingline Lender has entered into arrangements reasonably satisfactory to it to eliminate the Swingline Lender’s risk with respect to the Defaulting Lender’s or Defaulting Lenders’ participation in such Swingline Loans, including by Cash Collateralizing such Defaulting Lender’s or Defaulting Lenders’ Pro Rata Share of the outstanding Swingline Loans.

(c)Refinancing of Swingline Loans.  (i) The Swingline Lender at any time in its sole and absolute discretion may request, on behalf of the Borrower (and the Borrower hereby irrevocably

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authorizes the Swingline Lender to so request on its behalf), that each Revolving Credit Lender make a Base Rate Loan in an amount equal to such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the amount of Swingline Loans then outstanding.  Such request shall be made in writing (which written request shall be deemed to be a Committed Loan Notice for purposes hereof) and in accordance with the requirements of Section 2.02(a), without regard to the minimum and multiples specified therein for the principal amount of Base Rate Loans, but subject to the unutilized portion of the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments and the conditions set forth in Section 4.02.  The Swingline Lender shall furnish the Borrower with a copy of the applicable Committed Loan Notice promptly after delivering such notice to the Administrative Agent.  Each Revolving Credit Lender shall make an amount equal to its Pro Rata Share of the amount specified in such Committed Loan Notice available to the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds (and the Administrative Agent may apply Cash Collateral available with respect to the applicable Swingline Loan) for the account of the Swingline Lender at the Administrative Agent’s Office not later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the day specified in such Committed Loan Notice, whereupon, subject to Section 2.04(c)(ii), each Revolving Credit Lender that so makes funds available shall be deemed to have made a Base Rate Loan to the Borrower in such amount.  The Administrative Agent shall remit the funds so received to the Swingline Lender.

(ii)If for any reason any Swingline Loan cannot be refinanced by such a Revolving Credit Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.04(c)(i), the request for Base Rate Loans submitted by the Swingline Lender as set forth herein shall be deemed to be a request by the Swingline Lender that each of the Revolving Credit Lenders fund its risk participation in the relevant Swingline Loan and each Revolving Credit Lender’s payment to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Swingline Lender pursuant to Section 2.04(c)(i) shall be deemed payment in respect of such participation.

(iii)If any Revolving Credit Lender fails to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Swingline Lender any amount required to be paid by such Revolving Credit Lender pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.04(c) by the time specified in Section 2.04(c)(i), the Swingline Lender shall be entitled to recover from such Revolving Credit Lender (acting through the Administrative Agent), on demand, such amount with interest thereon for the period from the date such payment is required to the date on which such payment is immediately available to the Swingline Lender at a rate per annum equal to the greater of the Federal Funds Rate from time to time in effect and a rate reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation, plus any reasonable administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by the Swingline Lender in connection with the foregoing.  If such Revolving Credit Lender pays such amount (with interest and fees as aforesaid), the amount so paid shall constitute such Revolving Credit Lender’s committed Loan included in the relevant committed Borrowing or funded participation in the relevant Swingline Loan, as the case may be.  A certificate of the Swingline Lender submitted to any Revolving Credit Lender (through the Administrative Agent) with respect to any amounts owing under this clause (iii) shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

(iv)Each Revolving Credit Lender’s obligation to make Revolving Credit Loans or to purchase and fund risk participations in Swingline Loans pursuant to this Section 2.04(c) shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including (A) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right which such Revolving Credit Lender may have against the Swingline Lender, the Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever, (B) the occurrence or continuance of a Default or (C) any other occurrence, event or condition, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing; provided, however, that each Revolving Credit Lender’s obligation to make Revolving Credit Loans pursuant to this Section 2.04(c) is subject to the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (other than delivery by the Borrower of a Committed Loan

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Notice) (it being understood and agreed, however, for the avoidance of doubt, each Revolving Credit Lender’s obligation to fund a risk participation pursuant to Section 2.04(c)(ii) shall not be subject to the satisfaction of any of the conditions in Section 4.02).  No such funding of risk participations shall relieve or otherwise impair the obligation of the Borrower to repay Swingline Loans, together with interest as provided herein.

(d)Repayment of Participations. (i) At any time after any Revolving Credit Lender has purchased and funded a risk participation in a Swingline Loan, if the Swingline Lender receives any payment on account of such Swingline Loan, the Swingline Lender will distribute to such Revolving Credit Lender its Pro Rata Share of such payment (appropriately adjusted, in the case of interest payments, to reflect the period of time during which such Revolving Credit Lender’s risk participation was funded) in the same funds as those received by the Swingline Lender.

(ii)If any payment received by the Swingline Lender in respect of principal or interest on any Swingline Loan is required to be returned by the Swingline Lender under any of the circumstances described in Section 10.06 (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the Swingline Lender in its discretion), each Revolving Credit Lender shall pay to the Swingline Lender its Pro Rata Share thereof on demand of the Administrative Agent, plus interest thereon from the date of such demand to the date such amount is returned, at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Rate.  The Administrative Agent will make such demand upon the request of the Swingline Lender.  The obligations of the Revolving Credit Lenders under this clause shall survive the payment in full of the Obligations and the termination of this Agreement.

(e)Interest for Account of Swingline Lender.  The Swingline Lender shall be responsible for invoicing the Borrower for interest on the Swingline Loans.  Until each Revolving Credit Lender funds its Base Rate Loan or risk participation pursuant to this Section 2.04 to refinance such Revolving Credit Lender’s Pro Rata Share of any Swingline Loan, interest in respect of such Pro Rata Share shall be solely for the account of the Swingline Lender.

(f)Payments Directly to Swingline Lender.  The Borrower shall make all payments of principal and interest in respect of the Swingline Loans directly to the Swingline Lender.

(g)Extended Revolving Credit Commitments.  If the Maturity Date shall have occurred in respect of any Tranche of Revolving Credit Commitments at a time when another tranche or tranches of Revolving Credit Commitments is or are in effect with a longer Maturity Date, then on the earliest occurring Maturity Date all then outstanding Swingline Loans shall be repaid in full on such date (and there shall be no adjustment to the participations in such Swingline Loans as a result of the occurrence of such Maturity Date); provided, however, that if on the occurrence of such earliest Maturity Date (after giving effect to any repayments of Revolving Credit Loans and any reallocation of Letter of Credit participations as contemplated in Section 2.03(k)), no Default then exists or would result therefrom and there shall exist sufficient unutilized Extended Revolving Credit Commitments so that the respective outstanding Swingline Loans could be incurred pursuant the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments which will remain in effect after the occurrence of such Maturity Date, then there shall be an automatic adjustment on such date of the participations in such Swingline Loans and same shall be deemed to have been incurred solely pursuant to the relevant Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, and such Swingline Loans shall not be so required to be repaid in full on such earliest Maturity Date.

Section 2.05Prepayments.

(a)Optional.  (i) The Borrower may, upon notice substantially in the form of Exhibit J to the Administrative Agent, at any time or from time to time voluntarily prepay Loans (other than

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Swingline Loans, the prepayment terms of which are governed by Section 2.05(a)(ii)) in whole or in part without premium or penalty; provided that (1) such notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 p.m. (New York City time) (A) three Business Days prior to any date of prepayment of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Dollars, (B) three Business Days prior to any date of prepayment of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in an Alternative Currency and (C) one Business Day prior to any date of prepayment of Base Rate Loans (or, in each case, such shorter period as the Administrative Agent shall agree in its sole discretion); (2) any prepayment of Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be in a principal Dollar Amount of $1,000,000 (or, in the case of a prepayment of a Loan denominated in Euros, €1,000,000) or a whole multiple of the Dollar Amount of $1,000,000 (or, in the case of a prepayment of a Loan denominated in Euros, €1,000,000) in excess thereof; and (3) any prepayment of Base Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $1,000,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof or, in each case, if less, the entire principal amount thereof then outstanding (it being understood that Base Rate Loans shall be denominated in Dollars only).  Each such notice shall specify the date and amount of such prepayment, the Tranche of Loans to be prepaid, the Type(s) of Loans to be prepaid and, if Eurocurrency Rate Loans are to be prepaid, the Interest Period(s) of such Loans (except that if the class of Loans to be prepaid includes both Base Rate Loans and Eurocurrency Rate Loans, absent direction by the Borrower, the applicable prepayment shall be applied first to Base Rate Loans to the full extent thereof before application to Eurocurrency Rate Loans, in each case in a manner that minimizes the amount payable by the Borrower in respect of such prepayment pursuant to Section 3.06).  The Administrative Agent will promptly notify each Lender of its receipt of each such notice, and of the amount of such Lender’s ratable portion of such prepayment (based on such Lender’s ratable share of the relevant Facility).  If such notice is given by the Borrower, subject to clause (iii) below, the Borrower shall make such prepayment and the payment amount specified in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified therein.  Any prepayment of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan shall be accompanied by all accrued interest thereon, together with any additional amounts required pursuant to Section 3.06.  Each prepayment of the principal of, and interest on, any Revolving Credit Loans denominated in any Alternative Currency shall be made in such currency (even if the Borrower is required to convert currency to do so).  Each prepayment of outstanding Term Loan Tranches pursuant to this Section 2.05(a) shall be applied to the applicable Term Loan Tranche on a pro rata basis to the Lenders under such tranche (other than a prepayment of Term Loans with the proceeds of (x) Indebtedness incurred pursuant to Section 2.18 or (y) any Refinancing Notes issued to the extent permitted under Section 7.03, which, in each case, shall be applied to the Term Loan Tranche being refinanced pursuant thereto).  All voluntary prepayments of a Term Loan Tranche in accordance with this Section 2.05(a) shall be applied to the remaining scheduled installments of the respective Term Loan Tranche as directed by the Borrower (or, if the Borrower have not made such designation, in direct order of maturity); and each such prepayment shall be paid to the Appropriate Lenders on a pro rata basis, except as set forth above.

(ii)The Borrower may, upon notice by the Borrower to the Swingline Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), at any time or from time to time, voluntarily prepay Swingline Loans in whole or in part without premium or penalty; provided that (A) such notice must be received by the Swingline Lender and the Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the date of the prepayment and (B) any such prepayment shall be in a minimum principal amount of $100,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof or, if less, the entire principal amount thereof then outstanding.  Each such notice shall specify the date and amount of such prepayment.  If such notice is given by the Borrower, subject to clause (iii) below, the Borrower shall make such prepayment and the payment amount specified in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified therein

(iii)Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, any notice of prepayment under Section 2.05(a)(i) may state that it is conditioned upon the occurrence or non-occurrence of any event specified therein (including the effectiveness of other credit facilities), in

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which case such notice may be revoked by the Borrower (by written notice to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the specified effective date) if such condition is not satisfied.

(b)Mandatory.  

(i)Asset Dispositions.  (A) If (x) any member of the Restricted Group Disposes of any property or assets (other than any Disposition (1) to a Loan Party or (2) by a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party to another Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party) pursuant to Section 7.05(f)(ii), (k), (l), (p), (q) or (r)(ii), or (y) any Casualty Event occurs, and any transaction or series of related transactions described in the foregoing clauses (x) and (y) results in the receipt by members of the Restricted Group of aggregate Net Cash Proceeds in excess of $10,000,000 in any fiscal year (any such transaction or series of related transactions resulting in Net Cash Proceeds being a “Relevant Transaction”), (1) the Borrower shall give written notice to the Administrative Agent thereof promptly after the date of receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds and (2) except to the extent the Borrower elects in such notice to reinvest all or a portion of such Net Cash Proceeds in accordance with Section 2.05(b)(i)(B), the Borrower shall prepay, subject to Section 2.05(b)(vii), an aggregate principal amount of Term Loans in an amount equal to all Net Cash Proceeds received from such Relevant Transaction within 15 Business Days of receipt thereof by such member of the Restricted Group; provided that the Borrower may use a portion of the Net Cash Proceeds received from such Relevant Transaction to prepay or repurchase any other Indebtedness that is secured by the Collateral on a first lien “equal and ratable” basis with Liens securing the Obligations to the extent such other Indebtedness and the Liens securing the same are permitted hereunder and the documentation governing such other Indebtedness requires such a prepayment or repurchase thereof with the proceeds of such Relevant Transaction, to the extent not deducted in the calculation of Net Cash Proceeds, in each case in an amount not to exceed the product of (1) the amount of such Net Cash Proceeds and (2) a fraction, the numerator of which is the outstanding principal amount of such other Indebtedness (or to the extent such amount is not in Dollars, such equivalent amount of such Indebtedness converted into Dollars as determined in accordance with Section 1.08 and Section 3.02) and the denominator of which is the aggregate outstanding principal amount of Term Loans and such other Indebtedness (or to the extent such amount is not in Dollars, such equivalent amount of such Indebtedness converted into Dollars as determined in accordance with Section 1.08 and Section 3.02).

(B)With respect to any Net Cash Proceeds realized or received with respect to any Relevant Transaction, at the option of the Borrower, the Borrower may reinvest all or any portion of such Net Cash Proceeds in the business of the Borrower within 365 days following receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds (or, if the Borrower has contractually committed within 365 days following receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds to reinvest such Net Cash Proceeds, then within 545 days following receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds); provided, however, that if any of such Net Cash Proceeds from a Relevant Transaction are no longer intended to be so reinvested at any time after the occurrence of the Relevant Transaction (or are not reinvested within such 365 days or 545 days, as applicable), an amount equal to any such Net Cash Proceeds shall be promptly applied to the prepayment of Term Loans (subject to the proviso set forth in clause (A) above) as set forth in this Section 2.05.

(ii)Refinancing Indebtedness.  Upon the incurrence or issuance by any member of the Restricted Group of any Refinancing Notes, any Specified Refinancing Term Loans or any Indebtedness not expressly permitted to be incurred or issued pursuant to Section 7.03, the Borrower shall prepay an aggregate principal amount of the applicable Term Loan Tranche in an

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amount equal to 100% of all Net Cash Proceeds received therefrom immediately upon receipt thereof by such member of the Restricted Group.

(iii)Permitted Receivables Financing Assets.  Without duplication, upon the receipt of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of Net Cash Proceeds of the type described in clause (d) of the definition of “Net Cash Proceeds”, the Borrower shall immediately apply such proceeds to the prepayment of Term Loans as set forth in this Section 2.05.

