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Exhibit 10.1

Published CUSIP Number: 70509WAA6

CREDIT AGREEMENT

Dated as of July 8, 2010

among
PEBBLEBROOK HOTEL, L.P.,
as the Borrower,

PEBBLEBROOK HOTEL TRUST,
as the Parent REIT and a Guarantor,

CERTAIN SUBSIDIARIES OF THE BORROWER,
as Guarantors,

BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender
and
L/C Issuer,

and

The Other Lenders Party Hereto

BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES LLC,

and

WELLS FARGO SECURITIES, LLC,
as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Book Runners

WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Syndication Agent

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Documentation Agent

TABLE OF CONTENTS


Section	Page
ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS		1
1.01 Defined Terms		1
1.02 Other Interpretive Provisions		27
1.03 Accounting Terms		28
1.04 Rounding		29
1.05 Times of Day		29
1.06 Letter of Credit Amounts		29
1.07 Addition/Removal of Borrowing Base Properties		29
ARTICLE II. THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS		33
2.01 Committed Loans		33
2.02 Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Committed Loans		33
2.03 Letters of Credit		35
2.04 Swing Line Loans		41
2.05 Prepayments		43
2.06 Termination or Reduction of Commitments		43
2.07 Repayment of Loans		44
2.08 Interest		44
2.09 Fees		44
2.10 Computation of Interest and Fees; Retroactive Adjustments of Applicable Margin		45
2.11 Evidence of Debt		45
2.12 Payments Generally; Administrative Agent’s Clawback		46
2.13 Sharing of Payments by Lenders		47
2.14 Extension of Maturity Date		47
2.15 Increase in Commitments		48
2.16 [Reserved]		49
2.17 Cash Collateral		49
2.18 Defaulting Lenders		50
ARTICLE III. TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY		52
3.01 Taxes		52
3.02 Illegality		54
3.03 Inability to Determine Rates		55
3.04 Increased Costs; Reserves on Eurodollar Rate Loans		55
3.05 Compensation for Losses		56
3.06 Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders		57
3.07 Survival		57
ARTICLE IV. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO CREDIT EXTENSIONS		57
4.01 Conditions of Initial Credit Extension		57
4.02 Conditions to all Credit Extensions		60
ARTICLE V. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES		60
5.01 Existence, Qualification and Power		60
5.02 Authorization; No Contravention		60
5.03 Governmental Authorization; Other Consents		61
5.04 Binding Effect		61
5.05 Financial Statements; No Material Adverse Effect		61


Section	Page
5.06 Litigation		61
5.07 No Default		62
5.08 Ownership of Property; Liens; Investments		62
5.09 Environmental Compliance		62
5.10 Insurance		63
5.11 Taxes		63
5.12 ERISA Compliance		64
5.13 Subsidiaries; Equity Interests		64
5.14 Margin Regulations; Investment Company Act		65
5.15 Disclosure		65
5.16 Compliance with Laws		65
5.17 Taxpayer Identification Number		65
5.18 Intellectual Property; Licenses, Etc.		65
5.19 Solvency		66
5.20 Casualty, Etc		66
5.21 Labor Matters		66
5.22 REIT Status		66
5.23 Collateral Documents		66
5.24 Borrowing Base Properties		66
ARTICLE VI. AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS		66
6.01 Financial Statements		66
6.02 Certificates; Other Information		67
6.03 Notices		69
6.04 Payment of Obligations		69
6.05 Preservation of Existence, Etc		69
6.06 Maintenance of Properties		70
6.07 Maintenance of Insurance		70
6.08 Compliance with Laws and Contractual Obligations		70
6.09 Books and Records		70
6.10 Inspection Rights		70
6.11 Use of Proceeds		70
6.12 Additional Guarantors		70
6.13 Pledged Equity Interests; Real Property and Other Collateral		71
6.14 Further Assurances		72
6.15 Compliance with Terms of Approved Ground Leases; Material Easement Agreements		72
6.16 Environmental Assessment Report		74
6.17 Borrowing Base Entity SPE/Separateness Requirements; New York Borrowing Base Properties		75
6.18 Additional Insurance Requirements for Borrowing Base Properties		75
6.19 Updated Appraisals		77
6.20 Title Insurance Policy		78
ARTICLE VII. NEGATIVE COVENANTS		78
7.01 Liens		78
7.02 Investments		79
7.03 Indebtedness		81


Section	Page
7.04 Fundamental Changes		81
7.05 Dispositions		82
7.06 Restricted Payments		82
7.07 Change in Nature of Business		83
7.08 Transactions with Affiliates		83
7.09 Burdensome Agreements		83
7.10 Use of Proceeds		83
7.11 Financial Covenants		83
7.12 Capital Expenditures		84
7.13 Accounting Changes		84
7.14 Ownership of Subsidiaries; Certain Real Property Assets		84
7.15 Leases		85
7.16 Sale Leasebacks		85
7.17 [Reserved]		85
7.18 Additional Borrowing Base Property Matters		85
7.19 Insurance Proceeds and Condemnation Awards		85
ARTICLE VIII. EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES		86
8.01 Events of Default		86
8.02 Remedies Upon Event of Default		88
8.03 Application of Funds		89
8.04 Special Provision Regarding Failure to Comply with Certain Financial Covenants		89
ARTICLE IX. ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT		90
9.01 Appointment and Authority		90
9.02 Rights as a Lender		90
9.03 Exculpatory Provisions		90
9.04 Reliance by Administrative Agent		91
9.05 Delegation of Duties		91
9.06 Resignation or Removal of Administrative Agent		91
9.07 Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent and Other Lenders		92
9.08 No Other Duties, Etc.		92
9.09 Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim		92
9.10 Collateral and Guaranty Matters		93
9.11 Secured Hedge Agreements		94
ARTICLE X. MISCELLANEOUS		94
10.01 Amendments, Etc.		94
10.02 Notices; Effectiveness; Electronic Communication		95
10.03 No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies; Enforcement		97
10.04 Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver		97
10.05 Payments Set Aside		99
10.06 Successors and Assigns		99
10.07 Treatment of Certain Information; Confidentiality		102
10.08 Right of Setoff		103
10.09 Interest Rate Limitation		103
10.10 Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness		103
10.11 Survival of Representations and Warranties		103
10.12 Severability		104

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Section	Page
10.13 Replacement of Lenders		104
10.14 Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Etc.		104
10.15 Waiver of Jury Trial		105
10.16 California Judicial Reference		105
10.17 No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility		105
10.18 Electronic Execution of Assignments and Certain Other Documents		106
10.19 USA PATRIOT Act		106
ARTICLE XI. GUARANTY		106
11.01 The Guaranty		106
11.02 Obligations Unconditional		107
11.03 Reinstatement		107
11.04 Certain Waivers		108
11.05 Remedies		108
11.06 Rights of Contribution		108
11.07 Guaranty of Payment; Continuing Guaranty		108

SIGNATURES		S-1

SCHEDULES


	2.01		Commitments and Applicable Percentages
	5.05		Supplement to Interim Financial Statements
	5.06		Litigation
	5.08(b)		Existing Liens
	5.08(c)		Existing Investments
	5.09		Environmental Matters
	5.10		Insurance
	5.12(d)		Pension Plans
	5.13(a)		Capital and Ownership Structure of Borrower and Subsidiaries
	5.13(b)		Subsidiaries of Parent REIT, Borrower and Loan Parties
	5.18		Intellectual Property Matters
	5.22		Schedule of Taxable REIT Subsidiaries
	5.24(a)		Borrowing Base Properties
	5.24(b)		Approved Managers
	7.03		Existing Indebtedness
	10.02		Administrative Agent’s Office; Certain Addresses for Notices

EXHIBITS


			*Form of*
	A		Committed Loan Notice
	B		Swing Line Loan Notice
	C		Note
	D		Compliance Certificate
	E-1		Assignment and Assumption
	E-2		Administrative Questionnaire
	F		Mortgage
	G-1		Opinion Matters (Counsel to Loan Parties)
	G-2		Opinion Matters (Local Counsel to Loan Parties)
	H		Joinder Agreement
	I		Third Party Report Reliance Language
	J		Request to Reduce Availability Regarding Recording Cost Amount

CREDIT AGREEMENT

This CREDIT AGREEMENT (“Agreement”) is entered into as of July 8, 2010, among PEBBLEBROOK HOTEL, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the “Borrower”), PEBBLEBROOK HOTEL TRUST, a Maryland real estate investment trust (the “Parent REIT”), the other Persons party hereto from time to time as Guarantors (as such term is defined herein), each lender from time to time party hereto (collectively, the “Lenders” and individually, a “Lender”), and BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender and L/C Issuer.

The Borrower has requested that the Lenders provide a revolving credit facility, and the Lenders are willing to do so on the terms and conditions set forth herein.

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

ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS

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

“Acceleration” has the meaning specified in Section 8.02.

“Adjusted Unrestricted Cash” means, on any date, an amount, not less than zero ($0.00), equal to (A) to the extent the Borrower’s Unrestricted Cash is in excess of $100 million, an amount equal to 100% of the Unrestricted Cash in excess of $100 million held by the Borrower; or (B) to the extent the Unrestricted Cash held by the Borrower is less than or equal to $100 million, an amount equal to the lesser of (i) the difference between such Unrestricted Cash balance of the Borrower and $10 million and (ii) $10 million.

“Administrative Agent” means Bank of America in its capacity as administrative agent under any of the Loan Documents, or any successor administrative agent.

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

“Administrative Questionnaire” means an Administrative Questionnaire in substantially the form of Exhibit E-2 or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent.

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

“Aggregate Commitments” means the Commitments of all the Lenders.

“Agreement” means this Credit Agreement.

“Applicable Laws” means, collectively, all applicable international, foreign, Federal, state and local statutes, treaties, rules, guidelines, regulations, ordinances, codes and administrative or judicial precedents or authorities, including the interpretation or administration thereof by any Governmental Authority charged with the enforcement, interpretation or administration thereof, and all applicable administrative orders, directed duties, requests, licenses, authorizations and permits of, and agreements with, any Governmental Authority, in each case whether or not having the force of law.

“Applicable Margin” means (a) from the Closing Date to the date on which the Administrative Agent receives a Compliance Certificate pursuant to Section 6.02(b) for the fiscal quarter ending June 30, 2010, 2.00% per annum for Base Rate Loans and Swing Line Loans and 3.00% per annum for Eurodollar Rate Loans and Letters of

Credit, and (b) thereafter, the applicable percentage per annum set forth below determined by reference to the Consolidated Leverage Ratio as set forth in the most recent Compliance Certificate received by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 6.02(b):


		Eurodollar	Base Rate
		Rate Loans	Loans and
Pricing	Consolidated	and	Swing Line
Level	Leverage Ratio	Letters of Credit	Loans
I	< 3.0x	3.00%	2.00%
II	³3.0 and <3.5x	3.25%	2.25%
III	³3.5x and <4.0x	3.50%	2.50%
IV	³4.0x and <4.5x	3.75%	2.75%
V	³4.5x	4.00%	3.00%

Any increase or decrease in the Applicable Margin resulting from a change in the Consolidated Leverage Ratio shall become effective as of the first Business Day immediately following the last day of the fiscal quarter for which such Compliance Certificate has been timely delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(b); provided, however, that if a Compliance Certificate is not delivered when due in accordance with such Section, then, upon the request of the Required Lenders, Pricing Level V shall apply as of the first Business Day after the last day of the fiscal quarter for which such Compliance Certificate was required to have been delivered and shall remain in effect until the date on which such Compliance Certificate is actually delivered.

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

“Applicable Percentage” means with respect to any Lender at any time, the percentage (carried out to the ninth decimal place) of the Aggregate Commitments represented by such Lender’s Commitment at such time, subject to adjustment as provided in Section 2.18. If the commitment of each Lender to make Loans and the obligation of the L/C Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions have been terminated pursuant to Section 8.02 or if the Aggregate Commitments have expired, then the Applicable Percentage of each Lender shall be determined based on the Applicable Percentage of such Lender most recently in effect, giving effect to any subsequent assignments. The initial Applicable Percentage of each Lender is set forth opposite the name of such Lender on Schedule 2.01 or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable.

“Appraisal” means, with respect to each Borrowing Base Property, a FIRREA-compliant MAI appraisal of such Borrowing Base Property ordered by the Administrative Agent, from an appraiser and in form and substance acceptable to the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion and initially dated as of a date not more than sixty (60) days prior to the date on which such Borrowing Base Property is first included in the calculation of the Borrowing Base, and any such new or updated appraisals meeting the foregoing requirements (other than the initial date) obtained by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 6.19.

“Appraised Value” means, as of any date of determination, for each Borrowing Base Property existing as of such date, the most-recently obtained “as-is” appraised value of such Borrowing Base Property as set forth in an Appraisal.

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

“Approved Ground Lease” means a ground lease that is in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and Supermajority Lenders (as evidenced by their approval of the BBP Deliverables related to a proposed Borrowing Base Property that is subject to a ground lease).

“Approved Manager” means any of the managers identified on Schedule 5.24(b) that are pre-approved by the Administrative Agent and the Supermajority Lenders as of the Closing Date or are otherwise approved following

the Closing Date by the Administrative Agent and the Supermajority Lenders and who are engaged to manage one or more Borrowing Base Properties pursuant to management agreements in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Supermajority Lenders between the applicable manager and the TRS that has leased such Borrowing Base Property from the owner thereof.

“Arranger” means Banc of America Securities LLC, in its capacity as a joint lead arranger and a joint book runner.

“Assignee Group” means two or more Eligible Assignees that are Affiliates of one another or two or more Approved Funds managed by the same investment advisor.

“Assignment and Assumption” means an assignment and assumption entered into by a Lender and an assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is required by Section 10.06(b)), and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in substantially the form of Exhibit E-1 or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent.

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

“Audited Financial Statements” means the audited consolidated balance sheet of the Consolidated Parties for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009, and the related consolidated statements of income or operations, shareholders’ equity and cash flows for such fiscal year of the Consolidated Parties, including the notes thereto.

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

“Availability Period” means the period from and including the Closing Date to the earliest of (a) the Maturity Date, (b) the date of termination of the Aggregate Commitments pursuant to Section 2.06, and (c) the date of termination of the commitment of each Lender to make Loans and of the obligation of the L/C Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions pursuant to Section 8.02.

“Bank of America” means Bank of America, N.A. and its successors.

“Base Rate” means for any day a fluctuating rate per annum equal to the highest of (a) the Federal Funds Rate plus 1/2 of 1%, (b) the rate of interest in effect for such day as publicly announced from time to time by Bank of America as its “prime rate,” and (c) the Eurodollar Rate plus 1.00%. The “prime rate” is a rate set by Bank of America based upon various factors including Bank of America’s costs and desired return, general economic conditions and other factors, and is used as a reference point for pricing some loans, which may be priced at, above, or below such announced rate. Any change in such prime rate announced by Bank of America shall take effect at the opening of business on the day specified in the public announcement of such change.

“Base Rate Committed Loan” means a Committed Loan that is a Base Rate Loan.

“Base Rate Loan” means a Loan that bears interest based on the Base Rate.

“BBP Deliverables” means, with respect to each Real Property for which the Borrower seeks approval as a “Borrowing Base Property” the following items (except to the extent the delivery thereof is otherwise waived in writing by the Administrative Agent and the Supermajority Lenders):

(a) except to the extent provided in Section 1.07(e) regarding any Real Property located in the State of New York, evidence that counterparts of the Mortgage related to such Real Property have been duly executed, acknowledged and delivered and are in form suitable for filing or recording in all filing or recording offices that the Administrative Agent may deem necessary or desirable in its reasonable

discretion in order to create a valid first and subsisting Lien on the property described therein in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties and that provision for all filing, documentary, stamp, intangible and recording taxes and fees on the aggregate amount to be secured thereby (which amount may be less than the aggregate amount of the Aggregate Commitments in the reasonable discretion of the Administrative Agent acting upon the advice of its counsel) shall have been made;

(b) unexpired commitments for ALTA/ASCM mortgagee title insurance policies (with copies of all title exceptions and encumbrances and indicia of ownership described therein) issued by the Title Insurance Company (the “Mortgage Commitments”) with respect to each such Real Property, which commitments represent the unconditional commitment by the Title Insurance Company to issue a mortgagee title insurance policy in favor of the Administrative Agent insuring that each of the Mortgages creates a valid and enforceable first priority mortgage lien on the applicable Real Property described therein, free and clear of all defects and encumbrances except Permitted Liens of the type described in Section 7.01(a), (c), (d), (f), (g) and (j), which Mortgage Commitments shall be issued in an amount at least equal to the amount to be secured by such Mortgage and otherwise be in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion and shall include such endorsements as are reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, (including tie-in, first loss and last dollar endorsements, in each case, where available), and which Mortgage Commitments shall be updated, renewed or replaced at least ten (10) days prior to the expiration of the then-existing Mortgage Commitment provided as a condition to any extension of a temporary waiver by the Administrative Agent in accordance with the provisions of Section 1.07(e) of the requirement for the execution, delivery and recording of a Mortgage or the delivery of a Mortgage Policy relating thereto with respect to any such Real Property located in the State of New York, together with evidence of the Borrower’s or the applicable Loan Party’s provision for the payment of all premiums required to be paid as a condition to the issuance of policies with respect to such Mortgage Commitments;

(c) maps or plats of an ALTA/ASCM (or other form acceptable to the Administrative Agent in its discretion) survey of the sites of the Real Property covered by the Mortgage Commitments certified to the Administrative Agent and the Title Insurance Company in a manner reasonably satisfactory to each of the Administrative Agent and the Title Insurance Company, dated a date reasonably satisfactory to each of the Administrative Agent and the Title Insurance Company by an independent professional licensed land surveyor duly registered and licensed in the States in which the property described in such survey is located and acceptable to the Administrative Agent, showing all buildings and other improvements, any off-site improvements, the location of any easements, parking spaces, rights of way, building set-back lines and other dimensional regulations and the absence of encroachments, either by such improvements or on to such property, and other defects, other than encroachments and other defects acceptable to the Administrative Agent, and which maps or plats and the surveys on which they are based shall be sufficient to delete any standard printed survey exception contained in the applicable Mortgage Policy and be made in accordance with the 2005 ALTA/ACSM Minimum Standard Detail Requirements for Land Title Surveys including items 2, 3, 4, 6, 7(a), 7(b)(1), 7(c), 8, 9, 10, 11(a), 13 and 14 on Table A thereof, together with photographs (interior and exterior) thereof, but which photographs need not be part of the survey;

(d) property condition, engineering, soils and other similar reports as to such Real Properties ordered by the Borrower in connection with the potential acquisition, from professional firms reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, in each case including the reliance language set forth on Exhibit I hereto (or such other reliance language as is acceptable to the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion) and otherwise in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent;

(e) copies of each Material Lease in existence with respect to such Real Property, together with estoppels and subordination, nondisturbance and attornment agreements from any tenants with respect to such Material Leases, in each case in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent; provided, however, that such subordination, nondisturbance and attornment agreements for leases to a TRS shall provide that if the Administrative Agent forecloses under a Mortgage or takes title to a Borrowing Base Property by deed in lieu thereof, so long as the TRS is not in default (beyond any applicable cure periods) under its Lease: (i) neither the TRS’ possession of the applicable Borrowing Base Property nor the TRS’ rights and privileges under its Lease will be disturbed or terminated, by such

foreclosure or deed in lieu thereof, and (ii) if the Administrative Agent (or its nominee or designee) shall succeed to the rights of a Loan Party under such Lease through foreclosure, deed in lieu thereof or otherwise, or another person purchases the Borrowing Base Property at or following foreclosure of the Mortgage, then the TRS shall attorn to and recognize the Administrative Agent (or its nominee or designee) or such purchaser as the TRS’ landlord under the Lease;

(f) to the extent the applicable Real Property is subject to a ground lease pursuant to which a Loan Party is the ground lessee, a copy of such ground lease (which must be an Approved Ground Lease) and estoppel and consent agreements executed by each of the ground lessors with respect to any such Approved Ground Lease, along with (1) a memorandum of lease in recordable form with respect to such leasehold interest, executed and acknowledged by the owner of the affected Real Property, as lessor, or (2) evidence that the applicable Approved Ground Lease with respect to such leasehold interest or a memorandum thereof has been recorded in all places necessary or desirable, in the Administrative Agent’s reasonable judgment, to give constructive notice to third-party purchasers of such leasehold interest, or (3) if such leasehold interest was acquired or subleased from the holder of a recorded leasehold interest, the applicable assignment or sublease document, executed and acknowledged by such holder, in each case in form sufficient to give such constructive notice upon recordation and otherwise in form reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;

(g) evidence of the insurance required by the terms hereof or of the applicable Mortgage related to such Real Property, in each case naming the Administrative Agent (for the benefit of the Secured Parties) as additional insured (in the case of liability insurance) or loss payee (in the case of hazard insurance);

(h) an Appraisal of each of such Real Properties described in the Mortgages;

(i) evidence as to (i) whether such Real Property is in an area designated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency as having special flood or mud slide hazards (a “Flood Hazard Property”) and (ii) if such Real Property is a Flood Hazard Property, (A) whether the community in which such Real Property is located is participating in the National Flood Insurance Program, (B) the applicable Borrower’s written acknowledgment of receipt of written notification from the Administrative Agent as to the fact that such Real Property is a Flood Hazard Property and as to whether the community in which each such Flood Hazard Property is located is participating in the National Flood Insurance Program and (C) copies of insurance policies or certificates of insurance of the Consolidated Parties evidencing flood insurance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and naming the Administrative Agent as sole loss payee on behalf of the Lenders;

(j) if no zoning endorsement has been issued with respect to the Mortgage Policy, then evidence satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that such Real Property, and the uses of such Real Property, are in compliance in all material respects with all applicable zoning laws (the evidence submitted as to which should include the zoning designation made for such Real Property, the permitted uses of each such Real Property under such zoning designation and, if available, zoning requirements as to parking, lot size, ingress, egress and building setbacks);

(k) an environmental site assessment (which includes the reliance language set forth on Exhibit I hereto, or such other reliance language as is acceptable to the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion, or the Administrative Agent is otherwise provided a reliance letter acceptable to the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion) with respect to such Real Property issued not more than one year prior to the date that Borrower requests approval of such Real Property as a “Borrowing Base Property” showing no “recognized environmental conditions” requiring remediation pursuant to an Environmental Law that have not been properly addressed through remediation completed to the satisfaction of all Governmental Authorities (or such other resolution which has been accepted in writing by either the Administrative Agent or all Governmental Authority(ies) with jurisdiction relating to both the applicable Real Property and such recognized environmental conditions, and having authority to enforce any Environmental Laws with respect thereto) and otherwise showing environmental conditions which are reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent;

(l) an investment summary prepared by the Borrower respecting such Real Property, which investment summary shall include a brief narrative, historical and pro forma cash flow summaries and a preliminary operating budget with respect to such Real Property;

(m) with respect to Real Properties located in California (or, in the reasonable judgment of the Administrative Agent, in any other area with a high degree of seismic risk), a seismic report with respect thereto dated as of a date reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and earthquake insurance to the extent customarily obtained under the circumstances described in such report or as otherwise deemed reasonably necessary by the Administrative Agent;

(n) a copy of the fully-executed purchase and sale agreement respecting such Real Property between the proposed Borrowing Base Entity and the seller of such Real Property;

(o) a copy of the management agreement between the applicable TRS and an Approved Manager respecting such Real Property (including without limitation, an abstract of such management agreement), together with a collateral assignment of such management agreement among the applicable TRS, such Approved Manager and the applicable Borrowing Base Entity in such form as the Administrative Agent may reasonably agree;

(p) a copy of the franchise agreement respecting such Real Property (including without limitation, an abstract of such franchise agreement), together with a collateral assignment of such agreement with respect to such franchise agreement among the applicable TRS, the franchisor under such franchise agreement and the applicable Borrowing Base Entity in such form as the Administrative Agent may reasonably agree, or in the alternative, a “comfort letter” from such franchisor or other evidence reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent of the Administrative Agent’s ability to assume the franchise agreement or enter into a replacement franchise agreement in connection with the exercise of remedies following an Event of Default;

(q) unless the Person owning or acquiring such Real Property is a Guarantor, a Joinder Agreement executed by such Person as contemplated under and in accordance with Section 6.12; and

(r) such other documentation as may be reasonably required by the Administrative Agent.

“BBP Value” means, as of any date of determination, the sum of the “as-is” appraised value of the assets from time to time qualifying as Borrowing Base Properties pursuant to the most-recently obtained Appraisal related thereto; provided, however that, as of the date which is 24 months following the Closing Date and continuing until the termination of this Agreement, the following asset concentration restrictions shall apply to the calculation of BBP Value (except to the extent waived by the Administrative Agent and Required Lenders): (a) no less than four (4) Real Properties must, at all times, qualify as Borrowing Base Properties or the BBP Value shall be deemed to be zero ($0.00); (b) the maximum BBP Value allocable to Borrowing Base Property assets located in any one Major MSA shall not exceed 40% of the total BBP Value and the maximum BBP Value allocable to Borrowing Base Property assets located in any one Other MSA shall not exceed 33% of the total BBP Value (provided, that to the extent such limitations are exceeded, the value of such assets shall be removed from the calculation of BBP Value to the extent of such excess) and the Borrowing Base shall include Real Properties located in at least four (4) metropolitan statistical areas; and (c) no more than 20% of the BBP Value shall be allocable to assets which are subject to an Approved Ground Lease (provided, that (i) a hotel shall be excluded from the calculation of this limitation to the extent that (A) such hotel is subject to an Approved Ground Lease entered into in connection with a “bonds for title,” “payment in lieu of taxes” or similar transaction through a local development authority or equivalent governmental issuer, (B) the documentation for such transaction contains the right in favor of the Loan Party that is a party thereto to repurchase the interest in such property owned by such authority or issuer for a price not greater than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), and (C) the fee simple interest in such property held by such authority or issuer is subordinated to the Mortgage encumbering such property in favor of the Administrative Agent, and (ii) to the extent such limitation is exceeded, the value of such assets shall be removed from the calculation of BBP Value to the extent of such excess); provided, further, that, at no time following the Closing Date shall the BBP Value allocable to Borrowing Base Property assets located in the State of New York that are not subject to a

recorded Mortgage as provided in Section 1.07(e) exceed 20% (or such higher percentage as may be approved by the Supermajority Lenders) of the total BBP Value (provided, that to the extent such limitation is exceeded, the value of such assets shall be removed from the calculation of BBP Value to the extent of such excess).

“Borrower” has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph hereto.

“Borrower Materials” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02.

“Borrowing” means a Committed Borrowing or a Swing Line Borrowing, as the context may require.

“Borrowing Base” means, as of any date of calculation, the least of the following: (a) the Aggregate Commitments, (b) the Collateral Value Amount, and (c) the Mortgageability Amount.

“Borrowing Base Entity” means, as of any date of determination, any Person that owns (or leases as ground lessee pursuant to an Approved Ground Lease) a Borrowing Base Property, and “Borrowing Base Entities” means a collective reference to all of them.

“Borrowing Base Properties” means, as of any date, a collective reference to each Real Property (i) that is set forth on Schedule 5.24(a) hereto (as such schedule may be updated from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof (including, without limitation, Sections 1.07 and 6.02(b)), in each case to the extent that such Real Property has not otherwise been removed as a “Borrowing Base Property” pursuant to the other criteria for qualification as such set forth in this definition and the other provisions of this Agreement, and (ii) that meets the following criteria:

	(a)		such Real Property is a “luxury”, “upper upscale”, or “upscale” full or select service hotel;

	(b)		such Real Property’s brand and/or concept/flag (as applicable) has been approved by the Administrative Agent, in its reasonable discretion;

	(c)		such Real Property is managed by an Approved Manager pursuant to a management agreement in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and Lenders;

	(d)		such Real Property is owned in fee simple by Borrower or a Guarantor (other than the Parent REIT) or is subject to an Approved Ground Lease (and such property, whether owned in fee simple by the Borrower or such Guarantor or is subject to an Approved Ground Lease, is leased to the applicable TRS);

	(e)		such Real Property is free of any Liens (other than Permitted Liens of the type described in Section 7.01(a), (c), (d), (f), (g) and (j)) or negative pledges;

	(f)		Borrower has proposed such Real Property to the Administrative Agent and Lenders in writing and has provided to Administrative Agent and Lenders all of the BBP Deliverables with respect to such Real Property and such BBP Deliverables are approved as provided herein; and

	(g)		the Supermajority Lenders have approved such Real Property’s inclusion as a “Borrowing Base Property” in accordance with the terms hereof; provided, that a Lender shall be deemed to have conditionally approved a property’s inclusion as a “Borrowing Base Property” and confirmed the acceptability of each of the Conditional Approval BBP Deliverables, with respect to such Real Property to the extent that such Lender has not, on or prior to the date which is fifteen (15) Business Days following such Lender’s receipt of all of the Conditional Approval BBP Deliverables with respect to such Real Property, communicated to the Administrative Agent in writing its rejection of any of the Conditional Approval BBP Deliverables or such Real Property’s proposed inclusion as a “Borrowing Base Property” hereunder. All remaining BBP Deliverables will be approved by the Administrative Agent and/or Supermajority Lenders, as applicable, promptly after receipt.

The term “Borrowing Base Property” shall mean any one of such Borrowing Base Properties.

“Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks are authorized to close under the Applicable Laws of, or are in fact closed in, New York, New York, Charlotte, North Carolina or Dallas, Texas and, if such day relates to any Eurodollar Rate Loan, means any such day that is also a London Banking Day.

“Calculation Period” means, as of any date of determination commencing with the delivery of the Required Financial Information for the fiscal quarter ending June 30, 2010, the most recent four (4) fiscal quarter period for which the Borrower has provided the Required Financial Information; provided, that (a) notwithstanding the foregoing, calculations made with respect to Required Financial Information for fiscal quarters ending prior to June 30, 2011 shall be based on the period from April 1, 2010 through the end of the applicable fiscal quarter (with the calculated amounts annualized to the extent the period from April 1, 2010 through the most-recently ended fiscal quarter is not at least twelve (12) months); and (b) for calculations made on a Pro Forma Basis, the amounts calculated for the applicable Calculation Period shall be adjusted as set forth in Section 1.03(c), but shall otherwise relate to the applicable Calculation Period (as defined above).

“Cash Collateralize” means to pledge and deposit with or deliver to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender (as applicable) and the Lenders, as collateral for L/C Obligations, Obligations in respect of Swing Line Loans, or obligations of Lenders to fund participations in respect of either thereof (as the context may require), cash or deposit account balances or, if the L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender benefitting from such collateral shall agree in its sole discretion, other credit support, in each case pursuant to documentation in form and substance satisfactory to (a) the Administrative Agent and (b) the L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender (as applicable). “Cash Collateral” shall have a meaning correlative to the foregoing and shall include the proceeds of such cash collateral and other credit support.

“Change in Law” means the occurrence, after the date of this Agreement, of any of the following: (a) the adoption or taking effect of any law, rule, regulation or treaty, (b) any change in any law, rule, regulation or treaty or in the administration, interpretation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority or (c) the making or issuance of any request, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) by any Governmental Authority.

“Change of Control” means an event or series of events by which:

(a) any “person” or “group” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, but excluding any employee benefit plan of such person or its subsidiaries, and any person or entity acting in its capacity as trustee, agent or other fiduciary or administrator of any such plan) becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, except that a person or group shall be deemed to have “beneficial ownership” of all securities that such person or group has the right to acquire, whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time (such right, an “option right”)), directly or indirectly, of 25% or more of the equity securities of the Borrower entitled to vote for members of the board of directors or equivalent governing body of the Borrower on a fully-diluted basis (and taking into account all such securities that such person or group has the right to acquire pursuant to any option right);

(b) during any period of twenty-four (24) consecutive months, a majority of the members of the board of directors or other equivalent governing body of the Borrower cease to be composed of individuals (i) who were members of that board or equivalent governing body on the first day of such period, (ii) whose election or nomination to that board or equivalent governing body was approved by individuals referred to in clause (i) above constituting at the time of such election or nomination at least a majority of that board or equivalent governing body or (iii) whose election or nomination to that board or other equivalent governing body was approved by individuals referred to in clauses (i) and (ii) above constituting at the time of such election or nomination at least a majority of that board or equivalent governing body; or

(c) the passage of thirty days from the date upon which any Person or two or more Persons acting in concert shall have acquired by contract or otherwise, or shall have entered into a contract or arrangement that, upon consummation thereof, will result in its or their acquisition of the power to exercise, directly or indirectly, a controlling influence over the management or policies of the Borrower, or control over the equity securities of the Borrower entitled to vote for members of the board of directors or equivalent governing body of the Borrower on a fully-diluted basis (and taking into account all such securities that such Person or group has the right to acquire pursuant to any option right) representing 25% or more of the combined voting power of such securities.

“Closing Date” means the first date all the conditions precedent in Section 4.01 are satisfied or waived in accordance with Section 10.01.

“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.

“Collateral” means all of the “Collateral” and “Mortgaged Property” referred to in the Collateral Documents and all of the other property that is or is intended under the terms of the Collateral Documents to be subject to Liens in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.

“Collateral Documents” means, collectively, the Pledge Agreement, the Mortgages, and each of the other mortgages, collateral assignments, security agreements, pledge agreements or other similar agreements delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 6.13, and each of the other agreements, instruments or documents that creates or purports to create a Lien in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.

“Collateral Value Amount” means, as of any date of determination, an amount equal to (a) the product of (i) 50% multiplied by (ii) the BBP Value as of such date minus (b) the Recording Cost Amount for each Borrowing Base Property located in the State of New York and for which a Mortgage has not been recorded to the extent such Recording Cost Amount for such Borrowing Base Property has not been deposited by the Borrower or other applicable Loan Party in an escrow account on terms and conditions reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent; provided, that for purposes of determining the Collateral Value Amount, the portion of BBP Value as of any date attributable to any particular Borrowing Base Property shall be reduced by an amount equal to the positive amount by which (A) the Appraised Value for such Borrowing Base Property exceeds (B) the amount of Indebtedness hereunder secured by the Mortgage (whether recorded or unrecorded) applicable to such Borrowing Base Property.

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

“Committed Borrowing” means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous Committed Loans of the same Type and, in the case of Eurodollar Rate Loans, having the same Interest Period made by each of the Lenders pursuant to Section 2.01.

“Committed Loan” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01.

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

“Compliance Certificate” means a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit D.

“Conditional Approval BBP Deliverables” means, with respect to each Real Property for which the Borrower seeks approval as a “Borrowing Base Property,” each of the BBP Deliverables described in clauses (d), (e) (with respect to copies of each Material Lease), (f) (with respect to a copy of the ground lease), (i) (with respect to

evidence as to whether such Real Property is designated as a Flood Hazard Property), (j), (k), (l), (m), (n), (o) (other than the collateral assignment of such management agreement described therein) and (p) (other than the collateral assignment of such franchise agreement or the “comfort letter” or other evidence regarding the rights of the Administrative Agent in connection with the exercise of remedies hereunder described therein) of the definition of “BBP Deliverables.”

“Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio” means, as of any date of determination, the ratio of (a) EBITDA for the Calculation Period ending on such date to (b) Consolidated Fixed Charges for such period.

“Consolidated Fixed Charges” means, for any period, the sum of (a) Consolidated Interest Charges for such period, plus (b) current scheduled principal payments on Consolidated Funded Indebtedness for such period (including, for purposes hereof, current scheduled reductions in commitments, but excluding any payment of principal under the Credit Documents and any “balloon” payment or final payment at maturity that is significantly larger than the scheduled payments that preceded it), plus (c) dividends and distributions paid in cash on preferred stock by the Consolidated Parties on a consolidated basis and all Unconsolidated Affiliates, if any, for such period, in each case, determined in accordance with GAAP; provided, that, to the extent the calculations under clauses (a), (b) and (c) above include amounts allocable to Unconsolidated Affiliates, such calculations shall be without duplication and shall only include such amounts to the extent attributable to any Unconsolidated Affiliate Interests.

“Consolidated Funded Indebtedness” means, as of any date of determination, without duplication, the sum of (a) the outstanding principal amount of all obligations of the Consolidated Parties on a consolidated basis, whether current or long-term, for borrowed money (including all obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents) and all obligations of the Consolidated Parties on a consolidated basis evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes, loan agreements or other similar instruments, (b) all purchase money Indebtedness of the Consolidated Parties on a consolidated basis, (c) all obligations of the Consolidated Parties on a consolidated basis arising under letters of credit (including standby and commercial), bankers’ acceptances, bank guaranties, surety bonds and similar instruments, (d) all obligations of the Consolidated Parties on a consolidated basis in respect of forward purchase agreements or the deferred purchase price of any property or services (other than trade accounts payable in the ordinary course of business), (e) Attributable Indebtedness of the Consolidated Parties on a consolidated basis in respect of capital leases and Synthetic Lease Obligations, (f) without duplication, all Guarantees of the Consolidated Parties on a consolidated basis with respect to outstanding Indebtedness of the types specified in clauses (a) through (e) above of Persons other than the Parent REIT or any Subsidiary, (g) without duplication, all Indebtedness of the Consolidated Parties on a consolidated basis of the types referred to in clauses (a) through (f) above of any partnership or joint venture in which the Parent REIT or a Subsidiary is a general partner or joint venturer, and (h) without duplication, the aggregate amount of Unconsolidated Affiliate Funded Indebtedness for all Unconsolidated Affiliates; provided, however, that as of any date during the period commencing as of the Closing Date and extending to (but not including) the Initial Maturity Date, Adjusted Unrestricted Cash of the Borrower shall be deducted from the sum of amounts under clauses (a) through (g) above in calculating “Consolidated Funded Indebtedness.”

“Consolidated Funded Indebtedness to Total Asset Value Ratio” means, as of any date of determination, the ratio of (a) the sum of (i) Consolidated Funded Indebtedness on such date, plus (ii) to the extent not included in the determination of Consolidated Funded Indebtedness pursuant to the foregoing clause (i), Adjusted Unrestricted Cash of the Borrower to (b) Total Asset Value on such date.

“Consolidated Interest Charges” means, for any period, the sum of (a) all interest, premium payments, debt discount, fees, charges and related expenses of the Consolidated Parties on a consolidated basis and all Unconsolidated Affiliates, in connection with borrowed money (including capitalized interest) or in connection with the deferred purchase price of assets, in each case to the extent treated as interest in accordance with GAAP, and (b) the portion of rent expense of the Consolidated Parties on a consolidated basis and all Unconsolidated Affiliates with respect to such period under capital leases that is treated as interest in accordance with GAAP; provided, that, to the extent the calculations under clauses (a) and (b) above include amounts allocable to Unconsolidated Affiliates, such calculations shall be without duplication and shall only include such amounts to the extent attributable to any Unconsolidated Affiliate Interests.

“Consolidated Leverage Ratio” means, as of any date of determination, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Funded Indebtedness as of such date to (b) EBITDA for the period of the four fiscal quarters most recently ended.

“Consolidated Net Income” means, for any period, the sum of (a) the net income of the Consolidated Parties on a consolidated basis (excluding extraordinary gains and extraordinary losses) for such period, calculated in accordance with GAAP, plus (b) without duplication, an amount equal to the aggregate of net income (excluding extraordinary gains and extraordinary losses) for such period, calculated in accordance with GAAP, of each Unconsolidated Affiliate multiplied by the respective Unconsolidated Affiliate Interest in each such entity.

“Consolidated Parties” means a collective reference to the Parent REIT and its consolidated Subsidiaries; and “Consolidated Party” means any one of them.

“Consolidated Recourse Secured Indebtedness” means, as of any date of determination, for the Consolidated Parties on a consolidated basis, all Secured Debt that is recourse to the Parent REIT or any of its Subsidiaries (except to the extent such recourse is limited to customary non-recourse carve-outs).

“Consolidated Tangible Assets” means the amount by which total assets of the Consolidated Parties determined in accordance with GAAP exceed that portion of such total assets allocated to or included as Intangible Assets of the Consolidated Parties.

“Consolidated Tangible Net Worth” means, as of any date of determination, Shareholders’ Equity on that date, minus the Intangible Assets of the Consolidated Parties on that date, minus, without duplication, the Intangible Assets of each Unconsolidated Affiliate multiplied by the respective Unconsolidated Affiliate Interest in each such entity; provided, however, that there shall be excluded from the calculation of “Consolidated Tangible Net Worth” any effects resulting from the application of FASB ASC No. 715: Compensation – Retirement Benefits.

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

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

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

“DC Hotel Trust” means DC Hotel Trust, a Maryland real estate investment trust.

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

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

“Default Rate” means (a) when used with respect to Obligations other than Letter of Credit Fees, an interest rate equal to (i) the Base Rate plus (ii) the Applicable Margin, if any, applicable to Base Rate Loans plus (iii) 2% per annum; provided, however, that with respect to a Eurodollar Rate Loan, the Default Rate shall be an interest rate equal to the interest rate (including any Applicable Margin) otherwise applicable to such Loan plus 2% per annum, and (b) when used with respect to Letter of Credit Fees, a rate equal to the Applicable Margin plus 2% per annum.

“Defaulting Lender” means, subject to Section 2.18(b), any Lender that, as determined by the Administrative Agent, (a) has failed to perform any of its funding obligations hereunder, including in respect of its Loans or participations in respect of Letters of Credit or Swing Line Loans, within three Business Days of the date

required to be funded by it hereunder, (b) has notified the Borrower, or the Administrative Agent or any Lender that it does not intend to comply with its funding obligations or has made a public statement to that effect with respect to its funding obligations hereunder or under other agreements in which it commits to extend credit, (c) has failed, within three Business Days after request by the Administrative Agent, to confirm in a manner satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that it will comply with its funding obligations, or (d) has, or has a direct or indirect parent company that has, (i) become the subject of a proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law, (ii) had a receiver, conservator, trustee, administrator, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with reorganization or liquidation of its business or a custodian appointed for it, or (iii) taken any action in furtherance of, or indicated its consent to, approval of or acquiescence in any such proceeding or appointment; provided that a Lender shall not be a Defaulting Lender solely by virtue of the ownership or acquisition of any equity interest in that Lender or any direct or indirect parent company thereof by a Governmental Authority.

“Disposition” or “Dispose” means the sale, transfer, license, lease (excluding the lease of any Borrowing Base Property and personal property assets related thereto to any TRS pursuant to a form of Lease approved by the Administrative Agent, in its reasonable discretion) or other disposition (including any sale and leaseback transaction) of any property by any Person, including any sale, assignment, transfer or other disposal, with or without recourse, of any notes or accounts receivable or any rights and claims associated therewith.

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

“Domestic Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that is organized under the laws of any political subdivision of the United States.

“EBITDA” means, for any period, the sum of (a) an amount equal to Consolidated Net Income for such period plus (b) the following to the extent deducted in calculating such Consolidated Net Income: (i) Consolidated Interest Charges for such period, (ii) the provision for Federal, state, local and foreign income taxes payable by the Consolidated Parties and Unconsolidated Affiliates for such period, (iii) depreciation and amortization expense of the Consolidated Parties and Unconsolidated Affiliates, (iv) other non-recurring expenses of the Consolidated Parties and Unconsolidated Affiliates reducing such Consolidated Net Income which do not represent a cash item in such period or any future period, and (v), without duplication of any of the foregoing, amounts deducted from net income as a result of pre-funded fees or expenses incurred in connection with acquisitions permitted under the Loan Documents that can no longer be capitalized due to FAS 141R Changes and charges relating to the under-accrual of earn outs due to the FAS 141R Changes, minus (c) the following to the extent included in calculating such Consolidated Net Income: (i) Federal, state, local and foreign income tax credits of the Consolidated Parties and Unconsolidated Affiliates for such period and (ii) all non-cash items increasing Consolidated Net Income for such period; provided, that, to the extent the calculations under clauses (a), (b) and (c) above include amounts allocable to Unconsolidated Affiliates, such calculations shall be without duplication and shall only include such amounts to the extent attributable to any Unconsolidated Affiliate Interests.

