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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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FORM 8-K
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CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

March 1, 2024
Date of Report (date of earliest event reported)
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BUNGE GLOBAL SA
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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Switzerland
(State of Incorporation)
000-56607
(Commission File Number)
98-1743397
(IRS Employer Identification Number)
Route de Florissant 13,
1206 Geneva, Switzerland
N/A
(Address of principal executive offices and zip code)
(Zip Code)
1391 Timberlake Manor Parkway
Chesterfield, MO
 63017
(Address of corporate headquarters )
(Zip Code)
(314) 292-2000
(Registrant's telephone number, including area code)
N/A
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)
Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))
Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
Title of each class
Trading Symbol
Name of each exchange on which registered
Registered Shares, $0.01 par value per share BG New York Stock Exchange
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).
Emerging growth company    ☐
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐



Item 1.01 Entry into Material Definitive Agreements

BLFC-JPM Revolving Credit Agreement

On March 1, 2024, Bunge Limited Finance Corp. (“BLFC”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Bunge Global SA (“Bunge”), entered into an unsecured $3.2 billion 5-year Revolving Credit Agreement (the “BLFC-JPM Revolving Credit Agreement”) among BLFC, as borrower, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, as syndication agent, Citibank, N.A. and Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, as co-documentation agents and certain lenders party thereto (the “BLFC-JPM Lenders”). Current commitments in the aggregate amount of $1.95 billion are available to be drawn on and after the closing date of the BLFC-JPM Revolving Credit Agreement and incremental commitments in the aggregate amount of $1.25 billion (the “Incremental Commitments”) are available to be drawn on and after the date Bunge completes its acquisition of Viterra Limited subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions, and subject to cancellation under certain circumstances, in each case, as set forth in the BLFC-JPM Revolving Credit Agreement. BLFC may from time to time, with the consent of the administrative agent, request one or more of the existing BLFC-JPM Lenders or new lenders to increase the total commitments by an amount up to $1.5 billion pursuant to an accordion provision set forth in the BLFC-JPM Revolving Credit Agreement. The BLFC-JPM Revolving Credit Agreement matures on March 1, 2029. BLFC has the option to request an extension of the maturity date of the BLFC-JPM Revolving Credit Agreement for two additional one-year periods. Each BLFC-JPM Lender in its sole discretion may agree to any such extension request. BLFC may use proceeds from borrowings under the BLFC-JPM Revolving Credit Agreement for general corporate purposes. The BLFC-JPM Revolving Credit Agreement replaced an existing U.S. $1.95 billion 5-year First Amended and Restated Revolving Credit Agreement, dated as of June 21, 2023 (the “Terminated BLFC-JPM Revolving Credit Agreement”), among BLFC, as borrower, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent, and certain lenders party thereto that was scheduled to mature on July 16, 2026, which was terminated in accordance with its terms on March 1, 2024. No borrowings were outstanding under the Terminated BLFC-JPM Revolving Credit Agreement on the date of termination.                                                            

Borrowings under the BLFC-JPM Revolving Credit Agreement will bear interest, at BLFC’s option, at the daily simple Secured Overnight Financing Rate (“SOFR”) plus a SOFR adjustment and an applicable margin as defined in the BLFC-JPM Revolving Credit Agreement, and which will based on the Bunge’s long-term unsecured debt rating. Amounts under the BLFC-JPM Revolving Credit Agreement that remain undrawn are subject to a commitment fee payable quarterly on the average undrawn portion based on the Bunge’s long-term unsecured debt rating.

The BLFC-JPM Revolving Credit Agreement contains certain customary representations and warranties and affirmative and negative covenants, including certain limitations on the ability of BLFC, among other things, to incur liens, incur indebtedness, or engage in mergers, consolidations, amalgamations or joint ventures, and customary events of default.

The obligations of BLFC under the BLFC-JPM Revolving Credit Agreement are guaranteed by Bunge pursuant to a separate guaranty, dated as of March 1, 2024 (the “BLFC-JPM Guaranty”). The BLFC-JPM Guaranty, among other customary covenants, requires Bunge to maintain a specified minimum total consolidated current assets to adjusted total consolidated current liabilities ratio, a maximum consolidated adjusted net debt to consolidated adjusted capitalization ratio and a maximum balance of secured indebtedness.

BFE European Revolving Credit Agreement

On March 1, 2024, Bunge Finance Europe B.V. (“BFE”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Bunge, exercised the accordion provision set forth in its existing unsecured $1.75 billion 3-year Revolving Credit Agreement (as amended, the “BFE European Revolving Credit Facility Agreement”) among BFE, as borrower, Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, as agent, and certain lenders party thereto (the “BFE Lenders”) pursuant to an accordion increase certificate (the “BFE Accordion Increase Certificate”) and an amendment to the BFE European Revolving Credit Facility Agreement (the “BFE First Amendment”) in an aggregate amount of $1.75 billion (the “Additional Commitments”) to become effective as of the date Bunge completes its acquisition of Viterra Limited (the “Accordion Increase Date”). On and after the Accordion Increase Date, the total commitments available under the BFE European Revolving Credit Facility Agreement will be an aggregate amount of $3.5 billion, subject to a cancellation of Additional Commitments in certain circumstances as set forth in the BFE European Revolving Credit Facility Agreement. The BFE European Revolving Credit Facility Agreement matures on October 6, 2026. BFE has the option to request an extension of the maturity date of the BFE European Revolving Credit Facility Agreement for two additional one-year periods. Each BFE Lender in its sole discretion may agree to any such extension request. BFE may use proceeds from borrowings under the BFE European Revolving Credit Facility Agreement for general corporate purposes.




Borrowings under the BFE European Revolving Credit Facility Agreement will bear interest, at BFE’s option, at the daily simple or term SOFR plus a credit spread adjustment, which will vary from 0.05% to 0.25% based on the tenor of the interest period selected, plus a margin, which will vary from 0.25% to 0.90%, based on the Bunge’s long-term unsecured debt rating. The applicable margin is also subject to certain premiums or discounts tied to certain sustainability criteria, including, but not limited to, science-based targets (SBTs) that define Bunge’s climate goals within its operations and a commitment to eliminate deforestation in its supply chains in 2025. Amounts under the BFE European Revolving Credit Facility Agreement that remain undrawn and, prior to Bunge’s acquisition of Viterra Limited, the Additional Commitments, are subject to a commitment fee payable quarterly in arrears at a rate of 35% of the margin specified above, which will vary based on the Rating Level at each such quarterly payment date. BFE also will pay a fee that will vary from 0.10% to 0.40% based on BFE’s utilization of the BFE European Revolving Credit Facility Agreement.

The BFE European Revolving Credit Facility Agreement contains certain customary representations and warranties and affirmative and negative covenants, including certain limitations on the ability of BFE, among other things, to incur liens, incur indebtedness, or engage in mergers, consolidations, amalgamations or joint ventures, and customary events of default.

The obligations of BFE under the BFE European Revolving Credit Facility Agreement are guaranteed by Bunge pursuant to a separate First Amended and Restated Guaranty, dated March 1, 2024 (as amended, the “BFE Guaranty”). The BFE Guaranty, among other customary covenants, requires Bunge to maintain a specified minimum total consolidated current assets to adjusted total consolidated current liabilities ratio, a maximum consolidated adjusted net debt to consolidated adjusted capitalization ratio and a maximum balance of secured indebtedness.

From time to time, certain of the lenders under the BLFC-JPM Revolving Credit Agreement and the BFE European Revolving Credit Facility Agreement and/or their affiliates have relationships with Bunge, BLFC, BFE or other subsidiaries of Bunge, including as agents and lenders under the certain current or prior credit facilities, or involving the provision of financial or other advisory services, including cash management, investment banking and brokerage services. These agents and lenders, or their respective affiliates, have received, and may in the future receive, customary principal and interest payments, fees and expenses for these services.

The foregoing descriptions of the BLFC-JPM Revolving Credit Agreement, the BLFC-JPM Guaranty, the BFE Accordion Increase Certificate, the BFE First Amendment, the BFE European Revolving Credit Facility Agreement and the BFE Guaranty do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entirety by reference to the full text of those documents included as Exhibits 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6 respectively, hereto and incorporated by reference herein.

Item 1.02 Termination of Material Definitive Agreements

The information set forth in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K with respect to the termination of the Terminated BLFC-JPM Revolving Credit Agreement 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 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is hereby incorporated by reference in this Item 2.03.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits
(d):     Exhibits.

Exhibit No. Description
BLFC-JPM Revolving Credit Agreement, dated March 1, 2024
BLFC-JPM Guaranty, dated March 1, 2024, related to the BLFC-JPM Revolving Credit Agreement
BFE Accordion Increase Certificate, dated March 1, 2024
BFE First Amendment, dated March 1, 2024
BFE European Revolving Credit Facility Agreement, dated March 1, 2024, conformed through BFE First Amendment
BFE Guaranty, dated March 1, 2024
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* Certain confidential information has been redacted pursuant to Item 601(b)(10)(iv) of Regulation S-K. Bunge will furnish supplementally a copy of any redacted information to the Securities and Exchange Commission upon request.



SIGNATURE

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

Date: March 6, 2024


BUNGE GLOBAL SA
By:
/s/Lisa Ware-Alexander
Name:
Lisa Ware-Alexander
Title:
Secretary


EX-10.1 2 a101-blfcxjpmxrevolvingcre.htm EX-10.1 Document
Exhibit 10.1

$3,200,000,000

REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT

among

BUNGE LIMITED FINANCE CORP.,

as Borrower,

The Several Lenders from Time to Time Parties Hereto,

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
as Administrative Agent,

SUMITOMO MITSUI BANKING CORPORATION,
as Syndication Agent,

and

BANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA ARGENTARIA, S.A. NEW YORK BRANCH, BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., BANK OF MONTREAL, BNP PARIBAS, CITIBANK, N.A., COÖPERATIEVE RABOBANK U.A., NEW YORK BRANCH, CRÉDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK, DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC., ING BANK N.V., MIZUHO BANK, LTD. and WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.,
as Documentation Agents

Dated as of March 1, 2024

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, JPMorgan Securities plc, BBVA Securities Inc., Bank of America, N.A., BMO Capital Markets Corp., BNP Paribas Securities Corp., Citibank, N.A., Coöperatieve Rabobank U.A., New York Branch, Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., ING Bank N.V., Mizuho Bank, Ltd. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners 1.2 Other Definitional Provisions 24



    
    




TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page

Section 1. DEFINITIONS    1
1.1 Defined Terms    1
1.3 Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes; Disclaimer    26
1.4 Divisions    27
Section 2. AMOUNT AND TERMS OF COMMITMENTS    27
2.1 Commitments    27
2.2 Procedure for Loan Borrowing    29
2.3 Extension Option    30
2.4 Commitment Fees, etc    32
2.5 Termination or Reduction of Commitments    33
2.6 Prepayments    33
2.7 Conversion and Continuation Options    33
2.8 Limitations on Benchmark Borrowings    34
2.9 Interest Rates and Payment Dates    34
2.10 Computation of Interest and Fees    35
2.11 Alternate Rate of Interest    35
2.12 Pro Rata Treatment and Payments    38
2.13 Requirements of Law    39
2.14 Taxes    41
2.15 Indemnity    44
2.16 Change of Lending Office    44
2.17 Illegality    44
2.18 Replacement of Lenders    45
2.19 Judgement Currency    46
Section 3. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES    46
3.1 No Change    46
3.2 Existence; Compliance with Law    46
3.3 Power; Authorization; Enforceable Obligations    46
3.4 No Legal Bar    47
3.5 Litigation    47
3.6 No Default    47
3.7 Ownership of Property; Liens    47
3.8 Taxes    47
3.9 Federal Regulations    47
3.10 Investment Company Act; Other Regulations    47
3.11 No Subsidiaries    48
3.12 Use of Proceeds    48
3.13 Solvency    48
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3.14 Limited Purpose    48
3.15 Financial Condition; Beneficial Ownership Certification    48
3.16 Financial Institutions    48
3.17 Sanctions    48
Section 4. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT    49
4.1 Conditions to Effectiveness    49
4.2 Conditions to Each Loan    51
4.3 Conditions to Availability of Incremental Commitments    51
Section 5. COVENANTS    51
5.1 Affirmative Covenants    51
5.2 Negative Covenants    54
5.3 Use of Websites    55
Section 6. EVENTS OF DEFAULT    55
Section 7. THE AGENTS    57
7.1 Appointment    57
7.2 Delegation of Duties    58
7.3 Exculpatory Provisions    58
7.4 Reliance by Administrative Agent    58
7.5 Notice of Default    59
7.6 Non-Reliance on Agents and Other Lenders    59
7.7 Indemnification    59
7.8 Agent in Its Individual Capacity    60
7.9 Successor Administrative Agent    60
7.10 Syndication Agent, Joint Lead Arrangers, Joint Bookrunners and     
Documentation Agents    60
7.11 Agent Communications    60
7.12 Certain ERISA Matters    60
7.13 Erroneous Payments    62
Section 8. MISCELLANEOUS    63
8.1 Amendments and Waivers    63
8.2 Notices    64
8.3 No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies    65
8.4 Survival of Representations and Warranties    66
8.5 Payment of Expenses and Taxes    66
8.6 Successors and Assigns; Participations and Assignments    67
8.7 Adjustments; Set-off    70
8.8 Interest Rate Limitation    70
8.9 Counterparts; Electronic Signatures    71
8.10 Severability    71
8.11 Integration    71
8.12 GOVERNING LAW    72
8.13 Submission To Jurisdiction; Waivers    72
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8.14 Acknowledgments    72
8.15 Confidentiality    73
8.16 WAIVERS OF JURY TRIAL    74
8.17 Conversion of Approved Currencies into Dollars    74
8.18 U.S.A. Patriot Act    74
8.19 Acknowledgment and Consent to Bail-In of Affected Financial
Institution    74

SCHEDULES:
1.1    Current Commitments, Incremental Commitments and Total Commitments
1.2    Material Subsidiaries
3.3    Consents, Authorizations, Filings and Notices
EXHIBITS:
A    Form of Guaranty Agreement
B-1    Form of Borrower Responsible Officer’s Certificate
B-2    Form of Borrower Secretary Certificate
B-3    Form of Guarantor Responsible Officer’s Certificate
B-4    Form of Guarantor Secretary Certificate
C    Form of Assignment and Acceptance
D-1    Form of Legal Opinion of Reed Smith LLP
D-2    Form of Legal Opinion of Homburger AG
E    Form of Exemption Certificate
F    Form of Commitment Increase Supplement

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G Form of Additional Lender Supplement REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified in accordance with the terms hereof and in effect from time to time, this “Agreement”), dated as of March 1, 2024, among BUNGE LIMITED FINANCE CORP., a Delaware corporation (the “Borrower”), the several banks and other financial institutions or entities from time to time parties to this Agreement (the “Lenders”), SUMITOMO MITSUI BANKING CORPORATION, as syndication agent (the “Syndication Agent”), BANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA ARGENTARIA, S.A. NEW YORK BRANCH, BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., BANK OF MONTREAL, BNP PARIBAS, CITIBANK, N.A., COÖPERATIEVE RABOBANK U.A., NEW YORK BRANCH, CRÉDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK, DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC., ING BANK N.V., MIZUHO BANK, LTD. and WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., each as a documentation agent (each, a “Documentation Agent” and collectively, the “Documentation Agents”) and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as administrative agent.
The parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
SECTION 1.    DEFINITIONS
1.1    Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, the terms listed in this Section 1.1 shall have the respective meanings set forth in this Section 1.1.
“ABR”: for any day, a rate per annum equal to the greatest of (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day, (b) the NYFRB Rate in effect on such day plus ½ of 1%, and (c) Daily Simple SOFR in effect on such day (or if such day is not a U.S. Government Securities Business Day, the immediately preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day) plus 1%. Any change in the ABR due to a change in the Prime Rate, the NYFRB Rate or Daily Simple SOFR shall be effective from and including the effective date of such change in the Prime Rate, the NYFRB Rate or Daily Simple SOFR, respectively. If the ABR is being used as an alternate rate of interest pursuant to Section 2.11 (for the avoidance of doubt, only until the Benchmark Replacement has been determined pursuant to Section 2.11(b)), then the ABR shall be based on clause (b) above and shall be determined without reference to clauses (a) or (c) above. For the avoidance of doubt, if the ABR as determined pursuant to the foregoing would be less than 1.00%, such rate shall be deemed to be 1.00% for purposes of this Agreement.
“ABR Conversion Date”: as defined in Section 2.7(a).
“ABR Loans”: Loans the rate of interest applicable to which is based upon the ABR.
“Additional Lender”: as defined in Section 2.1(b)(i).
“Additional Lender Supplement”: as defined in Section 2.1(b)(i).
“Adjusted Euribor Rate”: with respect to any Euribor Rate denominated in the Optional Currency for any Interest Period, an interest rate per annum equal to (a) the Euribor Rate for such Interest Period multiplied by (b) the Statutory Reserve Rate.
“Administrative Agent”: JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., together with its Affiliates, as the arranger of the Commitments and as the administrative agent for the Lenders under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, together with any of its successors.
“Administrative Agent (London Office)”: for designated notice purposes only, J.P. Morgan Europe Limited.



“Affected Financial Institution”: (a) any EEA Financial Institution or (b) any UK Financial Institution.
“Affiliate”: with respect to any specified Person, any other Person which, directly or indirectly, is in control of, is controlled by, or is under common control with, such specified Person. For purposes of this definition “control” of a Person means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities or otherwise, and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing.
“Agents”: the collective reference to the Syndication Agent, the Documentation Agents and the Administrative Agent.
“Aggregate Exposure”: with respect to any Lender at any time, an amount (expressed in the Base Currency) equal to the amount of such Lender’s Commitment then in effect or, if the Commitments have been terminated, the Dollar Equivalent of such Lender’s Loans then outstanding.
“Aggregate Exposure Percentage”: with respect to any Lender at any time, the ratio (expressed as a percentage) of such Lender’s Aggregate Exposure at such time to the Aggregate Exposure of all Lenders at such time.
“Agreement”: as defined in the preamble hereto.
“Agreed Currency”: the Base Currency and Optional Currency.
“Agreement Currency”: as defined in Section 2.19(b).
“Applicable Creditor”: as defined in Section 2.19(b).
“Applicable Margin”: the per annum rate set forth in the applicable row of the table below:
Rating Spread
Level I 0.875%
Level II 1.000%
Level III 1.125%
Level IV 1.250%
Level V 1.375%

“Applicable Moody’s Rating”: the senior long-term unsecured debt rating that Moody’s provides of (i) the Guarantor or (ii) if Moody’s does not provide such a rating of the Guarantor, then the Borrower.
“Applicable S&P Rating”: the senior long-term unsecured debt rating that S&P provides of (i) the Guarantor or (ii) if S&P does not provide such a rating of the Guarantor, then the Borrower.
“Assignee”: as defined in Section 8.6(c).
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“Assignment and Acceptance”: an Assignment and Acceptance, substantially in the form of Exhibit C.
“Assignor”: as defined in Section 8.6(c).
“Available Commitment”: as to any Lender at any time, an amount equal to such Lender’s Commitment then in effect minus:
(a)    the Dollar Equivalent of the principal amount of its outstanding Loans on such date; and
(b)    for purposes of Section 2.2 only, in relation to any proposed borrowing or Loan, the Dollar Equivalent of the principal amount of any Loans that are due to be made by such Lender on or before the proposed Borrowing Date.
“Available Tenor”: as of any date of determination and with respect to the then-current Benchmark for any Agreed Currency, as applicable, any tenor for such Benchmark (or component thereof) or payment period for interest calculated with reference to such Benchmark (or component thereof), as applicable, that is or may be used for determining the length of an Interest Period for any term rate or otherwise, for determining any frequency of making payments of interest calculated 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” (or any similar term) pursuant to Section 2.11(e).
“Bail-In Action”: 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”: (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 Currency”: Dollars.
“Basel III”: (a) the agreements on capital requirements, a leverage ratio and liquidity standards contained in “Basel III: A global regulatory framework for more resilient banks and banking systems”, “Basel III: International framework for liquidity risk measurement, standards and monitoring” and “Guidance for national authorities operating the countercyclical capital buffer” published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision on December 16, 2010, each as amended, supplemented or restated; (b) the rules for systemically important banks contained in “Global systemically important banks: assessment methodology and the additional loss absorbency requirement – Rules text” published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in November 2011, as amended, supplemented or restated; and (c) any further guidance or standards published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision relating to “Basel III.”
“Benchmark”: initially, (i) with respect to any Borrowing denominated in the Base Currency, Daily Simple SOFR, as applicable, and (ii) with respect to any Borrowing denominated in the Optional Currency, the Euribor Rate; provided, however, that if a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date has occurred with respect to Daily Simple SOFR or the Euribor Rate, then “Benchmark” shall mean the applicable Benchmark Replacement to the extent such Benchmark Replacement has replaced such prior benchmark rate pursuant to Section 2.11(b).
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“Benchmark Borrowing”: any Borrowing of a Benchmark Loan.
“Benchmark Loan”: any Daily Simple SOFR Loan or Euribor Rate Loan.
“Benchmark Replacement”: for any Available Tenor, the sum of: (a) the alternate benchmark rate that has been selected by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower 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 syndicated credit facilities denominated in the applicable Agreed Currency at such time in the United States and (b) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment. If the Benchmark Replacement would be less than the Floor, the Benchmark Replacement will be deemed to be the Floor for the purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
“Benchmark Replacement Adjustment”: 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, 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 Administrative Agent and the Borrower 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 and/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 syndicated credit facilities denominated in the applicable Agreed Currency at such time.
“Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes”: with respect to any Benchmark Replacement, any Loans subject thereto and/or either the use or administration of Daily Simple SOFR or the Euribor Rate, any technical, administrative or operational changes (including changes to the definition of “ABR,” the definition of “Business Day,” the definition of “U.S. Government Securities Business Day,” the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar term), 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 Administrative Agent decides may be appropriate to reflect the adoption and implementation of such Benchmark Replacement, Daily Simple SOFR or the Euribor Rate and to permit the administration thereof by the Administrative Agent in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Administrative Agent decides that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or if the Administrative Agent determines that no market practice for the administration of such Benchmark Replacement exists, in such other manner of administration as the Administrative Agent decides is reasonably necessary in connection with the administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents).
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“Benchmark Replacement Date”: with respect to any Benchmark, the earliest to occur of the following events with respect to such 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); or
(2)    in the case of clause (3) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the first date on which such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) has been determined and announced by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) to be no longer representative; provided, that such non-representativeness will be determined by reference to the most recent of the public statement or publication of information referenced therein in such clause (3) and even if any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) continues to be provided on such date.
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”: with respect to any Benchmark, the occurrence of one or more of the following events with respect to such 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 Federal Reserve Board, the central bank for the Agreed Currency applicable to such Benchmark, the NYFRB, 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), in each case, 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
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component thereof) are no longer, or as of a specified future date will no longer be, 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”: with respect to any Benchmark, 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 such then-current Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document 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 and under any Loan Document in accordance with Section 2.11.
“Beneficial Ownership Certification”: a certification regarding beneficial ownership or control as required by the Beneficial Ownership Regulation.
“Beneficial Ownership Regulation”: 31 C.F.R. § 1010.230.
“Benefit Plan”: any of (a) an “employee benefit plan” (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (b) a “plan” as defined in Section 4975 of the Code to which Section 4975 of the Code applies, and (c) any Person whose assets include (for purposes of the Plan Asset Regulations or otherwise for purposes of Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) the assets of any such “employee benefit plan” or “plan”.
“Benefitted Lender”: as defined in Section 8.7(a).
“Blocking Regulation”: as defined in Section 3.17.
“Board of Directors”: with respect to any Person, the board of directors of such Person or any duly authorized committee thereof.
“Borrower”: as defined in the preamble hereto.
“Borrower Permitted Lien”: Liens for current taxes, assessments or other governmental charges which are not delinquent or remain payable without any penalty, or the validity of which is contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings upon stay of execution of the enforcement thereof or upon posting a bond in connection therewith and reserves to the extent required by GAAP with respect thereto have been provided on the books of the Borrower.
“Borrowing”: Loans of the same Type and currency, made, converted or continued on the same date to the Borrower and, in the case of Daily Simple SOFR Loans and Euribor Rate Loans, as to which a single Interest Period is in effect.
“Borrowing Date”: any Business Day specified by the Borrower as a date on which the Borrower requests the Lenders to make Loans hereunder.
“Borrowing Time”: as defined in Section 2.2.
“Business Combination Agreement”: that certain Business Combination Agreement, dated as of June 13, 2023 (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time), by and among Viterra Limited, Guarantor, as buyer, Danelo Limited, as a seller, CPPIB Monroe Canada, Inc., as a seller, Venus Investment Limited Partnership, as a seller, and Ocarian Limited, as a seller.
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“Business Day”: any day (other than a Saturday or a Sunday) on which banks are open for business in New York City; provided that, (a) in addition to the foregoing, a Business Day shall be, in relation to Loans referencing Daily Simple SOFR and any interest rate settings, fundings, disbursements, settlements or payments of any such Loans referencing Daily Simple SOFR or any other dealings of such Loans referencing Daily Simple SOFR, any such day that is only a U.S. Government Securities Business Day and (b) when used in connection with any Euribor Rate Loan denominated in the Optional Currency, the term “Business Day” shall also exclude any day on which the TARGET payment system is not open for the settlement of payment in Euro.
“Capital Stock”: with respect to any Person, any and all shares, interests, rights to purchase, warrants, options (whether or not currently exercisable), participations or other equivalents of or interests in (however designated) the equity (which includes, but is not limited to, common stock or shares, preferred stock or shares and partnership and joint venture interests) of such Person (excluding any debt securities convertible into, or exchangeable for, such equity).
“Central Bank Rate”: (A) the greater of (i) for any Loan denominated in the Optional Currency, one of the following three rates as may be selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion: (1) the fixed rate for the main refinancing operations of the European Central Bank (or any successor thereto), or, if that rate is not published, the minimum bid rate for the main refinancing operations of the European Central Bank (or any successor thereto), each as published by the European Central Bank (or any successor thereto) from time to time, (2) the rate for the marginal lending facility of the European Central Bank (or any successor thereto), as published by the European Central Bank (or any successor thereto) from time to time or (3) the rate for the deposit facility of the central banking system of the Participating Member States, as published by the European Central Bank (or any successor thereto) from time to time and (ii) 0.00%; plus (B) the applicable Central Bank Rate Adjustment.
“Central Bank Rate Adjustment”: for any day, for any Loan denominated in the Optional Currency, a rate equal to the difference (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) of (i) the average of the Euribor Rate for the five most recent Business Days preceding such day for which the Euribor Screen Rate was available (excluding, from such averaging, the highest and the lowest Euribor Rate applicable during such period of five Business Days) minus (ii) the Central Bank Rate in respect of Euro in effect on the last Business Day in such period. For purposes of this definition, (x) the term Central Bank Rate shall be determined disregarding clause (B) of the definition of such term and (y) the Euribor Rate on any day shall be based on the Euribor Screen Rate on such day at approximately the time referred to in the definition of such term for deposits in the applicable Agreed Currency for a maturity of one month; provided that if such rate shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero.
“Central Bank Rate Loans”: Loans the rate of interest applicable to which is based upon the Central Bank Rate.
“Change in Control”: the occurrence of any of the following:
(1) the Guarantor becomes aware (by way of a report or any other filing pursuant to Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act, proxy, vote, written notice or otherwise) of the acquisition by any Person or group (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) or Section 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act, or any successor provision), including any group acting for the purpose of acquiring, holding or disposing of securities (within the meaning of Rule 13d-5(b)(1) under the Exchange Act), in a single transaction or in a related series of transactions, by way of merger, consolidation or other business combination, of 50% or more of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of the Guarantor then outstanding;
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(2)    the sale, lease or transfer, in one or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the assets of the Guarantor and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to any Person that is not a Subsidiary of the Guarantor; or
(3)    the first day on which a majority of the members of the Guarantor’s Board of Directors are not Continuing Directors.
“Change in Law”: as defined in Section 2.13(a).     
“Closing Date”: the date on which the conditions precedent set forth in Section 4.1 shall have been satisfied, which date is March 1, 2024.
“Code”: the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder from time to time.
“Commitment”: as to any Lender, the obligation of such Lender to make Loans in an aggregate Dollar Equivalent principal amount not to exceed the amount set forth in the Base Currency of (i) prior to the Viterra Acquisition Closing Date, such Lender’s Current Commitment and (ii) on and after the Viterra Acquisition Closing Date, the sum of (A) such Lender’s Current Commitment and (B) subject to satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 4.3, such Lender’s Incremental Commitment.
“Commitment Fee Rate”: the rate per annum set forth in the applicable row of the table below:
Rating Commitment Fee Rate
Level I
0.070%
Level II
0.090%
Level III
0.100%
Level IV
0.125%
Level V
0.175%

“Commitment Increase Supplement”: as defined in Section 2.1(b)(i).
“Commitment Period”: (i) with respect to the Current Commitments, the period from and including the Closing Date to the earlier of (a) the Final Termination Date or (b) the date of termination of the Commitments in accordance with the terms hereof and (ii) with respect to the Incremental Commitments, subject to satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 4.3, the period from and including the Viterra Acquisition Closing Date to the earlier of (a) the Final Termination Date or (b) the date of termination of the Commitments in accordance with the terms hereof.
“Conduit Lender”: any special purpose corporation organized and administered by any Lender for the purpose of making Loans otherwise required to be made by such Lender and designated by such Lender in a written instrument; provided, that the designation by any Lender of a Conduit Lender shall not relieve the designating Lender of any of its obligations to fund a Loan under this Agreement if, for any reason, its Conduit Lender fails to fund any such Loan, and the designating Lender (and not the Conduit Lender) shall have the sole right and responsibility to deliver all consents and waivers required or requested under this Agreement with respect to its Conduit Lender, and provided, further, that no Conduit Lender shall (a) be entitled to receive any greater amount pursuant to Section 2.13, 2.14, 2.15 or 8.5 than the designating Lender would have been entitled to receive in respect of the extensions of credit made by such Conduit Lender or (b) be deemed to have any Commitment.
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“Consenting Lender”: as defined in Section 2.3(c).
“Connection Income Taxes”: Other Connection Taxes that are imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated) or that are franchise Taxes or branch profits Taxes.
“Continuing Directors”: as of any date of determination, any member of the Board of Directors of the Guarantor who (a) was a member of such Board of Directors on the Closing Date; or (b) was nominated for election, appointed or elected to such Board of Directors with the approval of a majority of the Continuing Directors who were members of such Board of Directors at the time of such nomination or election (either by a specific vote or by approval of the Guarantor’s proxy statement in which such member was named as a nominee for election as a director).
“Contractual Obligation”: as to any Person, any provision of any security issued by such Person or of any agreement, instrument or other undertaking to which such Person is a party or by which it or any of its property is bound.
“Corresponding Tenor”: with respect to any Available Tenor, 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.
“Current Commitments”: as to any Lender, the obligation of such Lender to make Loans in an aggregate Dollar Equivalent principal amount not to exceed the amount set forth in the Base Currency under the heading “Current Commitment” opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 1.1 or in the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which such Lender became a party hereto, as the same may be increased or reduced from time to time pursuant to the terms hereof. The original amount of the Current Commitments shall be $1,950,000,000.
“Daily Simple SOFR”: for any day (a “SOFR Interest Day”), a rate per annum equal to SOFR for the day (such day “i”) that is five (5) U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to (i) if such SOFR Interest Day is a U.S. Government Securities Business Day, such SOFR Interest Day or (ii) if such SOFR Interest Day is not a U.S. Government Securities Business Day, the U.S. Government Securities Business Day immediately preceding such SOFR Interest Day, in each case, as such SOFR is published by the SOFR Administrator on the SOFR Administrator’s Website.  If by 5:00 pm (New York City time) on the next U.S. Government Securities Business Day immediately following any day “i”, the SOFR in respect of such day “i” has not been published on the SOFR Administrator’s Website and a Benchmark Replacement Date with respect to the Daily Simple SOFR has not occurred, then the SOFR for such day “i” will be the SOFR as published in respect of the first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day for which such SOFR was published on the SOFR Administrator’s Website so long as such first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day is not more than five (5) U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to day “i”.  Any change in Daily Simple SOFR due to a change in SOFR shall be effective from and including the effective date of such change in SOFR.
Provided that if Daily Simple SOFR determined as provided above shall ever be less than the Floor, then Daily Simple SOFR shall be deemed to be equal to the Floor.
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“Daily Simple SOFR Conversion Date”: as defined in Section 2.7(a).
“Daily Simple SOFR Loan”: any Loan the rate of interest applicable to which is based on Daily Simple SOFR.
“Declining Lender”: as defined in Section 2.3(c).
“Default”: any of the events specified in Section 6, whether or not any requirement for the giving of notice, the lapse of time, or both, has been satisfied.
“Defaulting Lender”: any Lender that (a) has failed to fund any portion of its Loans required to be funded by it hereunder within three (3) Business Days of the date required to be funded by it hereunder (unless such Lender has indicated in writing to the Borrower or by public statement that such position is based on such Lender’s good faith determination that a condition precedent to funding a Loan under this Agreement cannot be satisfied), (b) has notified the Borrower or the Administrative Agent in writing that it does not intend to comply with any of its funding obligations under this Agreement or has made a public statement to the effect that it does not intend to comply with its funding obligations under this Agreement (unless such writing or public statement indicates that such position is based on such Lender’s good faith determination that a condition precedent to funding a Loan under this Agreement cannot be satisfied), (c) has otherwise failed to pay over to the Administrative Agent any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder within three (3) Business Days of the date when due, unless the subject of a good faith dispute, or (d) has become the subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding, or has had a receiver, conservator, trustee or custodian appointed for it, or has indicated its consent to, approval of or acquiescence in any such proceeding or appointment or has become the subject of a Bail-In Action; provided, that a Lender shall not become a “Defaulting Lender” solely as a result of the acquisition or maintenance of an ownership interest in such Lender or Person controlling such Lender or the exercise of control over a Lender or Person controlling such Lender by a Governmental Authority or instrumentality thereof.
“Designated Website”: as defined in Section 5.3(a).
“Dollar Equivalent”: on any date of determination (a) with respect to any amount denominated in the Base Currency, such amount, and (b) with respect to any amount denominated in the Optional Currency or any other currency (other than the Base Currency), the equivalent in Dollars of such amount, determined by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 1.2(e) using the Rate of Exchange with respect to such currency on such date in effect under the provisions of such Section.
“Dollars” and “$”: dollars in lawful currency of the United States.
“EEA Financial Institution”: (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 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”: any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
“EEA Resolution Authority”: 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.
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“Electronic Signature”: an electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to, or associated with, a contract or other record and adopted by a Person with the intent to sign, authenticate or accept such contract or record.
“EMU Legislation”: the legislative measures of the European Council for the introduction of, change over to or operation of a single unified European currency.
“Environmental Laws”: any and all foreign, Federal, state, local or municipal laws, rules, orders, regulations, statutes, ordinances, codes, decrees, requirements of any Governmental Authority or other Requirements of Law (including common law) regulating, relating to or imposing liability or standards of conduct concerning protection of human health or the environment, as now or may at any time hereafter be in effect.
“ERISA”: the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time.
“ERISA Affiliate”: with respect to any Person, any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) that is a member of a group of which such Person is a member and which is treated as a single employer under Section 414 of the Code.
“ERISA Event”: (a) (i) the occurrence of a reportable event, within the meaning of Section 4043 of ERISA, with respect to any Plan unless the 30-day notice requirement with respect to such event has been waived by the PBGC or (ii) the requirements of Section 4043(b) of ERISA apply with respect to a contributing sponsor, as defined in Section 4001(a)(13) of ERISA, of a Plan, and an event described in paragraph (9), (10), (11), (12) or (13) of Section 4043(c) of ERISA is reasonably expected to occur with respect to such Plan within the following thirty (30) days; (b) any failure by any Plan to satisfy the minimum funding standards (within the meaning of Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA) applicable to such Plan, whether or not waived, the filing of an application for a minimum funding waiver with respect to a Plan, or the failure to make by its due date a required installment under Section 430(j) of the Code with respect to any Plan or the failure by the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates to make any required contribution to a Multiemployer Plan; (c) the provision by the administrator of any Plan of a notice of intent to terminate such Plan, pursuant to Section 4041(a)(2) of ERISA (including any such notice with respect to a plan amendment referred to in Section 4041(e) of ERISA) or the incurrence of any liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to the termination of any Plan; (d) the cessation of operations at a facility of the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates in the circumstances described in Section 4062(e) of ERISA; (e) the withdrawal by the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates from a Multiple Employer Plan during a plan year for which it was a substantial employer, as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA; (f) the conditions for imposition of a lien under Section 303(k) of ERISA shall have been met with respect to any Plan; (g) the adoption of an amendment to a Plan which could result in the posting of a bond or other security; (h) the institution by the PBGC of proceedings to terminate a Plan pursuant to Section 4042 of ERISA, or the occurrence of any event or condition described in Section 4042 of ERISA that constitutes grounds for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, such Plan; (i) a determination that any Plan is, or is expected to be, in “at risk” status, within the meaning of Section 430 of the Code; or (j) the receipt by the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates of a determination that a Multiemployer Plan is in endangered or critical status, within the meaning of Section 432 of the Code or Section 305 of ERISA.
“EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule”: the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor Person), as in effect from time to time.
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“Euribor Rate”: with respect to any Euribor Rate Borrowing denominated in Euros and for any Interest Period, the Euribor Screen Rate at approximately 11:00 a.m., Brussels time, two TARGET Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period.
“Euribor Rate Loan”: any Loan denominated in the Optional Currency the rate of interest applicable to which is based on the Euribor Rate.
“Euribor Screen Rate”: for any day and time, with respect to any Borrowing in Euro and for any Interest Period, the euro interbank offered rate administered by the European Money Markets Institute (or any other Person that takes over the administration of such rate for Euro) for a period equal in length to such Interest Period as displayed on such day and time on EURIBOR01 of the Reuters screen that displays such rate (or, in the event such rate does not appear on a Reuters page or screen, on any successor or substitute page on such screen that displays such rate, or on the appropriate page of such other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in consultation with the Borrower); provided that if the Euribor Screen Rate as so determined would be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for the purposes of this Agreement.
“Euro” and “EUR”: the single lawful currency introduced at the start of the third stage of the European Economic and Monetary Union pursuant to a treaty establishing the European Union (as amended from time to time).
“Event of Default”: any of the events specified in Section 6, provided that any requirement for the giving of notice, the lapse of time, or both, has been satisfied.
“Exchange Act”: the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
“Excluded Taxes”: any of the following Taxes imposed on, or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to, a Lender or any other recipient of payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower hereunder: (a) Taxes imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated), franchise Taxes, and branch profits Taxes, in each case, (i) imposed as a result of such Lender or other recipient being organized under the laws of, or having its principal office or, in the case of any Lender, its applicable lending office located in, the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (or any political subdivision thereof) or (ii) that are Other Connection Taxes, (b) in the case of a Lender, U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed on amounts payable to or for the account of such Lender with respect to an applicable interest in a Loan pursuant to a law in effect on the date on which (i) such Lender acquires such interest in the Loan (other than pursuant to an assignment under Section 2.18) or (ii) such Lender changes its lending office, except in each case to the extent that, pursuant to Section 2.14, amounts with respect to such Taxes were payable either to such Lender’s assignor immediately before such Lender became a party hereto or to such Lender immediately before it changed its lending office, (c) Taxes attributable to the failure by a Lender to comply with Section 2.14(e), 2.14(f), 2.14(g), 2.14(h), 2.14(i) or 2.14(j) and (d) any U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA.
“Executive Order”: Executive Order No. 13224 of September 23, 2001 – Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten To Commit, or Support Terrorism.
“Existing Credit Facility”: the revolving credit facility provided to the Borrower pursuant to that certain First Amended and Restated Revolving Credit Agreement, dated as of June 21, 2023, among the Borrower, Citibank, N.A., as syndication agent, BNP Paribas, Coöperatieve Rabobank, U.A. New York Branch, Mizuho Bank, Ltd., Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and U.S. Bank National Association, as documentation agents, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent, and the lenders party thereto.
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“Extension Request”: as defined in Section 2.3(a).
“FATCA”: (a) Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of the date of this Agreement (or any amended or successor version that is substantially comparable to and not materially more onerous to comply with), any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof, and any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code or (b) any treaty, law or regulation of any jurisdiction other than the United States adopted pursuant to an intergovernmental agreement between the United States and such other jurisdiction, which facilitates the implementation of any law or regulation referred to in paragraph (a) above.
“FCA”: the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority.
“FCPA”: as defined in Section 3.17(a).
“Federal Funds Effective Rate”: for any day, the rate calculated by the NYFRB based on such day’s federal funds transactions by depositary institutions, as determined in such manner as the NYFRB shall set forth on its public website from time to time, and published on the next succeeding Business Day by the NYFRB as the effective federal funds rate; provided that if the Federal Funds Effective Rate as so determined would be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for the purposes of this Agreement.
“Federal Reserve Board”: the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States of America.
“Final Termination Date”: the Original Termination Date or, in respect of Consenting Lenders (and Replacement Lenders, if applicable), if the extension option under Section 2.3 has been exercised, the First Extension Termination Date or the Second Extension Termination Date, as applicable.
“First Extension Request”: as defined in Section 2.3(a).
“First Extension Termination Date”: the date falling twelve (12) Months after the Original Termination Date.
“Floor”: 0.0%.
“Funding Office”: the office of the Administrative Agent specified in Section 8.2 or such other office as may be specified from time to time by the Administrative Agent as its funding office by written notice to the Borrower and the Lenders.
“GAAP”: generally accepted accounting principles in the United States as in effect from time to time.
“Governmental Authority”: any nation or government, any state or other political subdivision thereof and any entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to government (including any supra-national bodies such as the European Union or European Central Bank).
“Group Members”: the collective reference to the Borrower, the Guarantor and the Material Subsidiaries.
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“Guarantee Obligation”: as to any Person (the “guaranteeing person”), any obligation of (a) the guaranteeing person or (b) another Person (including any bank under any letter of credit) with respect to which the guaranteeing person has issued a reimbursement, counterindemnity or similar obligation, in either case guaranteeing or in effect guaranteeing any Indebtedness, leases, dividends or other obligations (the “primary obligations”) of any other third Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, including any obligation of the guaranteeing person, whether or not contingent, (i) to purchase any such primary obligation or any property constituting direct or indirect security therefor, (ii) to advance or supply funds (1) for the purchase or payment of any such primary obligation or (2) to maintain working capital or equity capital of the primary obligor or otherwise to maintain the net worth or solvency of the primary obligor, (iii) to purchase property, securities or services primarily for the purpose of assuring the owner of any such primary obligation of the ability of the primary obligor to make payment of such primary obligation or (iv) otherwise to assure or hold harmless the owner of any such primary obligation against loss in respect thereof; provided, however, that the term Guarantee Obligation shall not include endorsements of instruments for deposit or collection in the ordinary course of business. The amount of any Guarantee Obligation of any guaranteeing person shall be deemed to be the lower of (a) an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the primary obligation in respect of which such Guarantee Obligation is made and (b) the maximum amount for which such guaranteeing person may be liable pursuant to the terms of the instrument embodying such Guarantee Obligation, unless such primary obligation and the maximum amount for which such guaranteeing person may be liable are not stated or determinable, in which case the amount of such Guarantee Obligation shall be such guaranteeing person’s maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by the Borrower in good faith.
“Guarantor”: Bunge Global SA, a corporation incorporated under the laws of Switzerland, as guarantor pursuant to the Guaranty Agreement.
“Guaranty Agreement”: the Guaranty to be executed and delivered by the Guarantor, substantially in the form of Exhibit A.
“Hedge Agreements”: all swaps, caps or collar agreements or similar arrangements dealing with interest rates or currency exchange rates or the exchange of nominal interest obligations, either generally or under specific contingencies.
“IBA”: as defined in Section 1.3.
“Increasing Lender”: as defined in Section 2.1(b)(i).
“Incremental Commitments”: as to any Lender, the obligation of such Lender on or after the Viterra Acquisition Closing Date, subject to satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 4.3, to make Loans in an aggregate Dollar Equivalent principal amount not to exceed the amount set forth in the Base Currency under the heading “Incremental Commitment” opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 1.1 or in the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which such Lender became a party hereto, as the same may be increased or reduced from time to time pursuant to the terms hereof; provided, that the Incremental Commitments shall be cancelled with immediate effect if (i) the Guarantor notifies the Administrative Agent that the Business Combination Agreement has been terminated prior to the Viterra Acquisition Closing Date, (ii) the Viterra Acquisition Closing Date does not occur on or prior to the Outside Date or (iii) there is a public announcement that the Business Combination Agreement has been terminated. The original amount of the Incremental Commitments shall be $1,250,000,000.
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“Indebtedness”: as to any Person, without duplication, (a) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money, (b) all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments, (c) all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of property, except trade accounts payable arising in the ordinary course of business, (d) all obligations of such Person as lessee which are capitalized in accordance with GAAP other than any liability in respect of a lease which would, in accordance with GAAP in effect prior to December 15, 2018, have been treated as an operating lease, (e) all obligations of such Person created or arising under any conditional sales or other title retention agreement with respect to any property acquired by such Person (including without limitation, obligations under any such agreement which provides that the rights and remedies of the seller or lender thereunder in the event of default are limited to repossession or sale of such property), (f) all obligations of such Person with respect to letters of credit and similar instruments, including without limitation obligations under reimbursement agreements, (g) all Indebtedness of others secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) a Lien on any asset of such Person, whether or not such Indebtedness is assumed by such Person and (h) all Guarantee Obligations of such Person (other than guarantees of obligations of direct or indirect Subsidiaries of such Person).
“Indemnified Liabilities”: as defined in Section 8.5.
“Indemnified Taxes”: (a) Taxes, other than Excluded Taxes, imposed on or with respect to any payment made by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document and (b) to the extent not otherwise described in clause (a) above, Other Taxes.
“Indemnitee”: as defined in Section 8.5.
“Ineligible Institution”: (a) a natural Person, (b) a Defaulting Lender or (c) a holding company, investment vehicle or trust for, or owned and operated for the primary benefit of, a natural person or relative(s) thereof.
“Interest Payment Date”: (a) as to any ABR Loan, the last day of each March, June, September and December to occur while such ABR Loan is outstanding and the final maturity date of such Loan, (b) as to any Daily Simple SOFR Loan or any Euribor Rate Loan having an Interest Period of one (1) Month, the fifteenth (15th) day after the last day of such Interest Period, (c) as to any Euribor Rate Loan having an Interest Period of three (3) Months or longer, (x) each day that is fifteen (15) days after each three (3) Months, or a whole multiple thereof, after the first day of such Interest Period and (y) the last day of such Interest Period and (d) as to any Loan, the date of any repayment or prepayment made in respect thereof.
“Interest Period”: (a) as to any Daily Simple SOFR Loan, (i) initially, the period commencing on the borrowing or conversion date, as the case may be, with respect to such Daily Simple SOFR Loan, and ending one Month thereafter (or, if there is no such numerically corresponding day in such month, then the last day of such month), and (ii) thereafter, each period commencing on the last day of the immediately preceding Interest Period applicable to such Daily Simple SOFR Loan, and ending one Month thereafter (or, if there is no such numerically corresponding day in such month, then the last day of such month), as selected by the Borrower by irrevocable notice to the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 A.M., New York City time, on the date that is three (3) U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to the last day of the then current Interest Period with respect thereto and (b) as to any Euribor Rate Loan, (i) initially, the period commencing on the borrowing or conversion date, as the case may be, with respect to such Euribor Rate Loan, and ending one, three or six Months thereafter, as selected by the Borrower in its notice of borrowing or notice of conversion, as the case may be, given with respect thereto, and (ii) thereafter, each period commencing on the last day of the immediately preceding Interest Period applicable to such Euribor Rate Loan, and ending one, three or six Months thereafter as selected by the Borrower by irrevocable notice to the Administrative Agent not later than (x) with respect to a Daily Simple SOFR Loan denominated in the Base Currency, 11:00 A.M., New York City time, on the date that is three (3) U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to the last day of the then current Interest Period with respect thereto and (y) with respect to a Euribor Rate Loan denominated in the Optional Currency, 11:00 A.M., New York City time, on the date that is four (4) Business Days prior to the last day of the then-current Interest Period with respect thereto;
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provided that, all of the foregoing provisions relating to Interest Periods are subject to the following:
(i)    with respect to any Daily Simple SOFR Loan, if any Interest Period would otherwise end on a day that is not a U.S. Government Securities Business Day, such Interest Period shall be extended to the next succeeding U.S. Government Securities Business Day unless the result of such extension would be to carry such Interest Period into another calendar month in which event such Interest Period shall end on the immediately preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day;
(ii)    the Borrower may not select an Interest Period that would extend beyond the Final Termination Date;
(iii)    any Interest Period for a Euribor Rate Loan that begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of a calendar month; and
(iv)    with respect to any Euribor Rate Loan, if any Interest Period would otherwise end on a day that is not a Business Day, such Interest Period shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless the result of such extension would be to carry such Interest Period into another calendar month in which event such Interest Period shall end on the immediately preceding Business Day.
“Judgment Currency”: as defined in Section 2.19(b).
“Joint Lead Arrangers”: Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, JPMorgan Securities plc, BBVA Securities Inc., Bank of America, N.A., BMO Capital Markets Corp., BNP Paribas Securities Corp., Citibank, N.A., Coöperatieve Rabobank U.A., New York Branch, Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., ING Bank N.V., Mizuho Bank, Ltd. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC.
“Lender Affiliate”: (a) any Affiliate of any Lender, (b) any Person that is administered or managed by any Lender or any Affiliate of any Lender and that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business and (c) with respect to any Lender which is a fund that invests in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit, any other fund that invests in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit and is managed or advised by the same investment advisor as such Lender or by an Affiliate of such Lender or investment advisor.
“Lender-Related Person”: as defined in Section 8.5.
“Lenders”: as defined in the preamble hereto; provided, that unless the context otherwise requires, each reference herein to the Lenders shall be deemed to include any Conduit Lender.
“Level I”, “Level II”, “Level III”, “Level IV” and “Level V”: the respective Level set forth below:
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S&P Moody’s
Level I A or higher A2 or higher
Level II A- A3
Level III BBB+ Baa1
Level IV BBB Baa2
Level V BBB- or lower Baa3 or lower