(iv)Specified Refinancing Debt.  Upon the incurrence by any member of the Restricted Group of any Specified Refinancing Debt constituting revolving credit facilities, the Borrower shall prepay an aggregate principal amount of the applicable Tranche of Revolving Credit Loans in an amount equal to 100% of all Net Cash Proceeds received therefrom immediately upon receipt thereof by member of the Restricted Group.

(v)Revolving Facility.  If for any reason (other than currency fluctuations, which shall be governed by Section 3.02(b)) the sum of the Dollar Amount of the Total Revolving Credit Outstandings under any Revolving Facility at any time exceeds the Revolving Credit Commitments in respect of such Revolving Facility then in effect (including after giving effect to any reduction in the Revolving Credit Commitments under such Revolving Facility pursuant to Section 2.06), the Borrower shall immediately prepay the applicable Revolving Facility or Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations in an aggregate amount equal to such excess; provided, however, that the Borrower shall not be required to Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations pursuant to this Section 2.05(b)(v) unless, after the prepayment in full of the Revolving Credit Loans under such Revolving Facility and Swingline Loans, the Dollar Amount of the Total Revolving Credit Outstandings under such Revolving Facility exceeds the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments, in respect of such Revolving Facility then in effect.

(vi)Application of Proceeds.  Each prepayment of Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05(b) shall be applied to each Term Loan Tranche on a pro rata basis (or, if agreed to in writing by the Majority Lenders of a Term Loan Tranche, in a manner that provides for more favorable prepayment treatment of other Term Loan Tranches, so long as each other such Term Loan Tranche receives its Pro Rata Share of any amount to be applied more favorably) (other than a prepayment of (x) Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans, as applicable, with the proceeds of Indebtedness incurred pursuant to Section 2.18, which shall be applied to the Term Loan Tranche or Revolving Facility, as applicable, being refinanced pursuant thereto or (y) Term Loans with the proceeds of any Refinancing Notes issued to the extent permitted under Section 7.03(a), which shall be applied to the Term Loan Tranche being refinanced pursuant thereto).  Amounts to be applied to a Term Loan Tranche in connection with prepayments made pursuant to this Section 2.05(b) shall be applied (A) (to the extent applicable) to the next eight scheduled installments following the relevant prepayment event with respect to such Term Loan Tranche in direct order of maturity and thereafter shall be applied ratably to any remaining scheduled installments with respect to such Term Loan Tranche (including any payment due on maturity of such Term Loan Tranche) or, (B) if there are no scheduled installments with respect to such Term Loan Tranche, to reduce the final bullet amount due on maturity of such Term Loan Tranche.  Each prepayment of Term Loans under a Facility pursuant to this Section 2.05(b) shall be applied on a pro rata basis to the then outstanding Base Rate Loans and Eurocurrency Rate Loans under such Facility; provided that the amount thereof shall be applied first to Base Rate Loans under such Facility to the full extent thereof before application to Eurocurrency Rate Loans, in each case in a manner that minimizes the amount payable by the Borrower in respect of such prepayment pursuant to Section 3.06.

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(vii)Eurocurrency Rate Loans.  All prepayments under this Section 2.05 shall be made together with, in the case of any such prepayment of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan on a date other than the last day of an Interest Period therefor, any amounts owing in respect of such Eurocurrency Rate Loan pursuant to Section 3.06.  Notwithstanding any of the other provisions of this Section 2.05(b), so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, if any prepayment of Eurocurrency Rate Loans is required to be made under this Section 2.05(b), other than on the last day of the Interest Period therefor, the Borrower may, in its sole discretion, deposit the amount of any such prepayment otherwise required to be made thereunder with the Administrative Agent to be held as security for the obligations of the Borrower to make such prepayment pursuant to a cash collateral agreement to be entered into on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent until the last day of such Interest Period, at which time the Administrative Agent shall be authorized (without any further action by or notice to or from the Borrower or any other Loan Party) to apply such amount to the prepayment of such Loans in accordance with this Section 2.05(b) (determined as of the date such prepayment was required to be originally made); provided that, such unpaid Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall continue to bear interest in accordance with Section 2.08 until such unpaid Eurocurrency Rate Loans have been pre-paid.  Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, the Administrative Agent shall also be authorized (without any further action by or notice to or from the Borrower or any other Loan Party) to apply such amount to the prepayment of the outstanding Loans in accordance with this Section 2.05(b) (determined as of the date such prepayment was required to be originally made).  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, any amounts held by the Administrative Agent pursuant to this clause (vii) pending application to the applicable Term Loans shall be held and applied to the satisfaction of the applicable Term Loans prior to any other application of such property as may be provided for herein.

(viii)Foreign Dispositions.  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Section 2.05, to the extent that any or all of the Net Cash Proceeds of any Disposition by a Foreign Subsidiary (a “Foreign Disposition”) or the Net Cash Proceeds of any Casualty Event from a Foreign Subsidiary (a “Foreign Casualty Event”), in each case giving rise to a prepayment event pursuant to Section 2.05(b)(i) (A) are or is prohibited, restricted or delayed by applicable local law from being repatriated to the United States, the portion of such Net Cash Proceeds so affected will not be required to be applied to repay Term Loans at the times provided in this Section 2.05 but may be retained by the applicable Foreign Subsidiary so long, but only so long, as the applicable local law will not permit repatriation to the United States (the Borrower hereby agrees to use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the applicable Foreign Subsidiary to promptly take all actions reasonably required by the applicable local law to permit such repatriation), and once such repatriation of any of such affected Net Cash Proceeds is permitted under the applicable local law, such repatriation will be immediately effected and such repatriated Net Cash Proceeds will be promptly (and in any event not later than two Business Days after such repatriation) applied (net of additional taxes payable or reserved against as a result thereof) to the repayment of the Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05 to the extent provided herein and (B) to the extent that the Borrower has determined in good faith that repatriation of any or all of the Net Cash Proceeds of any Foreign Disposition, any Foreign Casualty Event would have a material adverse tax cost consequence (taking into account any foreign tax credit or benefit actually realized in connection with such repatriation) with respect to such Net Cash Proceeds, the Net Cash Proceeds so affected may be retained by the applicable Foreign Subsidiary, so long, but only so long as, such material tax cost consequences exist, and once such material tax cost consequences no longer exist such repatriation will be immediately effected and such repatriated Net Cash proceeds will be promptly (and in any event no later than two Business Days after such repatriation) applied (net of additional taxes payable or reserved against as a result thereof) to the prepayment of the Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05 to the extent provided herein.

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(c)Applicable Currency.  All Loans shall be repaid, whether pursuant to this Section 2.05 or otherwise, in the currency in which they were made.

Section 2.06Termination or Reduction of Commitments.

(a)Optional.  The Borrower may, upon written notice to the Administrative Agent, terminate the unused portions of the Commitments under any Term Loan Tranche, the Letter of Credit Sublimit, or the unused Revolving Credit Commitments under any Revolving Facility, or from time to time permanently reduce the unused portions of the Commitments under any Term Loan Tranche, the Letter of Credit Sublimit, or the unused Revolving Credit Commitments under any Revolving Facility; provided that (i) any such notice shall be received by the Administrative Agent five Business Days (or such shorter period as the Administrative Agent shall agree) prior to the date of termination or reduction, (ii) any such partial reduction shall be in an aggregate amount of (x) $1,000,000 or any whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof in respect of Commitments denominated in Dollars, (y) €1,000,000 or any whole multiple of €1,000,000 in excess thereof in respect of Commitments denominated in Euros and (z) £1,000,00 or any whole multiple of £1,000,00 in excess thereof in respect of Commitments denominated in Pounds Sterling and (iii) the Borrower shall not terminate or reduce (A) the Commitments under any Revolving Facility if, after giving effect thereto and to any concurrent prepayments hereunder, the Dollar Amount of the Total Revolving Credit Outstandings under such Revolving Facility would exceed the Revolving Credit Commitments in respect of such Revolving Facility, (B) the Letter of Credit Sublimit if, after giving effect thereto, the Dollar Amount of the Outstanding Amount of L/C Obligations not fully Cash Collateralized hereunder would exceed the Letter of Credit Sublimit or (C) the Swingline Sublimit if, after giving effect thereto and to any concurrent prepayments hereunder, the Outstanding Amount of Swingline Loans would exceed the Swingline Sublimit.  Any such notice of termination or reduction of commitments pursuant to this Section 2.06(a) may state that it is conditioned upon the occurrence or non-occurrence of any event specified therein (including the effectiveness of other credit facilities), in which case such notice may be revoked by the Borrower (by written notice to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the specified effective date) if such condition is not satisfied.

(b)Mandatory.  (i) The Aggregate Commitments under a Term Loan Tranche shall be automatically and permanently reduced to zero on the date of the initial incurrence of Term Loans under such Term Loan Tranche.

(ii)Upon the incurrence by any member of the Restricted Group of any Specified Refinancing Debt constituting revolving credit facilities, the Revolving Credit Commitments of the Revolving Credit Lenders under the Tranche of Revolving Credit Loans being refinanced shall be automatically and permanently reduced on a ratable basis by an amount equal to 100% of the Commitments under such revolving credit facilities.

(iii)If after giving effect to any reduction or termination of Revolving Credit Commitments under this Section 2.06, the Letter of Credit Sublimit, the Alternative Currency Sublimit or the Swingline Sublimit exceeds the amount of the Revolving Credit Facility at such time, the Letter of Credit Sublimit, the Alternative Currency Sublimit or the Swingline Sublimit, as the case may be, shall be automatically reduced by the amount of such excess.

(iv)The aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments with respect to the applicable Revolving Facility shall automatically and permanently be reduced to zero on the Maturity Date with respect to such Revolving Facility.

(c)Application of Commitment Reductions; Payment of Fees.  The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Appropriate Lenders of any termination or reduction of the Commitments

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under any Term Loan Tranche, the Letter of Credit Sublimit or the Revolving Credit Commitment under this Section 2.06.  Upon any reduction of Commitments under a Facility or Tranche thereof, the Commitment of each Lender under such Facility or Tranche thereof shall be reduced by such Lender’s ratable share of the amount by which such Facility or Tranche thereof is reduced (other than the termination of the Commitment of any Lender as provided in Section 3.08).  All commitment fees accrued until the effective date of any termination of the Aggregate Commitments and unpaid, shall be paid on the effective date of such termination.  For the avoidance of doubt, to the extent that any portion of the Revolving Credit Loans have been refinanced with one or more new revolving credit facilities constituting Specified Refinancing Debt, any prepayments of revolving Loans made pursuant to this Section 2.06 (other than any prepayments of revolving Loans made pursuant to Section 2.06(b)(ii)) shall be allocated ratably among the Revolving Facilities.

Section 2.07Repayment of Loans.

(a)Initial Term Loans.  The Borrower shall repay to the Administrative Agent for the ratable account of the Term Lenders holding Initial Term Loans outstanding in consecutive quarterly scheduled installments on each March 31, June 30, September 30 and December 31 (commencing on March 31, 2017) as set forth below (which scheduled installments shall, to the extent applicable, be reduced as a result of the application of pre-payments in accordance with the order of priority set forth in Sections 2.05 and 2.06, or be increased as a result of any increase in the amount of Initial Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.14 (such increased scheduled installment to be calculated in the same manner (and on the same basis) as the schedule set forth below for the Initial Term Loans made or deemed to be made as of the Closing Date):

PAYMENT DATE

PRINCIPAL INSTALLMENT

March 31, 2017

$3,093,750

June 30, 2017

$3,093,750

September 30, 2017

$3,093,750

December 31, 2017

$3,093,750

March 31, 2018

$4,125,000

June 30, 2018

$4,125,000

September 30, 2018

$4,125,000

December 31, 2018

$4,125,000

March 31, 2019

$4,125,000

June 30, 2019

$4,125,000

September 30, 2019

$4,125,000

December 31, 2019

$4,125,000

March 31, 2020

$5,156,250

June 30, 2020

$5,156,250

September 30, 2020

$5,156,250

December 31, 2020

$5,156,250

March 31, 2021

$6,187,500

June 30, 2021

$6,187,500

September 30, 2021

$6,187,500

Maturity Date

All remaining outstanding Initial Term Loans

 

 

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To the extent not previously paid, all Initial Term Loans shall be due and payable on the Maturity Date for the Initial Term Loans.

(b)New Term Loans.  The principal amount of New Term Loans of each Term Lender shall be repaid as provided in the amendment to this Agreement in respect of such New Term Loans as contemplated by Section 2.14, subject to the requirements of Section 2.14 (which installments shall, to the extent applicable, be reduced as a result of the application of prepayments in accordance with the order of priority set forth in Sections 2.05 and 2.06, or be increased as a result of any increase in the amount of New Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.14 (such increased scheduled installments to be calculated in the same manner (and on the same basis) as the schedule set forth in the amendment to this Agreement in respect of such New Term Loans as contemplated by Section 2.14 for the initial incurrence of such New Term Loans)).  To the extent not previously paid, each New Term Loan shall be due and payable on the Maturity Date applicable to such New Term Loans.

(c)Specified Refinancing Term Loans.  The principal amount of Specified Refinancing Term Loans of each Term Lender shall be repaid as provided in the Refinancing Amendment, subject to the requirements of Section 2.18 (which installments shall, to the extent applicable, be reduced as a result of the application of prepayments in accordance with the order of priority set forth in Sections 2.05 and 2.06, or be increased as a result of any increase in the amount of Specified Refinancing Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.14 (such increased scheduled installments to be calculated in the same manner (and on the same basis) as the schedule set forth in the Refinancing Amendment for the initial incurrence of such Specified Refinancing Term Loans)).  To the extent not previously paid, each Specified Refinancing Term Loan shall be due and payable on the Maturity Date applicable to such Specified Refinancing Term Loans.

(d)Extended Term Loans.  The principal amount of Extended Term Loans of each Extending Term Lender shall be repaid as provided in the amendment to this Agreement in respect of such Extended Term Loans as contemplated by Section 2.19, subject to the requirements of Section 2.19 (which installments shall, to the extent applicable, be reduced as a result of the application of prepayments in accordance with the order of priority set forth in Sections 2.05 and 2.06).  To the extent not previously paid, each Extended Term Loan shall be due and payable on the Maturity Date applicable to such Extended Term Loans.

