Exhibit 4.(d)

SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT

Dated as of December 4, 2009

among

BLOUNT, INC.,

GEAR PRODUCTS, INC, OMARK PROPERTIES, INC. and

WINDSOR FORESTRY TOOLS LLC,

as Borrowers,

THE OTHER CREDIT PARTIES SIGNATORY HERETO,

as Credit Parties,

THE LENDERS SIGNATORY HERETO

FROM TIME TO TIME,

as Lenders,

GENERAL ELECTRIC CAPITAL CORPORATION,

as Administrative Agent and Lender,

and

GE CAPITAL MARKETS, INC.,

as Lead Arranger and Bookrunner

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This SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of December 4, 2009, by and among BLOUNT, INC., a Delaware corporation (“Blount, Inc.”), GEAR PRODUCTS, INC., an Oklahoma corporation (“Gear”), OMARK PROPERTIES, INC., an Oregon corporation (“Omark”), WINDSOR FORESTRY TOOLS LLC, a Tennessee limited liability company (“Windsor”) (Gear, Omark, Windsor and Blount, Inc. are sometimes collectively referred to herein as “Borrowers” and individually as “Borrower”); the other Credit Parties signatory hereto; GENERAL ELECTRIC CAPITAL CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (in its individual capacity, “GE Capital”), in its capacity as Agent for the Lenders (as defined below) (“Agent”); and the other Lenders party hereto.

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WHEREAS, Borrowers, Lenders (as defined in the Prior Credit Agreement), and Agent are parties to that certain Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of August 9, 2004 (the “Prior Credit Agreement”); and

WHEREAS, Lenders (as defined in the Prior Credit Agreement) and Agent are hereinafter referred to as the “Prior Lender Group”; and

WHEREAS, Borrowers desire that the Prior Lender Group amend and restate the Prior Credit Agreement to, among other things, modify the credit facilities to provide for a Revolving Loan Commitment of $60,000,000 and a Term Loan B of $107,465,301.84 consisting of an Existing Term Loan in a principal amount equal to $3,937,893.06 and an Extending Term Loan in a principal amount equal to $103,527,408.78, and the Prior Lender Group and the other Lenders party hereto are willing to do so in accordance with, and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in, this Agreement; and

WHEREAS, each Borrower acknowledges and agrees that the security interest granted to Agent for the benefit of Prior Lender Group, or any of them, pursuant to the Loan Documents (as defined in the Prior Credit Agreement), shall remain outstanding and in full force and effect in accordance with the Prior Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents (as defined in the Prior Credit Agreement), as modified herein and in the other Loan Documents, and shall continue to secure the Obligations; and

WHEREAS, Borrowers and Lenders acknowledge and confirm that: (i) the Obligations represent, among other things, the amendment, restatement, renewal, extension, consolidation and modification of the Obligations (as defined in the Prior Credit Agreement) arising in connection with the Prior Credit Agreement and other Loan Documents (as defined in the Prior Credit Agreement); (ii) the Prior Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents (as defined in the Prior Credit Agreement) and the collateral pledged thereunder shall secure, without interruption or impairment of any kind, all existing Obligations (as defined in the Prior Credit Agreement) under the Prior Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents (as defined in the Prior Credit Agreement) as amended, restated, renewed, extended, consolidated or modified hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, together with all other Obligations

hereunder; (iii) all Liens evidenced by the Loan Documents (as defined in the Prior Credit Agreement) are hereby ratified, confirmed and continued as modified, amended or restated under the Loan Documents; and (iv) this Agreement is intended to restate, renew, extend, consolidate, amend and modify the Prior Credit Agreement in its entirety; and

WHEREAS, Borrowers and Lenders intend that: (i) the provisions of the Prior Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents (as defined in the Prior Credit Agreement), to the extent restated, renewed, extended, consolidated, amended or modified hereby and by the other Loan Documents, be hereby superseded and replaced by the provisions hereof and of the other Loan Documents; and (ii) by entering into and performing their respective obligations hereunder, this transaction shall not constitute a novation and shall in no way adversely affect or impair the priority of Liens granted by the Loan Documents (as defined in the Prior Credit Agreement); and

WHEREAS, capitalized terms used in this Agreement shall have the meanings ascribed to them in Annex A and, for purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, the rules of construction set forth in Annex A shall govern.  All Annexes, Disclosure Schedules, Exhibits and other attachments (collectively, “Appendices”) hereto, or expressly identified in this Agreement, are incorporated herein by reference, and taken together with this Agreement, shall constitute a single agreement.  These Recitals shall be construed as part of the Agreement.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual covenants hereinafter contained, and for other good and valuable consideration, the parties hereto hereby amend and restate the Prior Loan Agreement in its entirety and further agree as follows:

1.                                       AMOUNT AND TERMS OF CREDIT

1.1                                 Credit Facilities.

(a)                                  Revolving Credit Facility.

(i)                                     Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each Revolving Lender agrees to make available to Borrowers from time to time until the Commitment Termination Date its Pro Rata Share of advances under the Revolving Loan Commitment (each, a “Revolving Credit Advance”).  All “Revolving Credit Advances” under, and as defined in, the Prior Credit Agreement that are outstanding on the Closing Date shall be deemed to be Revolving Credit Advances hereunder.  The Pro Rata Share of the Revolving Loan of any Lender shall not at any time exceed its separate Revolving Loan Commitment.  The obligations of each Lender hereunder shall be several and not joint.  Until the Commitment Termination Date, Borrowers may borrow, repay and reborrow under this Section 1.1(a)(i); provided that the amount of any Revolving Credit Advance to be made at any time shall not exceed Borrowing Availability at such time.  Each Revolving Credit Advance shall be made on notice by Borrower Representative on behalf of the applicable Borrower to one of the representatives of Agent identified in Schedule 1.1 at the address specified therein.  Any such notice must be given no later than (1) 1:00 p.m. (New York time) on the Business Day of the proposed Revolving Credit Advance, in the case of an Index Rate Loan, or (2) 1:00 p.m. (New York time) on the date which is 3 Business Days prior to the proposed Revolving Credit Advance, in the case of a LIBOR Loan. 

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Each such notice (a “Notice of Revolving Credit Advance”) must be given in writing (by telecopy or overnight courier) substantially in the form of Exhibit 1.1(a)(i), and shall include the information required in such Exhibit and such other information as may be reasonably required by Agent.  If any Borrower desires to have the Revolving Credit Advances bear interest by reference to a LIBOR Rate, Borrower Representative must comply with Section 1.5(f).

(ii)                                  Upon request by any Revolving Lender, each Borrower shall execute and deliver to such Lender a note to evidence the Revolving Loan Commitment of that Lender.  Each note shall be in the principal amount of the Revolving Loan Commitment of the applicable Lender, dated the Closing Date and substantially in the form of Exhibit 1.1(a)(ii)  (each a “Revolving Note” and, collectively, the “Revolving Notes”). Each Revolving Note (or, if a Revolving Note is not requested, this Agreement) shall represent the joint and several obligation of Borrowers to pay the amount of the applicable Lender’s Revolving Loan Commitment or, if less, such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of all Revolving Credit Advances to Borrowers, together with interest thereon as prescribed in Section 1.5.  The entire unpaid balance of the aggregate Revolving Loan and all other non-contingent Obligations shall be immediately due and payable in full in immediately available funds on the Commitment Termination Date.

(b)                                 Term Loans.

(i)                                     Existing Term Loan.

(1)                                  Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each Lender with an Existing Term Loan Commitment agrees that the loans comprising the “Term Loan B” under, and as defined in, the Prior Credit Agreement shall remain outstanding on and after the Closing Date as term loans (collectively, the “Existing Term Loan”) made pursuant to this Agreement, and such loans shall be deemed to be made in satisfaction of its obligation to make its Pro Rata Share of the Existing Term Loan on the Closing Date.  Upon request by any Lender with a Existing Term Loan Commitment, each Borrower shall execute and deliver to such Lender a promissory note substantially in the form of Exhibit 1.1(b)(i) (each an “Existing Term Loan Note” and collectively the “Existing Term Loan Notes”).  Each Existing Term Loan Note (or, if an Existing Term Loan Note is not requested, this Agreement) shall represent the joint and several obligation of Borrowers to pay the applicable Existing Term Loan Commitment, together with interest hereon as prescribed in Section 1.5.

(2)                                  Borrowers shall repay the principal balance of the Existing Term Loan in consecutive quarterly installments on the first day of January, April, July and October of each year, commencing January 1, 2010, as follows:

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The final installment due August 9, 2010 shall be in the amount of $3,907,208.19 or, if different, the remaining principal balance of the Existing Term Loan, together with accrued interest and all fees, costs, expenses and other charges due by Borrowers with respect to the Existing Term Loan.

(3)                                  Notwithstanding Section 1.1(b)(i)(2), the aggregate outstanding principal balance of the Existing Term Loan shall be due and payable in full in immediately available funds on the Commitment Termination Date applicable to the Existing Term Loan, if not sooner paid in full.  No payment with respect to the Existing Term Loan may be reborrowed.

(ii)                                  Extending Term Loan.

(1)                                  Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each Lender with an Extending Term Loan Commitment agrees that the loans comprising the “Term Loan B” under, and as defined in, the Prior Credit Agreement shall remain outstanding on and after the Closing Date as term loans (collectively, the “Extending Term Loan”) made pursuant to this Agreement, and such loans shall be deemed to be made in satisfaction of its obligation to make its Pro Rata Share of the Extending Term Loan on the Closing Date.  Upon request by any Lender with a Extending Term Loan Commitment, each Borrower shall execute and deliver to such Lender a promissory note substantially in the form of Exhibit 1.1(b)(ii) (each an “Extending Term Loan Note” and collectively the “Extending Term Loan Notes”).  Each Extending Term Loan Note (or, if an Extending Term Loan Note is not requested, this Agreement) shall represent the joint and several obligation of Borrowers to pay the applicable Extending Term Loan Commitment, together with interest hereon as prescribed in Section 1.5.

(2)                                  Borrowers shall repay the Extending Term Loan in quarterly installments on the first day of January, April, July and October of each year, commencing January 1, 2010, as follows:

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The final installment due February 9, 2012 shall be in the amount of $101,107,287.54 or, if different, the remaining principal balance of the Extending Term Loan, together with accrued interest and all fees, costs, expenses and other charges due by Borrowers with respect to the Extending Term Loan.

(3)                                  Notwithstanding Section 1.1(b)(ii)(2), the aggregate outstanding principal balance of the Extending Term Loan shall be due and payable in full in immediately available funds on the Commitment Termination Date applicable to the Extending Term Loan, if not sooner paid in full.  No payment with respect to the Extending Term Loan may be reborrowed.

(c)                                  Swing Line Facility.

(i)                                     Agent shall notify the Swing Line Lender upon Agent’s receipt of any Notice of Revolving Credit Advance.  Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Swing Line Lender may, in its discretion, make available from time to time until the Commitment Termination Date advances (each, a “Swing Line Advance”) in accordance with any such notice. The provisions of this Section 1.1(c) shall not relieve the Revolving Lenders of their obligations to make Revolving Credit Advances under Section 1.1(a); provided that if the Swing Line Lender makes a Swing Line Advance pursuant to any such notice, such Swing Line Advance shall be in lieu of any Revolving Credit Advance that otherwise may be made by the Revolving Lenders pursuant to such notice.  The aggregate amount of Swing Line Advances outstanding shall not exceed at any time the lesser of (A) the Swing Line Commitment and (B) the Maximum Amount, in each case under clauses (A) and (B) of this sentence, less the outstanding balance of the Revolving Loan at such time (“Swing Line Availability”).  Until the Commitment Termination Date, Borrowers may from time to time borrow, repay and reborrow under this Section 1.1(c).  Each Swing Line Advance shall be made pursuant to a Notice of Revolving Credit Advance delivered to Agent by Borrower Representative on behalf of the applicable Borrower in accordance with Section 1.1(a).  Any such notice must be given no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York time) on the Business Day of the proposed Swing Line Advance.  Unless the Swing Line Lender has received at least one Business Day’s prior written notice from Requisite Revolving Lenders instructing it not to make a Swing Line Advance, the Swing Line Lender shall, notwithstanding the failure of any condition precedent set forth in Sections 2.2, be entitled to fund that Swing Line Advance, and to have each Revolving Lender make Revolving Credit

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Advances in accordance with Section 1.1(c)(iii) or purchase participating interests in accordance with Section 1.1(c)(iv).  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents, the Swing Line Loan shall constitute an Index Rate Loan.  Borrowers shall repay the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Swing Line Loan upon demand therefor by Agent.

(ii)                                  Upon request by the Swing Line Lender, Borrowers shall execute and deliver to the Swing Line Lender a promissory note to evidence the Swing Line Commitment.  Such note shall be in the principal amount of the Swing Line Commitment of the Swing Line Lender, dated the Closing Date and substantially in the form of Exhibit 1.1(c)(ii)  (the “Swing Line Note”).  The Swing Line Note (or, if the Swing Line Note is not requested, this Agreement) shall represent the joint and several obligation of Borrowers to pay the amount of the Swing Line Commitment or, if less, the aggregate unpaid principal amount of all Swing Line Advances made to Borrowers, together with interest thereon as prescribed in Section 1.5.  The entire unpaid balance of the Swing Line Loan and all other noncontingent Obligations shall be immediately due and payable in full in immediately available funds on the Commitment Termination Date if not sooner paid in full.

(iii)                               If no Revolving Lender is a Non-Funding Lender, then the Swing Line Lender, at any time and from time to time in its sole and absolute discretion, but not less frequently than weekly, shall on behalf of Borrowers (and each Borrower hereby irrevocably authorizes the Swing Line Lender to so act on its behalf) request each Revolving Lender (including the Swing Line Lender) to make a Revolving Credit Advance to Borrowers (which shall be an Index Rate Loan) in an amount equal to that Revolving Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the principal amount of Borrowers’ Swing Line Loan (the “Refunded Swing Line Loan”) outstanding on the date such notice is given.  If any Revolving Lender is a Non-Funding Lender, that Non-Funding Lender’s reimbursement obligations with respect to the Swing Line Loans shall be reallocated to and assumed by the other Revolving Lenders pro rata in accordance with their Pro Rata Share of the Revolving Loans (calculated as if the Non-Funding Lender’s Pro Rata Share was reduced to zero and each other Revolving Lender’s Pro Rata Share had been increased proportionately).  If any Revolving Lender is a Non-Funding Lender, upon receipt of the demand described above, each Revolving Lender that is not a Non-Funding Lender will be obligated to pay to Agent for the account of the Swing Line Lender its Pro Rata Share of the outstanding Swing Line Loans (increased as described above); provided that no Revolving Lender shall be required to fund any amount in excess of its Revolving Loan Commitment. Unless any of the events described in Sections 8.1(h) or 8.1(i) has occurred (in which event the procedures of Section 1.1(c)(iv) shall apply) and regardless of whether the conditions precedent set forth in this Agreement to the making of a Revolving Credit Advance are then satisfied, each Revolving Lender shall disburse directly to Agent, its Pro Rata Share of a Revolving Credit Advance on behalf of the Swing Line Lender prior to 3:00 p.m. (New York time) in immediately available funds on the Business Day next succeeding the date that notice is given.  The proceeds of those Revolving Credit Advances shall be immediately paid to the Swing Line Lender and applied to repay the Refunded Swing Line Loan of Borrowers.

(iv)                              If, prior to refunding a Swing Line Loan with a Revolving Credit Advance pursuant to Section 1.1(c)(iii), one of the events described in Sections 8.1(h) or 8.1(i) has occurred, then, subject to the provisions of Section 1.1(c)(v) below, each Revolving Lender

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shall, on the date such Revolving Credit Advance was to have been made for the benefit of the Borrowers, purchase from the Swing Line Lender an undivided participation interest in the Swing Line Loan to Borrowers in an amount equal to its Pro Rata Share of such Swing Line Loan.  Upon request, each Revolving Lender shall promptly transfer to the Swing Line Lender, in immediately available funds, the amount of its participation interest.

(v)                                 Each Revolving Lender’s obligation to make Revolving Credit Advances in accordance with Section 1.1(c)(iii) and to purchase participation interests in accordance with Section 1.1(c)(iv) shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including (A) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right that such Revolving Lender may have against the Swing Line Lender, any Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever; (B) the occurrence or continuance of any Default or Event of Default; (C) any inability of any Borrower to satisfy the conditions precedent to borrowing set forth in this Agreement at any time or (D) any other circumstance, happening or event whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing.  If any Revolving Lender does not make available to Agent or the Swing Line Lender, as applicable, the amount required pursuant to Sections 1.1(c)(iii) or 1.1(c)(iv), as the case may be, the Swing Line Lender shall be entitled to recover such amount on demand from such Revolving Lender, together with interest thereon for each day from the date of non-payment until such amount is paid in full at the Federal Funds Rate for the first two (2) Business Days and at the Index Rate thereafter.

(d)                                 Reliance on Notices; Appointment of Borrower Representative.  Agent shall be entitled to rely upon, and shall be fully protected in relying upon, any Notice of Revolving Credit Advance, Notice of Conversion/Continuation-LIBOR Rate or similar notice believed by Agent to be genuine.  Agent may assume that each Person executing and delivering any notice in accordance herewith was duly authorized, unless the responsible individual acting thereon for Agent has actual knowledge to the contrary.  Each Borrower hereby designates Blount, Inc. as its representative and agent on its behalf for the purposes of issuing Notices of Revolving Credit Advances and Notices of Conversion/Continuation-LIBOR Rate, giving instructions with respect to the disbursement of the proceeds of the Loans, selecting interest rate options, requesting Letters of Credit, giving and receiving all other notices and consents hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents and taking all other actions (including in respect of compliance with covenants) on behalf of any Borrower or Borrowers under the Loan Documents.  Borrower Representative hereby accepts such appointment.  Agent and each Lender may regard any notice or other communication pursuant to any Loan Document from Borrower Representative as a notice or communication from all Borrowers, and may give any notice or communication required or permitted to be given to any Borrower or Borrowers hereunder to Borrower Representative on behalf of such Borrower or Borrowers.  Each Borrower agrees that each notice, election, representation and warranty, covenant, agreement and undertaking made on its behalf by Borrower Representative shall be deemed for all purposes to have been made by such Borrower and shall be binding upon and enforceable against such Borrower to the same extent as if the same had been made directly by such Borrower.

1.2                                 Letters of Credit.  Subject to and in accordance with the terms and conditions contained herein and in Annex B, Borrower Representative, on behalf of the applicable Borrower, shall have the right to request, and the Revolving Lenders agree to incur, or purchase participations in, Letter of Credit Obligations in respect of each Borrower.

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1.2A.                    Swap Related Reimbursement Obligations.

(a)                                  Borrowers, jointly and severally, agree to reimburse GE Capital in immediately available funds in the amount of any payment made by GE Capital under a Swap Related L/C (such reimbursement obligation, whether contingent upon payment by GE Capital under the Swap Related L/C or otherwise, being herein called a “Swap Related Reimbursement Obligation”).  No Swap Related Reimbursement Obligation for any Swap Related L/C may exceed the amount of the payment obligations owed by any Borrower under the interest rate protection or hedging agreement or transaction supported by the Swap Related L/C.

(b)                                 A Swap Related Reimbursement Obligation shall be due and payable by Borrowers within one (1) Business Day after the date on which the related payment is made by GE Capital under the Swap Related L/C.

(c)                                  Any Swap Related Reimbursement Obligation shall, during the period in which it is unpaid, bear interest at the rate per annum equal to the LIBOR Rate applicable to Revolving Loans plus one percent (1%), as if the unpaid amount of the Swap Related Reimbursement Obligation were a LIBOR Loan, and not at any otherwise applicable Default Rate.  Such interest shall be payable upon demand.  The following additional provisions apply to the calculation and charging of interest by reference to the LIBOR Rate applicable to Revolving Loans:

(i)                                     The LIBOR Rate applicable to Revolving Loans shall be determined for each successive one-month LIBOR Period during which the Swap Related Reimbursement Obligation is unpaid, notwithstanding the occurrence of any Event of Default and even if the LIBOR Period were to extend beyond the Commitment Termination Date.

(ii)                                  If a Swap Related Reimbursement Obligation is paid during a monthly period for which the LIBOR Rate applicable to Revolving Loans is determined, interest shall be pro-rated and charged for the portion of the monthly period during which the Swap Related Reimbursement Obligation was unpaid.  Section 1.13(b) shall not apply to any payment of a Swap Related Reimbursement Obligation during the monthly period.

(iii)                               Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the definition of “LIBOR Rate”, if the LIBOR Rate applicable to Revolving Loans is no longer available from Reuters, the LIBOR Rate with respect to Swap Related Reimbursement Obligations shall be determined by GE Capital from such financial reporting service or other information available to GE Capital as in GE Capital’s reasonable discretion indicates GE Capital’s cost of funds.

(d)                                 Except as provided in the foregoing provisions of this Section 1.2A and in Section 11.3, Borrowers shall not be obligated to pay to GE Capital or any of its Affiliates any Letter of Credit Fee, or any other fees, charges or expenses, in respect of a Swap Related L/C or arranging for any interest rate protection or hedging agreement or transaction supported by the Swap Related L/C.  GE Capital and its Affiliates shall look to the beneficiary of a Swap Related L/C for payment of any such letter of credit fees or other fees, charges or expenses and such beneficiary may factor such fees, charges, or expenses into the pricing of any interest rate protection or hedging arrangement or transaction supported by the Swap Related L/C.

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(e)                                  If any Swap Related L/C is revocable prior to its scheduled expiry date, GE Capital agrees not to revoke the Swap Related L/C unless the earliest of the Commitment Termination Date or an Event of Default has occurred.

(f)                                    GE Capital or any of its Affiliates shall be permitted to (i) provide confidential or other information furnished to it by any of the Credit Parties (including, without limitation, copies of any documents and information in or referred to in the Closing Checklist, Financial Statements and Compliance Certificates) to a beneficiary or potential beneficiary of a Swap Related L/C and (ii) receive confidential or other information from the beneficiary or potential beneficiary relating to any agreement or transaction supported or to be supported by the Swap Related L/C.  However, no confidential information shall be provided to any Person under this paragraph unless the Person has agreed to comply with the covenant substantially as contained in Section 11.8 of this Agreement.

1.3                                 Prepayments.

(a)                                  Voluntary Prepayments; Reductions in Revolving Loan Commitment.  Borrowers may at any time on at least five (5) days’ prior written notice by Borrower Representative to Agent (i) voluntarily prepay all or part of the Term Loan B and/or (ii) permanently reduce (but not terminate) the Revolving Loan Commitment; provided that (A) any such prepayments or reductions shall be in a minimum amount of $1,000,000 and integral multiples of $100,000 in excess of such amount, (B) the Revolving Loan Commitment shall not be reduced to an amount less than the amount of the Revolving Loan then outstanding and (C) after giving effect to such reductions in the Revolving Loan Commitment, Borrowers shall comply with Section 1.3(b)(i).  In addition, Borrowers may at any time on at least five (5) days’ prior written notice by Borrower Representative to Agent terminate the Revolving Loan Commitment; provided that upon such termination, all Loans and other Obligations shall be immediately due and payable in full and all Letter of Credit Obligations shall be cash collateralized or otherwise satisfied in accordance with Annex B hereto.  Any voluntary prepayment of Loans and any reduction or termination of the Revolving Loan Commitment must be accompanied by payment of any LIBOR Rate breakage costs in accordance with Section 1.13(b).  Upon any such reduction or termination of the Revolving Loan Commitment, each applicable Borrower’s right to request (I) Revolving Credit Advances, (II) that Letter of Credit Obligations be incurred on its behalf, or (III) Swing Line Advances, shall simultaneously be permanently reduced or terminated, as the case may be; provided that a permanent reduction of the Revolving Loan Commitment shall not require a reduction in the L/C Sublimit unless the Revolving Loan Commitment is reduced to an amount below the L/C Sublimit.  Each notice of partial prepayment shall designate the Loans or other Obligations to which such prepayment is to be applied; provided that any partial prepayments of any Term Loan made by or on behalf of any Borrower shall be applied to prepay the scheduled installments of the applicable Borrowers’ Term Loan on a pro rata basis.

(b)                                 Mandatory Prepayments.

(i)                                     If at any time the aggregate outstanding balances of the Revolving Loan and the Swing Line Loan exceed the Maximum Amount, Borrowers shall immediately repay the aggregate outstanding Revolving Credit Advances to the extent required to eliminate

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such excess.  If any such excess remains after repayment in full of the aggregate outstanding Revolving Credit Advances, Borrowers shall provide cash collateral for the Letter of Credit Obligations in the manner set forth in Annex B to the extent required to eliminate such excess.

(ii)                                  Immediately upon receipt by any Credit Party of proceeds of any asset disposition or any sale of Stock of any Subsidiary of any Credit Party (excluding Excluded Proceeds), it shall forward such proceeds to the Borrowers and Borrowers shall prepay the Loans in an amount equal to all such proceeds, net of (A) commissions and other reasonable and customary transaction costs, fees and expenses (including reasonable attorney’s fees and investment banking fees) properly attributable to such transaction and payable by Credit Parties in connection therewith (in each case, paid to non-Affiliates), (B) transfer taxes, goods and services taxes and sales taxes, as applicable, (C) amounts payable to holders of senior Liens (to the extent such Liens constitute Permitted Encumbrances hereunder), if any, (D) an appropriate reserve for income taxes in accordance with GAAP in connection therewith and (E) cash amounts required to be maintained as a reserve or in escrow against any such asset sale or sale of Stock in an amount not to exceed twenty percent (20%) of the purchase price of such assets or Stock, until such amounts are received by such Credit Party.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, Credit Parties may elect to reinvest such net proceeds from any asset disposition by delivering a certificate of the Borrower Representative to Agent that (1) states that the Credit Parties intend to reinvest such net proceeds in the business of a Credit Party within 365 days of the date of such sale and (2) confirms that such net proceeds have been (x) deposited into an account that is subject to a Control Letter or a control agreement meeting the requirements of Annex C, which net proceeds when so deposited (i) shall constitute Collateral, securing the payment of the Obligations then outstanding, (ii) may be withdrawn by the applicable Credit Party solely to reinvest in other assets of such Credit Party that are useful in the business of such Credit Party and (iii) upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, an amount equal to such net proceeds shall be applied to the repayment of the Obligations as set forth above or (y) used to repay the Revolving Loan (in whole or in part) on a temporary basis and if so used to repay the Revolving Loan and notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary such amount may be reborrowed only for the purpose of funding such reinvestment or if the Reinvestment Period (as defined below) has expired and such amount has not been reinvested pursuant to this Section to make the mandatory prepayment required by this Section; provided, that (a) such reinvestment must be made within 365 days (the “Reinvestment Period”) after the date of such sale, and (b) no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such reinvestment or after giving effect thereto.  If and to the extent such net proceeds are not fully reinvested during the Reinvestment Period, an amount equal to such net proceeds is required to be applied to repay the Obligations as set forth above.

