EX-99.(B)(1) 9 dex99b1.htm AGREEMENT, DATED SEPTEMBER 16, 2005 Agreement, dated September 16, 2005

Exhibit (b)(1)

 

AGREEMENT

 

DATED 16 SEPTEMBER, 2005

 

US$750,000,000

 

CREDIT FACILITY

 

FOR

 

OCÉ N.V.

 

BY

 

ABN AMRO BANK N.V.

 

COÖPERATIEVE CENTRALE RAIFFEISEN-BOERENLEENBANK B.A.

 

ING BANK N.V.

 

WITH

 

ING BANK N.V.

 

as Facility Agent

 

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CONTENTS

 

Clause


   Page

1.    Interpretation    3
2.    Facility    12
3.    Purpose    12
4.    Conditions precedent    13
5.    Utilisation - Loans    13
6.    Repayment    14
7.    Prepayment and cancellation    14
8.    Interest    17
9.    Terms    18
10.    Market disruption    18
11.    Taxes    19
12.    Increased Costs    21
13.    Mitigation    21
14.    Payments    22
15.    Representations and warranties    24
16.    Information covenants    29
17.    General covenants    31
18.    Default    36
19.    The administrative parties    40
20.    Evidence and calculations    45
21.    Fees    46
22.    Indemnities and Break Costs    46
23.    Expenses    47
24.    Amendments and waivers    48
25.    Changes to the Parties    49
26.    Disclosure of information    52
27.    Set-off    52
28.    Pro Rata Sharing    53
29.    Severability    54
30.    Counterparts    54
31.    Notices    54
32.    Language    55
33.    Waiver    56
34.    Governing law    56
35.    Enforcement    56
Schedule     
1.    Original Parties    57
2.    Conditions precedent documents    58
3.    Form of Request    59
4.    Calculation of the Mandatory Cost    60
5.    Form of Transfer Certificate    62
Signatories    64

 

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THIS AGREEMENT is dated 16 September, 2005

 

BETWEEN:

 

(1) OCÉ N.V. (the Company), with corporate seat in Venlo;

 

(2) ABN AMRO BANK N.V., COÖPERATIEVE CENTRALE RAIFFEISEN-BOERENLEENBANK B.A. AND ING BANK N.V. as mandated lead arrangers (in this capacity the Arrangers);

 

(3) THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS listed in Schedule 1 (Original Parties) as original lenders (the Original Lenders); and

 

(4) ING BANK N.V. as facility agent (in this capacity the Facility Agent).

 

IT IS AGREED as follows:

 

1. INTERPRETATION

 

1.1 Definitions

 

In this Agreement:

 

Administrative Party means an Arranger or the Facility Agent.

 

Affiliate means a Subsidiary or a Holding Company of a person or any other Subsidiary of that Holding Company.

 

Availability Period means the period from and including the date of this Agreement to and including the date which is one month prior to the Final Maturity Date.

 

Break Costs means the amount (if any) which a Lender is entitled to receive under Clause 22.3 (Break Costs).

 

Business Day means a day (other than a Saturday or a Sunday) on which banks are open for general business in London, New York and Amsterdam.

 

Commitment means:

 

  (a) for an Original Lender, the amount set opposite its name in Schedule 1 (Original Parties) under the heading Commitments and the amount of any other Commitment it acquires; and

 

  (b) for any other Lender, the amount of any Commitment it acquires,

 

to the extent not cancelled, transferred or reduced under this Agreement.

 

Default means:

 

  (a) an Event of Default; or

 

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  (b) an event or circumstance which would be (with the expiry of a grace period, the giving of notice or the making of any determination under the Finance Documents or any combination of them) an Event of Default.

 

Dutch Banking Act means the Dutch Act on the Supervision of the Credit System 1992 (Wet toezicht kredietwezen 1992).

 

Dutch Civil Code means the Burgerlijk Wetboek.

 

Dutch Exemption Regulation means the Exemption Regulation of the Minister of Finance Vrijstellingsregeling WtK 1992).

 

Event of Default means an event specified as such in Clause 18 (Default).

 

Facility means the credit facility made available under this Agreement.

 

Facility Office means the office(s) notified by a Lender to the Facility Agent:

 

  (a) on or before the date it becomes a Lender; or

 

  (b) by not less than five Business Days’ notice,

 

as the office(s) through which it will perform its obligations under this Agreement.

 

Fee Letter means any letter entered into by reference to this Agreement between one or more Administrative Parties and the Company setting out the amount of certain fees referred to in this Agreement.

 

Final Maturity Date means the date falling nine months after the date of the Credit Agreement.

 

Finance Document means:

 

  (a) this Agreement;

 

  (b) a Fee Letter;

 

  (c) a Transfer Certificate; or

 

  (d) any other document designated as such by the Facility Agent and the Company.

 

Finance Party means a Lender or an Administrative Party.

 

Financial Indebtedness means, without double counting, any indebtedness for or in respect of:

 

  (a) moneys borrowed;

 

  (b) any acceptance credit (including any dematerialised equivalent);

 

  (c) any bond, note, debenture, loan stock or other similar instrument;

 

  (d) any redeemable preference share;

 

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  (e) any agreement treated as a finance or capital lease in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the jurisdiction of incorporation of the Company;

 

  (f) receivables sold or discounted (other than any receivables to the extent they are sold on a non-recourse basis);

 

  (g) the acquisition cost of any asset or service to the extent payable after its acquisition or possession by the party liable where the deferred payment:

 

  (i) is arranged primarily as a method of raising finance or financing the acquisition of that asset or the construction of that asset; or

 

  (ii) involves a period of more than six months after the date of acquisition or supply;

 

  (h) any derivative transaction protecting against or benefiting from fluctuations in any rate or price (and the then mark to market value of the derivative transaction will be used to calculate its amount);

 

  (i) any other transaction (including any forward sale or purchase agreement) which has the commercial effect of a borrowing (excluding – for the avoidance of doubt- any non-redeemable preference shares);

 

  (j) any counter-indemnity obligation in respect of any guarantee, indemnity, bond, letter of credit or any other instrument issued by a bank or financial institution; or

 

  (k) any guarantee, indemnity or similar assurance against financial loss of any person in respect of any item referred to in the above paragraphs.

 

Group means the Company and its Subsidiaries.

 

Holding Company of any other person, means a company in respect of which that other person is a Subsidiary.

 

Increased Cost means:

 

  (a) an additional or increased cost;

 

  (b) a reduction in the rate of return from a Facility or on a Finance Party’s (or its Affiliate’s) overall capital; or

 

  (c) a reduction of an amount due and payable under any Finance Document,

 

which is incurred or suffered by a Finance Party or any of its Affiliates but only to the extent attributable to that Finance Party having entered into any Finance Document or funding or performing its obligations under any Finance Document.

 

Lender means:

 

  (a) an Original Lender; or

 

  (b) any person which becomes a Lender after the date of this Agreement.

 

LIBOR means for a Term of any Loan or overdue amount:

 

  (a) the applicable Screen Rate; or

 

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  (b) if no Screen Rate is available for the relevant currency or Term of that Loan or overdue amount, the arithmetic mean (rounded upward to four decimal places) of the rates, as supplied to the Facility Agent at its request, quoted by the Reference Banks to leading banks in the London interbank market,

 

as of 11.00 a.m. on the Rate Fixing Day for the offering of deposits in the currency of that Loan or overdue amount for a period comparable to that Term.

 

Loan means, unless otherwise stated in this Agreement, the principal amount of each borrowing under this Agreement or the principal amount outstanding of that borrowing.

 

Majority Lenders means, at any time, Lenders:

 

  (a) whose share in the outstanding Loans and whose undrawn Commitments then aggregate 66 2/3 per cent. or more of the aggregate of all the outstanding Loans and the undrawn Commitments of all the Lenders;

 

  (b) if there is no Loan then outstanding, whose undrawn Commitments then aggregate 66 2/3 per cent. or more of the Total Commitments; or

 

  (c) if there is no Loan then outstanding and the Total Commitments have been reduced to zero, whose Commitments aggregated 66 2/3 per cent. or more of the Total Commitments immediately before the reduction.

 

Mandatory Cost means the percentage rate per annum calculated by the Facility Agent in accordance with Schedule 4 (Calculation of the Mandatory Cost).

 

Margin means:

 

  (a) from the date of this Agreement up to and including the date falling six months after the date of this Agreement, 0.65 per cent. per annum; and

 

  (b) thereafter, 0.75 per cent. per annum.

 

Material Adverse Effect means a material adverse effect on:

 

  (a) the business or financial condition of any Material Subsidiary or the Group as a whole;

 

  (b) the ability of the Company to perform its payment obligations under any Finance Document;

 

  (c) the validity or enforceability of any Finance Document; or

 

  (d) any material right or remedy of a Finance Party in respect of a Finance Document.

 

Material Group Member means the Company or a Material Subsidiary.

 

Material Subsidiary means, at any time, a Subsidiary of the Company if the turnover of that Subsidiary then equals or exceeds 5 per cent. of the turnover of the Group.

 

For this purpose:

 

  (a) subject to paragraph (b) below:

 

  (i) the contribution of a Subsidiary of the Company will be determined from its financial statements which were consolidated into the latest audited consolidated financial statements of the Company; and

 

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  (ii) the financial condition of the Group will be determined from the latest audited consolidated financial statements of the Company;

 

  (b) if a Subsidiary of the Company becomes a member of the Group after the date on which the latest audited consolidated financial statements of the Company were prepared:

 

  (i) the contribution of the Subsidiary will be determined from its latest financial statements; and

 

  (ii) the financial condition of the Group will be determined from the latest audited consolidated financial statements of the Company but adjusted to take into account any subsequent acquisition or disposal of a business or a company (including that Subsidiary);

 

  (c) the contribution of a Subsidiary will, if it has Subsidiaries, be determined from its consolidated financial statements;

 

  (d) if a Material Subsidiary disposes of all or substantially all of its assets to another member of the Group, it will immediately cease to be a Material Subsidiary and the other member of the Group (if it is not the Company or already a Material Subsidiary) will immediately become a Material Subsidiary;

 

  (e) a Subsidiary of the Company (if it is not already a Material Subsidiary) will become a Material Subsidiary on completion of any other intra-Group transfer or reorganisation if it would have been a Material Subsidiary had the intra-Group transfer or reorganisation occurred on the date of the latest audited consolidated financial statements of the Company; and

 

  (f) except as specifically mentioned in paragraph (d) above, a member of the Group will remain a Material Subsidiary until the next audited consolidated financial statements of the Company show otherwise under paragraph (a) above.

 

If there is a dispute as to whether or not a member of the Group is a Material Subsidiary, a certificate of the auditors of the Company will be, in the absence of manifest error, conclusive.

 

Maturity Date means the last day of the Term of a Loan.

 

Offer Documents means the merger agreement, Schedule TO and the offer to purchase together with any other public documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in each case issued in connection with the Permitted Acquisition.

 

Original Financial Statements means the audited consolidated financial statements of the Company for the year ended 30th November, 2004.

 

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Participating Member State means a member state of the European Communities that adopts or has adopted the euro as its lawful currency under the legislation of the European Community for Economic Monetary Union.

 

Party means a party to this Agreement.

 

Permitted Acquisition means the acquisition by the Company of at least 50.1% of the ordinary share capital in Imagistics International Inc. (the “Shares”) either directly or through a Subsidiary following:

 

  (a) the tender offer for the Shares launched by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries;

 

  (b) one or more possible extensions of the tender offer for the Shares; and

 

  (c) a possible merger to acquire any remaining Shares not tendered in the tender offer.

 

Professional Market Party means a professional market party (professionele marktpartij) under the Dutch Exemption Regulation.

 

Pro Rata Share means:

 

  (a) for the purpose of determining a Lender’s share in a utilisation of the Facility, the proportion which its Commitment bears to the Total Commitments; and

 

  (b) for any other purpose on a particular date:

 

  (i) the proportion which a Lender’s share of the Loans (if any) bears to all the Loans;

 

  (ii) if there is no Loan outstanding on that date, the proportion which its Commitment bears to the Total Commitments on that date; or

 

  (iii) if the Total Commitments have been cancelled, the proportion which its Commitment bore to the Total Commitments immediately before being cancelled.

 

Rate Fixing Day means the second Business Day before the first day of a Term or such other day as the Facility Agent determines is generally treated as the rate fixing day by market practice in the relevant interbank market.

 

Reference Banks means ING Bank N.V., ABN AMRO Bank N.V., Lloyds TSB and Royal Bank of Scotland and any other bank or financial institution appointed as such by the Facility Agent under this Agreement with the consent of the Company.

 

Repeating Representations means at any time the representations and warranties which are then made or deemed to be repeated under Clause 15.24 (Times for making representations and warranties).

 

Request means a request for a Loan, substantially in the form of Schedule 3 (Form of Request).

 

Rollover Loan means one or more Loans:

 

  (a) to be made on the same day that a maturing Loan is due to be repaid;

 

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  (b) the aggregate amount of which is equal to or less than the maturing Loan; and

 

  (c) to be made for the purpose of refinancing a maturing Loan.

 

Screen Rate means the British Bankers Association Interest Settlement Rate, for the relevant currency and Term displayed on the appropriate page of the Telerate screen selected by the Facility Agent. If the relevant page is replaced or the service ceases to be available, the Facility Agent (after consultation with the Company and the Lenders) may specify another page or service displaying the appropriate rate.

 

Security Interest means any mortgage, pledge, lien, charge, assignment, hypothecation or security interest or any other agreement or arrangement having a similar effect.