(e)Revolving Credit Loans.  The Borrower shall repay to the Administrative Agent for the ratable account of the Appropriate Lenders on the applicable Maturity Date of a Revolving Facility the aggregate principal amount of all of its Revolving Credit Loans under such Revolving Facility outstanding on such date.

(f)Swingline Loans.  The Borrower shall repay each Swingline Loan on the earlier to occur of (i) the date that is five Business Days after such Swingline Loan is made and (ii) the Maturity Date for the Revolving Credit Facility.  At any time that there shall exist a Defaulting Lender, immediately upon the request of the Swingline Lender, the Borrower shall repay Swingline Loans in an amount sufficient to eliminate any Fronting Exposure in respect of the Swingline Loans.

(g)All Loans shall be repaid, whether pursuant to this Section 2.07 or otherwise, in the currency in which they were made.

Section 2.08Interest.

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annum equal to the sum of (i) the Adjusted Eurocurrency Rate applicable to the currency in which such Eurocurrency Rate Loan is incurred for such Interest Period plus (ii) the Applicable Rate for Eurocurrency Rate Loans under such Facility.  Each Term Loan and each Revolving Credit Loan denominated in any Alternative Currency shall be a Eurocurrency Rate Loan.

(b)Subject to the provisions of Section 2.08(f), (A) each Base Rate Loan under a Facility shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof from the applicable borrowing date or conversion date, as the case may be, at a rate per annum equal to the sum of (i) the Base Rate plus (ii) the Applicable Rate for Base Rate Loans under such Facility and (B) each Swingline Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof from the applicable borrowing date at a rate per annum equal to the sum of (i) the Base Rate plus (ii) the Applicable Rate for Base Rate Loans under the Revolving Facility (or, if there is more than one Revolving Facility at such time, under the Revolving Facility with the highest Applicable Rate).

(c)Accrued interest on each Loan shall be due and payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date applicable thereto and at such other times as may be specified herein; provided that in the event of any repayment or prepayment of any Loan (other than Revolving Credit Loans bearing interest based on the Base Rate that are repaid or prepaid without any corresponding termination or reduction of the Revolving Credit Commitments other than as set forth in Section 2.14(e)), accrued interest on the principal amount repaid or prepaid shall be payable on the date of such repayment or prepayment.  Interest hereunder shall be due and payable in accordance with the terms hereof before and after judgment, and before and after the commencement of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law.

(d)Interest on each Loan shall be payable in the currency in which each Loan was made.

(e)All computations of interest hereunder shall be made in accordance with Section 2.10 of this Agreement.

(f)The Borrower shall pay interest on all overdue Obligations hereunder, which shall include all Obligations following an acceleration pursuant to Section 8.02 (including an automatic acceleration) at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.  Accrued and unpaid interest on past due amounts (including interest on past due interest) shall be due and payable upon demand.

Section 2.09Fees.  In addition to certain fees described in Sections 2.03(g) and (h):

(a)Commitment Fee.  The Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving Credit Lender in accordance with its Pro Rata Share of each Revolving Facility, a commitment fee in Dollars equal to the Applicable Commitment Fee multiplied by the actual daily amount by which the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments under such Revolving Facility exceed the sum of (A) the Outstanding Amount of Revolving Credit Loans under such Revolving Facility and (B) the Outstanding Amount of L/C Obligations under such Revolving Facility, subject to adjustment as provided in Section 2.17.  The commitment fee with respect to any Revolving Facility shall accrue at all times from the Closing Date until the Maturity Date for such Revolving Facility, and shall be due and payable quarterly in arrears on the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December, commencing with the last Business Day of the first fiscal quarter to end following the Closing Date, and on the Maturity Date for such Revolving Facility. For the avoidance of doubt, any outstanding Swingline Loans shall be ignored for purposes of calculating the commitment fee pursuant to this Section 2.09(a).

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(b)Other Fees.  The Borrower shall pay to the Arrangers and the Administrative Agent for their own respective accounts or for the account of the Lenders, as appropriate, fees in the amounts and at the times separately agreed up on between the Borrower (or Parent) and the Arrangers or the Administrative Agent, as the case may be (including those fees specified in the Fee Letters).

Section 2.10Computation of Interest and Fees; Retroactive Adjustments of Applicable Rate.  All computations of interest for (i) Base Rate Loans based on the Prime Lending Rate and (ii) Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Pounds Sterling shall be made on the basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may be, and actual days elapsed.  All other computations of fees and interest shall be made on the basis of a 360-day year and actual days elapsed (which results in more fees or interest, as applicable, being paid than if computed on the basis of a 365-day year).  Interest shall accrue on each Loan for the day on which the Loan is made, and shall not accrue on a Loan, or any portion thereof, for the day on which the Loan or such portion is paid; provided that any Loan that is repaid on the same day on which it is made shall, subject to Section 2.12(a), bear interest for one day.  Each determination by the Administrative Agent of an interest rate or fee hereunder shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.

Section 2.11Evidence of Indebtedness.

(a)The Credit Extensions made by each Lender shall be evidenced by one or more accounts or records maintained by such Lender and evidenced by one or more entries in the Register maintained by the Administrative Agent, acting solely for purposes of Treasury Regulation Section 5f.103-1(c), as a non-fiduciary agent for the Borrower, in each case in the ordinary course of business.  The accounts or records maintained by the Administrative Agent and each Lender shall be prima facie evidence absent manifest error of the amount of the Credit Extensions made by the Lenders to the Borrower and the interest and payments thereon.  Any failure to so record or any error in doing so shall not, however, limit the obligation of the Borrower hereunder to pay any amount owing with respect to the Obligations.  In the event of any conflict between the accounts and records maintained by any Lender and the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent in respect of such matters, the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent shall control in the absence of manifest error.  Upon the request of any Lender made through the Administrative Agent, the Borrower shall execute and deliver to such Lender (through the Administrative Agent) a Note payable to such Lender or its registered assigns, which shall evidence such Lender’s Loans in addition to such accounts or records.  Each Lender may attach schedules to its Note and endorse thereon the date, Type (if applicable), amount and maturity of its Loans and payments with respect thereto.

(b)In addition to the accounts and records referred to in Section 2.11(a), each Lender and the Administrative Agent shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice accounts or records and, in the case of the Administrative Agent, entries in the Register, evidencing the purchases and sales by such Lender of participations in Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans.  In the event of any conflict between the accounts and records maintained by the Administrative Agent and the accounts and records of any Lender in respect of such matters, the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent shall control in the absence of manifest error.

(c)Entries made in good faith by the Administrative Agent in the Register pursuant to Sections 2.11(a) and (b), and by each Lender in its accounts or records pursuant to Sections 2.11(a) and (b), shall be prima facie evidence of the amount of principal and interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the Borrower to, in the case of the Register, each Lender and, in the case of such accounts or records, such Lender, under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, absent manifest error; provided that the failure of the Administrative Agent or such Lender to make an entry, or any finding that an entry is

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incorrect, in the Register or such accounts or records shall not limit the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.

Section 2.12Payments Generally; Administrative Agent’s Clawback.

(a)General.  All payments to be made by the Borrower shall be made without condition or deduction for any counterclaim, defense, recoupment or setoff.  Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, and except with respect to payments in an Alternative Currency, all payments by the Borrower hereunder shall be made to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the respective Lenders to which such payment is owed, at the Administrative Agent’s Office in Dollars and in immediately available funds not later than 12:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the date specified herein.  Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all payments by the Borrower hereunder in an Alternative Currency shall be made to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the respective Lenders to which such payment is owed, at the Administrative Agent’s Office in such Alternative Currency and in Same Day Funds not later than 12:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the dates specified herein.  If, for any reason, the Borrower is prohibited by any Law from making any required payment hereunder in an Alternative Currency, the Borrower shall make such payment in Dollars in the Dollar Amount of the Alternative Currency payment amount.  The Administrative Agent will promptly distribute to each Lender its ratable share in respect of the relevant Facility or Tranche thereof (or other applicable share as provided herein) of such payment in like funds as received by wire transfer to such Lender’s Lending Office.  All payments received by the Administrative Agent after 12:00 p.m. (New York City time) shall, in each case, be deemed received on the next succeeding Business Day and any applicable interest or fee shall continue to accrue.  If any payment to be made by the Borrower shall come due on a day other than a Business Day, payment shall be made on the next following Business Day, and such extension of time shall be reflected in computing interest or fees, as the case may be; provided, however, that, if such extension would cause payment of interest on or principal of Eurocurrency Rate Loans to be made in the next succeeding calendar month, such payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Business Day.

(b)(i)Funding by Lenders; Presumption by Administrative Agent.  Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the proposed date of any Borrowing of Eurocurrency Rate Loans (or, in the case of any Borrowing of Base Rate Loans, not later than 12:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the date of such Borrowing) that such Lender will not make available to the Administrative Agent such Lender’s share of such Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such share available on such date in accordance with and at the time required by Section 2.02(b) and may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrower a corresponding amount.  In such event, if any Lender does not in fact make its share of the applicable Borrowing available to the Administrative Agent, then such Lender and the Borrower severally agree to pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand an amount equal to such applicable share in immediately available funds with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is made available to the Borrower by the Administrative Agent to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at (A) in the case of a payment to be made by such Lender, the greater of the applicable Overnight Rate and a rate reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation, plus any reasonable administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by the Administrative Agent in connection with the foregoing and (B) in the case of a payment to be made by the Borrower, the interest rate applicable to Base Rate Loans under the applicable Facility.  If both the Borrower and such Lender pay such interest to the Administrative Agent for the same or an overlapping period, the Administrative Agent shall promptly remit to the Borrower the amount of such interest paid by the Borrower for such period.  If such Lender pays its share of the applicable Borrowing to the Administrative Agent, then the amount so paid shall constitute such Lender’s Loan included in such Borrowing.  Any payment by the Borrower shall be without prejudice to any claim the

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Borrower may have against a Lender that shall have failed to make its share of any Borrowing available to the Administrative Agent.

(ii)Payments by the Borrower; Presumptions by Administrative Agent.  Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Borrower prior to the date on which any payment is due to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders or an L/C Issuer hereunder that the Borrower will not make such payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower has made such payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such assumption, distribute to the Appropriate Lenders or the applicable L/C Issuer, as the case may be, the amount due.  In such event, if the Borrower does not in fact make such payment, then each of the Appropriate Lenders or the applicable L/C Issuer, as the case may be, severally agrees to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the amount so distributed to such Lender or such L/C Issuer, in immediately available funds with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is distributed by the Administrative Agent to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at the greater of the applicable Overnight Rate and a rate reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation, plus any reasonable administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by the Administrative Agent in connection with the foregoing.

A notice of the Administrative Agent to any Lender or the Borrower with respect to any amount owing under this Section 2.12(b) shall be conclusive, absent manifest error.

(c)Failure to Satisfy Conditions Precedent.  If any Lender makes available to the Administrative Agent funds for any Loan to be made by such Lender as provided in the foregoing provisions of this Article II, and such funds are not made available to the Borrower by the Administrative Agent because the conditions to the applicable Credit Extension set forth in Article IV are not satisfied or waived in accordance with the terms hereof, the Administrative Agent shall return such funds (in like funds as received from such Lender) to such Lender on demand, without interest.

(d)Obligations of the Lenders Several.  The obligations of the Lenders hereunder to make Loans, to fund participations in Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans and to make payments pursuant to Section 9.07 are several and not joint.  The failure of any Lender to make any Loan or to fund any such participation or to make any payment under Section 9.07 on any date required hereunder shall not relieve any other Lender of its corresponding obligation to do so on such date, and no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to so make its Loan or, to fund its participation or to make its payment under Section 9.07.

(e)Funding Source.  Nothing herein shall be deemed to obligate any Lender to obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner or to constitute a representation by any Lender that it has obtained or will obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner.

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

(g)Unallocated Funds.  If the Administrative Agent receives funds for application to the Obligations of the Loan Parties under or in respect of the Loan Documents under circumstances for

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which the Loan Documents do not specify the manner in which such funds are to be applied, the Administrative Agent may, but shall not be obligated to, elect to distribute such funds to each of the Lenders in accordance with such Lender’s ratable share of the sum of (a) the Outstanding Amount of all Loans outstanding at such time and (b) the Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations, outstanding at such time, in repayment or prepayment of such of the outstanding Loans or other Obligations then owing to such Lender.

Section 2.13Sharing of Payments.

(a)If, other than as expressly provided elsewhere herein (including the application of funds arising from the existence of a Defaulting Lender), any Lender shall obtain on account of the Loans made by it, or the participations in L/C Obligations or Swingline Loans held by it, any payment (whether voluntary, involuntary, through the exercise of any right of setoff, or otherwise) in excess of its ratable share (or other share contemplated hereunder) thereof, such Lender shall immediately (a) notify the Administrative Agent of such fact and (b) purchase from the other Lenders such participations in the Loans made by them and/or such subparticipations in the participations in L/C Obligations or in Swingline Loans held by them, as the case may be, as shall be necessary to cause such purchasing Lender to share the excess payment in respect of such Loans or such participations, as the case may be, pro rata with each of them; provided, however, that if all or any portion of such excess payment is thereafter recovered from the purchasing Lender under any of the circumstances described in Section 10.06 (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the purchasing Lender in its discretion), such purchase shall to that extent be rescinded and each other Lender shall repay to the purchasing Lender the purchase price paid therefor, together with an amount equal to such paying Lender’s ratable share (according to the proportion of (i) the amount of such paying Lender’s required repayment to (ii) the total amount so recovered from the purchasing Lender) of any interest or other amount paid or payable by the purchasing Lender in respect of the total amount so recovered, without further interest thereon.  The Borrower agrees that any Lender so purchasing a participation from another Lender may, to the fullest extent permitted by Law, exercise all its rights of payment (including the right of setoff, but subject to Section 10.09) with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were the direct creditor of the Borrower in the amount of such participation.  The Administrative Agent will keep records (which shall be conclusive and binding in the absence of manifest error) of participations purchased under this Section 2.13 and will in each case notify the Lenders following any such purchases or repayments.  Each Lender that purchases a participation pursuant to this Section 2.13 shall from and after such purchase have the right to give all notices, requests, demands, directions and other communications under this Agreement with respect to the portion of the Obligations purchased to the same extent as though the purchasing Lender were the original owner of the Obligations purchased.  For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of this Section 2.13 shall not be construed to apply to (A) the application of Cash Collateral provided for in Section 2.16, (B) the assignments and participations described in Section 10.07, (C) (i) the incurrence of any New Term Loans in accordance with Section 2.14, (ii) the prepayment of Revolving Credit Loans in accordance with Section 2.14(e) in connection with a Revolving Credit Commitment Increase or (iii) any Specified Refinancing Debt in accordance with Section 2.18, (D) any loan modification offer described in Section 10.01 or Extension described in Section 2.19, or (E) any applicable circumstances contemplated by Sections 2.05(b), 2.14, 2.17, 3.03 or 3.08.

