Exhibit 2.16
Dated 12th October 2006
As amended and restated and acceded to on 20th December 2007
AERCAP DUTCH AIRCRAFT LEASING I B.V.
as Borrower
AZZURRO AIRCRAFT LEASING LIMITED
as Additional Borrower
CALYON
as Senior Arranger and Senior Agent
CALYON
as Collateral Trustee
CERTAIN FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
as Senior Lenders
CERTAIN FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
as Additional Senior Lenders
AMENDED AND RESTATED SENIOR LOAN
FACILITY AGREEMENT
with respect to a US$245,845,676.60 senior secured
loan facility as increased by an additional amount of
US$150,000,000
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Definitions and Interpretation; Additional Borrower |
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The Senior Facility |
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Purpose |
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Conditions of Utilisation |
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Utilisation |
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Repayment |
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Prepayment and Cancellation |
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Interest |
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Interest Periods |
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Fees |
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Determination of LIBOR, Changes to the Calculation of Interest, Break Costs and Break Gains |
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Tax Gross Up and Indemnities |
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Increased Costs |
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Other Indemnities |
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Mitigation By The Relevant Senior Lenders |
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Costs and Expenses |
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Representations and Warranties |
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Borrower Undertakings |
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Senior Events of Default |
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Changes to the Relevant Senior Lenders |
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Role of the Senior Arranger and the Senior Agent |
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Conduct of Business by the Senior Finance Parties |
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Sharing Among the Senior Finance Parties |
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Payment Mechanics |
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Set-off |
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Partial Invalidity |
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Remedies and Waivers |
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Counterparts |
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Third Party Rights |
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Governing Law |
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Enforcement |
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Limited Recourse |
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THIS AGREEMENT is dated 12 October 2006 (as amended and restated and acceded to on 20th December 2007) and made between:
(1) AERCAP DUTCH AIRCRAFT LEASING I B.V. a company incorporated under the laws of The Netherlands and having its registered office at Evert van de Beekstraat 312, 1118 CX Schiphol, The Netherlands (Borrower);
(2) AZZURRO AIRCRAFT LEASING LIMITED a private limited company incorporated and existing under the laws of Ireland and having its registered office at Aercap House, Shannon, County Clare, Ireland (Additional Borrower);
(3) CALYON, a societe anonyme organised under the laws of France through its offices at 9, quai de Président Paul Doumer 92920 Paris La Défense, France (Senior Arranger) and in its capacity as senior agent (Senior Agent);
(4) CALYON, in its capacity as collateral trustee 9, quai de Président Paul Doumer 92920 Paris La Défense, France (Collateral Trustee);
(5) THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS listed in Schedule 1 as lenders (Senior Lenders); and
(6) THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS listed in Schedule 1A as lenders (Original Additional Senior Lenders).
IT IS AGREED as follows:
Definitions and Interpretation
1.1 Unless otherwise defined in this Agreement or the context otherwise requires, words and expressions used in this Agreement have the meanings and constructions ascribed to them in the Master Definitions Schedule set out in Appendix A of the deed of proceeds and priorities which is dated the Signing Date and made between, inter alios, the parties hereto (as amended, varied and supplemented from time to time in accordance with its terms, the DPP).
Additional Borrower
1.2 The Additional Borrower hereby accedes to this Agreement and undertakes to the Borrower, the Senior Agent, the Collateral Trustee and the Relevant Senior Lenders to be bound by, and perform, all the rights and obligations which have been assumed by it on the Amendment and Restatement Effective Date, pursuant to this Agreement, the GARA and the other Operative Documents.
1.3 Each of the Borrower and the Additional Borrower agrees that any and all of their respective obligations and liabilities under this Agreement and the other Operative Documents, whether arising on or before the Amendment and Restatement Effective Date or arising at any time thereafter shall be joint and several obligations and liabilities of each and both of them, it being acknowledged by the parties hereto that satisfaction of any such obligations or liabilities by one Relevant Borrower shall pro tanto and to the
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same extent constitute satisfaction by the other Relevant Borrower of those same obligations or liabilities.
The Senior Facility
2.1 (a) Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Senior Lenders make available to the Borrower a Dollar loan facility in an aggregate amount equal to the Total Commitments during the Availability Period.
(b) The Senior Facility shall be utilised by way of up to 25 Senior Allocated Loans, one in respect of each Eligible Aircraft, as set out in Schedule 8;
The Availability Period
2.2 If, on 30 December 2006, one or more Eligible Aircraft remain to be financed hereunder, the Availability Period shall be extended to 31 March 2007 (the Extension) provided that the Extension shall apply to a maximum of seven Eligible Aircraft only.
The Additional Senior Facility
2.3 (a) Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Additional Senior Lenders make available to the Relevant Borrowers an additional Dollar loan facility in an aggregate amount equal to the Additional Total Commitments during the Additional Availability Period.
(b) The Additional Senior Facility shall be utilised by way of separate Additional Senior Allocated Loans, one in respect of each Additional Eligible Aircraft.
(c) The Additional Senior Facility may only be used by the Relevant Borrower for the financing or re-financing of the acquisition of aircraft which satisfy the requirements set out in Schedule 7A for Additional Eligible Aircraft.
3.1 (a) The Borrower shall apply the full amount of each Senior Allocated Loan solely towards the financing of the Purchase Price or the refinancing of the Purchase Price in respect of the Eligible Aircraft to which the Senior Allocated Loan relates.
(b) The Borrower shall not apply any amount borrowed of any Senior Allocated Loan towards the financing or re-financing of the Purchase Price in respect of any Eligible Aircraft other than the Eligible Aircraft to which that Senior Allocated Loan relates or for any other purpose except the purpose referred to in clause 3.1(a).
Monitoring
3.2 No Senior Finance Party is bound to monitor or verify the application of any amount borrowed pursuant to this Agreement.
Purpose of Additional Senior Facility
3.3 (a) The Relevant Borrower shall apply the full amount of each Additional Senior Allocated Loan solely towards the financing of the Purchase Price or the refinancing of the
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Purchase Price in respect of the Additional Eligible Aircraft to which the Additional Senior Allocated Loan relates.