“Eligible Assignee” means any Person that meets the requirements to be an assignee under Section 10.06(b)(iii) and (v) (subject to such consents, if any, as may be required under Section 10.06(b)(iii)).

“Environmental Laws” means any and all applicable Federal, state, local, and foreign statutes, laws, regulations, ordinances, rules, judgments, orders, decrees, permits, concessions, grants, franchises, licenses, agreements or Governmental Authority restrictions relating to pollution and the protection of the environment or the release of any materials into the environment, including those related to hazardous substances or wastes, air emissions and discharges to waste or public systems.

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

“Equity Interests” means, with respect to any Person, all of the shares of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person, all of the warrants, options or other rights for the purchase or acquisition from such Person of shares of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person, all of the securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person or warrants, rights or options for the purchase or acquisition from such Person of such shares (or such other interests), and all of the other ownership or profit interests in such Person (including partnership, member or trust interests therein), whether voting or nonvoting, and whether or not such shares, warrants, options, rights or other interests are outstanding on any date of determination.

“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.

“ERISA Affiliate” means any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) under common control with the Borrower within the meaning of Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code (and Sections 414(m) and (o) of the Code for purposes of provisions relating to Section 412 of the Code).

“ERISA Event” means (a) a Reportable Event with respect to a Pension Plan; (b) the withdrawal of the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate from a Pension Plan subject to Section 4063 of ERISA during a plan year in which such entity was a “substantial employer” as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA or a cessation of operations that is treated as such a withdrawal under Section 4062(e) of ERISA; (c) a complete or partial withdrawal by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate from a Multiemployer Plan or notification that a Multiemployer Plan is in reorganization; (d) the filing of a notice of intent to terminate a Pension Plan or the treatment of a Pension Plan amendment as a termination under Section 4041 or 4041A of ERISA; (e) the institution by the PBGC of proceedings to terminate a Pension Plan; (f) any event or condition which constitutes grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Pension Plan; (g) the determination that any Pension Plan is considered an at-risk plan or a plan in endangered or critical status within the meaning of Sections 430, 431 and 432 of the Code or Sections 303, 304 and 305 of ERISA; or (h) the imposition of any liability under Title IV of ERISA, other than for PBGC premiums due but not delinquent under Section 4007 of ERISA, upon the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate.

“Eurodollar Rate” means

(a) for any Interest Period with respect to a Eurodollar Rate Loan, the greater of (i) 1.50% (the “LIBOR Floor”), and (ii) the rate per annum equal to (A) the British Bankers Association LIBOR Rate (“BBA LIBOR”), as published by Reuters (or such other commercially available source providing quotations of BBA LIBOR as may be designated by the Administrative Agent from time to time) at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two London Banking Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period, for Dollar deposits (for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period) with a term equivalent to such Interest Period, or (B) if such rate is not available at such time for any reason, the rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent to be the rate at which deposits in Dollars for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period in same day funds in the approximate amount of the Eurodollar Rate Loan being made, continued or converted and with a term equivalent to such Interest Period would be offered by Bank of America’s London Branch to major banks in the London interbank eurodollar market at their request at approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) two London Banking Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period; and

(b) for any interest calculation with respect to a Base Rate Loan on any date, the greater of (i) the LIBOR Floor, and (ii) the rate per annum equal to (A) BBA LIBOR, at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time determined two London Banking Days prior to such date for Dollar deposits being delivered in the London interbank market for a term of one month commencing that day, or (B) if such published rate is not available at such time for any reason, the rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent to be the rate at which deposits in Dollars for delivery on the date of determination in same day funds in the approximate amount of the Base Rate Loan being made or maintained and with a term equal to one month would be offered by Bank of America’s London Branch to major banks in the London interbank Eurodollar market at their request at the date and time of determination.

“Eurodollar Rate Loan” means a Committed Loan that bears interest at a rate based on clause (a) of the definition of Eurodollar Rate.

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

“Excluded Taxes” means, with respect to the Administrative Agent, any Lender, the L/C Issuer or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower hereunder, (a) taxes imposed on or measured by its overall net income (however denominated), and franchise taxes imposed on it (in lieu of net income taxes), by the jurisdiction (or any political subdivision thereof) under the Applicable Laws of which such recipient is organized or in which its principal office is located or with which it has a connection (other than any such connection resulting, in whole or in part, from its having executed, delivered or performed its obligations or received a payment under, or enforced, this Agreement or any other Loan Document) or, in the case of any Lender, in which its applicable Lending Office is located, (b) any branch profits taxes imposed by the United States or any similar tax imposed by any other jurisdiction in which the Borrower is located, (c) any backup withholding tax that is required by the Code to be withheld from amounts payable to a Lender, and (d) in the case of a Foreign Lender (other than an assignee pursuant to a request by the Borrower under Section 10.13), any United States withholding tax that (i) is required to be imposed on amounts payable to such Foreign Lender pursuant to the Applicable Laws in force at the time such Foreign Lender becomes a party hereto (or designates a new Lending Office) or (ii) is attributable to such Foreign Lender’s failure or inability (other than as a result of a Change in Law) to comply with Section 3.01(e), except to the extent that such Foreign Lender (or its assignor, if any) was entitled, at the time of designation of a new Lending Office (or assignment), to receive additional amounts from the Borrower with respect to such withholding tax pursuant to Section 3.01(a)(ii) or (iii).

“Extended Maturity Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(b).

“FAS 141R Changes” means those changes made to a buyer’s accounting practices by the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s Statement of Financial Accounting Standard No. 141R, Business Combinations, which is effective for annual reporting periods that begin in calendar year 2009.

“FASB ASC” means the Accounting Standards Codification of the Financial Accounting Standards Board.

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

“Fee Letter” means the letter agreement, dated March 18, 2010, among the Parent REIT, the Administrative Agent and the Arranger.

“FFO Distribution Allowance” means, for any four (4) calendar quarter period of the Consolidated Parties, an amount equal to 95% of Funds From Operations for such period.

“Financial Covenant Failure Event” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 8.04.

“First-Tier Foreign Subsidiary” means any Foreign Subsidiary that is owned directly by the Parent REIT, the Borrower or a Domestic Subsidiary of the Parent REIT or the Borrower.

“Foreign Lender” means any Lender that is organized under the Applicable Laws of a jurisdiction other than that in which the Borrower is resident for tax purposes (including such a Lender when acting in the capacity of the L/C Issuer). For purposes of this definition, the United States, each State thereof and the District of Columbia shall be deemed to constitute a single jurisdiction.

“Foreign Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that is not a Domestic Subsidiary.

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

“Fronting Exposure” means, at any time there is a Defaulting Lender, (a) with respect to the L/C Issuer, such Defaulting Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the outstanding L/C Obligations other than L/C Obligations as to which such Defaulting Lender’s participation obligation has been reallocated to other Lenders or Cash Collateralized in accordance with the terms hereof, and (b) with respect to the Swing Line Lender, such Defaulting Lender’s Applicable Percentage of Swing Line Loans other than Swing Line Loans as to which such Defaulting Lender’s participation obligation has been reallocated to other Lenders or Cash Collateralized in accordance with the terms hereof.

“Fully Satisfied” means, with respect to the Obligations as of any date, that, as of such date, (a) all principal of and interest accrued to such date which constitute Obligations shall have been irrevocably paid in full in cash, (b) all fees, expenses and other amounts then due and payable which constitute Obligations shall have been irrevocably paid in cash, (c) all outstanding Letters of Credit shall have been (i) terminated, (ii) fully irrevocably Cash Collateralized or (iii) secured by one or more letters of credit on terms and conditions, and with one or more financial institutions, satisfactory to the L/C Issuer and (d) the Commitments shall have expired or been terminated in full (in each case, other than inchoate indemnification liabilities arising under the Loan Documents).

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

“Funds From Operations” means, with respect to the immediately prior fiscal quarter period, Consolidated Net Income, plus depreciation and amortization and after adjustments for unconsolidated partnerships and joint ventures as hereafter provided; provided, that, to the extent such calculations include amounts allocable to Unconsolidated Affiliates, such calculations shall be without duplication and shall only include such amounts to the extent attributable to any Unconsolidated Affiliate Interests. Without limiting the foregoing, notwithstanding contrary treatment under GAAP, for purposes hereof, (a) “Funds From Operations” shall include, and be adjusted to take into account, (i) the Parent REITs’ interests in unconsolidated partnerships and joint ventures, on the same basis as consolidated partnerships and subsidiaries, as provided in the “white paper” issued in April 2002 by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, as may be amended from time to time, and (ii) amounts deducted from net income as a result of pre-funded fees or expenses incurred in connection with acquisitions permitted under the Loan Documents that can no longer be capitalized due to FAS 141R Changes and charges relating to the under-accrual of earn outs due to the FAS 141R Changes, and (b) net income (or loss) of the Consolidated Parties on a consolidated basis shall not include gains (or, if applicable, losses) resulting from or in connection with (i) restructuring of indebtedness, (ii) sales of property, (iii) sales or redemptions of preferred stock or (iv) non cash asset impairment charges.

“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or such other principles as may be approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession in the United States, that are applicable to the circumstances as of the date of determination, consistently applied.

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

“Guarantee” means, as to any Person, any (a) any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of such Person guaranteeing or having the economic effect of guaranteeing any Indebtedness or other obligation payable or performable by another Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of such Person, direct or indirect, (i) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or other obligation, (ii) to purchase or lease property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the obligee in respect of such Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment or performance of

such Indebtedness or other obligation, (iii) to maintain working capital, equity capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity or level of income or cash flow of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or other obligation, (iv) to guaranty to any Person rental income levels (or shortfalls) or re-tenanting costs (including tenant improvements, moving expenses, lease commissions and any other costs associated with procuring new tenants); provided, that such obligations shall be determined to be equal to the maximum potential amount of the payments due from the Person guaranteeing the applicable rental income levels over the term of the applicable lease or (v) entered into for the purpose of assuring in any other manner the obligee in respect of such Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment or performance thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part), or (b) any lien on any assets of such Person securing any Indebtedness or other obligation of any other Person, whether or not such Indebtedness or other obligation is assumed by such Person (or any right, contingent or otherwise, of any holder of such Indebtedness to obtain any such Lien). The amount of any Guarantee shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the related primary obligation, or portion thereof, in respect of which such Guarantee is made or, if not stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by the guaranteeing Person in good faith; provided, that, to the extent any Guarantee is limited by its terms, then the amount of such Guarantee shall be deemed to be the stated or determinable amount of such Guarantee. The term “Guarantee” as a verb has a corresponding meaning.

“Guarantors” means, collectively, the Parent REIT, each Person that is required to be a Guarantor pursuant to Section 6.12, as identified on the signature pages hereto as a “Guarantor” as of the Closing Date, and each other Person that becomes a Guarantor after the Closing Date pursuant to the terms hereof as required by Section 6.12, in each case together with their successors and permitted assigns.

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

“Hedge Bank” means any Lender or Affiliate of a Lender, in its capacity as a party to a Swap Contract that is not otherwise prohibited under Article VI or VII.

“Impacted Lender” means any Lender as to which (a) L/C Issuer has a good faith belief that the Lender has defaulted in fulfilling its obligations under one or more other syndicated credit facilities or (b) an entity that controls the Lender has been deemed insolvent or become subject to a bankruptcy or other similar proceeding.

“Increase Effective Date” has the meaning given to such term in Section 2.15(d).

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

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

(b) all direct or contingent obligations of such Person arising under letters of credit (including standby and commercial), bankers’ acceptances, bank guaranties, surety bonds and similar instruments;

(d) all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than trade accounts payable incurred in the ordinary course of business and, in each case, not overdue by more than ninety (90) days after such trade account payable was created, except to the extent that any such trade payables are being disputed in good faith);

(e) indebtedness (excluding prepaid interest thereon) secured by a Lien on property owned or being purchased by such Person (including indebtedness arising under conditional sales or other title

retention agreements), whether or not such indebtedness shall have been assumed by such Person or is limited in recourse;

(f) capital leases and Synthetic Lease Obligations;

(g) all obligations of such Person to purchase, redeem, retire, defease or otherwise make any payment in respect of any Equity Interest in such Person or any other Person, valued, in the case of a redeemable preferred interest, at the greater of its voluntary or involuntary liquidation preference plus accrued and unpaid dividends; and

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

For all purposes hereof, the Indebtedness of any Person shall include, without duplication, the Indebtedness of any partnership or joint venture in which such Person is a general partner or a joint venturer. The amount of any net obligation under any Swap Contract on any date shall be deemed to be the Swap Termination Value thereof as of such date. The amount of any capital lease or Synthetic Lease Obligation as of any date shall be deemed to be the amount of Attributable Indebtedness in respect thereof as of such date.

“Indemnified Taxes” means Taxes other than Excluded Taxes.

“Indemnitees” has the meaning specified in Section 10.04(b).

“Information” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07.

“Initial Maturity Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(a).

“Intangible Assets” means assets that are considered to be intangible assets under GAAP, including customer lists, goodwill, computer software, copyrights, trade names, trademarks, patents, franchises, licenses, unamortized deferred charges, unamortized debt discount and capitalized research and development costs.

“Interest Payment Date” means, (a) as to any Loan other than a Base Rate Loan, the last day of each Interest Period applicable to such Loan and the Maturity Date; provided, however, that if any Interest Period for a Eurodollar Rate Loan exceeds three months, the respective dates that fall every three months after the beginning of such Interest Period shall also be Interest Payment Dates; and (b) as to any Base Rate Loan (including a Swing Line Loan), the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December and the Maturity Date.

“Interest Period” means, as to each Eurodollar Rate Loan, the period commencing on the date such Eurodollar Rate Loan is disbursed or converted to or continued as a Eurodollar Rate Loan and ending on the date fourteen (14) days (to the extent each of the Lenders are able to provide a Eurodollar Rate Loan for such period) or one, two, three or six months thereafter, as selected by the Borrower in its Committed Loan Notice; provided that:

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

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

(iii) no Interest Period shall extend beyond the Maturity Date.

“Investment” means, as to any Person, any direct or indirect acquisition or investment by such Person, whether by means of (a) the purchase or other acquisition of capital stock or other securities of another Person, (b) a loan, advance or capital contribution to, Guarantee or assumption of debt of, or purchase or other acquisition of any other debt or equity participation or interest in, another Person, including any partnership or joint venture interest in

such other Person and any arrangement pursuant to which the investor Guarantees Indebtedness of such other Person, or (c) the purchase or other acquisition (in one transaction or a series of transactions) of assets of another Person that constitute a business unit. For purposes of covenant compliance, the amount of any Investment shall be the amount actually invested, without adjustment for subsequent increases or decreases in the value of such Investment.

“IP Rights” has the meaning specified in Section 5.18.

“IRS” means the United States Internal Revenue Service.

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

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

“Jayhawk Owner LLC” means Jayhawk Owner LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.

“Joinder Agreement” means a Joinder Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit H hereto, executed and delivered by a new Guarantor in accordance with the provisions of Section 6.12 hereof.

“L/C Advance” means, with respect to each Lender, such Lender’s funding of its participation in any L/C Borrowing in accordance with its Applicable Percentage.

“L/C Borrowing” means an extension of credit resulting from a drawing under any Letter of Credit which has not been reimbursed on the date when made or refinanced as a Committed Borrowing.

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

“L/C Issuer” means Bank of America in its capacity as issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder, or any successor issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder in the event that Bank of America ceases (for whatever reason) to act in such capacity, or any other Lender (with the consent of the Administrative Agent, in its sole discretion) as an issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder.

“L/C Obligations” means, as at any date of determination, the aggregate amount available to be drawn under all outstanding Letters of Credit plus the aggregate of all Unreimbursed Amounts, including all L/C Borrowings. For purposes of computing the amount available to be drawn under any Letter of Credit, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be determined in accordance with Section 1.06. For all purposes of this Agreement, if on any date of determination a Letter of Credit has expired by its terms but any amount may still be drawn thereunder by reason of the operation of Rule 3.14 of the ISP, such Letter of Credit shall be deemed to be “outstanding” in the amount so remaining available to be drawn.

“Lease” means a lease, sublease, license, concession agreement or other agreement providing for the use or occupancy of any portion of any Real Property (and any personal property related thereto that is covered by such lease, sublease, license, concession agreement or other agreement) owned or ground leased by any Loan Party, including all amendments, supplements, restatements, assignments and other modifications thereto.

“Lender” has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph hereto and, as the context requires, includes the Swing Line Lender.

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

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

“Letter of Credit Application” means an application and agreement for the issuance or amendment of a Letter of Credit in the form from time to time in use by the L/C Issuer.

“Letter of Credit Expiration Date” means the day that is thirty (30) days prior to the Maturity Date then in effect (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next preceding Business Day).

“Letter of Credit Fee” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(i).

“Letter of Credit Sublimit” means an amount equal to $30,000,000.00. The Letter of Credit Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Aggregate Commitments.

“Lien” means any mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or other), charge, or preference, priority or other security interest or preferential arrangement in the nature of a security interest of any kind or nature whatsoever (including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, any easement, right of way or other encumbrance on title to real property, and any financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing).

“Loan” means an extension of credit by a Lender to the Borrower under Article II in the form of a Committed Loan or a Swing Line Loan.

“Loan Documents” means this Agreement, each Note, each Issuer Document, any agreement creating or perfecting rights in Cash Collateral pursuant to the provisions of Section 2.17 of this Agreement, each Collateral Document, and the Fee Letter.

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

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

“Major MSA” means the metropolitan statistical area of any of the following: (i) New York City, New York; (ii) Chicago, Illinois; (iii) Washington, DC; (iv) Los Angeles, California; (v) Boston, Massachusetts; and (vi) San Francisco, California.

“Material Adverse Effect” means (a) a material adverse change in, or a material adverse effect upon, the operations, business, properties, liabilities (actual or contingent) or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole; (b) a material impairment of the ability of the Borrower and the other Loan Parties taken as a whole to perform their respective obligations under any Loan Document; or (c) a material adverse effect upon the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability against any Loan Party of any Loan Document to which it is a party.

“Material Lease” shall mean as to any Borrowing Base Property (i) any Lease of such Borrowing Base Property (and any personal property assets related thereto) between the applicable Loan Party that owns such Borrowing Base Property and any TRS, (ii) any Lease which, individually or when aggregated with all other Leases at such Borrowing Base Property with the same tenant or any of its Affiliates, accounts for ten percent (10%) or more of such Borrowing Base Property’s revenue, or (iii) any Lease which contains any option, offer, right of first refusal or other similar entitlement to acquire all or any portion of the Property.

“Maturity Date” means (a) the Initial Maturity Date and (b) if maturity is extended pursuant to Section 2.14, the Extended Maturity Date; provided, however, that, in each case, if such date is not a Business Day, the Maturity Date shall be the next preceding Business Day.

“Mortgage” means any deed of trust, trust deed, deed to secure debt, indemnity deed of trust, mortgage, leasehold mortgage and leasehold deed of trust, in substantially the form of Exhibit F (with such changes as may be satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and its counsel in their reasonable discretion to account for local law matters) or such other form as may be reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and its counsel (including, without limitation, an amendment to or amendment and restatement of an existing deed of trust, trust deed, deed to secure debt, indemnity deed of trust, mortgage, leasehold mortgage or leasehold deed of trust) and covering the Real Property described therein (together with an assignment of leases and rents referred to therein, if any).

“Mortgage Commitments” has the meaning given to such term in clause (b) of the definition of “BBP Deliverables.”

“Mortgage Policy” means, with respect to any Real Property, a fully paid American Land Title Association Lender’s Extended Coverage title insurance policy with respect to any Mortgage related thereto, together with endorsements and in amounts reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, issued, coinsured and reinsured by title insurers reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent (including the Title Insurance Company), insuring the Mortgages to be valid first and subsisting Liens on the property described therein, free and clear of all defects (including, but not limited to, mechanics’ and materialmen’s Liens) and encumbrances, excepting only Permitted Liens of the type described in Section 7.01(a), (c), (d), (f), (g) and (j) and Liens approved by the Administrative Agent and providing for such other affirmative insurance (including endorsements for future advances under the Loan Documents, for mechanics’ and materialmen’s Liens and for zoning of the applicable property, and affirmative “gap” insurance coverage) and such coinsurance and direct access reinsurance as the Administrative Agent may deem reasonably necessary or desirable and as may be available in the state where such Real Property is located.

“Mortgageability Amount” means, as of any date of calculation, (i) for the period commencing as of the Closing Date and extending through the date which is 18 months following the Closing Date, the maximum principal amount which can be supported by the Mortgageability Cash Flow and maintain a minimum implied debt service coverage ratio of 1.50x and (ii) for all dates following the date which is 18 months following the Closing Date, the maximum principal amount which can be supported by the Mortgageability Cash Flow and maintain a minimum implied debt service coverage ratio of 1.75x, in each case assuming a 30 year amortization schedule (based on level payments) and an interest rate equal to the greater of (A) the ten year Treasury Rate plus 3.5% and (B) 8.0%; provided, in each case, the Mortgageability Amount shall be reduced by the Recording Cost Amount for each Borrowing Base Property located in the State of New York and for which a Mortgage has not been recorded to the extent such Recording Cost Amount for such Borrowing Base Properties has not been deposited by the Borrower or other applicable Loan Party in an escrow account on terms and conditions reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

“Mortgageability Cash Flow” means, as of any date of calculation, the sum of the Net Operating Incomes from each of the Borrowing Base Properties for the most recently-ended Calculation Period (and, if specifically required, including adjustments for subsequent events or conditions on a Pro Forma Basis).

“Multiemployer Plan” means any employee benefit plan of the type described in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA that is subject to Title IV of ERISA, to which the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate makes or is obligated to make contributions, or during the preceding five plan years, has made or been obligated to make contributions.

“Multiple Employer Plan” means any employee benefit plan which has two or more contributing sponsors (including the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate) at least two of whom are not under common control, as such a plan is described in Section 4064 of ERISA.

“Negative Pledge Agreement” means a negative pledge agreement in recordable form given by a Loan Party to the Administrative Agent pursuant to which such Loan Party shall acknowledge that such Loan Party has agreed not

to encumber certain Real Property owned by it, located in the State of New York and offered as security for the Obligations.

“Net Operating Income” means, with respect to any Borrowing Base Property and for the most recently ended Calculation Period, an amount equal to (a) the aggregate gross revenues from the operations of such Borrowing Base Property during the applicable Calculation Period, minus (b) the sum of (i) all expenses and other proper charges incurred in connection with the operation of such Borrowing Base Property during such period pro-rated as appropriate (including real estate taxes, but excluding any management fees, debt service charges, income taxes, depreciation, amortization and other non-cash expenses), and (ii) a base management fee that is the greater of 3.0% of the aggregate revenues from the operations of such Borrowing Base Property during such period or actual management fees paid and (iii) an annual replacement reserve equal to 4.0% of the aggregate revenues from the operations of such Borrowing Base Property.

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

“Non-Guarantor Subsidiary” shall mean any Subsidiary (whether direct or indirect) of the Borrower, other than any Subsidiary which owns a Borrowing Base Property or any Subsidiary which owns any of the Equity Interests of any such Subsidiary, which (a) is a TRS; (b) is DC Hotel Trust; (c) is (i) formed for or converted to the specific purpose of holding title to Real Property assets which are collateral for Indebtedness owing or to be owed by such Subsidiary (provided that such Indebtedness must be incurred or assumed within ninety (90) days (or such longer period as the Administrative Agent may agree in writing) of such formation or conversion or such Subsidiary shall cease to qualify as a Non-Guarantor Subsidiary, and (ii) expressly prohibited in writing from guaranteeing Indebtedness of any other person or entity pursuant to (A) a provision in any document, instrument or agreement evidencing such Indebtedness of such Subsidiary or (B) a provision of such Subsidiary’s Organization Documents, in each case, which provision was included in such Organization Document or such other document, instrument or agreement at the request of the applicable third party creditor and as an express condition to the extension or assumption of such Indebtedness; provided, that a Subsidiary meeting the requirements set forth in this clause (c) shall only remain a “Non-Guarantor Subsidiary” for so long as (1) each of the foregoing requirements set forth in this clause (c) are satisfied, (2) such Subsidiary does not guarantee any other Indebtedness and (3) the Indebtedness with respect to which the restrictions noted in clause (c) (ii) are imposed remains outstanding; or (d) (i) becomes a Subsidiary following the Closing Date, (ii) is not a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower, and (iii) with respect to which the Borrower and its Affiliates, as applicable, do not have sufficient voting power to cause such Subsidiary to become a Guarantor hereunder.

“Note” means a promissory note made by the Borrower in favor of a Lender evidencing Loans made by such Lender, substantially in the form of Exhibit C.

“Obligations” means all advances to, and debts, liabilities, obligations, covenants and duties of, any Loan Party arising under any Loan Document or otherwise with respect to any Loan, Letter of Credit or Secured Hedge Agreement, whether direct or indirect (including those acquired by assumption), absolute or contingent, due or to become due, now existing or hereafter arising and including interest and fees that accrue after the commencement by or against any Loan Party or any Affiliate thereof of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws naming such Person as the debtor in such proceeding, regardless of whether such interest and fees are allowed claims in such proceeding.

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

“Other MSA” means any metropolitan statistical area other than a Major MSA.

“Other Taxes” means all present or future stamp or documentary taxes or any other excise or property taxes, charges or similar levies (other than Excluded Taxes) arising from any payment made hereunder or under any other Loan Document or from the execution, delivery or enforcement of, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document.

“Outstanding Amount” means (i) with respect to Committed Loans and Swing Line Loans on any date, the aggregate outstanding principal amount thereof after giving effect to any borrowings and prepayments or repayments of Committed Loans and Swing Line Loans, as the case may be, occurring on such date; and (ii) with respect to any L/C Obligations on any date, the amount of such L/C Obligations on such date after giving effect to any L/C Credit Extension occurring on such date and any other changes in the aggregate amount of the L/C Obligations as of such date, including as a result of any reimbursements by the Borrower of Unreimbursed Amounts.

“Parent REIT” has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph hereto.

“Participant” has the meaning specified in Section 10.06(d).

“PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.

“Pebblebrook Hotel Lessee” means Pebblebrook Hotel Lessee, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and its permitted successors.

“Pension Plan” means any “employee pension benefit plan” (as such term is defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA), other than a Multiemployer Plan, that is subject to Title IV of ERISA and is sponsored or maintained by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate or to which the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate contributes or has an obligation to contribute, or in the case of a Multiple Employer Plan, has made contributions at any time during the immediately preceding five plan years.

“Permitted Liens” has the meaning specified in Section 7.01.

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

“Plan” means any “employee benefit plan” (as such term is defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) other than a Multiemployer Plan established by the Borrower or, with respect to any such plan that is subject to Section 412 of the Code or Title IV of ERISA, any ERISA Affiliate.

“Platform” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02.

“Pledge Agreement” means the pledge and security agreement dated as of the Closing Date given by certain of the Loan Parties, as pledgors, to the Administrative Agent to secure the Obligations, and any other pledge agreements or joinder agreements that may be given by any Person pursuant to the terms hereof, in each case as the same may be amended and modified from time to time.

“Pro Forma Basis” means, for purposes of calculating (utilizing the principles set forth in Section 1.03(c)) compliance with the Borrowing Base restrictions set forth herein and each of the financial covenants set forth in Section 7.11(a)-(d) in respect of a proposed transaction, that such transaction shall be deemed to have occurred as of the first day of the four fiscal-quarter period ending as of the most recent fiscal quarter end preceding the date of such transaction with respect to which the Administrative Agent has received the Required Financial Information. As used herein, “transaction” shall mean (a) any incurrence or assumption of Indebtedness as referred to in Section 7.02(i),or (j), or (b) any removal of a Borrowing Base Property from qualification as such pursuant to Section 7.05(a) or (b) or any other Disposition as referred to in Section 7.05, or (c) any acquisition of any Person (whether by merger or otherwise) or other property. In connection with any calculation relating to the Borrowing Base or of the financial covenants set forth in Section 7.11(a)-(d) upon giving effect to a transaction on a Pro Forma Basis:

(i) for purposes of any such calculation in respect of any incurrence or assumption of Indebtedness as referred to in Section 7.02(i) or (j), any Indebtedness which is retired in connection with such incurrence or assumption shall be excluded and deemed to have been retired as of the first day of the applicable period;

(ii) for purposes of any such calculation in respect of any removal of a Borrowing Base Property from qualification as such pursuant to Section 7.05 or any other Disposition as referred to in Section 7.05, (A) income statement items (whether positive or negative) attributable to the Person or property disposed of shall be excluded, (B) any Indebtedness which is retired in connection with such transaction shall be excluded and deemed to have been retired as of the first day of the applicable period, and (C) pro forma adjustments shall be included to the extent that such adjustments would give effect to events that are (1) directly attributable to such transaction, (2) expected to have a continuing impact on the Consolidated Parties and (3) factually supportable (in the reasonable judgment of the Administrative Agent); and

(iii) for purposes of any such calculation in respect of any acquisition of any Person (whether by merger or otherwise) or other property, (A) income statement items (whether positive or negative) and capital expenditures attributable to the Person or property acquired shall be deemed to be included as of the first day of the applicable period, and (B) pro forma adjustments (with the calculated amounts annualized to the extent the period from the date of such acquisition through the most-recently ended fiscal quarter is not at least twelve (12) months or four (4) fiscal quarters, in the case of any applicable period that is based on twelve months or four (4) fiscal quarters) shall be included to the extent that such adjustments would give effect to events that are (1) directly attributable to such transaction, (2) expected to have a continuing impact on the Consolidated Parties and (3) factually supportable (in the reasonable judgment of the Administrative Agent).

“Public Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02.

“QRS” means a Person qualifying for treatment either as a “qualified REIT subsidiary” under Section 856(i) of the Code, or as an entity disregarded as an entity separate from its owner under Treasury Regulations under Section 7701 of the Code.

“Register” has the meaning specified in Section 10.06(c).

“Real Properties” means, at any time, a collective reference to each of the facilities and real properties owned or leased by the Borrower or any other Subsidiary or in which any such Person has an interest at such time; and “Real Property” means any one of such Real Properties.

“Recording Cost Amount” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 1.07(e).

“REIT” means a Person qualifying for treatment as a “real estate investment trust” under the Code.

“Related Parties” means, with respect to any Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the partners, directors, officers, employees, agents, trustees and advisors of such Person and of such Person’s Affiliates.

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

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

“Required Financial Information” means, with respect to each fiscal period or quarter of the Borrower, (a) the financial statements required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b) for such fiscal period or

quarter of the Parent REIT, and (b) the Compliance Certificate required by Section 6.02(b) to be delivered with the financial statements described in clause (a) above.

“Required Lenders” means, as of any date of determination, Lenders having at least 51% of the Aggregate Commitments or, if the commitment of each Lender to make Loans and the obligation of the L/C Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions have been terminated pursuant to Section 8.02, Lenders holding in the aggregate at least 51% of the Total Outstandings (with the aggregate amount of each Lender’s risk participation and funded participation in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans being deemed “held” by such Lender for purposes of this definition); provided that the Commitment of, and the portion of the Total Outstandings held or deemed held by, any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making a determination of Required Lenders.

“Responsible Officer” means the chief executive officer, president, chief financial officer, treasurer, or controller of a Loan Party, and solely for purposes of the delivery of incumbency certificates pursuant to Section 4.01, the secretary or any assistant secretary of a Loan Party. Any document delivered hereunder that is signed by a Responsible Officer of a Loan Party shall be conclusively presumed to have been authorized by all necessary corporate, partnership and/or other action on the part of such Loan Party and such Responsible Officer shall be conclusively presumed to have acted on behalf of such Loan Party.

“Restricted Payment” means any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) with respect to any capital stock or other Equity Interest of the Parent REIT or any Subsidiary or any Unconsolidated Affiliate, or any payment (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any such capital stock or other Equity Interest, or on account of any return of capital to the Parent REIT’s shareholders, partners or members (or the equivalent Person thereof); provided, that, to the extent the calculation of the amount of any dividend or other distribution for purposes of this definition of “Restricted Payment” includes amounts allocable to Unconsolidated Affiliates, such calculation shall be without duplication and shall only include such amounts to the extent attributable to any Unconsolidated Affiliate Interests.

“Sale and Leaseback Transaction” means any arrangement pursuant to which any Consolidated Party, directly or indirectly, becomes liable as lessee, guarantor or other surety with respect to any lease, whether an operating lease or a capital lease, of any property (a) which such Consolidated Party has sold or transferred (or is to sell or transfer) to a Person which is not a Consolidated Party or (b) which such Consolidated Party intends to use for substantially the same purpose as any other property which has been sold or transferred (or is to be sold or transferred) by such Consolidated Party to another Person which is not a Consolidated Party in connection with such lease.

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

“Secured Debt” means, for any given calculation date, without duplication, the total aggregate principal amount of any Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness incurred under the Loan Documents) of the Consolidated Parties on a consolidated basis that is (a) secured in any manner by any lien or (b) entitled to the benefit of a negative pledge (other than under this Agreement); provided, that Indebtedness in respect of obligations under any capitalized lease shall not be deemed to be “Secured Debt.”

“Secured Hedge Agreement” means any interest rate Swap Contract permitted under Article VI or VII that is entered into by and between the Borrower and any Hedge Bank.

“Secured Parties” means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the L/C Issuer, the Swing Line Lender, the Hedge Banks, each co-agent or sub-agent appointed by the Administrative Agent from time to time pursuant to Section 9.05, and the other Persons the Obligations owing to which are or are purported to be secured by the Collateral under the terms of the Collateral Documents.

“Shareholders’ Equity” means, as of any date of determination, the sum of (a) consolidated shareholders’ equity of the Consolidated Parties as of that date determined in accordance with GAAP plus (b) without duplication,

an amount equal to the aggregate shareholders’ equity of each Unconsolidated Affiliate multiplied by the respective Unconsolidated Affiliate Interest in each such entity.

“Solvent” and “Solvency” mean, with respect to any Person on any date of determination, that on such date (a) the fair value of the property of such Person is greater than the total amount of liabilities, including contingent liabilities, of such Person, (b) the present fair salable value of the assets of such Person is not less than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of such Person on its debts as they become absolute and matured, (c) such Person does not intend to, and does not believe that it will, incur debts or liabilities beyond such Person’s ability to pay such debts and liabilities as they mature, (d) such Person is not engaged in business or a transaction, and is not about to engage in business or a transaction, for which such Person’s property would constitute an unreasonably small capital, and (e) such Person is able to pay its debts and liabilities, contingent obligations and other commitments as they mature in the ordinary course of business. The amount of contingent liabilities at any time shall be computed as the amount that, in the light of all the facts and circumstances existing at such time, represents the amount that can reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability.

“Subsidiary” of a Person means a corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company or other business entity of which a majority of the shares of securities or other interests having ordinary voting power for the election of directors or other governing body (other than securities or interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) are at the time beneficially owned, or the management of which is otherwise controlled, directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, or both, by such Person. Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to a “Subsidiary” or to “Subsidiaries” shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Parent REIT.

“Subsidiary TRS” means any TRS other than Pebblebrook Hotel Lessee.

“Supermajority Lenders” means, (a) as of any date of determination prior to the date that at least four (4) Real Properties have been approved as Borrowing Base Properties in accordance with the provisions hereof and of the other Loan Documents (such date, the “Minimum BBP Date”), Lenders having 100% of the Aggregate Commitments or, if the commitment of each Lender to make Loans and the obligation of the L/C Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions have been terminated pursuant to Section 8.02, Lenders holding in the aggregate 100% of the Total Outstandings (with the aggregate amount of each Lender’s risk participation and funded participation in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans being deemed “held” by such Lender for purposes of this definition), and (b) as of any date of determination on or following the Minimum BBP Date, Lenders having at least 66 2/3% of the Aggregate Commitments or, if the commitment of each Lender to make Loans and the obligation of the L/C Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions have been terminated pursuant to Section 8.02, Lenders holding in the aggregate at least 66 2/3% of the Total Outstandings (with the aggregate amount of each Lender’s risk participation and funded participation in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans being deemed “held” by such Lender for purposes of this definition); provided that, in each case, the Commitment of, and the portion of the Total Outstandings held or deemed held by, any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making a determination of Required Lenders.

“Swap Contract” means (a) any and all rate swap transactions, basis swaps, credit derivative transactions, forward rate transactions, commodity swaps, commodity options, forward commodity contracts, equity or equity index swaps or options, bond or bond price or bond index swaps or options or forward bond or forward bond price or forward bond index transactions, interest rate options, forward foreign exchange transactions, cap transactions, floor transactions, collar transactions, currency swap transactions, cross-currency rate swap transactions, currency options, spot contracts, or any other similar transactions or any combination of any of the foregoing (including any options to enter into any of the foregoing), whether or not any such transaction is governed by or subject to any master agreement, and (b) any and all transactions of any kind, and the related confirmations, which are subject to the terms and conditions of, or governed by, any form of master agreement published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., any International Foreign Exchange Master Agreement, or any other master agreement (any such master agreement, together with any related schedules, a “Master Agreement”), including any such obligations or liabilities under any Master Agreement.

“Swap Termination Value” means, in respect of any one or more Swap Contracts, after taking into account the effect of any legally enforceable netting agreement relating to such Swap Contracts, (a) for any date on or after

the date such Swap Contracts have been closed out and termination value(s) determined in accordance therewith, such termination value(s), and (b) for any date prior to the date referenced in clause (a), the amount(s) determined as the mark-to-market value(s) for such Swap Contracts, as determined based upon one or more mid-market or other readily available quotations provided by any recognized dealer in such Swap Contracts (which may include a Lender or any Affiliate of a Lender).

“Swing Line Borrowing” means a borrowing of a Swing Line Loan pursuant to Section 2.04.

“Swing Line Lender” means Bank of America in its capacity as provider of Swing Line Loans, or any successor swing line lender hereunder.

“Swing Line Loan” has the meaning specified in Section 2.04(a).

“Swing Line Loan Notice” means a notice of a Swing Line Borrowing pursuant to Section 2.04(b), which, if in writing, shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit B.

“Swing Line Sublimit” means an amount equal to the lesser of (a) $30,000,000.00 and (b) the Aggregate Commitments. The Swing Line Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Aggregate Commitments.

“Synthetic Lease Obligation” means the monetary obligation of a Person under (a) a so-called synthetic, off-balance sheet or tax retention lease, or (b) an agreement for the use or possession of property creating obligations that do not appear on the balance sheet of such Person but which, upon the insolvency or bankruptcy of such Person, would be characterized as the indebtedness of such Person (without regard to accounting treatment).

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

“Threshold Amount” means $15,000,000.00.

“Title Insurance Company” means any title insurance company reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent issuing a Mortgage Policy hereunder.

“Total Asset Value” means the sum of (a) unrestricted cash or cash equivalents of any Consolidated Party; plus (b) hotel property acquisitions by any Consolidated Party, valued at acquisition cost; plus (c) the cost of value enhancing capital expenditures by any Consolidated Party; plus (d) the value of land owned by any Consolidated Party, as determined in accordance with GAAP; plus (e) the value of mortgage assets owned by any Consolidated Party, as determined in accordance with GAAP.

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

“TRS” means each of (i) Pebblebrook Hotel Lessee and (ii) each other taxable REIT subsidiary that is a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Pebblebrook Hotel Lessee.

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

“Unconsolidated Affiliate” means any corporation, partnership, association, joint venture or other entity in each case which is not a Consolidated Party and in which a Consolidated Party owns, directly or indirectly, any Equity Interest.

“Unconsolidated Affiliate Funded Indebtedness” means, as of any date of determination for any Unconsolidated Affiliate, the product of (i) the sum of (a) the outstanding principal amount of all obligations of such Unconsolidated Affiliate, whether current or long-term, for borrowed money and all obligations of such Unconsolidated Affiliate evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes, loan agreements or other similar instruments, (b)

all purchase money Indebtedness of such Unconsolidated Affiliate, (c) all obligations of such Unconsolidated Affiliate arising under letters of credit (including standby and commercial), bankers’ acceptances, bank guaranties, surety bonds and similar instruments, (d) all obligations of such Unconsolidated Affiliate in respect of forward purchase agreements or the deferred purchase price of any property or services (other than trade accounts payable in the ordinary course of business), (e) Attributable Indebtedness of such Unconsolidated Affiliate in respect of capital leases and Synthetic Lease Obligations, (f) without duplication, all Guarantees of such Unconsolidated Affiliate with respect to outstanding Indebtedness of the types specified in clauses (a) through (e) above of Persons other than such Unconsolidated Affiliate, and (g) all Indebtedness of such Unconsolidated Affiliate of the types referred to in clauses (a) through (f) above of any partnership or joint venture (other than a joint venture that is itself a corporation or limited liability company) in which such Unconsolidated Affiliate is a general partner or joint venturer, multiplied by (ii) the respective Unconsolidated Affiliate Interest of each Consolidated Party in such Unconsolidated Affiliate.

“Unconsolidated Affiliate Interest” means the percentage of the Equity Interests owned by a Consolidated Party in an Unconsolidated Affiliate accounted for pursuant to the equity method of accounting under GAAP.

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

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

“Unrestricted Cash” means as of any date of determination, all cash of the Borrower on such date that (a) does not appear (or would not be required to appear) as “restricted” on a balance sheet of the Borrower, (b) is not subject to a Lien in favor of any Person other than Liens granted to the Administrative Agent and statutory Liens in favor of any depositary bank where such cash is maintained, (c) does not consist of or constitute “deposits” or sums legally held by the Borrower in trust for another Person, (d) is not subject to any contractual restriction or obligation regarding the payment thereof for a particular purpose (including insurance proceeds that are required to be used in connection with the repair, restoration or replacement of any property of the Borrower), and (e) is otherwise generally available for use by the Borrower.

“Unused Fee” has the meaning specified in Section 2.09(a).

“Unused Rate” means a percentage per annum equal to 0.50%.

“Wholly Owned Subsidiary” means, with respect to any direct or indirect Subsidiary of any Person, that 100% of the Equity Interests with ordinary voting power issued by such Subsidiary (other than directors’ qualifying shares and investments by foreign nationals mandated by Applicable Laws) is beneficially owned, directly or indirectly, by such Person.

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

(a) The definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the singular and plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words “include,” “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation.” The word “will” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “shall.” Unless the context requires otherwise, (i) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document (including any Organization Document) shall be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, supplements or modifications set forth herein or in any other Loan Document), (ii) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns, (iii) the words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereunder,” and words of similar import when used in any Loan Document, shall be construed to refer to such Loan Document in its entirety and not to any particular provision thereof, (iv) all references in a Loan Document to Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and Exhibits and Schedules to, the Loan Document in which such references appear, (v) any reference to any law shall include all statutory and regulatory provisions consolidating, amending, replacing or interpreting such law and any reference to any law or regulation shall, unless otherwise specified, refer to such law or regulation

as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, and (vi) the words “asset” and “property” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash, securities, accounts and contract rights.