Section 2.14Incremental Facilities.

(a)The Borrower may, from time to time after the Closing Date, by notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall promptly notify the applicable Lenders) specifying the proposed amount thereof, request

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(i)an increase in the Commitments under any Revolving Facility (which shall be on the same terms as, and become part of, the Revolving Facility proposed to be increased) (a “Revolving Credit Commitment Increase”),

(ii)an increase in any Term Loan Tranche then outstanding (which shall be on the same terms as, and become part of, the Term Loan Tranche proposed to be increased hereunder (except as otherwise provided in clause (c) below with respect to amortization)) (each, a “Term Commitment Increase”) and

(iii)the addition of one or more new term loan facilities to the Facilities (each, a “New Term Facility”; and any advance made by a Lender thereunder, a “New Term Loan”; and the commitments thereof, the “New Term Commitment” and together with the Revolving Credit Commitment Increase and the Term Commitment Increase, the “New Loan Commitments”)

by an amount not to exceed the sum of (x) the Dollar Capped Incremental Amount plus (y) an unlimited amount (the “Ratio-Based Incremental Facility”) so long as, in the case of this clause (y) (subject to the Limited Condition Acquisition Proviso in connection with any Permitted Acquisition or permitted Investment that constitutes an acquisition (other than an intercompany Investment)), the Maximum Secured Net Leverage Requirement is satisfied plus (z) the Prepay Incremental Amount (such aggregate amount, at any such time, the “Incremental Amount”); provided that any such request for an increase shall be in a minimum amount of the lesser of (A) a Dollar Amount of $5,000,000 and (B) the entire amount of any increase that may be requested under this Section 2.14; provided, further, that any New Loan Commitments established pursuant to this Section 2.14 and New Incremental Notes issued pursuant to Section 2.15 will reduce the Incremental Amount, provided that such amounts shall (1) reduce the maximum amount under the Prepay Incremental Amount prior to reducing the maximum amount under the Dollar Capped Incremental Amount or counting towards the Ratio-Based Incremental Facility and (2) count towards the Ratio-Based Incremental Facility prior to reducing the maximum amount under the Dollar Capped Incremental Amount (to the extent permitted by the Secured Net Leverage Ratio calculated on a Pro Forma Basis required prior to the incurrence of such Ratio-Based Incremental Facility); provided, further, that Loans may be incurred under clauses (x), (y) and (z) above in a single transaction in any order of use permitted pursuant to clauses (1) and (2) above without, for the avoidance of doubt, being required to include amounts utilized under the Dollar Capped Incremental Amount and/or the Prepay Incremental Amount in the calculation of the Ratio-Based Incremental Facility if such amounts are being used in a single incurrence of a New Loan Commitment.  At the time of sending such notice to the applicable Lenders, the Borrower (in consultation with the Administrative Agent) shall specify the time period within which each applicable Lender is requested to respond (which, unless the Administrative Agent otherwise agrees, shall in no event be less than ten Business Days from the date of delivery of such notice).

(b)Each applicable Lender shall notify the Administrative Agent within such time period whether or not it agrees to participate in such new facility or increase of the existing Tranche and, if so, whether by a percentage of the requested increase equal to, greater than, or less than its Pro Rata Share of any then-existing Tranche.  Any Lender approached may elect or decline, in its sole discretion, to provide such increase or new facility.  Any Lender not responding within such time period shall be deemed to have declined to increase its Commitment with respect to such Tranche or to provide a new Tranche.  The Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower of the Lenders’ responses to each request made under this Section 2.14.  To achieve the full amount of a requested increase or issuance of New Term Facility, as applicable, the Borrower may also invite additional Eligible Assignees reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, the Swingline Lender and each L/C Issuer (to the extent the consent of any of the foregoing would be required to assign Loans and/or Commitments to such Eligible Assignee, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed) to become Lenders pursuant to a joinder agreement to this Agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

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(c)If (i) a Revolving Facility or a Term Loan Tranche is increased in accordance with this Section 2.14 or (ii) a New Term Facility is added in accordance with this Section 2.14, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower shall determine the effective date (the “Increase Effective Date”) and the final allocation of such increase or New Term Facility among the applicable Lenders.  The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the applicable Lenders of the final allocation of such increase or New Term Facility and the Increase Effective Date.  In connection with (i) any increase in a Term Loan Tranche or Revolving Facility or (ii) any addition of a New Term Facility, in each case, pursuant to this Section 2.14, this Agreement and the other Loan Documents may be amended in a writing (which may be executed and delivered by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent) in order to establish the New Term Facility or to effectuate the increases to the Term Loan Tranche or Revolving Facility and to reflect any technical changes necessary or appropriate to give effect to such increase or new facility in accordance with its terms as set forth herein.  As of the Increase Effective Date, the amortization schedule for the Term Loan Tranche then increased set forth in Section 2.07(a) (or any other applicable amortization schedule for New Term Loans or Specified Refinancing Term Loans) shall be amended in a writing (which may be executed and delivered by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent) to increase the then-remaining unpaid installments of principal by an aggregate amount equal to the additional Term Loans under such Term Loan Tranche being made on such date, such aggregate amount to be applied to increase such installments ratably in accordance with the amounts in effect immediately prior to the Increase Effective Date.

(d)As conditions precedent to any Revolving Credit Commitment Increase, Term Commitment Increase or addition of a New Term Facility pursuant to this Section 2.14:

(i)(A) subject to the Limited Condition Acquisition Proviso, immediately after giving Pro Forma Effect to any such Revolving Credit Commitment Increase (and assuming such Revolving Credit Commitment Increase is fully funded), Term Commitment Increase or addition of a New Term Facility, the Borrower shall be in compliance with the financial covenants set forth in Section 7.10, determined on the basis of the financial information most recently delivered (or required to have been delivered) to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b) as though such Revolving Credit Commitment Increase, Term Commitment Increase or addition of a New Term Facility had been incurred on the first day of the applicable four fiscal quarter period covered thereby and (B) the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent a certificate of the Borrower dated as of the Increase Effective Date signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, certifying and attaching the resolutions adopted by the Borrower approving or consenting to such increase, and certifying that the conditions precedent set forth in the following subclauses have been satisfied (which certificate shall include supporting calculations demonstrating compliance with the Maximum Secured Net Leverage Requirement, if applicable, and the financial covenants set forth in Section 7.10)

(ii)subject to the Limited Condition Acquisition Proviso and except as set forth in the proviso to the last sentence of this clause (d), no Default shall have occurred or be continuing as of the Increase Effective Date or would result therefrom, and the representations and warranties of the Borrower and each other Loan Party contained in Article V or any other Loan Document shall be true and correct in all material respects (and in all respects if any such representation or warranty is already qualified by materiality) on and as of the Increase Effective Date, except to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, in which case they shall be true and correct in all material respects (and in all respects if any such representation or warranty is already qualified by materiality) as of such earlier date, and except that for purposes of this Section 2.14, the representations and warranties contained in Sections 5.05(a) shall be deemed to refer to the most recent financial statements furnished pursuant to Section 6.01(a), prior to such Increase Effective Date;

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(iii)in the case of:

(A)any increase of any Revolving Facility, the terms (including as to maturity) shall be the same as the Revolving Facility being increased and the documentation applicable to the Revolving Credit Facility shall apply;

(B)any increase of a Term Loan Tranche, (1) the final maturity of the Term Loans increased pursuant to this Section 2.14 shall be no earlier than the final maturity date of the Tranche being increased and in any event no earlier than the Original Term Maturity Date, (2) such additional Loans shall not have a Weighted Average Life to Maturity shorter than the longest remaining weighted average life of any other outstanding Term Loans, (3) such Term Loans shall be denominated in Dollars or in Euros as agreed by the Borrower and the applicable Lenders, and (4) the terms and documentation applicable to the Term Facility shall apply; and

(C)in the case of any New Term Facility, (1) such New Term Facility shall have a final maturity no earlier than the then Latest Maturity Date of any Term Loan Tranche, (2) the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of such New Term Facility shall be no shorter than that of any existing Term Loan Tranche, and (3) except with respect to all-in yield and as set forth in subclauses (B)(1) and (B)(2) above with respect to final maturity and Weighted Average Life to Maturity, or otherwise as shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, any such New Term Facility shall have the same terms as the Term Facility (it being understood that the applicable Lenders under the New Term Facility may agree to less favorable pro rata payment provisions than those applicable to the existing Term Loan Tranche); provided that in no event shall any such New Term Facility have covenants and defaults materially more restrictive (taken as a whole) than those applicable to the existing Term Facility except for covenants and defaults applicable only to periods after the Latest Maturity Date in effect at the time of incurrence of such New Term Facility); and

(iv)to the extent reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent shall have received legal opinions, resolutions, officers’ certificates and/or reaffirmation agreements consistent with those delivered on the Closing Date under Section 4.01 or delivered from time to time pursuant to Section 6.12 and/or Section 6.15 with respect to Parent, the Borrower and each Subsidiary Guarantor (other than changes to such legal opinions resulting from a change in Law, change in fact or change to counsel’s form of opinion reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent).

Subject to the foregoing, the conditions precedent to each Term Commitment Increase or New Term Facility shall be as agreed to by the Lenders providing such Term Commitment Increase or New Term Facility, as applicable, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower(s); provided, that in connection with the incurrence of any such Term Commitment Increase or New Term Loans, if the proceeds of such Term Commitment Increase or New Term Loans are, substantially concurrently with the receipt thereof, to be used, in whole or in part, by the Borrower or any other Loan Party to finance, in whole or in part, a Limited Condition Acquisition, then (A) to the extent agreed to by the Lenders providing such Term Commitment Increase or New Term Loans, the only representations and warranties that will be required to be true and correct in all material respects as of the applicable Increase Effective Date shall be (x) the representations and warranties made solely by the Borrower and Parent in (1) Section 5.17 (solely with respect to the Restricted Group on a consolidated basis) and (2) Sections 5.01(a) and (b)(ii), 5.02(a), 5.04, 5.13, 5.18 and 5.19, in each case, after giving effect to the relevant transaction and (y) such of the representations and warranties made by or on behalf of the applicable acquired company or business in the

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applicable acquisition agreement as are material to the interests of the Lenders, but only to the extent that the Borrower or any Affiliate of the Borrower has the right (determined without regard to any notice provision) to terminate the obligations of the Borrower or such Affiliate under such acquisition agreement or not consummate such acquisition as a result of a breach of such representations or warranties in such acquisition agreement and (B) no Event of Default under Sections 8.01(a), (f) and (g) then exists or would exist after giving effect to such incurrence (“Permitted Acquisition Provisions”).

(e)On the Increase Effective Date with respect to a Revolving Facility, (x) each Revolving Credit Lender in respect of such Revolving Facility immediately prior to such increase or incurrence will automatically and without further act be deemed to have assigned to each Lender providing a portion of the increase to the Revolving Credit Commitments (each, a “Revolving Commitment Increase Lender”), and each such Revolving Commitment Increase Lender will automatically and without further act be deemed to have assumed, a portion of such Revolving Credit Lender’s participations hereunder in outstanding L/C Advances under the applicable Revolving Facility and Swingline Loans such that, after giving effect to each such deemed assignment and assumption of participations, the percentage of the aggregate outstanding (i) participations hereunder in L/C Advances and (ii) participations hereunder in Swingline Loans held by each Revolving Credit Lender (including each such Revolving Commitment Increase Lender) under the applicable Revolving Facility will equal the percentage of the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments in respect of such Revolving Facility of all Revolving Credit Lenders represented by such Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment in respect of such Revolving Facility and (y) if, on the date of such increase, there are any Revolving Credit Loans under the applicable Revolving Facility outstanding, such Revolving Credit Loans shall on or prior to the Increase Effective Date be prepaid from the proceeds of Revolving Credit Loans under the applicable Revolving Facility made hereunder (reflecting such increase in Revolving Credit Commitments), which prepayment shall be accompanied by accrued interest on the Revolving Credit Loans being prepaid and any costs incurred by any Lender in accordance with Section 3.06.  The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby agree that the minimum borrowing, pro rata borrowing and pro rata payment requirements contained elsewhere in this Agreement shall not apply to the transactions effected pursuant to the immediately preceding sentence.  The additional Term Loans made under the Term Loan Tranche subject to the increases shall be made by the applicable Lenders participating therein pursuant to the procedures set forth in Sections 2.01 and 2.02 and on the date of the making of such new Term Loans, and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Sections 2.01 and 2.02, such new Loans shall be added to (and form part of) each Borrowing of outstanding Term Loans under such Term Loan Tranche on a pro rata basis (based on the relative sizes of the various outstanding Borrowings), so that each Lender under such Term Loan Tranche will participate proportionately in each then outstanding Borrowing of Term Loans under that Term Loan Tranche.