 

Subsidiary means an entity of which a person has direct or indirect control or owns directly or indirectly more than 50 per cent. of the voting capital or similar right of ownership and control for this purpose means the power to direct the management and the policies of the entity whether through the ownership of voting capital, by contract or otherwise.

 

Tax means any tax, levy, impost, duty or other charge or withholding of a similar nature (including any related penalty or interest).

 

Tax Deduction means a deduction or withholding for or on account of Tax from a payment under a Finance Document.

 

Tax Payment means a payment made by the Company to a Finance Party in any way relating to a Tax Deduction or under any indemnity given by the Company in respect of Tax under any Finance Document under Clause 11.2 (Tax gross-up) or Clauses 11.3 (Tax indemnity).

 

Term means each period determined under this Agreement by reference to which interest on a Loan or an overdue amount is calculated.

 

Total Commitments means the aggregate of the Commitments of all the Lenders.

 

Transfer Certificate means a certificate, substantially in the form of Schedule 5 (Form of Transfer Certificate) or any other form agreed between the Facility Agent and the Company.

 

U.K. means the United Kingdom.

 

US$ or US Dollars means the lawful currency of the United States of America.

 

Utilisation Date means each date on which the Facility is utilised.

 

1.2 Construction

 

(a) In this Agreement, unless the contrary intention appears, a reference to:

 

  (i) an amendment includes a supplement, novation, restatement or re-enactment and amended will be construed accordingly;

 

  (ii) assets includes present and future properties, revenues and rights of every description;

 

  (iii) an authorisation includes an authorisation, consent, approval, resolution, licence, exemption, filing, registration or notarisation;

 

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  (iv) disposal means a sale, transfer, lease or other disposal, whether voluntary or involuntary, and dispose will be construed accordingly;

 

  (v) indebtedness includes any obligation (whether incurred as principal or as surety) for the payment or repayment of money;

 

  (vi) know your customer requirements are the identification checks that a Finance Party requests in order to meet its obligations under any applicable law or regulation to identify a person who is (or is to become) its customer;

 

  (vii) a person includes any individual, company, corporation, unincorporated association or body (including a partnership, trust, joint venture or consortium), government, state, agency, organisation or other entity whether or not having separate legal personality;

 

  (viii) a regulation includes any regulation, rule, official directive, request or guideline (whether or not having the force of law but, if not having the force of law, being of a type with which any person to which it applies is accustomed to comply) of any governmental, inter-governmental or supranational body, agency, department or regulatory, self-regulatory or other authority or organisation;

 

  (ix) a currency is a reference to the lawful currency for the time being of the relevant country;

 

  (x) a Default being outstanding means that it has not been remedied or waived;

 

  (xi) a provision of law is a reference to that provision as extended, applied, amended or re-enacted and includes any subordinate legislation;

 

  (xii) a Clause, a Subclause or a Schedule is a reference to a clause or subclause of, or a schedule to, this Agreement;

 

  (xiii) a Party or any other person includes its successors in title, permitted assigns and permitted transferees;

 

  (xiv) a Finance Document or other document includes (without prejudice to any prohibition on amendments) all amendments however fundamental to that Finance Document or other document, including any amendment providing for any increase in the amount of a facility or any additional facility; and

 

  (xv) a time of day is a reference to Amsterdam time.

 

(b) Unless the contrary intention appears, a reference to a month or months is a reference to a period starting on one day in a calendar month and ending on the numerically corresponding day in the next calendar month or the calendar month in which it is to end, except that:

 

  (i) if the numerically corresponding day is not a Business Day, the period will end on the next Business Day in that month (if there is one) or the preceding Business Day (if there is not);

 

  (ii) if there is no numerically corresponding day in that month, that period will end on the last Business Day in that month; and

 

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  (iii) notwithstanding sub-paragraph (i) above, a period which commences on the last Business Day of a month will end on the last Business Day in the next month or the calendar month in which it is to end, as appropriate.

 

(c) If a Finance Document does not provide for when a particular payment is due, that payment will be due within three Business Days of demand by the relevant Finance Party.

 

(d) Unless the contrary intention appears:

 

  (i) a reference to a Party will not include that Party if it has ceased to be a Party under this Agreement;

 

  (ii) a word or expression used in any other Finance Document or in any notice given in connection with any Finance Document has the same meaning in that Finance Document or notice as in this Agreement; and

 

  (iii) any obligation of the Company under the Finance Documents which is not a payment obligation remains in force for so long as any payment obligation of the Company is or may be outstanding under the Finance Documents.

 

(e) The headings in this Agreement do not affect its interpretation.

 

1.3 Dutch terms

 

In this Agreement, where it relates to a Dutch entity, a reference to:

 

  (a) a necessary action to authorise where applicable, includes without limitation any action required to comply with the Works Councils Act of the Netherlands (Wet op de ondernemingsraden).

 

  (b) a consent being provided under this Agreement requires the parties concerned to comply with the standard of reasonableness and fairness set out in article 6:248 of the Dutch Civil Code;

 

  (c) gross negligence means grove schuld;

 

  (d) negligence means schuld;

 

  (e) a security interest includes any mortgage (hypotheek), pledge (pandrecht), retention of title arrangement (eigendomsvoorbehoud), privilege (voorrecht), right of retention (recht van retentie), right to reclaim goods (recht van reclame), and, in general, any right in rem (beperkt recht), created for the purpose of granting security (goederenrechtelijk zekerheidsrecht);

 

  (f) wilful misconduct means opzet;

 

  (g)         (i) a winding-up, administration or dissolution (and any of those terms) includes a Dutch entity being declared bankrupt (failliet verklaard) or dissolved (ontbonden);

 

  (ii) a moratorium includes surséance van betaling and granted a moratorium includes surséance verleend;

 

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  (iii) any step or procedure taken in connection with insolvency proceedings includes a Dutch entity having filed a notice under section 36 of the Tax Collection Act of the Netherlands (Invorderingswet 1990) or Section 16d of the Social Insurance Co-ordination Act of the Netherlands (Coördinatiewet Sociale Verzekeringen);

 

  (iv) a trustee in bankruptcy includes a curator;

 

  (v) an administrator includes a bewindvoerder; and

 

  (vi) an attachment includes a beslag.

 

2. FACILITY

 

2.1 Facility

 

Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Lenders make available to the Company a revolving credit facility in an aggregate amount equal to the Total Commitments.

 

2.2 Nature of a Finance Party’s rights and obligations

 

Unless all the Finance Parties agree otherwise:

 

  (a) the obligations of a Finance Party under the Finance Documents are several;

 

  (b) failure by a Finance Party to perform its obligations does not affect the obligations of any other Party under the Finance Documents;

 

  (c) no Finance Party is responsible for the obligations of any other Finance Party under the Finance Documents;

 

  (d) the rights of a Finance Party under the Finance Documents are separate and independent rights;

 

  (e) a Finance Party may, except as otherwise stated in the Finance Documents, separately enforce those rights; and

 

  (f) a debt arising under the Finance Documents to a Finance Party is a separate and independent debt.

 

3. PURPOSE

 

3.1 Loans

 

Each Loan may only be used for the purposes of financing the Permitted Acquisition (which includes the repayment in full of the debt of Imagistics International Inc. and its Subsidiaries and any related payment of fees and expenses), and, to the extent not utilised for that purpose following the completion of the Permitted Acquisition, for general corporate purposes.

 

3.2 No obligation to monitor

 

No Finance Party is bound to monitor or verify the utilisation of the Facility.

 

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4. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

 

4.1 Conditions precedent documents

 

A Request may not be given until the Facility Agent has notified the Company and the Lenders that it has received all of the documents and evidence set out in Schedule 2 (Conditions precedent documents) in form and substance satisfactory to the Facility Agent. The Facility Agent must give this notification to the Company and the Lenders promptly upon being so satisfied.

 

4.2 Further conditions precedent

 

The obligations of each Lender to participate in any Loan are subject to the further conditions precedent that on both the date of the Request and the Utilisation Date for that Loan:

 

  (a) the Repeating Representations are correct in all material respects; and

 

  (b) no Default or, in the case of a Rollover Loan, no Event of Default is outstanding or would result from the Loan.

 

4.3 Maximum number

 

Unless the Facility Agent agrees, a Request may not be given if, as a result, there would be more than 10 Loans outstanding.

 

5. UTILISATION - LOANS

 

5.1 Giving of Requests

 

(a) The Company may borrow a Loan by giving to the Facility Agent a duly completed Request.

 

(b) Unless the Facility Agent otherwise agrees, the latest time for receipt by the Facility Agent of a duly completed Request is 11.00 a.m. one Business Day before the Rate Fixing Day for the proposed borrowing.

 

(c) Each Request is irrevocable.

 

5.2 Completion of Requests

 

A Request for a Loan will not be regarded as having been duly completed unless:

 

  (a) the Utilisation Date is a Business Day falling within the Availability Period;

 

  (b) the amount of the Loan requested is:

 

  (i) a minimum of US$10,000,000 and an integral multiple of 1,000,000 units of that currency;

 

  (ii) the maximum undrawn amount available under the Facility on the proposed Utilisation Date; or

 

  (iii) such other amount as the Facility Agent may agree; and

 

  (c) the proposed Term complies with this Agreement.

 

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Only one Loan may be requested in a Request.

 

5.3 Advance of Loan

 

(a) The Facility Agent must promptly notify each Lender of the details of the requested Loan and the amount of its share in that Loan.

 

(b) The amount of each Lender’s share of the Loan will be its Pro Rata Share on the proposed Utilisation Date.

 

(c) No Lender is obliged to participate in a Loan if, as a result:

 

  (i) its share in the Loans would exceed its Commitment; or

 

  (ii) the Loans would exceed the Total Commitments.

 

(d) If the conditions set out in this Agreement have been met, each Lender must make its share in the Loan available to the Facility Agent for the Company through its Facility Office on the Utilisation Date.

 

6. REPAYMENT

 

(a) The Company must repay each Loan in full on its Maturity Date.

 

(b) Subject to the other terms of this Agreement, any amounts repaid under paragraph (a) above may be re-borrowed.

 

7. PREPAYMENT AND CANCELLATION

 

7.1 Mandatory prepayment - illegality

 

(a) A Lender must notify the Facility Agent and the Company promptly if it becomes aware that it is unlawful in any applicable jurisdiction for that Lender to perform any of its obligations under a Finance Document or to fund or maintain its share in any Loan.

 

(b) After notification under paragraph (a) above the Facility Agent must notify the Company and:

 

  (i) the Company must repay or prepay the share of that Lender in each Loan on the date specified in paragraph (c) below; and

 

  (ii) the Commitment of that Lender will be immediately cancelled.

 

(c) The date for repayment or prepayment of a Lender’s share in a Loan will be:

 

  (i) the last day of the current Term of that Loan; or

 

  (ii) if earlier, the date specified by the Lender in the notification under paragraph (a) above and which must not be earlier than the last day of any applicable grace period allowed by law.

 

7.2 Mandatory prepayment - change of control

 

(a) For the purposes of this Clause:

 

a change of control occurs if any person or group of persons acting in concert gains control of the Company;

 

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acting in concert means acting together pursuant to an agreement or understanding (whether formal or informal); and

 

control means the power to direct the management and policies of an entity, whether through the ownership of voting capital, by contract or otherwise.

 

(b) The Company must promptly notify the Facility Agent if it becomes aware of any change of control.

 

(c) After a change of control the Facility Agent must, by notice to the Company:

 

  (i) cancel the Total Commitments; and

 

  (ii) declare all outstanding Loans, together with accrued interest and all other amounts accrued under the Finance Documents, to be immediately due and payable.

 

Any such notice will take effect in accordance with its terms.

 

7.3 Mandatory Prepayment – equity or capital market issue

 

(a) In this Subclause:

 

net proceeds means any amount received by a member of the Group as consideration for a relevant issue less all Taxes and reasonable costs and expenses incurred by members of the Group in connection with that relevant issue; and

 

relevant issue means any issue, sale or public offering of any equity security (including any preference share) or any public or private bond or other capital market issue.

 

(b) The Company must apply an amount equal to the amount of net proceeds from any relevant issue(s) towards prepaying the Loans.

 

(c) Any prepayment under this Subclause must be made on or before the last day of the Term of the Loan to be prepaid in which the net proceeds were received.

 

7.4 Voluntary prepayment

 

(a) The Company may, by giving not less than five Business Days’ prior notice to the Facility Agent, prepay any Loan at any time in whole or in part.

 

(b) A prepayment of part of a Loan must be in a minimum amount of US$10,000,000 and an integral multiple of US$5,000,000.

 

7.5 Automatic cancellation

 

The Commitment of each Lender will be automatically cancelled at the close of business on the last day of the Availability Period.

 

7.6 Voluntary cancellation

 

(a) The Company may, by giving not less than five Business Days’ prior notice to the Facility Agent, cancel the unutilised amount of the Total Commitments in whole or in part.

 

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(b) Partial cancellation of the Total Commitments must be in a minimum amount of US$10,000,000 and an integral multiple of US$5,000,000.

 

(c) Any cancellation in part will be applied against the Commitment of each Lender pro rata.

 

7.7 Right of repayment and cancellation of a single Lender

 

(a) If the Company is, or will be, required to pay to a Lender:

 

  (i) a Tax Payment;

 

  (ii) an Increased Cost; or

 

  (iii) any amount under paragraph 3 of Schedule 4 (Calculation of Mandatory Cost),

 

the Company may, while the requirement continues, give notice to the Facility Agent requesting prepayment and cancellation in respect of that Lender.