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

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

1.03 Accounting Terms.

(a) Generally. All accounting terms not specifically or completely defined herein shall be construed in conformity with, and all financial data (including financial ratios and other financial calculations) required to be submitted pursuant to this Agreement shall be prepared in conformity with, GAAP applied on a consistent basis, as in effect from time to time, applied in a manner consistent with that used in preparing the Audited Financial Statements, except as otherwise specifically prescribed herein. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for purposes of determining compliance with any covenant (including the computation of any financial covenant) contained herein, Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries shall be deemed to be carried at 100% of the outstanding principal amount thereof, and the effects of FASB ASC 825 and FASB ASC 470-20 on financial liabilities shall be disregarded.

(b) Changes in GAAP. If at any time any change in GAAP would affect the computation of any financial ratio or requirement set forth in any Loan Document, and either the Borrower or the Required Lenders shall so request, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Borrower shall negotiate in good faith to amend such ratio or requirement to preserve the original intent thereof in light of such change in GAAP (subject to the approval of the Required Lenders); provided that, until so amended, (i) such ratio or requirement shall continue to be computed in accordance with GAAP prior to such change therein and (ii) the Borrower shall provide to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders financial statements and other documents required under this Agreement or as reasonably requested hereunder setting forth a reconciliation between calculations of such ratio or requirement made before and after giving effect to such change in GAAP.

(c) Financial Covenant Calculation Conventions. Notwithstanding the above, the parties hereto acknowledge and agree that, for purposes of all calculations made under the financial covenants set forth in Section 7.11 (including without limitation for purposes of the definitions of “Pro Forma Basis” set forth in Section 1.01), (i) after consummation of any Disposition or removal of a Borrowing Base Property pursuant to Section 1.07 (A) income statement items (whether income or expense) and capital expenditures attributable to the property disposed of or removed shall, to the extent not otherwise excluded in such income statement items for the Consolidated Parties in accordance with GAAP or in accordance with any defined terms set forth in Section 1.01, be excluded as of the first day of the applicable period and (B) Indebtedness which is retired shall be excluded and deemed to have been retired as of the first day of the applicable period and (ii) after consummation of any acquisition (A) income statement items (whether positive or negative) and capital expenditures attributable to the Person or property acquired shall, to the extent not otherwise included in such income statement items for the Consolidated Parties in accordance with GAAP or in accordance with any defined terms set forth in Section 1.01, be included to the extent relating to any period applicable in such calculations, (B) to the extent not retired in connection with such acquisition, Indebtedness of the Person or property acquired shall be deemed to have been incurred as of the first day of the applicable period, (iii) in connection with any incurrence of Indebtedness, any Indebtedness which is retired in connection with such incurrence shall be excluded and deemed to have been retired as of the first day of the applicable period and (iv) pro forma adjustments may be included to the extent that such adjustments would give effect to items that are (1) directly attributable to the relevant transaction, (2) expected to have a continuing impact on the Consolidated Parties and (3) factually supportable (in the opinion of the Administrative Agent).

(d) Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities. All references herein to consolidated financial statements of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries or to the determination of any amount for the Borrower and its

Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis or any similar reference shall, in each case, be deemed to include each variable interest entity that the Borrower is required to consolidate pursuant to FASB ASC 810 as if such variable interest entity were a Subsidiary as defined herein.

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

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

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

1.07 Addition/Removal of Borrowing Base Properties.

(a) The Borrower may from time to time amend Schedule 5.24(a) to add an additional Real Property that qualifies as a Borrowing Base Property; provided no Real Property shall be included as a Borrowing Base Property in any compliance certificate delivered to the Administrative Agent, on Schedule 5.24(a) or otherwise in any calculation of the Borrowing Base, the Collateral Value Amount, the Mortgageability Amount, or any of the components of the financial covenants set forth in Section 7.11 that refer to “Borrowing Base Properties” unless and until (i) the Borrower has delivered to the Administrative Agent all of the BBP Deliverables with respect to such Real Property (except to the extent the delivery thereof is otherwise waived in writing by the Administrative Agent and the Supermajority Lenders) and either (A) the Mortgage meeting the requirements hereof and encumbering such Real Property has been filed or recorded in each filing or recording office that the Administrative Agent may deem necessary or desirable in its reasonable discretion in order to create a valid first and subsisting Lien on the property described therein in favor of Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties (except to the extent the filing or recording thereof is otherwise temporarily waived in writing by the Administrative Agent as expressly contemplated in Section 1.07(e) below) or (B) the Administrative Agent has received a Mortgage Policy respecting such Real Property (which Mortgage Policy shall include affirmative “gap” insurance coverage), and (ii) the Supermajority Lenders have approved in writing (or otherwise been deemed to have been approved in accordance with the provisions of clause (g) of the definition of “Borrowing Base Properties”) such items and the qualification of such Real Property as a Borrowing Base Property; provided, further, to the extent the Borrower has delivered to the Administrative Agent all of the Conditional Approval BBP Deliverables with respect to a particular Real Property, the Supermajority Lenders may conditionally approve (or be deemed to have conditionally approved, in accordance with the provisions of clause (g) of the definition of “Borrowing Base Properties”) the addition of such Real Property as a Borrowing Base Property, such conditional approval to be subject only to the receipt and approval by the Administrative Agent and the Supermajority Lenders (to the extent subject to Supermajority Lender approval) of each of the remaining BBP Deliverables. In the case of any conditional approval pursuant to the immediately preceding sentence, such Real Property will be included as a Borrowing Base Property only upon receipt and approval by the Administrative Agent and the Supermajority Lenders (to the extent subject to Supermajority Lender approval) of such remaining BBP Deliverables (except to the extent the delivery thereof is otherwise waived in writing by the Administrative Agent and the Supermajority Lenders). In connection with the addition of any Borrowing Base Property following (or in connection with) such approval by the Supermajority Lenders, the Administrative Agent will, in good faith, review and consider executing customary documentation not otherwise included in the BBP Deliverables that may be requested by any applicable franchisor and/or Approved Manager with respect to such Borrowing Base Property.

(b) Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, to the extent any property previously-qualifying as a Borrowing Base Property ceases to meet the criteria for qualification as such, such property shall be immediately removed from all financial covenant and Borrowing Base-related calculations contained herein. Any

such property shall immediately cease to be a “Borrowing Base Property” hereunder and Schedule 5.24(a) attached hereto shall be deemed to have been immediately amended to remove such Real Property from the list of Borrowing Base Properties.

(c) The Loan Parties may voluntarily remove any Borrowing Base Property from qualification as such (but only in connection with a proposed refinancing, sale or other Disposition), if, and to the extent: the Loan Parties shall, immediately following such removal, be in compliance (on a Pro Forma Basis) with all of the covenants contained in Article VII of this Agreement and with all Borrowing Base-related limitations on Outstanding Amounts set forth in this Agreement; provided, in no event shall the Loan Parties voluntarily remove a Borrowing Base Property from qualification as such after the date that is twenty-four (24) months following the Closing Date unless, following such removal, either (i) the Borrowing Base will continue to include at least four (4) Real Properties located in at least four (4) separate metropolitan statistical areas, or (ii) prior to the voluntary removal of such Borrowing Base Property from qualification as such, Borrower shall have (a) caused the Total Outstandings (other than that portion of L/C Obligations comprised of the aggregate undrawn amount of Letters of Credit) to be prepaid and reduced to zero ($0), and (b) fully Cash Collateralized that portion of L/C Obligations comprised of the aggregate undrawn amount of Letters of Credit. Following the voluntary removal of a Borrowing Base Property from qualification as such pursuant to clause (ii) of the proviso in the immediately preceding sentence, Borrower shall not submit any Request for Credit Extension (and none of the Lenders, the Swing Line Lender or the L/C Issuer shall be obligated to fund any Committed Loan or Swing Line Loan, or to issue any Letter of Credit) unless and until the Borrowing Base includes at least four (4) Real Properties located in at least four (4) separate metropolitan statistical areas, and all other conditions for such Credit Extension (including those conditions set forth in Article IV) have been satisfied.

(d) Upon removal of a Borrowing Base Property pursuant to clauses (b) or (c) above, (i) Schedule 5.24(a) shall be immediately amended to remove such Real Property from the list of Borrowing Base Properties; (ii) the Borrower shall timely deliver a Compliance Certificate with respect to such removal in accordance with the terms of Section 6.03(e) hereof after giving effect to such release; (iii) if and to the extent no Default or Event of Default then exists and the Administrative Agent determines that all information and calculations set forth on such Compliance Certificate are accurate in all material respects, all Liens in favor of the Administrative Agent or the Lender on such Real Property shall be released promptly by the Administrative Agent.

(e) Notwithstanding the requirements for the execution, delivery and recording of the Mortgage or the delivery of the Mortgage Policy before a Real Property may be included as a Borrowing Base Property as described in Section 1.07(a), provided no Default or Event of Default then exists, Administrative Agent may, at the request of the Borrower, temporarily waive the requirement for the execution, delivery and recording of such Mortgage and the delivery of such Mortgage Policy relating thereto with respect to any such Real Property located in the State of New York (which temporary waiver shall not extend beyond the expiration date of any Mortgage Commitments delivered in connection with such Real Property, unless the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent updated, supplemental or replacement Mortgage Commitments with respect to such Real Property at least ten (10) days prior to the expiration of such then-existing Mortgage Commitments), so long as:

(i) all of the other requirements relative to the qualification of such Real Property qualifying as a Borrowing Base Property have been fully satisfied (including, in the case of an extension of an existing temporary waiver with respect to the requirement for the execution, delivery and recording of such Mortgage or the delivery of such Mortgage Policy relating thereto beyond the expiration date of the Mortgage Commitments provided in connection with such existing temporary waiver, the delivery to the Administrative Agent of such updated, supplemental or replacement Mortgage Commitments with respect to such Real Property at least ten (10) days prior to the expiration of such then-existing Mortgage Commitments as described above) or waived in writing;

(ii) (A) 125% of the cost of recording such Mortgage (including all mortgage, recording, documentary and similar Taxes) and paying title insurance premiums in connection with the Mortgage Policy with respect thereto (the “Recording Cost Amount”) has been deposited by the Borrower or other applicable Loan Party in an escrow account on terms and conditions reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent or (B) the Borrower has delivered a letter to Administrative Agent in the form of Exhibit J stating that it will not escrow such Recording Cost Amount and requesting instead that the

Collateral Value Amount and the Mortgageability Amount, for purposes of calculating the Borrowing Base, be reduced by the Recording Cost Amount;

(iii) Administrative Agent has received a Pledge Agreement encumbering the Equity Interests of the Loan Party which owns such New York Real Property and such filings, certificates and other items as Administrative Agent deems necessary to perfect its security interest in such Equity Interests; and

(iv) Administrative Agent has received a Negative Pledge Agreement in form and substance satisfactory to it in its reasonable discretion in the appropriate form for filing or recording in the filing or recording offices where a Mortgage encumbering such property would be recorded in order to perfect the Lien granted thereby.

Notwithstanding any such temporary waiver by Administrative Agent, Administrative Agent may, or shall at the request of the Required Lenders, request that the applicable Borrowing Base Entity that owns such New York Real Property execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent a Mortgage with respect to such New York Real Property (and the Borrower shall cause such Borrowing Base Entity to so execute and deliver such Mortgage to the Administrative Agent), and the Administrative Agent may, or shall at the request of the Required Lenders, record such Mortgage on such New York Real Property or such Negative Pledge Agreement if any of the following occur:

(x) an Event of Default occurs under Sections 8.01(a), (b), (e), (f), (g), (h) or (i), or

(y) the Appraised Value for such New York Real Property is less than the Mortgageability Amount for such Real Property;

provided, that the Borrower shall not be required to cause the applicable Borrowing Base Entity to execute and deliver a Mortgage to the Administrative Agent, and the Administrative Agent shall not record the Mortgage or the Negative Pledge Agreement respecting such New York Real Property, if Borrower shall have immediately following either of the events described in clause (x) or (y) above (a) caused the Total Outstandings (other than that portion of L/C Obligations comprised of the aggregate undrawn amount of Letters of Credit) to be prepaid and reduced to zero ($0), and (b) fully Cash Collateralized that portion of L/C Obligations comprised of the aggregate undrawn amount of Letters of Credit.

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 1.07(e), except for the requirement concerning the execution, delivery and recording of the Mortgage and the delivery of the Mortgage Policy, each New York Borrowing Base Property and each Loan Party that owns such New York Borrowing Base Property shall be subject to all of the terms, conditions, and requirements hereunder applicable to Borrowing Base Properties and Borrowing Base Entities generally.

(f) Unless and until the Mortgage or the Negative Pledge Agreement respecting any applicable Borrowing Base Property located in the State of New York has been executed, delivered and recorded and the Mortgage Policy respecting such New York Borrowing Base Property has been delivered to the Administrative Agent, in each case in accordance with the provisions of Section 1.07(e)(iv), the Borrowing Base Entity that owns such New York Borrowing Base Property shall not:

(i) engage in any business or activity other than the ownership, operation and maintenance of the Borrowing Base Property owned by it, and activities incidental thereto;

(ii) acquire or own any assets other than (A) the Borrowing Base Property owned by it, and (B) such incidental personal property as may be necessary for the operation of such Borrowing Base Property;

(iii) merge into or consolidate with any Person, or dissolve, terminate, liquidate in whole or in part, transfer or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its assets or change its legal structure;

(iv) fail to observe all organizational formalities, or fail to preserve its existence as an entity duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the Applicable Laws of the jurisdiction of its organization or formation, or amend, modify or terminate any of the provisions of its Organization Documents in a manner contrary to, or inconsistent with, the covenants set forth in this Section 1.07(f);

(v) own any subsidiary, or make any investment in, any Person;

(vi) commingle its assets with the assets of any other Person, or permit any Affiliate or constituent party independent access to its bank accounts;

(vii) incur any debt, secured or unsecured, direct or contingent (including guaranteeing any obligation), other than (A) the Obligations, (B) trade and operational Indebtedness incurred in the ordinary course of business with trade creditors, provided such Indebtedness is (I) unsecured, (II) not evidenced by a note, (III) on commercially reasonable terms and conditions, and (IV) due not more than ninety (90) days past the date incurred and paid on or prior to such date, except to the extent that such trade and operational Indebtedness is being disputed in good faith, and/or (C) financing leases and purchase money Indebtedness incurred in the ordinary course of business relating to personal property on commercially reasonable terms and conditions; provided, however, the aggregate amount of the Indebtedness described in (B) and (C) shall not exceed at any time three percent (3%) of the outstanding principal amount of the Loans;

(viii) fail to maintain its records, books of account, bank accounts, financial statements, accounting records and other entity documents separate and apart from those of any other Person; except that such Borrowing Base Entity’s financial position, assets, liabilities, net worth and operating results may be included in the consolidated financial statements of the Consolidated Parties, provided that such consolidated financial statements contain a footnote indicating that such Borrowing Base Entity is a separate legal entity and that it maintains separate books and records;

(ix) enter into any contract or agreement with any general partner, member, shareholder, principal, guarantor of the Obligations of Borrower or such Borrowing Base Entity, or any Affiliate of the foregoing, except upon terms and conditions that are substantially similar to those that would be available on an arm’s-length basis with unaffiliated third parties;

(x) maintain its assets in such a manner that it will be costly or difficult to segregate, ascertain or identify its individual assets from those of any other Person;

(xi) except as expressly contemplated by the Loan Documents, assume or guaranty the debts of any other Person, hold itself out to be responsible for the debts of any other Person, or otherwise pledge its assets for the benefit of any other Person or hold out its credit as being available to satisfy the obligations of any other Person;

(xii) make any loans or advances to any Person;

(xiii) fail to file its own tax returns to the extent it is (I) not part of a consolidated group filing a consolidated tax return, (II) not treated as a division for tax purposes of another taxpayer, or (III) otherwise required to file pursuant to Applicable Laws;

(xiv) fail either to hold itself out to the public as a legal entity separate and distinct from any other Person or to conduct its business solely in its own name or fail to correct any known misunderstanding regarding its separate identity;

(xv) if it is a partnership or limited liability company, without the unanimous written consent of all of its partners or members, as applicable, and the written consent of 100% of the directors or managers, as applicable, of such Borrowing Base Entity, (A) file or consent to the filing of any petition, either voluntary or involuntary, to take advantage of any Creditors Rights Laws, (B) seek or consent to the appointment of a receiver, liquidator or any similar official, (C) take any action that might cause such entity to become insolvent, or (D) make an assignment for the benefit of creditors;

(xvi) fail to allocate shared expenses (including, without limitation, shared office space and services performed by an employee of an Affiliate) among the Persons sharing such expenses and to use separate stationery, invoices and checks;

(xvii) fail to remain Solvent (if the contribution rights that each Loan Party will have against the other Loan Parties and the subrogation rights such Borrowing Base Entity may have, if any, against the Borrower are taken into account);

(xviii) acquire debt or equity securities or any other debt or payment obligations of its partners, members, shareholders or other Affiliates, as applicable; or

(xix) fail to maintain a sufficient number of employees in light of its contemplated business operations.

In addition, unless and until the Mortgage or the Negative Pledge Agreement respecting any such Borrowing Base Property located in the State of New York has been recorded and the Mortgage Policy respecting such New York Borrowing Base Property has been delivered to the Administrative Agent, in each case in accordance with the provisions of Section 1.07(e)(iv), the Organization Documents of the Borrowing Base Entity that owns such New York Borrowing Base Property shall (x) prohibit such entity from incurring any debt, secured or unsecured, direct or contingent (including guaranteeing any obligation), other than (A) the Obligations, (B) trade and operational Indebtedness incurred in the ordinary course of business with trade creditors, provided such Indebtedness is (I) unsecured, (II) not evidenced by a note, (III) on commercially reasonable terms and conditions, and (IV) due not more than ninety (90) days past the date incurred and paid on or prior to such date, except to the extent that such trade and operational Indebtedness is being disputed in good faith, and/or (C) financing leases and purchase money Indebtedness incurred in the ordinary course of business relating to personal property on commercially reasonable terms and conditions; provided, however, the aggregate amount of the Indebtedness described in (B) and (C) shall not exceed at any time three percent (3%) of the outstanding principal amount of the Loans, and (y) prohibit such entity the granting of any Liens with respect to such Real Property other than pursuant to the Loan Documents.

ARTICLE II.
THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS

2.01 Committed Loans. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Lender severally agrees to make loans (each such loan, a “Committed Loan”) to the Borrower from time to time, on any Business Day during the Availability Period, in an aggregate amount not to exceed at any time outstanding the amount of such Lender’s Commitment; provided, however, that after giving effect to any Committed Borrowing, (i) the Total Outstandings shall not exceed the Aggregate Commitments, (ii) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Committed Loans of any Lender, plus such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations, plus such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the Outstanding Amount of all Swing Line Loans shall not exceed such Lender’s Commitment, and (iii) the Total Outstandings shall not exceed the Borrowing Base. Within the limits of each Lender’s Commitment, and subject to the other terms and conditions hereof, the Borrower may borrow under this Section 2.01, prepay under Section 2.05, and reborrow under this Section 2.01. Committed Loans may be Base Rate Loans or Eurodollar Rate Loans, as further provided herein.

2.02

Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Committed Loans.

(a) Each Committed Borrowing, each conversion of Committed Loans from one Type to the other, and each continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be made upon the Borrower’s irrevocable notice to the Administrative Agent, which may be given by telephone. Each such notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m. (i) three Business Days prior to the requested date of any Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans or of any conversion of Eurodollar Rate Loans to Base Rate Committed Loans, and (ii) on the requested date of any Borrowing of Base Rate Committed Loans; provided, however, that if the Borrower wishes to request Eurodollar Rate Loans having an Interest Period other than one, two, three or six months in duration as provided in the definition of “Interest Period,” the applicable notice must be received by the

Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m. four Business Days prior to the requested date of such Borrowing, conversion or continuation, whereupon the Administrative Agent shall give prompt notice to the Lenders of such request and determine whether the requested Interest Period is acceptable to all of them. Not later than 11:00 a.m., three Business Days before the requested date of such Borrowing, conversion or continuation, the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower (which notice may be by telephone) whether or not the requested Interest Period has been consented to by all the Lenders. Each telephonic notice by the Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.02(a) must be confirmed promptly by delivery to the Administrative Agent of a written Committed Loan Notice, appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower. Each Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $5,000,000 or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof. Except as provided in Sections 2.03(c) and 2.04(c), each Borrowing of or conversion to Base Rate Committed Loans shall be in a principal amount of $500,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof. Each Committed Loan Notice (whether telephonic or written) shall specify (i) whether the Borrower is requesting a Committed Borrowing, a conversion of Committed Loans from one Type to the other, or a continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans, (ii) the requested date of the Borrowing, conversion or continuation, as the case may be (which shall be a Business Day), (iii) the principal amount of Committed Loans to be borrowed, converted or continued, (iv) the Type of Committed Loans to be borrowed or to which existing Committed Loans are to be converted, and (v) if applicable, the duration of the Interest Period with respect thereto. If the Borrower fails to specify a Type of Committed Loan in a Committed Loan Notice or if the Borrower fails to give a timely notice requesting a conversion or continuation, then the applicable Committed Loans shall be made as, or converted to, Eurodollar Rate Loans having an Interest Period of one (1) month. Any such automatic conversion to Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be effective as of the last day of the Interest Period then in effect with respect to the applicable Eurodollar Rate Loans. If the Borrower requests a Borrowing of, conversion to, or continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans in any such Committed Loan Notice, but fails to specify an Interest Period, it will be deemed to have specified an Interest Period of one month. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, a Swing Line Loan may not be converted to a Eurodollar Rate Loan.

(b) Following receipt of a Committed Loan Notice, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of the amount of its Applicable Percentage of the applicable Committed Loans, and if no timely notice of a conversion or continuation is provided by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Lender of the details of any automatic conversion to Eurodollar Rate Loans described in the preceding subsection. In the case of a Committed Borrowing, each Lender shall make the amount of its Committed Loan available to the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds at the Administrative Agent’s Office not later than 1:00 p.m. on the Business Day specified in the applicable Committed Loan Notice. Upon satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (and, if such Borrowing is the initial Credit Extension, Section 4.01), the Administrative Agent shall make all funds so received available to the Borrower in like funds as received by the Administrative Agent either by (i) crediting the account of the Borrower on the books of Bank of America with the amount of such funds or (ii) wire transfer of such funds, in each case in accordance with instructions provided to (and reasonably acceptable to) the Administrative Agent by the Borrower; provided, however, that if, on the date the Committed Loan Notice with respect to such Borrowing is given by the Borrower, there are L/C Borrowings outstanding, then the proceeds of such Borrowing, first, shall be applied to the payment in full of any such L/C Borrowings, and second, shall be made available to the Borrower as provided above.

(c) Except as otherwise provided herein, a Eurodollar Rate Loan may be continued or converted only on the last day of an Interest Period for such Eurodollar Rate Loan. During the existence of a Default or an Event of Default, no Loans may be requested as, converted to or continued as Eurodollar Rate Loans without the consent of the Required Lenders.

(d) The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders of the interest rate applicable to any Interest Period for Eurodollar Rate Loans upon determination of such interest rate. At any time that Base Rate Loans are outstanding, the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Lenders of any change in Bank of America’s prime rate used in determining the Base Rate promptly following the public announcement of such change.

(e) After giving effect to all Committed Borrowings, all conversions of Committed Loans from one Type to the other, and all continuations of Committed Loans as the same Type, there shall not be more than five Interest Periods in effect with respect to Committed Loans.

2.03 Letters of Credit.

(a) The Letter of Credit Commitment.

(i) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, (A) the L/C Issuer agrees, in reliance upon the agreements of the Lenders set forth in this Section 2.03, (1) from time to time on any Business Day during the period from the Closing Date until the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, to issue Letters of Credit for the account of any Loan Party, and to amend Letters of Credit previously issued by it, in accordance with subsection (b) below, and (2) to honor drawings under the Letters of Credit; and (B) the Lenders severally agree to participate in Letters of Credit issued for the account of the Borrower or any other Loan Party and any drawings thereunder; provided that after giving effect to any L/C Credit Extension with respect to any Letter of Credit, (w) the Total Outstandings shall not exceed the Borrowing Base, (x) the Total Outstandings shall not exceed the Aggregate Commitments, (y) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Committed Loans of any Lender, plus such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations, plus such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the Outstanding Amount of all Swing Line Loans shall not exceed such Lender’s Commitment, and (z) the Outstanding Amount of the L/C Obligations shall not exceed the Letter of Credit Sublimit. Each request by the Borrower for the issuance or amendment of a Letter of Credit shall be deemed to be a representation by the Borrower that the L/C Credit Extension so requested complies with the conditions set forth in the proviso to the preceding sentence. Within the foregoing limits, and subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Borrower’s ability to obtain Letters of Credit shall be fully revolving, and accordingly the Borrower may, during the foregoing period, obtain Letters of Credit to replace Letters of Credit that have expired or that have been drawn upon and reimbursed.

(ii) The L/C Issuer shall not issue any Letter of Credit, if:

(A) subject to Section 2.03(b)(iii), the expiry date of the requested Letter of Credit would occur more than twelve months after the date of issuance, unless all the Lenders have approved such expiry date;

(B) the expiry date of the requested Letter of Credit would occur after the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, unless all the Lenders have approved such expiry date; or

(C) a default of any Lender’s obligations to fund under Section 2.03(c) exists or any Lender is at such time a Defaulting Lender or an Impacted Lender hereunder, unless the L/C Issuer has entered into arrangements satisfactory to the L/C Issuer with the Borrower or such Lender to eliminate the L/C Issuer’s risk with respect to such Lender; or

(D) the requested Letter of Credit is to be denominated in a currency other than Dollars.

(iii) The L/C Issuer shall not be under any obligation to issue any Letter of Credit if:

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

(B) the issuance of the Letter of Credit would violate one or more policies of the L/C Issuer applicable to letters of credit generally;

(C) except as otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer, the Letter of Credit is in an initial stated amount less than $500,000;

(D) any Lender is at that time an Impacted Lender or a Defaulting Lender, unless the L/C Issuer has entered into arrangements, including the delivery of Cash Collateral, satisfactory to the L/C Issuer (in its sole discretion) with the Borrower or such Lender to eliminate the L/C Issuer’s actual or potential Fronting Exposure (after giving effect to Section 2.18(a)(iv)) with respect to the Defaulting Lender arising from either the Letter of Credit then proposed to be issued or that Letter of Credit and all other L/C Obligations as to which the L/C Issuer has actual or potential Fronting Exposure, as it may elect in its sole discretion; or

(E) the Letter of Credit contains any provisions for automatic reinstatement of the stated amount after any drawing thereunder.

(iv) The L/C Issuer shall not amend any Letter of Credit if the L/C Issuer would not be permitted at such time to issue the Letter of Credit in its amended form under the terms hereof.

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

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

(b) Procedures for Issuance and Amendment of Letters of Credit; Auto-Extension Letters of Credit.

(i) Each Letter of Credit shall be issued or amended, as the case may be, upon the request of the Borrower delivered to the L/C Issuer (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) in the form of a Letter of Credit Application, appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower. Such Letter of Credit Application must be received by the L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m. at least two Business Days (or such later date and time as the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer may agree in a particular instance in their sole discretion) prior to the proposed issuance date or date of amendment, as the case may be. In the case of a request for an initial issuance of a Letter of Credit, such Letter of Credit Application shall specify in form and detail satisfactory to the L/C Issuer: (A) the proposed issuance date of the requested Letter of Credit (which shall be a Business Day); (B) the amount thereof; (C) the expiry date thereof; (D) the name and address of the beneficiary thereof; (E) the documents to be presented by such beneficiary in case of any drawing thereunder; (F) the full text of any certificate to be presented by such beneficiary in case of any drawing thereunder; (G) the purpose and nature of the requested Letter of Credit; and (H) such other matters as the L/C Issuer may reasonably require. In the case of a request for an amendment of any outstanding Letter of Credit, such Letter of Credit Application shall specify in form and detail satisfactory to the L/C Issuer (A) the Letter of Credit to be amended; (B) the proposed date of amendment thereof (which shall be a Business Day); (C) the nature of the proposed amendment; and (D) such other matters as the L/C Issuer may reasonably require. Additionally, the Borrower shall furnish to the L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent such other documents and information pertaining to such requested Letter of Credit issuance or amendment, including any Issuer Documents, as the L/C Issuer or the Administrative Agent may reasonably require.

(ii) Promptly after receipt of any Letter of Credit Application, the L/C Issuer will confirm with the Administrative Agent (by telephone or in writing) that the Administrative Agent has received a copy of such Letter of Credit Application from the Borrower and, if not, the L/C Issuer will provide the

Administrative Agent with a copy thereof. Unless the L/C Issuer has received written notice from any Lender, the Administrative Agent or any Loan Party, at least one Business Day prior to the requested date of issuance or amendment of the applicable Letter of Credit, that one or more applicable conditions contained in Article IV shall not then be satisfied, then, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the L/C Issuer shall, on the requested date, issue a Letter of Credit for the account of the Borrower (or the applicable Loan Party) or enter into the applicable amendment, as the case may be, in each case in accordance with the L/C Issuer’s usual and customary business practices. Immediately upon the issuance of each Letter of Credit, each Lender shall be deemed to, and hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to, purchase from the L/C Issuer a risk participation in such Letter of Credit in an amount equal to the product of such Lender’s Applicable Percentage times the amount of such Letter of Credit.

(iii) If the Borrower so requests in any applicable Letter of Credit Application, the L/C Issuer may, in its sole discretion, agree to issue a Letter of Credit that has automatic extension provisions (each, an “Auto-Extension Letter of Credit”); provided that any such Auto-Extension Letter of Credit must permit the L/C Issuer to prevent any such extension at least once in each twelve-month period (commencing with the date of issuance of such Letter of Credit) by giving prior notice to the beneficiary thereof not later than a day (the “Non-Extension Notice Date”) in each such twelve-month period to be agreed upon at the time such Letter of Credit is issued. Unless otherwise directed by the L/C Issuer, the Borrower shall not be required to make a specific request to the L/C Issuer for any such extension. Once an Auto-Extension Letter of Credit has been issued, the Lenders shall be deemed to have authorized (but may not require) the L/C Issuer to permit the extension of such Letter of Credit at any time to an expiry date not later than the Letter of Credit Expiration Date; provided, however, that the L/C Issuer shall not permit any such extension if (A) the L/C Issuer has determined that it would not be permitted, or would have no obligation, at such time to issue such Letter of Credit in its revised form (as extended) under the terms hereof (by reason of the provisions of clause (ii) or (iii) of Section 2.03(a) or otherwise), or (B) it has received notice (which may be by telephone or in writing) on or before the day that is seven Business Days before the Non-Extension Notice Date (1) from the Administrative Agent that the Required Lenders have elected not to permit such extension or (2) from the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the Borrower that one or more of the applicable conditions specified in Section 4.02 is not then satisfied, and in each such case directing the L/C Issuer not to permit such extension.

(iv) Promptly after its delivery of any Letter of Credit or any amendment to a Letter of Credit to an advising bank with respect thereto or to the beneficiary thereof, the L/C Issuer will also deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent a true and complete copy of such Letter of Credit or amendment.

(i) Upon receipt from the beneficiary of any Letter of Credit of any notice of a drawing under such Letter of Credit, the L/C Issuer shall notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent thereof. Not later than 11:00 a.m. on the date of any payment by the L/C Issuer under a Letter of Credit (each such date, an “Honor Date”), the Borrower shall reimburse the L/C Issuer through the Administrative Agent in an amount equal to the amount of such drawing. If the Borrower fails to so reimburse the L/C Issuer by such time, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of the Honor Date, the amount of the unreimbursed drawing (the “Unreimbursed Amount”), and the amount of such Lender’s Applicable Percentage thereof. In such event, the Borrower shall be deemed to have requested a Committed Borrowing of Base Rate Loans to be disbursed on the Honor Date in an amount equal to the Unreimbursed Amount, without regard to the minimum and multiples specified in Section 2.02 for the principal amount of Base Rate Loans, but subject to the amount of the unutilized portion of the Aggregate Commitments and the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (other than the delivery of a Committed Loan Notice). Any notice given by the L/C Issuer or the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section 2.03(c)(i) may be given by telephone if immediately confirmed in writing; provided that the lack of such an immediate confirmation shall not affect the conclusiveness or binding effect of such notice.

(ii) Each Lender shall upon any notice pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(i) make funds available (and the Administrative Agent may apply Cash Collateral provided for such purpose) for the account of the L/C Issuer at the Administrative Agent’s Office in an amount equal to its Applicable Percentage of the

Unreimbursed Amount not later than 1:00 p.m. on the Business Day specified in such notice by the Administrative Agent, whereupon, subject to the provisions of Section 2.03(c)(iii), each Lender that so makes funds available shall be deemed to have made a Base Rate Committed Loan to the Borrower in such amount. The Administrative Agent shall remit the funds so received to the L/C Issuer.

(iii) With respect to any Unreimbursed Amount that is not fully refinanced by a Committed Borrowing of Base Rate Loans because the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 cannot be satisfied or for any other reason, the Borrower shall be deemed to have incurred from the L/C Issuer an L/C Borrowing in the amount of the Unreimbursed Amount that is not so refinanced, which L/C Borrowing shall be due and payable on demand (together with interest) and shall bear interest at the Default Rate. In such event, each Lender’s payment to the Administrative Agent for the account of the L/C Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(ii) shall be deemed payment in respect of its participation in such L/C Borrowing and shall constitute an L/C Advance from such Lender in satisfaction of its participation obligation under this Section 2.03.

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

(v) Each Lender’s obligation to make Committed Loans or L/C Advances to reimburse the L/C Issuer for amounts drawn under Letters of Credit, as contemplated by this Section 2.03(c), shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including (A) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right which such Lender may have against the L/C Issuer, the Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever; (B) the occurrence or continuance of a Default, or (C) any other occurrence, event or condition, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing; provided, however, that each Lender’s obligation to make Committed Loans pursuant to this Section 2.03(c) is subject to the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (other than delivery by the Borrower of a Committed Loan Notice). No such making of an L/C Advance shall relieve or otherwise impair the obligation of the Borrower to reimburse the L/C Issuer for the amount of any payment made by the L/C Issuer under any Letter of Credit, together with interest as provided herein.

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

(d) Repayment of Participations.

(i) At any time after the L/C Issuer has made a payment under any Letter of Credit and has received from any Lender such Lender’s L/C Advance in respect of such payment in accordance with Section 2.03(c), if the Administrative Agent receives for the account of the L/C Issuer any payment in respect of the related Unreimbursed Amount or interest thereon (whether directly from the Borrower or otherwise, including proceeds of Cash Collateral applied thereto by the Administrative Agent), the Administrative Agent will distribute to such Lender its Applicable Percentage thereof in the same funds as those received by the Administrative Agent.

(ii) If any payment received by the Administrative Agent for the account of the L/C Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(i) is required to be returned under any of the circumstances described in Section 10.05 (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the L/C Issuer in its discretion), each Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of the L/C Issuer its Applicable Percentage thereof on demand of the Administrative Agent, plus interest thereon from the date of such demand to the date such amount is returned by such Lender, at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Rate from time to time in effect. The obligations of the Lenders under this clause shall survive the payment in full of the Obligations and the termination of this Agreement.

(e) Obligations Absolute. The obligation of the Borrower to reimburse the L/C Issuer for each drawing under each Letter of Credit and to repay each L/C Borrowing shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable, and shall be paid strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement under all circumstances, including the following:

(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of such Letter of Credit, this Agreement, or any other Loan Document;

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

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

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

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

The Borrower shall promptly examine a copy of each Letter of Credit and each amendment thereto that is delivered to it and, in the event of any claim of noncompliance with the Borrower’s instructions or other irregularity, the Borrower will promptly notify the L/C Issuer. The Borrower shall be conclusively deemed to have waived, to the extent permitted by Applicable Laws, any such claim against the L/C Issuer and its correspondents with respect to any particular Letter of Credit unless such notice is given within five (5) Business Days after the issuance of such Letter of Credit or amendment thereto.

(f) Role of L/C Issuer. Each Lender and the Borrower agree that, in paying any drawing under a Letter of Credit, the L/C Issuer shall not have any responsibility to obtain any document (other than any sight draft, certificates and documents expressly required by the Letter of Credit) or to ascertain or inquire as to the validity or accuracy of any such document or the authority of the Person executing or delivering any such document. None of the L/C Issuer, the Administrative Agent, any of their respective Related Parties nor any correspondent, participant or assignee of the L/C Issuer shall be liable to any Lender for (i) any action taken or omitted in connection herewith at the request or with the approval of the Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable; (ii) any action taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct; or (iii) the due execution, effectiveness, validity or enforceability of any document or instrument related to any Letter of Credit or Issuer Document. The Borrower hereby assumes all risks of the acts or omissions of any beneficiary or transferee with respect to its use of any Letter

of Credit; provided, however, that this assumption is not intended to, and shall not, preclude the Borrower’s pursuing such rights and remedies as it may have against the beneficiary or transferee at law or under any other agreement. None of the L/C Issuer, the Administrative Agent, any of their respective Related Parties nor any correspondent, participant or assignee of the L/C Issuer shall be liable or responsible for any of the matters described in clauses (i) through (v) of Section 2.03(e); provided, however, that anything in clauses (i) through (v) of Section 2.03(e) and this Section 2.03(f) to the contrary notwithstanding, the Borrower may have a claim against the L/C Issuer, and the L/C Issuer may be liable to the Borrower, to the extent, but only to the extent, of any direct, as opposed to consequential or exemplary, damages suffered by the Borrower which the Borrower proves were caused by the L/C Issuer’s willful misconduct or gross negligence or the L/C Issuer’s willful failure to pay under any Letter of Credit after the presentation to it by the beneficiary of a sight draft and certificate(s) strictly complying with the terms and conditions of a Letter of Credit. In furtherance and not in limitation of the foregoing, the L/C Issuer may accept documents that appear on their face to be in order, without responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any notice or information to the contrary, and the L/C Issuer shall not be responsible for the validity or sufficiency of any instrument transferring or assigning or purporting to transfer or assign a Letter of Credit or the rights or benefits thereunder or proceeds thereof, in whole or in part, which may prove to be invalid or ineffective for any reason.

(g) Applicability of ISP. Unless otherwise expressly agreed by the L/C Issuer and the Borrower when a Letter of Credit is issued, the rules of the ISP shall apply to each standby Letter of Credit.

(h) Letter of Credit Fees. The Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender in accordance with its Applicable Percentage a Letter of Credit fee (the “Letter of Credit Fee”) for each Letter of Credit equal to the Applicable Margin times the daily amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit; provided, however, any Letter of Credit Fees otherwise payable for the account of a Defaulting Lender with respect to any Letter of Credit as to which such Defaulting Lender has not provided Cash Collateral satisfactory to the L/C Issuer pursuant to this Section 2.03 shall be payable, to the maximum extent permitted by Applicable Law, to the other Lenders in accordance with the upward adjustments in their respective Applicable Percentages allocable to such Letter of Credit pursuant to Section 2.18(a)(iv), with the balance of such fee, if any, payable to the L/C Issuer for its own account. For purposes of computing the daily amount available to be drawn under any Letter of Credit, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be determined in accordance with Section 1.06. Letter of Credit Fees shall be (i) due and payable on the first Business Day after the end of each March, June, September and December, commencing with the first such date to occur after the issuance of such Letter of Credit, on the Letter of Credit Expiration Date and thereafter on demand and (ii) computed on a quarterly basis in arrears. If there is any change in the Applicable Margin during any quarter, the daily amount available to be drawn under each Letter of Credit shall be computed and multiplied by the Applicable Margin separately for each period during such quarter that such Applicable Margin was in effect. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, upon the request of the Required Lenders, while any Event of Default exists, all Letter of Credit Fees shall accrue at the Default Rate.

(i) Fronting Fee and Documentary and Processing Charges Payable to L/C Issuer. The Borrower shall, in connection with the issuance or extension (whether or not pursuant to an automatic extension) of each Letter of Credit, pay directly to the L/C Issuer for its own account a fronting fee for each Letter of Credit equal to the greater of (i) $1,500.00 and (ii) 0.125% times the maximum amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit (whether or not such maximum amount is then in effect with respect to such Letter of Credit). Such fronting fee shall be payable upon issuance or extension of the applicable Letter of Credit. For the purposes of computing the daily amount available to be drawn under any Letter of Credit, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be determined in accordance with Section 1.06. In addition to the foregoing, the Borrower shall pay directly to the L/C Issuer for its own account the customary issuance, presentation, amendment and other processing fees, and other standard costs and charges, of the L/C Issuer relating to letters of credit as from time to time in effect. Such customary fees and standard costs and charges are due and payable on demand and are nonrefundable.

(j) Conflict with Issuer Documents. In the event of any conflict between the terms hereof and the terms of any Issuer Document, the terms hereof shall control.

(k) Letters of Credit Issued for Loan Parties Other than the Borrower. Notwithstanding that a Letter of Credit issued or outstanding hereunder is in support of any obligations of, or is for the account of, a Loan Party

other than the Borrower, the Borrower shall be obligated to reimburse the L/C Issuer hereunder for any and all drawings under such Letter of Credit. The Borrower hereby acknowledges that the issuance of Letters of Credit for the account of the Loan Parties inures to the benefit of the Borrower, and that the Borrower’s business derives substantial benefits from the businesses of such Loan Parties.

2.04 Swing Line Loans.

(a) The Swing Line. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Swing Line Lender, in reliance upon the agreements of the other Lenders set forth in this Section 2.04, may in its sole discretion make loans (each such loan, a “Swing Line Loan”) to the Borrower from time to time on any Business Day during the Availability Period in Dollars in an aggregate amount not to exceed at any time outstanding the amount of the Swing Line Sublimit, notwithstanding the fact that such Swing Line Loans, when aggregated with the Applicable Percentage of the Outstanding Amount of Committed Loans and L/C Obligations of the Lender acting as Swing Line Lender, may exceed the amount of such Lender’s Commitment; provided, however, that after giving effect to any Swing Line Loan, (i) the Total Outstandings shall not exceed the Aggregate Commitments, (ii) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Committed Loans of any Lender, plus such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations, plus such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the Outstanding Amount of all Swing Line Loans shall not exceed such Lender’s Commitment, and (iii) the Total Outstandings shall not exceed the Borrowing Base, and provided, further, that the Borrower shall not use the proceeds of any Swing Line Loan to refinance any outstanding Swing Line Loan. Within the foregoing limits, and subject to the other terms and conditions hereof, the Borrower may borrow under this Section 2.04, prepay under Section 2.05, and reborrow under this Section 2.04. Each Swing Line Loan shall be a Base Rate Loan. Immediately upon the making of a Swing Line Loan, each Lender shall be deemed to, and hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to, purchase from the Swing Line Lender a risk participation in such Swing Line Loan in an amount equal to the product of such Lender’s Applicable Percentage times the amount of such Swing Line Loan.