provided that if on any day the Applicable Moody’s Rating and the Applicable S&P Rating do not coincide for any rating category and the Level differential is (x) one level, then the higher of the Applicable S&P Rating or the Applicable Moody’s Rating will be the applicable Level; (y) two levels, the Level at the midpoint will be the applicable Level; and (z) more than two levels, the highest of the intermediate Levels will be the applicable Level; provided further that if on any day, neither the Applicable Moody’s Rating nor the Applicable S&P Rating is available, the applicable Level shall be Level V.
“Liabilities”: any losses, claims (including intraparty claims), demands, damages or liabilities of any kind.
“Lien”: with respect to any asset, (a) any mortgage, deed of trust, lien, pledge, encumbrance, charge or security interest in or on such asset and (b) the interest of a vendor or a lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or title retention agreement relating to such asset.
“Loan”: any loan made by any Lender pursuant to this Agreement.
“Loan Documents”: this Agreement, the Guaranty Agreement and the Notes.
“Loan Parties”: each Group Member that is a party to a Loan Document.
“Material Adverse Effect”: (a) a material adverse effect on the business, property, operations, condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of the Borrower or of the Guarantor and its consolidated Subsidiaries taken as a whole or (b) a material impairment of the validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents or the rights or remedies of the Administrative Agent or the Lenders against the Borrower or the Guarantor hereunder or under the other Loan Documents.
“Material Subsidiaries”: at any time, any Subsidiary of the Guarantor which at such time is a “significant subsidiary” within the meaning of Rule 1-02 under Regulation S-X promulgated by the SEC. The Material Subsidiaries as of the Closing Date are set forth on Schedule 1.2 hereto.
“Maximum Rate”: as defined in Section 8.8.
“Month”: a period starting on one day in a calendar month and ending on the numerically corresponding day in the next calendar month, except that (a) (subject to paragraph (c) below) if the numerically corresponding day is not a Business Day, that period shall end on the next Business Day in that calendar month in which that period is to end if there is one, or if there is not, on the immediately preceding Business Day; (b) if there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month in which that period is to end, that period shall end on the last Business Day in that calendar month; and (c) if an Interest Period begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month, that Interest Period shall end on the last Business Day in the calendar month in which that Interest Period is to end.
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“Moody’s”: Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. or any successor thereto.
“Multiemployer Plan”: with respect to any Person, a multiemployer plan as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA to which such Person or any ERISA Affiliate of such Person (other than one considered an ERISA Affiliate only pursuant to subsection (m) or (o) of Section 414 of the Code) is making or accruing an obligation to make contributions, or has within any of the preceding five plan years made or accrued an obligation to make contributions.
“Multiple Employer Plan”: a single employer plan, as defined in Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA, that (a) is maintained for employees of the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates and at least one Person other than the Borrower and its ERISA Affiliates or (b) was so maintained and in respect of which the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates could have liability under Section 4064 or 4069 of ERISA in the event such plan has been or were to be terminated.
“Non-U.S. Lender”: as defined in Section 2.14(e).
“Notes”: the collective reference to any promissory note evidencing Loans.
“NYFRB”: the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
“NYFRB Rate”: for any day, the greater of (a) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day and (b) the Overnight Bank Funding Rate in effect on such day (or for any day that is not a Business Day, for the immediately preceding Business Day); provided, that if none of such rates are published for any day that is a Business Day, the term “NYFRB Rate” means the rate for a federal funds transaction quoted at 11:00 a.m. on such day received by the Administrative Agent from a federal funds broker of recognized standing selected by it; provided, further, that if any of the aforesaid rates as so determined be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for purposes of this Agreement.
“Obligations”: the unpaid principal of and interest on (including interest accruing after the maturity of the Loans and interest accruing after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy, or the commencement of any insolvency, reorganization or like proceeding, relating to the Borrower, whether or not a claim for post-filing or post-petition interest is allowed in such proceeding) the Loans and all other obligations and liabilities of the Borrower to the Administrative Agent or to any Lender, whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, due or to become due, or now existing or hereafter incurred, which may arise under, out of, or in connection with, this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other document made, delivered or given in connection herewith or therewith, whether on account of principal, interest, reimbursement obligations, fees, indemnities, costs, expenses (including all fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the Administrative Agent or to any Lender that are required to be paid by the Borrower pursuant hereto) or otherwise.
“OFAC”: as defined in the definition of “Sanctions.”
“Optional Currency”: Euro.
“Original Termination Date”: March 1, 2029.
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“Other Connection Taxes”: with respect to a Lender or any other recipient of payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower hereunder, Taxes imposed as a result of a present or former connection between such Lender or other recipient and the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (other than connections arising from such Lender or other recipient having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, received or perfected a security interest under, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to or enforced any Loan Document, or sold or assigned an interest in any Loan or Loan Document).
“Other Lender”: as defined in Section 2.1(b).
“Other Taxes”: any and all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, recording, filing or similar Taxes or any other excise or property Taxes, charges or similar levies arising from any payment made hereunder or from the execution, delivery, performance, registration or enforcement of, from the receipt or perfection of a security interest under, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
“Outside Date”: the earliest of (a) June 13, 2024 (or solely to the extent the Initial Outside Date (as defined in the Business Combination Agreement in effect as of the Closing Date, without giving effect to any amendments thereto) is extended pursuant to Section 9.1(c) of the Business Combination Agreement, the earlier to occur of (x) such Extended Outside Date (as defined in the Business Combination Agreement in effect as of the Closing Date, without giving effect to any amendments thereto) and (y) June 13, 2025), and (b) the date that the Business Combination Agreement is terminated or expires in accordance with the terms thereof.
“Overnight Bank Funding Rate”: for any day, the rate comprised of both overnight federal funds and overnight eurodollar transactions denominated in Dollars by U.S.-managed banking offices of depository institutions, as such composite rate shall be determined by the NYFRB as set forth on its public website from time to time, and published on the next succeeding Business Day by the NYFRB as an overnight bank funding rate.
“Pari Passu Indebtedness”: (i) Indebtedness for borrowed money and (ii) indebtedness incurred in connection with Hedge Agreements entered into in connection with the Loans hereunder and any Pari Passu Indebtedness described in clause (i) above, in each case which ranks not greater than pari passu (in priority of payment) with the Loans.
“Participant”: as defined in Section 8.6(b).
“Participant Register”: as defined in Section 8.6(b).
“Participating Member State”: each state so described in any EMU Legislation.
“Patriot Act”: as defined in Section 8.18.
“Payment”: as defined in Section 7.13.
“Payment Notice”: as defined in Section 7.13.
“Payment Period”: a period commencing on a date on which the Loans (with accrued interest thereon) and all other amounts owing under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents have become due and payable (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) and ending on the date the Loans (with accrued interest thereon) and all such other amounts are paid in full by the Borrower or the Guarantor.
“Payment Recipient”: as defined in Section 7.13(a).
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“PBGC”: the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation established pursuant to Subtitle A of Title IV of ERISA and any Person succeeding to the functions thereof.
“Performing Lender”: any Lender that is a Defaulting Lender solely as a result of the occurrence of an event described in clause (d) of the definition of Defaulting Lender that following such event continues to perform all of its obligations under this Agreement and any other Loan Document, and has not been replaced or repaid in accordance with Section 2.18(b).
“Permitted Indebtedness”: (a) Indebtedness of the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement, (b) Pari Passu Indebtedness and (c) Subordinated Indebtedness.
“Permitted Parties”: as defined in Section 8.15.
“Person”: an individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, business trust, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated association, joint venture, Governmental Authority or other entity of whatever nature.
“Plan”: a Single Employer Plan or a Multiple Employer Plan.
“Plan Asset Regulations”: 29 CFR § 2510.3-101 et seq., as modified by Section 3(42) of ERISA, as amended from time to time.
“Prime Rate”: the rate of interest last quoted by The Wall Street Journal as the “Prime Rate” in the U.S. or, if The Wall Street Journal ceases to quote such rate, the highest per annum interest rate published by the Federal Reserve Board in Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.15 (519) (Selected Interest Rates) as the “bank prime loan” rate or, if such rate is no longer quoted therein, any similar rate quoted therein (as determined by the Administrative Agent) or any similar release by the Federal Reserve Board (as determined by the Administrative Agent). Each change in the Prime Rate shall be effective from and including the date such change is publicly announced or quoted as being effective; provided that, if the Prime Rate as so determined would be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed zero for purposes of this Agreement.
“PTE”: a prohibited transaction class exemption issued by the U.S. Department of Labor, as any such exemption may be amended from time to time.
“Rate of Exchange”: as of the relevant date, the rate of exchange set forth on the relevant page of the Reuters screen on or about 11:00 A.M., New York time, for the purchase of (as the context shall require) a currency with any other currency on such date.
“Reference Time”: with respect to any setting of the then-current Benchmark means (1) if such Benchmark is Daily Simple SOFR, 5:00 A.M. (Chicago time) on the day that is four (4) U.S. Government Securities Business Days preceding the date of such setting, (2) if such Benchmark is the Euribor Rate with respect to Euros, 11:00 A.M. Brussels time two (2) TARGET Days preceding the date of such setting and (3) if such Benchmark is not Daily Simple SOFR or Euribor Rate, the time determined by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion.
“Register”: as defined in Section 8.6(d).
“Regulation D”: Regulation D of the Federal Reserve Board, as in effect from time to time and all official rulings and interpretations thereunder or thereof.
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“Regulation U”: Regulation U of the Federal Reserve Board, as in effect from time to time and all official rulings and interpretations thereunder or thereof.
“Regulation X”: Regulation X of the Federal Reserve Board, as in effect from time to time and all official rulings and interpretations thereunder or thereof.
“Relevant Governmental Body”: (i) with respect to a Benchmark Replacement in respect of Loans denominated in Dollars, the Federal Reserve Board or the NYFRB, or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Board or the NYFRB, or any successor thereto, (ii) with respect to a Benchmark Replacement in respect of Loans denominated in Euros, the European Central Bank, or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the European Central Bank or, in each case, any successor thereto and (iii) with respect to a Benchmark Replacement in respect of Loans denominated in any other currency, (a) the central bank for the currency in which such Benchmark Replacement is denominated or any central bank or other supervisor which is responsible for supervising either (1) such Benchmark Replacement or (2) the administrator of such Benchmark Replacement or (b) any working group or committee officially endorsed or convened by (1) the central bank for the currency in which such Benchmark Replacement is denominated, (2) any central bank or other supervisor that is responsible for supervising either (A) such Benchmark Replacement or (B) the administrator of such Benchmark Replacement, (3) a group of those central banks or other supervisors or (4) the Financial Stability Board or any part thereof.
“Replacement Lender”: as defined in Section 2.3(e).
“Required Lenders”: at any time, the holders of more than 50% of the Aggregate Exposure Percentage.
“Requirement of Law”: as to any Person, the Certificate of Incorporation and By-Laws or other organizational or governing documents of such Person, and any law, treaty, rule or regulation or determination of an arbitrator or a court or other Governmental Authority, in each case applicable to or binding upon such Person or any of its property or to which such Person or any of its property is subject.
“Resolution Authority”: an EEA Resolution Authority or, with respect to any UK Financial Institution, a UK Resolution Authority.
“Responsible Officer”: as to any Person, any member of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Chief Financial Officer, the Treasurer or any Vice President of such Person or any other officer of such Person customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above-designated officers.
“Restricted Person”: a Person that is (a) listed on, or owned 50% or more by or controlled by a Person listed on any applicable Sanctions List; or (b) located in, a resident of, organized under the laws of, or owned or controlled by, or acting on behalf of, a Person located in or organized under the laws of a country or territory that is or whose government is the target of any applicable country-wide Sanctions. For the purposes of this definition, “control” means the possession of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. The term “controlled” has the meaning correlative thereto.
“S&P”: S&P Global Ratings or any successor thereto.
“Sanctions”: any applicable economic sanctions laws, regulations, embargoes or restrictive measures administered, enacted or enforced by: (i) the United States government; (ii)
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the United Nations; (iii) the European Union; (iv) the United Kingdom; (v) the relevant authorities of Switzerland; or (vi) the respective governmental institutions and agencies of any of the foregoing, including without limitation, the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Department of the Treasury (“OFAC”), the United States Department of State, and HM Treasury (together “Sanctions Authorities”).
“Sanctions Authorities”: as defined in the definition of “Sanctions.”
“Sanctions List”: any applicable list issued, maintained or made public by any of the Sanctions Authorities, including, but not limited to the “Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons” list issued by OFAC, the Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets issued by HM Treasury, or any similar applicable list issued or maintained or made public by any of the Sanctions Authorities.
“SEC”: the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Second Extension Request”: as defined in Section 2.3(a)(i).
“Second Extension Termination Date”: either (a) the date falling twelve (12) Months after the First Extension Termination Date or (b) if the First Extension Request has not been granted or, with respect to Lenders who have refused the First Extension Request, the date falling twenty-four (24) Months after the Original Termination Date.
“Single Employer Plan”: a single employer plan, as defined in Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA, that (a) is maintained for employees of the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates and no Person other than the Borrower and its ERISA Affiliates or for which the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates has liability, whether direct or contingent or (b) was so maintained and in respect of which the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates could have liability under Section 4069 of ERISA in the event such plan has been or were to be terminated.
“SOFR”: a rate equal to the secured overnight financing rate as administered by the SOFR Administrator.
“SOFR Adjustment”: with respect to Daily Simple SOFR, 0.10% per annum.
“SOFR Administrator”: the NYFRB (or a successor administrator of the secured overnight financing rate).
“SOFR Administrator’s Website”: the website of the NYFRB, 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.
“Solvent”: with respect to any Person on a particular date, that on such date (a) the fair value of the property of such Person is greater than the total amount of liabilities, including, without limitation, contingent liabilities, of such Person, (b) the present fair salable value of the assets of such Person is not less than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of such Person on its debts as they become absolute and matured, (c) such Person does not intend to, and does not believe that it will, incur debts or liabilities beyond such Person’s ability to pay such debts and liabilities as they mature and (d) such Person is not engaged in business or a transaction, and is not about to engage in business or a transaction, for which such Person’s property would constitute an unreasonably small capital. The amount of contingent liabilities at any time shall be computed as the amount that, in the light of all the facts and circumstances existing at such time, represents the amount that can reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability.
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“Statutory Reserve Rate”: a fraction (expressed as a decimal), the numerator of which is the number one and the denominator of which is the number one minus the aggregate of the maximum reserve percentages (including any marginal, special, emergency or supplemental reserves) expressed as a decimal established by the Federal Reserve Board to which the Administrative Agent is subject with respect to the Adjusted Euribor Rate, for eurocurrency funding (currently referred to as “Eurocurrency liabilities” in Regulation D) or any other reserve ratio or analogous requirement of any central banking or financial regulatory authority imposed in respect of the maintenance of the Commitments or the funding of the Loans. Such reserve percentages shall include those imposed pursuant to such Regulation D. Euribor Rate Loans shall be deemed to constitute eurocurrency funding and to be subject to such reserve requirements without benefit of or credit for proration, exemptions or offsets that may be available from time to time to any Lender under such Regulation D or any comparable regulation. The Statutory Reserve Rate shall be adjusted automatically on and as of the effective date of any change in any reserve percentage.
“Subordinated Indebtedness”: Indebtedness of the Borrower (including, without limitation, convertible notes), which is explicitly subordinated in right of payment to the payment in full in cash of the Obligations under the Loan Documents pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth in the transaction documents governing such Indebtedness.
“Subsidiary”: as to any Person, a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other entity of which shares of stock or other ownership interests having ordinary voting power (other than stock or such other ownership interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) to elect a majority of the board of directors or other managers of such corporation, partnership or other entity are at the time owned directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, or both, by such Person. Unless otherwise qualified, all references to a “Subsidiary” or to “Subsidiaries” in this Agreement shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Borrower.
“Syndication Agent”: as defined in the preamble hereto.
“T2”: the real time gross settlement system operated by the Eurosystem, or any successor system.
“TARGET Day”: any day on which T2 is open for the settlement of payments in Euro.
“Taxes”: all present or future income, stamp or other taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings (including backup withholding), assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.
“Total Commitments”: at any time, the aggregate amount in the Base Currency of all Lenders’ Commitments then in effect.
“Total Loans”: at any time, the aggregate principal amount of the Loans of the Lenders outstanding at such time (after converting the outstanding principal amount of any Loans denominated in the Optional Currency into the Dollar Equivalent thereof at such time).
“Transferee”: any Assignee or Participant.
“Type”: as to any Loan, its nature as an ABR Loan or Daily Simple SOFR Loan, Euribor Rate Loan.
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“UK Financial Institution”: 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”: the Bank of England or any other public administrative authority having responsibility for the resolution of any UK Financial Institution.
“Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement”: the applicable Benchmark Replacement excluding the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment.
“United States”: the United States of America.
“U.S. Government Securities Business Day”: any day except for (a) a Saturday, (b) a Sunday or (c) a day on which the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association recommends that the fixed income departments of its members be closed for the entire day for purposes of trading in United States government securities.
“U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate”: as defined in Section 2.14(f)(iii).
“Viterra”: Viterra Limited, together with its direct and indirect subsidiaries.
“Viterra Acquisition”: Bunge Global SA’s acquisition of all of the outstanding equity interests of Viterra, pursuant to the Business Combination Agreement, for an aggregate share consideration and cash consideration set forth in the Business Combination Agreement.
“Viterra Acquisition Closing Date”: the closing date of the Viterra Acquisition.
“Voting Stock”: with respect to any Person as of any date, the Capital Stock of such Person that is at the time entitled to vote in the election of the Board of Directors of such Person.
“Withdrawal Liability”: liability to a Multiemployer Plan as a result of a complete or partial withdrawal from such Multiemployer Plan, as such terms are defined in Title IV of ERISA.
“Withholding Agent”: any Loan Party and the Administrative Agent.
“Write-Down and Conversion Powers”: (a) 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 writedown and conversion powers are described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule, and (b) 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.
1.2    Other Definitional Provisions.
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(a)    Unless otherwise specified therein, all terms defined in this Agreement shall have the defined meanings when used in the other Loan Documents or any certificate or other document made or delivered pursuant hereto or thereto.
(b)    As used herein and in the other Loan Documents, and any certificate or other document made or delivered pursuant hereto or thereto, (i) accounting terms relating to any Group Member not defined in Section 1.1 and accounting terms partly defined in Section 1.1, to the extent not defined, shall have the respective meanings given to them under GAAP, (ii) the words “include”, “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation”, (iii) the word “incur” shall be construed to mean incur, create, issue, assume, become liable in respect of or suffer to exist (and the words “incurred” and “incurrence” shall have correlative meanings), (iv) the words “asset” and “property” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash, Capital Stock, securities, revenues, accounts, leasehold interests and contract rights, and (v) references to agreements or other Contractual Obligations shall, unless otherwise specified, be deemed to refer to such agreements or Contractual Obligations as amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, supplements, restatements or modifications set forth herein).
(c)    The words “hereof”, “herein” and “hereunder” and words of similar import, when used in this Agreement, shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement, and Section, Schedule and Exhibit references are to this Agreement unless otherwise specified.
(d)    The meanings given to terms defined herein shall be equally applicable to both the singular and plural forms of such terms.
(e)    For purposes of calculating the Dollar Equivalent of (i) any Loan or Borrowing denominated in the Optional Currency outstanding at any time during any period, (ii) any Loan denominated in the Optional Currency at the time of the making of such Loan pursuant to Section 2.1 and (iii) any other amount denominated in any other currency, the Administrative Agent will at least once during each calendar month and on or prior to the date of any Borrowing and the last day of any Interest Period and at such other times as it in its sole discretion decides to do so or as otherwise directed by the Required Lenders, determine the respective rate of exchange into Dollars of the Optional Currency or such other currency (which rate of exchange shall be based upon the Rate of Exchange in effect on the date of such determination). Such rate of exchange so determined on each such determination date shall, for purposes of the calculations described in the preceding sentence, be deemed to remain unchanged and in effect until the next such determination date.
(f)    Notwithstanding any other provision contained herein or in the other Loan Documents, all terms of an accounting or financial nature used herein and in the other Loan Documents shall be construed, and all computations of amounts and ratios referred to herein and in the other Loan Documents shall be made, and prepared:
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(i) in accordance with GAAP (including principles of consolidation where appropriate), and all accounting or financial terms shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms by GAAP; provided, however, that all accounting terms used in Section 5.2 below (and all defined terms used in the definition of any accounting term used in Section 5.2 below) shall have the meaning given to such terms (and defined terms) under GAAP as in effect on the Closing Date applied on a basis consistent with those used in preparing the financial statements referred to in Section 3.15 below. In the event of any change after the Closing Date in GAAP, and if such change would affect the computation of any of the financial covenants set forth in Section 5.2 below, then the parties hereto agree to endeavor, in good faith, to agree upon an amendment to this Agreement that would adjust such financial covenants in a manner that would preserve the original intent thereof, but would allow compliance therewith to be determined in accordance with the Borrower’s financial statements at the time, provided that, until so amended such financial covenants shall continue to be computed in accordance with GAAP prior to such change therein; and
(ii)    without giving effect to any election under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 159 (or any other Financial Accounting Standard having a similar result or effect) to value any Indebtedness or other liabilities of BLFC, the Guarantor or any of their Subsidiaries at “fair value”, as defined therein.
Notwithstanding any other provision contained herein, all obligations of the Guarantor, the Borrower and any of their respective Subsidiaries that are or would be characterized as an operating lease as determined in accordance with GAAP as in effect on December 14, 2018 (whether or not such operating lease was in effect on such date) shall continue to be accounted for as an operating lease (and not as a capital lease) for purposes of the Loan Documents regardless of any change in GAAP following December 14, 2018  (or any change in the implementation in GAAP for future periods that are contemplated as of December 14, 2018) that would otherwise require such obligation to be re-characterized as a capital lease and the Guarantor, the Borrower and their respective Subsidiaries shall continue to provide financial reporting which differentiates between operating leases and capital leases in accordance with GAAP as in effect on December 14, 2018.
1.3    Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes; Disclaimer.
(a)    In connection with the use, administration of, or conventions associated with, Daily Simple SOFR or any other Benchmark, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document. The Administrative Agent will reasonably promptly notify the Borrower of the effectiveness of any such Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes.
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(b) The Administrative Agent does not warrant or accept any responsibility for, and shall not have any liability with respect to, the continuation of, administration of, submission of, calculation of, or any other matter related to any interest rate used in this Agreement, or with respect to “ABR”, “Daily Simple SOFR” and “Euribor Rate”, any component definition thereof or rates referenced in the definition thereof or any alternative or successor rate thereto, or replacement rate thereof (including, without limitation, (i) any then-current Benchmark or any Benchmark Replacement, (ii) any alternative, successor or replacement rate implemented pursuant to Section 2.11, and (iii) the effect, implementation or composition of any Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes, including without limitation, (A) whether the composition or characteristics of any such alternative, successor or replacement reference rate (including any Benchmark Replacement) will be similar to, or produce the same value or economic equivalence of, or have the same volume or liquidity as ABR, the existing Benchmark or any subsequent Benchmark Replacement, or any existing interest rate prior to its discontinuance or unavailability (including any Benchmark), and (B) the impact or effect of such alternative, successor or replacement reference rate or Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes). The Administrative Agent may select information sources or services in its reasonable discretion to ascertain any ABR or any Benchmark, or any interest rate used in this Agreement, any component thereof, or rates referenced in the definition thereof, in each case pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, and shall have no liability to the Borrower, any Lender or any other Person for damages of any kind, including direct or indirect, special, punitive, incidental or consequential damages, costs, losses or expenses (whether in tort, contract or otherwise and whether at law or in equity), for any error or calculation of any such rate (or component thereof) provided by any such information source or service. The Administrative Agent and its affiliates or other related entities may engage in transactions that affect the calculation of ABR or any Benchmark, any alternative, successor or replacement rate (including any Benchmark Replacement) and/or any relevant adjustments thereto, in each case, in a manner adverse to the Borrower.
1.4    Divisions. For all purposes under the Loan Documents, in connection with any division or plan of division under Delaware law (or any comparable event under a different jurisdiction’s laws): (a) if any asset, right, obligation or liability of any Person becomes the asset, right, obligation or liability of a different Person, then it shall be deemed to have been transferred from the original Person to the subsequent Person, and (b) if any new Person comes into existence, such new Person shall be deemed to have been organized and acquired on the first date of its existence by the holders of its Capital Stock at such time.
SECTION 2.    AMOUNT AND TERMS OF COMMITMENTS
2.1    Commitments.
(a)    Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each Lender severally agrees to make revolving credit loans in either the Base Currency or, solely with respect to Euribor Rate Loans, the Optional Currency to the Borrower from time to time during the Commitment Period in an aggregate Dollar Equivalent principal amount at any one time outstanding which does not exceed the amount of such Lender’s Commitment. The Borrower shall not request and no Lender shall be required to make any Loan if, after making such Loan, the Total Loans would exceed the Total Commitments then in effect. During the Commitment Period the Borrower may use the Commitments by borrowing, prepaying the Loans in whole or in part, and reborrowing, all in accordance with the terms and conditions hereof. Subject to Section 2.11, each Loan shall be either an ABR Loan, a Daily Simple SOFR Loan or a Euribor Rate Loan (solely if denominated in the Optional Currency) as determined by the Borrower and notified to the Administrative Agent in accordance with Sections 2.2 and 2.7. Except as provided in Section 2.3(f), the Borrower shall repay all outstanding Loans not later than the Final Termination Date.
(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Borrower may request from time to time that the aggregate Commitments hereunder be increased by an aggregate amount not to exceed $1,500,000,000. The Borrower may (I) request one or more of the Lenders to increase the amount of its Current Commitment and/or Incremental Commitment (which request shall be in writing and sent to the Administrative Agent to forward to such Lender or Lenders) and/or (II) arrange for one or more banks or financial institutions not a party hereto (an “Other Lender”) to become parties to and Lenders under this Agreement, provided that the identification and arrangement of each Other Lender to become a party hereto and a Lender under this Agreement shall be made in consultation with the Administrative Agent. In no event may any Lender’s Current Commitment or Incremental Commitment be increased without the prior written consent of such Lender, and the failure of any Lender to respond to the Borrower’s request for an increase shall be deemed a rejection by such Lender of the Borrower’s request. The aggregate Commitments of all Lenders hereunder may not be increased if, at the time of any proposed increase hereunder, a Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary, no Lender shall have any obligation whatsoever to increase the amount of its Current Commitment or Incremental Commitment, and each Lender may at its option, unconditionally and without cause, decline to increase its Current Commitment or Incremental Commitment.
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(i)    If any Lender is willing, in its sole and absolute discretion, to increase the amount of its Current Commitment or Incremental Commitment hereunder (such a Lender hereinafter referred to as an “Increasing Lender”), it shall enter into a written agreement to that effect with the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, substantially in the form of Exhibit F (a “Commitment Increase Supplement”), which agreement shall specify, among other things, the amount of the increased Current Commitment and/or Incremental Commitment of such Increasing Lender. Upon the effectiveness of such Increasing Lender’s increase in Current Commitment or Incremental Commitment, Schedule 1.1 shall, without further action, be deemed to have been amended appropriately to reflect the increased Current Commitment and/or Incremental Commitment, as applicable, of such Increasing Lender. Any Other Lender which is willing to become a party hereto and a Lender hereunder (and which arrangement to become a party hereto and a Lender hereunder has been consulted by the Borrower with the Administrative Agent) shall enter into a written agreement with the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, substantially in the form of Exhibit G (an “Additional Lender Supplement”), which agreement shall specify, among other things, its Current Commitment and/or Incremental Commitment, as applicable, hereunder. When such Other Lender becomes a Lender hereunder as set forth in the Additional Lender Supplement, Schedule 1.1 shall, without further action, be deemed to have been amended as appropriate to reflect the Current Commitment and/or Incremental Commitment, as applicable, of such Other Lender. Upon the execution by the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such Other Lender of such Additional Lender Supplement, such Other Lender shall become and be deemed a party hereto and a “Lender” hereunder for all purposes hereof and shall enjoy all rights and assume all obligations on the part of the Lenders set forth in this Agreement, and its Current Commitment and/or Incremental Commitment, as applicable, shall be the amount specified in its Additional Lender Supplement. Each Other Lender which executes and delivers an Additional Lender Supplement and becomes a party hereto and a “Lender” hereunder pursuant to such Additional Lender Supplement is hereinafter referred to as an “Additional Lender.”
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(ii) In no event shall an increase in a Lender’s Current Commitment or Incremental Commitment or the Current Commitment or Incremental Commitment of an Other Lender become effective until the Administrative Agent shall have received an acknowledgement and consent from the Guarantor that the Guaranty Agreement remains valid and enforceable. In no event shall an increase in a Lender’s Current Commitment or Incremental Commitment or the Current Commitment or Incremental Commitment of an Other Lender which results in the aggregate Commitments of all Lenders hereunder exceeding the amount which is authorized at such time in resolutions previously delivered to the Administrative Agent become effective until the Administrative Agent shall have received a copy of the resolutions, in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, of the Board of Directors of the Guarantor authorizing the borrowings by the Borrower contemplated pursuant to such increase, certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Guarantor. Upon the effectiveness of the increase in a Lender’s Current Commitment or Incremental Commitment or the Current Commitment or Incremental Commitment of an Other Lender pursuant to the preceding sentence and execution by an Increasing Lender of a Commitment Increase Supplement or by an Additional Lender of an Additional Lender Supplement, the Borrower shall make such borrowing from such Increasing Lender or Additional Lender, and/or shall make such prepayment of outstanding Loans, as shall be required to cause the aggregate outstanding Dollar Equivalent principal amount of Loans owing to each Lender (including each such Increasing Lender and Additional Lender) to be proportional to such Lender’s share of the aggregate Commitments hereunder after giving effect to any increase thereof. The Borrower agrees to indemnify each Lender and to hold each Lender harmless from any loss or expense incurred as a result of any such prepayment in accordance with Section 2.15, as applicable.
(iii)    No Other Lender may become an Additional Lender unless an Additional Lender Supplement (or counterparts thereof) has been signed by such bank or financial institution and which Additional Lender Supplement has been agreed to and acknowledged by the Borrower and acknowledged by the Administrative Agent. No consent of any Lender or acknowledgment of any of the other Lenders hereunder shall be required therefor. In no event shall the Commitment of any Lender be increased by reason of any bank or financial institution becoming an Additional Lender, or otherwise, but the aggregate Commitments hereunder shall be increased by the amount of each Additional Lender’s Commitment. Upon any Lender entering into a Commitment Increase Supplement or any Additional Lender becoming a party hereto, the Administrative Agent shall notify each other Lender thereof and shall deliver to each Lender a copy of the Additional Lender Supplement executed by such Additional Lender and agreed to and acknowledged by the Borrower and acknowledged by the Administrative Agent, and the Commitment Increase Supplement executed by such Increasing Lender and agreed to and acknowledged by the Borrower and acknowledged by the Administrative Agent.
(c)    Any Lender may, at its option, make any Loan available to the Borrower by causing any branch or Affiliate of such Lender to make such Loan; provided that any exercise of such option shall not (i) affect the obligation of the Borrower to repay such Loan in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and (ii) shall not increase the amount of Indemnified Taxes payable by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.14.
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2.2 Procedure for Loan Borrowing. The Borrower may borrow under the Commitments during the Commitment Period on any Business Day, provided that the Borrower shall give the Administrative Agent irrevocable notice (which notice must be received by (a) the Administrative Agent prior to 11:00 A.M., New York City time, three (3) U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to the requested Borrowing Date, in the case of Daily Simple SOFR Loans denominated in the Base Currency, (b) the Administrative Agent (London Office) prior to 11:00 A.M., London time, four (4) Business Days prior to the requested Borrowing Date, in the case of Euribor Rate Loans denominated in the Optional Currency, or (c) the Administrative Agent prior to 11:00 A.M., New York City time, on the requested Borrowing Date, in the case of ABR Loans), specifying (i) the amount and Type of Loans to be borrowed, (ii) whether such Loans are to be denominated in the Base Currency or in the Optional Currency, (iii) the requested Borrowing Date and (iv) in the case of Daily Simple SOFR Loans and Euribor Rate Loans, the length of the initial Interest Period therefor. Each borrowing under the Commitments shall be in an amount equal to (x) in the case of ABR Loans, $1,000,000 or a whole multiple thereof (or, if the then aggregate Available Commitments are less than $1,000,000, such lesser amount), (y) in the case of Daily Simple SOFR Loans denominated in the Base Currency, $5,000,000 or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof and (z) in the case of Euribor Rate Loans denominated in the Optional Currency, EUR 5,000,000 or a whole multiple of EUR 1,000,000 in excess thereof. Upon receipt of any such notice from the Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender thereof. Each Lender will make the amount of its pro rata share of each borrowing available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Borrower at the Funding Office prior to 1:00 P.M., New York City time (the “Borrowing Time”), on the Borrowing Date requested by the Borrower, in each case in funds immediately available in Euros or Dollars, as the case may be, to the Administrative Agent. Such borrowing will then be made available at 2:00 P.M., New York City time on the Borrowing Date to the Borrower by the Administrative Agent crediting the account of the Borrower on the books of such office with the aggregate of the amounts made available to the Administrative Agent by the Lenders and in like funds as received by the Administrative Agent. Should any such borrowing notice from the Borrower indicate an account on the books of another bank or financial institution, the Administrative Agent shall transfer the amounts described in such borrowing notice to such account within a reasonable period of time.
2.3    Extension Option.
(a)    Extension Request. The Borrower shall be entitled to request that the Original Termination Date be extended for an additional period of twelve (12) Months by giving notice (the “First Extension Request”) to the Administrative Agent not less than thirty (30) days before the Original Termination Date.
(i)    The Borrower shall be entitled to request that the Original Termination Date and/or the First Extension Termination Date be extended by giving notice (the “Second Extension Request”) to the Administrative Agent as set out below:
(A)    with respect to Lenders who have agreed to the First Extension Request, the Borrower may deliver a Second Extension Request to the Administrative Agent not less than thirty (30) days before the First Extension Termination Date for an extension for a further period of twelve (12) Months; and/or
(B)    with respect to Lenders who refused the First Extension Request, the Borrower may deliver a Second Extension Request to the Administrative Agent not less than thirty (30) days before the Original Termination Date for an extension for a period of twenty-four (24) Months,
as selected by the Borrower in the notice to the Administrative Agent.
The First Extension Request and Second Extension Request are together referred to as “Extension Requests” and each as an “Extension Request”.
(b)    Notification of Extension Request. The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders of any Extension Request as soon as practicable after receipt of it.
(c) Lenders’ Response to Extension Request. Each Lender may, in its sole discretion, agree to any Extension Request (each such lender, a “Consenting Lender”) by providing notice to the Administrative Agent on or before the date falling fifteen (15) days after the First Extension Request or the Second Extension Request, as applicable.
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(i)    The Commitment of each Consenting Lender will be extended for the period applicable to it and referred to in such Extension Request; provided that the Required Lenders have agreed to such extension.
(ii)    If any Lender:
(A)    fails to reply to an Extension Request within the time period set out in paragraph (c); or
(B)    declines an Extension Request by the date falling fifteen (15) days after the First Extension Request or the Second Extension Request, as applicable,
(in each case, a “Declining Lender”), its Commitment will not be extended.
(d)    Form of Extension Request.    Each Extension Request shall be made in writing and be irrevocable.
(e)    Replacement of Declining Lenders. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower no later than the date falling fifteen (15) days after the First Extension Request or the Second Extension Request, as applicable, which Lenders are Declining Lenders (if applicable).
(i)    If the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower of one or more Declining Lenders, the Borrower may, on fifteen (15) days’ notice to the Administrative Agent replace a Declining Lender by requiring such Declining Lender to (and such Declining Lender shall) transfer, pursuant to Section 8.6, all (and not only part) of its rights and obligations under this Agreement to a Consenting Lender or another bank, financial institution, trust fund or other entity (to the extent not a Consenting Lender, a “Replacement Lender”) selected by the Borrower which is acceptable to the Administrative Agent (acting reasonably) which confirms its willingness to assume and does assume all the obligations of such Declining Lender for a purchase price in cash payable at the time of transfer at least equal to the principal amount of such Declining Lender’s participation in outstanding Loans under this Agreement and all accrued interest, costs and other amounts then due to the Declining Lender at such time.
(ii)    The replacement of a Declining Lender pursuant to this Section 2.3(e) shall be subject to the following conditions:
(A)    none of the Administrative Agent, any Joint Lead Arranger or any Lender shall have any obligation to find a Replacement Lender;
(B)    such replacement must take place by no later than the Original Termination Date or the First Extension Termination Date (as applicable);
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(C)    in no event shall the relevant Declining Lender be required to pay or surrender to the relevant Replacement Lender any of the fees or other amounts received by such Declining Lender pursuant to the Loan Documents prior to the date of such replacement; and
(D)    any Assignment and Acceptance executed by the relevant Declining Lender and the relevant Replacement Lender shall include a confirmation from the Replacement Lender that it has agreed to the extension of the Original Termination Date or the First Extension Termination Date, as applicable, requested by the Borrower in accordance with this Section 2.3.
(f)    Reduction of Facility. If, with respect to any Extension Request, (i) the Required Lenders agree to such extension, (ii) there are any Declining Lenders and (iii) such Declining Lenders cannot be replaced pursuant to Section 2.3(e), then all outstanding principal, interest and other amounts payable to the Declining Lenders shall be repaid on the then current Final Termination Date and the Total Commitments will be automatically reduced by each such Declining Lender’s Commitment on the then current Final Termination Date applicable to such Declining Lender once such repayment has been made.
(g)    Extension of the Facility. The then current Final Termination Date of this Agreement will be extended to the First Extension Termination Date or, as the case may be, the Second Extension Termination Date, in an aggregate amount equal to the sum of the aggregate Commitments of the Consenting Lenders (together with the aggregate Commitments of the Replacement Lenders, if applicable). For the avoidance of doubt, the aggregate Commitments in respect of which the Final Termination Date has been extended under this clause shall not exceed the Total Commitments.
(h)    Limitations. No more than two Extension Requests may be given, of which only one (1) extension may be used during any twelve (12) month period. Further, no extension shall result in a Final Termination Date that is later than the fifth (5th) anniversary of the effective date of such extension. For the avoidance of doubt, the Final Termination Date cannot extend beyond the date falling eighty-four (84) Months after the Closing Date. In addition, no extension pursuant to this Section 2.3 shall be effective unless the Required Lenders are Consenting Lenders with respect to such extension.
(i)    Conditions Precedent to Each Extension. The extension of the Commitment of each Consenting Lender shall be subject to the following conditions precedent:
(j)    Representations and Warranties. The representations and warranties set forth in Section 3 hereof shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of such date of extension; provided that, the representations and warranties made in Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.9, 3.13, 3.14 and 3.15 shall be true and correct in all respects as of such date of extension.
2.4    Commitment Fees, etc.
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(a) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender (other than a Defaulting Lender that is not a Performing Lender) a commitment fee in Dollars for the period from and including the Closing Date to the last day of the Commitment Period, computed at a rate per annum equal to for each day during such period the Commitment Fee Rate on such day, on (x) the amount of the Available Commitment of such Lender on such day and (y) prior to the Viterra Acquisition Closing Date, the amount of the Incremental Commitment of such Lender on such day, it being understood, for the avoidance of doubt, such fee shall accrue on the outstanding amount of Incremental Commitments prior to the Commitment Period commencing pursuant to Section 4.3, in each case payable quarterly in arrears on January 15th, April 15th, July 15th and October 15th and on the Final Termination Date, commencing on the first of such dates to occur after the Closing Date.
(b)    The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent the fees in the amounts and on the dates previously agreed to in writing by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
2.5    Termination or Reduction of Commitments. The Borrower shall have the right, upon not less than three (3) Business Days’ notice to the Administrative Agent, to terminate the Commitments or, from time to time, to reduce the amount of the Commitments; provided that no such termination or reduction of Commitments shall be permitted if, after giving effect thereto and to any prepayments of the Loans made on the effective date thereof, the Total Loans would exceed the Total Commitments. Any such reduction shall be in an amount equal to at least $1,000,000 or any larger whole multiple thereof, and shall reduce permanently the Commitments then in effect. The Commitments will terminate in full on the Final Termination Date with respect to such Commitments.
2.6    Prepayments.
(a)    The Borrower may at any time and from time to time prepay the Loans, in whole or in part, without premium or penalty, upon irrevocable notice delivered to the Administrative Agent no later than (i) 11:00 A.M., New York City time, three (3) U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior thereto, in the case of Daily Simple SOFR Loans, (ii) 11:00 A.M., New York City time, four (4) Business Days prior thereto, in the case of Euribor Rate Loans denominated in the Optional Currency and (iii) 11:00 A.M., New York City time, on the date thereof, in the case of ABR Loans, which notice shall specify the date and amount of prepayment and whether the prepayment is of Daily Simple SOFR Loans, Euribor Rate Loans denominated in the Optional Currency or ABR Loans; provided, that if a Daily Simple SOFR Loan or Euribor Rate Loan is prepaid on any day other than the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, the Borrower shall also pay any amounts owing pursuant to Section 2.15. Upon receipt of any such notice the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each relevant Lender thereof. If any such notice is given, the amount specified in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified therein, together with accrued interest to such date on the amount prepaid. Partial prepayments of Loans shall be in an aggregate principal amount of $1,000,000 (with respect to ABR Loans and Daily Simple SOFR Loans denominated in the Base Currency) or EUR 1,000,000 (with respect to Euribor Rate Loans denominated in the Optional Currency) or a whole multiple thereof.
(b)    If, on any date, the Total Loans outstanding on such date exceed the Total Commitments in effect on such date, the Borrower immediately shall prepay the Loans in the amount of such excess. Any such prepayment of Loans pursuant to this Section 2.6(b) shall be made together with accrued interest to the date of such prepayment on the amount prepaid and the Borrower shall also pay any amounts owing pursuant to Section 2.15.
2.7    Conversion and Continuation Options.
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(a)    The Borrower may elect from time to time to convert Daily Simple SOFR Loans to ABR Loans by giving the Administrative Agent prior irrevocable notice of such election no later than 11:00 A.M., New York City time, on the proposed Daily Simple SOFR Conversion Date, provided that any such conversion of Daily Simple SOFR Loans may only be made on the last day of an Interest Period with respect thereto. The Borrower may elect from time to time to convert ABR Loans to Daily Simple SOFR Loans by giving the Administrative Agent prior irrevocable notice of such election no later than 11:00 A.M., New York City time, on the third (3rd) Business Day preceding the proposed conversion date (such conversion date, the “ABR Conversion Date”) (which notice shall specify the length of the initial Interest Period therefor), provided that no ABR Loan may be converted into a Daily Simple SOFR Loan when any Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Administrative Agent has or the Required Lenders have determined in its or their sole discretion not to permit such conversions. Upon receipt of any such notice the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each relevant Lender thereof.
(b)    Any Daily Simple SOFR Loan or Euribor Rate Loan may be continued as such upon the expiration of the then current Interest Period with respect thereto by the Borrower giving irrevocable notice to the Administrative Agent, in accordance with the applicable provisions of the term “Interest Period” set forth in Section 1.1 (the date of such continuation, the “Continuation Date”), of the length of the next Interest Period applicable to such Loans, provided, that no Daily Simple SOFR Loan or Euribor Rate Loan may be continued as such when any Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Administrative Agent has or the Required Lenders have determined in its or their sole discretion not to permit such continuations, and provided, further, that if the Borrower shall fail to give any required notice as described above in this paragraph or if such continuation is not permitted pursuant to the preceding proviso, any such Daily Simple SOFR Loans denominated in the Base Currency shall be automatically converted to ABR Loans on the last day of such then expiring Interest Period, and any such Euribor Rate Loans denominated in the Optional Currency shall as of the last day of such then expiring Interest Period bear interest at such rate as the Administrative Agent determines adequately reflects the costs (including a comparable margin to that set forth herein) to the Lenders of maintaining such Loans. Upon receipt of any such notice the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each relevant Lender thereof.
2.8    Limitations on Benchmark Borrowings. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, all borrowings, conversions and continuations of Benchmark Loans and all selections of Interest Periods shall be in such amounts and be made pursuant to such elections so that, after giving effect thereto, (a) the aggregate principal amount of Daily Simple SOFR Loans denominated in the Base Currency comprising each Daily Simple SOFR Borrowing or in the Base Currency shall be equal to $5,000,000 or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, and (b) the aggregate principal amount of the Euribor Rate Loans denominated in the Optional Currency comprising each Euribor Rate Borrowing in the Optional Currency shall be equal to EUR 5,000,000 or a whole multiple of EUR 1,000,000 in excess thereof and (c) no more than fifteen (15) Benchmark Borrowings, collectively, shall be outstanding at any one time.
2.9    Interest Rates and Payment Dates.
(a)    Each Daily Simple SOFR Loan shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to (i) Daily Simple SOFR as determined for such day plus (ii) the SOFR Adjustment plus (iii) the Applicable Margin.
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(b)    Each Euribor Rate Loan shall bear interest for each day during each Interest Period with respect thereto at a rate per annum equal to (i) the Adjusted Euribor Rate as determined for such day plus (ii) the Applicable Margin.
(c)    Each ABR Loan shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to (i) the ABR plus (with the following amount in no event to be less than zero) (ii) the Applicable Margin minus one percent (1%); provided, that if ABR is being used as an alternate rate of interest pursuant to Section 2.11 (for the avoidance of doubt, only until the Benchmark Replacement has been determined pursuant to Section 2.11(b), then this clause (ii) shall instead be the Applicable Margin (without subtracting one percent (1%)).
(d)    During the continuance of an Event of Default all outstanding Loans (whether or not overdue) shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the rate that would otherwise be applicable thereto pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section plus 2%. If all or a portion of any interest payable on any Loan or any commitment fee or other amount payable hereunder (other than any amount to which the preceding sentence is applicable) shall not be paid when due (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise), such overdue amount shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the rate then applicable to ABR Loans plus 2% from the date of such non-payment until such amount is paid in full (as well after as before judgment).
(e)    Interest shall be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date, provided that interest accruing pursuant to paragraph (e) of this Section shall be payable from time to time on demand.
2.10    Computation of Interest and Fees.
(a)    Interest and fees payable pursuant hereto shall be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year for the actual days elapsed, except that, with respect to ABR Loans the rate of interest on which is calculated on the basis of the Prime Rate, the interest thereon shall be calculated on the basis of a 365- (or 366-, as the case may be) day year for the actual days elapsed. The Administrative Agent shall as soon as practicable notify the Borrower and the relevant Lenders of each determination of an Adjusted Euribor Rate. Any change in the interest rate on a Loan resulting from a change in the ABR or the Statutory Reserve Rate shall become effective as of the opening of business on the day on which such change becomes effective. The Administrative Agent shall as soon as practicable notify the Borrower and the relevant Lenders of the effective date and the amount of each such change in interest rate.
(b)    Each determination of an interest rate by the Administrative Agent pursuant to any provision of this Agreement shall be conclusive and binding on the Borrower and the Lenders in the absence of manifest error. The Administrative Agent shall, at the request of the Borrower, deliver to the Borrower a statement showing the quotations used by the Administrative Agent in determining any interest rate pursuant to 2.9(a), (b), (c) and (d).
2.11    Alternate Rate of Interest.
(a)    Subject to clauses (b), (c), (d), (e) and (f) of this Section 2.11, if prior to the first day of any Interest Period for a Benchmark Borrowing denominated in any currency: (i) the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) that adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining Daily Simple SOFR for Dollars, or the Euribor Rate for the Optional Currency, and for any requested Interest Period, including because the Euribor Screen
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Rate is not available or published on a current basis; or (ii) the Administrative Agent is advised by the Required Lenders that Daily Simple SOFR for Dollars, or the Euribor Rate for the Optional Currency, and any requested Interest Period will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders (or Lender) of making or maintaining their Loans (or its Loan), including in such Borrowing for the applicable currency and such Interest Period;
then the Administrative Agent shall give notice thereof to the Borrower and the Lenders by telephone, telecopy or electronic mail as promptly as practicable thereafter and, until the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower and the Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to such notice no longer exist, (x) any interest election request that requests the conversion of any Borrowing to, or continuation of any Borrowing as, a Daily Simple SOFR Loan shall be ineffective, (y) if any Borrowing request requests Daily Simple SOFR Loans, such Borrowing shall be made as ABR Loans and (z) if any Borrowing request requests a Euribor Rate Borrowing for the relevant rate above in the Optional Currency, such Borrowing shall be ineffective; provided, that if the circumstances giving rise to such notice affect only one Type of Borrowings, then all other Types of Borrowings shall be permitted. Furthermore, if any Benchmark Loan in any Agreed Currency is outstanding on the date of the Borrower’s receipt of the notice from the Administrative Agent referred to in this Section 2.11 with respect to the applicable rate applicable to such Benchmark Loan, then until the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower and the Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to such notice no longer exist, then (i) any such Daily Simple SOFR Loan shall immediately be converted by the Administrative Agent to, and shall constitute, an ABR Loan denominated in Dollars and (ii) if such Benchmark Loan is denominated in the Optional Currency, then such Loan shall, on the last day of the Interest Period applicable to such Loan (or the next succeeding Business Day if such day is not a Business Day) bear interest at the Central Bank Rate plus the Applicable Margin; provided that, if the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error) that the Central Bank Rate for the Optional Currency cannot be determined, any outstanding affected Benchmark Loans denominated in the Optional Currency shall, at the Borrower’s election prior to such day: (A) be prepaid by the Borrower on such day or (B) solely for the purpose of calculating the interest rate applicable to such Benchmark Loan, such Benchmark Loan denominated in the Optional Currency shall be deemed to be a Daily Simple SOFR Loan denominated in Dollars and shall accrue interest at the same interest rate applicable to Daily Simple SOFR Loans denominated in Dollars at such time.
(b)    Benchmark Replacement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, if a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred prior to the Reference Time in respect of any setting of the then-current Benchmark, then such Benchmark Replacement will replace such Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document 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 the Lenders without any amendment to, or further action or consent of any other party to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document so long as the Administrative Agent has not received, by such time, written notice of objection to such Benchmark Replacement from Lenders comprising the Required Lenders.
(c) Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes. The Administrative Agent will have the right to make Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
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(d)    Notices; Standards for Decisions and Determinations. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders of (i) any occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event 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 (e) below and (v) the commencement or conclusion of any Benchmark Unavailability Period. Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Administrative Agent or, if applicable, any Lender (or group of Lenders) pursuant to this Section 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 or any other Loan Document, except, in each case, as expressly required pursuant to this Section 2.11.
(e)    Unavailability of Tenor of Benchmark. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, at any time (including in connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement), (i) if the then-current Benchmark is a term rate (including Euribor 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 Administrative Agent 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 Administrative Agent may modify 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 Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” for all Benchmark settings at or after such time to reinstate such previously removed tenor.
(f) Benchmark Unavailability Period. Upon the Borrower’s receipt of notice of the commencement of a Benchmark Unavailability Period, the Borrower may revoke any request for a Benchmark Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Daily Simple SOFR Loans or Euribor Rate Loans, as applicable, to be made, converted or continued during any Benchmark Unavailability Period and, failing that, either (x) the Borrower will be deemed to have converted any such request for a Daily Simple SOFR Borrowing denominated in Dollars into a request for a Borrowing of or conversion to ABR Loans or (y) the Borrower will be deemed to have converted any request for a Euribor Rate Borrowing denominated in the Optional Currency shall be ineffective. During any Benchmark Unavailability Period or at any time that a tenor for the then-current Benchmark is not an Available Tenor, the component of ABR based upon the then-current Benchmark or such tenor for such Benchmark, as applicable, will not be used in any determination of ABR. Furthermore, if any Benchmark Loan in any Agreed Currency is outstanding on the date of the Borrower’s receipt of notice of the commencement of a Benchmark Unavailability Period, then until such time as a Benchmark Replacement for such Agreed Currency is implemented pursuant to this Section 2.11 (i) if such Daily Simple SOFR Loan is denominated in Dollars, on the date of receipt of such notice with respect to such Loan, such Loan shall be converted by the Administrative Agent to, and shall constitute, an ABR Loan, and (ii) if such Benchmark Loan is denominated in the Optional Currency, then such Loan shall, on the last day of the Interest Period applicable to such Loan (or the next succeeding Business Day if such day is not a Business Day) bear interest at the Central Bank Rate plus the Applicable Margin; provided that, if the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error) that the Central Bank Rate for the Optional Currency cannot be determined, any outstanding affected Benchmark Loans denominated in the Optional Currency shall, at the Borrower’s election prior to such day: (A) be prepaid by the Borrower on such day or (B) solely for the purpose of calculating the interest rate applicable to such Benchmark Loan, such Benchmark Loan denominated in the Optional Currency shall be deemed to be a Daily Simple SOFR Loan denominated in Dollars and shall accrue interest at the same interest rate applicable to Daily Simple SOFR Loans denominated in Dollars at such time.
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2.12    Pro Rata Treatment and Payments.
(a)    Each borrowing by the Borrower from the Lenders hereunder shall be made pro rata according to the respective Commitments of the Lenders. Except as otherwise provided in Sections 2.3(f) and 2.18(b), any reduction of the Commitments of the Lenders shall be made pro rata according to the respective Commitments of the Lenders. Each payment by the Borrower on account of any commitment fee with respect to any period shall be made pro rata according to the respective average daily Available Commitments of the Lenders for such period; provided, that the Borrower shall not be obligated to pay any commitment fee owed to a Lender with respect to any period during which such Lender became a Defaulting Lender and such Defaulting Lender’s Available Commitment shall not be included in the calculation of the commitment fees owed to the Lenders that are not Defaulting Lenders during such period, unless in either case such Lender remains a Performing Lender during such period.
(b)    Except as otherwise provided in Sections 2.3(f) and 2.18(b), each payment (including each prepayment) by the Borrower on account of principal of and interest on the Loans shall be made pro rata according to the then Dollar Equivalent of the respective outstanding principal amounts of the Loans then held by the Lenders.
(c)    All payments (including prepayments) to be made by the Borrower hereunder, whether on account of principal, interest, fees or otherwise, shall be made without setoff or counterclaim and shall be made prior to 12:00 Noon, New York City time, on the due date thereof to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Lenders, at the Funding Office, in immediately available funds. Payments and prepayments of principal of and interest on Loans denominated in the Optional Currency shall be made in the Optional Currency; payments and prepayments of all other amounts hereunder shall be made in the Base Currency. The Administrative Agent shall distribute such payments to the Lenders promptly upon receipt in like funds as received. If any payment hereunder (other than payments on Benchmark Loans) becomes due and payable on a day other than a Business Day, such payment shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day. If any payment on a Benchmark Loan becomes due and payable on a day other than a Business Day, the maturity thereof shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless the result of such extension would be to extend such payment into another calendar month, in which event such payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Business Day. In the case of any extension of any payment of principal pursuant to the preceding two sentences, interest thereon shall be payable at the then applicable rate during such extension.
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(d)    Unless the Administrative Agent shall have been notified in writing by any Lender prior to the Borrowing Time on a Borrowing Date that such Lender will not make the amount that would constitute its share of such borrowing on such date available to the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such amount available to the Administrative Agent on such Borrowing Date, and the Administrative Agent may, but shall not be so required to, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrower a corresponding amount. If such amount is not made available to the Administrative Agent by the required time on such Borrowing Date, and if the Administrative Agent makes such corresponding amount available to the Borrower, then such Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent, on demand, such amount with interest thereon, at a rate equal to the greater of (i) the NYFRB Rate and (ii) a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation, for the period until such Lender makes such amount immediately available to the Administrative Agent. A certificate of the Administrative Agent submitted to any Lender with respect to any amounts owing under this paragraph shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error. If the Administrative Agent makes such Lender’s share of such borrowing available to the Borrower, and if such Lender’s share of such borrowing is not made available to the Administrative Agent by such Lender within three (3) Business Days after such Borrowing Date, the Administrative Agent shall also be entitled to recover such amount with interest thereon at the rate per annum applicable to ABR Loans, on demand, from the Borrower. The failure of any Lender to make any Loan on any Borrowing Date shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligation hereunder to make a Loan on such Borrowing Date pursuant to the provisions contained herein, but no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to make the Loan to be made by such other Lender on any Borrowing Date.
(e)    Unless the Administrative Agent shall have been notified in writing by the Borrower prior to the date of any payment due to be made by the Borrower hereunder that the Borrower will not make such payment to the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower is making such payment, and the Administrative Agent may, but shall not be required to, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Lenders their respective pro rata shares of a corresponding amount. If such payment is not made to the Administrative Agent by the Borrower within three (3) Business Days after such due date, the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to recover, on demand, from each Lender to which any amount which was made available pursuant to the preceding sentence, such amount with interest thereon at the rate per annum equal to the daily average NYFRB Rate. Nothing herein shall be deemed to limit the rights of the Administrative Agent or any Lender against the Borrower.
2.13    Requirements of Law.
(a)    If the adoption of or any change in any Requirement of Law or in the interpretation or application thereof or compliance by any Lender with any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) from any central bank or other Governmental Authority made subsequent to the Closing Date (a “Change in Law”):
(i)    shall subject any Lender to any Taxes (other than (A) Indemnified Taxes, (B) Taxes described in clauses (b) through (d) of the definition of Excluded Taxes and (C) Connection Income Taxes) on its loans, loan principal, letters of credit, commitments or other obligations, or its deposits, reserves, other liabilities or capital attributable thereto;
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(ii)    shall impose, modify or hold applicable any reserve, special deposit, compulsory loan or similar requirement against assets held by, deposits or other liabilities in or for the account of, advances, loans or other extensions of credit by, or any other acquisition of funds by, any office of such Lender that is not otherwise included in the determination of the Benchmark; or
(iii)    shall impose on such Lender any other condition;
and the result of any of the foregoing is to increase the cost to such Lender, by an amount that such Lender deems to be material, of making, converting into, continuing or maintaining any Loans or to reduce any amount receivable hereunder in respect thereof, then, in any such case, the Borrower shall promptly pay such Lender, upon its demand, any additional amounts necessary to compensate such Lender for such increased cost or reduced amount receivable. If any Lender becomes entitled to claim any additional amounts pursuant to this paragraph, it shall promptly notify the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) of the event by reason of which it has become so entitled.
(b)    If any Lender shall have determined that the adoption of or any change in any Requirement of Law regarding capital adequacy or liquidity or in the interpretation or application thereof or compliance by such Lender or any corporation controlling such Lender with any request or directive regarding capital adequacy or liquidity (whether or not having the force of law) from any Governmental Authority made subsequent to the Closing Date shall have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s or such corporation’s capital as a consequence of its obligations hereunder to a level below that which such Lender or such corporation could have achieved but for such adoption, change or compliance (taking into consideration such Lender’s or such corporation’s policies with respect to capital adequacy or liquidity) by an amount deemed by such Lender to be material, then from time to time, after submission by such Lender to the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) of a written request therefor, the Borrower shall pay to such Lender such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or such corporation for such reduction; provided that the Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender pursuant to this paragraph for any amounts incurred more than six Months prior to the date that such Lender notifies the Borrower of such Lender’s intention to claim compensation therefor; and provided further that, if the circumstances giving rise to such claim have a retroactive effect, then such six-Month period shall be extended to include the period of such retroactive effect.
(c)    A certificate as to any additional amounts payable pursuant to this Section submitted by any Lender to the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error. The obligations of the Borrower pursuant to this Section shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the payment of the Loans and all other amounts payable hereunder.
(d)    Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary (i) all requests, rules, guidelines, requirements and directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or by United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, and (ii) the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines, requirements and directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith or in implementation thereof, shall in each case be deemed to be a change in Requirements of Law, regardless of the date enacted, adopted, issued or implemented.
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2.14    Taxes.
(a)    All payments made by or on behalf of the Borrower under this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall be made free and clear of, and without deduction or withholding for or on account of, any Taxes; provided, that if any Taxes are required to be deducted or withheld from any amounts payable to the Administrative Agent or any Lender, as determined in good faith by the applicable Withholding Agent, (x) the applicable Withholding Agent shall be entitled to make such deduction or withholding and shall timely pay the amount deducted or withheld to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law and (y) if such Tax is an Indemnified Tax, then the sum payable by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent or such Lender shall be increased to the extent necessary so that after such deduction or withholding has been made (including such deductions and withholdings applicable to additional sums payable under this Section), the Administrative Agent or such Lender receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such withholding or deduction been made.
(b)    In addition, the Borrower shall pay any Other Taxes to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law.
(c)    Whenever any Indemnified Taxes are payable by the Borrower, as promptly as possible thereafter the Borrower shall send to the Administrative Agent for its own account or for the account of the relevant Lender, as the case may be, a certified copy of an original official receipt received by the Borrower showing payment thereof, a copy of the tax return reporting such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. The Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative Agent and each Lender, within ten (10) days after demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section) payable or paid by the Administrative Agent or such Lender or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to the Administrative Agent or such Lender and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Borrower by a Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