(iii)                               If Holdings issues Stock (other than Excluded Stock Issuances), no later than the Business Day following the date of receipt of the proceeds thereof, Holdings shall contribute such proceeds to Blount, Inc. and Blount, Inc. shall prepay the Loans in an amount equal to all such proceeds, net of underwriting discounts and commissions and other reasonable costs (including reasonable attorney’s fees and investment banking fees) paid to non-Affiliates in connection therewith.

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(iv)                              Until the Termination Date, Blount, Inc. shall prepay the Obligations on the date that is ten (10) days after the earlier of (A) the date on which Holdings’ and its Subsidiaries’ annual audited Financial Statements for the immediately preceding Fiscal Year are delivered pursuant to Annex E or (B) the date on which such annual audited Financial Statements were required to be delivered pursuant to Annex E, in an amount equal to fifty percent (50%) of Excess Cash Flow for the immediately preceding Fiscal Year.  Each such prepayment shall be accompanied by a certificate signed by Borrower Representative’s chief financial officer certifying the manner in which Excess Cash Flow and the resulting prepayment were calculated, which certificate shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent.

(c)                                  Status of Commitments after Mandatory Prepayments.  Neither the Revolving Loan Commitment nor the Swing Line Commitment shall be permanently reduced by the amount of any prepayments under Section 1.3(b).

(d)                                 Status of Commitments after Prepayments from Insurance and Condemnation Proceeds.  Neither the Revolving Loan Commitment nor the Swing Line Commitment shall be permanently reduced by the amount of any prepayments made from insurance or condemnation proceeds.

(e)                                  No Implied Consent.  Nothing in this Section 1.3 shall be construed to constitute Agent’s or any Lender’s consent to any transaction that is not permitted by other provisions of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents.

1.4                                 Use of Proceeds.  Borrowers shall utilize the proceeds of the Loans solely for the Refinancing (and to pay any related transaction expenses), to fund Fees and expenses incurred in connection with the Loans and for the financing of Borrowers’ ordinary working capital and general corporate needs, including, without limitation, capital expenditures permitted hereunder.  Disclosure Schedule (1.4) contains a description of Borrowers’ sources and uses of funds as of the Closing Date, including Loans and Letter of Credit Obligations to be made or incurred on that date, and a funds flow memorandum detailing how funds from each source are to be transferred to particular uses.

1.5                                 Interest and Applicable Margins.

(a)                                  Borrowers shall pay interest to Agent, for the ratable benefit of Lenders, in accordance with the various Loans being made by each Lender, in arrears on each applicable Interest Payment Date, at the following rates: (i) with respect to the Revolving Credit Advances, the Index Rate plus the Applicable Revolver Index Margin per annum or, at the election of Borrower Representative, the applicable LIBOR Rate plus the Applicable Revolver LIBOR Margin per annum, based on the aggregate Revolving Credit Advances outstanding from time to time; (ii) with respect to the Swing Line Loan, the Index Rate plus the Applicable Revolver Index Margin per annum, based on the aggregate Swing Line Loans outstanding from time to time; (iii) with respect to the Existing Term Loan, the Index Rate plus the Applicable Existing Term Loan Index Margin per annum or, at the election of Borrower Representative, the applicable LIBOR Rate plus the Applicable Existing Term Loan LIBOR Margin per annum, based on the aggregate Existing Term Loan outstanding from time to time; and (iv) with respect

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to the Extending Term Loan, the Index Rate plus the Applicable Extending Term Loan Index Margin per annum or, at the election of Borrower Representative, the applicable LIBOR Rate plus the Applicable Extending Term Loan LIBOR Margin per annum, based on the aggregate Extending Term Loan outstanding from time to time.

The Applicable Margins are as follows:

(b)                                 Intentionally Omitted.

(c)                                  If any payment on any Loan becomes due and payable on a day other than a Business Day, the maturity thereof will be extended to the next succeeding Business Day (except as set forth in the definition of LIBOR Period) and, with respect to payments of principal, interest thereon shall be payable at the then applicable rate during such extension.

(d)                                 All computations of Fees calculated on a per annum basis and interest shall be made by Agent on the basis of a 360-day year, in each case for the actual number of days occurring in the period for which such interest and Fees are payable.  The Index Rate is a floating rate determined for each day.  Each determination by Agent of an interest rate and Fees hereunder shall be final, binding and conclusive on Borrowers, absent manifest error.

(e)                                  So long as an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing under Section 8.1(a), (h) or (i) or so long as any other Event of Default with respect to Annex C, E, F or G has occurred and is continuing and at the election of Agent (or upon the written request of Requisite Lenders) confirmed by written notice from Agent to Borrower Representative, subject to applicable law, the interest rates applicable to the Loans and the Letter of Credit Fees shall be increased by two percentage points (2.00%) per annum above the rates of interest or the rate of such Fees otherwise applicable hereunder (the “Default Rate”), and all outstanding Obligations shall bear interest at the Default Rate applicable to such Obligations. Interest and Letter of Credit

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Fees at the Default Rate shall accrue from the initial date of such Event of Default until that Event of Default is waived and shall be payable upon demand.

(f)                                    Borrower Representative shall have the option to (A) request that any Revolving Credit Advance be made as a LIBOR Loan, (B) convert at any time all or any part of outstanding Loans (other than the Swing Line Loan) from Index Rate Loans to LIBOR Loans, (C) convert any LIBOR Loan to an Index Rate Loan, subject to payment of LIBOR breakage costs in accordance with Section 1.13(b) if such conversion is made prior to the expiration of the LIBOR Period applicable thereto, or (D) continue all or any portion of any Loan (other than the Swing Line Loan) as a LIBOR Loan upon the expiration of the applicable LIBOR Period and the succeeding LIBOR Period of that continued Loan shall commence on the first day after the last day of the LIBOR Period of the Loan to be continued; provided, however, that no Loan or group of Loans shall be made as, converted to, or continued at the end of the LIBOR Period therefor as a LIBOR Loan if any Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and no Loan may be made as a LIBOR Loan until the earlier of 60 days following the Closing Date or the date the Administrative Agent has determined that the syndication of the Commitments has been completed.  Any Loan or group of Loans having the same proposed LIBOR Period to be made or continued as, or converted into, a LIBOR Loan must be in a minimum amount of $5,000,000 and integral multiples of $100,000 in excess of such amount.  Any such election must be made by 1:00 p.m. (New York time) on the 3rd Business Day prior to (1) the date of any proposed Advance which is to bear interest at the LIBOR Rate, (2) the end of each LIBOR Period with respect to any LIBOR Loans to be continued as such, or (3) the date on which Borrower Representative wishes to convert any Index Rate Loan to a LIBOR Loan for a LIBOR Period designated by Borrower Representative in such election.  If no election is received with respect to a LIBOR Loan by 1:00 p.m. (New York time) on the 3rd Business Day prior to the end of the LIBOR Period with respect thereto (or if a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing), that LIBOR Loan shall be converted to an Index Rate Loan at the end of its LIBOR Period.  Borrower Representative must make such election by notice to Agent in writing by telecopy or overnight courier.  In the case of any conversion or continuation, such election must be made pursuant to a written notice (a “Notice of Conversion/Continuation-LIBOR Rate”) in the form of Exhibit 1.5(f)(i).

(g)                                 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in this Section 1.5, if a court of competent jurisdiction determines in a final order that the rate of interest payable with respect to the Obligations exceeds the highest rate of interest permissible under law (the “Maximum Lawful Rate”), then so long as the Maximum Lawful Rate would be so exceeded, the rate of interest payable hereunder shall be equal to the Maximum Lawful Rate; provided, however, that if at any time thereafter the rate of interest payable hereunder is less than the Maximum Lawful Rate, Borrowers shall continue to pay interest hereunder at the Maximum Lawful Rate until such time as the total interest received by Agent, on behalf of Lenders, is equal to the total interest that would have been received had the interest rate payable with respect to the Obligations been (but for the operation of this paragraph) the interest rate payable since the Closing Date as otherwise provided in this Agreement. Thereafter, interest hereunder shall be paid at the rate(s) of interest and in the manner provided in Sections 1.5(a) through (f), unless and until the rate of interest again exceeds the Maximum Lawful Rate, and at that time this paragraph shall again apply.  In no event shall the total interest received by any Lender pursuant to the terms hereof exceed the amount that such Lender could lawfully have received had the

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interest due hereunder been calculated for the full term hereof at the Maximum Lawful Rate.  If the Maximum Lawful Rate is calculated pursuant to this paragraph, such interest shall be calculated at a daily rate equal to the Maximum Lawful Rate divided by the number of days in the year in which such calculation is made.  If, notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 1.5(g), a court of competent jurisdiction shall finally determine that a Lender has received interest hereunder in excess of the Maximum Lawful Rate, Agent shall, to the extent permitted by applicable law, promptly apply such excess in the order specified in Section 1.11 and thereafter shall refund any excess to Borrowers or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise order.

(h)                                 Intentionally Omitted.

(i)                                     Intentionally Omitted.

1.6                                 Intentionally Omitted.

1.7                                 Intentionally Omitted.

1.8                                 Cash Management Systems.  On or prior to the Closing Date, Borrowers will establish and will maintain until the Termination Date, the cash management systems described in Annex C (the “Cash Management Systems”).

1.9                                 Fees.

(a)                                  Fee Letter Fees.  Blount, Inc. shall pay to GE Capital, individually, the Fees specified in that certain fee letter dated as of October 30, 2009 among Blount, Inc. and GE Capital (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “GE Capital Fee Letter”), at the times specified for payment therein.

(b)                                 Unused Line Fees.  As additional compensation for the Revolving Lenders, Borrowers shall pay to Agent, for the ratable benefit of such Lenders, in arrears, on the first Business Day of each month prior to the Commitment Termination Date and on the Commitment Termination Date, a Fee for Borrowers’ non-use of available funds in an amount equal to the Applicable Unused Line Fee Margin per annum (calculated on the basis of a 360 day year for actual days elapsed) multiplied by the difference between (x) the Maximum Amount (as it may be reduced from time to time) and (y) the average for the period of the daily closing balances of the aggregate Revolving Loan and the Swing Line Loan outstanding during the period for which such Fee is due.

(c)                                  Intentionally Omitted.

(d)                                 Intentionally Omitted.

(e)                                  Borrowers shall pay to Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Revolving Lenders, the Letter of Credit Fee as provided in Annex B.

1.10                           Receipt of Payments.  Borrowers shall make each payment under this Agreement not later than 2:00 p.m. (New York time) on the day when due in immediately available funds in

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Dollars to the Collection Account.  For purposes of computing interest and Fees and determining Borrowing Availability as of any date, all payments shall be deemed received on the Business Day on which immediately available funds therefor are received in the applicable Collection Account prior to 2:00 p.m. New York time.  Payments received after 2:00 p.m. (New York time) on any Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day shall be deemed to have been received on the following Business Day.  Unless stated otherwise, all calculations, comparisons, measurements or determinations under this Agreement shall be made in Dollars.  For purposes of such calculations, comparisons, measurements or determinations, amounts denominated in other currencies shall be converted in the Equivalent Amount of Dollars on the date of calculation, comparison, measurement or determination.  If Agent receives any payment from or on behalf of any Credit Party in a currency other than the currency in which such Obligation is denominated, Agent may convert the payment (including the monetary proceeds of realization upon any Collateral and any funds then held in a cash collateral account) into the currency of the relevant Obligation at the exchange rate that Agent would be prepared to sell the currency in which the relevant Obligation is denominated against the currency received on the Business Day immediately preceding the date of actual payment.  The Obligations shall be satisfied only to the extent of the amount actually received by Agent upon such conversion.

1.11                           Application and Allocation of Payments.

(a)                                  So long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, (i) payments consisting of proceeds of Accounts received in the ordinary course of business shall be applied, in the case of receipt by or on behalf of any Borrower, first, to the Swing Line Loan and, second, the Revolving Loan; (ii) payments (other than mandatory prepayments) matching specific scheduled payments then due shall be applied to those scheduled payments; (iii) voluntary prepayments shall be applied as set forth in Section 1.3(a) hereof; and (iv) mandatory prepayments shall be applied as set forth in Sections 1.11(b) and 1.11(c) hereof.  All payments and prepayments applied to a particular Loan shall be applied ratably to the portion thereof held by each Lender as determined by its Pro Rata Share.  As to any other payment, and as to all payments made when an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or following the Commitment Termination Date, Borrowers hereby irrevocably waive the right to direct the application of any and all payments received from or on behalf of Borrowers, and Borrowers hereby irrevocably agree that Agent shall have the continuing exclusive right to apply any and all such payments against the Obligations as Agent may deem advisable notwithstanding any previous entry by Agent in the Loan Account or any other books and records.  In the absence of a specific determination by Agent with respect thereto, payments shall be applied to amounts then due and payable in the following order: (1) to Fees and Agent’s expenses reimbursable hereunder and to all obligations owing to Agent, the Swing Line Lender, any L/C Issuer or any other Lender by any Non-Funding Lender under the Loan Documents; (2) to interest on the Swing Line Loan; (3) to principal payments on the Swing Line Loan; (4) to interest on the other Loans and unpaid Swap Related Reimbursement Obligations, ratably in proportion to the interest accrued as to each Loan and unpaid Swap Related Reimbursement Obligation, as applicable; (5) to principal payments on the other Loans and unpaid Swap Related Reimbursement Obligations and other unpaid Obligations under Hedge Agreements permitted under Section 6.3(a)(viii) and to provide cash collateral for Letter of Credit Obligations in the manner described in Annex B, ratably to the aggregate, combined principal balance of the other Loans, unpaid Swap Related

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Reimbursement Obligations and outstanding Letter of Credit Obligations; and (6) to all other Obligations including expenses of Lenders to the extent reimbursable under Section 11.3.

(b)                                 Any prepayments made by any Borrower pursuant to Section 1.3(b)(ii) and any prepayments made by any Borrower from insurance or condemnation proceeds in accordance with Section 5.4(c) and the Mortgage(s) shall be applied as follows: (i) proceeds from the sale of Inventory and Accounts and insurance proceeds from casualties or losses to cash or Inventory shall be applied, first, to the Swing Line Loans; and second, to the Revolving Credit Advances, and (ii) all other proceeds and any proceeds from the sale of Inventory and Accounts or from casualties or losses to cash or Inventory remaining after application to the Swing Line Loans and the Revolving Credit Advances shall be applied, first, to Fees and reimbursable expenses of Agent then due and payable pursuant to any of the Loan Documents and to all obligations owing to Agent, the Swing Line Lender, any L/C Issuer or any other Lender by any Non-Funding Lender under the Loan Documents; second, to interest then due and payable on the Term Loan B; third, to prepay the principal installments of the Term Loan B on a pro rata basis; fourth, to interest then due and payable on Borrowers’ Swing Line Loan; fifth, to the principal balance of the Swing Line Loan outstanding until the same has been repaid in full; sixth, to interest then due and payable on Revolving Credit Advances; seventh, to the principal balance of Revolving Credit Advances outstanding until the same have been paid in full; eighth, to any Letter of Credit Obligations of Borrower to provide cash collateral therefor in the manner set forth in Annex B; ninth, to all other Obligations then due and payable.   Notwithstanding the foregoing, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, any such prepayments shall be applied as set forth in Section 1.11(a).

(c)                                  Any prepayments made by Blount, Inc. pursuant to Sections 1.3(b)(iii) or (b)(iv) shall be applied as follows: first, to Fees and reimbursable expenses of Agent then due and payable pursuant to any of the Loan Documents and to all obligations owing to Agent, the Swing Line Lender, any L/C Issuer or any other Lender by any Non-Funding Lender under the Loan Documents; second, pro rata to interest then due and payable on the Term Loan B; third, to prepay the principal installments of the Term Loan B on a pro rata basis; fourth, to interest then due and payable on Borrowers’ Swing Line Loan; fifth, to the principal balance of the Swing Line Loan outstanding until the same has been repaid in full; sixth, to interest then due and payable on Revolving Credit Advances; seventh, to the principal balance of Revolving Credit Advances outstanding until the same have been paid in full; eighth, to any Letter of Credit Obligations of Borrower to provide cash collateral therefor in the manner set forth in Annex B; ninth, to all other Obligations then due and payable.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, any such prepayments shall be applied as set forth in Section 1.11(a).

1.12                           Loan Account and Accounting.  Agent shall maintain a loan account (the “Loan Account”) on its books to record:  all Revolving Credit Advances, Swing Line Advances, Letters of Credit and the Term Loan B, all payments made by Borrowers, and all other debits and credits as provided in this Agreement with respect to the Loans or any other Obligations.  All entries in the Loan Account shall be made in accordance with Agent’s customary accounting practices as in effect from time to time. The balance in the Loan Account, as recorded on Agent’s most recent printout or other written statement, shall, absent manifest error, be presumptive evidence of the amounts due and owing to Agent and Lenders by each Borrower; provided that any failure

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to so record or any error in so recording shall not limit or otherwise affect any Borrower’s duty to pay the Obligations.  Agent shall render to Borrower Representative a monthly accounting of transactions with respect to the Loans setting forth the balance of the Loan Account and for the immediately preceding month.  Unless Borrower Representative notifies Agent in writing of any objection to any such accounting (specifically describing the basis for such objection), within thirty (30) days after the date thereof, each and every such accounting shall (absent manifest error) be deemed final, binding and conclusive on the applicable Borrowers in all respects as to all matters reflected therein.  Only those items expressly objected to in such notice shall be deemed to be disputed by the applicable Borrowers.  Notwithstanding any provision herein contained to the contrary, any Lender may elect (which election may be revoked) to dispense with the issuance of Notes to that Lender and may rely on the applicable Loan Account as evidence of the amount of the applicable Obligations from time to time owing to it.  Regardless of whether any Note or Notes are issued, each Borrower promises to pay the Obligations as and when due.

1.13                           Indemnity.

(a)                                  Each Credit Party that is a signatory hereto shall jointly and severally indemnify and hold harmless each of Agent, Lenders and their respective Affiliates, and each such Person’s respective officers, directors, employees, attorneys, agents and representatives, (each, an “Indemnified Person”), from and against any and all suits, actions, proceedings, claims, damages, losses, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and disbursements and other costs of investigation or defense, including those incurred upon any appeal) that may be instituted or asserted against or incurred by any such Indemnified Person as the result of credit having been extended, suspended or terminated under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and the administration of such credit, and in connection with or arising out of the transactions contemplated hereunder and thereunder and any actions or failures to act in connection therewith, including any and all Environmental Liabilities and legal costs and expenses arising out of or incurred in connection with disputes between or among any parties to any of the Loan Documents (collectively, “Indemnified Liabilities”); provided, that no such Credit Party shall be liable for any indemnification to an Indemnified Person to the extent that any such suit, action, proceeding, claim, damage, loss, liability or expense results from that  Indemnified Person’s gross negligence or willful misconduct.  NO INDEMNIFIED PERSON SHALL BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE TO ANY OTHER PARTY TO ANY LOAN DOCUMENT, ANY SUCCESSOR, ASSIGNEE OR THIRD PARTY BENEFICIARY OF SUCH PERSON OR ANY OTHER PERSON ASSERTING CLAIMS DERIVATIVELY THROUGH SUCH PARTY, FOR INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES WHICH MAY BE ALLEGED AS A RESULT OF CREDIT HAVING BEEN EXTENDED, SUSPENDED OR TERMINATED UNDER ANY LOAN DOCUMENT OR AS A RESULT OF ANY OTHER TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREUNDER OR THEREUNDER.

(b)                                 To induce Lenders to provide the LIBOR Rate option on the terms provided herein, if (i) any LIBOR Loans are repaid in whole or in part prior to the last day of any applicable LIBOR Period (whether that repayment is made pursuant to any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or occurs as a result of acceleration, by operation of law or otherwise); (ii) any Borrower shall default in payment when due of the principal amount of or

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interest on any LIBOR Loan; (iii) any Borrower shall refuse to accept any borrowing of, or shall request a termination of, any borrowing of, conversion into or continuation of, LIBOR Loans after Borrower Representative has given notice requesting the same in accordance herewith; or (iv) any Borrower shall fail to make any prepayment of a LIBOR Loan after Borrower Representative has given a notice thereof in accordance herewith, then Borrowers shall indemnify and hold harmless each affected Lender from and against all losses, costs and expenses resulting from or arising from any of the foregoing.  Such indemnification shall include any loss (including loss of margin) or expense arising from the reemployment of funds obtained by it or from fees payable to terminate deposits from which such funds were obtained.  For the purpose of calculating amounts payable to a Lender under this subsection, each Lender shall be deemed to have actually funded its relevant LIBOR Loan through the purchase of a deposit bearing interest at the applicable LIBOR Rate in an amount equal to the amount of that LIBOR Loan and having a maturity comparable to the relevant LIBOR Period; provided, that each Lender may fund each of its LIBOR Loans in any manner it sees fit, and the foregoing assumption shall be utilized only for the calculation of amounts payable under this subsection.  This covenant shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the payment of the Obligations and all other amounts payable hereunder.  As promptly as practicable under the circumstances, each Lender shall provide Borrower Representative with its written calculation of all amounts payable pursuant to this Section 1.13(b), and such calculation shall be binding on the parties hereto unless Borrower Representative shall object in writing within ten (10) Business Days of receipt thereof, specifying the basis for such objection in detail.

1.14                           Access.  Each Credit Party that is a party hereto shall, during normal business hours, from time to time upon one Business Day’s prior notice as frequently as Agent reasonably determines to be appropriate: (a) provide Agent and any of its respective officers, employees and agents access to its properties, facilities, advisors and employees (including officers) of each Credit Party and to the Collateral, (b) permit Agent and any of its officers, employees and agents, to inspect, audit and make extracts from any Credit Party’s books and records, and (c) permit Agent and its officers, employees and agents, to inspect, review, evaluate and make test verifications and counts of the Accounts, Inventory and other Collateral of any Credit Party.  Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything else herein or any other Loan Document to the contrary, if a Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or if access is necessary to preserve or protect the Collateral as determined by Agent, each such Credit Party shall provide such access to Agent and to each Lender at all times and without advance notice.  Furthermore, so long as any Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, Borrowers shall use reasonable efforts to provide Agent and each Lender with access to their suppliers and customers.  Each Credit Party shall make available to Agent and their counsel, as quickly as is possible under the circumstances, originals or copies of all books and records that Agent may reasonably request.  Each Credit Party shall deliver any document or instrument necessary for Agent, as may be reasonably requested from time to time, to obtain records from any service bureau or other Person that maintains records for such Credit Party, and shall maintain duplicate records or supporting documentation on media, including computer tapes and discs owned by such Credit Party.  Agent will give Lenders at least five (5) days’ prior written notice of regularly scheduled audits.  Representatives of other Lenders may accompany Agent’s representatives on regularly scheduled audits at no charge to Borrowers.

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1.15                           Taxes.

(a)                                  All payments by each Credit Party hereunder or under the Notes or under any other Loan Document will be made without setoff, counterclaim or defense.  In addition, any and all payments by each Credit Party hereunder (including any payments made pursuant to Section 12) or under the Notes or under any other Loan Document shall be made, in accordance with this Section 1.15, free and clear of and without deduction for any and all present or future Taxes.  If any Credit Party shall be required by law to deduct any Taxes from or in respect of any sum payable hereunder (including any sum payable pursuant to Section 12) or under the Notes, (i) the sum payable shall be increased as much as shall be necessary so that after making all required withholdings and deductions (including withholdings and deductions applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 1.15) Agent or Lenders, as applicable, receive an amount equal to the sum they would have received had no such withholdings and deductions been made, (ii) such Borrower shall make such withholdings and deductions, and (iii) such Borrower shall pay the full amount deducted to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law.  Within 30 days after the date of any such payment of Taxes, Borrower Representative shall furnish to Agent the original or a certified copy of a receipt evidencing payment thereof.

(b)                                 In addition, each Credit Party agrees to pay any present or future stamp, recording or documentary taxes or any other excise or property taxes, charges or similar levies that arise from any payment made under this Agreement or under any other Loan Document or from the execution, delivery or registration of, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement, the other Loan Documents and any other agreements and instruments contemplated hereby or thereby (“Other Taxes”).  Each Lender agrees that, as promptly as reasonably practicable after it becomes aware of any circumstances referred to above which would result in additional payments under this Section 1.15, it shall notify Borrowers thereof.

(c)                                  Each Credit Party that is a signatory hereto shall jointly and severally indemnify and, within ten (10) days of demand therefor, pay Agent and each Lender for the full amount of Taxes and Other Taxes (including any Taxes imposed by any jurisdiction on amounts payable under this Section 1.15) paid by Agent or such Lender on or with respect to any payment by or on account of any obligation of the Credit Parties hereunder, as appropriate, and any penalties, interest and expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Taxes were correctly or legally asserted.

(d)                                 Each Lender, and the successors and assignees of such Lender, organized under the laws of a jurisdiction outside of the United States (“Foreign Lender”) to whom payments to be made under this Agreement or under the Notes may be exempt from, or eligible for a reduced rate of, United States withholding tax (as applicable) under the law of the jurisdiction in which the relevant Borrower is located or under any tax treaty to which such jurisdiction is a party shall, at the time or times prescribed by applicable law, provide to Borrower Representative (with a copy to Agent) a properly completed and executed IRS Form W-8ECI or Form W-8BEN or other applicable form, certificate or document prescribed by the IRS or the United States.

(e)                                  If any of Agent or any Lender, as applicable, determines, in its sole discretion, that it has received a refund of any Taxes as to which it has been indemnified by the Borrower or with respect to which the Borrower has paid additional amounts pursuant to this

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Section 1.15, it shall pay over such refund to the Borrower (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, by the Borrower under this Section 1.15 with respect to the Taxes giving rise to such refund), net all out-of-pocket expenses of such Agent or Lender and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund).

1.16                           Capital Adequacy; Increased Costs; Illegality.

(a)                                  If any Lender shall have determined that any law, treaty, governmental (or quasi-governmental) rule, regulation, guideline or order regarding capital adequacy, reserve requirements or similar requirements or compliance by any Lender with any request or directive regarding capital adequacy, reserve requirements or similar requirements (whether or not having the force of law), in each case, adopted after the Closing Date, from any central bank or other Governmental Authority increases or would have the effect of increasing the amount of capital, reserves or other funds required to be maintained by such Lender and thereby reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s capital as a consequence of its obligations hereunder, then Borrowers, shall from time to time upon demand by such Lender (with a copy of such demand to Agent) pay to Agent for the account of such Lender, additional amounts sufficient to compensate such Lender for such rate of return reduction.  A certificate as to the amount of that reduction and showing the basis of the computation thereof submitted by such Lender to Borrower Representative and to Agent shall, absent manifest error, be final, conclusive and binding for all purposes.