(f)(i) Any New Term Facility shall rank pari passu in right of payment, have the same guarantees as, and be secured on a first lien “equal and ratable” basis with the other Facilities over the same Collateral that secures the Facilities, (ii) the New Term Facility shall share ratably in any prepayments of the Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.05 (or otherwise provide for more favorable prepayment treatment for the then outstanding Term Loan Tranches than the Term Loans under such New Term Facility) and (iii) the all-in yield (whether in the form of interest rate margins, original issue discount, upfront fees, or Eurocurrency Rate or Base Rate floors (but not arrangement or underwriting fees paid to arrangers for their own account and not shared with the Lenders providing such New Term Facility) and equating original issue discount and upfront fees to interest rate for purposes of this calculation, assuming a four-year life to maturity) applicable to such New Term Facility shall be determined by the Borrower and the Lenders providing such New Term Facility.

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Section 2.15New Incremental Notes.

(a)The Borrower may, from time to time after the Closing Date, by notice to the Administrative Agent, specifying in reasonable detail the proposed terms thereof, request to issue one or more series of (1) secured notes (which notes shall be secured solely by the Collateral on a pari passu or junior basis with the Liens securing the Obligations) or (2) senior unsecured, senior subordinated or subordinated notes (such notes, collectively, “New Incremental Notes”) in an amount not to exceed the Incremental Amount (at the time of issuance (it being understood that the Incremental Amount shall reduce as set forth in Section 2.14(a))); provided that (i) subject, in the case of a Limited Condition Acquisition to be funded by the proceeds of such New Incremental Notes, to the Permitted Acquisition Provisions and the Limited Condition Acquisition Proviso, the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 shall be satisfied as of the date of issuance of New Incremental Notes and (ii) any such issuance of New Incremental Notes shall be in a minimum amount of the lesser of (x) of $5,000,000 and (y) the entire amount that may be requested under this Section 2.15; provided, further, that any New Loan Commitments established pursuant to Section 2.14 and New Incremental Notes issued pursuant to this Section 2.15, will (A) reduce the maximum amount under the Prepay Incremental Amount prior to reducing the maximum amount under the Dollar Capped Incremental Amount or counting towards the Ratio-Based Incremental Facility and (B) count towards the Ratio-Based Incremental Facility prior to reducing the maximum amount under the Dollar Capped Incremental Amount (to the extent permitted by the Secured Net Leverage Ratio calculated on a Pro Forma Basis required prior to the incurrence of such Ratio-Based Incremental Facility); provided, further, that Loans may be incurred under clauses (x), (y) and (z) of the definition of Incremental Amount in a single transaction in any order of use permitted pursuant to clauses (A) and (B) above without, for the avoidance of doubt, being required to include amounts utilized under the Dollar Capped Incremental Amount and/or the Prepay Incremental Amount in the calculation of the Ratio-Based Incremental Facility if such amounts are being used in a single incurrence of New Incremental Notes.  

(b)As a condition precedent to the issuance of any New Incremental Notes pursuant to this Section 2.15:

(i)(A) subject to the Limited Condition Acquisition Proviso, immediately after giving Pro Forma Effect to any such New Incremental Notes, the Borrower shall be in compliance with the financial covenants set forth in Section 7.10, determined on the basis of the financial information most recently delivered (or required to have been delivered) to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b) as though such New Incremental Notes had been incurred on the first day of the applicable four fiscal quarter period covered thereby and (B) the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent a certificate dated as of the date of issuance of the New Incremental Notes signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, certifying and attaching the resolutions adopted by the Borrower approving or consenting to the issuance of such New Incremental Notes and the execution and delivery of the related New Incremental Notes Indenture, and certifying that the conditions precedent set forth in the following sub-clauses (ii) through (viii) have been satisfied (which certificate shall include supporting calculations demonstrating compliance with the Maximum Secured Net Leverage Requirement, if applicable, and the financial covenants set forth in Section 7.10),

(ii)such New Incremental Notes shall rank pari passu in right of payment and shall be subject to an intercreditor agreement (if secured) or be subordinated on terms satisfactory to the Administrative Agent,

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(iv)to the extent secured, such New Incremental Notes shall be subject to intercreditor arrangements that are reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent),

(v)such New Incremental Notes shall have a final maturity no earlier than 91 days after the then Latest Maturity Date,

(vi)the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of such New Incremental Notes shall not (A) be shorter than 91 days after that of any then-existing Term Loan Tranche, or (B) be subject to any mandatory redemption or prepayment provisions or rights (except customary assets sale or change of control provisions),

(vii)such New Incremental Notes shall not be subject to any mandatory redemption or prepayment provisions or rights (except to the extent any such mandatory redemption or prepayment is required to be applied pro rata to the Term Loans and other Indebtedness that is secured on a pari passu basis with the Obligations), and

(viii)the covenants, events of default, guarantees, collateral and other terms of such New Incremental Notes are customary for similar debt securities in light of then prevailing market conditions at the time of issuance (it being understood that (x) no New Incremental Notes shall include any financial maintenance covenants (including indirectly by way of a cross-default to this Agreement), but that customary cross-acceleration provisions may be included) and (y) any negative covenants with respect to indebtedness, investments, liens or restricted payments shall be incurrence-based) and in any event are not more restrictive to the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries than those set forth in this Agreement (other than with respect to interest rate and redemption provisions), except for covenants or other provisions applicable only to periods after the then Latest Maturity Date (provided that a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower delivered to the Administrative Agent in good faith at least five Business Days prior to the incurrence of such New Incremental Notes, together with a reasonably detailed description of the material terms and conditions of such New Incremental Notes or drafts of the documentation relating thereto, stating that the Borrower has determined in good faith that such terms and conditions satisfy the requirement set forth in this clause (b), shall be conclusive evidence that such terms and conditions satisfy such requirement unless the Administrative Agent provides notice to the Borrower of its objection during such five Business Day period (including a reasonable description of the basis upon which it objects).  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the conditions precedent to each such increase shall be agreed to by the Lenders providing such increase and the Borrower.

(c)The issuance of any New Incremental Notes shall also be subject, to the extent reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, to receipt by the Administrative Agent of legal opinions, board resolutions, officers’ certificates and/or reaffirmation agreements, including any supplements or amendments to the Collateral Documents providing for such New Incremental Notes.  The Lenders hereby authorize the Administrative Agent to enter into amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents with the Borrower as may be necessary or appropriate in order to secure any New Incremental Notes with the Collateral and/or to make such technical amendments as may be necessary or appropriate in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent and the Borrower in connection with the issuance of such New Incremental Notes, in each case on terms consistent with this Section 2.15.

Section 2.16Cash Collateral.

(a)Upon the request of the Administrative Agent or the applicable L/C Issuer (i) if the applicable L/C Issuer has honored any full or partial drawing request under any Letter of Credit and such

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drawing has resulted in an L/C Borrowing or (ii) if, as of the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, any L/C Obligation in respect of the applicable Revolving Facility for any reason remains outstanding, the Borrower shall, in each case, immediately Cash Collateralize the then Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations under such Revolving Facility.  At any time that there shall exist a Defaulting Lender, within one Business Day, the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent Cash Collateral in an amount sufficient to cover (i) 103% of all Fronting Exposure of such Defaulting Lender after giving effect to Section 2.17(a)(iv) and any Cash Collateral provided by such Defaulting Lender.

(b)All Cash Collateral (other than credit support not constituting funds subject to deposit) shall be maintained in blocked, interest bearing deposit accounts at the Administrative Agent.  The Borrower, and to the extent provided by any Lender, such Lender, hereby grants to (and subjects to the control of) the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, the applicable L/C Issuer and the Lenders (including the Swingline Lender), and agrees to maintain, a first priority security interest in all such cash, deposit accounts and all balances therein, and all other property so provided as collateral pursuant hereto, and in all proceeds of the foregoing, all as security for the obligations to which such Cash Collateral may be applied pursuant to Section 2.16(c).  If at any time the Administrative Agent determines that Cash Collateral is subject to any right or claim of any Person other than the Administrative Agent as herein provided or that the total amount of such Cash Collateral is less than 103% of the applicable Fronting Exposure and other obligations secured thereby, the Borrower and the relevant Defaulting Lender shall, promptly upon demand by the Administrative Agent, pay or provide to the Administrative Agent additional Cash Collateral in an amount sufficient to eliminate such deficiency.

(c)Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, Cash Collateral provided under any of this Section 2.16 or Section 2.03, 2.04, 2.05, 2.06, 2.17, 8.02 or 8.03 in respect of Letters of Credit or Swingline Loans shall be held and applied to the satisfaction of the specific L/C Obligations or Swingline Loans, obligations to fund participations therein (including, as to Cash Collateral provided by a Defaulting Lender, any interest accrued on such obligation) and other obligations for which the Cash Collateral was so provided prior to any other application of such property as may be provided for herein.

(d)Cash Collateral (or the appropriate portion thereof) provided to reduce Fronting Exposure or other obligations shall be released promptly following (i) the elimination of the applicable Fronting Exposure (after giving effect to such release) or other obligations giving rise thereto (including by the termination of Defaulting Lender status of the applicable Lender (or, as appropriate, its assignee following compliance with Section 10.07(b)(vii))) or (ii) the Administrative Agent’s good faith determination that there exists excess Cash Collateral; provided, however, (x) that Cash Collateral furnished by or on behalf of a Loan Party shall not be released during the continuance of a Default under Section 8.01(a), (f) or (g) or an Event of Default (and following application as provided in this Section 2.16 may be otherwise applied in accordance with Section 8.03) and (y) the Person providing Cash Collateral and the applicable L/C Issuer or the Swingline Lender, as applicable, may agree that Cash Collateral shall not be released but instead held to support future anticipated Fronting Exposure or other obligations.

Section 2.17Defaulting Lenders.

(a)Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, if any Revolving Credit Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender pursuant to clause (a), (b) or (c) of the definition of “Defaulting Lender” (or, in the case of clause (i) below, pursuant to clause (a), (b), (c) or (d) of the definition of “Defaulting Lender”), then, until such time as that Lender is no longer a Defaulting Lender, to the extent permitted by applicable Law:

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(i)That Defaulting Lender’s right to approve or disapprove any amendment, waiver or consent with respect to this Agreement shall be restricted as set forth in Section 10.01.

(ii)Any payment of principal, interest, fees or other amounts received by the Administrative Agent for the account of that Defaulting Lender (whether voluntary or mandatory, at maturity, pursuant to Article VIII or otherwise, and including any amounts made available to the Administrative Agent by that Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section 10.09), shall be applied at such time or times as may be determined by the Administrative Agent as follows: first, to the payment of any amounts owing by that Defaulting Lender to the Administrative Agent hereunder; second, to the payment on a pro rata basis of any amounts owing by that Defaulting Lender to the applicable L/C Issuer and the  Swingline Lender hereunder; third, if so reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent or reasonably requested by the applicable L/C Issuer or the Swingline Lender, to be held as Cash Collateral for future funding obligations of that Defaulting Lender of any participation in any Letter of Credit or Swingline Loan; fourth, as the Borrower may request (so long as no Default or Event of Default exists), to the funding of any Loan in respect of which that Defaulting Lender has failed to fund its portion thereof as required by this Agreement, as determined by the Administrative Agent; fifth, if so determined by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, to be held in a non-interest bearing deposit account and released in order to satisfy obligations of that Defaulting Lender to fund Loans under this Agreement; sixth, to the payment of any amounts owing to the Lenders, the applicable L/C Issuer or the Swingline Lender as a result of any judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction obtained by any Lender, the applicable L/C Issuer or the Swingline Lender against that Defaulting Lender as a result of that Defaulting Lender’s breach of its obligations under this Agreement; seventh, so long as no Default or Event of Default pursuant to Section 8.01(a), (f) or (g) exists, to the payment of any amounts owing to the Borrower as a result of any non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction obtained by the Borrower against that Defaulting Lender as a result of that Defaulting Lender’s breach of its obligations under this Agreement; and eighth, to that Defaulting Lender or as otherwise directed by a court of competent jurisdiction; provided that if (x) such payment is a payment of the principal amount of any Loans or L/C Borrowings in respect of which that Defaulting Lender has not fully funded its appropriate share and (y) such Loans or L/C Borrowings were made at a time when the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 were satisfied or waived, such payment shall be applied solely to pay the Loans of, and L/C Borrowings owed to, all non-Defaulting Lenders on a pro rata basis prior to being applied to the payment of any Loans of, or L/C Borrowings owed to, that Defaulting Lender.  Any payments, prepayments or other amounts paid or payable to a Defaulting Lender that are applied (or held) to pay amounts owed by a Defaulting Lender or to post Cash Collateral pursuant to this Section 2.17(a)(ii) shall be deemed paid to and redirected by that Defaulting Lender, and each Lender irrevocably consents hereto.

(iii)That Defaulting Lender (x) shall not be entitled to receive any commitment fee pursuant to Section 2.09(a) for any period during which that Lender is a Defaulting Lender (and the Borrower shall not be required to pay any such fee that otherwise would have been required to have been paid to that Defaulting Lender) and (y) shall be limited in its right to receive Letter of Credit fees as provided in Section 2.03(g).

(iv)All or any part of such Defaulting Lender’s participation in L/C Obligations and Swingline Loans shall be reallocated among the Non-Defaulting Lenders in accordance with their respective Pro Rata Share (calculated without regard to such Defaulting Lender’s Commitment) but only to the extent that such reallocation does not cause the aggregate Revolving Credit Outstandings of any Non-Defaulting Lender to exceed such Non-Defaulting Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment.  No reallocation hereunder shall constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder against a Defaulting Lender arising from that Lender having become a

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Defaulting Lender, including any claim of a Non-Defaulting Lender as a result of such Non-Defaulting Lender’s increased exposure following such reallocation.

(b)If the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Swingline Lender and each L/C Issuer agree in writing in their sole discretion that a Defaulting Lender should no longer be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender, the Administrative Agent will so notify the parties hereto, whereupon as of the effective date specified in such notice and subject to any conditions set forth therein (which may include arrangements with respect to any Cash Collateral), that Lender will, to the extent applicable, purchase that portion of outstanding Loans of the other Lenders or take such other actions as the Administrative Agent may reasonably determine to be necessary to cause the Loans and funded and unfunded participations in Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans to be held on a pro rata basis by the Lenders in accordance with their ratable shares (without giving effect to the application of Section 2.17(a)(iv)) in respect of that Lender, whereupon that Lender will cease to be a Defaulting Lender; provided that no adjustments will be made retroactively with respect to fees accrued or payments made by or on behalf of the Borrower while that Lender was a Defaulting Lender; and provided further, that except to the extent otherwise expressly agreed by the affected parties, no change hereunder from Defaulting Lender to Lender will constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder arising from that Lender having been a Defaulting Lender.