(b) The Relevant Borrower shall not apply any amount borrowed of any Additional Senior Allocated Loan towards the financing or re-financing of the Purchase Price in respect of any Additional Eligible Aircraft other than the Additional Eligible Aircraft to which the Additional Senior Allocated Loan relates or for any other purpose except the purpose referred to in clause 3.3(a).
Conditions Precedent to Signing
4.1 The obligations of the Senior Lenders under the Operative Documents are subject to the Senior Agent having received all of the documents and other evidence listed in Part A of Schedule 2 in form and substance satisfactory to the Senior Agent (or to the extent not satisfied, waived in writing by the Senior Agent) on or prior to the Signing Date. The Senior Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Senior Lenders promptly on being so satisfied or if any such Conditions Precedent to Signing are waived by the Senior Agent.
Conditions Precedent to Utilisation
4.2 (a) Further to the satisfaction of the Conditions Precedent to Signing on the terms and subject to the conditions set out in Clause 4.1, the Senior Lenders will only be obliged to comply with Clause 5.6 if on the relevant Utilisation Date the Senior Agent has received all of the Conditions Precedent to Utilisation listed in Part B of Schedule 2 in respect of each Eligible Aircraft which is the subject of the relevant Utilisation Request (or to the extent not so satisfied, waived in writing by the Senior Agent). The Senior Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Senior Lenders promptly upon such conditions precedent being satisfied or if any such Conditions Precedent to Utilisation are waived by the Senior Agent.
(b) Further to the satisfaction of the Conditions Precedent to Amendment and Restatement on the terms and subject to the conditions set out in clause 5 of the GARA, the Additional Senior Lenders will only be obliged to comply with Clause 5.6 if on the relevant Utilisation Date the Senior Agent has received all of the Conditions Precedent to Utilisation referred to in Part C of Schedule 2 in respect of each Additional Eligible Aircraft which is the subject of the relevant Utilisation Request (or to the extent not so satisfied, waived in writing by the Senior Agent). The Senior Agent shall notify the Relevant Borrower and the Additional Senior Lenders promptly upon such conditions precedent being satisfied or if any such Conditions Precedent to Utilisation are waived by the Senior Agent.
Further Conditions Precedent
4.3 Subject to clauses 4.1 and 4.2, the Relevant Senior Lenders will only be obliged to comply with clause 5.6 if:
(a) on the date of the relevant Utilisation Request and on the proposed Utilisation Date:
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no Relevant Event or Termination Event has occurred or is continuing or would result from the proposed Senior Allocated Loan or, as the case maybe, the proposed Additional Senior Allocated Loan; and |
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all representations made by each Relevant Borrower pursuant to the terms of this Agreement are true in all material respects on the date (or dates, where such representations are required to be repeated) such representations are given; and |
(b) on the proposed Utilisation Date, in relation to any Utilisation under the Additional Senior Facility:
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there is no more than one (1) Off-Lease Aircraft at such time and, immediately following the disbursement of the Utilisation, there would be no more than one (1) Off-Lease Aircraft; and |
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each element of the Concentration Criteria is satisfied and the disbursement of the Utilisation would not result in any element of the Concentration Criteria being breached. |
Delivery of a Utilisation Request
5.1 A Relevant Borrower may utilise a Senior Allocated Loan or an Additional Senior Allocated Loan by delivering to the Senior Agent a duly completed Utilisation Request for such Senior Allocated Loan or, as the case may be, Additional Senior Allocated Loan not later than three (3) Business Days prior to the proposed Utilisation Date.
Completion of a Utilisation Request
5.2 (a) Subject to clauses 5.9 and 5.10, each Utilisation Request is irrevocable and will not be regarded as having been duly completed unless:
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it identifies the Eligible Aircraft or, as the case maybe, Additional Eligible Aircraft to which that Senior Allocated Loan or, as the case may be, Additional Senior Allocated Loan relates; |
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the proposed Utilisation Date is a Business Day within the Availability Period or, as the case may be, Additional Availability Period that is no earlier than the Delivery Date of the Relevant Eligible Aircraft; and |
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the currency and amount of the Relevant Senior Allocated Loan shall comply with clauses 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5. |
(b) Only one Senior Allocated Loan or, as the case maybe, one Additional Senior Allocated Loan may be requested in each Utilisation Request.
Currency and amount
5.3 The currency of each Relevant Senior Allocated Loan is Dollars.
5.4 (a) The amount of any proposed Senior Allocated Loan must not be more than the lesser of:
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the Available Senior Facility Commitment; and |
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the Notional Senior Allocated Loan Amount for the related Eligible Aircraft, as adjusted pursuant to the provisions of clause 5.5.. |
(b) The amount of any proposed Additional Senior Allocated Loan must not be more than the lesser of:
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the Available Additional Senior Facility Commitment; |
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eighty-five per cent. (85%) of the Purchase Price of such Additional Eligible Aircraft; and |
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the Initial Appraised Value of such Additional Eligible Aircraft multiplied by the percentage appearing in: |
(A) column 2 of the table set out in Schedule 9A, opposite the Aircraft Type which corresponds to such Additional Eligible Aircraft; or
(B) if such Additional Eligible Aircraft is an Off-lease Aircraft, column 3 of such table, opposite the Aircraft Type which corresponds to such Additional Eligible Aircraft.
5.5 (a) Upon receipt of a Utilisation Request, the Senior Agent shall adjust the Notional Senior Allocated Loan Amount for the related Eligible Aircraft so as to ensure that such Notional Senior Allocated Loan Amount is equal to the Notional Senior Allocated Loan Amount for such Eligible Aircraft multiplied by the percentage appearing in the column in the table set out in Schedule 9 for the month during which the Utilisation Date is to occur and which is opposite the Repayment Date in column 1 of such table upon which the Utilisation Date is to occur, provided that if such Utilisation Date is not a Repayment Date, reference shall be made to the next immediately following Repayment Date.