(d) Each Lender shall severally indemnify the Administrative Agent, within ten (10) days after receiving demand therefor, for the full amount of (i) any Indemnified Taxes that are attributable to such Lender and that are payable or paid by the Administrative Agent (but only to the extent that Borrower has not already indemnified the Administrative Agent for such Indemnified Taxes and without limiting the obligation of the Borrower to do so), (ii) any Taxes attributable to such Lender’s failure to comply with the provisions of Section 8.6(b) relating to the maintenance of a Participant Register, and (iii) any Excluded Taxes attributable to such Lender, in each case that are payable or paid by the Administrative Agent in connection with any Loan Document, together with all reasonable costs and expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, as determined by the Administrative Agent in good faith, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to any Lender by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Each Lender hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender under any Loan Document or otherwise payable by the Administrative Agent to the Lender from any other source against any amount due to the Administrative Agent under this paragraph (d).
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(e)    Each Lender (or Transferee) that is a “United States person” as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent on or before the date on which it becomes a party to this Agreement (and thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or Administrative Agent) two properly completed and duly signed copies of U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (or any successor form) certifying that such Lender is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding tax.
(f)    Each Lender (or Transferee) that is not a “United States person” (a “Non-U.S. Lender”) shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (or, in the case of a Participant, to the Lender from which the related participation shall have been purchased) on or about the date on which such Non-U.S. Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (or, in the case of any Participant, on or before the date such Participant purchases the related participation) and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent whichever of the following is applicable:
(i)    in the case of a Non-U.S. Lender claiming the benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party (x) with respect to payments of interest under any Loan Document, two copies of either U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN or Form W-8BEN-E establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the “interest” article of such tax treaty and (y) with respect to any other applicable payments under any Loan Document, U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN or Form W-8BEN-E establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the “business profits” or “other income” article of such tax treaty;
(ii)    two copies of U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-8ECI;
(iii)    in the case of a Non-U.S. Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under Section 881(c) of the Code, (x) a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit E-1 to the effect that such Non-U.S. Lender is not a “bank” within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, a “10 percent shareholder” of the Borrower within the meaning of Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Code, or a “controlled foreign corporation” related to the Borrower as described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code (a “U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate”) and (y) two copies of U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E; or
(iv) to the extent a Non-U.S. Lender is not the beneficial owner, two copies of U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-8IMY, accompanied by U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-8ECI, U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN, U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN-E, a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit E-2 or Exhibit E-3, U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9, and/or other certification documents from each beneficial owner, as applicable; provided that if the Non-U.S. Lender is a partnership and one or more direct or indirect partners of such Non-U.S. Lender are claiming the portfolio interest exemption, such Non-U.S. Lender may provide a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit E-4 on behalf of each such direct and indirect partner.
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(g)    Each Non-U.S. Lender shall deliver any other form prescribed by applicable requirements of U.S. federal income tax law as a basis for claiming exemption from or a reduction in U.S. federal withholding tax duly completed together with such supplementary documentation as may be prescribed by applicable requirements of law to permit the Borrower and the Administrative Agent to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made. Such forms shall be delivered by each Non-U.S. Lender on or before the date it becomes a party to this Agreement (or, in the case of any Participant, on or before the date such Participant purchases the related participation) and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, a Lender shall not be required to deliver any form pursuant to this Section that such Lender is not legally able to deliver.
(h)    A Lender (or participant) that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of non-U.S. withholding tax under the law of the jurisdiction in which the Borrower is located, or any treaty to which such jurisdiction is a party, with respect to payments under this Agreement shall deliver to the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), at the time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation prescribed by applicable law as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate, provided that such Lender (or participant) is legally entitled to complete, execute and deliver such documentation and in such Lender’s (or participant’s) reasonable judgment such completion, execution or submission would not materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of such Lender (or participant).
(i)    If a payment made to a Lender under any Loan Document would be subject to U.S. federal withholding tax imposed by FATCA if such Lender were to fail to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Code, as applicable), such Lender shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent at the time or times prescribed by law and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent such documentation prescribed by applicable law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as may be necessary for the Borrower and the Administrative Agent to comply with their obligations under FATCA and to determine that such Lender has complied with such Lender’s obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment. Solely for purposes of this paragraph (i), “FATCA” shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the date of this Agreement.
(j)    Each Lender agrees that if any form or certification it previously delivered pursuant to this Section 2.14 expires or becomes obsolete or inaccurate in any respect, it shall update such form or certification or promptly notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent in writing of its legal inability to do so.
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(k) If the Administrative Agent or a Lender determines, in its sole good faith discretion, that it has received a refund of any Indemnified Taxes as to which it has been indemnified by the Borrower or with respect to which the Borrower has paid additional amounts pursuant to this Section 2.14, it shall pay to the Borrower an amount equal to such refund (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, by the Borrower under this Section 2.14 with respect to Indemnified Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses of the Administrative Agent or such Lender and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund); provided, that the Borrower agrees to pay, upon the request of the Administrative Agent or such Lender, the amount paid over to the Borrower pursuant to this paragraph (k) (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) to the Administrative Agent or such Lender in the event that the Administrative Agent or such Lender is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this paragraph (i), in no event will the indemnified party be required to pay any amount to an indemnifying party pursuant to this paragraph (k) the payment of which would place the indemnified party in a less favorable net after-tax position than the indemnified party would have been in if the indemnification payments or additional amounts giving rise to such refund had never been paid. This Section 2.14(k) shall not be construed to require the Administrative Agent or a Lender to make available its Tax returns (or any other information relating to its Taxes that it deems confidential) to the Borrower.
(l)    The agreements in this Section shall survive the resignation or replacement of the Administrative Agent or any assignment of rights by, or the replacement of, a Lender, the termination of this Agreement and the payment of the Loans and all other amounts payable hereunder.
2.15    Indemnity. The Borrower agrees to indemnify each Lender for, and to hold each Lender harmless from, any loss or expense that such Lender may sustain or incur as a consequence of (a) default by the Borrower in making a borrowing of, conversion into or continuation of Benchmark Loans after the Borrower has given a notice requesting the same in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, (b) default by the Borrower in making any prepayment of or conversion from Benchmark Loans after the Borrower has given a notice thereof in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, (c) the making of a prepayment of Benchmark Loans on a day that is not the last day of an Interest Period with respect thereto or (d) the assignment of any Benchmark Loan other than on the last day of an Interest Period with respect thereto as the result of a request by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.18(a); provided, however, that the Borrower shall not be obligated to indemnify a Defaulting Lender that is not a Performing Lender for any such loss or expense (incurred while such Lender was a Defaulting Lender) related to the prepayment or assignment of any Benchmark Loan owed to such Defaulting Lender. A certificate as to any amounts payable pursuant to this Section submitted to the Borrower by any Lender shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error. This covenant shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the payment of the Loans and all other amounts payable hereunder.
2.16    Change of Lending Office. Each Lender agrees that, upon the occurrence of any event giving rise to the operation of Section 2.13 or 2.14(a) with respect to such Lender, it will, if requested by the Borrower, use reasonable efforts (subject to overall policy considerations of such Lender) to designate another lending office for any Loans affected by such event with the object of avoiding the consequences of such event; provided, that such designation is made on terms that, in the sole judgment of such Lender, cause such Lender and its lending office(s) to suffer no economic, legal or regulatory disadvantage, and provided, further, that nothing in this Section shall affect or postpone any of the obligations of the Borrower or the rights of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.13 or 2.14(a).
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2.17 Illegality. If, after the date of this Agreement, the introduction of, or any change in, any applicable law, rule or regulation or in the interpretation or administration thereof by any Governmental Authority shall, in the reasonable opinion of counsel to any Lender, make it unlawful for such Lender to make or maintain any Benchmark Loan if it becomes unlawful and/or contrary to Sanctions, or declared to be contrary to Sanctions or sanctionable by any Sanctions Authority for such Lender to make or maintain any Benchmark Loan, then such Lender may, by notice to the Borrower (with notice to the Administrative Agent), immediately declare that such Benchmark Loan shall be due and payable. The Borrower shall repay any such Benchmark Loan declared so due and payable in full on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto or earlier if required by law, together with accrued interest thereon. Each Lender will promptly notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent of any event of which such Lender has knowledge which would entitle it to repayment pursuant to this Section 2.17 and will use its reasonable efforts to mitigate the effect of any event if, in the sole and absolute opinion of such Lender, such efforts will avoid the need for such prepayment and will not be otherwise disadvantageous to such Lender.
2.18    Replacement of Lenders.
(a)     The Borrower shall be permitted to replace any Lender (i) that has failed to consent to a proposed amendment, waiver or other modification that, pursuant to the terms of Section 8.1, requires the consent of all Lenders, or all affected Lenders, and with respect to which the Required Lenders shall have granted their consent or (ii) that requests reimbursement for amounts owing pursuant to Section 2.13 or 2.14(a) with a replacement financial institution; provided that (A) such replacement does not conflict with any Requirement of Law, (B) no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such replacement, (C) prior to any such replacement, such Lender shall have taken no action under Section 2.16 so as to eliminate the continued need for payment of amounts owing pursuant to Section 2.13 or 2.14(a), (D) the replacement financial institution shall purchase, at par, in immediately available funds, all Loans and other amounts owing to such replaced Lender on or prior to the date of replacement, (E) the Borrower shall be liable to such replaced Lender under Section 2.15 if any Benchmark Loan owing to such replaced Lender shall be purchased other than on the last day of the Interest Period relating thereto, (F) the replacement financial institution, if not already a Lender, shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, (G) the replaced Lender shall be obligated to make such replacement in accordance with the provisions of Section 8.6 (provided that the Borrower shall be obligated to pay the registration and processing fee referred to therein) and (H) the Borrower shall remain liable to such replaced Lender for all additional interest, fees and other amounts (if any) payable hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, including any amounts required pursuant to Section 2.13 or 2.14(a), as the case may be.
(a)    
(b) The Borrower shall be permitted to replace any Defaulting Lender with a replacement financial institution; provided that (i) such replacement does not conflict with any Requirement of Law, (ii) no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such replacement, (iii) the replacement financial institution shall purchase, at par, in immediately available funds, all Loans and other amounts owing to such replaced Lender on or prior to the date of replacement, (iv) the replacement financial institution, if not already a Lender, shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, (v) the replaced Lender shall be obligated to make such replacement in accordance with the provisions of Section 8.6 (provided that the Borrower shall be obligated to pay the registration and processing fee referred to therein) and (vi) any such replacement shall not be deemed to be a waiver of any rights that the Borrower, the Administrative Agent or any other Lender shall have against the replaced Lender. To the extent the Borrower is unable to replace any Defaulting Lender with a replacement financial institution, the Borrower may, to the extent that the reduction in the Total Commitments provided for in this sentence does not cause the Total Commitments to fall below the outstanding Loans, remove such Defaulting Lender by repaying such Defaulting Lender’s outstanding Loans and reducing the Total Commitments by an amount equal to such Defaulting Lender’s Commitment.
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2.19    Judgment Currency
(a)    If, for the purpose of obtaining judgment in any court, it is necessary to convert a sum owing hereunder in one currency into another currency, each party hereto agrees, to the fullest extent that it may effectively do so, that the rate of exchange used shall be that at which, in accordance with normal banking procedures in the relevant jurisdiction, the first currency could be purchased with such other currency on the Business Day immediately preceding the day on which final judgment is given.
(b)    The obligations of the Borrower in respect of any sum due to any party hereto or any holder of the obligations owing hereunder (the “Applicable Creditor”) shall, notwithstanding any judgment in a currency (the “Judgment Currency”) other than the currency in which such sum is stated to be due hereunder (the “Agreement Currency”), be discharged only to the extent that, on the Business Day following receipt by the Applicable Creditor of any sum adjudged to be so due in the Judgment Currency, the Applicable Creditor may in accordance with normal banking procedures in the relevant jurisdiction purchase the Agreement Currency with the Judgment Currency; if the amount of the Agreement Currency so purchased is less than the sum originally due to the Applicable Creditor in the Agreement Currency, the Borrower as a separate obligation and notwithstanding any such judgment, agrees to indemnify the Applicable Creditor against such loss. The obligations of the Borrower contained in this Section shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the payment of all other amounts owing hereunder.
SECTION 3.    REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
To induce the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to enter into this Agreement and to make the Loans, the Borrower hereby represents and warrants to the Administrative Agent and each Lender that:
3.1    No Change. Since December 31, 2023, there has been no development or event that has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
3.2    Existence; Compliance with Law. The Borrower (a) is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, (b) has the power and authority, and the legal right, to own and operate its property and to conduct the business in which it is currently engaged, (c) is duly qualified as a foreign corporation and in good standing under the laws of each jurisdiction where its ownership or operation of property or the conduct of its business requires such qualification except where the failure to be so duly qualified could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect and (d) is in compliance with all Requirements of Law except to the extent that the failure to comply therewith could not, in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
3.3 Power; Authorization; Enforceable Obligations. The Borrower has the power and authority, and the legal right, to make, deliver and perform the Loan Documents to which it is a party and to obtain Loans hereunder. The Borrower has taken all necessary organizational action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents to which it is a party and to authorize the Loans on the terms and conditions of this Agreement. No consent or authorization of, filing with, notice to or other act by or in respect of, any Governmental Authority or any other Person is required in connection with the Loans hereunder or with the execution, delivery, performance, validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the Loan Documents to which the Borrower is a party, except consents, authorizations, filings and notices described in Schedule 3.3, which consents, authorizations, filings and notices have been obtained or made and are in full force and effect. Each Loan Document to which the Borrower is a party has been duly executed and delivered on behalf of the Borrower. This Agreement constitutes, and each other Loan Document to which the Borrower is a party, upon execution will constitute, a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Borrower, enforceable against the Borrower in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by general equitable principles (whether enforcement is sought by proceedings in equity or at law).
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3.4    No Legal Bar. The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which the Borrower is a party, the borrowings hereunder and the use of the proceeds thereof will not violate any Requirement of Law or any Contractual Obligation of the Borrower and will not result in, or require, the creation or imposition of any Lien (other than any Borrower Permitted Lien) on any of the Borrower’s properties or revenues pursuant to any Requirement of Law or any such Contractual Obligation. No Requirement of Law or Contractual Obligation applicable to the Borrower could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
3.5    Litigation. No litigation, investigation or proceeding of or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority is pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened by or against the Borrower or against any of its properties or revenues (a) with respect to any of the Loan Documents to which the Borrower is a party or any of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, or (b) that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
3.6    No Default. The Borrower is not in default under or with respect to any of its Contractual Obligations in any respect that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. No Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.
3.7    Ownership of Property; Liens. The Borrower has good title to all its property, and none of such property is subject to any Lien other than Borrower Permitted Liens.
3.8    Taxes. The Borrower has filed or caused to be filed all federal, state and other material Tax returns that are required to be filed and has paid all Taxes shown to be due and payable on said returns or on any assessments made against it or any of its property and all other Taxes, fees or other charges imposed on it or any of its property by any Governmental Authority (other than any Taxes, fees or other charges the amount or validity of which are currently being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and with respect to which reserves in conformity with GAAP have been provided on the books of the Borrower). No Tax Lien (other than any Borrower Permitted Lien) has been filed, and, to the knowledge of the Borrower, no claim is being asserted, with respect to any such Tax, fee or other charge.
3.9    Federal Regulations. No part of the proceeds of any Loans will be used for “buying” or “carrying” any “margin stock” within the respective meanings of each of the quoted terms under Regulation U as now and from time to time hereafter in effect or for any purpose that violates the provisions of the applicable margin regulations of the Board. If requested by any Lender or the Administrative Agent, the Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent and each Lender a statement to the foregoing effect in conformity with the requirements of FR Form G-3 or FR Form U-1, as applicable, referred to in Regulation U.
3.10 Investment Company Act; Other Regulations. The Borrower is not an “investment company”, or a company “controlled” by an “investment company”, within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. The Borrower is not subject to regulation under any Requirement of Law (other than Regulation X) that limits its ability to incur Indebtedness.
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3.11    No Subsidiaries. The Borrower has no direct or indirect Subsidiaries.
3.12    Use of Proceeds. The proceeds of the Loans shall be used for general corporate purposes. Each Loan Party shall ensure that proceeds of the Loans received by Bunge Global SA and, at all times while any Loans are outstanding, used in Switzerland do not exceed the amount accepted by the Swiss federal tax administration as set out in their practice note 010-DVS-2019 dated February 5, 2019 regarding Swiss withholding tax in the group (Mitteilung-010-DVS-2019-d vom 5. Februar 2019 - Verrechnungssteuer: Guthaben im Konzern).
3.13    Solvency. Each Loan Party is, and after giving effect to the incurrence of all Indebtedness and obligations being incurred in connection herewith and therewith will be and will continue to be, Solvent.
3.14    Limited Purpose. The Borrower shall not engage in any business or enterprise or enter into or be a party to any transaction or agreement other than in connection with (i) borrowing under the Commitments hereunder, (ii) the incurrence of other Permitted Indebtedness, (iii) the entering into of Hedge Agreements relating to the Commitments hereunder or the other Permitted Indebtedness having a notional amount not exceeding the aggregate principal amount of such Commitments and such other Permitted Indebtedness then outstanding and (iv) the use of the net proceeds from the borrowings hereunder or the other Permitted Indebtedness to either increase its investments in intercompany loans or to repurchase, redeem or repay the borrowings hereunder or other Permitted Indebtedness outstanding from time to time or pay expenses incurred in connection with such Permitted Indebtedness.
3.15    Financial Condition; Beneficial Ownership Certification. The balance sheet of the Borrower as at December 31, 2023 and the related statements of income for the fiscal year ended on such date, reported on by the Borrower’s independent public accountants, copies of which have heretofore been furnished to the Administrative Agent, are complete and correct, in all material respects, and present fairly the financial condition of the Borrower as at such date, and the results of operations for the fiscal year then ended. Such financial statements, including any related schedules and notes thereto, have been prepared in accordance with GAAP applied consistently throughout the periods involved (except as approved by the external auditors and as disclosed therein, if any). As of the Closing Date, the information included in the Beneficial Ownership Certification of the Borrower is true, complete and correct.
3.16    Financial Institutions. No Loan Party is an Affected Financial Institution.
3.17    Sanctions.
(a)    The Borrower is, to the extent applicable, in compliance with Sanctions and with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (the “FCPA”) and any other applicable anti-corruption law, in all material respects.
(b)    The Borrower is not, and no director or senior officer of the Borrower is, any of the following:
(i)    a Restricted Person;
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(ii)    a Person owned fifty percent (50%) or more or controlled by, or acting on behalf of, any Restricted Person or Restricted Persons; or
(iii)    a Person that commits, threatens or conspires to commit or support “terrorism” as defined in the Executive Order.
The foregoing representations in this Section 3.17 will not apply to any party hereto to which Council Regulation (EC) 2271/96 (the “Blocking Regulation”) applies, if and to the extent that such representations are or would be unenforceable by or in respect of that party pursuant to, or would otherwise result in a breach and/or violation of, (i) any provision of the Blocking Regulation (or any law or regulation implementing the Blocking Regulation in any member state of the European Union) or (ii) any similar blocking or anti-boycott law in the United Kingdom.
SECTION 4.    CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
4.1    Conditions to Effectiveness. This Agreement shall become effective on the first day on which all of the following conditions have been satisfied:
(a)    Credit Agreement; Guaranty Agreement. The Administrative Agent shall have received (i) this Agreement executed and delivered by the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and each Person listed on Schedule 1.1 and (ii) the Guaranty Agreement, executed and delivered by the Guarantor.
(b)    Fees. The Lenders and the Administrative Agent shall have received all fees required to be paid, and all expenses for which invoices have been presented (including the reasonable fees and expenses of legal counsel), on or before the Closing Date.
(c)    Closing Certificates; Good Standing Certificates. The Administrative Agent shall have received (i) a Responsible Officer’s certificate of the Borrower, dated the Closing Date, substantially in the form of Exhibit B-1 and a secretary’s certificate of the Borrower, dated the Closing Date, substantially in the form of Exhibit B-2, with appropriate insertions and attachments satisfactory in form and substance to the Administrative Agent, including (A) the certificate of incorporation of the Borrower, certified by the relevant authority of the jurisdiction of organization of the Borrower, and the bylaws of the Borrower, (B) Board of Directors resolutions in respect of the Loan Documents to which the Borrower is a party, and (C) incumbency certificates with respect to the Borrower, (ii) a Responsible Officer’s certificate of the Guarantor, dated the Closing Date, substantially in the form of Exhibit B-3, and a certificate of the secretary or assistant secretary of the Guarantor, dated the Closing Date, substantially in the form of Exhibit B-4, with appropriate insertions and attachments satisfactory in form and substance to the Administrative Agent, including (A) the articles of association of the Guarantor and the organizational regulations of the Guarantor, (B) Board of Directors resolutions in respect of the Loan Documents to which the Guarantor is a party, and (C) incumbency certificates with respect to the Guarantor, and (iii) a good standing certificate (or similar certificate) for each of the Borrower and the Guarantor from their respective jurisdictions of organization.
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(d)    Legal Opinions. The Administrative Agent shall have received the following executed legal opinions:
(i)    the legal opinion of Reed Smith LLP, New York counsel to the Borrower and New York counsel to the Guarantor, substantially in the form of Exhibit D-1; and
(ii)    the legal opinion of Homburger AG, Swiss counsel to the Guarantor, substantially in the form of Exhibit D-2.
Each such legal opinion shall cover such other matters incident to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement as the Administrative Agent may reasonably require.
(e)    Representations and Warranties. Each of the representations and warranties made by any Loan Party in or pursuant to the Loan Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of such date; provided that, the representations and warranties made in Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.9, 3.13, 3.14 and 3.15 shall be true and correct in all respects as of such date.
(f)    Compliance with Laws. The Administrative Agent shall have received evidence reasonably satisfactory to it that the business conducted and proposed to be conducted by the Borrower and the Guarantor is in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations and that all registrations, filings and licenses and/or consents required to be obtained by the Borrower or the Guarantor, as the case may be, in connection therewith have been made or obtained and are in full force and effect, except to the extent that the failure to comply with the foregoing could not, in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(g)    Guarantor Financials. The Administrative Agent shall have received audited consolidated financial statements of the Guarantor for its fiscal year ended December 31, 2023.
(h)    Notice of Termination of Existing Credit Facility. The Administrative Agent shall have received written notice from the Borrower to terminate the Existing Credit Facility in accordance with its terms and all outstanding obligations thereunder shall have been paid in full.
(i)    KYC and Beneficial Ownership Certification. (A) The Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall have received, no later than five (5) days prior to the Closing Date, all documentation and other information that the Administrative Agent reasonably determines is required by regulatory authorities under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the USA PATRIOT Act, in each case, as has been reasonably requested in writing by the Administrative Agent or the Lenders at least ten (10) Business Days prior to the Closing Date and (B) to the extent the Borrower qualifies as a “legal entity customer” under the Beneficial Ownership Regulation, each Lender that has requested, in a written notice to the Borrower at least ten (10) days prior to the Closing Date, a Beneficial Ownership Certification in relation to the Borrower, shall have received such Beneficial Ownership Certification at least five (5) days prior to the Closing Date (provided that, upon the execution and delivery by such Lender of its signature page to this Agreement, the condition set forth in this clause (i) shall be deemed to be satisfied).
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4.2    Conditions to Each Loan. The agreement of each Lender to make any Loan requested to be made by it on any date (including its initial Loan) is subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions precedent:
(a)    Representations and Warranties. Each of the representations and warranties (except the representations set forth in Section 3.1 and Section 3.5 (other than clause (a) thereof) of this Agreement and Section 7(b) and Section 7(f) (other than clause (a) thereof) of the Guaranty) made by any Loan Party in or pursuant to the Loan Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of such date as if made on and as of such date (unless any representations and warranties expressly relate to an earlier date, in which case they shall have been true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date); provided that, the representations and warranties made in Sections 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, clause (a) of 3.5, 3.6, 3.9, 3.13, 3.14 and 3.15 shall be true and correct in all respects on and as of such date as if made on and as of such date.
(b)    No Default. No Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing on such date or after giving effect to the Loans requested to be made on such date.
Each borrowing by the Borrower hereunder shall constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrower as of the date of such Loan that the conditions contained in this Section 4.2 have been satisfied.
4.3    Conditions to Availability of Incremental Commitments. The agreement of each Lender to make any of the Incremental Commitments available is subject to the occurrence of the Closing Date and the satisfaction of the following conditions precedent:
(a)    the Guarantor shall provide a certificate in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent certifying that (i) the Viterra Acquisition Closing Date has occurred and (ii) the Viterra unsecured, committed revolving credit facilities referred to in the Business Combination Agreement have been cancelled and prepaid with effect as of the Viterra Acquisition Closing Date.
SECTION 5.    COVENANTS
While this Agreement is in effect (i.e., until all indebtedness and other amounts payable by the Borrower hereunder have been paid in full and the Lenders no longer have any Commitments hereunder), the Borrower agrees that:
5.1    Affirmative Covenants. The Borrower shall:
(a)    Provide the Administrative Agent all information that the Administrative Agent may reasonably request in writing concerning the business of the Borrower within a reasonable period of time considering the nature of the request; provided that with respect to any information relating to an annual audited report, the same may be delivered within one hundred and twenty (120) calendar days after the end of the Borrower’s fiscal year.
(b)    Furnish or cause to be furnished to the Administrative Agent prompt written notice of the filing or commencement of any litigation, investigation or proceeding of or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority against or affecting the Borrower that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
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(c)    Take all actions necessary to ensure that all Taxes and other governmental claims in respect of the Borrower’s operations and assets are promptly paid when due, except where the amount or validity thereof is currently being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and reserves to the extent required by GAAP with respect thereto have been provided on the books of the Borrower.
(d)    Comply with all Requirements of Law except where the failure to so comply would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on its ability to perform its obligations under the Loan Documents and in all material respects with Sanctions.
(e)    Advise the Administrative Agent of the occurrence of each Default or Event of Default as promptly as practicable after the Borrower becomes aware of any such Default or Event of Default.
(f)    Beginning with the fiscal year commencing in 2024, furnish to the Administrative Agent in sufficient number for each Lender as soon as available, but in any event within one hundred and twenty (120) days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower, audited financial statements consisting of the balance sheet of the Borrower as of the end of such year and the related statements of income and retained earnings and statements of cash flow for such year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the corresponding figures for the previous fiscal year, certified by independent certified public accountants satisfactory to the Administrative Agent to the effect that such financial statements fairly present in all material respects the financial condition and results of operations of the Borrower in accordance with GAAP consistently applied.
(g)    Beginning with the fiscal year commencing in 2024, furnish to the Administrative Agent as soon as available but in any event within sixty (60) days after the end of each of the first three quarters for each fiscal year of the Borrower, unaudited financial statements consisting of a balance sheet of the Borrower as at the end of such quarter and a statement of income and retained earnings and of cash flow for such quarter, setting forth (in the case of financial statements furnished for calendar quarters subsequent to the first full calendar year of the Borrower) in comparative form the corresponding figures for the corresponding quarter of the preceding fiscal year.
(h)    Furnish, or cause to be furnished, to the Administrative Agent together with the financial statements required pursuant to clause (f) and clause (g) a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower stating that the attached financial statements have been prepared in accordance with GAAP and accurately reflect the financial condition of the Borrower.
(i)    (i) Except as otherwise permitted by the Loan Documents, preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence and (ii) take all reasonable action to maintain all rights, privileges and franchises necessary or desirable in the normal conduct of its business.
(j)    Use the proceeds from the Loans hereunder for general corporate purposes.
(k) Provide to the Administrative Agent the following notices and documents (provided that, solely with respect to clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) below, the Borrower shall only be obligated to provide such notices and documents to the extent that any of the events or occurrences described in such clauses is reasonably expected to result in a material liability):
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(i)    promptly and in any event within ten (10) days after the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates knows or has reason to know that any ERISA Event has occurred, a statement of the chief financial officer of the Borrower or such ERISA Affiliate describing such ERISA Event and the action, if any, that the Borrower or such ERISA Affiliate has taken and proposes to take with respect thereto;
(ii)    promptly and in any event within two (2) Business Days after receipt thereof by the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates, copies of each notice from the PBGC stating its intention to terminate any Plan or to have a trustee appointed to administer any Plan;
(iii)    promptly and in any event within five (5) Business Days after receipt thereof by the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates from the sponsor of a Multiemployer Plan, copies of each notice concerning (A) the imposition of Withdrawal Liability by any such Multiemployer Plan, (B) the termination, within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA, of any such Multiemployer Plan or (C) the amount of liability incurred, or that may be incurred, by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate in connection with any event described in clause (A) or (B) above; and
(iv)    promptly upon request, copies of (A) any documents described in Section 101(k) of ERISA that the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates may request with respect to any Multiemployer Plan, and (B) any notices described in Section 101(l) of ERISA that the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates may request with respect to any Multiemployer Plan; provided, that if the Borrower or the applicable ERISA Affiliate has not requested such documents or notices from the administrator or sponsor of the applicable Multiemployer Plan, upon the request of the Administrative Agent, which request shall not be more frequent than once during any twelve (12) Month period, the Borrower or applicable ERISA Affiliate shall promptly make a request for such documents or notices and shall provide copies of such documents and notices promptly and in any event within five (5) Business Days after receipt thereof.
(l)    Promptly upon a Responsible Officer of the Borrower becoming aware that the Borrower has received formal notice that it has become subject of any action or investigation under any Sanctions, the Borrower shall, to the extent permitted by law, supply to the Administrative Agent details of any such action or investigation.
(m)    Promptly upon the request of the Administrative Agent, the Borrower shall provide to the Administrative Agent the information reasonably requested, to the extent such information is available to the Borrower, in connection with applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the PATRIOT Act, in each case in accordance with the Borrower’s past practices.
(n)    Advise the Administrative Agent of any change in the information provided in the Beneficial Ownership Certification of the Borrower provided to the Administrative Agent or any Lender that would result in a change to the list of beneficial owners identified in parts (c) or (d) of such certification
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5.2    Negative Covenants. The Borrower will not:
(a)    Contract for, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien, security interest, charge or other encumbrance of any nature upon any of its property or assets, whether now owned or hereafter acquired other than Borrower Permitted Liens.
(b)    Create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Indebtedness, whether current or funded, or any other liability except Permitted Indebtedness.
(c)    Except for loans made to any Subsidiary of the Guarantor, make any loan or advance or credit to, or guarantee (directly or indirectly or by an instrument having the effect of assuring another’s payment or performance on any obligation or capability of so doing or otherwise), endorse or otherwise become contingently liable, directly or indirectly, in connection with the obligations, stocks or dividends of, or own, purchase, repurchase or acquire (or agree contingently to do so) any assets, stock, obligations or securities of, or any other interest in, or make any capital contribution to, any other Person.
(d)    Enter into any merger, consolidation, joint venture, syndicate or other form of combination with any Person, or sell, lease or transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its assets or receivables or purchase any asset, or engage in any transaction which would result in the Borrower ceasing to be, directly or indirectly, a wholly-owned Subsidiary of Guarantor.
(e)    Enter into or be a party to any agreement or instrument other than the Loan Documents and any agreement or instrument related to the incurrence of Permitted Indebtedness.
(f)    Except as permitted by any Loan Document, make any expenditure (by long-term or operating lease or otherwise), excluding those relating to foreclosure, for capital assets (both realty and personalty), unless such expenditure is approved in writing by the Administrative Agent.
(g)    Engage in any business or enterprise or enter into any material transaction other than as contemplated by the Loan Documents.
(h)    Amend its certificate of incorporation or bylaws without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent.
(i)    Enter into any Hedge Agreement other than Hedge Agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business to hedge or mitigate risks directly arising from its borrowings under this Agreement or other Permitted Indebtedness.
(j)    Knowingly permit or authorize any other Person to, directly or indirectly, use, lend, make payments of, contribute or otherwise make available, all or any part of the proceeds of the Loans or other transactions contemplated by this Agreement (i) in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization of the payment or giving of money, or anything else of value, to any Person in violation of the FCPA or any other applicable anti-corruption law, (ii) to fund any trade, business or other activities involving or for the benefit of any Restricted Person except as otherwise permitted or authorized by Sanctions or Sanctions Authorities, including, without limitation, as authorized by OFAC general or specific license or (iii) in any other manner that would result in any of the Borrower, the Guarantor, the Administrative Agent, a Joint
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Lead Arranger or a Lender being in breach of any Sanctions or becoming a Restricted Person.
The foregoing covenants in this Section 5.2(j) will not apply to any party hereto to which Blocking Regulation applies, if and to the extent that such covenants are or would be unenforceable by or in respect of that party pursuant to, or would otherwise result in a breach and/or violation of, (i) any provision of the Blocking Regulation (or any law or regulation implementing the Blocking Regulation in any member state of the European Union) or (ii) any similar blocking or anti-boycott law in the United Kingdom.
5.3    Use of Websites.
(a)    The Borrower may satisfy its obligation to deliver any public information to the Lenders by posting this information onto an electronic website designated by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (the “Designated Website”) by notifying the Administrative Agent (i) of the address of the website together with any relevant password specifications and (ii) that such information has been posted on the website; provided, that in any event the Borrower shall supply the Administrative Agent with one copy in paper form of any information which is posted onto the website.
(b)    The Administrative Agent shall supply each Lender with the address of and any relevant password specifications for the Designated Website following designation of that website by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
(c)    The Borrower shall promptly upon becoming aware of its occurrence notify the Administrative Agent if:
(i)    the Designated Website cannot be accessed due to technical failure;
(ii)    the password specifications for the Designated Website change;
(iii)    any new information which is required to be provided under this Agreement is posted onto the Designated Website;
(iv)    any existing information which has been provided under this Agreement and posted onto the Designated Website is amended; or
(v)    the Borrower becomes aware that the Designated Website or any information posted onto the Designated Website is or has been infected by any electronic virus or similar software.
If the Borrower notifies the Administrative Agent under Section 5.3(c)(i) or Section 5.3(c)(v) above, all information to be provided by the Borrower under this Agreement after the date of that notice shall be supplied in paper form unless and until the Administrative Agent is satisfied that the circumstances giving rise to the notification are no longer continuing.
SECTION 6.    EVENTS OF DEFAULT
If any of the following events shall occur and be continuing:
(a) the Borrower shall fail to pay any principal of any Loan when due in accordance with the terms hereof; or the Borrower shall fail to pay any interest on any Loan, fees or any other amount payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document, within three (3) days after any such interest, fees or other amount becomes due in accordance with the terms hereof; or
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(b)    any representation or warranty made or deemed made by the Borrower or the Guarantor herein or in any other Loan Document or that is contained in any certificate, document or financial or other statement furnished by it at any time under or in connection with this Agreement or any such other Loan Document shall prove to have been inaccurate in any material respect on or as of the date made or deemed made; or
(c)    the Borrower shall default in the observance or performance of any agreement contained in Section 5.1(e), Section 5.1(i)(i) or Section 5.2 of this Agreement or the Guarantor shall default in the observance or performance of any agreement contained in Sections 8.1(c), 8.1(g)(i), 8.1(h), or 8.2 of the Guaranty Agreement; or
(d)    the Borrower or the Guarantor shall default in the observance or performance of any other agreement contained in this Agreement or any other Loan Document (other than as provided in paragraphs (a) through (c) of this Section), and such default shall continue unremedied for a period of thirty (30) days after the earlier of (i) the date on which a Responsible Officer of the Borrower or the Guarantor has knowledge of such default and (ii) the Borrower or the Guarantor receives written notice thereof from the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders; or
(e)    any Group Member shall (i) default in making any payment of any principal of any Indebtedness (including any Guarantee Obligation, but excluding the Loans) on the scheduled or original due date with respect thereto; or (ii) default in making any payment of any interest on any such Indebtedness beyond the period of grace, if any, provided in the instrument or agreement under which such Indebtedness was created; or (iii) default in the observance or performance of any other agreement or condition relating to any such Indebtedness or contained in any instrument or agreement evidencing, securing or relating thereto, or any other event shall occur or condition exist, the effect of which default or other event or condition is to cause, or to permit the holder or beneficiary of such Indebtedness (or a trustee or agent on behalf of such holder or beneficiary) to cause, with the giving of notice if required, such Indebtedness to become due prior to its stated maturity or (in the case of any such Indebtedness constituting a Guarantee Obligation) to become payable; provided, that a default, event or condition described in clause (i), (ii) or (iii) of this paragraph (e) shall not at any time constitute an Event of Default unless, at such time, one or more defaults, events or conditions of the type described in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) of this paragraph (e) shall have occurred and be continuing with respect to Indebtedness the outstanding Dollar Equivalent principal amount of which exceeds in the aggregate $100,000,000; or
(f) (i) any Group Member shall commence any case, proceeding or other action (A) under any existing or future law of any jurisdiction, domestic or foreign, relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or relief of debtors, seeking to have an order for relief entered with respect to it, or seeking to adjudicate it a bankrupt or insolvent, or seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, winding-up, liquidation, dissolution, composition or other relief with respect to it or its debts, or (B) seeking appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, conservator or other similar official for it or for all or any substantial part of its assets, or any Group Member shall make a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors; or (ii) there shall be commenced against any Group Member any case, proceeding or other action of a nature referred to in clause (i) above that (A) results in the entry of an order for relief or any such adjudication or appointment or (B) remains undismissed, undischarged or unbonded for a period of sixty (60) days; or (iii) there shall be commenced against any Group Member any case, proceeding or other action seeking issuance of a warrant of attachment, execution, distraint or similar process against all or any substantial part of its assets that results in the entry of an order for any such relief that shall not have been vacated, discharged, or stayed or bonded pending appeal within sixty (60) days from the entry thereof; or (iv) any Group Member shall take any action in furtherance of, or indicating its consent to, approval of, or acquiescence in, any of the acts set forth in clause (i), (ii) or (iii) above; or (v) any Group Member shall generally not, or shall be unable to, or shall admit in writing its inability to, pay its debts as they become due; or
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(g)    one or more judgments or decrees shall be entered against any Group Member involving in the Dollar Equivalent aggregate a liability (not paid or fully covered by insurance as to which the relevant insurance company has acknowledged coverage) of $100,000,000 or more, and all such judgments or decrees shall not have been vacated, discharged, stayed or bonded pending appeal within thirty (30) days from the entry thereof; or
(h)    any of the Loan Documents shall cease, for any reason, to be in full force and effect or the Borrower or the Guarantor shall so assert in writing; or
(i)    a Change in Control of the Guarantor shall have occurred; or
(j)    the Borrower shall become an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and shall not be exempt from compliance under such Act;
then, and in any such event, (A) if such event is an Event of Default specified in paragraph (f) above with respect to the Borrower or the Guarantor, then in such case automatically the Commitments shall immediately terminate and the Loans (with accrued interest thereon) and all other amounts owing under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall immediately become due and payable, and (B) if such event is any other Event of Default, any or all of the following actions may be taken: (i) with the consent of the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent may, or upon the request of the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent shall, by notice to the Borrower, declare the Commitments to be terminated forthwith, whereupon the Commitments shall immediately terminate; and (ii) with the consent of the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent may, or upon the request of the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent shall, by notice to the Borrower, declare the Loans (with accrued interest thereon) and all other amounts owing under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to be due and payable forthwith, whereupon the same shall immediately become due and payable. Except as expressly provided above in this Section, presentment, demand, protest and all other notices of any kind are hereby expressly waived by the Borrower.
SECTION 7.    THE AGENTS
7.1 Appointment. Each Lender hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the Administrative Agent as the agent of such Lender under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and each such Lender irrevocably authorizes the Administrative Agent, in such capacity, to take such action on its behalf under the provisions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and to exercise such powers and perform such duties as are expressly delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, together with such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary elsewhere in this Agreement, the Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein, or any fiduciary relationship with any Lender, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties, obligations or liabilities shall be read into this Agreement or any other Loan Document or otherwise exist against the Administrative Agent.
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7.2    Delegation of Duties. The Administrative Agent may execute any of its duties under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents by or through agents or attorneys-in-fact and shall be entitled to advice of counsel concerning all matters pertaining to such duties. The Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any agents or attorneys in-fact selected by it with reasonable care.
7.3    Exculpatory Provisions. Neither any Agent nor any of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, attorneys-in-fact or Affiliates shall be (i) liable for any action lawfully taken or omitted to be taken by it or such Person under or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or in connection herewith or therewith (x) with the consent of or at the request of the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary, or as the Administrative Agent shall believe in good faith to be necessary, under the circumstances as provided in the Loan Documents) or (y) in the absence of its own gross negligence or willful misconduct (such absence to be presumed unless otherwise determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by a final and non-appealable judgment) nor (ii) responsible in any manner to any of the Lenders for any recitals, statements, representations or warranties made by any Loan Party or any officer thereof contained in this Agreement or any other Loan Document or in any certificate, report, statement or other document referred to or provided for in, or received by the Agents under or in connection with, this Agreement or any other Loan Document or for the value, validity, effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability or sufficiency of this Agreement or any other Loan Document (including, for the avoidance of doubt, in connection with the Administrative Agent’s reliance on any Electronic Signature transmitted by telecopy, emailed pdf. or any other electronic means that reproduces an image of an actual executed signature page) or for any failure of any Loan Party a party thereto to perform its obligations hereunder or thereunder. The Agents shall not be under any obligation to any Lender to ascertain or to inquire as to the observance or performance of any of the agreements contained in, or conditions of, this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or to inspect the properties, books or records of any Loan Party.
7.4    Reliance by Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely, and shall be fully protected in relying, upon any instrument, writing, resolution, notice, consent, certificate, affidavit, letter, telecopy, telex or teletype message, statement, order or other document or conversation believed by it to be genuine and correct and to have been signed, sent or made by the proper Person or Persons and upon advice and statements of legal counsel (including counsel to the Guarantor or the Borrower), independent accountants and other experts selected by the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent may deem and treat the payee of any Note as the owner thereof for all purposes unless a written notice of assignment, negotiation or transfer thereof shall have been filed with the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall be fully justified in failing or refusing to take any action under this Agreement or any other Loan Document unless it shall first receive such advice or concurrence of the Required Lenders (or, if so specified by this Agreement, all Lenders) as it deems appropriate or it shall first be indemnified to its satisfaction by the Lenders against any and all liability and expense that may be incurred by it by reason of taking or continuing to take any such action. The Administrative Agent shall in all cases be fully protected in acting, or in refraining from acting, under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents in accordance with a request of the Required Lenders (or, if so specified by this Agreement, all Lenders), and such request and any action taken or failure to act pursuant thereto shall be binding upon all the Lenders and all future holders of the Loans.
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7.5    Notice of Default. The Administrative Agent shall not be deemed to have knowledge or notice of the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default unless the Administrative Agent has received notice from a Lender, the Guarantor or the Borrower referring to this Agreement, describing such Default or Event of Default and stating that such notice is a “notice of default”. In the event that the Administrative Agent receives such a notice, the Administrative Agent shall give notice thereof to the Lenders. The Administrative Agent shall take such action with respect to such Default or Event of Default as shall be reasonably directed by the Required Lenders (or, if so specified by this Agreement, all Lenders); provided that unless and until the Administrative Agent shall have received such directions, the Administrative Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) take such action, or refrain from taking such action, with respect to such Default or Event of Default as it shall deem advisable in the best interests of the Lenders.
7.6    Non-Reliance on Agents and Other Lenders. Each Lender expressly acknowledges that neither the Agents nor any of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, attorneys-in-fact or Affiliates have made any representations or warranties to it and that no act by any Agent hereafter taken, including any review of the affairs of a Loan Party or any Affiliate of a Loan Party, shall be deemed to constitute any representation or warranty by any Agent to any Lender. Each Lender represents to the Agents that it has, independently and without reliance upon any Agent or any other Lender, and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own appraisal of and investigation into the business, operations, property, financial and other condition and creditworthiness of the Loan Parties and their Affiliates and made its own decision to make its Loans hereunder and enter into this Agreement under this commercial lending facility. Each Lender also represents that it will, independently and without reliance upon any Agent or any other Lender, and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit analysis, appraisals and decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and to make such investigation as it deems necessary to inform itself as to the business, operations, property, financial and other condition and creditworthiness of the Loan Parties and their Affiliates. Except for notices, reports and other documents expressly required to be furnished to the Lenders by the Administrative Agent hereunder, the Administrative Agent shall not have any duty or responsibility to provide any Lender with any credit or other information concerning the business, operations, property, condition (financial or otherwise), prospects or creditworthiness of any Loan Party or any Affiliate of a Loan Party that may come into the possession of the Administrative Agent or any of its officers, directors, employees, agents, attorneys-in-fact or Affiliates.
7.7 Indemnification. The Lenders agree to indemnify each Agent in its capacity as such (to the extent not reimbursed by the Guarantor or the Borrower and without limiting the obligation of the Guarantor or the Borrower to do so), ratably according to their respective Aggregate Exposure Percentages in effect on the date on which indemnification is sought under this Section (or, if indemnification is sought after the date upon which the Commitments shall have terminated and the Loans shall have been paid in full, ratably in accordance with such Aggregate Exposure Percentages immediately prior to such date), from and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind whatsoever that may at any time (whether before or after the payment of the Loans) be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against such Agent in any way relating to or arising out of, the Commitments, this Agreement, any of the other Loan Documents or any documents contemplated by or referred to herein or therein or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby or any action taken or omitted by such Agent under or in connection with any of the foregoing; provided that no Lender shall be liable for the payment of any portion of such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements that are found by a decision of a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from such Agent’s gross negligence or willful misconduct. The agreements in this Section shall survive the payment of the Loans and all other amounts payable hereunder.
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7.8    Agent in Its Individual Capacity. Each Agent and its Affiliates may make loans to, accept deposits from and generally engage in any kind of business with any Loan Party as though such Agent were not an Agent. With respect to its Loans made or renewed by it, each Agent shall have the same rights and powers under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as any Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not an Agent, and the terms “Lender” and “Lenders” shall include each Agent in its individual capacity.
7.9    Successor Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent may resign, or shall resign upon the request of the Required Lenders in the event the Administrative Agent becomes a Defaulting Lender and is not a Performing Lender, as Administrative Agent upon ten (10) days’ notice to the Lenders and the Borrower. If the Administrative Agent shall resign as Administrative Agent under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, then the Required Lenders shall appoint from among the Lenders a successor agent for the Lenders, which successor agent shall (unless an Event of Default under Sections 6(a), 6(e) or 6(f) with respect to the Borrower shall have occurred and be continuing) be subject to approval by the Borrower (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed), whereupon such successor agent shall succeed to the rights, powers and duties of the Administrative Agent, and the term “Administrative Agent” shall mean such successor agent effective upon such appointment and approval, and the former Administrative Agent’s rights, powers and duties as Administrative Agent shall be terminated, without any other or further act or deed on the part of such former Administrative Agent or any of the parties to this Agreement or any holders of the Loans. If no successor agent has accepted appointment as Administrative Agent by the date that is ten (10) days following a retiring Administrative Agent’s notice of resignation, the retiring Administrative Agent’s resignation shall nevertheless thereupon become effective, and the Lenders shall assume and perform all of the duties of the Administrative Agent hereunder until such time, if any, as the Required Lenders appoint a successor agent as provided for above. After any retiring Administrative Agent’s resignation as Administrative Agent, the provisions of this Section 7.9 shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was Administrative Agent under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
7.10    Syndication Agent, Joint Lead Arrangers, Joint Bookrunners and Documentation Agents. Neither the Syndication Agent, Joint Lead Arrangers, Joint Bookrunners nor the Documentation Agents shall have any duties or responsibilities hereunder in its capacity as such. No Syndication Agent, Joint Lead Arranger, Joint Bookrunner or Documentation Agent shall have or be deemed to have any fiduciary relationship with any Lender.
7.11    Agent Communications. The Administrative Agent shall provide to each Lender a copy of each material report, certificate, statement or other communication required to be delivered to it under the Loan Documents and which has not been delivered to the Lenders; provided, that posting by the Administrative Agent to Intralinks or to a similar electronic distribution location shall satisfy the requirements of this Section. Without limiting the foregoing, none of such Lenders shall have or be deemed to have a fiduciary relationship with any Lender. The Lenders are not partners or co-venturers, and no Lender shall be liable for the acts or omissions of, or (except as otherwise set forth herein in case of the Administrative Agent) authorized to act for, any other Lender.
7.12    Certain ERISA Matters.
(a) Each Lender (x) represents and warrants, as of the date such Person became a Lender party hereto, to, and (y) covenants, from the date such Person became a Lender party hereto to the date such Person ceases being a Lender party hereto, for the benefit of, the Administrative Agent and its respective Affiliates, and not, for the avoidance of doubt, to or for the benefit of the Borrower or any other Loan Party, that at least one of the following is and will be true:
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(i)    such Lender is not using “plan assets” (within the meaning of the Plan Asset Regulations) of one or more Benefit Plans in connection with the Loans or the Commitments;
(ii)    the transaction exemption set forth in one or more PTEs, such as PTE 84-14 (a class exemption for certain transactions determined by independent qualified professional asset managers), PTE 95-60 (a class exemption for certain transactions involving insurance company general accounts), PTE 90-1 (a class exemption for certain transactions involving insurance company pooled separate accounts), PTE 91-38 (a class exemption for certain transactions involving bank collective investment funds) or PTE 96-23 (a class exemption for certain transactions determined by in-house asset managers), is applicable with respect to such Lender’s entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Commitments and this Agreement, and the conditions for exemptive relief thereunder are and will continue to be satisfied in connection therewith;
(iii)    (A) such Lender is an investment fund managed by a “Qualified Professional Asset Manager” (within the meaning of Part VI of PTE 84-14), (B) such Qualified Professional Asset Manager made the investment decision on behalf of such Lender to enter into, participate in, administer and perform the Loans, the Commitments and this Agreement, (C) the entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Commitments and this Agreement satisfies the requirements of sub-sections (b) through (g) of Part I of PTE 84-14 and (D) to the best knowledge of such Lender, the requirements of subsection (a) of Part I of PTE 84-14 are satisfied with respect to such Lender’s entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Commitments and this Agreement; or
(iv)    such other representation, warranty and covenant as may be agreed in writing between the Administrative Agent, in its sole discretion, and such Lender.
(b)    In addition, unless either (1) sub-clause (i) in the immediately preceding clause (a) is true with respect to a Lender or (2) a Lender has provided another representation, warranty and covenant in accordance with sub-clause (iv) in the immediately preceding clause (a), such Lender further (x) represents and warrants, as of the date such Person became a Lender party hereto, to, and (y) covenants, from the date such Person became a Lender party hereto to the date such Person ceases being a Lender party hereto, for the benefit of, the Administrative Agent and each other Joint Lead Arranger and their respective Affiliates, and not, for the avoidance of doubt, to or for the benefit of the Borrower or any other Loan Party, that none of the Administrative Agent, or any Joint Lead Arranger or any of their respective Affiliates is a fiduciary with respect to the assets of such Lender involved in the Loans, the Commitments and this Agreement (including in connection with the reservation or exercise of any rights by the Administrative Agent under this Agreement, any Loan Document or any documents related to hereto or thereto).
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(c) The Administrative Agent, and each Joint Lead Arranger hereby informs the Lenders that each such Person is not undertaking to provide investment advice or to give advice in a fiduciary capacity, in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, and that such Person has a financial interest in the transactions contemplated hereby in that such Person or an Affiliate thereof (i) may receive interest or other payments with respect to the Loans, the Commitments, this Agreement and any other Loan Documents (ii) may recognize a gain if it extended the Loans or the Commitments for an amount less than the amount being paid for an interest in the Loans or the Commitments by such Lender or (iii) may receive fees or other payments in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, the Loan Documents or otherwise, including structuring fees, commitment fees, arrangement fees, facility fees, upfront fees, underwriting fees, ticking fees, agency fees, administrative agent or collateral agent fees, utilization fees, minimum usage fees, letter of credit fees, fronting fees, deal-away or alternate transaction fees, amendment fees, processing fees, term out premiums, banker’s acceptance fees, breakage or other early termination fees or fees similar to the foregoing.
7.13    Erroneous Payments.
(a)    Each Lender hereby agrees that (x) if the Administrative Agent notifies such Lender that the Administrative Agent has determined in its sole discretion that any funds received by such Lender from the Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates (whether as a payment, prepayment or repayment of principal, interest, fees or otherwise; individually and collectively, a “Payment”) were erroneously transmitted to such Lender (whether or not known to such Lender), and demands the return of such Payment (or a portion thereof), such Lender shall promptly, but in no event later than one Business Day thereafter, return to the Administrative Agent the amount of any such Payment (or portion thereof) as to which such a demand was made in same day funds, together with interest thereon in respect of each day from and including the date such Payment (or portion thereof) was received by such Lender to the date such amount is repaid to the Administrative Agent at the greater of the NYFRB Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation from time to time in effect, and (y) to the extent permitted by applicable law, such Lender shall not assert, and hereby waives, as to the Administrative Agent, any claim, counterclaim, defense or right of set-off or recoupment with respect to any demand, claim or counterclaim by the Administrative Agent for the return of any Payments received, including without limitation any defense based on “discharge for value” or any similar doctrine. A notice of the Administrative Agent to any Lender under this Section 7.13(a) shall be conclusive, absent manifest error.
(b)    Each Lender hereby further agrees that if it receives a Payment from the Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates (x) that is in a different amount than, or on a different date from, that specified in a notice of payment sent by the Administrative Agent (or any of its Affiliates) with respect to such Payment (a “Payment Notice”) or (y) that was not preceded or accompanied by a Payment Notice, it shall be on notice, in each such case, that an error has been made with respect to such Payment. Each Lender agrees that, in each such case, or if it otherwise becomes aware a Payment (or portion thereof) may have been sent in error, such Lender shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent of such occurrence and, upon demand from the Administrative Agent, it shall promptly, but in no event later than one Business Day thereafter, return to the Administrative Agent the amount of any such Payment (or portion thereof) as to which such a demand was made in same day funds, together with interest thereon in respect of each day from and including the date such Payment (or portion thereof) was received by such Lender to the date such amount is repaid to the Administrative Agent at the greater of the NYFRB Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation from time to time in effect.
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(c)    The Borrower and each other Loan Party hereby agrees that (x) in the event an erroneous Payment (or portion thereof) are not recovered from any Lender that has received such Payment (or portion thereof) for any reason, the Administrative Agent shall be subrogated to all the rights of such Lender with respect to such amount and (y) an erroneous Payment shall not pay, prepay, repay, discharge or otherwise satisfy any Obligations owed by the Borrower or any other Loan Party.
(d)    Each party’s obligations under this Section 7.13 shall survive the resignation or replacement of the Administrative Agent or any transfer of rights or obligations by, or the replacement of, a Lender, the termination of the Commitments or the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all Obligations under any Loan Document.
SECTION 8.    MISCELLANEOUS
8.1    Amendments and Waivers.
(a) Subject to Section 2.11(b), neither this Agreement, any other Loan Document, nor any terms hereof or thereof may be amended, supplemented or modified except in accordance with the provisions of this Section 8.1. The Required Lenders and each Loan Party party to the relevant Loan Document may, or, with the written consent of the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent and each Loan Party party to the relevant Loan Document may, from time to time, (i) enter into written amendments, supplements or modifications hereto and to the other Loan Documents for the purpose of adding any provisions to this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or changing in any manner the rights of the Lenders or of the Loan Parties hereunder or thereunder or (ii) waive, on such terms and conditions as the Required Lenders or the Administrative Agent, as the case may be, may specify in such instrument, any of the requirements of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or any Default or Event of Default and its consequences; provided, however, that no such waiver and no such amendment, supplement or modification shall; (s) permit borrowings in a currency not otherwise permitted hereunder without the written consent of each Lender directly affected thereby, (t) amend the definition of “Aggregate Exposure Percentage” or any other provision of any Loan Document having the effect of modifying the pro rata treatment among the Lenders and among all Lenders generally thereunder, without the written consent of all Lenders; (u) modify or waive any provision of Section 2.12, without the written consent of all of the Lenders; (v) waive any of the conditions set forth in Section 4.1 or Section 4.2 with respect to borrowings without the written consent of the Required Lenders, (w) reduce (by way of forgiveness or otherwise) the principal amount or extend the final scheduled date of maturity of any Loan, reduce the amount or stated rate of any interest or fee payable hereunder (except (1) in connection with the waiver of applicability of any post-default increase in interest rates and (2) that any amendment or modification of defined terms used in the financial covenants in this Agreement or the other Loan Documents shall not constitute a reduction in the rate of interest or fees for purposes of this clause (w)) or extend the scheduled date of any payment thereof, or increase the amount or extend the expiration date of any Lender’s Commitment, or increase any Lender’s Aggregate Exposure Percentage, in each case without the written consent of each Lender directly affected thereby; (x) eliminate or reduce the voting rights of any Lender, or otherwise amend any provisions, under this Section 8.1 without the written consent of such Lender; (y) reduce any percentage specified in the definition of Required Lenders, consent to the assignment or transfer by the Borrower of any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, or release the Guarantor from its obligations under the Guaranty Agreement, or assign any obligations under the Guaranty Agreement, effect any action pursuant to Section 17 of the Guaranty Agreement, or change any provision hereof requiring ratable funding or ratable sharing of payments or setoffs or otherwise related to the pro rata treatment of Lenders, in each case without the written consent of all Lenders; or (z) amend, modify or waive any provision of Section 7 without the written consent of the Administrative Agent (and, solely with respect to Section 7.10, the Documentation Agent(s) and Syndication Agent).
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Any such waiver and any such amendment, supplement or modification shall apply equally to each of the Lenders and shall be binding upon the Loan Parties, the Lenders, the Administrative Agent and all future holders of the Loans. In the case of any waiver, the Loan Parties, the Lenders and the Administrative Agent shall be restored to their former position and rights hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, and any Default or Event of Default waived shall be deemed to be cured and not continuing; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default, or impair any right consequent thereon.
(a)    
(b)    Notwithstanding Section 8.1(a), the Commitments and Aggregate Exposure of any Defaulting Lender that is not a Performing Lender shall be disregarded for all purposes of any determination of whether the Required Lenders have taken or may take any action hereunder (including any consent to any amendment or waiver pursuant to Section 8.1(a)), provided that any waiver, amendment or modification requiring the consent of all Lenders or each affected Lender shall require the consent of such Defaulting Lender.
8.2    Notices. All notices, requests and demands to or upon the respective parties hereto to be effective shall be in writing (including by telecopy), and, unless otherwise expressly provided herein, shall be deemed to have been duly given or made when delivered, or three (3) Business Days after being deposited in the mail, postage prepaid, or, in the case of telecopy notice, when received, addressed as follows in the case of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, and as set forth in an administrative questionnaire delivered to the Administrative Agent in the case of the Lenders, or to such other address as may be hereafter notified by the respective parties hereto:
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Borrower:
1391 Timberlake Manor Parkway
Chesterfield, Missouri 63017
Attention: Treasurer
Tel. No: (636) 292-3029
Telecopy: (636) 292-4029
with a copy to:

Bunge Global SA
Route de Florissant 13
1206 Geneva, Switzerland

with a copy to:

Bunge Global SA
1391 Timberlake Manor Parkway
Chesterfield, Missouri 63017
Attention: Treasurer
Tel. No: (636) 292-3029
Telecopy: (636) 292-4029
Administrative Agent:
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
4041 Ogletown Stanton Road,
Floor 2
Newark, DE 19713
Attention: Loan & Agency Services Group
Tel: +1-302-634-3367
Email: jacob.mcnett@chase.com

with a copy to:

JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
4041 Ogletown Stanton Road,
Floor 2
Newark, DE 19713
Attention: Loan & Agency Services Group
Tel: +1-302-634-1928
Email: Marsea.medori@chase.com


Agency Withholding Tax Inquiries:
Email: agency.tax.reporting@jpmorgan.com

Agency Compliance/Financials/Intralinks:
Email: covenant.compliance@jpmchase.com

provided that any notice, request or demand to or upon the Administrative Agent or the Lenders shall not be effective until received.
8.3 No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies. No failure to exercise and no delay in exercising, on the part of the Administrative Agent or any Lender, any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder or under the other Loan Documents shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, remedy, power or privilege. The rights, remedies, powers and privileges herein provided are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights, remedies, powers and privileges provided by law.
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8.4    Survival of Representations and Warranties. All representations and warranties made hereunder, in the other Loan Documents and in any document, certificate or statement delivered pursuant hereto or in connection herewith shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the making of the Loans hereunder.
8.5    Payment of Expenses and Taxes. The Borrower agrees (a) to pay or reimburse the Administrative Agent for all its reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred in connection with the development, preparation and execution of, and any amendment, supplement or modification to, this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and any other documents prepared in connection herewith or therewith, and the consummation and administration of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, including the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel to the Administrative Agent and filing and recording fees and expenses, with statements with respect to the foregoing to be submitted to the Borrower prior to the Closing Date (in the case of amounts to be paid on the Closing Date) and from time to time thereafter on a quarterly basis or such other periodic basis as the Administrative Agent shall deem appropriate, (b) to pay or reimburse each Lender and the Administrative Agent for all its costs and expenses incurred in connection with the enforcement or preservation of any rights under this Agreement, the other Loan Documents and any such other documents, including the fees and disbursements of counsel (including the allocated fees and expenses of in-house counsel) to each Lender and of counsel to the Administrative Agent, (c) to pay, indemnify, and hold each Lender and the Administrative Agent harmless from, any and all recording and filing fees that may be payable or determined to be payable in connection with the execution and delivery of, or consummation or administration of any of the transactions contemplated by, or any amendment, supplement or modification of, or any waiver or consent under or in respect of, this Agreement, the other Loan Documents and any such other documents, and (d) to pay, indemnify, and hold each Lender and the Administrative Agent and their respective officers, directors, employees, Affiliates, agents and controlling persons (each, an “Indemnitee”) harmless from and against any and all other liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever with respect to the execution, delivery, enforcement, performance and administration of this Agreement, the other Loan Documents and any such other documents, including any of the foregoing relating to the use of proceeds of the Loans or the violation of, noncompliance with or liability under, any Environmental Law applicable to the operations of any Group Member or any of the properties owned by such Group Members and the reasonable fees and expenses of legal counsel in connection with claims, actions or proceedings by any Indemnitee against any Loan Party under any Loan Document (all the foregoing in this clause (d), collectively, the “Indemnified Liabilities”), provided, that the Borrower shall have no obligation hereunder to any Indemnitee with respect to Indemnified Liabilities to the extent such Indemnified Liabilities are found by a final, non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee. Without limiting the foregoing, and to the extent permitted by applicable law, the Borrower agrees not to assert, and hereby waives, all rights for contribution or any other rights of recovery with respect to all claims, demands, penalties, fines, liabilities, settlements, damages, costs and expenses of whatever kind or nature, under or related to Environmental Laws, that any of them might have by statute or otherwise against any Indemnitee. For the avoidance of doubt, no Indemnitee shall be liable for any damages arising from the use by unintended recipients of any information or other materials distributed by it through telecommunications, electronic or other information transmission systems in connection with this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, except to the extent that any such damages are determined in a
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final and non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, to result from the willful misconduct or gross negligence of such Indemnitee. All amounts due under this Section 8.5 shall be payable not later than ten (10) days after written demand therefor. Statements payable by the Borrower pursuant to this Section 8.5 shall be submitted to the Treasurer (Telephone No. (636) 292-3029; Telecopy No. (636) 292-4029), at the address of Bunge Global SA set forth in Section 8.2, or to such other Person or address as may be hereafter designated by the Borrower in a written notice to the Administrative Agent. The agreements in this Section 8.5 shall survive repayment of the Loans and all other amounts payable hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, and for the avoidance of doubt, this Section 8.5 shall not apply with respect to Taxes other than any Taxes that represent losses, claims, damages, etc. arising from a non-Tax claim.
To the extent permitted by applicable law (i) the Borrower and any Loan Party shall not assert, and the Borrower and each Loan Party hereby waives, any claim against the Administrative Agent, any Arranger, any Syndication Agent, any Documentation Agent and any Lender, and any Affiliates of any of the foregoing Persons (each such Person being called a “Lender-Related Person”) for any Liabilities arising from the use by others of information or other materials (including, without limitation, any personal data) obtained through telecommunications, electronic or other information transmission systems (including the Internet), and (ii) no party hereto shall assert, and each such party hereby waives, any Liabilities against any other party hereto, on any theory of liability, for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages) arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of, this Agreement, any other Loan Document, or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or thereby, the transactions, any Loan or the use of the proceeds thereof; provided that, nothing in this paragraph shall relieve the Borrower and each Loan Party of any obligation it may have to indemnify an Indemnitee, as provided in the preceding paragraph, against any special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages asserted against such Indemnitee by a third party.
8.6    Successors and Assigns; Participations and Assignments.
(a)    This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Borrower, the Lenders, the Administrative Agent, all future holders of the Loans and their respective successors and assigns, except that (i) the Borrower may not assign or transfer any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement without the prior written consent of each Lender and (ii) any attempted assignment or transfer by the Borrower without such consent shall be null and void.
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(b) Any Lender other than any Conduit Lender may, without the consent of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, in accordance with applicable law, at any time sell to one or more banks, financial institutions or other entities (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates or an Ineligible Institution) (each, a “Participant”) participating interests in any Loan owing to such Lender, the Commitment of such Lender or any other interest of such Lender hereunder and under the other Loan Documents. In the event of any such sale by a Lender of a participating interest to a Participant, such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement to the other parties to this Agreement shall remain unchanged, such Lender shall remain solely responsible for the performance thereof, such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Loan for all purposes under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and the Borrower and the Administrative Agent shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. In no event shall any Participant under any such participation have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of any Loan Document, or any consent to any departure by any Loan Party therefrom, except any amendment, waiver or consent described in clause (w) of the proviso to Section 8.1 that affects such Participant, in each case to the extent subject to such participation. The Borrower agrees that if amounts outstanding under this Agreement and the Loans are due or unpaid, or shall have been declared or shall have become due and payable upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, each Participant shall, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, be deemed to have the right of setoff in respect of its participating interest in amounts owing under this Agreement to the same extent as if the amount of its participating interest were owing directly to it as a Lender under this Agreement, provided that, in purchasing such participating interest, such Participant shall be deemed to have agreed to share with the Lenders the proceeds thereof as provided in Section 8.7 as fully as if it were a Lender hereunder. The Borrower also agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.13, 2.14 and 2.15 (and subject to the limitations thereof) with respect to its participation in the Commitments and the Loans outstanding from time to time as if it was a Lender; provided that, in the case of Section 2.14, such Participant shall have complied with the requirements of Section 2.14 (including the requirements under Sections 2.14(e), 2.14(f) and 2.14(g) (it being understood that the documentation required under Sections 2.14(e), 2.14(f) and 2.14(g) shall be delivered to the participating Lender)) as if it was a Lender, and provided, further, that no Participant shall be entitled to receive any greater amount pursuant to Sections 2.12, 2.13 or 2.14 (as the case may be) than the transferor Lender would have been entitled to receive in respect of the amount of the participation transferred by such transferor Lender to such Participant had no such transfer occurred, except to the extent such entitlement to receive a greater payment results from a Change in Law made subsequent to the Closing Date that occurs after the Participant acquired the applicable participation. Each Lender that sells a participation shall, acting as a non-fiduciary agent on behalf of the Borrower, maintain a register on which it enters the name and address of each Participant and the principal amounts (and stated interest) of each Participant’s interest in the Loans or other obligations under this Agreement (the “Participant Register”); provided that no Lender shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register to any Person (including the identity of any Participant or any information relating to a Participant’s interest in any Commitments or Loans or its other obligations under any Loan Document) except to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to establish that such Commitment, or Loan or other obligation is in registered form under Section 5f.103-1(c) of the United States Treasury Regulations. The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive, in the absence of manifest error, and such Lender, each Loan Party and the Administrative Agent shall treat each person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register pursuant to the terms hereof as the owner of such participation for all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the contrary.
(c) Any Lender other than any Conduit Lender (an “Assignor”) may, in accordance with applicable law, at any time and from time to time assign to any Person (other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates or an Ineligible Institution) (an “Assignee”) all or any part of its rights and obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents pursuant to an Assignment and Acceptance, executed by such Assignee, such Assignor and any other Person whose consent is required pursuant to this paragraph, and delivered to the Administrative Agent for its acceptance and recording in the Register; provided that (i) the consent of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (which, in each case, shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed, and in the case of the Borrower shall be deemed to have been given if the Borrower has not responded to a proposed assignment within ten (10) Business Days following its receipt of notice of such proposed assignment) shall be required in the case of any assignment to a Person that is not a Lender or a Lender Affiliate (except that the consent of the Borrower shall not be required for any assignment that occurs when either a Default or an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing) and (ii) unless otherwise agreed by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, no such assignment to an Assignee (other than any Lender or any Lender Affiliate) shall be in an aggregate Dollar Equivalent principal amount of less than $5,000,000, in each case except in the case of an assignment of all of a Lender’s interests under this Agreement. For purposes of the proviso contained in the preceding sentence, the amount described therein shall be aggregated in respect of each Lender and its Lender Affiliates, if any. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date determined pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, (x) the Assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder with a Commitment and/or Loans as set forth therein, and (y) the Assignor thereunder shall, to the extent provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all of an Assignor’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Assignor shall cease to be a party hereto). Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Conduit Lender may assign at any time to its designating Lender hereunder without the consent of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent any or all of the Loans it may have funded hereunder and pursuant to its designation agreement and without regard to the limitations set forth in the first sentence of this Section 8.6(c).
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(d)    The Administrative Agent shall, on behalf of the Borrower, maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.2 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to it and a register (the “Register”) for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment of, and the principal amount (and stated interest) of the Loans owing to, each Lender from time to time, which Register shall be made available to the Borrower and any Lender upon reasonable request. The entries in the Register shall be conclusive, in the absence of manifest error, and the Borrower, each other Loan Party, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as the owner of the Loans and any Notes evidencing the Loans recorded therein for all purposes of this Agreement. Any assignment of any Loan or Commitment, whether or not evidenced by a Note, shall be effective only upon appropriate entries with respect thereto being made in the Register (and each Note shall expressly so provide). Any assignment or transfer of all or part of a Loan or Commitment evidenced by a Note shall be registered on the Register only upon surrender for registration of assignment or transfer of the Note evidencing such Loan or Commitment, accompanied by a duly executed Assignment and Acceptance, and thereupon one or more new Notes shall be issued to the designated Assignee.
(e)    Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an Assignor, an Assignee and any other Person whose consent is required by Section 8.6(c), together with payment to the Administrative Agent of a registration and processing fee of $4,000 (such fee not payable with respect to assignments to an Assignor’s Affiliate and such fee not to be payable by the Borrower, except for an assignment pursuant to Section 2.18), the Administrative Agent shall (i) promptly accept such Assignment and Acceptance and (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register on the effective date determined pursuant thereto.
(f)     Any Lender may at any time pledge or assign a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement to secure obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank; provided that no such pledge or assignment shall release such Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee for such Lender as a party hereto.
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(g)    The Borrower, upon receipt of written notice from the relevant Lender, agrees to issue Notes to any Lender requiring Notes to facilitate transactions of the type described in paragraph (f) above.
(h)    Each of the Borrower, each Lender and the Administrative Agent hereby confirms that it will not institute against a Conduit Lender or join any other Person in instituting against a Conduit Lender any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceeding under any state bankruptcy or similar law, for one year and one day after the payment in full of the latest maturing commercial paper note issued by such Conduit Lender; provided, however, that each Lender designating any Conduit Lender hereby agrees to indemnify, save and hold harmless each other party hereto for any loss, cost, damage or expense arising out of its inability to institute such a proceeding against such Conduit Lender during such period of forbearance.
8.7    Adjustments; Set-off.
(a)    Except to the extent that this Agreement expressly provides for payments to be allocated to a particular Lender or to the Lenders on a non pro rata basis, if any Lender (a “Benefitted Lender”) shall receive any payment of all or part of the Obligations owing to it, or receive any collateral in respect thereof (whether voluntarily or involuntarily, by set-off, pursuant to events or proceedings of the nature referred to in Section 6(g), or otherwise), in a greater proportion than any such payment to or collateral received by any other Lender, if any, in respect of the Obligations owing to such other Lender, such Benefitted Lender shall purchase for cash from the other Lenders a participating interest in such portion of the Obligations owing to each such other Lender, or shall provide such other Lenders with the benefits of any such collateral, as shall be necessary to cause such Benefitted Lender to share the excess payment or benefits of such collateral ratably with each of the Lenders; provided, however, that if all or any portion of such excess payment or benefits is thereafter recovered from such Benefitted Lender, such purchase shall be rescinded, and the purchase price and benefits returned, to the extent of such recovery, but without interest.
(b)    In addition to any rights and remedies of the Lenders provided by law, each Lender shall have the right, without prior notice to the Guarantor or the Borrower, any such notice being expressly waived by the Guarantor and the Borrower to the extent permitted by applicable law, upon any amount becoming due and payable by the Guarantor or the Borrower hereunder (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise), to set off and appropriate and apply against such amount any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final), in any currency, and any other credits, indebtedness or claims, in any currency, in each case whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, matured or unmatured, at any time held or owing by such Lender or any branch or agency thereof to or for the credit or the account of the Guarantor or the Borrower, as the case may be. Each Lender agrees promptly to notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent after any such setoff and application made by such Lender, provided that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such setoff and application.
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8.8 Interest Rate Limitation. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if at any time the interest rate applicable to any Loan or other Obligation owing under this Agreement, together with all fees, charges and other amounts that are treated as interest on such Loan or other Obligation under applicable law (collectively, “charges”), shall exceed the maximum lawful rate (the “Maximum Rate”) that may be contracted for, charged, taken, received or reserved by the Lender or other Person holding such Loan or other Obligation in accordance with applicable law, the rate of interest payable in respect of such Loan or other Obligation hereunder, together with all charges payable in respect thereof, shall be limited to the Maximum Rate. To the extent lawful, the interest and charges that would have been paid in respect of such Loan or other Obligation but were not paid as a result of the operation of this Section 8.8 shall be cumulated and the interest and charges payable to such Lender or other Person in respect of other Loans or Obligations or periods shall be increased (but not above the amount collectible at the Maximum Rate therefor) until such cumulated amount, together with interest thereon at the Federal Funds Effective Rate for each day to the date of repayment, shall have been received by such Lender or other Person. Any amount collected by such Lender or other Person that exceeds the maximum amount collectible at the Maximum Rate shall be applied to the reduction of the principal balance of such Loan or other Obligation or refunded to the Borrower so that at no time shall the interest and charges paid or payable in respect of such Loan or other Obligation exceed the maximum amount collectible at the Maximum Rate.
8.9    Counterparts; Electronic Signatures
(a)    This Agreement may be executed by one or more of the parties to this Agreement on any number of separate counterparts, and all of said counterparts taken together shall be deemed to constitute one and the same instrument. Delivery of an executed signature page of this Agreement by facsimile transmission or portable document format shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart hereof. A set of the copies of this Agreement signed by all the parties shall be lodged with the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
(b)    The words “execution,” “signed,” “signature,” “delivery,” and words of like import in or relating to this Agreement, any other Loan Document and/or any ancillary document shall be deemed to include Electronic Signatures, deliveries or the keeping of records in any electronic form (including deliveries by telecopy, emailed pdf. or any other electronic means that reproduces an image of an actual executed signature page), each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature, physical delivery thereof or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be; provided that nothing herein shall require the Administrative Agent to accept Electronic Signatures in any form or format without its prior written consent and pursuant to procedures approved by it; provided, further, without limiting the foregoing, (i) to the extent the Administrative Agent has agreed to accept any Electronic Signature, the Administrative Agent and each of the Lenders shall be entitled to rely on such Electronic Signature purportedly given by or on behalf of the Borrower or any other Loan Party without further verification thereof and without any obligation to review the appearance or form of any such Electronic signature and (ii) upon the request of the Administrative Agent or any Lender, any Electronic Signature shall be promptly followed by a manually executed counterpart.
8.10    Severability. Any provision of this Agreement that is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.
8.11    Integration. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents represent the entire agreement of the Guarantor, the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof, and there are no promises, undertakings, representations or warranties by the Administrative Agent or any Lender relative to the subject matter hereof not expressly set forth or referred to herein or in the other Loan Documents.
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8.12    GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT, THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES UNDER THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
8.13    Submission To Jurisdiction; Waivers. Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally:
(a)    submits for itself and its property in any legal action or proceeding relating to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which it is a party, or for recognition and enforcement of any judgment in respect thereof, to the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York sitting in the Borough of Manhattan (or if such court lacks subject matter jurisdiction, the Supreme Court of the State of New York sitting in the Borough of Manhattan), , and appellate courts from any thereof;
(b)    consents that any such action or proceeding, whether in contract, tort or otherwise and whether at law or in equity, may (and any such claims, cross-claims or third party claims brought against the Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates or any of its or their respective directors, officers, employees, agents or advisors may only) 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;
(c)    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 the Borrower, as the case may be at its address set forth in Section 8.2 or at such other address of which the Administrative Agent shall have been notified pursuant thereto;
(d)    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 of the Administrative Agent or any Lender to bring any action or proceeding against the Borrower or any other Loan Party or its properties in the courts of any other jurisdiction; and
(e)    waives, to the maximum extent not prohibited by law, any right it may have to claim or recover in any legal action or proceeding referred to in this Section any special, exemplary, punitive or consequential damages; provided that nothing in this clause (e) shall relieve the Borrower of any obligation it may have to indemnify an Indemnitee, as provided in any Loan Document, against any special, exemplary, punitive or consequential damages asserted against such Indemnitee by a third party.
8.14    Acknowledgements. The Borrower hereby acknowledges and agrees that:
(a)    it has been advised by counsel in the negotiation, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents;
(b) neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender has any fiduciary relationship with or duty to the Borrower arising out of or in connection with this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents under this commercial lending facility, and the relationship between Administrative Agent and Lenders, on one hand, and the Borrower, on the other hand, in connection herewith or therewith is solely that of debtor and creditor; and
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(c)    no joint venture is created hereby or by the other Loan Documents or otherwise exists by virtue of the transactions contemplated hereby among the Lenders or among the Borrower and the Lenders.
8.15    Confidentiality. Each of the Administrative Agent and each Lender agrees to keep confidential all non-public information provided to it by any Loan Party pursuant to this Agreement that is designated by such Loan Party as confidential; provided that nothing herein shall prevent the Administrative Agent or any Lender from disclosing any such information (a) to the Administrative Agent, any other Lender or any Lender Affiliate, (b) subject to an agreement to comply with the provisions of this Section, to any actual or prospective Transferee or any direct or indirect counterparty to any Hedge Agreement (or any professional advisor to such counterparty), (c) to its employees, vendors, directors, agents, attorneys, accountants and other professional advisors or those of any of its Affiliates (the “Permitted Parties”), (d) upon the request or demand of any Governmental Authority, (e) in response to any order of any court or other Governmental Authority or as may otherwise be required pursuant to any Requirement of Law, (f) if requested or required to do so in connection with any litigation or similar proceeding, (g) that has been publicly disclosed, (h) to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners or any similar organization or any nationally recognized rating agency that requires access to information about a Lender’s investment portfolio in connection with ratings issued or any insurer, insurance broker or direct or indirect provider of credit protection with respect to such Lender or Permitted Parties, (i) to any credit insurance provider or any credit risk insurance broker relating to the Borrower and its obligations, (j) to any direct, indirect, actual or prospective counterparty (and its advisor) to any swap, derivative or securitization transaction related to the obligations under this Agreement, (k) to the CUSIP Service Bureau or any similar organization, (l) in connection with the exercise of any remedy hereunder or under any other Loan Document or (m) with the prior written consent of the Borrower. In addition, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders may disclose the existence of this Agreement and information about this Agreement to market data collectors, similar service providers to the lending industry and service providers to the Agents and the Lenders in connection with the administration of this Agreement, the other Loan Documents and the Commitments; provided, that the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall have obtained such service providers’ written agreement to maintain the confidentiality of all non-public information relating to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
Each Lender acknowledges that information furnished to it pursuant to this Agreement or the other Loan Documents may include material non-public information concerning the Borrower and its Affiliates and their related parties or their respective securities, and confirms that it has developed compliance procedures regarding the use of material non-public information and that it will handle such material non-public information in accordance with those procedures and applicable law, including Federal and state securities laws.
All information, including requests for waivers and amendments, furnished by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent pursuant to, or in the course of administering, this Agreement or the other Loan Documents will be syndicate-level information, which may contain material non-public information about the Borrower and its Affiliates and their related parties or their respective securities. Accordingly, each Lender represents to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent that it has identified in its administrative questionnaire a credit contact who may receive information that may contain material non-public information in accordance with its compliance procedures and applicable law, including Federal and state securities laws.
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8.16    WAIVERS OF JURY TRIAL. THE BORROWER, THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND THE LENDERS HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVE TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE AND WHETHER AT LAW OR IN EQUITY, AND FOR ANY COUNTERCLAIM THEREIN.
8.17    Conversion of Approved Currencies into Dollars. Unless the context otherwise requires, any calculation of an amount or percentage that is required to be made by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent under the Loan Documents shall be made by first converting any amounts denominated in currencies other than Dollars into Dollars at the Rate of Exchange pursuant to Section 1.2(e).
8.18    U.S.A. Patriot Act.  Each Lender hereby notifies the Borrower that pursuant to the requirements of the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)) (the “Patriot Act”) and the Beneficial Ownership Regulation, it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies the Borrower, which information includes the name and address of the Borrower and other information that will allow such Lender to identify the Borrower in accordance with the Patriot Act and the Beneficial Ownership Regulation.
8.19    Acknowledgment and Consent to Bail-In of Affected Financial Institution.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Loan Document or in any other agreement, arrangement or understanding among any such parties, each party hereto acknowledges that any liability of any Lender that is an Affected Financial Institution arising under any Loan Document, to the extent such liability is unsecured, may be subject to the 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 or cancellation 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 entity, 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 any other Loan Document; or
(iii)    the variation of the terms of such liability in connection with the exercise of the Write-Down and Conversion Powers of the applicable Resolution Authority.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Revolving Credit Agreement to be duly executed and delivered by their proper and duly authorized officers as of the day and year first above written.
BUNGE LIMITED FINANCE CORP.
By: /s/ Rajat Gupta Printed Name: Rajat Gupta Title: President as Syndication Agent and a Lender

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SUMITOMO MITSUI BANKING CORPORATION,


By: /s/ Jun Ashley Printed Name: Jun Ashley Title: Director JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent and a Lender

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By: /s/ Eduardo Lopez Peiro Printed Name: Eduardo Lopez Peiro Title: Vice President CITIBANK, N.A., as a Documentation Agent and a Lender


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By: /s/ Michael Vondriska Printed Name: Michael Vondriska Title: Vice President CRÉDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK,


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as a Documentation Agent and a Lender


By: /s/ Jill Wong    
Printed Name: Jill Wong
Title: Director
By: /s/ Gordon Yip Printed Name: Gordon Yip Title: Director BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as a Documentation Agent and a Lender
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By: /s/ Ryan Van Stedum Printed Name: Ryan Van Stedum Title: Vice President MIZUHO BANK, LTD., as a Documentation Agent and a Lender



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By: /s/ Tracy Rahn Printed Name: Tracy Rahn Title: Executive Director WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., as a Documentation Agent and a Lender




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By: /s/ Michael J. Stein Printed Name: Michael J. Stein Title: Executive Director By: /s/ Sal Vitale Printed Name: Sal Vitale Title: Managing Director


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DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC.,
as a Documentation Agent


By: /s/ Ming K. Chu    
Printed Name: Ming K. Chu
Title: Director



DEUTSCHE BANK AG NEW YORK BRANCH,
as a Lender


By: /s/ Ming K. Chu    
Printed Name: Ming K. Chu
Title: Director

By: /s/ Annie Chung Printed Name: Annie Chung Title: Managing Director By: /s/ Katherine Robinson Printed Name: Katherine Robinson Title: Managing Director
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BANK OF MONTREAL,
as a Documentation Agent and a Lender



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ING BANK N.V.,
as a Documentation Agent and a Lender
By: /s/ Peter Kindt    
Printed Name: Peter Kindt
Title: Managing Director
By: /s/ Lars Vriens Printed Name: Lars Vriens Title: Managing Director BNP PARIBAS, as a Documentation Agent and a Lender





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By: /s/ Karim Remtoula    
Printed Name: Karim Remtoula
Title: Director
By: /s/ Nicolas Doche Printed Name: Nicolas Doche Title: Vice President BANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA ARGENTARIA, S.A. NEW YORK BRANCH, as a Documentation Agent and a Lender
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By: /s/ Cara Younger     
Printed Name: Cara Younger
Title: Managing Director
By: /s/ Armen Semizian Printed Name: Armen Semizian Title: Managing Director COÖPERATIEVE RABOBANK U.A., NEW YORK BRANCH, as a Documentation Agent and a Lender


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By: /s/ Anna L Pearson    
Printed Name: Anna L Pearson
Title: Executive Director
By: /s/ Niels Jacobs Printed Name: Niels Jacobs Title: Managing Director AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND BANKING GROUP LIMITED, as a Lender


































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By: /s/ Robert Grillo Printed Name: Robert Grillo Title: Executive Director COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA (EUROPE) N.V., as a Lender






































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By: /s/ Wilco Hendriks    
Printed Name: Wilco Hendriks
Title: CEO, Commonwealth Bank of Australia (Europe) N.V.

By: /s/ Damien Podagiel Printed Name: Damien Podagiel Title: Head of Natural Resources. Energy & Carbon, Europe DBS BANK LTD., as a Lender
































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By: /s/ Kate Khoo Printed Name: Kate Khoo Title: Vice President HSBC BANK USA, N.A., as a Lender























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By: /s/ Catherine Dong Printed Name: Catherine Dong Title: Director OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED, NEW YORK AGENCY, as a Lender






















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By: /s/ Charles Ong Printed Name: Charles Ong Title: General Manager STANDARD CHARTERED BANK, as a Lender




































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By: /s/ Kristopher Tracy Printed Name: Kristopher Tracy Title: Director, Financing Solutions THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA, as a Lender









































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By: /s/ Dhirendra Udharamaney Printed Name: Dhirendra Udharamaney Title: Director BANCO SANTANDER, S.A., NEW YORK BRANCH, as a Lender























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By: /s/ Andres Barbosa    
Printed Name: Andres Barbosa
Title: Managing Director
By: /s/ Rita Walz-Cuccioli Printed Name: Rita Walz-Cuccioli Title: Executive Director GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA, as a Lender


















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By: /s/ Andrew Vernon Printed Name: Andrew Vernon Title: Authorized Signatory COMMERZBANK AG, NEW YORK BRANCH, as a Lender





















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By: /s/ Robert Sullivan    
Printed Name: Robert Sullivan
Title: Vice President
By: /s/ Jeff Sullivan Printed Name: Jeff Sullivan Title: Vice President PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as a Lender




















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By: /s/ David Bentzinger Printed Name: David Bentzinger Title: Senior Vice President SKANDINAVISKA ENSKILDA BANKEN AB (PUBL) FRANKFURT BRANCH, as a Lender





















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By: /s/ Philipp Jentzmik    
Printed Name: Philipp Jentzmik
Title: Head of Legal, LC&FI
By: /s/ Geraldine Maschke Printed Name: Geraldine Maschke Title: Head of Client Portfolio Management, Germany CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE, NEW YORK BRANCH, as a Lender



















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By: /s/ Andrew Millane Printed Name: Andrew Millane Title: Executive Director and Authorized Signatory MORGAN STANLEY SENIOR FUNDING, INC., as a Lender





















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By: /s/ Michael King Printed Name: Michael King Title: Vice President SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE, as a Lender






















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By: /s/ Michiel Vandervoort Printed Name: Michiel Vandervoort Title: Managing Director AGRICULTURAL BANK OF CHINA, NEW YORK BRANCH, as a Lender






















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By: /s/ Nelson Chou Printed Name: Nelson Chou Title: SVP & Head of Corporate Banking INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED, NEW YORK BRANCH, as a Lender





















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By: /s/ Chan K. Park    
Printed Name: Chan K. Park
Title: Executive Director
By: /s/ Peichen Chen Printed Name: Peichen Chen Title: Vice President ROYAL BANK OF CANADA, as a Lender




















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By: /s/ John Flores Printed Name: John Flores Title: Authorized Signatory WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION, as a Lender























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By: /s/ Daniel Sutton Printed Name: Daniel Sutton Title: Tier II Attorney U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as a Lender























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By: /s/ Jason D. King    
Printed Name: Jason D. King
Title: Vice President
















BANK OF CHINA, NEW YORK BRANCH,
as a Lender
By: /s/ René Del Portillo    
Printed Name: René Del Portillo
Title: Vice President
By: /s/ Raymond Qiao Printed Name: Raymond Qiao Title: Executive Vice President KBC BANK NV, NEW YORK, as a Lender


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By: /s/ William Cavanaugh    
Printed Name: William Cavanaugh
Title: Director
By: /s/ Francis Payne Printed Name: Francis Payne Title: Managing Director DZ BANK AG DEUTSCHE ZENTRAL-GENOSSENSCHAFFTSBANK NEW YORK BRANCH, as a Lender




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By: /s/ Michael Palumberi    
Printed Name: Michael Palumberi
Title: Vice President
By: /s/ Donata Mylius     
Printed Name: Donata Mylius
Title: Vice President



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EX-10.2 3 a102-blfcxjpmguarantydated.htm EX-10.2 Document
Exhibit 10.2
GUARANTY
This Guaranty (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified in accordance with the terms hereof and in effect from time to time, this “Guaranty”) is made as of the 1st day of March, 2024 by BUNGE GLOBAL SA, a corporation incorporated under the laws of Switzerland (the “Guarantor”) to JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. in its capacity as the administrative agent (together with its successors and assigns, the “Administrative Agent”) under the Revolving Credit Agreement, dated as of March 1, 2024 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof, the “Credit Agreement”), among Bunge Limited Finance Corp., a Delaware corporation (“BLFC”), the Administrative Agent and the financial institutions from time to time party thereto (each a “Lender” and collectively, the “Lenders”), for the benefit of the Lenders.
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Credit Agreement the Lenders have agreed to make revolving loans denominated in Dollars and Euros (the “Loans”) to BLFC from time to time; and
WHEREAS, the execution and delivery of this Guaranty is a condition precedent to the effectiveness of the Credit Agreement;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual covenants contained herein, the parties hereby agree as follows:
Section 1.    Definitions.
(a)    For all purposes of this Guaranty, except as otherwise expressly provided in Annex A hereto or unless the context otherwise requires, capitalized terms used herein shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Credit Agreement.
(b)    Notwithstanding any other provision contained herein or in the other Loan Documents, all terms of an accounting or financial nature used herein and in the other Loan Documents shall be construed, and all computations of amounts and ratios referred to herein and in the other Loan Documents shall be made, and prepared:
(i)    in accordance with GAAP (including principles of consolidation where appropriate), and all accounting or financial terms shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms by GAAP; provided, however, that all accounting terms used in Section 8.2 below (and all defined terms used in the definition of any accounting term used in Section 8.2 below) shall have the meaning given to such terms (and defined terms) under GAAP as in effect on the date hereof applied on a basis consistent with those used in preparing the financial statements referred to in Section 7(a) below. In the event of any change after the date hereof in GAAP, and if such change would affect the computation of any of the financial covenants set forth in Section 8.2 below, then the parties hereto agree to endeavor, in good faith, to agree upon an amendment to this Guaranty that would adjust such financial covenants in a manner that would preserve the original intent thereof, but would allow compliance therewith to be determined in accordance with the Guarantor’s financial statements at that time, provided that, until so amended such financial covenants shall continue to be computed in accordance with GAAP prior to such change therein; and



