EX-10.4 5 tm2325084d1_ex10-4.htm EXHIBIT 10.4

Exhibit 10.4

AMENDMENT NO. 1

to
THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT (THREE-Year Facility)

This AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT (THREE-YEAR FACILITY), dated as of August 31, 2023, is entered into by and among:

(i)            Caterpillar Inc. (“Caterpillar”);

(ii)           Caterpillar Financial Services Corporation (“CFSC”);

(iii)          Caterpillar Finance Kabushiki Kaisha (“CFKK”);

(iv)          Caterpillar International Finance Designated Activity Company (“CIF” and together with Caterpillar, CFSC and CFKK, the “Borrowers”);

(v)           the Banks party to the Existing Credit Agreement referenced below (collectively, the “Banks”); and

(vi)          Citibank, N.A., as Agent (the “Administrative Agent”) under the Existing Credit Agreement.

PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS

The Borrowers, the Banks and the Agent are parties to the Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement (Three-Year Facility) dated as of September 1, 2022 (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time prior to the date hereof, the “Existing Credit Agreement”).

The Borrowers have requested that the Existing Credit Agreement be amended as hereinafter set forth.

The Existing Credit Agreement, as amended by this Amendment, is referred to herein as the “Amended Credit Agreement”.

In consideration of the premises set forth above, the terms and conditions contained herein, and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows.

SECTION 1.     Defined Terms. Each capitalized term used herein and not defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in the Amended Credit Agreement.

SECTION 2.     Amendments to the Existing Credit Agreement. Effective as of the date hereof, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions precedent set forth in Section 4 below, the Existing Credit Agreement is hereby amended as follows:

2.1.            All notice information for Citibank Europe plc, UK Branch is hereby replaced with the following:

Citibank Europe plc, UK Branch, as Local Currency Agent
Citigroup Centre
16^th Floor
Canary Wharf
London, United Kingdom
E14 5LB
Attention: Karen Hall, Sona Sharma, Amir Hussain
Email Addresses: Karen.hall@citi.com, sona.sharma@citi.com, amir.hussain@citi.com

2.2.            Each of the definitions of “Business Day”, “Current Termination Date”, “EURIBOR Base Rate”, and “Sanctioned Country” set forth in Section 1.01 of the Existing Credit Agreement is hereby amended in its entirety as follows:

“Business Day” means a day of the year (i) on which banks are not required or authorized to close in New York City, New York or Chicago, Illinois, (ii) if the applicable Business Day relates to any EURIBOR Rate Advance, a TARGET Day or, as the case may be, on which banks and foreign exchange markets are open for business in the principal financial center for the Agreed Currency concerned, (iii) if the applicable Business Day relates to any RFR Advance, an RFR Business Day, (iv) if the applicable Business Day relates to a Japan Local Currency Advance, on which banks are generally open in Tokyo for the conduct of substantially all of their commercial lending activities and on which dealings in Japanese Yen are carried on in the Tokyo interbank market, (v) if the applicable Business Day relates to SOFR, a U.S. Government Securities Business Day, and (vi) if the applicable Business Day relates to an Advance denominated in an Agreed Currency not described in the foregoing clauses, such other day as may be designated by the Agent in its reasonable discretion and consistent with market convention for such Agreed Currency.

“Current Termination Date” means, with respect to any Bank at any time, August 31, 2026 or such later date to which the “Current Termination Date” shall then have been extended with the consent of such Bank pursuant to Section 2.16.

“EURIBOR Base Rate” means, with respect to a EURIBOR Rate Advance for the relevant Interest Period, the interest rate per annum equal to the rate determined by the Agent to be the Euro Interbank Offered Rate administered by the European Money Markets Institute (or any other Person that takes over the administration of such rate (“EURIBOR”) and displayed on the applicable Bloomberg screen (or any successor page) as of 11:00 a.m. (Brussels time), on the date that is two (2) TARGET Days preceding the first day of such Interest Period (or on the first day of such Interest Period, in the case of a Same Day Local Currency Advance), and having a maturity equal to such Interest Period; provided, that, if such rate is below zero, it will be deemed to be zero.