(b) If the ratio (the Applicable Ratio) between:
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the aggregate of: (i) the Notional Senior Allocated Loan Amount as adjusted pursuant to paragraph (a) above; and (ii) the Notional Junior Allocated Loan Amount as adjusted pursuant to clause 5.5(a) of the Junior Loan Agreement; and |
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the Purchase Price of such Eligible Aircraft; |
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is greater than ninety percent (90%), then the Senior Agent shall further adjust the Notional Senior Allocated Loan Amount for such Eligible Aircraft so as to ensure that such Notional Senior Allocated Loan Amount is equal to the product of: |
(A) the Notional Senior Allocated Loan Amount as calculated pursuant to paragraph (a) above; and
(B) the ratio between 90% and the Applicable Ratio related to such Eligible Aircraft.
(c) For the avoidance of doubt, this Clause 5.5 shall not apply to Utilisations under the Additional Senior Facility.
The Additional Senior Lenders participation
5.6 If the conditions set out in this Agreement have been met, each Relevant Senior Lender shall make its participation in each Senior Allocated Loan or, as the case may be, each
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Additional Senior Allocated Loan available by the Utilisation Date through its Facility Office.
5.7 (a) The amount of each Senior Lenders participation in each Senior Allocated Loan will be equal to the proportion borne by its Available Senior Commitment to the Available Senior Facility Commitment immediately prior to making that Senior Allocated Loan.
(b) The amount of each Additional Senior Lenders participation in each Additional Senior Allocated Loan will be equal to the proportion borne by its Available Additional Senior Commitment to the Available Additional Senior Facility Commitment immediately prior to making that Additional Senior Allocated Loan.
5.8 The Senior Agent shall notify each Relevant Senior Lender of the amount of each Senior Allocated Loan or, as the case may be, each Additional Senior Allocated Loan and the amount of its participation in that Senior Allocated Loan or, as the case may be, that Additional Senior Allocated Loan, in each case by the Specified Time.
Delay in drawdown
5.9 (a) If, after delivery to the Senior Agent of a duly completed Utilisation Request in respect of a Senior Allocated Loan or, as the case may be, an Additional Senior Allocated Loan, the Relevant Borrower notifies the Senior Agent in writing that such Senior Allocated Loan or, as the case may be, such Additional Senior Allocated Loan will not be drawndown on the proposed Utilisation Date (a Delay in Drawdown) then the Relevant Borrower shall as soon as reasonably practicable, but in any event no later than the originally proposed Utilisation Date, notify the Senior Agent of the date when the Senior Allocated Loan or, as the case may be, the Additional Senior Allocated Loan is intended to be drawndown.
(b) The Senior Agent shall, subject to receiving the notice of Delay in Drawdown as provided in paragraph (a) above, maintain the funding as drawn and invest the amount of such Senior Allocated Loan or, as the case may be, such Additional Senior Allocated Loan in an interest bearing account for the period of the Delay in Drawdown and any interest on such funds received shall be paid (less any Break Costs and other expenses payable pursuant to paragraph (e) below) by the Senior Agent to the Collections Account.
(c) The Senior Agent shall maintain the funding as drawn during the period of the Delay in Drawdown until the earlier of:
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the day which immediately succeeds the day which falls fifteen (15) Business Days after the originally proposed Utilisation Date, provided that the Senior Agent agrees to consult with the Relevant Borrower regarding the Delay in Drawdown prior to breaking the funding pursuant to this paragraph (c)(ii). |
(d) The Senior Agent shall by written notice as soon as reasonably practicable after the breaking of funding pursuant to this clause 5.9, advise the Relevant Borrower it has broken the funding and notify the Relevant Borrower whether a further Utilisation Request will be required in relation to the subsequent drawdown of the relevant Senior Allocated Loan or, as the case may be, the relevant Additional Senior Allocated Loan.
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Utilisation requests if Delay in Drawdown
5.10 (a) If a Delay in Drawdown exists for a period which is no longer than fifteen (15) Business Days, then no further Utilisation Request shall be required in respect of the drawing down of the relevant Senior Allocated Loan or, as the case may be, the relevant Additional Senior Allocated Loan.
Funding Indemnity
Bridging Finance
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Bridging Finance for Additional Eligible Aircraft
Minimum Senior Principal Amount
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Minimum Senior Principal Amount for the relevant Repayment Date; |
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prior to the payment to be made on the relevant Repayment Date; |
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The aggregate of the Final Minimum Senior Principal Targets for all Financed Aircraft for the relevant Repayment Date. |
Balloon Repayment
Calculation of Final Minimum Senior Principal Amounts
6.4 (a) On each Utilisation Date the Senior Agent shall prepare a schedule comprising the Repayment Dates and the Final Minimum Senior Principal Targets for each Financed Aircraft and for each Repayment Date. Such schedule (a Final Minimum Senior Principal Schedule) shall be prepared by calculating the product, as of each Repayment Date, of:
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the amount related to such Repayment Date appearing in the column relating to such Financed Aircraft to be financed on such Utilisation Date in the table set out in Schedule 8; |
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the percentages related to such Repayment Date appearing in the column corresponding to the month during which such Utilisation Date occurs in the table set out in Schedule 9; and |
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in the case of a Financed Aircraft funded by Senior Allocated Loan, one hundred per cent (100%), or if the Applicable Ratio related to such Financed Aircraft is greater than ninety percent (90%), the ratio between ninety per cent (90%) and the Applicable Ratio related to such Financed Aircraft. |
The parties hereby agree that this clause 6.4(a) shall cease to apply from and after the Amendment and Restatement Effective Date.
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the percentage applicable to each Repayment Date falling after the Utilisation Date, as set out in the table in Schedule 8A; and |
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the Future Market Value for such Additional Eligible Aircraft on each Repayment Date falling after such Utilisation Date as at such related Utilisation Date (which value may be obtained by the Senior Agent by interpolation, if required). |
(e) The Senior Allocated Loans Table, as at the Amendment and Restatement Effective Date is attached hereto at Schedule 8. On each Utilisation Date under the Additional Senior Facility, the Senior Agent shall prepare and issue to the Relevant Borrower and the Relevant Senior Lenders a revised Senior Allocated Loans Table to take account of: (i) principal repayments made up to and including such Utilisation Date and (ii) the Additional Senior Allocated Loan drawn on such Utilisation Date. Upon issue of such revised Senior Allocated Loans Table, any previous Senior Allocated Loans Table shall be superseded by the revised Senior Allocated Loans Table.