(b)                                 If, due to either (i) the introduction of or any change in any law or regulation (or any change in the interpretation thereof) or (ii) the compliance with any guideline or request from any central bank or other Governmental Authority (whether or not having the force of law), in each case adopted after the Closing Date, there shall be any increase in the cost to any Lender of agreeing to make or making, funding or maintaining any Loan, then Borrowers shall from time to time, upon demand by such Lender (with a copy of such demand to Agent), pay to Agent for the account of such Lender additional amounts sufficient to compensate such Lender for such increased cost.  A certificate as to the amount of such increased cost, submitted to Borrower Representative and to Agent by such Lender, shall be conclusive and binding on Borrowers for all purposes, absent manifest error.  Each Lender agrees that, as promptly as practicable after it becomes aware of any circumstances referred to above which would result in any such increased cost, the affected Lender shall, to the extent not inconsistent with such Lender’s internal policies of general application, use reasonable commercial efforts to minimize costs and expenses incurred by it and payable to it by Borrowers pursuant to this Section 1.16(b).

(c)                                  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, if the introduction of or any change in any law or regulation (or any change in the interpretation thereof) shall make it unlawful, or any central bank or other Governmental Authority shall assert that it is unlawful, for any Lender to agree to make or to make or to continue to fund or maintain any LIBOR Loan, then, unless that Lender is able to make or to continue to fund or to maintain such LIBOR Loan at another branch or office of that Lender without, in that Lender’s opinion, adversely affecting it or its Loans or the income obtained therefrom, on notice thereof and demand therefor by such Lender to Borrower Representative through Agent (i) the obligation of such Lender to agree to make or to make or to continue to fund or maintain LIBOR Loans shall

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terminate and (ii) each Borrower, in the case of LIBOR Loans that are Loans shall forthwith prepay in full all outstanding LIBOR Loans owing by such Borrowers to such Lender, together with interest accrued thereon, unless Borrower Representative on behalf of such Borrowers, within five (5) Business Days after the delivery of such notice and demand, converts all LIBOR Loans into Index Rate Loans.

(d)                                 Within 15 days after receipt by Borrower Representative of written notice and demand from any Lender (an “Affected Lender”) for payment of additional amounts or increased costs as provided in Sections 1.15(a), 1.15(c), 1.16(a) or 1.16(b), Borrower Representative may, at its option, notify Agent and such Affected Lender of its intention to replace the Affected Lender.  So long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, Borrower Representative, with the consent of Agent, may obtain, at Borrowers’ expense, a replacement Lender (“Replacement Lender”) for the Affected Lender, which Replacement Lender must be reasonably satisfactory to Agent.  If Borrowers obtain a Replacement Lender within 90 days following notice of their intention to do so, the Affected Lender must sell and assign its Loans and Commitments to such Replacement Lender for an amount equal to the principal balance of all Loans held by the Affected Lender and all accrued interest and Fees with respect thereto through the date of such sale; provided, that Borrowers shall have reimbursed such Affected Lender for the additional amounts or increased costs that it is entitled to receive under this Agreement through the date of such sale and assignment.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, Borrowers shall not have the right to obtain a Replacement Lender if the Affected Lender rescinds its demand for increased costs or additional amounts within 15 days following its receipt of Borrowers’ notice of intention to replace such Affected Lender.  Furthermore, if Borrowers give a notice of intention to replace and do not so replace such Affected Lender within 90 days thereafter, Borrowers’ rights under this Section 1.16(d) shall terminate and Borrowers shall promptly pay all increased costs or additional amounts demanded by such Affected Lender pursuant to Sections 1.15(a), 1.16(a) and 1.16(b).  Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to a Lender that is an Impacted Lender, Borrowers or Agent (in consultation with Borrowers) may (but shall have no obligation to) obtain a Replacement Lender and execute an Assignment Agreement on behalf of such Impacted Lender at any time and without prior notice to such Impacted Lender.

1.17                           Single Loan.  All Loans to Borrowers and all of the other Obligations of Borrowers arising under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall constitute one general obligation of Borrowers secured, until the Termination Date, by all of the Collateral.

2.                                       CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

2.1                                 Conditions to the Initial Loans.  No Lender shall be obligated to make any Loan or incur any Letter of Credit Obligations on the Closing Date, or to take, fulfill, or perform any other action hereunder, until the following conditions have been satisfied or provided for in a manner satisfactory to Agent, or waived in writing by Agent and Lenders:

(a)                                  Credit Agreement; Loan Documents.  This Agreement or counterparts hereof shall have been duly executed by, and delivered to, Borrowers, each other Credit Party, Agent and Lenders; and Agent shall have received such documents, instruments, agreements and legal opinions as Agent shall reasonably request in connection with the transactions

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contemplated by this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, including all those listed in the Closing Checklist attached hereto as Annex D, each in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent.

(b)                                 Intentionally Omitted.

(c)                                  Approvals.  Agent shall have received (i) satisfactory evidence that the Credit Parties have obtained all required consents and approvals of all Persons including all requisite Governmental Authorities, to the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and the consummation of the Related Transactions or (ii) an officer’s certificate in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent affirming that no such consents or approvals are required.

(d)                                 Minimum Credit Rating.  Agent shall have received satisfactory evidence that the Revolving Loans and Term Loan B are rated BA1/BB or better by Moody’s and S&P, respectively.

(e)                                  Payment of Fees. Borrowers shall have paid the Fees required to be paid on the Closing Date in the respective amounts specified in Section 1.9 (including the Fees specified in the GE Capital Fee Letter), and shall have reimbursed Agent for all fees, costs and expenses of closing presented as of the Closing Date in accordance with the GE Capital Fee Letter and this Agreement.

(f)                                    Intentionally Omitted.

(g)                                 Intentionally Omitted.

(h)                                 Maximum Leverage Ratio.  Agent shall have received satisfactory evidence that the Leverage Ratio as of September 30, 2009, after giving pro forma effect to the Related Transactions, is not greater than 4.00 to 1.00.

(i)                                     Maximum Credit Facility Leverage Ratio.  Agent shall have received satisfactory evidence that the Credit Facility Leverage Ratio as of September 30, 2009, after giving pro forma effect to the Related Transactions, is not greater than 1.85 to 1.00.

2.2                                 Further Conditions to Each Loan.  Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, no Lender shall be obligated to fund any Advance or incur any Letter of Credit Obligation, if, as of the date thereof:

(a)                                  any representation or warranty by any Credit Party contained herein or in any other Loan Document is untrue or incorrect (with respect to any representation or warranty that is not otherwise qualified as to materiality, in any material respect) as of such date, except to the extent that such representation or warranty expressly relates to an earlier date and except for changes therein expressly permitted or expressly contemplated by this Agreement;

(b)                                 any event or circumstance having a Material Adverse Effect has occurred since the date hereof;

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(c)           any Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result after giving effect to any Advance (or the incurrence of any Letter of Credit Obligation); or

(d)           after giving effect to any Advance (or the incurrence of any Letter of Credit Obligation), the outstanding principal amount of the Revolving Loan would exceed the Maximum Amount less the then outstanding principal amount of the Swing Line Loan.

The request and acceptance by any Borrower of the proceeds of any Advance or the incurrence of any Letter of Credit Obligation shall be deemed to constitute, as of the date thereof, (i) a representation and warranty by Borrowers that the conditions in this Section 2.2  have been satisfied and (ii) a reaffirmation by Borrowers of the provisions set forth in Section 12 and of the granting and continuance of Agent’s Liens pursuant to the Collateral Documents.  The extension of credit by any Lender after the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default shall not result in a waiver of such Default or Event of Default.

3.             REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

To induce Lenders to make the Loans and to incur Letter of Credit Obligations, the Credit Parties executing this Agreement, jointly and severally, make the following representations and warranties to Agent and each Lender with respect to all Credit Parties, each and all of which shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement.

3.1          Corporate Existence; Compliance with Law.  Each Credit Party (a) is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of its respective jurisdiction of incorporation or organization set forth in Disclosure Schedule (3.1); (b) is duly qualified to conduct business and is in good standing in each other jurisdiction where its ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except where the failure to be so qualified would not result in exposure to losses, damages or liabilities which could, in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; (c) has the requisite power and authority and the legal right to own and operate in all material respects its properties, to lease the property it operates under lease and to conduct its business in all material respects as now, heretofore and proposed to be conducted and has the requisite power and authority and the legal right to pledge, mortgage, hypothecate or otherwise encumber the Collateral; (d) subject to specific representations regarding Environmental Laws, has all material licenses, permits, consents or approvals from or by, and has made all material filings with, and has given all material notices to, all Governmental Authorities having jurisdiction, to the extent required for such ownership, operation and conduct; (e) is in compliance with its charter and bylaws or partnership or operating agreement, as applicable; and (f) subject to specific representations set forth herein regarding ERISA, Environmental Laws, tax and other laws, is in compliance with all applicable provisions of law, except where the failure to comply, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

3.2          Executive Offices, Collateral Locations, FEIN.  As of the Closing Date, the current location of each Credit Party’s chief executive office, principal place of business and the warehouses and premises at which any Collateral is located are set forth in Disclosure Schedule (3.2), and, except as set forth on such schedule, none of such locations has changed within the 12

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months preceding the Closing Date.  In addition, Disclosure Schedule (3.2) lists the federal employer identification number and organizational identification number, if any, of each Credit Party.

3.3          Corporate Power, Authorization, Enforceable Obligations.  The execution, delivery and performance by each Credit Party of the Loan Documents to which it is a party and the creation of all Liens provided for therein: (a) are within such Person’s power; (b) have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate, limited liability company or limited partnership action; (c) do not contravene any provision of such Person’s charter, bylaws or partnership or operating agreement as applicable; (d) do not violate any law or regulation, or any order or decree of any court or Governmental Authority; (e) except as set forth on Disclosure Schedule (3.3(e)), do not conflict with or result in the breach or termination of, constitute a default under or accelerate or permit the acceleration of any performance required by, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, lease, agreement or other instrument to which such Person is a party or by which such Person or any of its property is bound; (f) do not result in the creation or imposition of any Lien upon any of the property of such Person other than those in favor of Agent pursuant to the Loan Documents; and (g) do not require the consent or approval of any Governmental Authority or any other Person, except those which will have been duly obtained, made or complied with prior to the Closing Date pursuant to Section 2.1(c).  Each of the Loan Documents shall be duly executed and delivered by each Credit Party that is a party thereto and each such Loan Document shall constitute a legal, valid and binding obligation of such Credit Party enforceable against it in accordance with its terms.

3.4          Financial Statements and Projections.  Except for the Projections, all Financial Statements concerning Holdings and its Subsidiaries that are referred to below have been prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the periods covered (except as disclosed therein and except, with respect to unaudited Financial Statements, for the absence of footnotes and normal year-end audit adjustments) and present fairly in all material respects the financial position of the Persons covered thereby as at the dates thereof and the results of their operations and cash flows for the periods then ended.

(a)           Financial Statements.  The following Financial Statements attached hereto as Disclosure Schedule (3.4(a)) have been delivered on the date hereof:

(i)            The audited consolidated balance sheets at December 31, 2007 and 2008 and the related statements of income and cash flows of Holdings and its Subsidiaries for the Fiscal Years then ended, certified by Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP.

(ii)           The unaudited balance sheet(s) at September 30, 2009 and the related statement(s) of income and cash flows of Holdings and its Subsidiaries for the Fiscal Month then ended.

(b)           Pro Forma.  The Pro Forma delivered on the date hereof and attached hereto as Disclosure Schedule (3.4(b)) was prepared by Holdings giving pro forma effect to the Related Transactions, was based on the unaudited consolidated balance sheets of Holdings and its Subsidiaries dated September 30, 2009, and was prepared in accordance with GAAP, with only such adjustments thereto as would be required in accordance with GAAP.

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(c)           Projections.  The Projections delivered on the date hereof and attached hereto as Disclosure Schedule (3.4(c)) have been prepared by Holdings in light of the past operations of their businesses and reflect projections for the period beginning on October 1, 2009 and continuing through December 31, 2012 on a quarter-by-quarter basis for periods in calendar years 2009 and 2010 and on a year-by-year basis thereafter.  The Projections are based upon estimates and assumptions stated therein, all of which Borrowers believe to be reasonable and fair in light of current conditions and current facts known to Borrowers and, as of the Closing Date, reflect Borrowers’ good faith and reasonable estimates of the future financial performance of Borrowers and of the other information projected therein for the period set forth therein.

3.5          Material Adverse Effect.  Between December 31, 2008 and the Closing Date: (a) no Credit Party has incurred any obligations, contingent or noncontingent liabilities, liabilities for Charges, long-term leases or unusual forward or long-term commitments that are not reflected in the Pro Forma and that, alone or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (b) no contract, lease or other agreement or instrument has been entered into by any Credit Party or has become binding upon any Credit Party’s assets and no law or regulation applicable to any Credit Party has been adopted that has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and (c) no Credit Party is in default and to the best of Borrowers’ knowledge no third party is in default under any material contract, lease or other agreement or instrument, that alone or in the aggregate could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.  Between December 31, 2008 and the Closing Date no event has occurred, that alone or together with other events, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

3.6          Ownership of Property; Liens.  As of the Closing Date, the real estate (“Real Estate”) listed in Disclosure Schedule (3.6) constitutes all of the real property owned, leased, subleased, or used by any Credit Party.  Except as set forth in the title insurance policies accepted by Agent, each Credit Party owns good and marketable fee simple title to all of its material owned Real Estate (including, without limitation, the Mortgaged Properties), and valid and marketable leasehold interests in all of its material leased Real Estate, all as described on Disclosure Schedule (3.6), and copies of all such leases or a summary of terms thereof reasonably satisfactory to Agent have been delivered to Agent.  Disclosure Schedule (3.6) further describes any Real Estate with respect to which any Credit Party is a lessor, sublessor or assignor as of the Closing Date.  Except as set forth in the title insurance policies accepted by Agent with respect to each of the Mortgages and immaterial defects in title, each Credit Party also has good and marketable title to, or valid leasehold interests in, all of its material personal property and assets.  As of the Closing Date, none of the properties and assets of any Credit Party are subject to any Liens other than Permitted Encumbrances, and there are no facts, circumstances or conditions known to any Credit Party that may result in any Liens (including Liens arising under Environmental Laws) other than Permitted Encumbrances.  Except as set forth in Disclosure Schedule (3.6) or in the title insurance policies accepted by Agent with respect to each of the Mortgages, each Credit Party has received all deeds, assignments, waivers, consents, nondisturbance and attornment or similar agreements, bills of sale and other documents, and has duly effected all recordings, filings and other actions necessary to establish, protect and perfect such Credit Party’s right, title and interest in and to all such Real Estate and other properties and assets.  Disclosure Schedule (3.6) also describes any purchase options, rights of first refusal or other similar contractual rights pertaining to any Real Estate.  As of the Closing Date, no portion

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of any Credit Party’s Real Estate has suffered any material damage by fire or other casualty loss that has not heretofore been repaired and restored in all material respects to its original condition or otherwise remedied.  As of the Closing Date, all material permits required to have been issued or appropriate to enable the Real Estate to be lawfully occupied and used for all of the purposes for which it is currently occupied and used have been lawfully issued and are in full force and effect.

3.7          Labor Matters.  As of the Closing Date (a) no strikes or other material labor disputes against any Credit Party are pending or, to any Credit Party’s knowledge, threatened; (b) hours worked by and payment made to employees of each Credit Party comply in all material respects with the Fair Labor Standards Act and each other federal, state, provincial, local or foreign law applicable to such matters; (c) all payments due from any Credit Party for employee health and welfare insurance have been paid or accrued as a liability on the books of such Credit Party; (d) except as set forth in Disclosure Schedule (3.7), no Credit Party is a party to or bound by any collective bargaining agreement, management agreement, consulting agreement, employment agreement, bonus, restricted stock, stock option, or stock appreciation plan or agreement or any similar plan, agreement or arrangement (and true and complete copies of any agreements (or, with respect to employment agreements for employees who are not executive officers, copies of the templates for such employment agreements) described on Disclosure Schedule (3.7) have been delivered to Agent); (e) there is no organizing activity involving any Credit Party pending or, to any Credit Party’s knowledge, threatened by any labor union or group of employees; (f) there are no representation proceedings pending or, to any Credit Party’s knowledge, threatened with the National Labor Relations Board or any other applicable labor relations board, and no labor organization or group of employees of any Credit Party has made a pending demand for recognition; and (g) except as set forth in Disclosure Schedule (3.7), there are no material complaints or charges against any Credit Party pending or, to the knowledge of any Credit Party, threatened to be filed with any Governmental Authority or arbitrator based on, arising out of, in connection with, or otherwise relating to the employment or termination of employment by any Credit Party of any individual.

3.8          Ventures, Subsidiaries and Affiliates; Outstanding Stock and Indebtedness.  Except as set forth in Disclosure Schedule (3.8), as of the Closing Date, no Credit Party has any Subsidiaries, is engaged in any joint venture or partnership with any other Person, or is an Affiliate of any other Person.  All of the issued and outstanding Stock of each Credit Party is owned by each of the Stockholders and in the amounts set forth in Disclosure Schedule (3.8).  Except as set forth in Disclosure Schedule (3.8), there are no outstanding rights to purchase, options, warrants or similar rights or agreements pursuant to which any Credit Party may be required to issue, sell, repurchase or redeem any of its Stock or other equity securities or any Stock or other equity securities of its Subsidiaries.  All outstanding Indebtedness and Guaranteed Indebtedness of each Credit Party as of the Closing Date is permitted by Section 6.3.  None of the Credit Parties other than Borrowers has any assets (except Stock of their Subsidiaries) or, except as set forth on Disclosure Schedule (6.3), any Indebtedness or Guaranteed Indebtedness (except the Obligations).

3.9          Government Regulation.  No Credit Party is an “investment company” or an “affiliated person” of, or “promoter” or “principal underwriter” for, an “investment company,” as such terms are defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940.  No Credit Party is subject to

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regulation under the Federal Power Act, or any other United States or state statute or law that restricts or limits its ability to incur Indebtedness or to perform its obligations hereunder. The making of the Loans by Lenders to Borrowers, the incurrence of the Letter of Credit Obligations on behalf of Borrowers, the application of the proceeds thereof and repayment thereof and the consummation of the Related Transactions will not violate any provision of any such statute or any rule, regulation or order issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission or any other securities regulation authority or securities exchange.

3.10        Margin Regulations.  No Credit Party is engaged, nor will it engage, principally or as one of its important activities, in the business of extending credit for the purpose of “purchasing” or “carrying” any “margin stock” as such terms are defined in Regulation U of the Federal Reserve Board as now and from time to time hereafter in effect (such securities being referred to herein as “Margin Stock”).  No Credit Party owns any Margin Stock, and none of the proceeds of the Loans or other extensions of credit under this Agreement will be used, directly or indirectly, for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any Margin Stock, for the purpose of reducing or retiring any Indebtedness that was originally incurred to purchase or carry any Margin Stock or for any other purpose that might cause any of the Loans or other extensions of credit under this Agreement to be considered a “purpose credit” within the meaning of Regulations T, U or X of the Federal Reserve Board.  No Credit Party will take or permit to be taken any action that might cause any Loan Document to violate any regulation of the Federal Reserve Board.

3.11        Taxes.  All tax returns, reports and statements, including information returns, required by any Governmental Authority to be filed by any Credit Party have been filed with the appropriate Governmental Authority and all Taxes have been paid prior to the date on which any fine, penalty, interest or late charge may be added thereto for nonpayment thereof (or any such fine, penalty, interest, late charge or loss has been paid), excluding Taxes or other amounts being contested in accordance with Section 5.2(b).  Proper and accurate amounts have been withheld by each Credit Party from its respective employees for all periods in full and complete compliance with all applicable United States federal, state, local laws and all applicable foreign laws and such withholdings have been timely paid to the respective Governmental Authorities.  Disclosure Schedule (3.11) sets forth as of the Closing Date (i) those taxable years (A) for which any Credit Party has received notice, in writing, that such Credit Party’s tax returns were to be audited, and (B) for which tax returns are, as of the Closing Date, being audited by the IRS  or any other applicable Governmental Authority, (ii) any assessments or threatened assessments in connection with such audit, and (iii) those taxable years the tax returns for which are otherwise currently outstanding.  Except as described in Disclosure Schedule (3.11), no Credit Party has executed or filed with the IRS or any other domestic or foreign Governmental Authority any agreement or other document extending, or having the effect of extending, the period for assessment or collection of any Taxes.  Except as set forth on Disclosure Schedule (3.11), none of the Credit Parties or any of their respective predecessors are liable for any Taxes: (a) under any agreement (including any tax sharing agreements) or (b) to each Credit Party’s knowledge, as a transferee.  As of the Closing Date, no Credit Party has agreed or been requested to make any adjustment under IRC Section 481(a), by reason of a change in accounting method or otherwise, which would have a Material Adverse Effect.

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3.12        ERISA and Benefit Plans.

(a)           Except with respect to Multiemployer Plans, each Qualified Plan has been determined by the IRS to qualify under Section 401 of the IRC, the trusts created thereunder have been determined to be exempt from tax under the provisions of Section 501 of the IRC, and nothing has occurred that would cause the loss of such qualification or tax-exempt status, except for qualification failures which, in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.  Each Plan is in compliance with the applicable provisions of ERISA and the IRC, including the timely filing of all reports required under the IRC or ERISA, including the statement required by 29 CFR Section 2520.104-23, except for such failures which, in the aggregate, could not reasonably be likely to result in a Material Adverse Effect.  Neither any Credit Party nor ERISA Affiliate has failed to make any contribution or pay any amount due as required by either Section 412 of the IRC or Section 302 of ERISA or the terms of any such Plan, except for contributions and amounts due which, in the aggregate, do not exceed $500,000.  As of the Closing Date, no Lien has been imposed against any Credit Party or ERISA Affiliate under Section 412 of the IRC or Section 302 or 4068 of ERISA.  Neither any Credit Party nor ERISA Affiliate has engaged in a “prohibited transaction,” as defined in Section 406 of ERISA and Section 4975 of the IRC, in connection with any Plan, that would subject any Credit Party to a material tax on prohibited transactions imposed by Section 502(i) of ERISA or Section 4975 of the IRC, except for prohibited transactions or excise taxes which, in the aggregate, could not reasonably be likely to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

(b)           Except as set forth in Disclosure Schedule (3.12) or as could not reasonably be likely to result in a Material Adverse Effect: (i) no Title IV Plan has any Unfunded Pension Liability; (ii) no ERISA Event or event described in Section 4062(e) of ERISA with respect to any Title IV Plan has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur; (iii) there are no pending, or to the knowledge of any Credit Party, threatened claims (other than claims for benefits in the normal course), sanctions, actions or lawsuits, asserted or instituted against any Plan or any Person as fiduciary or sponsor of any Plan; (iv) no Credit Party or ERISA Affiliate has incurred or reasonably expects to incur any liability as a result of a complete or partial withdrawal from a Multiemployer Plan; (v) within the last five years no Title IV Plan of any Credit Party or ERISA Affiliate has been terminated, whether or not in a “standard termination” as that term is used in Section 4041(b)(1) of ERISA, nor has any Title IV Plan of any Credit Party or any ERISA Affiliate (determined at any time within the last five years) with Unfunded Pension Liabilities been transferred outside of the “controlled group” (within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(14) of ERISA) of any Credit Party or ERISA Affiliate (determined at such time); (vi) except in the case of any ESOP, Stock of all Credit Parties and their ERISA Affiliates makes up, in the aggregate, no more than 10% of fair market value of the assets of any Plan measured on the basis of fair market value as of the latest valuation date of any Plan; and (vii) no liability under any Title IV Plan has been satisfied with the purchase of a contract from an insurance company that is not rated AAA by the Standard & Poor’s Corporation or an equivalent rating by another nationally recognized rating agency.

(c)           Intentionally Omitted.

3.13        No Litigation.  No action, claim, lawsuit, demand, investigation or proceeding is now pending or, to the knowledge of any Credit Party, threatened against any Credit Party, before any Governmental Authority or before any arbitrator or panel of arbitrators (collectively, “Litigation”), (a) that challenges any Credit Party’s right or power to enter into or perform any of

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its obligations under the Loan Documents to which it is a party, or the validity or enforceability of any Loan Document or any action taken thereunder, or (b) that has a reasonable risk of being determined adversely to any Credit Party and that, if so determined, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.  Except as set forth on Disclosure Schedule (3.13), as of the Closing Date there is no Litigation pending or, to any Credit Party’s knowledge, threatened, that could reasonably be likely to result in damages in excess of $2,000,000 (net of insurance coverages for such damages) or injunctive relief against, or alleges criminal misconduct of, any Credit Party.

3.14        Brokers.  No broker or finder brought about the obtaining, making or closing of the Loans or the Related Transactions, and no Credit Party or Affiliate thereof has any obligation to any Person in respect of any finder’s or brokerage fees in connection therewith.

3.15        Intellectual Property.  As of the Closing Date, each Credit Party owns or has rights to use all Intellectual Property necessary to continue to conduct its business as now or heretofore conducted by it or proposed to be conducted by it, and each Patent, Trademark, Design, Copyright and License is listed, together with application or registration numbers, as applicable, in Disclosure Schedule (3.15).  Each Credit Party conducts its business and affairs without infringement of or interference with any Intellectual Property of any other Person in any material respect.  Except as set forth in Disclosure Schedule (3.15), no Credit Party is aware of any material infringement claim by any other Person with respect to any Intellectual Property.

3.16        Full Disclosure.  No information contained in this Agreement, any of the other Loan Documents, any Projections, Financial Statements or Collateral Reports or other written reports from time to time delivered hereunder or any written statement furnished by or on behalf of any Credit Party to Agent or any Lender pursuant to the terms of this Agreement contains or will contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omits or will omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements contained herein or therein not misleading in light of the circumstances under which they were made.  The Liens granted to Agent pursuant to the Collateral Documents will at all times be fully perfected first priority Liens in and to the Collateral described therein, subject, as to priority, only to Permitted Encumbrances.

3.17        Environmental Matters.

(a)           Except as set forth in Disclosure Schedule (3.17), as of the Closing Date: (i) the Real Estate is free of contamination from any Hazardous Material except for such contamination that would not adversely impact the value or marketability of such Real Estate and except for such contamination that would not result in Environmental Liabilities that could reasonably be expected to exceed $2,500,000; (ii) no Credit Party has caused to occur any Release of Hazardous Materials on, at, in, under, above, to, from or about any of its Real Estate, except for such Release that would not result in Environmental Liabilities that could reasonably be expected to exceed $2,500,000; (iii) the Credit Parties are and have been in compliance with all Environmental Laws, except for such noncompliance that would not result in Environmental Liabilities which could reasonably be expected to exceed $2,500,000; (iv) the Credit Parties (A) have obtained, (B) possess as valid, uncontested and in good standing, and (C) are in compliance with all Environmental Permits required by Environmental Laws for the operations of their respective businesses as presently conducted or as proposed to be conducted, except where the

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failure to so obtain, possess or comply with such Environmental Permits would not result in Environmental Liabilities that could reasonably be expected to exceed $2,500,000; (v) to the knowledge of any Credit Party, no Credit Party is involved in operations nor are there any facts, circumstances or conditions, including any Releases of Hazardous Materials, and no Credit Party has permitted any current or former tenant or occupant of the Real Estate to engage in any such operations, any of which are likely to result in any Environmental Liabilities of such Credit Party which could reasonably be expected to exceed $2,500,000; (vi) there is no Litigation arising under or related to any Environmental Laws or Environmental Permits or otherwise relating to the release of or exposure to Hazardous Material that seeks damages, penalties, fines, costs or expenses in excess of $2,500,000 or injunctive relief against, or that alleges criminal misconduct by, any Credit Party; (vii) no written notice has been received by any Credit Party identifying it as a “potentially responsible party” or requesting information under CERCLA or analogous state statutes or Canadian federal or provincial statues; and (viii) to the Credit Parties’ knowledge, the Credit Parties have provided to Agent copies of all existing Phase I or Phase II environmental reports or their equivalent, corrective action work plans or reports, on the most recent environmental compliance audits, in each case relating to and in the possession of any Credit Party.