Section 2.18Specified Refinancing Debt.

(a)The Borrower may, from time to time after the Closing Date (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned), add one or more new term loan facilities and new revolving credit facilities to the Facilities (“Specified Refinancing Debt”; and the commitments in respect of such new term facilities, the “Specified Refinancing Term Commitment” and the commitments in respect of such new revolving credit facilities, the “Specified Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitment”) pursuant to procedures reasonably specified by the Administrative Agent and reasonably acceptable to the Borrower, to refinance (i) all or any portion of any Term Loan Tranches then outstanding under this Agreement and (ii) all or any portion of any Revolving Facilities then in effect under this Agreement, in each case pursuant to a Refinancing Amendment; provided that such Specified Refinancing Debt: (i) will rank pari passu in right of payment as the other Loans and Commitments hereunder; (ii) will not be Guaranteed by any Person that is not a Loan Party; (iii) will be, if secured, (1) secured solely by the Collateral on a pari passu or junior basis with the Liens securing the Obligations and (2) subject to intercreditor arrangements reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent; (iv) will have such pricing and optional prepayment terms as may be agreed by the Borrower and the applicable Lenders thereof; (v) (x) to the extent constituting revolving credit facilities, will not have a maturity date (or have mandatory commitment reductions or amortization) that is prior to the scheduled Maturity Date of the Revolving Facility being refinanced and in any event no earlier than the Original Revolving Maturity Date and (y) to the extent constituting term loan facilities, will have a maturity date that is not prior to the scheduled Maturity Date of the Term Loans being refinanced and in any event no earlier than the Original Term Maturity Date, and will have a Weighted Average Life to Maturity that is not shorter than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Term Loans being refinanced; (vi) any Specified Refinancing Term Loans shall share ratably in any prepayments of Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.05 (or otherwise provide for more favorable prepayment treatment for the then outstanding Term Loan Tranches than the Specified Refinancing Term Loans); (vii) each Revolving Credit Borrowing (including any deemed Revolving Credit Borrowings made pursuant to Sections 2.03 and 2.04) and participations in Letters of Credit or Swingline Loans pursuant to Sections 2.03 and 2.04 shall be allocated pro rata among the Revolving Facilities; (viii) subject to clauses (iv) and (v) above, will have terms and conditions (other than pricing and optional prepayment and redemption terms) that are substantially identical to, or less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the lenders providing such Specified Refinancing Debt than, the terms and conditions of the Facilities and Loans being refinanced (provided that a certificate of the Responsible Officer of the Borrower delivered to the Administrative Agent in good faith at least five Business Days prior to the incurrence of

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such Specified Refinancing Debt, together with a reasonably detailed description of the material terms and conditions of such Specified Refinancing Debt or drafts of the documentation relating thereto, stating that the Borrower had determined in good faith that such terms and conditions satisfy the requirements set forth in this clause (viii) shall be conclusive evidence that such terms and conditions satisfy such requirement unless the Administrative Agent provides notice to the Borrower of an objection (including a reasonable description of the basis upon which it objects) within five Business Days after being notified of such determination by the Borrower); (ix) the Net Cash Proceeds of such Specified Refinancing Debt shall be applied, substantially concurrently with the incurrence thereof, to the pro rata prepayment of outstanding Loans being so refinanced (and, in the case of Revolving Credit Loans under the Facility being refinanced, a corresponding amount of Revolving Credit Commitments under the Facility being refinanced shall be permanently reduced), in each case pursuant to Sections 2.05 and 2.06, as applicable; and (x) at no time shall there be Revolving Credit Commitments hereunder (including Specified Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments and any original Revolving Credit Commitments) which have more than five different maturity dates; provided however, that such Specified Refinancing Debt (X) may provide for any additional or different financial or other covenants or other provisions that are agreed among the Borrower and the Lenders thereof and applicable only during periods after the then Latest Maturity Date in effect and (Y) shall not have a principal or commitment amount (or accreted value) greater than the Loans being refinanced (excluding accrued interest, fees, discounts, premiums or expenses).  The Borrower shall make any request for Specified Refinancing Debt pursuant to a written notice to the Administrative Agent specifying in reasonable detail the proposed terms thereof.  At the time of sending such notice to such Lenders, the Borrower (in consultation with the Administrative Agent) shall specify the time period within which each applicable Lender is requested to respond (which shall in no event be less than ten Business Days from the date of delivery of such notice or such shorter period as may be agreed by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion).  Each applicable Lender shall notify the Administrative Agent within such time period whether or not it agrees to participate in providing such Specified Refinancing Debt and, if so, whether by an amount equal to, greater than, or less than its ratable portion (based on such Lender’s ratable share in respect of the applicable Facility provided that final allocations shall be determined by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower) of such Specified Refinancing Debt.  Any Lender approached to provide all or a portion of any Specified Refinancing Debt may elect or decline, in its sole discretion, to provide such Specified Refinancing Debt.  Any Lender not responding within such time period shall be deemed to have declined to participate in providing such Specified Refinancing Debt.  The Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and each applicable Lender of the Lenders’ responses to each request made hereunder.  To achieve the full amount of a requested issuance of Specified Refinancing Debt, and subject to the approval of the Administrative Agent, the Swingline Lender and each L/C Issuer, if applicable (in each case, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), the Borrower may also invite additional Eligible Assignees to become Lenders in respect of such Specified Refinancing Debt pursuant to a joinder agreement to this Agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

(b)The effectiveness of any Refinancing Amendment shall be subject to the satisfaction on the date thereof of each of the conditions set forth in clause (a) above and Section 4.02, and delivery to the Administrative Agent of a certificate of the Borrower dated the date thereof signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, certifying and attaching the resolutions adopted by Borrower approving such Specified Refinancing Debt, and certifying that the conditions precedent set forth in clause (a) above and Section 4.02 have been satisfied and, to the extent reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, receipt by the Administrative Agent of legal opinions, board resolutions, officers’ certificates and/or reaffirmation agreements, including any supplements or amendments to the Collateral Documents providing for such Specified Refinancing Debt to be secured thereby, consistent with those delivered on the Closing Date under Section 4.01 or delivered from time to time pursuant to Section 6.12 and/or Section 6.15 (other than changes to such legal opinions resulting from a change in Law, change in fact or change to counsel’s form of opinion reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent).  The

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Lenders hereby authorize the Administrative Agent to enter into amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents with the Borrower as may be necessary in order to establish new Tranches of Specified Refinancing Debt and to make such technical amendments as may be necessary or appropriate in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent and the Borrower in connection with the establishment of such new Tranches, in each case on terms consistent with and/or to effect the provisions of this Section 2.18.

(c)Each class of Specified Refinancing Debt incurred under this Section 2.18 shall be in an aggregate principal amount that is (x) not less than a Dollar Amount of $5,000,000 and (y) an integral multiple of a Dollar Amount of $1,000,000 in excess thereof.  Any Refinancing Amendment may provide for the issuance of Letters of Credit for the account of the Borrower in respect of a Revolving Facility or the provision to the Borrower of Swingline Loans, pursuant to any revolving credit facility established thereby, in each case on terms substantially equivalent to the terms applicable to Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans under the Revolving Credit Commitments being refinanced.

(d)The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender as to the effectiveness of each Refinancing Amendment.  Each of the parties hereto hereby agrees that, upon the effectiveness of any Refinancing Amendment, this Agreement shall be deemed amended to the extent (but only to the extent) necessary to reflect the existence and terms of the Specified Refinancing Debt incurred pursuant thereto (including the addition of such Specified Refinancing Debt as separate “Facilities” hereunder and treated in a manner consistent with the Facilities being refinanced, including for purposes of prepayments and voting).  Any Refinancing Amendment may, without the consent of any Person other than the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders providing such Specified Refinancing Debt, effect such amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as may be necessary or appropriate, in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, to effect the provisions of or consistent with this Section 2.18.

Section 2.19Extensions of Term Loans and Revolving Credit Commitments.

(a)Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, pursuant to one or more written offers (each, an “Extension Offer”) made from time to time by the Borrower to all Lenders of Term Loans with a like Maturity Date and denominated in the same currency or Revolving Credit Commitments with a like Maturity Date, in each case on a pro rata basis (based on the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the respective Term Loans or Revolving Credit Commitments with a like Maturity Date, as the case may be) and on the same terms to each such Lender, the Borrower is hereby permitted to consummate from time to time transactions with individual Lenders that accept the terms contained in such Extension Offers to extend the maturity date of each such Lender’s Term Loans and/or Revolving Credit Commitments and otherwise modify the terms of such Term Loans and/or Revolving Credit Commitments pursuant to the terms of the relevant Extension Offer (including by increasing the interest rate or fees payable in respect of such Term Loans and/or Revolving Credit Commitments (and related outstandings) and/or modifying the amortization schedule in respect of such Lender’s Term Loans) (each, an “Extension”; provided that any Extended Term Loans shall constitute a separate Tranche of Term Loans from the Tranche of Term Loans from which they were converted, and any Extended Revolving Credit Commitments shall constitute a separate Facility of Revolving Credit Commitments from the Facility of Revolving Credit Commitments from which they were converted), so long as the following terms are satisfied: (i) no Event of Default would exist after giving Pro Forma Effect to the Extension Offer; (ii) except as to interest rates, fees, optional redemption or prepayment terms, final maturity, and after the final maturity date of the Revolving Credit Commitment, any other covenants and provisions (which shall be determined by the Borrower and the relevant Revolving Credit Lenders and set forth in the relevant Extension Offer), the Revolving Credit Commitment of any Revolving Credit Lender extended pursuant to an Extension (an “Extended Revolving Credit Commitment” and the Loans thereunder, “Extended

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Revolving Credit Loans”), and the related outstandings, shall be a Revolving Credit Commitment (or related outstandings, as the case may be) with such other terms substantially identical to, or taken as a whole, no more favorable to the Revolving Credit Lenders, as the original Revolving Credit Commitments (and related outstandings); provided that (1) the borrowing and repayment (except for (A) payments of interest and fees at different rates on Extended Revolving Credit Commitments (and related outstandings), and (B) repayments required upon the maturity date of the non-extending Revolving Credit Commitments of Loans with respect to Extended Revolving Credit Commitments after the applicable Extension date) shall be made on a pro rata basis with all other Revolving Credit Commitments, (2) subject to the provisions of Sections 2.03(k) and 2.04(g) to the extent dealing with Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans which mature or expire after a Maturity Date when there exist Extended Revolving Credit Commitments with a longer Maturity Date, all Swingline Loans and Letters of Credit shall be participated on a pro rata basis by all Lenders with Commitments in accordance with their percentage of the Available Revolving Credit Commitments (and except as provided in Sections 2.03(k) and 2.04(g), without giving effect to changes thereto on an earlier Maturity Date with respect to Letters of Credit theretofore incurred or issued), (3) the permanent repayment of Revolving Credit Loans with respect to, and termination of, Extended Revolving Credit Commitments after the applicable Extension date shall be made on a pro rata basis with all other Revolving Credit Commitments, except that the Borrower shall be permitted to permanently repay and terminate commitments of any Revolving Facility on a better than pro rata basis as compared to any other Revolving Facility with a later Maturity Date if agreed to by the Lenders in respect of such Revolving Facility with a later Maturity Date in the amendment pursuant to which such Extension was effected, (4) assignments and participations of Extended Revolving Credit Commitments and extended Revolving Credit Loans shall be governed by the same assignment and participation provisions applicable to Revolving Credit Commitments and Revolving Credit Loans, (5) at no time shall there be Revolving Credit Commitments hereunder (including Extended Revolving Credit Commitments and any original Revolving Credit Commitments) which have more than five different maturity dates and (6) the final maturity date of any Extended Revolving Credit Loans shall be no earlier than the then Latest Maturity Date of any Revolving Credit Commitment; (iii) except as to interest rates, fees, amortization, final maturity date, premium, required prepayment dates and participation in prepayments (which shall, subject to immediately succeeding clauses (iv), (v) and (vi), be determined by the Borrower and the Extending Term Lenders and set forth in the relevant Extension Offer), the Term Loans of any Term Lender that agrees to an Extension with respect to such Term Loans (an “Extending Term Lender”) extended pursuant to any Extension (“Extended Term Loans”) shall have the same terms as the Tranche of Term Loans subject to such Extension Offer; (iv) the final maturity date of any Extended Term Loans shall be no earlier than the then Latest Maturity Date applicable to any Term Loan Tranche hereunder; (v) the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of any Extended Term Loans shall be no shorter than the remaining Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Term Loans extended thereby; (vi) any Extended Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis or a less than pro rata basis (but not greater than a pro rata basis) in any voluntary or mandatory repayments or prepayments hereunder, in each case as specified in the respective Extension Offer; (vii) if the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans (calculated on the face amount thereof) or Revolving Credit Commitments, as the case may be, in respect of which Term Lenders or Revolving Credit Lenders, as the case may be, shall have accepted the relevant Extension Offer shall exceed the maximum aggregate principal amount of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Commitments, as the case may be, offered to be extended by the Borrower pursuant to such Extension Offer, then the Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans, as the case may be, of such Term Lenders or Revolving Credit Lenders, as the case may be, shall be extended ratably up to such maximum amount based on the respective principal amounts (but not to exceed actual holdings of record) with respect to which such Term Lenders or Revolving Credit Lenders, as the case may be, have accepted such Extension Offer; (viii) all documentation in respect of such Extension shall be consistent with the foregoing; and (ix) any applicable Minimum Extension Condition shall be satisfied unless waived by the Borrower.