 

(b) After notification under paragraph (a) above:

 

  (i) the Company must repay or prepay that Lender’s share in each Loan on the date specified in paragraph (c) below; and

 

  (ii) the Commitment of that Lender will be immediately cancelled.

 

(c) The date for repayment or prepayment of a Lender’s share in a Loan will be:

 

  (i) the last day of the Term for that Loan; or

 

  (ii) if earlier, the date specified by the Company in its notification.

 

7.8 Re-borrowing of Loans

 

Any voluntary prepayment of a Loan under Clause 7.4 (Voluntary prepayment) may be re-borrowed on the terms of this Agreement. Any other prepayment of a Loan may not be re-borrowed.

 

7.9 Miscellaneous provisions

 

(a) Any notice of prepayment and/or cancellation under this Agreement is irrevocable and must specify the relevant date(s) and the affected Loans and Commitments. The Facility Agent must notify the Lenders promptly of receipt of any such notice.

 

(b) All prepayments under this Agreement must be made with accrued interest on the amount prepaid. No premium or penalty is payable in respect of any prepayment except for Break Costs.

 

(c) The Majority Lenders may agree a shorter notice period for a voluntary prepayment or a voluntary cancellation.

 

(d) No prepayment or cancellation is allowed except in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement.

 

(e) No amount of the Total Commitments cancelled under this Agreement may subsequently be reinstated.

 

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8. INTEREST

 

8.1 Calculation of interest

 

The rate of interest on each Loan for each Term is the percentage rate per annum equal to the aggregate of the applicable:

 

  (a) Margin;

 

  (b) LIBOR; and

 

  (c) Mandatory Cost, if any.

 

8.2 Payment of interest

 

Except where it is provided to the contrary in this Agreement, the Company must pay accrued interest on each Loan made to it on the last day of each Term and also, if the Term is longer than three months, on the dates falling at three-monthly intervals after the first day of that Term.

 

8.3 Interest on overdue amounts

 

(a) If the Company fails to pay any amount payable by it under the Finance Documents, it must immediately on demand by the Facility Agent pay interest on the overdue amount from its due date up to the date of actual payment, both before, on and after judgment.

 

(b) Interest on an overdue amount is payable at a rate determined by the Facility Agent to be one per cent. per annum above the rate which would have been payable if the overdue amount had, during the period of non-payment, constituted a Loan in the currency of the overdue amount. For this purpose, the Facility Agent may (acting reasonably):

 

  (i) select successive Terms of any duration of up to three months; and

 

  (ii) determine the appropriate Rate Fixing Day for that Term.

 

(c) Notwithstanding paragraph (b) above, if the overdue amount is a principal amount of a Loan and becomes due and payable before the last day of its current Term, then:

 

  (i) the first Term for that overdue amount will be the unexpired portion of that Term; and

 

  (ii) the rate of interest on the overdue amount for that first Term will be one per cent. per annum above the rate then payable on that Loan.

 

After the expiry of the first Term for that overdue amount, the rate on the overdue amount will be calculated in accordance with paragraph (b) above.

 

(d) Interest (if unpaid) on an overdue amount will be compounded with that overdue amount at the end of each of its Terms but will remain immediately due and payable.

 

8.4 Notification of rates of interest

 

The Facility Agent must promptly notify each relevant Party of the determination of a rate of interest under this Agreement.

 

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9. TERMS

 

9.1 Selection

 

(a) Each Loan has one Term only.

 

(b) The Company must select the Term for a Loan in the relevant Request.

 

(c) Subject to the following provisions of this Clause, each Term for a Loan will be one, two or three months or any other period shorter than three months agreed by the Company and the Facility Agent or any other period agreed by the Company and the Lenders.

 

9.2 No overrunning the Final Maturity Date

 

If a Term would otherwise overrun the Final Maturity Date, it will be shortened so that it ends on the Final Maturity Date.

 

9.3 Notification

 

The Facility Agent must notify each relevant Party of the duration of each Term promptly after ascertaining its duration.

 

10. MARKET DISRUPTION

 

10.1 Failure of a Reference Bank to supply a rate

 

If LIBOR is to be calculated by reference to the Reference Banks but a Reference Bank does not supply a rate by 12.00 noon (local time) on a Rate Fixing Day, the applicable LIBOR will, subject as provided below, be calculated on the basis of the rates of the remaining Reference Banks.

 

10.2 Market disruption

 

(a) In this Clause, each of the following events is a market disruption event:

 

  (i) LIBOR is to be calculated by reference to the Reference Banks but no, or only one, Reference Bank supplies a rate by 12.00 noon (local time) on the Rate Fixing Day; or

 

  (ii) the Facility Agent receives by close of business on the Rate Fixing Day notification from Lenders whose shares in the relevant Loan exceed 30 per cent. of that Loan that the cost to them of obtaining matching deposits in the relevant interbank market is in excess of LIBOR for the relevant Term.

 

(b) The Facility Agent must promptly notify the Company and the Lenders of a market disruption event.

 

(c) After notification under paragraph (b) above, the rate of interest on each Lender’s share in the affected Loan for the relevant Term will be the aggregate of the applicable:

 

  (i) Margin;

 

  (ii) rate notified to the Facility Agent by that Lender as soon as practicable, and in any event before interest is due to be paid in respect of that Term, to be that which expresses as a percentage rate per annum the cost to that Lender of funding its share in that Loan from whatever source it may reasonably select; and

 

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  (iii) Mandatory Cost, if any.

 

10.3 Alternative basis of interest or funding

 

(a) If a market disruption event occurs and the Facility Agent or the Company so requires, the Company and the Facility Agent must enter into negotiations for a period of not more than 30 days with a view to agreeing an alternative basis for determining the rate of interest and/or funding for the affected Loan.

 

(b) Any alternative basis agreed will be, with the prior consent of all the Lenders, binding on all the Parties.

 

11. TAXES

 

11.1 General

 

In this Clause Tax Credit means a credit against any Tax or any relief or remission for Tax (or its repayment).

 

11.2 Tax gross-up

 

(a) The Company must make all payments to be made by it under the Finance Documents without any Tax Deduction, unless a Tax Deduction is required by law.

 

(b) If the Company or a Lender is aware that the Company must make a Tax Deduction (or that there is a change in the rate or the basis of a Tax Deduction), it must promptly notify the Facility Agent. The Facility Agent must then promptly notify the affected Parties.

 

(c) If a Tax Deduction is required by law to be made by the Company, the amount of the payment due from the Company will be increased to an amount which (after making the Tax Deduction) leaves an amount equal to the payment which would have been due if no Tax Deduction had been required.

 

(d) If the Company is required to make a Tax Deduction, it must make the minimum Tax Deduction allowed by law and must make any payment required in connection with that Tax Deduction within the time allowed by law.

 

(e) Within 30 days of making either a Tax Deduction or a payment required in connection with a Tax Deduction, the Company must deliver to the Facility Agent for the relevant Finance Party evidence satisfactory to that Finance Party (acting reasonably) that the Tax Deduction has been made or (as applicable) the appropriate payment has been paid to the relevant taxing authority.

 

11.3 Tax indemnity

 

(a) Except as provided below, the Company must indemnify a Finance Party against any loss or liability which that Finance Party determines will be or has been suffered (directly or indirectly) by that Finance Party for or on account of Tax in relation to a payment received or receivable (or any payment deemed to be received or receivable) under a Finance Document.

 

(b) Paragraph (a) above does not apply to any Tax assessed on a Finance Party under the laws of the jurisdiction in which:

 

  (i) that Finance Party is incorporated or, if different, the jurisdiction (or jurisdictions) in which that Finance Party has a Facility Office or, if different, is treated as resident for tax purposes; or

 

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  (ii) that Finance Party’s Facility Office is located in respect of amounts received or receivable in that jurisdiction,

 

if that Tax is imposed on or calculated by reference to the net income received or receivable by that Finance Party. However, any payment deemed to be received or receivable, including any amount treated as income but not actually received by the Finance Party, such as a Tax Deduction, will not be treated as net income received or receivable for this purpose.

 

(c) A Finance Party making, or intending to make, a claim under paragraph (a) above must promptly notify the Company of the event which will give, or has given, rise to the claim.

 

11.4 Tax Credit

 

If the Company makes a Tax Payment and the relevant Finance Party determines that:

 

  (a) a Tax Credit is attributable to that Tax Payment; and

 

  (b) it has used and retained that Tax Credit,

 

the Finance Party must pay an amount to the Company which that Finance Party determines will leave it (after that payment) in the same after-tax position as it would have been if the Tax Payment had not been required to be made by the Company.

 

11.5 Stamp taxes

 

The Company must pay and indemnify each Finance Party against any stamp duty, land tax, registration or other similar Tax payable in connection with the entry into, performance or enforcement of any Finance Document, except for any such Tax payable in connection with the entry into a Transfer Certificate.

 

11.6 Value added taxes

 

(a) Any amount payable under a Finance Document by the Company is exclusive of any value added tax or any other Tax of a similar nature which might be chargeable in connection with that amount. If any such Tax is chargeable, the Company must pay to the Finance Party (in addition to and at the same time as paying that amount) an amount equal to the amount of that Tax.

 

(b) Where a Finance Document requires any Party to reimburse a Finance Party for any costs or expenses, that Party must also at the same time pay and indemnify the Finance Party against all value added tax or any other Tax of a similar nature incurred by the Finance Party in respect of those costs or expenses but only to the extent that the Finance Party (acting reasonably) determines that it is not entitled to credit or repayment from the relevant tax authority in respect of the Tax.

 

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12. INCREASED COSTS

 

12.1 Increased Costs

 

Except as provided below in this Clause, the Company must pay to a Finance Party the amount of any Increased Cost incurred by that Finance Party or any of its Affiliates as a result of:

 

  (a) the introduction of, or any change in, or any change in the interpretation, administration or application of, any law or regulation; or

 

  (b) compliance with any law or regulation made after the date of this Agreement.

 

12.2 Exceptions

 

The Company need not make any payment for an Increased Cost to the extent that the Increased Cost is:

 

  (a) compensated for under another Clause or would have been but for an exception to that Clause; or

 

  (b) attributable to a Finance Party or its Affiliate wilfully failing to comply with any law or regulation; or

 

  (c) attributable to the implementation or application of or compliance with the “International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards, a Revised Framework” published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in June 2004 in the form existing on the date of this Agreement (Basel II) or any other law or regulation which implements Basel II (whether such implementation, application or compliance is by a government, regulator, Finance Party or any of its Affiliates).

 

12.3 Claims

 

(a) A Finance Party intending to make a claim for an Increased Cost must notify the Facility Agent of the circumstances giving rise to and the amount of the claim, following which the Facility Agent will promptly notify the Company of the circumstances giving rise to and the amount of the claim.

 

(b) Each Finance Party must, as soon as practicable after a demand by the Facility Agent, provide a certificate confirming the amount of its Increased Cost.

 

13. MITIGATION

 

13.1 Mitigation

 

(a) Each Finance Party must, in consultation with the Company, take all reasonable steps to mitigate any circumstances which arise and which result or would result in:

 

  (i) any Tax Payment or Increased Cost being payable to that Finance Party;

 

  (ii) that Finance Party being able to exercise any right of prepayment and/or cancellation under this Agreement by reason of any illegality; or

 

  (iii) any amount becoming payable under or pursuant to paragraph 3 of Schedule 4 (Calculation of Mandatory Cost), including transferring its rights and obligations under the Finance Documents to an Affiliate or changing its Facility Office.

 

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(b) Paragraph (a) above does not in any way limit the obligations of the Company under the Finance Documents.

 

(c) The Company must indemnify each Finance Party for all costs and expenses reasonably incurred by that Finance Party as a result of any step taken by it under this Subclause.

 

(d) A Finance Party is not obliged to take any step under this Subclause if, in the opinion of that Finance Party (acting reasonably), to do so might be prejudicial to it.

 

13.2 Conduct of business by a Finance Party

 

No term of this Agreement will:

 

  (a) interfere with the right of any Finance Party to arrange its affairs (Tax or otherwise) in whatever manner it thinks fit;

 

  (b) oblige any Finance Party to investigate or claim any credit, relief, remission or repayment available to it in respect of Tax or the extent, order and manner of any claim; or

 

  (c) oblige any Finance Party to disclose any information relating to its affairs (Tax or otherwise) or any computation in respect of Tax.

 

14. PAYMENTS

 

14.1 Place

 

Unless a Finance Document specifies that payments under it are to be made in another manner, all payments by a Party (other than the Facility Agent) under the Finance Documents must be made to the Facility Agent to its account at such office or bank in New York, the principal financial centre of a Participating Member State or London, as it may notify to that Party for this purpose by not less than five Business Days’ prior notice.

 

14.2 Funds

 

Payments under the Finance Documents to the Facility Agent must be made for value on the due date at such times and in such funds as the Facility Agent may specify to the Party concerned as being customary at the time for the settlement of transactions in that currency in the place for payment.

 

14.3 Distribution

 

(a) Each payment received by the Facility Agent under the Finance Documents for another Party must, except as provided below, be made available by the Facility Agent to that Party by payment (as soon as practicable after and in the currency and funds of receipt) to its account with such office or bank in New York, the principal financial centre of a Participating Member State or London, as it may notify to the Facility Agent for this purpose by not less than five Business Days’ prior notice.

 

 

(b) The Facility Agent may apply any amount received by it for the Company in or towards payment (as soon as practicable after receipt) of any amount due from the Company under the Finance Documents or in or towards the purchase of any amount of any currency to be so applied.