(b)           Each Credit Party hereby acknowledges and agrees that none of Agent, any other secured party under the Loan Documents or any of their respective officers, directors, employees, attorneys, agents and representatives (i) is now, or has ever been, in control of any of the Real Estate or any Credit Party’s affairs, and (ii) has the capacity or the authority through the provisions of the Loan Documents or otherwise to direct or influence any (A) Credit Party’s conduct with respect to the ownership, operation or management of any of its Real Estate, (B) undertaking, work or task performed by any employee, agent or contractor of any Credit Party or the manner in which such undertaking, work or task may be carried out or performed, or (C) compliance with Environmental Laws or Environmental Permits.

3.18        Insurance.  Disclosure Schedule (3.18) lists all insurance policies of any nature maintained, as of the Closing Date, for current occurrences by each Credit Party, as well as a summary of the terms of each such policy.

3.19        Deposit and Disbursement Accounts.  Disclosure Schedule (3.19) lists all banks and other financial institutions at which any Credit Party maintains deposit or other accounts as of the Closing Date, including any Disbursement Accounts, and such Schedule correctly identifies the name, address and telephone number of each depository, the name in which the account is held, a description of the purpose of the account, and the complete account number therefor.

3.20        Government Contracts.  Except as set forth in Disclosure Schedule (3.20), as of the Closing Date, no Credit Party is a party to any contract or agreement in excess of $250,000 with any Governmental Authority and no Credit Party’s Accounts are subject to the Federal Assignment of Claims Act (31 U.S.C. Section 3727) or any similar United States state  or local law.

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Party, threatened termination or cancellation of, or any material adverse modification or change in the business relationship of any Credit Party with any customer or group of customers whose purchases during the preceding 12 months caused them to be ranked among the ten largest customers of such Credit Party or the business relationship of any Credit Party with any supplier material to its operations.

3.22        Agreements and Other Documents.  As of the Closing Date, each Credit Party has provided to Agent or its counsel accurate and complete copies (or summaries) of all of the following agreements or documents to which it is subject and each of which is listed in Disclosure Schedule (3.22):  (a) supply agreements and purchase agreements not terminable by such Credit Party within 60 days following written notice issued by such Credit Party and involving transactions in excess of $5,000,000 per annum; (b) leases of Equipment having a remaining term of one year or longer and requiring aggregate rental and other payments in excess of $1,000,000 per annum; (c) licenses and permits held by the Credit Parties, the absence of which could be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect; (d) instruments and documents evidencing any Indebtedness or Guaranteed Indebtedness of such Credit Party and any Lien granted by such Credit Party with respect thereto; and (e) instruments and agreements evidencing the issuance of any equity securities, warrants, rights or options to purchase equity securities of such Credit Party.

3.23        Solvency.  Both before and after giving effect to (a) the Loans and Letter of Credit Obligations to be made or incurred on the Closing Date or such other date as Loans and Letter of Credit Obligations requested hereunder are made or incurred; (b) the disbursement of the proceeds of such Loans pursuant to the instructions of Borrower Representative; (c) the Refinancing and the consummation of the other Related Transactions; and (d) the payment and accrual of all transaction costs in connection with the foregoing, Holdings and its Subsidiaries are and will be Solvent.

3.24        Status of Holdings.  Prior to the Closing Date, Holdings will not have engaged in any business other than holding the Stock of Blount, Inc. and the issuance of securities to its shareholders or, except as disclosed on Disclosure Schedule (6.3) incurred any Indebtedness or any other liabilities (except in connection with its corporate formation, the Related Transactions Documents and this Agreement).

3.25        Subordinated Debt.  Prior to the Closing Date, Borrowers have delivered to Agent a complete and correct copy of the New Subordinated Debt Documents (including all schedules, exhibits, amendments, supplements, modifications, assignments and all other documents delivered pursuant thereto or in connection therewith).  The subordination provisions of the New Subordinated Debt Documents are enforceable against the holders of the New Subordinated Notes by Agent and Lenders.  All Obligations, including the Letter of Credit Obligations, constitute senior Indebtedness entitled to the benefits of the subordination provisions contained in the New Subordinated Debt Documents.  Borrowers acknowledge that Agent and each Lender are entering into this Agreement and are extending the Commitments in reliance upon the subordination provisions of the New Subordinated Debt Documents and this Section 3.25.

3.26        Senior Debt.  Credit Parties hereby represent and warrant to Agent and Lenders, and hereby declare that, the Obligations constitute “Senior Debt” and “Designated Senior Debt”

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under the New Subordinated Debt Documents and that this Agreement constitutes the “Credit Agreement” and a “Credit Facility” under the New Subordinated Debt Documents.

4.             FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND INFORMATION

4.1          Reports and Notices.

(a)           Each Credit Party executing this Agreement hereby agrees that from and after the Closing Date and until the Termination Date, it shall deliver to Agent or to Agent and Lenders, as required, the Financial Statements, notices, Projections and other information at the times, to the Persons and in the manner set forth in Annex E.

(b)           Each Credit Party executing this Agreement hereby agrees that, from and after the Closing Date and until the Termination Date, it shall deliver to Agent or to Agent and Lenders, as required, the various Collateral Reports at the times, to the Persons and in the manner set forth in Annex F.

4.2          Communication with Accountants.  Each Credit Party executing this Agreement authorizes (a) Agent and, together with Agent, any Lender and (b) so long as an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, each Lender, to communicate directly with such Credit Party’s independent certified or chartered public accountants, including Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP, and authorizes and, at Agent’s request, such Credit Party shall instruct those accountants and advisors to disclose and make available to Agent and each Lender any and all Financial Statements and other supporting financial documents, schedules and information relating to any Credit Party (including copies of any issued management letters) with respect to the business, financial condition and other affairs of any Credit Party; provided, however, that Agent will endeavor to notify Borrowers of any communication with such accountants at any time that no Default or Event of Default exists.

5.             AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS

Each Credit Party executing this Agreement jointly and severally agrees as to all Credit Parties that from and after the date hereof and until the Termination Date:

5.1          Maintenance of Existence and Conduct of Business.  Each Credit Party shall:  do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence and its rights and franchises; continue to conduct its business substantially as now conducted or as otherwise permitted hereunder; at all times maintain, preserve and protect all of its assets and properties used or useful in the conduct of its business, and keep the same in good repair, working order and condition in all material respects (taking into consideration ordinary wear and tear) and from time to time make, or cause to be made, all necessary or appropriate repairs, replacements and improvements thereto consistent with industry practices; and transact business only in such corporate and trade names as are set forth in Disclosure Schedule (5.1) or in such other trade names as shall be disclosed to Agent in writing from time to time.

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5.2           Payment of Charges.

(a)           Subject to Section 5.2(b), each Credit Party shall pay and discharge or cause to be paid and discharged promptly all Charges (other than charges in an aggregate amount not to exceed $500,000 the non-payment of which could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect) payable by it, including (i) Charges imposed upon it, its income and profits, or any of its property (real, personal or mixed) and all Charges with respect to tax, social security, employer contributions and unemployment withholding with respect to its employees, (ii) lawful claims for labor, materials, supplies and services or otherwise, and (iii) all storage or rental charges payable to warehousemen or bailees, in each case, before any thereof shall become past due.

(b)           Each Credit Party may in good faith contest, by appropriate proceedings, the validity or amount of any Charges, Taxes or claims described in Section 5.2(a); provided, that (i) adequate reserves with respect to such contest are maintained on the books of such Credit Party, in accordance with GAAP; (ii) no Lien shall be imposed to secure payment of such Charges (other than payments to warehousemen and/or bailees) that is superior to any of the Liens securing the Obligations and such contest is maintained and prosecuted continuously and with diligence and operates to suspend collection or enforcement of such Charges; (iii) none of the Collateral becomes subject to forfeiture or loss as a result of such contest; (iv) such Credit Party shall promptly pay or discharge such contested Charges, Taxes or claims and all additional charges, interest, penalties and expenses, if any, and shall deliver to Agent evidence reasonably acceptable to Agent of such compliance, payment or discharge, if such contest is terminated or discontinued adversely to such Credit Party or the conditions set forth in this Section 5.2(b) are no longer met; and (v) Agent have not advised Borrowers in writing that Agent reasonably believe that nonpayment or nondischarge thereof could have or result in a Material Adverse Effect.

5.3           Books and Records.  Each Credit Party shall keep adequate books and records with respect to its business activities in which proper entries, reflecting all financial transactions, are made in accordance with GAAP and on a basis consistent with the Financial Statements attached as Disclosure Schedule (3.4(a)).

5.4           Insurance; Damage to or Destruction of Collateral.

(a)           The Credit Parties shall, at their sole cost and expense, maintain the policies of insurance described on Disclosure Schedule (3.18) as in effect on the date hereof or otherwise in form and amounts and with insurers reasonably acceptable to Agent.  Such policies of insurance (or the loss payable and additional insured endorsements delivered to Agent) shall contain provisions pursuant to which the insurer agrees to provide 30 days prior written notice to Agent in the event of any non-renewal, cancellation or amendment of any such insurance policy.  If any Credit Party at any time or times hereafter shall fail to obtain or maintain any of the policies of insurance required above, or to pay all premiums relating thereto, Agent may at any time or times thereafter obtain and maintain such policies of insurance and pay such premiums and take any other action with respect thereto that Agent deems advisable.  Agent shall not have any obligation to obtain insurance for any Credit Party or pay any premiums therefor.  By doing so, Agent shall not be deemed to have waived any Default or Event of Default arising from any Credit Party’s failure to maintain such insurance or pay any premiums therefor.  All sums so disbursed, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, court costs and other charges related thereto,

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shall be payable on demand by Borrowers to Agent and shall be additional Obligations hereunder secured by the Collateral.

(b)           Agent reserves the right at any time upon any change in any Credit Party’s risk profile (including any change in the product mix maintained by any Credit Party or any laws affecting the potential liability of such Credit Party) to require additional forms and limits of insurance to, in Agent’s opinion, adequately protect Agent’s and Lenders’ interests in all or any portion of the Collateral and to ensure that each Credit Party is protected by insurance in amounts and with coverage customary for its industry.  If reasonably requested by Agent, each Credit Party shall deliver to Agent from time to time a report of a reputable insurance broker, reasonably satisfactory to Agent with respect to its insurance policies.

(c)           Each Credit Party shall deliver to Agent, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent, endorsements to (i) all “All Risk” and business interruption insurance naming Agent as loss payee, and (ii) all general liability and other liability policies naming Agent as additional insured.  Each Credit Party irrevocably makes, constitutes and appoints Agent (and all officers, employees or agents designated by Agent), so long as any Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or the anticipated insurance proceeds exceed $5,000,000, as such Credit Party’s true and lawful agent and attorney-in-fact for the purpose of making, settling and adjusting claims under such “All Risk” policies of insurance, endorsing the name of such Credit Party on any check or other item of payment for the proceeds of such “All Risk” policies of insurance and for making all determinations and decisions with respect to such “All Risk” policies of insurance.  Agent shall not have any duty to exercise any rights or powers granted to it pursuant to the foregoing power-of-attorney.  Borrower Representative shall promptly notify Agent of any loss, damage, or destruction to the Collateral in the amount of $2,000,000 or more, whether or not covered by insurance.  After deducting from such proceeds the expenses, if any, incurred by Agent in the collection or handling thereof, Agent may, at its option, apply such proceeds to the reduction of the Obligations in accordance with Section 1.3(d) and Section 1.11(b) or permit or require the applicable Credit Party to use such money, or any part thereof, to replace, repair, restore or rebuild the Collateral in a diligent and expeditious manner with materials and workmanship of substantially the same quality as existed before the loss, damage or destruction.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, if the casualty giving rise to such insurance proceeds could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect and such insurance proceeds do not exceed $10,000,000 in the aggregate or, to the extent that the proceeds from a sale of such assets would have been deemed Excluded Proceeds had such assets been disposed of prior to the loss, Agent shall permit the applicable Credit Party to replace, restore, repair or rebuild the property; provided that if such Credit Party shall not have completed or entered into binding agreements to complete such replacement, restoration, repair or rebuilding within 365 days of such casualty, Agent may apply such insurance proceeds to the Obligations in accordance with Section 1.3(d) and Section 1.11(b).  All insurance proceeds that are to be made available to Borrowers to replace, repair, restore or rebuild the Collateral shall be applied by Agent to reduce the outstanding principal balance of the Revolving Loan (which application shall not result in a permanent reduction of the Revolving Loan Commitment).  All insurance proceeds made available to any Credit Party that is not a Borrower to replace, repair, restore or rebuild Collateral shall be deposited in a cash collateral account.  Thereafter, such funds shall be made available to Borrowers or other Credit Parties, as applicable, to provide funds to replace, repair, restore or

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rebuild the Collateral as follows: (i) Borrower Representative shall request a Revolving Credit Advance to be made to Borrowers or a release from the cash collateral account to be made to Credit Parties in the amount requested to be released; and (ii) so long as the conditions set forth in Section 2.2 have been met, Revolving Lenders shall make such Revolving Credit Advance or, so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, Agent shall release funds from the cash collateral account.  To the extent not used to replace, repair, restore or rebuild the Collateral, such insurance proceeds shall be applied as agreed among the Lenders.

5.5           Compliance with Laws.  Each Credit Party shall comply with all United States federal, state and local laws, regulations and decrees and all foreign laws, regulations and decrees, in each case, applicable to it, including those relating to ERISA, employment and labor matters and Environmental Laws and Environmental Permits, except to the extent that the failure to comply, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

5.6           Supplemental Disclosure.  From time to time as may be reasonably requested by Agent (which request will not be made prior to the second anniversary of the Closing Date or more than once during the term of this Agreement, in each case, absent the occurrence and continuance of a Default or an Event of Default), the Credit Parties shall supplement each Disclosure Schedule hereto, or any representation herein or in any other Loan Document, with respect to any matter hereafter arising that, if existing or occurring at the date of this Agreement, would have been required to be set forth or described in such Disclosure Schedule or as an exception to such representation or that is necessary to correct any information in such Disclosure Schedule or representation which has been rendered inaccurate thereby (and, in the case of any supplements to any Disclosure Schedule, such Disclosure Schedule shall be appropriately marked to show the changes made therein); provided that (a) no such supplement to any such Disclosure Schedule or representation shall amend, supplement or otherwise modify any Disclosure Schedule or representation, or be or be deemed a waiver of any Default or Event of Default resulting from the matters disclosed therein, except as consented to by Agent and Requisite Lenders in writing, and (b) no supplement shall be required or permitted as to representations and warranties that relate solely to the Closing Date.

5.7           Intellectual Property.  Each Credit Party will conduct its business and affairs without infringement of or interference with any Intellectual Property of any other Person in any material respect.

5.8           Environmental Matters.  Each Credit Party shall and shall cause each Person within its control to: (a) conduct its operations and keep and maintain its Real Estate in compliance with all Environmental Laws and Environmental Permits other than noncompliance that could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; (b) implement any and all investigation, remediation, removal and response actions that are appropriate or necessary to comply with Environmental Laws and Environmental Permits pertaining to the presence, generation, treatment, storage, use, disposal, transportation or Release of any Hazardous Material on, at, in, under, above, to, from or about any of its Real Estate; provided, that no Credit Party shall be required to undertake such actions to the extent that its obligations to do so are being contested in good faith and by proper proceedings and adequate reserves therefor have been

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established in accordance with GAAP; (c) notify Agent promptly after such Credit Party becomes aware of any violation of Environmental Laws or Environmental Permits, or any Release on, at, in, under, above, to, from or about any Real Estate, that is reasonably likely to result in Environmental Liabilities in excess of $250,000; and (d) promptly forward to Agent a copy of any written order, notice, request for information or any other written communication or report received by such Credit Party in connection with any violation or Release which is the subject of subpart 5.8(c) above, in each case whether or not the Environmental Protection Agency or any Governmental Authority has taken or threatened any action in connection with any such violation or Release.  If Agent at any time has a reasonable basis to believe that there may be a violation of any Environmental Laws or Environmental Permits by any Credit Party or any Environmental Liability arising thereunder, or a Release of Hazardous Materials on, at, in, under, above, to, from or about any of its Real Estate, that, in each case, is in breach of Section 3.17 or this Section 5.8 and could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, then (i) the relevant Credit Party shall, upon Agent’s written request, cause the performance of such environmental audits including reasonable subsurface sampling of soil and groundwater, and preparation of such environmental reports, at Borrowers’ expense, as Agent may from time to time reasonably request, which shall be conducted by reputable environmental consulting firms reasonably acceptable to Agent and shall be in form and substance reasonably acceptable to Agent and (ii) if, upon Agent’s reasonable request, the relevant Credit Party shall fail to take reasonable steps to commence such audits within 30 days of such request the relevant Credit Party shall permit Agent or its representatives to have access to all Real Estate for the purpose of conducting such environmental audits and testing reasonably appropriate, including subsurface sampling of soil and groundwater; provided, that (x) Agent use a reputable environmental consulting firm reasonably acceptable to the Credit Party, (y) such firm carry appropriate levels of insurance and (z) such audit not unreasonably interfere with the Credit Party’s operations.  Borrowers shall reimburse Agent for the reasonable costs of such audits and tests and the same will constitute a part of the Obligations secured hereunder.

5.9           Landlords’ Agreements, Mortgagee Agreements, Bailee Letters and Real Estate Purchases.  Each Credit Party shall use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain a landlord’s agreement, mortgagee agreement or bailee letter, as applicable, from the lessor of each leased property, mortgagee of owned property or bailee with respect to any warehouse, processor or converter facility or other location where Collateral is stored or located, which agreement or letter shall contain a waiver or subordination of all Liens or claims that the landlord, mortgagee or bailee may assert against the Collateral at that location, and shall otherwise be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to Agent.  After the Closing Date, no real property or warehouse space shall be leased by any Credit Party and no Inventory shall be shipped to a processor or converter under arrangements established after the Closing Date without the prior written consent of Agent or, unless and until a reasonably satisfactory landlord agreement or bailee letter, as appropriate, shall first have been obtained with respect to such location.  Each Credit Party shall timely and fully pay and perform its material obligations under all leases and other agreements with respect to each leased location or public warehouse where any Collateral is or may be located.  To the extent otherwise permitted hereunder, if any Credit Party proposes to acquire a fee ownership interest in Real Estate after the Closing Date, it shall first provide to Agent a mortgage, debenture or deed of trust granting Agent a first priority Lien on such Real Estate, together with environmental audits, mortgage title insurance commitment, real property survey, local counsel opinion(s), and, if required by Agent supplemental casualty insurance and

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flood insurance, and such other documents, instruments or agreements reasonably requested by Agent, in each case, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent.

5.10         Further Assurances.  Each Credit Party executing this Agreement agrees that it shall and shall cause each other Credit Party to, at such Credit Party’s expense and upon request of Agent, duly execute and deliver, or cause to be duly executed and delivered, to Agent such further instruments and do and cause to be done such further acts as may be necessary or proper in the reasonable opinion of Agent to carry out more effectively the provisions and purposes of this Agreement or any other Loan Document.

5.11         Credit Rating.  The Credit Parties shall maintain a public corporate rating and ratings with respect to the credit facilities under this Agreement from both Moody’s and S&P.

5.12         Intentionally Omitted.

5.13         New Subsidiaries.  At the time of the formation of any Subsidiary of any Credit Party or acquisition of a Subsidiary of any Credit Party pursuant to Section 6.1(a), Credit Parties, or any of them, as appropriate, shall (a) cause each such new United States domestic Subsidiary to join this Agreement by providing to Agent a joinder agreement in the form of Exhibit 5.13 hereto (a “Credit Agreement Joinder Agreement”), (b) cause each such new United States domestic Subsidiary to deliver to Agent a supplement to the Guaranty, a supplement to the Security Agreement, a supplement to the Pledge Agreement, and such other security documents (including, without limitation, any mortgage, deed to secure debt or deed of trust where such Subsidiary owns real property) requested by Agent in its discretion, together with appropriate UCC-1 financing statements, all in form and substance satisfactory to Agent and subject to Permitted Encumbrances, (c) with respect to all new Subsidiaries that are owned in whole or in part by a Credit Party, provide to Agent a supplement to the Pledge Agreement or such other Pledge Agreements, in each case, providing for the pledge (subject to Permitted Encumbrances) of the direct and beneficial interests in such new Subsidiary (or, in the case of the pledge of a direct Foreign Subsidiary, 65% of all of the Stock of such Subsidiary) as shall be requested by Agent, together with appropriate certificates and powers or financing statements under the Uniform Commercial Code or other applicable personal property or movable property registries or other documents necessary to perfect such pledge, in form and substance satisfactory to Agent; provided, that no such pledge shall be required with respect to the Stock of a new Foreign Subsidiary of a Credit Party unless and until such Subsidiary has assets with a value of $1,000,000 or more, and (d) provide to Agent all other documentation, including one or more opinions of counsel satisfactory to Agent, which in its opinion is appropriate with respect to such formation and the execution and delivery of the applicable documentation referred to above.  Upon execution and delivery of a Credit Agreement Joinder Agreement by each new United States domestic Subsidiary, such Subsidiary shall become a Credit Party hereunder with the same force and effect as if originally named as a Credit Party herein.  The execution and delivery of any Credit Agreement Joinder Agreement shall not require the consent of any Credit Party or Lender hereunder.  The rights and obligations of each Credit Party hereunder shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding the addition of any Credit Party hereunder.  Any document, agreement or instrument executed or issued pursuant to this Section 5.13 shall be a “Loan Document” for purposes of this Agreement.

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6.             NEGATIVE COVENANTS

Each Credit Party executing this Agreement jointly and severally agrees as to all Credit Parties and their respective Subsidiaries that from and after the date hereof until the Termination Date:

6.1           Mergers, Subsidiaries, Etc.  No Credit Party shall, or shall permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, by operation of law or otherwise,

(a)           form any Subsidiary after the Closing Date; provided, however, that Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries may form new Subsidiaries after the Closing Date so long as (i) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, (ii) each Foreign Subsidiary is at least 80% owned by a Credit Party, (iii) each United States domestic Subsidiary is wholly owned by a Credit Party, (iv) contemporaneously with the formation of any such new Subsidiary, Credit Parties and each new Subsidiary, as applicable, comply with the provisions of Section 5.13; or

(b)           merge with, consolidate with, amalgamate with, acquire all or substantially all of the assets or Stock of, or otherwise combine with or acquire, any Person, except that (i) any Credit Party (other than Holdings) may merge into a Borrower and any Credit Party that is not a Borrower or Holdings may merge into another Credit Party that is not a Borrower or Holdings, provided that Borrower Representative shall be the survivor of any such merger to which it is a party and, in the event of a merger between a Credit Party that is not a Borrower and a Borrower, such Borrower shall be the survivor of any such merger and (ii) any Foreign Subsidiary may merge into another Foreign Subsidiary; provided, however, that Borrower Representative shall provide Agent with 30 days prior written notice of such merger under this clause (iii) and Credit Parties shall deliver to Agent on the date of consummation of any such merger any additional pledge agreements or amendments to the Pledge Agreements as shall be reasonably requested by Agent in connection with such merger.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Credit Party or direct Foreign Subsidiary (so long as, with respect to any acquisition by (A) Holdings, contemporaneously therewith, all assets so acquired are transferred to one or more Credit Parties, and (B) a direct Foreign Subsidiary, such acquisition complies with the limits on acquisitions that involve assets located in a jurisdiction outside of the United States set forth in clause (v) of this Section 6.1(b) and is in the form of an asset acquisition unless the Subsidiary so acquired is contemporaneously therewith merged into a direct Foreign Subsidiary of a Credit Party), may acquire all or substantially all of the assets or Stock of any Person (the “Target”) (in each case, a “Permitted Acquisition”) subject to the satisfaction of each of the following conditions (provided, that condition (vi) may be waived by Agent):

(i)            Agent shall receive at least ten (10) Business Days’ prior written notice of such proposed Permitted Acquisition, which notice shall include a reasonably detailed description of such proposed Permitted Acquisition;

(ii)           such Permitted Acquisition by a Credit Party or a direct Foreign Subsidiary shall comprise a business, or those assets of a business, of a type reasonably related to the type engaged in by Borrowers as of the Closing Date, and which business would not subject Agent or any Lender to regulatory or third party approvals in connection with the exercise of its rights and remedies under this Agreement or any other Loan Documents other than approvals

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applicable to the exercise of such rights and remedies with respect to Borrowers prior to such Permitted Acquisition;

(iii)          such Permitted Acquisition shall be consensual and shall have been approved by the Target’s board of directors;

(iv)          no additional Indebtedness, Guaranteed Indebtedness, contingent obligations or other liabilities shall be incurred, assumed or otherwise be reflected on a consolidated balance sheet of Credit Parties and Target after giving effect to such Permitted Acquisition, except, without duplication, (A) Loans made hereunder, (B) ordinary course trade payables, accrued expenses and unsecured or secured Indebtedness of the Target to the extent no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result after giving effect to such Permitted Acquisition and (C) Indebtedness permitted under Section 6.3(a)(xii) and Section 6.3(a)(xiii);

(v)           the sum of all amounts payable in connection with all Permitted Acquisitions (including all transaction costs and all Indebtedness, liabilities and contingent obligations incurred or assumed in connection therewith or otherwise reflected in a consolidated balance sheet of Borrowers and Target) shall not exceed $125,000,000 per acquisition and $250,000,000 in the aggregate during the term of this Agreement, of which $20,000,000 may be used for acquisitions that involve assets located in a jurisdiction outside of the United States, plus the amount of Stock issued by Holdings to any seller in connection with, and as the purchase price or portion of the purchase price for, any Permitted Acquisition;

(vi)          the Target shall not have incurred an operating loss for the trailing twelve-month period preceding the date of the Permitted Acquisition, as determined based upon the Target’s financial statements for its most recently completed fiscal year and its most recent interim financial period completed within sixty (60) days prior to the date of consummation of such Permitted Acquisition;

(vii)         the business and assets acquired in such Permitted Acquisition shall be free and clear of all Liens (other than Permitted Encumbrances);

(viii)        to the extent the assets being acquired in connection with any Permitted Acquisition are located in the United States, at or prior to the closing of such Permitted Acquisition, Agent will be granted a first priority perfected Lien (subject to Permitted Encumbrances) in all assets acquired pursuant thereto, and Credit Parties shall have executed such documents and taken such actions as may be required by Agent in connection therewith;

(ix)           Concurrently with delivery of the notice referred to in clause (i) above, Borrowers shall have delivered to Agent, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent:

(1)           a pro forma consolidated balance sheet, income statement and cash flow statement of Holdings and its Subsidiaries (the “Acquisition Pro Forma”), based on recent financial statements, which shall be complete and shall fairly present in all material respects the assets, liabilities, financial condition and results of operations of Holdings and its Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP consistently applied, but taking into account such

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Permitted Acquisition and the funding of all Loans in connection therewith, and such Acquisition Pro Forma shall reflect that, on a pro forma basis, (A) no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result after giving effect to such Permitted Acquisition and (B) Borrowers would have been in compliance with the financial covenants set forth in Annex G for the four quarter period reflected in the Compliance Certificate most recently delivered to Agent pursuant to Annex E prior to the consummation of such Permitted Acquisition (after giving effect to such Permitted Acquisition and all Loans funded in connection therewith as if made on the first day of such period);

(2)           updated versions of the most recently delivered Projections covering the 1-year period commencing on the date of such Permitted Acquisition and otherwise prepared in accordance with the Projections (the “Acquisition Projections”) and based upon historical financial data of a recent date reasonably satisfactory to Agent, taking into account such Permitted Acquisition; and

(3)           a certificate of the chief financial officer of Holdings and each Borrower to the effect that: (w) each Borrower (after taking into consideration all rights of contribution and indemnity such Borrower has against Holdings and each other Subsidiary of Holdings) will be Solvent upon the consummation of the Permitted Acquisition; (x) the Acquisition Pro Forma fairly presents the financial condition of Holdings and its Subsidiaries (on a consolidated basis) as of the date thereof after giving effect to the Permitted Acquisition; (y) the Acquisition Projections are reasonable estimates of the future financial performance of Holdings and its Subsidiaries subsequent to the date thereof based upon the historical performance of Holdings and its Subsidiaries and the Target and show that Holdings and its Subsidiaries shall continue to be in compliance with the financial covenants set forth in Annex G for the 3-year period thereafter; and (z) Holdings and Borrowers have completed their due diligence investigation with respect to the Target and such Permitted Acquisition, which investigation was conducted in a manner similar to that which would have been conducted by a prudent purchaser of a comparable business and the results of which investigation were delivered to Agent and Lenders;

(x)            on or prior to the date of such Permitted Acquisition, Agent shall have received, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent, copies of the acquisition agreement and related agreements and instruments, and all opinions, certificates, lien search results and other documents reasonably requested by Agent including those specified in the last sentence of Section 5.9;

(xi)           at the time of such Permitted Acquisition and after giving effect thereto, no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing; and

(xii)          after giving effect to any Permitted Acquisition, the aggregate amount of investments in Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties shall not exceed the amount set forth in Section 6.2(g) (after giving effect to all other investments made under such Section 6.2(g)).