(ii)    without giving effect to any election under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 159 (or any other Financial Accounting Standard having a similar result or effect) to value any Indebtedness or other liabilities of BLFC, the Guarantor or any of their Subsidiaries at “fair value”, as defined therein.
Notwithstanding any other provision contained herein, all obligations of the Guarantor, BLFC and any of their respective Subsidiaries that are or would be characterized as an operating lease as determined in accordance with GAAP as in effect on December 14, 2018 (whether or not such operating lease was in effect on such date) shall continue to be accounted for as an operating lease (and not as a capital lease) for purposes of the Loan Documents regardless of any change in GAAP following December 14, 2018 (or any change in the implementation in GAAP for future periods that are contemplated as of December 14, 2018) that would otherwise require such obligation to be re-characterized as a capital lease and the Guarantor, BLFC and their respective Subsidiaries shall continue to provide financial reporting which differentiates between operating leases and capital leases in accordance with GAAP as in effect on December 14, 2018.
Section 2.    Guaranty. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Guaranty, the Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees (collectively, the “Guaranty Obligations”) the prompt and punctual payment of all Obligations due and owing (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) under the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, due or to become due, or now existing or hereafter incurred. This Guaranty is a guaranty of payment and not of collection. All payments by the Guarantor under this Guaranty shall be made in Euros (if made with respect to principal of and interest on Loans denominated in Euros) or Dollars (if made with respect to any other amount) and (i) with respect to Loans, shall be made to the Administrative Agent for disbursement pro rata (determined at the time such payment is sought) to the Lenders in accordance with their respective Aggregate Exposure Percentage, (ii) with respect to fees, expenses and indemnifications owed to the Lenders, shall be made to the Administrative Agent for disbursement pro rata (determined at the time such payment is sought) to the Lenders in accordance with their respective Aggregate Exposure Percentages (except as otherwise provided in the Credit Agreement with respect to Defaulting Lenders) and (iii) with respect to fees, expenses and indemnifications owed to the Administrative Agent in its capacity as such, shall be made to the Administrative Agent. This Guaranty shall remain in full force and effect until the Guaranty Obligations are paid in full and the Commitments are terminated, notwithstanding that from time to time prior thereto BLFC may be free from any payment obligations under the Loan Documents.
Section 3.    Guaranty Absolute. The Guarantor guarantees that the Guaranty Obligations will be paid, regardless of any applicable law, regulation or order now or hereinafter in effect in any jurisdiction affecting any of such terms or the rights of the Administrative Agent or any Lender with respect thereto. The liability of the Guarantor under this Guaranty shall be absolute and unconditional irrespective of:
(a)    Any lack of validity or enforceability of or defect or deficiency in the Credit Agreement or any Loan Document or any other agreement or instrument executed in connection with or pursuant thereto;
(b) Any change in the time, manner, terms or place of payment of, or in any other term of, all or any of the Guaranty Obligations, or any other amendment or waiver of or any consent to departure from the Credit Agreement or any Loan Document or any other agreement or instrument relating thereto or executed in connection therewith or pursuant thereto;
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(c)    Any sale, exchange or non-perfection of any property standing as security for the liabilities hereby guaranteed or any liabilities incurred directly or indirectly hereunder or any setoff against any of said liabilities, or any release or amendment or waiver of or consent to departure from any other guaranty, for all or any of the Guaranty Obligations;
(d)    The failure of the Administrative Agent or a Lender to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any right or remedy against BLFC or any other Person hereunder or under the Credit Agreement or any Loan Document;
(e)    Any failure by BLFC in the performance of any obligation with respect to the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document;
(f)    Any change in the corporate existence, structure or ownership of BLFC, or any insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization or other similar proceeding affecting BLFC or its assets or resulting release or discharge of any of the Guaranty Obligations;
(g)    Any other circumstance which might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a discharge of, the Guarantor, BLFC or any other Person (including any other guarantor) that is a party to any document or instrument executed in respect of the Guaranty Obligations; or
(h)    Any law, regulation, decree or order of any jurisdiction, or any other event, affecting any term of any Guaranty Obligations or the Administrative Agent’s or the Lenders’ rights with respect thereto, including, without limitation: (A) the application of any such law, regulation, decree or order, including any prior approval, which would prevent the exchange of a currency other than Dollars for Dollars or the remittance of funds outside of such jurisdiction or the unavailability of Dollars in any legal exchange market in such jurisdiction in accordance with normal commercial practice; or (B) a declaration of banking moratorium or any suspension of payments by banks in such jurisdiction or the imposition by such jurisdiction or any Governmental Authority thereof of any moratorium on, the required rescheduling or restructuring of, or required approval of payments on, any indebtedness in such jurisdiction; or (C) any expropriation, confiscation, nationalization or requisition by such country or any Governmental Authority that directly or indirectly deprives BLFC of any assets or their use or of the ability to operate its business or a material part thereof; or (D) any war (whether or not declared), insurrection, revolution, hostile act, civil strife or similar events occurring in such jurisdiction which has the same effect as the events described in clause (A), (B) or (C) above (in each of the cases contemplated in clauses (A) through (D) above, to the extent occurring or existing on or at any time after the date of this Guaranty).
The obligations of the Guarantor under this Guaranty shall not be affected by the amount of credit extended to BLFC, any repayment by BLFC to the Administrative Agent or the Lenders (in each case, other than the full and final payment of all of the Guaranty Obligations), the allocation by the Administrative Agent or the Lenders of any repayment, any compromise or discharge of the Guaranty Obligations, any application, release or substitution of collateral or other security therefor, the release of any guarantor, surety or other Person obligated in connection with any document or instrument executed in respect of the Guaranty Obligations, or any further advances to BLFC.
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Section 4.    Waiver. The Guarantor hereby waives (a) promptness, diligence, notice of acceptance, presentment, demand, protest, notice of protest and dishonor, notice of default, notice of intent to accelerate, notice of acceleration and any other notice with respect to any of the Guaranty Obligations and this Guaranty, (b) any requirement that the Administrative Agent or the Lenders protect, secure, perfect or insure any security interest or Lien on any property subject thereto or exhaust any right or take any action against BLFC or any other Person or entity or any collateral or that BLFC or any other Person or entity be joined in any action hereunder, (c) the defense of the statute of limitations in any action under this Guaranty or for the collection or performance of the Guaranty Obligations, (d) any defense arising by reason of any lack of corporate authority, (e) any defense based upon any guaranteed party’s errors or omissions in the administration of the Guaranty Obligations except to the extent that any error or omission is caused by such guaranteed party’s bad faith, gross negligence or willful misconduct (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction), (f) any rights to set-offs and counterclaims and (g) any defense based upon an election of remedies which destroys or impairs the subrogation rights of the Guarantor or the right of the Guarantor to proceed against BLFC or any other obligor of the Guaranty Obligations for reimbursement. All dealings between BLFC or the Guarantor, on the one hand, and the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, on the other hand, shall likewise be conclusively presumed to have been had or consummated in reliance upon this Guaranty. Should the Administrative Agent seek to enforce the obligations of the Guarantor hereunder by action in any court, the Guarantor waives any necessity, substantive or procedural, that a judgment previously be rendered against BLFC or any other Person, or that any action be brought against BLFC or any other Person, or that BLFC or any other Person should be joined in such cause. Such waiver shall be without prejudice to the Administrative Agent at its option to proceed against BLFC or any other Person, whether by separate action or by joinder. The Guarantor further expressly waives each and every right to which it may be entitled by virtue of the suretyship law of the State of New York or any other applicable jurisdiction.
Section 5.    Several Obligations; Continuing Guaranty. The obligations of the Guarantor hereunder are separate and apart from BLFC or any other Person (other than the Guarantor), and are primary obligations concerning which the Guarantor is the principal obligor. The Guarantor agrees that this Guaranty shall not be discharged except by payment in full of the Guaranty Obligations, termination of the Commitments and complete performance of the obligations of the Guarantor hereunder. The obligations of the Guarantor hereunder shall not be affected in any way by the release or discharge of BLFC from the performance of any of the Guaranty Obligations, whether occurring by reason of law or any other cause, whether similar or dissimilar to the foregoing.
Section 6. Subrogation Rights. If any amount shall be paid to the Guarantor on account of subrogation rights at any time when all the Guaranty Obligations shall not have been paid in full, such amount shall be held in trust for the benefit of the Administrative Agent and shall forthwith be paid to the Administrative Agent to be applied to the Guaranty Obligations as specified in the Loan Documents. If (a) the Guarantor makes a payment to the Administrative Agent of all or any part of the Guaranty Obligations and (b) all the Guaranty Obligations have been paid in full and the Commitments have terminated, the Administrative Agent will, at the Guarantor’s request, execute and deliver to the Guarantor appropriate documents, without recourse and without representation or warranty of any kind whatsoever, necessary to evidence the transfer by subrogation to the Guarantor of any interest in the Guaranty Obligations resulting from such payment by the Guarantor.
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The Guarantor hereby agrees that it shall have no rights of subrogation with respect to amounts due to the Administrative Agent or the Lenders until such time as all obligations of BLFC to the Lenders and the Administrative Agent have been paid in full, the Commitments have been terminated and the Credit Agreement has been terminated.
Section 7.    Representations and Warranties. The Guarantor hereby represents and warrants as follows:
(a)    Financial Condition.
(i)    The consolidated balance sheet of the Guarantor and its consolidated Subsidiaries as at December 31, 2023 and the related consolidated statements of income for the fiscal year ended on such date, reported on by the Guarantor’s independent public accountants, copies of which have heretofore been furnished to the Administrative Agent, are complete and correct, in all material respects, and present fairly the financial condition of the Guarantor and its consolidated Subsidiaries as at such date, and the results of operations for the fiscal year then ended. Such financial statements, including any related schedules and notes thereto, have been prepared in accordance with GAAP applied consistently throughout the periods involved (except as approved by the external auditors and as disclosed therein, if any).
(ii)    Except as disclosed in Schedule V attached hereto, neither the Guarantor nor its consolidated Subsidiaries had, at the date of the most recent balance sheet referred to above, any material guarantee obligation, contingent liability (as defined in accordance with GAAP), or any long-term lease or unusual forward or long-term commitment, including, without limitation, any interest rate or foreign currency swap or exchange transaction, which is not reflected in the foregoing statements or in the notes thereto, except for guarantees, indemnities or similar obligations of the Guarantor or a consolidated Subsidiary supporting obligations of one Subsidiary to another Subsidiary.
(iii)    During the period from December 31, 2023 to and including the date hereof, except as disclosed in Schedule V attached hereto, neither the Guarantor nor its consolidated Subsidiaries has sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of any material part of its business or property, nor has it purchased or otherwise acquired any business or property (including any capital stock of any other Person) material in relation to the consolidated financial condition of the Guarantor and its consolidated Subsidiaries at December 31, 2023.
(b)    No Change. Since December 31, 2023, except as disclosed in Schedule I hereof, there has been no development or event which has had or could, in the Guarantor’s good faith reasonable judgment, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(c) Corporate Existence; Compliance with Law. The Guarantor and each of its Material Subsidiaries (i) is duly organized and validly existing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, (ii) has the corporate power and authority, and the legal right, to own and operate its property, to lease the property it operates as lessee and to conduct the business in which it is currently engaged, (iii) is duly qualified under the laws of each jurisdiction where its ownership, lease or operation of property or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except where the failure to be so duly qualified could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect and (iv) is in compliance with all Requirements of Law and Contractual Obligations, except any non-compliance which could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
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(d)    Corporate Power; Authorization; Enforceable Obligations. Each of the Guarantor and BLFC has the corporate power and authority, and the legal right, to make, deliver and perform this Guaranty and each of the other Loan Documents to which such Person is a party and to borrow thereunder and has taken all necessary corporate action to authorize (i) the borrowings on the terms and conditions of the Loan Documents to which such Person is a party, (ii) the execution, delivery and performance of this Guaranty and each of the other Loan Documents to which such Person is a party and (iii) the remittance of payments in the applicable currency of all amounts payable hereunder and thereunder. No consent or authorization of, filing with, notice to or other act by or in respect of, any Governmental Authority or any other Person is required in connection with the borrowings under the Loan Documents, the remittance of payments in the applicable currency in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof or with the execution, delivery, performance, validity or enforceability of this Guaranty and each of the other Loan Documents. This Guaranty and each of the other Loan Documents to which the Guarantor and/or BLFC are a party have been duly executed and delivered on behalf of the Guarantor and BLFC. Each of this Guaranty and each of the other Loan Documents to which the Guarantor and/or BLFC are a party constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Guarantor and BLFC enforceable against the Guarantor and BLFC in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by general equitable principles (whether enforcement is sought by proceedings in equity or law).
(e)    No Legal Bar. The execution, delivery and performance by the Guarantor of this Guaranty, and by the Guarantor and BLFC of the other Loan Documents to which each such entity is a party, the borrowings thereunder and the use of the proceeds thereof will not violate any Requirement of Law or Contractual Obligation to which the Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries are a party or by which it or they are bound and will not result in, or require, the creation or imposition of any Lien on any of the properties or revenues of any of the Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to any such Requirement of Law or Contractual Obligation.
(f)    No Material Litigation. Except as disclosed in Schedule VI attached hereto, no litigation, investigation or proceeding of or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority is pending or, to the knowledge of the Guarantor, threatened by or against the Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries or against any of their respective properties or revenues (a) with respect to this Guaranty or the other Loan Documents or any of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby or (b) which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(g) Liens. None of the property of the Guarantor nor any of its Subsidiaries is subject to any Lien that secures Secured Indebtedness, other than a Lien that secures Permitted Secured Indebtedness or any other Secured Indebtedness permitted under Section 8.2(a)(iii) of this Guaranty.
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(h)    Environmental Matters. The Guarantor and its Subsidiaries have obtained all permits, licenses and other authorizations that are necessary to operate their respective business and required under all applicable Environmental Laws, except where the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Except as set forth on Schedule II attached hereto, (i) Hazardous Materials have not at any time been generated, used, treated or stored on, released or disposed of on, or transported to or from, any property owned, leased, used, operated or occupied by the Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries or, to the best of the Guarantor’s knowledge, any property adjoining or in the vicinity of any such property except in compliance with all applicable Environmental Laws other than where the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect and (ii) there are no past, pending or threatened (in writing) Environmental Claims against the Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries or any property owned, leased, used, operated or occupied by the Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries that individually or in the aggregate would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The operations of the Guarantor and its Subsidiaries are in compliance in all material respects with all terms and conditions of the required permits, licenses, certificates, registrations and authorizations, and are also in compliance in all material respects with all other limitations, restrictions, conditions, standards, prohibitions, requirements, obligations, schedules and timetables contained in the Environmental Laws, except where the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(i)    No Default. Except with respect to the Indebtedness set forth on Schedule III attached hereto, neither the Guarantor nor any of its Subsidiaries is in default under or with respect to any agreement, instrument or undertaking to which it is a party or by which it is bound in any respect which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. No Event of Default or Default has occurred and is continuing.
(j)    Taxes. Under the laws of Switzerland, the execution, delivery and performance by the Guarantor of this Guaranty and by it and each of its Subsidiaries (as the case may be) of the other Loan Documents to which they are a party and all payments of principal, interest, fees and other amounts hereunder and thereunder are exempt from all income or withholding taxes, stamp taxes, charges or contributions of Switzerland or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof, irrespective of the fact that the Administrative Agent or any of the Lenders may have a representative office or subsidiary in Switzerland. Except as otherwise provided herein or therein, the Guarantor is validly obligated to make all payments due under this Guaranty free and clear of any such tax, withholding or charge so that the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall receive the amounts due as if no such tax, withholding or charge had been imposed.
(k)    Pari Passu Status. The obligations of the Guarantor hereunder constitute direct, general obligations of the Guarantor and rank at least pari passu (in priority of payment) with all other unsecured, unsubordinated Indebtedness (other than any such Indebtedness that is preferred by mandatory provisions of law) of the Guarantor.
(l) Purpose of Loans. The proceeds of the Loans under the Credit Agreement shall be used by BLFC for general corporate purposes. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any other use of the proceeds of the Loans under the Credit Agreement shall not affect the obligations of the Guarantor hereunder.
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(m)    Information. All information (including, with respect to the Guarantor, without limitation, the financial statements required to be delivered pursuant hereto), which has been made available to the Administrative Agent or any Lender by or on behalf of the Guarantor in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby and the other Loan Documents is complete and correct in all material respects and does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements contained therein not materially misleading in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made; provided, that, with respect to projected financial information provided by or on behalf of the Guarantor, the Guarantor represents only that such information was prepared in good faith by management of the Guarantor on the basis of assumptions believed by such management to be reasonable as of the time made. As of the date hereof, the information included in the Beneficial Ownership Certification of BLFC is true and correct.
(n)    Material Subsidiaries. On the date hereof, the Guarantor directly or indirectly owns the percentage of the voting stock of each Material Subsidiary set forth on Schedule IV attached hereto.
(o)    Federal Regulations. No part of the proceeds of any advances under the Credit Agreement will be used for “purchasing” or “carrying” any “margin stock” within the respective meanings of each of the quoted terms under Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States as now and from time to time hereafter in effect.
(p)    Investment Company Act. The Guarantor is not an “investment company”, or a company “controlled” by an “investment company”, within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
(q)    Solvency. The Guarantor is, individually and together with its Subsidiaries, Solvent.
(r)    Consideration. The Guarantor has received, or will receive, direct or indirect benefit from the making of this Guaranty. The Guarantor has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any Lender and based on such documents and information it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Guaranty.
(s)    Sanctions.
(i)    To the best of the knowledge of the Responsible Officers of the Guarantor, the Guarantor and its Subsidiaries are, to the extent applicable, in compliance in all material respects with Sanctions and Anti-Corruption Laws.
(ii)    To the best of the knowledge of the Responsible Officers of the Guarantor, the Guarantor is not, and no Subsidiary and no director or senior officer of the Guarantor or any Subsidiary, is any of the following:
(a)    a Restricted Party;
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(b)    a Person owned 50% or more or controlled by, or acting on behalf of, any Restricted Party or Restricted Parties; or
(c)    a Person that commits, threatens or conspires to commit or support “terrorism” as defined in the Executive Order.
(iii)    The Guarantor has implemented and maintains in effect policies and procedures designed to promote and achieve continued compliance by the Guarantor, its Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers and employees with applicable Anti-Corruption Laws and Sanctions.
The foregoing representations in this Section 7(s) will not apply to any party hereto to which Council Regulation (EC) 2271/96 (the “Blocking Regulation”) applies, if and to the extent that such representations are or would be unenforceable by or in respect of that party pursuant to, or would otherwise result in a breach and/or violation of, (i) any provision of the Blocking Regulation (or any law or regulation implementing the Blocking Regulation in any member state of the European Union) or (ii) any similar blocking or anti-boycott law in the United Kingdom.
(t)    Financial Institution. Neither the Guarantor nor any of its Subsidiaries is an EEA Financial Institution or a UK Financial Institution.
The Guarantor agrees that the foregoing representations and warranties shall be deemed to have been made by the Guarantor on the date hereof, and, except the representations set forth in Section 7(b) and Section 7(f) of this Guaranty (other than clause (a) thereof), on the date of each borrowing by BLFC under the Credit Agreement, on and as of all such dates.
Section 8.    Covenants.
8.1    Affirmative Covenants. The Guarantor hereby agrees that, so long as (i) any Loan remains outstanding and unpaid or any other amount is owing to the Administrative Agent or any Lender under the Credit Agreement or (ii) the Commitments have not been terminated:
(a)    Financial Statements. The Guarantor shall furnish to the Administrative Agent (who shall furnish a copy to each Lender):
(i)    promptly after each annual meeting of the Guarantor, but in any event within one hundred and twenty (120) days after the end of each fiscal year of the Guarantor, a copy of the audited consolidated balance sheet of the Guarantor and its consolidated Subsidiaries at the end of such year and related audited consolidated statements of income and retained earnings and of cash flows for such year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous year, certified by independent public accountants reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent;
(ii) as soon as available, but in any event not later than sixty (60) days after the end of each of the first three quarters of each fiscal year of the Guarantor, the unaudited consolidated balance sheet of the Guarantor as at the end of such quarter and the related unaudited consolidated statement of income for such quarter and the portion of the fiscal year through the end of such quarter, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous year, each in the form reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, certified by the chief financial officer of the Guarantor; and
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(iii)    such additional financial and other information as the Administrative Agent (at the request of any Lender or otherwise) may from time to time reasonably request;
all such financial statements furnished under clause (i) above to be complete and correct in all material respects and prepared in reasonable detail in accordance with GAAP applied consistently throughout the periods reflected therein and with prior periods (except as approved by such accountants or officer, as the case may be, and disclosed therein); provided, however, that the Guarantor shall not be required to deliver the financial statements described under clauses (i) and (ii) above if such statements are available within the time period required by applicable Requirements of Law on EDGAR or from other public sources.
(b)    Quarterly Compliance Certificates. The Guarantor shall, within sixty (60) days after the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year and one hundred and twenty (120) days after the end of each fiscal year, furnish to the Administrative Agent its certificate signed by its chief financial officer, treasurer or controller stating that, to the best of such officer’s knowledge, during such period each of the Guarantor and BLFC has observed or performed all of its covenants and other agreements, and satisfied every condition contained in this Guaranty and the other Loan Documents and any other related documents to be observed, performed or satisfied by each of them, and that such officer has obtained no knowledge of any Event of Default or Default except as specified in such certificate and showing in reasonable detail the calculations evidencing compliance with the covenants in subsection 8.2(a).
(c)    Conduct of Business and Maintenance of Existence. The Guarantor shall, and shall cause each of the Material Subsidiaries to: (i) except as permitted by subsection 8.2(b), preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence; and (ii) take all reasonable action to maintain all rights, privileges and franchises necessary or desirable in the normal conduct of its business, except where the failure to maintain the same would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
(d)    Compliance with Laws and Contractual Obligations; Authorization. The Guarantor shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, comply in all respects with all Requirements of Law and Contractual Obligations, except where failure to so comply would not have a Material Adverse Effect, and the Guarantor shall obtain, comply with the terms of and do all that is necessary to maintain in full force and effect all authorizations, approvals, licenses and consents required in or by any applicable laws and regulations to enable it lawfully to enter into and perform its obligations under this Guaranty or to ensure the legality, validity, enforceability or admissibility in evidence of this Guaranty and the other Loan Documents.
(e)    Insurance. The Guarantor shall, and shall cause each of its Material Subsidiaries to, maintain with financially sound and reputable insurance companies insurance on all its property in at least such amounts and against at least such risks as are customary for the Guarantor’s type of business.
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(f)    Inspection of Property; Books and Records. The Guarantor shall, and shall cause each of the Material Subsidiaries to, keep proper books of records and account in which full, true and correct entries in conformity with GAAP and all Requirements of Law shall be made of all dealings and transactions in relation to its business and activities; and permit representatives of the Administrative Agent and each Lender to visit and inspect any of its properties and examine and make abstracts from any of its books and records at any time and as often as may reasonably be desired, provided that the Administrative Agent and each Lender has given reasonable prior written notice and the Administrative Agent and each Lender has executed a confidentiality agreement reasonably satisfactory to the Guarantor.
(g)    Notices. The Guarantor shall give notice to the Administrative Agent promptly after becoming aware of the same, of (i) the occurrence of any Event of Default or Default, including any steps taken to remedy or mitigate the effect of such default; (ii) any changes in taxes, duties or other fees of Switzerland or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or any change in any laws of Switzerland, in each case, that may affect any payment due under this Guaranty or the other Loan Documents; (iii) any change in the Guarantor’s or BLFC’s public or private rating by S&P or Moody’s; (iv) any development or event which has had, or which the Guarantor in its good faith judgment believes will have, a Material Adverse Effect; and (v) any change in the information provided in the Beneficial Ownership Certification of BLFC provided to the Administrative Agent or any Lender that would result in a change to the list of beneficial owners identified in parts (c) or (d) of such certification.
(h)    Pari Passu Obligations. The Guarantor shall ensure that its obligations hereunder at all times constitute direct, general obligations of the Guarantor ranking at least pari passu in right of payment with all other unsecured, unsubordinated Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness that is preferred by mandatory provisions of law) of the Guarantor.
(i)    Payment of Taxes.
(i)    The Guarantor shall pay, discharge or otherwise satisfy at or before maturity or before they become delinquent, as the case may be, all taxes, assessments and similar governmental charges imposed on it, its incomes, profits or properties, except where (x) the amount or validity thereof is currently being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and reserves to the extent required by GAAP with respect thereto have been provided on the books of the Guarantor or (y) the nonpayment of all such taxes, assessments and charges in the aggregate would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(ii)    The proceeds of the Loans received by the Guarantor and, at all times while any Loans are outstanding, used in Switzerland do not exceed the amount accepted by the Swiss federal tax administration as set out in their practice note 010-DVS-2019 dated February 5, 2019 regarding Swiss withholding tax in the group (Mitteilung-010-DVS-2019-d vom 5. Februar 2019 - Verrechnungssteuer: Guthaben im Konzern).
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(j) Environmental Laws. Unless, in the good faith judgment of the Guarantor, the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, the Guarantor will comply in all material respects, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to comply in all material respects, with the requirements of all applicable Environmental Laws and will immediately pay or cause to be paid all costs and expenses incurred in such compliance, except such costs and expenses which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings if the Guarantor or such Subsidiary, as applicable, is maintaining adequate reserves (in the good faith judgment of the management of the Guarantor) with respect thereto in accordance with GAAP. Unless the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, the Guarantor shall not, nor shall it permit or suffer any of its Subsidiaries to, generate, use, manufacture, refine, transport, treat, store, handle, dispose of, transfer, produce or process Hazardous Materials other than in the ordinary course of business and in material compliance with all applicable Environmental Laws, and shall not, and shall not permit or suffer any of its Subsidiaries to, cause or permit, as a result of any intentional or unintentional act or omission on the part of the Guarantor or any Subsidiary thereof, the installation or placement of Hazardous Materials in material violation of or actionable under any applicable Environmental Laws onto any of its property or suffer the material presence of Hazardous Materials in violation of or actionable under any applicable Environmental Laws on any of its property without having taken prompt steps to remedy such violation. Unless its failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, the Guarantor shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, promptly undertake and diligently pursue to completion any investigation, study, sampling and testing, as well as any cleanup, removal, remedial or other action required of the Guarantor or any Subsidiary under any applicable Environmental Laws in the event of any release of Hazardous Materials.
(k)    ERISA. The Guarantor shall give to the Administrative Agent the following notices and documents (provided that, solely with respect to clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) below, the Guarantor shall only be obligated to provide such notices and documents to the extent that any of the events or occurrences described in such clauses is reasonably expected to result in a material liability):
(i)    ERISA Events. Promptly and in any event within ten (10) days after the Guarantor or any of its ERISA Affiliates knows or has reason to know that any ERISA Event has occurred, a statement of the chief financial officer of the Guarantor or such ERISA Affiliate describing such ERISA Event and the action, if any, that the Guarantor or such ERISA Affiliate has taken and proposes to take with respect thereto;
(ii)    Plan Terminations. Promptly and in any event within two (2) Business Days after receipt thereof by the Guarantor or any of its ERISA Affiliates, copies of each notice from the PBGC stating its intention to terminate any Plan or to have a trustee appointed to administer any Plan; and
(iii)    Multiemployer Plan Notices. Promptly and in any event within five (5) Business Days after receipt thereof by the Guarantor or any of its ERISA Affiliates from the sponsor of a Multiemployer Plan, copies of each notice concerning (A) the imposition of Withdrawal Liability by any such Multiemployer Plan, or (B) the reorganization or termination, within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA, of any such Multiemployer Plan or (C) the amount of liability incurred by the Guarantor or any of its ERISA Affiliates in connection with any event described in clause (A) or (B) above.
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(iv)    Additional Multiemployer Plan Notices. Promptly upon request, copies of (A) any documents described in Section 101(k) of ERISA that the Guarantor or any of its ERISA Affiliates may request with respect to any Multiemployer Plan, and (B) any notices described in Section 101(l) of ERISA that the Guarantor or any of its ERISA Affiliates may request with respect to any Multiemployer Plan; provided, that if the Guarantor or the applicable ERISA Affiliate has not requested such documents or notices from the administrator or sponsor of the applicable Multiemployer Plan, upon the request of the Administrative Agent, which request shall not be more frequent than once during any twelve (12) month period, the Guarantor or applicable ERISA Affiliate shall promptly make a request for such documents or notices and shall provide copies of such documents and notices promptly and in any event within five (5) Business Days after receipt thereof.
(l)    Sanctions Actions or Investigations. Promptly upon a Responsible Officer of the Guarantor becoming aware that the Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries has received formal notice that it has become the subject of any material action or investigation under any Sanctions, the Guarantor shall, to the extent permitted by law, supply to the Administrative Agent details of any such material action or investigation.
(m)    Anti-Corruption and Sanctions Compliance Policies and Procedures. The Guarantor will maintain in effect policies and procedures designed to promote and achieve continued compliance by the Guarantor, its Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers and employees with applicable Anti-Corruption Laws and Sanctions.
8.2    Negative Covenants. The Guarantor hereby agrees that, so long as (i) any Loan remains outstanding and unpaid or any other amount is owing to the Administrative Agent or any Lender under the Credit Agreement or (ii) the Commitments have not been terminated:
(a)    Financial Covenants. The Guarantor shall not at any time permit:
(i)    the ratio of its Total Consolidated Current Assets to Adjusted Total Consolidated Current Liabilities, each as calculated at the end of each fiscal quarter of the Guarantor, to be less than 1.1 to 1.0 (to be tested quarterly);
(ii)    the ratio of its consolidated Adjusted Net Debt to consolidated Adjusted Capitalization (each as calculated at the end of each fiscal quarter of the Guarantor) to be greater than 0.635:1.0 (to be tested quarterly); and
(iii)    the aggregate outstanding principal balance of all Secured Indebtedness (excluding any Permitted Secured Indebtedness) incurred by the Guarantor and its Subsidiaries to be greater than an amount equal to seven and one half percent (7.5%) of the Total Tangible Assets of the Guarantor and its Subsidiaries, as calculated at the end of each fiscal quarter of the Guarantor and as determined in accordance with GAAP (to be tested quarterly).
(b)    Limitation of Fundamental Changes. The Guarantor shall not, and shall not cause or permit any Subsidiary to, consolidate with or merge or amalgamate
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with or into, or sell, lease, or convey all or substantially all of its assets to, any Person, unless:
(a) in the case of the Guarantor:
(i)    the resulting, surviving or transferee Person shall be either the Guarantor or a Person organized under the laws of Bermuda, the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia, any full member state of the European Union, Canada, Australia, Switzerland or the United Kingdom, and the resulting, surviving or transferee Person (if not the Guarantor) shall expressly assume, by an agreement or instrument reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, all the obligations of the Guarantor under this Guaranty; and
(ii)    immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of Default or event which with notice or lapse of time would be an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing; or
(b) in the case of any Subsidiary of the Guarantor (other than the Borrower):
(i)    such transaction is a merger or amalgamation of such Subsidiary with or into, or a consolidation of such Subsidiary with, the Guarantor (so long as the Guarantor is the surviving, continuing or resulting entity) or another Subsidiary or the sale, lease or conveyance by such Subsidiary of all or substantially all of its property to the Guarantor or another Subsidiary; or
(ii)    such transaction is the merger or amalgamation of such Subsidiary with or into, the consolidation of such Subsidiary with, or the sale, lease or conveyance by such Subsidiary of all or substantially all of its property to, another Person (provided that such Person is not an Affiliate of such Subsidiary), so long as immediately prior to, and after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or Event of Default exists or would exist.
For purposes of this Section 8.2(b), the sale, lease, conveyance, assignment, transfer, or other disposition of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of one or more Subsidiaries of the Guarantor, which properties and assets, if held by the Guarantor instead of such Subsidiaries, would constitute all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Guarantor on a consolidated basis, shall be deemed to be the transfer of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Guarantor.
If the Guarantor engages in one of the transactions described above and complies with the conditions listed above, the resulting, surviving or transferee Person (if not the Guarantor) will succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Guarantor under this Guaranty, but, in the case of a lease of all or substantially all its assets, the Guarantor will not be released from its obligations under this Guaranty.
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In the event that the Guarantor consolidates with or merges or amalgamates with or into, or sells, leases or conveys all or substantially all of its assets to, another Person subject to the terms of this Section 8.2(b) (a “Transfer”) and the resulting, surviving or transferee Person (if not the Guarantor) is a Person organized under the laws of a member state of the European Union, Canada, Australia, Switzerland, the United Kingdom or Bermuda, then the Guarantor and the resulting, surviving or transferee Person shall, as a condition to such Transfer, (A) enter into an agreement or instrument reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent providing for full, unconditional and irrevocable indemnification of the Lenders against any tax or duty of whatever nature (other than any tax imposed by reason of the Lenders having some connection with any such jurisdiction, other than their participation as Lenders under the Credit Agreement) which is incurred or otherwise suffered by such Lenders and which would not have been incurred or otherwise suffered in the absence of such Transfer; and (B) deliver to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, legal opinions of independent legal counsel in New York and the applicable member state of the European Union, Canada, Australia, Switzerland, the United Kingdom or Bermuda under whose laws the resulting, surviving or transferee Person (if not the Guarantor) is organized under, as applicable, to the effect that the Obligations of the resulting, surviving or transferee Person with respect to this Guaranty, as the case may be, are legal, valid, binding and enforceable in accordance with their terms.
(c)    Anti-Money Laundering.    The Guarantor will not knowingly conduct its operations in violation of any applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the U.S. Bank Secrecy Act, the money laundering statutes of all jurisdictions, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines issued, administered or enforced by any applicable authority (collectively, the “Money Laundering Laws”), and no action or inquiry by or before any authority involving the Guarantor with respect to Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the best of the knowledge of the Responsible Officers of the Guarantor, is threatened.
(d)    Sanctions and Anti-Corruption.    The Guarantor will not knowingly use, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to use, any funds derived from any activity that would violate Sanctions or any Anti-Corruption Laws to pay any of the obligations under the Loan Documents.
The foregoing covenants in this Section 8.2(d) will not apply to any party hereto to which the Blocking Regulation applies, if and to the extent that such covenants are or would be unenforceable by or in respect of that party pursuant to, or would otherwise result in a breach and/or violation of, (i) any provision of the Blocking Regulation (or any law or regulation implementing the Blocking Regulation in any member state of the European Union) or (ii) any similar blocking or anti-boycott law in the United Kingdom.
8.3    Use of Websites.
(a)    The Guarantor may satisfy its obligation to deliver any public information to the Lenders by posting this information onto an electronic website designated by the Guarantor and the Administrative Agent (the “Designated Website”) by notifying the Administrative Agent (i) of the address of the website together with any relevant password specifications and (ii) that such information has been posted on the website; provided, that in any event the Guarantor shall supply the Administrative Agent with one copy in paper form of any information which is posted onto the website.
(b)    The Administrative Agent shall supply each Lender with the address of and any relevant password specifications for the Designated Website following designation of that website by the Guarantor and the Administrative Agent.
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(c)    The Guarantor shall promptly upon becoming aware of its occurrence notify the Administrative Agent if:
(i)    the Designated Website cannot be accessed due to technical failure;
(ii)    the password specifications for the Designated Website change;
(iii)    any new information which is required to be provided under this Guaranty is posted onto the Designated Website;
(iv)    any existing information which has been provided under this Guaranty and posted onto the Designated Website is amended; or
(v)    the Guarantor becomes aware that the Designated Website or any information posted onto the Designated Website is or has been infected by any electronic virus or similar software.
If the Guarantor notifies the Administrative Agent under Section 8.3(c)(i) or Section 8.3(c)(v) above, all information to be provided by the Guarantor under this Guaranty after the date of that notice shall be supplied in paper form unless and until the Administrative Agent is satisfied that the circumstances giving rise to the notification are no longer continuing.
Section 9.    Amendments. No amendment or waiver of any provision of this Guaranty nor consent to any departure by the Guarantor therefrom shall in any event be effective unless such amendment or waiver shall be in writing and signed by the Guarantor and the Administrative Agent (who shall act following the receipt of the consent of the Required Lenders). Such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given.
Section 10.    Notices, Etc. All notices, demands, instructions and other communications required or permitted to be given to or made upon any Person pursuant hereto shall be in writing and shall be personally delivered or sent by registered, certified or express mail, postage prepaid, return receipt requested, by recognized overnight courier service or by facsimile transmission, and shall be deemed to be given for purposes of this Guaranty, in the case of a notice sent by registered, certified or express mail, or by recognized overnight courier service, on the date that such writing is actually delivered to the intended recipient thereof in accordance with the provisions of this Section 10, or in the case of facsimile transmission, when received and telephonically confirmed. Unless otherwise specified in a notice sent or delivered in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Section 10, notices, demands, instructions and other communications in writing shall be given to or made upon the subject parties at their respective Notice Addresses (or to their respective facsimile transmission numbers) or at such other address or number as any party may notify to the other parties in accordance with the provisions of this Section 10.
Section 11.    No Waiver; Remedies. No failure on the part of the Administrative Agent to exercise, and no delay in exercising, any right hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right hereunder 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.
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Section 12.    Costs and Expenses. The Guarantor agrees to pay, and cause to be paid, on demand all costs and expenses actually incurred by the Administrative Agent in connection with the enforcement of this Guaranty including, without limitation, the fees and out of pocket expenses of outside counsel to the Administrative Agent with respect thereto. The agreements of the Guarantor contained in this Section 12 shall survive the payment of all other amounts owing hereunder or under any of the other Guaranty Obligations.
Section 13.    Separability. Should any clause, sentence, paragraph, subsection or Section of this Guaranty be judicially declared to be invalid, unenforceable or void, such decision will not have the effect of invalidating or voiding the remainder of this Guaranty, and the parties hereto agree that the part or parts of this Guaranty so held to be invalid, unenforceable or void will be deemed to have been stricken herefrom and the remainder will have the same force and effectiveness as if such part or parts had never been included herein.
Section 14.    Captions. The captions in this Guaranty have been inserted for convenience only and shall be given no substantive meaning or significance whatever in construing the terms and provisions of this Guaranty.
Section 15.    Successors and Assigns. This Guaranty shall (a) be binding upon the Guarantor and its successors and assigns and (b) inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by the Administrative Agent (for the ratable benefit of the Lenders) and its successors, transferees and assigns; provided, however, that any assignment by the Guarantor of its obligations hereunder shall (i) be subject to the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent acting on the instructions of all of the Lenders at their complete discretion, and (ii) subject to the satisfaction of clause (i) above, only be made to a one hundred percent (100%) owned Affiliate of the Guarantor.
Section 16.    Limitation by Law. All rights, remedies and powers provided in this Guaranty may be exercised only to the extent that the exercise thereof does not violate any applicable provision of law, and all the provisions of this Guaranty are intended to be subject to all applicable mandatory provisions of law which may be controlling and to be limited to the extent necessary so that they will not render this Guaranty invalid, unenforceable, in whole or in part, or not entitled to be recorded, registered or filed under the provisions of any applicable law.
Section 17.    Substitution of Guaranty. Subject to the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent acting on the instructions of all of the Lenders at their complete discretion, the Guarantor shall, during the term of this Guaranty, be permitted at its option to provide collateral to the Administrative Agent or another form of credit support as a substitute for its obligations under this Guaranty. The Guarantor agrees to execute whatever security or credit support documents the Administrative Agent reasonably requests in order to effectuate the provisions of this Section 17.
Section 18.    GOVERNING LAW; FOREIGN PARTY PROVISIONS.
(a)    THIS GUARANTY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, SECTION 5-1401 OF THE GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK).
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(b) Consent to Jurisdiction. The Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York sitting in the Borough of Manhattan (or if such court lacks subject matter jurisdiction, the Supreme Court of the State of New York sitting in the Borough of Manhattan), and appellate courts from any thereof, in any action or proceeding relating to its obligations, liabilities or any other matter arising out of or in connection with this Guaranty or the other Loan Documents. The Guarantor hereby irrevocably agrees that all claims in respect of any such action or proceeding may be heard and determined in such U.S. federal court (or as required by law, New York state court). The Guarantor consents that any such action or proceeding, whether in contract, tort or otherwise and whether at law or in equity, may (and any such claims, cross-claims or third party claims brought against the Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates or any of its or their respective directors, officers, employees, agents or advisors may only) be brought in such courts and also hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any objection to venue or the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of any such action or proceeding in any such court and agrees not to plead or claim the same. The Guarantor waives, to the maximum extent not prohibited by law, any right it may have to claim or recover in any legal action or proceeding referred to in this Section any special, exemplary, punitive or consequential damages.
(c)    Appointment of Agent for Service of Process. The Guarantor hereby (i) irrevocably designates and appoints its chief financial officer (from time to time) at its principal executive offices at 1391 Timberlake Manor Parkway, Chesterfield, Missouri 63017 (the “Authorized Agent”), as its agent upon which process may be served in any suit, action or proceeding related to this Guaranty and represents and warrants that the Authorized Agent has accepted such designation and (ii) agrees that service of process upon the Authorized Agent and written notice of said service to the Guarantor mailed or delivered by a recognized international courier service (with proof of delivery) to its Secretary or any Assistant Secretary at its office at 1391 Timberlake Manor Parkway, Chesterfield, Missouri 63017, shall be deemed in every respect effective service of process upon the Guarantor in any such suit or proceeding. The Guarantor further agrees to take any and all action, including the execution and filing of any and all such documents and instruments, as may be necessary to continue such designation and appointment of the Authorized Agent in full force and effect so long as the Guaranty is in existence.
(d)    Waiver of Immunities. To the extent that the Guarantor or any of its properties, assets or revenues may have or may hereafter become entitled to, or have attributed to them, any right of immunity, on the grounds of sovereignty, from any legal action, suit or proceeding, from set-off or counterclaim, from the jurisdiction of any court, from service of process, from attachment upon or prior to judgment, or from attachment in aid of execution of judgment, or from execution of judgment, or other legal process or proceeding for the giving of any relief or for the enforcement of any judgment, in any jurisdiction in which proceedings may at any time be commenced, with respect to its obligations, liabilities or any other matter under or arising out of or in connection with this Guaranty or any other Loan Documents, the Guarantor hereby irrevocably and unconditionally, to the extent permitted by applicable law, waives and agrees not to plead or claim any such immunity and consents to such relief and enforcement.
(e)    Taxes.
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(i) Any payments by or on behalf of the Guarantor to the Administrative Agent or the Lenders hereunder shall be made free and clear of, and without deduction or withholding for or on account of, any Taxes; provided, that if any Taxes are required to be deducted or withheld from any amounts payable to the Administrative Agent or Lenders, as determined in good faith by the applicable Withholding Agent, (x) the applicable Withholding Agent shall be entitled to make such deduction or withholding and shall timely pay the amount deducted or withheld to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law and (y) if such Tax is an Indemnified Tax, then the sum payable by the Guarantor to the Administrative Agent and Lenders shall be increased to the extent necessary so that after such deduction or withholding has been made (including such deductions and withholdings applicable to additional sums payable under this Section), the Administrative Agent or such Lender receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such withholding or deduction been made.
(ii)    Whenever any Indemnified Taxes are payable by the Guarantor, as promptly as possible thereafter the Guarantor shall send to the Administrative Agent for its own account or for the account of the relevant Lender, as the case may be, a certified copy of an original official receipt received by the Guarantor showing payment thereof, a copy of the tax return reporting such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. The Guarantor shall indemnify the Administrative Agent (for its own benefit or for the benefit of a Lender), within ten (10) days after demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section) payable or paid by the Administrative Agent or any Lender or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to the Administrative Agent or any Lender and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Guarantor by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
(iii)    If any Lender (or participant) is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding Tax with respect to payments made hereunder, the Administrative Agent shall obtain from such Lender and shall deliver to the Guarantor, at the time or times prescribed by applicable law or reasonably requested by the Guarantor, such properly completed and executed documentation prescribed by applicable law as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate, provided that such Lender (or participant) is legally entitled to complete, execute and deliver such documentation and in such Lender’s (or participant’s) reasonable judgment such completion, execution or submission would not materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of such Lender (or participant).
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(iv) If the Administrative Agent or a Lender determines, in its sole good faith discretion, that it has received a refund of any Indemnified Taxes as to which the Administrative Agent has been indemnified by the Guarantor or with respect to which the Guarantor has paid additional amounts pursuant to this Section 18(e), the Administrative Agent (on its own behalf or on behalf of such Lender) shall pay to the Guarantor an amount equal to such refund (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, by the Guarantor under this Section 18(e) with respect to Indemnified Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses of the Administrative Agent or such Lender and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund); provided, that the Guarantor agrees to pay, upon the request of the Administrative Agent, the amount paid over to the Guarantor pursuant to this Section 18(e)(iv) (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) to the Administrative Agent (for its own benefit or for the benefit of such Lender) in the event that the Administrative Agent or such Lender is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 18(e)(iv), in no event will the indemnified party be required to pay any amount to an indemnifying party pursuant to this Section 18(e)(iv) the payment of which would place the indemnified party in a less favorable net after-tax position than the indemnified party would have been in if the Tax subject to indemnification and giving rise to such refund had not been deducted, withheld or otherwise imposed and the indemnification payments or additional amounts giving rise to such refund had never been paid. This Section 18(e)(iv) shall not be construed to require the Administrative Agent or a Lender to make available its Tax returns (or any other information relating to its Taxes that it deems confidential) to the Guarantor.
(f)    Judgment Currency. The obligations of the Guarantor in respect of any sum due to the Administrative Agent or any Lender hereunder or any holder of the obligations owing hereunder (the “Applicable Creditor”) shall, notwithstanding any judgment in a currency (the “Judgment Currency”) other than the currency in which such sum is stated to be due hereunder (the “Agreement Currency”), be discharged only to the extent that, on the Business Day following receipt by the Applicable Creditor of any sum adjudged to be so due in the Judgment Currency, the Applicable Creditor may in accordance with normal banking procedures in the relevant jurisdiction purchase the Agreement Currency with the Judgment Currency; if the amount of the Agreement Currency so purchased is less than the sum originally due to the Applicable Creditor in the Agreement Currency, the Guarantor as a separate obligation and notwithstanding any such judgment, agrees to indemnify the Applicable Creditor against such loss. The obligations of the Guarantor contained in this Section shall survive the termination of this Guaranty and the Credit Agreement and the payment of all other amounts owing hereunder and thereunder.
Section 19. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. THE GUARANTOR HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS GUARANTY, ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR FOR ANY TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED BY THIS GUARANTY AND FOR ANY COUNTERCLAIM THEREIN. THE GUARANTOR ACKNOWLEDGES THAT (A) THIS WAIVER IS A MATERIAL INDUCEMENT TO ENTER INTO THIS GUARANTY, (B) IT HAS RELIED ON THIS WAIVER IN ENTERING INTO THIS GUARANTY AND (C) IT WILL CONTINUE TO RELY ON THIS WAIVER IN FUTURE DEALINGS RELATED TO THIS GUARANTY. THE GUARANTOR REPRESENTS THAT IT HAS REVIEWED THIS WAIVER WITH ITS LEGAL ADVISERS AND THAT IT KNOWINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY WAIVES ITS JURY TRIAL RIGHTS AFTER CONSULTATION WITH ITS LEGAL ADVISERS. IN THE EVENT OF ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS GUARANTY, Section 20.
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ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR FOR ANY TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED BY THIS GUARANTY, THIS GUARANTY MAY BE FILED AS EVIDENCE OF THE GUARANTOR’S WAIVER OF A TRIAL BY JURY.
Reinstatement. This Guaranty shall be reinstated to the extent of payments made to the Guarantor as reimbursement of amounts advanced by the Guarantor hereunder. The Guarantor agrees that this Guaranty shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any part of any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Guaranty Obligations is stayed, rescinded or must otherwise be restored by the Administrative Agent upon the bankruptcy or reorganization of BLFC or any other Person.
Section 21.    JPMorgan Chase Conflict Waiver. JPMorgan Chase acts as Administrative Agent and Lender and may provide other services or facilities from time to time (the “JPMorgan Chase Roles”). The Guarantor and each other party hereto acknowledges and consents to any and all JPMorgan Chase Roles, waives any objections it may have to any actual or potential conflict of interest caused by JPMorgan Chase acting as Administrative Agent or as Lender hereunder and acting as or maintaining any of the JPMorgan Chase Roles, and agrees that in connection with any JPMorgan Chase Role, JPMorgan Chase may take, or refrain from taking, any action which it in its discretion deems appropriate.
Section 22.    Setoff. In addition to any rights now or hereafter granted under applicable law and not by way of limitation of any such rights, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, each Lender is hereby authorized at any time or from time to time, without notice to the Guarantor or to any other Person, any such notice being hereby expressly waived to the extent permitted by applicable law, to set off and to appropriate and apply any and all deposits (general or special) and any other indebtedness at any time held or owing by such Lender, to or for the credit or the account of the Guarantor against and on account of the obligations and liabilities of the Guarantor to such Lender, as applicable, under this Guaranty or any other Loan Document, including, without limitation, all claims of any nature or description arising out of or connected with this Guaranty or any other Loan Document, irrespective of whether or not such Lender shall have made any demand hereunder and although said obligations, liabilities or claims, or any of them, shall be contingent or unmatured.
If any Lender, whether by setoff or otherwise, has payment made to it under this Guaranty or any other Loan Document upon its Loans in a greater proportion than that received by any other Lender, such Lender agrees, promptly upon demand, to purchase a portion of the Loans held by the other Lenders so that after such purchase each Lender will hold its ratable proportion of Loans.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Guarantor has caused this Guaranty to be duly executed by its officers thereunto duly authorized, as of the date first written above.
BUNGE GLOBAL SA

By: /s/ Rajat Gupta    
Name: Rajat Gupta
Title: Treasurer

By: /s/ Lisa Ware-Alexander     
Name: Lisa Ware-Alexander
Title: Secretary
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ANNEX A
“Adjusted Capitalization”: the sum of the Guarantor’s Consolidated Net Worth and the Guarantor’s consolidated Adjusted Net Debt.
“Adjusted Net Debt”: with respect to any Person on any date of determination, (a) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness of such Person on such date (including, without limitation, letter of credit obligations of such Person) minus (b) the sum of all cash, time deposits, marketable securities and Liquid Inventory of such Person on such date.
“Adjusted Total Consolidated Current Liabilities”: (a) the total consolidated current liabilities of the Guarantor and its consolidated Subsidiaries determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP minus (b) the total letter of credit obligations under any trade structured finance program of the Guarantor and its consolidated Subsidiaries minus (c) the total sum of all drawings under any revolving credit facility that has a maturity, as of any test date, greater than or equal to twelve (12) months from such test date minus (d) any drawings under a commercial paper program, so long as the drawn portion thereunder is supported by undrawn commitments under a revolving credit facility that has a maturity, as of any test date, greater than or equal to twelve (12) months from such test date.
“Anti-Corruption Laws”: all laws, rules and regulations of any jurisdiction applicable to the Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries from time to time concerning or relating to bribery or corruption.
“BLFC”: Bunge Limited Finance Corp., a Delaware corporation, and its successors and permitted assigns.
“Blocking Regulation”: as defined in subsection 7(s).
“Consolidated Net Worth”: the Net Worth of the Guarantor and its consolidated Subsidiaries determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, plus minority interests in Subsidiaries.
“Credit Agreement”: as defined in the preamble hereto.
“Dollars” and “$”: dollars in lawful currency of the United States.
“EDGAR”: the Electronic Data-Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval system, which performs automated collection, validation, indexing and forwarding of submissions by Persons who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Environmental Claim”: any and all administrative, regulatory or judicial actions, suits, demands, demand letters, claims, liens, notices of non-compliance or violation, investigations or proceedings relating in any way to any Environmental Law or any permit issued under any such law (hereinafter “Claims”), including, without limitation, (a) any and all Claims by governmental or regulatory authorities for enforcement, cleanup, removal, response, remedial or other actions or damages pursuant to any applicable Environmental Law and (b) any and all Claims by any third party seeking damages, contribution, indemnification, cost recovery, compensation or injunctive relief resulting or arising from alleged or actual injury or threat of injury to the environment by reason of a violation of or liability arising under any Environmental Law.
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“Euro” and “EUR”: the single lawful currency introduced at the start of the third stage of the European Economic and Monetary Union pursuant to a treaty establishing the European Union (as amended from time to time).
“Excluded Taxes”: has the meaning assigned to such term in the Credit Agreement, provided, however, that, for the avoidance of doubt, such term shall include the Taxes set forth in such definition that are imposed on, or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to, the Administrative Agent or any Lender under any Loan Document.
“Guarantor”: as defined in the preamble hereto.
“Guaranty”: as defined in the preamble hereto.
“Guaranty Obligations”: as defined in Section 2.
“Hazardous Materials”: (a) any petroleum or petroleum products, radioactive materials, asbestos in any form that is or could become friable, urea formaldehyde foam insulation, transformers or other equipment that contain dielectric fluid containing levels of polychlorinated biphenyls, and radon gas; (b) any chemicals, materials or substances defined as or included in the definition of “hazardous substances,” “hazardous waste,” “hazardous materials,” “extremely hazardous waste,” “restricted hazardous waste,” “toxic substances,” “toxic pollutants,” “contaminants,” or “pollutants,” or words of similar import, under any applicable Environmental Law; and (c) any other chemical, material or substance, exposure to which is prohibited, limited or regulated by any governmental authority having jurisdiction over the Guarantor or its Subsidiaries and the manufacturing, trading or extraction of which constitutes a material portion of the business of the Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries.
“Indemnified Taxes”: (a) Taxes, other than Excluded Taxes, imposed on or with respect to any payment made by or on account of any obligation of BLFC or the Guarantor under any Loan Document and (b) to the extent not otherwise described in clause (a), Other Taxes.
“JPMorgan Chase Roles”: as defined in Section 21.
“Judgment Currency”: as defined in subsection 18(f).
“Liquid Inventory”: as to the Guarantor and its consolidated Subsidiaries at any time, its inventory at such time of commodities which are traded on any recognized commodities exchange, valued depending on the type of such commodity at either (a) the lower of cost or the market value at such time or (b) the market value at such time.
“Net Worth”: with respect to any Person, the sum of such Person’s capital stock, capital in excess of par or stated value of shares of its capital stock, retained earnings and any other account which, in accordance with GAAP, constitutes stockholders’ equity, excluding any treasury stock.
“Notice Address”:
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Administrative Agent:
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
500 Stanton Christiana Rd, Ops 2, Floor 3
Newark, DE 19713
Attention: Chelsea Hamilton
Tel. No: (302) 634-8822
Telecopy: (302) 634-4733
Guarantor:
BUNGE GLOBAL SA
Route de Florissant 13
1206 Geneva, Switzerland
with a copy to:

BUNGE GLOBAL SA
1391 Timberlake Manor Parkway
Chesterfield, Missouri 63017
Attention: Treasurer
Tel. No:     (636) 292-3029
Telecopy No.:     (636) 292-4029

“OFAC”: the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
“Permitted Secured Indebtedness”: any Secured Indebtedness that:
(a) is secured by any mechanic, laborer, workmen, repairmen, materialmen, supplier, carrier, warehousemen, landlord or vendor Lien or any other Lien provided for by mandatory provisions of law, any order, attachment or similar legal process arising in connection with a court or other similar proceeding, any tax, charge or assessment ruling or required by any Governmental Authority under any other similar circumstances;
(b) is incurred or assumed solely for the purpose of financing all or any part of the cost of constructing or acquiring Property, and any Secured Indebtedness extending, renewing or replacing, in whole or in part Secured Indebtedness permitted pursuant to this clause (b), so long as the principal amount of the Secured Indebtedness secured by such Lien does not exceed its original principal amount;
(c) is secured by Property existing prior to the acquisition of such Property or the acquisition of any Subsidiary that is the owner of such Property and is not incurred in contemplation of such acquisition and any Secured Indebtedness extending, renewing or replacing, in whole or in part Secured Indebtedness permitted pursuant to this clause (c), so long as the principal amount of the Secured Indebtedness secured by such Lien does not exceed its original principal amount;

(d) is owed by any Subsidiary to the Guarantor or any other Subsidiary;
(e) is secured by any accounts receivable from or invoices to export customers (including, but not limited to, Subsidiaries), any contracts to sell, purchase or receive commodities to or from export customers and any cash collateral and proceeds thereof; (f) is incurred pursuant to the Loan Documents;
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(g) is secured by accounts receivable and other related assets arising in connection with transfers thereof to the extent such transfers are treated as true sales;
(h) is secured by a Lien on any checking account, saving account, clearing account, futures account, deposit account, securities account, brokerage account, custody account or other account (or on any assets held in such account), securing obligations under any agreement or arrangement related to the opening of or provision of clearing, pooling, zero-balancing, brokerage, settlement, margin or other services related to such account (or on any assets held in such account), which customarily exist on similar accounts (or on any assets held in such accounts) of corporations in connection with the opening of, or provision of clearing, pooling, zero-balancing, brokerage, settlement, margin or other services related, to such accounts; or
(i) is incurred in connection with letters of credit or other similar instruments issued in the normal course of business of the Guarantor or any Subsidiary, including without limitation, obligations under reimbursement agreements.
“Plan”: a Single Employer Plan or a Multiple Employer Plan.
“Property”: any of the Guarantor’s or any Subsidiary’s present or future property including any asset, revenue, or right to receive income or any other property, whether tangible or intangible, real or personal.
“Restricted Party”: any person listed:
    (a) in the Annex to the Executive Order;
    (b) on the “Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons” list maintained by OFAC; or
    (c) in any successor list to either of the foregoing.
“Secured Indebtedness”: all Indebtedness incurred by the Guarantor and any of its Subsidiaries (without duplication) which is secured by Property pledged by the Guarantor or any Subsidiary.
“Total Consolidated Current Assets”: (a) the total consolidated current assets of the Guarantor and its consolidated Subsidiaries determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, minus (b) the total time deposits under any trade structured finance program of the Guarantor and its consolidated Subsidiaries.
“Total Tangible Assets”: at any date of determination, the total amount of assets of the Guarantor and its Subsidiaries (without duplication and excluding any asset owned by the Guarantor or any Subsidiary that represents an obligation of the Guarantor or any other Subsidiary to such Subsidiary or Guarantor) after deducting therefrom all goodwill, trade names, trademarks, patents, licenses, copyrights and other intangible assets.
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“Transfer”: as defined in Section 8.2(b).

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EX-10.3 4 a103-accordionincreasecert.htm EX-10.3 Document
Exhibit 10.3
ACCORDION INCREASE CERTIFICATE
To:    Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank as Agent
From:    (1) Bunge Finance Europe B.V. as Borrower, (2) Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Citibank N.A., Jersey Branch, Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, Deutsche Bank Luxembourg S.A., Mizuho Bank, Ltd., Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, Bank of Montreal, ING Bank N.V., BNP Paribas, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. New York Branch, Coöperatieve Rabobank U.A., Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited, Commonwealth Bank of Australia (Europe) N.V., DBS Bank Ltd., Oversea‐Chinese Banking Corporation Limited, New York Agency, Standard Chartered Bank, The Bank of Nova Scotia, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank PJSC, Banco Santander, S.A., New York Branch, U.S. Bank National Association, Erste Group Bank AG and Intesa Sanpaolo S.P.A. Amsterdam Branch (together, the "Accordion Lenders") and (3) JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Bank of America, N.A., HSBC Continental Europe, Raiffeisen Bank International AG, Société Générale, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, New York Branch and Goldman Sachs Bank USA (together, the "New Accordion Lenders") (the Accordion Lenders and the New Accordion Lenders together the "Additional Commitment Lenders")
Dated:    1 March 2024 (the "Accordion Exercise Signing Date")
We refer to the revolving facility agreement (the "Agreement") dated 6 October 2023 as amended and restated from time to time between Bunge Finance Europe B.V., as Borrower, the Arrangers named therein, the Agent and certain Lenders named therein.
1.    This is an Accordion Increase Certificate. Terms defined in the Agreement have the same meaning in this Accordion Increase Certificate unless given a different meaning in this Accordion Increase Certificate.
2.    We refer to Clause 2.2 (Accordion Increase) of the Agreement:
(a)    Each Additional Commitment Lender agrees to provide the Additional Commitment as set out in the Schedule opposite its name and in accordance with paragraphs (g) and (h) of Clause 2.2 (Accordion Increase), which shall be available for drawing on a revolving basis from the Accordion Increase Date subject to satisfaction of the conditions precedent set forth in clause (b) below until the Final Maturity Date.



(b) The proposed Accordion Increase Date is the Viterra Acquisition Closing Date (as defined below); provided, that it shall be a condition precedent to the availability of the Additional Commitments that Bunge Global SA (the “Parent”) has delivered to the Agent a certificate in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent confirming that (i) the Viterra Acquisition Closing Date has occurred and (ii) the Viterra (as defined below) unsecured, committed revolving credit facilities referred to in the Business Combination Agreement (as defined below) have been cancelled and prepaid with effect as of the Viterra Acquisition Closing Date. The Parent intends to acquire (the “Viterra Acquisition”) all of the outstanding equity interests of Viterra Limited (together with its direct and indirect subsidiaries) (“Viterra”), pursuant to a Business Combination Agreement, dated June 13, 2023 (the “Business Combination Agreement”), by and among Viterra Limited, the Parent, as buyer, Danelo Limited, as a seller, CPPIB Monroe Canada, Inc., as a seller, Venus Investment Limited Partnership, as a seller and Ocarian Limited, as a seller, for an aggregate share consideration and cash consideration set forth in the Business Combination Agreement. The closing date of the Viterra Acquisition shall be referred to herein as the “Viterra Acquisition Closing Date.” The Additional Commitments shall be cancelled with immediate effect if the Parent notifies the Agent that the Business Combination Agreement (as defined below) has been terminated prior to the Viterra Acquisition Closing Date. In addition, if the Viterra Acquisition Closing Date does not occur on or prior to the Outside Date (as defined below) or there is a public announcement that the Business Combination Agreement has been terminated, the maximum amount available under the Facility Agreement will reduce to Total Commitments of $1,750,000,000 and the Additional Commitments shall be cancelled with immediate effect. In the event that the Additional Commitments are cancelled as contemplated by either of the preceding two sentences, the Borrower will have the right to subsequently request Accordion Increases in accordance with Clause 2.2 (Accordion Increase) of the Agreement in an aggregate amount which when aggregated with the amount of all other Accordion Increases made under Clause 2.2 (Accordion Increase) does not exceed $1,750,000,000. As used herein, the “Outside Date” shall mean the earliest of (a) June 13, 2024 (or solely to the extent the Initial Outside Date (as defined in the Business Combination Agreement in effect as of the Accordion Exercise Signing Date, without giving effect to any amendments thereto) is extended pursuant to Section 9.1(c) of the Business Combination Agreement, the earlier to occur of (x) such Extended Outside Date (as defined in the Business Combination Agreement in effect as of the Accordion Exercise Signing Date, without giving effect to any amendments thereto) and (y) June 13, 2025), and (b) the date that the Business Combination Agreement is terminated or expires in accordance with the terms thereof.
(c)    The Facility Office and address, fax number and attention details for notices of each New Accordion Lender for the purposes of Clause 33.2 (Addresses) are set out in the Schedule.
(d)    The fees related to the Accordion Increase are as follows:
(i)    with respect to the Additional Commitment of each Additional Commitment Lender, in each case that is available under the Facility Agreement as of the Viterra Acquisition Closing Date, an upfront fee will be paid to the Agent (for the account of such Additional Commitment Lender) under the Facility Agreement in an amount equal to 0.25% of such Additional Commitment Lender’s Additional Commitment, earned and payable on the Viterra Acquisition Closing Date; and
(ii)    a commitment fee equal to 35 per cent. of the Applicable Margin will be paid to the Agent (for the account of each Additional Commitment Lender) on the unused and uncancelled Additional Commitments during the period commencing on the Accordion Exercise Signing Date until the Final Maturity Date (for the avoidance of doubt, the commitment fee will accrue on the Additional Commitments commencing on the Accordion Exercise Signing Date notwithstanding that the Additional Commitments will not be established or available until the Viterra Acquisition Closing Date). The accrued commitment fee is payable quarterly in arrears during such quarterly periods starting on the Accordion Exercise Signing Date, on the Final Maturity Date and, if cancelled in full, on the cancelled amount of the relevant Additional Commitment Lender's Additional Commitments at the time the cancellation is effective.



3.    The fees referred to in sub-paragraph 2(d) (above) are payable at the times described in such sub-paragraph 2(d) to the Agent for the account of the Additional Commitment Lenders in full without any set-off, deductions or withholding of any kind and in immediately available, freely transferable, cleared funds to the account notified by the Agent for this purpose. All payments made under this Accordion Increase Certificate are irrevocable, unconditional, non-refundable and not creditable against any other fee payable in connection with the Finance Documents.
4.    This Accordion Increase Certificate 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 this Accordion Increase Certificate.
5.    This Accordion Increase Certificate and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with it are governed by English law.
6.    The provisions of Clause 43 (Enforcement) of the Agreement shall be incorporated into this Accordion Increase Certificate as if set out in full in this Accordion Increase Certificate and as if references in those clauses to "this Agreement" or "the Finance Documents" are references to this Accordion Increase Certificate.

[Signature Pages Follow]







SUMITOMO MITSUI BANKING CORPORATION
By: /s/ Jun Ashley
By: Jun Ashley, Director




JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
By: /s/ Eduardo Lopez Peiro
By: Eduardo Lopez Peiro, Vice President




CITIBANK, N.A., JERSEY BRANCH
By: /s/ Peter Lemoucheux
By: Peter Lemoucheux, Senior Vice President





CRÉDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK
By: /s/ Jules Borne
By: Jules Borne, Authorized Signatory

By: /s/ Albéric de Rivaz
By: Albéric de Rivaz, Authorized Signatory





BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.
By: /s/ Ryan Van Stedum
By: Ryan Van Stedum, Vice President





DEUTSCHE BANK LUXEMBOURG S.A.
By: /s/ S. Lehnert
By: S. Lehnert, Assistant Vice President

By: /s/ A. Breyer-Simski
By: A. Breyer-Simski, Assistant Vice President






MIZUHO BANK, LTD.
By: /s/ Tracy Rahn
By: Tracy Rahn, Executive Director





WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
By: /s/ Michael J. Stein
By: Michael J. Stein, Executive Director






BANK OF MONTREAL
By: /s/ Katherine Robinson
By: Katherine Robinson, Managing Director
By: /s/ Richard Pittam
By: Richard Pittam, Managing Director
By: /s/ Scott Matthews
By: Scott Matthews, Managing Director



ING BANK N.V.
By: /s/ Kiran Sanchit
By: Kiran Sanchit, Managing Director
By: /s/ Lars Vriens
By: Lars Vriens, Managing Director






BNP PARIBAS
By: /s/ Claudia Zarate
By: Claudia Zarate, Managing Director

By: /s/ Michael Pearce
By: Michael Pearce, Managing Director




BANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA ARGENTARIA, S.A. NEW YORK BRANCH
By: /s/ Cara Younger
By: Cara Younger, Managing Director

By: /s/ Armen Semizian
By: Armen Semizian, Managing Director






COÖPERATIEVE RABOBANK U.A.
By: /s/ T.B.H. Servatius
By: T.B.H. Servatius, Director Proxy B

By: /s/ Steven de Vries Reilingh
By: Steven de Vries Reilingh, Head of TCF Agri Europe




AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND BANKING GROUP LIMITED
By: /s/ Sherrie Banks
By: Sherrie Banks, Head of Food, Beverage and Agri, International





COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA (EUROPE) N.V.
By: /s/ Wilco Hendriks
By: Wilco Hendriks, CEO, Commonwealth bank of Australia (Europe) N.V.