 

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(c) Where a sum is paid to the Facility Agent under this Agreement for another Party, the Facility Agent is not obliged to pay that sum to that Party until it has established that it has actually received it. However, the Facility Agent may assume that the sum has been paid to it, and, in reliance on that assumption, make available to that Party a corresponding amount. If it transpires that the sum has not been received by the Facility Agent, that Party must immediately on demand by the Facility Agent refund any corresponding amount made available to it together with interest on that amount from the date of payment to the date of receipt by the Facility Agent at a rate calculated by the Facility Agent to reflect its cost of funds.

 

14.4 Currency

 

(a) Unless a Finance Document specifies that payments under it are to be made in a different manner, the currency of each amount payable under the Finance Documents is determined under this Clause.

 

(b) Amounts payable in respect of Taxes, fees, costs and expenses are payable in the currency in which they are incurred.

 

(c) Each other amount payable under the Finance Documents is payable in US Dollars.

 

14.5 No set-off or counterclaim

 

All payments made by the Company under the Finance Documents must be calculated and made without (and free and clear of any deduction for) set-off or counterclaim.

 

14.6 Business Days

 

(a) If a payment under the Finance Documents is due on a day which is not a Business Day, the due date for that payment will instead be the next Business Day in the same calendar month (if there is one) or the preceding Business Day (if there is not) or whatever day the Facility Agent determines is market practice.

 

(b) During any extension of the due date for payment of any principal under this Agreement interest is payable on that principal at the rate payable on the original due date.

 

14.7 Partial payments

 

(a) If any Administrative Party receives a payment insufficient to discharge all the amounts then due and payable by the Company under the Finance Documents, the Administrative Party must apply that payment towards the obligations of the Company under the Finance Documents in the following order:

 

  (i) first, in or towards payment pro rata of any unpaid fees, costs and expenses of the Administrative Parties under the Finance Documents;

 

  (ii) secondly, in or towards payment pro rata of any accrued interest or fee due but unpaid under this Agreement;

 

  (iii) thirdly, in or towards payment pro rata of any principal amount due but unpaid under this Agreement; and

 

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  (iv) fourthly, in or towards payment pro rata of any other sum due but unpaid under the Finance Documents.

 

(b) The Facility Agent must, if so directed by the Majority Lenders, vary the order set out in sub-paragraphs (a)(ii) to (iv) above.

 

(c) This Subclause will override any appropriation made by the Company.

 

15. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

 

15.1 Representations and warranties

 

The representations and warranties set out in this Clause are made by the Company to each Finance Party.

 

15.2 Status

 

(a) It is a limited liability company, duly incorporated and validly existing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation.

 

(b) It and each of its Subsidiaries has the power to own its assets and carry on its business as it is being conducted.

 

15.3 Powers and authority

 

It has the power to enter into and perform, and has, subject to Clause 17.13 (Supervisory board resolution), taken all necessary action to authorise the entry into and performance of, the Finance Documents to which it is or will be a party and the transactions contemplated by those Finance Documents.

 

15.4 Legal validity

 

(a) Subject to any general principles of law limiting its obligations and referred to in any legal opinion required under this Agreement, each Finance Document to which it is a party is its legally binding, valid and enforceable obligation.

 

(b) Each Finance Document to which it is a party is in the proper form for its enforcement in the jurisdiction of its incorporation.

 

15.5 Non-conflict

 

The entry into and performance by it of, and the transactions contemplated by, the Finance Documents do not conflict with:

 

  (a) any law or regulation applicable to it;

 

  (b) its or any of its Subsidiaries’ constitutional documents; or

 

  (c) any document which is binding upon it or any of its Subsidiaries or any of its or its Subsidiaries’ assets to an extent or in a manner which is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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15.6 No default

 

(a) No Default is outstanding or will result from the entry into of, or the performance of any transaction contemplated by, any Finance Document; and

 

(b) no other event is outstanding which constitutes a default under any document which is binding on it or any of its Subsidiaries or any of its or its Subsidiaries’ assets to an extent or in a manner which has or is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

15.7 Authorisations

 

All authorisations required by it in connection with the entry into, performance, validity and enforceability of, and the transactions contemplated by, the Finance Documents and the Permitted Acquisition have been obtained or effected (as appropriate) and are in full force and effect.

 

15.8 Financial statements

 

Its audited consolidated financial statements most recently delivered to the Facility Agent (which, at the date of this Agreement, are the Original Financial Statements):

 

  (a) have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles and practices generally accepted in its jurisdiction of incorporation, consistently applied; and

 

  (b) fairly represent its consolidated financial condition as at the date to which they were drawn up,

 

except, in each case, as disclosed to the contrary in those financial statements.

 

15.9 Litigation

 

No litigation, arbitration or administrative proceedings are current or, to its knowledge, pending or threatened, which have or, if adversely determined, are reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

15.10 Taxes on payments

 

As at the date of this Agreement, all amounts payable by it under the Finance Documents may be made without any Tax Deduction.

 

15.11 Stamp duties

 

As at the date of this Agreement, no stamp or registration duty or similar Tax or charge is payable in its jurisdiction of incorporation in respect of any Finance Document.

 

15.12 Immunity

 

It will not be entitled to claim immunity from suit, execution, attachment or other legal process in any proceedings taken in its jurisdiction of incorporation in relation to any Finance Document.

 

15.13 Jurisdiction/governing law

 

Subject to any general principles of law referred to in any legal opinion required under this Agreement:

 

(a) its:

 

  (i) irrevocable submission under this Agreement to the jurisdiction of the courts of Amsterdam, the Netherlands;

 

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  (ii) agreement that this Agreement is governed by Dutch law; and

 

  (iii) agreement not to claim any immunity to which it or its assets may be entitled,

 

are legal, valid and binding under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation; and

 

(b) any judgment obtained in the Netherlands will be recognised and be enforceable by the courts of its jurisdiction of incorporation.

 

15.14 Dutch Banking Act

 

If the Company is a credit institution (kredietinstelling) under the Dutch Banking Act, it is in compliance with the applicable provisions of the Dutch Banking Act and any implementing regulation, including the Dutch Exemption Regulation.

 

15.15 United States laws

 

(a) In this Subclause:

 

Anti-Terrorism Law means each of:

 

  (i) Executive Order No. 13224 on Terrorist Financing—Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten To Commit, or Support Terrorism issued September 23, 2001, as amended by Order 13268 (as so amended) (the Executive Order);

 

  (ii) the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Public Law 107-56 (commonly known as the USA Patriot Act);

 

  (iii) the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986, 18 U.S.C. sect. 1956; and

 

  (iv) any similar law enacted in the United States of America subsequent to the date of this Agreement.

 

holding company, has the meaning given to it in the United States Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935.

 

investment company has the meaning given to it in the United States Investment Company Act of 1940.

 

public utility has the meaning given to it in the United States Federal Power Act of 1920.

 

Restricted Party means any person listed:

 

  (i) in the Annex to the Executive Order;

 

  (ii) on the “Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons” list maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Department of the Treasury; or

 

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  (iii) in any successor list to either of the foregoing.

 

(b) It is not:

 

  (i) a holding company or subject to regulation under the United States Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935;

 

  (ii) a public utility or subject to regulation under the United States Federal Power Act of 1920;

 

  (iii) required to be registered as an investment company or subject to regulation under the United States Investment Company Act of 1940; or

 

  (iv) subject to regulation under any United States Federal or State law or regulation that limits its ability to incur or guarantee indebtedness.

 

(c) To the best of its knowledge, neither it nor any of its Affiliates:

 

  (i) is, or is controlled by, a Restricted Party;

 

  (ii) has received funds or other property from a Restricted Party; or

 

  (iii) is in breach of or is the subject of any action or investigation under any Anti-Terrorism Law.

 

(d) It and each of its Affiliates have taken reasonable measures to ensure compliance with the Anti-Terrorism Laws.

 

15.16 Treasury Stock

 

Imagistics International Inc. has not issued any of its 4,697,401 treasury stock or depositary receipts in respect of that treasury stock other than for the issuance of shares of treasury stock under the existing 1,441,560 options.

 

15.17 Information Regarding Permitted Acquisition

 

All due diligence which in the Company’s opinion is appropriate in connection with the Permitted Acquisition has been carried out and, so far as the Company is aware, no material facts have been disclosed to the senior management of the Company which have not been disclosed to the Lenders which could reasonably be expected to adversely affect the financial position of the Finance Parties under this Agreement. Furthermore, the senior management of the Company is not aware of any material facts not disclosed which would make such information misleading in any material respect.

 

15.18 Permitted Acquisition Permits

 

The Permitted Acquisition will be effected in accordance with, and the Offer Documents will comply with, all provisions of all applicable laws and regulations (except laws regulating corporate takeovers to the extent that such laws have been judicially determined to be inapplicable to the Permitted Acquisition or invalid). As at the date of the delivery of each Request for a Loan and the making of each such Loan each material permit, license, approval and consent required in relation to the Offer Documents or the Permitted Acquisition shall have been (or has been) given or obtained and shall be (or is) in full force and effect, no event (other than the shareholder vote required for the second step merger) shall have (or has)

 

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occurred which permits (or with the passage of time would permit) the revocation or termination of any such permit, license, approval or consent or the imposition of any restriction thereon, and all necessary filings and registrations required to complete the Permitted Acquisition have been made.

 

15.19 No amendments to Offer Documents

 

There has been no amendment, waiver, variation or revision of the material terms and conditions of any of the Offer Documents.

 

15.20 No Hostile Offer

 

The board of directors of Imagistics International Inc. has approved and recommended the Permitted Acquisition and, to the best of the Company’s knowledge, the board of directors of Imagistics International Inc. has not withdrawn its approval or recommendation of the Permitted Acquisition or the Offer Documents (so far as such approval or recommendation is required) and has not recommended an alternative acquisition proposal.

 

15.21 No Breach of Offer Document

 

The Company is not in breach in any material respect of any Offer Document.

 

15.22 No Public Announcement

 

The Company has not released any publicity material or press release or made any other publication or public announcement relating to the Permitted Acquisition referring to any Finance Party, this Agreement or the Facility without their prior written consent.

 

15.23 Permitted Acquisition Condition

 

On and from the first Utilisation Date, the Company will be the beneficial owner of at least 50.1% of the outstanding shares in Imagistics International Inc. free and clear of all Security Interests and no other consent or approval is required in order to complete the Permitted Acquisition except a vote of Imagistics International Inc.’s shareholders unless the Company acquires at least 90% of the outstanding shares in Imagistics International Inc. in the tender offer.

 

15.24 Times for making representations and warranties

 

(a) The representations and warranties set out in this Clause are made by the Company on the date of this Agreement.

 

(b) Unless a representation and warranty is expressed to be given at a specific date, each representation and warranty is deemed to be repeated by the Company on the date of each Request and the first day of each Term.

 

(c) When the representation and warranty in Clause 15.6(a) (No default) is repeated on a Request for a Rollover Loan, the reference to a Default will be construed as a reference to an Event of Default.

 

(d) When a representation and warranty is repeated, it is applied to the circumstances existing at the time of repetition.

 

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16. INFORMATION COVENANTS

 

16.1 Financial statements

 

(a) The Company must supply to the Facility Agent in sufficient copies for all the Lenders:

 

  (i) its audited consolidated financial statements for each of its financial years;

 

  (ii) its interim consolidated financial statements for the first half-year of each of its financial years; and

 

  (iii) its unaudited consolidated financial statements for each of its financial quarters.

 

(b) All financial statements must be supplied as soon as they are available and:

 

  (i) in the case of the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements, within 120 days;

 

  (ii) in the case of the Company’s interim financial statements, within 90 days; and

 

  (iii) in the case of the Company’s unaudited consolidated quarterly financial statements, within 60 days,

 

of the end of the relevant financial period.

 

16.2 Form of financial statements

 

(a) The Company must ensure that each set of financial statements supplied under this Agreement gives (if audited) a true and fair view of, or (if unaudited) fairly represents, its financial condition (consolidated or otherwise) as at the date to which those financial statements were drawn up.

 

(b) The Company must notify the Facility Agent of any change to the manner in which its audited consolidated financial statements are prepared.

 

(c) If requested by the Facility Agent, the Company must supply to the Facility Agent:

 

  (i) a full description of any change notified under paragraph (b) above; and

 

  (ii) sufficient information to enable the Finance Parties to make a proper comparison between the financial position shown by the set of financial statements prepared on the changed basis and its most recent audited consolidated financial statements delivered to the Facility Agent under this Agreement.

 

(d) If requested by the Facility Agent, the Company must enter into discussions for a period of not more than 30 days with a view to agreeing any amendments required to be made to this Agreement to place the Company and the Lenders in the same position as they would have been in if the change had not happened. Any agreement between the Company and the Facility Agent will be, with the prior consent of the Majority Lenders, binding on all the Parties.

 

(e) If no agreement is reached under paragraph (d) above on the required amendments to this Agreement, the Company must supply with each set of its financial statements another set of its financial statements prepared on the same basis as the Original Financial Statements.

 

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16.3 Information - miscellaneous

 

The Company must supply to the Facility Agent, in sufficient copies for all the Lenders if the Facility Agent so requests:

 

  (a) copies of all documents despatched by the Company to its shareholders (or any class of them) and which is publicly available or its creditors generally or any class of them at the same time as they are despatched;

 

  (b) promptly upon becoming aware of them, details of any litigation, arbitration or administrative proceedings which are current, threatened or pending and which have or might, if adversely determined, have a Material Adverse Effect;

 

  (c) promptly on request, a list of the then current Material Subsidiaries;

 

  (d) promptly on request, such further information regarding the financial condition and operations of the Group as any Finance Party through the Facility Agent may reasonably request; and

 

  (e) as soon as the same become available, a copy of the initial public announcement, a copy of the Offer Documents and related documents, and all press releases and other publicly available information relating to the Permitted Acquisition.