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purchase price of the Permitted Acquisition, including, without limitation, any assumed Indebtedness, is less than or equal to $20,000,000, Borrowers shall not be required to deliver the items required in Section 6.1(b)(ix); provided that Borrowers shall be required to deliver (a) a balance sheet, income statement and cash flow statement of the Target for the Fiscal Year most recently ended and interim financial statements, to the extent available, for the period from the most recently ended Fiscal Year to the date of such Permitted Acquisition, (b) projections of the Target covering the 1 year period commencing on the date of such Permitted Acquisition and (c) a certificate of the chief financial officer of Holdings and each Borrower to the effect that (i) each Borrower (after taking into consideration all rights of contribution and indemnity such Borrower has against Holdings and each other Subsidiary of Holdings) will be Solvent upon the consummation of the Permitted Acquisition, (ii) Holdings and Borrowers have completed their due diligence investigation with respect to the Target and such Permitted Acquisition, which investigation was conducted in a manner similar to that which would have been conducted by a prudent purchaser of a comparable business and the results of which investigation were delivered to Agent and Lenders and (iii) after giving effect to such Permitted Acquisition, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.

6.2           Investments; Loans and Advances.  Except as otherwise expressly permitted by this Section 6, no Credit Party shall, or shall permit any Subsidiary of a Credit Party to, make or permit to exist any investment in, or make, accrue or permit to exist loans or advances of money to, any Person, through the direct or indirect lending of money, holding of securities or otherwise (collectively, “investments”), except that:

(a)           Borrowers and Foreign Subsidiaries may hold investments comprised of notes payable, or stock or other securities issued by Account Debtors to any Borrower or Foreign Subsidiary, as applicable, pursuant to negotiated agreements with respect to settlement of such Account Debtor’s Accounts in the ordinary course of business, so long as the aggregate amount of such Accounts so settled by Borrowers and Foreign Subsidiaries does not exceed $1,000,000;

(b)           each Credit Party may maintain its existing investments in its Subsidiaries as of the Closing Date;

(c)           each Credit Party and any direct Foreign Subsidiary may make any investment that constitutes or is otherwise permitted in connection with a Permitted Acquisition;

(d)           Borrowers may make minority investments in an aggregate amount with respect to all such investments not to exceed $1,000,000 in a Person that is a corporation or limited liability company, subject to the following conditions (in each case, as may be waived by Agent):

(i)            Intentionally Omitted;

(ii)           such corporation or limited liability company shall be formed under the laws of the United States or Canada or any state or province thereof and its assets shall be located in the United States or Canada and comprise a business, or those assets of a business, of the type engaged in by Borrowers as of the Closing Date;

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(iii)          no additional Indebtedness, Guaranteed Indebtedness, contingent obligations or other liabilities shall be incurred, assumed or otherwise be reflected on a consolidated balance sheet of Credit Parties after giving effect to such investment, except (1) Loans made hereunder and (2) Indebtedness permitted under Section 6.3(a)(xiii), and no Credit Party shall have any obligation to make additional investments in such corporation or limited liability company after its initial investment therein;

(iv)          the corporation or limited liability company shall not have incurred an operating loss for the trailing twelve-month period preceding the date of the investment, as determined based upon the corporation or limited liability company’s financial statements for its most recently completed fiscal year and its most recent interim financial period completed within 60 days prior to the date of consummation of such investment;

(v)           at or prior to the closing of any such investment, to the extent not prohibited by the corporate or limited liability company documents, Agent will be granted a first priority perfected Lien (subject to Permitted Encumbrances) in Credit Parties’ interest in such corporation or limited liability company and Credit Parties shall have executed such documents and taken such actions as may be required by Agent in connection therewith;

(vi)          on or prior to the date of such investment, Agent shall have received, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent, copies of the articles of incorporation or formation, by-laws or operating agreement and related agreements and instruments, and all opinions, certificates and other documents reasonably requested by Agent; and

(vii)         at the time of such investment and after giving effect thereto, no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing;

(e)           Foreign Subsidiaries (other than Foreign Subsidiaries operating in Brazil) and, so long as Agent has not delivered an Activation Notice, Borrowers may make investments, subject to Control Letters, with respect to investments of any Credit Party, in favor of Agent or otherwise subject to a perfected security interest in favor of Agent in (i) marketable direct obligations issued or unconditionally guaranteed by the United States of America or Canada or any agency thereof maturing within one year from the date of acquisition thereof, (ii) commercial paper maturing no more than one year from the date of creation thereof and currently having the highest rating obtainable from either S&P or Moody’s, (iii) certificates of deposit maturing no more than one year from the date of creation thereof issued by commercial banks incorporated under the laws of the United States of America or Canada, each having combined capital, surplus and undivided profits of not less than $300,000,000 and having a senior unsecured rating of “A” or better by a nationally recognized rating agency (an “A Rated Bank”), (iv) time deposits maturing no more than thirty (30) days from the date of creation thereof with A Rated Banks, (v) mutual funds that invest solely in one or more of the investments described in clauses (i) through (iv) above, (vi) money market funds that invest substantially in one or more of the investments described in clauses (i) through (iv) above and (vii) substantially similar investments to those set forth in clauses (i) through (vi) above denominated in (A) Euro or Sterling, or (B) other foreign currencies in an aggregate amount not to exceed $5,000,000 (or the applicable Dollar equivalent); provided that references to the

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United States shall be deemed to mean foreign countries having a sovereign rating of “A” or better from either S&P or Moody’s;

(f)            in the case of Foreign Subsidiaries operating in Brazil, Investments made in the ordinary course of business in export notes in Dollars issued by a Brazilian commercial bank with maturities of one year or less from the date of acquisition thereof (or, if export notes are not available, certificates of deposit issued by a Brazilian commercial bank with maturities of one year or less from the date of acquisition thereof and denominated in Brazilian reals swapped for Dollars pursuant to a hedge agreement permitted hereunder) and overnight Investments in short term Brazilian government securities made in the ordinary course of business;

(g)           (i) investments by any Credit Party in another Credit Party, and by any Foreign Subsidiary in another Foreign Subsidiary and (ii) investments by Credit Parties in Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties so long as the aggregate amount of such investments (excluding any such investments that are assumed and exist on the date any Permitted Acquisition is consummated and that are not made, incurred or created in contemplation of or in connection with such Permitted Acquisition) made shall not at any time exceed, in the aggregate, $20,000,000;

(h)           investments in an aggregate amount of up to $15,000,000 in Blount China, so long as no Default or Event of Default exists at the time of such investment or would be caused thereby;

(i)            Intentionally Omitted; and

(j)            other investments not exceeding $7,500,000 in the aggregate at any time outstanding.

6.3           Indebtedness.

(a)           No Credit Party shall, or shall permit any Subsidiary of any Credit Party to, create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Indebtedness, except (without duplication):

(i)            Indebtedness secured by purchase money security interests and Capital Leases permitted in Section 6.7(c),

(ii)           the Loans and the other Obligations,

(iii)          unfunded pension fund and other employee benefit plan obligations and liabilities to the extent they are permitted to remain unfunded under applicable law,

(iv)          the New Subordinated Debt,

(v)           other existing Indebtedness described in Disclosure Schedule (6.3) and refinancings thereof or amendments or modifications thereto that do not have the effect of increasing the principal amount thereof or changing the amortization thereof (other than to extend the same) and that are otherwise on terms and conditions no less favorable to any Credit

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Party, Agent or any Lender, as determined by Agent than the terms of the Indebtedness being refinanced, amended or modified,

(vi)          Indebtedness specifically permitted under Section 6.1,

(vii)         Indebtedness specifically permitted under Section 6.6,

(viii)        Indebtedness specifically permitted under Section 6.17,

(ix)           Indebtedness consisting of intercompany loans and advances made by any Credit Party or Subsidiary of a Credit Party to any other Credit Party; provided, that: (A) each Credit Party shall have executed and delivered to each other Credit Party or Subsidiary of a Credit Party, on the Closing Date, a demand note (collectively, the “Intercompany Notes”) to evidence any such intercompany Indebtedness owing at any time by such Credit Party to such other Credit Party or Subsidiary of a Credit Party which Intercompany Notes shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent and shall be pledged and delivered to Agent pursuant to the applicable Collateral Documents as additional collateral security (subject to Permitted Encumbrances) for the Obligations; (B) each Credit Party shall record all intercompany transactions on its books and records in a manner reasonably satisfactory to Agent; (C) the obligations of each Credit Party under any such Intercompany Notes shall be subordinated to the Obligations of such Credit Party hereunder in a manner reasonably satisfactory to Agent; (D) at the time any such intercompany loan or advance is made by any Credit Party or Subsidiary of a Credit Party to any other Credit Party and after giving effect thereto, each such Credit Party shall be Solvent; and (E) no Default or Event of Default would occur and be continuing after giving effect to any such proposed intercompany loan,

(x)            Indebtedness of Foreign Subsidiaries owed to Credit Parties in an aggregate amount not to exceed $5,000,000 at any time outstanding,

(xi)           Other Indebtedness of Foreign Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount not to exceed $10,000,000 at any time outstanding,

(xii)          Other unsecured Indebtedness (including, without limitation, repurchase obligations arising in connection with financing provided by certain financial institutions to certain dealers with respect to Inventory purchased by such dealers from Credit Parties) in an aggregate amount not to exceed $20,000,000 at any time outstanding; provided, however, that any such other unsecured Indebtedness of Foreign Subsidiaries shall not exceed $10,000,000 in the aggregate at any time outstanding, and

(xiii)         Indebtedness (A) incurred to finance or otherwise in contemplation of any Permitted Acquisition or investment that is unsecured Indebtedness, or (B) assumed as a result of or in connection with any Permitted Acquisition, in an aggregate amount under clauses (A) and (B) of this clause not to exceed $50,000,000, of which up to $20,000,000 of the Indebtedness permitted under clause (B) may be secured Indebtedness; provided, that all assumed Indebtedness by Foreign Subsidiaries permitted pursuant to this clause (xiii), together with the Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 6.3(a)(xi) and Section 6.3(a)(xii), shall not exceed $20,000,000; provided, further, that at the time of such incurrence or assumption of

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Indebtedness and after giving effect thereto, no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.

(b)           No Credit Party shall, directly or indirectly, voluntarily purchase, redeem, defease or prepay any principal of, premium, if any, interest or other amount payable in respect of, or permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, voluntarily purchase, redeem, defease or prepay any principal of, premium, if any, interest or other amount payable in respect of, any Indebtedness, other than:

(i)            the Obligations;

(ii)           Indebtedness secured by a Permitted Encumbrance if the asset securing such Indebtedness has been sold or otherwise disposed of in accordance with Sections 6.8(b) or (c);

(iii)          Indebtedness permitted by Section 6.3(a)(v) upon any refinancing thereof in accordance with Section 6.3(a)(v);

(iv)          other Indebtedness (excluding Subordinated Debt) in an aggregate amount not to exceed $1,000,000; and

(v)           as otherwise permitted in Section 6.14.

6.4           Employee Loans and Affiliate Transactions.

(a)           No Credit Party shall enter into or be a party to any transaction with any other Credit Party or any Affiliate thereof except in the ordinary course of and pursuant to the reasonable requirements of such Credit Party’s business and upon fair and reasonable terms that are no less favorable to such Credit Party than would be obtained in a comparable arm’s length transaction with a Person not an Affiliate of such Credit Party.  In addition, if any Credit Party enters into a new type of material transaction with an Affiliate after the Closing Date, it shall disclose such transaction in advance to Agent and Lenders.  All such material transactions (other than Inventory sales in the ordinary course of business) existing as of the date hereof are described in Disclosure Schedule (6.4(a)).

(b)           No Credit Party shall, or shall permit any Subsidiary of a Credit Party to, enter into any lending or borrowing transaction with any employees of any Credit Party or any such Subsidiaries, except loans to its respective employees in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practices for travel and entertainment expenses, relocation costs and similar purposes up to a maximum of $500,000 in the aggregate at any one time outstanding.

6.5           Capital Structure and Business.  No Credit Party shall, or shall permit any Subsidiary of any Credit Party to, (a) make any changes in any of its business objectives, purposes or operations that could in any way adversely affect the repayment of the Loans or any of the other Obligations or could reasonably be expected to have or result in a Material Adverse Effect, (b) except for mergers or amalgamations among Credit Parties or such Subsidiaries, as applicable, specifically permitted under Section 6.1, make any change in its capital structure as described in Disclosure Schedule (3.8), including the issuance or sale of any shares of Stock

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(except Excluded Stock Issuances), warrants or other securities convertible into Stock or any revision of the terms of its outstanding Stock; provided that Holdings may issue or sell shares of its Stock for cash so long as (i) the proceeds thereof are applied in prepayment of the Obligations as required by Section 1.3(b)(iii), and (ii) no Change of Control occurs after giving effect thereto, or (c) amend its charter or bylaws in a manner that would adversely affect Agent or Lenders or such Credit Party’s duty or ability to repay the Obligations.  No Credit Party shall, or shall permit any Subsidiary of any Credit Party to, engage in any business other than the businesses currently engaged in by it or businesses reasonably related thereto.

6.6           Guaranteed Indebtedness.  No Credit Party shall, or shall permit any Subsidiary of any Credit Party to, create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Guaranteed Indebtedness except (a) by endorsement of instruments or items of payment for deposit to the general account of any Credit Party or such Subsidiary, (b) for Guaranteed Indebtedness incurred for the benefit of any other Credit Party if the primary obligation is expressly permitted by this Agreement and (c) for Guaranteed Indebtedness permitted under Section 6.3(a)(v) or Section 6.3(a)(xii) with respect to repurchase obligations arising in connection with financing provided by certain financial institutions to certain dealers with respect to Inventory purchased by such dealers from Credit Parties.

6.7           Liens.  No Credit Party shall, or shall permit any Subsidiary of any Credit Party to, create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Lien on or with respect to its Accounts or any of its other properties or assets (whether now owned or hereafter acquired) except for, without duplication:

(a)           Permitted Encumbrances;

(b)           Liens in existence on the date hereof and summarized on Disclosure Schedule (6.7) securing the Indebtedness described on Disclosure Schedule (6.3) and permitted refinancings, extensions and renewals thereof, including extensions or renewals of any such Liens; provided that the principal amount of the Indebtedness so secured is not increased and the Lien does not attach to any other property;

(c)           Liens created after the date hereof by conditional sale or other title retention agreements (including Capital Leases) or in connection with purchase money Indebtedness with respect to Equipment and Fixtures acquired by any Credit Party in the ordinary course of business, involving the incurrence of an aggregate amount of purchase money Indebtedness and Capital Lease Obligations of not more than $5,000,000 outstanding at any one time for all such Liens (provided that such Liens attach only to the assets subject to such purchase money debt and such Indebtedness is incurred within 30 days following such purchase and does not exceed 100% of the purchase price of the subject assets); and

(d)           Liens securing Indebtedness permitted under (A) Section 6.3(a)(xi) to the extent such Liens are solely on property of the issuer of such Indebtedness or (B) Section 6.3(a)(xiii)(B) to the extent such Liens are solely on the assets or Stock of the Target or its Subsidiaries.

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In addition, no Credit Party shall become a party to any agreement, note, indenture or instrument, or take any other action, after the date hereof that would prohibit the creation of a Lien on any of its properties or other assets in favor of Agent, on behalf of itself and Lenders, as additional Collateral for the Obligations, except operating leases, Capital Leases or Licenses, or in connection with a Permitted Acquisition with respect to properties or other assets secured by Liens permitted under Section 6.7(d)(B), which prohibit Liens upon the assets that are subject thereto.

6.8           Sale of Stock and Assets.  No Credit Party shall, or shall permit any Subsidiary of any Credit Party to, sell, transfer, convey, assign or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or other assets, including the Stock of any of its Subsidiaries (whether in a public or a private offering or otherwise) or any of its Accounts, other than (a) the sale of Inventory, license of Intellectual Property or the use of cash or cash equivalents, in each case, in the ordinary course of business; (b) the sale, transfer, conveyance or other disposition by a Credit Party or any Foreign Subsidiary of Equipment or Fixtures that are obsolete or no longer used or useful in such Credit Party’s or such Foreign Subsidiary’s business; (c) the sale of all of the Stock or substantially all of the assets of Gear so long as (i) no Default or Event of Default exists or would be caused thereby or (ii) Requisite Lenders otherwise consent to such sale; (d) other assets having a value not exceeding $5,000,000 in the aggregate in any Fiscal Year; and (e) leases and subleases of Real Estate not materially interfering with the ordinary conduct of business of the applicable Credit Parties and otherwise consented to by Agent which consent will not be unreasonably withheld. With respect to any disposition of assets or other properties permitted pursuant to clauses (b), (c), or (d) above, subject to Section 1.3(b), Agent agrees on reasonable prior written notice to release its Lien on such assets or other properties in order to permit the applicable Credit Party to effect such disposition and shall execute and deliver to Borrowers, at Borrowers’ expense, appropriate UCC-3 termination statements and other releases as are reasonably requested by Borrowers.

6.9           ERISA and Benefit Plans.  No Credit Party shall, or shall cause or permit any ERISA Affiliate to, cause or permit to occur an event that could result in the imposition of a Lien under Section 412 of the IRC or Section 302 or 4068 of ERISA other than a Lien under Section 412 of the IRC or Section 302 of ERISA that is permitted under clause (q) of the definition of Permitted Encumbrances or cause or permit to occur an ERISA Event to the extent such ERISA Event could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

6.10         Financial Covenants.  Borrowers shall not breach or fail to comply with any of the Financial Covenants.

6.11         Hazardous Materials.  No Credit Party shall, or shall permit any Subsidiary of any Credit Party to, cause or permit a Release of any Hazardous Material on, at, in, under, above, to, from or about any of the Real Estate where such Release would violate in any respect, or form the basis for any Environmental Liabilities under, any Environmental Laws or Environmental Permits, other than such violations or Environmental Liabilities that could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

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6.12         Sale-Leasebacks.  No Credit Party shall, or shall permit any Subsidiary of any Credit Party to, engage in any sale-leaseback, synthetic lease or similar transaction involving any of its assets.

6.13         Cancellation of Indebtedness.  No Credit Party shall, or shall permit any Subsidiary of any Credit Party to, cancel any claim or debt owing to it, except for reasonable consideration negotiated on an arm’s length basis and in the ordinary course of its business consistent with past practices.

6.14         Restricted Payments.  No Credit Party shall, or shall permit any Subsidiary of a Credit Party to, make any Restricted Payment, except (a) intercompany loans and advances between Credit Parties to the extent permitted by Section 6.3, (b) dividends and distributions by Subsidiaries of any Credit Party paid to a Credit Party or a Subsidiary of a Credit Party, (c) employee loans permitted under Section 6.4(b), (d) payments of principal and interest of Intercompany Notes issued in accordance with Section 6.3; (e) scheduled cash payments of interest with respect to other Subordinated Debt, provided, that (i) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result after giving effect to any Restricted Payment pursuant to clause (e) above, and (ii) with respect to any Subordinated Debt created after the Closing Date, the timing of the Restricted Payments referred to in clause (e) above shall be set at dates that permit the delivery of Financial Statements necessary to determine current compliance with the Financial Covenants prior to each such payment and (f) redemptions of Stock of Holdings and/or dividends and distributions to the holders of the Stock of Holdings in an aggregate amount not to exceed $25,000,000 per year and $100,000,000 during the term of this Agreement, provided, that (i) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result after giving effect to any Restricted Payment under clause (f) above and (ii) after giving effect to such Restricted Payment under clause (f) above, the Credit Facility Leverage Ratio as reflected in the Compliance Certificate most recently delivered to Agent pursuant to Annex E prior to the consummation of such Restricted Payment (after giving effect to such Restricted Payment and all Loans funded in connection therewith as if made on the first date of such period) was not greater than 2.25 to 1.00.

6.15         Change of Corporate Name or Location; Change of Fiscal Year.  No Credit Party shall, or shall permit any Subsidiary of any Credit Party to, (a) change its name, corporate name or trade name as it appears in official filings in the state, province, county or other jurisdiction of its existence, incorporation or other organization (b) change its chief executive office, registered office pursuant to its constituent documents, principal place of business, corporate offices or warehouses or locations at which Collateral is held or stored, or the location of its records concerning the Collateral, (c) change the type of entity that it is, (d) change its organization identification number, if any, issued by its state of incorporation or other organization, or (e) change its state, province, county or other jurisdiction of existence, incorporation or organization, in each case without at least 30 days prior written notice to Agent and after Agent’s written acknowledgment that any reasonable action requested by Agent in connection therewith, including to continue the perfection of any Liens in favor of Agent in any Collateral, has been completed or taken, and provided that any such new location shall be in the continental United States, except that any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party may transfer Collateral having value not exceeding $500,000 in the aggregate from any warehouse or location at which such Collateral is held or stored to any warehouse or location in Mexico.  Without limiting the

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foregoing, no Credit Party shall change its name, identity or corporate structure in any manner that might make any financing, financing change or continuation statement or other applicable perfection filing made in connection herewith or with any other Loan Document seriously misleading within the meaning of Section 9-402(7) of the Code or materially misleading within the meaning of any other applicable law except upon prior written notice to Agent and Lenders and after Agent’s written acknowledgment that any reasonable action requested by Agent in connection therewith, including to continue the perfection of any Liens in favor of Agent in any Collateral, has been completed or taken.  No Credit Party shall, or shall permit any Subsidiary of any Credit Party to, change its Fiscal Year.

6.16         No Impairment of Intercompany Transfers.  No Credit Party shall, or shall permit any Subsidiary of any Credit Party to, directly or indirectly enter into or become bound by any agreement, instrument, indenture or other obligation (other than this Agreement and the other Loan Documents) that could directly or indirectly restrict, prohibit or require the consent of any Person with respect to the payment of dividends or distributions or the making or repayment of intercompany loans by a Subsidiary of any Borrower to any Borrower or between Borrowers.

6.17         No Speculative Transactions.  No Credit Party shall, or shall permit any Subsidiary of any Credit Party to, engage in any transaction involving commodity options, futures contracts or similar transactions, except solely to hedge against fluctuations in the prices of commodities owned or purchased by it and the values of foreign currencies receivable or payable by it and interest swaps, caps or collars.

6.18         Changes Relating to Subordinated Debt; Material Contracts.  No Credit Party shall, or shall permit any Subsidiary of any Credit Party to, change or amend the terms of any Subordinated Debt (or any indenture or agreement in connection therewith) if the effect of such amendment is to: (i) increase the interest rate on such Subordinated Debt; (ii) change the dates upon which payments of principal or interest are due on such Subordinated Debt other than to extend such dates; (iii) change any default or event of default other than to delete or make less restrictive any default provision therein, or add any covenant with respect to such Subordinated Debt; (iv) change the redemption or prepayment provisions of such Subordinated Debt other than to extend the dates therefor or to reduce the premiums payable in connection therewith; (v) grant any security or collateral to secure payment of such Subordinated Debt; (vi) change or amend any subordination terms with respect thereto, including, without limitation, with respect to the New Subordinated Debt Indenture, Article 10 and Section 11.02 thereof; or (vii) change or amend any other term if such change or amendment would materially increase the obligations of the Credit Party or any such Subsidiary thereunder or confer additional material rights on the holder of such Subordinated Debt in a manner adverse to any Credit Party, Agent or any Lender.

7.             TERM

7.1           Termination.  The financing arrangements contemplated hereby shall be in effect until the Commitment Termination Date, and the Loans and all other Obligations shall be automatically due and payable in full on such date.