(b) Borrowing Procedures. Each Swing Line Borrowing shall be made upon the Borrower’s irrevocable notice to the Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent, which may be given by telephone. Each such notice must be received by the Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent not later than 1:00 p.m. on the requested borrowing date, and shall specify (i) the amount to be borrowed, which shall be a minimum of $250,000, and (ii) the requested borrowing date, which shall be a Business Day. Each such telephonic notice must be confirmed promptly by delivery to the Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent of a written Swing Line Loan Notice, appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower. Promptly after receipt by the Swing Line Lender of any telephonic Swing Line Loan Notice, the Swing Line Lender will confirm with the Administrative Agent (by telephone or in writing) that the Administrative Agent has also received such Swing Line Loan Notice and, if not, the Swing Line Lender will notify the Administrative Agent (by telephone or in writing) of the contents thereof. Unless the Swing Line Lender has received notice (by telephone or in writing) from the Administrative Agent (including at the request of any Lender) prior to 2:00 p.m. on the date of the proposed Swing Line Borrowing (A) directing the Swing Line Lender not to make such Swing Line Loan as a result of the limitations set forth in the first proviso to the first sentence of Section 2.04(a), or (B) that one or more of the applicable conditions specified in Article IV is not then satisfied, then, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Swing Line Lender will, not later than 3:00 p.m. on the borrowing date specified in such Swing Line Loan Notice, make the amount of its Swing Line Loan available to the Borrower. The Swing Line Lender shall not be required to fund any Swing Line Loan to the extent any Lender is at such time an Impacted Lender or a Defaulting Lender hereunder.

(i) The Swing Line Lender at any time in its sole discretion may request, on behalf of the Borrower (which hereby irrevocably authorizes the Swing Line Lender to so request on its behalf), that each Lender make a Base Rate Committed Loan in an amount equal to such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the amount of Swing Line Loans then outstanding. Such request shall be made in writing (which written request shall be deemed to be a Committed Loan Notice for purposes hereof) and in accordance with the requirements of Section 2.02, without regard to the minimum and multiples specified therein for the principal amount of Base Rate Loans, but subject to the unutilized portion of the Aggregate Commitments and the conditions set forth in Section 4.02. The Swing Line Lender shall furnish the

Borrower with a copy of the applicable Committed Loan Notice promptly after delivering such notice to the Administrative Agent. Each Lender shall make an amount equal to its Applicable Percentage of the amount specified in such Committed Loan Notice available to the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds (and the Administrative Agent may apply Cash Collateral available with respect to the applicable Swing Line Loan) for the account of the Swing Line Lender at the Administrative Agent’s Office not later than 1:00 p.m. on the day specified in such Committed Loan Notice, whereupon, subject to Section 2.04(c)(ii), each Lender that so makes funds available shall be deemed to have made a Base Rate Committed Loan to the Borrower in such amount. The Administrative Agent shall remit the funds so received to the Swing Line Lender.

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

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

(iv) Each Lender’s obligation to make Committed Loans or to purchase and fund risk participations in Swing Line Loans pursuant to this Section 2.04(c) shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including (A) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right which such Lender may have against the Swing Line Lender, the Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever, (B) the occurrence or continuance of a Default, or (C) any other occurrence, event or condition, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing; provided, however, that each Lender’s obligation to make Committed Loans pursuant to this Section 2.04(c) is subject to the conditions set forth in Section 4.02. No such funding of risk participations shall relieve or otherwise impair the obligation of the Borrower to repay Swing Line Loans, together with interest as provided herein.

(d) Repayment of Participations.

(i) At any time after any Lender has purchased and funded a risk participation in a Swing Line Loan, if the Swing Line Lender receives any payment on account of such Swing Line Loan, the Swing Line Lender will distribute to such Lender its Applicable Percentage thereof in the same funds as those received by the Swing Line Lender.

(ii) If any payment received by the Swing Line Lender in respect of principal or interest on any Swing Line Loan is required to be returned by the Swing Line Lender under any of the circumstances described in Section 10.05 (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the Swing Line Lender in its discretion), each Lender shall pay to the Swing Line Lender its Applicable Percentage thereof on demand of the Administrative Agent, plus interest thereon from the date of such demand to the date such amount is returned, at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Rate. The Administrative Agent will make such demand upon the request of the Swing Line Lender. The obligations of the Lenders under this clause shall survive the payment in full of the Obligations and the termination of this Agreement.

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

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

2.05 Prepayments.

(a) The Borrower may, upon notice to the Administrative Agent, at any time or from time to time voluntarily prepay Committed Loans in whole or in part without premium or penalty; provided that (i) such notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m. (A) three Business Days prior to any date of prepayment of Eurodollar Rate Loans and (B) on the date of prepayment of Base Rate Committed Loans; (ii) any prepayment of Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $5,000,000 or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof; and (iii) any prepayment of Base Rate Committed Loans shall be in a principal amount of $500,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof or, in each case, if less, the entire principal amount thereof then outstanding. Each such notice shall specify the date and amount of such prepayment and the Type(s) of Committed Loans to be prepaid and, if Eurodollar Rate Loans are to be prepaid, the Interest Period(s) of such Loans. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify each Lender of its receipt of each such notice, and of the amount of such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of such prepayment. If such notice is given by the Borrower, the Borrower shall make such prepayment and the payment amount specified in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified therein. Any prepayment of a Eurodollar Rate Loan shall be accompanied by all accrued interest on the amount prepaid, together with any additional amounts required pursuant to Section 3.05. Subject to Section 2.18, each such prepayment shall be applied to the Committed Loans of the Lenders in accordance with their respective Applicable Percentages.

(b) The Borrower may, upon notice to the Swing Line Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), at any time or from time to time, voluntarily prepay Swing Line Loans in whole or in part without premium or penalty; provided that (i) such notice must be received by the Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent not later than 1:00 p.m. on the date of the prepayment, and (ii) any such prepayment shall be in a minimum principal amount of $100,000. Each such notice shall specify the date and amount of such prepayment. If such notice is given by the Borrower, the Borrower shall make such prepayment and the payment amount specified in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified therein.

(c) If for any reason the Total Outstandings at any time exceed the Borrowing Base, the Borrower shall immediately prepay Loans and/or Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations in an aggregate amount equal to such excess; provided, however, that the Borrower shall not be required to Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations pursuant to this Section 2.05(c) unless after the prepayment in full of the Loans the Total Outstandings exceed the Borrowing Base.

2.06 Termination or Reduction of Commitments. The Borrower may, upon notice to the Administrative Agent, terminate the Aggregate Commitments, the Letter of Credit Sublimit or the Swing Line Sublimit, or from time to time permanently reduce the Aggregate Commitments, the Letter of Credit Sublimit or the Swing Line Sublimit; provided that (i) any such notice shall be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m. five (5) Business Days prior to the date of termination or reduction, (ii) any such partial reduction shall be in an aggregate amount of $10,000,000 or any whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, (iii) the Borrower shall not terminate or reduce (A) the Aggregate Commitments if, after giving effect thereto and to any concurrent prepayments hereunder, the Total Outstandings would exceed the Aggregate Commitments, (B) the Letter of Credit Sublimit if, after giving effect thereto, the Outstanding Amount of L/C Obligations not fully Cash Collateralized hereunder would exceed the Letter of Credit Sublimit, or (C) the Swing Line Sublimit if, after giving effect thereto and to any concurrent prepayments hereunder, the Outstanding Amount of Swing Line Loans would exceed the Swing Line Sublimit, and (iv) if, after giving effect to any reduction of the Aggregate Commitments, the Letter of Credit Sublimit or the Swing Line Sublimit exceeds the amount of the Aggregate Commitments, such Sublimit shall be automatically reduced by the amount of such excess. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Lenders

of any such notice of termination or reduction of the Aggregate Commitments, the Letter of Credit Sublimit or the Swing Line Sublimit. Any reduction of the Aggregate Commitments shall be applied to the Commitment of each Lender according to its Applicable Percentage. All fees accrued until the effective date of any termination of the Aggregate Commitments shall be paid on the effective date of such termination.

2.07 Repayment of Loans.

(a) The Borrower shall repay to the Lenders on the Maturity Date the aggregate principal amount of Committed Loans outstanding on such date and all other outstanding Obligations as of such date.

(b) The Borrower shall repay each Swing Line Loan on the earlier to occur of (i) the date five (5) Business Days after such Loan is made and (ii) the Maturity Date.

2.08

Interest.

(a) Subject to the provisions of subsection (b) below, (i) each Eurodollar Rate Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof for each Interest Period at a rate per annum equal to the Eurodollar Rate for such Interest Period plus the Applicable Margin; (ii) each Base Rate Committed Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof from the applicable borrowing date at a rate per annum equal to the Base Rate plus the Applicable Margin; and (iii) each Swing Line Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof from the applicable borrowing date at a rate per annum equal to the Base Rate plus the Applicable Margin.

(b) (i) If any amount of principal of any Loan is not paid when due (without regard to any applicable grace periods), whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, such amount shall thereafter bear interest at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Laws.

(ii) If any amount (other than principal of any Loan) payable by the Borrower under any Loan Document is not paid when due (without regard to any applicable grace periods), whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, then upon the request of the Required Lenders, such amount shall thereafter bear interest at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Laws.

(iii) Upon the request of the Required Lenders, while any Event of Default exists, the Borrower shall pay interest on the principal amount of all outstanding Obligations hereunder at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Laws.

(iv) Accrued and unpaid interest on past due amounts (including interest on past due interest) shall be due and payable upon demand.

(c) Interest on each Loan shall be due and payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date applicable thereto and at such other times as may be specified herein. Interest hereunder shall be due and payable in accordance with the terms hereof before and after judgment, and before and after the commencement of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law.

2.09 Fees. In addition to certain fees described in subsections (h) and (i) of Section 2.03:

(a) Unused Fees. The Borrower shall, for each day during the term of this Agreement on which there exist any Commitments, pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender holding a Commitment (in accordance with such Lender’s Applicable Percentage thereof), an unused fee (the “Unused Fee”) equal to the Unused Rate times the actual daily amount by which the Aggregate Commitments exceed the Total Outstandings (less the amount of any outstanding Swing Line Loans) as of such date, subject to adjustment as provided in Section 2.18. The Unused Fee shall accrue at all times during the term of this Agreement on which there exist any Commitments, including at any time during which one or more of the conditions in Article V is not met, and shall be

due and payable quarterly in arrears on the fifth day of each January, April, July and October (or the next succeeding Business Day if such day is not a Business Day), commencing on July 5, 2010 (with such initial payment to include such fees commencing from the Closing Date), and on the Maturity Date. The Unused Fee shall be calculated quarterly in arrears, based on the applicable daily Unused Rates during each day of such quarter.

(b) Other Fees.

(i) The Borrower shall pay to the Arranger and the Administrative Agent for their own respective accounts fees in the amounts and at the times specified in the Fee Letter. Such fees shall be fully earned when paid and shall not be refundable for any reason whatsoever.

(ii) The Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Lenders, such fees (if any) in the amounts and at the times specified in the Fee Letter. Such fees shall be fully earned when paid and shall not be refundable for any reason whatsoever.

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

(b) If, as a result of any restatement of or other adjustment to the financial statements of the Borrower or for any other reason, the Borrower or the Lenders determine that (i) the Consolidated Leverage Ratio as calculated by the Borrower as of any applicable date was inaccurate and (ii) a proper calculation of the Consolidated Leverage Ratio would have resulted in higher pricing for such period, the Borrower shall immediately and retroactively be obligated to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of the applicable Lenders or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, promptly on demand by the Administrative Agent (or, after the occurrence of an actual or deemed entry of an order for relief with respect to the Borrower under the Bankruptcy Code of the United States, automatically and without further action by the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the L/C Issuer), an amount equal to the excess of the amount of interest and fees that should have been paid for such period over the amount of interest and fees actually paid for such period. This paragraph shall not limit the rights of the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, under Section 2.03(c)(iii), 2.03(i) or 2.08(b) or under Article VIII. The Borrower’s obligations under this paragraph shall survive until the date that is one (1) year after the date of the termination of the Aggregate Commitments and the repayment of all other Obligations hereunder.

2.11 Evidence of Debt.

(a) The Credit Extensions made by each Lender shall be evidenced by one or more accounts or records maintained by such Lender and by the Administrative Agent in the ordinary course of business. The accounts or records maintained by the Administrative Agent and each Lender shall be conclusive absent manifest error of the amount of the Credit Extensions made by the Lenders to the Borrower and the interest and payments thereon. Any failure to so record or any error in doing so shall not, however, limit or otherwise affect the obligation of the Borrower hereunder to pay any amount owing with respect to the Obligations. In the event of any conflict between the accounts and records maintained by any Lender and the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent in respect of such matters, the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent shall control in the absence of manifest error. Upon the request of any Lender made through the Administrative Agent, the Borrower shall execute and deliver to such Lender (through the Administrative Agent) a Note, which shall evidence such Lender’s Loans in addition to such accounts or records. Each Lender may attach schedules to its Note and endorse thereon the date, Type (if applicable), amount and maturity of its Loans and payments with respect thereto.

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

2.12 Payments Generally; Administrative Agent’s Clawback.

(a) General. All payments to be made by the Borrower shall be made without condition or deduction for any counterclaim, defense, recoupment or setoff. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all payments by the Borrower hereunder shall be made to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the respective Lenders to which such payment is owed, at the Administrative Agent’s Office in Dollars and in immediately available funds not later than 2:00 p.m. on the date specified herein. The Administrative Agent will promptly distribute to each Lender its Applicable Percentage (or other applicable share as provided herein) of such payment in like funds as received by wire transfer to such Lender’s Lending Office. All payments received by the Administrative Agent after 2:00 p.m. shall be deemed received on the next succeeding Business Day and any applicable interest or fee shall continue to accrue. If any payment to be made by the Borrower shall come due on a day other than a Business Day, payment shall be made on the next following Business Day, and such extension of time shall be reflected in computing interest or fees, as the case may be.

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

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

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

(c) Failure to Satisfy Conditions Precedent. If any Lender makes available to the Administrative Agent funds for any Loan to be made by such Lender as provided in the foregoing provisions of this Article II, and such funds are not made available to the Borrower by the Administrative Agent because the conditions to the applicable Credit Extension set forth in Article IV are not satisfied or waived in accordance with the terms hereof, the Administrative Agent shall return such funds (in like funds as received from such Lender) to such Lender, with interest earned thereon at the Federal Funds Rate until returned.

(d) Obligations of Lenders Several. The obligations of the Lenders hereunder to make Committed Loans, to fund participations in Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans and to make payments pursuant to Section 10.04(c) are several and not joint. The failure of any Lender to make any Committed Loan, to fund any such participation or to make any payment under Section 10.04(c) on any date required hereunder shall not relieve any other Lender of its corresponding obligation to do so on such date, and no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to so make its Committed Loan, to purchase its participation or to make its payment under Section 10.04(c).

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

2.13 Sharing of Payments by Lenders. If any Lender shall, by exercising any right of setoff or counterclaim or otherwise, obtain payment in respect of any principal of or interest on any of the Committed Loans made by it, or the participations in L/C Obligations or in Swing Line Loans held by it (excluding any amounts applied by the Swing Line Lender to outstanding Swing Line Loans and excluding any amounts received by the L/C Issuer and/or Swing Line Lender to secure the obligations of a Defaulting Lender or an Impacted Lender to fund risk participations hereunder) resulting in such Lender’s receiving payment of a proportion of the aggregate amount of such Committed Loans or participations and accrued interest thereon greater than its pro rata share thereof as provided herein, then the Lender receiving such greater proportion shall (a) notify the Administrative Agent of such fact, and (b) purchase (for cash at face value) participations in the Committed Loans and subparticipations in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans of the other Lenders, or make such other adjustments as shall be equitable, so that the benefit of all such payments shall be shared by the Lenders ratably in accordance with the aggregate amount of principal of and accrued interest on their respective Committed Loans and other amounts owing them, provided that:

(i) if any such participations or subparticipations are purchased and all or any portion of the payment giving rise thereto is recovered, such participations or subparticipations shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, without interest; and

(ii) the provisions of this Section shall not be construed to apply to (x) any payment made by or on behalf of the Borrower pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement (including the application of funds arising from the existence of a Defaulting Lender), (y) the application of Cash Collateral provided for in Section 2.17, or (z) any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Committed Loans or subparticipations in L/C Obligations or Swing Line Loans to any assignee or participant, other than an assignment to the Borrower or any Affiliate thereof (as to which the provisions of this Section shall apply).

2.14 Extension of Maturity Date.

(a) Initial Maturity Date. Subject to extension pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth in clause (b) of this Section 2.14 and subject to the provisions of clause (c) of this Section 2.14, the Borrower shall, on the third anniversary of the date hereof (the “Initial Maturity Date”), cause the Obligations (including, without limitation, all outstanding principal and interest on the Loans and Swing Line Loans and all fees, costs and expenses due and owing under the Loan Documents) to be Fully Satisfied.

(b) Extended Maturity Date Option. Not more than 180 days and not less than 90 days prior to the Initial Maturity Date, the Borrower may request in writing that the Lenders extend the term of this Agreement by one (1) additional year to the fourth anniversary of the date hereof (the end of such period being the “Extended Maturity Date”). Each Lender agrees that the Maturity Date shall be extended following such a request from the Borrower subject to satisfaction of the following terms and conditions:

(i) no Default or Event of Default shall exist on the date of such extension and after giving effect thereto;

(ii) each of the Borrowing Base Properties shall have been reappraised pursuant to an Appraisal reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and having an effective date not more than sixty (60) days prior to the Initial Maturity Date (such Appraisals to be commissioned by the Administrative Agent and paid for by the Borrower);

(iii) the Total Outstandings shall be less than the Borrowing Base, as adjusted in connection with the Appraisals obtained pursuant to subclause (ii) above;

(iv) the Borrower shall, at the Initial Maturity Date, pay to the Administrative Agent (for the pro rata benefit of the Lenders based on their respective Applicable Percentage as of such date) an extension fee equal to (A) 50.0 basis points (0.50%), multiplied by (B) the Aggregate Commitments as of such date and shall have paid all other outstanding fees, expenses or other amounts for which the Loan Parties are responsible hereunder; and

(v) each Loan Party shall deliver to the Administrative Agent a certificate dated as of the Initial Maturity Date signed by a Responsible Officer of such Loan Party (A) certifying and attaching the resolutions adopted by such Loan Party approving or consenting to such extension and (B) certifying that, before and after giving effect to such extension, (1) the representations and warranties of such Loan Party contained in Article V and the other Loan Documents are true and correct in all material respects on and as of the Initial Maturity Date, except to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, in which case they are true and correct as of such earlier date, and except that for purposes of this Section 2.14, the representations and warranties contained in subsections (a) and (b) of Section 5.05 shall be deemed to refer to the most recent statements furnished pursuant to subsections (a) and (b), respectively, of Section 6.01, and (2) no Default exists.

(c) Notification by Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and each of the Lenders of the effectiveness of any extension pursuant to this Section 2.14.

(d) Satisfaction of Obligations Upon Acceleration. Notwithstanding anything contained herein or in any other Loan Document to the contrary, to the extent any of the Obligations are accelerated pursuant to the terms hereof (including, without limitation, Section 8.02 hereof) or of any other Loan Document, the Borrower shall, immediately upon the occurrence of such acceleration, cause such accelerated Obligations to be Fully Satisfied.

(e) Conflicting Provisions. This Section shall supersede any provisions in Section 2.13 or 10.01 to the contrary.

2.15 Increase in Commitments.

(a) Request for Increase. Provided there exists no Default, upon notice to the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly notify the Lenders), the Borrower may, from time to time, request an increase in the Aggregate Commitments by an amount (for all such requests) not exceeding $50,000,000; provided that (i) any such request for an increase shall be in a minimum amount of $15,000,000 and, if greater than $15,000,000, in whole increments of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, and (ii) the Borrower may make a maximum of three (3) such requests. At the time of sending such notice, the Borrower (in consultation with the Administrative Agent) shall specify the time period within which each Lender is requested to respond (which shall in no event be less than ten Business Days from the date of delivery of such notice to the Lenders).

(b) Lender Elections to Increase. Each Lender may decline or elect to participate in such requested increase in the Aggregate Commitments in its sole discretion, and each Lender shall notify the Administrative Agent within such time period whether or not it agrees to increase its Commitment and, if so, whether by an amount equal to, greater than, or less than its Applicable Percentage of such requested increase. Any Lender not responding within such time period shall be deemed to have declined to increase its Commitment.

(c) Notification by Administrative Agent; Additional Lenders. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and each Lender of the Lenders’ responses to each request made hereunder. To achieve the full amount of a requested increase and subject to the approval of the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer and the Swing Line Lender (which approvals shall not be unreasonably withheld), the Borrower may also invite additional Eligible Assignees to become Lenders pursuant to a joinder agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and its counsel.

(d) Effective Date and Allocations. If the Aggregate Commitments are increased in accordance with this Section, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower shall determine the effective date (the “Increase Effective Date”) and the final allocation of such increase. The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders of the final allocation of such increase and the Increase Effective Date.

(e) Conditions to Effectiveness of Increase. As a condition precedent to such increase, the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent a certificate of each Loan Party dated as of the Increase Effective Date signed by a Responsible Officer of such Loan Party (i) certifying and attaching the resolutions adopted by such Loan Party approving or consenting to such increase, and (ii) in the case of the Borrower, certifying that, before and after giving effect to such increase, (A) the representations and warranties contained in Article V and the other Loan Documents are true and correct in all material respects on and as of the Increase Effective Date, except to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, in which case they are true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date, and except that for purposes of this Section 2.15, the representations and warranties contained in subsections (a) and (b) of Section 5.05 shall be deemed to refer to the most recent statements furnished pursuant to clauses (a) and (b), respectively, of Section 6.01, and (B) no Default exists. The Borrower shall prepay any Committed Loans outstanding on the Increase Effective Date (and pay any additional amounts required pursuant to Section 3.05) to the extent necessary to keep the outstanding Committed Loans ratable with any revised Applicable Percentages arising from any nonratable increase in the Commitments under this Section, and each Loan Party shall execute and deliver such documents or instruments as the Administrative Agent may require to evidence such increase in Commitments and to ratify each such Loan Party’s continuing obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents.

(f) Conflicting Provisions. This Section shall supersede any provisions in Section 2.13 or 10.01 to the contrary.

2.16 [Reserved].

2.17 Cash Collateral.

(a) Certain Credit Support Events. Upon the request of the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer (i) if the L/C Issuer has honored any full or partial drawing request under any Letter of Credit and such drawing has resulted in an L/C Borrowing, or (ii) if, as of the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, any L/C Obligation for any reason remains outstanding, the Borrower shall, in each case, immediately Cash Collateralize the then Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations. At any time that there shall exist a Defaulting Lender, immediately upon the request of the

Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender, the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent Cash Collateral in an amount sufficient to cover all Fronting Exposure (after giving effect to Section 2.18(a)(iv) and any Cash Collateral provided by the Defaulting Lender).

Grant of Security Interest. All Cash Collateral (other than credit support not constituting funds subject to deposit) shall be maintained in blocked, non-interest bearing deposit accounts at Bank of America. The Borrower, and to the extent provided by any Lender, such Lender, hereby grants to (and subjects to the control of) the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer and the Lenders (including the Swing Line Lender), and agrees to maintain, a first priority security interest in all such cash, deposit accounts and all balances therein, and all other property so provided as collateral pursuant hereto, and in all proceeds of the foregoing, all as security for the obligations to which such Cash Collateral may be applied pursuant to Section 2.17(c). If at any time the Administrative Agent determines that Cash Collateral is subject to any right or claim of any Person other than the Administrative Agent as herein provided, or that the total amount of such Cash Collateral is less than the applicable Fronting Exposure and other obligations secured thereby, the Borrower or the relevant Defaulting Lender will, promptly upon demand by the Administrative Agent, pay or provide to the Administrative Agent additional Cash Collateral in an amount sufficient to eliminate such deficiency.

(b) Application. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, Cash Collateral provided under any of this Section 2.17 or Sections 2.04, 2.05, 2.06, 2.18 or 8.02 in respect of Letters of Credit or Swing Line Loans shall be held and applied to the satisfaction of the specific L/C Obligations, Swing Line Loans, obligations to fund participations therein (including, as to Cash Collateral provided by a Defaulting Lender, any interest accrued on such obligation) and other obligations for which the Cash Collateral was so provided, prior to any other application of such property as may be provided for herein.

(c) Release. Cash Collateral (or the appropriate portion thereof) provided to reduce Fronting Exposure or other obligations shall be released promptly following (i) the elimination of the applicable Fronting Exposure or other obligations giving rise thereto (including by the termination of Defaulting Lender status of the applicable Lender (or, as appropriate, its assignee following compliance with Section 10.06(b)(vi))) or (ii) the Administrative Agent’s good faith determination that there exists excess Cash Collateral; provided, however, (x) that Cash Collateral furnished by or on behalf of a Loan Party shall not be released during the continuance of a Default or Event of Default (and following application as provided in this Section 2.17 may be otherwise applied in accordance with Section 8.03), and (y) the Person providing Cash Collateral and the L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender, as applicable, may agree that Cash Collateral shall not be released but instead held to support future anticipated Fronting Exposure or other obligations.

2.18 Defaulting Lenders.

(a) Adjustments. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, if any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, then, until such time as that Lender is no longer a Defaulting Lender, to the extent permitted by Applicable Law:

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

(ii) Reallocation of Payments. Any payment of principal, interest, fees or other amounts received by the Administrative Agent for the account of that Defaulting Lender (whether voluntary or mandatory, at maturity, pursuant to Article VIII or otherwise, and including any amounts made available to the Administrative Agent by that Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section 10.08), shall be applied at such time or times as may be determined by the Administrative Agent as follows: first, to the payment of any amounts owing by that Defaulting Lender to the Administrative Agent hereunder; second, to the payment on a pro rata basis of any amounts owing by that Defaulting Lender to the L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender hereunder; third, if so determined by the Administrative Agent or requested by the L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender, to be held as Cash Collateral for future funding obligations of that Defaulting Lender of any participation in any Swing Line Loan or Letter of Credit; fourth, as the Borrower may request (so long as no Default or Event of Default exists), to the funding of any Loan in respect of which that Defaulting

Lender has failed to fund its portion thereof as required by this Agreement, as determined by the Administrative Agent; fifth, if so determined by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, to be held in a non-interest bearing deposit account and released in order to satisfy obligations of that Defaulting Lender to fund Loans under this Agreement; sixth, to the payment of any amounts owing to the Lenders, the L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender as a result of any judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction obtained by any Lender, the L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender against that Defaulting Lender as a result of that Defaulting Lender’s breach of its obligations under this Agreement; seventh, so long as no Default or Event of Default exists, to the payment of any amounts owing to the Borrower as a result of any judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction obtained by the Borrower against that Defaulting Lender as a result of that Defaulting Lender’s breach of its obligations under this Agreement; and eighth, to that Defaulting Lender or as otherwise directed by a court of competent jurisdiction; provided that if (x) such payment is a payment of the principal amount of any Loans or L/C Borrowings in respect of which that Defaulting Lender has not fully funded its appropriate share and (y) such Loans or L/C Borrowings were made at a time when the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 were satisfied or waived, such payment shall be applied solely to pay the Loans of, and L/C Borrowings owed to, all non-Defaulting Lenders on a pro rata basis prior to being applied to the payment of any Loans of, or L/C Borrowings owed to, that Defaulting Lender. Any payments, prepayments or other amounts paid or payable to a Defaulting Lender that are applied (or held) to pay amounts owed by a Defaulting Lender or to post Cash Collateral pursuant to this Section 2.18(a)(ii) shall be deemed paid to and redirected by that Defaulting Lender, and each Lender irrevocably consents hereto.

(iii) Certain Fees. That Defaulting Lender (x) shall not be entitled to receive any Unused Fee pursuant to Section 2.10(a) for any period during which that Lender is a Defaulting Lender (and the Borrower shall not be required to pay any such Unused Fee that otherwise would have been required to have been paid to that Defaulting Lender) and (y) shall be limited in its right to receive Letter of Credit Fees as provided in Section 2.04(h).

(iv) Reallocation of Applicable Percentages to Reduce Fronting Exposure. During any period in which there is a Defaulting Lender, for purposes of computing the amount of the obligation of each non-Defaulting Lender to acquire, refinance or fund participations in Letters of Credit or Swing Line Loans pursuant to Sections 2.03 and 2.04, the “Applicable Percentage” of each non-Defaulting Lender shall be computed without giving effect to the Commitment of that Defaulting Lender; provided, that, (i) each such reallocation shall be given effect only if, at the date the applicable Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, no Default or Event of Default exists; and (ii) the aggregate obligation of each non-Defaulting Lender to acquire, refinance or fund participations in Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans shall not exceed the positive difference, if any, of (1) the Commitment of that non-Defaulting Lender minus (2) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Committed Loans of that Lender.

(b) Defaulting Lender Cure. If the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender and the L/C Issuer agree in writing in their sole discretion that a Defaulting Lender should no longer be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender, the Administrative Agent will so notify the parties hereto, whereupon as of the effective date specified in such notice and subject to any conditions set forth therein (which may include arrangements with respect to any Cash Collateral), that Lender will, to the extent applicable, purchase that portion of outstanding Loans of the other Lenders or take such other actions as the Administrative Agent may determine to be necessary to cause the Committed Loans and funded and unfunded participations in Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans to be held on a pro rata basis by the Lenders in accordance with their Applicable Percentages (without giving effect to Section 2.18(a)(iv)), whereupon that Lender will cease to be a Defaulting Lender; provided that no adjustments will be made retroactively with respect to fees accrued or payments made by or on behalf of the Borrower while that Lender was a Defaulting Lender; and provided, further, that except to the extent otherwise expressly agreed by the affected parties, no change hereunder from Defaulting Lender to Lender will constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder arising from that Lender’s having been a Defaulting Lender.

ARTICLE III.
TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY

3.01 Taxes.

(a) Payments Free of Taxes; Obligation to Withhold; Payments on Account of Taxes. (i) Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall to the extent permitted by Applicable Laws be made free and clear of and without reduction or withholding for any Taxes. If, however, Applicable Laws require the Borrower or the Administrative Agent to withhold or deduct any Tax, such Tax shall be withheld or deducted in accordance with such Applicable Laws as determined by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, as the case may be, upon the basis of the information and documentation to be delivered pursuant to subsection (e) below.

(ii) If the Borrower or the Administrative Agent shall be required by the Code to withhold or deduct any Taxes, including both United States Federal backup withholding and withholding taxes, from any payment, then (A) the Administrative Agent shall withhold or make such deductions as are determined by the Administrative Agent to be required based upon the information and documentation it has received pursuant to subsection (e) below, (B) the Administrative Agent shall timely pay the full amount withheld or deducted to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with the Code, and (C) to the extent that the withholding or deduction is made on account of Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes, the sum payable by the Borrower shall be increased as necessary so that after any required withholding or the making of all required deductions (including deductions applicable to additional sums payable under this Section) the Administrative Agent, Lender or L/C Issuer, as the case may be, receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such withholding or deduction been made; provided, however, that the Borrower shall not be required to increase the amount payable under this Section or indemnify Administrative Agent, a Lender or L/C Issuer under Section 3.01(c) to the extent that the obligation to withhold or indemnify the relevant Tax existed on the date that such Administrative Agent, Lender or L/C Issuer became a party to this Agreement in the capacity under which such party makes a claim under this Section.

(b) Payment of Other Taxes by the Borrower. Without limiting the provisions of subsection (a) above, the Borrower shall timely pay any Other Taxes to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with Applicable Laws.

(c) Tax Indemnifications. (i) Without limiting the provisions of subsection (a) or (b) above, the Borrower shall, and does hereby, indemnify the Administrative Agent, each Lender and the L/C Issuer, and shall make payment in respect thereof within 10 days after demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section) withheld or deducted by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent or paid by the Administrative Agent, such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, and any penalties, interest and reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. The Borrower shall also, and does hereby, indemnify the Administrative Agent, and shall make payment in respect thereof within 10 days after demand therefor, for any amount which a Lender or the L/C Issuer for any reason fails to pay indefeasibly to the Administrative Agent as required by clause (ii) of this subsection. A certificate as to the amount of any such payment or liability delivered to the Borrower by a Lender or the L/C Issuer (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender or the L/C Issuer, shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Notwithstanding the foregoing, where demand for such Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes is not made within one (1) year after such Administrative Agent, Lender or L/C Issuer receives written notice of the assertion of taxes and the Borrower does not otherwise have notice of such assertion, no indemnification shall be required for penalties, additions to tax, expenses, and interest accruing on such Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes from the date that is one (1) year after the receipt by such Administrative Agent, Lender or L/C Issuer of written notice of the assertion of such taxes until thirty (30) days after the date such demand was actually received by the Borrower.

(ii) Without limiting the provisions of subsection (a) or (b) above, each Lender and the L/C Issuer shall, and does hereby, indemnify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, and shall make payment in respect thereof within 10 days after demand therefor, against any and all Taxes and any and all related losses, claims, liabilities, penalties, interest and expenses (including the fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for the Borrower or the Administrative Agent) incurred by or asserted against the Borrower or the Administrative Agent by any Governmental Authority as a result of the failure by such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, to deliver, or as a result of the inaccuracy, inadequacy or deficiency of, any documentation required to be delivered by such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, to the Borrower or the Administrative Agent pursuant to subsection (e). Each Lender and the L/C Issuer hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, under this Agreement or any other Loan Document against any amount due to the Administrative Agent under this clause (ii). The agreements in this clause (ii) shall survive the resignation and/or replacement of the Administrative Agent, any assignment of rights by, or the replacement of, a Lender or the L/C Issuer, the termination of the Aggregate Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all other Obligations.

(d) Evidence of Payments. Upon request by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, as the case may be, after any payment of Taxes by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent to a Governmental Authority as provided in this Section 3.01, the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent or the Administrative Agent shall deliver to the Borrower, as the case may be, the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of any return required by Applicable Law to report such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, as the case may be.

(e) Status of Lenders; Tax Documentation. (i) Each Lender shall deliver to the Borrower and to the Administrative Agent, at the time or times prescribed by Applicable Laws or when reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation prescribed by Applicable Laws or by the taxing authorities of any jurisdiction and such other reasonably requested information as will permit the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, as the case may be, to determine (A) whether or not payments made hereunder or under any other Loan Document are subject to Taxes, (B) if applicable, the required rate of withholding or deduction, and (C) such Lender’s entitlement to any available exemption from, or reduction of, applicable Taxes in respect of all payments to be made to such Lender by the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement or otherwise to establish such Lender’s status for withholding tax purposes in the applicable jurisdiction.

(ii) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, if the Borrower is resident for tax purposes in the United States,

(A) any Lender that is a “United States person” within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent executed originals of Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 or such other documentation or information prescribed by Applicable Laws or reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will enable the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, as the case may be, to determine whether or not such Lender is subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements; and

(B) each Foreign Lender that is entitled under the Code or any applicable treaty to an exemption from or reduction of withholding tax with respect to payments hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, but only if such Foreign Lender is legally entitled to do so), whichever of the following is applicable:

(I) executed originals of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN claiming eligibility for benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party,

(II) executed originals of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8ECI,

(III) executed originals of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8IMY and all required supporting documentation,

(IV) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under section 881(c) of the Code, (x) a certificate to the effect that such Foreign Lender is not (A) a “bank” within the meaning of section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (B) a “10 percent shareholder” of the Borrower within the meaning of section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code, or (C) a “controlled foreign corporation” described in section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code and (y) executed originals of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN, or

(V) executed originals of any other form prescribed by Applicable Laws as a basis for claiming exemption from or a reduction in United States Federal withholding tax together with such supplementary documentation as may be prescribed by Applicable Laws to permit the Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made.

(iii) Each Lender shall promptly (A) notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent of any change in circumstances which would modify or render invalid any claimed exemption or reduction, and (B) take such steps as shall not be materially disadvantageous to it, in the reasonable judgment of such Lender, and as may be reasonably necessary (including the re-designation of its Lending Office) to avoid any requirement of Applicable Laws of any jurisdiction that the Borrower or the Administrative Agent make any withholding or deduction for taxes from amounts payable to such Lender.

(f) Treatment of Certain Refunds. Unless required by Applicable Laws, at no time shall the Administrative Agent have any obligation to file for or otherwise pursue on behalf of a Lender or the L/C Issuer, or have any obligation to pay to any Lender or the L/C Issuer, any refund of Taxes withheld or deducted from funds paid for the account of such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be. If the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the L/C Issuer determines, in its sole discretion, that it has received (or otherwise been credited with) a refund of any Taxes or Other 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 Section, it shall pay to the Borrower an amount equal to such refund (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, by the Borrower under this Section with respect to the Taxes or Other Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent, such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund), provided that the Borrower, upon the request of the Administrative Agent, such Lender or the L/C Issuer, agrees to repay the amount paid over to the Borrower (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) to the Administrative Agent, such Lender or the L/C Issuer in the event the Administrative Agent, such Lender or the L/C Issuer is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority. This subsection shall not be construed to require the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the L/C Issuer to make available its tax returns (or any other information relating to its taxes that it deems confidential) to the Borrower or any other Person.

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

giving rise to such determination no longer exist. Upon receipt of such notice, (x) the Borrower shall, upon demand from such Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), prepay or, if applicable, convert all Eurodollar Rate Loans of such Lender to Base Rate Loans (the interest rate on which Base Rate Loans of such Lender shall, if necessary to avoid such illegality, be determined by the Administrative Agent without reference to the Eurodollar Rate component of the Base Rate), either on the last day of the Interest Period therefor, if such Lender may lawfully continue to maintain such Eurodollar Rate Loans to such day, or immediately, if such Lender may not lawfully continue to maintain such Eurodollar Rate Loans and (y) if such notice asserts the illegality of such Lender determining or charging interest rates based upon the Eurodollar Rate, the Administrative Agent shall during the period of such suspension compute the Base Rate applicable to such Lender without reference to the Eurodollar Rate component thereof until the Administrative is advised in writing by such Lender that it is no longer illegal for such Lender to determine or charge interest rates based upon the Eurodollar Rate. Upon any such prepayment or conversion, the Borrower shall also pay accrued interest on the amount so prepaid or converted.

3.03 Inability to Determine Rates. If the Required Lenders determine that for any reason in connection with any request for a Eurodollar Rate Loan or a conversion to or continuation thereof that (a) Dollar deposits are not being offered to banks in the London interbank eurodollar market for the applicable amount and Interest Period of such Eurodollar Rate Loan, (b) adequate and reasonable means do not exist for determining the Eurodollar Rate for any requested Interest Period with respect to a proposed Eurodollar Rate Committed Loan or in connection with an existing or proposed Base Rate Loan, or (c) the Eurodollar Rate for any requested Interest Period with respect to a proposed Eurodollar Rate Committed Loan does not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of funding such Loan, the Administrative Agent will promptly so notify the Borrower and each Lender. Thereafter, (x) the obligation of the Lenders to make or maintain Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be suspended, and (y) in the event of a determination described in the preceding sentence with respect to the Eurodollar Rate component of the Base Rate, the utilization of the Eurodollar Rate component in determining the Base Rate shall be suspended, in each case until the Administrative Agent (upon the instruction of the Required Lenders) revokes such notice. Upon receipt of such notice, the Borrower may revoke any pending request for a Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurodollar Rate Committed Loans or, failing that, will be deemed to have converted such request into a request for a Committed Borrowing of Base Rate Loans in the amount specified therein.

3.04 Increased Costs; Reserves on Eurodollar Rate Loans.

(a) Increased Costs Generally. If any Change in Law shall:

(i) impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve, special deposit, compulsory loan, insurance charge or similar requirement against assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit extended or participated in by, any Lender (except any reserve requirement contemplated by Section 3.04(e)) or the L/C Issuer;

(ii) subject any Lender or the L/C Issuer to any tax of any kind whatsoever with respect to this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, any participation in a Letter of Credit or any Eurodollar Rate Loan made by it, or change the basis of taxation of payments to such Lender or the L/C Issuer in respect thereof (except for Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes covered by Section 3.01 and the imposition of, or any change in the rate of, any Excluded Tax payable by such Lender or the L/C Issuer); or

(iii) impose on any Lender or the L/C Issuer or the London interbank market any other condition, cost or expense affecting this Agreement or Eurodollar Rate Loans made by such Lender or any Letter of Credit or participation therein;

and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such Lender of making or maintaining any Loan the interest on which is determined by reference to the Eurodollar Rate (or of maintaining its obligation to make any such Loan), or to increase the cost to such Lender or the L/C Issuer of participating in, issuing or maintaining any Letter of Credit (or of maintaining its obligation to participate in or to issue any Letter of Credit), or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender or the L/C Issuer hereunder (whether of principal, interest or any other amount) then, upon request of such Lender or the L/C Issuer, the Borrower will pay to such Lender or

the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, for such additional costs incurred or reduction suffered.

(b) Capital Requirements. If any Lender or the L/C Issuer determines that any Change in Law affecting such Lender or the L/C Issuer or any Lending Office of such Lender or such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s holding company, if any, regarding capital requirements has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s capital or on the capital of such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s holding company, if any, as a consequence of this Agreement, the Commitments of such Lender or the Loans made by, or participations in Letters of Credit held by, such Lender, or the Letters of Credit issued by the L/C Issuer, to a level below that which such Lender or the L/C Issuer or such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s holding company could have achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into consideration such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s policies and the policies of such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s holding company with respect to capital adequacy), then from time to time the Borrower will pay to such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or the L/C Issuer or such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s holding company for any such reduction suffered.

(c) Certificates for Reimbursement. A certificate of a Lender or the L/C Issuer setting forth the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Lender or the L/C Issuer or its holding company, as the case may be, as specified in subsection (a) or (b) of this Section and delivered to the Borrower shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrower shall pay such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, the amount shown as due on any such certificate within 10 days after receipt thereof.

(d) Delay in Requests. Failure or delay on the part of any Lender or the L/C Issuer to demand compensation pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s right to demand such compensation, provided that the Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender or the L/C Issuer pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section for any increased costs incurred or reductions suffered more than nine months prior to the date that such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, notifies the Borrower of the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions and of such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s intention to claim compensation therefor (except that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive, then the nine-month period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof).

(e) Reserves on Eurodollar Rate Loans. The Borrower shall pay to each Lender, as long as such Lender shall be required to maintain reserves with respect to liabilities or assets consisting of or including Eurocurrency funds or deposits (currently known as “Eurocurrency liabilities”), additional interest on the unpaid principal amount of each Eurodollar Rate Loan equal to the actual costs of such reserves allocated to such Loan by such Lender (as determined by such Lender in good faith, which determination shall be conclusive), which shall be due and payable on each date on which interest is payable on such Loan, provided the Borrower shall have received at least 10 days’ prior notice (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) of such additional interest from such Lender. If a Lender fails to give notice 10 days prior to the relevant Interest Payment Date, such additional interest shall be due and payable 10 days from receipt of such notice.

3.05 Compensation for Losses. Upon demand of any Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) from time to time, the Borrower shall promptly compensate such Lender for and hold such Lender harmless from any loss, cost or expense incurred by it as a result of:

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

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

(c) any assignment of a Eurodollar Rate Loan on a day other than the last day of the Interest Period therefor as a result of a request by the Borrower pursuant to Section 10.13;

including any loss or expense arising from the liquidation or reemployment of funds obtained by it to maintain such Loan or from fees payable to terminate the deposits from which such funds were obtained. The Borrower shall also pay any customary administrative fees charged by such Lender in connection with the foregoing.