 

16.4 Notification of Default

 

(a) The Company must notify the Facility Agent of any Default (and the steps, if any, being taken to remedy it) promptly upon becoming aware of its occurrence.

 

(b) Promptly on request by the Facility Agent, the Company must supply to the Facility Agent a certificate, signed by its chief financial officer or his replacement, who is an authorised signatory, from time to time on its behalf, certifying that no Default is outstanding or, if a Default is outstanding, specifying the Default and the steps, if any, being taken to remedy it.

 

16.5 Year end

 

The Company must not change its financial year end.

 

16.6 Know your customer requirements

 

(a) Subject to paragraph (b) below, the Company must promptly on the request of any Finance Party supply to that Finance Party any documentation or other evidence which is reasonably requested by that Finance Party (whether for itself, on behalf of any Finance Party or any prospective new Lender) to enable a Finance Party or prospective new Lender to carry out and be satisfied with the results of all applicable know your customer requirements.

 

(b) The Company is only required to supply any information under paragraph (a) above, if the necessary information is not already available to the relevant Finance Party and the requirement arises as a result of:

 

  (i) the introduction of any change in (or in the interpretation, administration or application of) any law or regulation made after the date of this Agreement;

 

  (ii) any change in the status of the Company after the date of this Agreement; or

 

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  (iii) a proposed assignment or transfer by the Lender of any of its rights and/or obligations under this Agreement to a person that is not a Lender before that assignment or transfer.

 

(c) Each Lender must promptly on the request of the Facility Agent supply to the Facility Agent any documentation or other evidence which is reasonably required by the Facility Agent to carry out and be satisfied with the results of all know your customer requirements.

 

17. GENERAL COVENANTS

 

17.1 General

 

The Company agrees to be bound by the covenants set out in this Clause relating to it and, where the covenant is expressed to apply to each member of the Group, the Company must ensure that each of its Subsidiaries performs that covenant.

 

17.2 Authorisations

 

The Company must promptly:

 

  (a) obtain, maintain and comply with the terms; and

 

  (b) supply certified copies to the Facility Agent,

 

of any authorisation required under any law or regulation to enable it to perform its obligations under, or for the validity or enforceability of, any Finance Document.

 

17.3 Compliance with laws

 

Each member of the Group must comply in all respects with all laws to which it is subject where failure to do so has or is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

17.4 Pari passu ranking

 

The Company must ensure that its payment obligations under the Finance Documents at all times rank at least pari passu with all its other present and future unsecured payment obligations, except for obligations mandatorily preferred by law applying to companies generally.

 

17.5 Negative pledge

 

(a) Except as provided below, no Material Subsidiary may create or allow to exist any Security Interest on any of its assets.

 

(b) No Material Subsidiary may:

 

  (i) sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its assets on terms where it is or may be leased to or re-acquired or acquired by a member of the Group or any of its related entities;

 

  (ii) sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its receivables on recourse terms;

 

  (iii) enter into any arrangement under which money or the benefit of a bank or other account may be applied, set-off or made subject to a combination of accounts (other than in respect of a transaction permitted under paragraph (b)(iv) of Clause 17.7 (Financial Indebtedness)); or

 

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  (iv) enter into any other preferential arrangement having a similar effect,

 

in circumstances where the transaction is entered into primarily as a method of raising Financial Indebtedness or of financing the acquisition of an asset.

 

(c) Paragraphs (a) and (b) do not apply to:

 

  (i) title retention arrangements (including rights to reclaim) or set-off provisions in each case which relate to any assets supplied to any member of the Group in the ordinary course of trading;

 

  (ii) any Security Interest comprising a netting or set-off arrangement entered into by a member of the Group in the ordinary course of its banking arrangements for the purpose of netting debit and credit balances;

 

  (iii) any lien arising by operation of law and in the ordinary course of business;

 

  (iv) any Security Interest on an asset, or an asset of any person, acquired by a member of the Group after the date of this Agreement, including for the avoidance of doubt the Permitted Acquisition, but only for the period of 3 months from the date of acquisition and to the extent that the principal amount secured by that Security Interest has not been incurred or increased in contemplation of, or since, the acquisition;

 

  (v) any Security Interest entered into pursuant to a Finance Document;

 

  (vi) any Security Interest created pursuant to the general terms and conditions (Algemene Voorwaarden) of any member of the Dutch Bankers’ Association (Nederlandse Vereniging van Banken) or any similar term applied by a financial institution in the Netherlands pursuant to its general terms and conditions;

 

  (vii) any Security Interest on the credit balances of any member of the Group with a bank or other financial institution as security for the liability of any member of the Group under any cash pooling or account balance or interest netting arrangements entered into by a member of the Group in the ordinary course of its banking arrangements;

 

  (viii) any Security Interest securing indebtedness with an original maturity of less than 12 months; and

 

  (ix) any Security Interest securing indebtedness with an original maturity of 12 months or more the amount of which (when aggregated with the amount of any other indebtedness which has the benefit of a Security Interest not allowed under the preceding sub-paragraphs) does not exceed US$30,000,000 or its equivalent at any time, provided that, to the extent such Security Interest is granted in an amount exceeding US$30,000,000, the Finance Parties shall share in and be secured by such Security Interest equally and rateably with such other loan, debt, guarantee or other obligations in respect of that indebtedness.

 

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17.6 Disposals

 

(a) Except as provided below, no member of the Group may, either in a single transaction or in a series of transactions and whether related or not, dispose of all or any part of its assets.

 

(b) Paragraph (a) does not apply to any disposal:

 

  (i) made in the ordinary course of trading of the disposing entity;

 

  (ii) of assets in exchange for other assets comparable or superior as to type, value and quality;

 

  (iii) in respect of leases under lease portfolios in respect of assets owned by any member of the Group and located in the United States of America;

 

  (iv) in respect of any other leases under lease portfolios not allowed under sub-paragraph (iii) above provided that they do not exceed US$30,000,000 in aggregate;

 

  (v) for cash, of obsolete or redundant assets;

 

  (vi) by a member of the Group to another member of the Group; or

 

  (vii) where the higher of the market value and consideration receivable (when aggregated with the higher of the market value and consideration for any other disposal not allowed under the preceding sub-paragraphs) does not exceed US$250,000,000 or its equivalent in any financial year of the Company.

 

17.7 Financial Indebtedness

 

(a) Except as provided below, no member of the Group may incur any Financial Indebtedness.

 

(b) Paragraph (a) does not apply to:

 

  (i) any Financial Indebtedness incurred under or permitted by the Finance Documents;

 

  (ii) any Financial Indebtedness owed by a member of the Group to another member of the Group;

 

  (iii) any Financial Indebtedness of any person acquired by a member of the Group (including for the avoidance of doubt pursuant to the Permitted Acquisition) which is incurred under arrangements in existence at the date of acquisition, but only for a period of six months from the date of acquisition;

 

  (iv) any derivative transaction protecting against or benefiting from fluctuations in any rate or price entered into in the ordinary course of business;

 

  (v) any Financial Indebtedness owed under the euro debenture loans due 2006 and 2007, respectively as shown as items 1 and 2 on page 104 of the Original Financial Statements;

 

  (vi) any Financial Indebtedness owed under the Dutch private placements due 2006 and 2013 as shown as items 3 and 4 on page 104 of the Original Financial Statements;

 

  (vii) credit for the supply of goods and services to a member of the Group in the ordinary course of trading;

 

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  (viii) any Financial Indebtedness arising under a declaration of joint and several liability used for the purpose of section 2:403 of the Dutch Civil Code (and any residual liability under such declaration arising pursuant to section 2:404(2) of the Dutch Civil Code); or

 

  (ix) Financial Indebtedness which in aggregate does not exceed 10 per cent. of the consolidated gross assets of the Group.

 

17.8 Change of business

 

The Company must ensure that no substantial change is made to the general nature of the business of the Company or the Group from that carried on at the date of this Agreement.

 

17.9 Mergers

 

The Company may not enter into any amalgamation, demerger, merger or reconstruction otherwise than under an intra-Group re-organisation (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the merger contemplated as part of the Permitted Acquisition) on a solvent basis or other transaction agreed by the Majority Lenders.

 

17.10 Acquisitions

 

(a) Except as provided below, no member of the Group may make any acquisition or investment.

 

(b) Paragraph (a) does not apply to:

 

  (i) acquisitions or investments made in the ordinary course of trade;

 

  (ii) the Permitted Acquisition;

 

  (iii) any acquisition or investment resulting from any other transaction permitted under the Finance Documents; or

 

  (iv) acquisitions or investments where the consideration (when aggregated with the consideration of any other acquisition not allowed under the preceding sub-paragraphs) does not exceed US$70,000,000 or its equivalent in any financial year of the Company.

 

17.11 United States laws

 

(a) In this Subclause:

 

Code means the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986.

 

ERISA means the United States Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.

 

ERISA Affiliate means any person treated as a single employer with any member of the Group for the purpose of section 414 of the Code.

 

Margin Regulations means Regulations U and X issued by the Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve System.

 

Margin Stock has the meaning given to it in the Margin Regulations.

 

Plan means an employee benefit plan as defined in section 3(3) of ERISA:

 

  (i) maintained by any member of the Group or any ERISA Affiliate; or

 

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  (ii) to which any member of the Group or any ERISA Affiliate is required to make any payment or contribution.

 

Reportable Event means:

 

  (i) an event specified as such in section 4043 of ERISA or any related regulation, other than an event in relation to which the requirement to give notice of that event is waived by any regulation; or

 

  (ii) a failure to meet the minimum funding standard under section 412 of the Code or section 302 of ERISA, whether or not there has been any waiver of notice or waiver of the minimum funding standard under section 412 of the Code.

 

(b) The Company may not:

 

  (i) extend credit for the purpose, directly or indirectly, of buying or carrying Margin Stock; or

 

  (ii) use any Loan, directly or indirectly (including in connection with the Permitted Acquisition), to buy or carry Margin Stock or for any other purpose in violation of the Margin Regulations.

 

(c) The Company may not use any part of any Loan to acquire any security in a transaction that is in violation of section 13 or 14 of the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

 

(d) The Company must promptly upon becoming aware of it notify the Facility Agent of:

 

  (i) any Reportable Event;

 

  (ii) the termination of or withdrawal from, or any circumstances reasonably likely to result in the termination of or withdrawal from, any Plan subject to Title IV of ERISA; and

 

  (iii) a claim or other communication alleging material non-compliance with any law or regulation relating to any Plan.

 

(e) The Company and its ERISA Affiliates must be, and remain, in compliance in all material respects with all laws and regulations relating to each of its Plans.

 

(f) Each of the Company and its ERISA Affiliates must ensure that no event or condition exists at any time in relation to a Plan which is reasonably likely to result in the imposition of a Security Interest on any of its assets or which is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

17.12 Conditions subsequent

 

The Company must as soon as practicable, but in any event no later than 10 Business Days after the date of this Agreement, deliver to the Facility Agent in a form and substance satisfactory to the Facility Agent:

 

  (a) a list of the Material Subsidiaries of the Company; and

 

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  (b) a list of each Material Group Member the value of whose assets is less than its liabilities (taking into account contingent and prospective liabilities).

 

17.13 Supervisory board resolution

 

The Company shall procure that its supervisory board approves the terms of, and the transactions contemplated by, this Agreement as soon as practicable but in any event no later than 8 October, 2005 and must promptly deliver written evidence of such approval in form and substance satisfactory to the Facility Agent.

 

17.14 Permitted Acquisition Authorisations

 

The Company shall ensure that each member of the Group has obtained all material authorisations, consents, licences, approvals and exemptions that it is required to have obtained in order to complete the Permitted Acquisition and has complied and complies at all times with all such authorisations, consents, licences, approvals and exemptions and take all reasonable steps in anticipation of known or expected future changes to or obligations under the same, in any such case breach of which (or failure to obtain, maintain or take which) could be reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on the financial condition of the Group taken as a whole and the ability of the Company to perform its payment obligations under this Agreement.

 

17.15 Permitted Acquisition Registrations

 

The Company shall ensure that each member of the Group has made all necessary filings and registrations that it is required to have made in order to complete the Permitted Acquisition and has complied and complies at all times with all such requirements to make filings and registrations and take all reasonable steps in anticipation of known or expected future changes to or obligations under the same, in any such case breach of which (or failure to obtain, maintain or take which) could be reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on the financial condition of the Group taken as a whole and the ability of the Company to perform its payment obligations under this Agreement.

 

17.16 Permitted Acquisition Entity

 

The Company shall ensure that the Permitted Acquisition is made either by the Company itself or a special purpose vehicle established specifically for the purpose of acquiring the shares in Imagistics International Inc. and being a party to the merger agreement.

 

17.17 Waiver Request – Offer Documents

 

The Finance Parties will not unreasonably withhold their consent to a request by the Company for a waiver of the provisions of Clause 15.19 (No amendments to Offer Documents).

 

18. DEFAULT

 

18.1 Events of Default

 

(a) Each of the events or circumstances set out in this Clause is an Event of Default.

 

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(b) In this Clause:

 

Permitted Transaction means:

 

  (i) an intra-Group re-organisation of a Material Subsidiary on a solvent basis; or

 

  (ii) any other transaction agreed by the Majority Lenders.

