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Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
On October 28, 2020 (the “Issuance Date”), United Airlines, Inc. (the “Company”) and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as mortgagee (the “Mortgagee”), subordination agent under the Intercreditor Agreement (as defined below) and pass through trustee (the “Trustee”) under a certain pass through trust newly formed by the Company, entered into the Note Purchase Agreement, dated as of the Issuance Date (the “Note Purchase Agreement”).
Pursuant to the Note Purchase Agreement, on the Issuance Date, the Company issued for the benefit of the United Airlines Pass Through Trust 2020-1A (the “Trust”) a Series A equipment note (the “Equipment Note”) in the aggregate principal amount of $3,000,000,000 under the Trust Indenture and Mortgage, dated as of the Issuance Date, between the Company and the Mortgagee (the “Indenture”). The Equipment Note is initially secured by substantially all of the Company’s aircraft spare parts from time to time, as well as by a designated group of 99 spare engines and 352 aircraft owned by the Company.
The Equipment Note was purchased on the Issuance Date at a purchase price of 100% of the principal amount thereof using the proceeds of the offering of the United Airlines Pass Through Certificates, Series 2020-1A (the “Certificates”). The proceeds from the sale of the Equipment Note were used by the Company to repay in full on the Issuance Date the $2.0 billion aggregate principal amount outstanding under the term loan facility it entered into on March 9, 2020 with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent, and the lenders party thereto (the “Used Aircraft Facility”), the $500 million aggregate principal amount outstanding under the term loan facility it entered into on March 20, 2020 with Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as administrative agent, and the lenders party thereto (the “Spare Parts Facility”), and the $250 million aggregate principal amount outstanding under the term loan facility it entered into on April 7, 2020 with Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent, and the lenders party thereto (the “Spare Engines Facility” and together with the Used Aircraft Facility and the Spare Parts Facility, the “Bridge Facilities”). As a result of such repayment, the Bridge Facilities were terminated on October 28, 2020. The Company will use the proceeds from the sale of the Equipment Note not used in connection with the repayment of the Bridge Facilities to pay fees and expenses relating to the offering of the Certificates and for the Company’s general corporate purposes.
From time to time, the lenders under the Bridge Facilities or their affiliates have performed and are performing investment banking and advisory services for, and have provided and are providing general financing and banking services to, the Company and its affiliates. In particular, affiliates of the lenders under the Bridge Facilities acted as underwriters in the offering of the Certificates.
The obligations of the Company under each of the Used Aircraft Facility, the Spare Parts Facility and the Spare Engines Facility were secured by liens on certain aircraft, spare parts and spare engines, respectively. Upon issuance of the Certificates and the Equipment Note and payment by the Company of amounts due under the Bridge Facilities, the liens on the collateral securing such applicable Bridge Facility were released, including liens on assets that serve as collateral under the Equipment Note.
The Equipment Note bears interest at a rate per annum of 5.875%. Interest on the Equipment Note is payable quarterly on January 15, April 15, July 15 and October 15 of each year, beginning January 15, 2021. Principal payments on the Equipment Note are scheduled on January 15, April 15, July 15 and October 15 of each year, beginning on January 15, 2021, with the final payment due on October 15, 2027. Payments on the Equipment Note held for the benefit of the Trust will be passed through to the holders of the Certificates, subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of the Issuance Date, among the Trustee, Goldman Sachs Bank USA, Barclays Bank PLC and Morgan Stanley Bank, N.A., as liquidity providers, and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as subordination agent and trustee (the “Intercreditor Agreement”).
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Pursuant to the Indenture, the Company is required to deliver to the Mortgagee semiannually separate appraisals of each of the following included in the collateral: (i) the spare parts, (ii) the spare engines, (iii) the aircraft less than 20 years old as of August 31, 2020 (the “Tier I Aircraft”) and (iv) the aircraft 20 years or older as of such date and certain specified models of aircraft regardless of age (the “Tier II Aircraft”). If the loan to value ratio determined pursuant to such appraisals of any of the following three groups of collateral (each, a “Collateral Group”): (i) the spare parts and spare engines, collectively, (ii) the Tier I Aircraft or (iii) the Tier II Aircraft, is greater than the specified maximum loan to value ratio applicable to such Collateral Group (an “LTV Breach”), the Company will be required to do one or more of the following, which in the aggregate cures such LTV Breach:
| (a) | grant a security interest in certain additional collateral; |
| (b) | deposit with the Mortgagee cash or certain permitted investments as additional collateral; or |
| (c) | pay to the Mortgagee not less than the difference between the specified minimum collateral value for the applicable Collateral Group and the appraised value of the applicable Collateral Group, to be applied to redeem the Equipment Note. |
Maturity of the Equipment Note may be accelerated upon the occurrence of certain events of default, including failure by the Company (in some cases after notice or the expiration of a grace period, or both) to make payments under the Indenture when due or to comply with certain covenants, as well as certain bankruptcy events involving the Company.
The Certificates were registered for offer and sale pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), under the Company’s automatic shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-221865) (the “Registration Statement”). The Certificates were offered pursuant to a final Prospectus Supplement of the Company, dated October 20, 2020, to the Prospectus, dated December 1, 2017 (the “Prospectus Supplement”).
The foregoing description of these agreements and instruments is qualified in its entirety by reference to these agreements and instruments, copies of which are filed herewith as exhibits and are incorporated by reference herein. For a more detailed description of the agreements and instruments entered into by the Company with respect to the Certificates, see the disclosure under the captions “Description of the Certificates”, “Description of the Liquidity Facilities”, “Description of the Intercreditor Agreement”, “Description of the Collateral and the Appraisals”, “Description of the Equipment Note”, “Description of the Security Documents” and “Underwriting” contained in the Prospectus Supplement, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 22, 2020 pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act, which disclosure is hereby incorporated herein by reference.
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Item 1.02 Termination of a Material Definitive Agreement.
The information set forth in Item 1.01 above with respect to the termination of the Bridge Facilities is hereby incorporated by reference in this Item 1.02.
Item 2.03 Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant.
The information set forth in Item 1.01 above is hereby incorporated by reference in this Item 2.03.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits. The documents listed as exhibits below are filed as exhibits with reference to the Registration Statement. The Registration Statement and the Prospectus Supplement relate to the offering of the Certificates.
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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.
| UNITED AIRLINES, INC. | ||
| Date: November 3, 2020 | By: | /s/ Gerald Laderman |
| Name: Gerald Laderman | ||
| Title: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | ||
Exhibit 1.1
EXECUTION VERSION
UNITED AIRLINES, INC.
$3,000,000,000
United Airlines Pass Through Certificates, Series 2020-1A
UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
October 20, 2020
GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. LLC
As representative of the several underwriters named in Schedule II hereto
c/o Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC
200 West Street
New York, New York 10282-2198
Ladies and Gentlemen:
United Airlines, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), proposes that Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee under the Class A Trust (as defined below) (the “Class A Trustee”), issue and sell to the underwriters named in Schedule II hereto United Airlines Pass Through Certificates, Series 2020-1A (the “Class A Certificates”) in the aggregate face amount and with the interest rate and final expected distribution date set forth on Schedule I hereto on the terms and conditions stated herein.
The Class A Certificates will be issued pursuant to a Pass Through Trust Agreement, dated as of October 3, 2012 (the “Basic Agreement”), between the Company and the Class A Trustee, as supplemented by a Pass Through Trust Supplement to be dated as of the Closing Date (as defined below) (the “Class A Trust Supplement”), between the Company and the Class A Trustee (the Basic Agreement as supplemented by the Class A Trust Supplement being referred to herein as the “Class A Pass Through Trust Agreement” or “Designated Agreement”). The Class A Trust Supplement is related to the creation and administration of United Airlines Pass Through Trust 2020-1A (the “Class A Trust”). As used herein, unless the context otherwise requires, the term “Underwriters” shall mean the firms named as Underwriters in Schedule II, and the term “Representative” shall mean Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (“GS”), on behalf of the Underwriters.
The cash proceeds from the offering of Class A Certificates by the Class A Trust will be used by the Class A Trust to purchase a Series A Equipment Note (as defined in the Note Purchase Agreement (as defined below)) on the Closing Date pursuant to a Note Purchase Agreement to be dated as of the Closing Date (the “Note Purchase Agreement”), among the Company and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Mortgagee (as defined in the Note
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Purchase Agreement), as Class A Trustee of the Class A Trust and as Subordination Agent (as hereinafter defined). The Company’s obligations under the Series A Equipment Note will initially be secured by substantially all of the Company’s aircraft spare parts from time to time (the “Spare Parts”), as well as a designated group of 99 spare engines (the “Spare Engines”) and 352 Aircraft (the “Aircraft” and, together with the Spare Parts and the Spare Engines, the “Collateral”) owned by the Company and identified in the Time of Sale Prospectus.
Certain amounts of interest payable on the Class A Certificates issued by the Class A Trust will be entitled to the benefits of a liquidity facility. Goldman Sachs Bank USA (the “Liquidity Provider”), will enter into a revolving credit agreement with respect to the Class A Trust (the “Liquidity Facility”) to be dated as of the Closing Date for the benefit of the holders of the Class A Certificates issued by the Class A Trust. The Liquidity Provider and the holders of the Class A Certificates will be entitled to the benefits of an Intercreditor Agreement to be dated as of the Closing Date (the “Intercreditor Agreement”) among the Class A Trustee, Wilmington Trust, National Association, as subordination agent and trustee thereunder (the “Subordination Agent”), and the Liquidity Provider.
The Company has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) an automatic shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-221865) relating to securities, including pass through certificates (the “Shelf Securities”), to be issued from time to time by the Company. The registration statement (including the respective exhibits thereto and the respective documents filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (collectively, the “Exchange Act”), that are incorporated by reference therein), as amended to and including the date of this Underwriting Agreement (the “Agreement”), including the information (if any) deemed to be part of the registration statement pursuant to Rule 430B under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (collectively, the “Securities Act”) (and the Underwriters confirm that the first contract of sale of the Class A Certificates by the Underwriters was made on the date of this Agreement), is hereinafter referred to as the “Registration Statement”, and the related prospectus covering the Shelf Securities dated December 1, 2017 filed as part of the Registration Statement, in the form in which it has most recently been filed with the Commission on or prior to the date of this Agreement, is hereinafter referred to as the “Basic Prospectus”. The Basic Prospectus, as supplemented by the final prospectus supplement specifically relating to the Class A Certificates in the form as first filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act in accordance with Section 4(d) hereof is hereinafter referred to as the “Prospectus”, and the term “preliminary prospectus” means the preliminary form of the Prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act. For purposes of this Agreement, (i) “free writing prospectus” has the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the Securities Act and (ii) “Time of Sale Prospectus” means the preliminary prospectus together with the free writing prospectus identified in Item 1 of Schedule IV hereto. As used herein, the terms “Registration Statement”, “Basic Prospectus”, “preliminary prospectus”, “Time of Sale Prospectus” and “Prospectus” shall include the documents, if any, incorporated by reference therein. The terms “supplement”, “amendment” and “amend” as used herein with respect to the Registration Statement, the Basic Prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus, the Prospectus, any preliminary prospectus or any free writing prospectus shall include all documents subsequently filed by the
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Company with the Commission pursuant to the Exchange Act and incorporated by reference therein.
Capitalized terms used but not defined in this Agreement shall have the meanings specified therefor in the Class A Pass Through Trust Agreement, the Note Purchase Agreement or the Intercreditor Agreement; provided that, as used in this Agreement, the term “Operative Agreements” shall mean the Intercreditor Agreement, the Liquidity Facility, the Designated Agreement, the Note Purchase Agreement, the Security Agreements (as defined in the Note Purchase Agreement) and the Series A Equipment Note.
1. Representations and Warranties. (a) The Company represents and warrants to, and agrees with each Underwriter that:
(i) The Company meets the requirements for use of Form S-3 under the Securities Act; the Registration Statement has become effective; and, on the original effective date of the Registration Statement, the Registration Statement complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act; no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement is in effect, and no proceedings for such purpose are pending before or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened by the Commission. The Registration Statement is an “automatic shelf registration statement” (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) and the Company is a “well-known seasoned issuer” (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) eligible to use the Registration Statement as an automatic shelf registration statement, and the Company has not received notice that the Commission objects to the use of the Registration Statement as an automatic shelf registration statement. The Registration Statement does not, as of the date hereof, include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading. As of its date and on the Closing Date, the Prospectus, as amended and supplemented, if the Company shall have made any amendment or supplement thereto, does not and will not include an untrue statement of a material fact and does not and will not omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The Registration Statement, as of the date hereof, complies and the Prospectus complies, and as amended or supplemented, if applicable, will comply in all material respects with the Securities Act and the applicable rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder. The Time of Sale Prospectus did not, as of 3:15 P.M., Eastern Time, on the date of this Agreement (the “Applicable Time”), and the Time of Sale Prospectus, as then amended or supplemented by the Company, if applicable, will not as of the Closing Date, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. Any information included in any “issuer free writing prospectus” (as defined in Rule 433(h) under the Securities Act) used in connection with the offering of the Class A Certificates does not conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement, including any prospectus or prospectus supplement that is part of the Registration Statement (including pursuant to Rule 430B under the Securities Act) and not superseded or modified and, when taken together with the Time of Sale Prospectus,
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as amended and supplemented, each such “issuer free writing prospectus”, as amended and supplemented, did not as of the Applicable Time, and will not as of the Closing Date, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The preceding sentences do not apply to statements in or omissions from the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus based upon (A) written information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter through the Representative expressly for use therein or (B) statements or omissions in that part of each Registration Statement which shall constitute the Statement of Eligibility of the Trustee under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the “Trust Indenture Act”), on Form T-1.
(ii) The documents incorporated by reference in the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 under the Securities Act, at the time they were filed with the Commission or hereafter, during the period mentioned in Section 4(a) hereof, are filed with the Commission, complied or will comply, as the case may be, in all material respects with the requirements of the Exchange Act.
(iii) The Company is not an “ineligible issuer” in connection with the offering of the Class A Certificates pursuant to Rules 164, 405 and 433 under the Securities Act. Any free writing prospectus that the Company is required to file pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act has been, or will be, filed with the Commission in accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act and the applicable rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder. Each free writing prospectus that the Company has filed in connection with the offering of the Class A Certificates, or is required to file in connection with the offering of the Class A Certificates, pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act complies or will comply in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the applicable rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder. Except for the free writing prospectuses, if any, identified in Schedule IV hereto, the Company has not prepared, used or referred to, any free writing prospectus in connection with the offering of the Class A Certificates.
(iv) The Company has been duly incorporated and is an existing corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, with corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its property and to conduct its business as described in the Time of Sale Prospectus; and the Company is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation in good standing in all other jurisdictions in which its ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except where the failure to be so qualified would not have a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise), business, properties or results of operations of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries taken as a whole (a “United Material Adverse Effect”).
(v) Air Micronesia, LLC (the “Subsidiary”) has been duly formed and is a limited liability company in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its formation, with limited liability company power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and to conduct its business as described in the Time of Sale Prospectus; and the Subsidiary is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation in good standing
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in all other jurisdictions in which its ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except where the failure to be so qualified would not have a United Material Adverse Effect; all of the membership interests of the Subsidiary have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and nonassessable; and, except as described in the Time of Sale Prospectus, the Subsidiary’s membership interests are owned by the Company, directly or through subsidiaries, free from liens, encumbrances and defects.
(vi) Except as described in the Time of Sale Prospectus, the Company is not in default in the performance or observance of any obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any contract, indenture, mortgage, loan agreement, note, lease or other instrument to which it is a party or by which it may be bound or to which any of its properties may be subject, except for such defaults that would not have a United Material Adverse Effect. The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the Operative Agreements to which the Company is or will be a party and the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated herein and therein have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action of the Company and will not result in any breach of any of the terms, conditions or provisions of, or constitute a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance (other than any lien, charge or encumbrance created under any Operative Agreement) upon any property or assets of the Company pursuant to any indenture, loan agreement, contract, mortgage, note, lease or other instrument to which the Company is a party or by which the Company may be bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company is subject, which breach, default, lien, charge or encumbrance, individually or in the aggregate, would have a United Material Adverse Effect, nor will any such execution, delivery or performance result in any violation of the provisions of the charter or by-laws of the Company or any statute, any rule, regulation or order of any governmental agency or body or any court having jurisdiction over the Company.
(vii) No consent, approval, authorization or order of, or filing with, any governmental agency or body or any court is required for the valid authorization, execution and delivery by the Company of this Agreement and the Operative Agreements to which it is or will be a party and for the consummation of the transactions contemplated herein and therein, except (x) such as may be required under the Securities Act, the Trust Indenture Act, the securities or “blue sky” or similar laws of the various states and of foreign jurisdictions or rules and regulations of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”), and (y) filings or recordings with the Federal Aviation Administration (the “FAA”) and under the Uniform Commercial Code (the “UCC”) or other laws in effect in any applicable jurisdiction governing the perfection of security interests, which filings or recordings referred to in this clause (y), with respect to any Security Agreement, shall have been made, or duly presented for filing or recordation, or shall be in the process of being duly filed or filed for recordation, on or prior to the Closing Date (as defined in the Note Purchase Agreement) for the Collateral.
(viii) On the Closing Date, after giving effect to the execution and delivery of the Spare Parts Security Agreement by the parties thereto, the filing of the Financing
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Statements pursuant to the UCC and the filing of the Spare Parts Security Agreement with the FAA, the Loan Trustee shall have a perfected security interest in Spare Parts Collateral with an Aggregate Appraised Value as of the Closing Date of at least 25% of the Aggregate Appraised Value of the Owner’s Spare Parts and Appliances available for use in the Owner’s fleet.
(ix) This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and the Operative Agreements to which the Company will be a party have been duly authorized and will be duly executed and delivered by the Company on or prior to the Closing Date.
(x) The Operative Agreements to which the Company is or will be a party, when duly executed and delivered by the Company, assuming that such Operative Agreements have been duly authorized, executed and delivered by, and constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of, each other party thereto, will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company enforceable in accordance with their terms, except (w) as enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency (including, without limitation, all laws relating to fraudulent transfers), reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws now or hereafter in effect relating to creditors’ rights generally, (x) as enforcement thereof is subject to general principles of equity (regardless of whether enforcement is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law), (y) that the enforceability of the Security Agreements may also be limited by applicable laws which may affect the remedies provided therein but which do not affect the validity of the Security Agreements or make such remedies inadequate for the practical realization of the benefits intended to be provided thereby and (z) with respect to indemnification and contribution provisions, as enforcement thereof may be limited by applicable law. The Basic Agreement has been duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act. The Class A Certificates and the Designated Agreement to which the Company is, or is to be, a party, will, upon execution and delivery thereof, conform in all material respects to the descriptions thereof in the Time of Sale Prospectus.
(xi) The consolidated financial statements of the Company incorporated by reference in the Time of Sale Prospectus, together with the related notes thereto, present fairly in all material respects the financial position of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries at the dates indicated and the consolidated results of operations and cash flows of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries for the periods specified. Such financial statements have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods involved, except as otherwise stated therein and except that unaudited financial statements do not have all required footnotes. The financial statement schedules, if any, incorporated by reference in the Time of Sale Prospectus present the information required to be stated therein.
(xii) The Company is a “citizen of the United States” within the meaning of Section 40102(a)(15) of Title 49 of the United States Code, as amended, and holds an air carrier operating certificate issued pursuant to Chapter 447 of Title 49 of the United
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States Code, as amended, for aircraft capable of carrying 10 or more individuals or 6,000 pounds or more of cargo. All of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and non-assessable.
(xiii) On or prior to the Closing Date, the issuance of the Class A Certificates will be duly authorized by the Class A Trustee. When duly executed, authenticated, issued and delivered in the manner provided for in the Class A Pass Through Trust Agreement and sold and paid for as provided in this Agreement, the Class A Certificates will be legally and validly issued and will be entitled to the benefits of the Class A Pass Through Trust Agreement.
(xiv) Except as disclosed in the Time of Sale Prospectus, the Company and the Subsidiary have good and marketable title to all real properties and all other properties and assets owned by them, in each case free from liens, encumbrances and defects except where the failure to have such title would not have a United Material Adverse Effect; and except as disclosed in the Time of Sale Prospectus, the Company and the Subsidiary hold any leased real or personal property under valid and enforceable leases with no exceptions that would have a United Material Adverse Effect.
(xv) Except as disclosed in the Time of Sale Prospectus, there is no action, suit or proceeding before or by any governmental agency or body or court, domestic or foreign, now pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any of their respective properties that individually (or in the aggregate in the case of any class of related lawsuits), could reasonably be expected to result in a United Material Adverse Effect or that could reasonably be expected to materially and adversely affect the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the Operative Agreements.
(xvi) Except as disclosed in the Time of Sale Prospectus, no labor dispute with the employees of the Company or any subsidiary exists or, to the knowledge of the Company, is imminent that could reasonably be expected to have a United Material Adverse Effect.
(xvii) Each of the Company and the Subsidiary has all necessary consents, authorizations, approvals, orders, certificates and permits of and from, and has made all declarations and filings with, all federal, state, local and other governmental authorities, all self-regulatory organizations and all courts and other tribunals, to own, lease, license and use its properties and assets and to conduct its business in the manner described in the Prospectus, except to the extent that the failure to so obtain, declare or file would not have a United Material Adverse Effect.
(xviii) Except as disclosed in the Time of Sale Prospectus, (x) neither the Company nor the Subsidiary is in violation of any statute, rule, regulation, decision or order of any governmental agency or body or any court, domestic or foreign, relating to the use, disposal or release of hazardous or toxic substances (collectively, “environmental laws”), owns or operates any real property contaminated with any substance that is
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subject to any environmental laws, or is subject to any claim relating to any environmental laws, which violation, contamination, liability or claim individually or in the aggregate is reasonably expected to have a United Material Adverse Effect, and (y) the Company is not aware of any pending investigation which might lead to such a claim that is reasonably expected to have a United Material Adverse Effect.
(xix) Ernst & Young LLP, who examined and issued an auditors’ report with respect to the consolidated financial statements of the Company and the financial statement schedules of the Company, if any, included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, is an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the Company and its subsidiaries within the meaning of the Securities Act.
(xx) The preliminary prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act and included in the Time of Sale Prospectus, complied when so filed in all material respects with the Securities Act and the applicable rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.
(xxi) Neither the Company nor the Class A Trust is an “investment company”, or an entity “controlled” by an “investment company”, within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”), in each case required to register under the Investment Company Act; and after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Class A Certificates and the application of the proceeds thereof as described in the Prospectus, the Class A Trust will not be an “investment company”, or an entity “controlled” by an “investment company”, as defined in the Investment Company Act, required to register under the Investment Company Act and in making the foregoing determinations as to the Class A Trust, each of the Company and the Class A Trust is relying upon an analysis that the Class A Trust will not be deemed to be an “investment company” under Rule 3a-7 promulgated by the Commission, under the Investment Company Act, although other exemptions or exclusions may be available to the Class A Trust. The Class A Trust is not a “covered fund” as defined in the final regulations issued December 10, 2013, implementing the “Volcker Rule” (Section 619 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act).
(xxii) This Agreement and the other Operative Agreements to which the Company is or will be a party will, upon execution and delivery thereof, conform in all material respects to the descriptions thereof contained in the Time of Sale Prospectus.
(xxiii) None of BK Associates, Inc., ICF SH&E Limited or mba Aviation (each, an “Appraiser” and, collectively, the “Appraisers”) is an affiliate of the Company or, to the knowledge of the Company, has a substantial interest, direct or indirect, in the Company. To the knowledge of the Company, none of the officers and directors of any of such Appraisers is connected with the Company or any of its affiliates as an officer, employee, promoter, underwriter, trustee, partner, director or person performing similar functions.
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(xxiv) The Company (A) makes and keeps books, records and accounts, which, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the material assets of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries and (B) maintains a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurances that (1) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (2) transactions are recorded as necessary: (x) to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles or any other criteria applicable to such statements and (y) to maintain accountability for assets; (3) access to material assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; and (4) the recorded accountability for material assets is compared with the existing material assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences.
(xxv) The interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement fairly presents the information called for in all material respects and has been prepared in accordance with the Commission's rules and guidelines applicable thereto.
(xxvi) Except as set forth in the Time of Sale Prospectus, (A) the Company maintains required “disclosure controls and procedures” (as defined in Rule 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act); and (B) the Company’s “disclosure controls and procedures” are designed to reasonably ensure that material information (both financial and non-financial) required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that it files or furnishes under the Exchange Act is communicated to the Company’s management as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure and to make the certifications of the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial Officer of the Company required under the Exchange Act with respect to such reports.
(xxvii) The Company and its subsidiaries have instituted and maintained policies and procedures designed to promote and achieve compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, and to the knowledge of the Company, the Company and its subsidiaries have conducted their businesses in compliance with such policies and procedures.
(xxviii) The operations of the Company and its subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in material compliance with all applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements, including those of the Bank Secrecy Act, as amended by Title III of the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (USA PATRIOT Act), the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any U.S. governmental agency (collectively, the “Anti-Money Laundering Laws”), and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries with respect to the Anti-Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the best knowledge of the Company, threatened.
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(xxix) None of the Company nor any of its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company Entity”) or, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, executive officer or affiliate of the Company Entity is an individual or entity (“Person”) that is itself, or is controlled by a Person that is currently the subject of any sanctions administered or enforced by the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) (collectively, “Sanctions”); and the Company represents and covenants that the Company will not, directly or indirectly, use the proceeds of the offering of the Class A Certificates, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other Person (x) to fund or facilitate any activities or business of or with any Person or in any country or territory that, at the time of such funding or facilitation, is the subject of Sanctions, or (y) in any other manner that will result in a violation of Sanctions by any Person (including any Person participating in this offering, whether as underwriter, advisor, investor or otherwise).
(xxx) Since January 1, 2019, except as would not be expected to have a United Material Adverse Effect or as publicly disclosed by the Company or any subsidiary, or in the Time of Sale Prospectus, to the Company’s knowledge, (i)(x) there has been no material security breach or other material compromise of or relating to the Company’s or any Relevant Subsidiary’s information technology and computer systems, networks, hardware, software, data (including the data of their respective customers, employees, suppliers, vendors and any third party data maintained by or on behalf of them), equipment or technology (collectively, “IT Systems and Data”) and (y) the Company has not been notified of, and has no knowledge of, any event or condition that could reasonably be expected to result in any material security breach or other material compromise to the Company’s or any Relevant Subsidiary’s IT Systems and Data; (ii) the Company and the Relevant Subsidiaries are presently in material compliance with all applicable laws or statutes and all judgments, orders, rules and regulations of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority (in each case having competent jurisdiction), and material contractual obligations relating to the privacy and security of IT Systems and Data and, to the extent reasonably practicable, to the protection of such IT Systems and Data from unauthorized use, access, misappropriation or modification; and (iii) the Company and the Relevant Subsidiaries have implemented backup and disaster recovery technology consistent with industry standards and practices. For purposes of this Section 1(a)(xxix), “Relevant Subsidiary” means any subsidiary of the Company that owns or licenses, in its own name, IT Systems and Data.
(c) The parties agree that any certificate signed by a duly authorized officer of the Company and delivered to an Underwriter, or to counsel for the Underwriters, on the Closing Date and in connection with this Agreement or the offering of the Class A Certificates, shall be deemed a representation and warranty by (and only by) the Company to the Underwriters as to the matters covered thereby.
2. Purchase, Sale and Delivery of Class A Certificates. (a) On the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements herein contained, but subject to the terms and the conditions herein set forth, the Company agrees to cause the Class A Trustee to sell to each Underwriter, and each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Class
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A Trustee, at a purchase price of 100% of the face amount thereof, the aggregate face amount of Class A Certificates set forth opposite the name of such Underwriter in Schedule II.
(b) The Company is advised by the Representative that the Underwriters propose to make a public offering of the Class A Certificates as set forth in the Prospectus as soon after this Agreement has been entered into as in the judgment of the Representative is advisable. The Company is further advised by the Representative that the Class A Certificates are to be offered to the public initially at 100% of their face amount plus accrued interest, if any, from the date of issuance and to certain dealers selected by the Underwriters at concessions not in excess of the concessions set forth in the Prospectus, and that the Underwriters may allow, and such dealers may reallow, concessions not in excess of the concessions set forth in the Prospectus to certain other dealers. The Company acknowledges and agrees that the Underwriters may offer and sell the Securities to or through any affiliate of an Underwriter.
(c) As underwriting commission and other compensation to the Underwriters for their respective commitments and obligations hereunder in respect of the Class A Certificates, including their respective undertakings to distribute the Class A Certificates, the Company will pay to GS for the accounts of the Underwriters the amount set forth in Schedule III hereto, which amount shall be allocated among the Underwriters in the manner determined by GS and the Company. Such payment will be made by the Company on the Closing Date simultaneously with the issuance and sale of the Class A Certificates to the Underwriters. Payment of such compensation shall be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds.
(d) Delivery of and payment for the Class A Certificates shall be made at the offices of Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP at One Battery Park Plaza, New York, New York 10004 at 10:00 A.M. on October 28, 2020 or such other date, time and place as may be agreed upon by the Company and GS (such date and time of delivery and payment for the Class A Certificates being herein called the “Closing Date”). Delivery of the Class A Certificates issued by the Class A Trust shall be made to GS’s account at The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) for the respective accounts of the several Underwriters against payment by the Underwriters of the purchase price thereof. Payment of the purchase price for the Class A Certificates issued by the Class A Trust shall be made by the Underwriters by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the accounts and in the manner specified in writing by the Company on or prior to the Closing Date. The Class A Certificates issued by the Class A Trust shall be in the form of one or more fully registered global certificates, and shall be deposited with the Class A Trustee as custodian for DTC and registered in the name of Cede & Co.
(e) The Company agrees to have the Class A Certificates available for inspection and checking by the Representative in New York, New York not later than 1:00 P.M. on the business day prior to the Closing Date.
(f) It is understood that each Underwriter has authorized GS, on its behalf and for its account, to accept delivery of, receipt for, and make payment of the purchase price for, the Class A Certificates that it has agreed to purchase. GS, individually and not as a Representative, may (but shall not be obligated to) make payment of the purchase price for the Class A
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Certificates to be purchased by any Underwriter whose check or checks shall not have been received by the Closing Date.
3. Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The several obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Class A Certificates pursuant to this Agreement are subject to the following conditions:
(a) On the Closing Date, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have been issued under the Securities Act and no proceedings therefor shall have been instituted or threatened by the Commission.
(b) On the Closing Date, the Underwriters shall have received an opinion and negative assurance letter of Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, counsel for the Company, dated the Closing Date, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative.
(c) On the Closing Date, the Underwriters shall have received an opinion of the Senior Managing Counsel — Finance, Fleet & Loyalty of the Company, dated the Closing Date, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative.
(d) On the Closing Date, the Underwriters shall have received an opinion of Morris James LLP, counsel for Wilmington Trust, National Association, individually and as Mortgagee, Trustee and Subordination Agent, dated the Closing Date, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative.
(e) [Reserved]
(f) On the Closing Date, the Underwriters shall have received an opinion of Milbank LLP, special New York counsel for the Liquidity Provider, dated the Closing Date, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative.
(g) On the Closing Date, the Underwriters shall have received an opinion and negative assurance letter of Milbank LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, dated the Closing Date, with respect to the issuance and sale of the Class A Certificates, the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus, the Prospectus and other related matters as the Underwriters may reasonably require.
(h) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, there shall not have occurred any change, or any development or event involving a prospective change, in the condition (financial or other), business, properties or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise that, in the judgment of the Representative, is material and adverse and that makes it, in the judgment of the Representative, impracticable to proceed with the completion of the public offering of the Class A Certificates on the terms and in the manner contemplated by the Time of Sale Prospectus.
(i) The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date a certificate, dated the Closing Date and signed by the President or any Vice President of the Company, to the
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effect that the representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Agreement are true and correct as of the Closing Date as if made on the Closing Date (except to the extent that they relate solely to an earlier date, in which case they shall be true and accurate as of such earlier date), that the Company has performed all its obligations to be performed hereunder on or prior to the Closing Date and that, subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, there shall not have occurred any material adverse change, or any development or event involving a prospective material adverse change, in the condition (financial or other), business, properties or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, except as set forth in or contemplated by the Time of Sale Prospectus.
(j) The Underwriters shall have received from Ernst & Young LLP (i) a letter, dated no earlier than the date hereof, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative, containing statements and information of the type ordinarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the preliminary prospectus and the Prospectus, and (ii) a letter, dated the Closing Date, which meets the above requirements, except that the specified date therein referring to certain procedures performed by Ernst & Young LLP will not be a date more than three business days prior to the Closing Date for purposes of this subsection.
(k) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement and prior to the Closing Date, (i) no downgrading shall have occurred in the corporate rating accorded to the Company by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization”, as such term is defined under Section 3(a)(62) under the Exchange Act and (ii) no such organization shall have publicly announced that it has under surveillance or review, or has changed its outlook with respect to, the corporate rating of the Company (other than an announcement with positive implications of a possible upgrading), it being understood that this clause (ii) shall not apply to any announcement made prior to the execution and delivery of this Agreement; provided further that clauses (i) and (ii) above shall not apply to any action taken by Moody’s Investor Service.
(l) Each of the Appraisers shall have furnished to the Underwriters a letter from such Appraiser, addressed to the Company and dated the Closing Date, confirming that such Appraiser and each of its directors and officers (i) is not an affiliate of the Company or any of its affiliates, (ii) does not have any substantial interest, direct or indirect, in the Company or any of its affiliates and (iii) is not connected with the Company or any of its affiliates as an officer, employee, promoter, underwriter, trustee, partner, director or person performing similar functions.
(m) At the Closing Date, each of the Operative Agreements shall have been duly executed and delivered by each of the parties thereto; and the representations and warranties of the Company contained in each of such executed Operative Agreements shall be true and correct as of the Closing Date (except to the extent that they relate solely to an earlier date, in which case they shall be true and correct as of such earlier date) and the Underwriters shall have received a certificate of the President or a Vice President of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to such effect.
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(n) On the Closing Date, the Class A Certificates shall have received the ratings indicated in the free writing prospectus identified as Item 2 in Schedule IV hereto from the nationally recognized statistical rating organizations named therein.
(o) On the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company contained herein shall be true and correct as if made on the Closing Date (except to the extent that they relate solely to an earlier date, in which case they shall be true and correct as of such earlier date); and the statements of the Company and their respective officers made in any certificates delivered pursuant to this Agreement on the Closing Date shall be true and correct on and as of the Closing Date.
The Company will furnish the Underwriters with such conformed copies of such opinions, certificates, letters and documents as the Underwriters may reasonably request.
4. Certain Covenants of the Company. The Company covenants with each Underwriter as follows:
(a) During the period described in the following sentence of this Section 4(a), the Company shall advise the Representative promptly of any proposal to amend or supplement the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus (except by documents filed under the Exchange Act) and will not effect such amendment or supplement (except by documents filed under the Exchange Act) without the consent of the Representative, which consent will not be unreasonably withheld. If, at any time after the public offering of the Class A Certificates, the Prospectus (or in lieu thereof the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) under the Securities Act) is required by law to be delivered in connection with sales of the Class A Certificates by an Underwriter or a dealer, any event shall occur as a result of which it is necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus so that the statements therein will not, in the light of the circumstances when the Prospectus (or in lieu thereof the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) under the Securities Act) is delivered to a purchaser, contain a material misstatement or omission, or if it is necessary to amend the Registration Statement or amend or supplement the Prospectus to comply with law, the Company shall prepare and furnish at its expense to the Underwriters and to the dealers (whose names and addresses the Representative will furnish to the Company) to which Class A Certificates may have been sold by the Representative on behalf of the Underwriters and to any other dealers upon request, either amendments or supplements to the Prospectus so that the statements in the Prospectus as so amended or supplemented will not, in the light of the circumstances when the Prospectus (or in lieu thereof the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) under the Securities Act) is delivered to a purchaser, contain a material misstatement or omission, or amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus so that the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, as so amended or supplemented, will comply with law and cause such amendments or supplements to be filed promptly with the Commission.
(b) During the period mentioned in paragraph (a) above, the Company shall notify each Underwriter immediately of (i) the effectiveness of any amendment to the Registration Statement, (ii) the transmittal to the Commission for filing of any supplement to the Prospectus or any document that would as a result thereof be incorporated by reference in the Prospectus, (iii) the receipt of any comments from the Commission with respect to the
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Registration Statement or the Prospectus, (iv) any request by the Commission to the Company for any amendment to the Registration Statement or any supplement to the Prospectus or for additional information relating thereto or to any document incorporated by reference in the Prospectus and (v) receipt by the Company of any notice of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, the suspension of the qualification of the Class A Certificates for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, or the institution or threatening of any proceeding for any of such purposes; and the Company agrees to use every reasonable effort to prevent the issuance of any such stop order and, if any such order is issued, to obtain the lifting thereof at the earliest possible moment and the Company shall endeavor (subject to the proviso to Section 4(g)), in cooperation with the Underwriters, to prevent the issuance of any such stop order suspending such qualification and, if any such order is issued, to obtain the lifting thereof at the earliest possible moment.
(c) During the period mentioned in paragraph (a) above, the Company will furnish to each Underwriter as many conformed copies of the Registration Statement (as originally filed), the Time of Sale Prospectus, the Prospectus, and all amendments and supplements to such documents (excluding all exhibits and documents filed therewith or incorporated by reference therein) and as many conformed copies of all consents and certificates of experts, in each case as soon as available and in such quantities as each Underwriter reasonably requests.
(d) Promptly following the execution of this Agreement, the Company will prepare a Prospectus that complies with the Securities Act and that sets forth the face amount of the Class A Certificates and their terms not otherwise specified in the preliminary prospectus or the Basic Prospectus included in the Registration Statement, the name of each Underwriter and the face amount of the Class A Certificates that each severally has agreed to purchase, the name of each Underwriter, if any, acting as a representative of the Underwriters in connection with the offering, the price at which the Class A Certificates are to be purchased by the Underwriters from the Class A Trustee, any initial public offering price, any selling concession and reallowance and any delayed delivery arrangements, and such other information as the Representative and the Company deem appropriate in connection with the offering of the Class A Certificates. The Company will timely transmit copies of the Prospectus to the Commission for filing pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act.
(e) The Company shall furnish to each Underwriter a copy of each free writing prospectus relating to the offering of the Class A Certificates prepared by or on behalf of, used by, or referred to by the Company and shall not use or refer to any proposed free writing prospectus to which the Representative reasonably objects.
(f) If the Time of Sale Prospectus or any “issuer free writing prospectus” is being used to solicit offers to buy the Class A Certificates at a time when a Prospectus is not yet available to prospective purchasers and any event shall occur or condition exist as a result of which it is necessary to amend or supplement the Time of Sale Prospectus or any “issuer free writing prospectus” in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances when it is delivered to a prospective purchaser, not misleading in any material respect, or if any event shall occur or condition exist as a result of which the Time of Sale Prospectus or any
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“issuer free writing prospectus” conflicts with the information contained in the Registration Statement then on file, or if it is necessary to amend or supplement the Time of Sale Prospectus or any “issuer free writing prospectus” to comply with applicable law, the Company shall forthwith prepare, file promptly with the Commission and furnish, at the Company’s expense, to the Underwriters and to the dealers (whose names and addresses the Representative will furnish to the Company) to which Class A Certificates may have been sold by the Representative on behalf of the Underwriters and to any other dealers upon request, either amendments or supplements to the Time of Sale Prospectus or such “issuer free writing prospectus” so that the statements in the Time of Sale Prospectus or such “issuer free writing prospectus” as so amended or supplemented will not, in the light of the circumstances when it is delivered to a prospective purchaser, be misleading in any material respect or so that the Time of Sale Prospectus or such “issuer free writing prospectus”, as so amended or supplemented, will no longer conflict with the Registration Statement, or so that the Time of Sale Prospectus or such “issuer free writing prospectus”, as amended or supplemented, will comply with applicable law.
(g) The Company shall, in cooperation with the Underwriters, endeavor to arrange for the qualification of the Class A Certificates for offer and sale under the applicable securities or “blue sky” laws of such jurisdictions in the United States as the Representative reasonably designates and will endeavor to maintain such qualifications in effect so long as required for the distribution of such Class A Certificates; provided that the Company shall not be required to (i) qualify as a foreign corporation or as a dealer in securities, (ii) file a general consent to service of process or (iii) subject itself to taxation in any such jurisdiction.
(h) During the period of ten years after the Closing Date, the Company will promptly furnish to each Underwriter, upon request, copies of all Annual Reports on Form 10-K and any definitive proxy statement of the Company (including any successor by merger of the Company) filed with the Commission; provided that (a) filing such documents with the Commission or (b) providing a website address at which such Annual Reports and any such definitive proxy statements may be accessed will satisfy this clause (h).
(i) If the third anniversary of the initial effective date of the Registration Statement occurs before all the Class A Certificates have been sold by the Underwriters, then prior to the third anniversary, the Company shall file a new shelf registration statement and take any other action necessary to permit the public offering of the Class A Certificates to continue without interruption, in which case references herein to the Registration Statement shall include the new registration statement as it shall become effective.
(j) Between the date of this Agreement and the Closing Date, the Company shall not, without the prior written consent of the Representative, offer, sell or enter into any agreement to sell (as public debt securities registered under the Securities Act (other than the Class A Certificates or a class of pass through certificates junior to the Class A Certificates and related equipment notes) or as debt securities which may be resold in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act in reliance on Rule 144A thereunder and which are marketed through the use of a disclosure document containing substantially the same information as a prospectus for similar debt securities registered under the Securities Act), any equipment notes, pass through certificates, equipment trust certificates or equipment purchase
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certificates secured by aircraft, spare engines or spare parts owned by the Company (or rights relating thereto).