For purposes of calculating amounts payable by the Borrower to the Lenders under this Section 3.05, each Lender shall be deemed to have funded each Eurodollar Rate Loan made by it at the Eurodollar Rate for such Loan by a matching deposit or other borrowing in the London interbank eurodollar market for a comparable amount and for a comparable period, whether or not such Eurodollar Rate Loan was in fact so funded.

3.06 Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders.

(a) Designation of a Different Lending Office. If any Lender requests compensation under Section 3.04, or the Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender, the L/C Issuer or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender or the L/C Issuer pursuant to Section 3.01, or if any Lender gives a notice pursuant to Section 3.02, then such Lender or the L/C Issuer shall, as applicable, use reasonable efforts to designate a different Lending Office for funding or booking its Loans hereunder or to assign its rights and obligations hereunder to another of its offices, branches or affiliates, if, in the judgment of such Lender or the L/C Issuer, such designation or assignment (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to Section 3.01 or 3.04, as the case may be, in the future, or eliminate the need for the notice pursuant to Section 3.02, as applicable, and (ii) in each case, would not subject such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, to any unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be. The Borrower hereby agrees to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Lender or the L/C Issuer in connection with any such designation or assignment.

(b) Replacement of Lenders. If any Lender requests compensation under Section 3.04, or if the Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 3.01, the Borrower may replace such Lender in accordance with Section 10.13.

3.07 Survival. All of the Borrower’s obligations under this Article III shall survive termination of the Aggregate Commitments, repayment of all other Obligations hereunder and resignation of the Administrative Agent.

ARTICLE IV.
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO CREDIT EXTENSIONS

4.01 Conditions of Initial Credit Extension. The obligation of the L/C Issuer and each Lender to make its initial Credit Extension hereunder is subject to satisfaction of the following conditions precedent:

(a) The Administrative Agent’s receipt of the following, each of which shall be originals or telecopies (followed promptly by originals) unless otherwise specified, each properly executed by a Responsible Officer of the signing Loan Party, each dated the Closing Date (or, in the case of certificates of governmental officials, a recent date before the Closing Date) and each in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and each of the Lenders:

(i) executed counterparts of this Agreement, sufficient in number for distribution to the Administrative Agent, each Lender and the Borrower;

(ii) a Note executed by the Borrower in favor of each Lender requesting a Note;

(iii) the Pledge Agreement (together with each other pledge and security agreement and pledge and security agreement supplement delivered pursuant to Section 6.13, in each case as amended or modified), duly executed by each Person required to execute same pursuant to the terms hereof, together with:

(A) all certificates evidencing any certificated Equity Interests pledged to the Administrative Agent pursuant to the Pledge Agreement, together with duly executed in blank, undated stock powers attached thereto;

(B) proper Financing Statements in form appropriate for filing under the Uniform Commercial Code of all jurisdictions that the Administrative Agent may deem necessary or desirable in order to perfect the Liens created under the Pledge Agreement, covering the Collateral described in the Pledge Agreement,

(C) updated searches of Uniform Commercial Code filings in the jurisdiction of organization of each Loan Party and each jurisdiction where any Collateral is located or where a filing would need to be made in order to perfect the Administrative Agent’s security interest in the Collateral, copies of the financing statements on file in such jurisdictions and evidence that no Liens exist other than Permitted Liens,

(D) duly executed notices of grant of security interest in the form required by the Pledge Agreement as are necessary, as determined by Administrative Agent, to perfect the Administrative Agent’s security interest in the Collateral, duly executed consents as are necessary, as determined by Administrative Agent, to perfect the Administrative Agent’s security interest in the Collateral and evidence of the completion of all other actions, recordings and filings of or with respect to the Pledge Agreement that the Administrative Agent may deem necessary or desirable in order to perfect the Liens created thereby,

(E) evidence that all other action that the Administrative Agent may deem necessary or desirable in order to perfect the Liens created under the Pledge Agreement has been taken (including receipt of duly executed payoff letters, UCC-3 termination statements and landlords’ and bailees’ waiver and consent agreements);

(iv) a Mortgage with respect to each Borrowing Base Property, if any, duly executed by the appropriate Loan Party, together, in each case, with the BBP Deliverables related thereto;

(v) such certificates of resolutions or other action, incumbency certificates and/or other certificates of Responsible Officers of each Loan Party as the Administrative Agent may require evidencing the identity, authority and capacity of each Responsible Officer thereof authorized to act as a Responsible Officer in connection with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which such Loan Party is a party;

(vi) copies of the Organization Documents of each Loan Party certified to be true and complete as of a recent date by the appropriate Governmental Authority of the state or other jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization, where applicable, and certified by a secretary or assistant secretary of such Borrower to be true and correct as of the Closing Date and such other documents and certifications as the Administrative Agent may reasonably require to evidence that each Loan Party is duly organized or formed, and that each of the Loan Parties is validly existing, in good standing and qualified to engage in business in each jurisdiction where its ownership, lease or operation of properties or the conduct of its business requires such qualification;

(vii) a favorable opinion of (A) Hunton & Williams, counsel to the Loan Parties, addressed to the Administrative Agent and each Lender, in the form attached as Exhibit G-1, and (B) Administrative Agent-approved local counsel to the Loan Parties in each state in which any Borrowing Base Property (if any) is located, addressed to the Administrative Agent and each Lender, as to the matters set forth in the form of opinion attached as in Exhibit G-2 (with such modifications, assumptions, exceptions and qualifications as are reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent) and such other matters concerning the Loan Parties and the Loan Documents as the Required Lenders may request;

(viii) a certificate of a Responsible Officer of each Loan Party either (A) attaching copies of all consents, licenses and approvals required in connection with the execution, delivery and performance by

such Loan Party and the validity against such Loan Party of the Loan Documents to which it is a party, and such consents, licenses and approvals shall be in full force and effect, or (B) stating that no such consents, licenses or approvals are so required;

(ix) a certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower certifying (A) that the conditions specified in Sections 4.02(a), (b) and (c) have been satisfied, (B) that there has been no event or circumstance since the date of the Audited Financial Statements that has had or could be reasonably expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect; and (C) a calculation of the Consolidated Leverage Ratio as of the last day of the fiscal quarter of the Borrower most recently ended prior to the Closing Date;

(x) a duly completed Compliance Certificate as of the last day of the fiscal quarter of the Borrower ended on March 31, 2010, signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower;

(xi) evidence that all insurance required to be maintained pursuant to the Loan Documents has been obtained and is in effect;

(xii) a certificate executed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower as of the Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, regarding the Solvency of (a) the Borrower, (b) each of the other Loan Parties, and (c) the Consolidated Parties on a consolidated basis;

(xiii) such other assurances, certificates, documents, consents or opinions as the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer, the Swing Line Lender or the Required Lenders reasonably may require.

(b) The Administrative Agent shall have received executed counterparts of the Fee Letter, and any fees required to be paid hereunder or under the Fee Letter on or before the Closing Date shall have been paid (provided such fees may be paid from the proceeds of such initial Credit Extension).

(c) Unless waived by the Administrative Agent, the Borrower shall have paid all reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the Administrative Agent (directly to such counsel if requested by the Administrative Agent) to the extent invoiced prior to or on the Closing Date, plus such additional amounts of such fees, charges and disbursements as shall constitute its reasonable estimate of such fees, charges and disbursements incurred or to be incurred by it through the closing proceedings (provided that such estimate shall not thereafter preclude a final settling of accounts between the Borrower and the Administrative Agent).

(d) The representations and warranties of the Borrower and each other Loan Party contained in Article V or any other Loan Document, or which are contained in any document furnished at any time under or in connection herewith or therewith, shall be true and correct on and as of the Closing Date.

(e) No Default shall exist, or would result from, such proposed Credit Extension or from the application of the proceeds thereof.

(f) There shall not have occurred any event or circumstance since the date of the Audited Financial Statements that has had or could be reasonably expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.

(g) The absence of any condition, circumstance, action, suit, investigation or proceeding pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower and/or Guarantors, threatened in any court or before any arbitrator or governmental authority that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Without limiting the generality of the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 9.03, for purposes of determining compliance with the conditions specified in this Section 4.01, each Lender that has signed this Agreement shall be deemed to have consented to, approved or accepted or to be satisfied with, each document or other matter required thereunder to be consented to or approved by or acceptable or satisfactory to a Lender unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from such Lender prior to the proposed Closing Date specifying its objection thereto.

4.02 Conditions to all Credit Extensions. The obligation of each Lender to honor any Request for Credit Extension (other than a Committed Loan Notice requesting only a conversion of Committed Loans to the other Type, or a continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans) is subject to the following conditions precedent:

(a) The representations and warranties of the Borrower and each other Loan Party contained in Article V or any other Loan Document, or which are contained in any document furnished at any time under or in connection herewith or therewith, shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the date of such Credit Extension, except to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, in which case they shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date, and except that for purposes of this Section 4.02, the representations and warranties contained in subsections (a) and (b) of Section 5.05 shall be deemed to refer to the most recent statements furnished pursuant to clauses (a) and (b), respectively, of Section 6.01.

(b) No Default or Event of Default shall exist, or would result from such proposed Credit Extension or from the application of the proceeds thereof.

(c) Assuming the effectiveness of the requested Credit Extension, (i) the Total Outstandings as of such date shall not exceed the Borrowing Base; and (ii) the Total Outstandings shall not exceed the Aggregate Commitments.

(d) The Administrative Agent and, if applicable, the L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender shall have received a Request for Credit Extension in accordance with the requirements hereof.

(e) All of the conditions precedent set forth in Section 4.01 shall have been satisfied on or prior to date of such requested Credit Extension.

Each Request for Credit Extension (other than a Committed Loan Notice requesting only a conversion of Committed Loans to the other Type or a continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans) submitted by the Borrower shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty that the conditions specified in Sections 4.02(a), (b) and (c) have been satisfied on and as of the date of the applicable Credit Extension.

ARTICLE V.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

The Borrower represents and warrants to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders that:

5.01 Existence, Qualification and Power. Each Loan Party (a) is duly organized or formed, validly existing and, as applicable, in good standing under the Applicable Laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization, (b) has all requisite power and authority and all requisite governmental licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals to (i) own or lease its assets and carry on its business and (ii) execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the Loan Documents to which it is a party, and (c) is duly qualified and is licensed and, as applicable, in good standing under the Applicable Laws of each jurisdiction where its ownership, lease or operation of properties or the conduct of its business requires such qualification or license; except in each case referred to in clause (b)(i) or (c), to the extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

5.02 Authorization; No Contravention. The execution, delivery and performance by each Loan Party of each Loan Document to which such Person is party, have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other organizational action, and do not and will not (a) contravene the terms of any of such Person’s Organization Documents; (b) conflict with or result in any breach or contravention of, or the creation of any Lien under, or require any payment to be made under (i) any Contractual Obligation to which such Person is a party or affecting such Person or the properties of such Person or any of its Subsidiaries, except in each case, to the extent such violation, breach, Lien or payment could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, or (ii) any order, injunction, writ or decree of any Governmental Authority or any arbitral award to which such Person or its property is subject; or (c) violate any Applicable Law.

5.03 Governmental Authorization; Other Consents. No approval, consent, exemption, authorization, or other action by, or notice to, or filing with, any Governmental Authority or any other Person is necessary or required in connection with the execution, delivery or performance by, or enforcement against, any Loan Party of this Agreement or any other Loan Document (other than the filing and/or recording of financing statements and/or Mortgages in connection with the perfection of the Liens of the Secured Parties under the Collateral Documents).

5.04 Binding Effect. This Agreement has been, and each other Loan Document, when delivered hereunder, will have been, duly executed and delivered by each Loan Party that is party thereto. This Agreement constitutes, and each other Loan Document when so delivered will constitute, a legal, valid and binding obligation of such Loan Party, enforceable against each Loan Party that is party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by general equitable principles (whether enforcement is sought by proceedings in equity or at law).

5.05 Financial Statements; No Material Adverse Effect.

(a) The Audited Financial Statements (i) were prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the period covered thereby, except as otherwise expressly noted therein; (ii) fairly present the financial condition of the Consolidated Parties, on a consolidated basis, as of the date thereof and their results of operations for the period covered thereby in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the period covered thereby, except as otherwise expressly noted therein; and (iii) show all indebtedness and other liabilities, direct or contingent, of the Consolidated Parties as of the date thereof, including liabilities for taxes, commitments and Indebtedness, that in each case is material in relation to the business, operations, properties, assets or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Consolidated Parties.

(b) The unaudited consolidated balance sheets of the Consolidated Parties dated March 31, 2010, and the related consolidated statements of income or operations, shareholders’ equity and cash flows for the fiscal quarter ended on that date (i) were prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the period covered thereby, except as otherwise expressly noted therein, and (ii) fairly present the financial condition of the Consolidated Parties as of the date thereof and their results of operations for the period covered thereby, subject, in the case of clauses (i) and (ii), to the absence of footnotes and to normal year-end audit adjustments. Except as otherwise set forth on Schedule 5.05, such financial statements set forth all indebtedness and other liabilities, direct or contingent, of the Consolidated Parties as of March 31, 2010, including liabilities for taxes, commitments and Indebtedness, that in each case is material in relation to the business, operations, properties, assets or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Consolidated Parties.

(c) Since the date of the Audited Financial Statements, there has been no event or circumstance, either individually or in the aggregate, that has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(d) The consolidated pro forma balance sheets of the Consolidated Parties as at March 31, 2010, and the related consolidated pro forma statements of income and cash flows of the Consolidated Parties for the three (3) months then ended, certified by the chief financial officer or treasurer of the Borrower, copies of which have been furnished to each Lender, fairly present the consolidated pro forma financial condition of the Consolidated Parties as at such date and the consolidated pro forma results of operations of the Consolidated Parties for the period ended on such date, all in accordance with GAAP.

5.06 Litigation. There are no actions, suits, proceedings, claims or disputes pending or, to the knowledge of any Responsible Officer of any Loan Party after due and diligent investigation, threatened in writing, at law, in equity, in arbitration or before any Governmental Authority, by or against any Loan Party or any of their Subsidiaries or against any of their properties or revenues that (a) purport to affect or pertain to this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or any of the transactions contemplated hereby, or (b) except as specifically disclosed in Schedule 5.06, if determined adversely, could (either individually or in the aggregate) reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and there has been no material adverse change in the status of, or the financial effect on, any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof with respect to, the matters described on Schedule 5.06.

5.07 No Default. Neither any Loan Party nor any Subsidiary thereof is in default under or with respect to any Contractual Obligation that could, either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. No Default exists or would result from the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any other Loan Document.

5.08 Ownership of Property; Liens; Investments.

(a) Each Loan Party has good record and marketable title in fee simple to, or valid leasehold interests in, each of the Borrowing Base Properties and/or all other real property necessary or used in the ordinary conduct of its business, except for such defects in title as could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Each of the Borrowing Base Properties is either wholly owned in fee by a Loan Party or ground leased by a Loan Party pursuant to a long term ground lease which has been designated as an Approved Ground Lease, in each case subject to no Liens other than Permitted Liens of the type described in Section 7.01(a), (c), (d), (f), (g) and (j). To the extent a Borrowing Base Property is leased by a Loan Party pursuant to an Approved Ground Lease, (i) such Approved Ground Lease is in full force and effect and remains unmodified except to the extent expressly permitted by Section 6.15(b)(vii); (ii) except as expressly permitted by Section 6.15(b)(vii), no rights in favor of the applicable Loan Party lessee have been waived, canceled or surrendered; (iii) except as expressly permitted by Section 6.15, no election or option under such Approved Ground Lease has been exercised by the Loan Party lessee (other than options to renew or extend the term thereof); (iv) all rental and other charges due and payable thereunder have been paid in full (except to the extent such payment is not yet overdue subject to applicable cure or grace periods); (v) no Loan Party is in default under such Approved Ground Lease (beyond any applicable cure or grace periods) which would permit the applicable lessor or other obligor to terminate or exercise any other remedy with respect to the applicable Approved Ground Lease, nor has any Loan Party received any notice of default with respect to such Approved Ground Lease that has not been delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 6.15(b)(viii); (vi) to the knowledge of the Responsible Officers of the Loan Parties, no lessor under such Approved Ground Lease is in default with respect to its material obligations thereunder; (vii) a true and correct copy of such Approved Ground Lease (together with any amendments, modifications, restatements or supplements thereof) has been delivered to the Administrative Agent; and (viii) there exist no adverse claims as to the applicable Loan Party’s title or right to possession of the leasehold premises referenced therein.

(b) The property of each Loan Party is subject to no Liens, other than Liens set forth on Schedule 5.08(b), matters shown on each Mortgage Policy and as otherwise permitted by Section 7.01.

(c) Schedule 5.08(c) sets forth a complete and accurate list of all Investments held by any Loan Party on the Closing Date, showing as of the Closing Date the amount, obligor or issuer and maturity, if any, thereof.

5.09 Environmental Compliance.

(a) The Loan Parties conduct in the ordinary course of business a review of the effect of existing Environmental Laws and claims alleging potential liability or responsibility for violation of any Environmental Laws on their respective businesses, operations and real properties, and as a result thereof the Loan Parties have reasonably concluded that, except as specifically disclosed in Schedule 5.09, such Environmental Laws and claims could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(b) Except as otherwise set forth in Schedule 5.09, (i) none of the real properties currently or to the knowledge of any Responsible Officer of any Loan Party, formerly owned or operated by any Loan Party, is listed or, to the knowledge of any Responsible Officer of any Loan Party, proposed for listing on the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) National Priorities List or on the EPA Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Information Sharing database or any analogous state or local list, nor to the knowledge of any Responsible Officer of any Loan Party is any adjacent property on such list, (ii) no Loan Party has operated and, to the knowledge of any Responsible Officer of any Loan Party, there are no and never have been any underground or above-ground storage tanks or any surface impoundments, septic tanks, pits, sumps or lagoons in which Hazardous Materials are being or have been transported, treated, stored or disposed on any Real Property currently owned or operated by any Loan Party or, to the knowledge of any Responsible Officer of any Loan Party, on any real property formerly owned or operated by any Loan Party, (iii) or to the knowledge of any Responsible Officer of any Loan Party, there is no friable asbestos or asbestos-containing material on any Real Property currently

owned or operated by any Loan Party, and (iv) Hazardous Materials have not been transported, released, discharged or disposed of on any real property currently or formerly owned or operated by any Loan Party except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(c) Except as otherwise set forth on Schedule 5.09, no Loan Party is undertaking, and has not completed, either individually or together with other potentially responsible parties, any investigation or assessment or remedial or response action relating to any actual or threatened release, discharge or disposal of Hazardous Materials at any site, location or operation, either voluntarily or pursuant to the order of any Governmental Authority or the requirements of any Environmental Laws; and to the knowledge of the Responsible Officers of the Loan Parties all Hazardous Materials generated, used, treated, handled or stored at, or transported to or from, any real property currently or formerly owned or operated by any Loan Party have been disposed of in a manner not reasonably expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

(d) Except as otherwise set forth on Schedule 5.09, each of the Borrowing Base Properties and, to the knowledge of the Responsible Officers of the Loan Parties, all operations at such Borrowing Base Properties are in compliance with all Environmental Laws in all material respects, there is no material violation of any Environmental Laws with respect to such Borrowing Base Properties or, to the knowledge of any Responsible Officer of any Loan Party, the businesses operated thereon, and there are no conditions relating to such Borrowing Base Properties or the businesses that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

(e) Except as otherwise set forth on Schedule 5.09, none of the Borrowing Base Properties contains, or to the knowledge of any Responsible Officer of any Loan Party has previously contained, any Hazardous Materials at, on or under such Borrowing Base Properties in amounts or concentrations that constitute or constituted a violation of Environmental Laws that could have a Material Adverse Effect.

(f) Except as otherwise set forth on Schedule 5.09, no Loan Party has received any written or verbal notice of, or inquiry from any Governmental Authority regarding, any violation, alleged violation, non-compliance, liability or potential liability regarding Hazardous Materials or compliance with Environmental Laws with regard to any of its Borrowing Base Properties or the businesses located thereon, nor does any Responsible Officer of any Loan Party have knowledge or reason to believe that any such notice will be received or is being threatened.

(g) No Loan Party is subject to any judicial proceeding or governmental or administrative action and, to the knowledge of the Responsible Officers of the Loan Parties, no such proceeding or action is threatened in writing, under any Environmental Laws that could reasonably be expected to give rise to a Material Adverse Effect, nor are there any consent decrees or other decrees, consent orders, administrative orders or other orders, or other administrative or judicial requirements outstanding under any Environmental Laws with respect to the Loan Parties, the Borrowing Base Properties or, to the knowledge of any Responsible Officer of any Loan Party, the businesses located thereon that could be reasonably expected to give rise to a Material Adverse Effect.

5.10 Insurance. The properties of the Loan Parties are insured with financially sound and reputable insurance companies not Affiliates of the Borrower, in such amounts, with such deductibles and covering such risks as are customarily carried by companies engaged in similar businesses and owning similar properties in localities where the applicable Loan Party operates. The insurance coverage of the Loan Parties with respect to the Borrowing Base Properties as of the Closing Date is outlined as to carrier, policy number, expiration date, type and amount on Schedule 5.10. All insurance related to the Borrowing Base Properties names the Administrative Agent (for the benefit of the Secured Parties) as additional insured (in the case of liability insurance) or loss payee (in the case of hazard insurance).

5.11 Taxes. The Loan Parties have filed all Federal and state income and other material tax returns and reports required to be filed, and have paid all Federal and state income and other material taxes, assessments, fees and other governmental charges levied or imposed upon them or their properties, income or assets otherwise due and payable, except those which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted and for which adequate reserves have been provided in accordance with GAAP. There is no proposed tax assessment against any Loan Party that would, if made, have a Material Adverse Effect. No Loan Party nor any Subsidiary thereof is party to any tax sharing agreement; provided, however, that any tax protection agreement entered into with a contributor of property to a Loan Party (but only to the extent the indemnity or other obligation to such contributor

under such tax protection agreement is limited to any capital gains tax that would be due upon a sale or other Disposition of such contributed property and either (i) is limited to an amount that does not exceed 1.0% of the total assets of such Loan Party or (ii) exceeds 1% but less than 5% of the total assets of such Loan Party but which indemnity is only triggered by a sale or other Disposition of such contributed property) shall not be considered a tax sharing agreement.

5.12 ERISA Compliance.

(a) Each Plan is in compliance in all material respects with the applicable provisions of ERISA, the Code and other Federal or state laws, except to the extent that the failure to so comply would result in, or could reasonably be expected to result in, a Material Adverse Effect. Each Pension Plan that is intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code has received a favorable determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service to the effect that the form of such Pension Plan is qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code and the trust related thereto has been determined by the Internal Revenue Service to be exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(a) of the Code, or an application for such a letter is currently being processed by the Internal Revenue Service. To the best knowledge of the Borrower, nothing has occurred that would prevent or cause the loss of the tax-qualified status of any such Pension Plan.

(b) There are no pending or, to the best knowledge of the Borrower, threatened claims, actions or lawsuits, or action by any Governmental Authority, with respect to any Plan that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. There has been no prohibited transaction or violation of the fiduciary responsibility rules with respect to any Plan that has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

(c) (i) No ERISA Event has occurred, and neither the Borrower nor any ERISA Affiliate is aware of any fact, event or circumstance that could reasonably be expected to constitute or result in an ERISA Event with respect to any Pension Plan; (ii) there has been no failure to satisfy the minimum funding standard applicable to a Pension Plan under Section 412 of the Code and Section 302 of ERISA for any plan year, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards applicable to a Pension Plan under Section 412 of the Code and Section 302 of ERISA for any plan year has been applied for or obtained; (iii) as of the most recent valuation date for any Pension Plan, the funding target attainment percentage (as defined in Section 430(d)(2) of the Code) is 60% or higher and neither the Borrower nor any ERISA Affiliate knows of any facts or circumstances that could reasonably be expected to cause the funding target attainment percentage for any such Pension Plan to drop below 60% as of the most recent valuation date; (iv) neither the Borrower nor any ERISA Affiliate has incurred any liability to the PBGC other than for the payment of premiums, and there are no premium payments which have become due that are unpaid; (v) neither the Borrower nor any ERISA Affiliate has engaged in a transaction that could be subject to Section 4069 or Section 4212(c) of ERISA; and (vi) no Pension Plan has been terminated by the plan administrator thereof nor by the PBGC, and no event or circumstance has occurred or exists that could reasonably be expected to cause the PBGC to institute proceedings under Title IV of ERISA to terminate any Pension Plan.

(d) Neither the Borrower nor any ERISA Affiliate maintains or contributes to, or has any unsatisfied obligation to contribute to, or liability under, any active or terminated Pension Plan other than those listed on Schedule 5.12(d) hereto.

5.13 Subsidiaries; Equity Interests. The corporate capital and ownership structure of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries is as described in Schedule 5.13(a) (as of the most recent update of such schedule in accordance with Section 6.02(i) hereof). Set forth on Schedule 5.13(b) is a complete and accurate list (as of the most recent update of such schedule in accordance with Section 6.02(i) hereof) with respect to each of the direct and indirect Subsidiaries of the Parent REIT and the Borrower of (i) jurisdiction of organization, (ii) number of ownership interests (if expressed in units or shares) of each class of Equity Interests outstanding, (iii) number and percentage of outstanding ownership interests (if expressed in units or shares) of each class owned (directly or indirectly) by the Parent REIT, the Borrower and their Subsidiaries, (iv) all outstanding options, warrants, rights of conversion or purchase and all other similar rights with respect thereto and (v) an identification of which such Subsidiaries are Guarantors hereunder and which Borrowing Base Properties are owned by each such Loan Party. The outstanding Equity Interests of the Loan Parties and each Subsidiary are, to the extent applicable depending on the organizational nature of such Person, validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable and is owned by the Parent REIT, the Borrower or a Subsidiary thereof (as applicable), directly or

indirectly, in the manner set forth on Schedule 5.13(b), free and clear of all Liens (other than Permitted Liens or, in the case of the Equity Interests of the Loan Parties, statutory Liens or Liens arising under or contemplated in connection with the Loan Documents). Other than as set forth in Schedule 5.13(b) (as of the most recent update of such schedule in accordance with Section 6.02(i) hereof), no Loan Party (other than the Parent REIT) or any Subsidiary thereof has outstanding any securities convertible into or exchangeable for its Equity Interests nor does any such Person have outstanding any rights to subscribe for or to purchase or any options for the purchase of, or any agreements providing for the issuance (contingent or otherwise) of, or any calls, commitments or claims of any character relating to its Equity Interests. The copy of the charter of each Loan Party and each amendment thereto provided pursuant to Section 4.01(a)(v) is a true and correct copy of each such document as of the Closing Date, each of which is valid and in full force and effect.

5.14 Margin Regulations; Investment Company Act.

(a) The Borrower is not engaged and will not engage, principally or as one of its important activities, in the business of purchasing or carrying margin stock (within the meaning of Regulation U issued by the FRB), or extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stock.

(b) None of the Borrower, any Person Controlling the Borrower, or any Subsidiary is or is required to be registered as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act of 1940.

5.15 Disclosure. The Borrower has disclosed to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders all agreements, instruments and corporate or other restrictions to which it or any other Loan Party is subject, and all other matters known to any Responsible Officer of any Loan Party (other than matters of a general economic nature), that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. No report, financial statement, certificate or other information furnished (whether in writing or orally) by or on behalf of any Loan Party to the Administrative Agent or any Lender in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby and the negotiation of this Agreement or delivered hereunder or under any other Loan Document (in each case, as modified or supplemented by other information so furnished) contains any material misstatement of fact or omits to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided that, with respect to projected financial information, the Loan Parties represent only that such information was prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed by the Loan Parties to be reasonable at the time (it being recognized by the Lenders that projections as to future events are not to be viewed as facts and that actual results may differ).

5.16 Compliance with Laws. Each Loan Party thereof is in compliance in all material respects with the requirements of all Applicable Laws and all orders, writs, injunctions and decrees applicable to it or to its properties, except in such instances in which (a) such requirement of Applicable Law or order, writ, injunction or decree is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted or (b) the failure to comply therewith, either individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

5.17 Taxpayer Identification Number. The Borrower’s true and correct U.S. taxpayer identification number is set forth on Schedule 10.02.

5.18 Intellectual Property; Licenses, Etc. The Borrower and the other Loan Parties own, or possess the right to use, all of the trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights, patents, patent rights, franchises, licenses and other intellectual property rights (collectively, “IP Rights”) that are reasonably necessary for the operation of their respective businesses, without conflict with the rights of any other Person. To the knowledge of any Responsible Officer of any Loan Party, no slogan or other advertising device, product, process, method, substance, part or other material now employed, or now contemplated to be employed, by the Borrower or any other Loan Party infringes upon any rights held by any other Person, except for such infringements that would not have a Material Adverse Effect. Except as specifically disclosed in Schedule 5.18, no claim or litigation regarding any of the foregoing is pending or, to the knowledge of any Responsible Officer of any Loan Party, threatened, which, either individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

5.19 Solvency. (a) As of the Closing Date and immediately prior to the initial Credit Extension, the Borrower is Solvent, each other Loan Party is Solvent, and the Consolidated Parties, on a consolidated basis, are Solvent, (b) as of the date and immediately prior to each Subsidiary becoming a Guarantor pursuant to Section 6.12, such Subsidiary is Solvent, and (c) following the initial Credit Extension, the Borrower is Solvent, each other Loan Party is Solvent, and the Consolidated Parties, on a consolidated basis, are Solvent if the contribution rights that each such party will have against such other parties and the subrogation rights that each such party may have, if any, against the Borrower are taken into account.

5.20 Casualty, Etc. None of the Borrowing Base Properties have been affected by any fire, explosion, accident, strike, lockout or other labor dispute, drought, storm, hail, earthquake, embargo, act of God or of public enemy or other casualty (whether or not covered by insurance) that, either individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

5.21 Labor Matters. As of the Closing Date, there are no collective bargaining agreements or Multiemployer Plans covering the employees of any Loan Party or any of their Subsidiaries. No Loan Party or any of their Subsidiaries has suffered any strikes, walkouts, work stoppages or other material labor difficulty within the last year, which could (either individually or in the aggregate) reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

5.22 REIT Status. The Parent REIT is qualified as a REIT and the Borrower is qualified as a REIT, a partnership or a disregarded entity (in each case, for federal income tax purposes), a TRS or a QRS, and each of their Subsidiaries that is a corporation is either a TRS or a QRS. As of the Closing Date, the Subsidiaries of the Parent REIT and the Borrower that are taxable REIT subsidiaries, as such term is used in the Code, are identified on Schedule 5.22.

5.23 Collateral Documents. The provisions of the Collateral Documents are effective to create in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties a legal, valid and enforceable first priority and perfected Lien (subject to Liens permitted by Section 7.01) on all right, title and interest of the respective Loan Parties in the Collateral described therein. Except for filings completed prior to the Closing Date and as contemplated hereby and by the Collateral Documents (including the recording of the Mortgages and UCC financing statements relative to any personal property Collateral), no filing or other action will be necessary to perfect or protect such Liens.

5.24 Borrowing Base Properties. Schedule 5.24(a) (as adjusted from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof) sets forth each of the Borrowing Base Properties as of the date of the last adjustment thereof pursuant to the terms of Section 1.07. Each Real Property listed on Schedule 5.24(a) fully qualifies as a Borrowing Base Property.

ARTICLE VI.
AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS

So long as any Lender shall have any Commitment hereunder, any Loan or other Obligation hereunder shall not be Fully Satisfied, or any Letter of Credit shall remain outstanding, the Borrower shall, and shall (except in the case of the covenants set forth in Sections 6.01, 6.02, and 6.03) cause each other Loan Party and, except where expressly limited to Loan Parties, each Subsidiary (and where noted the Consolidated Parties) to:

6.01 Financial Statements. Deliver to the Administrative Agent, for distribution to the Lenders:

(a) as soon as available, but in any event within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Parent REIT (commencing with the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010), a consolidated balance sheet of the Consolidated Parties as at the end of such fiscal year, and the related consolidated statements of income or operations, changes in shareholders’ equity, and cash flows for such fiscal year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous fiscal year, all in reasonable detail and prepared in accordance with GAAP, such consolidated statements to be (i) certified by the chief executive officer, chief financial officer, treasurer or controller of the Borrower as fairly presenting in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations, shareholders’ equity and cash flows of the Consolidated Parties in accordance with GAAP, and (ii) audited and accompanied by a report and opinion of an independent certified public accountant of nationally

recognized standing reasonably acceptable to the Required Lenders, which report and opinion shall be prepared in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and shall not be subject to any “going concern” or like qualification or exception or any qualification or exception as to the scope of such audit; and

(b) as soon as available, but in any event within 45 days after the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year of the Parent REIT (commencing with the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2010), a consolidated balance sheet of the Consolidated Parties as at the end of such fiscal quarter, the related consolidated statements of income or operations for such fiscal quarter and for the portion of the Borrower’s fiscal year then ended, and the related consolidated of changes in shareholders’ equity, and cash flows for the portion of the Borrower’s fiscal year then ended, in each case setting forth in comparative form, as applicable, the figures for the corresponding fiscal quarter of the previous fiscal year and the corresponding portion of the previous fiscal year, all in reasonable detail, such consolidated statements to be certified by the chief executive officer, chief financial officer, treasurer or controller of the Borrower as fairly presenting in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations, shareholders’ equity and cash flows of the Consolidated Parties in accordance with GAAP, subject only to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes.

As to any information contained in materials furnished pursuant to Section 6.02(d), the Borrower shall not be separately required to furnish such information under clause (a) or (b) above, but the foregoing shall not be in derogation of the obligation of the Borrower to furnish the information and materials described in clauses (a) and (b) above at the times specified therein.

6.02 Certificates; Other Information. Deliver to the Administrative Agent (for distribution of the same to each Lender):

(a) [Reserved];

(b) concurrently with the delivery of the financial statements referred to in Sections 6.01(a) and (b), (i) a duly completed Compliance Certificate signed by the chief executive officer, chief financial officer, treasurer or controller of the Borrower (which delivery may, unless the Administrative Agent, or a Lender requests executed originals, be by electronic communication including fax or email and shall be deemed to be an original authentic counterpart thereof for all purposes), and (ii) a profit and loss summary showing the operating condition for each of the Borrowing Base Properties (in form and with such detail as is reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent);

(c) if a Default or Event of Default exists, promptly after any request by the Administrative Agent, copies of any detailed audit reports, management letters or recommendations submitted to the board of directors (or the audit committee of the board of directors) of any Consolidated Party by independent accountants in connection with the accounts or books of any Consolidated Party, or any audit of any of them, subject to applicable professional guidelines;

(d) promptly after the same are available, copies of each annual report, proxy or financial statement or other report or communication sent to the shareholders of the Parent REIT, and copies of all annual, regular, periodic and special reports and registration statements which the Borrower or the Parent REIT may file or be required to file with the SEC under Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and not otherwise required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant hereto;

(e) promptly after the furnishing thereof, copies of any report furnished to any holder of debt securities of any Loan Party (or any Subsidiary thereof if such debt securities are recourse (other than customary non-recourse carve outs) to such Loan Party) pursuant to the terms of any indenture, loan or credit or similar agreement and not otherwise required to be furnished to the Lenders pursuant to Section 6.01 or any other clause of this Section 6.02;

(f) promptly, and in any event within five (5) Business Days after receipt thereof by any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof, copies of each notice or other correspondence received from the SEC (or comparable agency in any applicable non-U.S. jurisdiction) concerning any investigation or possible investigation or other inquiry by such agency regarding financial or other operational results of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof;

(g) not later than five (5) Business Days after receipt thereof by any Loan Party, copies of all notices, requests and other documents (including amendments, waivers and other modifications) so received under or pursuant to any instrument, indenture, loan or credit or similar agreement regarding or related to any breach or default by any party thereto or any other event that could materially impair the value of the interests or the rights of any Loan Party or otherwise have a Material Adverse Effect and, from time to time upon request by the Administrative Agent, such information and reports regarding such instruments, indentures and loan and credit and similar agreements as the Administrative Agent may request;

(h) promptly after the assertion or occurrence thereof, notice of any action or proceeding against or of any noncompliance by any Loan Party with respect to a Borrowing Base Property with any Environmental Laws that could (i) reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) cause any Real Property described in any Mortgage to be subject to any restrictions on ownership, occupancy, use or transferability under any Environmental Laws;

(i) concurrently with the delivery of the financial statements referred to in Sections 6.01(a) and (b), an update to Schedules 5.06, 5.09, 5.12(d) or 5.13(a) or (b) to the extent the information provided by any such schedules has changed since the most recent update thereto; provided, that the Borrower shall, promptly upon the Administrative Agent’s written request therefor, provide any information or materials requested by the Administrative Agent to confirm or evidence the matters reflected in such updated schedules;

(j) concurrently with the delivery of the financial statements referred to in Sections 6.01(a) and (b), copies of Smith Travel Research (STR Global) summary STAR Reports for each Borrowing Base Property for the fiscal quarter to which such financial statements relate; and

(k) promptly, such additional information regarding the business, financial or corporate affairs of the Loan Parties or any Subsidiary thereof, or compliance with the terms of the Loan Documents, as the Administrative Agent or any Lender may from time to time reasonably request.

Documents required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b) or Section 6.02(d) (to the extent any such documents are included in materials otherwise filed with the SEC) may be delivered electronically and if so delivered, shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date (i) on which the Borrower posts such documents, or provides a link thereto on the Borrower’s website on the Internet at the website address listed on Schedule 10.02; or (ii) on which such documents are posted on the Borrower’s behalf on an Internet or intranet website, if any, to which each Lender and the Administrative Agent have access (whether a commercial, third-party website or whether sponsored by the Administrative Agent); provided that: (i) the Borrower shall deliver paper copies of such documents to the Administrative Agent upon its request (either in its discretion or at the direction of the Required Lenders) to the Borrower to deliver such paper copies until a written request to cease delivering paper copies is given by the Administrative Agent and (ii) the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent (by telecopier or electronic mail) of the posting of any such documents and provide to the Administrative Agent by electronic mail electronic versions (i.e., soft copies) of such documents. The Administrative Agent shall have no obligation to request the delivery of or to maintain paper copies of the documents referred to above, and in any event shall have no responsibility to monitor compliance by the Borrower with any such request by a Lender for delivery, and each Lender shall be solely responsible for requesting delivery to it or maintaining its copies of such documents.

The Borrower hereby acknowledges that (a) the Administrative Agent and/or the Arranger will make available to the Lenders and the L/C Issuer materials and/or information provided by or on behalf of the Borrower hereunder (collectively, “Borrower Materials”) by posting the Borrower Materials on IntraLinks or another similar electronic system (the “Platform”) and (b) certain of the Lenders (each, a “Public Lender”) may have personnel who do not wish to receive material non-public information with respect to the Borrower or its Affiliates, or the respective securities of any of the foregoing, and who may be engaged in investment and other market-related activities with respect to such Persons’ securities. The Borrower hereby agrees that (w) all Borrower Materials that are to be made available to Public Lenders shall be clearly and conspicuously marked “PUBLIC” which, at a minimum, shall mean that the word “PUBLIC” shall appear prominently on the first page thereof; (x) by marking Borrower Materials “PUBLIC,” the Borrower shall be deemed to have authorized the Administrative Agent, the Arranger, the L/C Issuer and the Lenders to treat such Borrower Materials as not containing any material non-public

information with respect to the Borrower or its securities for purposes of United States Federal and state securities laws (provided, however, that to the extent such Borrower Materials constitute Information, they shall be treated as set forth in Section 10.07); (y) all Borrower Materials marked “PUBLIC” are permitted to be made available through a portion of the Platform designated “Public Side Information;” and (z) the Administrative Agent and the Arranger shall be entitled to treat any Borrower Materials that are not marked “PUBLIC” as being suitable only for posting on a portion of the Platform that is not designated “Public Side Information.” Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Borrower shall be under no obligation to mark any Borrower Materials “PUBLIC.”

6.03 Notices. Promptly notify the Administrative Agent (who shall promptly notify each Lender):

(a) of the occurrence of any Default;

(b) of (i) (A) any breach or non-performance of, or any default under, a material Contractual Obligation of any Loan Party; (B) the commencement of, or any material development in, any litigation or proceeding affecting any Loan Party, including pursuant to any Environmental Laws; or (C) any other matter, which, in the case of any of clause (A), (B) or (C), individually or in the aggregate, has resulted in or could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; and (ii) any material written dispute or any material litigation, investigation, proceeding or suspension between the Borrower or any Loan Party and any Governmental Authority;

(d) of any material change in accounting policies or financial reporting practices by any Loan Party, including any determination by the Borrower referred to in Section 2.10(b);

(e) of any voluntary removal or other event or circumstance that results in a Real Property previously qualifying as a Borrowing Base Property ceasing to qualify as such (provided, that such notification shall be accompanied by an updated Compliance Certificate with calculations showing the effect of such removal on the financial covenants contained herein and on any Borrowing Base-related restrictions on the Outstanding Amounts hereunder); and

(f) of any adverse changes to any insurance policy obtained by any Loan Party with respect to or in connection with any Borrowing Base Property in accordance with Section 6.18, including, without limitation, any reduction in the amount or scope of coverage or any increase in any deductible or other self-retention amount thereunder.

Each notice pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall be accompanied by a statement of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower setting forth details of the occurrence referred to therein (including, in the case of any notice pursuant to Section 6.03(a), a description of any and all provisions of this Agreement and any other Loan Document that the Responsible Officers of the Borrower believe have been breached) and stating what action the Borrower has taken and proposes to take with respect thereto.

6.04 Payment of Obligations. Pay and discharge as the same shall become due and payable, all of its material obligations and liabilities, including (a) all material tax liabilities, assessments and governmental charges or levies upon it or its properties or assets, unless the same are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted and adequate reserves in accordance with GAAP are being maintained by the Borrower or such Subsidiary; and (b) all lawful claims which, if unpaid, would by law become a Lien upon its property, unless the same are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted (the commencement and continuation of which proceedings shall suspend the collection of any such contested amount from the Borrower or such Subsidiary, and suspend the enforcement thereof against, the applicable property), and adequate reserves in accordance with GAAP are being maintained by the Borrower or such Subsidiary and, as to any Loan Party, such claims are bonded (to the extent requested by the Administrative Agent).

6.05 Preservation of Existence, Etc. (a) Preserve, renew and maintain in full force and effect its legal existence and good standing under the Applicable Laws of the jurisdiction of its organization except in a transaction permitted by Section 7.04 or 7.05; (b) take all reasonable action to maintain all rights, privileges, permits, licenses

and franchises necessary or desirable in the normal conduct of its business, except to the extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and (c) preserve or renew all of its registered patents, trademarks, trade names and service marks, the non-preservation of which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

6.06 Maintenance of Properties. (a) Maintain, preserve and protect all of its material properties and equipment necessary in the operation of its business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear and casualty (as to which insurance satisfying the criteria hereunder was maintained at the time of such casualty) excepted; (b) make all necessary repairs thereto and renewals and replacements thereof except where the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and (c) use the standard of care typical in the industry in the operation and maintenance of its facilities.

6.07 Maintenance of Insurance. Maintain (and cause each Consolidated Party to maintain) with financially sound and reputable insurance companies not Affiliates of the Borrower, insurance with respect to the properties and business of the Consolidated Parties against loss or damage of the kinds customarily insured against by Persons engaged in the same or similar business, of such types and in such amounts as are customarily carried under similar circumstances by such other Persons and, in the case of insurance maintained by the Loan Parties, providing for not less than 30 days’ prior notice to the Administrative Agent of termination, lapse or cancellation of such insurance.