 

18.2 Non-payment

 

The Company does not pay on the due date any amount payable by it under the Finance Documents in the manner required under the Finance Documents, unless the non-payment:

 

  (a) is caused by technical or administrative error; and

 

  (b) is remedied within three Business Days of the due date.

 

18.3 Breach of other obligations

 

The Company does not comply with any term of the Finance Documents (other than any term referred to in Clause 18.2 (Non-payment)), unless (other than in respect of any term referred to in Clauses 17.14 (Permitted Acquisition Authorisations), 17.15 (Permitted Acquisition Registrations)) and 17.16 (Permitted Acquisition Entity)) the non-compliance:

 

  (i) is capable of remedy; and

 

  (ii) is remedied within 30 days of the earlier of the Facility Agent giving notice of the breach to the Company and the Company becoming aware of the non-compliance.

 

18.4 Misrepresentation

 

A representation or warranty made or repeated by the Company in any Finance Document or in any document delivered by or on behalf of the Company under any Finance Document is incorrect or misleading in any material respect when made or deemed to be repeated, unless (other than in respect of any term referred to in Clauses 15.16 (Treasury stock), 15.17 (Information regarding Permitted Acquisition), 15.18 (Permitted Acquisition Permits), 15.19 (No amendments to Offer Documents), 15.20 (No Hostile Offer), 15.21 (No Breach of Offer Documents), 15.22 (No Public Announcement), 15.23 (Permitted Acquisition Conditions)) the circumstances giving rise to the misrepresentation or breach of warranty:

 

  (a) are capable of remedy; and

 

  (b) are remedied within 30 days of the earlier of the Facility Agent giving notice and the Company becoming aware of the misrepresentation or breach of warranty.

 

18.5 Cross-default

 

Any of the following occurs in respect of a member of the Group:

 

  (a) any of its Financial Indebtedness with an original maturity of 6 months or more is not paid when due (after the expiry of any originally applicable grace period);

 

  (b) any of its Financial Indebtedness with an original maturity of 6 months or more:

 

  (i) becomes prematurely due and payable;

 

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  (ii) is placed on demand; or

 

  (iii) is capable of being declared by or on behalf of a creditor to be prematurely due and payable or of being placed on demand,

 

in each case, as a result of an event of default (howsoever described); or

 

  (c) any commitment for its Financial Indebtedness with an original maturity of 6 months or more is cancelled or suspended as a result of an event of default (howsoever described),

 

unless the aggregate amount of Financial Indebtedness falling within all or any of paragraphs (a) to (c) above is less than US$30,000,000 or its equivalent.

 

18.6 Insolvency

 

Any of the following occurs in respect of a Material Group Member:

 

  (a) it is, or is deemed for the purposes of any applicable law to be, unable to pay its debts as they fall due or insolvent;

 

  (b) it admits its inability to pay its debts as they fall due;

 

  (c) it suspends making payments on any of its debts or announces an intention to do so;

 

  (d) by reason of actual or anticipated financial difficulties, it begins negotiations with any creditor for the rescheduling or restructuring of any of its indebtedness;

 

  (e) the value of its assets is less than its liabilities (taking into account contingent and prospective liabilities) other than in respect of a Material Group Member set out or to be set out in the list referred to in paragraph (b) of Clause 17.12 (Conditions Subsequent); or

 

  (f) a moratorium is declared in respect of any of its indebtedness.

 

If a moratorium occurs in respect of any Material Group Member, the ending of the moratorium will not remedy any Event of Default caused by the moratorium.

 

18.7 Insolvency proceedings

 

(a) Except as provided below, any of the following occurs in respect of a Material Group Member:

 

  (i) any step is taken with a view to a moratorium or a composition, assignment or similar arrangement with any of its creditors;

 

  (ii) a meeting of its shareholders, directors or other officers is convened for the purpose of considering any resolution for, to petition for or to file documents with a court or any registrar for, its winding-up, administration or dissolution or any such resolution is passed;

 

  (iii) any person presents a petition, or files documents with a court or any registrar, for its winding-up, administration, dissolution or reorganisation (by way of voluntary arrangement, scheme of arrangement or otherwise);

 

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  (iv) any Security Interest is enforced over any of its assets;

 

  (v) an order for its winding-up, administration or dissolution is made;

 

  (vi) any liquidator, trustee in bankruptcy, judicial custodian, compulsory manager, receiver, administrative receiver, administrator or similar officer is appointed in respect of it or any of its assets;

 

  (vii) its shareholders, directors or other officers request the appointment of, or give notice of their intention to appoint, a liquidator, trustee in bankruptcy, judicial custodian, compulsory manager, receiver, administrative receiver, administrator or similar officer; or

 

  (viii) any other analogous step or procedure is taken in any jurisdiction.

 

(b) Paragraph (a) above does not apply to:

 

  (i) any step or procedure which is part of a Permitted Transaction; or

 

  (ii) a petition for winding-up, administration or dissolution presented by a creditor which is being contested in good faith and with due diligence and is discharged or struck out within 14 days.

 

18.8 Creditors’ process

 

Any attachment, sequestration, distress, execution or analogous event affects any asset(s) of a Material Group Member, having an aggregate value of at least US$30,000,000, and (other than a Dutch executory attachment (executoriaal beslag)) is not discharged within 30 days.

 

18.9 Cessation of business

 

A Material Group Member ceases, or threatens to cease, to carry on business except:

 

  (a) as part of a Permitted Transaction; or

 

  (b) as a result of any disposal allowed under this Agreement.

 

18.10 United States Bankruptcy Laws

 

(a) In this Subclause:

 

U.S. Bankruptcy Law means the United States Bankruptcy Code 1978 or any other United States Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law.

 

U.S. Material Group Member means any Material Group Member that is a U.S. Debtor.

 

U.S. Debtor means a member of the Group that is incorporated or organised under the laws of the United States of America or any State of the United States of America (including the District of Columbia) or that resides or has a domicile, a place of business or property in the United States of America.

 

(b) Any of the following occurs in respect of a U.S. Material Group Member:

 

  (i) it makes a general assignment for the benefit of creditors;

 

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  (ii) it commences a voluntary case or proceeding under any U.S. Bankruptcy Law; or

 

  (iii) an involuntary case under any U.S. Bankruptcy Law is commenced against it and is not controverted within 30 days or is not dismissed or stayed within 90 days after commencement of the case.

 

18.11 Effectiveness of Finance Documents

 

(a) It is or becomes unlawful for the Company to perform any of its obligations under the Finance Documents.

 

(b) Any Finance Document is not effective in accordance with its terms or is alleged by the Company to be ineffective in accordance with its terms for any reason.

 

(c) The Company repudiates a Finance Document or evidences an intention to repudiate a Finance Document.

 

18.12 Treasury stock

 

Imagistics International Inc. issues any of its 4,697,401 treasury stock or depositary receipts in respect of that treasury stock other than for the issuance of shares of treasury stock under the existing 1,441,560 options.

 

18.13 Acceleration

 

(a) If an Event of Default described in Clause 18.10 (United States Bankruptcy Laws) occurs, the Total Commitments will, if not already cancelled under this Agreement, be immediately and automatically cancelled and all amounts outstanding under the Finance Documents will be immediately and automatically due and payable.

 

(b) If any Event of Default is outstanding, the Facility Agent may, and must if so directed by the Majority Lenders, by notice to the Company:

 

  (i) if not already cancelled under paragraph (a), cancel the Total Commitments; and/or

 

  (ii) declare that all or part of any amounts outstanding under the Finance Documents are:

 

  (A) immediately due and payable; and/or

 

  (B) payable on demand by the Facility Agent acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders; and/or

 

  (iii) by notice to the Company, require the Company to give a guarantee or Security Interest in favour of the Finance Parties and the Company must comply with that request.

 

     Any notice given under this Subclause will take effect in accordance with its terms.

 

19. THE ADMINISTRATIVE PARTIES

 

19.1 Appointment and duties of the Facility Agent

 

(a) Each Finance Party (other than the Facility Agent) irrevocably appoints the Facility Agent to act as its agent under and in connection with the Finance Documents.

 

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(b) Each Finance Party irrevocably authorises the Facility Agent to:

 

  (i) perform the duties and to exercise the rights, powers and discretions that are specifically given to it under the Finance Documents, together with any other incidental rights, powers and discretions; and

 

  (ii) execute each Finance Document expressed to be executed by the Facility Agent.

 

(c) The Facility Agent has only those duties which are expressly specified in the Finance Documents. Those duties are solely of a mechanical and administrative nature.

 

19.2 Role of the Arrangers

 

Except as specifically provided in the Finance Documents, no Arranger has any obligations of any kind to any other Party in connection with any Finance Document.

 

19.3 No fiduciary duties

 

(a) Nothing in the Finance Documents makes an Administrative Party a trustee or fiduciary for any other Party or any other person; and

 

(b) no Administrative Party need hold in trust any moneys paid to it or recovered by it for a Party in connection with the Finance Documents or be liable to account for interest on those moneys.

 

19.4 Individual position of an Administrative Party

 

(a) If it is also a Lender, each Administrative Party has the same rights and powers under the Finance Documents as any other Lender and may exercise those rights and powers as though it were not an Administrative Party.

 

(b) Each Administrative Party may:

 

  (i) carry on any business with the Company or its related entities (including acting as an agent or a trustee for any other financing); and

 

  (ii) retain any profits or remuneration it receives under the Finance Documents or in relation to any other business it carries on with the Company or its related entities.

 

19.5 Reliance

 

The Facility Agent may:

 

  (a) rely on any notice or document believed by it to be genuine and correct and to have been signed by, or with the authority of, the proper person;

 

  (b) rely on any statement made by any person regarding any matters which may reasonably be assumed to be within his knowledge or within his power to verify;

 

  (c) engage, pay for and rely on professional advisers selected by it (including those representing a Party other than the Facility Agent); and

 

  (d) act under the Finance Documents through its personnel and agents.

 

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19.6 Majority Lenders’ instructions

 

(a) The Facility Agent is fully protected if it acts on the instructions of the Majority Lenders in the exercise of any right, power or discretion or any matter not expressly provided for in the Finance Documents. Any such instructions given by the Majority Lenders will be binding on all the Lenders. In the absence of instructions, the Facility Agent may act as it considers to be in the best interests of all the Lenders.

 

(b) The Facility Agent may assume that unless it has received notice to the contrary, any right, power, authority or discretion vested in any Party or the Majority Lenders has not been exercised.

 

(c) The Facility Agent may refrain from acting in accordance with the instructions of the Majority Lenders (or, if appropriate, the Lenders) until it has received security satisfactory to it, whether by way of payment in advance or otherwise, against any liability or loss which it may incur in complying with the instructions.

 

(d) The Facility Agent is not authorised to act on behalf of a Lender (without first obtaining that Lender’s consent) in any legal or arbitration proceedings in connection with any Finance Document.

 

19.7 Responsibility

 

(a) No Administrative Party is responsible for the adequacy, accuracy or completeness of any statement or information (whether written or oral) made in or supplied in connection with any Finance Document.

 

(b) No Administrative Party is responsible for the legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy, completeness or enforceability of any Finance Document or any other document.

 

(c) Without affecting the responsibility of the Company for information supplied by it or on its behalf in connection with any Finance Document, each Lender confirms that it:

 

  (i) has made, and will continue to make, its own independent appraisal of all risks arising under or in connection with the Finance Documents (including the financial condition and affairs of the Company and its related entities and the nature and extent of any recourse against any Party or its assets); and

 

  (ii) has not relied exclusively on any information provided to it by any Administrative Party in connection with any Finance Document or agreement entered into in anticipation of or in connection with any Finance Document.

 

19.8 Exclusion of liability

 

(a) The Facility Agent is not liable or responsible to any other Finance Party for any action taken or not taken by it in connection with any Finance Document, unless directly caused by its gross negligence or wilful misconduct.

 

(b) No Party (other than the relevant Administrative Party) may take any proceedings against any officers, employees or agents of another Administrative Party in respect of any claim it might have against that Administrative Party or in respect of any act or omission of any kind by that officer, employee or agent in connection with any Finance Document. Any officer, employee or agent of an Administrative Party may rely on this Subclause and enforce its terms.

 

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(c) The Facility Agent is not liable for any delay (or any related consequences) in crediting an account with an amount required under the Finance Documents to be paid by the Facility Agent if the Facility Agent has taken all necessary steps as soon as reasonably practicable to comply with the regulations or operating procedures of any recognised clearing or settlement system used by the Facility Agent for that purpose.

 

(d)        (i) Nothing in this Agreement will oblige any Administrative Party to satisfy any know your customer requirement in relation to the identity of any person on behalf of any Finance Party.

 

  (ii) Each Finance Party confirms to each Administrative Party that it is solely responsible for any know your customer requirements it is required to carry out and that it may not rely on any statement in relation to those requirements made by any other person.

 

19.9 Default

 

(a) The Facility Agent is not obliged to monitor or enquire whether a Default has occurred. The Facility Agent is not deemed to have knowledge of the occurrence of a Default.

 

(b) If the Facility Agent:

 

  (i) receives notice from a Party referring to this Agreement, describing a Default and stating that the event is a Default; or

 

  (ii) is aware of the non-payment of any principal, interest or fee payable to a Finance Party (other than the Facility Agent or an Arranger) or under this Agreement,

 

it must promptly notify the other Finance Parties.

 

19.10 Information

 

(a) The Facility Agent must promptly forward to the person concerned the original or a copy of any document which is delivered to the Facility Agent by a Party for that person.