(k) The Company shall prepare a final term sheet relating to the offering of the Class A Certificates, containing only information that describes the final terms of the Class A Certificates or the offering in a form consented to by the Representative and shall file such final term sheet within the period required by Rule 433(d)(5)(ii) under the Securities Act following the date the final terms have been established for the offering of the Class A Certificates.
(l) The Company shall use the proceeds from the sale of the Series A Equipment Note as described under the heading “Use of Proceeds” in the Time of Sale Prospectus.
5. Certain Covenants of the Underwriters. Each Underwriter represents, warrants and covenants that:
(a) [Reserved]
(b) It has not made and will not make any offer relating to the Class A Certificates that would constitute an issuer free writing prospectus; provided that this Section 5 shall not prevent any Underwriter from transmitting or otherwise making use of one or more customary “Bloomberg Screens” to offer the Class A Certificates or convey final pricing terms thereof that contain only information contained in the Time of Sale Prospectus.
6. Indemnification and Contribution. (a) The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter and the affiliates of each Underwriter who have, or are alleged to have, participated in the distribution of the Class A Certificates as underwriters, and each Person, if any, who controls such Underwriter, within the meaning of either Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, from and against any and all losses, claims, damages and liabilities (including, without limitation, any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by any Underwriter or any such controlling person in connection with defending or investigating any such action or claim) caused by any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus, any “issuer free writing prospectus” as defined in Rule 433(h) under the Securities Act, any “issuer information” that the Company has filed, or is required to file, pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act or the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, or caused by any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, except insofar as any of the aforementioned losses, claims, damages or liabilities are caused by any such untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission based upon information furnished to the Company in writing by any Underwriter through the Representative expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus, any issuer free writing prospectus or the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto (the “Underwriter Information”).
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(b) Each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its directors, each of its officers who signed the Registration Statement and each person, if any, who controls the Company, within the meaning of either Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, to the same extent as the foregoing indemnity from the Company to such Underwriter but only with reference to the Underwriter Information provided by such Underwriter.
(c) In case any proceeding (including any governmental investigation) shall be instituted involving any person in respect of which indemnity may be sought pursuant to either paragraph (a) or (b) above, such person (the “indemnified party”) shall promptly notify the person against whom such indemnity may be sought (the “indemnifying party”) in writing; but the omission so to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability which it may have to any indemnified party otherwise than under such paragraph. The indemnifying party, upon request of the indemnified party, shall, and the indemnifying party may elect to, retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party to represent the indemnified party and any others the indemnifying party may designate in such proceeding and the indemnifying party shall pay the fees and disbursements of such counsel related to such proceeding. In any such proceeding, any indemnified party shall have the right to retain its own counsel, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such indemnified party unless (i) the indemnifying party and the indemnified party shall have mutually agreed to the retention of such counsel, (ii) the named parties to any such proceeding (including any impleaded parties) include both the indemnifying party and the indemnified party and representation of both parties by the same counsel would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interests between them, or (iii) the indemnifying party shall have failed to retain counsel as required by the prior sentence to represent the indemnified party within a reasonable amount of time. It is understood that the indemnifying party shall not, in connection with any proceeding or related proceedings in the same jurisdiction, be liable for the fees and expenses of more than one separate firm (in addition to any local counsel) for all such indemnified parties and that all such fees and expenses shall be reimbursed as they are incurred. Such firm shall be designated in writing by the Representative in the case of parties indemnified pursuant to paragraph (a) above and by the Company in the case of parties indemnified pursuant to paragraph (b) above. The indemnifying party shall not be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent, but if settled with such consent or if there be a final judgment for the plaintiff, the indemnifying party agrees to indemnify the indemnified party from and against any loss or liability by reason of such settlement or judgment. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, if at any time an indemnified party shall have requested in writing an indemnifying party to reimburse the indemnified party for fees and expenses of counsel as contemplated by the second and third sentences of this paragraph (c), the indemnifying party agrees that it shall be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement is entered into more than 90 days after receipt by such indemnifying party of the aforesaid request and (ii) such indemnifying party shall not have reimbursed the indemnified party in accordance with such request prior to the date of such settlement, unless such fees and expenses are being disputed in good faith. The indemnifying party at any time may, subject to the last sentence of this paragraph (c), settle or compromise any proceeding described in this paragraph (c), at the expense of the indemnifying party. No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified party, effect any settlement of any pending or threatened proceeding
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in respect of which any indemnified party is or could have been a party and indemnity could have been sought hereunder by such indemnified party, unless such settlement (i) includes an unconditional release of such indemnified party from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such proceeding and (ii) does not include a statement as to, or an admission of, fault, culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of an indemnified party.
(d) To the extent the indemnification provided for in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section 6 is required to be made but is unavailable to an indemnified party or insufficient in respect of any losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to therein, then the applicable indemnifying party under such paragraph, in lieu of indemnifying such indemnified party thereunder, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company, on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other hand, from the offering of the Class A Certificates or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) above is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) above but also the relative fault of the Company, on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other hand, in connection with the statements or omissions that resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company, on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other hand, in connection with the offering of such Class A Certificates shall be deemed to be in the same respective proportions as the proceeds from the offering of such Class A Certificates received by the Class A Trust (before deducting expenses), less total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Underwriters, and the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Underwriters, in each case as set forth on the cover of the Prospectus, bear to the aggregate initial public offering price of such Class A Certificates. The relative fault of the Company, on the one hand, and of the Underwriters, on the other hand, shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company or information supplied by any Underwriters, and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission. The Underwriters’ respective obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 6 are several in proportion to the respective face amount of Class A Certificates they have purchased hereunder, and not joint.
(e) The Company and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just or equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 6 were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Underwriters were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation that does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to in paragraph (d) above. The amount paid or payable by an indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages and liabilities referred to in paragraph (d) above shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth above, any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 6, no Underwriter shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Class A Certificates underwritten by it and distributed to the public were offered to the public exceeds the amount of any damages that such Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue
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or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation.
(f) The indemnity and contribution provisions contained in this Section 6 and the representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Agreement shall remain operative and in full force and effect regardless of (i) any termination of this Agreement, (ii) any investigation made by or on behalf of any Underwriter or any person controlling any Underwriter or by or on behalf of the Company, its officers or directors or any person controlling the Company, and (iii) acceptance of and payment for any of the Class A Certificates. The remedies provided for in this Section 6 are not exclusive and shall not limit any rights or remedies which may otherwise be available to any indemnified party at law or in equity.
7. Default of Underwriters. If any Underwriter or Underwriters default in their obligations to purchase Class A Certificates hereunder and the aggregate face amount of the Class A Certificates that such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed to purchase does not exceed 10% of the total face amount of the Class A Certificates, the Representative may make arrangements satisfactory to the Company for the purchase of such Class A Certificates by other persons, including any of the non-defaulting Underwriters, but if no such arrangements are made by the Closing Date, the non-defaulting Underwriters shall be obligated severally, in proportion to their respective commitments hereunder, to purchase the Class A Certificates that such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed to purchase. If any Underwriter or Underwriters so default and the aggregate face amount of the Class A Certificates with respect to which such default or defaults occurs exceeds 10% of the total face amount of the Class A Certificates and arrangements satisfactory to the Representative and the Company for purchase of such Class A Certificates by other persons are not made within 36 hours after such default, this Agreement will terminate without liability on the part of any non-defaulting Underwriter or the Company, except as provided in Section 6. As used in this Agreement, the term “Underwriter” includes any person substituted for an Underwriter under this Section. Nothing herein will relieve a defaulting Underwriter from liability for its default.
8. Survival of Certain Representations and Obligations. The respective indemnities, agreements, representations, warranties and other statements of the Company or its officers and of the Underwriters set forth in or made pursuant to this Agreement will remain in full force and effect, regardless of any termination of this Agreement, any investigation, or statement as to the results thereof, made by or on behalf of any Underwriter, the Company or any of their respective representatives, officers or directors or any controlling person and will survive delivery of and payment for the Class A Certificates. If for any reason the purchase of the Class A Certificates by the Underwriters is not consummated, the Company shall remain responsible for the expenses to be paid or reimbursed by it pursuant to Section 10 hereof and the respective obligations of the Company and the Underwriters pursuant to Section 6 hereof shall remain in effect. If the purchase of the Class A Certificates by the Underwriters is not consummated for any reason other than solely because of the occurrence of the termination of the Agreement pursuant to Section 7 or 9 hereof, the Company will reimburse the Underwriters for all out-of-pocket expenses (including reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel) reasonably incurred
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by the Underwriters in connection with the offering of such Class A Certificates and comply with its obligations under Sections 6 and 10 hereof.
9. Termination. This Agreement shall be subject to termination by notice given by the Representative to the Company, if (a) after the execution and delivery of this Agreement and prior to the Closing Date (i) trading generally shall have been materially suspended or materially limited on or by, as the case may be, either of the New York Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ Global Market, (ii) trading of any securities of the Company or United Airlines Holdings, Inc. shall have been suspended on any exchange or in any over-the-counter market, (iii) a general moratorium on commercial banking activities in New York shall have been declared by either Federal or New York State authorities, (iv) there shall have occurred any attack on, or outbreak or escalation of hostilities or act of terrorism involving, the United States, or any change in financial markets or any calamity or crisis that, in each case, in the judgment of the Representative, is material and adverse or (v) there shall have occurred any major disruption of settlements of securities or clearance services in the United States that would materially impair settlement and clearance with respect to the Class A Certificates and (b) in the case of any of the events specified in clauses (a)(i) through (v), such event singly or together with any other such event makes it, in the judgment of the Representative, impracticable to market the Class A Certificates on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Time of Sale Prospectus.
10. Payment of Expenses. As between the Company and the Underwriters, the Company shall pay all expenses incidental to the performance of the Company’s obligations under this Agreement, including the following:
(i) expenses incurred in connection with (A) qualifying the Class A Certificates for offer and sale under the applicable securities or “blue sky” laws of such jurisdictions in the United States as the Representative reasonably designates (including filing fees and fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters in connection therewith), (B) endeavoring to maintain such qualifications in effect so long as required for the distribution of such Class A Certificates, (C) the review (if any) of the offering of the Class A Certificates by FINRA, (D) the determination of the eligibility of the Class A Certificates for investment under the laws of such jurisdictions as the Underwriters may designate and (E) the preparation and distribution of any blue sky or legal investment memorandum by Underwriters’ counsel;
(ii) expenses incurred in connection with the preparation and distribution to the Underwriters and the dealers (whose names and addresses the Underwriters will furnish to the Company) to which Class A Certificates may have been sold by the Underwriters on their behalf and to any other dealers upon request, either of (A) amendments to the Registration Statement or amendments or supplements to the Time of Sale Prospectus in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances when the Prospectus is delivered to a purchaser, not materially misleading or (B) amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus, or the Prospectus so that the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus, as so amended or supplemented, will comply with law and
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the expenses incurred in connection with causing such amendments or supplements to be filed promptly with the Commission, all as set forth in Section 4(a) hereof;
(iii) the expenses incurred in connection with the preparation, printing and filing of the Registration Statement (including financial statements and exhibits), as originally filed and as amended, any preliminary prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus, the Prospectus, any issuer free writing prospectus and any amendments and supplements to any of the foregoing, including the filing fees payable to the Commission relating to the Class A Certificates (within the time period required by Rule 456(b)(1), if applicable), and the cost of furnishing copies thereof to the Underwriters and dealers;
(iv) expenses incurred in connection with the preparation, printing and distribution of this Agreement, the Class A Certificates and the Operative Agreements;
(v) expenses incurred in connection with the delivery of the Class A Certificates to the Underwriters;
(vi) reasonable fees and disbursements of the counsel and accountants for the Company;
(vii) to the extent the Company is so required under any Operative Agreement to which it is a party, the fees and expenses of the Mortgagee, the Subordination Agent, the Class A Trustee and the Liquidity Provider and the reasonable fees and disbursements of their respective counsel;
(viii) fees charged by rating agencies for rating the Class A Certificates (including annual surveillance fees related to the Class A Certificates as long as they are outstanding);
(ix) all fees and expenses relating to appraisals of the Aircraft, the Spare Engines and the Spare Parts;
(x) all other reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Underwriters in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (excluding the fees and disbursements of Milbank LLP as counsel for the Underwriters); and
(xi) except as otherwise provided in the foregoing clauses (i) through (x), all other expenses incidental to the performance of the Company’s obligations under this Agreement, other than pursuant to Section 6.
11. Notices. All communications hereunder shall be in writing and effective only upon receipt and, if sent to the Underwriters, shall be mailed, delivered or sent by facsimile transmission and confirmed to the Underwriters c/o Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, 200 West Street, New York, New York 10282-2198, Attention: Registration Department; and, if sent to the Company, shall be mailed, delivered or sent by facsimile transmission and confirmed to it at 233 S. Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606, Attention: Treasurer and General Counsel, facsimile number (872) 825-0316; provided, however, that any notice to an Underwriter pursuant to
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Section 6 shall be sent by facsimile transmission or delivered and confirmed to such Underwriter.
12. [Reserved].
13. Recognition of the U.S. Special Resolution Regimes. In the event that any Underwriter that is a Covered Entity becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, the transfer from such Underwriter of this Agreement and any interest and obligation in or under this Agreement will be effective to the same extent as the transfer would be effective under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if this Agreement, and any such interest and obligation, were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States.
In the event that any Underwriter that is a Covered Entity or any BHC Act Affiliate of such Underwriter becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, Default Rights under this Agreement that may be exercised against such Underwriter are permitted to be exercised to no greater extent than such Default Rights could be exercised under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if this Agreement were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States.
As used in this Section 13:
“BHC Act Affiliate” has the meaning assigned to the term “affiliate” in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. 1841(k);
“Covered Entity” means any of the following: (i) a “covered entity” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 252.82(b); (ii) a “covered bank” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 47.3(b); or (iii) a “covered FSI” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 382.2(b);
“Default Right” has the meaning assigned to that term in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. §§ 252.81, 47.2 or 382.1 as applicable;
“U.S. Special Resolution Regime” means each of (i) the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder and (ii) Title II of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder.
14. Successors. This Agreement will inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective successors and the controlling persons referred to in Section 6, and no other person will have any right or obligation hereunder.
15. Authority of the Representative. The Representative is authorized to act for the several Underwriters in connection with this purchase, and any action under this Agreement taken by the Representative will be binding upon all the Underwriters.
16. Patriot Act. In accordance with the requirements of the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)), the Underwriters are required to
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obtain, verify and record information that identifies their respective clients, including the Company, which information may include the name and address of their respective clients, as well as other information that will allow the Underwriters to properly identify their respective clients.
17. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which will be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute one and the same Agreement.
18. APPLICABLE LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
19. Submission to Jurisdiction; Venue; Waiver of Jury Trial.
(a) Each party hereto hereby irrevocably agrees, accepts and submits itself to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New York in the City and County of New York and of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, in connection with any legal action, suit or proceeding with respect to any matter relating to or arising out of or in connection with this Agreement. Each of the parties to this Agreement agrees that a final action in any such suit or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other lawful manner.
(b) Each party hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, and agrees not to assert, by stay of motion, as a defense, or otherwise, in any legal action or proceeding brought hereunder in any of the above-named courts, that such action or proceeding is brought in an inconvenient forum, or that venue for the action or proceeding is improper.
(c) Each party hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any and all right to trial by jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement.
20. No Fiduciary Duty. The Company hereby acknowledges that in connection with the offering of the Class A Certificates: (a) the Underwriters have acted at arm’s length and are not agents of and owe no fiduciary duties to the Company or any other person, (b) the Underwriters owe the Company only those duties and obligations set forth in this Agreement and prior written agreements (to the extent not superseded by this Agreement), if any, and (c) the Underwriters may have interests that differ from those of the Company. The Company acknowledges that the Underwriters and their affiliates may provide financing or other services to parties whose interests may conflict with those of the Company and may enter into transactions in the Company’s common stock or other securities, including the Class A Certificates, for their accounts and their customers’ accounts. The Company acknowledges that it is not relying on the advice of the Underwriters for tax, legal or accounting matters, that it is seeking and will rely on the advice of its own professionals and advisors for such matters and that it will make an independent analysis and decision regarding the offering of the Class A Certificates based upon such advice. The Company agrees that it will determine, without
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reliance upon the Underwriters or their affiliates, the economic risks and merits, as well as the legal, regulatory, tax and accounting characterizations and consequences, of the transactions herein, and that it is capable of assuming the risks of entering into the transactions described herein. The Company acknowledges that the Underwriters are not in the business of providing tax advice and that it has received tax advice from its own tax advisors with appropriate expertise to assess any tax risks. The Company waives to the full extent permitted by applicable law any claims it may have against the Underwriters arising from an alleged breach of fiduciary duty in connection with the offering of the Class A Certificates.
21. Headings. The headings of the sections of this Agreement have been inserted for convenience of reference only and shall not be deemed a part of this Agreement.
22. Electronic Signatures. Any signature to this Agreement may be delivered by facsimile, electronic mail (including pdf) or any electronic signature complying with the U.S. federal ESIGN Act of 2000 or the New York Electronic Signature and Records Act or other transmission method and any counterpart so delivered shall be deemed to have been duly and validly delivered and be valid and effective for all purposes to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.
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If the foregoing is in accordance with the Underwriters’ understanding of our agreement, kindly sign and return to the Company one of the counterparts hereof, whereupon it will become a binding agreement among the Company and the Underwriters in accordance with its terms.
| Very truly yours, | ||
| UNITED AIRLINES, INC. | ||
| By: | /s/ Pamela S. Hendry | |
| Name: | Pamela S. Hendry | |
| Title: | Vice President and Treasurer | |
[Signature Page to Underwriting Agreement 2020-1A]
The foregoing Underwriting Agreement
is hereby confirmed and accepted
as of the date first above written
GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. LLC
For itself and on behalf of the several Underwriters listed in Schedule II hereto.
By: GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. LLC
| By: | /s/ Radha Tilton | ||
| Name: | Radha Tilton | ||
| Title: | Managing Director | ||
[Signature Page to Underwriting Agreement 2020-1A]
SCHEDULE I
United Airlines Pass Through Certificates, Series 2020-1A
| Certificate Designation |
Aggregate Face Amount |
Interest Rate | Final Expected Distribution Date | |||||||
| 2020-1A | $ | 3,000,000,000 | 5.875 | % | October 15, 2027 | |||||
SCHEDULE II
| Underwriters | 2020-1A | |||
| Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC | $ | 545,400,000 | ||
| Citigroup Global Markets Inc. | $ | 545,400,000 | ||
| Barclays Capital Inc. | $ | 545,400,000 | ||
| J.P. Morgan Securities LLC | $ | 545,400,000 | ||
| Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC | $ | 545,400,000 | ||
| BofA Securities, Inc. | $ | 273,000,000 | ||
| $ | 3,000,000,000 | |||
SCHEDULE III
| Underwriting commission | ||
| and other compensation: | $30,000,000 | |
| Closing date, time and location: | October 28, 2020 | |
| 10:00 a.m., New York time | ||
| Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP | ||
| One Battery Park Plaza | ||
| New York, New York 10004 |
SCHEDULE IV
Free Writing Prospectuses
| 1. | Free writing prospectus dated October 20, 2020 (pricing supplement) in the form attached hereto as Annex A. |
| 2. | Free writing prospectus in the form of the net roadshow investor presentation of the Company dated October 19, 2020. |
ANNEX A
Pricing Supplement
Dated October 20, 2020
United Airlines, Inc.
$3,000,000,000
2020-1 Pass Through Trust
Class A Pass Through Certificates, Series 2020-1
Pricing Supplement dated October 20, 2020 to the preliminary prospectus supplement dated October 19, 2020 relating to the Class A Certificates referred to below (as supplemented, the “Preliminary Prospectus Supplement”) of United Airlines, Inc. (“United”).
The information in this Pricing Supplement supplements the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement and supersedes the information in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement to the extent inconsistent with the information in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement.
Unless otherwise indicated, terms used but not defined herein have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement.
| Securities: | Class A Pass Through Certificates, Series 2020-1 (“Class A Certificates”) |
| Amount: | $3,000,000,000 |
| CUSIP: | 90931G AA7 |
| ISIN: | US90931GAA76 |
| Coupon: | 5.875% |
| Make-Whole Spread over Treasuries: | T+50 |
| Initial Maximum Commitment Amount Under Liquidity Facilities: | $258,010,416.67 |
| Price to Public: | 100% |
| Underwriters: | |
| Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC | $545,400,000 |
| Citigroup Global Markets Inc. | $545,400,000 |
| Barclays Capital Inc. | $545,400,000 |
| J.P. Morgan Securities LLC | $545,400,000 |
| Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC | $545,400,000 |
| BofA Securities, Inc. | $273,000,000 |
| Concession to Selling Group Members: | 0.50% |
| Discount to Broker/Dealers: | 0.25% |
| Underwriting Commission: | $30,000,000 |
| Settlement: | October 28, 2020 (T+6) closing date, the 6th business day after the date hereof |
The issuer has filed a registration statement (including a prospectus) with the SEC for the offering to which this communication relates. Before you invest, you should read the prospectus in that registration statement and other documents the issuer has filed with the SEC for more complete information about the issuer and this offering. You may get these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, the issuer, any underwriter or any dealer participating in the offering will arrange to send you the prospectus if you request it by calling Goldman Sachs toll-free 1-866-471-2526.
ANY DISCLAIMERS OR OTHER NOTICES THAT MAY APPEAR BELOW ARE NOT APPLICABLE TO THIS COMMUNICATION AND SHOULD BE DISREGARDED (OTHER THAN ANY STATEMENT RELATING TO THE IDENTITY OF THE LEGAL ENTITY AUTHORIZING OR SENDING THIS COMMUNICATION IN A NON-US JURISDICTION). SUCH DISCLAIMERS OR OTHER NOTICES WERE AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED AS A RESULT OF THIS COMMUNICATION HAVING BEEN SENT VIA BLOOMBERG OR ANOTHER EMAIL SYSTEM.
Exhibit 4.1
EXECUTION VERSION
TRUST SUPPLEMENT No. 2020-1A
Dated as of October 28, 2020
between
WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
as Trustee,
and
UNITED AIRLINES, INC.
to
PASS THROUGH TRUST AGREEMENT
Dated as of October 3, 2012
$3,000,000,000
United Airlines Pass Through Trust 2020-1A
5.875% United Airlines Pass Through Certificates, Series 2020-1A
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
| ARTICLE I THE CERTIFICATES | 2 |
| Section 1.01. The Certificates | 2 |
| ARTICLE II DEFINITIONS | 3 |
| Section 2.01. Definitions | 3 |
| ARTICLE III DISTRIBUTIONS; STATEMENTS TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS | 8 |
| Section 3.01. Statements to Applicable Certificateholders | 8 |
| Section 3.02. Special Payments Account | 9 |
| Section 3.03. Distributions from Special Payments Account | 9 |
| Section 3.04. Limitation of Liability for Payments | 10 |
| ARTICLE IV DEFAULT | 11 |
| Section 4.01. Purchase Rights of Certificateholders | 11 |
| Section 4.02. Amendment of Section 6.05 of the Basic Agreement | 12 |
| ARTICLE V THE TRUSTEE | 13 |
| Section 5.01. Delivery of Documents; Delivery Dates | 13 |
| Section 5.02. [Reserved] | 13 |
| Section 5.03. The Trustee | 13 |
| Section 5.04. Representations and Warranties of the Trustee | 14 |
| Section 5.05. Trustee Liens | 15 |
| ARTICLE VI ADDITIONAL AMENDMENT; SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENTS | 15 |
| Section 6.01. Amendment of Section 5.02 of the Basic Agreement | 15 |
| Section 6.02. Supplemental Agreements Without Consent of Applicable Certificateholders | 15 |
| Section 6.03. Supplemental Agreements with Consent of Applicable Certificateholders | 16 |
| Section 6.04. Consent of Holders of Certificates Issued under Other Trusts | 16 |
| ARTICLE VII TERMINATION OF TRUST | 16 |
| Section 7.01. Termination of the Applicable Trust | 16 |
| ARTICLE VIII MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS | 17 |
| Section 8.01. Basic Agreement Ratified | 17 |
| Section 8.02. Governing Law | 17 |
| Section 8.03. Execution in Counterparts | 17 |
| Section 8.04. Intention of Parties | 17 |
| Exhibit A | - | Form of Certificate |
| Exhibit B | - | DTC Letter of Representations |
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This Trust Supplement No. 2020-1A, dated as of October 28, 2020 (herein called the “Trust Supplement”), between United Airlines, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and Wilmington Trust, National Association (the “Trustee”), to the Pass Through Trust Agreement, dated as of October 3, 2012, between the Company (formerly known as Continental Airlines, Inc.) and the Trustee (the “Basic Agreement”).
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, the Basic Agreement, unlimited as to the aggregate face amount of Certificates (unless otherwise specified herein, capitalized terms used herein without definition having the respective meanings specified in the Basic Agreement) which may be issued thereunder, has heretofore been executed and delivered;
WHEREAS, the Company is the owner of the Collateral, comprised of the Aircraft Collateral, the Spare Engine Collateral and the Spare Parts Collateral;
WHEREAS, the Company
will issue pursuant to an Indenture, on a recourse basis, the Equipment Note, and may issue one or more series of Additional Equipment
Notes and/or one or more series of Refinancing Equipment Notes;
WHEREAS, the Equipment Note will initially be secured by the Collateral;
WHEREAS, the Trustee hereby declares the creation of the United Airlines Pass Through Trust 2020-1A (the “Applicable Trust”) for the benefit of the Applicable Certificateholders, and the initial Applicable Certificateholders as the grantors of the Applicable Trust, by their respective acceptances of the Applicable Certificates (as defined below), join in the creation of the Applicable Trust with the Trustee;
WHEREAS, all Certificates to be issued by the Applicable Trust will evidence Fractional Undivided Interests in the Applicable Trust and will convey no rights, benefits or interests in respect of any property other than the Trust Property;
WHEREAS, pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Basic Agreement as supplemented by this Trust Supplement (the “Agreement”) and the NPA, the Trustee on behalf of the Applicable Trust, using funds obtained from the sale of the Applicable Certificates, shall purchase an Equipment Note having the same interest rate as, and final maturity date not later than the final Regular Distribution Date of, the Applicable Certificates issued hereunder and shall hold such Equipment Note in trust for the benefit of the Applicable Certificateholders;
WHEREAS, all of the conditions and requirements necessary to make this Trust Supplement, when duly executed and delivered, a valid, binding and legal instrument in accordance with its terms and for the purposes herein expressed, have been done, performed and fulfilled, and the execution and delivery of this Trust Supplement in the form and with the terms hereof have been in all respects duly authorized; and
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WHEREAS, this Trust Supplement is subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and shall, to the extent applicable, be governed by such provisions.
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises herein, it is agreed between the Company and the Trustee as follows:
ARTICLE I
THE CERTIFICATES
Section 1.01. The Certificates. There is hereby created a series of Certificates to be issued under the Agreement to be distinguished and known as “United Airlines Pass Through Certificates, Series 2020-1A” (hereinafter defined as the “Applicable Certificates”). Each Applicable Certificate represents a Fractional Undivided Interest in the Applicable Trust created hereby. The Applicable Certificates shall be the only instruments evidencing a Fractional Undivided Interest in the Applicable Trust.
The terms and conditions applicable to the Applicable Certificates are as follows:
(a) The aggregate face amount of the Applicable Certificates that shall be authenticated under the Agreement (except for Applicable Certificates authenticated and delivered under Sections 3.03, 3.04, 3.05 and 3.06 of the Basic Agreement) is $3,000,000,000.
(b) The Regular Distribution Dates with respect to any distribution of Scheduled Payments means January 15, April 15, July 15 and October 15 of each year, commencing on January 15, 2021 until distribution of all of the Scheduled Payments to be made under the Equipment Note has been made.
(c) The Special Distribution Dates with respect to the Applicable Certificates means any Business Day on which a Special Payment is to be distributed pursuant to the Agreement.
(d) [Reserved].
(e) (i) The Applicable Certificates shall be in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A. Any Person acquiring or accepting an Applicable Certificate or an interest therein will, by such acquisition or acceptance, be deemed to have represented and warranted to and for the benefit of the Company that either (x) no assets of an employee benefit plan subject to Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), or a governmental, church or foreign plan subject to a law that is similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (a “Similar Law Plan”) have been used to purchase or hold such Applicable Certificate or an interest therein or (y) the purchase and holding of such Applicable Certificate or an interest therein either (A) in the
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case of assets of an employee benefit plan subject to Title I of ERISA or a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Code, are exempt from the prohibited transaction restrictions of ERISA and the Code pursuant to one or more prohibited transaction statutory or administrative exemptions or (B) in the case of assets of a Similar Law Plan, will not violate any similar state, local or foreign law.
(ii) The Applicable Certificates shall be Book-Entry Certificates and shall be subject to the conditions set forth in the Letter of Representations between the Applicable Trust and the Clearing Agency attached as Exhibit B.
(f) If the purchaser or transferee of an Applicable Certificate or an interest therein is an employee benefit plan subject to Title I of ERISA or a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Code, it will be deemed to represent, warrant and agree that (i) none of United Airlines Holdings, Inc., the Company, or the Underwriters, nor any of their affiliates, has provided any investment recommendation or investment advice on which it, or any fiduciary or other person investing the assets of such plan (“Plan Fiduciary”), has relied in connection with its decision to invest in the Applicable Certificates, and they are not otherwise acting as a fiduciary, as defined in Section 3(21) of ERISA or Section 4975(e)(3) of the Code, to such plan or the Plan Fiduciary in connection with such plan’s acquisition of the Applicable Certificates; and (ii) the Plan Fiduciary is exercising its own independent judgment in evaluating the transaction.
(g) The “NPA” as defined in this Trust Supplement is the “Note Purchase Agreements” referred to in the Basic Agreement.
(h) The Applicable Certificates are subject to the Intercreditor Agreement.
(i) The Applicable Certificates are entitled to the benefits of the Liquidity Facilities.
(j) The Responsible Party is the Company.
(k) The date referred to in clause (i) of the definition of the term “PTC Event of Default” in the Basic Agreement is the Final Maturity Date.
(l) [Reserved].
(m) The Equipment Note to be acquired and held in the Applicable Trust, and the related Collateral and Note Documents, are described in the NPA.
ARTICLE II
DEFINITIONS
Section 2.01. Definitions. For all purposes of the Basic Agreement as supplemented by this Trust Supplement, the following capitalized terms have the following meanings (any term used herein which is defined in both this Trust Supplement and the Basic
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Agreement shall have the meaning assigned thereto in this Trust Supplement for purposes of the Basic Agreement as supplemented by this Trust Supplement):
Agreement: Has the meaning specified in the recitals hereto.
Aircraft Collateral: Means, at any given time, each of the aircraft that is owned by the Company and secures the Equipment Note pursuant to the Security Documents.
Applicable Certificate: Has the meaning specified in Section 1.01 of this Trust Supplement.
Applicable Certificateholder: Means the Person in whose name an Applicable Certificate is registered on the Register for the Applicable Certificates.
Applicable Trust: Has the meaning specified in the recitals hereto.
Basic Agreement: Has the meaning specified in the first paragraph of this Trust Supplement.
Business Day: Means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which commercial banks are required or authorized to close in New York, New York, Chicago, Illinois, or, so long as any Applicable Certificate is Outstanding, the city and state in which the Trustee, the Subordination Agent or the Loan Trustee maintains its Corporate Trust Office or receives and disburses funds.
Certificate: Has the meaning specified in the Intercreditor Agreement.
Certificate Buyout Event: Means that a United Bankruptcy Event has occurred and is continuing and either of the following events has occurred: (A) both (i) the 60-day period specified in Section 1110(a)(2)(A) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code (the “60-Day Period”) has expired and (ii) the Company has not entered into one or more agreements under Section 1110(a)(2)(A) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code to perform all of its obligations under the Indenture and other Security Documents or, if it has entered into such agreements, has at any time thereafter failed to cure any default under the Indenture or any of the other Security Documents in accordance with Section 1110(a)(2)(B) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code; or (B) prior to the expiry of the 60-Day Period, the Company shall have abandoned any Collateral.
Class: Has the meaning specified in the Intercreditor Agreement.
Collateral: Means, collectively, the Aircraft Collateral, the Spare Engine Collateral and the Spare Parts Collateral.
Company: Has the meaning specified in the first paragraph of this Trust Supplement.
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Controlling Party: Has the meaning specified in the Intercreditor Agreement.
Distribution Date: Means any Regular Distribution Date or Special Distribution Date as the context requires.
ERISA: Has the meaning specified in Section 1.01(e) of this Trust Supplement.
Final Maturity Date: Means April 15, 2029.
Indenture: Means the trust indenture and mortgage dated as of October 28, 2020, between the Company, as owner, and the Loan Trustee, pursuant to which the Equipment Note has been issued, as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with its terms.
Intercreditor Agreement: Means the Intercreditor Agreement dated as of October 28, 2020 among the Trustee, the Liquidity Providers and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Subordination Agent and as trustee thereunder, as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with its terms.
Investors: Means the Underwriters, together with all subsequent beneficial owners of the Applicable Certificates.
Issuance Date: Means October 28, 2020.
Liquidity Facility: Means, initially, any Revolving Credit Agreement dated as of October 28, 2020 relating to the Applicable Certificates, between a Liquidity Provider and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Subordination Agent, as agent and trustee for the Applicable Trust, and, from and after the replacement of such agreement pursuant to the Intercreditor Agreement, any replacement liquidity facility therefor, in each case as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with their respective terms.
Liquidity Providers: Means, initially, Goldman Sachs Bank USA, Barclays Bank PLC and Morgan Stanley Bank, N.A. and any replacements or successors therefor appointed in accordance with the Intercreditor Agreement.
Make-Whole Amount: Has the meaning specified in the Indenture.
Note Documents: Means the Equipment Note with respect to the Applicable Certificates, the NPA and the Security Documents.
NPA: Means the Note Purchase Agreement, dated as of the date hereof among the Trustee, the Loan Trustee, the Company and the Subordination Agent, providing for, among other things, the purchase of the Equipment Note by the Trustee on behalf of the
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Applicable Trust, as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, in accordance with its terms.
Other Agreements: Means the Basic Agreement, as supplemented by a Trust Supplement relating to any Additional Trust or any Refinancing Trust.
Other Trustees: Means the trustees under the Other Agreements, and any successor or other trustee appointed as provided therein.
Other Trusts: Means the United Airlines Pass Through Trust 2020-1B, an Additional Trust or Trusts, if any, and a Refinancing Trust or Trusts, if any, created by the Other Agreements.
Pool Balance: Means, as of any date, (i) the original aggregate face amount of the Applicable Certificates, less (ii) the aggregate amount of all payments made as of such date in respect of such Applicable Certificates, other than payments made in respect of interest or premium (including Make-Whole Amount) thereon or reimbursement of any costs or expenses incurred in connection therewith. The Pool Balance as of any date shall be computed after giving effect to any payment of principal of the Equipment Note or payment with respect to other Trust Property and the distribution thereof to be made on that date.
Pool Factor: Means, as of any Distribution Date, the quotient (rounded to the seventh decimal place) computed by dividing (i) the Pool Balance by (ii) the original aggregate face amount of the Applicable Certificates. The Pool Factor as of any Distribution Date shall be computed after giving effect to any special distribution with respect to any payment of principal of the Equipment Note or payment with respect to other Trust Property and the distribution thereof to be made on that date.
Scheduled Payment: Means, with respect to the Equipment Note, (i) any payment of principal or interest on such Equipment Note (other than any such payment which is not in fact received by the Trustee or the Subordination Agent within five days of the date on which such payment is scheduled to be made) or (ii) any payment of interest on the Applicable Certificates with funds drawn under any Liquidity Facility, which payment in any such case represents the installment of principal on such Equipment Note at the stated maturity of such installment, the payment of regularly scheduled interest accrued on the unpaid principal amount of such Equipment Note, or both; provided, however, that any payment of principal, premium (including Make-Whole Amount), if any, or interest resulting from the redemption or the purchase (in whole or in part) of the Equipment Note shall not constitute a Scheduled Payment.
Security Documents: Means (i) the security agreement relating to the Spare Parts Collateral between the Company and the Loan Trustee, as secured party, to be entered into on the Issuance Date, (ii) the security agreement relating to the Spare Engine Collateral between the Company and the Loan Trustee, as secured party, to be entered into on the Issuance Date and (iii) the Indenture.
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Spare Engine Collateral: Means, at any given time, each of the spare engines that is owned by the Company and secures the Equipment Note pursuant to the Security Documents.
Spare Parts Collateral: Means, at any given time, each of the aircraft spare parts that is owned by the Company and secures the Equipment Note pursuant to the Security Documents.
Special Payment: Means any payment (other than a Scheduled Payment) in respect of, or any proceeds of, the Equipment Note or Collateral.
Triggering Event: Has the meaning assigned to such term in the Intercreditor Agreement.
Trust Property: Means (i) subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, the Equipment Note held as the property of the Applicable Trust, all monies at any time paid thereon or in respect thereof and all monies due and to become due thereunder, (ii) funds from time to time deposited in the Certificate Account and the Special Payments Account and, subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, any proceeds from the sale by the Trustee pursuant to Article VI of the Basic Agreement of the Equipment Note and (iii) all rights of the Applicable Trust and the Trustee, on behalf of the Applicable Trust, under the Intercreditor Agreement, the NPA and the Liquidity Facilities, including, without limitation, all rights to receive certain payments thereunder, and all monies paid to the Trustee on behalf of the Applicable Trust pursuant to the Intercreditor Agreement or any Liquidity Facility.
Trust Supplement: Has the meaning specified in the first paragraph of this trust supplement.
Trustee: Has the meaning specified in the first paragraph of this Trust Supplement.
Underwriters: Means, collectively, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Barclays Capital Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and BofA Securities, Inc.
Underwriting Agreement: Means the Underwriting Agreement related to the Applicable Certificates dated October 20, 2020 by Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, as representative of the several Underwriters and the Company, as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with its terms.
United Bankruptcy Event: Has the meaning specified in the Intercreditor Agreement.
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ARTICLE III
DISTRIBUTIONS; STATEMENTS TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
Section 3.01. Statements to Applicable Certificateholders. (a) On each Distribution Date, the Trustee will include with each distribution to Applicable Certificateholders of a Scheduled Payment or Special Payment, as the case may be, a statement setting forth the information provided below. Such statement shall set forth (per $1,000 face amount Applicable Certificate as to (ii) and (iii) below) the following information:
(i) The aggregate amount of funds distributed on such Distribution Date under the Agreement, indicating the amount allocable to each source, including any portion thereof paid by the Liquidity Providers;
(ii) The amount of such distribution under the Agreement allocable to principal and the amount allocable to premium (including Make-Whole Amount), if any;
(iii) The amount of such distribution under the Agreement allocable to interest; and
(iv) The Pool Balance and the Pool Factor.
With respect to the Applicable Certificates registered in the name of a Clearing Agency or its nominee, on the Record Date prior to each Distribution Date, the Trustee will request that such Clearing Agency post on its Internet bulletin board a securities position listing setting forth the names of all Clearing Agency Participants reflected on such Clearing Agency’s books as holding interests in the Applicable Certificates on such Record Date. On each Distribution Date, the Trustee will mail to each such Clearing Agency Participant the statement described above and will make available additional copies as requested by such Clearing Agency Participant for forwarding to holders of interests in the Applicable Certificates.
(b) Within a reasonable period of time after the end of each calendar year but not later than the latest date permitted by law, the Trustee shall furnish to each Person who at any time during such calendar year was an Applicable Certificateholder of record a statement containing the sum of the amounts determined pursuant to clauses (a)(i), (a)(ii) and (a)(iii) above for such calendar year or, in the event such Person was an Applicable Certificateholder of record during a portion of such calendar year, for such portion of such year, and such other items as are readily available to the Trustee and which an Applicable Certificateholder shall reasonably request as necessary for the purpose of such Applicable Certificateholder’s preparation of its U.S. federal income tax returns. Such statement and such other items shall be prepared on the basis of information supplied to the Trustee by the Clearing Agency Participants and shall be delivered by the Trustee to such Clearing Agency Participants to be available for forwarding by such Clearing Agency Participants to the holders of interests in the Applicable Certificates in the manner described in Section 3.01(a) of this Trust Supplement.
(c) [Reserved].
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(d) Promptly following the date of any early redemption in part of, or any default in the payment of principal or interest in respect of, the Equipment Note held in the Applicable Trust, the Trustee shall furnish to Applicable Certificateholders of record on such date a statement setting forth (x) the expected Pool Balances for each subsequent Regular Distribution Date following the date of such redemption or default, (y) the related Pool Factors for such Regular Distribution Dates and (z) the expected principal payment schedule of the Equipment Note held as Trust Property at the date of such notice. With respect to the Applicable Certificates registered in the name of a Clearing Agency, promptly after the date of any such redemption or default, the Trustee will request from such Clearing Agency a securities position listing setting forth the names of all Clearing Agency Participants reflected on such Clearing Agency’s books as holding interests in the Applicable Certificates on such date. The Trustee will mail to each such Clearing Agency Participant the statement described above and will make available additional copies as requested by such Clearing Agency Participant for forwarding to holders of interests in the Applicable Certificates.
(e) The Trustee shall provide promptly to the Applicable Certificateholders all material non-confidential information received by the Trustee from the Company.
(f) This Section 3.01 supersedes and replaces Section 4.03 of the Basic Agreement, with respect to the Applicable Trust.
Section 3.02. Special Payments Account. (a) The Trustee shall establish and maintain on behalf of the Applicable Certificateholders a Special Payments Account as one or more accounts, which shall be non-interest bearing except as provided in Section 4.04 of the Basic Agreement. The Trustee shall hold the Special Payments Account in trust for the benefit of the Applicable Certificateholders and shall make or permit withdrawals therefrom only as provided in the Agreement. On each day when one or more Special Payments are made to the Trustee under the Intercreditor Agreement, the Trustee, upon receipt thereof, shall immediately deposit the aggregate amount of such Special Payments in the Special Payments Account.