(f) On each of (i) the date which falls one (1) year after the Amendment and Restatement Effective Date and (ii) the date which falls on the last day of the Additional Availability Period, the Senior Agent shall prepare and issue to the Relevant Borrower and Relevant Senior Lenders a new Senior Allocated Loans Table, so as to harmonise the exposure of the Relevant Senior Lenders to each Financed Aircraft and to take account of those Additional Eligible Aircraft that have become Financed Aircraft during the Additional Availability Period.
(g) Each Senior Allocated Loan Table prepared pursuant to sub-clauses 6.4(e) and 6.4(f) shall be prepared to provide that, for each Senior Allocated Loan in respect of a Financed Aircraft, the ratio of A:B is equivalent to the ratio of C:D where at any date:
A is the principal amount then outstanding under such Senior Allocated Loan in respect of such Financed Aircraft;
B is the aggregate principal amount then outstanding under the Senior Loan;
C is the most recent Subsequent Half-Life Appraised Value of such Financed Aircraft; and
D is the aggregate of the most recent Subsequent Half-Life Appraised Values for all Financed Aircraft.
Upon issue of such new Senior Allocated Loans Table, any previous Senior Allocated Loans Table shall be superseded by the new Senior Allocated Loans Table. For the avoidance of doubt, the aggregate amount of all Relevant Senior Allocated Loans after any adjustment shall remain identical to the aggregate amount of all Relevant Senior Allocated Loans prior to such adjustment.
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No Re-borrowing
Allocation of payments
Illegality affecting Senior Lender
Illegality affecting Relevant Borrower
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the date on which it becomes unlawful or contrary to applicable law in any jurisdiction for the Relevant Borrower to perform its obligations under this Agreement or any of the Operative Documents, or this Agreement or any Operative Document becomes wholly or partially invalid or unenforceable; and |
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the date falling five (5) Business Days after the expiry of any mitigation period entered into pursuant to clause 15.1. |
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Mandatory Prepayment
Sale of Aircraft Pursuant to a Put Agreement
Voluntary prepayment of Senior Loan
7.5 (a) Subject to Clause 7.5(b), the Relevant Borrower may, if it gives the Senior Agent not less than five (5) Business Days prior notice (or such shorter period as the Senior Agent acting reasonably may agree), prepay on any Repayment Date the whole or any part of the Senior Loan (but, if in part, being an amount that reduces the Senior Loan by an integral multiple of United States Dollars two million (US$2,000,000) without penalty, fee or premium save as stated in clauses 10.2 and 7.5(d).
Right of repayment and cancellation in relation to a single Senior Lender
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any sum payable to a Relevant Senior Lender by the Relevant Borrower is required to be increased under paragraph (c) of clause 12.1 (Tax gross-up); or |
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Restrictions
7.7 (a) Any notice of cancellation or prepayment given by the Relevant Borrower under this clause 7 shall be irrevocable and, unless a contrary indication appears in this Agreement, shall specify the date or dates upon which the relevant cancellation or prepayment is to be made and the amount of that cancellation or prepayment.
Special Repayments and Prepayments
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ten percent (10%), plus one percent (1%) for each incremental month of age over thirteen (13) years of the weighted average age of the Financed Aircraft acquired by the Borrower as at the expiry of the Availability Period; and |
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7.10 (a) If, at any time, the aggregate amount outstanding under the Senior Loan that relates to Financed Aircraft leased to a single Lessee exceeds the Concentration Limit, (but excluding in circumstances where such exceeding of the Concentration Limit has resulted from the exercise of the put option in relation to a Financed Aircraft pursuant to the Put Agreement) then upon notice given by the Senior Agent to the Relevant Borrower, the Relevant Borrower shall on the Repayment Date immediately following such notice, or where the next Repayment Date is within five (5) Business Days of such notice being given, on the second Repayment Date immediately following such notice, prepay such amount of the Senior Loan as shall be sufficient to ensure that following such prepayment the aggregate amount outstanding under the Senior Loan that relates to Financed Aircraft leased to a single Lessee does not exceed the Concentration Limit.
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leased to TAM is in excess of the Concentration Limit; and |
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leased to Air France is potentially in excess of the Concentration Limit and will be so if two (2) or more Financed Aircraft currently leased to TAM are sold and, at such time, no Additional Senior Allocated Loans have been made (the Relevant Scenario); |
In recognition of the above, the parties agree that, for the purposes of Clause 7.10(a), the Relevant Borrower shall not be deemed to have exceeded the Concentration Limit:
(A) in the circumstances described in (i) above, nor
(B) in relation to Financed Aircraft leased to Air France, solely by reason of the occurrence of the Relevant Scenario,
such that, in each such case, Clause 7.10(a) shall not apply (Clause 7.10(a) not applying in such circumstances, the Exception). However, following the Amendment and Restatement Effective Date (in the case of Financed Aircraft leased to TAM) and
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following the occurrence of the Relevant Scenario (in the case of Financed Aircraft leased to Air France), the Exception shall not apply if, after such date, the Concentration Limit, having been satisfied, once again ceases to be satisfied in relation to the Senior Loan outstanding to TAM or, as the case may be, to Air France.
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Calculation of Interest
Payment of interest
Default interest
Notification of rates of interest
Commitment Fee
10.1 (a) The Borrower shall pay to the Senior Agent (for the account of the Senior Lenders each in the proportion which its unutilised Commitment bears to the unutilised Total Commitments) a fee in Dollars computed based on the actual number of days elapsed at the rate of zero point three seven five percent (0.375%) per annum and based on a year of three hundred and sixty (360) days on an amount equal to the daily average unutilised Total Commitments calculated with reference to the period from and including the Closing Date to the Utilisation Date in respect of the last Eligible Aircraft to be financed herewith.
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Prepayment Fee
Agency Fee
Arrangement Fee
10.5 (a) The Relevant Borrower shall pay to the Senior Arranger on the Closing Date an arrangement fee as calculated in accordance with the Arrangement Fee Letter.