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(b)With respect to all Extensions consummated by the Borrower pursuant to this Section  2.19, (i) such Extensions shall not constitute voluntary or mandatory payments or prepayments for purposes of Section 2.05 and (ii) no Extension Offer is required to be in any minimum amount or any minimum increment, provided that the Borrower may at its election specify as a condition (a “Minimum Extension Condition”) to consummating any such Extension that a minimum amount (to be determined and specified in the relevant Extension Offer in the Borrower’s sole discretion and which may be waived by the Borrower) of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Commitments (as applicable) of any or all applicable Tranches be tendered.  The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby consent to the Extensions and the other transactions contemplated by this Section 2.19 (including payment of any interest, fees or premium in respect of any Extended Term Loans and/or Extended Revolving Credit Commitments on the such terms as may be set forth in the relevant Extension Offer) and hereby waive the requirements of any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document that may otherwise prohibit any such Extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.19.

(c)No consent of any Lender or the Administrative Agent shall be required to effectuate any Extensions, other than (A) the consent of each Lender agreeing to such Extension with respect to one or more of its Term Loans and/or Revolving Credit Commitments (or a portion thereof) and (B) with respect to any Extension of any Revolving Credit Commitments, the consent of the L/C Issuers and the Swingline Lender, to the extent the Swingline Facility is to be extended, which consents shall not be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned.  All Extended Term Loans, Extended Revolving Credit Commitments and all obligations in respect thereof shall be Obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents that are secured by the Collateral on a pari passu basis with all other applicable Obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and shall have no greater security or guarantees than the Tranche from which they were extended.  The Lenders hereby irrevocably authorize the Administrative Agent to enter into amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents with the Borrower as may be necessary or appropriate in order to establish new tranches or sub-tranches in respect of Revolving Credit Commitments or Term Loans so extended and such technical amendments as may be necessary or appropriate in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent and the Borrower in connection with the establishment of such new tranches or sub-tranches, in each case on terms consistent with this Section 2.19.  All such amendments entered into with the Borrower by the Administrative Agent hereunder shall be binding and conclusive on the Lenders.

(d)In connection with any Extension, the Borrower shall provide the Administrative Agent at least five Business Days’ (or such shorter period as may be agreed by the Administrative Agent) prior written notice thereof, and shall agree to such procedures (including rendering timing, rounding and other adjustments and to ensure reasonable administrative management of the credit facilities hereunder after such Extension), if any, as may be established by, or acceptable to, the Administrative Agent, in each case acting reasonably to accomplish the purposes of this Section 2.19.

(e)In the event that the Administrative Agent determines in its sole discretion that the allocation of Extended Revolving Credit Commitments of a given Tranche of Extended Revolving Credit Commitments to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in the receipt and processing of an election by such Lender to extend all or a portion of its Revolving Credit Commitments timely submitted by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth in the applicable documentation governing such Extension, then the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without the consent of any other Lender, enter into an amendment to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents (each, a “Corrective Revolving Credit Extension Amendment”) within 15 days following the effective date of such Extension, which Corrective Revolving Credit Extension Amendment shall (i) provide for the conversion and extension of Extended Revolving Credit Commitments of the applicable Tranche of Extended Revolving Credit Commitments into which such other Revolving Credit Commitments were initially converted, in the

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amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred, (ii) be subject to the satisfaction of such conditions as the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such Lender may agree, and (iii) effect such other amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as may be necessary or appropriate, in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, to effect the provisions of this Section 2.19.

(f)In the event that the Administrative Agent determines in its sole discretion that the allocation of Extended Term Loans of a given Tranche of Extended Term Loans to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in the receipt and processing of an election by such Lender to extend all or a portion of its Term Loans timely submitted by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth in the applicable documentation governing such Extension, then the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without the consent of any other Lender, enter into an amendment to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents (each, a “Corrective Term Loan Extension Amendment”) within 15 days following the effective date of such Extension, which Corrective Term Loan Extension Amendment shall (i) provide for the conversion and extension of Term Loans under the applicable Term Loan Tranche in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Term Loans of the applicable Term Loan Tranche into which such other Term Loans were initially converted, in the amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred, (ii) be subject to the satisfaction of such conditions as the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such Lender may agree, and (iii) effect such other amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as may be necessary or appropriate, in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, to effect the provisions of this Section 2.19.

ARTICLE III

TAXES, CURRENCY EQUIVALENTS, INCREASED COSTS PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY

Section 3.01Taxes.

(a)Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower or any other Loan Party hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall be made without deduction or withholding for any Taxes, except as required by applicable Law or FATCA.  If any applicable Law or FATCA (as determined in the good faith discretion of an applicable withholding agent) requires the deduction or withholding of any Tax from or in respect of any such payment, then the other Loan Party, the Administrative Agent or other applicable withholding agent shall be entitled to make such deduction or withholding and shall timely pay the full amount deducted or withheld to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable Law or FATCA and, if such Tax is an Indemnified Tax, the sum payable by the Borrower or other applicable Loan Party shall be increased as necessary so that after all such deductions or withholdings have been made (including such deductions and withholdings applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 3.01) the applicable Recipient receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deduction or withholding been made.

(b)In addition but without duplication, the Loan Parties shall timely pay to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable Law, or at the option of the Administrative Agent timely reimburse it for the payment of, any Other Taxes.

(c)The Loan Parties shall jointly and severally indemnify each Recipient, within 30 days after demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section 3.01 but excluding any

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Indemnified Tax to the extent such Recipient is compensated by an increased payment under Section 3.01(a) above) payable or paid by such Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to such Recipient and any reasonable out-of-pocket expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority.  A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Borrower by a Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

(d)Each Lender shall severally indemnify the Administrative Agent, within 10 days after demand therefor, for (i) any Indemnified Taxes attributable to such Lender (but only to the extent that any Loan Party has not already indemnified the Administrative Agent for such Indemnified Taxes and without limiting the obligation of the Borrower and any Loan Party to do so), (ii) any Taxes attributable to such Lender’s failure to comply with the provisions of Section 10.07(k) relating to the maintenance of a Participant Register and (iii) any Excluded Taxes attributable to such Lender, in each case, that are payable or paid by the Administrative Agent in connection with any Loan Document, and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority.  A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to any Lender by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest error.  Each Lender hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender under any Loan Document or otherwise payable by the Administrative Agent to the Lender from any other source against any amount due to the Administrative Agent under this paragraph (d).

(e)Within 30 days after any payment of Indemnified Taxes by any Loan Party to a Governmental Authority pursuant to this Section 3.01, such Loan Party shall deliver to the Administrative Agent the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of the return reporting such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

(f)If any Recipient determines, in its sole discretion exercised in good faith, that it has received a refund of any Indemnified Taxes as to which it has been indemnified pursuant to this Section 3.01 (including by the payment of additional amounts pursuant to this Section 3.01), it shall pay to the indemnifying party an amount equal to such refund (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made under this Section 3.01 with respect to the Indemnified Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses (including Taxes) of such indemnified party and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund).  Such indemnifying party, upon the request of such indemnified party, shall promptly repay to such indemnified party the amount paid over pursuant to this clause (f) (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) in the event that such indemnified party is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this clause (f), in no event will the indemnified party be required to pay any amount to an indemnifying party pursuant to this clause (f) the payment of which would place the indemnified party in a less favorable net after-Tax position than the indemnified party would have been in if the Tax subject to indemnification and giving rise to such refund had not been deducted, withheld or otherwise imposed and the indemnification payments or additional amounts with respect to such Tax had never been paid.  This clause (f) shall not be construed to require any indemnified party to make available its Tax returns (or any other information relating to its Taxes that it deems confidential) to the indemnifying party or any other Person.

(g)Each Lender agrees that, upon the occurrence of any event giving rise to the operation of Section 3.01(a) or (c) with respect to such Lender it will, if requested by the Borrower, use commercially reasonable efforts (subject to such Lender’s overall internal policies of general application and legal and regulatory restrictions) to avoid or reduce to the greatest extent possible any indemnification

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or additional amounts being due under this Section 3.01, including to designate another Lending Office for any Loan or Letter of Credit affected by such event; provided that such efforts are made on terms that, in the reasonable judgment of such Lender, cause such Lender and its Lending Office(s) to suffer no material economic, legal or regulatory disadvantage; and provided further that nothing in this Section 3.01(g) shall affect or postpone any of the Obligations of the Borrower or the rights of such Lender pursuant to Sections 3.01(a) and (c).  The Borrower hereby agrees to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Lender as a result of a request by the Borrower under this Section 3.01(g).

(h)(i)Any Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding Tax with respect to any payments made under any Loan Document shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, at the time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate of withholding.  In addition, any Lender, if reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by applicable Law or FATCA or reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will enable the Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine whether or not such Lender is subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the preceding two sentences, the completion, execution and submission of such documentation (other than such documentation set forth in Sections 3.01(h)(ii)(A), (ii)(B) and (ii)(D) below) shall not be required if in the Lender’s reasonable judgment such completion, execution or submission would subject such Lender to any material unreimbursed cost or expense or would materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of such Lender.  

(ii)Without limiting the generality of the foregoing,

(A)any Lender that is a U.S. Person shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent on or prior to the date on which such Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent), executed originals of IRS Form W-9 (or any successor form) certifying that such Lender is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding;

(B)any Foreign Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent), whichever of the following is applicable:

(1)in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party (x) with respect to payments of interest under any Loan Document,, executed originals of IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E (or any successor form) establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the “interest” article of such tax treaty and (y) with respect to any other applicable payments under any Loan Document, executed originals of IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E (or any successor form) establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the “business profits” or “other income” article of such tax treaty;

(2)executed originals of IRS Form W-8ECI (or any successor form);

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(3)in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under Section 871(h) or Section 881(c) of the Code, (x) a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit I-1 to the effect that such Foreign Lender is not a “bank” within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, a “10 percent shareholder” of the Borrower within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code, a “controlled foreign corporation” described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code and that no payments in connection with any Loan Document are effectively connected with such Lender’s conduct of a U.S. trade or business (a “U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate”) and (y) executed originals of IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E (or any successor form); or

(4)to the extent a Foreign Lender is not the beneficial owner (e.g., where the Foreign Lender is a partnership or a participating Lender), executed originals of IRS Form W-8IMY, accompanied by IRS Form W-8ECI, IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit I-2 or Exhibit I-3, IRS Form W-9, and/or other certification documents from each beneficial owner, as applicable; provided that if the Foreign Lender is a partnership (and not a participating Lender) and one or more direct or indirect partners of such Foreign Lender are claiming the portfolio interest exemption, such Foreign Lender may provide a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit I-4 on behalf of each such direct and indirect partner;

(C)any Foreign Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, executed originals of any other form prescribed by applicable Law or FATCA as a basis for claiming exemption from or a reduction in U.S. federal withholding Tax, duly completed, together with such supplementary documentation as may be prescribed by applicable Law or FATCA to permit the Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made; and

(D)if a payment made to a Lender under any Loan Document would be subject to Tax imposed by FATCA if such Lender were to fail to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Code, as applicable), such Lender shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent at the time or times prescribed by Law or FATCA and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent such documentation prescribed by applicable Law or FATCA (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as may be necessary for the Borrower and the Administrative Agent to comply with their obligations under FATCA to determine whether such Lender has complied with such Lender’s obligations under FATCA and, if necessary, to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment.  Solely for purposes of this clause (D), “FATCA” shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the date of this Agreement.

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

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For the avoidance of doubt, the term “Lender” shall, for purposes of this Section 3.01, include any L/C Issuer.

(i)

On or before the date any Person becomes the Administrative Agent hereunder, (i) if such Person is a U.S. Person, it shall deliver to the Borrower a duly completed original of IRS Form W-9 certifying that it is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding; or (ii) if such Person is not a U.S. Person, it shall deliver to the Borrower a duly completed original U.S. branch withholding certificate on IRS Form W-8IMY evidencing its agreement with the Borrower to be treated as a U.S. Person, with the effect that the Loan Parties will be entitled to make payments hereunder to the Administrative Agent without withholding or deduction on account of U.S. federal withholding Tax.

Section 3.02Currency Equivalents.

(a)The Administrative Agent shall determine the Dollar Amount of each Revolving Credit Loan denominated in an Alternative Currency and L/C Obligation in respect of Letters of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency (i) as of the first day of each Interest Period applicable thereto and (ii) as of the end of each fiscal quarter of the Borrower, and shall promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders of each Dollar Amount so determined by it.  Each such determination shall be based on the Exchange Rate (x) on the date of the related Request for Credit Extension for purposes of the initial such determination for any Revolving Credit Loan or Letter of Credit and (y) on the fourth Business Day prior to the date as of which such Dollar Amount is to be determined, for purposes of any subsequent determination (any such date pursuant to clauses (x) or (y), an “Exchange Rate Reset Date”).

(b)If after giving effect to any such determination of a Dollar Amount for any outstanding Revolving Credit Loans or Letters of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency, (i) the sum of the Total Revolving Credit Outstandings under any Revolving Facility exceeds the  Revolving Credit Commitments then in effect under such Revolving Facility by 5.0% or more or (ii) the Dollar Amount for all outstanding Revolving Credit Loans and Letters of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency exceeds the Alternative Currency Sublimit then in effect by 5.0% or more, in each case the Borrower shall, within five Business Days of receipt of notice thereof from the Administrative Agent setting forth such calculation in reasonable detail, prepay the applicable outstanding Dollar Amount of the Revolving Credit Loans denominated in Alternative Currencies or take other action as the Administrative Agent, in its discretion, may direct (including Cash Collateralization of the applicable L/C Obligations in amounts from time to time equal to such excess) to the extent necessary to eliminate any such excess.

Section 3.03Illegality.