(b) This Section 3.02 supersedes and replaces Section 4.01(b) of the Basic Agreement in its entirety, with respect to the Applicable Trust.
Section 3.03. Distributions from Special Payments Account. (a) On each Special Distribution Date with respect to any Special Payment or as soon thereafter as the Trustee has confirmed receipt of any Special Payments due on the Equipment Note held (subject to the Intercreditor Agreement) in the Applicable Trust or realized upon the sale of such Equipment Note, the Trustee shall distribute out of the Special Payments Account the entire amount of such Special Payment deposited therein pursuant to Section 3.02(a) of this Trust Supplement. There shall be so distributed to each Applicable Certificateholder of record on the Record Date with respect to such Special Distribution Date (other than as provided in Section 7.01 of this Trust Supplement concerning the final distribution) by check mailed to such Applicable Certificateholder, at the address appearing in the Register, such Applicable Certificateholder’s pro rata share (based on the Fractional Undivided Interest in the Applicable Trust held by such Applicable Certificateholder) of the total amount in the Special Payments Account on account of such Special Payment, except that, with respect to Applicable Certificates registered on the Record Date in the name of a Clearing
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Agency (or its nominee), such distribution shall be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account designated by such Clearing Agency (or such nominee).
(b) The Trustee shall, at the expense of the Company, cause notice of each Special Payment to be mailed to each Applicable Certificateholder at his address as it appears in the Register. In the event of redemption or purchase (in whole or in part) of the Equipment Note held in the Applicable Trust, such notice shall be mailed not less than 15 days prior to the Special Distribution Date for the Special Payment resulting from such redemption or purchase, which Special Distribution Date shall be the date of such redemption or purchase. In the case of any other Special Payments, such notice shall be mailed as soon as practicable after the Trustee has confirmed that it has received funds for such Special Payment, stating the Special Distribution Date for such Special Payment which shall occur not less than 15 days after the date of such notice and as soon as practicable thereafter. Notices with respect to a Special Payment mailed by the Trustee shall set forth:
(i) The Special Distribution Date and the Record Date therefor (except as otherwise provided in Section 7.01 of this Trust Supplement),
(ii) The amount of the Special Payment for each $1,000 face amount Applicable Certificate and the amount thereof constituting principal, premium (including Make-Whole Amount), if any, and interest,
(iii) The reason for the Special Payment, and
(iv) If the Special Distribution Date is the same date as a Regular Distribution Date, the total amount to be received on such date for each $1,000 face amount Applicable Certificate.
If the amount of premium (including Make-Whole Amount), if any, payable upon the redemption or purchase of the Equipment Note has not been calculated at the time that the Trustee mails notice of a Special Payment, it shall be sufficient if the notice sets forth the other amounts to be distributed and states that any premium (including Make-Whole Amount) received will also be distributed.
If any redemption of the Equipment Note held in the Applicable Trust is canceled, the Trustee, as soon as possible after learning thereof, shall cause notice thereof to be mailed to each Applicable Certificateholder at its address as it appears on the Register.
(c) This Section 3.03 supersedes and replaces Section 4.02(b) and Section 4.02(c) of the Basic Agreement in their entirety, with respect to the Applicable Trust.
Section 3.04. Limitation of Liability for Payments. Section 3.09 of the Basic Agreement shall be amended, with respect to the Applicable Trust, by deleting the phrase “the Owner Trustees or the Owner Participants” in the second sentence thereof and adding in lieu thereof “the Liquidity Providers”.
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ARTICLE IV
DEFAULT
Section 4.01. Purchase Rights of Certificateholders. (a) By acceptance of its Applicable Certificate, each Applicable Certificateholder agrees that at any time after the occurrence and during the continuation of a Certificate Buyout Event:
(i) [Reserved]
(ii) [Reserved];
(iii) If any Additional Certificates are issued pursuant to one or more Additional Trusts, each Additional Certificateholder (other than the Company or any of its Affiliates) shall have the right to purchase all, but not less than all, of the Applicable Certificates and any Additional Certificates ranked senior to the Additional Certificates held by the purchasing Additional Certificateholders upon 15-days’ written notice to the Trustee, any Additional Trustee with respect to Additional Certificates that rank senior to the Additional Certificates held by the purchasing Additional Certificateholders and each other Additional Certificateholder of the same class, on the third Business Day next following the expiry of such 15-day notice period, provided that (A) if prior to the end of such 15-day period any other Additional Certificateholder of such class (other than the Company or any of its Affiliates) notifies such purchasing Additional Certificateholder that such other Additional Certificateholder wants to participate in such purchase, then such other Additional Certificateholder (other than the Company or any of its Affiliates) may join with the purchasing Additional Certificateholder to purchase all, but not less than all, of the Applicable Certificates and such senior Additional Certificates pro rata based on the Fractional Undivided Interest in the applicable Additional Trust held by each such Additional Certificateholder and (B) if prior to the end of such 15-day period any other Additional Certificateholder of such class fails to notify the purchasing Additional Certificateholder of such other Additional Certificateholder’s desire to participate in such a purchase, then such other Additional Certificateholder shall lose its right to purchase the Applicable Certificates and such senior Additional Certificates pursuant to this Section 4.01(a)(iii); and
(iv) If any Refinancing Certificates are issued, each Refinancing Certificateholder shall have the same right (subject to the same terms and conditions) to purchase Certificates pursuant to this Section 4.01(a) (and to receive notice in connection therewith) as the Certificateholders of the Class that such Refinancing Certificates refinanced.
The purchase price with respect to the Applicable Certificates shall be equal to the Pool Balance of the Applicable Certificates, together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the date of such purchase, without premium (including Make-Whole Amount), but including any other amounts then due and payable to the Applicable Certificateholders under the Agreement, the Intercreditor Agreement or any Note Document or on or in respect of the Applicable Certificates; provided, however, that no such purchase of Applicable Certificates shall be effective unless the
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purchaser(s) shall certify to the Trustee that contemporaneously with such purchase, such purchaser(s) is (are) purchasing, pursuant to the terms of the Agreement and the Other Agreements, all of the Applicable Certificates, and, if applicable, the Additional Certificates that rank senior to the Additional Certificates held by the purchasing Additional Certificateholder(s). Each payment of the purchase price of the Applicable Certificates referred to in the first sentence hereof shall be made to an account or accounts designated by the Trustee and each such purchase shall be subject to the terms of this Section 4.01. Each Applicable Certificateholder agrees by its acceptance of its Applicable Certificate that (at any time after the occurrence of a Certificate Buyout Event) it will, upon payment from such Additional Certificateholder(s) or Refinancing Certificateholder(s), as the case may be, of the purchase price set forth in the first sentence of this paragraph, (i) forthwith sell, assign, transfer and convey to the purchaser(s) thereof (without recourse, representation or warranty of any kind except for its own acts), all of the right, title, interest and obligation of such Applicable Certificateholder in the Agreement, the Intercreditor Agreement, the Liquidity Facilities, the NPA, the Note Documents and all Applicable Certificates held by such Applicable Certificateholder (excluding all right, title and interest under any of the foregoing to the extent such right, title or interest is with respect to an obligation not then due and payable as respects any action or inaction or state of affairs occurring prior to such sale) (and the purchaser shall assume all of such Applicable Certificateholder’s obligations under the Agreement, the Intercreditor Agreement, the Liquidity Facilities, the NPA, the Note Documents and all such Applicable Certificates) and (ii) if such purchase occurs after a Record Date relating to any distribution and prior to or on the related Distribution Date, forthwith turn over to the purchaser(s) of its Applicable Certificate all amounts, if any, received by it on account of such distribution. The Applicable Certificates will be deemed to be purchased on the date payment of the purchase price is made notwithstanding the failure of the Applicable Certificateholders to deliver any Applicable Certificates and, upon such a purchase, (I) the only rights of the Applicable Certificateholders will be to deliver the Applicable Certificates to the purchaser(s) and receive the purchase price for such Applicable Certificates and (II) if the purchaser(s) shall so request, such Applicable Certificateholder will comply with all the provisions of Section 3.04 of the Basic Agreement to enable new Applicable Certificates to be issued to the purchaser in such denominations as it shall request. All charges and expenses in connection with the issuance of any such new Applicable Certificates shall be borne by the purchaser thereof.
As used in this Section 4.01 and elsewhere in this Trust Supplement, the terms “Additional Certificate”, “Additional Certificateholder”, “Additional Equipment Notes”, “Additional Trust”, “Refinancing Certificates”, “Refinancing Certificateholder”, “Refinancing Equipment Notes” and “Refinancing Trust” shall have the respective meanings assigned to such terms in the Intercreditor Agreement.
(b) This Section 4.01 supersedes and replaces Section 6.01(b) of the Basic Agreement, with respect to the Applicable Trust.
Section 4.02. Amendment of Section 6.05 of the Basic Agreement. Section 6.05 of the Basic Agreement shall be amended, with respect to the Applicable Trust, by deleting the phrase “and thereby annul any Direction given by such Certificateholders or the Trustee to such Loan Trustee with respect thereto,” set forth in the first sentence thereof.
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ARTICLE V
THE TRUSTEE
Section 5.01. Delivery of Documents; Delivery Dates. (a) The Trustee is hereby directed (i) to execute and deliver the Intercreditor Agreement and the NPA on or prior to the Issuance Date, each in the form delivered to the Trustee by the Company, and (ii) subject to the respective terms thereof, to perform its obligations thereunder. Upon request of the Company and the satisfaction or waiver of the closing conditions specified in the Underwriting Agreement, the Trustee shall execute, deliver, authenticate, issue and sell Applicable Certificates in authorized denominations equaling in the aggregate the amount set forth, with respect to the Applicable Trust, in Schedule I to the Underwriting Agreement evidencing the entire ownership interest in the Applicable Trust, which amount equals the aggregate principal amount of the Equipment Note which may be purchased by the Trustee pursuant to the NPA. Except as provided in Sections 3.03, 3.04, 3.05 and 3.06 of the Basic Agreement, the Trustee shall not execute, authenticate or deliver Applicable Certificates in excess of the aggregate amount specified in this paragraph. The provisions of this Section 5.01(a) supersede and replace the first sentence of Section 3.02(a) of the Basic Agreement, with respect to the Applicable Trust.
(b) On the Issuance Date, the Trustee shall enter into and perform its obligations under the NPA and cause such certificates, documents and legal opinions relating to the Trustee to be duly delivered as required by the NPA. Upon satisfaction of the conditions specified in the NPA, the Trustee shall purchase the Equipment Note for the Applicable Trust with the proceeds of the Applicable Certificates on the Issuance Date. The purchase price of such Equipment Note shall equal the principal amount of such Equipment Note. The provisions of this Section 5.01(b) supersede and replace the provisions of Section 2.02 of the Basic Agreement with respect to the Applicable Trust, and all provisions of the Basic Agreement relating to Postponed Notes and Section 2.02 of the Basic Agreement shall not apply to the Applicable Trust.
(c) The Trustee acknowledges its acceptance of all right, title and interest in and to the Trust Property to be acquired pursuant to Section 5.01(b) of this Trust Supplement and the NPA, and declares that it holds and will hold such right, title and interest for the benefit of all present and future Applicable Certificateholders, upon the trusts set forth in the Agreement. By its acceptance of an Applicable Certificate, each initial Applicable Certificateholder, as a grantor of the Applicable Trust, joins with the Trustee in the creation of the Applicable Trust. The provisions of this Section 5.01(c) supersede and replace the provisions of Section 2.03 of the Basic Agreement, with respect to the Applicable Trust.
Section 5.02. [Reserved].
Section 5.03. The Trustee. (a) Subject to Section 5.04 of this Trust Supplement and Section 7.15 of the Basic Agreement, the Trustee shall not be responsible in any manner whatsoever for or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of this Trust Supplement or the NPA or the due execution hereof or thereof by the Company or the other parties thereto (other than the Trustee), or for or in respect of the recitals and statements contained herein or therein, all of which recitals and statements are made solely by the Company, except that the Trustee hereby represents and warrants that each of this Trust Supplement, the Basic Agreement, each Applicable Certificate,
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the Intercreditor Agreement and the NPA has been executed and delivered by one of its officers who is duly authorized to execute and deliver such document on its behalf.
(b) Except as herein otherwise provided and except during the continuation of an Event of Default in respect of the Applicable Trust created hereby, no duties, responsibilities or liabilities are assumed, or shall be construed to be assumed, by the Trustee by reason of this Trust Supplement other than as set forth in the Agreement, and this Trust Supplement is executed and accepted on behalf of the Trustee, subject to all the terms and conditions set forth in the Agreement, as fully to all intents as if the same were herein set forth at length.
Section 5.04. Representations and Warranties of the Trustee. The Trustee hereby represents and warrants that:
(a) The Trustee has full power, authority and legal right to execute, deliver and perform this Trust Supplement, the Intercreditor Agreement, the NPA and the Note Documents to which it is or is to become a party and has taken all necessary action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance by it of this Trust Supplement, the Intercreditor Agreement, the NPA and the Note Documents to which it is or is to become a party;
(b) The execution, delivery and performance by the Trustee of this Trust Supplement, the Intercreditor Agreement, the NPA and the Note Documents to which it is or is to become a party (i) will not violate any provision of any United States federal law or the law of the state of the United States where it is located governing the banking and trust powers of the Trustee or any order, writ, judgment, or decree of any court, arbitrator or governmental authority applicable to the Trustee or any of its assets, (ii) will not violate any provision of the articles of association or by-laws of the Trustee, and (iii) will not violate any provision of, or constitute, with or without notice or lapse of time, a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien on any properties included in the Trust Property pursuant to the provisions of any mortgage, indenture, contract, agreement or other undertaking to which it is a party, which violation, default or lien could reasonably be expected to have an adverse effect on the Trustee’s performance or ability to perform its duties hereunder or thereunder or on the transactions contemplated herein or therein;
(c) The execution, delivery and performance by the Trustee of this Trust Supplement, the Intercreditor Agreement, the NPA and the Note Documents to which it is or is to become a party will not require the authorization, consent, or approval of, the giving of notice to, the filing or registration with, or the taking of any other action in respect of, any governmental authority or agency of the United States or the state of the United States where it is located regulating the banking and corporate trust activities of the Trustee; and
(d) This Trust Supplement, the Intercreditor Agreement, the NPA and the Note Documents to which it is or is to become a party have been, or will be, as applicable, duly executed and delivered by the Trustee and constitute, or will constitute, as applicable, the legal, valid and binding agreements of the Trustee, enforceable against it in accordance with their respective terms; provided, however, that enforceability may be limited by (i)
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applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting the rights of creditors generally and (ii) general principles of equity.
Section 5.05. Trustee Liens. The Trustee in its individual capacity agrees, in addition to the agreements contained in Section 7.17 of the Basic Agreement, that it will at its own cost and expense promptly take any action as may be necessary to duly discharge and satisfy in full any Trustee’s Liens on or with respect to the Trust Property which is attributable to the Trustee in its individual capacity and which is unrelated to the transactions contemplated by the Intercreditor Agreement or the NPA.
ARTICLE VI
ADDITIONAL AMENDMENT; SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENTS
Section 6.01. Amendment of Section 5.02 of the Basic Agreement. Section 5.02 of the Basic Agreement shall be amended, with respect to the Applicable Trust, by (i) replacing the phrase “of the Note Documents and of this Agreement” set forth in paragraph (b) thereof with the phrase “of the Note Documents, of the NPA and of this Agreement” and (ii) replacing the phrase “of this Agreement and any Note Document” set forth in the last paragraph of Section 5.02 with the phrase “of this Agreement, the NPA and any Note Document”.
Section 6.02. Supplemental Agreements without Consent of Applicable Certificateholders. Without limitation of Section 9.01 of the Basic Agreement, under the terms of, and subject to the limitations contained in, Section 9.01 of the Basic Agreement, the Company may (but will not be required to), and the Trustee (subject to Section 9.03 of the Basic Agreement) shall, at the Company’s request, at any time and from time to time:
(i) Enter into one or more agreements supplemental to the NPA for any of the purposes set forth in clauses (1) through (9) of such Section 9.01, and (without limitation of the foregoing or Section 9.01 of the Basic Agreement) (a) clauses (2) and (3) of such Section 9.01 shall also be deemed to include the Company’s obligations under (in the case of clause (2)), and the Company’s rights and powers conferred by (in the case of clause (3)), the NPA, and (b) references in clauses (4), (6) and (7) of such Section 9.01 to “any Intercreditor Agreement or any Liquidity Facility” shall also be deemed to refer to “the Intercreditor Agreement, the Liquidity Facility or the NPA”,
(ii) Enter into one or more agreements supplemental to the Agreement, the Intercreditor Agreement or the NPA to provide for the formation of one or more Additional Trusts, the issuance of Additional Certificates, the purchase by an Additional Trust (if any) of applicable Additional Equipment Notes and other matters incidental thereto or otherwise contemplated by Section 2.01(b) of the Basic Agreement, subject to the provisions of Section 6.1.5 of the NPA and Section 9.1(d) of the Intercreditor Agreement,
(iii) Enter into one or more agreements supplemental to the Agreement to provide for the formation of one or more Refinancing Trusts, the issuance of Refinancing Certificates, the purchase by any Refinancing Trust of applicable Refinancing Equipment Notes
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and other matters incidental thereto or as otherwise contemplated by Section 2.01(b) of the Basic Agreement, subject to the provisions of Section 6.1.5 of the NPA and Section 9.1(c) of the Intercreditor Agreement, and
(iv) Enter into one or more agreements supplemental to the Agreement, the Intercreditor Agreement, the NPA or any Liquidity Facility to provide for the replacement of one or more airframes or engines by one or more substitute airframes or substitute engines, subject to the provisions of Section 4.04(f) of the Indenture, and other matters incidental thereto.
Section 6.03. Supplemental Agreements with Consent of Applicable Certificateholders. Without limitation of Section 9.02 of the Basic Agreement (but, for avoidance of doubt without limitation, as to any Liquidity Facility, of (a) the provisions of Section 2.11 thereof (as to establishing and replacing a “Benchmark”), and (b) the implementation of a Replacement Liquidity Facility (as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement) in accordance with Sections 3.5(l) and 9.1(a) of the Intercreditor Agreement and Section 7.08 of any applicable Liquidity Facility), the provisions of Section 9.02 of the Basic Agreement shall apply to agreements or amendments for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of any Liquidity Facility or the NPA or modifying in any manner the rights and obligations of the Applicable Certificateholders under the Liquidity Facilities or the NPA.
Section 6.04. Consent of Holders of Certificates Issued under Other Trusts. Notwithstanding any provision in Section 6.02 or Section 6.03 of this Trust Supplement to the contrary, no amendment or modification of Section 4.01 of this Trust Supplement shall be effective unless the trustee for each Class of Certificates affected by such amendment or modification shall have consented thereto.
ARTICLE VII
TERMINATION OF TRUST
Section 7.01. Termination of the Applicable Trust. (a) The respective obligations and responsibilities of the Company and the Trustee with respect to the Applicable Trust shall terminate upon the distribution to all Applicable Certificateholders and the Trustee of all amounts required to be distributed to them pursuant to the Agreement and the disposition of all property held as part of the Trust Property; provided, however, that in no event shall the Applicable Trust continue beyond one hundred ten (110) years following the date of the execution of this Trust Supplement.
Notice of such termination, specifying the Distribution Date upon which the Applicable Certificateholders may surrender their Applicable Certificates to the Trustee for payment of the final distribution and cancellation, shall be mailed promptly by the Trustee to Applicable Certificateholders not earlier than the 60th day and not later than the 15th day next preceding such final Distribution Date specifying (A) the Distribution Date upon which the proposed final payment of the Applicable Certificates will be made upon presentation and surrender of Applicable Certificates at the office or agency of the Trustee therein specified, (B)
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the amount of any such proposed final payment, and (C) that the Record Date otherwise applicable to such Distribution Date is not applicable, payments being made only upon presentation and surrender of the Applicable Certificates at the office or agency of the Trustee therein specified. The Trustee shall give such notice to the Registrar at the time such notice is given to Applicable Certificateholders. Upon presentation and surrender of the Applicable Certificates in accordance with such notice, the Trustee shall cause to be distributed to Applicable Certificateholders such final payments.
In the event that all of the Applicable Certificateholders shall not surrender their Applicable Certificates for cancellation within six months after the date specified in the above-mentioned written notice, the Trustee shall give a second written notice to the remaining Applicable Certificateholders to surrender their Applicable Certificates for cancellation and receive the final distribution with respect thereto. No additional interest shall accrue on the Applicable Certificates after the Distribution Date specified in the first written notice. In the event that any money held by the Trustee for the payment of distributions on the Applicable Certificates shall remain unclaimed for two years (or such lesser time as the Trustee shall be satisfied, after sixty days’ notice from the Company, is one month prior to the escheat period provided under applicable law) after the final distribution date with respect thereto, the Trustee shall pay such money to the Loan Trustee and shall give written notice thereof to the Company.
(b) The provisions of this Section 7.01 supersede and replace the provisions of Section 11.01 of the Basic Agreement in its entirety, with respect to the Applicable Trust.
ARTICLE VIII
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Section 8.01. Basic Agreement Ratified. Except and so far as herein expressly provided, all of the provisions, terms and conditions of the Basic Agreement are in all respects ratified and confirmed; and the Basic Agreement and this Trust Supplement shall be taken, read and construed as one and the same instrument. All replacements of provisions of, and other modifications of, the Basic Agreement set forth in this Trust Supplement are solely with respect to the Applicable Trust.
Section 8.02. GOVERNING LAW. THE AGREEMENT AND THE APPLICABLE CERTIFICATES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. THIS SECTION 8.02 SUPERSEDES AND REPLACES SECTION 12.05 OF THE BASIC AGREEMENT, with respect to the Applicable Trust.
Section 8.03. Execution in Counterparts. This Trust Supplement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original, but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
Section 8.04. Intention of Parties. The parties hereto intend that the Applicable Trust be classified for U.S. federal income tax purposes as a grantor trust under Subpart E, Part I
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of Subchapter J of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and not as a trust or association taxable as a corporation or as a partnership. Each Applicable Certificateholder and Investor, by its acceptance of its Applicable Certificate or a beneficial interest therein, agrees to treat the Applicable Trust as a grantor trust for all U.S. federal, state and local income tax purposes. The powers granted and obligations undertaken pursuant to the Agreement shall be so construed so as to further such intent.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company and the Trustee have caused this Trust Supplement to be duly executed by their respective officers thereto duly authorized, as of the day and year first written above.
| UNITED AIRLINES, INC. | |||
| By: | /s/ Pamela S. Hendry | ||
| Name: | Pamela S. Hendry | ||
| Title: | Vice President and Treasurer | ||
[Signature Page to Trust Supplement (Class A)]
| WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, | |||
| as Trustee | |||
| By: | /s/ Chad May | ||
| Name: | Chad May | ||
| Title: | Vice President | ||
[Signature Page to Trust Supplement (Class A)]
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EXHIBIT A
FORM OF CERTIFICATE
Certificate
No.
[Unless this certificate is presented by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation (“DTC”), to Issuer or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and any certificate issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other name as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and any payment is made to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch the registered owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.]*
UNITED AIRLINES PASS THROUGH TRUST 2020-1A
United Airlines Pass Through Certificate, Series 2020-1A
Issuance Date: October 28, 2020
Final Maturity Date: April 15, 2029
Evidencing A Fractional Undivided Interest In The United Airlines Pass Through Trust 2020-1A The Property Of Which Shall Include An Equipment Note Secured By Collateral Owned By United Airlines, Inc.
$[_____________] Fractional Undivided Interest
representing 0.[__] % of the Trust per $1,000 face amount
THIS CERTIFIES THAT __________, for value received, is the registered owner of a $___________ (_____________________________ DOLLARS) Fractional Undivided Interest in the United Airlines Pass Through Trust 2020-1A (the “Trust”) created by Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”), pursuant to a Pass Through Trust Agreement, dated as of October 3, 2012 (the “Basic Agreement”), between the Trustee and United Airlines, Inc. (formerly known as Continental Airlines, Inc.), a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), as supplemented by Trust Supplement No. 2020-1A thereto, dated as of October 28, 2020 (the “Trust Supplement” and, together with the Basic Agreement, the “Agreement”), between the Trustee and the Company, a summary of certain of the pertinent
* This legend to appear on Book-Entry Certificates to be deposited with the Depository Trust Company.
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provisions of which is set forth below. To the extent not otherwise defined herein, the capitalized terms used herein have the meanings assigned to them in the Agreement. This Certificate is one of the duly authorized Certificates designated as “United Airlines Pass Through Certificates, Series 2020-1A” (herein called the “Certificates”). This Certificate is issued under and is subject to the terms, provisions and conditions of the Agreement. By virtue of its acceptance hereof, the holder of this Certificate (the “Certificateholder” and, together with all other holders of Certificates issued by the Trust, the “Certificateholders”) assents to and agrees to be bound by the provisions of the Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement. The property of the Trust includes an Equipment Note and all rights of the Trust to receive payments under the Intercreditor Agreement and the Liquidity Facilities (the “Trust Property”). The Equipment Note is secured by, among other things, a security interest in the Collateral.
The Certificates represent Fractional Undivided Interests in the Trust and the Trust Property and have no rights, benefits or interest in respect of any other separate trust established pursuant to the terms of the Basic Agreement for any other series of certificates issued pursuant thereto.
Subject to and in accordance with the terms of the Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement, from funds then available to the Trustee, there will be distributed on January 15, April 15, July 15 and October 15 of each year (a “Regular Distribution Date”) commencing January 15, 2021, to the Person in whose name this Certificate is registered at the close of business on the 15th day preceding the Regular Distribution Date, an amount in respect of the Scheduled Payments on the Equipment Note due on such Regular Distribution Date, the receipt of which has been confirmed by the Trustee, equal to the product of the percentage interest in the Trust evidenced by this Certificate and an amount equal to the sum of such Scheduled Payments. Subject to and in accordance with the terms of the Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement, in the event that Special Payments on the Equipment Note are received by the Trustee, from funds then available to the Trustee, there shall be distributed on the applicable Special Distribution Date, to the Person in whose name this Certificate is registered at the close of business on the 15th day preceding the Special Distribution Date, an amount in respect of such Special Payments on the Equipment Note, the receipt of which has been confirmed by the Trustee, equal to the product of the percentage interest in the Trust evidenced by this Certificate and an amount equal to the sum of such Special Payments so received. If a Regular Distribution Date or Special Distribution Date is not a Business Day, distribution shall be made on the immediately following Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on such Regular Distribution Date or Special Distribution Date and no interest shall accrue during the intervening period. The Trustee shall mail notice of each Special Payment and the Special Distribution Date therefor to the Certificateholder of this Certificate.
Distributions on this Certificate will be made by the Trustee by check mailed to the Person entitled thereto, without presentation or surrender of this Certificate or the making of any notation hereon, except that with respect to Certificates registered on the Record Date in the name of a Clearing Agency (or its nominee) such distribution shall be made by wire transfer. Except as otherwise provided in the Agreement and notwithstanding the above, the final distribution on this Certificate will be made after notice mailed by the Trustee of the pendency of such distribution and only upon presentation and surrender of this Certificate at the office or agency of the Trustee specified in such notice.
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The Certificates do not represent a direct obligation of, or an obligation guaranteed by, or an interest in, the Company or the Trustee or any affiliate thereof. The Certificates are limited in right of payment, all as more specifically set forth on the face hereof and in the Agreement. All payments or distributions made to Certificateholders under the Agreement shall be made only from the Trust Property and only to the extent that the Trustee shall have sufficient income or proceeds from the Trust Property to make such payments in accordance with the terms of the Agreement. Each Certificateholder of this Certificate, by its acceptance hereof, agrees that it will look solely to the income and proceeds from the Trust Property to the extent available for distribution to such Certificateholder as provided in the Agreement. This Certificate does not purport to summarize the Agreement and reference is made to the Agreement for information with respect to the interests, rights, benefits, obligations, privileges, and duties evidenced hereby. A copy of the Agreement may be examined during normal business hours at the principal office of the Trustee, and at such other places, if any, designated by the Trustee, by any Certificateholder upon request.
The Agreement permits, with certain exceptions therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Certificateholders under the Agreement at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Certificateholders holding Certificates evidencing Fractional Undivided Interests aggregating not less than a majority in interest in the Trust. Any such consent by the Certificateholder of this Certificate shall be conclusive and binding on such Certificateholder and upon all future Certificateholders of this Certificate and of any Certificate issued upon the transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent is made upon this Certificate. The Agreement also permits the amendment thereof, in certain limited circumstances, without the consent of the Certificateholders of any of the Certificates.
As provided in the Agreement and subject to certain limitations set forth therein, the transfer of this Certificate is registrable in the Register upon surrender of this Certificate for registration of transfer at the offices or agencies maintained by the Trustee in its capacity as Registrar, or by any successor Registrar, duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Registrar, duly executed by the Certificateholder hereof or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Certificates of authorized denominations evidencing the same aggregate Fractional Undivided Interest in the Trust will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
The Certificates are issuable only as registered Certificates without coupons in minimum denominations of $1,000 Fractional Undivided Interest and integral multiples thereof, except that one Certificate may be issued in a different denomination. As provided in the Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the Certificates are exchangeable for new Certificates of authorized denominations evidencing the same aggregate Fractional Undivided Interest in the Trust, as requested by the Certificateholder surrendering the same.
No service charge will be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Trustee shall require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
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Each Certificateholder and Investor, by its acceptance of this Certificate or a beneficial interest herein, agrees to treat the Trust as a grantor trust for all U.S. federal, state and local income tax purposes.
The Trustee, the Registrar, and any agent of the Trustee or the Registrar may treat the person in whose name this Certificate is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, and neither the Trustee, the Registrar, nor any such agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.
The obligations and responsibilities created by the Agreement and the Trust created thereby shall terminate upon the distribution to Certificateholders of all amounts required to be distributed to them pursuant to the Agreement and the disposition of all property held as part of the Trust Property.
Any Person acquiring or accepting this Certificate or an interest herein will, by such acquisition or acceptance, be deemed to have represented and warranted to and for the benefit of the Company that either: (i) no assets of an employee benefit plan subject to Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), or a governmental, church or foreign plan subject to a law that is similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (a “Similar Law Plan”) have been used to purchase or hold this Certificate or an interest herein or (ii) the purchase and holding of this Certificate or an interest herein either (a) in the case of assets of an employee benefit plan subject to Title I of ERISA or a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Code, are exempt from the prohibited transaction restrictions of ERISA and the Code pursuant to one or more prohibited transaction statutory or administrative exemptions or (b) in the case of assets of a Similar Law Plan, will not violate any similar state, local or foreign law.
If the purchaser or transferee of this Certificate or an interest herein is an employee benefit plan subject to Title I of ERISA or a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Code, it will be deemed to represent, warrant and agree that (i) none of United Airlines Holdings, Inc., the Company, or the Underwriters, nor any of their affiliates, has provided any investment recommendation or investment advice on which it, or any fiduciary or other person investing the assets of such plan (“Plan Fiduciary”), has relied in connection with its decision to invest in this Certificate, and they are not otherwise acting as a fiduciary, as defined in Section 3(21) of ERISA or Section 4975(e)(3) of the Code, to such plan or the Plan Fiduciary in connection with such plan’s acquisition of this Certificate; and (ii) the Plan Fiduciary is exercising its own independent judgment in evaluating the transaction.
THE AGREEMENT AND THIS CERTIFICATE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee, by manual signature, this Certificate shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Agreement or be valid for any purpose.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Trustee has caused this Certificate to be duly executed.
| UNITED AIRLINES PASS THROUGH TRUST 2020-1A | ||
| By: | WILMINGTON
TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee | |
| By: | ||
| Name: | ||
| Title: | ||
FORM OF THE TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Certificates referred to in the within-mentioned Agreement.
| WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee | ||
| By: | ||
| Name: | ||
| Title: | ||
EXHIBIT B
DTC Letter of Representations
Exhibit 4.2
EXECUTION VERSION
REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT
(2020-1A)
dated as of October 28, 2020
between
WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Subordination Agent,
as Agent and Trustee for the
United Airlines Pass Through Trust 2020-1A,
as Borrower
and
GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA
as Liquidity Provider
Relating to United Airlines
Pass Through Trust 2020-1A 5.875% United Airlines
Pass Through Certificates, Series 2020-1A
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
| article I DEFINITIONS | 1 | |
| Section 1.01 | Certain Defined Terms | 1 |
| article II AMOUNT AND TERMS OF THE COMMITMENT | 13 | |
| Section 2.01 | The Advances | 13 |
| Section 2.02 | Making the Advances | 14 |
| Section 2.03 | Fees | 16 |
| Section 2.04 | Reductions or Termination of the Maximum Commitment | 16 |
| Section 2.05 | Repayments of Interest Advances, the Special Termination Advance or the Final Advance | 16 |
| Section 2.06 | Repayments of Provider Advances | 17 |
| Section 2.07 | Payments to the Liquidity Provider Under the Intercreditor Agreement | 18 |
| Section 2.08 | Book Entries | 19 |
| Section 2.09 | Payments from Available Funds Only | 19 |
| Section 2.10 | Non-Extension of the Expiry Date; Non-Extension Advance | 19 |
| Section 2.11 | LIBOR Replacement | 19 |
| article III OBLIGATIONS OF THE BORROWER | 21 | |
| Section 3.01 | Increased Costs | 21 |
| Section 3.02 | Capital Adequacy and Liquidity Coverage | 22 |
| Section 3.03 | Payments Free of Deductions | 23 |
| Section 3.04 | Payments | 25 |
| Section 3.05 | Computations | 25 |
| Section 3.06 | Payment on Non-Business Days | 25 |
| Section 3.07 | Interest | 26 |
| Section 3.08 | Replacement of Borrower | 27 |
| Section 3.09 | Funding Loss Indemnification | 27 |
| Section 3.10 | Illegality | 28 |
| article IV CONDITIONS PRECEDENT | 28 | |
| Section 4.01 | Conditions Precedent to Effectiveness of Section 2.01 | 28 |
| Section 4.02 | Conditions Precedent to Borrowing | 30 |
| Section 4.03 | Representations and Warranties | 30 |
| article V COVENANTS | 31 | |
| Section 5.01 | Affirmative Covenants of the Borrower | 31 |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
(continued)
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| Section 5.02 | Negative Covenants of the Borrower | 31 |
| article VI LIQUIDITY EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND SPECIAL TERMINATION | 31 | |
| Section 6.01 | Liquidity Events of Default | 31 |
| Section 6.02 | Special Termination | 32 |
| article VII MISCELLANEOUS | 32 | |
| Section 7.01 | Amendments, Etc | 32 |
| Section 7.02 | Notices, Etc | 32 |
| Section 7.03 | No Waiver; Remedies | 33 |
| Section 7.04 | Further Assurances | 33 |
| Section 7.05 | Indemnification; Survival of Certain Provisions | 33 |
| Section 7.06 | Liability of the Liquidity Provider | 33 |
| Section 7.07 | Costs, Expenses and Taxes | 34 |
| Section 7.08 | Binding Effect; Participations; Assignments | 35 |
| Section 7.09 | Severability | 37 |
| Section 7.10 | GOVERNING LAW | 37 |
| Section 7.11 | Submission to Jurisdiction; Waiver of Jury Trial; Waiver of Immunity | 37 |
| Section 7.12 | Execution in Counterparts | 38 |
| Section 7.13 | Entirety | 38 |
| Section 7.14 | Headings | 39 |
| Section 7.15 | [Reserved] | 39 |
| Section 7.16 | LIQUIDITY PROVIDER’S OBLIGATION TO MAKE ADVANCES | 39 |
| Section 7.17 | Patriot Act | 39 |
| Section 7.18 | [Reserved] | 39 |
| Section 7.19 | Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of Affected Institutions | 39 |
| Schedule A | - | Certain Economic Terms |
| Schedule B | - | Administration Details |
| Annex I | - | Interest Advance Notice of Borrowing |
| Annex II | - | Non-Extension Advance Notice of Borrowing |
| Annex III | - | Downgrade Advance Notice of Borrowing |
| Annex IV | - | Final Advance Notice of Borrowing |
| Annex V | - | Notice of Termination |
| Annex VI | - | Notice of Replacement Subordination Agent |
| Annex VII | - | Special Termination Advance Notice of Borrowing |
| Annex VIII | - | Notice of Special Termination |
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REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT (2020-1A)
THIS REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT (2020-1A) dated as of October 28, 2020 (this “Agreement”), between WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association, not in its individual capacity but solely as Subordination Agent under the Intercreditor Agreement (each as defined below), as agent and trustee for the Class A Trust (as defined below) (the “Borrower”), and GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA (the “Liquidity Provider”).
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Class A Trust Agreement (such term and all other capitalized terms used in these recitals having the meanings set forth or referred to in Section 1.01), the Class A Trust is issuing the Class A Certificates; and
WHEREAS, the Borrower, in order to support the timely payment of a portion of the interest on the Class A Certificates in accordance with their terms, has requested the Liquidity Provider to enter into this Agreement, providing in part for the Borrower to request in specified circumstances that Advances be made hereunder.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises, the parties hereto agree as follows:
article I
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.01 Certain Defined Terms. (a) Definitions. As used in this Agreement and unless otherwise expressly indicated, or unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the following capitalized terms shall have the following respective meanings for all purposes of this Agreement:
“Additional Costs” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.01.
“Advance” means an Interest Advance, a Final Advance, a Provider Advance, a Special Termination Advance, an Applied Special Termination Advance, or an Applied Provider Advance, as the case may be.
“Affected Financial Institution” means (a) any EEA Financial Institution or (b) any UK Financial Institution.
“Applicable Liquidity Rate” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.07(h).
“Applicable Margin” means (x) with respect to any Unpaid Advance (including, without limitation, any Applied Special Termination Advance but excluding any Unapplied Special Termination Advance) or Applied Provider Advance, the margin per annum specified in item 1 of Schedule A, or (y) with respect to any Unapplied Provider Advance or any Unapplied Special
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Termination Advance, the margin per annum specified in the Fee Letter applicable to this Agreement.
“Applied Downgrade Advance” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.06(a).
“Applied Non-Extension Advance” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.06(a).
“Applied Provider Advance” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.06(a).
“Applied Special Termination Advance” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.05.
“Available Tenor” means, as of any date of determination and with respect to the then-current Benchmark, as applicable, any tenor for such Benchmark or payment period for interest calculated with reference to such Benchmark, as applicable, that is or may be used for determining the length of an Interest Period pursuant to this Agreement as of such date and not including, for the avoidance of doubt, any tenor for such Benchmark that is then-removed from the definition of “Interest Period” pursuant to clause (d) of Section 2.11.
“Bail-In Action” means the exercise of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of an Affected Financial Institution.
“Bail-In Legislation” means (a) with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union, the implementing law, regulation rule or requirement for such EEA Member Country from time to time which is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule and (b) with respect to the United Kingdom, Part I of the United Kingdom Banking Act 2009 (as amended from time to time) and any other law, regulation or rule applicable in the United Kingdom relating to the resolution of unsound or failing banks, investment firms or other financial institutions or their affiliates (other than through liquidation, administration or other insolvency proceedings).
“Base Rate” means, for any given day, a fluctuating interest rate per annum in effect from time to time, which rate per annum shall at all times be equal to (a) the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers, as published for such day (or, if such day is not a Business Day, for the next preceding Business Day) by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or if such rate is not so published for any day that is a Business Day, the average of the quotations for such day for such transactions received by the Liquidity Provider from three Federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by it, plus (b) one-quarter of one percent (¼ of 1%).
“Base Rate Advance” means an Advance that bears interest at a rate based upon the Base Rate.
“Benchmark” means, initially, the LIBOR Rate; provided that if a Benchmark Transition Event or an Early Opt-in Election, as applicable, and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have
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occurred with respect to the LIBOR Rate or the then-current Benchmark, then “Benchmark” shall mean the applicable Benchmark Replacement to the extent that such Benchmark Replacement has replaced such prior benchmark rate pursuant to clause (a) of Section 2.11.
“Benchmark Replacement” means, for any Available Tenor, the first alternative set forth in the order below that can be determined by the Designated Party for the applicable Benchmark Replacement Date:
(1) the sum of: (a) Term SOFR and (b) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment;
(2) the sum of: (a) Daily Simple SOFR and (b) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment;
(3) the sum of: (a) the alternate benchmark rate that has been selected by the Designated Party as the replacement for the then-current Benchmark for the applicable Corresponding Tenor giving due consideration to (i) any selection or recommendation of a replacement benchmark rate or the mechanism for determining such a rate by the Relevant Governmental Body or (ii) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a benchmark rate as a replacement for the then-current Benchmark for U.S. dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities at such time and (b) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment;
provided that, in the case of clause (1), such Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement is displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Designated Party in its reasonable discretion. If the Benchmark Replacement as determined pursuant to clause (1), (2) or (3) above would be less than the Floor, the Benchmark Replacement will be deemed to be the Floor for the purposes of this Agreement.
“Benchmark Replacement Adjustment” means, with respect to any replacement of the then- current Benchmark with an Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for any applicable Interest Period and Available Tenor for any setting of such Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement:
(1) for purposes of clauses (1) and (2) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement,” the first alternative set forth in the order below that can be determined by the Designated Party:
(a) the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) as of the Reference Time such Benchmark Replacement is first set for such Interest Period that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body for the replacement of such Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for the applicable Corresponding Tenor;
(b) the spread adjustment (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) as of the Reference Time such Benchmark Replacement is first set for such Interest Period that would apply to the fallback rate for a derivative transaction referencing the ISDA Definitions to be effective upon an index
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cessation event with respect to such Benchmark for the applicable Corresponding Tenor; and
(2) for purposes of clause (3) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement,” the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) that has been selected by the Designated Party for the applicable Corresponding Tenor giving due consideration to (i) any selection or recommendation of a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of such Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement by the Relevant Governmental Body on the applicable Benchmark Replacement Date or (ii) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of such Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for U.S. dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities; provided that, in the case of clause (1) above, such adjustment is displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such Benchmark Replacement Adjustment from time to time as selected by the Designated Party in its reasonable discretion.
“Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes” means, with respect to any Benchmark Replacement, any technical, administrative or operational changes (including changes to the definition of “Business Day,” the definition of “Interest Period,” timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest, timing of borrowing requests or prepayment, conversion or continuation notices, length of lookback periods, the applicability of breakage provisions, and other technical, administrative or operational matters) that the Designated Party decides may be appropriate to reflect the adoption and implementation of such Benchmark Replacement and to permit the administration thereof by the Designated Party in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Designated Party decides that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or if the Designated Party determines that no market practice for the administration of such Benchmark Replacement exists, in such other manner of administration as the Designated Party decides is reasonably necessary in connection with the administration of this Agreement).
“Benchmark Replacement Date” means the earliest to occur of the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark:
(1) in the case of clause (1) or (2) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the later of (a) the date of the public statement or publication of information referenced therein and (b) the date on which the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) permanently or indefinitely ceases to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof);
(2) in the case of clause (3) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the date of the public statement or publication of information referenced therein; or
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(3) in the case of an Early Opt-in Election, the sixth (6th) Business Day after the date notice of such Early Opt-in Election is provided to the Borrower or the Liquidity Provider, as applicable.
For the avoidance of doubt, (i) if the event giving rise to the Benchmark Replacement Date occurs on the same day as, but earlier than, the Reference Time in respect of any determination, the Benchmark Replacement Date will be deemed to have occurred prior to the Reference Time for such determination and (ii) the “Benchmark Replacement Date” will be deemed to have occurred in the case of clause (1) or (2) with respect to any Benchmark upon the occurrence of the applicable event or events set forth therein with respect to all then-current Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).
“Benchmark Transition Event” means the occurrence of one or more of the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark:
(1) a public statement or publication of information by or on behalf of the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) announcing that such administrator has ceased or will cease to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof), permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof);
(2) a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof), the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, an insolvency official with jurisdiction over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component), a resolution authority with jurisdiction over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component) or a court or an entity with similar insolvency or resolution authority over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component), which states that the administrator of such Benchmark (or such component) has ceased or will cease to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof); or
(3) a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) announcing that all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) are no longer representative.
For the avoidance of doubt, a “Benchmark Transition Event” will be deemed to have occurred with respect to any Benchmark if a public statement or publication of information set forth above has occurred with respect to each then-current Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).
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“Benchmark Unavailability Period” means the period (if any) (x) beginning at the time that a Benchmark Replacement Date pursuant to clauses (1) or (2) of that definition has occurred if, at such time, no Benchmark Replacement has replaced the then-current Benchmark for all purposes hereunder in accordance with Section 2.11 and (y) ending at the time that a Benchmark Replacement has replaced the then-current Benchmark for all purposes hereunder in accordance with Section 2.11.
“Basel III” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.01.
“Borrower” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recital of parties to this Agreement.
“Borrowing” means the making of Advances requested by delivery of a Notice of Borrowing.
“Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday or Sunday or a day on which commercial banks are required or authorized to close in Chicago, Illinois, New York, New York or, so long as any Class A Certificate is outstanding, the city and state in which the Class A Trustee, the Borrower or any Loan Trustee maintains its Corporate Trust Office or receives or disburses funds, and, if the applicable Business Day relates to any Advance or other amount bearing interest based on the LIBOR Rate, on which dealings in dollars are carried on in the London interbank market.
“Corresponding Tenor” with respect to any Available Tenor means, as applicable, either a tenor (including overnight) or an interest payment period having approximately the same length (disregarding business day adjustment) as such Available Tenor.
“Daily Simple SOFR” means, for any day, SOFR, with the conventions for this rate (which will include a lookback) being established by the Designated Party in accordance with the conventions for this rate selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body for determining “Daily Simple SOFR” for syndicated business loans; provided, that if the Designated Party decides that any such convention is not administratively feasible for the Designated Party, then the Designated Party may establish another convention in its reasonable discretion.
“Designated Party” means the Subordination Agent, in such case acting for the benefit of both the Borrower and the Liquidity Provider, and in so acting, also taking into account any similar determinations (including in its individual capacity or as an applicable agent) under other credit facilities to which it is a party (in any such capacity); provided, that (a) applicable determinations as Designated Party shall be made in consultation with, and shall be subject to any joint written instructions delivered by, United and the Liquidity Provider (and absent such instructions, with the Subordination Agent having no obligation to obtain any consent from any Person in respect of its determinations as Designated Party, unless otherwise expressly set forth herein), and (b) to the extent mutually agreed by United and the Liquidity Provider (with notice to the Subordination Agent), the Designated Party shall be, or any specified determinations thereof may be made by, as applicable, the Liquidity Provider.
“Downgrade Advance” means an Advance made pursuant to Section 2.02(c).
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“Early Opt-in Election” means, if the then-current Benchmark is the LIBOR Rate, the occurrence of:
(1) a notification by the Liquidity Provider to the Borrower or a notification from the Borrower to the Liquidity Provider that at least five currently outstanding U.S. dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities at such time contain (as a result of amendment or as originally executed) a SOFR-based rate (including SOFR, a term SOFR or any other rate based upon SOFR) as a benchmark rate (and such syndicated credit facilities are identified in such notice and are publicly available for review), and
(2) the joint election by the Liquidity Provider and the Borrower to trigger a fallback from the LIBOR Rate.
“EEA Financial Institution” means (a) any credit institution or investment firm established in any EEA Member Country which is subject to the supervision of an EEA Resolution Authority, (b) any entity established in an EEA Member Country which is a parent of an institution described in clause (a) of this definition, or (c) any financial institution established in an EEA Member Country which is a subsidiary of an institution described in clauses (a) or (b) of this definition and is subject to consolidated supervision with its parent.
“EEA Member Country” means any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.
“EEA Resolution Authority” means any public administrative authority or any person entrusted with public administrative authority of any EEA Member Country (including any delegee) having responsibility for the resolution of any EEA Financial Institution.
“Effective Date” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.01. The delivery of the certificate of the Liquidity Provider contemplated by Section 4.01(e) shall be conclusive evidence that the Effective Date has occurred.
“Excluded Taxes” means (i) taxes imposed on the overall net income of the Liquidity Provider or of its Facility Office by the jurisdiction where such Liquidity Provider’s principal office or such Facility Office is located, and (ii) Excluded Withholding Taxes.
“Excluded Withholding Taxes” means (i) withholding Taxes imposed by the United States except to the extent that such United States withholding Taxes are imposed or increased as a result of any change in applicable law (excluding from change in applicable law for this purpose a change in an applicable treaty or other change in law affecting the applicability of a treaty) after the date hereof, or in the case of a successor Liquidity Provider (including a transferee of an Advance) or Facility Office, after the date on which such successor Liquidity Provider obtains its interest or on which the Facility Office is changed, (ii) any withholding Taxes imposed by the United States which are imposed or increased as a result of the Liquidity Provider failing to deliver to the Borrower any certificate or document (which certificate or document in the good faith judgment of the Liquidity Provider it is legally entitled to provide) which is reasonably requested by the Borrower to establish that payments under this Agreement are exempt from (or entitled to a reduced rate of) withholding Tax and (iii) Taxes imposed under FATCA.
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“Expenses” means liabilities, obligations, damages, settlements, penalties, claims, actions, suits, costs, expenses, and disbursements (including, without limitation, reasonable fees and disbursements of legal counsel and costs of investigation), provided that Expenses shall not include any Taxes.
“Expiry Date” means the “Initial Expiry Date” specified in item 2 of Schedule A, initially, or any subsequent anniversary date of the Closing Date to which the Expiry Date is automatically extended pursuant to Section 2.10 if the Liquidity Provider has not provided notice in accordance with Section 2.10 that its obligation to make Advances shall not be extended beyond such anniversary date.
“Facility Office” means the office of the Liquidity Provider presently located in New York, New York or such other office as the Liquidity Provider from time to time shall notify the Borrower as its Facility Office hereunder; provided that the Liquidity Provider shall not change its Facility Office to another Facility Office outside the United States of America except in accordance with Section 3.01, 3.02 or 3.03 hereof or with the prior consent of United Airlines, Inc.
“Final Advance” means an Advance made pursuant to Section 2.02(d).
“Floor” means the benchmark rate floor, if any, provided in this Agreement initially (as of the execution of this Agreement, the modification, amendment or renewal of this Agreement or otherwise) with respect to the LIBOR Rate.
“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles as set forth in the statements of financial accounting standards issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, as such principles may at any time or from time to time be varied by any applicable financial accounting rules or regulations issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission and, with respect to any person, shall mean such principles applied on a basis consistent with prior periods except as may be disclosed in such person’s financial statements.
“Initial Liquidity Provider” means Goldman Sachs Bank USA, but not any transferee or assignee thereof.
“Intercreditor Agreement” means the Intercreditor Agreement dated as of the date hereof among the Trustees, the Liquidity Provider, each liquidity provider under the other Liquidity Facilities and the Subordination Agent, as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with its terms.
“Interest Advance” means an Advance made pursuant to Section 2.02(a).
“Interest Period” means, with respect to any LIBOR Advance, each of the following periods:
(i) the period beginning on the third LIBOR Business Day following either (x) the date of the Liquidity Provider’s receipt of the Notice of Borrowing for such LIBOR Advance or (y) the date of the withdrawal of funds from the Class A Cash
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Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility for the purpose of paying interest on the Class A Certificates as contemplated by Section 2.06(a) hereof and, in either case, ending on the next Regular Distribution Date (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day); and
(ii) each subsequent period commencing on the last day of the immediately preceding Interest Period and ending on the next Regular Distribution Date (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day);
provided, however, that if (x) the Final Advance shall have been made, or (y) other outstanding Advances shall have been converted into the Final Advance, then the Interest Periods shall be successive periods of one month beginning on the third LIBOR Business Day following the Liquidity Provider’s receipt of the Notice of Borrowing for such Final Advance (in the case of clause (x) above) or the Regular Distribution Date (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day) following such conversion (in the case of clause (y) above).
“ISDA Definitions” means the 2006 ISDA Definitions published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. or any successor thereto, as amended or supplemented from time to time, or any successor definitional booklet for interest rate derivatives published from time to time by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. or such successor thereto.
“LIBOR Advance” means an Advance bearing interest at a rate based upon the LIBOR Rate.
“LIBOR Business Day” means any day on which dealings in dollars are carried on in the London interbank market.
“LIBOR Rate” means, with respect to any Interest Period,
(i) the rate per annum equal to the London Interbank Offered Rate per annum administered by ICE Benchmark Administration Limited (or any other successor person which takes over administration of that rate) appearing on display page Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page (or any successor or substitute therefor) at approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) two LIBOR Business Days before the first day of such Interest Period, as the rate for dollar deposits with a maturity comparable to such Interest Period, or
(ii) if the rate calculated pursuant to clause (i) above is not available, the average (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/16 of 1%) of the rates per annum at which deposits in dollars are offered for the relevant Interest Period by three banks of recognized standing selected by the Liquidity Provider in the London interbank market at approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) two LIBOR Business Days before the first day of such Interest Period in an amount approximately equal to the principal amount of the LIBOR Advance to which such Interest Period is to apply and for a period comparable to such Interest Period; or
(iii) if both the rate calculated pursuant to clause (i) is not available and the Liquidity Provider is unable, using customary reasonable means of determination, to
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determine a rate pursuant to clause (ii), or Benchmark Unavailability Period shall then be in effect, the Base Rate; provided that if a Benchmark Replacement Date has occurred resulting in a new Benchmark pursuant to Section 2.11, subject to the applicable Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes, the LIBOR Rate shall be deemed to be the lower of (A) the Base Rate and (B) the applicable Benchmark.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the LIBOR Rate determined as provided above with respect to any Interest Period would be less than 0% per annum, then the LIBOR Rate for such Interest Period shall be deemed to be 0%.
“Liquidity Event of Default” means the occurrence of either (a) the Acceleration of the Equipment Note or (b) a United Bankruptcy Event.
“Liquidity Indemnitee” means (i) the Liquidity Provider, (ii) the directors, officers, employees and agents of the Liquidity Provider, and (iii) the successors and permitted assigns of the persons described in clauses (i) and (ii) inclusive.
“Liquidity Provider” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recital of parties to this Agreement.
“Maximum Available Commitment” means, subject to the proviso contained in the third sentence of Section 2.02(a), at any time of determination, (a) the Maximum Commitment at such time less (b) the aggregate amount of each Interest Advance outstanding at such time; provided that following a Downgrade Advance (subject to any reinstatement of the obligations of the Liquidity Provider pursuant to Section 2.06(d)), a Non-Extension Advance, a Special Termination Advance or a Final Advance, the Maximum Available Commitment shall be zero.
“Maximum Commitment” means initially the amount specified in item 3 on Schedule A as the Initial Maximum Commitment, as such amount may be reduced from time to time in accordance with Section 2.04(a).
“Non-Excluded Tax” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.03(a).
“Non-Extension Advance” means an Advance made pursuant to Section 2.02(b).
“Notice Date” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.10.
“Notice of Borrowing” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.02(e).
“Notice of Replacement Subordination Agent” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.08.
“Performing Note Deficiency” means any time that one or more Equipment Notes (other than any Additional Equipment Notes issued under the Indenture) are not then Performing Equipment Notes.
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“Prospectus Supplement” means the final Prospectus Supplement dated the date specified in item 4 on Schedule A relating to the Class A Certificates, as such Prospectus Supplement may be amended or supplemented.
“Provider Advance” means a Downgrade Advance or a Non-Extension Advance.
“Rate Determination Notice” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.07(g).
“Reference Time” with respect to any setting of the then-current Benchmark means (1) if such Benchmark is the LIBOR Rate, 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the day that is two London banking days preceding the date of such setting, and (2) if such Benchmark is not the LIBOR Rate, the time determined by the Designated Party in its reasonable discretion.
“Relevant Governmental Body” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or any successor thereto.
“Regulatory Change” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.01.
“Replenishment Amount” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.06(b).
“Required Amount” means, for any day, the sum of the aggregate amount of interest, calculated at the rate per annum equal to the Stated Interest Rate for the Class A Certificates, that would be payable on the Class A Certificates on each of the six successive quarterly Regular Distribution Dates immediately following such day or, if such day is a Regular Distribution Date, on such day and the succeeding five quarterly Regular Distribution Dates, in each case calculated on the basis of the Pool Balance of the Class A Certificates on such day and without regard to expected future distributions of principal on the Class A Certificates and, where there is more than a single Liquidity Facility for the Class A Certificates, calculated with respect to the Liquidity Provider by reference to its Proportionate Share.
“Resolution Authority” means an EEA Resolution Authority or, with respect to any UK Financial Institution, a UK Resolution Authority.
“SOFR” means, with respect to any Business Day, a rate per annum equal to the secured overnight financing rate for such Business Day published by the SOFR Administrator on the SOFR Administrator’s Website on the immediately succeeding Business Day.
“SOFR Administrator” means the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or a successor administrator of the secured overnight financing rate).
“SOFR Administrator’s Website” means the website of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, currently at http://www.newyorkfed.org, or any successor source for the secured overnight financing rate identified as such by the SOFR Administrator from time to time.
“Special Termination Advance” means an Advance made pursuant to Section 2.02(g).
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“Special Termination Notice” means the Notice of Special Termination substantially in the form of Annex VIII to this Agreement.
“Term SOFR” means, for the applicable Corresponding Tenor as of the applicable Reference Time, the forward-looking term rate based on SOFR that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body.
“Termination Date” means the earliest to occur of the following: (i) the Expiry Date; (ii) the date on which the Borrower delivers to the Liquidity Provider a certificate, signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, certifying that all of the Class A Certificates have been paid in full (or provision has been made for such payment in accordance with the Intercreditor Agreement and the Class A Trust Agreement) or are otherwise no longer entitled to the benefits of this Agreement; (iii) the date on which the Borrower delivers to the Liquidity Provider a certificate, signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, certifying that a Replacement Liquidity Facility has been substituted for this Agreement in full pursuant to Section 3.5(e) of the Intercreditor Agreement; (iv) the fifth Business Day following the receipt by the Borrower of a Termination Notice or Special Termination Notice from the Liquidity Provider pursuant to Section 6.01 or 6.02 hereof, respectively; and (v) the date on which no Advance is or may (including by reason of reinstatement as herein provided) become available for a Borrowing hereunder.
“Termination Notice” means the Notice of Termination substantially in the form of Annex V to this Agreement.
“Transferee” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 7.08(b).
“UK Financial Institution” means any BRRD Undertaking (as such term is defined under the PRA Rulebook (as amended from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Prudential Regulation Authority) or any person falling within IFPRU 11.6 of the FCA Handbook (as amended from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority, which includes certain credit institutions and investment firms, and certain affiliates of such credit institutions or investment firms.
“UK Resolution Authority” means the Bank of England or any other public administrative authority having responsibility for the resolution of any UK Financial Institution.
“Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement” means the applicable Benchmark Replacement excluding the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment.
“Unapplied Downgrade Advance” means any Downgrade Advance other than an Applied Downgrade Advance.
“Unapplied Non-Extension Advance” means any Non-Extension Advance other than an Applied Non-Extension Advance.
“Unapplied Provider Advance” means any Provider Advance other than an Applied Provider Advance.
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“Unapplied Special Termination Advance” means any Special Termination Advance other than an Applied Special Termination Advance.
“Unpaid Advance” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.05.
“Write-Down and Conversion Powers” means, (i) with respect to any EEA Resolution Authority, the write-down and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority from time to time under the Bail-In Legislation for the applicable EEA Member Country, which write-down and conversion powers are described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule, and (ii) with respect to the United Kingdom, any powers of the applicable Resolution Authority under the Bail-In Legislation to cancel, reduce, modify or change the form of a liability of any UK Financial Institution or any contract or instrument under which that liability arises, to convert all or part of that liability into shares, securities or obligations of that person or any other person, to provide that any such contract or instrument is to have effect as if a right had been exercised under it or to suspend any obligation in respect of that liability or any of the powers under that Bail-In Legislation that are related to or ancillary to any of those powers.
(b) Terms Defined in the Intercreditor Agreement. For all purposes of this Agreement, the following terms shall have the respective meanings assigned to such terms in the Intercreditor Agreement:
“Acceleration”, “Additional Certificates”, “Additional Equipment Notes”, “Bankruptcy Code”, “Certificate”, “Class”, “Class A Certificates”, “Class A Cash Collateral Account”, “Class A Trust”, “Class A Trust Agreement”, “Class A Trustee”, “Closing Date”, “Controlling Party”, “Corporate Trust Office”, “Downgraded Facility”, “Downgrade Event”, “Equipment Notes”, “Fee Letter”, “Final Legal Distribution Date”, “Financing Agreement”, “Investment Earnings”, “Liquidity Facility”, “Liquidity Obligations”, “Loan Trustee”, “Non-Extended Facility”, “Note Purchase Agreement”, “Operative Agreements”, “Performing Equipment Note”, “Person”, “Pool Balance”, “Proportionate Share”, “Rating Agencies”, “Regular Distribution Date”, “Replacement Liquidity Facility”, “Replacement Liquidity Provider”, “Responsible Officer”, “Scheduled Payment”, “Series A Equipment Note”, “Special Payment”, “Stated Interest Rate”, “Subordination Agent”, “Taxes”, “Threshold Rating”, “Transfer”, “Trust Agreement”, “Trustee”, “Underwriters”, “Underwriting Agreement”, “United”, and “United Bankruptcy Event”.
article II
AMOUNT AND TERMS OF THE COMMITMENT
Section 2.01 The Advances. The Liquidity Provider hereby irrevocably agrees, on the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, to make Advances to the Borrower from time to time on any Business Day during the period from the Effective Date until 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the Expiry Date (unless the obligations of the Liquidity Provider shall be earlier terminated in accordance with the terms of Section 2.04(b)) in an aggregate amount at any time outstanding not to exceed the Maximum Commitment.
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Section 2.02 Making the Advances. (a) Interest Advances shall be made in one or more Borrowings by delivery to the Liquidity Provider of one or more written and completed Notices of Borrowing in substantially the form of Annex I attached hereto, signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, in an amount not exceeding the Maximum Available Commitment at such time and shall be used solely for the payment when due of interest on the Class A Certificates at the Stated Interest Rate therefor in accordance with Section 3.5(a) of the Intercreditor Agreement. Each Interest Advance made hereunder shall automatically reduce the Maximum Available Commitment and the amount available to be borrowed hereunder by subsequent Advances by the amount of such Interest Advance (subject to reinstatement as provided in the next sentence). Upon repayment to the Liquidity Provider in full or in part of the amount of any Interest Advance made pursuant to this Section 2.02(a), together with accrued interest thereon (as provided herein), the Maximum Available Commitment shall be reinstated by the amount of such repaid Interest Advance but not to exceed the Maximum Commitment; provided, however, that, subject to Section 2.06(d), the Maximum Available Commitment shall not be so reinstated at any time if (x) (i) a Liquidity Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and (ii) there is a Performing Note Deficiency or (y) a Final Advance, a Special Termination Advance, a Downgrade Advance or a Non-Extension Advance shall have been made or an Interest Advance shall have been converted into a Final Advance.
(b) A Non-Extension Advance shall be made in a single Borrowing if this Agreement is not extended in accordance with Section 3.5(d) of the Intercreditor Agreement (unless a Replacement Liquidity Facility to replace this Agreement shall have been delivered to the Borrower as contemplated by said Section 3.5(d) within the time period specified in such Section) by delivery to the Liquidity Provider of a written and completed Notice of Borrowing in substantially the form of Annex II attached hereto, signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, in an amount equal to the Maximum Available Commitment at such time, and shall be used to fund the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility in accordance with said Section 3.5(d) and Section 3.5(f) of the Intercreditor Agreement.
(c) A Downgrade Advance shall be made in a single Borrowing upon the occurrence of a Downgrade Event (as provided for in Section 3.5(c) of the Intercreditor Agreement), unless (i) a Replacement Liquidity Facility to replace this Agreement shall have been previously delivered to the Borrower within thirty-five (35) days after the Downgrade Event or (ii) the relevant Rating Agency shall have provided confirmation within thirty (30) days after the Downgrade Event that such Downgrade Event will not result in a downgrading, withdrawal or suspension by such Rating Agency of the rating then in effect for the related Class of Certificates, in each case of clause (i) and (ii), in accordance with said Section 3.5(c), by delivery to the Liquidity Provider of a written and completed Notice of Borrowing in substantially the form of Annex III attached hereto, signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, in an amount equal to the Maximum Available Commitment at such time, and shall be used to fund the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility in accordance with said Section 3.5(c) and Section 3.5(f) of the Intercreditor Agreement. Upon the occurrence of a Downgrade Event, the Liquidity Provider shall promptly deliver notice thereof to the Borrower, the Class A Trustee and United.
(d) A Final Advance shall be made in a single Borrowing upon the receipt by the Borrower of a Termination Notice from the Liquidity Provider pursuant to Section 6.01 hereof
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by delivery to the Liquidity Provider of a written and completed Notice of Borrowing in substantially the form of Annex IV attached hereto, signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, in an amount equal to the Maximum Available Commitment at such time, and shall be used to fund the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility (in accordance with Sections 3.5(f) and 3.5(i) of the Intercreditor Agreement).
(e) Each Borrowing shall be made on notice in writing (a “Notice of Borrowing”) in substantially the form required by Section 2.02(a), 2.02(b), 2.02(c), 2.02(d) or 2.02(g), as the case may be, given by the Borrower to the Liquidity Provider. If a Notice of Borrowing is delivered by the Borrower in respect of any Borrowing no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on a Business Day, upon satisfaction of the conditions precedent set forth in Section 4.02 with respect to a requested Borrowing, the Liquidity Provider shall make available to the Borrower, in accordance with its payment instructions, the amount of such Borrowing in U.S. dollars and immediately available funds, before 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on such Business Day. If a Notice of Borrowing is delivered by the Borrower in respect of any Borrowing on a day that is not a Business Day or after 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on a Business Day, upon satisfaction of the conditions precedent set forth in Section 4.02 with respect to a requested Borrowing, the Liquidity Provider shall make available to the Borrower, in accordance with its payment instructions, the amount of such Borrowing in U.S. dollars and in immediately available funds, before 12:00 Noon (New York City time) on the first Business Day next following the day of receipt of such Notice of Borrowing. Payments of proceeds of a Borrowing shall be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the Borrower in accordance with such wire transfer instructions as the Borrower shall furnish from time to time to the Liquidity Provider for such purpose. Each Notice of Borrowing shall be irrevocable and binding on the Borrower. Each Notice of Borrowing shall be effective upon receipt of a copy thereof by the Liquidity Provider at the address specified pursuant to Section 7.02.
(f) Upon the making of any Advance requested pursuant to a Notice of Borrowing, in accordance with the Borrower’s payment instructions, the Liquidity Provider shall be fully discharged of its obligation hereunder with respect to such Notice of Borrowing, and the Liquidity Provider shall not thereafter be obligated to make any further Advances hereunder in respect of such Notice of Borrowing to the Borrower or to any other Person. If the Liquidity Provider makes an Advance requested pursuant to a Notice of Borrowing before 12:00 Noon (New York City time) on the second Business Day after the date of payment specified in Section 2.02(e), the Liquidity Provider shall have fully discharged its obligations hereunder with respect to such Advance and an event of default shall not have occurred hereunder. Following the making of any Advance pursuant to Section 2.02(b), (c), (d) or (g) hereof to fund the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility, the Liquidity Provider shall have no interest in or rights to such Class A Cash Collateral Account, the funds constituting such Advance or any other amounts from time to time on deposit in such Class A Cash Collateral Account; provided that the foregoing shall not affect or impair the obligations of the Subordination Agent to make the distributions contemplated by Section 3.5(e) or (f) of the Intercreditor Agreement, and provided, further, that the foregoing shall not affect or impair the rights of the Liquidity Provider to provide written instructions with respect to the investment and reinvestment of amounts in such Class A Cash Collateral Account to the extent provided in Section 2.2(b) of the Intercreditor Agreement. By paying to the Borrower proceeds of Advances requested by the Borrower in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, the Liquidity
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Provider makes no representation as to, and assumes no responsibility for, the correctness or sufficiency for any purpose of the amount of the Advances so made and requested.
(g) A Special Termination Advance shall be made in a single Borrowing upon the receipt by the Borrower of a Special Termination Notice from the Liquidity Provider pursuant to Section 6.02, by delivery to the Liquidity Provider of a written and completed Notice of Borrowing in substantially the form of Annex VII, signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, in an amount equal to the Maximum Available Commitment at such time, and shall be used to fund the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility (in accordance with Section 3.5(f) and Section 3.5(m) of the Intercreditor Agreement).
Section 2.03 Fees. The Borrower agrees to pay to the Liquidity Provider the fees set forth in the Fee Letter applicable to this Agreement, to the extent payable to the Liquidity Provider pursuant to such Fee Letter.
Section 2.04 Reductions or Termination of the Maximum Commitment.
(a) Automatic Reduction. Promptly following each date on which the Required Amount is reduced as a result of a reduction in the Pool Balance of the Class A Certificates or otherwise, the Maximum Commitment shall automatically be reduced to an amount equal to such reduced Required Amount (as calculated by the Borrower); provided that on (or, as applicable, immediately following) the first Regular Distribution Date, the Maximum Commitment shall automatically be reduced to the then Required Amount. The Borrower shall give notice of any such automatic reduction of the Maximum Commitment to the Liquidity Provider within two Business Days thereof. The failure by the Borrower to furnish any such notice shall not affect such automatic reduction of the Maximum Commitment.
(b) Termination. Upon the making of any Provider Advance or Special Termination Advance or the making of or conversion to a Final Advance hereunder or the occurrence of the Termination Date, the obligation of the Liquidity Provider to make further Advances hereunder shall automatically and irrevocably terminate, and the Borrower shall not be entitled to request any further Borrowing hereunder, except in the case of a Downgrade Advance, as provided in Section 2.06(d).
Section 2.05 Repayments of Interest Advances, the Special Termination Advance or the Final Advance. Subject to Sections 2.06, 2.07 and 2.09 hereof, the Borrower hereby agrees, without notice of an Advance or demand for repayment from the Liquidity Provider (which notice and demand are hereby waived by the Borrower), to pay, or to cause to be paid, to the Liquidity Provider on each date on which the Liquidity Provider shall make an Interest Advance, the Special Termination Advance or the Final Advance, an amount equal to (a) the amount of such Advance (any such Advance, until repaid, is referred to herein as an “Unpaid Advance”) (if multiple Interest Advances are outstanding any such repayment to be applied in the order in which such Interest Advances have been made, starting with the earliest), plus (b) interest on the amount of each such Unpaid Advance as provided in Section 3.07 hereof; provided that if (i) the Liquidity Provider shall make a Provider Advance at any time after making one or more Interest Advances which shall not have been repaid in accordance with this Section 2.05 or (ii) this Liquidity Facility shall become a Downgraded Facility or Non-Extended Facility at any time
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when unreimbursed Interest Advances have reduced the Maximum Available Commitment to zero, then such Interest Advances shall cease to constitute Unpaid Advances and shall be deemed to have been changed into an Applied Downgrade Advance or an Applied Non-Extension Advance, as the case may be, for all purposes of this Agreement (including, without limitation, for the purpose of determining when such Interest Advance is required to be repaid to the Liquidity Provider in accordance with Section 2.06 and for the purposes of Section 2.06(b)); provided, further, that amounts in respect of a Special Termination Advance withdrawn from the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility for the purpose of paying interest on the Class A Certificates in accordance with Section 3.5(f) of the Intercreditor Agreement (the amount of any such withdrawal being an “Applied Special Termination Advance”) shall thereafter (subject to Section 2.06(b)) be treated as an Interest Advance under this Agreement for purposes of determining the Applicable Liquidity Rate for interest payable thereon; provided, further, that if, following the making of a Special Termination Advance, the Liquidity Provider delivers a Termination Notice to the Borrower pursuant to Section 6.01, such Special Termination Advance shall thereafter be converted to and treated as a Final Advance under this Agreement for purposes of determining the Applicable Liquidity Rate for interest payable thereon and the obligation for repayment thereof and treated as an Applied Special Termination Advance for purposes of Section 2.6(c) of the Intercreditor Agreement, and, provided, further, that if, after making a Provider Advance, the Liquidity Provider delivers a Special Termination Notice to the Borrower pursuant to Section 6.02, any Unapplied Provider Advance shall be converted to and treated as a Special Termination Advance under this Agreement for purposes of determining the Applicable Liquidity Rate for interest payable thereon and the obligation for repayment thereof under the Intercreditor Agreement. The Borrower and the Liquidity Provider agree that the repayment in full of each Interest Advance, the Special Termination Advance and the Final Advance on the date such Advance is made is intended to be a contemporaneous exchange for new value given to the Borrower by the Liquidity Provider.
Section 2.06 Repayments of Provider Advances.
(a) Amounts advanced hereunder in respect of a Provider Advance shall be deposited in the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility, invested and withdrawn from such Class A Cash Collateral Account as set forth in Sections 3.5(c), (d), (e) and (f) of the Intercreditor Agreement. Subject to Sections 2.07 and 2.09, the Borrower agrees to pay to the Liquidity Provider, on each Regular Distribution Date, commencing on the first Regular Distribution Date after the making of a Provider Advance, interest on the principal amount of any such Provider Advance as provided in Section 3.07; provided, however, that amounts in respect of a Provider Advance withdrawn from the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility for the purpose of paying interest on the Class A Certificates in accordance with Section 3.5(f) of the Intercreditor Agreement (the amount of any such withdrawal being (y) in the case of a Downgrade Advance, an “Applied Downgrade Advance” and (z) in the case of a Non-Extension Advance, an “Applied Non-Extension Advance” and, together with an Applied Downgrade Advance, an “Applied Provider Advance”) shall thereafter (subject to Section 2.06(b)) be treated as an Interest Advance under this Agreement for purposes of determining the Applicable Liquidity Rate for interest payable thereon and the dates on which such interest is payable; provided, further, however, that if, following the making of a Provider Advance, the Liquidity Provider delivers a Termination Notice to the Borrower
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pursuant to Section 6.01 hereof, such Provider Advance shall thereafter be converted to and treated as a Final Advance under this Agreement for purposes of determining the Applicable Liquidity Rate for interest payable thereon and the obligation for repayment thereof and treated as an Applied Downgrade Advance or Applied Non-Extension Advance, as the case may be, for the purposes of Section 2.6(c) of the Intercreditor Agreement. Subject to Sections 2.07 and 2.09 hereof, immediately upon the withdrawal of any amounts from the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility on account of a reduction in the Required Amount, the Borrower shall repay to the Liquidity Provider a portion of the Provider Advances in a principal amount equal to the amount of such reduction, plus interest on the principal amount prepaid as provided in Section 3.07 hereof.
(b) At any time when an Applied Provider Advance or an Applied Special Termination Advance (or any portion thereof) is outstanding, upon the deposit in the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility of any amount pursuant to clause “fourth” of Section 3.2 of the Intercreditor Agreement (any such amount being a “Replenishment Amount”) for the purpose of replenishing or increasing the balance thereof up to the amount of the Required Amount at such time, (i) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all Applied Provider Advances or the Applied Special Termination Advance (and of Provider Advances treated as an Interest Advance for purposes of determining the Applicable Liquidity Rate for interest payable thereon) shall be automatically reduced by the amount of such Replenishment Amount (if multiple Applied Provider Advances are outstanding, such Replenishment Amount to be applied in the order in which such Applied Provider Advances have been made, starting with the earliest) and (ii) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all Unapplied Provider Advances or of the Unapplied Special Termination Advance shall be automatically increased by the amount of such Replenishment Amount.
(c) Upon the provision of a Replacement Liquidity Facility in replacement of this Agreement in accordance with Section 3.5(e) of the Intercreditor Agreement, amounts remaining on deposit in the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility after giving effect to any Applied Provider Advance or Applied Special Termination Advance on the date of such replacement shall be reimbursed to the replaced Liquidity Provider, but only to the extent such amounts are necessary to repay in full to the replaced Liquidity Provider all amounts owing to it hereunder.
(d) If, at any time after making a Downgrade Advance, the Liquidity Provider satisfies the Threshold Rating and delivers a written notice to that effect to the Borrower and United, as of the second Business Day following receipt of such notice, (i) the Unapplied Downgrade Advance shall be withdrawn from the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility and reimbursed to the Liquidity Provider, (ii) the Maximum Commitment shall be reinstated by an amount equal to the amount of such Unapplied Downgrade Advance so reimbursed, but not to exceed the Maximum Commitment and the obligation of the Liquidity Provider to make Advances shall be reinstated in an equal amount, and (iii) the proviso in the definition of Maximum Available Commitment shall no longer apply to such Downgrade Advance.
Section 2.07 Payments to the Liquidity Provider Under the Intercreditor Agreement. In order to provide for payment or repayment to the Liquidity Provider of any amounts hereunder,
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the Intercreditor Agreement provides that amounts available and referred to in Articles II and III of the Intercreditor Agreement, to the extent payable to the Liquidity Provider pursuant to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement (including, without limitation, Section 3.5(f) of the Intercreditor Agreement), shall be paid to the Liquidity Provider in accordance with the terms thereof. Amounts so paid to, and not required to be returned by, the Liquidity Provider shall be applied by the Liquidity Provider to Liquidity Obligations then due and payable to it in accordance with the Intercreditor Agreement and shall discharge in full the corresponding obligations of the Borrower hereunder (or, if not provided for in the Intercreditor Agreement, then in such manner as the Liquidity Provider shall deem appropriate).
Section 2.08 Book Entries. The Liquidity Provider shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice an account or accounts evidencing the indebtedness of the Borrower resulting from Advances made from time to time and the amounts of principal and interest payable hereunder and paid from time to time in respect thereof; provided, however, that the failure by the Liquidity Provider to maintain such account or accounts shall not affect the obligations of the Borrower in respect of Advances.
Section 2.09 Payments from Available Funds Only. All payments to be made by the Borrower under this Agreement, including, without limitation, Sections 7.05 and 7.07, shall be made only from the amounts that constitute Scheduled Payments, Special Payments or payments under Section 8.1 of the Note Purchase Agreement and payments under the Fee Letter applicable to this Agreement and Section 6 of the Note Purchase Agreement and only to the extent that the Borrower shall have sufficient income or proceeds therefrom to enable the Borrower to make payments in accordance with the terms hereof after giving effect to the priority of payments provisions set forth in the Intercreditor Agreement. The Liquidity Provider agrees that it will look solely to such amounts in respect of payments to be made by the Borrower hereunder to the extent available for distribution to it as provided in the Intercreditor Agreement and this Agreement and that the Borrower, in its individual capacity, is not personally liable to it for any amounts payable or liability under this Agreement except as expressly provided in this Agreement, the Intercreditor Agreement or the Note Purchase Agreement. Amounts on deposit in the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility shall be available to the Borrower to make payments under this Agreement only to the extent and for the purposes expressly contemplated in Section 3.5(f) of the Intercreditor Agreement.
Section 2.10 Non-Extension of the Expiry Date; Non-Extension Advance. If in any calendar year the Liquidity Provider advises the Borrower before the 25th day prior to the anniversary date of the Closing Date in such calendar year (such 25th day, the “Notice Date”) that the Expiry Date shall not be extended beyond such anniversary date (and if this Agreement shall not have been replaced in accordance with Section 3.5(e) of the Intercreditor Agreement), the Borrower shall be entitled on and after such Notice Date (but prior to the then effective Expiry Date) to request a Non-Extension Advance in accordance with Section 2.02(b) hereof and Section 3.5(d) of the Intercreditor Agreement; provided, however, that if in any calendar year the Liquidity Provider does not so advise the Borrower before the Notice Date in such calendar year, the Expiry Date shall be automatically extended to the anniversary date of the Closing Date in the next calendar year.
Section 2.11 LIBOR Replacement.
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(a) Benchmark Replacement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, if a Benchmark Transition Event or an Early Opt-in Election, as applicable, and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred prior to the Reference Time in respect of any setting of the then-current Benchmark, then (x) if a Benchmark Replacement is determined in accordance with clause (1) or (2) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement” for such Benchmark Replacement Date, such Benchmark Replacement will replace such Benchmark for all purposes hereunder in respect of such Benchmark setting and subsequent Benchmark settings without any amendment to, or further action or consent of any other party to, this Agreement and (y) if a Benchmark Replacement is determined in accordance with clause (3) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement” for such Benchmark Replacement Date, such Benchmark Replacement will replace such Benchmark for all purposes hereunder in respect of any Benchmark setting at or after 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the fifth (5th) Business Day after the date notice of such Benchmark Replacement is provided to each applicable party hereto (that is not then the Designated Party) without any amendment to, or further action or consent of any other party to, this Agreement.
(b) Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes. In connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement, the Designated Party will have the right to make Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, any amendments implementing such Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement.
(c) Notices; Standards for Decisions and Determinations. The Designated Party will promptly notify each other party hereto (and each other “Liquidity Provider” under each other Liquidity Facility) of (i) any occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event or an Early Opt-in Election, as applicable, and its related Benchmark Replacement Date, (ii) the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement, (iii) the effectiveness of any Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes, (iv) the removal or reinstatement of any tenor of a Benchmark pursuant to clause (d) below and (v) the commencement or conclusion of any Benchmark Unavailability Period. Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Designated Party pursuant to this 2.11, including any determination with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error and may be made in its or their sole discretion and without consent from any other party to this Agreement except, in each case, as expressly required pursuant to this Section 2.11 (and the definitions used herein).
(d) Unavailability of Tenor of Benchmark. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, at any time (including in connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement), (i) if the then-current Benchmark is a term rate (including Term SOFR or the LIBOR Rate) and either (A) any tenor for such Benchmark is not displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Designated Party in its reasonable discretion or (B) the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark has provided a public statement or publication of information announcing that any tenor for such Benchmark is or will be no longer representative, then the Designated Party may (and shall, at the request of the Liquidity Provider) modify (in a manner consistent for all
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Liquidity Facilities for which it is the “Designated Party”) the definition of “Interest Period” for any Benchmark settings at or after such time to remove such unavailable or non-representative tenor and (ii) if a tenor that was removed pursuant to clause (i) above either (A) is subsequently displayed on a screen or information service for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement) or (B) is not, or is no longer, subject to an announcement that it is or will no longer be representative for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement), then the Designated Party may (and shall at the request of the Liquidity Provider) modify (in a manner consistent for all Liquidity Facilities for which it is the “Designated Party”) the definition of “Interest Period” for all Benchmark settings at or after such time to reinstate such previously removed tenor.
(e) Benchmark Unavailability Period. Upon the Borrower’s receipt of notice of the commencement of (or any determination by the Designated Party as to the existence of) a Benchmark Unavailability Period, the Borrower may revoke any request for a conversion to or continuation of a LIBOR Advance to be converted or continued during any Benchmark Unavailability Period and, failing that, the Borrower will be deemed to have converted any such request into a request for a Borrowing of or conversion to a Base Rate Advance.
(f) Cap on Benchmark for any Interest Period. Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, in connection with any Benchmark Replacement and the resulting Benchmark and related Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes, if for any Interest Period (as such term may be modified) or Available Tenor, the applicable Benchmark Replacement (as the Benchmark then in effect) would exceed, as of the applicable date of determination thereof (including any applicable Reference Time) the Base Rate, then the Benchmark Replacement (and Benchmark) for such Interest Period or Available Tenor, as the case may be, shall be deemed to be the Base Rate.