6.08 Compliance with Laws and Contractual Obligations. Comply in all material respects with the requirements of all Applicable Laws, all Contractual Obligations and all orders, writs, injunctions and decrees applicable to it or to its business or property, except in such instances in which (a) such requirement of Applicable Law, Contractual Obligation or order, writ, injunction or decree is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted; or (b) the failure to comply therewith could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

6.09 Books and Records. Maintain proper books of record and account, in which full, true and correct entries in conformity with GAAP consistently applied shall be made of all financial transactions and matters involving the assets and business of the Parent REIT and such Loan Party, as the case may be.

6.10 Inspection Rights. Permit representatives of the Administrative Agent to visit and inspect any of its properties, to examine its corporate, financial and operating records, and make copies thereof or abstracts therefrom, and to discuss its affairs, finances and accounts with its directors, officers, and independent public accountants (provided that the Borrower may, if it so chooses, be present at or may participate in any such discussions), at such reasonable times during normal business hours and as often as may be reasonably desired, upon reasonable advance notice to the Borrower with the costs and expenses of the Administrative Agent being for its own account if no Event of Default then exists; provided, however, that when an Event of Default exists the Administrative Agent or any Lender (or any of their respective representatives or independent contractors) may do any of the foregoing at the expense of the Borrower at any time during normal business hours and without advance notice.

6.11 Use of Proceeds. Use the proceeds of the Credit Extensions for working capital, capital expenditures and other general corporate purposes (including, without limitation, property acquisitions and Restricted Payments not prohibited under Section 7.06) not in contravention of any Applicable Law or of any Loan Document.

6.12 Additional Guarantors.

Notify the Administrative Agent at the time that any Person becomes a Subsidiary of the Borrower, another Loan Party or DC Hotel Trust (other than, in each case, a Non-Guarantor Subsidiary), and promptly thereafter (and in any event within 30 days or such longer period as the Administrative Agent may agree in writing), (i) cause such Person to (a) become a Guarantor by executing and delivering to the Administrative Agent a counterpart of this Agreement, a Joinder Agreement or such other document as the Administrative Agent shall deem appropriate for such purpose, and (b) deliver to the Administrative Agent documents of the types referred to in clauses (iii), (v) and (vi) of Section 4.01(a), together with favorable opinions of counsel to such Person (which shall cover, among other

things, the legality, validity, binding effect and enforceability of the documentation referred to in this clause (i)), and (ii) if required by Section 6.13(a), cause the Borrower, such other Loan Party or DC Hotel Trust, as applicable, to execute and deliver such Joinder Agreement or other document (including any new pledge and security agreement or supplement to the Pledge Agreement executed and delivered on or in connection with the Closing Date or, in the case of DC Hotel Trust, a hypothecation or similar document, instrument or agreement reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent) for the purpose of causing the Equity Interests in such Person to be subject to a perfected Lien in favor of the Administrative Agent in accordance with Section 6.13(a), together with favorable opinions of counsel to the Borrower or such other Loan Party, as applicable, which opinions shall cover, among other things, the legality, validity, binding effect and enforceability of the documentation referred to in this clause (ii), all such documentation referred to herein to be in form, content and scope reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

6.13 Pledged Equity Interests; Real Property and Other Collateral.

(a) Equity Interests. (i) Cause (A) 100% of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests owned of record by the Borrower with respect to Pebblebrook Hotel Lessee and (B) 100% of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests owned of record by the Borrower, any other Loan Party or DC Hotel Trust with respect to each Domestic Subsidiary (whether direct or indirect) of the Borrower, any Loan Party or DC Hotel Trust that owns or holds any interest in a Borrowing Base Property (other than any Subsidiary TRS) to be subject at all times to a first-priority, perfected Lien in favor of the Administrative Agent pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Collateral Documents or such other security documents as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably request, and (ii) cause 65% of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests owned of record by the Borrower, any other Loan Party or DC Hotel Trust with respect to each First-Tier Foreign Subsidiary that owns or holds any interest in a Borrowing Base Property (other than any Subsidiary TRS) to be subject at all times to a first-priority, perfected Lien in favor of the Administrative agent pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Collateral Documents or such other security documents as the Administrative agent shall reasonably request, which such Lien shall, upon satisfaction of any filing or delivery requirements set forth in the Collateral Documents, be perfected; provided, that the requirement pursuant to clause (ii) for the pledge of not more than 65% of the Equity Interests in each such First-Tier Foreign Subsidiary that owns or holds any interest in a Borrowing Base Property (other than any Subsidiary TRS) is intended to avoid treatment of the undistributed earnings of a Foreign Subsidiary as a deemed dividend to its United States parent for United States federal income tax purposes and each of the Parent REIT, Borrower or any Subsidiary shall pledge or cause to be pledged any greater percentage of its interest in a Foreign Subsidiary that (whether pursuant to existing Applicable Law or as the result of changes to, or clarifications of, existing Applicable Law after the date hereof) (x) would not reasonably be expected to cause the undistributed earnings of such Foreign Subsidiary to be treated as a deemed dividend to the United States parent of such Foreign Subsidiary, as determined for United States federal income tax purposes, and (y) would not otherwise reasonably be expected to result in material adverse tax consequences to such Foreign Subsidiary or its United States parent.

(b) Borrowing Base Properties; Mortgages. Cause (i) all Real Property interests related to the Borrowing Base Properties, and (ii) all personal property related to Borrowing Base Properties that is owned by any Loan Party (including, without limitation, any and all construction drawings, construction plans and architectural renderings relating thereto and any leases, rents, leasing agreements, and, unless such agreements expressly prohibit the grant of a security interest in such Loan Party’s rights thereunder, management contracts and franchise agreements (whether or not any such property is included in the Real Property interests covered under clause (i))), other than vehicles subject to certificates of title, to, in each case, be subject at all times to first priority (subject to Permitted Liens of the type described in Section 7.01(a), (c), (d), (f), (g) and (j)), perfected and, in the case of the Real Property interest in each Borrowing Base Property (whether leased or owned), title insured Liens in favor of the Administrative Agent to secure the Obligations pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Mortgages and other Collateral Documents, including, with respect to any such Borrowing Base Property acquired subsequent to the Closing Date, such other additional security documents as the Administrative Agent shall request (including additional Mortgages or other Collateral Documents);

(c) Other Assets. Without limiting the foregoing, (i) cause all of the Collateral (including, without limitation, each Borrowing Base Property) to be subject at all times to first priority, perfected Liens in favor of the Administrative Agent (subject only to Permitted Liens) to secure the Obligations pursuant to the terms and conditions hereof and of the Collateral Documents, and (ii) deliver such other documentation as the Administrative

Agent may reasonably request in connection with the foregoing, including, without limitation, appropriate UCC-1 financing statements, certified resolutions and other organizational and authorizing documents of such Person, favorable opinions of counsel to such Person (which shall cover, among other things, the legality, validity, binding effect and enforceability of the documentation referred to above and the perfection of the Administrative Agent’s Liens thereunder) and other items of the types required to be delivered hereunder and pursuant to the Collateral Documents, all in form, content and scope reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

(d) Indemnity; Costs and Expenses. Indemnify and/or reimburse (as applicable) the Administrative Agent for any and all reasonable, documented out-of-pocket costs, expenses, claims, fees or other amounts paid or incurred by the Administrative Agent to the extent paid or incurred in connection with the filing or recording of any documents, agreement or instruments related to the Collateral, the protection of any of the Collateral, its rights and interests therein or any Loan Party’s underlying rights and interests therein or the enforcement of any of its other rights with respect to the Collateral; provided, that the reimbursement and indemnity obligations set forth in this clause (d) shall be in addition to and in furtherance of all other reimbursement or indemnity obligations of the Loan Parties (including the Borrower) referenced herein or in any other Loan Document.

6.14 Further Assurances.

Promptly upon request by the Administrative Agent, or any Lender through the Administrative Agent, (a) correct any material defect or error that may be discovered in any Loan Document or in the execution, acknowledgment, filing or recordation thereof, and (b) do, execute, acknowledge, deliver, record, re-record, file, re-file, register and re-register any and all such further acts, deeds, certificates, assurances and other instruments as the Administrative Agent, or any Lender through the Administrative Agent, may reasonably require from time to time in order to (i) carry out more effectively the purposes of the Loan Documents, (ii) to the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, subject any Loan Party’s properties, assets, rights or interests to the Liens now or hereafter intended to be covered by any of the Collateral Documents, (iii) perfect and maintain the validity, effectiveness and priority of any of the Collateral Documents and any of the Liens intended to be created thereunder and (iv) assure, convey, grant, assign, transfer, preserve, protect and confirm more effectively unto the Secured Parties the rights granted or now or hereafter intended to be granted to the Secured Parties under any Loan Document or under any other instrument executed in connection with any Loan Document to which any Loan Party is or is to be a party.

6.15 Compliance with Terms of Approved Ground Leases; Material Easement Agreements.

(a) Make all payments and otherwise perform in all material respects all obligations in respect of all Approved Ground Leases related to the Borrowing Base Properties and keep such Approved Ground Leases in full force and effect and not allow such Approved Ground Leases to lapse or be terminated or any rights to renew such Approved Ground Leases to be forfeited or cancelled, notify the Administrative Agent of any default by any party with respect to such Approved Ground Leases and cooperate with the Administrative Agent in all respects to cure any such default, except, in any case, where the failure to do so, either individually or in the aggregate, would not be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(b) Without limiting the foregoing, with respect to each Approved Ground Lease or material appurtenant easement agreements in favor of such Loan Party and related to any Borrowing Base Property (as applicable):

(i) pay when due the rent and other amounts due and payable thereunder (subject to applicable cure or grace periods);

(ii) timely perform and observe all of the material terms, covenants and conditions required to be performed and observed by it as tenant thereunder (subject to applicable cure or grace periods);

(iii) do all things necessary to preserve and keep unimpaired such Approved Ground Lease or easement agreement and its material rights thereunder;

(iv) not waive, excuse or discharge any of the material obligations of the lessor or other obligor thereunder;

(v) diligently and continuously enforce the material obligations of the lessor or other obligor thereunder;

(vi) not do, permit or suffer any act, event or omission which would result in a default thereunder (or which, with the giving of notice or the passage of time, or both, would constitute a default thereunder), in each case which would permit the applicable lessor or other obligor to terminate or exercise any other remedy with respect to the applicable Approved Ground Lease or easement;

(vii) cancel, terminate, surrender, modify or amend any of the provisions of any such Approved Ground Lease or easement or agree to any termination, amendment, modification or surrender thereof if the effect of such cancellation, termination, surrender, modification, amendment, easement or agreement is to (A) shorten the term of such Approved Ground Lease, (B) increase the rent payable under such Approved Ground Lease, (C) increase the purchase price under any purchase option concerning the property included in and subject to such Approved Ground Lease, (D) modify the gross or net leasable area subject to such Approved Ground Lease, (E) transfer to the ground lessee any costs and/or expenses previously paid by the ground lessor under such Approved Ground Lease, (F) terminate (or grant the ground lessor additional rights to unilaterally terminate) such Approved Ground Lease, or (G) subordinate the rights of any Loan Party or any TRS under such Approved Ground Lease to an Approved Manager or any other Person, in each case without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent;

(viii) deliver to the Administrative Agent all default and other material notices received by it or sent by it under the applicable Approved Ground Lease or easement agreement;

(ix) upon Administrative Agent’s written request, provide to Administrative Agent any information or materials relating to such Approved Ground Lease or easement agreement and evidencing such Loan Party’s due observance and performance of its material obligations thereunder;

(x) not permit or consent to the subordination of such Approved Ground Lease or easement agreement to any mortgage or other leasehold interest of the premises related thereto;

(xi) execute and deliver (to the extent permitted to do so under such Approved Ground Lease or easement agreement), upon the reasonable request of the Administrative Agent, any documents, instruments or agreements as may be required to permit the Administrative Agent to cure any default under such Approved Ground Lease or easement agreement;

(xii) provide to Administrative Agent written notice of its intention to exercise any option or renewal or extension rights with respect to such Approved Ground Lease or easement at least thirty (30) days prior to the expiration of the time to exercise such right or option and duly exercise any renewal or extension option with respect to any such Approved Ground Lease or easement (either consistent with such notice or upon the direction of the Administrative Agent); provided, that each Loan Party further hereby appoints the Administrative Agent its attorney-in-fact, coupled with an interest, to execute and deliver, for and in the name of such Person, all instruments, documents or agreements necessary to extend or renew any such Approved Ground Lease or easement;

(xiii) not treat, in connection with the bankruptcy or other insolvency proceedings of any ground lessor or other obligor, any Approved Ground Lease or easement agreement as terminated, cancelled or surrendered pursuant to the Bankruptcy Code without the Administrative Agent’s prior written consent;

(xiv) in connection with the bankruptcy or other insolvency proceedings of any ground lessor or other obligor, ratify the legality, binding effect and enforceability of the applicable Approved Ground Lease or easement agreement as against the applicable Loan Party within the applicable time period therefore in such proceedings, notwithstanding any rejection by such ground lessor or obligor or trustee, custodian or receiver related thereto;

(xv) provide to the Administrative Agent not less than thirty (30) days prior written notice of the date on which the applicable Loan Party shall apply to any court or other governmental authority for authority or permission to reject the applicable Approved Ground Lease or easement agreement in the event that there shall be filed by or against any Borrower any petition, action or proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code or any similar federal or state law; provided, that the Administrative Agent shall have the right, but not the obligation, to serve upon the applicable Loan Party within such thirty (30) day period a notice stating that (A) the Administrative Agent demands that such Loan Party assume and the assign the relevant Approved Ground Lease or easement agreement to the Administrative Agent subject to an in accordance with the Bankruptcy Code and (B) the Administrative Agent covenants to cure or provide reasonably adequate assurance thereof with respect to all defaults susceptible of being cured by the Administrative Agent and of future performance under the applicable Approved Ground Lease or easement agreement; provided, further, that if the Administrative Agent serves such notice upon the applicable Loan Party, such Loan Party shall not seek to reject the applicable agreement and shall promptly comply with such demand;

(xvi) permit the Administrative Agent (at its option), during the continuance of any Event of Default, to (i) perform and comply with all obligations under the applicable Approved Ground Lease or easement agreement; (ii) do and take such action as the Administrative Agent deems necessary or desirable to prevent or cure any default by such Loan Party under such Approved Ground Lease or easement agreement and (iii) enter in and upon the applicable premises related to such Approved Ground Lease or easement agreement to the extent and as often as the Administrative Agent deems necessary or desirable in order to prevent or cure any default under the applicable Approved Ground Lease or easement agreement;

(xvii) in the event of any arbitration, court or other adjudicative proceedings under or with respect to any such Approved Ground Lease or easement agreement, permit the Administrative Agent (at its option) to exercise all right, title and interest of the applicable Loan Party in connection with such proceedings; provided, that (i) each Loan Party hereby irrevocably appoint the Administrative Agent as their attorney-in-fact (which appointment shall be deemed coupled with an interest) to exercise such right, interest and title and (ii) the Borrower shall bear all costs, fees and expenses related to such proceedings; provided, further, that each Loan Party hereby further agrees that the Administrative Agent shall have the right, but not the obligation, to proceed in respect of any claim, suit, action or proceeding relating to the rejection of any of the Approved Ground Leases or easement agreements referenced above by the relevant ground lessor or obligor as a result of bankruptcy or similar proceedings (including, without limitation, the right to file and prosecute all proofs of claims, complaints, notices and other documents in any such bankruptcy case or similar proceeding); and

(xviii) deliver to the Administrative Agent (and, if it has the ability pursuant to the subject Approved Ground Lease or easement agreement, cause the applicable ground lessor under such Approved Ground Lease or grantor under such easement agreement to deliver to the Administrative Agent) an estoppel certificate from the ground lessor or grantor in relation to such Approved Ground Lease or easement agreement in form and substance acceptable to the Administrative Agent, in its reasonable discretion, and, in any case, setting forth (A) the name of lessee and lessor under the Approved Ground Lease (if applicable); (B) that such Approved Ground Lease or easement agreement is in full force and effect and has not been modified except to the extent Administrative Agent has received notice of such modification; (C) that no rental and other payments due thereunder are delinquent as of the date of such estoppel; and (D) whether such Person knows of any actual or alleged defaults or events of default under the applicable Approved Ground Lease or easement agreement;

provided, that each Borrower hereby agrees to execute and deliver to Administrative Agent, within ten (10) Business Days of any request therefor, such documents, instruments, agreements, assignments or other conveyances reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent in connection with or in furtherance of any of the provisions set forth above or the rights granted to the Administrative Agent in connection therewith.

6.16 Environmental Assessment Report.

Upon the written request of the Administrative Agent following the occurrence of any event or the discovery of any condition which the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders believe has caused (or could be

reasonably expected to cause) the representations and warranties set forth in Section 5.09, insofar as they relate to the Borrowing Base Properties, to be untrue in any material respect, furnish or cause to be furnished to the Administrative Agent, at the Borrower’s expense, (a) with respect to a material release of Hazardous Materials at any Borrowing Base Property, a report of an environmental assessment of reasonable scope, form and depth (including, where appropriate, invasive soil or groundwater sampling) as to the nature and extent of the presence of any Hazardous Materials released or threatened to be released and/or (b) with respect to a material violation of Environmental Laws by any Loan Party at any Borrowing Base Property, a report of such violation by a consultant acceptable to the Administrative Agent. If the Borrower fails to deliver such environmental reports within sixty (60) days after receipt of such written request then the Administrative Agent may arrange for same, and the Loan Parties hereby grant to the Administrative Agent and its representatives access to the Borrowing Base Properties to reasonably undertake such an assessment (including, where appropriate, invasive soil or groundwater sampling). The reasonable cost of any assessment arranged for by the Administrative Agent pursuant to this provision will be payable by the Borrower on demand and added to the obligations secured by the Collateral Documents

6.17 Borrowing Base Entity SPE/Separateness Requirements; New York Borrowing Base Properties.

Cause each Borrowing Base Entity that owns a Borrowing Base Property located in the State of New York for which no Mortgage or Negative Pledge Agreement has been executed, delivered and/or recorded and for which no Mortgage Policy has been delivered to the Administrative Agent, in each case as provided in Section 1.07(e), to comply with (x) the requirements set forth in Section 1.07(f) and (y) the provisions in the Organization Documents of each such Borrowing Base Entity included pursuant to the last paragraph of Section 1.07(f).

6.18 Additional Insurance Requirements for Borrowing Base Properties.

(a) Obtain and maintain, with respect to each Borrowing Base Property (or cause the applicable TRS that is party to any Lease regarding each such Borrowing Base Property to obtain and maintain), at its (or their) sole expense the following:

(i) property insurance with respect to all insurable property located at or on or constituting a part of such Borrowing Base Property, against loss or damage by fire, lightning, windstorm, explosion, hail, tornado and such additional hazards as are presently included in “Special Form (also known as “all-risk”) coverage and against any and all acts of terrorism and such other insurable hazards as the Administrative Agent may require, in an amount not less than 100% of the full replacement cost, including the cost of debris removal, without deduction for depreciation and sufficient to prevent the applicable Loan Parties and the Administrative Agent from becoming a coinsurer, such insurance to be in “builder’s risk” completed value (non reporting) form during and with respect to any construction on or with respect to such Borrowing Base Property;

(ii) if and to the extent any portion of any of the improvements are, under the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 (“FDPA”), as it may be amended from time to time, in a Special Flood hazard Area, within a Flood Zone designated A or V in a participating community, a flood insurance policy in an amount required by the Administrative Agent, but in no event less than the amount sufficient to meet the requirements of Applicable Law and the FDPA, as such requirements may from time to time be in effect;

(iii) general liability insurance, on an “occurrence” basis, against claims for “personal injury” liability, including bodily injury, death or property damage liability, for the benefit of the applicable Loan Party as named insured and the Administrative Agent as additional insured;

(iv) statutory workers’ compensation insurance with respect to any work on or about such Borrowing Base Property (including employer’s liability insurance, if required by the Administrative Agent), covering all employees of the applicable Loan Party and/or its applicable Subsidiaries and any contractor;

(v) if there is a general contractor, commercial general liability insurance, including products and completed operations coverage, and in other respects similar to that described in clause (iv) above, for

the benefit of the general contractor as named insured and the applicable Loan Party and the Administrative Agent as additional insureds, in addition to statutory workers’ compensation insurance with respect to any work on or about the premises (including employer’s liability insurance, if required by the Administrative Agent), covering all employees of the general contractor and any contractor; and

(vi) such other insurance (and related endorsements) as may from time to time be required by the Administrative Agent (including but not limited to soft cost coverage, automobile liability insurance, business interruption insurance or delayed rental insurance, boiler and machinery insurance, earthquake insurance (if then customarily carried by owners of premises similarly situated), wind insurance, sinkhole coverage, and/or permit to occupy endorsement) and against other insurable hazards or casualties which at the time are commonly insured against in the case of premises similarly situated, due regard being given to the height, type, construction, location, use and occupancy of buildings and improvements.

(b) All insurance policies obtained by any Loan Party with respect to or in connection with any Borrowing Base Property shall be issued and maintained by insurers, in amounts, with deductibles, limits and retentions, and in forms satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, and shall require not less than thirty (30) days’ prior written notice to the Administrative Agent of any cancellation of coverage.

(c) All insurance companies providing coverage pursuant to clause (a) of this Section 6.18 or any other general coverage required pursuant to any Loan Documents must be licensed to do business in the state in which the applicable Borrowing Base Property is located and must have an A.M. Best Company financial and performance ratings of A-:IX or better.

(d) All insurance policies maintained, or caused to be maintained, by any Loan Party or its applicable Subsidiaries with respect to any Borrowing Base Property, except for general liability insurance, shall provide that each such policy shall be primary without right of contribution from any other insurance that may be carried by such Loan Party or its applicable Subsidiaries or the Administrative Agent and that all of the provisions thereof, except the limits of liability, shall operate in the same manner as if there were a separate policy covering each insured.

(e) If any insurer which has issued a policy of title, hazard, liability or other insurance required pursuant to this Section 6.18 or any other provision of any Loan Document becomes insolvent or the subject of any petition, case, proceeding or other action pursuant to any debtor relief law, or if in Administrative Agent’s opinion the financial responsibility of such insurer is or becomes inadequate, such Loan Party shall, in each instance promptly upon its discovery thereof or upon the request of the Administrative Agent therefor, and at the Loan Party’s expense, promptly obtain and deliver (or cause to be obtained and delivered) to the Administrative Agent a like policy (or, if and to the extent permitted by the Administrative Agent, acceptable evidence of insurance) issued by another insurer, which insurer and policy meet the requirements of this Section 6.18 or any other provision of any Loan Document, as the case may be.

(f) Without limiting the discretion of the Administrative Agent with respect to required endorsements to insurance policies, all such policies for loss of or damage to any Borrowing Base Property shall contain a standard mortgagee clause (without contribution) naming the Administrative Agent as mortgagee with loss proceeds payable to the Administrative Agent notwithstanding (i) any act, failure to act or negligence of or violation of any warranty, declaration or condition contained in any such policy by any named or additional insured; (ii) the occupation or use of such Borrowing Base Property for purposes more hazardous than permitted by the terms of any such policy; (iii) any foreclosure or other action by the Administrative Agent under the Loan Documents; or (iv) any change in title to or ownership of such Borrowing Base Property or any portion thereof, such proceeds to be held for application as provided in the Loan Documents.

(g) The originals of each initial insurance policy (or to the extent permitted by the Administrative Agent, a copy of the original policy and such evidence of insurance as may be acceptable to the Administrative Agent) shall be delivered to the Administrative Agent at the time of execution of the applicable Mortgage, with all premiums fully paid current, and each renewal or substitute policy (or evidence of insurance) shall be delivered to the Administrative Agent, with all premiums fully paid current, at least ten (10) business days before the termination of the policy it renews or replaces. The applicable Loan Party shall pay (or cause to be paid) all premiums on

policies required hereunder as they become due and payable and promptly deliver to the Administrative Agent evidence satisfactory to the Administrative Agent of the timely payment thereof.

(h) If any loss occurs at any time when the applicable Loan Party has failed to perform the covenants and agreements set forth in this Section 6.18 with respect to any insurance payable because of loss sustained to any part of the premises whether or not such insurance is required by the Administrative Agent, then the Administrative Agent shall nevertheless be entitled to the benefit of all insurance covering the loss and held by or for the applicable Loan Party, to the same extent as if it had been made payable to the Administrative Agent.

(i) Upon any foreclosure of any Mortgage or transfer of title to all or any portion of any Borrower Base Property in extinguishment of the whole or any part of the Obligations, all of the applicable Loan Party’s right, title and interest in and to the insurance policies referred to in this Section 6.18 with respect to such Borrowing Base Property (including unearned premiums) and all proceeds payable thereunder shall thereupon vest in the purchaser at foreclosure or other such transferee, to the extent permissible under such policies.

(j) During the continuance of any Event of Default, the Administrative Agent shall have the right (but not the obligation) to make proof of loss for, settle and adjust any claim under, and receive the proceeds of, all insurance for loss of or damage to any Borrowing Base Property, regardless of whether or not such insurance policies are required by the Administrative Agent, and the reasonable expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent in the adjustment and collection of insurance proceeds shall be a part of the Obligations and shall be due and payable to the Administrative Agent on demand. The Administrative Agent shall not be, under any circumstances, liable or responsible for failure to collect or exercise diligence in the collection of any of such proceeds or for the obtaining, maintaining or adequacy of any insurance or for failure to see to the proper application of any amount paid over to any Loan Party. Any such proceeds received by the Administrative Agent shall, after deduction therefrom of all reasonable expenses actually incurred by the Administrative Agent, including attorneys’ fees, at the Administrative Agent’s option be (i) released to the applicable Loan Party, or (ii) applied (upon compliance with such terms and conditions as may be required by the Administrative Agent ) to repair or restoration, either partly or entirely, of the Borrowing Base Property so damaged, or (iii) applied to the payment of the Obligations in such order and manner as the Administrative Agent, in its sole discretion, may elect, whether or not due (provided, that to the extent any such proceeds are applied to any portion of the outstanding principal or interest on any of the Loans, such proceeds shall be applied to all Outstanding Amounts on any Loans pro rata based on the Total Outstandings). In any event, the unpaid portion of the Obligations shall remain in full force and effect and the payment thereof shall not be excused.

(k) Each Loan Party shall at all times comply (and shall cause each applicable TRS to comply) in all material respects with the requirements of the insurance policies required hereunder and of the issuers of such policies and of any board of fire underwriters or similar body as applicable to or affecting any Borrowing Base Property.

6.19 Updated Appraisals.

Acknowledge and agree that the Administrative Agent shall have the right, in its discretion, to obtain, at the sole expense of the Borrower, a new or updated Appraisal with respect to any of the Borrowing Base Properties (in addition to the re-appraisals that may be required in connection with the exercise of the Borrower’s option to extend the Maturity Date pursuant to Section 2.14) to the extent that the most recently delivered Appraisal with respect to such Borrowing Base Property is more than twelve (12) calendar months old; provided, without limiting the foregoing right of the Administrative Agent, so long as no Event of Default shall then exist, the Administrative Agent shall, within fifteen (15) business days following the written request of the Borrower and at the sole cost and expense of the Borrower, order new or updated Appraisals for any of the Borrowing Base Properties to the extent that the most recently delivered Appraisal related to any such Borrowing Base Property is more than six (6) calendar months old. In addition, to the extent the Administrative Agent initially incurs any costs or expenses related to any new or updated Appraisal provided for in this Section 6.19, the Borrower shall reimburse the Administrative Agent upon demand in the amount of such out-of-pocket costs or expenses. As such new or updated Appraisals are obtained and approved by the Administrative Agent, such Appraisals shall, immediately upon such approval, be used in the determination of the BBP Value of the applicable Borrowing Base Property.

6.20 Title Insurance Policy.

Deliver (or cause to be delivered) within thirty (30) days following the addition of a Borrowing Base Property to the Borrowing Base pursuant to Section 1.07 to the Administrative Agent a Mortgage Policy with respect to the applicable Borrowing Base Property, in an amount at least equal to the amount to be secured by the applicable Mortgage and together with endorsements acceptable to the Administrative Agent (including tie-in, first loss and last dollar endorsements, in each case, where available), issued, coinsured and reinsured by title insurers reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, insuring the Mortgages to be valid first and subsisting Liens on the property described therein, free and clear of all defects (including, but not limited to, mechanics’ and materialmen’s Liens) and encumbrances, excepting only Permitted Liens of the type described in Section 7.01(a), (c), (d), (f), (g) and (j) and other Liens approved by the Administrative Agent and providing for such other affirmative insurance (including endorsements for future advances under the Loan Documents, for mechanics’ and materialmen’s Liens and for zoning of the applicable property) and such coinsurance and direct access reinsurance as the Administrative Agent reasonably may deem necessary or desirable and as may be available in the state where such Real Property is located. Without limiting the foregoing, Borrower shall, promptly following the recording of the Mortgage with respect to any Borrowing Base Property added upon the receipt of a Mortgage Policy pursuant to clause (B) of Section 1.07(a)(i), cause the Title Insurance Company that issued such Mortgage Policy to issue an endorsement to such Mortgage Policy modifying the description of the insured Mortgage in Schedule A of such Mortgage Policy to add the recording information.

ARTICLE VII.
NEGATIVE COVENANTS

So long as any Lender shall have any Commitment hereunder, any Loan or other Obligation hereunder shall not be Fully Satisfied, or any Letter of Credit shall remain outstanding, the Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit any other Loan Party or, except where expressly limited to Loan Parties, any other Subsidiary (and where applicable, specifically including Section 7.11, the Consolidated Parties) to, directly or indirectly:

7.01 Liens. Create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien upon any of its property, assets or revenues, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, other than the following (collectively, the “Permitted Liens”):

(a) Liens pursuant to any Loan Document;

(b) Liens existing on the date hereof and listed on Schedule 5.08(b) and any renewals or extensions thereof, provided that (i) the property covered thereby is not changed, (ii) the amount secured or benefited thereby is not increased except as contemplated by Section 7.03(b), (iii) the direct or any contingent obligor with respect thereto is not changed, and (iv) any renewal or extension of the obligations secured or benefited thereby is permitted by Section 7.03(b);

(c) Liens for taxes not yet due or which are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted, if adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the books of the applicable Person in accordance with GAAP;

(d) carriers’, warehousemen’s, mechanics’, materialmen’s, repairmen’s or other like Liens arising in the ordinary course of business which are not overdue for a period of more than thirty (30) days or which are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted, if adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the books of the applicable Person;

(e) pledges or deposits in the ordinary course of business in connection with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security legislation, other than any Lien imposed by ERISA;

(f) deposits to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts and leases (other than Indebtedness), statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature incurred in the ordinary course of business;

(g) (i) Liens on any Borrowing Base Property shown as exceptions from coverage under any Mortgage Policy approved by the Administrative Agent respecting such Borrowing Base Property, and (ii) without duplication of the foregoing, easements, rights-of-way, restrictions and other similar encumbrances affecting any Real Property owned by any Loan Party which, in the aggregate, are not substantial in amount, and which do not in any case materially detract from the value of the property subject thereto or materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of the applicable Person and which, with respect to Borrowing Base Properties, have been reviewed and approved by the Administrative Agent (such approval to be in the reasonable judgment of the Administrative Agent);

(h) Liens securing judgments for the payment of money not constituting an Event of Default under Section 8.01(h);

(i) Liens, if any, in favor of the L/C Issuer and/or Swing Line Lender to Cash Collateralize or otherwise secure the obligations of a Defaulting Lender or an Impacted Lender to fund risk participations hereunder;

(j) the interests of any ground lessor under an Approved Ground Lease and the interests of any TRS under a lease of any Borrowing Base Property;

(k) Liens on any assets (other than any Borrowing Base Property and related assets) securing Indebtedness permitted by Section 7.03(f), including Liens on such Real Property existing at the time such Real Property is acquired by the applicable Loan Party or any Non-Guarantor Subsidiary;

(l) Liens on the Equity Interests of any Non-Guarantor Subsidiary; provided, no such Liens shall be permitted with respect to the Equity Interests of Pebblebrook Hotel Lessee, any entity which is the lessee with respect to a Borrowing Base Property or the direct or indirect parent thereof (other than Liens in favor of the Administrative Agent respecting the Equity Interests of Pebblebrook Hotel Lessee, as contemplated by the Loan Documents);

(m) other Liens on assets (other than Borrowing Base Properties) securing claims or other obligations of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries (other than Indebtedness) in amounts not exceeding $5,000,000 in the aggregate; and

(n) any interest of title of a lessor under, and Liens arising from or evidenced by protective UCC financing statements (or equivalent filings, registrations or agreements in foreign jurisdictions) relating to, operating leases permitted hereunder.

7.02 Investments. Make any Investments, except:

(a) Investments by the Consolidated Parties (other than by the Parent REIT) in (i) Borrowing Base Properties, and (ii) other real properties that are fully-developed, open and operating income-producing “luxury,” “upper upscale” or “upscale” full or select service hotels, with all material approvals from each Governmental Authority required in connection with the lawful operation of such hotels, and which real properties shall, upon the making of such Investments, be wholly owned by such Consolidated Party;

(b) Investments held by the Borrower or such Loan Party or other Subsidiary in the form of cash or cash equivalents;

(d) Advances to officers, directors and employees of the Borrower, the Loan Parties and other Subsidiaries in aggregate amounts not to exceed (i) $500,000 at any time outstanding for employee relocation purposes, and (ii) $100,000 at any time outstanding for travel, entertainment, and analogous ordinary business purposes;

(e) Investments of (i) the Borrower in any Guarantor (including (A) Investments by the Borrower in any private REIT, so long as Borrower owns 100.0% of the “common” Equity Interests in such private REIT and

(B) Investments by the Borrower in a Guarantor in the form of an intercompany loan), (ii) any Guarantor in the Borrower or in another Guarantor (including Investments by a Guarantor in the Borrower or in another Guarantor in the form of an intercompany loan), and (iii) the Borrower, any Guarantor or any Non-Guarantor Subsidiary in Non-Guarantor Subsidiaries (including Investments by the Borrower, any Guarantor or any Non-Guarantor Subsidiary in a Non-Guarantor Subsidiary in the form of an intercompany loan) that own, directly or indirectly, and operate Real Properties that are fully-developed, open and operating income-producing “luxury,” “upper upscale” or “upscale” full or select service hotels, with all material approvals from each Governmental Authority required in connection with the lawful operation of such hotels; provided, notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision herein or in any other Loan Document to the contrary, the Parent REIT shall not own any Equity Interests in any Person other than the Borrower;

(f) Investments consisting of extensions of credit in the nature of accounts receivable or notes receivable arising from the grant of trade credit in the ordinary course of business, and Investments received in satisfaction or partial satisfaction thereof from financially troubled account debtors to the extent reasonably necessary in order to prevent or limit loss;

(g) Guarantees permitted by Section 7.03;

(h) Other Investments of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in:

(i) Real properties consisting of undeveloped or speculative land (valued at cost for purposes of this clause (h)) with an aggregate value not greater than five percent (5.0%) of Consolidated Tangible Assets and which real properties shall, upon the making of such Investments, be wholly owned by the Borrower or such Subsidiary;

(ii) Incoming-producing real properties (other than hotels or similar hospitality properties) (valued at cost for purposes of this clause (h)) with an aggregate value not greater than ten percent (10.0%) of Consolidated Tangible Assets and which real properties shall, upon the making of such Investments, be wholly owned by the Borrower or such Subsidiary;

(iii) Real properties with respect to which development activities are being undertaken by the applicable owner thereof (valued at cost for purposes of this clause (h); provided, that all costs and expenses associated with all existing development activities (budget to completion) shall be included in determining the aggregate Investment of the Borrower or such Subsidiary with respect to such activities) with an aggregate value not greater than fifteen percent (15.0%) of Consolidated Tangible Assets and which real properties shall, upon the making of such Investments, be wholly owned by the Borrower or such Subsidiary and;

(iv) Unconsolidated Affiliates (valued at cost for purposes of this clause (h)) with an aggregate value not greater than fifteen percent (15.0%) of Consolidated Tangible Assets;

(v) Mortgage or real estate-related loan assets (valued at cost for purposes of this clause (h)) with an aggregate value not greater than fifteen percent (15.0%) of Consolidated Tangible Assets; and

(vi) Equity Interests in any Person (other than any Affiliate of the Borrower) (valued at cost for purposes of this clause (h)) with an aggregate value not greater than five percent (5.0%) of Consolidated Tangible Assets;

provided, however, that the collective aggregate value of the Investments owned pursuant to items (i) through (vi) of this clause (h) above shall not at any time exceed thirty percent (30.0%) of Consolidated Tangible Assets;

(i) Investments in fixed or capital assets to the extent not prohibited under Section 7.12; and

(j) Investments in any Person as a result of any merger or consolidation completed in compliance with Section 7.04.

7.03 Indebtedness. Create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Indebtedness, except:

(a) Indebtedness under the Loan Documents;

(b) Indebtedness outstanding on the date hereof and listed on Schedule 7.03 and any refinancings, refundings, renewals or extensions thereof; provided that the amount of such Indebtedness is not increased at the time of such refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension except by an amount equal to a reasonable premium or other reasonable amount paid, and fees and expenses reasonably incurred, in connection with such refinancing and by an amount equal to any existing commitments unutilized thereunder;

(c) Guarantees of (i) the Borrower or any Guarantor in respect of Indebtedness otherwise permitted hereunder of the Borrower or any other Guarantor, (ii) the Parent REIT or the Borrower, in respect of Indebtedness otherwise permitted hereunder of any Non-Guarantor Subsidiary if, in the case of any Guarantee pursuant to this clause (ii), (x) no Default or Event of Default shall exist immediately before or immediately after the making of such Guarantee, and (y) there exists no violation of the financial covenants hereunder on a Pro Forma Basis after the making of such Guarantee, and (iii) Non-Guarantor Subsidiaries made in the ordinary course of business;

(d) obligations (contingent or otherwise) of the Borrower or any Subsidiary existing or arising under any Swap Contract, provided that (i) such obligations are (or were) entered into by such Person in the ordinary course of business for the purpose of directly mitigating risks associated with liabilities, commitments, investments, assets, or property held or reasonably anticipated by such Person, or changes in the value of securities issued by such Person, and not for purposes of speculation or taking a “market view;” and (ii) such Swap Contract does not contain any provision exonerating the non-defaulting party from its obligation to make payments on outstanding transactions to the defaulting party;

(e) unsecured Indebtedness in the form of trade payables incurred in the ordinary course of business;

(f) Indebtedness of any Loan Party or Non-Guarantor Subsidiary incurred or assumed after the date hereof that is either unsecured or is secured by Liens on any assets of such Loan Party (other than any Borrowing Base Property) or of such Non-Guarantor Subsidiary; provided, such Indebtedness shall be permitted under this Section 7.03(f) only if: (i) no Default or Event of Default shall exist immediately before or immediately after the incurrence or assumption of such Indebtedness, and (ii) there exists no violation of the financial covenants hereunder on a Pro Forma Basis after the incurrence or assumption of such Indebtedness; and

(g) Indebtedness consisting of intercompany loans permitted under Section 7.02(e).

7.04 Fundamental Changes. Merge, dissolve, liquidate, consolidate with or into another Person, or Dispose of (whether in one transaction or in a series of transactions) all or substantially all of its assets (whether now owned or hereafter acquired) to or in favor of any Person, except for Dispositions permitted under Section 7.05 (other than under Section 7.05(e)) or except that, so long as no Default or Event of Default exists or would result therefrom:

(a) any Guarantor may merge with the Borrower or any other Guarantor, provided that when any Guarantor is merging with the Borrower, the Borrower shall be the continuing or surviving Person;

(b) any Loan Party may Dispose of all or substantially all of its assets (upon voluntary liquidation or otherwise) to the Borrower or to another Loan Party; and

(c) (i) any Non-Guarantor Subsidiary may merge with any other Person or Dispose of all or substantially all of its assets (upon voluntary liquidation or otherwise) to any other Person; provided such merger or Disposition shall be permitted under this Section 7.04(c)(i) only if there exists no violation of the financial covenants hereunder on a Pro Forma Basis after such merger or Disposition, and (ii) any Non-Guarantor Subsidiary may merge with a Loan Party; provided that the Loan Party shall be the continuing or surviving Person.

7.05 Dispositions.

Make any Disposition of any assets or property, except:

(a) Dispositions in the ordinary course of business (other than those Dispositions permitted under clause (b) of this Section 7.05), so long as (i) no Default or Event of Default shall exist immediately before or immediately after such Disposition, and (ii) the Consolidated Parties will be in compliance, on a Pro Forma Basis following such Disposition, with (x) the covenants set forth in Sections 7.01, 7.02, 7.03, and 7.11 of this Agreement, (y) all restrictions on Outstanding Amounts contained herein, and (z) the requirements of Section 1.07 (in the case of any Disposition with respect to a Borrowing Base Property), in each case as demonstrated by a Compliance Certificate with supporting calculations delivered to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the date of such Disposition showing the effect of such Disposition;

(b) Any of the following:

(i) Dispositions of obsolete, surplus or worn out property or other property not necessary for operations, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, in the ordinary course of business and for no less than fair market value;

(ii) Dispositions of equipment or real property to the extent that (A) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (B) the proceeds of such Disposition are reasonably promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property, in each case in the ordinary course of business and for no less than fair market value;

(iii) Dispositions of inventory and Investments of the type described in Section 7.02(b) and (c) in the ordinary course of business;

(iv) leases of Real Property (other than any Borrowing Base Property) and personal property assets related thereto to any TRS; and

(v) in order to resolve disputes that occur in the ordinary course of business, the Borrower and any Subsidiary of Borrower may discount or otherwise compromise, for less than the face value thereof, notes or accounts receivable;

(d) Dispositions permitted by Section 7.04; and

(e) Any other Disposition approved in writing by the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders.

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 7.05, no Loan Party shall sell or make any other Disposition of assets or property that will have the effect of causing such Loan Party (or any other Loan Party) to become liable under any tax protection or tax sharing agreement if the amount of such liability would exceed an amount equal to 1.0% of the total assets of such Loan Party without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent.

7.06 Restricted Payments.

(a) Declare or make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment, or incur any obligation (contingent or otherwise) to do so, except:

(i) so long as no Event of Default shall exist at the time of such Restricted Payment or would result therefrom, each Subsidiary may make Restricted Payments to the Borrower, the Guarantors and any other Person that owns an Equity Interest in such Subsidiary, ratably according to their respective holdings of the type of Equity Interest in respect of which such Restricted Payment is being made;

(ii) so long as no Event of Default shall exist at the time of such Restricted Payment or would result therefrom, the Borrower and each Subsidiary may declare and make dividend payments or other distributions payable solely in the common stock or other common Equity Interests of such Person;

(iii) so long as no Event of Default shall exist at the time of such Restricted Payment or would result therefrom, the Borrower and each Subsidiary may purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire Equity Interests issued by it with the proceeds received from the substantially concurrent issue of new shares of its common stock or other common Equity Interests; and

(iv) so long as no Acceleration shall have occurred, each TRS may make Restricted Payments to its TRS parent entity to the extent necessary to pay any tax liabilities then due (after taking into account any losses, offsets and credits, as applicable; provided that any such Restricted Payments by a TRS shall only be made after it has paid all of its operating expenses currently due or anticipated within the current month and next following month;

(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Loan Parties shall be permitted to make Restricted Payments of the type and to the extent permitted pursuant to Section 7.11(e) of this Agreement.