By: /s/ Damien Podagiel
By: Damien Podagiel, Head of Natural Resources, Energy & Carbon, Europe





DBS BANK LTD.
By: /s/ Kate Khoo
By: Vice President





HSBC CONTINENTAL EUROPE
By: /s/ Jeroen Bakhuizen
By: Jeroen Bakhuizen, CEO HSBC Netherlands





OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED, NEW YORK AGENCY
By: /s/ Charles Ong
By: Charles Ong, General Manager





STANDARD CHARTERED BANK
By: /s/ Robert Newell
By: Robert Newell, Managing Director





THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA
By: /s/ Dhirendra Udharamaney
By: Dhirendra Udharamaney, Director




ABU DHABI COMMERCIAL BANK PJSC
By: /s/ Asif Karmally
By: Asif Karmally, Executive Head – International Corporate Banking




BANCO SANTANDER, S.A., NEW YORK BRANCH
By: /s/ Andres Barbosa
By: Andres Barbosa, Managing Director

By: /s/ Rita Walz-Cuccioli
By: Rita Walz-Cuccioli, Executive Director





U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
By: /s/ Jason D. King
By: Jason D. King, Vice President





ERSTE GROUP BANK AG
By: /s/ Paul Pehr
By: Paul Pehr, Managing Director

By: /s/ Andreas Muresanu
By: Andreas Muresanu, Vice President





INTESA SANPAOLO S.P.A. AMSTERDAM BRANCH
By: /s/ Nazario Peluso
By: Nazario Peluso, Relationship Manager Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A Amsterdam Branch

By: /s/ Gianluca Fiore
By: Gianluca Fiore, General Manager Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A Amsterdam Branch





RAIFFEISEN BANK INTERNATIONAL AG
By: /s/ Johanna Aigner
By: Johanna Aigner, Director

By: /s/ Hrvoje Frigan
By: Hrvoje Frigan, Director





SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE
By: /s/ Alexis Christodoulou
By: Alexis Christodoulou, Paris Head of Trade and Commodity Finance





CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE, NEW YORK BRANCH
By: /s/ Andrew Millane
By: Andrew Millane, Executive Director and Authorized Signatory





GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA
By: /s/ Andrew B. Vernon
By: Andrew B. Vernon, Authorized Signatory





Bunge Finance Europe B.V. as Borrower
By: /s/ Rajat Gupta
By: Rajat Gupta, President






This Accordion Increase Certificate is accepted by the Agent and the Accordion Increase Date is confirmed as the Viterra Acquisition Closing Date (subject to the Borrower delivering to the Agent a certificate in form and substance satisfactory to it in accordance with sub-paragraph 2(b) above).
CRÉDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK
By: /s/ Gaëlle Martin
By: Gaëlle Martin, Chargée d’Affaires Agency

By: /s/ Nicolas Brochot
By: Nicolas Brochot, Chargé d’Affaires Agency


EX-10.4 5 a104-bfefirstamendmentdate.htm EX-10.4 Document
Exhibit 10.4

FIRST AMENDMENT AND WAIVER AGREEMENT
DATED 1 MARCH 2024
FOR
BUNGE FINANCE EUROPE B.V.
THE BORROWER
WITH
CRÉDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK
ACTING AS AGENT
RELATING TO A FACILITY AGREEMENT
DATED 6 OCTOBER 2023





CONTENTS
Clause Page
1.    Definitions and Interpretation....................................................................................... 1
2.    Representations............................................................................................................. 2
3.    Amendment................................................................................................................... 2
4.    Waiver........................................................................................................................... 2
5.    Continuity and Further Assurance.............................................................................… 3
6.    Fees, Costs and Expenses.............................................................................................. 3
7.    Miscellaneous................................................................................................................ 3
8.    Governing Law.............................................................................................................. 3
Schedule 1 The Lenders............................................................................................................ 5
Schedule 2 Conditions Precedent.............................................................................................. 6

Exhibit A Form of Facility Agreement THIS AGREEMENT is dated 1 March 2024 and made among:





(1)    BUNGE FINANCE EUROPE B.V. a private company with limited liability (besloten vennootschap met beperkte aansprakelijkheid) incorporated under the laws of The Netherlands having its corporate seat (statutaire zetel) in Rotterdam, The Netherlands and its registered office at 1391 Timberlake Manor Parkway, Chesterfield, Missouri 63017, United States of America and registered with the Dutch Commercial Register (Handelsregister) under number 24347428 (the "Borrower");
(2)    THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS listed in Schedule 1 (The Lenders) as lenders (the "Lenders"); and
(3)    CRÉDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK as agent of the other Finance Parties (the "Agent").
RECITALS:
(A)    This Agreement is supplemental to and amends the Existing Facility Agreement (as defined below).
(B)    The Parties have agreed to amend the Existing Facility Agreement and to waive the forty-five (45) Business Days' notice requirement set forth under Clause 2.2(d) of the Existing Facility Agreement, in each case on the terms of this Agreement.
IT IS AGREED as follows:
1.    DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION
1.1    Definitions
In this Agreement:
"Amended Facility Agreement" means the Existing Facility Agreement, as amended by this Agreement.
"Effective Date" means the date of the notification by the Agent under Clause 3.2 (Effective Date) to the Borrower and the Lenders.
"Effective Time" means the time on the Effective Date at which the Agent delivers the notification under Clause 3.2 (Effective Date) to the Borrower and the Lenders.
"Existing Facility Agreement" means the facility agreement, dated 6 October 2023, among the Borrower, the Agent, the Arrangers and the Lenders (as such terms are defined therein).
1.2    Incorporation of defined terms
(a)    Unless a contrary indication appears, a term defined in the Amended Facility Agreement has the same meaning in this Agreement.
(b)    The principles of construction set out in Clauses 1.2 (Construction) and 1.3 (Currency Symbols and Definitions) of the Amended Facility Agreement shall have effect as if set out in this Agreement.



1.3    Clauses
In this Agreement any reference to a "Clause" or a "Schedule" is, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference to a Clause in or a Schedule to this Agreement.
1.4    Third party rights
A person who is not a party to this Agreement has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce or to enjoy the benefit of any term of this Agreement.
1.5    Designation
In accordance with the Existing Facility Agreement, each of the Borrower and the Agent designates this Agreement to be entered into on or about the date of this Agreement as a Finance Document.
2.    REPRESENTATIONS
The Repeating Representations are deemed to be made by the Borrower (by reference to the facts and circumstances then existing) on:
(a)    the date of this Agreement; and
(b)    the Effective Date,
and references to "this Agreement" in the Repeating Representations should be construed as references to this Agreement and to the Existing Facility Agreement and on and from the Effective Date, to the Amended Facility Agreement.
3.    AMENDMENT
3.1    Amendment of the Existing Facility Agreement
With effect from the Effective Time, the Existing Facility Agreement (excluding the signature pages thereto) shall be amended and restated in its entirety so that it will be read and construed for all purposes as set out in Exhibit A attached hereto.
3.2    Effective Date
The Agent will notify the Borrower and the Lenders promptly when all the conditions precedent listed in Schedule 2 (Conditions Precedent) have been fulfilled to its satisfaction.
4.    WAIVER
4.1 Reference is hereby made to the Accordion Request delivered by the Borrower to the Agent on 1 March 2024. The Borrower and the Agent hereby request the consent of the Majority Lenders to waive the forty-five (45) Business Days’ notice requirement set forth under Clause 2.2(d) of the Existing Facility Agreement for delivery of an Accordion Request prior to the proposed date of the relevant Accordion Increase, and each Lender executing this Agreement hereby waives such requirement provided that the relevant Accordion Increase Date occurs on the Viterra Acquisition Closing Date (as defined in the relevant Accordion Request) being a date falling not less than ten (10) Business Days after 1 March 2024.




5.    CONTINUITY AND FURTHER ASSURANCE
5.1    Continuing obligations
The provisions of the Existing Facility Agreement and the other Finance Documents shall, save as amended by this Agreement, continue in full force and effect.
5.2    Reservation of rights
Each Finance Party (as defined in the Existing Facility Agreement) reserves any other right or remedy it may have now or subsequently. This Agreement does not constitute a waiver of any right or remedy other than in relation to the specific amendments and waiver expressly referred to in this Agreement.
5.3    Further assurance
The Borrower, shall, at the request of the Agent and at the Borrower's own expense, do all such acts and things necessary or desirable to give effect to the amendments effected or to be effected pursuant to this Agreement.
6.    FEES, COSTS AND EXPENSES
6.1    Transaction expenses
The Borrower shall promptly on demand pay the Agent the amount of all costs and expenses (including but not limited to legal fees) reasonably incurred in connection with the negotiation, preparation, printing and execution of this Agreement and any other documents referred to in this Agreement.
7.    MISCELLANEOUS
7.1    Incorporation of terms
The provisions of Clause 33 (Notices), Clause 35 (Partial Invalidity), Clause 36 (Remedies and Waivers) and Clause 43 (Enforcement) of the Existing Facility Agreement shall be incorporated into this Agreement as if set out in full in this Agreement and as if references in those clauses to "this Agreement" or "the Finance Documents" are references to this Agreement.
7.2    Counterparts
This Agreement 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 this Agreement.
8.    GOVERNING LAW
This Agreement and all non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with it are governed by English law.

This Agreement has been entered into on the date stated at the beginning of this Agreement.




SCHEDULE 1
THE LENDERS
BNP Paribas
Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank
ING Bank N.V.
Natixis
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Bank of China, New York Branch
Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank PJSC
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited
Bank of Montreal    
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. New York Branch
Citibank N.A., Jersey Branch
Deutsche Bank Luxembourg S.A.
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited, New York Branch
Mizuho Bank, Ltd.
Oversea‐Chinese Banking Corporation Limited, New York Agency
Coöperatieve Rabobank U.A.
Royal Bank of Canada
Banco Santander, S.A., New York Branch
The Bank of Nova Scotia
Standard Chartered Bank
U.S. Bank National Association
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association.
Westpac Banking Corporation
Agricultural Bank of China, Limited, New York Branch
Commonwealth Bank of Australia (Europe) N.V.
Commerzbank AG, New York Branch
DBS Bank Ltd.
Emirates NBD Bank (P.J.S.C), London Branch
Erste Group Bank AG
Intesa Sanpaolo S.P.A. Amsterdam Branch
Itaú Unibanco S.A., Miami Branch
PNC Bank, National Association
Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (PUBL) Frankfurt Branch
Abanca Corporacion Bancaria S.A.
DZ Bank AG Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank, New York Branch




SCHEDULE 2
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
1.    Corporate Authorisations
(a)    A copy of the constitutional documents of each Obligor, or in the case of the Borrower, a copy of the articles of association (statuten) and deed of incorporation (oprichtingsakte) as well as an extract (uittreksel) from the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (Kamer van Koophandel) of the Borrower.
(b)    A copy of a resolution of the board of directors of each Obligor:
(i)    approving the terms of, and the transactions contemplated by, the Finance Documents to which it is a party and resolving that it execute the Finance Documents to which it is a party;
(ii)    if applicable, authorising a specified person or persons to execute the Finance Documents to which it is a party on its behalf; and
(iii)    if applicable, authorising a specified person or persons, on its behalf, to sign and/or despatch all documents and notices (including, if relevant, any Utilisation Request) to be signed and/or despatched by it under or in connection with the Finance Documents to which it is a party.
(c)    To the extent required under Dutch law or the Borrower’s articles of association, a copy of the resolution of the general meeting (algemene vergadering) of the Borrower approving the resolutions of the board of managing directors referred to under paragraph (b) above.
(d)    To the extent required under Dutch law or the Borrower’s articles of association, a copy of the resolution of the board of supervisory directors (raad van commissarissen) of the Borrower approving the resolutions of the board of managing directors referred to under paragraph (b) above.
(e)    If applicable, a copy of (i) the request for advice from each (central or European) works council (centrale of Europese) ondernemingsraad) with jurisdiction over the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and (ii) the positive advice from such works council which contains no condition, which if complied with, could result in a breach of any of the Finance Documents.
(f)    A specimen of the signature of each person authorised by the resolution referred to in paragraph (b) above in relation to the Finance Documents.
(g)    A certificate of each Obligor (signed by a Responsible Officer) confirming that borrowing or guaranteeing, as appropriate, the Total Commitments would not violate any borrowing or, guaranteeing limit set forth in any Contractual Obligation or Requirement of Law binding on the respective Obligor.
(h)    A certificate of an authorised signatory of the Obligor certifying that each copy document relating to it specified in this Schedule 2 is correct, complete and in full force and effect as at a date no earlier than the date of this Agreement.
2.    Finance Documents
(a)    A copy of this Agreement executed by the Parties hereto.




(b)    A copy of the Consent to the Amendment and Restatement of the Guaranty, dated as of the date hereof, duly executed by the Borrower, the Parent, the Majority Lenders and the Agent.
(c)    A copy of the First Amended and Restated Guaranty, dated as of the date hereof, duly executed by the Parent and the Agent (the “First Amended and Restated Guaranty”).
3.    Legal Opinions
(a)    A legal opinion of Homburger, special legal counsel to the Parent as to matters of Swiss law, opining notably as to (i) the capacity of the Parent to enter into and perform its obligations under the First Amended and Restated Guaranty, (ii) the recognition under Swiss law of the validity of such obligations and the choice of law expressed in the First Amended and Restated Guaranty and (iii) the recognition and enforcement in Switzerland of any judgement rendered against the Parent pursuant to the jurisdiction provisions of the First Amended and Restated Guaranty.
(b)    A legal opinion of Reed Smith LLP, legal advisor to the Parent as to matters of New York law, opining notably as to the validity under New York law of the obligations of the Parent under the First Amended and Restated Guaranty.
[Signature Pages Follow]




SIGNATURES

THE BORROWER
BUNGE FINANCE EUROPE B.V.

By:     /s/ Rajat Gupta            
Name: Rajat Gupta
Title: President




Signature Page to First Amendment and Waiver Agreement


THE ORIGINAL LENDERS
BNP PARIBAS

By: /s/ Claudia Zarate
Name: Claudia Zarate, Managing Director



By: /s/ Michael Pearce
Name: Michael Pearce, Managing Director
Signature Page to First Amendment and Waiver Agreement



CITIBANK N.A., JERSEY BRANCH


By: /s/ Peter Lemoucheux
Name: Peter Lemoucheux, Senior Vice President
Signature Page to First Amendment and Waiver Agreement



COMMERZBANK AG, NEW YORK BRANCH


By: /s/ Robert Sullivan
Name: Robert Sullivan, Vice President



By: /s/ Jeff Sullivan
Name: Jeff Sullivan, Vice President
Signature Page to First Amendment and Waiver Agreement



COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA (EUROPE) N.V.


By: /s/ Wilco Hendriks
Name: Wilco Hendriks, CEO, Commonwealth bank of Australia (Europe) N.V.



By: /s/ Damien Podagiel
Name: Damien Podagiel, Head of Natural Resources, Energy & Carbon, Europe
Signature Page to First Amendment and Waiver Agreement



COÖPERATIEVE RABOBANK U.A.



By: /s/ T.B.H. Servatius
Name: T.B.H. Servatius, Director Proxy B





By: /s/ Steven de Vries Reilingh
Name: Steven de Vries Reilingh, Head of TCF Agri Europe
Signature Page to First Amendment and Waiver Agreement



DBS BANK LTD.
By: /s/ Kate Khoo
Name: Vice President






Signature Page to First Amendment and Waiver Agreement



DEUTSCHE BANK LUXEMBOURG S.A.
By: /s/ S. Lehnert
Name: S. Lehnert, Assistant Vice President


By: /s/ A. Breyer-Simski
Name: A. Breyer-Simski, Assistant Vice President
Signature Page to First Amendment and Waiver Agreement



DZ BANK AG DEUTSCHE ZENTRAL-GENOSSENSCHAFTSBANK, NEW YORK BRANCH



By: /s/ Michael Palumberi
Name: Michael Palumberi, Vice President





By: /s/ Donata Mylius
Name: Donata Mylius, Vice President
Signature Page to First Amendment and Waiver Agreement



ERSTE GROUP BANK AG



By: /s/ Paul Pehr
Name: Paul Pehr, Managing Director





By: /s/ Andreas Muresanu
Name: Andreas Muresanu, Vice President
Signature Page to First Amendment and Waiver Agreement



INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED, NEW YORK BRANCH



By: /s/ Chan K. Park
Name: Chan K. Park, Executive Director





By: /s/ Peichen Chen
Name: Peichen Chen, Vice President
Signature Page to First Amendment and Waiver Agreement



ING BANK N.V.



By: /s/ Kiran Sanchit
Name: Kiran Sanchit, Managing Director





By: /s/ Lars Vriens
Name: Lars Vriens, Managing Director
Signature Page to First Amendment and Waiver Agreement



ITAU UNIBANCO S.A., MIAMI BRANCH



By: /s/ Nuno Conceição
Name: Nuno Conceição, Authorised Signatory





By: /s/ Carina Oliveira
Name: Carina Oliveira, Authorized Signatory
Signature Page to First Amendment and Waiver Agreement



MIZUHO BANK, LTD.



By: /s/ Tracy Rahn
Name: Tracy Rahn, Executive Director
Signature Page to First Amendment and Waiver Agreement



NATIXIS



By: /s/ R Egloff
Name: R Egloff, Executive Director, Corporate Finance Relationship Manager





By: /s/ N Kovshova
Name: N Kovshova
Signature Page to First Amendment and Waiver Agreement



OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED, NEW YORK AGENCY



By: /s/ Charles Ong
Name: Charles Ong, General Manager
Signature Page to First Amendment and Waiver Agreement



PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION



By: /s/ David Bentzinger
Name: David Bentzinger, Senior Vice President
Signature Page to First Amendment and Waiver Agreement



ROYAL BANK OF CANADA



By: /s/ John Flores
Name: John Flores, Authorized Signatory
Signature Page to First Amendment and Waiver Agreement



SKANDINAVISKA ENSKILDA BANKEN AB (PUBL) FRANKFURT BRANCH



By: /s/ Philipp Jentzmik
Name: Philipp Jentzmik, Head of Legal, LC&FI





By: /s/ Geraldine Maschke
Name: Geraldine Maschke, Head of Client Portfolio Management Germany
Signature Page to First Amendment and Waiver Agreement



SUMITOMO MITSUI BANKING CORPORATION



By: /s/ Jun Ashley
Name: Jun Ashley, Director
Signature Page to First Amendment and Waiver Agreement



THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA



By: /s/ Dhirendra Udharamaney
Name: Dhirendra Udharamaney, Director






Signature Page to First Amendment and Waiver Agreement



U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION



By: /s/ Jason D. King
Name: Jason D. King, Vice President




Signature Page to First Amendment and Waiver Agreement


WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION



By: /s/ Daniel Sutton
Name: Daniel Sutton, Tier II Attorney                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                






















Signature Page to First Amendment and Waiver Agreement


CRÉDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK
By: /s/ Jules Borne
Name: Jules Borne, Authorized Signatory

By: /s/ Albéric de Rivaz
Name: Albéric de Rivaz, Authorized Signatory
Signature Page to First Amendment and Waiver Agreement



BANK OF CHINA, NEW YORK BRANCH

By: /s/ René Del Portillo
Name: René Del Portillo, Vice President


By: /s/ Raymond Qiao
Name: Raymond Qiao, Executive Vice President
Signature Page to First Amendment and Waiver Agreement



BANK OF MONTREAL

By: /s/ Katherine Robinson
Name: Katherine Robinson, Managing Director


By: /s/ Richard Pittam
Name: Richard Pittam, Managing Director


By: /s/ Scott Matthews
Name: Scott Matthews, Managing Director


Signature Page to First Amendment and Waiver Agreement



STANDARD CHARTERED BANK

By: /s/ Robert Newell
Name: Robert Newell, Managing Director



















Signature Page to First Amendment and Waiver Agreement



WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION                    
By: /s/ Michael J. Stein
Name: Michael J. Stein, Executive Director























Signature Page to First Amendment and Waiver Agreement


AGRICULTURAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED, NEW YORK BRANCH

By: /s/ Nelson Chou
Name: Nelson Chou, SVP & Head of Corp Banking























Signature Page to First Amendment and Waiver Agreement


INTESA SANPAOLO S.P.A. AMSTERDAM BRANCH

By: /s/ Gianluca Fiore
Name: Gianluca Fiore, General Manager Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A Amsterdam Branch


By: /s/ Nazario Peluso
Name: Nazario Peluso, Relationship Manager Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A Amsterdam Branch
Signature Page to First Amendment and Waiver Agreement



ABANCA CORPORACION BANCARIA S.A.

By: /s/ Jaime Mato
Name: Jaime Mato, Director


By: /s/ Sofia Ferreiro
Name: Sofia Ferreiro, Vice President
Signature Page to First Amendment and Waiver Agreement



EMIRATES NBD BANK (P.J.S.C), LONDON BRANCH

By: /s/ Raashed Amin
Name: Raashed Amin, CEO, UK


By: /s/ Carlo de Vos
Name: Carlo de Vos, Head of Corporate and Institutional Banking
Signature Page to First Amendment and Waiver Agreement


ABU DHABI COMMERCIAL BANK PJSC

By: /s/ Asif Karmally
Name: Asif Karmally, Executive Head – International Corporate Banking

Signature Page to First Amendment and Waiver Agreement


AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND BANKING GROUP LIMITED



By: /s/ Sherrie Banks
Name: Sherrie Banks, Head of Food, Beverage and Agri, International
Signature Page to First Amendment and Waiver Agreement



BANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA ARGENTARIA, S.A. NEW YORK BRANCH



By: /s/ Cara Younger
Name: Cara Younger, Managing Director





By: /s/ Armen Semizian
Name: Armen Semizian, Managing Director
Signature Page to First Amendment and Waiver Agreement



BANCO SANTANDER, S.A., NEW YORK BRANCH



By: /s/ Andres Barbosa
Name: Andres Barbosa, Managing Director





By: /s/ Rita Walz-Cuccioli
Name: Rita Walz-Cuccioli, Executive Director
Signature Page to First Amendment and Waiver Agreement


THE AGENT

CRÉDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK



By:     /s/ Gaëlle Martin            
Name: Gaëlle Martin
Title: Chargée d’Affaires Agency


By:     /s/ Nicolas Brochot        _____
Name: Nicolas Brochot
Title: Chargé d’Affaires Agency
Signature Page to the First Amendment and Waiver Agreement


Exhibit A

Form of Facility Agreement

EX-10.5 6 a105-bfeeuropeanrevolvingc.htm EX-10.5 Document

Exhibit 10.5
CERTAIN INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS EXHIBIT, MARKED BY [***], HAS BEEN OMITTED BECAUSE IT (I) IS NOT MATERIAL AND (II) IS THE TYPE OF INFORMATION THAT THE REGISTRANT TREATS AS PRIVATE OR CONFIDENTIAL.

CONFORMED THROUGH FIRST AMENDMENT AND WAIVER AGREEMENT,
DATED AS OF 1 MARCH 2024

US$1,750,000,000
FACILITY AGREEMENT
DATED 6 OCTOBER 2023 AS AMENDED AND RESTATED ON 1 MARCH 2024

FOR
BUNGE FINANCE EUROPE B.V.
AS BORROWER
ARRANGED BY
BNP PARIBAS, CRÉDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK, ING BANK N.V., NATIXIS AND SMBC BANK INTERNATIONAL PLC
WITH
BNP PARIBAS AND NATIXIS
AS SUSTAINABILITY CO-ORDINATORS
WITH
CRÉDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK
ACTING AS AGENT
REVOLVING FACILITY AGREEMENT




CONTENTS
Clause Page
1.    Definitions and Interpretations    1
2.    The Facility    26
3.    Purpose    28
4.    Conditions of Utilisation    28
5.    Utilisation    30
6.    Extension Option    31
7.    Repayment    35
8.    Prepayment and Cancellation    36
9.    [Reserved]    38
10.    Interest    39
11.    Interest Periods    41
12.    Changes to the Calculation of Interest    42
13.    Fees    44
14.    Tax Gross Ups and Indemnities    46
15.    Increased Costs    50
16.    Other Indemnities    52
17.    Mitigation by the Lenders    53
18.    Costs and Expenses    53
19.    Representations    55
20.    Positive Covenants    58
20A.    Suspension of Sustainability Performance Targets, Sustainability Progress Targets, and Sustainability Benchmark due to Merger    60
20B.    Changes to Sustainability Performance Targets, Sustainability Progress Targets and Sustainability Benchmark    62
21.    Negative Covenants    64
22.    Acknowledgement    65
23.    Patriot Act notice    66
24.    Events of Default    66
25.    Use of Websites    69
26.    Changes to the Lenders    71
27.    Changes to the Borrower    74
28.    Role of the Agent and the Arrangers    75
29.    Conduct of Business by the Finance Parties    83
30.    Sharing Among the Finance Parties    83
31.    Payment Mechanics    85
32.    Set-Off    87
33.    Notices    87
34.    Calculations and Certificates    90
35.    Partial Invalidity    91
36.    Remedies and Waivers    91
37.    Amendments and Waivers    91
38.    Confidentiality    96
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39.    Confidentiality of Funding Rates    100
40.    Contractual Recognition of Bail-in    102
41.    Counterparts    102
42.    Governing Law    103
43.    Enforcement    103



Schedule 1 Applicable Margin
Schedule 2 Sustainability Benchmark
Schedule 3 The Original Lenders *
Schedule 4 Conditions Precedent to Initial Utilisation
Schedule 5 Utilisation Request
Schedule 6 Form of Transfer Certificate
Schedule 7 Timetables
Schedule 8 Form of Accordion Increase Certificate
Schedule 9 Form of Sustainability Certificate
Schedule 10 SOFR Rate Terms
Part I Term SOFR – SOFR Rate Terms for a Term SOFR Rate Loan
Part II Compounded SOFR – SOFR Rate Terms for a Compounded SOFR Rate Loan
Part III Daily Simple SOFR – SOFR Rate Terms for a Daily Simple SOFR Rate Loan
Schedule 11 Daily Non-Cumulative Compounded SOFR Rate
Schedule 12 Cumulative Compounded SOFR Rate
Schedule 13 Published Rate Contingency Period
Schedule 14 Material Subsidiaries

Exhibit Form of Parent Guarantee

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THIS AGREEMENT is dated 6 October 2023 (this "Agreement") and made between:
(1)    BUNGE FINANCE EUROPE B.V. a private company with limited liability (besloten vennootschap met beperkte aansprakelijkheid) incorporated under the laws of The Netherlands having its corporate seat (statutaire zetel) in Rotterdam, The Netherlands and its registered office at 1391 Timberlake Manor Parkway, Chesterfield, Missouri 63017, United States of America and registered with the Dutch Commercial Register (Handelsregister) under number 24347428 (the "Borrower");
(2)    BNP PARIBAS, CRÉDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK, ING BANK N.V., NATIXIS and SMBC BANK INTERNATIONAL PLC as mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners (each an "Arranger" and together the "Arrangers");
(3)    THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS listed in Schedule 3 (The Original Lenders) as lenders (the "Original Lenders");
(4)    NATIXIS and BNP PARIBAS as sustainability co-ordinators (the "Sustainability Co-ordinators"); and
(5)    CRÉDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK as agent of the other Finance Parties (the "Agent").
IT IS AGREED as follows:
INTERPRETATION
1.    DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION
1.1    Definitions
In this Agreement:
"2021 Facility" means the US$1,750,000,000 revolving facility agreement dated 16 December 2021 (as amended on 26 April 2022 and as further amended and restated on 21 June 2023) between, amongst others, Bunge Finance Europe B.V., as borrower, Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, as agent, and the persons listed therein as lenders.
"Acceptable Bank" means:
(a)    a bank or financial institution which has a rating for its long-term unsecured and non credit-enhanced debt obligations of BBB+ or higher by Standard & Poor's Rating Services or Fitch Ratings Ltd or Baa1 or higher by Moody's Investor Services Limited or a comparable rating from an internationally recognised credit rating agency; or
(b)    any other bank or financial institution approved by the Agent.
"Accordion Increase Certificate" a certificate substantially in the form set out in Schedule 8 (Form of Accordion Increase Certificate).
"Accordion Increase Date" means, in relation to an increase of the Total Commitments in accordance with Clause 2.2 (Accordion Increase), the later of:
(a)    the proposed Accordion Increase Date specified in the relevant Accordion Increase Certificate; and
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(b)    the date on which the Agent executes the relevant Accordion Increase Certificate,
which date shall be the last date of the Interest Period of each Loan then outstanding.
"Additional Business Day" means any day specified as such in the applicable SOFR Rate Terms.
"Additional Commitment Lenders" means the Accordion Lenders and the New Accordion Lenders.
"Affiliate" means, with respect to any specified Person, any other Person which, directly or indirectly, is in control of, is controlled by, or is under common control with, such specified Person. For purposes of this definition "control" of a Person means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities or otherwise, and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings correlative to the foregoing. Notwithstanding the foregoing:
(a)    in relation to Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, the term "Affiliate" shall include any Caisse Régionale of the Crédit Agricole Group and/or LCL; and
(b)    in relation to Natixis, the term "Affiliate" shall include any members of the Banque Populaire and Caisse d'Epargne networks within the meaning of articles L.512-11, L.512-86 and L.512-106 of the French Monetary and Financial Code (Code Monétaire et Financier).
"Agreement" means as set out in the preamble.
"Applicable Margin" means as set out in Schedule 1 (Applicable Margin) hereto.
"Applicable Moody's Rating" means the Rating that Moody's provides of (i) the Parent or (ii) if Moody's does not provide a Rating of the Parent, then BLFC.
"Applicable Rating" means an Applicable Moody's Rating or an Applicable S&P Rating.
"Applicable S&P Rating" means the Rating that S&P provides of (i) the Parent or (ii) if S&P does not provide a Rating of the Parent, then BLFC.
"Arranger Commitment" means:
(a)    in relation to an Arranger as at the date of this Agreement, the amount set opposite its name under the heading "Commitment" in Schedule 3 (The Original Lenders) and the amount of any other Commitment transferred to it under this Agreement or assumed by it under Clause 2.2 (Accordion Increase); and
(b)    in relation to any other Arranger, the amount of any Commitment transferred to it under this Agreement or assumed by it under Clause 2.2 (Accordion Increase),
to the extent not cancelled, reduced or transferred by it under this Agreement.
"Article 55 BRRD" means Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU establishing a framework for the recovery and resolution of credit institutions and investment firms.
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"Authorisation" means an authorisation, consent, approval, resolution, licence, exemption, filing, notarisation or registration.
"Availability Period" means the period beginning on the date of this Agreement and ending on the Final Maturity Date.
"Available Commitment" means, on any date, a Lender's Commitment minus:
(a)    its participation in any outstanding Loans on such date; and
(b)    in relation to any proposed Utilisation, its participation in any Loans that are due to be made on or before the proposed Utilisation Date,
other than that Lender's participation in any Loans that are due to be repaid or prepaid on or before the proposed Utilisation Date.
"Available Facility" means the aggregate for the time being of each Lender's Available Commitment.
"Bail-In Action" means the exercise of any Write-down and Conversion Powers.
"Bail-In Legislation" means:
(a)    in relation to an EEA Member Country which has implemented, or which at any time implements, Article 55 BRRD, the relevant implementing law or regulation as described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule from time to time;
(b)    in relation to the United Kingdom, the UK Bail-In Legislation; and
(c)    in relation to any state other than such an EEA Member Country and the United Kingdom, any analogous law or regulation from time to time which requires contractual recognition of any Write-down and Conversion Powers contained in that law or regulation.
"Basel III" means:
(a)    the agreements on capital requirements, a leverage ratio and liquidity standards contained in "Basel III: A global regulatory framework for more resilient banks and banking systems", "Basel III: International framework for liquidity risk measurement, standards and monitoring" and "Guidance for national authorities operating the countercyclical capital buffer" published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in December 2010, each as amended, supplemented or restated;
(b)    the rules for global systemically important banks contained in "Global systemically important banks: assessment methodology and the additional loss absorbency requirement – Rules text" published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in November 2011, as amended, supplemented or restated; and
(c)    any further guidance or standards published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision relating to "Basel III".
"BLFC" means Bunge Limited Finance Corp., a Delaware corporation, and its successors and permitted assigns.
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"Blocking Regulation" means the UK Blocking Regulation or the EU Blocking Regulation.
"Board of Directors" means, with respect to any Person, the board of directors of such Person or any duly authorised committee thereof.
"Break Costs" means any amount specified as such in the applicable SOFR Rate Terms.
"Business Combination Agreement" means that certain Business Combination Agreement, dated 13 June 2023, by and among Viterra Limited, the Parent, as buyer, Danelo Limited, as a seller, CPPIB Monroe Canada, Inc., as a seller, Venus Investment Limited Partnership, as a seller and Ocarian Limited, as a seller.
"Business Day" means a day:
(a)    (other than a Saturday or Sunday) on which banks are open for general business in London, Paris, Amsterdam and New York City; and
(b)    (in relation to:
(i)    the fixing of an interest rate in respect to a Term SOFR Rate Loan;
(ii)    any date for payment or purchase of an amount relating to a Compounded SOFR Rate Loan or a Daily Simple SOFR Rate Loan; or
(iii)    the determination of the first day or the last day of an Interest Period for a Compounded SOFR Rate Loan or a Daily Simple SOFR Rate Loan, or otherwise in relation to the determination of the length of such an Interest Period),
which is an Additional Business Day relating to that Loan or Unpaid Sum.
"Capital Stock" means, with respect to any Person, any and all shares, interests, rights to purchase, warrants, options (whether or not currently exercisable), participations or other equivalents of or interests in (however designated) the equity (which includes, but is not limited to, common stock or shares, preferred stock or shares and partnership and joint venture interests) of such Person (excluding any debt securities convertible into, or exchangeable for, such equity).
"Central Bank Rate" has the meaning given to that term in the applicable SOFR Rate Terms.
"Central Bank Rate Adjustment" has the meaning given to that term in the applicable SOFR Rate Terms.
"Change of Control" means the occurrence of any of the following:
(a)    the Parent becomes aware (by way of a report or any other filing pursuant to Section 13(d) of the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act"), proxy, vote, written notice or otherwise) of the acquisition by any Person or group (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) or Section 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act, or any successor provision), including any group acting for the purpose of acquiring, holding or disposing of securities (within the meaning of Rule 13d-5(b)(1) under the Exchange Act), in a single transaction or in a related series of transactions, by way of merger, consolidation or other business combination, of 50% or more of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of the Parent then outstanding;
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(b)    the sale, lease or transfer, in one or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the assets of the Parent and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to any Person that is not a Subsidiary of the Parent;
(c)    the first day on which a majority of the members of the Parent's Board of Directors are not Continuing Directors; or
(d)    the Borrower shall not be directly, or indirectly wholly-owned by the Parent.
"Code" means the US Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
"Commitment" means:
(a)    in relation to an Original Lender as at the date of this Agreement, the amount set opposite its name under the heading "Commitment" in Schedule 3 (The Original Lenders) and the amount of any other Commitment transferred to it under this Agreement or assumed by it under Clause 2.2 (Accordion Increase); and
(b)    in relation to any other Lender, the amount of any Commitment transferred to it under this Agreement or assumed by it under Clause 2.2 (Accordion Increase),
to the extent not cancelled, reduced or transferred by it under this Agreement.
"Compounded SOFR Rate Interest Payment" means the aggregate amount of interest that:
(a)    is, or is scheduled to become, payable under any Finance Document; and
(b)    relates to a Compounded SOFR Rate Loan.
"Compounded SOFR Rate Loan" means any Loan or, if applicable, Unpaid Sum which is, or becomes, a "Compounded SOFR Rate Loan" pursuant to Clause 12 (Changes to the calculation of interest).
"Compounded SOFR Reference Rate" means, in relation to any RFR Banking Day during the Interest Period of a Compounded SOFR Rate Loan, the percentage rate per annum which is the aggregate of:
(a)    the Daily Non-Cumulative Compounded SOFR Rate for that RFR Banking Day; and
(b)    the applicable Credit Adjustment Spread.
"Compounding SOFR Methodology Supplement" means, in relation to the Daily Non-Cumulative Compounded SOFR Rate or the Cumulative Compounded SOFR Rate, a document which:
(a)    is agreed in writing by the Borrower, the Agent (in its own capacity) and the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders);
(b)    specifies a calculation methodology for that rate; and
(c)    has been made available to the Borrower and each Finance Party.
"Confidential Information" means all information relating to the Borrower, any Obligor, the Group, the Finance Documents or the Facility of which a Finance Party
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becomes aware in its capacity as, or for the purpose of becoming, a Finance Party or which is received by a Finance Party in relation to, or for the purpose of becoming a Finance Party under, the Finance Documents or the Facility from either:
(a)    any member of the Group or any of its advisers; or
(b)    another Finance Party, if the information was obtained by that Finance Party directly or indirectly from any member of the Group or any of its advisers,
in whatever form, and includes information given orally and any document, electronic file or any other way of representing or recording information which contains or is derived or copied from such information but excludes information that:
(i)    is or becomes public information other than as a direct or indirect result of any breach by that Finance Party of Clause 38 (Confidentiality); or
(ii)    is identified in writing at the time of delivery as non-confidential by any member of the Group or any of its advisers; or
(iii)    is known by that Finance Party before the date the information is disclosed to it in accordance with paragraphs (i) or (ii) above or is lawfully obtained by that Finance Party after that date, from a source which is, as far as that Finance Party is aware, unconnected with the Group and which, in either case, as far as that Finance Party is aware, has not been obtained in breach of, and is not otherwise subject to, any obligation of confidentiality.
"Confidentiality Undertaking" means a confidentiality undertaking substantially in a recommended form of the LMA or in any other form agreed between the Borrower and the Agent.
"Consenting Lender" has the meaning given to it in Clause 6 (Extension Option).
"Continuing Directors" means, as of any date of determination, any member of the Board of Directors of the Parent who:
(a)    was a member of such Board of Directors on 1 November 2023; or
(b)    was nominated for election, appointed or elected to such Board of Directors with the approval of a majority of the Continuing Directors who were members of such Board of Directors at the time of such nomination or election (either by a specific vote or by approval of the Parent's proxy statement in which such member was named as a nominee for election as a director).
"Contractual Obligation" means as to any Person, any provision of any security issued by such Person or of any agreement, instrument or other undertaking to which such Person is a party or by which it or any of its property is bound.
"Credit Adjustment Spread" means, in respect of any Loan, any rate which is either:
(a)    specified as such in the applicable SOFR Rate Terms; or
(b)    determined by the Agent (or by any other Finance Party which agrees to determine that rate in place of the Agent) in accordance with the methodology specified in the applicable SOFR Rate Terms.
"CRD IV" means EU CRD IV and UK CRD IV.
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"Cumulative Compounded SOFR Rate" means, in relation to an Interest Period for a Compounded SOFR Rate Loan, the percentage rate per annum determined by the Agent (or by any other Finance Party which agrees to determine that rate in place of the Agent) in accordance with the methodology set out in Schedule 12 (Cumulative Compounded SOFR Rate) or in any relevant Compounding SOFR Methodology Supplement.
"DAC6" means the Council Directive 2011/16/EU as amended from time to time (including, without limitation, by Council Directive 2018/822/EU and Council Directive 2020/876/EU).
"Daily Non-Cumulative Compounded SOFR Rate" means, in relation to any RFR Banking Day during an Interest Period for a Compounded SOFR Rate Loan, the percentage rate per annum determined by the Agent (or by any other Finance Party which agrees to determine that rate in place of the Agent) in accordance with the methodology set out in Schedule 11 (Daily Non-Cumulative Compounded SOFR Rate) or in any relevant Compounding SOFR Methodology Supplement.
"Daily Rate" means the rate specified as such in the applicable SOFR Rate Terms.
"Daily Simple SOFR Interest Payment" means the aggregate amount of interest that:
(a)    is, or is scheduled to become, payable under any Finance Document; and
(b)    relates to a Daily Simple SOFR Rate Loan.
"Daily Simple SOFR Rate Loan" means any Loan or, if applicable, Unpaid Sum in relation to which interest is calculated by reference to the applicable Daily Simple SOFR Reference Rate.
"Daily Simple SOFR Reference Rate" means, in relation to any RFR Banking Day during the Interest Period of a Daily Simple SOFR Rate Loan, the percentage rate per annum which is the aggregate of:
(a)    the Daily Rate for the RFR Banking Day which is the applicable Lookback Period prior to that RFR Banking Day; and
(b)    the applicable Credit Adjustment Spread,
as determined in accordance with the applicable SOFR Rate Terms.
"Default" means an Event of Default or any event or circumstance specified in Clause 24 (Events of Default) which would (with the expiry of a grace period, the giving of notice, the making of any determination under the Finance Documents or any combination of any of the foregoing) be an Event of Default.
"Defaulting Lender" means any Lender:
(a)    which has failed to make its participation in a Loan available or has notified the Agent that it will not make its participation in a Loan available by the Utilisation Date of that Loan in accordance with Clause 5.4 (Lenders' participation); or
(b)    which has otherwise rescinded or repudiated a Finance Document,
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unless, in the case of paragraph (a) above:
(i)    its failure to pay is caused by:
(A)    administrative or technical error; or
(B)    a Disruption Event; and
payment is made within 5 Business Days of its due date; or
(ii)    the Lender is disputing in good faith whether it is contractually obliged to make the payment in question.
"Disruption Event" means either or both of:
(a)    a material disruption to those payment or communications systems or to those financial markets which are, in each case, required to operate in order for payments to be made in connection with the Facility (or otherwise in order for the transactions contemplated by the Finance Documents to be carried out) which disruption is not caused by, and is beyond the control of, any of the Parties; or
(b)    the occurrence of any other event which results in a disruption (of a technical or systems-related nature) to the treasury or payments operations of a Party preventing that, or any other Party:
(i)    from performing its payment obligations under the Finance Documents; or
(ii)    from communicating with other Parties in accordance with the terms of the Finance Documents,
and which (in either such case) is not caused by, and is beyond the control of, the Party whose operations are disrupted.
"Dutch Civil Code" means the Dutch Civil Code (Burgerlijk Wetboek).
"Dutch FSA" means the Dutch Financial Supervision Act (Wet op het financieel toezicht), including any regulations issued pursuant thereto.
"EEA Member Country" means any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
"Environmentally Significant Regions" means the Cerrado biome regions across states of Maranhao, Tocantins, Piaui, Bahia and Mato Grosso in the country of Brazil.
"EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule" means the document described as such and published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor person) from time to time.
"EU Blocking Regulation" means Regulation (EU) No 2271/96 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 November 1996 protecting against the effects of the extraterritorial application of legislation adopted by a third country, and actions based on or resulting therefrom.
"EU CRD IV" means:
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(a)    Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on prudential requirements for credit institutions and investment firms and amending Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 ("CRR"); and
(b)    Directive 2013/36/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on access to the activity of credit institutions and the prudential supervision of credit institutions and investment firms, amending Directive 2002/87/EC and repealing Directives 2006/48/EC and 2006/49/EC.
"Event of Default" means any event or circumstance specified as such in Clause 24 (Events of Default).
"Executive Order" means Executive Order No. 13224 of September 23, 2001 – Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten To Commit, or Support Terrorism.
"Facility" means the revolving loan facility made available under this Agreement as described in Clause 2 (The Facility).
"Facility Office" means the office or offices notified by a Lender to the Agent in writing on or before the date it becomes a Lender (or, following that date, by not less than five Business Days' written notice) as the office or offices through which it will perform its obligations under this Agreement.
"Fallback Interest Period" means the period specified as such in the applicable SOFR Rate Terms.
"FATCA" means:
(a)    sections 1471 to 1474 of the Code or any associated US Treasury Regulations or other official guidance;
(b)    any treaty, law, regulation or other official guidance enacted in any other jurisdiction, or relating to an intergovernmental agreement between the US and any other jurisdiction, which (in either case) facilitates the implementation of paragraph (a) above; or
(c)    any agreement pursuant to the implementation of paragraphs (a) or (b) above with the US Internal Revenue Service, the US government or any governmental or taxation authority in any other jurisdiction.
"FATCA Application Date" means:
(a)    in relation to a "withholdable payment" described in section 1473(1)(A)(i) of the Code (which relates to payments of interest and certain other payments from sources within the US), 1 July 2014; or
(b)    in relation to a "passthru payment" described in section 1471(d)(7) of the Code not falling within paragraph (a) above, the first date from which such payment may become subject to a deduction or withholding required by FATCA.
"FATCA Deduction" means a deduction or withholding from a payment under a Finance Document required by FATCA.
"FATCA Exempt Party" means a Party that is entitled to receive payments free from any FATCA Deduction.
"FCPA" has the meaning given to it in Clause 19.20 (Sanctions).
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"Fee Letter" means:
(a)    any letter or letters dated on or about the date of this Agreement between the Arrangers and the Borrower (or the Agent and the Borrower) setting out any of the fees referred to in Clause 13 (Fees); and
(b)    any other agreement dated after the date of this Agreement setting out fees payable to a Finance Party referred to in this Agreement or under any other Finance Document.
"Final Maturity Date" means the Original Maturity Date or, in respect of Consenting Lenders (and Replacement Lenders, if applicable), if the extension option under Clause 6 (Extension Option) has been exercised, the First Extension Maturity Date or the Second Extension Maturity Date, as applicable.
"Finance Document" means this Agreement, the First Amendment and Waiver Agreement, any Fee Letter, any Transfer Certificate, the Parent Guarantee, any SOFR Rate Supplement, any Compounding SOFR Methodology Supplement, any Accordion Increase Certificate, and any other agreement or document from time to time entered into pursuant to any of the foregoing documents and any other document designated in writing as such by the Agent and the Borrower.
"Finance Party" means the Agent, an Arranger, a Lender or a Sustainability Co-ordinator.
"First Amendment and Waiver Agreement" means that certain First Amendment and Waiver Agreement, dated 1 March 2024, among the Borrower, the Agent and the Majority Lenders.
"First Anniversary" means the date falling 12 Months after the date of this Agreement.
"First Extension Maturity Date" means the date falling 12 Months after the Original Maturity Date.
"First Extension Request" has the meaning given to it in Clause 6 (Extension Option).
"Funding Rate" means any individual rate notified by a Lender to the Agent pursuant to paragraph (a)(ii) of Clause 12.5 (Cost of funds).
"GAAP" means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States, as in effect from time to time.
"Governmental Authority" means any nation or government, any state or other political subdivision thereof and any entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to government.
"Group" means the Borrower, the Parent and the Material Subsidiaries.
"Guarantee Obligation" means as to any Person (the "guaranteeing person"), any obligation of (a) the guaranteeing person or (b) another Person (including any bank under any letter of credit) with respect to which the guaranteeing person has issued a reimbursement, counterindemnity or similar obligation, in either case guaranteeing or in effect guaranteeing any Indebtedness, leases, dividends or other obligations (the "primary obligations") of any other third Person (the "primary obligor") in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, including any obligation of the guaranteeing person, whether or not contingent, (i) to purchase any such primary obligation or any
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property constituting direct or indirect security therefor, (ii) to advance or supply funds (1) for the purchase or payment of any such primary obligation or (2) to maintain working capital or equity capital of the primary obligor or otherwise to maintain the net worth or solvency of the primary obligor, (iii) to purchase property, securities or services primarily for the purpose of assuring the owner of any such primary obligation of the ability of the primary obligor to make payment of such primary obligation or (iv) otherwise to assure or hold harmless the owner of any such primary obligation against loss in respect thereof; provided, however, that the term Guarantee Obligation shall not include endorsements of instruments for deposit or collection in the ordinary course of business. The amount of any Guarantee Obligation of any guaranteeing person shall be deemed to be the lower of (a) an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the primary obligation in respect of which such Guarantee Obligation is made and (b) the maximum amount for which such guaranteeing person may be liable pursuant to the terms of the instrument embodying such Guarantee Obligation, unless such primary obligation and the maximum amount for which such guaranteeing person may be liable are not stated or determinable, in which case the amount of such Guarantee Obligation shall be such guaranteeing person's maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by the Borrower in good faith.
"Hedge Agreements" means all swaps, caps or collar agreements or similar arrangements dealing with interest rates or currency exchange rates or the exchange of nominal interest obligations, either generally or under specific contingencies.
"Impaired Agent" means the Agent at any time when:
(a)    it has failed to make (or has notified a Party that it will not make) a payment required to be made by it under the Finance Documents by the due date for payment;
(b)    the Agent otherwise rescinds or repudiates a Finance Document;
(c)    (if the Agent is also a Lender) it is a Defaulting Lender; or
(d)    an Insolvency Event has occurred and is continuing with respect to the Agent;
unless, in the case of paragraph (a) above:
(i)    its failure to pay is caused by:
(A)    administrative or technical error; or
(B)    a Disruption Event; and
payment is made within 5 Business Days of its due date; or
(ii)    the Agent is disputing in good faith whether it is contractually obliged to make the payment in question.
"Indebtedness" means, as to any Person, without duplication:
(a)    all obligations of such Person for borrowed money;
(b)    all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments;
(c)    all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of property, except trade accounts payable arising in the ordinary course of business;
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(d)    all obligations of such Person as lessee which are capitalised in accordance with GAAP other than any liability in respect of a lease which would, in accordance with GAAP in effect prior to 15 December 2018, have been treated as an operating lease;
(e)    all obligations of such Person created or arising under any conditional sales or other title retention agreement with respect to any property acquired by such Person (including, without limitation, obligations under any such agreement which provides that the rights and remedies of the seller or lender thereunder in the event of default are limited to repossession or sale of such property);
(f)    all obligations of such Person with respect to letters of credit and similar instruments including, without limitation, obligations under reimbursement agreements;
(g)    all indebtedness of others secured by (or for which the holder of such indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) a Lien on any asset of such Person, whether or not such indebtedness is assumed by such Person; and
(h)    all Guarantee Obligations of such Person (other than guarantees of obligations of direct or indirect Subsidiaries of such Person).
"Insolvency Event" in relation to a Finance Party means that the Finance Party:
(a)    is dissolved (other than pursuant to a consolidation, amalgamation or merger);
(b)    becomes insolvent or is unable to pay its debts or fails or admits in writing its inability generally to pay its debts as they become due;
(c)    makes a general assignment, arrangement or composition with or for the benefit of its creditors;
(d)    institutes or has instituted against it, by a regulator, supervisor or any similar official with primary insolvency, rehabilitative or regulatory jurisdiction over it in the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organisation or the jurisdiction of its head or home office, a proceeding seeking a judgment of insolvency or bankruptcy or any other relief under any bankruptcy or insolvency law or other similar law affecting creditors' rights, or a petition is presented for its winding-up or liquidation by it or such regulator, supervisor or similar official;
(e)    has instituted against it a proceeding seeking a judgment of insolvency or bankruptcy or any other relief under any bankruptcy or insolvency law or other similar law affecting creditors' rights, or a petition is presented for its winding-up or liquidation, and, in the case of any such proceeding or petition instituted or presented against it, such proceeding or petition is instituted or presented by a person or entity not described in paragraph (d) above and:
(i)    results in a judgment of insolvency or bankruptcy or the entry of an order for relief or the making of an order for its winding-up or liquidation; or
(ii)    is not dismissed, discharged, stayed or restrained in each case within 30 days of the institution or presentation thereof;
(f)    has exercised in respect of it one or more of the stabilisation powers pursuant to Part 1 of the Banking Act 2009 and/or has instituted against it a bank
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insolvency proceeding pursuant to Part 2 of the Banking Act 2009 or a bank administration proceeding pursuant to Part 3 of the Banking Act 2009;
(g)    has a resolution passed for its winding-up, official management or liquidation (other than pursuant to a consolidation, amalgamation or merger);
(h)    seeks or becomes subject to the appointment of an administrator, provisional liquidator, conservator, receiver, trustee, custodian or other similar official for it or for all or substantially all its assets (in each case other than by way of an Undisclosed Administration);
(i)    has a secured party take possession of all or substantially all its assets or has a distress, execution, attachment, sequestration or other legal process levied, enforced or sued on or against all or substantially all its assets and such secured party maintains possession, or any such process is not dismissed, discharged, stayed or restrained, in each case within 30 days thereafter;
(j)    causes or is subject to any event with respect to it which, under the applicable laws of any jurisdiction, has an analogous effect to any of the events specified in paragraphs (a) to (i) above; or
(k)    takes any action in furtherance of, or indicating its consent to, approval of, or acquiescence in, any of the foregoing acts.
"Interest Period" means, in relation to a Loan, each period determined in accordance with Clause 11 (Interest Periods) and, in relation to an Unpaid Sum, each period determined in accordance with Clause 10.5 (Default interest).
"Interpolated Term SOFR" means, in relation to any Term SOFR Rate Loan, the rate (rounded to the same number of decimal places as Term SOFR) which results from interpolating on a linear basis between:
(a)    the applicable Term SOFR (as of the Specified Time) for the longest period (for which Term SOFR is available) which is less than the Interest Period of that Term SOFR Rate Loan; and
(b)    the applicable Term SOFR (as of the Specified Time) for the shortest period (for which Term SOFR is available) which exceeds the Interest Period of that Term SOFR Rate Loan.
"Lender" means:
(a)    any Original Lender; and
(b)    any bank, financial institution, trust, fund or other entity which has become a Party in accordance with Clause 2.2 (Accordion Increase) or Clause 26 (Changes to the Lenders),
which in each case has not ceased to be a Party in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
"Lien" means with respect to any asset (a) any mortgage, deed of trust, lien, pledge, encumbrance, charge or security interest in or on such asset and (b) the interest of a vendor or a lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or title retention agreement relating to such asset.
"LMA" means the Loan Market Association.
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"Loan" means a loan made or to be made under the Facility or (as the context requires) the principal amount outstanding for the time being of that loan.
"Lookback Period" means, if applicable, the number of days specified as such in the applicable SOFR Rate Terms.
"Majority Arrangers" means:
(a)    if there are no Loans then outstanding, an Arranger or Arrangers whose Commitments aggregate more than 50% of the Total Arranger Commitments (or, if the Total Arranger Commitments have been reduced to zero, aggregated more than 50% of the Total Arranger Commitments immediately prior to the reduction); or
(b)    at any other time, an Arranger or Arrangers whose participations in the Loans then outstanding aggregate more than 50% of all the Loans then outstanding.
"Majority Lenders" means:
(a)    if there are no Loans then outstanding, a Lender or Lenders whose Commitments aggregate more than 66⅔% of the Total Commitments (or, if the Total Commitments have been reduced to zero, aggregated more than 66⅔% of the Total Commitments immediately prior to the reduction); or
(b)    at any other time, a Lender or Lenders whose participations in the Loans then outstanding aggregate more than 66⅔% of all the Loans then outstanding.
"Market Disruption Rate" means the rate (if any) specified as such in the applicable SOFR Rate Terms.
"Material Adverse Effect" means:
(a)    a material adverse effect on the business, property, operations, condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of the Borrower or of the Parent and its consolidated Subsidiaries taken as a whole; or
(b)    a material impairment of the validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Finance Documents or the rights or remedies of the Agent or the Lenders against the Borrower or the Parent hereunder or under the other Finance Documents.
"Material Subsidiaries" means, at any time, any Subsidiary of the Parent which at such time is a "significant subsidiary" within the meaning of Rule 1-02 under Regulations S-X promulgated by the SEC. The Material Subsidiaries as of the date of this Agreement are set forth on Schedule 14 hereto.
"Month" means a period starting on one day in a calendar month and ending on the numerically corresponding day in the next calendar month, except that:
(a)    other than where paragraph (b) below applies:
(i)    (subject to paragraph (iii) below) if the numerically corresponding day is not a Business Day, that period shall end on the next Business Day in that calendar month in which that period is to end if there is one, or if there is not, on the immediately preceding Business Day;
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(ii)    if there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month in which that period is to end, that period shall end on the last Business Day in that calendar month; and
(iii)    if an Interest Period begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month, that Interest Period shall end on the last Business Day in the calendar month in which that Interest Period is to end; and
(b)    in relation to an Interest Period (or any other period for the accrual of commission or fees) for any Loan for which there are rules specified as "Business Day Conventions" in respect of that Loan in the applicable SOFR Rate Terms, those rules shall apply.
The above rules will only apply to the last Month of any period.
"Moody's" means Moody's Investors Service, Inc. or any successor of Moody's credit ratings service.
"NDPE" means no deforestation, no peat, no exploitation standards adopted by the world's leading palm oil traders.
"Non-Public Lender" means:
(a)    an entity that provides repayable funds to the Borrower for a minimum amount of EUR 100,000 (or its equivalent), and to the extent the amount of EUR 100,000 (or its equivalent) does not result in such entity not qualifying as forming part of the "public'' (as referred to in Article 4, subsection 1 under (1) of the CRR), such other amount or such criterion as a result of which such entity shall qualify as not forming part of the public; and
(b)    following the publication of any interpretation of public by the relevant authority/ies, such amount or such criterion as a result of which such entity shall qualify as not forming part of the public.
"Obligors" means the Parent and the Borrower.
"OFAC" has the meaning given to it in the definition of Sanctions.
"Original Maturity Date" means the date falling 36 Months after the date of this Agreement.
"Parent" means Bunge Global SA, a company formed under the laws of Switzerland, having its registered office at Route de Florissant 13, 1206 Geneva, Switzerland.
"Parent Guarantee" means the guarantee given by the Parent in the form set out in the Exhibit to this Agreement, as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified in accordance with the terms of the Finance Documents.
"Pari Passu Indebtedness" means:
(a)    Indebtedness for borrowed money; and
(b)    indebtedness incurred in connection with Hedge Agreements entered into in connection with the Loans hereunder and any Pari Passu Indebtedness described in paragraph (a) above,
in each case which ranks not greater than pari passu (in priority of payment) with the Loans.
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"Participating Member State" means any member state of the European Union that has the euro as its lawful currency in accordance with legislation of the European Union relating to Economic and Monetary Union.
"Party" means a party to this Agreement.
"PATRIOT Act" means The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107-56, signed into law 26 October 2001.
"Permitted Indebtedness" means:
(a)    Indebtedness of the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement;
(b)    Pari Passu Indebtedness; and
(c)    Subordinated Indebtedness.
"Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation, firm, limited liability company, company, business trust, association, consortium, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated association, joint venture, Governmental Authority or other entity of whatever nature (whether or not having separate legal personality).
"PMP" means a "professional market party" (professionele marktpartij) within the meaning of the Dutch FSA.
"Quotation Day" means in relation to any period for which an interest rate is to be determined in respect of a Term SOFR Rate Loan, as specified in the applicable SOFR Rate Terms.
"Quoted Tenor" means in relation to Term SOFR, any period for which that rate is customarily displayed on the relevant page or screen of an information service.
"Rating Agencies" means collectively, S&P and Moody's.
"Rating" means the rating of the Rating Agencies applicable to senior long-term, unsecured debt as announced by the Rating Agencies.
"Related Fund" in relation to a fund (the "first fund"), means a fund which is managed or advised by the same investment manager or investment adviser as the first fund or, if it is managed by a different investment manager or investment adviser, a fund whose investment manager or investment adviser is an Affiliate of the investment manager or investment adviser of the first fund.
"Relevant Market" means the market specified as such in the applicable SOFR Rate Terms.
"Relevant Nominating Body" means any applicable central bank, regulator or other supervisory authority or a group of them, or any working group or committee sponsored or chaired by, or constituted at the request of, any of them or the Financial Stability Board.
"Repeating Representations" means each of the representations set out in Clauses 19.1 (Existence: Compliance with Law) to 19.6 (No default), Clause 19.11 (No misleading information), Clause 19.12 (No Subsidiaries), Clause 19.14 (Pari passu ranking), Clause 19.17 (No Change), Clause 19.19 (Tax Status) and Clause 19.20 (Sanctions).
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"Replacement Lender" has the meaning given to it in Clause 6 (Extension Option).
"Reporting Day" means the day (if any) specified as such in the applicable SOFR Rate Terms.
"Reporting Time" means the relevant time (if any) specified as such in the applicable SOFR Rate Terms.
"Representative" means any delegate, agent, manager, administrator, nominee, attorney, trustee or custodian.
"Requirement of Law" means as to any Person, the Certificate of Incorporation and By-Laws or other organisational or governing documents of such Person, and any law, treaty, rule or regulation or determination of an arbitrator or a court or other Governmental Authority (and including, for the avoidance of doubt, all applicable environmental laws and regulations and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974), in each case applicable to or binding upon such Person or any of its property or to which such Person or any of its property is subject.
"Resolution Authority" means any body which has authority to exercise any Write-down and Conversion Powers.
"Responsible Officer" means any member of the board of directors (bestuur), the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Chief Financial Officer or the Treasurer of the Borrower or Parent, as applicable, or any other officer of the Borrower or Parent, as applicable, customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above-designated officers.
"Restricted Person" means a Person that is:
(a)    listed on, or owned 50% or more by or controlled by a Person listed on any applicable Sanctions List; or
(b)    located in, a resident of, organised under the laws of, or owned or controlled by, or acting on behalf of, a Person located in or organised under the laws of a country or territory that is or whose government is the target of any applicable country-wide Sanctions.
For the purposes of this definition, "control" means the possession of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. The term "controlled" has the meaning correlative thereto.
"RFR" means the rate specified as such in the applicable SOFR Rate Terms.
"RFR Banking Day" means any day specified as such in the applicable SOFR Rate Terms.
"Rollover Loan" means one or more Loans:
(a)    made or to be made on the same day that a maturing Loan is due to be repaid;
(b)    the aggregate amount of which is equal to or less than the maturing Loan; and
(c)    made or to be made for the purpose of refinancing a maturing Loan.
"Sanctions" means any applicable economic sanctions laws, regulations, embargoes or restrictive measures administered, enacted or enforced by: (i) the United States
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government; (ii) the United Nations; (iii) the European Union; (iv) the United Kingdom; (v) the relevant authorities of Switzerland; or (vi) the respective governmental institutions and agencies of any of the foregoing, including without limitation, the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Department of Treasury ("OFAC"), the United States Department of State, and His Majesty’s Treasury (together "Sanctions Authorities").
"Sanctions Authorities" has the meaning given to it in the definition of Sanctions.
"Sanctions List" means the "Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons" list issued by OFAC, the Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets issued by His Majesty's Treasury, or any similar applicable list issued or maintained or made public by any of the Sanctions Authorities.
"S&P" means S&P Global Ratings or any successor thereto.
"SEC" means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
"Second Anniversary" means the date falling 24 Months after the date of this Agreement.
"Second Extension Maturity Date" means either:
(a)    the date falling 12 Months after the First Extension Maturity Date; or
(b)    if a First Extension Request was not made by the Borrower or, with respect to Lenders who have refused the First Extension Request, the date falling 24 Months after the Original Maturity Date.
"Second Extension Request" has the meaning given to it in Clause 6 (Extension Option).
"Security" means, for the purposes of Clause 26.6 (Security over Lenders' rights), a mortgage, charge, pledge, lien or other security interest securing any obligation of any person or any other agreement or arrangement having a similar effect.
"SOFR" has the meaning given to that term in the applicable SOFR Rate Terms.
"SOFR Rate Supplement" means a document which:
(a)    is agreed in writing by the Borrower and the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders (or, if:
(i)    the optional interest periods contained within the document are different to those contained in the relevant SOFR Rate Terms; or
(ii)    the terms of the document may reduce the amount of interest payable by the Borrower on any Loan,
acting on the instructions of all Lenders));
(b)    specifies the relevant terms which are expressed in this Agreement to be determined by reference to the applicable SOFR Rate Terms; and
(c)    has been made available to the Borrower and each Finance Party.
"SOFR Rate Terms" means, in relation to:
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(a)    a Loan;
(b)    an Interest Period for such a Loan, or other period for the accrual of commission or fees in respect to a Loan; or
(c)    any term of this Agreement relating to the determination of a rate of interest in relation to such a Loan;
the terms set out for that Loan in Schedule 10 (SOFR Rate Terms) or in any applicable SOFR Rate Supplement.
"SOFR Reference Rate" means:
(a)    the Term SOFR Reference Rate; or
(b)    pursuant to Clause 12.2 (Unavailability of Term SOFR fallbacks), the Compounded SOFR Reference Rate.
"Solvent" means with respect to any Person on a particular date, that on such date (a) the fair value of the property of such Person is greater than the total amount of liabilities, including, without limitation, contingent liabilities, of such Person, (b) the present fair saleable value of the assets of such Person is not less than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of such Person on its debts as they become absolute and matured, (c) such Person does not intend to, and does not believe that it will, incur debts or liabilities beyond such Person's ability to pay debts and liabilities as they mature and (d) such Person is not engaged in business or a transaction, and is not about to engage in business or a transaction, for which such Person's property would constitute an unreasonably small capital. The amount of contingent liabilities at any such time shall be computed as the amount that, in the light of all the facts and circumstances existing at such time, represents the amount that can reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability.
"Specified Time" means a time determined in accordance with Schedule 7 (Timetables).
"Subordinated Indebtedness" means Indebtedness of the Borrower (including, without limitation, convertible notes), which is explicitly subordinated in right of payment to the obligations under the Finance Documents pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth in the transaction documents governing such Indebtedness.
"Subsidiary" means as to any Person, a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other entity of which shares of stock or other ownership interests having ordinary voting power (other than stock or such other ownership interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) to elect a majority of the board of directors or other managers of such corporation, partnership or other entity are at the time owned directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, or both, by such Person. Unless otherwise qualified, all references to a "Subsidiary" or to "Subsidiaries" in this Agreement shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Parent.
"Sustainability Benchmark" means the table set out in Schedule 2 (Sustainability Benchmark).
"Sustainability Certificate" means a certificate substantially in the form set out in Schedule 9 (Form of Sustainability Certificate).
"Sustainability Certificate Due Date" has the meaning set out in Clause 20.13 (Provision and contents of Sustainability Certificate).
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"Sustainability Discount" has the meaning set out in Schedule 1 (Applicable Margin).
"Sustainability Margin Adjustment" means a Sustainability Discount or a Sustainability Premium, as applicable.
"Sustainability Performance Target" means each of Sustainability Performance Target 1, Sustainability Performance Target 2, Sustainability Performance Target 3, Sustainability Performance Target 4 and Sustainability Performance Target 5.
"Sustainability Performance Target 1" means [***].
"Sustainability Performance Target 2" means [***].
"Sustainability Performance Target 3" means [***].
"Sustainability Performance Target 4" means [***].
"Sustainability Performance Target 5" means [***].
"Sustainability Progress Target" means each of Sustainability Progress Target 4 and Sustainability Progress Target 5.
"Sustainability Progress Target 4" means [***].
"Sustainability Progress Target 5" means [***].
"Sustainability Premium" has the meaning set out in Schedule 1 (Applicable Margin).
"Tax" means any tax, levy, impost, duty or other charge or withholding of a similar nature (including any penalty or interest payable in connection with any failure to pay or any delay in paying any of the same).
"Term SOFR" has the meaning given to it in the applicable SOFR Rate Terms.
"Term SOFR Rate Loan" means:
(a)    any Loan or, if applicable, Unpaid Sum in relation to which interest is calculated by reference to the applicable Term SOFR Reference Rate; and
(b)    for which Clause 12.2 (Unavailability of Term SOFR fallbacks) does not apply.
"Term SOFR Reference Rate" means:
(a)    the applicable Term SOFR as of the Specified Time and for a period equal in length to the Interest Period of that Term SOFR Rate Loan; or
(b)    as otherwise determined pursuant to Clause 12.1 (Unavailability of Term SOFR ).
"Total Arranger Commitments" means the aggregate of the Arranger Commitments, being $300,000,000 at the date of this Agreement.
"Total Commitments" means the aggregate of the Commitments, being $1,750,000,000 at the date of this Agreement.
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"Transfer Certificate" means a certificate substantially in the form set out in Schedule 6 (Form of Transfer Certificate) or any other form agreed between the Agent and the Borrower.
"Transfer Date" means, in relation to a transfer, the later of:
(a)    the proposed transfer date specified in the Transfer Certificate; and
(b)    the date on which the Agent executes the Transfer Certificate.
"UK Bail-In Legislation" means Part I of the United Kingdom Banking Act 2009 and any other law or regulation applicable in the United Kingdom relating to the resolution of unsound or failing banks, investment firms or other financial institutions or their affiliates (otherwise than through liquidation, administration or other insolvency proceedings).
"UK Blocking Regulation" means Regulation (EU) No 2271/96 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 November 1996 protecting against the effects of the extraterritorial application of legislation adopted by a third country, and actions based on or resulting therefrom as it forms part of domestic law of the United Kingdom by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018.
"UK CRD IV" means
(a)    Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on prudential requirements for credit institutions and investment firms as it forms part of domestic law of the United Kingdom by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (the "Withdrawal Act");
(b)    the law of the United Kingdom or any part of it, which immediately before IP completion day (as defined in the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020) implemented Directive 2013/36/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on access to the activity of credit institutions and the prudential supervision of credit institutions and investment firms, amending Directive 2002/87/EC and repealing Directives 2006/48/EC and 2006/49/EC and its implementing measures; and
(c)    direct EU legislation (as defined in the Withdrawal Act), which immediately before IP completion day (as defined in the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020) implemented EU CRD IV as it forms part of domestic law of the United Kingdom by virtue of the Withdrawal Act.
"Undisclosed Administration" means in relation to a Lender the appointment of an administrator, provisional liquidator, conservator, receiver, trustee, custodian or other similar official by a supervisory authority or regulator under or based on the law in the country where such Lender is subject to home jurisdiction supervision if applicable law requires that such appointment is not to be publicly disclosed.
"Unpaid Sum" means any sum due and payable but unpaid by the Borrower under the Finance Documents.
"US" and "United States" means the United States of America, its territories, possessions and other areas subject to the jurisdiction of the United States of America.
"US Treasury Regulations" means the United States Treasury regulations promulgated under the Code, as such Treasury regulations may be amended from time to time.
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"Utilisation" means a utilisation of the Facility.
"Utilisation Date" means the date of a Utilisation, being the date on which the relevant Loan is to be made.
"Utilisation Request" means a notice substantially in the form set out in Schedule 5 (Utilisation Request).
"VAT" means:
(a)    any value added tax imposed by the Value Added Tax Act 1994;
(b)    any tax imposed in compliance with the Council Directive of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax (EC Directive 2006/112); and
(c)    any other tax of a similar nature, whether imposed in the United Kingdom or in a member state of the European Union in substitution for, or levied in addition to, such tax referred to in paragraphs (a) or (b) above, or imposed elsewhere.
"Viterra" means Viterra Limited (together with its direct and indirect subsidiaries).
"Viterra Acquisition" means the Parent’s acquisition of all of the outstanding equity interests of Viterra pursuant to the Business Combination Agreement for an aggregate share consideration and cash consideration set forth in the Business Combination Agreement.
"Viterra Acquisition Closing Date" means the closing date of the Viterra Acquisition.
"Voting Stock" of any Person as of any date means the Capital Stock of such Person that is at the time entitled to vote in the election of the Board of Directors of such Person.
"Write-down and Conversion Powers" means:
(a)    in relation to any Bail-In Legislation described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule from time to time, the powers described as such in relation to that Bail-In Legislation in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule;
(b)    in relation to the UK Bail-In Legislation, any powers under that UK Bail-In Legislation to cancel, transfer or dilute shares issued by a person that is a bank or investment firm or other financial institution or affiliate of a bank, investment firm or other financial institution, to cancel, reduce, modify or change the form of a liability of such a person 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 UK Bail-In Legislation that are related to or ancillary to any of those powers; and
(c)    in relation to any other applicable Bail-In Legislation:
(i)    any powers under that Bail-In Legislation to cancel, transfer or dilute shares issued by a person that is a bank or investment firm or other financial institution or affiliate of a bank, investment firm or other financial institution, to cancel, reduce, modify or change the form of a
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liability of such a person 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; and
(ii)    any similar or analogous powers under that Bail-In Legislation.
"Zero Deforestation Certified Soybean" means soybeans that have been certified under one of the following certification schemes – 2BsVs or RTRS or Proterra or ISCC or PRO-S or RENOVABIO.
1.2    Construction
(a)    Unless a contrary indication appears any reference in this Agreement to:
(i)    the "Agent", any "Arranger", any "Finance Party", any "Lender", any "Obligor" or any "Party" shall be construed so as to include its successors in title, permitted assigns and permitted transferees to, or of, its rights and/or obligations under the Finance Documents;
(ii)    "assets" of any Person shall be construed as a reference to the whole or any part of its business, undertaking, property, assets, rights and revenues (including any right to receive revenues);
(iii)    a "Finance Document" or any other agreement or instrument is a reference to that Finance Document or other agreement or instrument as amended, restated, supplemented or novated;
(iv)    a "regulation" includes any regulation, rule, official directive, request or guideline (whether or not having the force of law) of any governmental, intergovernmental or supranational body, agency, department or regulatory, self-regulatory or other authority or organisation;
(v)    a provision of law is a reference to that provision as amended or re-enacted;
(vi)    a time of day is a reference to London time; and
(vii)    a Lender's "cost of funds" in relation to its participation in a Loan is a reference to the average cost (determined either on an actual or a notional basis) which that Lender would incur if it were to fund, from whatever source(s) it may reasonably select, an amount equal to the amount of that participation in that Loan for a period equal in length to the Interest Period of that Loan.
(b)    Section, Clause and Schedule headings are for ease of reference only.
(c)    Unless a contrary indication appears, a term used in any other Finance Document or in any notice given under or in connection with any Finance Document has the same meaning in that Finance Document or notice as in this Agreement.
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(d)    A Default (other than an Event of Default) is "continuing" if it has not been remedied or waived and an Event of Default is "continuing" if it has not been remedied or waived.
(e)    In this Agreement, where it relates to a Dutch entity, a reference to:
(i)    a necessary action to authorise where applicable, includes without limitation:
(A)    any action required to comply with the Dutch Works Councils Act (Wet op de ondernemingsraden); and
(B)    obtaining an unconditional positive advice (advies) from the competent works council(s);
(ii)    a winding-up, administration or dissolution includes a Dutch entity being:
(A)    declared bankrupt (failliet verklaard);
(B)    dissolved (ontbonden);
(iii)    a trustee in bankruptcy includes a curator;
(iv)    an administrator includes a bewindvoerder, a herstructureringsdeskundige or an observatory;
(v)    a(n) (administrative) receiver does not include a curator or bewindvoerder;
(vi)    an attachment includes a beslag;
(vii)    "gross negligence" includes grove schuld;
(viii)    "negligence" includes schuld;
(ix)    "wilful misconduct" includes opzet; and
(x)    any "step" or "procedure" taken in connection with insolvency proceedings includes a Dutch entity having filed a notice under Article 36(2) of the Tax Collection Act of the Netherlands (Invorderingswet 1990).
(f)    A reference in this Agreement to a page or screen of an information service displaying a rate shall include:
(i)    any replacement page of that information service which displays that rate; and
(ii)    the appropriate page of such other information service which displays that rate from time to time in place of that information service,
and, if such page or service ceases to be available, shall include any other page or service displaying that rate specified by the Agent after consultation with the Borrower.
(g)    A reference in this Agreement to a Central Bank Rate shall include any successor rate to, or replacement rate for, that rate.
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(h)    Any SOFR Rate Supplement overrides anything relating to the relevant Loan in:
(i)    Schedule 10 (SOFR Rate Terms); or
(ii)    any earlier SOFR Rate Supplement.
(i)    A Compounding SOFR Methodology Supplement relating to the Daily Non-Cumulative Compounded SOFR Rate or the Cumulative Compounded SOFR Rate overrides anything relating to that rate in:
(i)    Schedule 11 (Daily Non-Cumulative Compounded SOFR Rate) or Schedule 12 (Cumulative Compounded SOFR Rate), as the case may be; or
(ii)    any earlier Compounding SOFR Methodology Supplement.
(j)    The determination of the extent to which a rate is "for a period equal in length" to an Interest Period shall disregard any inconsistency arising from the last day of that Interest Period being determined pursuant to the terms of this Agreement.
1.3    Currency Symbols and Definitions
"$" and "dollars" denote lawful currency of the United States, "EUR" and "euro" means the single currency unit of the Participating Member States, "£" and "sterling" denote lawful currency of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and "yen" means the lawful currency of Japan.
1.4    Third party rights
(a)    Unless expressly provided to the contrary in a Finance Document a person who is not a Party has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 (the "Third Parties Act") to enforce or to enjoy the benefit of any term of this Agreement.
(b)    Subject to Clause 37.3 (Other Exceptions) but otherwise not withstanding any term of any Finance Document, the consent of any person who is not a Party is not required to rescind or vary this Agreement at any time.