(g) Consistent Implementation among Liquidity Facilities. In making determinations pursuant to this Section 2.11 (and implementing any Benchmark Replacement and Benchmark Conforming Changes in connection therewith), it is the intent of the parties that such determinations (and implementation) occur hereunder on or about the same time and in substantially the same manner as such determinations (and implementation) pursuant to Section 2.11 of each other Liquidity Facility for which the Designated Party hereunder is the “Designated Party”, and the parties will reasonably cooperate for achieving such result.
article III
OBLIGATIONS OF THE BORROWER
Section 3.01 Increased Costs. The Borrower shall pay to the Liquidity Provider from time to time such amounts as may be necessary to compensate the Liquidity Provider for any increased costs incurred by the Liquidity Provider which are attributable to its making or maintaining any Advances hereunder or its obligation to make any such Advances hereunder, or any reduction in any amount receivable by the Liquidity Provider under this Agreement or the Intercreditor Agreement in respect of any such Advances or such obligation (such increases in costs and reductions in amounts receivable being herein called “Additional Costs”), resulting from any change after the date of this Agreement in U.S. federal, state, municipal, or foreign
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laws or regulations (including Regulation D of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), or the adoption or making after the date of this Agreement of any interpretations, directives, or requirements applying to a class of banks including the Liquidity Provider under any U.S. federal, state, municipal, or any foreign laws or regulations (whether or not having the force of law) by any court, central bank or monetary authority charged with the interpretation or administration thereof (a “Regulatory Change”), which: (1) changes the basis of taxation of any amounts payable to the Liquidity Provider under this Agreement in respect of any such Advances or such obligation (other than Excluded Taxes); or (2) imposes or modifies any reserve, special deposit, compulsory loan or similar requirements relating to any extensions of credit or other assets of, or any deposits with other liabilities of, the Liquidity Provider (including any such Advances or such obligation or any deposits referred to in the definition of LIBOR Rate or related definitions). For the avoidance of doubt, any Regulatory Changes based on the consultative papers of The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision of December 2009 entitled “Strengthening the resilience of the banking sector” and “International framework for liquidity risk measurement, standards and monitoring”, in each case together with any amendments thereto (collectively, “Basel III”), will not be treated, for purposes of determining whether the Liquidity Provider is entitled to compensation under this Section 3.01, as having been adopted or having come into effect before the date hereof, and any such Regulatory Changes based on Basel III shall be determined to be adopted only when the national banking supervisory authorities, or other relevant administrative or legislative bodies having primary jurisdiction or regulatory authority over the Liquidity Provider, adopt any such Regulatory Changes based on Basel III in the primary jurisdiction of the Liquidity Provider. The Liquidity Provider agrees to use reasonable efforts (consistent with applicable legal and regulatory restrictions) to change the jurisdiction of its Facility Office if making such change would avoid the need for, or reduce the amount of, any amount payable under this Section that may thereafter accrue and would not, in the reasonable judgment of the Liquidity Provider, be otherwise disadvantageous to the Liquidity Provider.
The Liquidity Provider will notify the Borrower of any event occurring after the date of this Agreement that will entitle the Liquidity Provider to compensation pursuant to this Section 3.01 as promptly as practicable after it obtains knowledge thereof and determines to request such compensation, which notice shall describe in reasonable detail the calculation of the amounts owed under this Section. Determinations by the Liquidity Provider for purposes of this Section 3.01 of the effect of any Regulatory Change on its costs of making or maintaining Advances or on amounts receivable by it in respect of Advances, and of the additional amounts required to compensate the Liquidity Provider in respect of any Additional Costs, shall be prima facie evidence of the amount owed under this Section.
Notwithstanding the preceding two paragraphs, the Liquidity Provider and the Subordination Agent agree that any Liquidity Provider, or permitted assignee or participant thereof, which is not a bank shall not be entitled to the benefits of the preceding two paragraphs (but without limiting the provisions of Section 7.08 hereof).
Section 3.02 Capital Adequacy and Liquidity Coverage. If (1) the adoption, after the date hereof, of any applicable governmental law, rule or regulation regarding capital adequacy or liquidity coverage, (2) any change, after the date hereof, in the interpretation or administration of any such law, rule or regulation by any central bank or other governmental authority charged
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with the interpretation or administration thereof or (3) compliance by the Liquidity Provider or any corporation or bank controlling the Liquidity Provider with any applicable guideline or request of general applicability, issued after the date hereof, by any central bank or other governmental authority (whether or not having the force of law) that constitutes a change of the nature described in clause (2), has the effect of (x) requiring an increase in the amount of capital or liquid assets required to be maintained by the Liquidity Provider or any corporation or bank controlling the Liquidity Provider, or (y) reducing the rate of return on assets or capital of the Liquidity Provider (or such corporation or bank) and such adoption, change or compliance, as the case may be, relates to a category of claims or assets that includes the Liquidity Provider’s obligations hereunder (including funded obligations) and other similar obligations, the Borrower shall, subject to the provisions of the next paragraph, pay to the Liquidity Provider from time to time such additional amount or amounts as are necessary to compensate the Liquidity Provider for such portion of such increase or reduction as shall be reasonably allocable to the Liquidity Provider’s obligations to the Borrower hereunder. For the avoidance of doubt, the adoption of any law, rule or regulation described in clause (1) of the first sentence of this Section 3.02, and the taking of any action described in clauses (2) and (3) of such sentence, that in each case is based on Basel III, will not be treated, for purposes of determining whether the Liquidity Provider (or any corporation or bank controlling the Liquidity Provider) is entitled to compensation under this Section 3.02, as having been adopted, come into effect, been issued or been taken before the date hereof, and any such law, rule or regulation and any of the actions described in clauses (2) and (3) of such sentence that is based on Basel III shall be determined to have been adopted, come into effect, been issued or been taken only when the central bank or other legislative or administrative governmental authorities in the primary jurisdiction of the Liquidity Provider (or any corporation or bank controlling the Liquidity Provider) adopt any such law, rule or regulation or take any such actions. The Liquidity Provider agrees to use reasonable efforts (consistent with applicable legal and regulatory restrictions) to change the jurisdiction of its Facility Office if making such change would avoid the need for, or reduce the amount of, any amount payable under this Section that may thereafter accrue and would not, in the reasonable judgment of the Liquidity Provider, be otherwise materially disadvantageous to the Liquidity Provider.
The Liquidity Provider will notify the Borrower of any event occurring after the date of this Agreement that will entitle the Liquidity Provider to compensation pursuant to this Section 3.02 as promptly as practicable after it obtains knowledge thereof and determines to request such compensation, which notice shall describe in reasonable detail the calculation of the amounts owed under this Section. Determinations by the Liquidity Provider for purposes of this Section 3.02 of the effect of any increase in the amount of capital or liquid assets required to be maintained by the Liquidity Provider and of the amount allocable to the Liquidity Provider’s obligations to the Borrower hereunder shall be conclusive evidence of the amounts owed under this Section, absent manifest error.
Notwithstanding the preceding two paragraphs, the Liquidity Provider and the Subordination Agent agree that any Liquidity Provider, or permitted assignee or participant thereof, which is not a bank shall not be entitled to the benefits of the preceding two paragraphs (but without limiting the provisions of Section 7.08 hereof).
Section 3.03 Payments Free of Deductions.
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(a) Unless required by applicable law, all payments made by the Borrower under this Agreement shall be made free and clear of, and without reduction for or on account of, any present or future stamp or other taxes, levies, imposts, duties, charges, fees, deductions, withholdings, restrictions or conditions of any nature whatsoever now or hereafter imposed on, levied, collected, withheld or assessed, excluding Excluded Taxes (such non-excluded taxes being referred to herein, collectively, as “Non-Excluded Taxes” and each, individually, as a “Non-Excluded Tax”). If any Non-Excluded Taxes are required to be withheld from any amounts payable to the Liquidity Provider under this Agreement, (i) the Borrower shall within the time prescribed therefor by applicable law pay to the appropriate governmental or taxing authority the full amount of any such Non-Excluded Taxes (and any additional Non-Excluded Taxes in respect of the additional amounts payable under clause (ii) hereof) and make such reports or returns in connection therewith at the time or times and in the manner prescribed by applicable law, and (ii) the amounts so payable to the Liquidity Provider shall be increased to the extent necessary to yield to the Liquidity Provider (after payment of all Non-Excluded Taxes) interest or any other such amounts payable under this Agreement at the rates or in the amounts specified in this Agreement. The Liquidity Provider agrees to use reasonable efforts (consistent with its internal policy and legal and regulatory restrictions) to change the jurisdiction of its Facility Office if making such change would avoid the need for, or reduce the amount of, any such additional amounts that may thereafter accrue and would not, in the reasonable judgment of the Liquidity Provider, be otherwise disadvantageous to the Liquidity Provider. From time to time upon the reasonable request of the Borrower, the Liquidity Provider agrees to provide to the Borrower two original Internal Revenue Service Forms W-8BEN-E, W-8ECI or W-9, as appropriate, or any successor or other form prescribed by the Internal Revenue Service, certifying that the Liquidity Provider is exempt from or entitled to a reduced rate of United States withholding tax on payments pursuant to this Agreement. Within 30 days after the date of each payment hereunder, the Borrower shall furnish to the Liquidity Provider the original or a certified copy of (or other documentary evidence of) the payment of the Non-Excluded Taxes applicable to such payment.
(b) Unless required by applicable law, all payments (including, without limitation, Advances) made by the Liquidity Provider under this Agreement shall be made free and clear of, and without reduction for or on account of, any Taxes. If any Taxes are required to be withheld or deducted from any amounts payable to the Borrower under this Agreement, the Liquidity Provider shall (i) within the time prescribed therefor by applicable law pay to the appropriate governmental or taxing authority the full amount of any such Taxes (and any additional Taxes in respect of the additional amounts payable under clause (ii) hereof) and make such reports or returns in connection therewith at the time or times and in the manner prescribed by applicable law, and (ii) pay to the Borrower an additional amount which (after deduction of all such Taxes) will be sufficient to yield to the Borrower the full amount which would have been received by it had no such withholding or deduction been made. Within 30 days after the date of each payment hereunder, the Liquidity Provider shall furnish to the Borrower the original or a certified copy of (or other documentary evidence of) the payment of the Taxes applicable to such payment.
(c) On or before the Closing Date, the Borrower shall provide the Liquidity Provider with a fully executed Internal Revenue Service Form W-9, showing a complete exemption from U.S federal backup withholding tax. If any other exemption from, or reduction in the rate of, any Taxes required to be borne by the Liquidity Provider under Section 3.03(b) is reasonably
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available to the Borrower without providing any information regarding the holders or beneficial owners of the Certificates, the Borrower shall deliver to the Liquidity Provider such form or forms and such other evidence of the eligibility of the Borrower for such exemption or reductions (but without any requirement to provide any information regarding the holders or beneficial owners of the Certificates) as the Liquidity Provider may reasonably identify to the Borrower as being required as a condition to exemption from, or reduction in the rate of, such Taxes.
(d) If a payment made to the Liquidity Provider or Borrower hereunder would be subject to U.S. federal withholding Tax imposed by FATCA if the Borrower or Liquidity Provider, as applicable, were to fail to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471 (b) or 1472 (b) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code, as applicable), it shall deliver to the Borrower or the Liquidity Provider, as applicable, at the time or times prescribed by law and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or Liquidity Provider, as applicable, such documentation prescribed by applicable law (including as prescribed by Section 1471 (b)(3)(C)(i) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or Liquidity Provider, as applicable, as may be necessary for the Borrower or Liquidity Provider, as applicable, to comply with its obligations under FATCA and to determine that the Liquidity Provider or Borrower has complied with the Liquidity Provider’s or Borrower’s obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment. Solely for purposes of this paragraph, “FATCA” shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the date of this Agreement.
Section 3.04 Payments. The Borrower shall make or cause to be made each payment to the Liquidity Provider under this Agreement so as to cause the same to be received by the Liquidity Provider not later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the day when due. The Borrower shall make all such payments in lawful money of the United States of America, to the Liquidity Provider in immediately available funds, by wire transfer to the account specified for the Liquidity Provider in Schedule B or to such other U.S. bank account as the Liquidity Provider may from time to time direct the Borrower in writing.
Section 3.05 Computations. All computations of interest based on the Base Rate shall be made on the basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may be, and all computations of interest based on the LIBOR Rate (other than where the LIBOR Rate is determined based on the Base Rate or any Benchmark Replacement with determinations based on a year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may be) shall be made on the basis of a year of 360 days, in each case for the actual number of days (including the first day but excluding the last day) occurring in the period for which such interest is payable.
Section 3.06 Payment on Non-Business Days. Whenever any payment to be made hereunder to the Liquidity Provider shall be stated to be due on a day other than a Business Day, such payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day and no additional interest shall be due as a result. If any payment in respect of interest on an Advance is so deferred to the next succeeding Business Day, such deferral shall not delay the commencement of the next Interest Period for such Advance (if such Advance is a LIBOR Advance) or reduce the number of days for which interest will be payable on such Advance on the next interest payment date for such Advance.
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Section 3.07 Interest.
(a) Subject to Section 2.09, the Borrower shall pay, or shall cause to be paid, without duplication, interest on (i) the unpaid principal amount of each Advance from and including the date of such Advance (or, in the case of an Applied Provider Advance or Applied Special Termination Advance, from and including the date on which the amount thereof was withdrawn from the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility to pay interest on the Class A Certificates) to but excluding the date such principal amount shall be paid in full (or, in the case of an Applied Provider Advance or Applied Special Termination Advance, the date on which the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility is fully replenished in respect of such Advance) and (ii) any other amount due hereunder (whether fees, commissions, expenses or other amounts or, to the extent permitted by law, installments of interest on Advances or any such other amount) which is not paid when due (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) from and including the due date thereof to but excluding the date such amount is paid in full, in each such case, at a fluctuating interest rate per annum for each day equal to the Applicable Liquidity Rate (as defined below) for such Advance or such other amount, as the case may be, as in effect for such day, but in no event at a rate per annum greater than the maximum rate permitted by applicable law; provided, however, that, if at any time the otherwise applicable interest rate as set forth in this Section 3.07 shall exceed the maximum rate permitted by applicable law, then any subsequent reduction in such interest rate will not reduce the rate of interest payable pursuant to this Section 3.07 below the maximum rate permitted by applicable law until the total amount of interest accrued equals the amount of interest that would have accrued if such otherwise applicable interest rate as set forth in this Section 3.07 had at all times been in effect.
(b) Except as provided in clause (e) below, each Advance will be either a Base Rate Advance or a LIBOR Advance as provided in this Section. Each such Advance will be a Base Rate Advance for the period from the date of its Borrowing to (but excluding) the third LIBOR Business Day following the Liquidity Provider’s receipt of the Notice of Borrowing for such Advance. Thereafter, such Advance shall be a LIBOR Advance.
(c) Each LIBOR Advance shall bear interest during each Interest Period at a rate per annum equal to the LIBOR Rate for such Interest Period plus the Applicable Margin for such LIBOR Advance, payable in arrears on the last day of such Interest Period and, in the event of the payment of principal of such LIBOR Advance on a day other than such last day, on the date of such payment (to the extent of interest accrued on the amount of principal repaid).
(d) Each Base Rate Advance shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the Base Rate plus the Applicable Margin for such Base Rate Advance, payable in arrears on each Regular Distribution Date and, in the event of the payment of principal of such Base Rate Advance on a day other than a Regular Distribution Date, on the date of such payment (to the extent of interest accrued on the amount of principal repaid).
(e) Each outstanding Unapplied Non-Extension Advance, Unapplied Downgrade Advance and Unapplied Special Termination Advance shall bear interest in an amount equal to the Investment Earnings on amounts on deposit in the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility plus the Applicable Margin for such Unapplied Non-Extension
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Advance, Unapplied Downgrade Advance or Unapplied Special Termination Advance, as applicable, on the amount of such Unapplied Non-Extension Advance, Unapplied Downgrade Advance or Unapplied Special Termination Advance, as applicable, from time to time, payable in arrears on each Regular Distribution Date.
(f) Each amount not paid when due hereunder (whether fees, commissions, expenses or other amounts or, to the extent permitted by applicable law, installments of interest on Advances but excluding Advances) shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the Base Rate plus 2.00% per annum until paid.
(g) If at any time, the Liquidity Provider shall have determined (which determination shall be conclusive and binding upon the Borrower, absent manifest error) that, by reason of circumstances affecting the relevant interbank lending market generally (other than a Benchmark Transition Event), the LIBOR Rate determined or to be determined for the current or the immediately succeeding Interest Period will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to the Liquidity Provider (as conclusively certified by the Liquidity Provider, absent manifest error) of making or maintaining LIBOR Advances, the Liquidity Provider shall give facsimile or telephonic notice thereof (a “Rate Determination Notice”) to the Borrower (any such telephonic notice to be promptly confirmed in writing and transmitted by telecopier to the Borrower in accordance with Section 7.02). If such notice is given, then the outstanding principal amount of the LIBOR Advances shall be converted to Base Rate Advances effective from the date of the Rate Determination Notice; provided that the Applicable Liquidity Rate in respect of such Base Rate Advances shall be increased by one percent (1.00%). The Liquidity Provider shall withdraw a Rate Determination Notice given hereunder when the Liquidity Provider determines that the circumstances giving rise to such Rate Determination Notice no longer apply to the Liquidity Provider, and the Base Rate Advances shall be converted to LIBOR Advances effective as of the first day of the next succeeding Interest Period after the date of such withdrawal.
(h) Each change in the Base Rate shall become effective immediately. The rates of interest specified in this Section 3.07 with respect to any Advance or other amount shall be referred to as the “Applicable Liquidity Rate”.
Section 3.08 Replacement of Borrower. From time to time and subject to the successor Borrower’s meeting the eligibility requirements set forth in Section 6.9 of the Intercreditor Agreement applicable to the Subordination Agent, upon the effective date and time specified in a written and completed Notice of Replacement Subordination Agent in substantially the form of Annex VI attached hereto (a “Notice of Replacement Subordination Agent”) delivered to the Liquidity Provider by the then Borrower, the successor Borrower designated therein shall be substituted for the Borrower for all purposes hereunder.
Section 3.09 Funding Loss Indemnification. The Borrower shall pay to the Liquidity Provider, upon the request of the Liquidity Provider, such amount or amounts as shall be sufficient (in the reasonable opinion of the Liquidity Provider) to compensate it for any loss, cost, or expense incurred by reason of the liquidation or redeployment of deposits or other funds acquired by the Liquidity Provider to fund or maintain any LIBOR Advance (but excluding loss of anticipated profits) incurred as a result of:
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(1) Any repayment of a LIBOR Advance on a date other than the last day of the Interest Period for such Advance; or
(2) Any failure by the Borrower to borrow a LIBOR Advance on the date for borrowing specified in the relevant notice under Section 2.02.
Calculation of all amounts payable to the Liquidity Provider under this Section 3.09 shall be made as though the Liquidity Provider had actually funded the related LIBOR Advance through the purchase of a LIBOR deposit bearing interest at the LIBOR Rate in an amount equal to its LIBOR Advance and having a maturity comparable to the relevant Interest Period; provided, however, that the Liquidity Provider may fund any LIBOR Advance in any manner it sees fit and the foregoing assumptions shall be utilized only for the purposes of calculating amounts payable under this Section 3.09.
Section 3.10 Illegality. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Agreement, if any change in any applicable law, rule or regulation, or any change in the interpretation or administration thereof by any governmental authority, central bank or comparable agency charged with the interpretation or administration thereof, or compliance by the Liquidity Provider (or its Facility Office) with any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) of any such authority, central bank or comparable agency shall make it unlawful or impossible for the Liquidity Provider (or its Facility Office) to maintain or fund its LIBOR Advances, then upon notice to the Borrower by the Liquidity Provider, the outstanding principal amount of the LIBOR Advances shall be converted to Base Rate Advances (a) immediately upon demand of the Liquidity Provider, if such change or compliance with such request, in the judgment of the Liquidity Provider, requires immediate repayment; or (b) at the expiration of the last Interest Period to expire before the effective date of any such change or request. The Liquidity Provider agrees to use reasonable efforts (consistent with applicable legal and regulatory restrictions) to change the jurisdiction of its Facility Office if making such change would avoid or cure the aforesaid illegality and would not, in the reasonable judgment of the Liquidity Provider, be otherwise disadvantageous to the Liquidity Provider.
article IV
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
Section 4.01 Conditions Precedent to Effectiveness of Section 2.01. Section 2.01 of this Agreement shall become effective on and as of the first date (the “Effective Date”) on which the following conditions precedent have been satisfied or waived:
(a) The Liquidity Provider shall have received each of the following, and in the case of each document delivered pursuant to paragraphs (i), (ii) and (iii), each in form and substance satisfactory to the Liquidity Provider:
(i) This Agreement duly executed on behalf of the Borrower and the Fee Letter applicable to this Agreement duly executed on behalf of the Borrower and United;
(ii) The Intercreditor Agreement duly executed on behalf of each of the parties thereto (other than the Liquidity Provider);
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(iii) Fully executed copies of each of the Operative Agreements executed and delivered on or before the Closing Date (other than this Agreement, the Fee Letter applicable to this Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement);
(iv) A copy of the Prospectus Supplement and specimen copies of the Class A Certificates;
(v) An executed copy of each document, instrument, certificate and opinion delivered on or before the Closing Date pursuant to the Class A Trust Agreement, the Note Purchase Agreement, the Intercreditor Agreement and the other Operative Agreements (in the case of each such opinion delivered in connection with the issuance and sale of the Class A Certificates, other than the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters, either addressed to the Liquidity Provider or accompanied by a letter from the counsel rendering such opinion to the effect that the Liquidity Provider is entitled to rely on such opinion as of its date as if it were addressed to the Liquidity Provider);
(vi) Evidence that there shall have been made and shall be in full force and effect, all filings, recordings and/or registrations, and there shall have been given or taken any notice or other similar action as may be reasonably necessary or, to the extent reasonably requested by the Liquidity Provider, reasonably advisable, in order to establish, perfect, protect and preserve the right, title and interest, remedies, powers, privileges, liens and security interests of, or for the benefit of, the Trustees, the Borrower and the Liquidity Provider created by the Operative Agreements executed and delivered on or before the Closing Date;
(vii) An agreement from United, pursuant to which (i) United agrees to provide to the Liquidity Provider (A) within 90 days after the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters in each fiscal year of United, a consolidated balance sheet of United as of the end of such quarter and related statements of income and cash flows for the period commencing at the end of the previous fiscal year and ending with the end of such quarter, setting forth in each case in comparative form the corresponding figures for the corresponding period in the preceding fiscal year, prepared in accordance with GAAP; provided, that so long as United is subject to the reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, a copy of United’s report on Form 10-Q for such fiscal quarter (excluding exhibits) or a written notice of United that such report has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, providing a website address at which such report may be accessed and confirming that the report accessible at such website address conforms to the original report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission will satisfy this subclause (A), and (B) within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of United, a consolidated balance sheet of United as of the end of such fiscal year and related statements of income and cash flows of United for such fiscal year, in comparative form with the preceding fiscal year, prepared in accordance with GAAP, together with a report of United’s independent certified public accountants with respect to their audit of such financial statements; provided, that so long as United is subject to the reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, a copy of United’s report on Form 10-K for such fiscal year (excluding exhibits) or a written notice of United that such report has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, providing a website address at which such report may be accessed and confirming that the report accessible at such website address conforms to the original report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission will satisfy this
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subclause (B), and (ii) United agrees to allow the Liquidity Provider to inspect United’s books and records regarding such transactions, and to discuss such transactions with officers and employees of United;
(viii) Legal opinions from (a) Morris James LLP, special counsel to the Borrower, and (b) Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, special counsel to United, each in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Liquidity Provider; and
(ix) Such other documents, instruments, opinions and approvals pertaining to the transactions contemplated hereby or by the other Operative Agreements as the Liquidity Provider shall have reasonably requested, including, without limitation, such documentation as the Liquidity Provider may require to satisfy its “know your customer” policies.
(b) The following statement shall be true on and as of the Effective Date: no event has occurred and is continuing, or would result from the entering into of this Agreement or the making of any Advance, which constitutes a Liquidity Event of Default.
(c) The Liquidity Provider shall have received payment in full of all fees and other sums required to be paid to or for the account of the Liquidity Provider on or prior to the Effective Date.
(d) All conditions precedent to the issuance of the Class A Certificates under the Class A Trust Agreement shall have been satisfied or waived, all conditions precedent to the effectiveness of each other Liquidity Facility in respect of the Class A Certificates shall have been concurrently satisfied or waived and all conditions precedent to the purchase of the Class A Certificates by the Underwriters under Underwriting Agreement shall have been satisfied or waived.
(e) The Borrower shall have received a certificate, dated the date hereof, signed by a duly authorized representative of the Liquidity Provider, certifying that all conditions precedent to the effectiveness of Section 2.01 have been satisfied or waived.
Section 4.02 Conditions Precedent to Borrowing. The obligation of the Liquidity Provider to make an Advance on the occasion of each Borrowing shall be subject to the conditions precedent that the Effective Date shall have occurred and, on or prior to the date of such Borrowing, the Borrower shall have delivered a Notice of Borrowing which conforms to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and has been completed as may be required by the relevant form of the Notice of Borrowing for the type of Advance requested.
Section 4.03 Representations and Warranties. The representations and warranties of the Borrower as Subordination Agent in Section 5.2 of the Note Purchase Agreement shall be deemed to be incorporated into this Agreement as if set out in full herein and as if such representations and warranties were made by the Borrower to the Liquidity Provider.
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article V
COVENANTS
Section 5.01 Affirmative Covenants of the Borrower. So long as any Advance shall remain unpaid or the Liquidity Provider shall have any Maximum Commitment hereunder or the Borrower shall have any obligation to pay any amount to the Liquidity Provider hereunder, the Borrower will, unless the Liquidity Provider shall otherwise consent in writing:
(a) Performance of this and Other Agreements. Punctually pay or cause to be paid all amounts payable by it under this Agreement and the other Operative Agreements and observe and perform in all material respects the conditions, covenants and requirements applicable to it contained in this Agreement and the other Operative Agreements.
(b) Reporting Requirements. Furnish to the Liquidity Provider with reasonable promptness, such information and data with respect to the transactions contemplated by the Operative Agreements as from time to time may be reasonably requested by the Liquidity Provider; and permit the Liquidity Provider, upon reasonable notice, to inspect the Borrower’s books and records with respect to such transactions and to meet with officers and employees of the Borrower to discuss such transactions.
(c) Certain Operative Agreements. Furnish to the Liquidity Provider with reasonable promptness, such Operative Agreements entered into after the date hereof as from time to time may be reasonably requested by the Liquidity Provider.
Section 5.02 Negative Covenants of the Borrower. So long as any Advance shall remain unpaid or the Liquidity Provider shall have any Maximum Commitment hereunder or the Borrower shall have any obligation to pay any amount to the Liquidity Provider hereunder, the Borrower will not appoint or permit or suffer to be appointed any successor Borrower without the prior written consent of the Liquidity Provider, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
article VI
LIQUIDITY EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND SPECIAL TERMINATION
Section 6.01 Liquidity Events of Default. If (a) any Liquidity Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and (b) there is a Performing Note Deficiency, the Liquidity Provider may, in its discretion, deliver to the Borrower a Termination Notice, the effect of which shall be to cause (i) the obligation of the Liquidity Provider to make Advances hereunder to expire on the fifth Business Day after the date on which such Termination Notice is received by the Borrower, (ii) the Borrower to promptly request, and the Liquidity Provider to promptly make, a Final Advance in accordance with Section 2.02(d) hereof and Section 3.5(i) of the Intercreditor Agreement, (iii) all other outstanding Advances to be automatically converted into Final Advances for purposes of determining the Applicable Liquidity Rate for interest payable thereon, and (iv) subject to Sections 2.07 and 2.09 hereof, all Advances (including, without limitation, any Provider Advance and Applied Provider Advance), any accrued interest thereon and any
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other amounts outstanding hereunder to become immediately due and payable to the Liquidity Provider.
Section 6.02 Special Termination. If the aggregate Pool Balance of the Class A Certificates is greater than the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Series A Equipment Note (other than any portion of the Series A Equipment Note previously sold or with respect to which the collateral securing the Series A Equipment Note has been disposed of) at any time during the 18 month period prior to October 15, 2027, the Liquidity Provider may, in its discretion, deliver to the Borrower a Special Termination Notice, the effect of which shall be to cause (i) the obligation of the Liquidity Provider to make Advances hereunder to expire on the fifth Business Day after the date on which such Special Termination Notice is received by the Borrower, (ii) the Borrower to promptly request, and the Liquidity Provider to promptly make, a Special Termination Advance in accordance with Section 2.02(g) and Section 3.5(m) of the Intercreditor Agreement, and (iii) subject to Sections 2.07 and 2.09, all Advances (including, without limitation, any Provider Advance and Applied Provider Advance), any accrued interest thereon and any other amounts outstanding hereunder to become immediately due and payable to the Liquidity Provider.
article VII
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 7.01 Amendments, Etc. No amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement, nor consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by the Liquidity Provider, and, in the case of an amendment or of a waiver by the Borrower, the Borrower, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given.
Section 7.02 Notices, Etc. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all notices and other communications provided for hereunder shall be in writing (including telecopier and mailed or delivered or sent by telecopier) addressed to the applicable party at its address specified on Schedule B or to such other address as shall be designated by such Person in a written notice to the others. The Borrower shall give all Notices of Borrowing via telecopier; provided, that, in the event of a transmission failure, the Borrower shall use reasonable efforts to deliver the applicable Notice of Borrowing to the Liquidity Provider on the same Business Day using such other means as may be reasonably deemed necessary by the Borrower. All such notices and communications shall be effective (i) if given by telecopier, when transmitted to the telecopier number specified above, (ii) if given by mail, five Business Days after being deposited in the mails addressed as specified above, and (iii) if given by other means, when delivered at the address specified above, except that written notices to the Liquidity Provider pursuant to the provisions of Article II and Article III hereof shall not be effective until received by the Liquidity Provider. A copy of all notices delivered hereunder to either party shall in addition be delivered to each of the parties to the Note Purchase Agreement at their respective addresses set forth therein.
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Section 7.03 No Waiver; Remedies. No failure on the part of the Liquidity Provider to exercise, and no delay in exercising, any right under this Agreement shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right under this Agreement preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right. The remedies herein provided are cumulative and not exclusive of any remedies provided by law.
Section 7.04 Further Assurances. The Borrower agrees to do such further acts and things and to execute and deliver to the Liquidity Provider such additional assignments, agreements, powers and instruments as the Liquidity Provider may reasonably require or deem advisable to carry into effect the purposes of this Agreement and the other Operative Agreements or to better assure and confirm unto the Liquidity Provider its rights, powers and remedies hereunder and under the other Operative Agreements.
Section 7.05 Indemnification; Survival of Certain Provisions. The Liquidity Provider shall be indemnified hereunder to the extent and in the manner described in Section 8.1 of the Note Purchase Agreement. In addition, the Borrower agrees to indemnify, protect, defend and hold harmless the Liquidity Provider from, against and in respect of, and shall pay on demand, all Expenses of any kind or nature whatsoever (other than any Expenses of the nature described in Section 3.01, 3.02 or 7.07 hereof or in the Fee Letter applicable to this Agreement (regardless of whether indemnified against pursuant to said Sections or in such Fee Letter)), that may be imposed, incurred by or asserted against any Liquidity Indemnitee, in any way relating to, resulting from, or arising out of or in connection with any action, suit or proceeding by any third party against such Liquidity Indemnitee and relating to this Agreement, the Fee Letter applicable to this Agreement, the Intercreditor Agreement or any Financing Agreement; provided, however, that the Borrower shall not be required to indemnify, protect, defend and hold harmless any Liquidity Indemnitee in respect of any Expense of such Liquidity Indemnitee to the extent such Expense is (i) attributable to the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Liquidity Indemnitee or any other Liquidity Indemnitee, (ii) ordinary and usual operating overhead expense, or (iii) attributable to the failure by such Liquidity Indemnitee or any other Liquidity Indemnitee to perform or observe any agreement, covenant or condition on its part to be performed or observed in this Agreement, the Intercreditor Agreement, the Fee Letter applicable to this Agreement or any other Operative Agreement to which it is a party. The indemnities contained in Section 8.1 of the Note Purchase Agreement, and the provisions of Sections 3.01, 3.02, 3.03, 3.09, 7.05 and 7.07 hereof, shall survive the termination of this Agreement.
Section 7.06 Liability of the Liquidity Provider.
(a) Neither the Liquidity Provider nor any of its officers, employees, directors or Affiliates shall be liable or responsible for: (i) the use which may be made of the Advances or any acts or omissions of the Borrower or any beneficiary or transferee in connection therewith; (ii) the validity, sufficiency or genuineness of documents, or of any endorsement thereon, even if such documents should prove to be in any or all respects invalid, insufficient, fraudulent or forged; or (iii) the making of Advances by the Liquidity Provider against delivery of a Notice of Borrowing and other documents which do not comply with the terms hereof; provided, however, that the Borrower shall have a claim against the Liquidity Provider, and the Liquidity Provider shall be liable to the Borrower, to the extent of any damages suffered by the Borrower which were the result of (A) the Liquidity Provider’s willful misconduct or negligence in determining
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whether documents presented hereunder comply with the terms hereof, or (B) any breach by the Liquidity Provider of any of the terms of this Agreement, including, but not limited to, the Liquidity Provider’s failure to make lawful payment hereunder after the delivery to it by the Borrower of a Notice of Borrowing strictly complying with the terms and conditions hereof. In no event, however, shall the Liquidity Provider be liable on any theory of liability for any special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (including, without limitation, any loss of profits, business or anticipated savings).
(b) Neither the Liquidity Provider nor any of its officers, employees, directors or Affiliates shall be liable or responsible in any respect for (i) any error, omission, interruption or delay in transmission, dispatch or delivery of any message or advice, however transmitted, in connection with this Agreement or any Notice of Borrowing delivered hereunder, or (ii) any action, inaction or omission which may be taken by it in good faith, absent willful misconduct or gross negligence (in which event the extent of the Liquidity Provider’s potential liability to the Borrower shall be limited as set forth in the immediately preceding paragraph), in connection with this Agreement or any Notice of Borrowing.
Section 7.07 Costs, Expenses and Taxes. The Borrower agrees, subject to Section 7.08(d) below and the Fee Letter to the extent applicable, to pay, or cause to be paid (A) on the Effective Date and on such later date or dates on which the Liquidity Provider shall make demand, all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses (including, without limitation, the reasonable fees and expenses of outside counsel for the Liquidity Provider) of the Liquidity Provider in connection with the preparation, negotiation, execution, delivery, filing and recording of this Agreement, any other Operative Agreement and any other documents which may be delivered in connection with this Agreement and (B) on demand, all reasonable costs and expenses (including reasonable counsel fees and expenses) of the Liquidity Provider in connection with (i) the enforcement of this Agreement or any other Operative Agreement, (ii) the modification or amendment of, or supplement to, this Agreement or any other Operative Agreement or such other documents which may be delivered in connection herewith or therewith (whether or not the same shall become effective) or any waiver or consent thereunder (whether or not the same shall be effective), (iii) the replacement of this Agreement by a Replacement Liquidity Facility pursuant to Section 3.5(e)(i) of the Intercreditor Agreement or (iv) any action or proceeding relating to any order, injunction, or other process or decree restraining or seeking to restrain the Liquidity Provider from paying any amount under this Agreement, the Intercreditor Agreement or any other Operative Agreement or otherwise affecting the application of funds in the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility. In addition, subject to Section 7.08(d) below and the Fee Letter to the extent applicable, the Borrower shall pay any and all recording, stamp and other similar taxes and fees payable or determined to be payable in connection with the execution, delivery, filing and recording of this Agreement, any other Operative Agreement and such other documents, and agrees to hold the Liquidity Provider harmless from and against any and all liabilities with respect to or resulting from any delay in paying or omission to pay such taxes or fees. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any obligation of the Borrower (or United) to reimburse or pay fees of counsel for the Liquidity Provider (pursuant to this Section 7.07 or any other applicable provision of the Operative Agreements) shall be based on (and limited to) one counsel for all “Liquidity Providers” for the Class A Certificates (and, (i) in the case of any conflict of interest (excluding for avoidance of doubt any conflicts, and any reimbursement for legal fees, attributable to transfers between, or separate agreements or
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claims between or among, any such “Liquidity Providers”), up to one additional counsel for all affected “Liquidity Providers”, and (ii) one Federal Aviation Administration counsel and/or local counsel in any relevant jurisdiction), as selected by the applicable such “Liquidity Provider” (as among the relevant such “Liquidity Providers” so having the right to select such counsel) having the highest outstanding aggregate amount of Liquidity Obligations (taking into account all Liquidity Facilities for Class A Certificates) or as may otherwise be agreed as among such “Liquidity Providers” in respect of such selection.
Section 7.08 Binding Effect; Participations; Assignments.
(a) This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Borrower and the Liquidity Provider and their respective successors and assigns, except that neither the Liquidity Provider (except as otherwise provided in this Section 7.08 and in Section 3.5(l) of the Intercreditor Agreement) nor (except as contemplated by Section 3.08) the Borrower shall have the right to assign its rights or obligations hereunder or any interest herein without the prior written consent of the other party, subject to the requirements of Section 7.08(b). The Liquidity Provider may grant participations herein or in any of its rights hereunder (including, without limitation, funded participations and participations in rights to receive interest payments hereunder) and under the other Operative Agreements to such Persons (other than United and its Affiliates) as the Liquidity Provider may in its sole discretion select, subject to the requirements of Section 7.08(b). No such granting of participations by the Liquidity Provider, however, will relieve the Liquidity Provider of its obligations hereunder. In connection with any participation or any proposed participation, the Liquidity Provider may disclose to the participant or the proposed participant any information that the Borrower is required to deliver or to disclose to the Liquidity Provider pursuant to this Agreement. The Borrower acknowledges and agrees that the Liquidity Provider’s source of funds may derive in part from its participants. Accordingly, references in this Agreement and the other Operative Agreements to determinations, reserve, capital adequacy and liquidity coverage requirements, increased costs, reduced receipts, additional amounts due pursuant to Section 3.03 and the like as they pertain to the Liquidity Provider shall be deemed also to include those of each of its participants that are banks (subject, in each case, to the maximum amount that would have been incurred by or attributable to the Liquidity Provider directly if the Liquidity Provider, rather than the participant, had held the interest participated).
(b) If the Liquidity Provider sells any participation in this Agreement pursuant to subsection (a) above or transfers all or any portion of its rights and obligations pursuant to subsection (d) below (and Section 3.5(l) of the Intercreditor Agreement), to any bank or other entity (each, a “Transferee”), then, concurrently with the effectiveness of such participation or other transfer, the Transferee shall (i) represent to the Liquidity Provider (for the benefit of the Liquidity Provider and the Borrower) either (A) that it is incorporated under the laws of the United States or a state thereof or (B) that under applicable law and treaties, no taxes will be required to be withheld with respect to any payments to be made to such Transferee in respect of this Agreement and, as applicable, the Replacement Liquidity Facility to which it is a party, (ii) furnish to the Liquidity Provider and the Borrower either (x) if it is incorporated under the laws of the United States or a state thereof, a Form W-9 or (y) if it is not so incorporated, two copies of a properly completed United States Internal Revenue Service Form W-8ECI, or Form W-8BEN-E, as appropriate, or other applicable form, certificate or document prescribed by the
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Internal Revenue Service certifying, in each case, such Transferee’s entitlement to a complete exemption from United States federal withholding tax in respect to any and all payments to be made hereunder, and (iii) agree (for the benefit of the Liquidity Provider and the Borrower) to provide the Liquidity Provider and the Borrower a new Form W-8ECI, Form W-8BEN-E or Form W-9, as appropriate, (A) on or before the date that any such form expires or becomes obsolete or (B) after the occurrence of any event requiring a change in the most recent form previously delivered by it and prior to the immediately following due date of any payment by the Borrower hereunder, certifying in the case of a Form W-8ECI, Form W-8BEN-E or Form W-9 that such Transferee is entitled to a complete exemption from United States federal withholding tax on payments under this Agreement. Unless the Borrower has received forms or other documents reasonably satisfactory to it (and required by applicable law) indicating that payments hereunder are not subject to United States federal withholding tax, the Borrower will withhold taxes as required by law from such payments at the applicable statutory rate.
(c) Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 7.08, the Liquidity Provider may assign and pledge all or any portion of the Advances owing to it to any Federal Reserve Bank or the United States Treasury as collateral security pursuant to Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and any Operating Circular issued by such Federal Reserve Bank, provided that any payment in respect of such assigned Advances made by the Borrower to the Liquidity Provider in accordance with the terms of this Agreement shall satisfy the Borrower’s obligations hereunder in respect of such assigned Advance to the extent of such payment. No such assignment shall release the Liquidity Provider from its obligations hereunder.