Any EURIBOR Base Rate determined on the basis of the rate displayed on a Bloomberg screen (or other applicable screen) in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this subparagraph shall be subject to corrections, if any, made in such rate and displayed by Bloomberg (or other applicable service) within one hour of the time when such rate is first displayed by such service; provided, that, if such rate is below zero, it will be deemed to be zero.

“Sanctioned Country” means, at any time, a country, region or territory which is itself the subject or target of any Sanctions Laws and Regulations (at the time of this Agreement, the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic, the Kherson region of Ukraine, the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, the Crimea Region of Ukraine, Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria).

2.3.            The definition of “Target Settlement Day” is hereby deleted from Section 1.01 of the Existing Credit Agreement.

2.4.            Section 1.01 of the Existing Credit Agreement is hereby amended to insert alphabetically therein the following new defined terms:

“T2” means the real time gross settlement system operated by the Eurosystem, or any successor system.

“TARGET Day” means any day on which T2 (or, if such payment system ceases to be operative, such other payment system, if any, determined by the Administrative Agent to be a suitable replacement) is open for the settlement of payments in Euro.

2.5.            Section 5.04(b) of the Existing Credit Agreement is hereby amended in its entirety as follows:

(b)            Interest Coverage Ratio. Maintain, for CFSC and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis as determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, a ratio of (i) profit excluding income taxes, Interest Expense and Net Gain/(Loss) From Interest Rate Derivatives to (ii) Interest Expense of not less than 1.15 to 1, as calculated at the end of each fiscal quarter, for the prior four consecutive fiscal quarter period.

2.6.            Exhibit F-2 to the Existing Credit Agreement is hereby amended in its entirety pursuant to Annex I attached hereto and made a part hereof.

2.7.            Schedule I to the Existing Credit Agreement is hereby amended to modify the Commitments and Revolving Credit Commitments of each of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. New York Branch and Westpac Banking Corporation as follows:

BANK	COMMITMENT		REVOLVING CREDIT COMMITMENT
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. New York Branch	$	32,500,000	$	32,500,000
Westpac Banking Corporation	$	26,000,000	$	26,000,000

SECTION 3.     Reaffirmation of CFSC Guaranty. CFSC hereby reaffirms all of its obligations under Article IX of the Amended Credit Agreement and acknowledges and agrees that such obligations remain in full force and effect and are hereby ratified, reaffirmed and confirmed.

SECTION 4.     Conditions Precedent. This Amendment shall become effective and be deemed effective as of the date hereof (the “Amendment Effective Date”) upon the Administrative Agent’s receipt of the following:

4.1.            duly executed counterparts of this Amendment from each Borrower, the Agent, and each Bank;

4.2.            the Administrative Agent shall have received, for the account of each applicable Bank, any upfront fees to be paid by any Borrower to such Banks in connection with this Amendment;

4.3.            Certificate(s) of the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary (or the equivalents thereof) of each Borrower certifying as to: (i) the attached Certificate of Incorporation and By-laws (or the equivalents thereof) of such Borrower; (ii) the attached resolutions of the Board of Directors of such Borrower evidencing corporate authority to execute and deliver this Amendment and the other documents to be executed and delivered in connection therewith; and (iii) the names and true signatures of the officers of such Borrower authorized to sign this Amendment and the other documents to be delivered in connection therewith;

4.4.            Good standing certificates for each of Caterpillar and CFSC;

4.5.            an opinion letter of counsel for each of Caterpillar and CFSC, given upon their express instructions, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent;

4.6.            an opinion letter of Mayer Brown LLP, counsel for the Borrowers, given upon their express instructions, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent;

4.7.            a Beneficial Ownership Certification in relation to each Borrower that qualifies as a “legal entity customer” under the Beneficial Ownership Regulation, to the extent such documentation is requested at least five (5) Business Days prior to the Amendment Effective Date; and

4.8.            Evidence of the Credit Ratings for the Borrowers in effect as of the Closing Date (with no written copies thereof being required).