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THE FACILITY
2.    THE FACILITY
2.1    The Facility
Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Lenders make available to the Borrower a dollar revolving loan facility in an aggregate amount equal to the Total Commitments.
2.2    Accordion Increase
(a)    Subject to this Clause 2.2, the Borrower may request an increase in the Total Commitments (an "Accordion Increase") in an aggregate amount which when aggregated with the amount of all other Accordion Increases made under this Clause 2.2 does not exceed $1,750,000,000 (the "Additional Commitments"); provided that, the Total Commitments shall not exceed $3,500,000,000 after any Accordian Increase.
(b)    The Borrower may invite:
(i)    any one or more Lenders to provide Additional Commitments in such amount as may be agreed by the Borrower and such Lender (each such Lender that is invited to and wishes to provide such Additional Commitments, an "Accordion Lender"); and/or
(ii)    any one or more bank or financial institution, trust, fund or other entity which is regularly engaged in or established for the purpose of making loans, securities or other financial assets and which is acceptable to the Agent (acting reasonably) (each a "New Accordion Lender") to provide Additional Commitments in such amount as may be agreed by the Borrower and such New Accordion Lender,
provided that, the increase in the Total Commitments following the proposed Accordion Increase does not exceed the limit set out in paragraph (a) above.
(c)    For the avoidance of doubt no Lender shall (unless otherwise agreed by that Lender) be obliged to provide any Additional Commitment.
(d)    The Borrower shall, promptly following agreement with the Accordion Lenders and New Accordion Lenders and in any event not later than 45 Business Days (or such other period as the Agent and the Borrower may agree) prior to the proposed date of the Accordion Increase, deliver to the Agent a notice (an "Accordion Request") signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower which shall specify:
(i)    the aggregate amount of the proposed Additional Commitments;
(ii)    the identity of, and the amount of the proposed Additional Commitment of, each Accordion Lender and each New Accordion Lender that wishes to provide an Additional Commitment;
(iii)    the proposed Accordion Increase Date which shall be a Business Day within the Availability Period and shall be the last date of the Interest Period of each Loan then outstanding; and
(iv)    the fees relating to the proposed Additional Commitments.
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(e)    Following receipt by the Agent of an Accordion Request, it shall promptly forward a copy to each Lender for information purposes.
(f)    An Accordion Increase will only become effective if, on the date of the Accordion Request and the proposed Accordion Increase Date, no Default is continuing or would result from the proposed Accordion Increase.
(g)    
(i)    Subject to the conditions set out in this Clause 2.2, an Accordion Increase will become effective in accordance with paragraph (h) below when the Agent executes an otherwise duly completed Accordion Increase Certificate delivered to it by the Borrower and the Additional Commitment Lenders. The Agent shall, subject to sub-paragraph (ii) below, as soon as reasonably practicable after receipt by it of a duly completed Accordion Increase 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 Accordion Increase Certificate.
(ii)    The Agent shall only be obliged to execute an Accordion Increase Certificate delivered to it by the Borrower and the Additional Commitment Lenders 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 each New Accordion Lender.
(h)    On the Accordion Increase Date:
(i)    the amount of the Additional Commitment of each Additional Commitment Lender will be as set out in the relevant column opposite its name in the Accordion Increase Certificate;
(ii)    each of the Obligors and each Additional Commitment Lender shall assume obligations towards one another and acquire rights against one another as they would have acquired and assumed had each Additional Commitment Lender been an Original Lender with the rights and obligations acquired and assumed by it as a result of it providing its Additional Commitment;
(iii)    the Agent, the Arrangers, the New Accordion Lenders and the other Lenders shall acquire the same rights and assume the same obligations between themselves as they would have acquired and assumed had the New Accordion Lenders been Original Lenders with the rights and obligations acquired and assumed by them as a result of their participation in the Additional Commitments; and
(iv)    each New Accordion Lender shall become a Party as a "Lender".
(i)    The Borrower shall promptly on demand pay the Agent the amount of all costs and expenses (including legal fees) reasonably incurred by it in connection with any increase in Commitments under this Clause 2.2.
(j)    Any amounts payable to the Lenders by any Obligor on or before the Accordion Increase Date (including, without limitation, all interest, fees and commission payable up to (but excluding) the Accordion Increase Date) in respect of any period ending on or prior to the Accordion Increase Date shall be for the account of the Lenders party to this Agreement prior to the
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Accordion Increase Date and no Additional Commitment Lender shall have any interest in, or any rights in respect of, any such amount (save in respect of their Commitments up to (but excluding) the Accordion Increase Date).
(k)    Each New Accordion Lender, by executing the relevant Accordion Increase Certificate confirms, for the avoidance of doubt, that the Agent has authority to execute on its behalf any amendment or waiver that has been approved by or on behalf of the requisite Lender or Lenders in accordance with this Agreement on or prior to the date on which the Accordion Increase Certificate becomes effective in accordance with this Agreement and that it is bound by that decision to the same extent as the Original Lenders.
2.3    Finance Parties' rights and obligations
(a)    The obligations of each Finance Party under the Finance Documents are several. Failure by a Finance Party to perform its obligations under the Finance Documents does not affect the obligations of any other Party under the Finance Documents. No Finance Party is responsible for the obligations of any other Finance Party under the Finance Documents.
(b)    The rights of each Finance Party under or in connection with the Finance Documents are separate and independent rights and any debt arising under the Finance Documents to a Finance Party from an Obligor is a separate and independent debt in respect of which a Finance Party shall be entitled to enforce its rights in accordance with paragraph (c) below. The rights of each Finance Party include any debt owing to that Finance Party under the Finance Documents and, for the avoidance of doubt, any part of a Loan or any other amount owed by an Obligor which relates to a Finance Party's participation in the Facility or its role under a Finance Document (including any such amount payable to the Agent on its behalf) is a debt owing to that Finance Party by that Obligor.
(c)    A Finance Party may, except as specifically provided in the Finance Documents, separately enforce its rights under or in connection with the Finance Documents.
3.    PURPOSE
3.1    Purpose
The Facility shall be available solely for general corporate purposes.
3.2    Monitoring
No Finance Party is bound to monitor or verify the application of any amount borrowed pursuant to this Agreement.
4.    CONDITIONS OF UTILISATION
4.1    Initial conditions precedent
(a)    The Borrower may not deliver a Utilisation Request unless the Agent has received all of the documents and other evidence listed in Schedule 4 (Conditions Precedent to Initial Utilisation) and copies of any other document, authorisation, opinion or assurance reasonably requested by the Agent in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agent. The Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Lenders promptly upon being so satisfied.
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(b)    Other than to the extent that the Majority Lenders notify the Agent in writing to the contrary before the Agent gives the notification described in paragraph (a) above, the Lenders authorise (but do not require) the Agent to give that notification. The Agent shall not be liable for any damages, costs or losses whatsoever as a result of giving any such notification.
4.2    Further conditions precedent
The Lenders will only be obliged to comply with Clause 5.4 (Lenders' participation) if on the date of the Utilisation Request and on the proposed Utilisation Date:
(a)    in the case of a Rollover Loan, no Event of Default is continuing or would result from the proposed Loan and, in the case of any other Loan, no Default is continuing or would result from the proposed Loan; and
(b)    the Repeating Representations to be made by the Borrower under this Agreement and the representations to be made by the Parent under Section 7 of the Parent Guarantee are true in all material respects.
4.3    Maximum number of Loans
The Borrower may not deliver a Utilisation Request if as a result of the proposed Utilisation more than 20 Loans would be outstanding.
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UTILISATION
5.    UTILISATION
5.1    Delivery of a Utilisation Request
The Borrower may utilise the Facility by delivery to the Agent of a duly completed Utilisation Request not later than the Specified Time.
5.2    Completion of a Utilisation Request
(a)    Each Utilisation Request is irrevocable and will not be regarded as having been duly completed unless:
(i)    the proposed Utilisation Date is a Business Day within the Availability Period;
(ii)    the currency and amount of the Utilisation comply with Clause 5.3 (Currency and amount); and
(iii)    the proposed Interest Period complies with Clause 11 (Interest Periods).
(b)    Only one Loan may be requested in each Utilisation Request.
5.3    Currency and amount
(a)    The currency specified in a Utilisation Request must be dollars.
(b)    The amount of the proposed Loan must be a minimum of $10,000,000 or, if less, the Available Facility.
5.4    Lenders' participation
(a)    If the conditions set out in this Agreement have been met, and subject to Clause 7 (Repayment), each Lender shall make its participation in each Loan available by the Utilisation Date through its Facility Office.
(b)    The amount of each Lender's participation in each Loan will be equal to the proportion borne by its Available Commitment to the Available Facility immediately prior to making the Loan.
(c)    The Agent shall notify each Lender of the amount of each Loan, the amount of its participation in that Loan and the amount of the payment to be made available in accordance with Clause 31.1 (Payments to the Agent), in each case by the Specified Time.
5.5    Cancellation of Commitment
The Commitments which, at that time, are unutilised shall be immediately cancelled at the end of the Availability Period.
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EXTENSION OPTION
6.    EXTENSION OPTION
6.1    Extension Request
(a)    The Borrower shall be entitled to request that the Original Maturity Date be extended for an additional period of 12 Months by giving notice (the "First Extension Request") to the Agent not more than 60 days nor less than 30 days before the First Anniversary.
(b)    The Borrower shall be entitled to request that the Original Maturity Date and/or the First Extension Maturity Date be extended as set out below by giving notice (the "Second Extension Request") to the Agent not more than 60 nor less than 30 days before the Second Anniversary:
(i)    with respect to Lenders who have agreed to the First Extension Request, an extension for a further period of 12 Months; and/or
(ii)    if no First Extension Request has been made, or with respect to Lenders who refused the First Extension Request, an extension for a period of 24 Months,
as selected by the Borrower in the notice to the Agent.
The First Extension Request and Second Extension Request are together referred to as "Extension Requests" and each as an "Extension Request".
6.2    Notification of Extension Request
The Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders of any Extension Request as soon as practicable after receipt of it.
6.3    Lenders' Response to Extension Request
(a)    Each Lender may, in its sole discretion, agree to any Extension Request (each such Lender a "Consenting Lender") by providing notice to the Agent on or before the date falling 15 Business Days before:
(i)    in respect of a First Extension Request, the First Anniversary; or
(ii)    in respect of a Second Extension Request, the Second Anniversary.
(b)    The Commitment of each Consenting Lender will, in accordance with Clause 6.7 (Extension of the Facility) below, be extended for the period applicable to it and referred to in such Extension Request.
(c)    If any Lender:
(i)    fails to reply to an Extension Request within the time period set out in paragraph (a); or
(ii)    declines an Extension Request, in writing, by the date falling 15 Business Days before the First Anniversary or the Second Anniversary, as applicable,
(in each case a "Declining Lender") its Commitment will not be extended.
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6.4    Form of Extension Request
Each Extension Request shall be made in writing and be irrevocable.
6.5    Replacement of Declining Lenders
(a)    The Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Lenders no later than 15 days' prior to the First Anniversary or the Second Anniversary, as applicable, of the details of which Lenders are Consenting Lenders and which Lenders are Declining Lenders.
(b)    If the Agent notifies the Borrower of one or more Declining Lenders, the Borrower may, on 15 days' written notice to the Agent replace a Declining Lender by requiring such Declining Lender to (and such Declining Lender shall) transfer pursuant to Clause 26 (Changes to the Lenders) all (and not part only) of its rights and obligations under the Facility to a Consenting Lender or another bank, financial institution, trust fund or other entity (to the extent not a Consenting Lender, a "Replacement Lender") selected by the Borrower which is acceptable to the Agent (acting reasonably) which confirms its willingness to assume and does assume all the obligations of such Declining Lender for a purchase price in cash payable at the time of transfer at least equal to the principal amount of such Declining Lender's participation in outstanding Loans under the Facility and all accrued interest, Break Costs (if any) and other amounts then due to the Declining Lender under the Finance Documents at such time.
(c)    The replacement of a Declining Lender pursuant to this Clause 6.5 shall be subject to the following conditions:
(i)    none of the Agent, any Arranger or any Lender shall have any obligation to find a Replacement Lender;
(ii)    such replacement must take place by no later than:
(A)    the Original Maturity Date; or
(B)    if the relevant Declining Lender has previously accepted a First Extension Request, the First Extension Maturity Date,
provided that a Declining Lender shall not be obliged under this Clause 6.5 (Replacement of Declining Lenders) to transfer its rights and obligations under the Facility at any point prior to the applicable date above;
(iii)    in no event shall the relevant Declining Lender be required to pay or surrender to the relevant Replacement Lender any of the fees or other amounts received by such Declining Lender pursuant to the Finance Documents prior to the date of such replacement;
(iv)    any Transfer Certificate executed by the relevant Declining Lender and the relevant Replacement Lender shall include a confirmation from the Replacement Lender that it has agreed to the extension of the Original Maturity Date or the First Extension Maturity Date, as applicable, requested by the Borrower in accordance with this Clause 6 (Extension Option); and
(v)    a Declining Lender shall only be obliged to transfer its rights and obligations pursuant to paragraph (b) above once it is satisfied that it
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has complied with all necessary "know your customer" or other similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations in relation to that transfer.
(d)    A Lender shall perform the checks described in sub-paragraph (c)(v) above as soon as reasonably practicable following delivery of a notice referred to in paragraph (b) above and shall notify the Agent and the Borrower when it is satisfied that it has complied with those checks.
6.6    Repayment and reduction of Facility
If, with respect to any Extension Request, there are any Declining Lenders and such Declining Lenders cannot be replaced pursuant to Clause 6.5 (Replacement of Declining Lenders), then, on the Final Maturity Date applicable to each such Declining Lender:
(a)    the Commitment of the Declining Lender shall be automatically cancelled and the Facility reduced accordingly; and
(b)    the Borrower shall repay in full the Declining Lender's participation in any outstanding Loans under the Facility and all accrued interest, Break Costs (if any) and other amounts then due to the Declining Lender under the Finance Documents at such time.
6.7    Extension of the Facility
(a)    If, with respect to any Extension Request, there are any Consenting Lenders, then provided that:
(i)    no Default is continuing or would result from the extension;
(ii)    the Repeating Representations to be made by the Borrower under this Agreement and the representations to be made by the Parent under Section 7 of the Parent Guarantee are true in all material respects;
then with effect from the First Anniversary (in the case of a First Extension Request) or from the Second Anniversary (in the case of a Second Extension Request) the then current Final Maturity Date of the Facility will be extended to:
(iii)    in the case of a First Extension Request, the First Extension Maturity Date; or
(iv)    in the case of a Second Extension Request, the Second Extension Maturity Date,
for the Consenting Lenders in an aggregate amount equal to the sum of the aggregate Commitments of the Consenting Lenders (together with the aggregate Commitments of the Replacement Lenders, if applicable).
(b)    For the avoidance of doubt, the aggregate Commitments in respect of which the Final Maturity Date has been extended under this Clause 6 (Extension Option) shall not exceed the amount of:
(i)    the Total Commitments as at the date of this Agreement; or
(ii)    if applicable, the Total Commitments as increased under Clause 2.2 (Accordion Increase).
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6.8    Limitations
No more than two Extension Requests may be given. For the avoidance of doubt, the Final Maturity Date cannot extend beyond the date falling 60 Months after the date of this Agreement.

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REPAYMENT, PREPAYMENT AND CANCELLATION
7.    REPAYMENT
(a)    The Borrower shall repay each Loan on the last day of its Interest Period.
(b)    Without prejudice to the Borrower's obligation under paragraph (a) above, if:
(i)    one or more Loans are to be made to the Borrower:
(A)    on the same day that a maturing Loan is due to be repaid by the Borrower; and
(B)    in whole or in part for the purpose of refinancing the maturing Loan; and
(ii)    the proportion borne by each Lender's participation in the maturing Loan to the amount of that maturing Loan is the same as the proportion borne by that Lender's participation in the new Loans to the aggregate amount of those new Loans,
the aggregate amount of the new Loans shall, unless the Borrower notifies the Agent to the contrary in the relevant Utilisation Request, be treated as if applied in or towards repayment of the maturing Loan so that:
(A)    if the amount of the maturing Loan exceeds the aggregate amount of the new Loans:
(1)    the Borrower will only be required to make a payment under Clause 31.1 (Payments to the Agent) in an amount equal to that excess; and
(2)    each Lender's participation (if any) in the new Loans shall be treated as having been made available and applied by the Borrower in or towards repayment of that Lender's participation (if any) in the maturing Loan and that Lender will not be required to make a payment under Clause 31.1 (Payments to the Agent) in respect of its participation in the new Loans; and
(B)    if the amount of the maturing Loan is equal to or less than the aggregate amount of the new Loans:
(1)    the Borrower will not be required to make a payment under Clause 31.1 (Payments to the Agent); and
(2)    each Lender will be required to make a payment under Clause 31.1 (Payments to the Agent) in respect of its participation in the new Loans only to the extent that its participation (if any) in the new Loans exceeds that Lender's participation (if any) in the maturing Loan and the remainder of that Lender's participation in the new Loans shall be treated as having been made available and applied by the Borrower in or towards repayment of that Lender's participation in the maturing Loan.
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8.    PREPAYMENT AND CANCELLATION
8.1    Illegality
If it becomes unlawful in any applicable jurisdiction for a Lender to perform any of its obligations as contemplated by this Agreement or to fund or maintain its participation in any Loan or it becomes unlawful for any Affiliate of a Lender for that Lender to do so:
(a)    that Lender shall promptly notify the Agent upon becoming aware of that event;
(b)    upon the Agent notifying the Borrower, the Commitment of that Lender will be immediately cancelled; and
(c)    to the extent that the Lender's participation has not been transferred pursuant to paragraph (d) of Clause 8.5 (Right of replacement or repayment and cancellation in relation to a single Lender), the Borrower shall repay that Lender's participation in the Loans made to the Borrower on the last day of the Interest Period for each Loan occurring after the Agent has notified the Borrower or, if earlier, the date specified by the Lender in the notice delivered to the Agent (being no earlier than the last day of any applicable grace period permitted by law) and that Lender's corresponding Commitment shall be cancelled in the amount of the participations repaid.
8.2    Change of control
If after the date of this Agreement any Change of Control shall occur:
(a)    the Borrower shall promptly notify the Agent upon becoming aware of that event; and
(b)    the Agent, acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders, shall by not less than 5 days' notice to the Borrower, cancel the Facility and declare all outstanding Loans, together with accrued interest, and all other amounts accrued under the Finance Documents immediately due and payable, whereupon the Facility will be cancelled and all such outstanding amounts will become immediately due and payable.
8.3    Voluntary cancellation
The Borrower may, if it gives the Agent not less than two Business Days' (starting from the Specified Time) (or such shorter period as the Majority Lenders may agree) prior notice, cancel the whole or any part (being a minimum amount of $5,000,000) of the Available Facility. Any cancellation under this Clause 8.3 shall reduce the Commitments of the Lenders rateably. Any amounts cancelled under this Clause 8.3 may not be reinstated.
8.4    Voluntary Prepayment of Loans
(a)    Subject to paragraph (b) below, the Borrower may, if it gives the Agent not less than 5 RFR Banking Days' (starting from the Specified Time) (or such shorter period as the Majority Lenders may agree) prior notice, prepay the whole or any part of a Loan (but if in part, being an amount that reduces the Loan by a minimum amount of $5,000,000).
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(b)    The Borrower shall not prepay in whole or in part more than 8 Compounded SOFR Rate Loans and/or Daily Simple SOFR Rate Loans (in aggregate) in any consecutive 12 Month period.
8.5    Right of repayment and cancellation in relation to a single Lender
(a)    If:
(i)    any sum payable to any Lender by the Borrower is required to be increased under paragraph (c) of Clause 14.2 (Tax gross-up);
(ii)    any Lender claims indemnification from the Borrower under Clause 14.3 (Tax indemnity) or Clause 15.1 (Increased costs),
the Borrower may, whilst the circumstance giving rise to the requirement or indemnification continues, give the Agent notice of cancellation of the Commitment of that Lender and its intention to procure the repayment of that Lender's participation in the Loans.
(b)    On receipt of a notice referred to in paragraph (a) above, the Commitment of that Lender shall immediately be reduced to zero.
(c)    On the last day of each Interest Period which ends after the Borrower has given notice under paragraph (a) above (or, if earlier, the date specified by the Borrower in that notice), the Borrower shall repay that Lender's participation in that Loan.
(d)    If
(i)    any of the circumstances set out in paragraph (a) above apply to a Lender; or
(ii)    the Borrower becomes obliged to pay any amount in accordance with Clause 8.1 (Illegality) to any Lender,
the Borrower may, on 10 Business Days' prior notice to the Agent and that Lender, replace that Lender by requiring that Lender to (and, to the extent permitted by law, that Lender shall) transfer pursuant to Clause 26 (Changes to the Lenders) all (and not part only) of its rights and obligations under this Agreement to a Lender or other bank, financial institution, trust, fund or other entity selected by the Borrower which confirms its willingness to assume and does assume all the obligations of the transferring Lender in accordance with Clause 26 (Changes to the Lenders) for a purchase price in cash or other cash payment payable at the time of the transfer equal to the outstanding principal amount of such Lender's participation in the outstanding Loans and all accrued interest, Break Costs (if any) and other amounts payable in relation thereto under the Finance Documents.
(e)    The replacement of a Lender pursuant to paragraph (d) above shall be subject to the following conditions:
(i)    the Borrower shall have no right to replace the Agent;
(ii)    neither the Agent nor any Lender shall have any obligation to find a replacement Lender;
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(iii)    in no event shall the Lender replaced under paragraph (d) above be required to pay or surrender any of the fees received by such Lender pursuant to the Finance Documents; and
(iv)    the Lender shall only be obliged to transfer its rights and obligations pursuant to paragraph (d) above once it is satisfied that it has complied with all necessary "know your customer" or other similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations in relation to that transfer.
(f)    A Lender shall perform the checks described in sub-paragraph (e)(iv) above as soon as reasonably practicable following delivery of a notice referred to in paragraph (d) above and shall notify the Agent and the Borrower when it is satisfied that it has complied with those checks.
8.6    Restrictions
(a)    Any notice of cancellation or prepayment given by any Party under this Clause 8 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.
(b)    Any prepayment under this Agreement shall be made together with accrued interest on the amount prepaid and, subject to any Break Costs, without premium or penalty.
(c)    Unless a contrary indication appears in this Agreement, any part of the Facility which is prepaid or repaid may be reborrowed in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
(d)    The Borrower shall not repay or prepay all or any part of the Loans or cancel all or any part of the Commitments except at the times and in the manner expressly provided for in this Agreement.
(e)    No amount of the Total Commitments cancelled under this Agreement may be subsequently reinstated.
(f)    If the Agent receives a notice under this Clause 8 it shall promptly forward a copy of that notice to either the Borrower or the affected Lender, as appropriate.
8.7    Application of prepayments
Any prepayment of a Loan pursuant to Clause 8.2 (Change of control) or Clause 8.4 (Voluntary prepayment of Loans) shall be applied pro rata to each Lender's participation in that Loan.
9.    [RESERVED]