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Absence of Quotations
Market disruption
11.2 (a) If a Market Disruption Event occurs in relation to the Senior Loan for any Interest Period, then the rate of interest on each Relevant Senior Lenders share of the Senior Loan for the Interest Period shall be the rate per annum which is the sum of:
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the rate notified to the Senior Agent by the Relevant Senior Lender as soon as practicable and in any event before interest is due to be paid in respect of that Interest Period, to be that which expresses as a percentage rate per annum the cost to that Relevant Senior Lender of funding its participation in the Senior Loan from whatever source it may reasonably select. |
Alternative basis of interest or funding
11.3 (a) If a Market Disruption Event occurs and the Senior Agent or the Relevant Borrower so requires, the Senior Agent and the Relevant Borrower shall enter into negotiations (for a period of not more than thirty (30) days) with a view to agreeing a substitute basis for determining the rate of interest.
Break Costs and Break Gains
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Tax Gross Up
12.1 (a) The Relevant Borrower shall make all payments to be made by it, and shall procure that all payments made on its behalf are made, without any Tax Deduction, unless a Tax Deduction is required by law.
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Tax indemnity
12.2 (a) The Relevant Borrower shall (within three (3) Business Days of written demand by the Senior Agent) pay to a Protected Party an amount equal to the loss, liability or cost which that Protected Party determines will be or has been (directly or indirectly) suffered for or on account of Tax by that Protected Party in respect of an Operative Document.
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Tax Credit
Stamp taxes
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Increased costs
13.1 (a) Subject to clause 13.3 the Relevant Borrower shall, within five (5) Business Days of written demand by the Senior Agent, pay for the account of a Senior Finance Party the amount of any Increased Costs incurred by that Senior Finance Party or any of its affiliates as a result of:
in each case made, exacted or imposed after the date of this Agreement.
Increased cost claims
13.2 (a) A Senior Finance Party intending to make a claim pursuant to Clause 13.1 shall notify the Senior Agent of the event giving rise to the claim, following which the Senior Agent shall promptly notify the Relevant Borrower.
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Currency indemnity
14.2 (a) The Relevant Borrower shall, as an independent obligation, within five (5) Business Days of written demand, indemnify each Senior Finance Party against any cost, loss or liability which that Senior Finance Party incurs as a consequence of:
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Indemnity to the Senior Agent
Mitigation
15.1 (a) Subject to clauses 15.1(b), (c) and (d), if the Relevant Borrower becomes obliged to make any payment or increased payment, or any illegality or cancellation occurs under any of clauses 7.1 (Illegality affecting Relevant Senior Lender), 7.2 (Illegality affecting Relevant Borrower), 7.3 (Mandatory Prepayment), 12.1 (Tax Gross-up), 12.2 (Tax Indemnity), 12.4 (Stamp taxes), 12.5 (Value Added Tax), or 13 (Increased Costs) then, without in any way limiting, reducing or otherwise qualifying the rights and obligations of the Finance Parties under any provision of the Operative Documents, upon receipt of notice from the Relevant Borrower to the effect that such payment or increased payment is required to be made or such cancellation will occur, each Senior Finance Party shall, for a period of thirty (30) days (or such longer period as the Senior Agent may agree in its sole discretion), in consultation with the Relevant Borrower, take such reasonable steps as are necessary to mitigate such circumstances which may arise and which would result in such amount becoming so payable or so cancelled, including (but not limited to) transferring its rights and obligations under the Operative Documents to another Affiliate or Facility Office, provided always that in respect of an illegality affecting the Borrower pursuant to clause 7.2 (Illegality affecting Relevant Borrower) the provisions of clause 7.2 shall apply to any such mitigation.
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all amounts due and payable by any Obligor to the Senior Finance Parties pursuant to the Operative Documents have been paid; |
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Limitation of liability
No double-counting
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or any other Operative Document, no Senior Finance Party shall be entitled, pursuant to the terms of the Agreement or any other Operative Document to recover by way of indemnity or otherwise any interest, cost, liability, Break Costs, Loss, Tax or expense to the extent that payment in respect of such interest, cost, liability, Break Costs, Loss, Tax or expense has already been received in full and retained without qualification pursuant to any other provision of any Operative Document (including, without limitation, pursuant to any insurance payment pursuant to the Insurances).
Transaction Expenses
Amendment costs
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the Relevant Borrower shall promptly after written demand, reimburse the Senior Agent for the amount of all reasonable out of pocket costs and expenses (including legal fees) properly incurred by the Senior Agent in responding to, evaluating, negotiating or complying with that request or requirement.
Relevant Borrowers Business
Disposal of Assets
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Preservation of security
Duration
Delegation
Hedging Policy
(b) Each Relevant Borrower undertakes to the Senior Finance Parties that:
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Reporting
of the Financed Aircraft.
Off-Lease Equipment
Terms of Leasing
Compliance with Dutch Act on Financial Supervision
Notice of breach of obligation
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a meeting of the shareholders or directors of any Relevant Borrower or any Borrower Party is convened to consider a resolution to present an application for an administration order or to appoint an administrator (whether out of court or otherwise) or any such resolution is passed; or |
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any step (including filing of a petition or affidavit, giving of notice, petition proposal or convening a meeting) is taken by any Relevant Borrower or any Borrower Party with a view to a composition, assignment or arrangement with any creditors of, or the rehabilitation, administration (whether out of court or otherwise) custodianship, liquidation, protection from creditors or dissolution of, any Relevant Borrower or any Borrower Party or any other insolvency proceedings involving any Relevant Borrower or any Borrower Party; or |
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any order is made or resolution passed for any such composition, assignment, arrangement, rehabilitation, administration (whether out of court or otherwise) custodianship, liquidation, dissolution or insolvency proceedings, or any Relevant Borrower or any Borrower Party becomes subject to or enters into any of the foregoing; or |
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any liquidator, trustee in bankruptcy, judicial custodian, compulsory manager, receiver, administrative receiver, administrator, examiner or similar officer (in each case, whether out of court of otherwise) is appointed in respect of any Relevant Borrower or any Borrower Party, any of their directors or any of their respective assets; or |
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any step referred to in sub-clause 19.1(f)(ii) is taken by any person other than a Relevant Borrower, provided that no Senior Event of Default shall arise pursuant to this sub-clause 19.1(f) if (A) the proceedings are vexatious and without merit or relate to a disputed sum; (B) the relevant Obligor is otherwise solvent; (C) the Senior Agent is satisfied (acting reasonably) that the Relevant Borrower or any Borrower Party is diligently seeking to discharge such petition; (D) the step does not affect the Security Interests which secured the relevant Obligors obligations under the Operative Documents, and (E) the action is remedied within fourteen (14) days of taking such step; or |
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any other steps are taken to enforce any Security Interest other than Permitted Liens over all or any part of the assets of any Relevant Borrower or any Borrower Party, provided that no Senior Event of Default shall arise pursuant to this sub-clause 19.1(h)(i) if (A) the proceedings are vexatious and without merit or relate to a disputed sum; (B) the Relevant Borrower or any Borrower Party is otherwise solvent; (C) Senior Agent is satisfied acting reasonably that the Relevant Borrower or any Borrower Party is diligently seeking to discharge such petition; (D) the step does not affect the validity or enforceability of and the Security Interests created pursuant to the Operative Documents; and (E) the action is remedied within fourteen (14) days of taking such step; or |
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Acceleration
Enforcement of Security
Assignments and transfers by the Relevant Senior Lenders
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to another bank or financial institution or to a trust, fund or other entity which is regularly engaged in or established for the purpose of making, purchasing or investing in loans, securities or other financial assets (the New Relevant Senior Lender).