7.07 Change in Nature of Business. Engage in any material line of business substantially different from those lines of business conducted by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on the date hereof or any business substantially related or incidental thereto.

7.08 Transactions with Affiliates. Enter into any transaction of any kind with any Affiliate of the Borrower, whether or not in the ordinary course of business, other than on fair and reasonable terms substantially as favorable to the Borrower or such Subsidiary as would be obtainable by the Borrower or such Subsidiary at the time in a comparable arm’s length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate, provided, that the foregoing restriction shall not apply to transactions between or among the Borrower and any Guarantor or between and among any Guarantors, or between and among any Loan Party and the TRS or an Approved Manager (if applicable).

7.09 Burdensome Agreements. Enter into any Contractual Obligation (other than this Agreement or any other Loan Document) that (a) limits the ability (i) of any Subsidiary to make Restricted Payments to the Borrower or any Guarantor or to otherwise transfer property to the Borrower or any Guarantor, (ii) of any Subsidiary to Guarantee the Indebtedness of the Borrower or (iii) of the Borrower or any Subsidiary to create, incur, assume or suffer to exist Liens on property of such Person; provided, however, that clauses (ii) and (iii) shall not prohibit any negative pledge incurred or provided in favor of any holder of Indebtedness in respect of (A) capital leases, Synthetic Lease Obligations and purchase money obligations for fixed or capital assets permitted hereunder , or (B) a property-specific financing involving only a Non-Guarantor Subsidiary as the borrower, in each case solely to the extent any such negative pledge relates to the property financed by or the subject of such Indebtedness; or (b) requires the grant of a Lien to secure an obligation of such Person if a Lien is granted to secure another obligation of such Person.

7.10 Use of Proceeds. Use the proceeds of any Credit Extension, whether directly or indirectly, and whether immediately, incidentally or ultimately, to purchase or carry margin stock (within the meaning of Regulation U of the FRB) or to extend credit to others for the purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stock or to refund indebtedness originally incurred for such purpose.

7.11 Financial Covenants.

(a) Consolidated Tangible Net Worth. Permit Consolidated Tangible Net Worth at any time to be less than the sum of (i) $300,000,000, and (ii) an amount equal to 75% of the net proceeds from the issuance and sale of Equity Interests of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (other than issuances to any Loan Party) after the date hereof, including upon any conversion of debt securities of the Borrower into such Equity Interests.

(b) Consolidated Recourse Secured Indebtedness Limitation. Permit the amount of Consolidated Recourse Secured Indebtedness (excluding Indebtedness hereunder) to, at any time, exceed twenty-five percent (25.0%) of Consolidated Tangible Assets.

(c) Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio. Permit the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio (i) at any time during the period commencing as of the Closing Date and continuing until the date which is 18 months following the Closing Date to be less than 1.50x, and (ii) and at any time thereafter to be less than 1.75x.

(d) Consolidated Leverage Ratio. Permit the Consolidated Leverage Ratio at any time during at any time during the following periods to be greater than the ratio set forth opposite such period:


	Maximum Consolidated
Period	Leverage Ratio
Closing Date through June 30, 2011		7.00:1.00
July 1, 2011 through December 31, 2012		6.00:1.00
January 1, 2013 and all dates thereafter		5.00:1.00

(e) Distribution Limitation. Permit, for any given four (4) calendar quarter period of the Consolidated Parties, the amount of Restricted Payments made by the Consolidated Parties to the holders of their Equity Interests (excluding any such holders of Equity Interests which are Loan Parties) during such period to exceed the FFO Distribution Allowance for such period; provided, that to the extent no Event of Default then exists or will result from same (or if an Event of Default then exists or will result from same, then so long as no Acceleration shall have occurred), each Loan Party and each other Subsidiary (including Pebblebrook Hotel Lessee) shall be permitted to make Restricted Payments to the Borrower and the Borrower shall be permitted to make Restricted Payments to Parent REIT, in each case to permit the Parent REIT to make Restricted Payments to the holders of the Equity Interests in the Parent REIT to the extent necessary to maintain Parent REIT’s status as a REIT and as necessary to pay any special or extraordinary tax liabilities then due (after taking into account any losses, offsets and credits, as applicable) on capital gains attributable to Parent REIT.

(f) Consolidated Funded Indebtedness to Total Asset Value Ratio. Permit the Consolidated Funded Indebtedness to Total Asset Value Ratio, at any time during the period commencing as of the Closing Date and expiring as of the 31st calendar month following the Closing Date, to exceed 45%.

7.12 Capital Expenditures.

Make or become legally obligated to make any expenditure in respect of the purchase or other acquisition of any fixed or capital asset other than normal replacements and maintenance which are properly charged to current operations and other reasonable and customary capital expenditures made in the ordinary course of the business of the Parent REIT and its Subsidiaries.

7.13 Accounting Changes.

Make any change in (a) accounting policies or reporting practices, except as required by GAAP, or (b) fiscal year, except with the written consent of the Administrative Agent.

7.14 Ownership of Subsidiaries; Certain Real Property Assets.

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement to the contrary, (a) permit any Person (other than the Parent REIT, the Borrower, any other Loan Party or a private REIT) to own any Equity Interests of any Borrowing Base Entity, except to qualify directors where required by Applicable Law, (b) permit any Loan Party that owns a Borrowing Base Property to issue or have outstanding any shares of preferred Equity Interests, (c) permit, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien on any Equity Interests owned by the Borrower or any Loan Party of (i) any Loan Party or (ii) any TRS that leases a Borrowing Base Property or is the direct or indirect parent of any such TRS (other than, in each case, pursuant to the Collateral Documents), (d) permit DC Hotel Trust to directly own or acquire any Real Property assets; provided, that this clause (d) of Section 7.14 shall not prohibit DC Hotel Trust from owning or acquiring any Equity Interests in any Subsidiary that owns any Real Property assets, or (e) permit the Borrower to own less than 99% of the outstanding common Equity Interests in Pebblebrook Hotel Lessee.

7.15 Leases.

Permit any Loan Party to enter into, terminate, cancel, amend, restate, supplement or otherwise modify any Material Lease relating to any Borrowing Base Property; provided, that (i) such Borrowing Base Property may be subject to an Approved Ground Lease entered into in accordance with and subject to the requirements of this Agreement, (ii) the applicable Borrowing Base Entity may lease such Borrowing Base Property owned (or ground leased) by it to a TRS pursuant to a form of Lease acceptable to the Administrative Agent, in its reasonable discretion, and (iii) the applicable Borrowing Base Entity or the applicable TRS (if any) may enter into, terminate, cancel, amend, restate, supplement or otherwise modify any Material Lease relating to such Borrowing Base Property (including any Lease between such Borrowing Base Entity and such TRS respecting any Borrowing Base Property) to the extent that the entry into, termination, cancellation, amendment, restatement, supplement or modification is not reasonably likely to, in the aggregate with any other then-existing conditions or circumstances, have a Material Adverse Effect.

7.16 Sale Leasebacks.

Permit any Loan Party to enter into any Sale and Leaseback Transaction with respect to any Borrowing Base Property.

7.17 [Reserved].

7.18 Additional Borrowing Base Property Matters.

(a) Permit (i) any Borrowing Base Property to cease to be wholly owned by a Loan Party or ground leased by a Loan Party pursuant to an Approved Ground Lease, except in connection with a Disposition completed in accordance with Sections 1.07 and 7.05; (ii) the existence of any material default or any event of default of a Loan Party under any Approved Ground Lease with respect to any Borrowing Base Property; (iii) any Borrowing Base Property to cease to be encumbered by a first priority perfected Lien (subject only to Permitted Liens of the type described in Section 7.01(c), (d), (f), (g), (i) and (j)) in favor of the Administrative Agent (for the benefit of the Lenders, Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties), except in connection with a Disposition completed in accordance with Sections 1.07 and 7.05; (iv) any Borrowing Base Property to be subject to any Lien other than a Permitted Lien of the type described in Section 7.01(c), (d), (f), (g), (i) and (j); or (v) at any time after the date that is twenty-four (24) months after the Closing Date, Borrowing Base Properties to be located in less than four (4) separate metropolitan statistical areas except in accordance with the provisions of Section 1.07(c).

(b) Without limiting the foregoing, neither the Borrower nor any other Loan Party shall add any Borrowing Base Property to, or remove any Borrowing Base Property from, the Borrowing Base, except in accordance with the provisions of Section 1.07.

7.19 Insurance Proceeds and Condemnation Awards.

(a) In the event of any loss or damage to any portion of any Borrowing Base Property due to fire or other casualty, or any taking of any portion of any Borrowing Base Property by condemnation or under power of eminent domain, the Administration Agent shall have the right, but not the obligation, so long as any Default or Event of Default exists to settle insurance claims and condemnation claims or awards, unless the loss or damage is less than the greater of (i) $10,000,000.00 and (ii) ten percent (10%) of the “as is” appraised value of such Borrowing Base Property. If no Default or Event of Default exists and (i) the loss or damage is less than the greater of (i) $10,000,000.00 and (ii) ten percent (10%) of the “as is” appraised value of such Borrowing Base Property, or (iii) the Administrative Agent elects not to settle such claim or award, then the applicable Borrowing Base Entity shall have the right to settle such claim or award without the consent of the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders; provided that (A) such Borrowing Base Entity shall use the proceeds of any claim or award to rebuild or restore the applicable Borrowing Base Property substantially to its condition prior to the casualty or condemnation to the extent permitted by Laws and (B) such Borrowing Base Entity shall provide the Administrative Agent with notice of the casualty or condemnations. Failure to use the insurance proceeds received directly from the insurance company to rebuild and restore shall constitute an Event of Default. Notwithstanding the foregoing, provided that

the conditions set forth in (A) and (B) above are satisfied and so long as each of the following (1) through (4) is satisfied, the Loan Parties shall have the right to settle claims or awards for more than $10,000,000.00, provided that the Administrative Agent shall have the right to settle any claim or award that the Loan Parties have not settled on or before one year after the date of such loss or prior to the date of such taking. If (1) no Event of Default exists hereunder or under the other Loan Documents; (2) no monetary Event of Default has occurred during the preceding twelve (12) months; (3) the proceeds or awards received by the Administrative Agent, together with any additional funds deposited with the Administrative Agent by the Loan Parties, are sufficient, in the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, either to restore the affected Borrowing Base Property substantially to its condition before the casualty or to remedy the condemnation; and (4) the Borrowing Base Property will continue to qualify as a Borrowing Base Property following the completion of any such repairs or restoration, then the applicable Borrowing Base Entity shall be entitled to use the insurance or condemnation proceeds to rebuild the affected Borrowing Base Property or to remedy the effect of the condemnation, as the case may be. In all other cases, the Administrative Agent shall have the right (but not the obligation) to collect, retain and apply to the Indebtedness all insurance and condemnation proceeds (after deduction of all expense of collection and settlement, including reasonable attorney and adjusters’ fees and expenses). Any proceeds remaining after application to the Indebtedness shall be paid by the Administrative Agent to the Borrower or the party then entitled thereto.

(b) If the Administrative Agent does not elect to or is not entitled to apply casualty proceeds or condemnation awards to the Indebtedness and if the Loan Parties are not entitled to settle such claims, all as provided under Section 7.19(a), the Administrative Agent shall have the right (but not the obligation) to settle, collect and retain such proceeds, and after deduction of all reasonable expenses of collection and settlement, including reasonable attorney and adjusters’ fees and expenses, to release the same to the Borrower (or the applicable Borrowing Base Entity, at the instruction of the Borrower) periodically, provided that the Borrower (or the applicable Borrowing Base Entity) shall:

(i) expeditiously repair and restore all damage to the portion of the Borrowing Base Property in question resulting from such casualty or condemnation, including completion of the construction if such fire or other casualty shall have occurred prior to completion, so that the Borrowing Base Property continue to qualify as a Borrowing Base Property following such construction; and

(ii) if the casualty proceeds or condemnation awards are, in the Administrative Agent’s reasonable judgment, insufficient to complete the repair and restoration of the buildings, structures and other improvements constituting the Borrowing Base Property as aforesaid, then the Loan Parties shall promptly deposit with the Administrative Agent the amount of such deficiency.

Any request by a Loan Party for a disbursement by the Administrative Agent of casualty proceeds or condemnation awards by the Borrower pursuant to this Section 7.19 and the disbursement thereof shall be conditioned upon the Loan Parties’ compliance with and satisfaction of the same conditions precedent as would be applicable in connection with construction loans made by institutional lenders for projects similar to the affected Borrowing Base Property, including approval of plans and specifications, submittal of evidence of completion, updated title insurance, lien waivers, and other customary safeguards.

ARTICLE VIII.
EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES

8.01 Events of Default. Any of the following shall constitute an Event of Default:

(a) Non-Payment. The Borrower or any other Loan Party fails to pay (i) when and as required to be paid herein, any amount of principal of any Loan or any L/C Obligation, or (ii) within three (3) days after the same becomes due, any interest on any Loan or on any L/C Obligation, or any fee due hereunder, or (iii) within five (5) days after the same becomes due, any other amount payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document; or

(b) Specific Covenants. Except as expressly provided in Section 8.04, the Borrower fails to perform or observe any term, covenant or agreement contained in any of Section 6.01, 6.02, 6.03, 6.05(a), 6.10, 6.11, 6.12, 6.13, 6.15 (to the extent such failure would permit the ground lessor under the applicable Approved Ground Lease to

terminate such Approved Ground Lease), 6.18 or Article VII, or any Guarantor fails to perform or observe any term, covenant or agreement contained in Article XI hereof; or

(c) Other Defaults. Any Loan Party fails to perform or observe any other covenant or agreement (not specified in subsection (a) or (b) above) contained in any Loan Document on its part to be performed or observed and such failure continues for thirty (30) days after the earlier of (i) Borrower’s actual knowledge of such failure or (ii) Borrower’s receipt of notice as to such failure from the Administrative Agent or any Lender; or

(d) Representations and Warranties. Any representation, warranty, certification or statement of fact made or deemed made by or on behalf of the Borrower or any other Loan Party herein, in any other Loan Document, or in any document delivered in connection herewith or therewith shall be incorrect or misleading in any material respect when made or deemed made; or

(e) Cross-Default. (i) The Borrower or any Subsidiary (A) fails to make any payment when due after giving effect to any applicable grace period (whether by scheduled maturity, required prepayment, acceleration, demand, or otherwise) in respect of any Indebtedness or Guarantee (other than Indebtedness hereunder and Indebtedness under Swap Contracts) having an aggregate principal amount (including undrawn committed or available amounts and including amounts owing to all creditors under any combined or syndicated credit arrangement) of more than the Threshold Amount, or (B) fails to observe or perform any other agreement or condition relating to any such Indebtedness or Guarantee or contained in any instrument or agreement evidencing, securing or relating thereto, or any other event occurs, the effect of which default or other event is to cause, or to permit the holder or holders of such Indebtedness or the beneficiary or beneficiaries of such Guarantee (or a trustee or agent on behalf of such holder or holders or beneficiary or beneficiaries) to cause, with the giving of notice if required, such Indebtedness to be demanded or to become due or to be repurchased, prepaid, defeased or redeemed (automatically or otherwise), or an offer to repurchase, prepay, defease or redeem such Indebtedness to be made, prior to its stated maturity, or such Guarantee to become payable or cash collateral in respect thereof to be demanded; or (ii) there occurs under any Swap Contract an Early Termination Date (as defined in such Swap Contract) resulting from (A) any event of default under such Swap Contract as to which the Borrower or any Subsidiary is the Defaulting Party (as defined in such Swap Contract) or (B) any Termination Event (as so defined) under such Swap Contract as to which the Borrower or any Subsidiary is an Affected Party (as so defined) and, in either event, the Swap Termination Value owed by the Borrower or such Subsidiary as a result thereof is greater than the Threshold Amount; or

(f) Insolvency Proceedings, Etc. Any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries institutes or consents to the institution of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law, or makes an assignment for the benefit of creditors; or applies for or consents to the appointment of any receiver, trustee, custodian, conservator, liquidator, rehabilitator or similar officer for it or for all or any material part of its property; or any receiver, trustee, custodian, conservator, liquidator, rehabilitator or similar officer is appointed without the application or consent of such Person and the appointment continues undischarged or unstayed for 60 calendar days; or any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law relating to any such Person or to all or any material part of its property is instituted without the consent of such Person and continues undismissed or unstayed for 60 calendar days, or an order for relief is entered in any such proceeding; or

(g) Inability to Pay Debts; Attachment. (i) The Borrower or any Subsidiary becomes unable or admits in writing its inability or fails generally to pay its debts as they become due, or (ii) any writ or warrant of attachment or execution or similar process is issued or levied against all or any material part of the property of any such Person and is not released, vacated or fully bonded within 30 days after its issue or levy; or

(h) Judgments. There is entered against the Borrower or any Subsidiary (i) one or more final judgments or orders for the payment of money in an aggregate amount (as to all such judgments or orders) exceeding the Threshold Amount (to the extent not covered by independent third-party insurance as to which the insurer does not dispute coverage), or (ii) any one or more non-monetary final judgments that have, or could reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect and, in either case, (A) enforcement proceedings are commenced by any creditor upon such judgment or order, or (B) there is a period of thirty (30) consecutive days during which a stay of enforcement of such judgment, by reason of a pending appeal or otherwise, is not in effect; or

(i) ERISA. (i) An ERISA Event occurs with respect to a Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan which has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in liability of the Borrower under Title IV of ERISA to the Pension Plan, Multiemployer Plan or the PBGC in an aggregate amount in excess of the Threshold Amount, or (ii) the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate fails to pay when due, after the expiration of any applicable grace period, any installment payment with respect to its withdrawal liability under Section 4201 of ERISA under a Multiemployer Plan in an aggregate amount in excess of the Threshold Amount; or

(j) Invalidity of Loan Documents. Any provision of any Loan Document, at any time after its execution and delivery and for any reason other than as expressly permitted hereunder or thereunder or satisfaction in full of all the Obligations, ceases to be in full force and effect; or any Loan Party or any other Person contests in any manner the validity or enforceability of any provision of any Loan Document; or any Loan Party denies in writing that it has any or further liability or obligation under any Loan Document, or purports to revoke, terminate or rescind in writing any provision of any Loan Document; or

(k) Change of Control. There occurs any Change of Control; or

(l) Collateral Documents. Any Collateral Document after delivery thereof pursuant to Sections 4.01 or 6.13 shall for any reason (other than pursuant to the terms thereof) cease to create a valid and perfected first priority Lien (subject to Permitted Liens of the type described in Section 7.01(c), (d), (f), (g), (i) and (j)) on the Collateral purported to be covered thereby; or

(m) REIT or QRS Status. The Parent REIT shall, for any reason, lose or fail to maintain its status as a REIT or the Borrower shall, for any reason, lose or fail to maintain its status as any of the following: a REIT, a partnership or a disregarded entity (in each case, for federal income tax purposes), a TRS or a QRS; or

(n) Management and Franchise Agreements. There occurs a monetary or material default under a management or franchise agreement with respect to a Borrowing Base Property (which material default shall include any default which would permit the manager or franchisor under any such management or franchise agreement to terminate such management or franchise agreement or would otherwise result in a material increase of the obligations of the Borrower or such Subsidiary of the Borrower that is a party to such management or franchise agreement) and such default is not remedied prior to the date which is the later of (i) the earlier of (A) if no other Default exists, sixty (60) days from the occurrence of the event or condition which caused, led to, or resulted in such default, or (B) the date that a Default (other than the subject Default relative to such management or franchise agreement) occurs and (ii) the last day of the cure period provided in such management or franchise agreement (as applicable).

8.02 Remedies Upon Event of Default. If any Event of Default exists, the Administrative Agent shall, at the request of, or may, with the consent of, the Required Lenders, take any or all of the following actions (any such action, an “Acceleration”):

(a) declare the commitment of each Lender to make Loans and any obligation of the L/C Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions to be terminated, whereupon such commitments and obligation shall be terminated;

(b) declare the unpaid principal amount of all outstanding Loans, all interest accrued and unpaid thereon, and all other amounts owing or payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document to be immediately due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by the Borrower;

(c) require that the Borrower Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations (in an amount equal to the then Outstanding Amount thereof); and

(d) exercise on behalf of itself, the Lenders and the L/C Issuer all rights and remedies available to it, the Lenders and the L/C Issuer under the Loan Documents;

provided, however, that upon the occurrence of an actual or deemed entry of an order for relief with respect to the Borrower under the Bankruptcy Code of the United States, the obligation of each Lender to make Loans and any obligation of the L/C Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions shall automatically terminate, the unpaid principal amount of all outstanding Loans and all interest and other amounts as aforesaid shall automatically become due and payable, and the obligation of the Borrower to Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations as aforesaid shall automatically become effective, in each case without further act of the Administrative Agent or any Lender.

8.03 Application of Funds. After the exercise of remedies provided for in Section 8.02 (or after the Loans have automatically become immediately due and payable and the L/C Obligations have automatically been required to be Cash Collateralized as set forth in the proviso to Section 8.02), any amounts received on account of the Obligations shall, subject to the provisions of Sections 2.17 and 2.18, be applied by the Administrative Agent in the following order:

First, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting fees, indemnities, expenses and other amounts (including fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the Administrative Agent and amounts payable under Article III) payable to the Administrative Agent in its capacity as such;

Second, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting fees, indemnities and other amounts (other than principal, interest and Letter of Credit Fees) payable to the Lenders and the L/C Issuer (including fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the respective Lenders and the L/C Issuer (including fees and time charges for attorneys who may be employees of any Lender or the L/C Issuer) and amounts payable under Article III), ratably among them in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Second payable to them;

Third, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting accrued and unpaid Letter of Credit Fees and interest on the Loans, L/C Borrowings and other Obligations, ratably among the Lenders and the L/C Issuer in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Third payable to them;

Fourth, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting unpaid principal of the Loans and L/C Borrowings, ratably among the Lenders and the L/C Issuer in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Fourth held by them;

Fifth, to the Administrative Agent for the account of the L/C Issuer, to Cash Collateralize that portion of L/C Obligations comprised of the aggregate undrawn amount of Letters of Credit to the extent not otherwise Cash Collateralized by the Borrower pursuant to Sections 2.03 and 2.17;

Sixth, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting Obligations then owing under Secured Hedge Agreements, ratably among the Hedge Banks in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Sixth held by them; and

Last, the balance, if any, after all of the Obligations have been indefeasibly paid in full, to the Borrower or as otherwise required by Applicable Law.

Subject to Sections 2.03(c) and 2.17, amounts used to Cash Collateralize the aggregate undrawn amount of Letters of Credit pursuant to clause Fifth above shall be applied to satisfy drawings under such Letters of Credit as they occur. If any amount remains on deposit as Cash Collateral after all Letters of Credit have either been fully drawn or expired, such remaining amount shall be applied to the other Obligations, if any, in the order set forth above.

8.04 Special Provision Regarding Failure to Comply with Certain Financial Covenants. Notwithstanding any provision herein or in any other Loan Document to the contrary (including Section 8.01(b)), each of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders agrees that the failure of the Borrower and the other Loan Parties to comply with any covenant set forth in Section 7.11 during the period commencing as of the Closing Date and continuing until the date that is eighteen (18) months after the Closing Date (any such failure, a “Financial Covenant Failure Event”) shall not constitute an Event of Default if the Borrower, immediately upon determining that such Financial Covenant Failure Event shall have occurred, (a) causes the Total Outstandings (other than that portion of L/C Obligations comprised of the aggregate undrawn amount of Letters of Credit) to be prepaid and reduced to zero ($0), and (b) fully Cash Collateralizes that portion of L/C Obligations comprised of the aggregate undrawn amount

of Letters of Credit. Following the occurrence of a Financial Covenant Failure Event, Borrower shall not submit any Request for Credit Extension (and none of the Lenders, the Swing Line Lender or the L/C Issuer shall be obligated to fund any Committed Loan or Swing Line Loan, or to issue any Letter of Credit) unless and until the condition giving rise to such Financial Covenant Failure Event shall no longer exist, the Borrower and the other Loan Parties are in full compliance with the covenants set forth in Section 7.11, and all other conditions for such Credit Extension (including those conditions set forth in Article IV) have been satisfied.

ARTICLE IX.
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT

9.01 Appointment and Authority.

Each of the Lenders and the L/C Issuer hereby irrevocably appoints Bank of America to act on its behalf as the Administrative Agent hereunder and under the other Loan Documents and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such actions on its behalf and to exercise such powers as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof or thereof, together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The provisions of this Article are solely for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the L/C Issuer, and neither the Borrower nor any other Loan Party shall have rights as a third party beneficiary of any of such provisions.

9.02 Rights as a Lender. The Person serving as the Administrative Agent hereunder shall have the same rights and powers in its capacity as a Lender as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not the Administrative Agent and the term “Lender” or “Lenders” shall, unless otherwise expressly indicated or unless the context otherwise requires, include the Person serving as the Administrative Agent hereunder in its individual capacity. Such Person and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to, act as the financial advisor or in any other advisory capacity for and generally engage in any kind of business with the Borrower or any Subsidiary or other Affiliate thereof as if such Person were not the Administrative Agent hereunder and without any duty to account therefor to the Lenders.

9.03 Exculpatory Provisions. The Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or obligations except those expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Administrative Agent:

(a) shall not be subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of whether a Default then exists;

(b) shall not have any duty to take any discretionary action or exercise any discretionary powers, except discretionary rights and powers expressly contemplated hereby or by the other Loan Documents that the Administrative Agent is required to exercise as directed in writing by the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be expressly provided for herein or in the other Loan Documents), provided that the Administrative Agent shall not be required to take any action that, in its opinion or the opinion of its counsel, may expose the Administrative Agent to liability or that is contrary to any Loan Document or Applicable Law; and

(c) shall not, except as expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents, have any duty to disclose, and shall not be liable for the failure to disclose, any information relating to the Borrower or any of its Affiliates that is communicated to or obtained by the Person serving as the Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity.

The Administrative Agent shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it (i) with the consent or at the request of the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary, or as the Administrative Agent shall believe in good faith shall be necessary, under the circumstances as provided in Sections 10.01 and 8.02) or (ii) in the absence of its own gross negligence or willful misconduct. The Administrative Agent shall be deemed not to have knowledge of any Default unless and until notice describing such Default is given to the Administrative Agent by the Borrower, a Lender or the L/C Issuer.

The Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into (i) any statement, warranty or representation made in or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document,

(ii) the contents of any certificate, report or other document delivered hereunder or thereunder or in connection herewith or therewith, (iii) the performance or observance of any of the covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth herein or therein or the occurrence of any Default, (iv) the validity, enforceability, effectiveness or genuineness of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other agreement, instrument or document or (v) the satisfaction of any condition set forth in Article IV or elsewhere herein, other than to confirm receipt of items expressly required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent.

9.04 Reliance by Administrative Agent.

The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely upon, and shall not incur any liability for relying upon, any notice, request, certificate, consent, statement, instrument, document or other writing (including any electronic message, Internet or intranet website posting or other distribution) believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed, sent or otherwise authenticated by the proper Person. The Administrative Agent also may rely upon any statement made to it orally or by telephone and believed by it to have been made by the proper Person, and shall not incur any liability for relying thereon. In determining compliance with any condition hereunder to the making of a Loan, or the issuance of a Letter of Credit, that by its terms must be fulfilled to the satisfaction of a Lender or the L/C Issuer, the Administrative Agent may presume that such condition is satisfactory to such Lender or the L/C Issuer unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice to the contrary from such Lender or the L/C Issuer prior to the making of such Loan or the issuance of such Letter of Credit. The Administrative Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be counsel for the Borrower), independent accountants and other experts selected by it, and shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it in accordance with the advice of any such counsel, accountants or experts.

9.05 Delegation of Duties. The Administrative Agent may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and powers hereunder or under any other Loan Document by or through any one or more sub-agents appointed by the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent and any such sub-agent may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and powers by or through their respective Related Parties. The exculpatory provisions of this Article shall apply to any such sub-agent and to the Related Parties of the Administrative Agent and any such sub-agent, and shall apply to their respective activities in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein as well as activities as Administrative Agent.

9.06 Resignation or Removal of Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent may at any time give notice of its resignation to the Lenders, the L/C Issuer and the Borrower. Upon receipt of any such notice of resignation, the Required Lenders shall appoint a successor, which successor shall be approved by the Borrower with such approval not to be unreasonably withheld (provided, however, if a Default or Event of Default shall exist at the time, no approval of the Borrower shall be required hereunder), and which successor shall be a bank with an office in the United States, or an Affiliate of any such bank with an office in the United States. If no such successor shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the retiring Administrative Agent gives notice of its resignation, then the retiring Administrative Agent may on behalf of the Lenders and the L/C Issuer, appoint a successor Administrative Agent meeting the qualifications set forth above; provided that if the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Lenders that no qualifying Person has accepted such appointment, then such resignation shall nonetheless become effective in accordance with such notice and (1) the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents (except that in the case of any collateral security held by the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders or the L/C Issuer under any of the Loan Documents, the retiring Administrative Agent shall continue to hold such collateral security until such time as a successor Administrative Agent is appointed) and (2) all payments, communications and determinations provided to be made by, to or through the Administrative Agent shall instead be made by or to each Lender and the L/C Issuer directly, until such time as the Required Lenders appoint a successor Administrative Agent as provided for above in this Section. Upon the acceptance of a successor’s appointment as Administrative Agent hereunder, such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all of the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring (or retired) Administrative Agent, and the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from all of its duties and obligations hereunder or under the other Loan Documents (if not already discharged therefrom as provided above in this Section). The fees payable by the Borrower to a successor Administrative Agent shall be the same as those payable to its predecessor unless otherwise agreed between the Borrower and such successor. After the retiring Administrative Agent’s resignation hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, the provisions of this Article and Section 10.04 shall continue in

effect for the benefit of such retiring Administrative Agent, its sub-agents and their respective Related Parties in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by any of them while the retiring Administrative Agent was acting as Administrative Agent.

The Administrative Agent may be removed by the Supermajority Lenders (excluding the vote of the Administrative Agent, in its capacity as a Lender, as more particularly set forth in the proviso to the next sentence) in the case of fraud, misappropriation of funds or the commission of illegal acts by the Administrative Agent or where the Administrative Agent has been grossly negligent in performing (or failing to perform) its obligations hereunder or under any other Loan Document in any material respect. Any such removal shall be effective upon the acceptance of appointment of a successor Agent in accordance with the provisions of the first paragraph of this Section 9.06; provided, however, to the extent the Administrative Agent being replaced pursuant to this Section 9.06 is also a Lender, such Person shall not be permitted to vote in connection with the removal of the Administrative Agent and appointment of a successor Administrative Agent pursuant to this paragraph of Section 9.06. Such successor Administrative Agent shall be approved by the Borrower with such approval not to be unreasonably withheld (provided, however, if a Default or Event of Default shall exist at the time, no approval of the Borrower shall be required hereunder).

Any resignation by (or removal of) Bank of America as Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section shall also constitute its resignation (or removal) as L/C Issuer and Swing Line Lender. Upon the acceptance of a successor’s appointment as Administrative Agent hereunder, (a) such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all of the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring (or removed) L/C Issuer and Swing Line Lender, (b) the retiring (or removed) L/C Issuer and Swing Line Lender shall be discharged from all of their respective duties and obligations hereunder or under the other Loan Documents, and (c) the successor L/C Issuer shall issue letters of credit in substitution for the Letters of Credit, if any, outstanding at the time of such succession or make other arrangements satisfactory to the retiring (or removed) L/C Issuer to effectively assume the obligations of the retiring (or removed) L/C Issuer with respect to such Letters of Credit.

9.07 Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent and Other Lenders. Each Lender and the L/C Issuer acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender or any of their Related Parties and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement. Each Lender and the L/C Issuer also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender or any of their Related Parties and based on such documents and information as it shall from time to time deem appropriate, continue to make its own decisions in taking or not taking action under or based upon this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any related agreement or any document furnished hereunder or thereunder.

9.08 No Other Duties, Etc. Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, none of the Syndication Agents, Documentation Agents, Joint Bookrunners or Joint Lead Arrangers (if any) listed on the cover page hereof shall have any powers, duties or responsibilities under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, except in its capacity, as applicable, as the Administrative Agent, a Lender or the L/C Issuer hereunder.

9.09 Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim. In case of the pendency of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law or any other judicial proceeding relative to any Loan Party, the Administrative Agent (irrespective of whether the principal of any Loan or L/C Obligation shall then be due and payable as herein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Administrative Agent shall have made any demand on the Borrower) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise

(a) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of the principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Loans, L/C Obligations and all other Obligations that are owing and unpaid and to file such other documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Lenders, the L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Lenders, the L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent and their respective agents and counsel and all other amounts due the Lenders, the L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent under Sections 2.03(i) and (j), 2.09 and 10.04) allowed in such judicial proceeding; and

(b) to collect and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same;

and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Lender and the L/C Issuer to make such payments to the Administrative Agent and, in the event that the Administrative Agent shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Lenders and the L/C Issuer, to pay to the Administrative Agent any amount due for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Administrative Agent and its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Administrative Agent under Sections 2.09 and 10.04.

Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to authorize the Administrative Agent to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Lender or the L/C Issuer any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Obligations or the rights of any Lender or the L/C Issuer to authorize the Administrative Agent to vote in respect of the claim of any Lender or the L/C Issuer in any such proceeding.

9.10 Collateral and Guaranty Matters. Each of the Lenders (including each Lender in its capacity as a potential Hedge Bank) and the L/C Issuer irrevocably authorize the Administrative Agent, at its option and in its discretion,

(a) to release any Lien on any property granted to or held by the Administrative Agent under any Loan Document (i) upon termination of the Aggregate Commitments and payment in full of all Obligations (other than contingent indemnification obligations) and the expiration or termination of all Letters of Credit (other than Letters of Credit as to which other arrangements satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer shall have been made), (ii) that is sold or to be sold as part of or in connection with any sale permitted hereunder or under any other Loan Document, including without limitation in connection with the voluntary removal of a Borrowing Base Property from qualification as such pursuant to Section 1.07(c) in connection with such sale, or (iii) subject to Section 10.01, if approved, authorized or ratified in writing by the Required Lenders;

(b) to subordinate any Lien on any property granted to or held by the Administrative Agent under any Loan Document to the holder of any Lien on such property that is permitted by Section 7.01(i); and

(c) to release any Guarantor from its obligations under Article XI hereof if (i) such Person ceases to be a Subsidiary as a result of a transaction permitted hereunder, or (ii) so long as no Default or Event of Default then exists (and will not exist as a result of such release), such Person (A) acquires or owns any Real Property which is collateral for Indebtedness incurred or assumed by such Person (and such Real Property is the sole Real Property asset owned by such Person), and (B) is expressly prohibited in writing from guaranteeing Indebtedness of any other person or entity pursuant to (I) a provision in any document, instrument or agreement evidencing such Indebtedness of such Person or (II) a provision of such Person’s Organization Documents, in each case, which provision was included in such Organization Document or such other document, instrument or agreement at the request of the applicable third party creditor and as an express condition to the extension or assumption of such Indebtedness secured by such Real Property.

Upon request by the Administrative Agent at any time, the Required Lenders will confirm in writing the Administrative Agent’s authority to release or subordinate its interest in particular types or items of property, or to release any Guarantor from its obligations under Article XI hereof pursuant to this Section 9.10. In each case as specified in this Section 9.10, the Administrative Agent will, at the Borrower’s expense, execute and deliver to the applicable Loan Party such documents as Borrower may reasonably request to evidence the release of such item of Collateral from the assignment and security interest granted under the Collateral Documents or to subordinate its interest in such item, or to release such Guarantor from its obligations hereunder, in each case in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents and this Section 9.10. Without limiting the foregoing, to the extent the Required Lenders waive any of the provisions of Section 7.05 with respect to the Disposition of any assets or other property covered thereby, or any assets or other property is Disposed of as permitted by Section 7.05 or the Borrower voluntarily removes any Borrowing Base Property from qualification as such pursuant to Section 1.07(c) in

connection with any Disposition of such Borrowing Base Property, such assets or other property (unless Disposed of to a Loan Party) or Borrowing Base Property shall be Disposed of free and clear of the Liens created by the Collateral Documents, and the Administrative Agent shall, at the Borrower’s expense, take all actions reasonably requested by Borrower to effect or cause such assets, other property or Borrowing Base Property to be Disposed of free and clear of the Liens created by the Collateral Documents.

9.11 Secured Hedge Agreements. Except as otherwise expressly set forth herein or in any Collateral Document, no Hedge Bank that obtains the benefits of Section 8.03, any Collateral by virtue of the provisions hereof or of any Collateral by virtue of the provisions hereof or of any Collateral Document shall have any right to notice of any action or to consent to, direct or object to any action hereunder or under any other Loan Document or otherwise in respect of the Collateral (including the release or impairment of any Collateral) other than in its capacity as a Lender and, in such case, only to the extent expressly provided in the Loan Documents. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article IX to the contrary, the Administrative Agent shall not be required to verify the payment of, or that other satisfactory arrangements have been made with respect to, Obligations arising under Secured Hedge Agreements unless the Administrative Agent has received written notice of such Obligations, together with such supporting documentation as the Administrative Agent may request, from the applicable Hedge Bank.

ARTICLE X.
MISCELLANEOUS

10.01 Amendments, Etc. No amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, and no consent to any departure by the Borrower or any other Loan Party therefrom, shall be effective unless in writing signed by the Required Lenders and the Borrower or the applicable Loan Party, as the case may be, and acknowledged by the Administrative Agent, and each such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given; provided, however, that no such amendment, waiver or consent shall:

(a) waive any condition set forth in Section 4.01(a) without the written consent of each Lender;

(b) extend or increase the Commitment of any Lender (or reinstate any Commitment terminated pursuant to Section 8.02) without the written consent of such Lender;

(c) postpone any date fixed by this Agreement or any other Loan Document for any payment of principal, interest, fees or other amounts due to the Lenders (or any of them) hereunder or under any other Loan Document without the written consent of each Lender directly affected thereby;

(d) reduce the principal of, or the rate of interest specified herein on, any Loan or L/C Borrowing, or (subject to clause (iv) of the second proviso to this Section 10.01) any fees or other amounts payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document, or change the manner of computation of any financial ratio (including any change in any applicable defined term) used in determining the Applicable Margin that would result in a reduction of any interest rate on any Loan or any fee payable hereunder without the written consent of each Lender directly affected thereby; provided, however, that only the consent of the Required Lenders shall be necessary to amend the definition of “Default Rate” or to waive any obligation of the Borrower to pay interest or Letter of Credit Fees at the Default Rate;

(e) change Section 8.03 in a manner that would alter the pro rata sharing of payments required thereby without the written consent of each Lender;

(f) change any provision of this Section or the definition of “Required Lenders” or “Supermajority Lenders” or any other provision hereof specifying the number or percentage of Lenders required to amend, waive or otherwise modify any rights hereunder or make any determination or grant any consent hereunder without the written consent of each Lender;

(g) release, without the written consent of each Lender, (i) all or substantially all of the value of the guaranty under Article XI hereof, except to the extent the release of any Guarantor is permitted pursuant to Section

9.10 (in which case such release may be made by the Administrative Agent acting alone), or (ii) all or substantially all of the Collateral in any transaction or series of related transactions; or

(h) amend, modify or waive any of the provisions of any Loan Document related to advance rates related to the Borrowing Base Properties or the definitions of (or provisions relating to) the terms “Borrowing Base,” “Borrowing Base Properties,” “BBP Value” or the components thereof (to the extent related to the calculation of the Borrowing Base or the approval and/or qualifications respecting Borrowing Base Properties) without the written consent of the Supermajority Lenders;

and, provided further, that (i) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the L/C Issuer in addition to the Lenders required above, affect the rights or duties of the L/C Issuer under this Agreement or any Issuer Document relating to any Letter of Credit issued or to be issued by it; (ii) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the Swing Line Lender in addition to the Lenders required above, affect the rights or duties of the Swing Line Lender under this Agreement; (iii) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the Administrative Agent in addition to the Lenders required above, affect the rights or duties of the Administrative Agent under this Agreement or any other Loan Document; and (iv) the Fee Letter may be amended, or rights or privileges thereunder waived, in a writing executed only by the parties thereto. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no Defaulting Lender shall have any right to approve or disapprove any amendment, waiver or consent hereunder (and any amendment, waiver or consent which by its terms requires the consent of all Lenders or each affected Lender may be effected with the consent of the applicable Lenders other than Defaulting Lenders), except that (x) the Commitment of any Defaulting Lender may not be increased or extended without the consent of such Lender and (y) any waiver, amendment or modification requiring the consent of all Lenders or each affected Lender that by its terms affects any Defaulting Lender more adversely than other affected Lenders shall require the consent of such Defaulting Lender.

If any Lender does not consent to a proposed amendment, waiver, consent or release with respect to any Loan Document that requires the consent of each Lender and that has been approved by all Lenders other than such one (1) non-consenting Lender, the Borrower may replace such non-consenting Lender in accordance with Section 10.13.

10.02 Notices; Effectiveness; Electronic Communication.

(a) Notices Generally. Except in the case of notices and other communications expressly permitted to be given by telephone (and except as provided in subsection (b) below), all notices and other communications provided for herein shall be in writing and shall be delivered by hand or overnight courier service, mailed by certified or registered mail or sent by telecopier (in a manner that provides for electronic confirmation of delivery) as follows, and all notices and other communications expressly permitted hereunder to be given by telephone shall be made to the applicable telephone number, as follows:

(i) if to any Loan Party, the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender, to the address, telecopier number, electronic mail address or telephone number specified for such Person on Schedule 10.02; and

(ii) if to any other Lender, to the address(es), telecopier number(s), electronic mail address(es) or telephone number(s) specified in its Administrative Questionnaire (including, as appropriate, notices delivered solely to the Person designated by a Lender on its Administrative Questionnaire then in effect for the delivery of notices that may contain material non-public information relating to the Borrower).

Notices and other communications sent by hand or overnight courier service, or mailed by certified or registered mail, shall be deemed to have been given when received; notices and other communications sent by telecopier shall be deemed to have been given upon obtaining electronic confirmation of delivery to the recipient telecopier (except that, if not given during normal business hours for the recipient, shall be deemed to have been given at the opening of business on the next business day for the recipient). Notices and other communications delivered through electronic communications to the extent provided in subsection (b) below, shall be effective as provided in such subsection (b).

(b) Electronic Communications. Notices and other communications to the Lenders and the L/C Issuer hereunder may be delivered or furnished by electronic communication (including e-mail and Internet or intranet websites) pursuant to procedures approved by the Administrative Agent, provided that the foregoing shall not apply to notices to any Lender or the L/C Issuer pursuant to Article II if such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as applicable, has notified the Administrative Agent that it is incapable of receiving notices under such Article by electronic communication. The Administrative Agent or the Borrower may, in its discretion, agree to accept notices and other communications to it hereunder by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by it, provided that approval of such procedures may be limited to particular notices or communications.