SECTION 5.     Covenants, Representations and Warranties of the Borrowers.

5.1.            Upon the effectiveness of this Amendment, each Borrower hereby reaffirms all covenants, representations and warranties made by it in the Amended Credit Agreement and agrees that all such covenants, representations and warranties shall be deemed to have been re-made as of the date hereof.

5.2.            Each Borrower hereby represents and warrants that (a) this Amendment constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of such Borrower, enforceable against such Borrower in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability thereof may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws relating to or affecting creditor’s rights generally and by the effect of general principles of equity and (b) on the date hereof, no Event of Default exists with respect to such Borrower and no event exists which, with the giving of notice, the lapse of time or both, would constitute an Event of Default with respect to such Borrower.

SECTION 6.     Reference to and Effect on the Existing Credit Agreement.

6.1.            Upon the effectiveness of this Amendment, each reference in the Amended Credit Agreement to “this Agreement”, “hereunder”, “hereof”, “herein” or words of like import shall mean and be a reference to the Existing Credit Agreement as amended hereby, and each reference to any such agreement in any other document, instrument or agreement executed and/or delivered in connection with such agreement shall mean and be a reference to such agreement as amended hereby. In addition, this Amendment constitutes a Loan Document.

6.2.            Except as specifically amended above, the Existing Credit Agreement and all other documents, instruments and agreements executed and/or delivered in connection therewith shall remain in full force and effect and are hereby ratified and confirmed.

6.3.            The execution, delivery and effectiveness of this Amendment shall not operate as a waiver of any right, power or remedy of any party under the Existing Credit Agreement or any other document, instrument or agreement executed in connection therewith, nor constitute a waiver of any provision contained therein, except as specifically set forth herein.

SECTION 7.      Execution in Counterparts. This Amendment may be executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument. A facsimile or PDF copy of any signature hereto shall have the same effect as the original of such signature. The parties may execute this Amendment using Electronic Signatures as contemplated by Section 8.11 of the Amended Credit Agreement. The execution of this Amendment by any party hereto shall be enforceable against its Affiliates party to the Loan Documents, and shall constitute each such Affiliate’s approval of this Amendment.

SECTION 8.      Governing Law; Submission to Jurisdiction; Service of Process; Waiver of Jury Trial. This Amendment shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the law of the State of New York (without regard for conflict of law principles that would result in the application of any law other than the internal law of the State of New York). This Amendment shall be subject to the submission to jurisdiction and service of process provisions and requirements set forth in Section 8.08 of the Amended Credit Agreement, and the waiver of jury trial provisions and requirements set forth in Section 8.12 of the Amended Credit Agreement.

SECTION 9.      Headings. Section headings in this Amendment are included herein for convenience of reference only and shall not constitute a part of this Amendment for any other purpose.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment to be executed by their respective officers or representatives thereunto duly authorized as of the date first above written.

	CATERPILLAR INC.

	By	/s/ Patrick McCartan
		Name: Patrick McCartan
		Title: Vice President and Treasurer

	CATERPILLAR FINANCIAL SERVICES CORPORATION

	By	/s/ Derek Jacobs
		Name: Derek Jacobs
		Title: Treasurer

	CATERPILLAR INTERNATIONAL FINANCE DESIGNATED ACTIVITY COMPANY

	By	/s/ Derek Jacobs
		Name: Derek Jacobs
		Title: Director

	CATERPILLAR FINANCE KABUSHIKI KAISHA

	By	/s/ Derek Jacobs
		Name: Derek Jacobs
		Title: Director

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