Provided always that an Existing Relevant Senior Lender may not assign any of its rights or transfer any of its rights and obligations to any New Relevant Senior Lender who is a direct competitor of the AerCap Group or the holding company or any affiliate of any direct competitor of the AerCap Group without the prior written consent of the Put Counterparty. The Senior Agent will give written notice to the Relevant Borrower of any proposed transfer or assignment by an Existing Relevant Senior Lender no later than five (5) Business Days prior to such transfer or assignment becomes effective (such notification to include the full legal name, address and registered office of the proposed New Relevant Senior Lender.
Conditions of assignment or transfer
20.2 (a) An assignment will only be effective on:
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performance by the Senior Agent of all necessary know your customer or other similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations in relation to such assignment to a New Relevant Senior Lender, the completion of which the Senior Agent shall promptly notify to an Existing Relevant Senior Lender and a New Relevant Senior Lender. |
(b) A transfer will only be effective if the procedure set out in Clause 20.5 is complied with.
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then a New Relevant Senior Lender or a Relevant Senior Lender acting through its new Facility Office is only entitled to receive payment under those clauses to the same extent as an Existing Relevant Senior Lender or a Relevant Senior Lender acting through its previous Facility Office would have been if the assignment, transfer or change had not occurred.
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Limitation of responsibility of the Existing Relevant Senior Lenders
20.4 (a) Unless expressly agreed to the contrary, an Existing Relevant Senior Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility to a New Relevant Senior Lender for:
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(b) Each New Relevant Senior Lender confirms to an Existing Relevant Senior Lender and the other Senior Finance Parties that it:
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has made (and shall continue to make) its own independent investigation and assessment of the financial condition and affairs of each Obligor and its related entities in connection with its participation in this Agreement and has not relied exclusively on any information provided to it by an Existing Relevant Senior Lender in connection with any Operative Document; and |
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(c) Nothing in any Operative Document obliges an Existing Relevant Senior Lender to:
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Procedure for transfer
20.5 (a) Subject to the conditions set out in Clause 20.2 a transfer is effected in accordance with sub-clause (c) below when the Senior Agent executes an otherwise duly completed Transfer Certificate delivered to it by an Existing Relevant Senior Lender and a New Relevant Senior Lender. The Senior Agent shall, as soon as reasonably practicable after receipt by it of a duly completed Transfer Certificate appearing on its face to comply with the terms of this Agreement and delivered in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, execute that Transfer Certificate.
(b) The Senior Agent shall only be obliged to execute a Transfer Certificate delivered to it by an Existing Relevant Senior Lender and a New Relevant Senior Lender once it is satisfied it has complied with all necessary know your customer or other similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations in relation to the transfer to such New Relevant Senior Lender.
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each Obligor and New Relevant Senior Lender shall assume obligations towards one another and/or acquire rights against one another which differ from the Discharged Rights and Obligations only insofar as the Relevant Borrower and the New Relevant Senior Lender have assumed and/or acquired the same in place of the Relevant Borrower and the Existing Relevant Senior Lender; |
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the Senior Agent, the Senior Arranger, the New Relevant Senior Lender and the other Relevant Senior Lenders shall acquire the same rights and assume the same obligations between themselves as they would have acquired and assumed had the New Relevant Senior Lender been an Original Lender with the rights and/or obligations acquired or assumed by it as a result of the transfer and to that extent the Senior Agent, the Senior Arranger and the Existing Relevant Senior Lender shall each be released from further obligations to each other under the Operative Documents; |
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Copy of Transfer Certificate to Borrower
Disclosure of information
any information about any Obligor and the Operative Documents as that Relevant Senior Lender shall consider appropriate if, in relation to sub-clause (a) and (b) above,
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the person to whom the information is to be given has entered into a confidentiality undertaking acceptable to the Senior Agent.
Appointment of the Senior Agent
21.1 (a) Each other Senior Finance Party appoints the Senior Agent to act as its agent under and in connection with the Operative Documents.
(b) Each other Senior Finance Party authorises the Senior Agent to exercise the rights, powers, authorities and discretions specifically given to the Senior Agent under or in connection with the Operative Documents together with any other incidental rights, powers, authorities and discretions.
Duties of the Senior Agent
21.2 (a) The Senior Agent shall promptly forward to a Party the original or a copy of any document which is delivered to the Senior Agent for that Party by any other Party.
(b) Except where an Operative Document specifically provides otherwise, the Senior Agent is not obliged to review or check the adequacy, accuracy or completeness of any document it forwards to another Party.
(c) If the Senior Agent receives notice from a Party referring to this Agreement, describing a Senior Default and stating that the circumstance described is a Senior Default, it shall promptly notify the Senior Finance Parties.
(d) If the Senior Agent is aware of the non payment of any principal, interest, commitment fee or other fee payable to a Senior Finance Party (other than the Senior Agent or the Senior Arranger) under this Agreement it shall promptly notify the other Senior Finance Parties.