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(regardless of cause or procedure) of any financing arrangement under this Agreement shall in any way affect or impair the obligations, duties and liabilities of the Credit Parties or the rights of Agent and Lenders relating to any unpaid portion of the Loans or any other Obligations, due or not due, liquidated, contingent or unliquidated, or any transaction or event occurring prior to such termination, or any transaction or event, the performance of which is required after the Commitment Termination Date.  Except as otherwise expressly provided herein or in any other Loan Document, all undertakings, agreements, covenants, warranties and representations of or binding upon the Credit Parties, and all rights of Agent and each Lender, all as contained in the Loan Documents, shall not terminate or expire, but rather shall survive any such termination or cancellation and shall continue in full force and effect until the Termination Date; provided, that the provisions of Section 11, the payment obligations under Sections 1.15 and 1.16, and the indemnities contained in the Loan Documents shall survive the Termination Date.

8.             EVENTS OF DEFAULT; RIGHTS AND REMEDIES

8.1           Events of Default.  The occurrence of any one or more of the following events (regardless of the reason therefor) shall constitute an “Event of Default” hereunder:

(a)           Any Borrower (i) fails to make any payment of principal of, or interest on, or Fees owing in respect of, the Loans or any of the other Obligations when due and payable, or (ii) fails to pay or reimburse Agent or Lenders for any expense reimbursable hereunder or under any other Loan Document within 10 days following Agent’s demand for such reimbursement or payment of expenses.

(b)           Any Credit Party fails or neglects to perform, keep or observe any of the provisions of Sections 1.4, 1.8, 5.4(a) or 6, or any of the provisions set forth in Annexes C or G,  respectively.

(c)           Any Borrower fails or neglects to perform, keep or observe any of the provisions of Section 4 or any provisions set forth in Annexes E or F, respectively, and the same shall remain unremedied for 5 Business Days or more.

(d)           Any Credit Party fails or neglects to perform, keep or observe any other provision of this Agreement or of any of the other Loan Documents (other than any provision embodied in or covered by any other clause of this Section 8.1) and the same shall remain unremedied for 30 days or more from the date any Credit Party knew or should have known of such failure or neglect.

(e)           A default or breach occurs under any other agreement, document or instrument (including, without limitation, the New Subordinated Debt Documents) to which any Credit Party is a party that is not cured within any applicable grace period therefor, and such default or breach (A) involves the failure to make any payment when due in respect of any Indebtedness or Guaranteed Indebtedness (other than the Obligations) of any Credit Party in excess of $5,000,000 in the aggregate (including (x) undrawn committed or available amounts and (y) amounts owing to all creditors under any combined or syndicated credit arrangements), or (B) causes, or permits any holder of such Indebtedness or Guaranteed Indebtedness or a trustee to cause, Indebtedness or Guaranteed Indebtedness or a portion thereof in excess of

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$5,000,000 in the aggregate to become due prior to its stated maturity or prior to its regularly scheduled dates of payment, or cash collateral in respect thereof to be demanded, in each case, regardless of whether such default is waived, or such right is exercised, by such holder or trustee.

(f)            Any representation or warranty herein or in any Loan Document or in any written statement, report, financial statement or certificate made or delivered to Agent or any Lender by any Credit Party is untrue or incorrect in any material respect as of the date when made or deemed made.

(g)           Assets of any Credit Party or any Foreign Subsidiary with a fair market value of $5,000,000 or more are attached, seized, levied upon or subjected to a writ or distress warrant, or come within the possession of any receiver, interim receiver, receiver and manager, trustee, custodian, liquidator, administrator, sheriff, bailiff or assignee for the benefit of creditors of any Credit Party or any such Foreign Subsidiary and such condition continues for 30 days or more.

(h)           An involuntary case or proceeding (including the filing of any notice of intention thereof) is commenced against any Credit Party or any Foreign Subsidiary that is an operating company seeking a decree or order in respect of such Credit Party or such Foreign Subsidiary (i) under any Insolvency Law, or any other applicable federal, state or foreign bankruptcy or other similar law or any incorporation law, (ii) appointing a custodian, receiver, interim receiver, receiver and manager, custodian, liquidator, assignee, trustee or sequestrator (or similar official) for such Credit Party or such Foreign Subsidiary or for any substantial part of any such Credit Party’s or such Foreign Subsidiary’s assets, or (iii) ordering the winding-up, dissolution, suspension of general operations or liquidation of the affairs of such Credit Party or such Foreign Subsidiary, and such case or proceeding shall remain undismissed or unstayed for 60 days or more or a decree or order granting the relief sought in such case or proceeding shall be entered by a court of competent jurisdiction.

(i)            Any Credit Party or Foreign Subsidiary that is an operating company (i) files a petition seeking relief under any Insolvency Law, or any other applicable federal, state or foreign bankruptcy or other similar law, (ii) consents to or fails to contest in a timely and appropriate manner the institution of proceedings referred to in Section 8.1(h) thereunder or the filing of any such petition or the appointment of or taking possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee or sequestrator (or similar official) for such Credit Party or such Foreign Subsidiary or for any substantial part of any such Credit Party’s or such Foreign Subsidiary’s assets, (iii) makes an assignment for the benefit of creditors, (iv) takes any action in furtherance of any of the foregoing or described under Section 8.1(h); or (v) admits in writing its inability to, or is generally unable to, pay its debts as such debts become due.

(j)            A final judgment or judgments for the payment of money in excess of $5,000,000 in the aggregate at any time are outstanding against one or more of the Credit Parties and the same are not, within 30 days after the entry thereof, discharged or execution thereof stayed or bonded pending appeal, or such judgments are not discharged prior to the expiration of any such stay.

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(k)           Any material provision of any Loan Document for any reason ceases to be valid, binding and enforceable in accordance with its terms (or any Credit Party or other Person party to a Loan Document shall challenge the enforceability of any Loan Document or shall assert in writing, or engage in any action or inaction based on any such assertion, that any provision of any of the Loan Documents has ceased to be or otherwise is not valid, binding and enforceable in accordance with its terms), or any Lien created under any Loan Document ceases to be a valid and perfected first priority Lien (except as otherwise permitted herein or therein) in any of the Collateral purported to be covered thereby.

(l)            Any Change of Control occurs.

(m)          Any Material Adverse Effect occurs.

8.2           Remedies.

(a)           To the extent permitted under Section 1.5(e), if any Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, Agent may (and at the written request of Requisite Lenders shall), without notice except as otherwise expressly provided herein, increase the rates of interest applicable to the Loans and the Letter of Credit Fees to the Default Rate.

(b)           If any Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, Agent may (and at the written request of the Requisite Lenders shall) without notice: (i) terminate the Commitments to make additional Advances or incur additional Letter of Credit Obligations (but Lenders may cease funding advances under the Revolving Loan Commitment on any date that any of the conditions precedent set forth in Section 2.2 are not satisfied, whether or not Agent terminates any of the Commitments); (ii) declare all or any portion of the Obligations, including all or any portion of any Loan to be forthwith due and payable, and require that the Letter of Credit Obligations be cash collateralized as provided in Annex B, all without presentment, demand, protest or further notice of any kind, all of which are expressly waived by Borrowers and each other Credit Party; or (iii) exercise all rights and remedies under the Loan Documents, applicable laws of the United States or any state thereof, including, without limitation, all remedies provided under the Code and any other applicable law of any jurisdiction; provided, that upon the occurrence of an Event of Default specified in Sections 8.1(h) or (i), the Commitments to make additional Advances or incur additional Letter of Credit Obligations shall be immediately terminated and all of the Obligations, including the Loans, shall become immediately due and payable without declaration, notice or demand by any Person.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, and if the Requisite Lenders shall not have otherwise instructed Agent to deliver Activation Notices under Annex C and to enforce Credit Parties’ covenants under Annex C, at the request of Requisite Revolving Lenders, Agent shall, without notice, deliver Activation Notices under Annex C and enforce Credit Parties’ covenants under Annex C.

(c)           Intentionally Omitted.

8.3           Waivers by Credit Parties.  Except as otherwise provided for in this Agreement, each Credit Party waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, (including for purposes of Section 12): (a) presentment, demand and protest and notice of presentment, dishonor, notice of

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intent to accelerate, notice of acceleration, protest, default, nonpayment, maturity, release, compromise, settlement, extension or renewal of any or all commercial paper, accounts, contract rights, documents, instruments, chattel paper and guaranties at any time held by Agent on which any Credit Party may in any way be liable, and hereby ratifies and confirms whatever Agent may do in this regard, (b) all rights to notice and a hearing prior to Agent’s taking possession or control of, or to Agent’s replevy, attachment or levy upon, the Collateral or any bond or security that might be required by any court prior to allowing Agent to exercise any of its remedies, and (c) the benefit of all valuation, appraisal, marshaling and exemption laws.  Each Credit Party acknowledges that in the event such Credit Party fails to perform, observe or discharge any of its obligations or liabilities under this Agreement or any other Loan Document, any remedy of law may prove to be inadequate relief to Agent and the Lenders; therefore, such Credit Party agrees, except as otherwise provided in this Agreement or by applicable law, that Agent and the Lenders shall be entitled to temporary and permanent injunctive relief in any such case without the necessity of proving actual damages.

9.             ASSIGNMENT AND PARTICIPATIONS; APPOINTMENT OF AGENT

9.1           Assignments and Participations.

(a)           Intentionally Omitted.

(b)           Right to Assign.  Each Lender may sell, transfer, negotiate or assign all or a portion of its rights and obligations hereunder (including all or a portion of its Commitments and its rights and obligations with respect to Loans and Letters of Credit) to (i) any existing Lender, (ii) any Affiliate or Approved Fund of any existing Lender or (iii) any other Person acceptable (which acceptance shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed) to Agent, and with respect to any assignment of the Revolving Loan or Revolving Loan Commitment, each L/C Issuer, and, as long as no Event of Default is continuing, Borrowers; provided, however, that (x) such sales do not have to be ratable between the Revolving Loan, the Existing Term Loan and the Extending Term Loan but must be ratable among the obligations owing to and owed by such Lender with respect to either the Revolving Loan, the Existing Term Loan or the Extending Term Loan and (y) for both the Revolving Loan, the Existing Term Loan and the Extending Term Loan, the aggregate outstanding principal amount (determined as of the effective date of the applicable Assignment Agreement) of the Loans, Commitments and Letter of Credit Obligations subject to any such sale shall be in a minimum amount of $1,000,000, unless such sale is made to an existing Lender or an Affiliate or Approved Fund of any existing Lender, is of the assignor’s (together with its Affiliates and Approved Funds) entire interest in the Revolving Loan facility or the Term Loan B facility or is made with the prior consent of Borrowers and Agent; provided, further, that such sales or assignments by Non-Funding Lenders shall be subject to Agent’s prior written consent.

(c)           Procedure.  The parties to each sale made in reliance on clause (b) above (other than those described in clause (e) or (f) below) shall execute and deliver to Agent an assignment agreement (an “Assignment Agreement”) substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit 9.1(c) and otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to, and acknowledged by, Agent, via an electronic settlement system designated by Agent (or if previously agreed with Agent, via a manual execution and delivery of the assignment) evidencing such sale, together

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with any existing Note subject to such sale (or any affidavit of loss therefor acceptable to Agent), any tax forms required to be delivered pursuant to Section 1.15 and payment of an assignment fee in the amount of $3,500, provided that (1) if a sale by a Lender is made to an Affiliate or an Approved Fund of such assigning Lender, then no assignment fee shall be due in connection with such sale, and (2) if a sale by a Lender is made to an assignee that is not an Affiliate or Approved Fund of such assignor Lender, and concurrently to one or more Affiliates or Approved Funds of such assignee, then only one assignment fee of $3,500 shall be due in connection with such sale.  Upon receipt of all the foregoing, and conditioned upon such receipt and, if such assignment is made in accordance with Section 9.1(b)(iii), upon Agent (and Borrowers, if applicable) consenting to such Assignment Agreement, such assignment will be effective from and after the effective date specified in such Assignment Agreement.

(d)           Effectiveness.  (i) The assignee under the Assignment Agreement shall become a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations under the Loan Documents have been assigned to such assignee pursuant to such Assignment Agreement, shall have the rights and obligations of a Lender, (ii) any applicable Note shall be transferred to such assignee through such entry and (iii) the assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations under this Agreement have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment Agreement, relinquish its rights (except for those surviving the termination of the Commitments and the payment in full of the Obligations) and be released from its obligations under the Loan Documents, other than those relating to events or circumstances occurring prior to such assignment (and, in the case of an Assignment Agreement covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under the Loan Documents, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto except that each Lender agrees to remain bound by Article 9).

(e)           Grant of Security Interests.  In addition to the other rights provided in this Section 9.1, each Lender may grant a security interest in, or otherwise assign as collateral, any of its rights under this Agreement, whether now owned or hereafter acquired (including rights to payments of principal or interest on the Loans), to (A) any federal reserve bank (pursuant to Regulation A of the Federal Reserve Board), without notice to Agent or (B) any holder of, or trustee for the benefit of the holders of, such Lender’s Securities by notice to Agent; provided, however, that no such holder or trustee, whether because of such grant or assignment or any foreclosure thereon (unless such foreclosure is made through an assignment in accordance with clause (b) above), shall be entitled to any rights of such Lender hereunder and no such Lender shall be relieved of any of its obligations hereunder.

(f)            Participants and SPVs.  In addition to the other rights provided in this Section 9.1, each Lender may, (x) with notice to Agent, grant to an SPV the option to make all or any part of any Loan that such Lender would otherwise be required to make hereunder (and the exercise of such option by such SPV and the making of Loans pursuant thereto shall satisfy the obligation of such Lender to make such Loans hereunder) and such SPV may assign to such Lender the right to receive payment with respect to any Obligation and (y) without notice to or consent from Agent or Borrowers, sell participations to one or more Persons in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under the Loan Documents (including all its rights and obligations with respect to the Existing Term Loan, the Extending Term Loan, the Revolving Loans and the Letters of Credit); provided, however, that, whether as a result of any term of any Loan Document or of such grant or participation, (i) no such SPV or participant shall have a

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commitment, or be deemed to have made an offer to commit, to make Loans hereunder, and, except as provided in the applicable option agreement, none shall be liable for any obligation of such Lender hereunder, (ii) such Lender’s rights and obligations, and the rights and obligations of the Credit Parties and the other Lenders towards such Lender, under any Loan Document shall remain unchanged and each other party hereto shall continue to deal solely with such Lender, which shall remain the holder of the Obligations, except that (A) each such participant and SPV shall be entitled to the benefit of Sections 1.15 and 1.16, but only to the extent such participant or SPV delivers the tax forms such Lender is required to collect pursuant to Section 1.15 and then only to the extent of any amount to which such Lender would be entitled in the absence of any such grant or participation and (B) each such SPV may receive other payments that would otherwise be made to such Lender with respect to Loans funded by such SPV to the extent provided in the applicable option agreement and set forth in a notice provided to Agent by such SPV and such Lender, provided, however, that in no case (including pursuant to clause (A) or (B) above) shall an SPV or participant have the right to enforce any of the terms of any Loan Document, and (iii) the consent of such SPV or participant shall not be required (either directly, as a restraint on such Lender’s ability to consent hereunder or otherwise) for any amendments, waivers or consents with respect to any Loan Document or to exercise or refrain from exercising any powers or rights such Lender may have under or in respect of the Loan Documents (including the right to enforce or direct enforcement of the Obligations), except for those described in clauses (iii) and (iv) of Section 11.2 with respect to amounts, or dates fixed for payment of amounts, to which such participant or SPV would otherwise be entitled and, in the case of participants, except for those described in Section 11.2(c)(viii) (or amendments, consents and waivers with respect to Section 11.2(c)(v) to release all or substantially all of the Collateral).  No party hereto shall institute (and each Borrower shall cause each other Credit Party not to institute) against any SPV grantee of an option pursuant to this clause (f) any bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, liquidation or similar proceeding, prior to the date that is one year and one day after the payment in full of all outstanding commercial paper of such SPV; provided, however, that each Lender having designated an SPV as such agrees to indemnify each Indemnitee against any Liability that may be incurred by, or asserted against, such Indemnitee as a result of failing to institute such proceeding (including a failure to get reimbursed by such SPV for any such Liability).  The agreement in the preceding sentence shall survive the termination of the Commitments and the payment in full of the Obligations.

(g)           Agent shall maintain, acting solely in its capacity as agent for Borrowers, a copy of each Assignment Agreement delivered to them and a register for the recordation of the name and address and the Commitments of each Lender from time to time party hereto (the “Register”).  The entries in the Register shall be conclusive, and Borrowers, Agent and Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement.  Upon acceptance by Agent of a properly completed and executed Assignment Agreement in respect of any interest under this Agreement which has at any time been recorded in the Register, Agent shall record the name, address and percentage share of the assignee in the Register.  No assignment shall be effective unless and until it has been recorded in the Register.

(h)           Nothing contained in this Section 9.1 shall require the consent of any party for GE Capital to assign any of its rights in respect of any Swap Related Reimbursement Obligation.

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9.2           Appointment of Agent.  GE Capital is hereby appointed to act on behalf of all Lenders with respect to the administration of Loans made to Borrowers and to act as agent on behalf of all Lenders with respect to Collateral of Credit Parties under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.  The provisions of this Section 9.2 are solely for the benefit of Agent and Lenders and no Credit Party nor any other Person shall have any rights as a third party beneficiary of any of the provisions hereof.  In performing its functions and duties under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, Agent shall act solely as an agent of Lenders and Agent does not assume or shall not be deemed to have assumed any obligation toward or relationship of agency or trust with or for any Credit Party or any other Person.  Agent shall not have any duties or responsibilities except for those expressly set forth in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.  The duties of Agent shall be mechanical and administrative in nature and Agent shall not have, or be deemed to have, by reason of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or otherwise a fiduciary relationship in respect of any Lender.  Except as expressly set forth in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, Agent shall not have any duty to disclose, nor shall it be liable for failure to disclose, any information relating to any Credit Party or any of their respective Subsidiaries or any Account Debtor that is communicated to or obtained by GE Capital or any of its Affiliates in any capacity.  None of Agent or any of its Affiliates nor any of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents or representatives shall be liable to any Lender for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it hereunder or under any other Loan Document, or in connection herewith or therewith, except for damages caused by its or their own gross negligence or willful misconduct.

If Agent shall request instructions from Requisite Lenders, Requisite Revolving Lenders or all affected Lenders with respect to any act or action (including failure to act) in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document, then Agent shall be entitled to refrain from such act or taking such action unless and until Agent shall have received instructions from Requisite Lenders, Requisite Revolving Lenders or all affected Lenders, as the case may be, and Agent shall not incur liability to any Person by reason of so refraining.  Agent shall be fully justified in failing or refusing to take any action hereunder or under any other Loan Document (a) if such action would, in the opinion of Agent be contrary to law or the terms of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (b) if such action would, in the opinion of Agent expose Agent to Environmental Liabilities or (c) if Agent shall not first be indemnified to its satisfaction against any and all liability and expense which may be incurred by it by reason of taking or continuing to take any such action.  Without limiting the foregoing, no Lender shall have any right of action whatsoever against Agent as a result of Agent acting or refraining from acting hereunder or under any other Loan Document in accordance with the instructions of Requisite Lenders, Requisite Revolving Lenders or all affected Lenders, as applicable.

9.3           Agent’s Reliance, Etc.  None of Agent or any of its Affiliates nor any of their respective directors, officers, agents or employees shall be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it or them under or in connection with this Agreement or the other Loan Documents, except for damages caused by its or their own gross negligence or willful misconduct.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Agent:  (a) may treat the payee of any Note as the holder thereof until Agent receives written notice of the assignment or transfer thereof signed by such payee and in form reasonably satisfactory to Agent; (b) may consult with legal counsel, independent public accountants and other experts selected by it and shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the

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advice of such counsel, accountants or experts; (c) makes no warranty or representation to any Lender and shall not be responsible to any Lender for any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the other Loan Documents; (d) shall not have any duty to ascertain or to inquire as to the performance or observance of any of the terms, covenants or conditions of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents on the part of any Credit Party or to inspect the Collateral (including the books and records) of any Credit Party; (e) shall not be responsible to any Lender for the due execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto or thereto; (f) shall incur no liability under or in respect of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents by acting upon any notice, consent, certificate or other instrument or writing (which may be by telecopy, telegram, cable or telex) believed by it to be genuine and signed or sent by the proper party or parties; and (g) shall be entitled to delegate any of its duties hereunder to one or more sub-agents.

Except for action requiring the approval of Requisite Lenders or all Lenders, as the case may be, Agent shall each be entitled to use its discretion with respect to exercising or refraining from exercising any rights which may be vested in it by, and with respect to taking or refraining from taking any action or actions which it may be able to take under or in respect of, this Agreement, unless Agent shall have been instructed by Requisite Lenders or all Lenders, as the case may be, to exercise or refrain from exercising such rights or to take or refrain from taking such action.  Agent shall not incur any liability to the Lenders under or in respect of this Agreement with respect to anything which it may do or refrain from doing in the reasonable exercise of its judgment or which may seem to it to be necessary or desirable in the circumstances, except for its own gross negligence or willful misconduct.  Agent shall not be liable to any Lender in acting or refraining from acting under this Agreement in accordance with the instructions of Requisite Lenders or all Lenders, as the case may be, and any action taken or failure to act pursuant to such instructions shall be binding on all Lenders.

9.4           GE Capital and Affiliates.  With respect to its Commitments hereunder, GE Capital shall have the same rights and powers under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not Agent; and the term “Lender” or “Lenders” shall, unless otherwise expressly indicated, include GE Capital in its individual capacity.  GE Capital and its Affiliates may lend money to, invest in, and generally engage in any kind of business with, any Credit Party, any of their Affiliates and any Person who may do business with or own securities of any Credit Party or any such Affiliate, all as if GE Capital were not Agent and without any duty to account therefor to Lenders.  GE Capital and its Affiliates may accept fees and other consideration from any Credit Party for services in connection with this Agreement or otherwise without having to account for the same to Lenders.  Each Lender acknowledges the potential conflict of interest between GE Capital, as a Lender, holding disproportionate interests in the Loans and GE Capital as Agent.

9.5           Lender Credit Decision.  Each Lender acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon Agent or any other Lender and based on the Financial Statements referred to in Section 3.4(a) and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit and financial analysis of the Credit Parties and its own decision to enter into this Agreement.  Each Lender also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon Agent or any other Lender and based on such documents and information

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as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement.  Each Lender acknowledges the potential conflict of interest of each other Lender as a result of Lenders holding disproportionate interests in the Loans, and expressly consents to, and waives any claim based upon, such conflict of interest.

9.6           Indemnification.  Lenders agree to indemnify Agent (to the extent not reimbursed by Credit Parties and without limiting the obligations of Borrowers hereunder), ratably according to their respective commitments, from and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever that may be imposed on, incurred by, or asserted against Agent in any way relating to or arising out of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or any action taken or omitted to be taken by Agent in connection therewith; provided, that no Lender shall be liable for any portion of such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements resulting from Agent’s gross negligence or willful misconduct. Without limiting the foregoing, each Lender agrees to reimburse Agent promptly upon demand for its ratable share of any out-of-pocket expenses (including reasonable counsel fees) incurred by Agent in connection with the preparation, execution, delivery, administration, modification, amendment or enforcement (whether through negotiations, legal proceedings or otherwise) of, or legal advice in respect of rights or responsibilities under, this Agreement and each other Loan Document, to the extent that Agent is not reimbursed for such expenses by Credit Parties.

9.7           Successor Agent.  Agent may resign at any time by giving not less than thirty (30) days’ prior written notice thereof to Lenders and Borrower Representative and, at any time that GE Capital is no longer a holder of any Loans or Commitments, Requisite Lenders may remove Agent at any time by giving not less than 30 days’ prior written notice thereof to Agent, Lenders and Borrower Representative.  Upon any such resignation or removal, Requisite Lenders shall have the right to appoint a successor Agent.  If no successor Agent shall have been so appointed by the Requisite Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within thirty (30) days after the resigning Agent’s giving notice of resignation or Requisite Lenders’ giving notice of removal, then the resigning or removed Agent may, on behalf of Lenders, appoint a successor Agent, which shall be a Lender, if a Lender is willing to accept such appointment, or otherwise shall be a commercial bank or financial institution or a subsidiary of a commercial bank or financial institution if such commercial bank or financial institution is organized under the laws of the United States of America or of any State thereof and has a combined capital and surplus of at least $300,000,000.  If no successor Agent has been appointed pursuant to the foregoing, within thirty (30) days after the date such notice of resignation was given by the resigning Agent or Requisite Lenders’ giving notice of removal, such resignation shall become effective and the Requisite Lenders shall thereafter perform all the duties of Agent hereunder until such time, if any, as the Requisite Lenders appoint a successor Agent as provided above.  Any successor Agent appointed by Requisite Lenders hereunder shall be subject to the approval of Borrower Representative, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed; provided that such approval shall not be required if a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.  Upon the acceptance of any appointment as Agent hereunder by a successor Agent, such successor Agent shall succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the resigning or removed Agent.  Upon the earlier of the acceptance of any appointment as Agent hereunder by a successor Agent or the effective date of the resigning Agent’s resignation or the removed Agent’s removal, the resigning or removed Agent shall be discharged

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from its duties and obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, except that any indemnity rights or other rights in favor of such Agent shall continue.  After any Agent’s resignation hereunder, the provisions of this Section 9 shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was acting as Agent under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.

9.8           Setoff and Sharing of Payments.  In addition to any rights now or hereafter granted under applicable law and not by way of limitation of any such rights, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default and subject to Section 9.9(f), each Lender is hereby authorized at any time or from time to time, without notice to any Credit Party or to any other Person, any such notice being hereby expressly waived, to offset and to appropriate and to apply any and all balances held by it at any of its offices for the account of Borrowers or Guarantors (regardless of whether such balances are then due to Borrowers or Guarantors) and any other properties or assets at any time held or owing by that Lender or that holder to or for the credit or for the account of Borrowers or Guarantors against and on account of any of the Obligations that are not paid when due.  Any Lender exercising a right of setoff or otherwise receiving any payment on account of the Obligations shall purchase for cash (and the other Lenders or holders shall sell) such participations in each such other Lender’s or holder’s Obligations as would be necessary to cause such Lender to share the amount so offset or otherwise received with each other Lender or holder in accordance with any agreement among the Lenders (other than offset rights exercised by any Lender with respect to Sections 1.13, 1.15 or 1.16).  Each Lender’s obligation under this Section 9.8 shall be in addition to and not in limitation of its obligations to purchase a participation in an amount equal to its Pro Rata Share of the Swing Line Loans under Section 1.1.  Each Credit Party that is a Borrower or Guarantor agrees, to the fullest extent permitted by law, that (a) any Lender may exercise its right to offset with respect to amounts in excess of the Obligations owed to it and may sell participations in such amounts so offset to other Lenders and holders and (b) any Lender so purchasing a participation in the Loans made or other Obligations held by other Lenders or holders may exercise all rights of offset, bankers’ lien, counterclaim or similar rights with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender or holder were a direct holder of the Loans and the other Obligations in the amount of such participation.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, if all or any portion of the offset amount or payment otherwise received is thereafter recovered from the Lender that has exercised the right of offset, the purchase of participations by that Lender shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored without interest.  If a Non-Funding Lender or Impacted Lender receives any such payment as described in this Section 9.8, such Lender shall turn over such payments to Agent in an amount that would satisfy the cash collateral requirements set forth in Section 9.9(a).