(d) The Liquidity Provider may, subject to the terms in the Fee Letter (and United’s consent, to the extent not otherwise provided or deemed provided pursuant to the Fee Letter), transfer any or all of its rights and obligations hereunder in accordance with Section 3.5(l) of the Intercreditor Agreement (with any transfer right pursuant to the second sentence of such Section 3.5(l) being exclusive to the Initial Liquidity Provider) to one or more Replacement Liquidity Providers and with any such transferee entering into its own separate Replacement Liquidity Facility; provided that (i) each such partial transfer by the Liquidity Provider shall be in a Maximum Commitment of (A) not less than $25,000,000 at any time that the aggregate Maximum Commitment under the Liquidity Facilities held by the Initial Liquidity Provider is equal to or greater than $150,000,000 and (B) not less than $50,000,000 at any time that the aggregate Maximum Commitment under the Liquidity Facilities held by the Initial Liquidity Provider is less than $150,000,000, or, in each case, such lesser amount as United may approve in writing; (ii) the Replacement Liquidity Provider shall not be entitled to any amount under Sections 3.01, 3.02 and 3.03 in excess of the amount which would be payable to the Liquidity Provider had such transfer not been made, based on the circumstances existing at the time of such transfer; (iii) the Replacement Liquidity Provider shall be bound by the obligations in Sections 3.01, 3.02 and 3.03 as a Liquidity Provider (including, as applicable, pursuant to its Replacement Liquidity Facility); (iv) after the date that is the earlier of (A) the date that is thirty (30) days after the Closing Date and (B) the first day on which the aggregate Maximum Commitment under the Liquidity Facilities held by the Initial Liquidity Provider is less than $200,000,000, the Liquidity Provider shall bear all of its own costs and expenses incurred after such date (and with any reimbursement rights of the Liquidity Provider prior to such date being only as expressly provided in the Fee Letter), and shall, as an obligation surviving such transfer,
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pay (and promptly reimburse on demand) all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) of the Borrower, United and each other party to the Operative Agreements incurred by such parties after such date in connection with such transfer and any related implementation of amendments and related actions contemplated in Section 3.5(l) of the Intercreditor Agreement; and (v) United shall have no liability under Section 8.3.1 of the Note Purchase Agreement for Expenses (as defined the Note Purchase Agreement) to the extent attributable to such transfer (with the foregoing being deemed an additional exception set forth in Section 8.1.2 of the Note Purchase Agreement). At the time of each assignment pursuant to this Section 7.08(d), the Replacement Liquidity Provider shall comply with its obligations pursuant to subsection (b) above in its capacity as a “Transferee” under this Agreement. In connection with any such partial transfer, the Maximum Commitment under this Liquidity Facility shall be reduced by the amount of, and to the extent of, the “Maximum Commitment” under the applicable Replacement Liquidity Facility upon the effectiveness thereof.
(e) In connection with any transfer pursuant to subsection (d) above, if any Replacement Liquidity Provider having a head office (or otherwise incorporated or organized) outside the U.S. acts through (and executes its Replacement Liquidity Facility using) a U.S. branch that does not itself separately meet the applicable Threshold Rating, the applicable Replacement Liquidity Facility shall provide that, notwithstanding such Person’s place of booking or its jurisdiction of incorporation or organization, its obligations as a Liquidity Provider thereunder will also be the obligations of its head office, and, accordingly, that any beneficiary of such Replacement Liquidity Facility will be able to proceed against such head office, if such Liquidity Provider defaults in its obligations to any beneficiary under such Replacement Liquidity Facility.
Section 7.09 Severability. Any provision of this Agreement which is prohibited, unenforceable or not authorized in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition, unenforceability or non-authorization without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof or affecting the validity, enforceability or legality of such provision in any other jurisdiction.
Section 7.10 GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
Section 7.11 Submission to Jurisdiction; Waiver of Jury Trial; Waiver of Immunity.
(a) Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally:
(i) submits for itself and its property in any legal action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any other Operative Agreement, or for recognition and enforcement of any judgment in respect hereof or thereof, to the nonexclusive general jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New York, the courts of the United States of America for the Southern District of New York, and the appellate courts from any thereof;
(ii) consents that any such action or proceeding may be brought in such courts, and waives any objection that it may now or hereafter have to the venue of any such
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action or proceeding in any such court or that such action or proceeding was brought in an inconvenient court and agrees not to plead or claim the same;
(iii) agrees that service of process in any such action or proceeding may be effected by mailing a copy thereof by registered or certified mail (or any substantially similar form of mail), postage prepaid, to each party hereto at its address set forth in Section 7.02 hereof, or at such other address of which the Liquidity Provider shall have been notified pursuant thereto; and
(iv) agrees that nothing herein shall affect the right to effect service of process in any other manner permitted by law or shall limit the right to sue in any other jurisdiction.
(b) THE BORROWER AND THE LIQUIDITY PROVIDER EACH HEREBY AGREE TO WAIVE THEIR RESPECTIVE RIGHTS TO A JURY TRIAL OF ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION BASED UPON OR ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY DEALINGS BETWEEN THEM RELATING TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS AGREEMENT AND THE RELATIONSHIP THAT IS BEING ESTABLISHED, including, without limitation, contract claims, tort claims, breach of duty claims and all other common law and statutory claims. The Borrower and the Liquidity Provider each warrant and represent that it has reviewed this waiver with its legal counsel, and that it knowingly and voluntarily waives its jury trial rights following consultation with such legal counsel. THIS WAIVER IS IRREVOCABLE, AND CANNOT BE MODIFIED EITHER ORALLY OR IN WRITING, AND THIS WAIVER SHALL APPLY TO ANY SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTS, RENEWALS, SUPPLEMENTS OR MODIFICATIONS TO THIS AGREEMENT.
(c) To the extent that the Liquidity Provider or any of its properties has or may hereafter acquire any right of immunity, whether characterized as sovereign immunity or otherwise, and whether under the United States Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 (or any successor legislation) or otherwise, from any legal proceedings, whether in the United States or elsewhere, to enforce or collect upon this Agreement, including, without limitation, immunity from suit or service of process, immunity from jurisdiction or judgment of any court or tribunal or execution of a judgment, or immunity of any of its property from attachment prior to any entry of judgment, or from attachment in aid of execution upon a judgment, the Liquidity Provider hereby irrevocably and expressly waives any such immunity, and agrees not to assert any such right or claim in any such proceeding, whether in the United States or elsewhere.
Section 7.12 Execution in Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties hereto on separate counterparts, each of which counterparts, when so executed and delivered, shall be deemed to be an original and all of which counterparts, taken together, shall constitute but one and the same Agreement.
Section 7.13 Entirety. This Agreement, the Intercreditor Agreement and the other Operative Agreements to which the Liquidity Provider is a party constitute the entire agreement of the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior understandings and agreements of such parties.
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Section 7.14 Headings. Section headings in this Agreement are included herein for convenience of reference only and shall not constitute a part of this Agreement for any other purpose.
Section 7.15 [Reserved].
Section 7.16 LIQUIDITY PROVIDER’S OBLIGATION TO MAKE ADVANCES. EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT, THE OBLIGATIONS OF THE LIQUIDITY PROVIDER TO MAKE ADVANCES HEREUNDER, AND THE BORROWER’S RIGHTS TO DELIVER NOTICES OF BORROWING REQUESTING THE MAKING OF ADVANCES HEREUNDER, SHALL BE UNCONDITIONAL AND IRREVOCABLE, AND SHALL BE PAID OR PERFORMED, IN EACH CASE STRICTLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT.
Section 7.17 Patriot Act. In compliance with the USA Patriot Act and 31 CFR Part 103.121 and, in the case of a non-U.S. entity, any other similar requirements of the relevant foreign jurisdiction, when requested the Borrower shall provide to the Liquidity Provider certain information relating to the Borrower that the Liquidity Provider may be required to obtain and keep on file, including the Borrower’s name, address and various identifying documents.
Section 7.18 [Reserved].
Section 7.19 Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of Affected Institutions. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement or in any other agreement, arrangement or understanding among any such parties, each party hereto acknowledges that any liability of any Affected Financial Institution arising under this Agreement, to the extent such liability is unsecured, may be subject to Write-Down and Conversion Powers of the applicable Resolution Authority and agrees and consents to, and acknowledges and agrees to be bound by:
(a) the application of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable Resolution Authority to any such liabilities arising hereunder which may be payable to it by any party hereto that is an Affected Financial Institution; and
(b) the effects of any Bail-In Action on any such liability, including, if applicable:
(i) a reduction, in full or in part, of any such liability;
(ii) a conversion of all, or a portion of, such liability into shares or other instruments of ownership in such Affected Financial Institution, its parent undertaking, or a bridge institution that may be issued to it or otherwise conferred on it, and that such shares or other instruments of ownership will be accepted by it in lieu of any rights with respect to any such liability under this Agreement; or
(iii) the variation of the terms of such liability in connection with the exercise of Write-Down and Conversion Powers of any applicable Resolution Authority.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this Agreement to be duly executed and delivered by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized as of the date first set forth above.
| WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in its individual capacity but solely as Subordination Agent, as agent and trustee for the Class A Trust, as Borrower | |||
| By: | /s/ Chad May | ||
| Name: | Chad May | ||
| Title: | Vice President | ||
[Signature Page to RCA (Class A)]
| GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA, | |||
| as Liquidity Provider | |||
| By: | /s/ Charles Johnston | ||
| Name: | Charles Johnston | ||
| Title: | Authorized Signatory | ||
[Signature Page to RCA (Class A)]
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SCHEDULE A
to
Revolving Credit Agreement
CERTAIN ECONOMIC TERMS
1. Applicable Margin (Unpaid Advance (including, without limitation, any Applied Special Termination Advance but excluding any Unapplied Special Termination Advance)/Applied Provider Advance): 3.75% per annum.
2. Initial Expiry Date: October 28, 2021.
3. Initial Maximum Commitment: $164,188,446.97.
4. Prospectus Supplement date: October 20, 2020.
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ADMINISTRATION DETAILS
| Borrower: | WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION |
| Address: |
1100 North Market Square Wilmington, Delaware 19890-1605 Attention: Corporate Capital Market Services Telephone: (302) 636-6296 Telecopy: (302) 636-4140 |
| Liquidity Provider: | GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA | |
| Address: | 200 West Street New York, NY 10282 Attention: Jordan Travis Telephone: 972-368-8076 Fax: 917-977-3966 Email: gs-pfi-servicing@ny.email.gs.com | |
| Account Details: | USD Swift Code: CITIUS33 | |
| ABA: 021000089 Bank Name: Citibank N.A. City: New York Account Number: 30627664 Entity Name: Goldman Sachs Bank USA Reference: United 2020-1 EETC |
SCHEDULE B
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Annex I
to
Revolving Credit Agreement
INTEREST ADVANCE NOTICE OF BORROWING
The undersigned, a duly authorized signatory of the undersigned borrower (the “Borrower”), hereby certifies to Goldman Sachs Bank USA (the “Liquidity Provider”), with reference to the Revolving Credit Agreement (2020-1A) dated as of October 28, 2020, between the Borrower and the Liquidity Provider (the “Liquidity Agreement”; the terms defined therein and not otherwise defined herein being used herein as therein defined or referenced), that:
(1) The Borrower is the Subordination Agent under the Intercreditor Agreement.
(2) The Borrower is delivering this Notice of Borrowing for the making of an Interest Advance by the Liquidity Provider to be used, subject to clause (3)(v) below, for the payment of interest on the Class A Certificates which was payable on ____________, ____ (the “Distribution Date”) in accordance with the terms and provisions of the Class A Trust Agreement and the Class A Certificates, which Advance is requested to be made on [____________, ____]1. The Interest Advance should be transferred to [name of bank/wire instructions/ABA number] in favor of account number [ ], reference [ ].
(3) The amount of the Interest Advance requested hereby (i) is $[_____________], to be applied in respect of the payment of the interest which was due and payable on the Class A Certificates on the Distribution Date, (ii) does not include any amount with respect to the payment of principal of, or premium on, the Class A Certificates, or principal of, or interest or premium on, any Additional Certificates, (iii) was computed in accordance with the provisions of the Class A Certificates, the Liquidity Agreement, the Class A Trust Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement (a copy of which computation is attached hereto as Schedule I), (iv) does not exceed the Maximum Available Commitment on the date hereof and (v) has not been and is not the subject of a prior or contemporaneous Notice of Borrowing.
(4) Upon receipt by or on behalf of the Borrower of the amount requested hereby, (a) the Borrower will apply the same in accordance with the terms of Section 3.5(b) of the Intercreditor Agreement, (b) no portion of such amount shall be applied by the Borrower for any other purpose and (c) no portion of such amount until so applied shall be commingled with other funds held by the Borrower.
1 If a Notice of Borrowing will be delivered prior to 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on a Business Day, insert the date of the Notice of Borrowing. If a Notice of Borrowing will be delivered after 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, insert the first Business Day after the date of the Notice of Borrowing.
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The Borrower hereby acknowledges that, pursuant to the Liquidity Agreement, the making of the Interest Advance as requested by this Notice of Borrowing shall automatically reduce, subject to reinstatement in accordance with the terms of the Liquidity Agreement, the Maximum Available Commitment by an amount equal to the amount of the Interest Advance requested to be made hereby as set forth in clause (i) of paragraph (3) of this Notice of Borrowing and such reduction shall automatically result in corresponding reductions in the amounts available to be borrowed pursuant to a subsequent Advance.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Borrower has executed and delivered this Notice of Borrowing as of the ____ day of _________, ____.
| WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in its individual capacity but solely as Subordination Agent, as Borrower | ||
| By: | ||
| Name: | ||
| Title: | ||
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SCHEDULE I
TO
INTEREST ADVANCE NOTICE OF BORROWING
[Insert copy of computations in accordance with Interest Advance Notice of Borrowing]
ANNEX I
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Annex II
to
Revolving Credit Agreement
NON-EXTENSION ADVANCE NOTICE OF BORROWING
The undersigned, a duly authorized signatory of the undersigned borrower (the “Borrower”), hereby certifies to [___] (the “Liquidity Provider”), with reference to the Revolving Credit Agreement (2020-1A) dated as of October [__], 2020, between the Borrower and the Liquidity Provider (the “Liquidity Agreement”; the terms defined therein and not otherwise defined herein being used herein as therein defined or referenced), that:
(1) The Borrower is the Subordination Agent under the Intercreditor Agreement.
(2) The Borrower is delivering this Notice of Borrowing for the making of the Non-Extension Advance by the Liquidity Provider to be used for the funding of the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility in accordance with Section 3.5(d) of the Intercreditor Agreement, which Advance is requested to be made on [__________, ____]2. The Non-Extension Advance should be transferred to [name of bank/wire instructions/ABA number] in favor of account number [ ], reference [ ].
(3) The amount of the Non-Extension Advance requested hereby (i) is $_______________.__, which equals the Maximum Available Commitment on the date hereof and is to be applied in respect of the funding of the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility in accordance with Section 3.5(d) of the Intercreditor Agreement, (ii) does not include any amount with respect to the payment of the principal of, or premium on, the Class A Certificates, or principal of, or interest or premium on, any Additional Certificates, (iii) was computed in accordance with the provisions of the Class A Certificates, the Liquidity Agreement, the Class A Trust Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement (a copy of which computation is attached hereto as Schedule I), and (iv) has not been and is not the subject of a prior or contemporaneous Notice of Borrowing under the Liquidity Agreement.
(4) Upon receipt by or on behalf of the Borrower of the amount requested hereby, (a) the Borrower will deposit such amount in the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility and apply the same in accordance with the terms of Section 3.5(d) of the Intercreditor Agreement, (b) no portion of such amount shall be applied by the Borrower for any other purpose and (c) no portion of such amount until so applied shall be commingled with other funds held by the Borrower.
2 If a Notice of Borrowing will be delivered prior to 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on a Business Day, insert the date of the Notice of Borrowing. If a Notice of Borrowing will be delivered after 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, insert the first Business Day after the date of the Notice of Borrowing.
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The Borrower hereby acknowledges that, pursuant to the Liquidity Agreement, (A) the making of the Non-Extension Advance as requested by this Notice of Borrowing shall automatically and irrevocably terminate the obligation of the Liquidity Provider to make further Advances under the Liquidity Agreement; and (B) following the making by the Liquidity Provider of the Non-Extension Advance requested by this Notice of Borrowing, the Borrower shall not be entitled to request any further Advances under the Liquidity Agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Borrower has executed and delivered this Notice of Borrowing as of the ____ day of _________, ____.
| WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in its individual capacity but solely as Subordination Agent, as Borrower | ||
| By: | ||
| Name: | ||
| Title: | ||
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SCHEDULE I
TO
NON-EXTENSION ADVANCE NOTICE OF BORROWING
[Insert copy of computations in accordance with Non-Extension Advance Notice of Borrowing]
ANNEX II
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Annex III
to
Revolving Credit Agreement
DOWNGRADE ADVANCE NOTICE OF BORROWING
The undersigned, a duly authorized signatory of the undersigned borrower (the “Borrower”), hereby certifies to Goldman Sachs Bank USA (the “Liquidity Provider”), with reference to the Revolving Credit Agreement (2020-1A) dated as of October 28, 2020, between the Borrower and the Liquidity Provider (the “Liquidity Agreement”; the terms defined therein and not otherwise defined herein being used herein as therein defined or referenced), that:
(1) The Borrower is the Subordination Agent under the Intercreditor Agreement.
(2) The Borrower is delivering this Notice of Borrowing for the making of the Downgrade Advance by the Liquidity Provider to be used for the funding of the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility in accordance with Section 3.5(c) of the Intercreditor Agreement by reason of the occurrence of a Downgrade Event, which Advance is requested to be made on [__________, ____]3. The Downgrade Advance should be transferred to [name of bank/wire instructions/ABA number] in favor of account number [ ], reference [ ].
(3) The amount of the Downgrade Advance requested hereby (i) is $_______________.__, which equals the Maximum Available Commitment on the date hereof and is to be applied in respect of the funding of the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility in accordance with Section 3.5(c) of the Intercreditor Agreement, (ii) does not include any amount with respect to the payment of the principal of, or premium on, the Class A Certificates, or principal of, or interest or premium on, any Additional Certificates, (iii) was computed in accordance with the provisions of the Class A Certificates, the Liquidity Agreement, the Class A Trust Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement (a copy of which computation is attached hereto as Schedule I), and (iv) has not been and is not the subject of a prior or contemporaneous Notice of Borrowing under the Liquidity Agreement.
(4) Upon receipt by or on behalf of the Borrower of the amount requested hereby, (a) the Borrower will deposit such amount in the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility and apply the same in accordance with the terms of Section 3.5(c) of the Intercreditor Agreement, (b) no portion of such amount shall be applied by the Borrower for any other purpose and (c) no portion of such amount until so applied shall be commingled with other funds held by the Borrower.
3 If a Notice of Borrowing will be delivered prior to 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on a Business Day, insert the date of the Notice of Borrowing. If a Notice of Borrowing will be delivered after 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, insert the first Business Day after the date of the Notice of Borrowing.
ANNEX III
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The Borrower hereby acknowledges that, pursuant to the Liquidity Agreement, (A) the making of the Downgrade Advance as requested by this Notice of Borrowing shall automatically and irrevocably terminate the obligation of the Liquidity Provider to make further Advances under the Liquidity Agreement; and (B) following the making by the Liquidity Provider of the Downgrade Advance requested by this Notice of Borrowing, the Borrower shall not be entitled to request any further Advances under the Liquidity Agreement, except in each case to the extent that the Maximum Commitment is reinstated pursuant to Section 2.06(d) of the Liquidity Agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Borrower has executed and delivered this Notice of Borrowing as of the ____ day of _________, ____.
| WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in its individual capacity but solely as Subordination Agent, as Borrower | ||
| By: | ||
| Name: | ||
| Title: | ||
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SCHEDULE I
TO
DOWNGRADE ADVANCE NOTICE OF BORROWING
[Insert copy of computations in accordance with Downgrade Advance Notice of Borrowing]
ANNEX III
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Annex IV
to
Revolving Credit Agreement
FINAL ADVANCE NOTICE OF BORROWING
The undersigned, a duly authorized signatory of the undersigned borrower (the “Borrower”), hereby certifies to Goldman Sachs Bank USA (the “Liquidity Provider”), with reference to the Revolving Credit Agreement (2020-1A) dated as of October 28, 2020, between the Borrower and the Liquidity Provider (the “Liquidity Agreement”; the terms defined therein and not otherwise defined herein being used herein as therein defined or referenced), that:
(1) The Borrower is the Subordination Agent under the Intercreditor Agreement.
(2) The Borrower is delivering this Notice of Borrowing for the making of the Final Advance by the Liquidity Provider to be used for the funding of the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility in accordance with Section 3.5(i) of the Intercreditor Agreement by reason of the receipt by the Borrower of a Termination Notice from the Liquidity Provider with respect to the Liquidity Agreement, which Advance is requested to be made on [____________, ____]4. The Final Advance should be transferred to [name of bank/wire instructions/ABA number] in favor of account number [ ], reference [ ].
(3) The amount of the Final Advance requested hereby (i) is $_________________.__, which equals the Maximum Available Commitment on the date hereof and is to be applied in respect of the funding of the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility in accordance with Section 3.5(i) of the Intercreditor Agreement, (ii) does not include any amount with respect to the payment of principal of, or premium on, the Class A Certificates, or principal of, or interest or premium on, any Additional Certificates, (iii) was computed in accordance with the provisions of the Class A Certificates, the Liquidity Agreement, the Class A Trust Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement (a copy of which computation is attached hereto as Schedule I), and (iv) has not been and is not the subject of a prior or contemporaneous Notice of Borrowing.
(4) Upon receipt by or on behalf of the Borrower of the amount requested hereby, (a) the Borrower will deposit such amount in the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility and apply the same in accordance with the terms of Section 3.5(i) of the Intercreditor Agreement, (b) no portion of such amount
4 If a Notice of Borrowing will be delivered prior to 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on a Business Day, insert the date of the Notice of Borrowing. If a Notice of Borrowing will be delivered after 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, insert the first Business Day after the date of the Notice of Borrowing.
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shall be applied by the Borrower for any other purpose and (c) no portion of such amount until so applied shall be commingled with other funds held by the Borrower.
(5) The Borrower hereby requests that the Advance requested hereby be a Base Rate Advance and that such Base Rate Advance be converted into a LIBOR Advance on the third Business Day following your receipt of this notice.
The Borrower hereby acknowledges that, pursuant to the Liquidity Agreement, (A) the making of the Final Advance as requested by this Notice of Borrowing shall automatically and irrevocably terminate the obligation of the Liquidity Provider to make further Advances under the Liquidity Agreement; and (B) following the making by the Liquidity Provider of the Final Advance requested by this Notice of Borrowing, the Borrower shall not be entitled to request any further Advances under the Liquidity Agreement.
ANNEX IV
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Borrower has executed and delivered this Notice of Borrowing as of the ____ day of _________, ____.
| WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in its individual capacity but solely as Subordination Agent, as Borrower | ||
| By: | ||
| Name: | ||
| Title: | ||
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SCHEDULE I
TO
FINAL ADVANCE NOTICE OF BORROWING
[Insert copy of computations in accordance with Final Advance Notice of Borrowing]
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Annex V
to
Revolving Credit Agreement
NOTICE OF TERMINATION
[Date]
Wilmington Trust, National Association,
as Subordination Agent, as Borrower
1100 North Market Square
Wilmington, DE 19890-1605
Attention: Corporate Trust Administration
Revolving Credit Agreement dated as of October 28, 2020 between Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Subordination Agent, as agent and trustee for the United Airlines Pass Through Trust, 2020-1A, as Borrower, and Goldman Sachs Bank USA (the “Liquidity Agreement”)
Ladies and Gentlemen:
You are hereby notified that pursuant to Section 6.01 of the Liquidity Agreement, by reason of the occurrence of a Liquidity Event of Default and the existence of a Performing Note Deficiency, we are giving this notice to you in order to cause (i) our obligations to make Advances under such Liquidity Agreement to terminate on the fifth Business Day after the date on which you receive this notice, (ii) you to request a Final Advance under the Liquidity Agreement pursuant to Section 3.5(i) of the Intercreditor Agreement as a consequence of your receipt of this notice and (iii) all other outstanding Advances to be automatically converted into Final Advances for purposes of determining the Applicable Liquidity Rate for interest payable thereon.
Terms used but not defined herein shall have the respective meanings ascribed thereto in or pursuant to the Liquidity Agreement.
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THIS NOTICE IS THE “NOTICE OF TERMINATION” PROVIDED FOR UNDER THE LIQUIDITY AGREEMENT. OUR OBLIGATIONS TO MAKE ADVANCES UNDER THE LIQUIDITY AGREEMENT WILL TERMINATE ON THE FIFTH BUSINESS DAY AFTER THE DATE ON WHICH YOU RECEIVE THIS NOTICE.
|
Very truly yours,
GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA | ||
| By: | ||
| Name: | ||
| Title: | ||
| By: | ||
| Name: | ||
| Title: | ||
| cc: Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Class A Trustee |
||
ANNEX V
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Annex VI
to
Revolving Credit Agreement
NOTICE OF REPLACEMENT SUBORDINATION AGENT
[Date]
Attention:
Revolving Credit Agreement dated as of October 28, 2020, between Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Subordination Agent, as agent and trustee for the United Airlines Pass Through Trust, 2020-1A, as Borrower, and Goldman Sachs Bank USA (the “Liquidity Agreement”)
Ladies and Gentlemen:
For value received, the undersigned beneficiary hereby irrevocably transfers to:
______________________________
[Name of Transferee]
______________________________
[Address of Transferee]
all rights and obligations of the undersigned as Borrower under the Liquidity Agreement referred to above. The transferee has succeeded the undersigned as Subordination Agent under the Intercreditor Agreement referred to in the first paragraph of the Liquidity Agreement, pursuant to the terms of Section 8.1 of the Intercreditor Agreement.
By this transfer, all rights of the undersigned as Borrower under the Liquidity Agreement are transferred to the transferee and the transferee shall hereafter have the sole rights and obligations as Borrower thereunder. The undersigned shall pay any costs and expenses of such transfer, including, but not limited to, transfer taxes or governmental charges.
We ask that this transfer be effective as of _______________, ____.
| WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in its individual capacity but solely as Subordination Agent, as Borrower | ||
| By: | ||
| Name: | ||
| Title: | ||
ANNEX VI
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Annex VII
to
Revolving Credit Agreement
SPECIAL TERMINATION ADVANCE NOTICE OF BORROWING
The undersigned, a duly authorized signatory of the undersigned borrower (the “Borrower”), hereby certifies to Goldman Sachs Bank USA (the “Liquidity Provider”), with reference to the Revolving Credit Agreement (2020-1A) dated as of October 28, 2020, between the Borrower and the Liquidity Provider (the “Liquidity Agreement”; the terms defined therein and not otherwise defined herein being used herein as therein defined or referenced), that:
(1) The Borrower is the Subordination Agent under the Intercreditor Agreement.
(2) The Borrower is delivering this Notice of Borrowing for the making of the Special Termination Advance by the Liquidity Provider to be used for the funding of the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility in accordance with Section 3.5(m) of the Intercreditor Agreement by reason of the receipt by the Borrower of a Special Termination Notice from the Liquidity Provider with respect to the Liquidity Agreement, which Advance is requested to be made on [____________, ____]5. The Special Termination Advance should be transferred to [name of bank/wire instructions/ABA number] in favor of account number [ ], reference [ ].
(3) The amount of the Special Termination Advance requested hereby (i) is $_________________.__, which equals the Maximum Available Commitment on the date hereof and is to be applied in respect of the funding of the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility in accordance with Section 3.5(m) of the Intercreditor Agreement, (ii) does not include any amount with respect to the payment of principal of, or premium on, the Class A Certificates, or principal of, or interest or premium on, any Additional Certificates, (iii) was computed in accordance with the provisions of the Class A Certificates, the Liquidity Agreement, the Class A Trust Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement (a copy of which computation is attached hereto as Schedule I), and (iv) has not been and is not the subject of a prior or contemporaneous Notice of Borrowing.
(4) Upon receipt by or on behalf of the Borrower of the amount requested hereby, (a) the Borrower will deposit such amount in the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility and apply the same in accordance with the terms of Section 3.5(m) of the Intercreditor Agreement, (b) no portion of such amount
5 If a Notice of Borrowing will be delivered prior to 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on a Business Day, insert the date of the Notice of Borrowing. If a Notice of Borrowing will be delivered after 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, insert the first Business Day after the date of the Notice of Borrowing.
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shall be applied by the Borrower for any other purpose and (c) no portion of such amount until so applied shall be commingled with other funds held by the Borrower.
The Borrower hereby acknowledges that, pursuant to the Liquidity Agreement, (A) the making of the Special Termination Advance as requested by this Notice of Borrowing shall automatically and irrevocably terminate the obligation of the Liquidity Provider to make further Advances under the Liquidity Agreement; and (B) following the making by the Liquidity Provider of the Special Termination Advance requested by this Notice of Borrowing, the Borrower shall not be entitled to request any further Advances under the Liquidity Agreement.
ANNEX VII
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Borrower has executed and delivered this Notice of Borrowing as of the ____ day of _________, ____.
| WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in its individual capacity but solely as Subordination Agent, as Borrower | ||
| By: | ||
| Name: | ||
| Title: | ||
ANNEX VII
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SCHEDULE I
TO
SPECIAL TERMINATION ADVANCE NOTICE OF BORROWING
[Insert copy of computations in accordance with Special Termination Advance Notice of Borrowing]
ANNEX VII
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ANNEX VIII
TO
REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT
NOTICE OF SPECIAL TERMINATION
[Date]
Wilmington Trust, National Association,
as Subordination Agent, as Borrower
1100 North Market Square
Wilmington, DE 19890-1605
Attention: Corporate Trust Administration
Revolving Credit Agreement dated as of October 28, 2020 between Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Subordination Agent, as agent and trustee for the United Airlines Pass Through Trust, 2020-1A, as Borrower, and Goldman Sachs Bank USA (the “Liquidity Agreement”)
Ladies and Gentlemen:
You are hereby notified that pursuant to Section 6.02 of the Liquidity Agreement, by reason of the aggregate Pool Balance of the Class A Certificates exceeding the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Series A Equipment Note (other than any portion of the Series A Equipment Note previously sold or with respect to which the collateral securing the Series A Equipment Note has been disposed of) during the 18 month period prior to October 15, 2027, we are giving this notice to you in order to cause (i) our obligations to make Advances under the Liquidity Agreement to terminate on the fifth Business Day after the date on which you receive this notice and (ii) you to request a Special Termination Advance under the Liquidity Agreement pursuant to Section 3.5(m) of the Intercreditor Agreement as a consequence of your receipt of this notice. Terms used but not defined herein shall have the respective meanings ascribed thereto in or pursuant to the Liquidity Agreement.
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THIS NOTICE IS THE “NOTICE OF SPECIAL TERMINATION” PROVIDED FOR UNDER THE LIQUIDITY AGREEMENT. OUR OBLIGATIONS TO MAKE ADVANCES UNDER THE LIQUIDITY AGREEMENT WILL TERMINATE ON THE FIFTH BUSINESS DAY AFTER THE DATE ON WHICH YOU RECEIVE THIS NOTICE.
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Very truly yours,
GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA | ||
| By: | ||
| Name: | ||
| Title: | ||
| cc: Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Class A Trustee |
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ANNEX VIII
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Exhibit 4.3
EXECUTION VERSION
REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT
(2020-1A)
dated as of October 28, 2020
between
WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Subordination Agent,
as Agent and Trustee for the
United Airlines Pass Through Trust 2020-1A,
as Borrower
and
BARCLAYS BANK PLC
as Liquidity Provider
Relating to United Airlines
Pass Through Trust 2020-1A 5.875% United Airlines
Pass Through Certificates, Series 2020-1A
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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| article I DEFINITIONS | 1 | |
| Section 1.01 | Certain Defined Terms | 1 |
| article II AMOUNT AND TERMS OF THE COMMITMENT | 13 | |
| Section 2.01 | The Advances | 13 |
| Section 2.02 | Making the Advances | 13 |
| Section 2.03 | Fees | 16 |
| Section 2.04 | Reductions or Termination of the Maximum Commitment | 16 |
| Section 2.05 | Repayments of Interest Advances, the Special Termination Advance or the Final Advance | 16 |
| Section 2.06 | Repayments of Provider Advances | 17 |
| Section 2.07 | Payments to the Liquidity Provider Under the Intercreditor Agreement | 18 |
| Section 2.08 | Book Entries | 19 |
| Section 2.09 | Payments from Available Funds Only | 19 |
| Section 2.10 | Non-Extension of the Expiry Date; Non-Extension Advance | 19 |
| Section 2.11 | LIBOR Replacement | 19 |
| article III OBLIGATIONS OF THE BORROWER | 21 | |
| Section 3.01 | Increased Costs | 21 |
| Section 3.02 | Capital Adequacy and Liquidity Coverage | 22 |
| Section 3.03 | Payments Free of Deductions | 23 |
| Section 3.04 | Payments | 25 |
| Section 3.05 | Computations | 25 |
| Section 3.06 | Payment on Non-Business Days | 25 |
| Section 3.07 | Interest | 26 |
| Section 3.08 | Replacement of Borrower | 27 |
| Section 3.09 | Funding Loss Indemnification | 27 |
| Section 3.10 | Illegality | 28 |
| article IV CONDITIONS PRECEDENT | 28 | |
| Section 4.01 | Conditions Precedent to Effectiveness of Section 2.01 | 28 |
| Section 4.02 | Conditions Precedent to Borrowing | 30 |
| Section 4.03 | Representations and Warranties | 30 |
| article V COVENANTS | 31 | |
| Section 5.01 | Affirmative Covenants of the Borrower | 31 |
| Section 5.02 | Negative Covenants of the Borrower | 31 |
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| article VI LIQUIDITY EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND SPECIAL TERMINATION | 31 | |
| Section 6.01 | Liquidity Events of Default | 31 |
| Section 6.02 | Special Termination | 32 |
| article VII MISCELLANEOUS | 32 | |
| Section 7.01 | Amendments, Etc | 32 |
| Section 7.02 | Notices, Etc | 32 |
| Section 7.03 | No Waiver; Remedies | 33 |
| Section 7.04 | Further Assurances | 33 |
| Section 7.05 | Indemnification; Survival of Certain Provisions | 33 |
| Section 7.06 | Liability of the Liquidity Provider | 33 |
| Section 7.07 | Costs, Expenses and Taxes | 34 |
| Section 7.08 | Binding Effect; Participations; Assignments | 35 |
| Section 7.09 | Severability | 36 |
| Section 7.10 | GOVERNING LAW | 36 |
| Section 7.11 | Submission to Jurisdiction; Waiver of Jury Trial; Waiver of Immunity | 36 |
| Section 7.12 | Execution in Counterparts | 37 |
| Section 7.13 | Entirety | 37 |
| Section 7.14 | Headings | 37 |
| Section 7.15 | [Reserved] | 37 |
| Section 7.16 | LIQUIDITY PROVIDER’S OBLIGATION TO MAKE ADVANCES | 38 |
| Section 7.17 | Patriot Act | 38 |
| Section 7.18 | Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of Affected Institutions | 38 |
| Schedule A | - | Certain Economic Terms |
| Schedule B | - | Administration Details |
| Annex I | - | Interest Advance Notice of Borrowing |
| Annex II | - | Non-Extension Advance Notice of Borrowing |
| Annex III | - | Downgrade Advance Notice of Borrowing |
| Annex IV | - | Final Advance Notice of Borrowing |
| Annex V | - | Notice of Termination |
| Annex VI | - | Notice of Replacement Subordination Agent |
| Annex VII | - | Special Termination Advance Notice of Borrowing |
| Annex VIII | - | Notice of Special Termination |
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REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT (2020-1A)
THIS REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT (2020-1A) dated as of October 28, 2020 (this “Agreement”), between WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association, not in its individual capacity but solely as Subordination Agent under the Intercreditor Agreement (each as defined below), as agent and trustee for the Class A Trust (as defined below) (the “Borrower”), and BARCLAYS BANK PLC (the “Liquidity Provider”).
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Class A Trust Agreement (such term and all other capitalized terms used in these recitals having the meanings set forth or referred to in Section 1.01), the Class A Trust is issuing the Class A Certificates; and
WHEREAS, the Borrower, in order to support the timely payment of a portion of the interest on the Class A Certificates in accordance with their terms, has requested the Liquidity Provider to enter into this Agreement, providing in part for the Borrower to request in specified circumstances that Advances be made hereunder.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises, the parties hereto agree as follows:
article I
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.01 Certain Defined Terms. (a) Definitions. As used in this Agreement and unless otherwise expressly indicated, or unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the following capitalized terms shall have the following respective meanings for all purposes of this Agreement:
“Additional Costs” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.01.
“Advance” means an Interest Advance, a Final Advance, a Provider Advance, a Special Termination Advance, an Applied Special Termination Advance, or an Applied Provider Advance, as the case may be.
“Affected Financial Institution” means (a) any EEA Financial Institution or (b) any UK Financial Institution.
“Applicable Liquidity Rate” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.07(h).
“Applicable Margin” means (x) with respect to any Unpaid Advance (including, without limitation, any Applied Special Termination Advance but excluding any Unapplied Special Termination Advance) or Applied Provider Advance, the margin per annum specified in item 1 of Schedule A, or (y) with respect to any Unapplied Provider Advance or any Unapplied Special
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Termination Advance, the margin per annum specified in the Fee Letter applicable to this Agreement.
“Applied Downgrade Advance” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.06(a).
“Applied Non-Extension Advance” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.06(a).
“Applied Provider Advance” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.06(a).
“Applied Special Termination Advance” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.05.
“Available Tenor” means, as of any date of determination and with respect to the then-current Benchmark, as applicable, any tenor for such Benchmark or payment period for interest calculated with reference to such Benchmark, as applicable, that is or may be used for determining the length of an Interest Period pursuant to this Agreement as of such date and not including, for the avoidance of doubt, any tenor for such Benchmark that is then-removed from the definition of “Interest Period” pursuant to clause (d) of Section 2.11.
“Bail-In Action” means the exercise of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of an Affected Financial Institution.
“Bail-In Legislation” means (a) with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union, the implementing law, regulation rule or requirement for such EEA Member Country from time to time which is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule and (b) with respect to the United Kingdom, Part I of the United Kingdom Banking Act 2009 (as amended from time to time) and any other law, regulation or rule applicable in the United Kingdom relating to the resolution of unsound or failing banks, investment firms or other financial institutions or their affiliates (other than through liquidation, administration or other insolvency proceedings).
“Base Rate” means, for any given day, a fluctuating interest rate per annum in effect from time to time, which rate per annum shall at all times be equal to (a) the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers, as published for such day (or, if such day is not a Business Day, for the next preceding Business Day) by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or if such rate is not so published for any day that is a Business Day, the average of the quotations for such day for such transactions received by the Liquidity Provider from three Federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by it, plus (b) one-quarter of one percent (¼ of 1%).
“Base Rate Advance” means an Advance that bears interest at a rate based upon the Base Rate.
“Benchmark” means, initially, the LIBOR Rate; provided that if a Benchmark Transition Event or an Early Opt-in Election, as applicable, and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have
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occurred with respect to the LIBOR Rate or the then-current Benchmark, then “Benchmark” shall mean the applicable Benchmark Replacement to the extent that such Benchmark Replacement has replaced such prior benchmark rate pursuant to clause (a) of Section 2.11.
“Benchmark Replacement” means, for any Available Tenor, the first alternative set forth in the order below that can be determined by the Designated Party for the applicable Benchmark Replacement Date:
(1) the sum of: (a) Term SOFR and (b) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment;
(2) the sum of: (a) Daily Simple SOFR and (b) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment;
(3) the sum of: (a) the alternate benchmark rate that has been selected by the Designated Party as the replacement for the then-current Benchmark for the applicable Corresponding Tenor giving due consideration to (i) any selection or recommendation of a replacement benchmark rate or the mechanism for determining such a rate by the Relevant Governmental Body or (ii) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a benchmark rate as a replacement for the then-current Benchmark for U.S. dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities at such time and (b) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment;
provided that, in the case of clause (1), such Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement is displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Designated Party in its reasonable discretion. If the Benchmark Replacement as determined pursuant to clause (1), (2) or (3) above would be less than the Floor, the Benchmark Replacement will be deemed to be the Floor for the purposes of this Agreement.
“Benchmark Replacement Adjustment” means, with respect to any replacement of the then- current Benchmark with an Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for any applicable Interest Period and Available Tenor for any setting of such Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement:
(1) for purposes of clauses (1) and (2) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement,” the first alternative set forth in the order below that can be determined by the Designated Party:
| (a) | the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) as of the Reference Time such Benchmark Replacement is first set for such Interest Period that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body for the replacement of such Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for the applicable Corresponding Tenor; |
| (b) | the spread adjustment (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) as of the Reference Time such Benchmark Replacement is first set for such Interest Period that would apply to the fallback rate for a derivative transaction referencing the ISDA Definitions to be effective upon an index |
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| cessation event with respect to such Benchmark for the applicable Corresponding Tenor; and |
(2) for purposes of clause (3) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement,” the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) that has been selected by the Designated Party for the applicable Corresponding Tenor giving due consideration to (i) any selection or recommendation of a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of such Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement by the Relevant Governmental Body on the applicable Benchmark Replacement Date or (ii) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of such Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for U.S. dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities; provided that, in the case of clause (1) above, such adjustment is displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such Benchmark Replacement Adjustment from time to time as selected by the Designated Party in its reasonable discretion.
“Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes” means, with respect to any Benchmark Replacement, any technical, administrative or operational changes (including changes to the definition of “Business Day,” the definition of “Interest Period,” timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest, timing of borrowing requests or prepayment, conversion or continuation notices, length of lookback periods, the applicability of breakage provisions, and other technical, administrative or operational matters) that the Designated Party decides may be appropriate to reflect the adoption and implementation of such Benchmark Replacement and to permit the administration thereof by the Designated Party in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Designated Party decides that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or if the Designated Party determines that no market practice for the administration of such Benchmark Replacement exists, in such other manner of administration as the Designated Party decides is reasonably necessary in connection with the administration of this Agreement).
“Benchmark Replacement Date” means the earliest to occur of the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark:
| (1) | in the case of clause (1) or (2) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the later of (a) the date of the public statement or publication of information referenced therein and (b) the date on which the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) permanently or indefinitely ceases to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof); |
| (2) | in the case of clause (3) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the date of the public statement or publication of information referenced therein; or |
| (3) | in the case of an Early Opt-in Election, the sixth (6th) Business Day after the date notice of such Early Opt-in Election is provided to the Borrower or the Liquidity Provider, as applicable. |
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For the avoidance of doubt, (i) if the event giving rise to the Benchmark Replacement Date occurs on the same day as, but earlier than, the Reference Time in respect of any determination, the Benchmark Replacement Date will be deemed to have occurred prior to the Reference Time for such determination and (ii) the “Benchmark Replacement Date” will be deemed to have occurred in the case of clause (1) or (2) with respect to any Benchmark upon the occurrence of the applicable event or events set forth therein with respect to all then-current Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).