(e) The Senior Agents duties under the Operative Documents are solely mechanical and administrative in nature.
Role of the Senior Arranger
No fiduciary duties
21.4 (a) Nothing in this Agreement constitutes the Senior Agent or the Senior Arranger as a trustee or fiduciary of any other person.
(b) Neither the Senior Agent nor the Senior Arranger shall be bound to account to any Relevant Senior Lender for any sum or the profit element of any sum received by it for its own account.
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Rights as a Relevant Senior Lender
Rights and discretions of the Senior Agent
21.6 (a) The Senior Agent may rely on:
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(b) The Senior Agent may assume (unless it has received notice to the contrary in its capacity as agent for the Relevant Senior Lenders) that:
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(c) The Senior Agent may engage, pay for and rely on the advice or services of any lawyers, accountants, surveyors or other experts.
(d) The Senior Agent may act in relation to the Operative Documents through its personnel and agents.
(e) The Senior Agent may disclose to any other Party any information it reasonably believes it has received as agent under this Agreement.
(f) Notwithstanding any other provision of any Operative Document to the contrary, neither the Senior Agent nor the Senior Arranger is obliged to do or omit to do anything if it would or might in its reasonable opinion constitute a breach of any law or regulation or a breach of a fiduciary duty or duty of confidentiality.
Controlling Partys instructions
21.7 (a) Unless a contrary indication appears in an Operative Document, the Senior Agent shall:
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(b) Unless a contrary indication appears in an Operative Document, any instructions given by the Controlling Party will be binding on all the Senior Finance Parties.
(c) The Senior Agent may refrain from acting in accordance with the instructions of the Controlling Party (or, if appropriate, the Relevant Senior Lenders) until it has received
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such security as it may require for any cost, loss or liability (together with any associated VAT) which it may incur in complying with the instructions.
(d) In the absence of instructions from the Controlling Party, (or, if appropriate, the Relevant Senior Lenders) the Senior Agent may act (or refrain from taking action) as it considers to be in the best interest of the Relevant Senior Lenders.
(e) The Senior Agent is not authorised to act on behalf of a Relevant Senior Lender (without first obtaining the Relevant Senior Lenders consent) in any legal or arbitration proceedings relating to any Operative Document.
Responsibility for documentation
Exclusion of liability
21.9 (a) Without limiting Clause 21.9(c) below, the Senior Agent will not be liable for any action taken by it under or in connection with any Operative Document, unless directly caused by its gross negligence or wilful misconduct.
(b) No Party (other than the Senior Agent) may take any proceedings against any officer, employee or agent of the Senior Agent in respect of any claim it might have against the Senior Agent or in respect of any act or omission of any kind by that officer, employee or agent in relation to any Operative Document and any officer, employee or agent of the Senior Agent may rely on this clause.
(c) The Senior Agent will not be liable for any delay (or any related consequences) in crediting an account with an amount required under the Operative Documents to be paid by the Senior Agent if the Senior Agent has taken all necessary steps as soon as reasonably practicable to comply with the regulations or operating procedures of any recognised clearing or settlement system used by the Senior Agent for that purpose.
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Resignation of the Senior Agent
21.11 (a) The Senior Agent may resign and appoint one of its Affiliates as successor by giving notice to the other Senior Finance Parties and the Relevant Borrower.
(b) Alternatively the Senior Agent may resign by giving notice to the other Senior Finance Parties and the Relevant Borrower, in which case the Majority Lenders (after consultation with the Relevant Borrower) may appoint a successor Senior Agent.
(c) If the Majority Lenders have not appointed a successor Senior Agent in accordance with paragraph (b) within thirty (30) days after notice of resignation was given, the Senior Agent (after consultation with the Relevant Borrower) may appoint a successor Senior Agent.
(d) The retiring Senior Agent shall, at its own cost, make available to the successor Senior Agent such documents and records and provide such assistance as the successor Senior Agent may reasonably request for the purposes of performing its functions as the Senior Agent under the Operative Documents.
(e) The Senior Agents resignation notice shall only take effect upon the appointment of a successor.
(f) Upon the appointment of a successor, the retiring Senior Agent shall be discharged from any further obligation in respect of the Operative Documents but shall remain entitled to the benefit of this Clause 21. Its successor and each of the other Parties shall have the same rights and obligations amongst themselves as they would have had if such successor had been an original Party.
(g) After consultation with the Relevant Borrower, the Majority Lenders may, by notice to the Senior Agent, require it to resign in accordance with paragraph (b). In this event, the Senior Agent shall resign in accordance with paragraph (b).
Confidentiality
21.12 (a) In acting as agent for the Senior Finance Parties, the Senior Agent shall be regarded as acting through its agency division which shall be treated as a separate entity from any other of its divisions or departments.
(b) If information is received by another division or department of the Senior Agent, it may be treated as confidential to that division or department and the Senior Agent shall not be deemed to have notice of it.
Relationship with the Relevant Senior Lenders
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Credit appraisal by the Relevant Senior Lenders
Reference Banks
Senior Agents management time
Deduction from amounts payable by the Senior Agent
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Calculation of Values
in respect of those Financed Aircraft remaining following such sale in order to allow the Senior Agent to determine whether the Further Adjusted Appraised Value of such Financed Aircraft after such sale would be above, below or equal to the Further Subsequent Half-Life Appraised Value of such Financed Aircraft.
No provision of this Agreement will:
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Redistribution of payments
Recovering Finance Partys rights
23.3 (a) On a distribution by the Agent under Clause 23.2 (Redistribution of payments), the Recovering Finance Party will be subrogated to the rights of the Finance Parties which have shared in the redistribution.
(b) If and to the extent that the Recovering Finance Party is not able to rely on its rights under paragraph (a) above, the relevant Obligor shall be liable to the Recovering Finance Party for a debt equal to the Sharing Payment which is immediately due and payable.
Reversal of redistribution
Exceptions
23.5 (a) This Clause 23 shall not apply to the extent that the Recovering Finance Party would not, after making any payment pursuant to this clause, have a valid and enforceable claim against the relevant Obligor.