9.9           Advances; Payments; Non-Funding Lenders; Information; Actions in Concert.

(a)           Advances; Payments.

(i)            Lenders with Revolving Loan Commitments shall refund or participate in the Swing Line Loan in accordance with clauses (iii) and (iv) of Section 1.1(c).  If the Swing Line Lender declines to make a Swing Line Loan or if Swing Line Availability is zero, Agent shall notify Lenders with Revolving Loan Commitments, promptly after receipt of a Notice of Revolving Credit Advance and in any event prior to 2:00 p.m. (New York time) on the

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date such Notice of Revolving Advance is received, by telecopy, telephone or other similar form of transmission.  Each Lender with Revolving Loan Commitments shall make the amount of such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of such Revolving Credit Advance available to Agent in same day funds by wire transfer to Agent’s account as set forth in Annex H not later than 3:00 p.m. (New York time) on the requested funding date, in the case of an Index Rate Loan, and not later than 12:00 noon (New York time) on the requested funding date, in the case of a LIBOR Loan.  After receipt of such wire transfers (or, in Agent’s sole discretion, before receipt of such wire transfers), subject to the terms hereof, Agent shall make the requested Revolving Credit Advance to the Borrower designated by Borrower Representative in the Notice of Revolving Credit Advance.  All payments by each Lender shall be made without setoff, counterclaim or deduction of any kind.

(ii)           On the 2nd Business Day of each calendar week or more frequently at Agent’s election (each, a “Settlement Date”), Agent shall advise each Lender by telephone, or telecopy of the amount of such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of principal, interest and Fees paid for the benefit of Lenders.  Provided that each Lender has funded all payments or Advances required to be made by it and has purchased all participations required to be purchased by it under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as of such Settlement Date, Agent shall pay to each Lender such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of principal, interest and Fees paid by Borrowers since the previous Settlement Date for the benefit of such Lender on the Loans held by it.  Agent shall be entitled to set off the funding short-fall against any Non-Funding Lender’s Pro Rata Share of all payments received from Borrowers and hold, in a non-interest bearing account, all payments received by Agent for the benefit of any Non-Funding Lender pursuant to this Agreement as cash collateral for any unfunded reimbursement obligations of such Non-Funding Lender until the Obligations are paid in full in cash, all Letter of Credit Obligations have been discharged or cash collateralized and all Commitments have been terminated, and upon such unfunded obligations owing by a Non-Funding Lender becoming due and payable, Agent shall be authorized to use such cash collateral to make such payment on behalf of such Non-Funding Lender.  Any amounts owing by a Non-Funding Lender to Agent which are not paid when due shall accrue interest at the interest rate applicable during such period to Revolving Loans that are Index Rate Loans.  Such payments shall be made by wire transfer to such Lender’s account (as specified by such Lender in Annex H or the applicable Assignment Agreement) not later than 2:00 p.m. (New York time) on the next Business Day following each Settlement Date.

(b)           Availability of Lender’s Pro Rata Share.  Agent may assume that each Lender will make its Pro Rata Share of each Loan available to Agent on each funding date unless Agent has received prior written notice from such Lender that it does not intend to make its Pro Rata Share of a Loan because all or any of the conditions set forth in Section 2.2 have not been satisfied.  If such Pro Rata Share is not, in fact, paid to Agent by such Lender when due, Agent will be entitled to recover such amount on demand from such Lender without setoff, counterclaim or deduction of any kind.  If any Lender fails to pay the amount of its Pro Rata Share forthwith upon Agent’s demand, Agent shall promptly notify Borrower Representative and Borrowers shall immediately repay such amount to Agent.  Nothing in this Section 9.9(b) or elsewhere in this Agreement or the other Loan Documents shall be deemed to require Agent to advance funds on behalf of any Lender or to relieve any Lender from its obligation to fulfill its Commitments hereunder or to prejudice any rights that Borrowers may have against any Lender

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as a result of any default by such Lender hereunder.  Unless Agent has received prior written notice from a Lender that it does not intend to make its Pro Rata Share of each Loan available to Agent because all or any of the conditions set forth in Section 2.2 have not been satisfied to the extent that Agent advances funds to any Borrower on behalf of such Lender and is not reimbursed therefor on the same Business Day as such Advance is made, Agent shall, without limiting the provisions of Section 9.9(a)(ii), be entitled to retain for its account all interest accrued on such Advance until reimbursed by such Lender.

(c)           Return of Payments.

(i)            If Agent pays an amount to a Lender under this Agreement in the belief or expectation that a related payment has been or will be received by Agent from Borrowers and such related payment is not received by Agent then Agent will be entitled to recover such amount from such Lender on demand without setoff, counterclaim or deduction of any kind.

(ii)           If Agent determines at any time that any amount received by Agent under this Agreement must be returned to any Borrower or paid to any other Person pursuant to any insolvency law or otherwise, then, notwithstanding any other term or condition of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, Agent will not be required to distribute any portion thereof to any Lender.  In addition, each Lender will repay to Agent on demand any portion of such amount that Agent has distributed to such Lender, together with interest at such rate, if any, as Agent is required to pay to any Borrower or such other Person, without setoff, counterclaim or deduction of any kind.

(d)           Non-Funding Lenders.  The failure of any Non-Funding Lender to make any Advance, reimbursement of any Letter of Credit Obligation or any payment required by it hereunder or to purchase any participation in any Swing Line Loan to be made or purchased by it on the date specified therefor shall not relieve any other Lender (each such other Lender, an “Other Lender”) of its obligations to make such Advance or purchase such participation on such date, but none of Agent or any Other Lender, other than as expressly set forth herein shall be responsible for the failure of any Non-Funding Lender to make an Advance, purchase a participation or make any other payment required hereunder.  Notwithstanding anything set forth herein to the contrary, a Non-Funding Lender shall not have any voting or consent rights under or with respect to any Loan Document or constitute a “Lender” or “Lender” (or be, or have its Loans and Commitments, included in the determination of “Requisite Lenders”, “Requisite Revolving Lenders” or “Lenders directly affected” in Section 11.2) for any voting or consent rights under or with respect to any Loan Document.  Moreover, for the purposes of determining Requisite Lenders and Requisite Revolving Lenders, the Loans and the Commitments held by any Non-Funding Lender shall be excluded from the total Loans and Commitments outstanding. At Borrower Representative’s request, Agent or a Person reasonably acceptable to Agent shall have the right with Agent’s consent and in Agent’s sole discretion (but shall have no obligation) to purchase from any Non-Funding Lender that is a Lender, and each such Non-Funding Lender agrees that it shall, at Agent’s request, sell and assign to Agent or such Person, all of the Commitments of that Non-Funding Lender for an amount equal to the principal balance of all Loans held by such Non-Funding Lender and all accrued interest and fees with respect thereto

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through the date of sale, such purchase and sale to be consummated pursuant to an executed Assignment Agreement.

(e)           Dissemination of Information.  Agent shall use reasonable efforts to provide the Lenders with any notice of Default or Event of Default received by it from, or delivered by it to, any Credit Party, with notice of any Event of Default of which it has actually become aware and with notice of any action taken by it following any Event of Default; provided, that Agent shall not be liable to any Lender for any failure to do so, except to the extent that such failure is attributable to Agent’s gross negligence or willful misconduct.  Lenders acknowledge that Borrowers are required to provide Financial Statements and Collateral Reports to Lenders in accordance with Annexes E and F hereto and agree that Agent shall not have any duty to provide the same to Lenders.

(f)            Actions in Concert.  Anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, each Lender hereby agrees with each other Lender that no Lender shall take any action to protect or enforce its rights arising out of this Agreement or the Notes (including exercising any rights of setoff) without first obtaining the prior written consent of Agent and Requisite Lenders, it being the intent of Lenders that any such action to protect or enforce rights under this Agreement and the Notes shall be taken in concert and at the direction or with the consent of Agent or Requisite Lenders; provided, however, that (i) each Lender shall be entitled to file a proof of claim in any proceeding under any Insolvency Law to the extent such Lender disagrees with Agent’s composite proof of claim filed on behalf of all Lenders, (ii) each Lender shall be entitled to vote its claim with respect to any plan of reorganization in any proceeding under any Insolvency Law and (iii) each Lender shall be entitled to pursue its deficiency claim after liquidation of all or substantially all of the Collateral and application of the proceeds therefrom.

9.10         Collateral Matters.

(a)           Lenders hereby irrevocably authorize Agent, at its option and in its sole discretion, to release any Liens upon any Collateral (i) upon the termination of the Commitments and payment and satisfaction in full by Borrowers of all Loans and reimbursement obligations in respect of Letters of Credit, and the termination of all outstanding Letters of Credit (whether or not any of such obligations are due) and all other Obligations; (ii) constituting property being sold or disposed of if Borrowers certify to Agent that the sale or disposition is made in compliance with Section 6.8 (and Agent may rely conclusively on any such certificate, without further inquiry); (iii) constituting property in which Credit Parties owned no interest at the time the Lien was granted or at any time thereafter; or (iv) constituting property leased to Credit Parties under a lease which has expired or been terminated in a transaction permitted under this Agreement.  Except as provided above, Agent will not release any of its Liens without the prior written authorization of the Lenders; provided that Agent may (so long as (x) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, or would result therefrom and (y) Credit Parties have provided evidence to Agent (in form and substance satisfactory to Agent) that EBITDA of Holdings and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis for the most recently ended four fiscal quarters, exclusive of the amount of such EBITDA which is attributable to the assets of Credit Parties so released from the Collateral, would not be less than $85,000,000), in its discretion, release its Liens on Collateral valued in the aggregate for all such releases from and after the

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Closing Date not in excess of $2,500,000 during each Fiscal Year without the prior written authorization of any Lenders and Agent may (so long as (x) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, or would result therefrom and (y) Credit Parties have provided evidence to Agent (in form and substance satisfactory to Agent) that EBITDA of Holdings and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis for the most recently ended four fiscal quarters, exclusive of the amount of such EBITDA which is attributable to the assets of Credit Parties so released from the Collateral, would not be less than $85,000,000) release to release, its Liens on Collateral valued in the aggregate for all such releases from and after the Closing Date greater than $2,500,000 but not in excess of 10% of the aggregate Commitments as of the Closing Date with the prior written authorization of Requisite Lenders.  Upon request by Agent or Borrowers at any time, Lenders will confirm in writing Agent’s authority to release any Liens upon particular types or items of Collateral pursuant to this Section 9.10.

(b)           Upon receipt by Agent of any authorization required pursuant to Section 9.10 from Lenders of Agent’s authority to release any Liens upon particular types or items of Collateral, and upon at least five Business Days’ prior written request by Borrowers, Agent shall (and is hereby irrevocably authorized by Lenders to) execute such documents as may be necessary to evidence the release of its Liens upon such Collateral; provided, however, that (i) Agent shall not be required to execute any such document on terms which, in Agent’s opinion, would expose Agent to liability or create any obligation or entail any consequence other than the release of such Liens without recourse or warranty, and (ii) such release shall not in any manner discharge, affect or impair the Obligations or any Liens (other than those expressly being released) upon (or obligations of Credit Parties in respect of) all interests retained by Credit Parties, including the proceeds of any sale, all of which shall continue to constitute part of the Collateral.

9.11         Additional Agents.  None of the Lenders or other entities identified on the facing page of this Agreement as an “arranger” or “syndication agent” shall have any right, power, obligation, liability, responsibility or duty under this Agreement or any other Loan Document other than those applicable to all Lenders as such.  Without limiting the foregoing, none of the Lenders so identified shall have or be deemed to have any fiduciary relationship with any other Lender.  Each Lender acknowledges that it has not relied, and will not rely, on any of the Lenders or other entities so identified in deciding to enter into this Agreement or any other Loan Document or in taking or not taking action hereunder or thereunder.

9.12         Distribution of Materials to Lenders and L/C Issuers.

(a)           Each Borrower acknowledges and agrees that the Loan Documents and all reports, notices, communications and other information or materials provided or delivered by, or on behalf of, the Borrowers hereunder (collectively, the “Borrower Materials”) may be disseminated by, or on behalf of, Agent, and made available, to the Lenders and the L/C Issuers by posting such Borrower Materials on Intralinks® or a similar E-System (the “Borrower Workspace”).  Each Borrower authorizes Agent to download copies of its logos from its website and post copies thereof on the Borrower Workspace.

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America (U.S.), it shall (and shall cause any such Person, as the case may be, to) (i) identify in writing, and (ii) to the extent reasonably practicable, clearly and conspicuously mark such Borrower Materials that do not contain any information that is (x) not publicly available with respect to the Borrowers (or Holdings or any Subsidiary of Holdings, as the case may be) and (y) is material with respect to the Borrowers (or Holdings or any Subsidiary of Holdings, as the case may be) or their securities for purposes of U.S. federal and state securities laws as “PUBLIC”.  Each Borrower agrees that by identifying such Borrower Materials pursuant to clause (i) of the preceding sentence and/or marking the Borrower Materials as “PUBLIC” pursuant to clause (ii) of the preceding sentence and/or publicly filing such Borrower Materials with the Securities and Exchange Commission, then Agent, the Lenders and the L/C Issuers shall be entitled to treat such Borrower Materials as not containing any material non-public information (“MNPI”) with respect to the Borrowers (or Holdings or any Subsidiary of Holdings, as the case may be) for purposes of U.S. federal and state securities laws.  Each Borrower further represent, warrant, acknowledges and agrees that the following documents and materials shall be deemed to be PUBLIC, whether or not so marked, and do not contain any MNPI: (A) the Loan Documents, including the schedules and exhibits attached thereto, and (B) administrative materials of a customary nature prepared by the Borrowers or Agent (including, notice of borrowings or conversions, L/C and swingline requests).  Before distribution of any Borrower Materials to prospective Lenders and at the request of Agent, each Borrower agrees (and agrees to cause Holdings or any Subsidiary of Holdings, as the case may be) to execute and deliver to Agent a letter in which you authorize distribution of the evaluation materials to prospective Lenders and their employees willing to receive material non-public information, and a separate letter in which you authorize distribution of evaluation material that does not contain material non-public information and represent that no material non-public information is contained therein.

(c)           Each Lender and L/C Issuer represents, warrants, acknowledges and agrees that (i) the Borrower Materials may contain MNPI concerning the Borrowers, their Affiliates or their securities, (ii) it has developed compliance policies and procedures regarding the handling and use of MNPI, and (iii) it shall use any such Borrower Materials in accordance with Section 11.8 and any applicable laws and regulations, including federal and state securities laws and regulations.

(d)           If any Lender or L/C Issuer has elected to abstain from receiving MNPI concerning the Borrowers, their Affiliates or their securities, such Lender or L/C Issuer acknowledges that, notwithstanding such election, Agent and/or the Borrowers will, from time to time, make available syndicate-information (which may contain MNPI) as required by the terms of, or in the course of administering, the credit facilities, including this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, to the credit contact(s) identified for receipt of such information on the Lender’s administrative questionnaire who are able to receive and use all syndicate-level information (which may contain MNPI) in accordance with such Lender’s compliance policies and contractual obligations and applicable law, including federal and state securities laws; provided that if such contact is not so identified in such questionnaire, the relevant Lender or L/C Issuer hereby agrees to promptly (and in any even within one Business Day) provide such a contact to Agent and the Borrowers upon oral or written request therefor by Agent or Borrowers.  Notwithstanding such Lender’s or L/C Issuer’s election to abstain from receiving MNPI, such Lender or L/C Issuer acknowledges that if such Lender or L/C Issuer chooses to communicate

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with Agent, it assumes the risk of receiving MNPI concerning the Borrowers, their Affiliates or their securities.

10.           SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

10.1         Successors and Assigns.  This Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be binding on and shall inure to the benefit of each Credit Party, Agent, Lenders and their respective successors and assigns (including, in the case of any Credit Party, a debtor-in-possession on behalf of such Credit Party), except as otherwise provided herein or therein.  No Credit Party may assign, transfer, hypothecate or otherwise convey its rights, benefits, obligations or duties hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents without the prior express written consent of Agent and Lenders.  Any such purported assignment, transfer, hypothecation or other conveyance by any Credit Party without the prior express written consent of Agent and Lenders shall be void.  The terms and provisions of this Agreement are for the purpose of defining the relative rights and obligations of each Credit Party, Agent and Lenders with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby and no Person shall be a third party beneficiary of any of the terms and provisions of this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents.

11.           MISCELLANEOUS

11.1         Complete Agreement; Modification of Agreement.  The Loan Documents constitute the complete agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter thereof and may not be modified, altered or amended except as set forth in Section 11.2.  Any letter of interest, commitment letter or fee letter (other than the GE Capital Fee Letter) or confidentiality agreement, if any, between any Credit Party and Agent or any Lender or any of their respective Affiliates, predating this Agreement and relating to a financing of substantially similar form, purpose or effect shall be superseded by this Agreement.

11.2         Amendments and Waivers.

(a)           Except for actions expressly permitted to be taken by Agent, no amendment, modification, termination or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or any consent to any departure by any Credit Party therefrom, shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by Borrowers and by Requisite Lenders, Requisite Revolving Lenders or all affected Lenders, as applicable, and delivered to Agent.  Except as set forth in clause (c) below, all such amendments, modifications, terminations or waivers requiring the consent of any Lenders shall require the written consent of Requisite Lenders.

(b)           Intentionally Omitted.

(c)           No amendment, modification, termination or waiver shall, unless in writing and signed by each Lender and Borrowers affected thereby and delivered to Agent: (i) increase the principal amount of any Lender’s Commitment; (ii) reduce the principal of, rate of interest on, composition of interest on (i.e. cash pay or payment-in-kind) or Fees payable with respect to any Loan or Letter of Credit Obligations of any affected Lender; (iii) extend any scheduled payment date (other than payment dates of mandatory prepayments under Section 1.3(b)(ii)-(iv)) or final maturity date of the principal amount of any Loan of any Lender; (iv) 

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waive, forgive, defer, extend or postpone any payment of interest or Fees as to any Lender; (v) release any Credit Party or Guaranty or, except as otherwise permitted herein or in the other Loan Documents, release or subordinate the Lien of Agent in, any Collateral with an aggregate value for all such releases and subordinations from and after the Closing Date exceeding 10% of the aggregate Commitments as of the Closing Date; (vi) change the percentage of the Commitments or of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Loans that shall be required for Lenders or any of them to take any action hereunder; (vii) amend or waive Section 9.10; or (viii) amend or waive this Section 11.2 or the definitions of the terms “Commitment Termination Date”, “Obligations”, “Requisite Lenders” or “Requisite Revolving Lenders” insofar as such definitions affect the substance of this Section 11.2.  Furthermore, no amendment, modification, termination or waiver affecting the rights or duties of Agent or L/C Issuer, or of GE Capital in respect of any Swap Related Reimbursement Obligations, under this Agreement or any other Loan Document, including any release of any Guaranty or Collateral requiring a writing signed by all Lenders, shall be effective unless in writing and signed by Agent or L/C Issuer or GE Capital, as the case may be, in addition to Lenders required hereinabove to take such action.  No amendment, modification, termination or waiver shall be required for Agent to take additional Collateral pursuant to any Loan Document.  No amendment, modification, termination or waiver of any provision of any Note shall be effective without the written concurrence of the holder of that Note.  No notice to or demand on any Credit Party in any case shall entitle such Credit Party or any other Credit Party to any other or further notice or demand in similar or other circumstances.  Any amendment, modification, termination, waiver or consent effected in accordance with this Section 11.2 shall be binding upon each holder of the Obligations at the time outstanding and each future holder of the Obligations.

(d)           If, in connection with any proposed amendment, modification, waiver or termination requiring the consent of all affected Lenders, the consent of any Lender or Lenders whose consent is required is not obtained (any such Lender whose consent is not obtained being referred to as a “Non-Consenting Lender”) then, so long as Agent is not a Non-Consenting Lender, at Borrower Representative’s request, Agent or another Person reasonably acceptable to Agent and Borrower Representative (and, with respect to any Person replacing a Revolving Lender, reasonably acceptable to each L/C Issuer) shall have the right with Agent’s consent and in Agent’s sole discretion (but shall have no obligation) to purchase from such Non-Consenting Lenders, and such Non-Consenting Lenders agree that they shall, upon Agent’s request, sell and assign to Agent or another Person reasonably acceptable to Agent and Borrower Representative (and, with respect to any Person replacing a Revolving Lender, reasonably acceptable to each L/C Issuer), all of the Commitments of such Non-Consenting Lenders for an amount equal to the principal balance of all Loans held by the Non-Consenting Lenders and all accrued interest and Fees with respect thereto through the date of sale, such purchase and sale to be consummated pursuant to an executed Assignment Agreement.

(e)           Upon all Letter of Credit Obligations being cash collateralized, canceled or backed by standby letters of credit in accordance with Annex B, the payment in full in cash and performance of all of the other Obligations (other than indemnification Obligations), termination of the Commitments and a release of all claims against Agent and Lenders, and so long as no suits, actions, proceedings or claims are pending or threatened against any Indemnified Person asserting any damages, losses or liabilities that are Indemnified Liabilities, Agent shall deliver to Borrowers termination statements, mortgage releases and other documents

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necessary or appropriate to evidence the termination of the Liens securing payment of the Obligations.

11.3         Fees and Expenses.  Borrowers shall reimburse (i) Agent for all fees, costs and expenses (including the reasonable fees and expenses of all of its counsel, advisors, consultants and auditors) and (ii) Agent (and, with respect to clauses (c), (d) and (e) below, all Lenders) for all fees, costs and expenses, including the reasonable fees, costs and expenses of counsel or other advisors (including environmental and management consultants and appraisers), incurred in connection with the negotiation and preparation of the Loan Documents and incurred in connection with:

(a)           the forwarding to Borrowers or any other Person on behalf of Borrowers by Agent of the proceeds of any Loan (including a wire transfer fee of $25 per wire transfer);

(b)           any amendment, modification or waiver of, consent with respect to, or termination of, any of the Loan Documents or Related Transactions Documents or advice in connection with the syndication and administration of the Loans made pursuant hereto or its rights hereunder or thereunder;

(c)           any litigation, contest, dispute, suit, proceeding or action (whether instituted by Agent, any Lender, any Borrower or any other Person and whether as a party, witness or otherwise) in any way relating to the Collateral, any of the Loan Documents or any other agreement to be executed or delivered in connection herewith or therewith, including any litigation, contest, dispute, suit, case, proceeding or action, and any appeal or review thereof, in connection with a case commenced by or against any or all of the Borrowers or any other Person that may be obligated to Agent by virtue of the Loan Documents; including any such litigation, contest, dispute, suit, proceeding or action arising in connection with any work-out or restructuring of the Loans during the pendency of one or more Events of Default; provided that in the case of reimbursement of counsel for Lenders other than Agent, such reimbursement shall be limited to one counsel for Lenders; provided, further, that no Person shall be entitled to reimbursement under clauses (c), (d) and (e) in respect of any litigation, contest, dispute, suit, proceeding or action to the extent any of the foregoing results from such Person’s gross negligence or willful misconduct;

(d)           any attempt to enforce any remedies of Agent against any or all of the Credit Parties or any other Person that may be obligated to Agent or any Lender by virtue of any of the Loan Documents, including any such attempt to enforce any such remedies in the course of any work-out or restructuring of the Loans during the pendency of one or more Events of Default; provided, that in the case of reimbursement of counsel for Lenders other than Agent, such reimbursement shall be limited to one counsel for Lenders;

(e)           any waiver, amendment, forbearance, workout or restructuring of the Loans during the pendency of one or more Defaults or Events of Default; provided, that in the case of reimbursement of counsel for Lenders other than Agent, such reimbursement shall be limited to one counsel for Lenders; and

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(f)            efforts to (i) monitor the Loans or any of the other Obligations, (ii) evaluate, observe or assess any of the Credit Parties or their respective affairs, and (iii) verify, protect, evaluate, assess, appraise, collect, sell, liquidate or otherwise dispose of any of the Collateral;

including, as to each of clauses (a) through (f) above, all reasonable attorneys’ and other professional and service providers’ fees arising from such services and other advice, assistance or other representation, including those in connection with any appellate proceedings, and all expenses, costs, charges and other fees incurred by such counsel and others in connection with or relating to any of the events or actions described in this Section 11.3, all of which shall be payable, on demand, by Borrowers to Agent.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, such expenses, costs, charges and fees may include: fees, costs and expenses of accountants, environmental advisors, appraisers, investment bankers, management, financial, turnaround and other consultants and paralegals; court costs and expenses; photocopying and duplication expenses; court reporter fees, costs and expenses; long distance telephone charges; air express charges; telegram or telecopy charges; secretarial overtime charges; and expenses for travel, lodging and food paid or incurred in connection with the performance of such legal or other advisory services.

If at any time Lenders are entitled to receive reimbursement from Borrowers of fees and expenses of counsel for Lenders and Lenders are not able to mutually agree on what counsel to engage to represent Lenders, Requisite Lenders shall be entitled to select counsel to represent Lenders.

11.4         No Waiver.  Agent’s or any Lender’s failure, at any time or times, to require strict performance by the Credit Parties of any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall not waive, affect or diminish any right of Agent or such Lender thereafter to demand strict compliance and performance herewith or therewith.  Any suspension or waiver of an Event of Default shall not suspend, waive or affect any other Event of Default whether the same is prior or subsequent thereto and whether the same or of a different type.  Subject to the provisions of Section 11.2, none of the undertakings, agreements, warranties, covenants and representations of any Credit Party contained in this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents and no Default or Event of Default by any Credit Party shall be deemed to have been suspended or waived by Agent or any Lender, unless such waiver or suspension is by an instrument in writing signed by an officer of or other authorized employee of Agent and the applicable required Lenders, and directed to Borrowers specifying such suspension or waiver.

11.5         Remedies.  Agent’s and Lenders’ rights and remedies under this Agreement shall be cumulative and nonexclusive of any other rights and remedies that Agent or any Lender may have under any other agreement, including the other Loan Documents, by operation of law or otherwise.  Recourse to the Collateral shall not be required.

11.6         Severability.  Wherever possible, each provision of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be interpreted in such a manner as to be effective and valid under applicable law, but if any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall be prohibited by or invalid under applicable law, such provision shall be ineffective only to the

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extent of such prohibition or invalidity without invalidating the remainder of such provision or the remaining provisions of this Agreement or such other Loan Document.

11.7         Conflict of Terms.  Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents by specific reference to the applicable provisions of this Agreement, if any provision contained in this Agreement conflicts with any provision in any of the other Loan Documents, the provision contained in this Agreement shall govern and control.

