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EX-10.1 - FIRST AMENDMENT TO AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT - DUNE ENERGY INCd418016dex101.htm

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the

Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): September 25, 2012

 

 

DUNE ENERGY, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   000-27897   95-4737507

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation)

 

(Commission

File Number)

 

(I.R.S Employer

Identification No.)

 

Two Shell Plaza

777 Walker Street, Suite 2300

Houston, Texas

  77002
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (713) 229-6300

NOT APPLICABLE

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

 

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2 below):

 

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Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

On September 25, 2012, Dune Energy, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into the First Amendment to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement among the Company, certain of the lenders party to the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of December 22, 2011 (the “Credit Agreement”), and Bank of Montreal as administrative agent for the lenders (the “Amendment to the Credit Agreement”).

Prior to the amendment, the Credit Agreement provided that the Company would not, as of the last day of any fiscal quarter, permit its ratio of Total Debt (as such term is defined therein, “Total Debt”) as of such day to EBITDAX for the immediately preceding four fiscal quarters ending on such day to be greater than 4.0 to 1.0. Among other items, the Amendment to the Credit Agreement provides that the Company will not, as of the last day of the fiscal quarter ending September 30, 2012, or December 31, 2012, permit its ratio of Total Debt as of such day to EBITDAX for the immediately preceding four fiscal quarters ending on such day to be greater than 5.0 to 1.0. On March 31, 2012, and thereafter, the Company will not, as of the last day of the fiscal quarter, permit its ratio of Total Debt as of such day to EBITDAX for the immediately preceding four fiscal quarters ending on such day to be greater than 4.0 to 1.0.

The foregoing description of the Amendment to the Credit Agreement is qualified in its entirety by reference to Amendment to the Credit Agreement which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Form 8-K.

 

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits

(d) Exhibits

 

Exhibit No.

  

Description

10.1    First Amendment to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement among the Company, certain of the lenders party to the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of December 22, 2011, and Bank of Montreal as administrative agent for the lenders


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

    DUNE ENERGY, INC.
Date: September 27, 2012   By:  

/s/ James A. Watt

  Name:   James A. Watt
  Title:   Chief Executive Officer


EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit No.

  

Description

10.1    First Amendment to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement among the Company, certain of the lenders party to the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of December 22, 2011, and Bank of Montreal as administrative agent for the lenders.