“Benchmark Transition Event” means the occurrence of one or more of the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark:
| (1) | a public statement or publication of information by or on behalf of the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) announcing that such administrator has ceased or will cease to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof), permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof); |
| (2) | a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof), the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, an insolvency official with jurisdiction over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component), a resolution authority with jurisdiction over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component) or a court or an entity with similar insolvency or resolution authority over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component), which states that the administrator of such Benchmark (or such component) has ceased or will cease to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof); or |
| (3) | a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) announcing that all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) are no longer representative. |
For the avoidance of doubt, a “Benchmark Transition Event” will be deemed to have occurred with respect to any Benchmark if a public statement or publication of information set forth above has occurred with respect to each then-current Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).
“Benchmark Unavailability Period” means the period (if any) (x) beginning at the time that a Benchmark Replacement Date pursuant to clauses (1) or (2) of that definition has occurred if, at such time, no Benchmark Replacement has replaced the then-current Benchmark for all
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purposes hereunder in accordance with Section 2.11 and (y) ending at the time that a Benchmark Replacement has replaced the then-current Benchmark for all purposes hereunder in accordance with Section 2.11.
“Basel III” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.01.
“Borrower” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recital of parties to this Agreement.
“Borrowing” means the making of Advances requested by delivery of a Notice of Borrowing.
“Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday or Sunday or a day on which commercial banks are required or authorized to close in Chicago, Illinois, New York, New York or, so long as any Class A Certificate is outstanding, the city and state in which the Class A Trustee, the Borrower or any Loan Trustee maintains its Corporate Trust Office or receives or disburses funds, and, if the applicable Business Day relates to any Advance or other amount bearing interest based on the LIBOR Rate, on which dealings in dollars are carried on in the London interbank market.
“Corresponding Tenor” with respect to any Available Tenor means, as applicable, either a tenor (including overnight) or an interest payment period having approximately the same length (disregarding business day adjustment) as such Available Tenor.
“Daily Simple SOFR” means, for any day, SOFR, with the conventions for this rate (which will include a lookback) being established by the Designated Party in accordance with the conventions for this rate selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body for determining “Daily Simple SOFR” for syndicated business loans; provided, that if the Designated Party decides that any such convention is not administratively feasible for the Designated Party, then the Designated Party may establish another convention in its reasonable discretion.
“Designated Party” means the Subordination Agent, in such case acting for the benefit of both the Borrower and the Liquidity Provider, and in so acting, also taking into account any similar determinations (including in its individual capacity or as an applicable agent) under other credit facilities to which it is a party (in any such capacity); provided, that (a) applicable determinations as Designated Party shall be made in consultation with, and shall be subject to any joint written instructions delivered by, United and the Liquidity Provider (and absent such instructions, with the Subordination Agent having no obligation to obtain any consent from any Person in respect of its determinations as Designated Party, unless otherwise expressly set forth herein), and (b) to the extent mutually agreed by United and the Liquidity Provider (with notice to the Subordination Agent), the Designated Party shall be, or any specified determinations thereof may be made by, as applicable, the Liquidity Provider.
“Downgrade Advance” means an Advance made pursuant to Section 2.02(c).
“Early Opt-in Election” means, if the then-current Benchmark is the LIBOR Rate, the occurrence of:
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| (1) | a notification by the Liquidity Provider to the Borrower or a notification from the Borrower to the Liquidity Provider that at least five currently outstanding U.S. dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities at such time contain (as a result of amendment or as originally executed) a SOFR-based rate (including SOFR, a term SOFR or any other rate based upon SOFR) as a benchmark rate (and such syndicated credit facilities are identified in such notice and are publicly available for review), and |
| (2) | the joint election by the Liquidity Provider and the Borrower to trigger a fallback from the LIBOR Rate. |
“EEA Financial Institution” means (a) any credit institution or investment firm established in any EEA Member Country which is subject to the supervision of an EEA Resolution Authority, (b) any entity established in an EEA Member Country which is a parent of an institution described in clause (a) of this definition, or (c) any financial institution established in an EEA Member Country which is a subsidiary of an institution described in clauses (a) or (b) of this definition and is subject to consolidated supervision with its parent.
“EEA Member Country” means any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.
“EEA Resolution Authority” means any public administrative authority or any person entrusted with public administrative authority of any EEA Member Country (including any delegee) having responsibility for the resolution of any EEA Financial Institution.
“Effective Date” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.01. The delivery of the certificate of the Liquidity Provider contemplated by Section 4.01(e) shall be conclusive evidence that the Effective Date has occurred.
“Excluded Taxes” means (i) taxes imposed on the overall net income of the Liquidity Provider or of its Facility Office by the jurisdiction where such Liquidity Provider’s principal office or such Facility Office is located, and (ii) Excluded Withholding Taxes.
“Excluded Withholding Taxes” means (i) withholding Taxes imposed by the United States except to the extent that such United States withholding Taxes are imposed or increased as a result of any change in applicable law (excluding from change in applicable law for this purpose a change in an applicable treaty or other change in law affecting the applicability of a treaty) after the date hereof, or in the case of a successor Liquidity Provider (including a transferee of an Advance) or Facility Office, after the date on which such successor Liquidity Provider obtains its interest or on which the Facility Office is changed, (ii) any withholding Taxes imposed by the United States which are imposed or increased as a result of the Liquidity Provider failing to deliver to the Borrower any certificate or document (which certificate or document in the good faith judgment of the Liquidity Provider it is legally entitled to provide) which is reasonably requested by the Borrower to establish that payments under this Agreement are exempt from (or entitled to a reduced rate of) withholding Tax and (iii) Taxes imposed under FATCA.
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“Expenses” means liabilities, obligations, damages, settlements, penalties, claims, actions, suits, costs, expenses, and disbursements (including, without limitation, reasonable fees and disbursements of legal counsel and costs of investigation), provided that Expenses shall not include any Taxes.
“Expiry Date” means the “Initial Expiry Date” specified in item 2 of Schedule A, initially, or any subsequent anniversary date of the Closing Date to which the Expiry Date is automatically extended pursuant to Section 2.10 if the Liquidity Provider has not provided notice in accordance with Section 2.10 that its obligation to make Advances shall not be extended beyond such anniversary date.
“Facility Office” means the office of the Liquidity Provider presently located in New York, New York or such other office as the Liquidity Provider from time to time shall notify the Borrower as its Facility Office hereunder; provided that the Liquidity Provider shall not change its Facility Office to another Facility Office outside the United States of America except in accordance with Section 3.01, 3.02 or 3.03 hereof or with the prior consent of United Airlines, Inc.
“Final Advance” means an Advance made pursuant to Section 2.02(d).
“Floor” means the benchmark rate floor, if any, provided in this Agreement initially (as of the execution of this Agreement, the modification, amendment or renewal of this Agreement or otherwise) with respect to the LIBOR Rate.
“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles as set forth in the statements of financial accounting standards issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, as such principles may at any time or from time to time be varied by any applicable financial accounting rules or regulations issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission and, with respect to any person, shall mean such principles applied on a basis consistent with prior periods except as may be disclosed in such person’s financial statements.
“Intercreditor Agreement” means the Intercreditor Agreement dated as of the date hereof among the Trustees, the Liquidity Provider, each liquidity provider under the other Liquidity Facilities and the Subordination Agent, as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with its terms.
“Interest Advance” means an Advance made pursuant to Section 2.02(a).
“Interest Period” means, with respect to any LIBOR Advance, each of the following periods:
(i) the period beginning on the third LIBOR Business Day following either (x) the date of the Liquidity Provider’s receipt of the Notice of Borrowing for such LIBOR Advance or (y) the date of the withdrawal of funds from the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility for the purpose of paying interest on the Class A Certificates as contemplated by Section 2.06(a) hereof and, in either case,
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ending on the next Regular Distribution Date (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day); and
(ii) each subsequent period commencing on the last day of the immediately preceding Interest Period and ending on the next Regular Distribution Date (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day);
provided, however, that if (x) the Final Advance shall have been made, or (y) other outstanding Advances shall have been converted into the Final Advance, then the Interest Periods shall be successive periods of one month beginning on the third LIBOR Business Day following the Liquidity Provider’s receipt of the Notice of Borrowing for such Final Advance (in the case of clause (x) above) or the Regular Distribution Date (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day) following such conversion (in the case of clause (y) above).
“ISDA Definitions” means the 2006 ISDA Definitions published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. or any successor thereto, as amended or supplemented from time to time, or any successor definitional booklet for interest rate derivatives published from time to time by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. or such successor thereto.
“LIBOR Advance” means an Advance bearing interest at a rate based upon the LIBOR Rate.
“LIBOR Business Day” means any day on which dealings in dollars are carried on in the London interbank market.
“LIBOR Rate” means, with respect to any Interest Period,
(i) the rate per annum equal to the London Interbank Offered Rate per annum administered by ICE Benchmark Administration Limited (or any other successor person which takes over administration of that rate) appearing on display page Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page (or any successor or substitute therefor) at approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) two LIBOR Business Days before the first day of such Interest Period, as the rate for dollar deposits with a maturity comparable to such Interest Period, or
(ii) if the rate calculated pursuant to clause (i) above is not available, the average (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/16 of 1%) of the rates per annum at which deposits in dollars are offered for the relevant Interest Period by three banks of recognized standing selected by the Liquidity Provider in the London interbank market at approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) two LIBOR Business Days before the first day of such Interest Period in an amount approximately equal to the principal amount of the LIBOR Advance to which such Interest Period is to apply and for a period comparable to such Interest Period; or
(iii) if both the rate calculated pursuant to clause (i) is not available and the Liquidity Provider is unable, using customary reasonable means of determination, to determine a rate pursuant to clause (ii), or Benchmark Unavailability Period shall then be in effect, the Base Rate; provided that if a Benchmark Replacement Date has occurred
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resulting in a new Benchmark pursuant to Section 2.11, subject to the applicable Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes, the LIBOR Rate shall be deemed to be the lower of (A) the Base Rate and (B) the applicable Benchmark.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the LIBOR Rate determined as provided above with respect to any Interest Period would be less than 0% per annum, then the LIBOR Rate for such Interest Period shall be deemed to be 0%.
“Liquidity Event of Default” means the occurrence of either (a) the Acceleration of the Equipment Note or (b) a United Bankruptcy Event.
“Liquidity Indemnitee” means (i) the Liquidity Provider, (ii) the directors, officers, employees and agents of the Liquidity Provider, and (iii) the successors and permitted assigns of the persons described in clauses (i) and (ii) inclusive.
“Liquidity Provider” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recital of parties to this Agreement.
“Maximum Available Commitment” means, subject to the proviso contained in the third sentence of Section 2.02(a), at any time of determination, (a) the Maximum Commitment at such time less (b) the aggregate amount of each Interest Advance outstanding at such time; provided that following a Downgrade Advance (subject to any reinstatement of the obligations of the Liquidity Provider pursuant to Section 2.06(d)), a Non-Extension Advance, a Special Termination Advance or a Final Advance, the Maximum Available Commitment shall be zero.
“Maximum Commitment” means initially the amount specified in item 3 on Schedule A as the Initial Maximum Commitment, as such amount may be reduced from time to time in accordance with Section 2.04(a).
“Non-Excluded Tax” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.03(a).
“Non-Extension Advance” means an Advance made pursuant to Section 2.02(b).
“Notice Date” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.10.
“Notice of Borrowing” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.02(e).
“Notice of Replacement Subordination Agent” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.08.
“Performing Note Deficiency” means any time that one or more Equipment Notes (other than any Additional Equipment Notes issued under the Indenture) are not then Performing Equipment Notes.
“Prospectus Supplement” means the final Prospectus Supplement dated the date specified in item 4 on Schedule A relating to the Class A Certificates, as such Prospectus Supplement may be amended or supplemented.
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“Provider Advance” means a Downgrade Advance or a Non-Extension Advance.
“Rate Determination Notice” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.07(g).
“Reference Time” with respect to any setting of the then-current Benchmark means (1) if such Benchmark is the LIBOR Rate, 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the day that is two London banking days preceding the date of such setting, and (2) if such Benchmark is not the LIBOR Rate, the time determined by the Designated Party in its reasonable discretion.
“Relevant Governmental Body” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or any successor thereto.
“Regulatory Change” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.01.
“Replenishment Amount” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.06(b).
“Required Amount” means, for any day, the sum of the aggregate amount of interest, calculated at the rate per annum equal to the Stated Interest Rate for the Class A Certificates, that would be payable on the Class A Certificates on each of the six successive quarterly Regular Distribution Dates immediately following such day or, if such day is a Regular Distribution Date, on such day and the succeeding five quarterly Regular Distribution Dates, in each case calculated on the basis of the Pool Balance of the Class A Certificates on such day and without regard to expected future distributions of principal on the Class A Certificates and, where there is more than a single Liquidity Facility for the Class A Certificates, calculated with respect to the Liquidity Provider by reference to its Proportionate Share.
“Resolution Authority” means an EEA Resolution Authority or, with respect to any UK Financial Institution, a UK Resolution Authority.
“SOFR” means, with respect to any Business Day, a rate per annum equal to the secured overnight financing rate for such Business Day published by the SOFR Administrator on the SOFR Administrator’s Website on the immediately succeeding Business Day.
“SOFR Administrator” means the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or a successor administrator of the secured overnight financing rate).
“SOFR Administrator’s Website” means the website of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, currently at http://www.newyorkfed.org, or any successor source for the secured overnight financing rate identified as such by the SOFR Administrator from time to time.
“Special Termination Advance” means an Advance made pursuant to Section 2.02(g).
“Special Termination Notice” means the Notice of Special Termination substantially in the form of Annex VIII to this Agreement.
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“Term SOFR” means, for the applicable Corresponding Tenor as of the applicable Reference Time, the forward-looking term rate based on SOFR that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body.
“Termination Date” means the earliest to occur of the following: (i) the Expiry Date; (ii) the date on which the Borrower delivers to the Liquidity Provider a certificate, signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, certifying that all of the Class A Certificates have been paid in full (or provision has been made for such payment in accordance with the Intercreditor Agreement and the Class A Trust Agreement) or are otherwise no longer entitled to the benefits of this Agreement; (iii) the date on which the Borrower delivers to the Liquidity Provider a certificate, signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, certifying that a Replacement Liquidity Facility has been substituted for this Agreement in full pursuant to Section 3.5(e) of the Intercreditor Agreement; (iv) the fifth Business Day following the receipt by the Borrower of a Termination Notice or Special Termination Notice from the Liquidity Provider pursuant to Section 6.01 or 6.02 hereof, respectively; and (v) the date on which no Advance is or may (including by reason of reinstatement as herein provided) become available for a Borrowing hereunder.
“Termination Notice” means the Notice of Termination substantially in the form of Annex V to this Agreement.
“Transferee” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 7.08(b).
“UK Financial Institution” means any BRRD Undertaking (as such term is defined under the PRA Rulebook (as amended from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Prudential Regulation Authority) or any person falling within IFPRU 11.6 of the FCA Handbook (as amended from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority, which includes certain credit institutions and investment firms, and certain affiliates of such credit institutions or investment firms.
“UK Resolution Authority” means the Bank of England or any other public administrative authority having responsibility for the resolution of any UK Financial Institution.
“Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement” means the applicable Benchmark Replacement excluding the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment.
“Unapplied Downgrade Advance” means any Downgrade Advance other than an Applied Downgrade Advance.
“Unapplied Non-Extension Advance” means any Non-Extension Advance other than an Applied Non-Extension Advance.
“Unapplied Provider Advance” means any Provider Advance other than an Applied Provider Advance.
“Unapplied Special Termination Advance” means any Special Termination Advance other than an Applied Special Termination Advance.
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“Unpaid Advance” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.05.
“Write-Down and Conversion Powers” means, (i) with respect to any EEA Resolution Authority, the write-down and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority from time to time under the Bail-In Legislation for the applicable EEA Member Country, which write-down and conversion powers are described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule, and (ii) with respect to the United Kingdom, any powers of the applicable Resolution Authority under the Bail-In Legislation to cancel, reduce, modify or change the form of a liability of any UK Financial Institution or any contract or instrument under which that liability arises, to convert all or part of that liability into shares, securities or obligations of that person or any other person, to provide that any such contract or instrument is to have effect as if a right had been exercised under it or to suspend any obligation in respect of that liability or any of the powers under that Bail-In Legislation that are related to or ancillary to any of those powers.
(b) Terms Defined in the Intercreditor Agreement. For all purposes of this Agreement, the following terms shall have the respective meanings assigned to such terms in the Intercreditor Agreement:
“Acceleration”, “Additional Certificates”, “Additional Equipment Notes”, “Bankruptcy Code”, “Certificate”, “Class”, “Class A Certificates”, “Class A Cash Collateral Account”, “Class A Trust”, “Class A Trust Agreement”, “Class A Trustee”, “Closing Date”, “Controlling Party”, “Corporate Trust Office”, “Downgraded Facility”, “Downgrade Event”, “Equipment Notes”, “Fee Letter”, “Final Legal Distribution Date”, “Financing Agreement”, “Investment Earnings”, “Liquidity Facility”, “Liquidity Obligations”, “Loan Trustee”, “Non-Extended Facility”, “Note Purchase Agreement”, “Operative Agreements”, “Performing Equipment Note”, “Person”, “Pool Balance”, “Proportionate Share”, “Rating Agencies”, “Regular Distribution Date”, “Replacement Liquidity Facility”, “Replacement Liquidity Provider”, “Responsible Officer”, “Scheduled Payment”, “Series A Equipment Note”, “Special Payment”, “Stated Interest Rate”, “Subordination Agent”, “Taxes”, “Threshold Rating”, “Transfer”, “Trust Agreement”, “Trustee”, “Underwriters”, “Underwriting Agreement”, “United”, and “United Bankruptcy Event”.
article II
AMOUNT AND TERMS OF THE COMMITMENT
Section 2.01 The Advances. The Liquidity Provider hereby irrevocably agrees, on the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, to make Advances to the Borrower from time to time on any Business Day during the period from the Effective Date until 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the Expiry Date (unless the obligations of the Liquidity Provider shall be earlier terminated in accordance with the terms of Section 2.04(b)) in an aggregate amount at any time outstanding not to exceed the Maximum Commitment.
Section 2.02 Making the Advances. (a) Interest Advances shall be made in one or more Borrowings by delivery to the Liquidity Provider of one or more written and completed
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Notices of Borrowing in substantially the form of Annex I attached hereto, signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, in an amount not exceeding the Maximum Available Commitment at such time and shall be used solely for the payment when due of interest on the Class A Certificates at the Stated Interest Rate therefor in accordance with Section 3.5(a) of the Intercreditor Agreement. Each Interest Advance made hereunder shall automatically reduce the Maximum Available Commitment and the amount available to be borrowed hereunder by subsequent Advances by the amount of such Interest Advance (subject to reinstatement as provided in the next sentence). Upon repayment to the Liquidity Provider in full or in part of the amount of any Interest Advance made pursuant to this Section 2.02(a), together with accrued interest thereon (as provided herein), the Maximum Available Commitment shall be reinstated by the amount of such repaid Interest Advance but not to exceed the Maximum Commitment; provided, however, that, subject to Section 2.06(d), the Maximum Available Commitment shall not be so reinstated at any time if (x) (i) a Liquidity Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and (ii) there is a Performing Note Deficiency or (y) a Final Advance, a Special Termination Advance, a Downgrade Advance or a Non-Extension Advance shall have been made or an Interest Advance shall have been converted into a Final Advance.
(b) A Non-Extension Advance shall be made in a single Borrowing if this Agreement is not extended in accordance with Section 3.5(d) of the Intercreditor Agreement (unless a Replacement Liquidity Facility to replace this Agreement shall have been delivered to the Borrower as contemplated by said Section 3.5(d) within the time period specified in such Section) by delivery to the Liquidity Provider of a written and completed Notice of Borrowing in substantially the form of Annex II attached hereto, signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, in an amount equal to the Maximum Available Commitment at such time, and shall be used to fund the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility in accordance with said Section 3.5(d) and Section 3.5(f) of the Intercreditor Agreement.
(c) A Downgrade Advance shall be made in a single Borrowing upon the occurrence of a Downgrade Event (as provided for in Section 3.5(c) of the Intercreditor Agreement), unless (i) a Replacement Liquidity Facility to replace this Agreement shall have been previously delivered to the Borrower within thirty-five (35) days after the Downgrade Event or (ii) the relevant Rating Agency shall have provided confirmation within thirty (30) days after the Downgrade Event that such Downgrade Event will not result in a downgrading, withdrawal or suspension by such Rating Agency of the rating then in effect for the related Class of Certificates, in each case of clause (i) and (ii), in accordance with said Section 3.5(c), by delivery to the Liquidity Provider of a written and completed Notice of Borrowing in substantially the form of Annex III attached hereto, signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, in an amount equal to the Maximum Available Commitment at such time, and shall be used to fund the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility in accordance with said Section 3.5(c) and Section 3.5(f) of the Intercreditor Agreement. Upon the occurrence of a Downgrade Event, the Liquidity Provider shall promptly deliver notice thereof to the Borrower, the Class A Trustee and United.
(d) A Final Advance shall be made in a single Borrowing upon the receipt by the Borrower of a Termination Notice from the Liquidity Provider pursuant to Section 6.01 hereof by delivery to the Liquidity Provider of a written and completed Notice of Borrowing in substantially the form of Annex IV attached hereto, signed by a Responsible Officer of the
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Borrower, in an amount equal to the Maximum Available Commitment at such time, and shall be used to fund the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility (in accordance with Sections 3.5(f) and 3.5(i) of the Intercreditor Agreement).
(e) Each Borrowing shall be made on notice in writing (a “Notice of Borrowing”) in substantially the form required by Section 2.02(a), 2.02(b), 2.02(c), 2.02(d) or 2.02(g), as the case may be, given by the Borrower to the Liquidity Provider. If a Notice of Borrowing is delivered by the Borrower in respect of any Borrowing no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on a Business Day, upon satisfaction of the conditions precedent set forth in Section 4.02 with respect to a requested Borrowing, the Liquidity Provider shall make available to the Borrower, in accordance with its payment instructions, the amount of such Borrowing in U.S. dollars and immediately available funds, before 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on such Business Day. If a Notice of Borrowing is delivered by the Borrower in respect of any Borrowing on a day that is not a Business Day or after 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on a Business Day, upon satisfaction of the conditions precedent set forth in Section 4.02 with respect to a requested Borrowing, the Liquidity Provider shall make available to the Borrower, in accordance with its payment instructions, the amount of such Borrowing in U.S. dollars and in immediately available funds, before 12:00 Noon (New York City time) on the first Business Day next following the day of receipt of such Notice of Borrowing. Payments of proceeds of a Borrowing shall be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the Borrower in accordance with such wire transfer instructions as the Borrower shall furnish from time to time to the Liquidity Provider for such purpose. Each Notice of Borrowing shall be irrevocable and binding on the Borrower. Each Notice of Borrowing shall be effective upon receipt of a copy thereof by the Liquidity Provider at the address specified pursuant to Section 7.02.
(f) Upon the making of any Advance requested pursuant to a Notice of Borrowing, in accordance with the Borrower’s payment instructions, the Liquidity Provider shall be fully discharged of its obligation hereunder with respect to such Notice of Borrowing, and the Liquidity Provider shall not thereafter be obligated to make any further Advances hereunder in respect of such Notice of Borrowing to the Borrower or to any other Person. If the Liquidity Provider makes an Advance requested pursuant to a Notice of Borrowing before 12:00 Noon (New York City time) on the second Business Day after the date of payment specified in Section 2.02(e), the Liquidity Provider shall have fully discharged its obligations hereunder with respect to such Advance and an event of default shall not have occurred hereunder. Following the making of any Advance pursuant to Section 2.02(b), (c), (d) or (g) hereof to fund the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility, the Liquidity Provider shall have no interest in or rights to such Class A Cash Collateral Account, the funds constituting such Advance or any other amounts from time to time on deposit in such Class A Cash Collateral Account; provided that the foregoing shall not affect or impair the obligations of the Subordination Agent to make the distributions contemplated by Section 3.5(e) or (f) of the Intercreditor Agreement, and provided, further, that the foregoing shall not affect or impair the rights of the Liquidity Provider to provide written instructions with respect to the investment and reinvestment of amounts in such Class A Cash Collateral Account to the extent provided in Section 2.2(b) of the Intercreditor Agreement. By paying to the Borrower proceeds of Advances requested by the Borrower in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, the Liquidity Provider makes no representation as to, and assumes no responsibility for, the correctness or sufficiency for any purpose of the amount of the Advances so made and requested.
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(g) A Special Termination Advance shall be made in a single Borrowing upon the receipt by the Borrower of a Special Termination Notice from the Liquidity Provider pursuant to Section 6.02, by delivery to the Liquidity Provider of a written and completed Notice of Borrowing in substantially the form of Annex VII, signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, in an amount equal to the Maximum Available Commitment at such time, and shall be used to fund the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility (in accordance with Section 3.5(f) and Section 3.5(m) of the Intercreditor Agreement).
Section 2.03 Fees. The Borrower agrees to pay to the Liquidity Provider the fees set forth in the Fee Letter applicable to this Agreement, to the extent payable to the Liquidity Provider pursuant to such Fee Letter.
Section 2.04 Reductions or Termination of the Maximum Commitment.
(a) Automatic Reduction. Promptly following each date on which the Required Amount is reduced as a result of a reduction in the Pool Balance of the Class A Certificates or otherwise, the Maximum Commitment shall automatically be reduced to an amount equal to such reduced Required Amount (as calculated by the Borrower); provided that on (or, as applicable, immediately following) the first Regular Distribution Date, the Maximum Commitment shall automatically be reduced to the then Required Amount. The Borrower shall give notice of any such automatic reduction of the Maximum Commitment to the Liquidity Provider within two Business Days thereof. The failure by the Borrower to furnish any such notice shall not affect such automatic reduction of the Maximum Commitment.
(b) Termination. Upon the making of any Provider Advance or Special Termination Advance or the making of or conversion to a Final Advance hereunder or the occurrence of the Termination Date, the obligation of the Liquidity Provider to make further Advances hereunder shall automatically and irrevocably terminate, and the Borrower shall not be entitled to request any further Borrowing hereunder, except in the case of a Downgrade Advance, as provided in Section 2.06(d).
Section 2.05 Repayments of Interest Advances, the Special Termination Advance or the Final Advance. Subject to Sections 2.06, 2.07 and 2.09 hereof, the Borrower hereby agrees, without notice of an Advance or demand for repayment from the Liquidity Provider (which notice and demand are hereby waived by the Borrower), to pay, or to cause to be paid, to the Liquidity Provider on each date on which the Liquidity Provider shall make an Interest Advance, the Special Termination Advance or the Final Advance, an amount equal to (a) the amount of such Advance (any such Advance, until repaid, is referred to herein as an “Unpaid Advance”) (if multiple Interest Advances are outstanding any such repayment to be applied in the order in which such Interest Advances have been made, starting with the earliest), plus (b) interest on the amount of each such Unpaid Advance as provided in Section 3.07 hereof; provided that if (i) the Liquidity Provider shall make a Provider Advance at any time after making one or more Interest Advances which shall not have been repaid in accordance with this Section 2.05 or (ii) this Liquidity Facility shall become a Downgraded Facility or Non-Extended Facility at any time when unreimbursed Interest Advances have reduced the Maximum Available Commitment to zero, then such Interest Advances shall cease to constitute Unpaid Advances and shall be deemed to have been changed into an Applied Downgrade Advance or an Applied Non-Extension
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Advance, as the case may be, for all purposes of this Agreement (including, without limitation, for the purpose of determining when such Interest Advance is required to be repaid to the Liquidity Provider in accordance with Section 2.06 and for the purposes of Section 2.06(b)); provided, further, that amounts in respect of a Special Termination Advance withdrawn from the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility for the purpose of paying interest on the Class A Certificates in accordance with Section 3.5(f) of the Intercreditor Agreement (the amount of any such withdrawal being an “Applied Special Termination Advance”) shall thereafter (subject to Section 2.06(b)) be treated as an Interest Advance under this Agreement for purposes of determining the Applicable Liquidity Rate for interest payable thereon; provided, further, that if, following the making of a Special Termination Advance, the Liquidity Provider delivers a Termination Notice to the Borrower pursuant to Section 6.01, such Special Termination Advance shall thereafter be converted to and treated as a Final Advance under this Agreement for purposes of determining the Applicable Liquidity Rate for interest payable thereon and the obligation for repayment thereof and treated as an Applied Special Termination Advance for purposes of Section 2.6(c) of the Intercreditor Agreement, and, provided, further, that if, after making a Provider Advance, the Liquidity Provider delivers a Special Termination Notice to the Borrower pursuant to Section 6.02, any Unapplied Provider Advance shall be converted to and treated as a Special Termination Advance under this Agreement for purposes of determining the Applicable Liquidity Rate for interest payable thereon and the obligation for repayment thereof under the Intercreditor Agreement. The Borrower and the Liquidity Provider agree that the repayment in full of each Interest Advance, the Special Termination Advance and the Final Advance on the date such Advance is made is intended to be a contemporaneous exchange for new value given to the Borrower by the Liquidity Provider.
Section 2.06 Repayments of Provider Advances.
(a) Amounts advanced hereunder in respect of a Provider Advance shall be deposited in the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility, invested and withdrawn from such Class A Cash Collateral Account as set forth in Sections 3.5(c), (d), (e) and (f) of the Intercreditor Agreement. Subject to Sections 2.07 and 2.09, the Borrower agrees to pay to the Liquidity Provider, on each Regular Distribution Date, commencing on the first Regular Distribution Date after the making of a Provider Advance, interest on the principal amount of any such Provider Advance as provided in Section 3.07; provided, however, that amounts in respect of a Provider Advance withdrawn from the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility for the purpose of paying interest on the Class A Certificates in accordance with Section 3.5(f) of the Intercreditor Agreement (the amount of any such withdrawal being (y) in the case of a Downgrade Advance, an “Applied Downgrade Advance” and (z) in the case of a Non-Extension Advance, an “Applied Non-Extension Advance” and, together with an Applied Downgrade Advance, an “Applied Provider Advance”) shall thereafter (subject to Section 2.06(b)) be treated as an Interest Advance under this Agreement for purposes of determining the Applicable Liquidity Rate for interest payable thereon and the dates on which such interest is payable; provided, further, however, that if, following the making of a Provider Advance, the Liquidity Provider delivers a Termination Notice to the Borrower pursuant to Section 6.01 hereof, such Provider Advance shall thereafter be converted to and treated as a Final Advance under this Agreement for purposes of determining the Applicable Liquidity Rate for interest payable thereon and the obligation for repayment thereof and treated
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as an Applied Downgrade Advance or Applied Non-Extension Advance, as the case may be, for the purposes of Section 2.6(c) of the Intercreditor Agreement. Subject to Sections 2.07 and 2.09 hereof, immediately upon the withdrawal of any amounts from the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility on account of a reduction in the Required Amount, the Borrower shall repay to the Liquidity Provider a portion of the Provider Advances in a principal amount equal to the amount of such reduction, plus interest on the principal amount prepaid as provided in Section 3.07 hereof.
(b) At any time when an Applied Provider Advance or an Applied Special Termination Advance (or any portion thereof) is outstanding, upon the deposit in the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility of any amount pursuant to clause “fourth” of Section 3.2 of the Intercreditor Agreement (any such amount being a “Replenishment Amount”) for the purpose of replenishing or increasing the balance thereof up to the amount of the Required Amount at such time, (i) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all Applied Provider Advances or the Applied Special Termination Advance (and of Provider Advances treated as an Interest Advance for purposes of determining the Applicable Liquidity Rate for interest payable thereon) shall be automatically reduced by the amount of such Replenishment Amount (if multiple Applied Provider Advances are outstanding, such Replenishment Amount to be applied in the order in which such Applied Provider Advances have been made, starting with the earliest) and (ii) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all Unapplied Provider Advances or of the Unapplied Special Termination Advance shall be automatically increased by the amount of such Replenishment Amount.
(c) Upon the provision of a Replacement Liquidity Facility in replacement of this Agreement in accordance with Section 3.5(e) of the Intercreditor Agreement, amounts remaining on deposit in the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility after giving effect to any Applied Provider Advance or Applied Special Termination Advance on the date of such replacement shall be reimbursed to the replaced Liquidity Provider, but only to the extent such amounts are necessary to repay in full to the replaced Liquidity Provider all amounts owing to it hereunder.
(d) If, at any time after making a Downgrade Advance, the Liquidity Provider satisfies the Threshold Rating and delivers a written notice to that effect to the Borrower and United, as of the second Business Day following receipt of such notice, (i) the Unapplied Downgrade Advance shall be withdrawn from the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility and reimbursed to the Liquidity Provider, (ii) the Maximum Commitment shall be reinstated by an amount equal to the amount of such Unapplied Downgrade Advance so reimbursed, but not to exceed the Maximum Commitment and the obligation of the Liquidity Provider to make Advances shall be reinstated in an equal amount, and (iii) the proviso in the definition of Maximum Available Commitment shall no longer apply to such Downgrade Advance.
Section 2.07 Payments to the Liquidity Provider Under the Intercreditor Agreement. In order to provide for payment or repayment to the Liquidity Provider of any amounts hereunder, the Intercreditor Agreement provides that amounts available and referred to in Articles II and III of the Intercreditor Agreement, to the extent payable to the Liquidity Provider pursuant to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement (including, without limitation, Section 3.5(f) of the
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Intercreditor Agreement), shall be paid to the Liquidity Provider in accordance with the terms thereof. Amounts so paid to, and not required to be returned by, the Liquidity Provider shall be applied by the Liquidity Provider to Liquidity Obligations then due and payable to it in accordance with the Intercreditor Agreement and shall discharge in full the corresponding obligations of the Borrower hereunder (or, if not provided for in the Intercreditor Agreement, then in such manner as the Liquidity Provider shall deem appropriate).
Section 2.08 Book Entries. The Liquidity Provider shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice an account or accounts evidencing the indebtedness of the Borrower resulting from Advances made from time to time and the amounts of principal and interest payable hereunder and paid from time to time in respect thereof; provided, however, that the failure by the Liquidity Provider to maintain such account or accounts shall not affect the obligations of the Borrower in respect of Advances.
Section 2.09 Payments from Available Funds Only. All payments to be made by the Borrower under this Agreement, including, without limitation, Sections 7.05 and 7.07, shall be made only from the amounts that constitute Scheduled Payments, Special Payments or payments under Section 8.1 of the Note Purchase Agreement and payments under the Fee Letter applicable to this Agreement and Section 6 of the Note Purchase Agreement and only to the extent that the Borrower shall have sufficient income or proceeds therefrom to enable the Borrower to make payments in accordance with the terms hereof after giving effect to the priority of payments provisions set forth in the Intercreditor Agreement. The Liquidity Provider agrees that it will look solely to such amounts in respect of payments to be made by the Borrower hereunder to the extent available for distribution to it as provided in the Intercreditor Agreement and this Agreement and that the Borrower, in its individual capacity, is not personally liable to it for any amounts payable or liability under this Agreement except as expressly provided in this Agreement, the Intercreditor Agreement or the Note Purchase Agreement. Amounts on deposit in the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility shall be available to the Borrower to make payments under this Agreement only to the extent and for the purposes expressly contemplated in Section 3.5(f) of the Intercreditor Agreement.
Section 2.10 Non-Extension of the Expiry Date; Non-Extension Advance. If in any calendar year the Liquidity Provider advises the Borrower before the 25th day prior to the anniversary date of the Closing Date in such calendar year (such 25th day, the “Notice Date”) that the Expiry Date shall not be extended beyond such anniversary date (and if this Agreement shall not have been replaced in accordance with Section 3.5(e) of the Intercreditor Agreement), the Borrower shall be entitled on and after such Notice Date (but prior to the then effective Expiry Date) to request a Non-Extension Advance in accordance with Section 2.02(b) hereof and Section 3.5(d) of the Intercreditor Agreement; provided, however, that if in any calendar year the Liquidity Provider does not so advise the Borrower before the Notice Date in such calendar year, the Expiry Date shall be automatically extended to the anniversary date of the Closing Date in the next calendar year.
Section 2.11 LIBOR Replacement.
(a) Benchmark Replacement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, if a Benchmark Transition Event or an Early Opt-in Election, as applicable, and its related
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Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred prior to the Reference Time in respect of any setting of the then-current Benchmark, then (x) if a Benchmark Replacement is determined in accordance with clause (1) or (2) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement” for such Benchmark Replacement Date, such Benchmark Replacement will replace such Benchmark for all purposes hereunder in respect of such Benchmark setting and subsequent Benchmark settings without any amendment to, or further action or consent of any other party to, this Agreement and (y) if a Benchmark Replacement is determined in accordance with clause (3) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement” for such Benchmark Replacement Date, such Benchmark Replacement will replace such Benchmark for all purposes hereunder in respect of any Benchmark setting at or after 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the fifth (5th) Business Day after the date notice of such Benchmark Replacement is provided to each applicable party hereto (that is not then the Designated Party) without any amendment to, or further action or consent of any other party to, this Agreement.
(b) Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes. In connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement, the Designated Party will have the right to make Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, any amendments implementing such Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement.
(c) Notices; Standards for Decisions and Determinations. The Designated Party will promptly notify each other party hereto (and each other “Liquidity Provider” under each other Liquidity Facility) of (i) any occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event or an Early Opt-in Election, as applicable, and its related Benchmark Replacement Date, (ii) the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement, (iii) the effectiveness of any Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes, (iv) the removal or reinstatement of any tenor of a Benchmark pursuant to clause (d) below and (v) the commencement or conclusion of any Benchmark Unavailability Period. Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Designated Party pursuant to this 2.11, including any determination with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error and may be made in its or their sole discretion and without consent from any other party to this Agreement except, in each case, as expressly required pursuant to this Section 2.11 (and the definitions used herein).
(d) Unavailability of Tenor of Benchmark. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, at any time (including in connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement), (i) if the then-current Benchmark is a term rate (including Term SOFR or the LIBOR Rate) and either (A) any tenor for such Benchmark is not displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Designated Party in its reasonable discretion or (B) the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark has provided a public statement or publication of information announcing that any tenor for such Benchmark is or will be no longer representative, then the Designated Party may (and shall, at the request of the Liquidity Provider) modify (in a manner consistent for all Liquidity Facilities for which it is the “Designated Party”) the definition of “Interest Period” for any Benchmark settings at or after such time to remove such unavailable or non-representative
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tenor and (ii) if a tenor that was removed pursuant to clause (i) above either (A) is subsequently displayed on a screen or information service for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement) or (B) is not, or is no longer, subject to an announcement that it is or will no longer be representative for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement), then the Designated Party may (and shall at the request of the Liquidity Provider) modify (in a manner consistent for all Liquidity Facilities for which it is the “Designated Party”) the definition of “Interest Period” for all Benchmark settings at or after such time to reinstate such previously removed tenor.
(e) Benchmark Unavailability Period. Upon the Borrower’s receipt of notice of the commencement of (or any determination by the Designated Party as to the existence of) a Benchmark Unavailability Period, the Borrower may revoke any request for a conversion to or continuation of a LIBOR Advance to be converted or continued during any Benchmark Unavailability Period and, failing that, the Borrower will be deemed to have converted any such request into a request for a Borrowing of or conversion to a Base Rate Advance.
(f) Cap on Benchmark for any Interest Period. Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, in connection with any Benchmark Replacement and the resulting Benchmark and related Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes, if for any Interest Period (as such term may be modified) or Available Tenor, the applicable Benchmark Replacement (as the Benchmark then in effect) would exceed, as of the applicable date of determination thereof (including any applicable Reference Time) the Base Rate, then the Benchmark Replacement (and Benchmark) for such Interest Period or Available Tenor, as the case may be, shall be deemed to be the Base Rate.
(g) Consistent Implementation among Liquidity Facilities. In making determinations pursuant to this Section 2.11 (and implementing any Benchmark Replacement and Benchmark Conforming Changes in connection therewith), it is the intent of the parties that such determinations (and implementation) occur hereunder on or about the same time and in substantially the same manner as such determinations (and implementation) pursuant to Section 2.11 of each other Liquidity Facility for which the Designated Party hereunder is the “Designated Party”, and the parties will reasonably cooperate for achieving such result.
article III
OBLIGATIONS OF THE BORROWER
Section 3.01 Increased Costs. The Borrower shall pay to the Liquidity Provider from time to time such amounts as may be necessary to compensate the Liquidity Provider for any increased costs incurred by the Liquidity Provider which are attributable to its making or maintaining any Advances hereunder or its obligation to make any such Advances hereunder, or any reduction in any amount receivable by the Liquidity Provider under this Agreement or the Intercreditor Agreement in respect of any such Advances or such obligation (such increases in costs and reductions in amounts receivable being herein called “Additional Costs”), resulting from any change after the date of this Agreement in U.S. federal, state, municipal, or foreign laws or regulations (including Regulation D of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), or the adoption or making after the date of this Agreement of any interpretations,
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directives, or requirements applying to a class of banks including the Liquidity Provider under any U.S. federal, state, municipal, or any foreign laws or regulations (whether or not having the force of law) by any court, central bank or monetary authority charged with the interpretation or administration thereof (a “Regulatory Change”), which: (1) changes the basis of taxation of any amounts payable to the Liquidity Provider under this Agreement in respect of any such Advances or such obligation (other than Excluded Taxes); or (2) imposes or modifies any reserve, special deposit, compulsory loan or similar requirements relating to any extensions of credit or other assets of, or any deposits with other liabilities of, the Liquidity Provider (including any such Advances or such obligation or any deposits referred to in the definition of LIBOR Rate or related definitions). For the avoidance of doubt, any Regulatory Changes based on the consultative papers of The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision of December 2009 entitled “Strengthening the resilience of the banking sector” and “International framework for liquidity risk measurement, standards and monitoring”, in each case together with any amendments thereto (collectively, “Basel III”), will not be treated, for purposes of determining whether the Liquidity Provider is entitled to compensation under this Section 3.01, as having been adopted or having come into effect before the date hereof, and any such Regulatory Changes based on Basel III shall be determined to be adopted only when the national banking supervisory authorities, or other relevant administrative or legislative bodies having primary jurisdiction or regulatory authority over the Liquidity Provider, adopt any such Regulatory Changes based on Basel III in the primary jurisdiction of the Liquidity Provider. The Liquidity Provider agrees to use reasonable efforts (consistent with applicable legal and regulatory restrictions) to change the jurisdiction of its Facility Office if making such change would avoid the need for, or reduce the amount of, any amount payable under this Section that may thereafter accrue and would not, in the reasonable judgment of the Liquidity Provider, be otherwise disadvantageous to the Liquidity Provider.