11.8         Confidentiality.  Agent and each Lender agree to maintain as confidential (using the same degree of care used in maintaining the confidentiality of its own confidential information) all confidential information provided to them by the Credit Parties and designated as confidential for a period of 2 years following the termination of this Agreement, except that Agent and any Lender may disclose such information (a) to Persons employed or engaged by Agent or such Lender; (b) to any bona fide assignee or participant or potential assignee or participant that has agreed to comply with the covenant contained in this Section 11.8 (and any such bona fide assignee or participant or potential assignee or participant may disclose such information to Persons employed or engaged by them as described in clause (a) above); (c) as required or requested by any Governmental Authority or reasonably believed by Agent or such Lender to be compelled by any court decree, subpoena or legal or administrative order or process; (d) as, on the advice of Agent’s or such Lender’s counsel, is required by law; (e) in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy under the Loan Documents or in connection with any Litigation to which Agent or such Lender is a party; or (f) that ceases to be confidential through no fault of Agent or such Lender.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein or in any other written or oral understanding or agreement to which the parties hereto are parties or by which they are bound, the parties acknowledge and agree that (i) any obligations of confidentiality contained herein and therein do not apply and have not applied to the federal tax treatment and federal tax structure of the Loans (the “Transactions”) (and any related transactions or arrangements) from the commencement of discussions between the parties, and (ii) each party (and each of its employees, representatives, or other agents) may disclose to any and all persons, without limitation of any kind, the federal tax treatment and federal tax structure of the Transaction and all materials of any kind (including opinions or other tax analyses) that are provided to such party relating to such tax treatment and tax structure.  The preceding sentence is intended to cause the Transaction to be treated as not having been offered under conditions of confidentiality for purposes of Section 1.6011-4(b)(3) (or any successor provision) of the Treasury Regulations promulgated under Section 6011 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and shall be construed in a manner consistent with such purpose.  Subject to the proviso with respect to disclosure in the first sentence of this paragraph, each party hereto acknowledges that it has no proprietary or exclusive rights to the federal tax structure of the transaction contemplated by this Agreement or any federal tax matter or federal tax idea related to the Transaction.

11.9         GOVERNING LAW.  EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE EXPRESSLY PROVIDED IN ANY OF THE LOAN DOCUMENTS, IN ALL RESPECTS, INCLUDING ALL MATTERS OF CONSTRUCTION, VALIDITY AND PERFORMANCE, THE LOAN DOCUMENTS AND THE OBLIGATIONS SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

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APPLICABLE TO CONTRACTS MADE AND PERFORMED IN THAT STATE AND ANY APPLICABLE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.  EACH CREDIT PARTY HEREBY CONSENTS AND AGREES THAT THE STATE OR FEDERAL COURTS LOCATED IN NEW YORK COUNTY, CITY OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK SHALL HAVE EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION TO HEAR AND DETERMINE ANY CLAIMS OR DISPUTES BETWEEN THE CREDIT PARTIES, AGENT AND LENDERS PERTAINING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OF THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS OR TO ANY MATTER ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OF THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS; PROVIDED, THAT AGENT, LENDERS AND THE CREDIT PARTIES ACKNOWLEDGE THAT ANY APPEALS FROM THOSE COURTS MAY HAVE TO BE HEARD BY A COURT LOCATED OUTSIDE OF NEW YORK COUNTY; PROVIDED FURTHER,  THAT NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE DEEMED OR OPERATE TO PRECLUDE AGENT FROM BRINGING SUIT OR TAKING OTHER LEGAL ACTION IN ANY OTHER JURISDICTION TO REALIZE ON THE COLLATERAL OR ANY OTHER SECURITY FOR THE OBLIGATIONS, OR TO ENFORCE A JUDGMENT OR OTHER COURT ORDER IN FAVOR OF AGENT, AND CREDIT PARTIES MAY MAKE ANY COUNTERCLAIMS RELATING TO THE SAME MATTER, REQUESTS FOR EQUITABLE RELIEF RELATING TO THE SAME MATTER OR AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSES IN CONNECTION THEREWITH.  EACH CREDIT PARTY EXPRESSLY SUBMITS AND CONSENTS IN ADVANCE TO SUCH JURISDICTION IN ANY ACTION OR SUIT COMMENCED IN ANY SUCH COURT, AND EACH CREDIT PARTY HEREBY WAIVES ANY OBJECTION THAT SUCH CREDIT PARTY MAY HAVE BASED UPON LACK OF PERSONAL JURISDICTION, IMPROPER VENUE OR FORUM NON CONVENIENS AND HEREBY CONSENTS TO THE GRANTING OF SUCH LEGAL OR EQUITABLE RELIEF AS IS DEEMED APPROPRIATE BY SUCH COURT.  EACH CREDIT PARTY HEREBY WAIVES PERSONAL SERVICE OF THE SUMMONS, COMPLAINT AND OTHER PROCESS ISSUED IN ANY SUCH ACTION OR SUIT AND AGREES THAT SERVICE OF SUCH SUMMONS, COMPLAINTS AND OTHER PROCESS MAY BE MADE BY REGISTERED OR CERTIFIED MAIL ADDRESSED TO SUCH CREDIT PARTY AT THE ADDRESS SET FORTH IN ANNEX I OF THIS AGREEMENT AND THAT SERVICE SO MADE SHALL BE DEEMED COMPLETED UPON THE EARLIER OF SUCH CREDIT PARTY’S ACTUAL RECEIPT THEREOF OR 3 DAYS AFTER DEPOSIT IN THE UNITED STATES MAILS, PROPER POSTAGE PREPAID.

11.10       Notices.  Except as otherwise provided herein, whenever it is provided herein that any notice, demand, request, consent, approval, declaration or other communication shall or may be given to or served upon any of the parties by any other parties, or whenever any of the parties desires to give or serve upon any other parties any communication with respect to this Agreement, each such notice, demand, request, consent, approval, declaration or other communication shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been validly served, given or delivered: (a) upon the earlier of actual receipt and 3 Business Days after deposit in the United States Mail (if such communication is initiated in the United States) registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, with proper postage prepaid; (b) upon transmission, when sent by telecopy or other similar facsimile transmission (with such telecopy or facsimile promptly confirmed by delivery of a copy by personal delivery or United States Mail or as otherwise provided in this Section 11.10); (c) 1 Business Day after deposit with a reputable overnight courier with all charges prepaid or (d) when delivered, if hand-delivered by messenger, all of

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which shall be addressed to the party to be notified and sent to the address or facsimile number indicated in Annex I or to such other address (or facsimile number) as may be substituted by notice given as herein provided.  The giving of any notice required hereunder may be waived in writing by the party entitled to receive such notice.  Failure or delay in delivering copies of any notice, demand, request, consent, approval, declaration or other communication to any Person (other than Borrower Representative or Agent) designated in Annex I to receive copies shall in no way adversely affect the effectiveness of such notice, demand, request, consent, approval, declaration or other communication.

11.11       Section Titles.  The Section titles and Table of Contents contained in this Agreement are and shall be without substantive meaning or content of any kind whatsoever and are not a part of the agreement between the parties hereto.

11.12       Counterparts.  This Agreement may be executed in any number of separate counterparts, each of which shall collectively and separately constitute one agreement.

11.13       WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL.  THE PARTIES HERETO KNOWINGLY WAIVE ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION, SUIT, OR PROCEEDING BROUGHT TO RESOLVE ANY DISPUTE, WHETHER SOUNDING IN CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, AMONG AGENT, LENDERS AND ANY CREDIT PARTY ARISING OUT OF, CONNECTED WITH, RELATED TO, OR INCIDENTAL TO THE RELATIONSHIP ESTABLISHED AMONG THEM IN CONNECTION WITH, THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OF THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS OR THE TRANSACTIONS RELATED THERETO.

11.14       Press Releases and Related Matters.  Each Credit Party executing this Agreement agrees that neither it nor its Affiliates will in the future issue any press releases or other public disclosure using the name of GE Capital or its affiliates or referring to this Agreement, the other Loan Documents or the Related Transactions Documents without at least 2 Business Days’ prior notice to GE Capital and without the prior written consent of GE Capital unless (and only to the extent that) such Credit Party or Affiliate is required to do so under law and then, in any event, such Credit Party or Affiliate will consult with GE Capital before issuing such press release or other public disclosure.  Each Credit Party consents to the publication by Agent or any Lender of a tombstone or similar advertising material relating to the financing transactions contemplated by this Agreement.  Agent reserves the right to provide to industry trade organizations information necessary and customary for inclusion in league table measurements.

11.15       Reinstatement.  This Agreement shall remain in full force and effect and continue to be effective should any petition be filed by or against any Borrower for liquidation or reorganization, should any Borrower become insolvent or make an assignment for the benefit of any creditor or creditors or should a receiver, interim receiver, receiver and manager or trustee be appointed for all or any significant part of any Borrower’s assets, and shall continue to be effective or to be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment and performance of the Obligations, or any part thereof, is, pursuant to applicable law, rescinded or reduced in amount, or must otherwise be restored or returned by any obligee of the Obligations, whether as a “voidable preference,” “fraudulent conveyance,” or otherwise, all as though such payment or performance had not been made.  In the event that any payment, or any part thereof, is rescinded,

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reduced, restored or returned, the Obligations shall be reinstated and deemed reduced only by such amount paid and not so rescinded, reduced, restored or returned.

11.16       Advice of Counsel.  Each of the parties represents to each other party hereto that it has discussed this Agreement and, specifically, the provisions of Sections 11.9 and 11.13, with its counsel.

11.17       No Strict Construction.  The parties hereto have participated jointly in the negotiation and drafting of this Agreement.  In the event an ambiguity or question of intent or interpretation arises, this Agreement shall be construed as if drafted jointly by the parties hereto and no presumption or burden of proof shall arise favoring or disfavoring any party by virtue of the authorship of any provisions of this Agreement.

11.18       Currency Equivalent Generally.  For the purposes of making valuations or computations under this Agreement (but not for the purposes of the preparation of any financial statements delivered pursuant hereto), and in particular, without limitation, for purposes of valuations or computations under Sections 1.3(b), 3, 5, 6 and 8, unless expressly provided otherwise, where a reference is made to a dollar amount the amount is to be considered as the amount in Dollars and, therefor, each other currency shall be converted into the Equivalent Amount thereof in Dollars.

11.19       Judgment Currency.

(a)           If, for the purpose of obtaining or enforcing judgment against any Credit Party in any court in any jurisdiction, it becomes necessary to convert into any other currency (such other currency being hereinafter in this Section 11.19 referred to as the “Judgment Currency”) an amount due under any Loan Document in any currency (the “Obligation Currency”) other than the Judgment Currency, the conversion shall be made at the rate of exchange prevailing on the Business Day immediately preceding (i) the date of actual payment of the amount due, in the case of any proceeding in the courts of any jurisdiction that will give effect to such conversion being made on such date, or (ii) the date on which the judgment is given, in the case of any proceeding in the courts of any other jurisdiction (the applicable date as of which such conversion is made pursuant to this Section 11.19 being hereinafter in this Section 11.19 referred to as the “Judgment Conversion Date”).

(b)           If, in the case of any proceeding in the court of any jurisdiction referred to in Section 11.19(a), there is a change in the rate of exchange prevailing between the Judgment Conversion Date and the date of actual receipt for value of the amount due, the applicable Credit Party shall pay such additional amount (if any, but in any event not a lesser amount) as may be necessary to ensure that the amount actually received in the Judgment Currency, when converted at the rate of exchange prevailing on the date of payment, will produce the amount of the Obligation Currency which could have been purchased with the amount of the Judgment Currency stipulated in the judgment or judicial order at the rate of exchange prevailing on the Judgment Conversion Date.  Any amount due from a Credit Party under Section 11.19(b) shall be due as a separate debt and shall not be affected by judgment being obtained for any other amounts due under or in respect of any of the Loan Documents.

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(c)           The term “rate of exchange” in this Section 11.19 means the rate of exchange at which Agent would, on the relevant date at or about 1:00 p.m.(New York time), be prepared to sell the Obligation Currency against the Judgment Currency.

11.20       Intentionally Omitted.

11.21       Amendment and Restatement.  Each Credit Party acknowledges and agrees that the security interest granted to Agent, for the benefit of Prior Lender Group, or any of them, pursuant to the Loan Documents (as defined in the Prior Credit Agreement), shall remain outstanding and in full force and effect in accordance with the Prior Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents (as defined in the Prior Credit Agreement), as modified herein and in the other Loan Documents, and shall continue to secure the Obligations.  Credit Parties and Lenders acknowledge and confirm that (i) the Obligations represent, among other things, the amendment, restatement, renewal, extension, consolidation and modification of the Obligations (as defined in the Prior Credit Agreement) arising in connection with the Prior Credit Agreement and other Loan Documents (as defined in the Prior Credit Agreement); (ii) the Prior Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents (as defined in the Prior Credit Agreement) and the collateral pledged thereunder shall secure, without interruption or impairment of any kind, all existing Obligations (as defined in the Prior Credit Agreement) under the Prior Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents (as defined in the Prior Credit Agreement) as amended, restated, renewed, extended, consolidated or modified hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, together with all other Obligations hereunder; (iii) all Liens evidenced by the Loan Documents (as defined in the Prior Credit Agreement) are hereby ratified, confirmed and continued as modified, amended or restated under the Loan Documents; and (iv) this Agreement is intended to restate, renew, extend, consolidate, amend and modify the Prior Credit Agreement in its entirety.  Borrowers and Lenders intend that (i) the provisions of the Prior Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents (as defined in the Prior Credit Agreement), to the extent restated, renewed, extended, consolidated, amended or modified hereby and by the other Loan Documents, be hereby superseded and replaced by the provisions hereof and of the other Loan Documents; and (ii) by entering into and performing their respective obligations hereunder, this transaction shall not constitute a novation and shall in no way adversely affect or impair the priority of Liens granted by the Loan Documents (as defined in the Prior Credit Agreement).

12.           CROSS-GUARANTY

12.1         Cross-Guaranty.

(a)           Each Borrower hereby agrees that such Borrower is jointly and severally liable for, and hereby absolutely and unconditionally guarantees to Agent and Lenders and their respective successors and assigns, the full and prompt payment (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) and performance of, all Obligations owed or hereafter owing to Agent and Lenders by each other Borrower.  Each Borrower agrees that its guaranty obligation hereunder is a continuing guaranty of payment and performance and not of collection, that its obligations under this Section 12 shall not be discharged until payment and performance, in full, of the Obligations has occurred, and that its obligations under this Section 12 shall be absolute and unconditional, irrespective of, and unaffected by,

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(i)            the genuineness, validity, regularity, enforceability or any future amendment of, or change in, this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other agreement, document or instrument to which any Borrower is or may become a party;

(ii)           the absence of any action to enforce this Agreement (including this Section 12) or any other Loan Document or the waiver or consent by Agent and Lenders with respect to any of the provisions thereof;

(iii)          the existence, value or condition of, or failure to perfect its Lien against, any security for the Obligations or any action, or the absence of any action, by Agent and Lenders in respect thereof (including the release of any such security);

(iv)          the insolvency of any Credit Party; or

(v)           any other action or circumstances that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a surety or guarantor.

Each Borrower shall be regarded, and shall be in the same position, as principal debtor with respect to the Obligations guaranteed hereunder.

(b)           Each Borrower expressly represents and acknowledges that it is part of a common enterprise with the other Borrowers and that any financial accommodations by Lenders, or any of them, to any other Borrower hereunder and under the other Loan Documents are and will be of direct and indirect interest, benefit and advantage to all Borrowers.

12.2         Waivers by Borrowers.  Each Borrower expressly waives all rights it may have now or in the future under any statute, or at common law, or at law or in equity, or otherwise, to compel Agent or Lenders to marshal assets or to proceed in respect of the Obligations guaranteed hereunder against any other Credit Party, any other party or against any security for the payment and performance of the Obligations before proceeding against, or as a condition to proceeding against, such Borrower.  It is agreed among each Borrower, Agent and Lenders that the foregoing waivers are of the essence of the transaction contemplated by this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and that, but for the provisions of this Section 12 and such waivers, Agent and Lenders would decline to enter into this Agreement.

12.3         Benefit of Guaranty.  Each Borrower agrees that the provisions of this Section 12 are for the benefit of Agent and Lenders and their respective successors, transferees, endorsees and assigns, and nothing herein contained shall impair, as between any other Borrower and Agent or Lenders, the obligations of such other Borrower under the Loan Documents.

12.4         Subordination of Subrogation, Etc.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement or in any other Loan Document, and except as set forth in Section 12.7, each Borrower hereby expressly and irrevocably subordinates to payment of the Obligations any and all rights at law or in equity to subrogation, reimbursement, exoneration, contribution, indemnification or set off and any and all defenses available to a surety, guarantor or accommodation co-obligor until the Obligations are indefeasibly paid in full in cash.  Each Borrower acknowledges and agrees that this subordination is intended to benefit Agent and Lenders and shall not limit or otherwise affect such Borrower’s liability hereunder or the

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enforceability of this Section 12, and that Agent, Lenders and their respective successors and assigns are intended third party beneficiaries of the waivers and agreements set forth in this Section 12.4.

12.5         Election of Remedies.  If Agent or any Lender may, under applicable law, proceed to realize its benefits under any of the Loan Documents giving Agent or such Lender a Lien upon any Collateral, whether owned by any Borrower or by any other Person, either by judicial foreclosure or by non-judicial sale or enforcement, Agent or any Lender may, at its sole option, determine which of its remedies or rights it may pursue without affecting any of its rights and remedies under this Section 12.  If, in the exercise of any of its rights and remedies, Agent or any Lender shall forfeit any of its rights or remedies, including its right to enter a deficiency judgment against any Borrower or any other Person, whether because of any applicable laws pertaining to “election of remedies” or the like, each Borrower hereby consents to such action by Agent or such Lender and waives any claim based upon such action, even if such action by Agent or such Lender shall result in a full or partial loss of any rights of subrogation that each Borrower might otherwise have had but for such action by Agent or such Lender.  Any election of remedies that results in the denial or impairment of the right of Agent or any Lender to seek a deficiency judgment against any Borrower shall not impair any other Borrower’s obligation to pay the full amount of the Obligations.  In the event Agent or any Lender shall bid at any foreclosure or trustee’s sale or at any private sale permitted by law or the Loan Documents, Agent or such Lender may bid all or less than the amount of the Obligations and the amount of such bid need not be paid by Agent or such Lender but shall be credited against the Obligations.  The amount of the successful bid at any such sale, whether Agent, Lender or any other party is the successful bidder, shall be conclusively deemed to be the fair market value of the Collateral and the difference between such bid amount and the remaining balance of the Obligations shall be conclusively deemed to be the amount of the Obligations guaranteed under this Section 12, notwithstanding that any present or future law or court decision or ruling may have the effect of reducing the amount of any deficiency claim to which Agent or any Lender might otherwise be entitled but for such bidding at any such sale.

12.6         Limitation.  Notwithstanding any provision herein contained to the contrary, each Borrower’s liability under this Section 12 shall be limited to an amount not to exceed as of any date of determination the greater of:

(a)           the amount of all Loans advanced to such Borrower

(b)           the net amount of all Loans advanced to another Borrower under this Agreement and then re-loaned or otherwise transferred to, or for the benefit of, such Borrower; and

(c)           the amount that could be claimed by Agent and Lenders from such Borrower under this Section 12 without rendering such claim voidable or avoidable under Section 548 of Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code or under any applicable state Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act, Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act or similar foreign or domestic statute or common law after taking into account, among other things, such Borrower’s right of contribution and indemnification from each other Borrower under Section 12.7.

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12.7         Contribution with Respect to Guaranty Obligations.

(a)           To the extent that any Borrower shall make a payment under this Section 12 of all or any of the Obligations (other than Loans made to that Borrower for which it is primarily liable) (a “Guarantor Payment”) that, taking into account all other Guarantor Payments then previously or concurrently made by any other Borrower, exceeds the amount that such Borrower would otherwise have paid if each Borrower had paid the aggregate Obligations satisfied by such Guarantor Payment in the same proportion that such Borrower’s “Allocable Amount” (as defined below) (as determined immediately prior to such Guarantor Payment) bore to the aggregate Allocable Amounts of each of the Borrowers as determined immediately prior to the making of such Guarantor Payment, then, following indefeasible payment in full in cash of the Obligations and termination of the Commitments, such Borrower shall be entitled to receive contribution and indemnification payments from, and be reimbursed by, each other Borrower for the amount of such excess, pro rata based upon their respective Allocable Amounts in effect immediately prior to such Guarantor Payment.

(b)           As of any date of determination, the “Allocable Amount” of any Borrower shall be equal to the maximum amount of the claim that could then be recovered from such Borrower under this Section 12 without rendering such claim voidable or avoidable under Section 548 of Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code or under any applicable state Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act, Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act or similar statute or common law.

(c)           This Section 12.7 is intended only to define the relative rights of Borrowers and nothing set forth in this Section 12.7 is intended to or shall impair the obligations of Borrowers, jointly and severally, to pay any amounts as and when the same shall become due and payable in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including Section 12.1.  Nothing contained in this Section 12.7 shall limit the liability of any Borrower to pay the Loans made directly or indirectly to that Borrower and accrued interest, Fees and expenses with respect thereto for which such Borrower shall be primarily liable.

(d)           The parties hereto acknowledge that the rights of contribution and indemnification hereunder shall constitute assets of the Borrower to which such contribution and indemnification is owing.

(e)           The rights of the indemnifying Borrowers against other Credit Parties under this Section 12.7 shall be exercisable upon the full and indefeasible payment of the Obligations and the termination of the Commitments.

12.8         Liability Cumulative.  The liability of Borrowers under this Section 12 is in addition to and shall be cumulative with all liabilities of each Borrower to Agent and Lenders under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which such Borrower is a party or in respect of any Obligations or obligation of the other Borrower, without any limitation as to amount, unless the instrument or agreement evidencing or creating such other liability specifically provides to the contrary.

12.9         USA Patriot Act Notice.  Each of Lenders and Agent hereby notifies Borrowers that, pursuant to the requirements of the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into

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law October 26, 2001)), it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies Borrowers, which information includes the name and address of each Borrower and other information that will allow such Lender or Agent, as applicable, to identify such Borrower in accordance with the USA Patriot Act.

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Execution Copy

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Agreement has been duly executed as of the date first written above.

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The following Persons are signatories to this Agreement in their capacity as Credit Parties and not as Borrowers.

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ANNEX A (RECITALS)

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CREDIT AGREEMENT

DEFINITIONS

Capitalized terms used in the Loan Documents shall have (unless otherwise provided elsewhere in the Loan Documents) the following respective meanings, and all references to Sections, Exhibits, Schedules or Annexes in the following definitions shall refer to Sections, Exhibits, Schedules or Annexes of or to the Agreement:

“Account Debtor” means any Person who may become obligated to any Credit Party under, with respect to, or on account of, an Account, Chattel Paper or General Intangibles (including a payment intangible).

“Accounting Changes” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Annex G.

“Accounts” means all “accounts,” as such term is defined in the Code, now owned or hereafter acquired by any Credit Party, including (a) all accounts receivable, other receivables, book debts and other forms of obligations (other than forms of obligations evidenced by Chattel Paper, or Instruments), (including any such obligations that may be characterized as an account or contract right under the Code), (b) all of each Credit Party’s rights in, to and under all purchase orders or receipts for goods or services, (c) all of each Credit Party’s rights to any goods represented by any of the foregoing (including unpaid sellers’ rights of rescission, replevin, reclamation and stoppage in transit and rights to returned, reclaimed or repossessed goods), (d) all rights to payment due to any Credit Party for property sold, leased, licensed, assigned or otherwise disposed of, for a policy of insurance issued or to be issued, for a secondary obligation incurred or to be incurred, for energy provided or to be provided, for the use or hire of a vessel under a charter or other contract, arising out of the use of a credit card or charge card, or for services rendered or to be rendered by such Credit Party or in connection with any other transaction (whether or not yet earned by performance on the part of such Credit Party), (e) all health care insurance receivables and (f) all collateral security of any kind, now or hereafter in existence, given by any Account Debtor or any other Person with respect to any of the foregoing.

“Acquisition Pro Forma” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 6.

“Activation Event” and “Activation Notice” have the meanings ascribed thereto in Annex C.

“Advance” means the amount of the Loans advanced under Section 1.1 of the Agreement on the occasion of any borrowing thereunder.

“Affected Lender” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 1.16(d).

“Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person, (a) each Person that, directly or indirectly, owns or controls, whether beneficially, or as a trustee, guardian or other fiduciary, 10% or more of the Stock having ordinary voting power in the election of directors of such

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Person, (b) each Person that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with such Person, (c) each of such Person’s officers, directors, joint venturers and partners and (d) in the case of Borrowers, the immediate family members, spouses and lineal descendants of individuals who are Affiliates of any Borrower.  For the purposes of this definition, “control” of a Person shall mean the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of its management or policies, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; provided, however, that the term “Affiliate” shall specifically exclude Agent and each Lender.

“Agent” means GE Capital, as agent hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, and its successor appointed pursuant to Section 9.7.

“Agreement” means that certain Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement by and among Borrowers, the other Credit Parties party thereto, GE Capital, as Agent and Lender, and the other Lenders from time to time party thereto, as the same may be amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time.

“Appendices” has the meaning ascribed to it in the recitals to the Agreement.

“Applicable Existing Term Loan Index Margin” means the per annum interest rate from time to time in effect and payable in addition to the Index Rate applicable to the Existing Term Loan, as determined by reference to Section 1.5(a).

“Applicable Existing Term Loan LIBOR Margin” means the per annum interest rate from time to time in effect and payable in addition to the LIBOR Rate applicable to the Existing Term Loan, as determined by reference to Section 1.5(a).

“Applicable Extending Term Loan Index Margin” means the per annum interest rate from time to time in effect and payable in addition to the Index Rate applicable to the Extending Term Loan, as determined by reference to Section 1.5(a).

“Applicable Extending Term Loan LIBOR Margin” means the per annum interest rate from time to time in effect and payable in addition to the LIBOR Rate applicable to the Extending Term Loan, as determined by reference to Section 1.5(a).

“Applicable Margins” means collectively the Applicable Unused Line Fee Margin, the Applicable Revolver Index Margin, the Applicable Existing Term Loan Index Margin, the Applicable Extending Term Loan Index Margin, the Applicable Revolver LIBOR Margin, the Applicable Existing Term Loan LIBOR Margin and the Applicable Extending Term Loan LIBOR Margin.

“Applicable Revolver Index Margin” means the per annum interest rate from time to time in effect and payable in addition to the Index Rate applicable to the Revolving Loan, as determined by reference to Section 1.5(a).

“Applicable Revolver LIBOR Margin” means the per annum interest rate from time to time in effect and payable in addition to the LIBOR Rate applicable to the Revolving Loan, as determined by reference to Section 1.5(a).

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“Applicable Unused Line Fee Margin” means the per annum fee, from time to time in effect, payable in respect of Borrowers’ non-use of committed funds pursuant to Section 1.9(b), which fee is determined by reference to Section 1.5(a).