(b) A Recovering Finance Party is not obliged to share with any other Senior Finance Party any amount which the Recovering Finance Party has received or recovered as a result of taking legal or arbitration proceedings, if:
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Payments to the Senior Agent
24.1 (a) On each date on which a Relevant Borrower or a Relevant Senior Lender is required to make a payment under an Operative Document, the Relevant Borrower or the Relevant Senior Lender shall make the same available to the Senior Agent (unless a contrary
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indication appears in an Operative Document) for value on the due date at the time and in such funds specified by the Senior Agent as being customary at the time for settlement of transactions in the relevant currency in the place of payment.
(b) Payment shall be made to such account in the principal financial centre of the country of that currency with such bank as the Senior Agent specifies.
Distributions by the Senior Agent
Distributions to the Relevant Borrower
Clawback
24.4 (a) Where a sum is to be paid to the Senior Agent under the Operative Documents for another Party, the Senior Agent is not obliged to pay that sum to that other Party (or to enter into or perform any related exchange contract) until it has been able to establish to its satisfaction that it has actually received that sum.
(b) If the Senior Agent pays an amount to another Party and it proves to be the case that the Senior Agent had not actually received that amount, then the Party to whom that amount (or the proceeds of any related exchange contract) was paid by the Senior Agent shall on demand refund the same to the Senior Agent together with interest on that amount from the date of payment to the date of receipt by the Senior Agent, calculated by the Senior Agent to reflect its cost of funds.
No set-off by Obligors
Business Days
24.6 (a) Any payment which is due to be made on a day that is not a Business Day shall be made on the next Business Day in the same calendar month (if there is one) or the preceding Business Day (if there is not).
(b) During any extension of the due date for payment of any principal or Unpaid Sum under this Agreement interest is payable on the principal or Unpaid Sum at the rate payable on the original due date.
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Currency of account
24.7 (a) Subject to Clause 24.7(b) and (c), Dollars is the currency of account and payment for any sum due from the Relevant Borrower under any Operative Document.
(b) Each payment in respect of costs, expenses or Taxes shall be made in the currency in which the costs, expenses or Taxes are incurred.
(c) Any amount expressed to be payable in a currency other than Dollars shall be paid in that other currency.
Change of currency
24.8 (a) Unless otherwise prohibited by law, if more than one currency or currency unit are at the same time recognised by the central bank of any country as the lawful currency of that country, then:
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(b) If a change in any currency of a country occurs, this Agreement will, to the extent the Senior Agent (acting reasonably and after consultation with the Relevant Borrower) specifies to be necessary, be amended to comply with any generally accepted conventions and market practice in the Relevant Interbank Market and otherwise to reflect the change in currency.
A Senior Finance Party (other than the Liquidity Facility Provider) may in circumstances where a Senior Event of Default has occurred and is continuing set off any matured obligation due from the Relevant Borrower under the Operative Documents (to the extent beneficially owned by that Senior Finance Party) against any obligation (whether or not matured) owed by that Senior Finance Party to the Relevant Borrower, regardless of the place of payment, booking branch or currency of either obligation. If the obligations are in different currencies, the Senior Finance Party may convert either obligation at a market rate of exchange in its usual course of business for the purpose of the set-off.
If, at any time, any provision of the Operative Documents is or becomes illegal, invalid or unenforceable in any respect under any law of any jurisdiction, neither the legality, validity or enforceability of the remaining provisions nor the legality, validity or enforceability of such provision under the law of any other jurisdiction will in any way be affected or impaired.
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No failure to exercise, nor any delay in exercising, on the part of any Senior Finance Party, any right or remedy under the Operative Documents shall operate as a waiver, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right or remedy prevent any further or other exercise or the exercise of any other right or remedy. The rights and remedies provided in this Agreement are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights or remedies provided by law.
Each Operative Document may be executed in any number of counterparts, and this has the same effect as if the signatures on the counterparts were on a single copy of the Operative Document.
This Agreement is governed by, and construed in accordance with, English law.
Jurisdiction
31.1 (a) For the benefit of each Senior Finance Party, the Relevant Borrower agrees that the courts of England are (subject to sub-clause (d) below) to have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute arising out of or in connection with this Agreement (including a dispute regarding the existence, validity or termination of this Agreement and claims for set-off and counterclaim) (a Dispute) and for such purposes the Relevant Borrower irrevocably submits to the jurisdiction of the English courts.
(b) The Parties agree that the courts of England are the most appropriate and convenient courts to settle Disputes and accordingly no Party will argue to the contrary.
(c) This Clause 31.1 is for the benefit of the Senior Finance Parties only. As a result, no Senior Finance Party shall be prevented from taking proceedings relating to a Dispute in any other courts with jurisdiction and the Relevant Borrower irrevocably submits to the jurisdiction of any such court. To the extent allowed by law, the Senior Finance Parties may take concurrent proceedings in any number of jurisdictions.
(d) A judgment or order in connection with an Operative Document of any court referred to in this Clause 31.1 is conclusive and binding on the Relevant Borrower and may be enforced against it in the courts of any other jurisdiction.
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Any claim form, judgment or other notice of legal process shall be sufficiently served on the Relevant Borrower if delivered to such agent at its address for the time being. The Relevant Borrower irrevocably undertakes not to revoke the authority of the above agent and if, for any reason, the Senior Agent so requests, the Relevant Borrower shall promptly appoint another such agent with an address in England and advise the Senior Agent. If, following such a request, the Relevant Borrower fails to appoint another agent, the Senior Agent shall be entitled to appoint one on behalf of the Relevant Borrower at the expense of the Relevant Borrower.
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Non-Derogation
Applicable Circumstance
32.3 (a) The Relevant Borrower shall be personally and fully liable for, and shall indemnify each of the Finance Parties against, any Losses incurred by the Finance Parties as a result of the occurrence of any Applicable Circumstance, and each Finance Party shall be at liberty to pursue all of its rights and remedies against the Relevant Borrower and all of its assets for any such Loss without restriction in the event of any such circumstance.
(b) For the purposes of this Clause 32.3, Applicable Circumstance means any the following:
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and the Relevant Borrower shall be fully and personally liable for all amounts referred to in the foregoing paragraphs.
IN WITNESS whereof the Parties have signed this Agreement on the date shown at the beginning of this Agreement.
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