Unless the Administrative Agent otherwise prescribes, (i) notices and other communications sent to an e-mail address shall be deemed received upon the sender’s receipt of an acknowledgement from the intended recipient (such as by the “return receipt requested” function, as available, return e-mail or other written acknowledgement), provided that if such notice or other communication is not sent during the normal business hours of the recipient, such notice or communication shall be deemed to have been sent at the opening of business on the next business day for the recipient, and (ii) notices or communications posted to an Internet or intranet website shall be deemed received upon the deemed receipt by the intended recipient at its e-mail address as described in the foregoing clause (i) of notification that such notice or communication is available and identifying the website address therefor.

(c) The Platform. THE PLATFORM IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” THE AGENT PARTIES (AS DEFINED BELOW) DO NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE BORROWER MATERIALS OR THE ADEQUACY OF THE PLATFORM, AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM LIABILITY FOR ERRORS IN OR OMISSIONS FROM THE BORROWER MATERIALS. NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS OR FREEDOM FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER CODE DEFECTS, IS MADE BY ANY AGENT PARTY IN CONNECTION WITH THE BORROWER MATERIALS OR THE PLATFORM. In no event shall the Administrative Agent or any of its Related Parties (collectively, the “Agent Parties”) have any liability to the Borrower, any Lender, the L/C Issuer or any other Person for losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses of any kind (whether in tort, contract or otherwise) arising out of the Borrower’s or the Administrative Agent’s transmission of Borrower Materials through the Internet, except to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by a final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Agent Party; provided, however, that in no event shall any Agent Party have any liability to the Borrower, any Lender, the L/C Issuer or any other Person for indirect, special, incidental, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages).

(d) Change of Address, Etc. Each of the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer and the Swing Line Lender may change its address, telecopier or telephone number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the other parties hereto. Each other Lender may change its address, telecopier or telephone number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer and the Swing Line Lender. In addition, each Lender agrees to notify the Administrative Agent from time to time to ensure that the Administrative Agent has on record (i) an effective address, contact name, telephone number, telecopier number and electronic mail address to which notices and other communications may be sent and (ii) accurate wire instructions for such Lender. Furthermore, each Public Lender agrees to cause at least one individual at or on behalf of such Public Lender to at all times have selected the “Private Side Information” or similar designation on the content declaration screen of the Platform in order to enable such Public Lender or its delegate, in accordance with such Public Lender’s compliance procedures and Applicable Law, including United States Federal and state securities laws, to make reference to Borrower Materials that are not made available through the “Public Side Information” portion of the Platform and that may contain material non-public information with respect to the Borrower or its securities for purposes of United States Federal or state securities laws.

(e) Reliance by Administrative Agent, L/C Issuer and Lenders. The Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer and the Lenders shall be entitled to rely and act upon any notices (including telephonic Committed Loan Notices and Swing Line Loan Notices) purportedly given by or on behalf of the Borrower even if (i) such notices were not made in a manner specified herein, were incomplete or were not preceded or followed by any other form of notice specified herein, or (ii) the terms thereof, as understood by the recipient, varied from any confirmation

thereof. The Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer, each Lender and the Related Parties of each of them from all losses, costs, expenses and liabilities resulting from the reliance by such Person on each notice purportedly given by or on behalf of the Borrower. All telephonic notices to and other telephonic communications with the Administrative Agent may be recorded by the Administrative Agent, and each of the parties hereto hereby consents to such recording.

10.03 No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies; Enforcement. No failure by any Lender, the L/C Issuer or the Administrative Agent to exercise, and no delay by any such Person in exercising, any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, remedy, power or privilege. The rights, remedies, powers and privileges herein provided are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights, remedies, powers and privileges provided by Applicable Law.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or in any other Loan Document, the authority to enforce rights and remedies hereunder and under the other Loan Documents against the Loan Parties or any of them shall be vested exclusively in, and all actions and proceedings at law in connection with such enforcement shall be instituted and maintained exclusively by, the Administrative Agent in accordance with Section 8.02 for the benefit of all the Secured Parties; provided, however, that the foregoing shall not prohibit (a) the Administrative Agent from exercising on its own behalf the rights and remedies that inure to its benefit (solely in its capacity as Administrative Agent) hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, (b) the L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender from exercising the rights and remedies that inure to its benefit (solely in its capacity as L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender, as the case may be) hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, (c) any Lender from exercising setoff rights in accordance with Section 10.08 (subject to the terms of Section 2.13), or (d) any Lender from filing proofs of claim or appearing and filing pleadings on its own behalf during the pendency of a proceeding relative to any Loan Party under any Debtor Relief Law; and provided, further, that if at any time there is no Person acting as Administrative Agent hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, then (i) the Required Lenders shall have the rights otherwise ascribed to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 8.02 and (ii) in addition to the matters set forth in clauses (b), (c) and (d) of the preceding proviso and subject to Section 2.13, any Lender may, with the consent of the Required Lenders, enforce any rights and remedies available to it and as authorized by the Required Lenders.

10.04 Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver.

(a) Costs and Expenses. The Borrower shall pay, on the Closing Date and thereafter within five (5) Business Days after written demand, (i) all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent and its Affiliates (including the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of counsel for the Administrative Agent), in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein, the preparation, negotiation, execution, delivery and administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents or any amendments, modifications or waivers of the provisions hereof or thereof (whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby shall be consummated), (ii) all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the L/C Issuer in connection with the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or any demand for payment thereunder and (iii) all out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the L/C Issuer (including the fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the L/C Issuer), and shall pay all fees and time charges for attorneys who may be employees of the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the L/C Issuer, in connection with the enforcement or protection of its rights (A) in connection with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, including its rights under this Section, or (B) in connection with the Loans made or Letters of Credit issued hereunder, including all such out-of-pocket expenses incurred during any workout, restructuring or negotiations in respect of such Loans or Letters of Credit. For the avoidance of doubt, this Section shall not provide any right to payment with respect to increases in taxes or costs and expenses related solely to such increases in taxes.

(b) Indemnification by the Borrower. The Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative Agent (and any sub-agent thereof), each Lender and the L/C Issuer, and each Related Party of any of the foregoing Persons (each such Person being called an “Indemnitee”) against, and hold each Indemnitee harmless from, any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and related expenses (including the fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for any Indemnitee), and shall indemnify and hold harmless each Indemnitee from all fees and time charges and disbursements for attorneys who may be employees of any Indemnitee, incurred by any Indemnitee or asserted

against any Indemnitee by any third party or by the Borrower or any other Loan Party arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of (i) the execution or delivery of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or thereby, the performance by the parties hereto of their respective obligations hereunder or thereunder, the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, or, in the case of the Administrative Agent (and any sub-agent thereof) and its Related Parties only, the administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents (including in respect of any matters addressed in Section 3.01), (ii) any Loan or Letter of Credit or the use or proposed use of the proceeds therefrom (including any refusal by the L/C Issuer to honor a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit if the documents presented in connection with such demand do not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit), (iii) any actual or alleged presence or release of Hazardous Materials on or from any property owned or operated by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or any Environmental Liability related in any way to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or (iv) any actual or prospective claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, whether based on contract, tort or any other theory, whether brought by a third party or by the Borrower or any other Loan Party, and regardless of whether any Indemnitee is a party thereto, IN ALL CASES, WHETHER OR NOT CAUSED BY OR ARISING, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, OUT OF THE COMPARATIVE, CONTRIBUTORY OR SOLE NEGLIGENCE OF THE INDEMNITEE; provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or related expenses (x) are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee or (y) result from a claim brought by the Borrower or any other Loan Party against an Indemnitee for breach in bad faith of such Indemnitee’s obligations hereunder or under any other Loan Document, if the Borrower or such other Loan Party has obtained a final and nonappealable judgment in its favor on such claim as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction. For the avoidance of doubt, this Section shall not provide any right to payment with respect to increases in taxes or costs and expenses related solely to such increases in taxes.

(c) Reimbursement by Lenders. To the extent that the Borrower for any reason fails to indefeasibly pay any amount required under subsection (a) or (b) of this Section to be paid by it to the Administrative Agent (or any sub-agent thereof), the L/C Issuer or any Related Party of any of the foregoing, each Lender severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent (or any such sub-agent), the L/C Issuer or such Related Party, as the case may be, such Lender’s Applicable Percentage (determined as of the time that the applicable unreimbursed expense or indemnity payment is sought) of such unpaid amount, provided that the unreimbursed expense or indemnified loss, claim, damage, liability or related expense, as the case may be, was incurred by or asserted against the Administrative Agent (or any such sub-agent) or the L/C Issuer in its capacity as such, or against any Related Party of any of the foregoing acting for the Administrative Agent (or any such sub-agent) or L/C Issuer in connection with such capacity; provided, further, that the Administrative Agent (or any such sub-agent), the L/C Issuer or such Related Party, as the case may be, shall reimburse each Lender for any indemnity amount actually paid by such Lender to the Administrative Agent (or any such sub-agent), the L/C Issuer or such Related Party, as the case may be, pursuant to this Section 10.04(c) to the extent such underlying indemnity obligation arose in connection with any claim by such Lender against the Administrative Agent (or any such sub-agent) or the L/C Issuer in its capacity as such, or against such Related Party, as the case may be, if such Lender has obtained a final, non-appealable judgment in favor of such Lender on such claim as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction. The obligations of the Lenders under this subsection (c) are subject to the provisions of Section 2.12(d).

(d) Waiver of Consequential Damages, Etc. To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Borrower shall not assert, and hereby waives, any claim against any Indemnitee, on any theory of liability, for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages) arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of, this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby, the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, any Loan or Letter of Credit or the use of the proceeds thereof. No Indemnitee referred to in subsection (b) above shall be liable for any damages arising from the use by unintended recipients of any information or other materials distributed to such unintended recipients by such Indemnitee through telecommunications, electronic or other information transmission systems in connection with this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby other than for direct or actual damages resulting from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee as determined by a final and nonappealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction.

(e) Payments. All amounts due under this Section shall be payable not later than ten Business Days after demand therefor.

(f) Survival. The agreements in this Section shall survive the resignation of the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer and the Swing Line Lender, the replacement of any Lender, the termination of the Aggregate Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all the other Obligations.

10.05 Payments Set Aside. To the extent that any payment by or on behalf of the Borrower is made to the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer or any Lender, or the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer or any Lender exercises its right of setoff, and such payment or the proceeds of such setoff or any part thereof is subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer or such Lender in its discretion) to be repaid to a trustee, receiver or any other party, in connection with any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law or otherwise, then (a) to the extent of such recovery, the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not been made or such setoff had not occurred, and (b) each Lender and the L/C Issuer severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent upon demand its applicable share (without duplication) of any amount so recovered from or repaid by the Administrative Agent, plus interest thereon from the date of such demand to the date such payment is made at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Rate from time to time in effect. The obligations of the Lenders and the L/C Issuer under clause (b) of the preceding sentence shall survive the payment in full of the Obligations and the termination of this Agreement.

10.06 Successors and Assigns.

(a) Successors and Assigns Generally. The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, except that neither the Borrower nor any other Loan Party may assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent and each Lender and no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder except (i) to an assignee in accordance with the provisions of subsection (b) of this Section, (ii) by way of participation in accordance with the provisions of subsection (d) of this Section, or (iii) by way of pledge or assignment of a security interest subject to the restrictions of subsection (f) of this Section (and any other attempted assignment or transfer by any party hereto shall be null and void). Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, shall be construed to confer upon any Person (other than the parties hereto, their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, Participants to the extent provided in subsection (d) of this Section and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the Related Parties of each of the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer and the Lenders) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement.

(b) Assignments by Lenders. Any Lender may at any time assign to one or more assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and the Loans (including for purposes of this subsection (b), participations in L/C Obligations and in Swing Line Loans) at the time owing to it); provided that any such assignment shall be subject to the following conditions:

(i) Minimum Amounts.

(A) in the case of an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Lender’s Commitment and the Loans at the time owing to it or in the case of an assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund, no minimum amount need be assigned; and

(B) in any case not described in subsection (b)(i)(A) of this Section, the aggregate amount of the Commitment (which for this purpose includes Loans outstanding thereunder) or, if the Commitment is not then in effect, the principal outstanding balance of the Loans of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment, determined as of the date the Assignment and Assumption with respect to such assignment is delivered to the Administrative Agent or, if “Trade Date” is specified in the Assignment and Assumption, as of the Trade Date, shall not be less than $5,000,000, unless each of the Administrative Agent and, so long as no Event of Default then exists, the Borrower otherwise consents (each such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or

delayed); provided, however, that concurrent assignments to members of an Assignee Group and concurrent assignments from members of an Assignee Group to a single Eligible Assignee (or to an Eligible Assignee and members of its Assignee Group) will be treated as a single assignment for purposes of determining whether such minimum amount has been met.

(ii) Proportionate Amounts. Each partial assignment shall be made as an assignment of a proportionate part of all the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement with respect to the Loans or the Commitment assigned, except that this clause (ii) shall not apply to the Swing Line Lender’s rights and obligations in respect of Swing Line Loans;

(iii) Required Consents. No consent shall be required for any assignment except to the extent required by subsection (b)(i)(B) of this Section and, in addition:

(A) the consent of the Borrower (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld) shall be required unless (1) an Event of Default exists at the time of such assignment or (2) such assignment is to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund; provided that the Borrower shall be deemed to have consented to any such assignment unless it shall object thereto by written notice to the Administrative Agent within ten (10) Business Days after having received notice thereof;

(B) the consent of the Administrative Agent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) shall be required if such assignment is to a Person that is not a Lender, an Affiliate of such Lender or an Approved Fund with respect to such Lender;

(C) the consent of the L/C Issuer (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) shall be required for any assignment that increases the obligation of the assignee to participate in exposure under one or more Letters of Credit (whether or not then outstanding); and

(D) the consent of the Swing Line Lender (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) shall be required for any assignment.

(iv) Assignment and Assumption. The parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption, together with a processing and recordation fee in the amount of $2,500; provided, however, that the Administrative Agent may, in its sole discretion, elect to waive such processing and recordation fee in the case of any assignment. The assignee, if it is not a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an Administrative Questionnaire.

(v) No Assignment to Certain Persons. No such assignment shall be made (A) to the Borrower or any of the Borrower’s Affiliates or Subsidiaries, or (B) to any Defaulting Lender or any of its Subsidiaries, or any Person who, upon becoming a Lender hereunder, would constitute any of the foregoing Persons described in this clause (B), or (C) to a natural person.

(vi) Certain Additional Payments. In connection with any assignment of rights and obligations of any Defaulting Lender hereunder, no such assignment shall be effective unless and until, in addition to the other conditions thereto set forth herein, the parties to the assignment shall make such additional payments to the Administrative Agent in an aggregate amount sufficient, upon distribution thereof as appropriate (which may be outright payment, purchases by the assignee of participations or subparticipations, or other compensating actions, including funding, with the consent of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, the applicable pro rata share of Loans previously requested but not funded by the Defaulting Lender, to each of which the applicable assignee and assignor hereby irrevocably consent), to (x) pay and satisfy in full all payment liabilities then owed by such Defaulting Lender to the Administrative Agent or any Lender hereunder (and interest accrued thereon) and (y) acquire (and fund as appropriate) its full pro rata share of all Loans and participations in Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans in accordance with its Applicable Percentage. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any assignment of rights and obligations of any Defaulting Lender hereunder shall become effective under Applicable Law without

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compliance with the provisions of this paragraph, then the assignee of such interest shall be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender for all purposes of this Agreement until such compliance occurs.

Subject to acceptance and recording thereof by the Administrative Agent pursuant to subsection (c) of this Section, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption, the assignee thereunder shall be a party to this Agreement and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption covering all of the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto) but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Sections 3.01, 3.04, 3.05, and 10.04 with respect to facts and circumstances occurring prior to the effective date of such assignment. Upon request, the Borrower (at its expense) shall execute and deliver a Note to the assignee Lender. Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with this subsection shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such Lender of a participation in such rights and obligations in accordance with subsection (d) of this Section.

(c) Register. The Administrative Agent, acting solely for this purpose as an agent of the Borrower (and such agency being solely for tax purposes), shall maintain at the Administrative Agent’s Office a copy of each Assignment and Assumption delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders (existing and future), and the Commitments of, and principal amounts of the Loans and L/C Obligations owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the “Register”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive, and the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the 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, notwithstanding notice to the contrary. In addition, the Administrative Agent shall maintain on the Register information regarding the designation, and revocation of designation, of any Lender as a Defaulting Lender. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower and any Lender, at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.

(d) Participations. Any Lender may at any time, without the consent of, or notice to, the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, sell participations to any Person (other than a natural person, a Defaulting Lender or the Borrower or any of the Borrower’s Affiliates or Subsidiaries) (each, a “Participant”) in all or a portion of such Lender’s rights and/or obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and/or the Loans (including such Lender’s participations in L/C Obligations and/or Swing Line Loans) owing to it); provided that (i) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations and (iii) the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the L/C Issuer shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement.

Any agreement or instrument pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce this Agreement and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement; provided that such agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, waiver or other modification described in the first proviso to Section 10.01 that affects such Participant. Subject to subsection (e) of this Section, the Borrower agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 3.01, 3.04 and 3.05 to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to subsection (b) of this Section. To the extent permitted by Applicable Law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 10.08 as though it were a Lender, provided such Participant agrees to be subject to Section 2.13 as though it were a Lender.

(e) Limitations upon Participant Rights. A Participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 3.01 or 3.04 than the applicable Lender would have been entitled to receive with respect to the participation sold to such Participant, unless the sale of the participation to such Participant is made with the Borrower’s prior written consent. A Participant that would be a Foreign Lender if it were a Lender shall not be entitled to the benefits of Section 3.01 unless the Borrower is notified of the participation sold to such Participant and such Participant agrees, for the benefit of the Borrower, to comply with Section 3.01(e) as though it were a Lender.

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(f) Certain Pledges. Any Lender may at any time pledge or assign a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including under its Note, if any) to secure obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank; provided that no such pledge or assignment shall release such Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee for such Lender as a party hereto.

(g) Resignation as L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender after Assignment. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, if at any time Bank of America assigns all of its Commitment and Loans pursuant to subsection (b) above, Bank of America may, (i) upon 30 days’ notice to the Borrower and the Lenders, resign as L/C Issuer and/or (ii) upon 30 days’ notice to the Borrower, resign as Swing Line Lender. In the event of any such resignation as L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender, the Borrower shall be entitled to appoint from among the Lenders a successor L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender hereunder; provided, however, that no failure by the Borrower to appoint any such successor shall affect the resignation of Bank of America as L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender, as the case may be; provided, further, that no Lender shall have any obligation to accept such an appointment as successor L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender unless such Lender accepts such appointment in writing. If Bank of America resigns as L/C Issuer, it shall retain all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the L/C Issuer hereunder with respect to all Letters of Credit outstanding as of the effective date of its resignation as L/C Issuer and all L/C Obligations with respect thereto (including the right to require the Lenders to make Base Rate Committed Loans or fund risk participations in Unreimbursed Amounts pursuant to Section 2.03(c)). If Bank of America resigns as Swing Line Lender, it shall retain all the rights of the Swing Line Lender provided for hereunder with respect to Swing Line Loans made by it and outstanding as of the effective date of such resignation, including the right to require the Lenders to make Base Rate Committed Loans or fund risk participations in outstanding Swing Line Loans pursuant to Section 2.04(c). Upon the appointment of a successor L/C Issuer and/or Swing Line Lender, (a) such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all of the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender, as the case may be, and (b) the successor L/C Issuer shall issue letters of credit in substitution for the Letters of Credit, if any, outstanding at the time of such succession or make other arrangements satisfactory to Bank of America to effectively assume the obligations of Bank of America with respect to such Letters of Credit.

10.07 Treatment of Certain Information; Confidentiality. Each of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the L/C Issuer agrees to maintain the confidentiality of the Information (as defined below), except that Information may be disclosed (a) to its Affiliates and to its and its Affiliates’ respective partners, directors, officers, employees, agents, trustees, advisors and representatives (it being understood that the Persons to whom such disclosure is made will be informed of the confidential nature of such Information and instructed to keep such Information confidential), (b) to the extent requested by any regulatory authority purporting to have jurisdiction over it (including any self-regulatory authority, such as the National Association of Insurance Commissioners), (c) to the extent required by Applicable Laws or regulations or by any subpoena or similar legal process, (d) to any other party hereto, (e) in connection with the exercise of any remedies hereunder or under any other Loan Document or any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the enforcement of rights hereunder or thereunder, (f) subject to an agreement containing provisions substantially the same as those of this Section, to (i) any assignee of or Participant in, or any prospective assignee of or Participant in, any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement or any Eligible Assignee invited to be a Lender pursuant to Section 2.15(c) or (ii) any actual or prospective counterparty (or its advisors) to any swap or derivative transaction relating to the Borrower and its obligations, (g) with the consent of the Borrower or (h) to the extent such Information (x) becomes publicly available other than as a result of a breach by the Person disclosing such Information of this Section (or, to the knowledge of such Person, as a result of a breach by another Person bound by this Section 10.07) or (y) becomes available to the Administrative Agent, any Lender, the L/C Issuer or any of their respective Affiliates on a nonconfidential basis from a source other than the Borrower. For purposes of this Section, “Information” means all information received from the Borrower or any Subsidiary relating to the Borrower or any Subsidiary or any of their respective businesses, other than any such information that is available to the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the L/C Issuer on a nonconfidential basis prior to disclosure by the Borrower or any Subsidiary, provided that, in the case of written information received from the Borrower or any Subsidiary after the date hereof, such information is clearly identified at the time of delivery as confidential. Any Person required to maintain the confidentiality of Information as provided in this Section shall be considered to have complied with its obligation to do so if such Person has exercised the same degree of care to maintain the confidentiality of such Information as such Person would accord to its own confidential information.

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Each of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the L/C Issuer acknowledges that (a) the Information may include material non-public information concerning the Borrower or a Subsidiary, as the case may be, (b) it has developed compliance procedures regarding the use of material non-public information and (c) it will handle such material non-public information in accordance with Applicable Law, including United States Federal and state securities laws.

10.08 Right of Setoff. If an Event of Default exists, each Lender, the L/C Issuer and each of their respective Affiliates is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, after obtaining the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent, to the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final, in whatever currency) at any time held and other obligations (in whatever currency) at any time owing by such Lender, the L/C Issuer or any such Affiliate to or for the credit or the account of the Borrower or any other Loan Party against any and all of the obligations of the Borrower or such Loan Party now or hereafter existing under this Agreement or any other Loan Document to such Lender or the L/C Issuer, irrespective of whether or not such Lender or the L/C Issuer shall have made any demand under this Agreement or any other Loan Document and although such obligations of the Borrower or such Loan Party may be contingent or unmatured or are owed to a branch or office of such Lender or the L/C Issuer different from the branch or office holding such deposit or obligated on such indebtedness; provided, that in the event that any Defaulting Lender shall exercise any such right of setoff, (x) all amounts so set off shall be paid over immediately to the Administrative Agent for further application in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.18 and, pending such payment, shall be segregated by such Defaulting Lender from its other funds and deemed held in trust for the benefit of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, and (y) the Defaulting Lender shall provide promptly to the Administrative Agent a statement describing in reasonable detail the Obligations owing to such Defaulting Lender as to which it exercised such right of setoff. The rights of each Lender, the L/C Issuer and their respective Affiliates under this Section are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) that such Lender, the L/C Issuer or their respective Affiliates may have. Each Lender and the L/C Issuer agrees to notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent promptly after any such setoff and application, provided that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such setoff and application.

10.09 Interest Rate Limitation. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any Loan Document, the interest paid or agreed to be paid under the Loan Documents shall not exceed the maximum rate of non-usurious interest permitted by Applicable Law (the “Maximum Rate”). If the Administrative Agent or any Lender shall receive interest in an amount that exceeds the Maximum Rate, the excess interest shall be applied to the principal of the Loans or, if it exceeds such unpaid principal, refunded to the Borrower. In determining whether the interest contracted for, charged, or received by the Administrative Agent or a Lender exceeds the Maximum Rate, such Person may, to the extent permitted by Applicable Law, (a) characterize any payment that is not principal as an expense, fee, or premium rather than interest, (b) exclude voluntary prepayments and the effects thereof, and (c) amortize, prorate, allocate, and spread in equal or unequal parts the total amount of interest throughout the contemplated term of the Obligations hereunder.

10.10 Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto in different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents constitute the entire contract among the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersede any and all previous agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof. Except as provided in Section 4.01, this Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been executed by the Administrative Agent and when the Administrative Agent shall have received counterparts hereof that, when taken together, bear the signatures of each of the other parties hereto. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Agreement by telecopy or other electronic imaging means shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement.

10.11 Survival of Representations and Warranties. All representations and warranties made hereunder and in any other Loan Document or other document delivered pursuant hereto or thereto or in connection herewith or therewith shall survive the execution and delivery hereof and thereof. Such representations and warranties have been or will be relied upon by the Administrative Agent and each Lender, regardless of any investigation made by the Administrative Agent or any Lender or on their behalf and notwithstanding that the Administrative Agent or any Lender may have had notice or knowledge of any Default at the time of any Credit

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Extension, and shall continue in full force and effect as long as any Loan or any other Obligation hereunder shall remain unpaid or unsatisfied or any Letter of Credit shall remain outstanding.

10.12 Severability. If any provision of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents is held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, (a) the legality, validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall not be affected or impaired thereby and (b) the parties shall endeavor in good faith negotiations to replace the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provisions with valid provisions the economic effect of which comes as close as possible to that of the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provisions. The invalidity of a provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction. Without limiting the foregoing provisions of this Section 10.12, if and to the extent that the enforceability of any provisions in this Agreement relating to Defaulting Lenders shall be limited by Debtor Relief Laws, as determined in good faith by the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender, as applicable, then such provisions shall be deemed to be in effect only to the extent not so limited.

10.13 Replacement of Lenders. If any Lender requests compensation under Section 3.04, if the Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 3.01, if any Lender is a Defaulting Lender or if any other circumstance exists hereunder that, pursuant to the express terms hereof, gives the Borrower the right to replace a Lender as a party hereto (including such circumstances described in Section 10.01), then the Borrower may, at its sole expense and effort, upon notice to such Lender and the Administrative Agent, require such Lender to assign and delegate, without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in, and consents required by, Section 10.06), all of its interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement and the related Loan Documents to an Eligible Assignee arranged by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent that shall assume such obligations (which assignee may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment), provided that:

(a) the Borrower shall have paid to the Administrative Agent the assignment fee specified in Section 10.06(b);

(b) such Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal to the outstanding principal of its Loans and L/C Advances, accrued interest thereon, accrued fees and all other amounts payable to it hereunder and under the other Loan Documents (including any amounts under Section 3.05) from the assignee (to the extent of such outstanding principal and accrued interest and fees) or the Borrower (in the case of all other amounts);

(c) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a claim for compensation under Section 3.04 or payments required to be made pursuant to Section 3.01, such assignment will result in a reduction in such compensation or payments thereafter; and

(d) such assignment does not conflict with Applicable Laws.

A Lender shall not be required to make any such assignment or delegation if, prior thereto, as a result of a waiver by such Lender or otherwise, the circumstances entitling the Borrower to require such assignment and delegation cease to apply.

10.14 Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Etc.

(a) GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK (INCLUDING SECTION 5-1401 AND SECTION 5-1402 OF THE GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK).

(b) SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION. THE BORROWER AND EACH OTHER LOAN PARTY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY SUBMITS, FOR ITSELF AND ITS PROPERTY, TO THE NONEXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF ANY NEW YORK STATE OR FEDERAL COURT SITTING IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT, OR FOR RECOGNITION OR ENFORCEMENT OF ANY JUDGMENT, AND EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY

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AGREES THAT ALL CLAIMS IN RESPECT OF ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING MAY BE HEARD AND DETERMINED IN SUCH COURTS. EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO AGREES THAT A FINAL JUDGMENT IN ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING SHALL BE CONCLUSIVE AND MAY BE ENFORCED IN OTHER JURISDICTIONS BY SUIT ON THE JUDGMENT OR IN ANY OTHER MANNER PROVIDED BY APPLICABLE LAW. NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT OR IN ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT SHALL AFFECT ANY RIGHT THAT THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, ANY LENDER OR THE L/C ISSUER MAY OTHERWISE HAVE TO BRING ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT AGAINST THE BORROWER OR ANY OTHER LOAN PARTY OR ITS PROPERTIES IN THE COURTS OF ANY JURISDICTION.

(c) WAIVER OF VENUE. THE BORROWER AND EACH OTHER LOAN PARTY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY OBJECTION THAT IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE LAYING OF VENUE OF ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT IN ANY COURT REFERRED TO IN PARAGRAPH (B) OF THIS SECTION. EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE DEFENSE OF AN INCONVENIENT FORUM TO THE MAINTENANCE OF SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT.

(d) SERVICE OF PROCESS. EACH PARTY HERETO IRREVOCABLY CONSENTS TO SERVICE OF PROCESS IN THE MANNER PROVIDED FOR NOTICES IN SECTION 10.02. NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT WILL AFFECT THE RIGHT OF ANY PARTY HERETO TO SERVE PROCESS IN ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.

10.15 Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY). EACH PARTY HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PERSON HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PERSON WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (B) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION.

10.16 California Judicial Reference. If any action or proceeding is filed in a court of the State of California by or against any party hereto in connection with any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (a) the court shall, and is hereby directed to, make a general reference pursuant to California Code of Civil Procedure Section 638 to a referee (who shall be a single active or retired judge) to hear and determine all of the issues in such action or proceeding (whether of fact or of law) and to report a statement of decision, provided that at the option of any party to such proceeding, any such issues pertaining to a “provisional remedy” as defined in California Code of Civil Procedure Section 1281.8 shall be heard and determined by the court, and (b) without limiting the generality of Section 10.04, the Borrower shall be solely responsible to pay all fees and expenses of any referee appointed in such action or proceeding.

10.17 No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility. In connection with all aspects of each transaction contemplated hereby (including in connection with any amendment, waiver or other modification hereof or of any other Loan Document), the Borrower and each other Loan Party acknowledges and agrees, and acknowledges its Affiliates’ understanding, that: (i) (A) the arranging and other services regarding this Agreement provided by the Administrative Agent and the Arranger, are arm’s-length commercial transactions between the Borrower , each other Loan Party and their respective Affiliates, on the one hand, and the Administrative Agent and the Arranger, on the other hand, (B) each of the Borrower and the other Loan Parties has consulted its own legal, accounting, regulatory and tax advisors to the extent it has deemed appropriate, and (C) the Borrower and each other Loan Party is capable of evaluating, and understands and accepts, the terms, risks and conditions of the transactions

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contemplated hereby and by the other Loan Documents; (ii) (A) the Administrative Agent and the Arranger each is and has been acting solely as a principal and, except as expressly agreed in writing by the relevant parties, has not been, is not, and will not be acting as an advisor, agent or fiduciary for the Borrower, any other Loan Party or any of their respective Affiliates, or any other Person and (B) neither the Administrative Agent nor the Arranger has any obligation to the Borrower, any other Loan Party or any of their respective Affiliates with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby except those obligations expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents; and (iii) the Administrative Agent and the Arranger and their respective Affiliates may be engaged in a broad range of transactions that involve interests that differ from those of the Borrower, the other Loan Parties and their respective Affiliates, and neither the Administrative Agent nor the Arranger has any obligation to disclose any of such interests to the Borrower, any other Loan Party or any of their respective Affiliates. To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, each of the Borrower and the other Loan Parties hereby waives and releases any claims that it may have against the Administrative Agent and the Arranger with respect to any breach or alleged breach of agency or fiduciary duty in connection with any aspect of any transaction contemplated hereby.

10.18 Electronic Execution of Assignments and Certain Other Documents. The words “execution,” “signed,” “signature” and words of like import in any Assignment and Assumption or in any amendment or other modification hereof (including waivers and consents) shall be deemed to include electronic signatures or the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, to the extent and as provided for in any Applicable Law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act, or any other similar state laws based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act.

10.19 USA PATRIOT Act. Each Lender that is subject to the Act (as hereinafter defined) and the Administrative Agent (for itself and not on behalf of any Lender) hereby notifies the Borrower that pursuant to the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)) (the “Act”), it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies the Borrower, which information includes the name and address of the Borrower and other information that will allow such Lender or the Administrative Agent, as applicable, to identify the Borrower in accordance with the Act. The Borrower shall, promptly following a request by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, provide all documentation and other information that the Administrative Agent or such Lender requests in order to comply with its ongoing obligations under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the Act.

10.20 Entire Agreement. THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS REPRESENT THE FINAL AGREEMENT AMONG THE PARTIES AND MAY NOT BE CONTRADICTED BY EVIDENCE OF PRIOR, CONTEMPORANEOUS, OR SUBSEQUENT ORAL AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES. THERE ARE NO UNWRITTEN ORAL AGREEMENTS AMONG THE PARTIES.

ARTICLE XI.
GUARANTY

11.01 The Guaranty.

(a) Each of the Guarantors hereby jointly and severally guarantees to the Administrative Agent and each of the holders of the Obligations, as hereinafter provided, as primary obligor and not as surety, the prompt payment of the Obligations (the “Guaranteed Obligations”) in full when due (whether at stated maturity, as a mandatory prepayment, by acceleration, as a mandatory cash collateralization or otherwise) strictly in accordance with the terms thereof. The Guarantors hereby further agree that if any of the Guaranteed Obligations are not paid in full when due (whether at stated maturity, as a mandatory prepayment, by acceleration, as a mandatory cash collateralization or otherwise), the Guarantors will, jointly and severally, promptly pay the same, without any demand or notice whatsoever, and that in the case of any extension of time of payment or renewal of any of the Guaranteed Obligations, the same will be promptly paid in full when due (whether at extended maturity, as a mandatory prepayment, by acceleration, as a mandatory cash collateralization or otherwise) in accordance with the terms of such extension or renewal.

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(b) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained herein, in any other of the Loan Documents, Secured Hedge Agreements or other documents relating to the Obligations, the obligations of each Guarantor under this Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be limited to an aggregate amount equal to the largest amount that would not render such obligations subject to avoidance under the Debtor Relief Laws or any comparable provisions of any applicable state law.

11.02 Obligations Unconditional.

The obligations of the Guarantors under Section 11.01 are joint and several, absolute and unconditional, irrespective of the value, genuineness, validity, regularity or enforceability of any of the Loan Documents or other documents relating to the Obligations, or any substitution, compromise, release, impairment or exchange of any other guarantee of or security for any of the Guaranteed Obligations, and, to the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, irrespective of any other circumstance whatsoever that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a surety or guarantor, it being the intent of this Section 11.02 that the obligations of the Guarantors hereunder shall be absolute and unconditional under any and all circumstances. Each Guarantor agrees that such Guarantor shall have no right of subrogation, indemnity, reimbursement or contribution against the Borrower or any other Guarantor for amounts paid under this Article XI until such time as the Obligations have been irrevocably paid in full and the commitments relating thereto have expired or been terminated. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, it is agreed that, to the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the occurrence of any one or more of the following shall not alter or impair the liability of any Guarantor hereunder, which shall remain absolute and unconditional as described above:

(a) at any time or from time to time, without notice to any Guarantor, the time for any performance of or compliance with any of the Guaranteed Obligations shall be extended, or such performance or compliance shall be waived;

(b) any of the acts mentioned in any of the provisions of any of the Loan Documents, or other documents relating to the Guaranteed Obligations or any other agreement or instrument referred to therein shall be done or omitted;

(c) the maturity of any of the Guaranteed Obligations shall be accelerated, or any of the Obligations shall be modified, supplemented or amended in any respect, or any right under any of the Loan Documents or other documents relating to the Guaranteed Obligations, or any other agreement or instrument referred to therein shall be waived or any other guarantee of any of the Guaranteed Obligations or any security therefor shall be released, impaired or exchanged in whole or in part or otherwise dealt with;

(d) any Lien granted to, or in favor of, the Administrative Agent or any of the holders of the Guaranteed Obligations as security for any of the Guaranteed Obligations shall fail to attach or be perfected; or

(e) any of the Guaranteed Obligations shall be determined to be void or voidable (including, without limitation, for the benefit of any creditor of any Guarantor) or shall be subordinated to the claims of any Person (including, without limitation, any creditor of any Guarantor).

With respect to its obligations hereunder, each Guarantor hereby expressly waives diligence, presentment, demand of payment, protest notice of acceptance of the guaranty given hereby and of Credit Extensions that may constitute obligations guaranteed hereby, notices of amendments, waivers and supplements to the Loan Documents and other documents relating to the Guaranteed Obligations, or the compromise, release or exchange of collateral or security, and all notices whatsoever, and any requirement that the Administrative Agent or any holder of the Guaranteed Obligations exhaust any right, power or remedy or proceed against any Person under any of the Loan Documents or any other documents relating to the Guaranteed Obligations or any other agreement or instrument referred to therein, or against any other Person under any other guarantee of, or security for, any of the Obligations.

11.03 Reinstatement.

Neither the Guarantors’ obligations hereunder nor any remedy for the enforcement thereof shall be impaired, modified, changed or released in any manner whatsoever by an impairment, modification, change, release or limitation of the liability of the Borrower, by reason of the Borrower’s bankruptcy or insolvency or by reason of

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the invalidity or unenforceability of all or any portion of the Guaranteed Obligations. The obligations of the Guarantors under this Article XI shall be automatically reinstated if and to the extent that for any reason any payment by or on behalf of any Person in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations is rescinded or must be otherwise restored by any holder of any of the Obligations, whether as a result of any proceedings pursuant to any Debtor Relief Law or otherwise, and each Guarantor agrees that it will indemnify the Administrative Agent and each holder of Guaranteed Obligations on demand for all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses (including all reasonable fees, expenses and disbursements of any law firm or other outside counsel incurred by the Administrative Agent) incurred by the Administrative Agent or such holder of Guaranteed Obligations in connection with such rescission or restoration, including any such costs and expenses incurred in defending against any claim alleging that such payment constituted a preference, fraudulent transfer or similar payment under any Debtor Relief Law.

11.04 Certain Waivers.

Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that (a) the guaranty given hereby may be enforced without the necessity of resorting to or otherwise exhausting remedies in respect of any other security or collateral interests, and without the necessity at any time of having to take recourse against the Borrower hereunder or against any collateral securing the Guaranteed Obligations or otherwise, (b) it will not assert any right to require the action first be taken against the Borrower or any other Person (including any co-guarantor) or pursuit of any other remedy or enforcement any other right and (c) nothing contained herein shall prevent or limit action being taken against the Borrower hereunder, under the other Loan Documents or the other documents and agreements relating to the Guaranteed Obligations or from foreclosing on any security or collateral interests relating hereto or thereto, or from exercising any other rights or remedies available in respect thereof, if neither the Borrower nor the Guarantors shall timely perform their obligations, and the exercise of any such rights and completion of any such foreclosure proceedings shall not constitute a discharge of the Guarantors’ obligations hereunder unless as a result thereof, the Guaranteed Obligations shall have been paid in full and the commitments relating thereto shall have expired or been terminated, it being the purpose and intent that the Guarantors’ obligations hereunder be absolute, irrevocable, independent and unconditional under all circumstances.

11.05 Remedies.

The Guarantors agree that, to the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, as between the Guarantors, on the one hand, and the Administrative Agent and the holders of the Guaranteed Obligations, on the other hand, the Guaranteed Obligations may be declared to be forthwith due and payable as provided in Section 8.02 (and shall be deemed to have become automatically due and payable in the circumstances provided in Section 8.02) for purposes of Section 11.01, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition preventing such declaration (or preventing the Guaranteed Obligations from becoming automatically due and payable) as against any other Person and that, in the event of such declaration (or the Guaranteed Obligations being deemed to have become automatically due and payable), the Guaranteed Obligations (whether or not due and payable by any other Person) shall forthwith become due and payable by the Guarantors for purposes of Section 11.01. The Guarantors acknowledge and agree that the Guaranteed Obligations are secured in accordance with the terms of the Collateral Documents and that the holders of the Guaranteed Obligations may exercise their remedies thereunder in accordance with the terms thereof.

11.06 Rights of Contribution.

The Guarantors hereby agree as among themselves that, in connection with payments made hereunder, each Guarantor shall have a right of contribution from each other Guarantor in accordance with Applicable Law. Such contribution rights shall be subordinate and subject in right of payment to the Guaranteed Obligations until such time as the Guaranteed Obligations have been irrevocably paid in full and the commitments relating thereto shall have expired or been terminated, and none of the Guarantors shall exercise any such contribution rights until the Guaranteed Obligations have been irrevocably paid in full and the commitments relating thereto shall have expired or been terminated.

11.07 Guaranty of Payment; Continuing Guaranty.

The guarantee in this Article XI is a guaranty of payment and performance, and not merely of collection, and is a continuing guarantee, and shall apply to all Guaranteed Obligations whenever arising.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first above written.


BORROWER:	PEBBLEBROOK HOTEL, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership
	By:	PEBBLEBROOK HOTEL TRUST, a Maryland Real Estate Investment Trust, its general partner

	By:	/s/ Raymond D. Martz
		Name:	Raymond D. Martz
		Title:	Chief Financial Officer


GUARANTORS:	PEBBLEBROOK HOTEL TRUST, a Maryland Real Estate Investment Trust
	By:	/s/ Raymond D. Martz
		Name:	Raymond D. Martz
		Title:	Chief Financial Officer


TARHEEL OWNER LLC, a Delaware limited liability company
By:	/s/ Raymond D. Martz
	Name:	Raymond D. Martz
	Title:	Vice President and Secretary

HUSKIES OWNER LLC, a Delaware limited liability company
By:	/s/ Raymond D. Martz
	Name:	Raymond D. Martz
	Title:	Vice President and Secretary

ORANGEMEN OWNER LLC, a Delaware limited liability company
By:	/s/ Raymond D. Martz
	Name:	Raymond D. Martz
	Title:	Vice President and Secretary

GATOR OWNER LLC, a Delaware limited liability company
By:	/s/ Raymond D. Martz
	Name:	Raymond D. Martz
	Title:	Vice President and Secretary


BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as Administrative Agent
By:	/s/ Roger C. Davis
	Name:	Roger C. Davis
	Title:	Senior Vice President


BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as a Lender, L/C Issuer and Swing Line Lender
By:	/s/ Roger C. Davis
	Name:	Roger C. Davis
	Title:	Senior Vice President


WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as a Lender
By:	/s/ Mark F. Monahan
	Name:	Mark F. Monahan
	Title:	Senior Vice President


US BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as a Lender
By:	/s/ Lori Y. Jensen
	Name:	Lori Y. Jensen
	Title:	Vice President


CREDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK, as a Lender
By:	/s/ Jason Chrein
	Name:	Jason Chrein
	Title:	Director

By:	/s/ Joseph A. Asciolla
	Name:	Joseph A. Asciolla
	Title:	Managing Director


ROYAL BANK OF CANADA, as a Lender
By:	/s/ Dan LePage
	Name:	Dan LePage
	Title:	Authorized Signatory


RAYMOND JAMES BANK, FSB, as a Lender
By:	/s/ James M. Armstrong
	Name:	James M. Armstrong
	Title:	Vice President


CHEVY CHASE BANK, a division of Capital One N.A., as a Lender
By:	/s/ Paula W. Simon
	Name:	Paula W. Simon
	Title:	Vice President

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