 

(b) Except where a Finance Document specifically provides otherwise, the Facility Agent is not obliged to review or check the adequacy, accuracy or completeness of any document it forwards to another Party.

 

(c) Except as provided above, the Facility Agent has no duty:

 

  (i) either initially or on a continuing basis to provide any Lender with any credit or other information concerning the risks arising under or in connection with the Finance Documents (including any information relating to the financial condition or affairs of the Company or its related entities or the nature or extent of recourse against any Party or its assets) whether coming into its possession before, on or after the date of this Agreement; or

 

  (ii) unless specifically requested to do so by a Lender in accordance with a Finance Document, to request any certificate or other document from the Company.

 

(d) In acting as the Facility Agent, the agency division of the Facility Agent is treated as a separate entity from its other divisions and departments. Any information acquired by the Facility Agent which, in its opinion, is acquired by it otherwise than in its capacity as the Facility Agent may be treated as confidential by the Facility Agent and will not be treated as information possessed by the Facility Agent in its capacity as such.

 

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(e) The Facility Agent is not obliged to disclose to any person any confidential information supplied to it by or on behalf of a member of the Group solely for the purpose of evaluating whether any waiver or amendment is required in respect of any term of the Finance Documents.

 

(f) The Company irrevocably authorises the Facility Agent to disclose to the other Finance Parties any information which, in its opinion, is received by it in its capacity as the Facility Agent.

 

19.11 Indemnities

 

(a) Without limiting the liability of the Company under the Finance Documents, each Lender must indemnify the Facility Agent for that Lender’s Pro Rata Share of any loss or liability incurred by the Facility Agent in acting as the Facility Agent (unless the Facility Agent has been reimbursed by the Company under a Finance Document), except to the extent that the loss or liability is caused by the Facility Agent’s gross negligence or wilful misconduct.

 

(b) If a Party owes an amount to the Facility Agent under the Finance Documents, the Facility Agent may, after giving notice to that Party:

 

  (i) deduct from any amount received by it for that Party any amount due to the Facility Agent from that Party under a Finance Document but unpaid; and

 

  (ii) apply that amount in or towards satisfaction of the owed amount.

 

That Party will be regarded as having received the amount so deducted.

 

19.12 Compliance

 

Each Administrative Party may refrain from doing anything (including disclosing any information) which might, in its opinion, constitute a breach of any law or regulation or be otherwise actionable at the suit of any person, and may do anything which, in its opinion, is necessary or desirable to comply with any law or regulation.

 

19.13 Resignation of the Facility Agent

 

(a) The Facility Agent may resign and appoint any of its Affiliates as successor Facility Agent by giving notice to the other Finance Parties and the Company.

 

(b) Alternatively, the Facility Agent may resign by giving notice to the Finance Parties and the Company, in which case the Majority Lenders may with the consent of the Company appoint a successor Facility Agent.

 

(c) If no successor Facility Agent has been appointed under paragraph (b) above within 30 days after notice of resignation was given, the Facility Agent may with the consent of the Company appoint a successor Facility Agent.

 

(d) Any successor Facility Agent must have an office in the Netherlands.

 

(e) The resignation of the Facility Agent and the appointment of any successor Facility Agent will both become effective only when the successor Facility Agent notifies all the Parties that it accepts its appointment. On giving the notification, the successor Facility Agent will succeed to the position of the Facility Agent and the term Facility Agent will mean the successor Facility Agent.

 

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(f) The retiring Facility Agent must, at its own cost, make available to the successor Facility Agent such documents and records and provide such assistance as the successor Facility Agent may reasonably request for the purposes of performing its functions as the Facility Agent under the Finance Documents.

 

(g) Upon its resignation becoming effective, this Clause will continue to benefit the retiring Facility Agent in respect of any action taken or not taken by it in connection with the Finance Documents while it was the Facility Agent, and, subject to paragraph (f) above, it will have no further obligations under any Finance Document.

 

(h) The Majority Lenders may, by notice to the Facility Agent, require it to resign under paragraph (b) above.

 

19.14 Relationship with Lenders

 

(a) The Facility Agent may treat each Lender as a Lender, entitled to payments under this Agreement and as acting through its Facility Office(s) until it has received not less than five Business Days’ prior notice from that Lender to the contrary.

 

(b) The Facility Agent may at any time, and must if requested to do so by the Majority Lenders, convene a meeting of the Lenders.

 

(c) The Facility Agent must keep a record of all the Parties and supply any other Party with a copy of the record on request. The record will include each Lender’s Facility Office(s) and contact details for the purposes of this Agreement.

 

19.15 Notice period

 

Where this Agreement specifies a minimum period of notice to be given to the Facility Agent, the Facility Agent may, at its discretion, accept a shorter notice period.

 

20. EVIDENCE AND CALCULATIONS

 

20.1 Accounts

 

Accounts maintained by a Finance Party in connection with this Agreement are conclusive evidence (dwingend bewijs) of the matters to which they relate for the purpose of any litigation or arbitration proceedings.

 

20.2 Certificates and determinations

 

Any certification or determination by a Finance Party of a rate or amount under the Finance Documents will be, in the absence of manifest error, conclusive evidence (dwingend bewijs) of the matters to which it relates.

 

20.3 Calculations

 

Any interest or fee accruing under this Agreement accrues from day to day and is calculated on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed and a year of 360 or 365 days or otherwise, depending on what the Facility Agent determines is market practice.

 

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21. FEES

 

21.1 Facility Agent’s fee

 

The Company must pay to the Facility Agent for its own account an agency fee in the manner agreed in the Fee Letter between the Facility Agent and the Company.

 

21.2 Up-front fee

 

The Company must pay to the Original Lenders for their own account an up-front fee in the manner agreed in the Fee Letter between the Facility Agent and the Company.

 

21.3 Commitment fee

 

(a) The Company must pay to the Facility Agent for each Lender a commitment fee computed at the rate of 40 per cent. per annum of the applicable Margin on the undrawn, uncancelled amount of each Lender’s Commitment.

 

(b) Accrued commitment fee is payable quarterly in arrear. Accrued commitment fee is also payable to the Facility Agent for a Lender on the date its Commitment is cancelled in full.

 

22. INDEMNITIES AND BREAK COSTS

 

22.1 Currency indemnity

 

(a) The Company must, as an independent obligation, indemnify each Finance Party against any loss or liability which that Finance Party incurs as a consequence of:

 

  (i) that Finance Party receiving an amount in respect of the Company’s liability under the Finance Documents; or

 

  (ii) that liability being converted into a claim, proof, judgment or order,

 

in a currency other than the currency in which the amount is expressed to be payable under the relevant Finance Document.

 

(b) Unless otherwise required by law, the Company waives any right it may have in any jurisdiction to pay any amount under the Finance Documents in a currency other than that in which it is expressed to be payable.

 

22.2 Other indemnities

 

(a) The Company must indemnify each Finance Party against any loss or liability which that Finance Party incurs as a consequence of:

 

  (i) the occurrence of any Event of Default;

 

  (ii) any failure by the Company to pay any amount due under a Finance Document on its due date, including any resulting from any distribution or redistribution of any amount among the Lenders under this Agreement;

 

  (iii) (other than by reason of negligence or default by that Finance Party) a Loan not being made after a Request has been delivered for that Loan;

 

  (iv) a Loan (or part of a Loan) not being prepaid in accordance with this Agreement; or

 

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  (v) any representation by the Company made under Clause 15.14 (Dutch Banking Act) or Clause 25.2 (Assignments and transfers by Lenders) being incorrect when made or deemed to be made. A Lender which makes a representation which is untrue in relation to its status as a Professional Market Party or its status as part of a closed circle (besloten kring) cannot make a demand under this paragraph.

 

The Company’s liability in each case includes any loss or expense on account of funds borrowed, contracted for or utilised to fund any amount payable under any Finance Document or any Loan.

 

(b) The Company must indemnify the Facility Agent against any loss or liability incurred by the Facility Agent as a result of:

 

  (i) investigating any event which the Facility Agent reasonably believes to be a Default; or

 

  (ii) acting or relying on any notice which the Facility Agent reasonably believes to be genuine, correct and appropriately authorised.

 

22.3 Break Costs

 

(a) The Company must pay to each Lender its Break Costs if a Loan or an overdue amount is repaid or prepaid otherwise than on the last day of any Term applicable to it.

 

(b) Break Costs are the amount (if any) determined by the relevant Lender by which:

 

  (i) the interest (excluding Margin) which that Lender would have received for the period from the date of receipt of any part of its share in a Loan or an overdue amount to the last day of the applicable Term for that Loan or overdue amount if the principal or overdue amount received had been paid on the last day of that Term;

 

exceeds

 

  (ii) the amount which that Lender would be able to obtain by placing an amount equal to the amount received by it on deposit with a leading bank in the appropriate interbank market for a period starting on the Business Day following receipt and ending on the last day of the applicable Term.

 

(c) Each Lender must, as soon as reasonably practical after a demand by the Facility Agent, supply to the Facility Agent for the Company a certificate confirming the amount of any Break Costs claimed by it under this Subclause.

 

23. EXPENSES

 

23.1 Initial costs

 

The Company must pay to each Administrative Party the amount of all costs and expenses (including legal fees) reasonably incurred by it in connection with the negotiation, preparation, printing and entry into of the Finance Documents.

 

23.2 Subsequent costs

 

The Company must pay to the Facility Agent the amount of all costs and expenses (including legal fees) reasonably incurred by it in connection with:

 

  (a) the negotiation, preparation, printing and entry into of any Finance Document (other than a Transfer Certificate) executed after the date of this Agreement; and

 

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  (b) any amendment, waiver or consent requested by or on behalf of the Company or specifically allowed by this Agreement.

 

23.3 Enforcement costs

 

The Company must pay to each Finance Party the amount of all costs and expenses (including legal fees) incurred by it in connection with the enforcement of, or the preservation of any rights under, any Finance Document.

 

24. AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS

 

24.1 Procedure

 

(a) Except as provided in this Clause, any term of the Finance Documents may be amended or waived with the agreement of the Company and the Majority Lenders. The Facility Agent may effect, on behalf of any Finance Party, an amendment or waiver allowed under this Clause.

 

(b) The Facility Agent must promptly notify the other Parties of any amendment or waiver effected by it under paragraph (a) above. Any such amendment or waiver is binding on all the Parties.

 

24.2 Exceptions

 

(a) An amendment or waiver which relates to:

 

  (i) the definition of Majority Lenders in Clause 1.1 (Definitions);

 

  (ii) an extension of the date of payment of any amount to a Lender under the Finance Documents;

 

  (iii) a reduction in the Margin or a reduction in the amount of any payment of principal, interest, fee or other amount payable to a Lender under the Finance Documents;

 

  (iv) an increase in, or an extension of, a Commitment or the Total Commitments;

 

  (v) a term of a Finance Document which expressly requires the consent of each Lender;

 

  (vi) the right of a Lender to assign or transfer its rights or obligations under the Finance Documents; or

 

  (vii) this Clause,

 

may only be made with the consent of all the Lenders.

 

(b) An amendment or waiver which relates to the rights or obligations of an Administrative Party may only be made with the consent of that Administrative Party.

 

(c) A Fee Letter may be amended or waived with the agreement of the Administrative Party that is a party to that Fee Letter and the Company.

 

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24.3 Change of currency

 

If a change in any currency of a country occurs (including where there is more than one currency or currency unit recognised at the same time as the lawful currency of a country), the Finance Documents will be amended to the extent the Facility Agent (acting reasonably and after consultation with the Company) determines is necessary to reflect the change.

 

24.4 Waivers and remedies cumulative

 

The rights of each Finance Party under the Finance Documents:

 

  (a) may be exercised as often as necessary;

 

  (b) are cumulative and not exclusive of its rights under the general law; and

 

  (c) may be waived only in writing.

 

Delay in exercising or non-exercise of any right is not a waiver of that right.

 

25. CHANGES TO THE PARTIES

 

25.1 Assignments and transfers by the Company

 

The Company may not assign or transfer any of its rights and obligations under the Finance Documents without the prior consent of all the Lenders.

 

25.2 Assignments and transfers by Lenders

 

(a) A Lender (the Existing Lender) may, subject to the following provisions of this Subclause, at any time assign (cederen) all or part of its rights or transfer by way of transfer of contract (contractsoverneming) all or a proportional part of any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement to any other bank or financial institution or to a trust, fund or other entity which is regularly engaged in or established for the purpose of making, purchasing or investing in loans, securities or other financial assets (the New Lender).

 

(b) Unless the Company and the Facility Agent otherwise agree and except as provided below, a transfer of part of a Commitment or part of its rights and obligations under this Agreement by the Existing Lender must be in a minimum amount of US$10,000,000.

 

(c) The consent of the Company is required for any assignment or transfer unless the New Lender is another Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender or an Event of Default is outstanding. The consent of the Company must not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. The Company will be deemed to have given its consent five Business Days after the Company is given notice of the request unless it is expressly refused by the Company within that time.

 

(d) The Facility Agent is not obliged to execute a Transfer Certificate or otherwise give effect to an assignment or transfer until it has completed all know your customer requirements to its satisfaction. The Facility Agent must promptly notify the Existing Lender and the New Lender if there are any such requirements.

 

(e) If the consent of the Company is required for any assignment or transfer (irrespective of whether it may be unreasonably withheld or not), the Facility Agent is not obliged to execute a Transfer Certificate if the Company withholds its consent.