The Liquidity Provider will notify the Borrower of any event occurring after the date of this Agreement that will entitle the Liquidity Provider to compensation pursuant to this Section 3.01 as promptly as practicable after it obtains knowledge thereof and determines to request such compensation, which notice shall describe in reasonable detail the calculation of the amounts owed under this Section. Determinations by the Liquidity Provider for purposes of this Section 3.01 of the effect of any Regulatory Change on its costs of making or maintaining Advances or on amounts receivable by it in respect of Advances, and of the additional amounts required to compensate the Liquidity Provider in respect of any Additional Costs, shall be prima facie evidence of the amount owed under this Section.
Notwithstanding the preceding two paragraphs, the Liquidity Provider and the Subordination Agent agree that any Liquidity Provider, or permitted assignee or participant thereof, which is not a bank shall not be entitled to the benefits of the preceding two paragraphs (but without limiting the provisions of Section 7.08 hereof).
Section 3.02 Capital Adequacy and Liquidity Coverage. If (1) the adoption, after the date hereof, of any applicable governmental law, rule or regulation regarding capital adequacy or liquidity coverage, (2) any change, after the date hereof, in the interpretation or administration of any such law, rule or regulation by any central bank or other governmental authority charged with the interpretation or administration thereof or (3) compliance by the Liquidity Provider or any corporation or bank controlling the Liquidity Provider with any applicable guideline or
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request of general applicability, issued after the date hereof, by any central bank or other governmental authority (whether or not having the force of law) that constitutes a change of the nature described in clause (2), has the effect of (x) requiring an increase in the amount of capital or liquid assets required to be maintained by the Liquidity Provider or any corporation or bank controlling the Liquidity Provider, or (y) reducing the rate of return on assets or capital of the Liquidity Provider (or such corporation or bank) and such adoption, change or compliance, as the case may be, relates to a category of claims or assets that includes the Liquidity Provider’s obligations hereunder (including funded obligations) and other similar obligations, the Borrower shall, subject to the provisions of the next paragraph, pay to the Liquidity Provider from time to time such additional amount or amounts as are necessary to compensate the Liquidity Provider for such portion of such increase or reduction as shall be reasonably allocable to the Liquidity Provider’s obligations to the Borrower hereunder. For the avoidance of doubt, the adoption of any law, rule or regulation described in clause (1) of the first sentence of this Section 3.02, and the taking of any action described in clauses (2) and (3) of such sentence, that in each case is based on Basel III, will not be treated, for purposes of determining whether the Liquidity Provider (or any corporation or bank controlling the Liquidity Provider) is entitled to compensation under this Section 3.02, as having been adopted, come into effect, been issued or been taken before the date hereof, and any such law, rule or regulation and any of the actions described in clauses (2) and (3) of such sentence that is based on Basel III shall be determined to have been adopted, come into effect, been issued or been taken only when the central bank or other legislative or administrative governmental authorities in the primary jurisdiction of the Liquidity Provider (or any corporation or bank controlling the Liquidity Provider) adopt any such law, rule or regulation or take any such actions. The Liquidity Provider agrees to use reasonable efforts (consistent with applicable legal and regulatory restrictions) to change the jurisdiction of its Facility Office if making such change would avoid the need for, or reduce the amount of, any amount payable under this Section that may thereafter accrue and would not, in the reasonable judgment of the Liquidity Provider, be otherwise materially disadvantageous to the Liquidity Provider.
The Liquidity Provider will notify the Borrower of any event occurring after the date of this Agreement that will entitle the Liquidity Provider to compensation pursuant to this Section 3.02 as promptly as practicable after it obtains knowledge thereof and determines to request such compensation, which notice shall describe in reasonable detail the calculation of the amounts owed under this Section. Determinations by the Liquidity Provider for purposes of this Section 3.02 of the effect of any increase in the amount of capital or liquid assets required to be maintained by the Liquidity Provider and of the amount allocable to the Liquidity Provider’s obligations to the Borrower hereunder shall be conclusive evidence of the amounts owed under this Section, absent manifest error.
Notwithstanding the preceding two paragraphs, the Liquidity Provider and the Subordination Agent agree that any Liquidity Provider, or permitted assignee or participant thereof, which is not a bank shall not be entitled to the benefits of the preceding two paragraphs (but without limiting the provisions of Section 7.08 hereof).
Section 3.03 Payments Free of Deductions.
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(a) Unless required by applicable law, all payments made by the Borrower under this Agreement shall be made free and clear of, and without reduction for or on account of, any present or future stamp or other taxes, levies, imposts, duties, charges, fees, deductions, withholdings, restrictions or conditions of any nature whatsoever now or hereafter imposed on, levied, collected, withheld or assessed, excluding Excluded Taxes (such non-excluded taxes being referred to herein, collectively, as “Non-Excluded Taxes” and each, individually, as a “Non-Excluded Tax”). If any Non-Excluded Taxes are required to be withheld from any amounts payable to the Liquidity Provider under this Agreement, (i) the Borrower shall within the time prescribed therefor by applicable law pay to the appropriate governmental or taxing authority the full amount of any such Non-Excluded Taxes (and any additional Non-Excluded Taxes in respect of the additional amounts payable under clause (ii) hereof) and make such reports or returns in connection therewith at the time or times and in the manner prescribed by applicable law, and (ii) the amounts so payable to the Liquidity Provider shall be increased to the extent necessary to yield to the Liquidity Provider (after payment of all Non-Excluded Taxes) interest or any other such amounts payable under this Agreement at the rates or in the amounts specified in this Agreement. The Liquidity Provider agrees to use reasonable efforts (consistent with its internal policy and legal and regulatory restrictions) to change the jurisdiction of its Facility Office if making such change would avoid the need for, or reduce the amount of, any such additional amounts that may thereafter accrue and would not, in the reasonable judgment of the Liquidity Provider, be otherwise disadvantageous to the Liquidity Provider. From time to time upon the reasonable request of the Borrower, the Liquidity Provider agrees to provide to the Borrower two original Internal Revenue Service Forms W-8BEN-E, W-8ECI or W-9, as appropriate, or any successor or other form prescribed by the Internal Revenue Service, certifying that the Liquidity Provider is exempt from or entitled to a reduced rate of United States withholding tax on payments pursuant to this Agreement. Within 30 days after the date of each payment hereunder, the Borrower shall furnish to the Liquidity Provider the original or a certified copy of (or other documentary evidence of) the payment of the Non-Excluded Taxes applicable to such payment.
(b) Unless required by applicable law, all payments (including, without limitation, Advances) made by the Liquidity Provider under this Agreement shall be made free and clear of, and without reduction for or on account of, any Taxes. If any Taxes are required to be withheld or deducted from any amounts payable to the Borrower under this Agreement, the Liquidity Provider shall (i) within the time prescribed therefor by applicable law pay to the appropriate governmental or taxing authority the full amount of any such Taxes (and any additional Taxes in respect of the additional amounts payable under clause (ii) hereof) and make such reports or returns in connection therewith at the time or times and in the manner prescribed by applicable law, and (ii) pay to the Borrower an additional amount which (after deduction of all such Taxes) will be sufficient to yield to the Borrower the full amount which would have been received by it had no such withholding or deduction been made. Within 30 days after the date of each payment hereunder, the Liquidity Provider shall furnish to the Borrower the original or a certified copy of (or other documentary evidence of) the payment of the Taxes applicable to such payment.
(c) On or before the Closing Date, the Borrower shall provide the Liquidity Provider with a fully executed Internal Revenue Service Form W-9, showing a complete exemption from U.S federal backup withholding tax. If any other exemption from, or reduction in the rate of, any Taxes required to be borne by the Liquidity Provider under Section 3.03(b) is reasonably
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available to the Borrower without providing any information regarding the holders or beneficial owners of the Certificates, the Borrower shall deliver to the Liquidity Provider such form or forms and such other evidence of the eligibility of the Borrower for such exemption or reductions (but without any requirement to provide any information regarding the holders or beneficial owners of the Certificates) as the Liquidity Provider may reasonably identify to the Borrower as being required as a condition to exemption from, or reduction in the rate of, such Taxes.
(d) If a payment made to the Liquidity Provider or Borrower hereunder would be subject to U.S. federal withholding Tax imposed by FATCA if the Borrower or Liquidity Provider, as applicable, were to fail to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471 (b) or 1472 (b) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code, as applicable), it shall deliver to the Borrower or the Liquidity Provider, as applicable, at the time or times prescribed by law and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or Liquidity Provider, as applicable, such documentation prescribed by applicable law (including as prescribed by Section 1471 (b)(3)(C)(i) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or Liquidity Provider, as applicable, as may be necessary for the Borrower or Liquidity Provider, as applicable, to comply with its obligations under FATCA and to determine that the Liquidity Provider or Borrower has complied with the Liquidity Provider’s or Borrower’s obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment. Solely for purposes of this paragraph, “FATCA” shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the date of this Agreement.
Section 3.04 Payments. The Borrower shall make or cause to be made each payment to the Liquidity Provider under this Agreement so as to cause the same to be received by the Liquidity Provider not later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the day when due. The Borrower shall make all such payments in lawful money of the United States of America, to the Liquidity Provider in immediately available funds, by wire transfer to the account specified for the Liquidity Provider in Schedule B or to such other U.S. bank account as the Liquidity Provider may from time to time direct the Borrower in writing.
Section 3.05 Computations. All computations of interest based on the Base Rate shall be made on the basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may be, and all computations of interest based on the LIBOR Rate (other than where the LIBOR Rate is determined based on the Base Rate or any Benchmark Replacement with determinations based on a year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may be) shall be made on the basis of a year of 360 days, in each case for the actual number of days (including the first day but excluding the last day) occurring in the period for which such interest is payable.
Section 3.06 Payment on Non-Business Days. Whenever any payment to be made hereunder to the Liquidity Provider shall be stated to be due on a day other than a Business Day, such payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day and no additional interest shall be due as a result. If any payment in respect of interest on an Advance is so deferred to the next succeeding Business Day, such deferral shall not delay the commencement of the next Interest Period for such Advance (if such Advance is a LIBOR Advance) or reduce the number of days for which interest will be payable on such Advance on the next interest payment date for such Advance.
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Section 3.07 Interest.
(a) Subject to Section 2.09, the Borrower shall pay, or shall cause to be paid, without duplication, interest on (i) the unpaid principal amount of each Advance from and including the date of such Advance (or, in the case of an Applied Provider Advance or Applied Special Termination Advance, from and including the date on which the amount thereof was withdrawn from the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility to pay interest on the Class A Certificates) to but excluding the date such principal amount shall be paid in full (or, in the case of an Applied Provider Advance or Applied Special Termination Advance, the date on which the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility is fully replenished in respect of such Advance) and (ii) any other amount due hereunder (whether fees, commissions, expenses or other amounts or, to the extent permitted by law, installments of interest on Advances or any such other amount) which is not paid when due (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) from and including the due date thereof to but excluding the date such amount is paid in full, in each such case, at a fluctuating interest rate per annum for each day equal to the Applicable Liquidity Rate (as defined below) for such Advance or such other amount, as the case may be, as in effect for such day, but in no event at a rate per annum greater than the maximum rate permitted by applicable law; provided, however, that, if at any time the otherwise applicable interest rate as set forth in this Section 3.07 shall exceed the maximum rate permitted by applicable law, then any subsequent reduction in such interest rate will not reduce the rate of interest payable pursuant to this Section 3.07 below the maximum rate permitted by applicable law until the total amount of interest accrued equals the amount of interest that would have accrued if such otherwise applicable interest rate as set forth in this Section 3.07 had at all times been in effect.
(b) Except as provided in clause (e) below, each Advance will be either a Base Rate Advance or a LIBOR Advance as provided in this Section. Each such Advance will be a Base Rate Advance for the period from the date of its Borrowing to (but excluding) the third LIBOR Business Day following the Liquidity Provider’s receipt of the Notice of Borrowing for such Advance. Thereafter, such Advance shall be a LIBOR Advance.
(c) Each LIBOR Advance shall bear interest during each Interest Period at a rate per annum equal to the LIBOR Rate for such Interest Period plus the Applicable Margin for such LIBOR Advance, payable in arrears on the last day of such Interest Period and, in the event of the payment of principal of such LIBOR Advance on a day other than such last day, on the date of such payment (to the extent of interest accrued on the amount of principal repaid).
(d) Each Base Rate Advance shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the Base Rate plus the Applicable Margin for such Base Rate Advance, payable in arrears on each Regular Distribution Date and, in the event of the payment of principal of such Base Rate Advance on a day other than a Regular Distribution Date, on the date of such payment (to the extent of interest accrued on the amount of principal repaid).
(e) Each outstanding Unapplied Non-Extension Advance, Unapplied Downgrade Advance and Unapplied Special Termination Advance shall bear interest in an amount equal to the Investment Earnings on amounts on deposit in the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility plus the Applicable Margin for such Unapplied Non-Extension
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Advance, Unapplied Downgrade Advance or Unapplied Special Termination Advance, as applicable, on the amount of such Unapplied Non-Extension Advance, Unapplied Downgrade Advance or Unapplied Special Termination Advance, as applicable, from time to time, payable in arrears on each Regular Distribution Date.
(f) Each amount not paid when due hereunder (whether fees, commissions, expenses or other amounts or, to the extent permitted by applicable law, installments of interest on Advances but excluding Advances) shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the Base Rate plus 2.00% per annum until paid.
(g) If at any time, the Liquidity Provider shall have determined (which determination shall be conclusive and binding upon the Borrower, absent manifest error) that, by reason of circumstances affecting the relevant interbank lending market generally (other than a Benchmark Transition Event), the LIBOR Rate determined or to be determined for the current or the immediately succeeding Interest Period will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to the Liquidity Provider (as conclusively certified by the Liquidity Provider, absent manifest error) of making or maintaining LIBOR Advances, the Liquidity Provider shall give facsimile or telephonic notice thereof (a “Rate Determination Notice”) to the Borrower (any such telephonic notice to be promptly confirmed in writing and transmitted by telecopier to the Borrower in accordance with Section 7.02). If such notice is given, then the outstanding principal amount of the LIBOR Advances shall be converted to Base Rate Advances effective from the date of the Rate Determination Notice; provided that the Applicable Liquidity Rate in respect of such Base Rate Advances shall be increased by one percent (1.00%). The Liquidity Provider shall withdraw a Rate Determination Notice given hereunder when the Liquidity Provider determines that the circumstances giving rise to such Rate Determination Notice no longer apply to the Liquidity Provider, and the Base Rate Advances shall be converted to LIBOR Advances effective as of the first day of the next succeeding Interest Period after the date of such withdrawal.
(h) Each change in the Base Rate shall become effective immediately. The rates of interest specified in this Section 3.07 with respect to any Advance or other amount shall be referred to as the “Applicable Liquidity Rate”.
Section 3.08 Replacement of Borrower. From time to time and subject to the successor Borrower’s meeting the eligibility requirements set forth in Section 6.9 of the Intercreditor Agreement applicable to the Subordination Agent, upon the effective date and time specified in a written and completed Notice of Replacement Subordination Agent in substantially the form of Annex VI attached hereto (a “Notice of Replacement Subordination Agent”) delivered to the Liquidity Provider by the then Borrower, the successor Borrower designated therein shall be substituted for the Borrower for all purposes hereunder.
Section 3.09 Funding Loss Indemnification. The Borrower shall pay to the Liquidity Provider, upon the request of the Liquidity Provider, such amount or amounts as shall be sufficient (in the reasonable opinion of the Liquidity Provider) to compensate it for any loss, cost, or expense incurred by reason of the liquidation or redeployment of deposits or other funds acquired by the Liquidity Provider to fund or maintain any LIBOR Advance (but excluding loss of anticipated profits) incurred as a result of:
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(1) Any repayment of a LIBOR Advance on a date other than the last day of the Interest Period for such Advance; or
(2) Any failure by the Borrower to borrow a LIBOR Advance on the date for borrowing specified in the relevant notice under Section 2.02.
Calculation of all amounts payable to the Liquidity Provider under this Section 3.09 shall be made as though the Liquidity Provider had actually funded the related LIBOR Advance through the purchase of a LIBOR deposit bearing interest at the LIBOR Rate in an amount equal to its LIBOR Advance and having a maturity comparable to the relevant Interest Period; provided, however, that the Liquidity Provider may fund any LIBOR Advance in any manner it sees fit and the foregoing assumptions shall be utilized only for the purposes of calculating amounts payable under this Section 3.09.
Section 3.10 Illegality. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Agreement, if any change in any applicable law, rule or regulation, or any change in the interpretation or administration thereof by any governmental authority, central bank or comparable agency charged with the interpretation or administration thereof, or compliance by the Liquidity Provider (or its Facility Office) with any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) of any such authority, central bank or comparable agency shall make it unlawful or impossible for the Liquidity Provider (or its Facility Office) to maintain or fund its LIBOR Advances, then upon notice to the Borrower by the Liquidity Provider, the outstanding principal amount of the LIBOR Advances shall be converted to Base Rate Advances (a) immediately upon demand of the Liquidity Provider, if such change or compliance with such request, in the judgment of the Liquidity Provider, requires immediate repayment; or (b) at the expiration of the last Interest Period to expire before the effective date of any such change or request. The Liquidity Provider agrees to use reasonable efforts (consistent with applicable legal and regulatory restrictions) to change the jurisdiction of its Facility Office if making such change would avoid or cure the aforesaid illegality and would not, in the reasonable judgment of the Liquidity Provider, be otherwise disadvantageous to the Liquidity Provider.
article IV
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
Section 4.01 Conditions Precedent to Effectiveness of Section 2.01. Section 2.01 of this Agreement shall become effective on and as of the first date (the “Effective Date”) on which the following conditions precedent have been satisfied or waived:
(a) The Liquidity Provider shall have received each of the following, and in the case of each document delivered pursuant to paragraphs (i), (ii) and (iii), each in form and substance satisfactory to the Liquidity Provider:
(i) This Agreement duly executed on behalf of the Borrower and the Fee Letter applicable to this Agreement duly executed on behalf of the Borrower and United;
(ii) The Intercreditor Agreement duly executed on behalf of each of the parties thereto (other than the Liquidity Provider);
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(iii) Fully executed copies of each of the Operative Agreements executed and delivered on or before the Closing Date (other than this Agreement, the Fee Letter applicable to this Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement);
(iv) A copy of the Prospectus Supplement and specimen copies of the Class A Certificates;
(v) An executed copy of each document, instrument, certificate and opinion delivered on or before the Closing Date pursuant to the Class A Trust Agreement, the Note Purchase Agreement, the Intercreditor Agreement and the other Operative Agreements (in the case of each such opinion delivered in connection with the issuance and sale of the Class A Certificates, other than the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters, either addressed to the Liquidity Provider or accompanied by a letter from the counsel rendering such opinion to the effect that the Liquidity Provider is entitled to rely on such opinion as of its date as if it were addressed to the Liquidity Provider);
(vi) Evidence that there shall have been made and shall be in full force and effect, all filings, recordings and/or registrations, and there shall have been given or taken any notice or other similar action as may be reasonably necessary or, to the extent reasonably requested by the Liquidity Provider, reasonably advisable, in order to establish, perfect, protect and preserve the right, title and interest, remedies, powers, privileges, liens and security interests of, or for the benefit of, the Trustees, the Borrower and the Liquidity Provider created by the Operative Agreements executed and delivered on or before the Closing Date;
(vii) An agreement from United, pursuant to which (i) United agrees to provide to the Liquidity Provider (A) within 90 days after the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters in each fiscal year of United, a consolidated balance sheet of United as of the end of such quarter and related statements of income and cash flows for the period commencing at the end of the previous fiscal year and ending with the end of such quarter, setting forth in each case in comparative form the corresponding figures for the corresponding period in the preceding fiscal year, prepared in accordance with GAAP; provided, that so long as United is subject to the reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, a copy of United’s report on Form 10-Q for such fiscal quarter (excluding exhibits) or a written notice of United that such report has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, providing a website address at which such report may be accessed and confirming that the report accessible at such website address conforms to the original report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission will satisfy this subclause (A), and (B) within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of United, a consolidated balance sheet of United as of the end of such fiscal year and related statements of income and cash flows of United for such fiscal year, in comparative form with the preceding fiscal year, prepared in accordance with GAAP, together with a report of United’s independent certified public accountants with respect to their audit of such financial statements; provided, that so long as United is subject to the reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, a copy of United’s report on Form 10-K for such fiscal year (excluding exhibits) or a written notice of United that such report has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, providing a website address at which such report may be accessed and confirming that the report accessible at such website address conforms to the original report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission will satisfy this
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subclause (B), and (ii) United agrees to allow the Liquidity Provider to inspect United’s books and records regarding such transactions, and to discuss such transactions with officers and employees of United;
(viii) Legal opinions from (a) Morris James LLP, special counsel to the Borrower, and (b) Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, special counsel to United, each in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Liquidity Provider; and
(ix) Such other documents, instruments, opinions and approvals pertaining to the transactions contemplated hereby or by the other Operative Agreements as the Liquidity Provider shall have reasonably requested, including, without limitation, such documentation as the Liquidity Provider may require to satisfy its “know your customer” policies.
(b) The following statement shall be true on and as of the Effective Date: no event has occurred and is continuing, or would result from the entering into of this Agreement or the making of any Advance, which constitutes a Liquidity Event of Default.
(c) The Liquidity Provider shall have received payment in full of all fees and other sums required to be paid to or for the account of the Liquidity Provider on or prior to the Effective Date.
(d) All conditions precedent to the issuance of the Class A Certificates under the Class A Trust Agreement shall have been satisfied or waived, all conditions precedent to the effectiveness of each other Liquidity Facility in respect of the Class A Certificates shall have been concurrently satisfied or waived and all conditions precedent to the purchase of the Class A Certificates by the Underwriters under Underwriting Agreement shall have been satisfied or waived.
(e) The Borrower shall have received a certificate, dated the date hereof, signed by a duly authorized representative of the Liquidity Provider, certifying that all conditions precedent to the effectiveness of Section 2.01 have been satisfied or waived.
Section 4.02 Conditions Precedent to Borrowing. The obligation of the Liquidity Provider to make an Advance on the occasion of each Borrowing shall be subject to the conditions precedent that the Effective Date shall have occurred and, on or prior to the date of such Borrowing, the Borrower shall have delivered a Notice of Borrowing which conforms to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and has been completed as may be required by the relevant form of the Notice of Borrowing for the type of Advance requested.
Section 4.03 Representations and Warranties. The representations and warranties of the Borrower as Subordination Agent in Section 5.2 of the Note Purchase Agreement shall be deemed to be incorporated into this Agreement as if set out in full herein and as if such representations and warranties were made by the Borrower to the Liquidity Provider.
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article V
COVENANTS
Section 5.01 Affirmative Covenants of the Borrower. So long as any Advance shall remain unpaid or the Liquidity Provider shall have any Maximum Commitment hereunder or the Borrower shall have any obligation to pay any amount to the Liquidity Provider hereunder, the Borrower will, unless the Liquidity Provider shall otherwise consent in writing:
(a) Performance of this and Other Agreements. Punctually pay or cause to be paid all amounts payable by it under this Agreement and the other Operative Agreements and observe and perform in all material respects the conditions, covenants and requirements applicable to it contained in this Agreement and the other Operative Agreements.
(b) Reporting Requirements. Furnish to the Liquidity Provider with reasonable promptness, such information and data with respect to the transactions contemplated by the Operative Agreements as from time to time may be reasonably requested by the Liquidity Provider; and permit the Liquidity Provider, upon reasonable notice, to inspect the Borrower’s books and records with respect to such transactions and to meet with officers and employees of the Borrower to discuss such transactions.
(c) Certain Operative Agreements. Furnish to the Liquidity Provider with reasonable promptness, such Operative Agreements entered into after the date hereof as from time to time may be reasonably requested by the Liquidity Provider.
Section 5.02 Negative Covenants of the Borrower. So long as any Advance shall remain unpaid or the Liquidity Provider shall have any Maximum Commitment hereunder or the Borrower shall have any obligation to pay any amount to the Liquidity Provider hereunder, the Borrower will not appoint or permit or suffer to be appointed any successor Borrower without the prior written consent of the Liquidity Provider, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
article VI
LIQUIDITY EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND SPECIAL TERMINATION
Section 6.01 Liquidity Events of Default. If (a) any Liquidity Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and (b) there is a Performing Note Deficiency, the Liquidity Provider may, in its discretion, deliver to the Borrower a Termination Notice, the effect of which shall be to cause (i) the obligation of the Liquidity Provider to make Advances hereunder to expire on the fifth Business Day after the date on which such Termination Notice is received by the Borrower, (ii) the Borrower to promptly request, and the Liquidity Provider to promptly make, a Final Advance in accordance with Section 2.02(d) hereof and Section 3.5(i) of the Intercreditor Agreement, (iii) all other outstanding Advances to be automatically converted into Final Advances for purposes of determining the Applicable Liquidity Rate for interest payable thereon, and (iv) subject to Sections 2.07 and 2.09 hereof, all Advances (including, without limitation, any Provider Advance and Applied Provider Advance), any accrued interest thereon and any
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other amounts outstanding hereunder to become immediately due and payable to the Liquidity Provider.
Section 6.02 Special Termination. If the aggregate Pool Balance of the Class A Certificates is greater than the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Series A Equipment Note (other than any portion of the Series A Equipment Note previously sold or with respect to which the collateral securing the Series A Equipment Note has been disposed of) at any time during the 18 month period prior to October 15, 2027, the Liquidity Provider may, in its discretion, deliver to the Borrower a Special Termination Notice, the effect of which shall be to cause (i) the obligation of the Liquidity Provider to make Advances hereunder to expire on the fifth Business Day after the date on which such Special Termination Notice is received by the Borrower, (ii) the Borrower to promptly request, and the Liquidity Provider to promptly make, a Special Termination Advance in accordance with Section 2.02(g) and Section 3.5(m) of the Intercreditor Agreement, and (iii) subject to Sections 2.07 and 2.09, all Advances (including, without limitation, any Provider Advance and Applied Provider Advance), any accrued interest thereon and any other amounts outstanding hereunder to become immediately due and payable to the Liquidity Provider.
article VII
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 7.01 Amendments, Etc. No amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement, nor consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by the Liquidity Provider, and, in the case of an amendment or of a waiver by the Borrower, the Borrower, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given.
Section 7.02 Notices, Etc. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all notices and other communications provided for hereunder shall be in writing (including telecopier and mailed or delivered or sent by telecopier) addressed to the applicable party at its address specified on Schedule B or to such other address as shall be designated by such Person in a written notice to the others. The Borrower shall give all Notices of Borrowing via telecopier; provided, that, in the event of a transmission failure, the Borrower shall use reasonable efforts to deliver the applicable Notice of Borrowing to the Liquidity Provider on the same Business Day using such other means as may be reasonably deemed necessary by the Borrower. All such notices and communications shall be effective (i) if given by telecopier, when transmitted to the telecopier number specified above, (ii) if given by mail, five Business Days after being deposited in the mails addressed as specified above, and (iii) if given by other means, when delivered at the address specified above, except that written notices to the Liquidity Provider pursuant to the provisions of Article II and Article III hereof shall not be effective until received by the Liquidity Provider. A copy of all notices delivered hereunder to either party shall in addition be delivered to each of the parties to the Note Purchase Agreement at their respective addresses set forth therein.
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Section 7.03 No Waiver; Remedies. No failure on the part of the Liquidity Provider to exercise, and no delay in exercising, any right under this Agreement shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right under this Agreement preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right. The remedies herein provided are cumulative and not exclusive of any remedies provided by law.
Section 7.04 Further Assurances. The Borrower agrees to do such further acts and things and to execute and deliver to the Liquidity Provider such additional assignments, agreements, powers and instruments as the Liquidity Provider may reasonably require or deem advisable to carry into effect the purposes of this Agreement and the other Operative Agreements or to better assure and confirm unto the Liquidity Provider its rights, powers and remedies hereunder and under the other Operative Agreements.
Section 7.05 Indemnification; Survival of Certain Provisions. The Liquidity Provider shall be indemnified hereunder to the extent and in the manner described in Section 8.1 of the Note Purchase Agreement. In addition, the Borrower agrees to indemnify, protect, defend and hold harmless the Liquidity Provider from, against and in respect of, and shall pay on demand, all Expenses of any kind or nature whatsoever (other than any Expenses of the nature described in Section 3.01, 3.02 or 7.07 hereof or in the Fee Letter applicable to this Agreement (regardless of whether indemnified against pursuant to said Sections or in such Fee Letter)), that may be imposed, incurred by or asserted against any Liquidity Indemnitee, in any way relating to, resulting from, or arising out of or in connection with any action, suit or proceeding by any third party against such Liquidity Indemnitee and relating to this Agreement, the Fee Letter applicable to this Agreement, the Intercreditor Agreement or any Financing Agreement; provided, however, that the Borrower shall not be required to indemnify, protect, defend and hold harmless any Liquidity Indemnitee in respect of any Expense of such Liquidity Indemnitee to the extent such Expense is (i) attributable to the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Liquidity Indemnitee or any other Liquidity Indemnitee, (ii) ordinary and usual operating overhead expense, or (iii) attributable to the failure by such Liquidity Indemnitee or any other Liquidity Indemnitee to perform or observe any agreement, covenant or condition on its part to be performed or observed in this Agreement, the Intercreditor Agreement, the Fee Letter applicable to this Agreement or any other Operative Agreement to which it is a party. The indemnities contained in Section 8.1 of the Note Purchase Agreement, and the provisions of Sections 3.01, 3.02, 3.03, 3.09, 7.05 and 7.07 hereof, shall survive the termination of this Agreement.
Section 7.06 Liability of the Liquidity Provider.
(a) Neither the Liquidity Provider nor any of its officers, employees, directors or Affiliates shall be liable or responsible for: (i) the use which may be made of the Advances or any acts or omissions of the Borrower or any beneficiary or transferee in connection therewith; (ii) the validity, sufficiency or genuineness of documents, or of any endorsement thereon, even if such documents should prove to be in any or all respects invalid, insufficient, fraudulent or forged; or (iii) the making of Advances by the Liquidity Provider against delivery of a Notice of Borrowing and other documents which do not comply with the terms hereof; provided, however, that the Borrower shall have a claim against the Liquidity Provider, and the Liquidity Provider shall be liable to the Borrower, to the extent of any damages suffered by the Borrower which were the result of (A) the Liquidity Provider’s willful misconduct or negligence in determining
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whether documents presented hereunder comply with the terms hereof, or (B) any breach by the Liquidity Provider of any of the terms of this Agreement, including, but not limited to, the Liquidity Provider’s failure to make lawful payment hereunder after the delivery to it by the Borrower of a Notice of Borrowing strictly complying with the terms and conditions hereof. In no event, however, shall the Liquidity Provider be liable on any theory of liability for any special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (including, without limitation, any loss of profits, business or anticipated savings).
(b) Neither the Liquidity Provider nor any of its officers, employees, directors or Affiliates shall be liable or responsible in any respect for (i) any error, omission, interruption or delay in transmission, dispatch or delivery of any message or advice, however transmitted, in connection with this Agreement or any Notice of Borrowing delivered hereunder, or (ii) any action, inaction or omission which may be taken by it in good faith, absent willful misconduct or gross negligence (in which event the extent of the Liquidity Provider’s potential liability to the Borrower shall be limited as set forth in the immediately preceding paragraph), in connection with this Agreement or any Notice of Borrowing.
Section 7.07 Costs, Expenses and Taxes. The Borrower agrees, subject to the Fee Letter to the extent applicable, to pay, or cause to be paid (A) on the Effective Date and on such later date or dates on which the Liquidity Provider shall make demand, all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses (including, without limitation, the reasonable fees and expenses of outside counsel for the Liquidity Provider) of the Liquidity Provider in connection with the preparation, negotiation, execution, delivery, filing and recording of this Agreement, any other Operative Agreement and any other documents which may be delivered in connection with this Agreement and (B) on demand, all reasonable costs and expenses (including reasonable counsel fees and expenses) of the Liquidity Provider in connection with (i) the enforcement of this Agreement or any other Operative Agreement, (ii) the modification or amendment of, or supplement to, this Agreement or any other Operative Agreement or such other documents which may be delivered in connection herewith or therewith (whether or not the same shall become effective) or any waiver or consent thereunder (whether or not the same shall be effective), (iii) the replacement of this Agreement by a Replacement Liquidity Facility pursuant to Section 3.5(e)(i) of the Intercreditor Agreement or (iv) any action or proceeding relating to any order, injunction, or other process or decree restraining or seeking to restrain the Liquidity Provider from paying any amount under this Agreement, the Intercreditor Agreement or any other Operative Agreement or otherwise affecting the application of funds in the Class A Cash Collateral Account relating to this Liquidity Facility. In addition, the Borrower shall pay any and all recording, stamp and other similar taxes and fees payable or determined to be payable in connection with the execution, delivery, filing and recording of this Agreement, any other Operative Agreement and such other documents, and agrees to hold the Liquidity Provider harmless from and against any and all liabilities with respect to or resulting from any delay in paying or omission to pay such taxes or fees. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any obligation of the Borrower (or United) to reimburse or pay fees of counsel for the Liquidity Provider (pursuant to this Section 7.07 or any other applicable provision of the Operative Agreements) shall be based on (and limited to) one counsel for all “Liquidity Providers” for the Class A Certificates (and, (i) in the case of any conflict of interest (excluding for avoidance of doubt any conflicts, and any reimbursement for legal fees, attributable to transfers between, or separate agreements or claims between or among, any such “Liquidity Providers”), up to one additional counsel for all
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affected “Liquidity Providers”, and (ii) one Federal Aviation Administration counsel and/or local counsel in any relevant jurisdiction), as selected by the applicable such “Liquidity Provider” (as among the relevant such “Liquidity Providers” so having the right to select such counsel) having the highest outstanding aggregate amount of Liquidity Obligations (taking into account all Liquidity Facilities for Class A Certificates) or as may otherwise be agreed as among such “Liquidity Providers” in respect of such selection.
Section 7.08 Binding Effect; Participations; Assignments.
(a) This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Borrower and the Liquidity Provider and their respective successors and assigns, except that neither the Liquidity Provider (except as otherwise provided in this Section 7.08 and in Section 3.5(l) of the Intercreditor Agreement) nor (except as contemplated by Section 3.08) the Borrower shall have the right to assign its rights or obligations hereunder or any interest herein without the prior written consent of the other party, subject to the requirements of Section 7.08(b). The Liquidity Provider may grant participations herein or in any of its rights hereunder (including, without limitation, funded participations and participations in rights to receive interest payments hereunder) and under the other Operative Agreements to such Persons (other than United and its Affiliates) as the Liquidity Provider may in its sole discretion select, subject to the requirements of Section 7.08(b). No such granting of participations by the Liquidity Provider, however, will relieve the Liquidity Provider of its obligations hereunder. In connection with any participation or any proposed participation, the Liquidity Provider may disclose to the participant or the proposed participant any information that the Borrower is required to deliver or to disclose to the Liquidity Provider pursuant to this Agreement. The Borrower acknowledges and agrees that the Liquidity Provider’s source of funds may derive in part from its participants. Accordingly, references in this Agreement and the other Operative Agreements to determinations, reserve, capital adequacy and liquidity coverage requirements, increased costs, reduced receipts, additional amounts due pursuant to Section 3.03 and the like as they pertain to the Liquidity Provider shall be deemed also to include those of each of its participants that are banks (subject, in each case, to the maximum amount that would have been incurred by or attributable to the Liquidity Provider directly if the Liquidity Provider, rather than the participant, had held the interest participated).
(b) If, pursuant to subsection (a) above, the Liquidity Provider sells any participation in this Agreement to any bank or other entity (each, a “Transferee”), then, concurrently with the effectiveness of such participation, the Transferee shall (i) represent to the Liquidity Provider (for the benefit of the Liquidity Provider and the Borrower) either (A) that it is incorporated under the laws of the United States or a state thereof or (B) that under applicable law and treaties, no taxes will be required to be withheld with respect to any payments to be made to such Transferee in respect of this Agreement, (ii) furnish to the Liquidity Provider and the Borrower either (x) if it is incorporated under the laws of the United States or a state thereof, a Form W-9 or (y) if it is not so incorporated, two copies of a properly completed United States Internal Revenue Service Form W-8ECI, or Form W-8BEN-E, as appropriate, or other applicable form, certificate or document prescribed by the Internal Revenue Service certifying, in each case, such Transferee’s entitlement to a complete exemption from United States federal withholding tax in respect to any and all payments to be made hereunder, and (iii) agree (for the benefit of the Liquidity Provider and the Borrower) to provide the Liquidity Provider and the Borrower a new
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Form W-8ECI, Form W-8BEN-E or Form W-9, as appropriate, (A) on or before the date that any such form expires or becomes obsolete or (B) after the occurrence of any event requiring a change in the most recent form previously delivered by it and prior to the immediately following due date of any payment by the Borrower hereunder, certifying in the case of a Form W-8ECI, Form W-8BEN-E or Form W-9 that such Transferee is entitled to a complete exemption from United States federal withholding tax on payments under this Agreement. Unless the Borrower has received forms or other documents reasonably satisfactory to it (and required by applicable law) indicating that payments hereunder are not subject to United States federal withholding tax, the Borrower will withhold taxes as required by law from such payments at the applicable statutory rate.
(c) Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 7.08, the Liquidity Provider may assign and pledge all or any portion of the Advances owing to it to any Federal Reserve Bank or the United States Treasury as collateral security pursuant to Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and any Operating Circular issued by such Federal Reserve Bank, provided that any payment in respect of such assigned Advances made by the Borrower to the Liquidity Provider in accordance with the terms of this Agreement shall satisfy the Borrower’s obligations hereunder in respect of such assigned Advance to the extent of such payment. No such assignment shall release the Liquidity Provider from its obligations hereunder.
Section 7.09 Severability. Any provision of this Agreement which is prohibited, unenforceable or not authorized in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition, unenforceability or non-authorization without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof or affecting the validity, enforceability or legality of such provision in any other jurisdiction.
Section 7.10 GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
Section 7.11 Submission to Jurisdiction; Waiver of Jury Trial; Waiver of Immunity.
(a) Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally:
(i) submits for itself and its property in any legal action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any other Operative Agreement, or for recognition and enforcement of any judgment in respect hereof or thereof, to the nonexclusive general jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New York, the courts of the United States of America for the Southern District of New York, and the appellate courts from any thereof;
(ii) consents that any such action or proceeding may be brought in such courts, and waives any objection that it may now or hereafter have to the venue of any such action or proceeding in any such court or that such action or proceeding was brought in an inconvenient court and agrees not to plead or claim the same;
(iii) agrees that service of process in any such action or proceeding may be effected by mailing a copy thereof by registered or certified mail (or any substantially similar
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form of mail), postage prepaid, to each party hereto at its address set forth in Section 7.02 hereof, or at such other address of which the Liquidity Provider shall have been notified pursuant thereto; and
(iv) agrees that nothing herein shall affect the right to effect service of process in any other manner permitted by law or shall limit the right to sue in any other jurisdiction.
(b) THE BORROWER AND THE LIQUIDITY PROVIDER EACH HEREBY AGREE TO WAIVE THEIR RESPECTIVE RIGHTS TO A JURY TRIAL OF ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION BASED UPON OR ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY DEALINGS BETWEEN THEM RELATING TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS AGREEMENT AND THE RELATIONSHIP THAT IS BEING ESTABLISHED, including, without limitation, contract claims, tort claims, breach of duty claims and all other common law and statutory claims. The Borrower and the Liquidity Provider each warrant and represent that it has reviewed this waiver with its legal counsel, and that it knowingly and voluntarily waives its jury trial rights following consultation with such legal counsel. THIS WAIVER IS IRREVOCABLE, AND CANNOT BE MODIFIED EITHER ORALLY OR IN WRITING, AND THIS WAIVER SHALL APPLY TO ANY SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTS, RENEWALS, SUPPLEMENTS OR MODIFICATIONS TO THIS AGREEMENT.
(c) To the extent that the Liquidity Provider or any of its properties has or may hereafter acquire any right of immunity, whether characterized as sovereign immunity or otherwise, and whether under the United States Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 (or any successor legislation) or otherwise, from any legal proceedings, whether in the United States or elsewhere, to enforce or collect upon this Agreement, including, without limitation, immunity from suit or service of process, immunity from jurisdiction or judgment of any court or tribunal or execution of a judgment, or immunity of any of its property from attachment prior to any entry of judgment, or from attachment in aid of execution upon a judgment, the Liquidity Provider hereby irrevocably and expressly waives any such immunity, and agrees not to assert any such right or claim in any such proceeding, whether in the United States or elsewhere.