(a)If any Lender reasonably determines that any Law has made it unlawful, or that any Governmental Authority has asserted that it is unlawful, for any Lender or its applicable Lending Office to make, maintain or fund Loans whose interest is determined by reference to the Eurocurrency Rate (whether denominated in Dollars or an Alternative Currency), or to determine or charge interest rates based upon the Adjusted Eurocurrency Rate, or any Governmental Authority has imposed material restrictions on the authority of such Lender to purchase or sell, or to take deposits of, any Alternative Currency in the applicable interbank market, then, on notice thereof by such Lender to the Borrower through the Administrative Agent, (i) any obligation of such Lender to make or continue Eurocurrency Rate Loans in the affected currency or currencies or to convert Base Rate Loans to Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be suspended and (ii) if such notice asserts the illegality of such Lender making or maintaining Base Rate Loans the interest rate on which is determined by reference to the Adjusted Eurocurrency Rate component of the Base Rate, the interest rate on which Base Rate Loans of such Lender, shall, if necessary to avoid such illegality, be determined by the Administrative Agent without reference to the Eurocurrency Rate component of the Base Rate, in each case until such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the

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Borrower that the circumstances giving rise to such determination no longer exist.  Upon receipt of such notice, (x) the Borrower shall, upon demand from such Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), prepay such Loans or, (I) if applicable and such Loans are denominated in Dollars, convert all of such Lender’s Eurocurrency Rate Loans to Base Rate Loans (the interest rate on which Base Rate Loans of such Lender shall, if necessary to avoid such illegality, be determined by the Administrative Agent without reference to the Adjusted Eurocurrency Rate component of the Base Rate) or (II) if applicable and such Loans are denominated in Alternative Currencies, the interest rate with respect to such Loans shall be determined by an alternative rate mutually acceptable to the Borrower and the Appropriate Lenders, either on the last day of the Interest Period therefor, if such Lender may lawfully continue to maintain such Eurocurrency Rate Loans to such day, or immediately, if such Lender may not lawfully continue to maintain such Eurocurrency Rate Loans and (y) if such notice asserts the illegality of such Lender determining or charging interest rates based upon the Eurocurrency Rate, the Administrative Agent shall during the period of such suspension compute the Base Rate applicable to such Lender without reference to the Eurocurrency Rate component thereof until the Administrative Agent is advised in writing by such Lender that it is no longer illegal for such Lender to determine or charge interest rates based upon the Eurocurrency Rate.  Upon any such prepayment or conversion, the Borrower shall also pay accrued interest on the amount so prepaid or converted and all amounts due, if any, in connection with such prepayment or conversion under Section 3.06.  Each Lender agrees to designate a different Lending Office if such designation will avoid the need for such notice and will not, in the good faith judgment of such Lender, otherwise be materially disadvantageous to such Lender.

(b)If it becomes unlawful under any anti-terrorism or similar laws in any applicable jurisdiction for a Lender to perform any of its obligations as contemplated by this Agreement or to fund, issue or maintain its participation in any Loan, (i) that Lender, shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent upon becoming aware of that event, (ii) the Commitments of that Lender will be immediately cancelled, (iii) the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower who shall either (x) replace such Lender by causing such Lender to (and such Lender shall be obligated to) assign pursuant to Section 10.07(b) (with the assignment fee to be paid by the Borrower in such instance unless waived by the Administrative Agent) all of its rights and obligations under this Agreement to one or more Eligible Assignees; provided that neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender shall have any obligation to the Borrower to find a replacement Lender or other such Person, or (y) repay all Obligations owing (and the amount of all accrued interest and fees in respect thereof) to that Lender relating to the Loans and participations held by such Lender, in the case of clause (x) and (y) above on the last day of the Interest Period for each Loan occurring after receipt by the Borrower of notice pursuant to clause (iii) or, if earlier, the date specified by the Lender in the notice delivered to the Administrative Agent (being no earlier than the last day of any applicable grace period permitted by law).

(c)If it becomes unlawful under any anti-terrorism or similar laws for a L/C Issuer to issue or leave outstanding any Letter of Credit then, (i) that L/C Issuer shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent upon becoming aware of that event and (ii) upon the Administrative Agent notifying the Borrower, the Borrower shall procure that each Loan Party shall use its best endeavors to procure the release of each Letter of Credit issued by that L/C Issuer and outstanding at such time.

Section 3.04Inability to Determine Rates.  If the Administrative Agent reasonably determines that for any reason, adequate and reasonable means do not exist for determining the Eurocurrency Rate for any requested Interest Period with respect to a proposed Eurocurrency Rate Loan, or the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Required Revolving Lenders in the case of any Revolving Credit Loans or, in the case of any Term Loans, the Majority Lenders in respect of any Term Facility, that the Eurocurrency Rate for any requested Interest Period with respect to a proposed Eurocurrency Rate Loan does not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of funding such Loan, or that deposits are not being offered to banks in the relevant interbank market for the applicable amount and the Interest Period

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of such Eurocurrency Rate Loan, the Administrative Agent will promptly so notify the Borrower and each Lender.  Thereafter, (x) the obligation of the Lenders under the applicable Facility to make or maintain Eurocurrency Rate Loans in the affected currency or currencies shall be suspended and (y) in the event of a determination described in the preceding sentence with respect to the Eurocurrency Rate component of the Base Rate, the utilization of the Eurocurrency Rate component in determining the Base Rate shall be suspended, in each case until the Administrative Agent (upon the instruction of the Required Lenders) revokes such notice.  Upon receipt of such notice, the Borrower may revoke any pending request for a Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans or, failing that, will be deemed to have converted such request into a request for a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans in the amount specified therein (or, in the case of a pending request for a Loan denominated in any Alternative Currency, the Borrower and the Lenders may establish a mutually acceptable alternative rate).

Section 3.05Increased Cost and Reduced Return; Capital Adequacy.

(a)If any Lender reasonably determines that as a result of the introduction or adoption of or any change in or in the interpretation or application of any Law, in each case after the date hereof, or such Lender’s compliance therewith, there shall be any material increase in the cost to such Lender (or its Affiliate, as the case may be) of agreeing to make or making, funding or maintaining any Loan the interest on which is determined by reference to the Eurocurrency Rate or (as the case may be) issuing or participating in Letters of Credit or a material reduction in the amount received or receivable by such Lender (or its Affiliate, as the case may be) in connection with any of the foregoing (including Taxes on or in respect of its loans, letters of credit, commitments, or other obligations, or its deposits, reserves, other liabilities or capital attributable thereto, but excluding for purposes of this Section 3.05(a) any such increased costs or reduction in amount resulting from (i) Indemnified Taxes indemnifiable under Section 3.01, (ii) Excluded Taxes, and (iii) reserve requirements reflected in the Eurocurrency Rate), then within 15 days after demand of such Lender setting forth in reasonable detail such increased costs (with a copy of such demand to the Administrative Agent given in accordance with Section 3.06), the Borrower shall pay to such Lender such additional amounts as will compensate such Lender for such increased cost or reduction.

(b)If any Lender reasonably determines that the introduction or adoption of any Law regarding capital adequacy or liquidity or any change therein or in the interpretation or application thereof, in each case after the date hereof, or compliance by such Lender (or its Lending Office) therewith, has the effect of reducing the rate of return on the capital of such Lender (or its Affiliate, as the case may be) or any corporation controlling such Lender (or its Affiliate, as the case may be) as a consequence of such Lender’s obligations hereunder (taking into consideration its policies with respect to capital adequacy and such Lender’s desired return on capital), then within 15 days after demand of such Lender setting forth in reasonable detail the charge and the calculation of such reduced rate of return (with a copy of such demand to the Administrative Agent given in accordance with Section 3.06), the Borrower shall pay to such Lender such additional amounts as will compensate such Lender for such reduction.

(c)The Borrower shall pay to each Lender, (i) as long as such Lender shall be required to maintain reserves or liquidity with respect to liabilities or assets consisting of or including Eurocurrency funds or deposits, additional interest on the unpaid principal amount of each Eurocurrency Rate Loan equal to the actual costs of such reserves or liquidity allocated to such Loan by such Lender (as determined by such Lender in good faith, which determination shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error), and (ii) as long as such Lender shall be required to comply with any liquidity requirement, reserve ratio requirement or analogous requirement of any other central banking or financial regulatory authority imposed in respect of the maintenance of the Commitments or the funding of the Eurocurrency Rate Loans, such additional costs (expressed as a percentage per annum and rounded upwards, if necessary, to the nearest five decimal places) equal to the actual costs allocated to such Commitment or Loan by such Lender

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(as determined by such Lender in good faith, which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) which in each case shall be due and payable on each date on which interest is payable on such Loan; provided the Borrower shall have received at least 15 days’ prior notice (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) of such additional interest or cost from such Lender.  If a Lender fails to give notice fifteen days prior to the relevant Interest Payment Date, such additional interest or cost shall be due and payable 15 days from receipt of such notice.

(d)For purposes of this Section 3.05, (i) the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, regulations, guidelines or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith and (ii) all requests, rules, guidelines, requirements and directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall, in each case, be deemed to have gone into effect after the date hereof, regardless of the date enacted, adopted or issued.

(e)If any Lender reasonably determines that as a result of the introduction of or any change in or in the interpretation of any Law, in each case after the date hereof, or such Lender’s compliance therewith, disruption of currency or foreign exchange markets, war or civil disturbance or similar event, the funding of any Loan in any Alternative Currency or the funding of any Loan in any Alternative Currency to an office located other than in New York shall be impossible or, in the reasonable judgment of the applicable Lender such Alternative Currency is no longer available or readily convertible into Dollars, or the Dollar Amount of such Alternative Currency is no longer readily calculable, then, at the election of such Lender, such Lender shall make the Dollar Amount of such Loan available in Dollars or any Loan in the relevant Alternative Currency by such Lender shall be made to an office of the Administrative Agent located in New York, as the case may be, until such time as, in the reasonable judgment of such Lender, the funding of Loans in the relevant Alternative Currency is possible, the funding of Loans in the relevant Alternative Currency to an office located other than in New York is possible, the relevant Alternative Currency is available and readily convertible into Dollars or the Dollar Amount of such Alternative Currency is readily calculable, as applicable.

(f)If payment in respect of any Loan denominated in an Alternative Currency shall be due in a currency other than Dollars and/or at a place of payment other than New York and if, by reason of the introduction of or any change in or in the interpretation of any Law subsequent to the Closing Date, disruption of currency or foreign exchange markets, war or civil disturbance or similar event, payment of such Obligations in such currency or such place of payment shall be impossible or, in the reasonable judgment of an applicable Lender, such Alternative Currency is no longer available or readily convertible to Dollars, or the Dollar Amount of such Alternative Currency is no longer readily calculable, then, at the election of any affected Lender, the Borrower  shall make payment of such Loan in Dollars (based upon the Exchange Rate in effect for the day on which such payment occurs, as determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with the terms hereof) and/or in New York.

Section 3.06Funding Losses.  Upon written demand of any Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) from time to time, setting forth in reasonable detail the basis for calculating such compensation, the Borrower shall promptly compensate such Lender for and hold such Lender harmless from any loss, cost or expense (but excluding anticipated profits) incurred by it as a result of:

(a)any continuation, conversion, payment or prepayment of any Eurocurrency Rate Loan on a day other than the last day of the Interest Period for such Loan (whether voluntary, mandatory, automatic, by reason of acceleration, or otherwise);

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(b)any failure by the Borrower (for a reason other than the failure of such Lender to make a Loan or pursuant to a conditional notice) to prepay, borrow, continue or convert any Eurocurrency Rate Loan on the date or in the amount notified by the Borrower;

(c)any failure by the Borrower to make payment of any Loan or drawing under any Letter of Credit (or interest due thereon) on its scheduled due date or any payment of any Loan or drawing under any Letter of Credit (or interest due thereon) in a different currency from such Loan or Letter of Credit drawing; or

(d)any mandatory assignment of such Lender’s Eurocurrency Rate Loans pursuant to Section 3.07 or Section 3.08 on a day other than the last day of the Interest Period for such Loans, including foreign exchange losses and any loss or expense arising from the liquidation or reemployment of funds obtained by it to maintain such Loan or from fees payable to terminate the deposits from which such funds were obtained, or from the performance of any foreign exchange contract (but excluding anticipated profits).  The Borrower shall also pay any customary administrative fees charged by such Lender in connection with the foregoing.

Section 3.07Matters Applicable to All Requests for Compensation.

(a)A certificate of any Agent or any Lender claiming compensation under this Article III and setting forth in reasonable detail a calculation of the additional amount or amounts to be paid to it hereunder shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error.  In determining such amount, such Agent or such Lender may use any reasonable averaging and attribution methods.  With respect to any Lender’s claim for compensation under Section 3.03, 3.04 or 3.05, the Loan Parties shall not be required to compensate such Lender for any amount incurred more than 180 days prior to the date that such Lender notifies the Borrower of the event that gives rise to such claim; provided that, if the circumstance giving rise to such claim is retroactive, then such 180-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof.

(b)If any Lender requests compensation under Section 3.01 or 3.05, or the Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender, any L/C Issuer, or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender or any L/C Issuer pursuant to Section 3.01, or if any Lender gives a notice pursuant to Section 3.03, then such Lender or such L/C Issuer, as applicable, will, if requested by the Borrower and at the Borrower’s expense, use commercially reasonable efforts to designate another Lending Office for any Loan or Letters of Credit affected by such event; provided that such efforts (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to Section 3.01, 3.02, 3.04 or 3.05, as applicable, in the future and (ii) would not, in the judgment of such Lender or such L/C Issuer, as applicable, be inconsistent with the internal policies of, or otherwise be disadvantageous in any material legal, economic or regulatory respect to such Lender or its Lending Office or such L/C Issuer.  The provisions of this clause (b) shall not affect or postpone any Obligations of the Borrower or rights of such Lender pursuant to Section 3.05.

(c)If any Lender requests compensation by the Borrower under Section 3.05, the Borrower may, by notice to such Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), suspend the obligation of such Lender to make or continue from one Interest Period to another Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Dollars, or to convert Base Rate Loans into Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Dollars, until the event or condition giving rise to such request ceases to be in effect (in which case the provisions of Section 3.07(e) shall be applicable); provided that such suspension shall not affect the right of such Lender to receive the compensation so requested.

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Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Dollars shall be suspended pursuant to Section 3.07(c), such Lender’s Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Dollars shall be automatically converted into Base Rate Loans on the last day(s) of the then current Interest Period(s) for such Eurocurrency Rate Loans (or, in the case of an immediate conversion required by Section 3.03, on such earlier date as required by Law) and, unless and until such Lender gives notice as provided below that the circumstances specified in Section 3.03, 3.04 or 3.05 hereof that gave rise to such conversion no longer exist:

(i)to the extent that such Lender’s Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Dollars have been so converted, all payments and prepayments of principal that would otherwise be applied to such Lender’s Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Dollars shall be applied instead to its Base Rate Loans; and