 

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(f) (i) If, on the date of an assignment or transfer, it is a requirement of Dutch Law that each Lender must be a Professional Market Party:

 

  (A) on the date the assignment or transfer becomes effective, the New Lender must make the representation on the terms set out in paragraph 3 of the Transfer Certificate; and

 

  (B) on the date the assignment of transfer becomes effective, the Company must make the representation set out in paragraph (ii) below.

 

  (ii) On the date that a New Lender becomes party to this Agreement as a Lender, the Company represents that on that date it is in compliance with the applicable provisions of the Dutch Banking Act.

 

(g) Unless the Facility Agent otherwise agrees, the New Lender must pay to the Facility Agent for its own account, on or before the date any assignment or transfer occurs, a fee of US$1,000.

 

(h) Any reference in this Agreement to a Lender includes a New Lender but excludes a Lender if no amount is or may be owed to or by it under this Agreement.

 

25.3 Procedure for transfer by way of transfer of contract

 

(a) In this Subclause:

 

Transfer Date means, for a Transfer Certificate, the later of:

 

  (i) the proposed Transfer Date specified in that Transfer Certificate; and

 

  (ii) the date on which the Facility Agent executes that Transfer Certificate.

 

(b) A transfer of contract is effected if:

 

  (i) the Existing Lender and the New Lender deliver to the Facility Agent a duly completed Transfer Certificate;

 

  (ii) the Facility Agent executes it; and

 

  (iii) the Facility Agent delivers a copy of it to the Company.

 

The Facility Agent must execute as soon as reasonably practicable a Transfer Certificate delivered to it and which appears on its face to be in order.

 

(c) Each Party (other than the Existing Lender and the New Lender) irrevocably authorises the Facility Agent to execute any duly completed Transfer Certificate on its behalf.

 

(d) On the Transfer Date:

 

  (i) the New Lender will assume the whole or a proportional part of the contractual relationship of the Existing Lender expressed to be the subject of the transfer of contract in the Transfer Certificate in substitution for the Existing Lender; and

 

  (ii) the Existing Lender will be released from that legal relationship or that proportional part thereof.

 

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25.4 Limitation of responsibility of Existing Lender

 

(a) Unless expressly agreed to the contrary, an Existing Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility to a New Lender for:

 

  (i) the financial condition of the Company; or

 

  (ii) the legality, validity, effectiveness, enforceability, adequacy, accuracy, completeness or performance of:

 

  (A) any Finance Document or any other document;

 

  (B) any statement or information (whether written or oral) made in or supplied in connection with any Finance Document, or

 

  (C) any observance by the Company of its obligations under any Finance Document or other documents,

 

and any representations or warranties implied by law are excluded.

 

(b) Each New Lender confirms to the Existing Lender and the other Finance Parties that it:

 

  (i) has made, and will continue to make, its own independent appraisal of all risks arising under or in connection with the Finance Documents (including the financial condition and affairs of the Company and its related entities and the nature and extent of any recourse against any Party or its assets) in connection with its participation in this Agreement; and

 

  (ii) has not relied exclusively on any information supplied to it by the Existing Lender in connection with any Finance Document.

 

(c) Nothing in any Finance Document requires an Existing Lender to:

 

  (i) accept a re-transfer from a New Lender of any of the rights and obligations assigned or transferred under this Clause; or

 

  (ii) support any losses incurred by the New Lender by reason of the non-performance by the Company of its obligations under any Finance Document or otherwise.

 

25.5 Costs resulting from change of Lender or Facility Office

 

If:

 

  (a) a Lender assigns any of its rights or transfers all or a proportional part of its rights and obligations under the Finance Documents or changes its Facility Office; and

 

  (b) as a result of circumstances existing at the date the assignment, transfer or change occurs, the Company would be obliged to pay Mandatory Costs, a Tax Payment or an Increased Cost,

 

then the Company need only pay that Mandatory Cost, Tax Payment or Increased Cost to the same extent that it would have been obliged to if no assignment, transfer or change had occurred.

 

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25.6 Changes to the Reference Banks

 

If a Reference Bank (or, if a Reference Bank is not a Lender, the Lender of which it is an Affiliate) ceases to be a Lender, the Facility Agent must (in consultation with the Company) appoint another Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender to replace that Reference Bank.

 

26. DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION

 

(a) Each Finance Party must keep confidential any information supplied to it by or on behalf of or otherwise obtained from the Company in connection with the Finance Documents. However, a Finance Party is entitled to disclose information:

 

  (i) which is publicly available, other than as a result of a breach by that Finance Party of this Clause;

 

  (ii) on a need-to-know-basis in connection with any legal or arbitration proceedings;

 

  (iii) if required to do so under any law or regulation;

 

  (iv) to a governmental, banking, taxation or other regulatory authority;

 

  (v) to its professional advisers on a confidential basis;

 

  (vi) to any rating agency;

 

  (vii) to the extent allowed under paragraph (b) below; or

 

  (viii) with the agreement of the Company.

 

(b) A Finance Party may disclose to an Affiliate or any person with whom it may enter, or has entered into, any kind of transfer, participation or other agreement in relation to this Agreement (a participant):

 

  (i) a copy of any Finance Document; and

 

  (ii) any information which that Finance Party has acquired under or in connection with any Finance Document.

 

However, before a participant may receive any confidential information, it must agree with the relevant Finance Party to keep that information confidential on the terms of paragraph (a) above.

 

(c) This Clause supersedes any previous confidentiality undertaking given by a Finance Party in connection with this Agreement prior to it becoming a Party.

 

27. SET-OFF

 

A Finance Party may set off any matured obligation owed to it by the Company under the Finance Documents against any matured obligation owed by that Finance Party to the Company, regardless of the place of payment, booking branch or currency of either obligation. If the obligations are in different currencies, the Finance Party may convert either obligation at a market rate of exchange in its usual course of business for the purpose of the set-off.

 

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28. PRO RATA SHARING

 

28.1 Redistribution

 

If any amount owing by the Company under this Agreement to a Finance Party (the recovering Finance Party) is discharged by payment, set-off or any other manner other than in accordance with this Agreement (a recovery), then:

 

  (a) the recovering Finance Party must, within three Business Days, supply details of the recovery to the Facility Agent;

 

  (b) the Facility Agent must calculate whether the recovery is in excess of the amount which the recovering Finance Party would have received if the recovery had been received and distributed by the Facility Agent under this Agreement; and

 

  (c) the recovering Finance Party must pay to the Facility Agent an amount equal to the excess (the redistribution).

 

28.2 Effect of redistribution

 

(a) The Facility Agent must treat a redistribution as if it were a payment by the Company under this Agreement and distribute it among the Finance Parties, other than the recovering Finance Party, accordingly.

 

(b) When the Facility Agent makes a distribution under paragraph (a) above, the recovering Finance Party will be subrogated to the rights of the Finance Parties which have shared in that redistribution.

 

(c) If and to the extent that the recovering Finance Party is not able to rely on any rights of subrogation under paragraph (b) above, the Company will owe the recovering Finance Party a debt which is equal to the redistribution, immediately payable and of the type originally discharged.

 

(d) If:

 

  (i) a recovering Finance Party must subsequently return a recovery, or an amount measured by reference to a recovery, to the Company; and

 

  (ii) the recovering Finance Party has paid a redistribution in relation to that recovery,

 

each Finance Party must reimburse the recovering Finance Party all or the appropriate portion of the redistribution paid to that Finance Party, together with interest for the period while it held the redistribution. In this event, the subrogation in paragraph (b) above will operate in reverse to the extent of the reimbursement.

 

28.3 Exceptions

 

Notwithstanding any other term of this Clause, a recovering Finance Party need not pay a redistribution to the extent that:

 

  (a) it would not, after the payment, have a valid claim against the Company in the amount of the redistribution; or

 

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  (b) it would be sharing with another Finance Party any amount which the recovering Finance Party has received or recovered as a result of legal or arbitration proceedings, where:

 

  (i) the recovering Finance Party notified the Facility Agent of those proceedings; and

 

  (ii) the other Finance Party had an opportunity to participate in those proceedings but did not do so or did not take separate legal or arbitration proceedings as soon as reasonably practicable after receiving notice of them.

 

29. SEVERABILITY

 

If a term of a Finance Document is or becomes illegal, invalid or unenforceable in any respect under any jurisdiction, that will not affect:

 

  (a) the legality, validity or enforceability in that jurisdiction of any other term of the Finance Documents; or

 

  (b) the legality, validity or enforceability in other jurisdictions of that or any other term of the Finance Documents.

 

30. COUNTERPARTS

 

Each Finance Document may be executed in any number of counterparts. This has the same effect as if the signatures on the counterparts were on a single copy of the Finance Document.

 

31. NOTICES

 

31.1 In writing

 

(a) Any communication in connection with a Finance Document must be in writing and, unless otherwise stated, may be given:

 

  (i) in person, by post, e-mail or fax; or

 

  (ii) to the extent agreed by the Parties making and receiving communication, by other electronic communication.

 

(b) For the purpose of the Finance Documents, an electronic communication will be treated as being in writing.

 

(c) Unless it is agreed to the contrary, any consent or agreement required under a Finance Document must be given in writing.

 

31.2 Contact details

 

(a) Except as provided below, the contact details of each Party for all communications in connection with the Finance Documents are those notified by that Party for this purpose to the Facility Agent on or before the date it becomes a Party.

 

(b) The contact details of the Company for this purpose are:

 

Address:    St Urbanusweg 43, 5941 CA Venlo, The Netherlands
Fax number:    +31 77 354 5455
E-mail:    pvin@oce.nl
Attention:    Mr. P. Vincent.

 

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(c) The contact details of the Facility Agent for this purpose are:

 

Address:    Bijlmerplein 888, Location code HE 04.03
     1102 MG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
     P.O. Box 1800, Location code HE 04.03
     1000 BV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Fax number:    +31 (0)20 5635814
E-mail:    ben.bruens@ingbank.com
Attention:    Ben Bruens.

 

(d) Any Party may change its contact details by giving five Business Days’ notice to the Facility Agent or (in the case of the Facility Agent) to the other Parties.

 

(e) Where a Party nominates a particular department or officer to receive a communication, a communication will not be effective if it fails to specify that department or officer.

 

31.3 Effectiveness

 

(a) Except as provided below, any communication in connection with a Finance Document will be deemed to be given as follows:

 

  (i) if delivered in person, at the time of delivery;

 

  (ii) if posted, five days after being deposited in the post, postage prepaid, in a correctly addressed envelope;

 

  (iii) if by fax, when received in legible form; and

 

  (iv) if by e-mail or any other electronic communication, when received in legible form.

 

(b) A communication given under paragraph (a) above but received on a non-working day or after business hours in the place of receipt will only be deemed to be given on the next working day in that place.

 

(c) A communication to the Facility Agent will only be effective on actual receipt by it.

 

31.4 The Company

 

All formal communication under the Finance Documents to or from the Company must be sent through the Facility Agent.

 

32. LANGUAGE

 

(a) Any notice given in connection with a Finance Document must be in English.

 

(b) Any other document provided in connection with a Finance Document must be:

 

  (i) in English; or

 

  (ii) (unless the Facility Agent otherwise agrees) accompanied by a certified English translation. In this case, the English translation prevails unless the document is a statutory or other official document.

 

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33. WAIVER

 

The Company irrevocably waives any right it may have at any time to:

 

  (a) suspend (opschorten) any obligation under this Agreement under sections 6:52, 6:262 and 6:263 of the Dutch Civil Code or any other applicable law; or

 

  (b) rescind this Agreement, in whole or in part, under section 6:265 of the Dutch Civil Code or any other applicable law.

 

34. GOVERNING LAW

 

This Agreement is governed by Dutch law.

 

35. ENFORCEMENT

 

35.1 Jurisdiction

 

(a) The courts of Amsterdam, the Netherlands have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute in connection with any Finance Document.

 

(b) The Amsterdam courts are the most appropriate and convenient courts to settle any such dispute in connection with any Finance Document. The Company agrees not to argue to the contrary and waives objection to those courts on the grounds of inconvenient forum or otherwise in relation to proceedings in connection with any Finance Document.

 

(c) This Clause is for the benefit of the Finance Parties only. To the extent allowed by law, the Finance Parties may take:

 

  (i) proceedings in any other court; and

 

  (ii) concurrent proceedings in any number of jurisdictions.

 

(d) References in this Clause to a dispute in connection with a Finance Document includes any dispute as to the existence, validity or termination of that Finance Document.

 

35.2 Waiver of immunity

 

The Company irrevocably and unconditionally to the extent permitted by applicable law:

 

  (a) agrees not to claim any immunity from proceedings brought by a Finance Party against the Company in relation to a Finance Document and to ensure that no such claim is made on its behalf;

 

  (b) consents generally to the giving of any relief or the issue of any process in connection with those proceedings; and

 

  (c) waives all rights of immunity in respect of it or its assets.

 

35.3 Waiver of trial by jury

 

EACH PARTY WAIVES ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A JURY TRIAL OF ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION IN CONNECTION WITH ANY FINANCE DOCUMENT OR ANY TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED BY ANY FINANCE DOCUMENT. THIS AGREEMENT MAY BE FILED AS A WRITTEN CONSENT TO TRIAL BY COURT.

 

This Agreement has been entered into on the date stated at the beginning of this Agreement.

 

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SIGNATORIES

 

Company

 

OCÉ N.V.

 

By:

 

Original Lenders and Arrangers

 

ABN AMRO BANK N.V.

 

By:

 

 

COÖPERATIEVE CENTRALE RAIFFEISEN-BOERENLEENBANK B.A.

 

By:

 

 

ING BANK N.V.

 

By:

 

Facility Agent

 

ING BANK N.V.

 

By:

 

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