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COSTS OF UTILISATION
10.    INTEREST
10.1    Calculation of interest – Daily Simple SOFR Rate Loans
(a)    The rate of interest on each Daily Simple SOFR Rate Loan for any day during an Interest Period is the percentage rate per annum which is the aggregate of the applicable:
(i)    Applicable Margin; and
(ii)    Daily Simple SOFR Reference Rate for that day.
(b)    If any day during an Interest Period for a Daily Simple SOFR Rate Loan is not an RFR Banking Day, the rate of interest on that Daily Simple SOFR Rate Loan for that day will be the rate applicable to the immediately preceding RFR Banking Day.
10.2    Calculation of interest – Term SOFR Rate Loans
The rate of interest on each Term SOFR Rate Loan for each Interest Period is the percentage rate per annum which is the aggregate of the:
(a)    Applicable Margin; and
(b)    the percentage rate per annum which is the aggregate of the Term SOFR Reference Rate and the applicable Credit Adjustment Spread, provided that if such aggregated rate is less than zero, the rate for this limb of the calculation shall be deemed to be zero.
10.3    Calculation of interest – Compounded SOFR Rate Loan
(a)    The rate of interest on each Compounded SOFR Rate Loan for any day during an Interest Period is the percentage rate per annum which is the aggregate of the applicable:
(i)    Applicable Margin; and
(ii)    Compounded SOFR Reference Rate for that day.
(b)    If any day during an Interest Period for a Compounded SOFR Rate Loan is not an RFR Banking Day, the rate of interest on that Compounded SOFR Rate Loan for that day will be the rate applicable to the immediately preceding RFR Banking Day.
10.4    Payment of interest
On the last day of each Interest Period the Borrower shall pay accrued interest on the Loan to which that Interest Period relates.
10.5    Default interest
(a)    If the Borrower fails to pay any amount payable by it under a Finance Document on its due date, interest shall accrue on the overdue amount from the due date up to the date of actual payment (both before and after judgement) at a rate which, subject to paragraph (b) below, is two per cent. per annum higher than the rate which would have been payable if the overdue
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amount had, during the period of non-payment, constituted a Loan in the currency of the overdue amount for successive Interest Periods, each of a duration selected by the Agent (acting reasonably). Any interest accruing under this Clause 10.5 shall be immediately payable by the Borrower on demand by the Agent.
(b)    If any overdue amount consists of all or part of a Term SOFR Rate Loan and which became due on a day which was not the last day of an Interest Period relating to that Loan:
(i)    the first Interest Period for that overdue amount shall have a duration equal to the unexpired portion of the current Interest Period relating to that Loan; and
(ii)    the rate of interest applying to the overdue amount during that first Interest Period shall be two per cent. per annum higher than the rate which would have applied if the overdue amount had not become due.
(c)    Default interest (if unpaid) arising on an overdue amount will be compounded with the overdue amount at the end of each Interest Period applicable to that overdue amount but will remain immediately due and payable.
10.6    Notification of rates of interest
(a)    The Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders and the Borrower of the determination of a rate of interest relating to a Term SOFR Rate Loan.
(b)    In respect of a Compounded SOFR Rate Loan, the Agent shall promptly upon a Compounded SOFR Rate Interest Payment being determinable notify:
(i)    the Borrower of that Compounded SOFR Rate Interest Payment;
(ii)    each relevant Lender of the proportion of that Compounded SOFR Rate Interest Payment which relates to that Lender's participation in the relevant Compounded SOFR Rate Loan; and
(iii)    the relevant Lenders and the Borrower of:
(A)    each applicable rate of interest relating to the determination of that Compounded SOFR Rate Interest Payment; and
(B)    to the extent it is then determinable, the Market Disruption Rate (if any) relating to the relevant Compounded SOFR Rate Loan.
This paragraph (b) shall not apply to any Compounded SOFR Rate Interest Payment determined pursuant to Clause 12.5 (Cost of funds).
(c)    In relation to a Daily Simple SOFR Rate Loan, the Agent shall promptly upon a Daily Simple SOFR Interest Payment being determinable notify:
(i)    the Borrower of that Daily Simple SOFR Interest Payment;
(ii)    each relevant Lender of the proportion of that Daily Simple SOFR Interest Payment which relates to that Lender's participation in the relevant Daily Simple SOFR Rate Loan; and
(iii)    the relevant Lenders and the Borrower of:
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(A)    each applicable rate of interest relating to the determination of that Daily Simple SOFR Interest Payment; and
(B)    to the extent it is then determinable, the Market Disruption Rate (if any) relating to the relevant Daily Simple SOFR Rate Loan.
This paragraph (c) shall not apply to any Daily Simple SOFR Interest Payment determined pursuant to Clause 12.5 (Cost of funds).
(d)    The Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower of each Funding Rate relating to a Loan.
(e)    The Agent shall promptly notify the relevant Lenders and the Borrower of the determination of a rate of interest relating to a Compounded SOFR Rate Loan or a Daily Simple SOFR Rate Loan to which Clause 12.5 (Cost of funds) applies.
(f)    This Clause 10.6 shall not require the Agent to make any notification to any Party on a day which is not a Business Day.
11.    INTEREST PERIODS
11.1    Selection of Interest Periods
(a)    The Borrower may select an Interest Period for a Loan in the Utilisation Request for that Loan.
(b)    Subject to this Clause 11, the Borrower may select an Interest Period:
(i)    in respect of a Daily Simple SOFR Rate Loan, of any period specified in the applicable SOFR Rate Terms or any other period which is not longer than one Month agreed between the Borrower and the Agent (acting on the instructions of all the Lenders); or
(ii)    in respect of a Term SOFR Rate Loan or a Compounded SOFR Rate Loan, of any period specified in the applicable SOFR Rate Terms or any other period which is longer than one Month agreed between the Borrower and the Agent (acting on the instructions of all the Lenders).
(c)    An Interest Period for a Loan shall not extend beyond the Final Maturity Date.
(d)    Each Interest Period for a Loan shall start on the Utilisation Date of such Loan.
(e)    A Loan has one Interest Period only.
(f)    No Interest Period for a Term SOFR Rate Loan or a Compounded SOFR Rate Loan shall be longer than three Months.
(g)    No Interest Period for a Daily Simple SOFR Rate Loan shall be longer than one Month.
11.2    Non-Business Days
(a)    Other than where paragraph (b) below applies, if an Interest Period would otherwise end on a day which is not a Business Day, that Interest Period will instead end on the next Business Day in that calendar month (if there is one) or the preceding Business Day (if there is not).
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(b)    If there are rules specified as "Business Day Conventions" in the applicable SOFR Rate Terms applicable to any Loan or Unpaid Sum, those rules shall apply to each Interest Period for that Loan or Unpaid Sum.
12.    CHANGES TO THE CALCULATION OF INTEREST
12.1    Unavailability of Term SOFR
(a)    Interpolated Term SOFR: If by the Specified Time on the Quotation Day, no Term SOFR is available for the Interest Period of a Term SOFR Rate Loan, the applicable Term SOFR Reference Rate shall be the Interpolated Term SOFR for a period equal in length to the Interest Period of that Term SOFR Rate Loan.
(b)    Shortened Interest Period: If by the Specified Time on the Quotation Day, no Term SOFR is available for the Interest Period of a Term SOFR Rate Loan and it is not possible to calculate the Interpolated Term SOFR, the Interest Period of that Term SOFR Rate Loan shall (if it is longer than the applicable Fallback Interest Period) be shortened to the applicable Fallback Interest Period and the applicable Term SOFR Reference Rate for that shortened Interest Period shall be determined pursuant to the definition of "Term SOFR Reference Rate".
12.2    Unavailability of Term SOFR fallbacks
If the applicable Term SOFR Reference Rate for a Term SOFR Rate Loan is required, and is unable, to be determined by Clause 12.1 (Unavailability of Term SOFR), then:
(a)    that Term SOFR Rate Loan shall instead be deemed to be a "Compounded SOFR Rate Loan" under this Agreement;
(b)    the applicable SOFR Reference Rate for the calculation of interest for that Loan shall be the Compounded SOFR Reference Rate; and
(c)    Clause 10.3 (Calculation of interest – Compounded SOFR Rate Loans) shall apply to determine the rate of interest on such Loan.
12.3    Interest calculation if no RFR or Central Bank Rate
(a)    In relation to any Loan (other than a Daily Simple SOFR Rate Loan), if;
(i)    Clause 12.2 (Unavailability of Term SOFR fallbacks) applies; and
(ii)    
(A)    there is no applicable RFR or Central Bank Rate for the purposes of calculating the Daily Non-Cumulative Compounded SOFR Rate for an RFR Banking Day during an Interest Period for a Compounded SOFR Rate Loan; and
(B)    "Cost of funds will apply as a fallback" is specified in respect of that Loan in the applicable SOFR Rate Terms for that Compounded SOFR Rate Loan,
then Clause 12.5 (Cost of funds) shall apply to that Loan for that Interest Period.
(b)    In relation to any Daily Simple SOFR Rate Loan, if:
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(i)    there is no applicable RFR or Central Bank Rate for the purposes of calculating the Daily Simple SOFR Reference Rate for an RFR Banking Day during an Interest Period for a Daily Simple SOFR Rate Loan; and
(ii)    "Cost of funds will apply as a fallback" is specified in the applicable SOFR Rate Terms for that Daily Simple SOFR Rate Loan,
then Clause 12.5 (Cost of funds) shall apply to that Loan for that Interest Period.
12.4    Market disruption
In the case of any Loan, if:
(a)    a Market Disruption Rate is specified in the applicable SOFR Rate Terms for that Loan; and
(b)    before the Reporting Time (in respect of a Compounded SOFR Rate Loan or a Daily Simple SOFR Rate Loan) or before close of business in London on the Quotation Day (in respect of a Term SOFR Rate Loan) (as applicable) for that Loan, the Agent receives notifications from a Lender or Lenders (whose participations in a Loan exceed 35 per cent. of that Loan) that its cost of funds relating to its participation in that Loan would be in excess of that Market Disruption Rate,
then Clause 12.5 (Cost of funds) shall apply to that Loan for the relevant Interest Period.
12.5    Cost of funds
(a)    If this Clause 12.5 applies to a Loan for an Interest Period, then none of Clause 10.1 (Calculation of interest – Daily Simple SOFR Rate Loans), Clause 10.2 (Calculation of interest – Term SOFR Rate Loans) or Clause 10.3 (Calculation of interest – Compounded SOFR Rate Loans) shall apply to that Loan for that Interest Period and the rate of interest on each Lender's share of that Loan for that Interest Period shall be the percentage rate per annum which is the sum of:
(i)    the Applicable Margin; and
(ii)    the rate notified to the Agent by that Lender as soon as practicable and in any event:
(A)    in relation to a Term SOFR Rate Loan, before interest is due to be paid in respect of that Interest Period, or
(B)    in relation to a Compounded SOFR Rate Loan or a Daily Simple SOFR Rate Loan, by the Reporting Time for that Loan,
to be that which expresses as a percentage rate per annum its cost of funds relating to its participation in that Loan.
(b)    If this Clause 12.5 applies and the Agent or the Borrower so requires, the Agent and the Borrower shall enter into negotiations (for a period of not more than thirty days) with a view to agreeing a substitute basis for determining the rate of interest.
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(c)    Any alternative basis agreed pursuant to paragraph (b) above shall, with the prior consent of all the Lenders and the Borrower, be binding on all Parties.
(d)    If this Clause 12.5 applies pursuant to Clause 12.4 (Market disruption) and in relation to a Loan:
(i)    a Lender's Funding Rate is less than the relevant Market Disruption Rate; or
(ii)    a Lender does not notify a rate to the Agent by the time specified in paragraph (a)(ii) above,
that Lender's cost of funds relating to its participation in that Loan for that Interest Period shall be deemed, for the purposes of paragraph (a) above, to be the Market Disruption Rate for that Loan.
(e)    If this Clause 12.5 applies the Agent shall, as soon as is practicable, notify the Borrower.
12.6    Break Costs
(a)    Subject to paragraph (b) below, the Borrower shall, within three Business Days of demand by a Finance Party, pay to that Finance Party its Break Costs attributable to all or any part of a Loan or Unpaid Sum being paid by the Borrower on a day prior to the last day of an Interest Period for that Loan or Unpaid Sum.
(b)    Paragraph (a) above shall apply in respect of a Loan if an amount is specified as Break Costs in the applicable SOFR Rate Terms.
(c)    Each Lender shall, as soon as reasonably practicable after a demand by the Agent or the Borrower, provide a certificate confirming the amount of its Break Costs for any Interest Period in respect of which they become, or may become, payable.
13.    FEES
13.1    Commitment fee
(a)    The Borrower shall pay to the Agent (for the account of each Lender) a fee computed at the rate of 35 per cent. of the Applicable Margin on the Available Facility.
(b)    The accrued commitment fee is payable in arrears on 31 December 2023 and thereafter on the last day of each successive period of three Months which ends during the Availability Period, on the last day of the Availability Period and, if cancelled in full, on the cancelled amount of the relevant Lender's Commitment at the time the cancellation is effective.
(c)    No commitment fee is payable to the Agent (for the account of a Lender) on any Available Commitment of that Lender for any day on which that Lender is a Defaulting Lender.
13.2    Utilisation fee
(a)    The Borrower shall pay to the Agent (for the account of each Lender) a fee computed at the applicable rate on each Lender's participation in the Loans for
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the Availability Period. The "applicable rate" for any day on which there is a Loan outstanding and the amount of a Lender's participation in the Loans:
(i)    is less than 33 per cent. of the amount of its Commitment on that day is 0.10 per cent. per annum;
(ii)    is equal to or exceeds 33 per cent. but is less than 66 per cent. of the amount of its Commitment on that day is 0.20 per cent. per annum; and
(iii)    is equal to or exceeds 66 per cent. of the amount of its Commitment on that day is 0.40 per cent. per annum.
(b)    The utilisation fee shall begin to accrue on the first Utilisation Date and is payable on 31 December 2023 and thereafter on the last day of each successive period of three Months which ends during the Availability Period, on the last day of the Availability Period and at the time the cancellation of the relevant Lender's Commitment is effective or, if later, the last day on which any part of its participation in the Loans becomes repayable.
(c)    Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, each utilisation fee payable under this Clause 13.2 (Utilisation fee) shall be paid in dollars.
13.3    Participation fee
The Borrower shall pay to the Agent (for the account of each Lender) a participation fee in the amount and at the time agreed in a Fee Letter.
13.4    Agency fee
The Borrower shall pay to the Agent (for its own account) an agency fee in the amount and at the times agreed in a Fee Letter.
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ADDITIONAL PAYMENT OBLIGATIONS
14.    TAX GROSS UP AND INDEMNITIES
14.1    Definitions
(a)    In this Agreement:
"Protected Party" means a Finance Party which is or will be subject to any liability, or required to make any payment, for or on account of Tax in relation to a sum received or receivable (or any sum deemed for the purposes of Tax to be received or receivable) under a Finance Document.
"Tax Credit" means a credit against, relief or remission for, or repayment of any Tax.
"Tax Deduction" means a deduction or withholding for or on account of Tax from a payment under a Finance Document, other than a FATCA Deduction.
"Tax Payment" means either the increase in a payment made by the Borrower to a Finance Party under Clause 14.2 (Tax gross-up) or a payment under Clause 14.3 (Tax indemnity).
(b)    Unless a contrary indication appears, in this Clause 14 a reference to "determines" or "determined" means a determination made in the reasonable discretion of the person making the determination.
14.2    Tax gross-up
(a)    The Borrower shall make all payments to be made by it under any Finance Document without any Tax Deduction, unless a Tax Deduction is required by law.
(b)    The Borrower shall promptly upon becoming aware that it must make a Tax Deduction (or that there is any change in the rate or the basis of a Tax Deduction) notify the Agent accordingly. Similarly, a Lender shall notify the Agent on becoming so aware in respect of a payment payable to that Lender. If the Agent receives such notification from a Lender it shall notify the Borrower.
(c)    If a Tax Deduction is required by law to be made by the Borrower, the amount of the payment due from the Borrower shall be increased to an amount which (after making any Tax Deduction) leaves an amount equal to the payment which would have been due if no Tax Deduction had been required.
(d)    A payment shall not be increased under paragraph (c) above by reason of a Tax Deduction if and to the extent the obligation to make a Tax Deduction (i) was required by law on the date of this Agreement or (ii) results from a Finance Party's failure to comply with paragraph (g) below.
(e)    If the Borrower is required by law or regulation to make a Tax Deduction, the Borrower shall make that Tax Deduction and any payment required in connection with that Tax Deduction within the time allowed and in the minimum amount required by law or regulation.
(f)    Within thirty days of making either a Tax Deduction or any payment required in connection with that Tax Deduction, the Borrower shall deliver to the Agent for the Finance Party entitled to the payment evidence reasonably satisfactory
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to that Finance Party that the Tax Deduction has been made or (as applicable) any appropriate payment paid to the relevant taxing authority.
(g)    The Borrower hereby confirms to each Lender that it has made an election to be disregarded as an entity separate from its parent, Bunge N.A. Holdings, Inc., for U.S. federal income tax purposes. Each Lender shall, to the extent permitted by law, deliver to the Agent for transmission to the Borrower (on or before the date of the first interest payment after such Lender becomes a party to this Agreement) or as otherwise reasonably requested by the Borrower a duly completed copy of Internal Revenue Service Form W-9, W-8BEN, or Form W-ECI, as applicable, or any successor forms, or any other forms as may be necessary to establish a reduction in, or complete exemption from, US or other withholding tax on payments of interest on the Loans. To the extent that any such forms become obsolete as a result of lapse in time or change in circumstance, each Lender shall (promptly upon the request of the Borrower in the case of such form becoming obsolete as a result of lapse in time), to the extent permitted by law, deliver to the Agent for transmission to the Borrower, revised forms as may be necessary to establish a reduction in, or complete exemption from, US or other withholding tax on such payments.
14.3    Tax indemnity
(a)    The Borrower shall (within three Business Days of demand by the 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 a Finance Document.
(b)    Paragraph (a) above shall not apply:
(i)    with respect to any loss, liability or cost related to any Tax assessed on a Finance Party:
(A)    under the law of the jurisdiction in which that Finance Party is incorporated or, if different, the jurisdiction (or jurisdictions) in which that Finance Party is treated as resident for tax purposes; or
(B)    under the law of the jurisdiction in which that Finance Party's Facility Office is located in respect of amounts received or receivable in that jurisdiction,
if that Tax is imposed on or calculated by reference to the overall net income of that Finance Party (or a branch thereof); or
(ii)    to the extent a loss, liability or cost:
(A)    is compensated for by an increased payment under Clause 14.2 (Tax gross-up);
(B)    would have been compensated for by an increased payment under Clause 14.2 (Tax gross-up) but was not so compensated because one of the exclusions in paragraph (d) of Clause 14.2 (Tax gross up) applied;
(C)    relates to a FATCA Deduction required to be made by a Party;
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(D)    arises under the law of any jurisdiction in which the Finance Party is subject to non-resident taxation in respect of amounts received in or from that jurisdiction; or
(E)    is related to any Tax assessed on the Finance Party resulting from an assignment or transfer by the Finance Party of any of its rights and obligations under the Finance Documents or a change by the Finance Party of its Facility Office to the extent provided in paragraph (e) of Clause 26.2 (Conditions of assignment or transfer).
(c)    A Protected Party making, or intending to make, a claim under paragraph (a) above shall promptly notify the Agent of the event which will give, or has given, rise to the claim, following which the Agent shall notify the Borrower.
(d)    A Protected Party shall, on receiving a payment from the Borrower under this Clause 14.3, notify the Agent.
14.4    Tax Credit
If the Borrower makes a Tax Payment and the relevant Finance Party determines that:
(a)    a Tax Credit is attributable either to an increased payment of which that Tax Payment forms part, to that Tax Payment or to a Tax Deduction in consequence of which that Tax Payment was required; and
(b)    that Finance Party has obtained and utilised that Tax Credit,
the Finance Party shall pay an amount to the Borrower which that Finance Party determines will leave it (after that payment) in the same after-Tax position as it would have been in had the Tax Payment not been required to be made by the Borrower. To the extent the Finance Party loses a Tax Credit for which it has made a payment hereunder, the Finance Party shall so notify the Borrower and the Borrower shall refund the amounts paid to such Borrower with respect to such Tax Credit.
14.5    Stamp taxes
The Borrower shall pay and, within three Business Days of demand, indemnify each Finance Party against any cost, loss or liability that Finance Party incurs in relation to all stamp duty, registration and other similar Taxes payable in respect of any Finance Document.
14.6    Value added tax
(a)    All amounts expressed to be payable under a Finance Document by any Party to a Finance Party which (in whole or in part) constitute the consideration for any supply for VAT purposes are deemed to be exclusive of any VAT which is chargeable on that supply, and accordingly, subject to paragraph (b) below, if VAT is or becomes chargeable on any supply made by any Finance Party to any Party under a Finance Document and such Finance Party is required to account to the relevant tax authority for the VAT, that Party shall pay to such Finance Party (in addition to and at the same time as paying any other consideration for such supply) an amount equal to the amount of the VAT (and such Finance Party shall promptly provide an appropriate VAT invoice to that Party).
(b)    If VAT is or becomes chargeable on any supply made by any Finance Party (the "Supplier") to any other Finance Party (the "Recipient") under a Finance
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Document, and any Party other than the Recipient (the "Subject Party") is required by the terms of any Finance Document to pay an amount equal to the consideration for such supply to the Supplier (rather than being required to reimburse or indemnify the Recipient in respect of that consideration):
(i)    (where the Supplier is the person required to account to the relevant tax authority for the VAT) the Subject Party shall also pay to the Supplier (at the same time as paying such amount) an amount of the VAT. The Recipient must (where this paragraph (i) applies) promptly pay to the Subject Party an amount equal to any credit or repayment the Recipient receives from the relevant tax authority which the Recipient reasonably determines relates to the VAT chargeable on that supply; and
(ii)    (where the Recipient is the person required to account to the relevant tax authority for VAT) the Subject Party must promptly, following demand from the Recipient, pay to the Recipient an amount equal to the VAT chargeable on that supply but only to the extent that the Recipient reasonably determines that it is not entitled to credit or repayment from the relevant tax authority in respect of that VAT,
(c)    Where a Finance Document requires any Party to reimburse or indemnify a Finance Party for any cost or expense, that Party shall reimburse or indemnify (as the case may be) such Finance Party for the full amount of such cost or expense, including such part thereof as represents VAT, save to the extent that such Finance Party reasonably determines that it is entitled to credit or repayment in respect of such VAT from the relevant tax authority.
(d)    Any reference in this Clause 14.6 to any Party shall, at any time when such Party is treated as a member of a group for VAT purposes, include (where appropriate and unless the context otherwise requires) a reference to the person who is treated at that time as making the supply, or (as appropriate) receiving the supply, under the grouping rules (provided for in article 11 of Council Directive 2006/112/EC as amended (or as implemented by any relevant member state of the European Union) so that reference to a Party shall be construed as a reference to that Party or the relevant group or unity (or fiscal unity) of which that Party is a member for VAT purposes at the relevant time or the relevant representative member (or representative or head) of that group or unity at the relevant time (as the case may be).
(e)    In relation to any supply made by a Finance Party to any Party under a Finance Document, if reasonably requested by such Finance Party, that Party must promptly provide such Finance Party with details of that Party’s VAT registration and such other information as is reasonably requested in connection with such Finance Party’s VAT reporting requirements in relation to such supply.
14.7    FATCA Information
(a)    Subject to paragraph (c) below, each Party shall, within ten Business Days of a reasonable request by another Party:
(i)    confirm to that other Party whether it is:
(A)    a FATCA Exempt Party; or
(B)    not a FATCA Exempt Party; and
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(ii)    supply to that other Party such forms, documentation and other information relating to its status under FATCA (including its applicable "passthru payment percentage" or other information required under the US Treasury Regulations or other official guidance including intergovernmental agreements) as that other Party reasonably requests for the purposes of that other Party's compliance with FATCA.
(b)    If a Party confirms to another Party pursuant to sub-paragraph (a)(i) above that it is a FATCA Exempt Party and it subsequently becomes aware that it is not, or has ceased to be a FATCA Exempt Party, that Party shall notify that other Party reasonably promptly.
(c)    Paragraph (a) above shall not oblige any Finance Party to do anything which would or might in its reasonable opinion constitute a breach of:
(i)    any law or regulation;
(ii)    any fiduciary duty; or
(iii)    any duty of confidentiality.
(d)    If a Party fails to confirm its status or to supply forms, documentation or other information requested in accordance with paragraph (a) above (including, for the avoidance of doubt, where paragraph (c) above applies), then:
(i)    if that Party failed to confirm whether it is (and/or remains) a FATCA Exempt Party, then such Party shall be treated for the purposes of the Finance Documents as if it is not a FATCA Exempt Party; and
(ii)    if that Party failed to confirm its applicable "passthru payment percentage", then such Party shall be treated for the purposes of the Finance Documents (and payments made thereunder) as if its applicable "passthru payment percentage" is 100%,
until (in each case) such time as the Party in question provides the requested confirmation, forms, documentation or other information.
14.8    FATCA Deduction
(a)    Each Party may make any FATCA Deduction it is required to make by FATCA, and any payment required in connection with that FATCA Deduction, and no Party shall be required to increase any payment in respect of which it makes such a FATCA Deduction or otherwise compensate the recipient of the payment for that FATCA Deduction.
(b)    Each Party shall promptly, upon becoming aware that it must make a FATCA Deduction (or that there is any change in the rate or the basis of such FATCA Deduction) notify the Party to whom it is making the payment and, in addition, shall notify the Borrower, the Agent and the other Finance Parties.
15.    INCREASED COSTS
15.1    Increased costs
(a)    Subject to Clause 15.2 (Increased cost claims) and Clause 15.3 (Exceptions) the Borrower shall, within three Business Days of a demand by the Agent, pay for the account of a Finance Party the amount of any Increased Costs incurred
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by that Finance Party or any of its Affiliates as a result of (i) the introduction of or any change in (or in the interpretation, administration or application of) any law or regulation or (ii) compliance with any law or regulation made after the date of this Agreement, or, if later, the date on which the relevant Finance Party became a Party to this Agreement (provided, however, that for the purposes of this Agreement and the other Finance Documents and to the extent permitted by applicable laws, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, guidelines or directives in connection therewith are deemed to have gone into effect and adopted after the date of this Agreement) or (iii) the implementation or application of, or compliance with, Basel III or CRD IV or any law or regulation that implements or applies Basel III or CRD IV (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act).
(b)    In this Agreement "Increased Costs" means:
(i)    a reduction in the rate of return from the Facility or on a Finance Party's (or its Affiliate's) overall capital;
(ii)    an additional or increased cost; or
(iii)    a reduction of any amount due and payable under any Finance Document,
which is incurred or suffered by a Finance Party or any of its Affiliates to the extent that it is attributable to that Finance Party having entered into its Commitment or funding or performing its obligations under any Finance Document.
15.2    Increased cost claims
(a)    A Finance Party intending to make a claim pursuant to Clause 15.1 (Increased costs) shall notify the Agent of the event giving rise to the claim, following which the Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower. The Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender pursuant to Clause 15 (Increased costs) for any amounts incurred more than six months prior to the date the Borrower receives notification of such claim; provided, that if the circumstances giving rise to such claim have a retroactive effect, then such six month period shall be extended to include the period of such retroactive effect.
(b)    Each Finance Party shall, as soon as practicable after a demand by the Agent or the Borrower, provide a certificate confirming the amount of its Increased Costs (setting out reasonable information showing the basis for the calculation of such amount).
15.3    Exceptions
Clause 15.1 (Increased costs) does not apply to the extent any Increased Cost is:
(a)    attributable to a Tax Deduction required by law to be made by an Obligor;
(b)    attributable to a FATCA Deduction required to be made by a Party;
(c)    compensated for by Clause 14.3 (Tax Indemnity) (or would have been compensated for under Clause 14.3 (Tax Indemnity) but was not so compensated because the exclusions in paragraph (b) of Clause 14.3 (Tax Indemnity) applied); or
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(d)    attributable to the wilful breach by the relevant Finance Party or its Affiliates of any law or regulation;
In this Clause 15.3 (Exceptions), a reference to "Tax Deduction" has the same meaning given to such term in Clause 14.1 (Definitions).
16.    OTHER INDEMNITIES
16.1    Currency indemnity
(a)    If any sum due from the Borrower under the Finance Documents (a "Sum"), or any order, judgement or award given or made in relation to a Sum, has to be converted from the currency (the "First Currency") in which that Sum is payable into another currency (the "Second Currency") for the purpose of:
(i)    making or filing a claim or proof against the Borrower;
(ii)    obtaining or enforcing an order, judgement or award in relation to any litigation or arbitration proceedings,
the Borrower shall as an independent obligation, within three Business Days of demand, indemnify each Finance Party to whom that Sum is due against any cost, loss or liability arising out of or as a result of the conversion including any discrepancy between (A) the rate of exchange used to convert that Sum from the First Currency into the Second Currency and (B) the rate or rates of exchange available to that person at the time of its receipt of that Sum.
(b)    The Borrower waives any right it may have in any jurisdiction to pay any amount under the Finance Documents in a currency or currency unit other than that in which it is expressed to be payable.
16.2    Other indemnities
The Borrower shall, within three Business Days of demand, indemnify each Finance Party against any cost, loss or liability incurred by that Finance Party as a result of:
(a)    the occurrence of any Event of Default;
(b)    a failure by the Borrower to pay any amount due under a Finance Document on its due date, including without limitation, any cost, loss or liability arising as a result of Clause 30 (Sharing among the Finance Parties);
(c)    funding, or making arrangements to fund, its participation in a Loan requested by it in a Utilisation Request but not made by reason of the operation of any one or more of the provisions of this Agreement (other than by reason of default or negligence by that Finance Party alone);
(d)    a Loan (or part of a Loan) not being prepaid in accordance with a notice of prepayment given by the Borrower; or
(e)    any claim by the Agent against any of the Lenders pursuant to Clause 28.11 (Lenders' indemnity to the Agent).
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16.3    Indemnity to the Agent
The Borrower shall promptly indemnify the Agent against any cost, loss or liability incurred by the Agent (acting reasonably) as a result of:
(a)    investigating any event which it reasonably believes is a Default; or
(b)    acting or relying on any notice, request or instruction which it reasonably believes to be genuine, correct and appropriately authorised,
except to the extent such cost, loss or liability arises from the wilful misconduct or gross negligence of the Agent.
17.    MITIGATION BY THE LENDERS
17.1    Mitigation
(a)    Each Finance Party shall, in consultation with the Borrower, take all reasonable steps to mitigate any circumstances which arise and which would result in any amount becoming payable under or pursuant to, or cancelled pursuant to, any of Clause 8.1 (Illegality), Clause 14 (Tax gross-up and indemnities) or Clause 15 (Increased costs) including (but not limited to) transferring its rights and obligations under the Finance Documents to another Facility Office or bank or financial institution reasonably acceptable to the Borrower.
(b)    Paragraph (a) above does not in any way limit the obligations of the Borrower under the Finance Documents.
17.2    Limitation of liability
(a)    The Borrower shall indemnify each Finance Party for all costs and expenses reasonably incurred by that Finance Party as a result of steps taken by it under Clause 17.1 (Mitigation).
(b)    A Finance Party is not obliged to take any steps under Clause 17.1 (Mitigation) if, in the opinion of that Finance Party (acting reasonably), to do so might be prejudicial to it.
18.    COSTS AND EXPENSES
18.1    Transaction expenses
The Borrower shall promptly on demand pay the Agent and the Arrangers the amount of all costs and out-of-pocket expenses (including legal fees) reasonably incurred by any of them in connection with the negotiation, preparation, printing, execution and syndication of:
(a)    this Agreement and any other documents referred to in this Agreement; and
(b)    any other Finance Documents executed after the date of this Agreement.
18.2    Amendment costs
If the Borrower requests an amendment, waiver or consent the Borrower shall, within three Business Days of demand, reimburse the Agent for the amount of all costs and out-of-pocket expenses (including legal fees) reasonably incurred by the Agent in responding to, evaluating, negotiating or complying with that request or requirement.
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18.3    Enforcement costs
The Borrower shall, within three Business Days of demand, pay to each Finance Party the amount of all costs and out-of-pocket expenses (including legal fees) incurred by that Finance Party in connection with the enforcement of, or the preservation of any rights under, any Finance Document.
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REPRESENTATIONS, UNDERTAKINGS AND EVENTS OF DEFAULT
19.    REPRESENTATIONS
The Borrower makes the representations and warranties set out in this Clause 19 to each Finance Party on the date of this Agreement.
19.1    Existence; Compliance with Law
The Borrower (a) is a private company with limited liability (besloten vennootschap met beperkte aansprakelijkheid) duly organised and validly existing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organisation, (b) has the power and authority, and the legal right, to own and operate its property and to conduct the business in which it is currently engaged, (c) is duly qualified as a foreign corporation and in good standing under the laws of each jurisdiction where its ownership or operation of property or the conduct of its business requires such qualification and (d) is in compliance with all Requirements of Law except to the extent that the failure to comply therewith could not, in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
19.2    Power; Authorisation; Enforcement Obligations
The Borrower has the power and authority, and the legal right, to make, deliver and perform the Finance Documents to which it is a party and to obtain Loans hereunder. The Borrower has taken all necessary organisational action to authorise the execution, delivery and performance of the Finance Documents to which it is a party and to authorise the Loans on the terms and conditions of this Agreement. Subject to any qualification as to legal matters contained in the legal opinions referred to in Schedule 4 (Conditions Precedent to Initial Utilisation), no consent or authorisation of, filing with, notice to or other act by or in respect of, any Governmental Authority or any other Person is required in connection with the Loans hereunder or with the execution, delivery, performance, validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the Finance Documents to which the Borrower is a party. Each Finance Document to which the Borrower is a party has been duly executed and delivered on behalf of the Borrower. Subject to any qualification as to legal matters contained in the legal opinions referred to in Schedule 4 (Conditions Precedent to Initial Utilisation), this Agreement constitutes, and each other Finance Document to which the Borrower is a party, upon execution will constitute, a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Borrower, enforceable against the Borrower in accordance with the terms.
19.3    No Legal Bar
The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Finance Documents to which the Borrower is a party, the borrowings hereunder and the use of the proceeds thereof will not violate any Requirement of Law or any Contractual Obligation of the Borrower and will not result in, or require, the creation or imposition of any Lien on any of its properties or revenues pursuant to any Requirement of Law or any such Contractual Obligation. No Requirement of Law or Contractual Obligation applicable to the Borrower could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
19.4    Governing law and enforcement
Subject to any qualifications as to legal matters contained in the legal opinions referred to in Schedule 4 (Conditions Precedent to Initial Utilisation):
(a)    The choice of English law as the governing law of this Agreement and New York law as the governing law of the Parent Guarantee will be recognised and enforced in its jurisdiction of incorporation; and
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(b)    Any judgement obtained in England in relation to this Agreement and in New York in relation to the Parent Guarantee will be recognised and enforced in its jurisdiction of incorporation.
19.5    Litigation
No litigation, investigation or proceeding of or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority is pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened by or against the Borrower or against any of its properties or revenues (a) with respect to any of the Finance Documents to which the Borrower is a party or any of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, or (b) that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
19.6    No Default
The Borrower is not in default under or with respect to any of its Contractual Obligations in any respect that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. No Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.
19.7    Ownership of Property; Liens
The Borrower has good title to all its property, and none of such property is subject to any Lien (except for any Lien arising by virtue of the maintenance of a credit balance on any bank account by the Borrower pursuant to the general terms and conditions of the bank with which such account is held).
19.8    Taxes
The Borrower has filed or caused to be filed all material corporate income tax returns that are required to be filed and has paid all taxes shown to be due and payable on said returns or on any assessments made against it or any of its property and all other taxes, fees or other charges imposed on it or any of its property by any Governmental Authority (other than any the amount or validity of which are currently being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and with respect to which reserves in conformity with GAAP have been provided on the books of the Borrower). To the knowledge of the Borrower, no claim is being asserted, with respect to any such tax, fee or other charge.
19.9    Deduction of Tax
The Borrower is not required under Netherlands law to make any Tax Deduction (as defined in Clause 14.1 (Definitions)) from any payment it may make under any Finance Document.
19.10    No filing or stamp taxes
Under the law of its jurisdiction of incorporation it is not necessary that the Finance Documents be filed, recorded or enrolled with any court or other authority in that jurisdiction or that any stamp, registration or similar tax be paid on or in relation to the Finance Documents or the transactions contemplated by the Finance Documents.
19.11    No misleading information
All written information supplied by the Borrower is in all material respects taken as a whole with other written information supplied by the Borrower true and accurate and is not misleading in light of the circumstances under which such information was supplied as at the date it was provided or as at the date (if any) at which it is stated.
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19.12    No Subsidiaries
It has no Subsidiaries.
19.13    Use of Proceeds
The proceeds of the Loans shall be used solely in accordance with Clause 3.1 (Purpose) of this Agreement.
19.14    Pari passu ranking
Its payment obligations under the Finance Documents rank at all times at least pari passu with the claims of all its other unsecured and unsubordinated creditors (other than any such claims that are preferred by mandatory provisions of law).
19.15    Solvency
Each member of the Group that is a party to a Finance Document, is, and after giving effect to the incurrence of all Indebtedness and obligations being incurred in connection herewith and therewith will be and will continue to be, Solvent.
19.16    [Reserved]
19.17    No Change
Since 31 December 2023, in respect of the Parent and its consolidated Subsidiaries, and since the date of this Agreement in respect of the Borrower, there has been no development or event that has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
19.18    Dutch FSA
The Borrower shall ensure that, in the event that it falls within the definition of "bank" in the Dutch FSA, it will only raise repayable funds (opvorderbare gelden) from lenders, provided that such lender is a Non-Public Lender.
19.19    Tax Status
No notice under Section 36 of the Tax Collection Act (Invorderingswet 1990) or DAC6 has been given by any member of the Group.
19.20    Sanctions
(a)    The Borrower is, to the extent applicable, in compliance with Sanctions and with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (the "FCPA") and any other applicable anti-corruption law, in all material respects.
(b)    The Borrower is not, and no director or senior officer of the Borrower is, any of the following:
(i)    a Restricted Person;
(ii)    a Person owned 50% or more or controlled by, or acting on behalf of, any Restricted Person; or
(iii)    a Person that commits, threatens or conspires to commit or support "terrorism" as defined in the Executive Order.
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19.21    Sustainability Certificate
The information provided by the Borrower in any Sustainability Certificate is true and accurate in all material respects.
19.22    Federal regulations
Notwithstanding Clause 19.13 above, no part of the proceeds of any Loans will be used for "purchasing" or "carrying" any "margin stock" within the respective meanings of each of the quoted terms under Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States as now and from time to time hereafter in effect.
19.23    Investment Company Act
The Borrower is not an "investment company", or a company "controlled" by an "investment company", within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940 of the United States, as amended.
19.24    Repetition
The Repeating Representations are deemed to be made by the Borrower (by reference to the facts and circumstances then existing) on the date of each Utilisation Request and the first day of each Interest Period. The representation in Clause 19.21 (Sustainability Certificate), shall be made by reference to each Sustainability Certificate on the date on which it is delivered to the Agent.
20.    POSITIVE COVENANTS
The covenants in this Clause 20 remain in force from the date of this Agreement for so long as any amount is outstanding under the Finance Documents or any Commitment is in force.
The Borrower shall:
20.1    Information Miscellaneous
Provide the Agent all information (including any public information) that the Agent may reasonably request in writing concerning the financial condition, business or operations of the Borrower within a reasonable period of time considering the nature of the request; provided that with respect to any information relating to an annual audited report, the same may be delivered within one hundred and twenty (120) calendar days after the end of the Borrower's fiscal year.
20.2    Taxes
Take all actions necessary to ensure that all taxes and other governmental claims in respect of the Borrower's operations and assets are promptly paid when due, except where the amount or validity thereof is currently being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and reserves to the extent required by GAAP with respect thereto have been provided on the books of the Borrower.
20.3    Compliance
Comply with all Requirements of Law except where the failure to so comply would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on its ability to perform its obligations under the Finance Documents; and comply in all material respects with Sanctions.
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20.4    Audited financial statements
Beginning with the fiscal year commencing in 2023, furnish to the Agent in sufficient number for each Lender as soon as available, but in any event within one hundred and twenty (120) days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower, audited financial statements consisting of the balance sheet of the Borrower as of the end of such year and the related statements of income and retained earnings and statements of cash flow for such year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the corresponding figures for the previous fiscal year, certified by independent certified public accountants satisfactory to the Agent to the effect that such financial statements fairly present in all material respects the financial condition and results of operations of the Borrower in accordance with GAAP consistently applied.
20.5    Unaudited financial statements
Beginning with the fiscal year commencing in 2023, furnish to the Agent as soon as available but in any event within sixty (60) days after the end of each of the first three quarters for each fiscal year of the Borrower, unaudited financial statements consisting of a balance sheet of the Borrower as at the end of such quarter and a statement of income and retained earnings for such quarter, setting forth (in the case of financial statements furnished for calendar quarters subsequent to the first full calendar year of the Borrower) in comparative form the corresponding figures for the corresponding quarter of the preceding fiscal year.
20.6    Financial statements certificate
Furnish, or cause to be furnished, to the Agent together with the financial statements required pursuant to Clause 20.4 (Audited financial statements) and Clause 20.5 (Unaudited financial statements) a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower stating (a) that the attached financial statements have been prepared in accordance with GAAP and accurately reflect the financial condition of the Borrower and (b) that the Borrower is in compliance with Clause 20.9 (Proceeds) as of the last day of the fiscal quarter or fiscal year of the Borrower, as the case may be.
20.7    Corporate existence, Conduct of business
(a)    Except as otherwise permitted by the Finance Documents, preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence; and
(b)    take all reasonable action to maintain all rights, privileges and franchises necessary or desirable in the normal conduct of its business.
20.8    Notification of default
Notify the Agent of any:
(a)    Default (and the steps, if any, being taken to remedy it) promptly upon becoming aware of its occurrence, and
(b)    development or event which has had, or which the Borrower in its good faith judgement believes will have, a Material Adverse Effect.
20.9    Proceeds
(a)    Use the proceeds from the Loans hereunder for general corporate purposes; and
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(b)    ensure that proceeds of the Facility received by the Parent and, at all times while any Loans are outstanding, used in Switzerland do not exceed the amount accepted by the Swiss federal tax administration as set out in their practice note 010-DVS-2019 dated February 5, 2019 regarding Swiss withholding tax in the group (Mitteilung-010-DVS-2019-d vom 5. Februar 2019 - Verrechnungssteuer: Guthaben im Konzern).
20.10    Notification of Applicable Rating
Promptly notify the Agent of any change in an Applicable Rating.
20.11    Sanctions
Promptly upon a Responsible Officer of the Borrower becoming aware that the Borrower has received formal notice that it has become subject of any action or investigation under any Sanctions, the Borrower shall, to the extent permitted by law, supply to the Agent details of any such action or investigation.
20.12    Anti-Money Laundering Information
Upon the reasonable request of the Agent, the Borrower shall provide to the Agent the information so requested, to the extent such information is available to the Borrower, in connection with applicable "know your customer" and anti-money-laundering rules and regulations, including the PATRIOT Act, in each case in accordance with the Borrower’s past practices.
20.13    Provision and contents of Sustainability Certificate
(a)    The Borrower shall supply a Sustainability Certificate to the Agent on an annual basis, with the first Sustainability Certificate being supplied by the date falling no later than 120 days from 31 December 2023 and, thereafter, each subsequent Sustainability Certificate being supplied by the date falling no later than 120 days from 31 December of each subsequent year (the "Sustainability Certificate Due Date").
(b)    Each Sustainability Certificate shall be signed by an authorised signatory of the Borrower and shall:
(i)    certify the score of each Sustainability Performance Target and Sustainability Progress Target (where applicable);
(ii)    certify the associated third-party verifications for each applicable Sustainability Performance Target and Sustainability Progress Target (where applicable) detailed in the Sustainability Benchmark; and
(iii)    append evidence of the third-party verification for each relevant Sustainability Performance Target and Sustainability Progress Target (where applicable).
20A    Suspension of Sustainability Performance Targets, Sustainability Progress Targets, and Sustainability Benchmark due to Merger
(a)    Commencing on the Viterra Acquisition Closing Date, the Sustainability Performance Targets, the Sustainability Progress Targets and the Sustainability Benchmark (including, but not limited to, the calculation and level of each Sustainability Performance Target and Sustainability Progress Target) shall be suspended and shall not apply for a period of 18 months (the “Suspension Period”).
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(b)    The Sustainability Margin Adjustment in effect on the Viterra Acquisition Closing Date will remain in place until the date on which the next Sustainability Margin Adjustment becomes effective or is suspended, in each case in accordance with paragraph (c) of Clause 20A (Suspension of Sustainability Performance Targets, Sustainability Progress Targets, and Sustainability Benchmark due to Merger) (below).
(c)    Viterra Acquisition Closing Date:
(i)    If the Viterra Acquisition Closing Date occurs on or before 1 October 2024, then the Sustainability Margin Adjustments due to occur in 2025 based on the current Sustainability Performance Targets, the Sustainability Progress Targets and the Sustainability Benchmark applicable to 2024 and all subsequent Sustainability Margin Adjustments due to occur after 2025 will be suspended and will not apply until the Suspension End Date (as defined below).
(ii)    If the Viterra Acquisition Closing Date occurs on any date after 1 October 2024, (A) the Sustainability Margin Adjustments due to occur in 2025 will occur based on the current Sustainability Performance Targets, the Sustainability Progress Targets and the Sustainability Benchmark applicable to 2024, and the perimeter for the measurement of these targets will be the operational boundaries of the Group prior to the Viterra Acquisition Closing Date (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, Viterra) and (B) the Sustainability Margin Adjustments due to occur in 2026 and all subsequent Sustainability Margin Adjustments due to occur after 2026 are suspended until the Suspension End Date (as defined below).
(d)    At least ninety (90) days prior to the end of the Suspension Period, the Borrower shall submit a proposal (the "Post-Merger Proposal") to the Lenders (via the Agent) setting out the changes requested by the Borrower to be made to the Sustainability Performance Targets, the Sustainability Progress Targets and the Sustainability Benchmark (including, but not limited to, the calculation and level of each Sustainability Performance Target and Sustainability Progress Target) to that existing as at the date of this Agreement. The Lenders shall consider the Post-Merger Proposal in good faith.
(e)    If by the date falling no later than ninety (90) days after the date of delivery of the Post-Merger Proposal to the Agent (the "Suspension End Date"), the Borrower and the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) have agreed to certain changes to the Sustainability Benchmark, the Sustainability Progress Targets and/or any Sustainability Performance Targets (together, the "Post-Merger Varied Targets"), such changes shall take effect on and from the end of the Suspension End Date and be binding on all the Parties.
(f)    Subject to Clauses 20A(d), if by the end of the Suspension Period or the Suspension End Date (whichever is sooner) no agreement has been reached on the Post-Merger Proposal (the "Declassification Date"), then:
(i)    no Facility may be reclassified as “sustainability-linked” on or after the Declassification Date;
(ii)    the Borrower shall not (and shall ensure that no other member of the Group will) make any disclosure that references any Facility or any
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Utilisation as "sustainability-linked" at any time on or after the Declassification Date;
(iii)    the suspended Sustainability Performance Targets and/or Sustainability Progress Targets (the "Post-Merger Discontinued Targets") shall be deemed to no longer apply;
(iv)    no further Sustainability Margin Adjustments shall be made in respect of the Post-Merger Discontinued Targets; and
(v)    the provisions of Clause 19.21 (Sustainability Certificate), Clause 20.13 (Provisions and Contents of Sustainability Certificate), Clause 20A (Suspension of Sustainability Performance Targets, Sustainability Progress Targets and Sustainability Benchmarks Due to Merger), Clause 20B (Changes to Sustainability Performance Targets, Sustainability Progress Targets and Sustainability Benchmarks), Clause 24.11 (Sustainability), paragraph 2 (Sustainability Adjustments) of Schedule 1 (Applicable Margin), Schedule 2 (Sustainability Benchmarks) and Schedule 9 (Form of Sustainability Certificate) shall no longer apply or be operative in respect of the Post-Merger Discontinued Target.
20B    Changes to Sustainability Performance Targets, Sustainability Progress Targets and Sustainability Benchmark
(a)    If the Borrower (acting reasonably) determines that:
(i)    there have been any substantive changes applicable to the methodology or standards set out in the Sustainability Benchmark or the application of the same by the Borrower due to wider industry standards or any applicable Requirement of Law; or
(ii)    any change has been made in respect of wider industry standards, any applicable Requirement of Law or the portfolio of assets owned by the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries that has any substantive effect on the calculation of any Sustainability Performance Target, Sustainability Progress Target or the Sustainability Benchmark,
then the Borrower shall submit a proposal (the "Proposal") to the Lenders (via the Agent) setting out the changes requested by the Borrower to be made to the Sustainability Performance Targets, the Sustainability Progress Targets and the Sustainability Benchmark (including, but not limited to, the calculation and level of each Sustainability Performance Target and Sustainability Progress Target) to that existing as at the date of this Agreement. The Lenders shall consider the Proposal in good faith.
(b)    If by the date falling no later than ninety (90) days after the date of delivery of the Proposal to the Agent (the "Variation End Date"), the Borrower and the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders, or solely with respect to any changes to de minimis thresholds which are not defined by industry standards, the Majority Arrangers as contemplated by Schedule 2) have agreed to certain changes to the Sustainability Benchmark, the Sustainability Progress Targets and/or any Sustainability Performance Targets (together, the "Varied Targets"), such changes shall take effect on and from the Variation End Date and be binding on all the Parties.
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(c)    Subject to Clauses 20B(d) and 20B(e) below, if by the Variation End Date no agreement has been reached on the Proposal, then on and from the Variation End Date:
(i)    the relevant Sustainability Performance Target and/or Sustainability Progress Target (the "Discontinued Targets") shall be deemed to no longer apply;
(ii)    no further Sustainability Margin Adjustments shall be made in respect of the Discontinued Target; and
(iii)    the provisions of Clause 19.21 (Sustainability Certificate), Clause 20.13 (Provisions and Contents of Sustainability Certificate), Clause 20A (Suspension of Sustainability Performance Targets, Sustainability Progress Targets and Sustainability Benchmarks Due to Merger), Clause 20B (Changes to Sustainability Performance Targets, Sustainability Progress Targets and Sustainability Benchmarks), Clause 24.11 (Sustainability), paragraph 2 (Sustainability Adjustments) of Schedule 1 (Applicable Margin), Schedule 2 (Sustainability Benchmarks) and Schedule 9 (Form of Sustainability Certificate) shall no longer apply or be operative in respect of the Discontinued Target.
(d)    Clause 20B(c) shall not apply to a Sustainability Performance Target and/ or Sustainability Progress Target if the Borrower, by notification to the Agent, withdraws the Proposal in respect of that Sustainability Performance Target and/or Sustainability Progress Target (as applicable) at any time prior to the Variation End Date.
(e)    For the avoidance of any doubt, the cessation of a Discontinued Target pursuant to Clause 20B(c) above shall not impact the continuation of any Varied Targets and any other Sustainability Performance Targets or Sustainability Progress Targets that were not relevant to the Proposal.
(f)    
(i)    The Baseline 2020 set forth for Sustainability Performance Target 1 set forth in Schedule 2 (as amended in accordance with Clause 20A (Suspension of Sustainability Performance Targets, Sustainability Progress Targets and Sustainability Benchmarks Due to Merger)) may be recalculated in accordance with the GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard ("GHG Protocol") by the Borrower without the consent of the Agent or any of the Lenders to reflect any material change in:
(A)    the methodology of calculation of any Sustainability Performance Target,
(B)    a regulation which is relevant to the determination of any Sustainability Performance Target,
(C)    the data due to better data accessibility or discovery of data errors, or
(D)    the perimeter of the Parent and its Subsidiaries as a result of any acquisition, amalgamation, demerger, merger, corporate reconstruction, divestiture or disposal, where any such change,
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taken individually or in aggregate, has a significant impact on the levels of any Sustainability Performance Target.
(ii)    In the event an updated version of the GHG Protocol is published, the Borrower may elect, in its sole discretion, to apply such revised version for the purposes of calculating Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions for Sustainability Performance Target 1 without the consent of the Agent or any of the Lenders.
(iii)    In all cases, the revised or updated Baseline 2020, should be accompanied by an assurance letter from a third-party verification provider.
21.    NEGATIVE COVENANTS
The covenants in this Clause 21 remain in force from the date of this Agreement for so long as any amount is outstanding under the Finance Documents or any Commitment is in force.
The Borrower will not:
21.1    Negative Pledge
Contract for, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien, security interest, charge or other encumbrance of any nature upon any of its property or assets, whether now owned or hereafter acquired (except for any Lien arising by virtue of the maintenance of a credit balance on any bank account by the Borrower pursuant to the general terms and conditions of the bank with which such account is held).
21.2    Indebtedness
Create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Indebtedness, whether current or funded, or any other liability except Permitted Indebtedness.
21.3    Loans and Guarantees
Except for loans made to any Subsidiary of the Parent, make any loan or advance or credit to, or guarantee (directly or indirectly or by an instrument having the effect of assuring another's payment or performance on any obligation or capability of so doing or otherwise), endorse or otherwise become contingently liable, directly or indirectly, in connection with the obligations, stocks or dividends of, or own, purchase, repurchase or acquire (or agree contingently to do so) any assets, stock, obligations or securities of, or any other interest in, or make any capital contribution to, any other Person.
21.4    Merger
Enter into any amalgamation, merger, consolidation, joint venture, syndicate or other form of combination with any Person, or sell, lease or transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its assets or receivables or purchase any asset.
21.5    Other Agreements
Enter into or be a party to any agreement or instrument other than the Finance Documents and any agreement or instrument related to the incurrence of Permitted Indebtedness.
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21.6    Expenditure
Except as permitted by any Finance Document, make any expenditure (by long-term or operating lease or otherwise), excluding those relating to foreclosure, for capital assets (both realty and personality), unless such expenditure is approved in writing by the Agent.
21.7    Restriction of business
Engage in any business or enterprise or enter into any material transaction other than as contemplated by the Finance Documents.
21.8    Constitutional Documents
Amend its constitutional documents in any material respect without the prior written consent of the Agent.
21.9    Hedge Agreements
Enter into any Hedge Agreement other than Hedge Agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business to hedge or mitigate risks directly arising from its borrowings under this Agreement or other Permitted Indebtedness.
21.10    Use of proceeds
Knowingly permit or authorise any other person to, directly or indirectly, use, lend, make payments of, contribute or otherwise make available, all or any part of the proceeds of the Facility or other transactions contemplated by this Agreement (i) in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization of the payment or giving of money, or anything else of value, to any Person in violation of the FCPA or any other applicable anti-corruption law, (ii) to fund any trade, business or other activities involving or for the benefit of any Restricted Person except as otherwise permitted or authorized by Sanctions or Sanctions Authorities, including, without limitation, as authorized by OFAC general or specific license, or (iii) in any other manner that would result in any Obligor or the Finance Parties being in breach of any Sanctions or becoming a Restricted Person.
21.11    Limited Purpose
The Borrower shall not engage in any business or enterprise or enter into or be a party to any transaction or agreement other than in connection with (i) borrowing under the Commitments hereunder, (ii) the incurrence of other Permitted Indebtedness, (iii) the entering into of Hedge Agreements relating to the Commitments hereunder or the other Permitted Indebtedness having a notional amount not exceeding the aggregate principal amount of such Commitments and such other Permitted Indebtedness then outstanding and (iv) the use of the net proceeds from the borrowings hereunder or the other Permitted Indebtedness to either increase its investments in intercompany loans or to repurchase, redeem or repay the borrowings hereunder or other Permitted Indebtedness outstanding from time to time or pay expenses incurred in connection with such Permitted Indebtedness.
22.    ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
(a)    Each Party acknowledges and agrees that the Borrower does not:
(i)    represent under Clause 19.20 (Sanctions); nor
(ii)    undertake under Clause 21.10 (Use of proceeds),
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in favour of DZ Bank AG Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank New York Branch (“DZ”), and DZ shall not have any rights thereunder. Furthermore, DZ shall be deemed not to be a party to the provisions of Clause 19.20 (Sanctions) or Clause 21.10 (Use of proceeds).
(b)    Each Party further acknowledges that the representations and warranties included in Clause 19.20 (Sanctions) given by, and the undertaking included in Clause 21.10 (Use of proceeds) of, the Borrower to any Lender resident in Germany (Inländer) within the meaning of Section 2 Paragraph 15 of the German Foreign Trade and Payments Regulation ("AWV") are made only to the extent that such Lender would be permitted to make or receive such representations and warranties or undertakings, as applicable, pursuant to Section 7 of the AWV.
(c)    Each Party further acknowledges that the representations and warranties included in Clause 19.20 (Sanctions) and the undertaking included in Clause 21.10 (Use of proceeds) shall be given by and apply to the Borrower for the benefit of any Finance Party only to the extent that giving, complying with or receiving the benefit of (as applicable) such representation or undertaking does not result in any violation of any Blocking Regulation.
23.    PATRIOT ACT NOTICE
Each Finance Party hereby notifies the Borrower that, pursuant to the requirements of the PATRIOT Act, it may be required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies the Borrower, which information includes the name and address of the Borrower and other information that will allow such Finance Party to identify the Borrower in accordance with the PATRIOT Act.
24.    EVENTS OF DEFAULT
Each of the events set out in Clauses 24.1 (Non-payment) to 24.10 (Tax Status) (inclusive) is an Event of Default.
24.1    Non-payment
Any Obligor shall fail to pay any principal of any Loan when due in accordance with the terms hereof or any Obligor shall fail to pay any interest on any Loan or any other amount payable hereunder or under any other Finance Document, unless such failure to pay is caused by administrative or technical error and payment is made within 5 Business Days of its due date; or
24.2    Misrepresentation
Any representation or warranty made or deemed made by the Borrower herein or by the Borrower or the Parent in any other Finance Document or that is contained in any certificate, document or financial or other statement furnished by it at any time under or in connection with this Agreement or any such other Finance Document shall prove to have been inaccurate in any material respect on or as of the date made or deemed made; or
24.3    Other Obligations
(a)    The Borrower shall default in the observance or performance of any agreement contained in Clause 21 (Negative Covenants) of this Agreement or the Parent shall default in the observance or performance of any agreement contained in Sections 8.1(c), 8.1(g)(i), 8.1(h) or 8.2 of the Parent Guarantee; or
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(b)    the Borrower or the Parent shall default in the observance or performance of any other agreement contained in this Agreement or any other Finance Document (other than as provided in Clause 24.1 (Non-payment) or paragraph (a) above), and if capable of being remedied such default shall continue unremedied for a period of 30 days after the earlier of (i) the date on which a Responsible Officer of the Borrower or the Parent has knowledge of such default and (ii) the Borrower or the Parent receives written notice thereof from the Agent or the Majority Lenders; or
24.4    Cross default
The Borrower or any other member of the Group shall:
(a)    default in making any payment of any principal of any Indebtedness (including any Guarantee Obligation, but excluding the Loans) on the scheduled or original due date with respect thereto; or
(b)    default in making any payment of any interest on any such Indebtedness beyond the period of grace, if any, provided in the instrument or agreement under which such Indebtedness was created; or
(c)    default in the observance or performance of any other agreement or condition relating to any such Indebtedness or contained in any instrument or agreement evidencing, securing or relating thereto, or any other event shall occur or condition exist, the effect of which default or other event or condition is to cause, or to permit the holder or beneficiary of such Indebtedness (or a trustee or agent on behalf of such holder or beneficiary) to cause, with the giving of notice if required, such Indebtedness to become due prior to its stated maturity or (in the case of any such Indebtedness constituting a Guarantee Obligation) to become payable;
provided that:
(i)    a default, event or condition described in paragraphs (a), (b) or (c) of this Clause 24.4 shall not at any time constitute an Event of Default unless, at such time, one or more defaults, events or conditions of the type described in paragraphs (a), (b) or (c) of this Clause 24.4 shall have occurred and be continuing with respect to Indebtedness, the outstanding principal amount of which together exceeds in the aggregate $100,000,000; and
(ii)    this paragraph (c) shall be deemed inapplicable if the occurrence of such event or condition referred to above gives rise to an obligation to make a mandatory prepayment without further demand of any person on terms agreed prior to the occurrence of such event or condition; or
24.5    Insolvency and Insolvency Proceedings
(a)    Any member of the Group shall commence any case, proceedings or other action (i) under any existing or future law of any jurisdiction, domestic or foreign, relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganisation or relief of debtors, seeking to have an order for relief entered with respect to it, or seeking to adjudicate it a bankrupt or insolvent, or seeking reorganisation, arrangement, adjustment, winding-up, liquidation, dissolution, composition or other relief with respect to it or its debts, or (ii) seeking appointment of a receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, custodian, conservator or other similar official for it or for all or any substantial part of its assets, or any member of the Group shall make a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors; or
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(b)    there shall be commenced against any member of the Group any case, proceeding or other action of a nature referred to in paragraph (a) above that (i) results in the entry of an order for relief or any such adjudication or appointment or (ii) remains undismissed, undischarged or unbonded for a period of 60 days; or
(c)    there shall be commenced against any member of the Group any case, proceeding or other action seeking issuance of a warrant of expropriation, attachment, sequestration, distress, execution, distrait or similar process against all or any substantial part of its assets that results in the entry of an order for any such relief that shall not have been vacated, discharged, or stayed or bonded pending appeal within 60 days from the entry thereof; or
(d)    any member of the Group shall take any action in furtherance of, or indicating its consent to, approval of, or acquiescence in, any of the acts set forth in paragraphs (a), (b), or (c) above; or
(e)    any member of the Group shall generally not, or shall be unable to, or shall admit in writing its inability to pay its debts as they become due.
24.6    Final Judgement against Group
One or more final judgements or orders shall be entered against any member of the Group involving in the aggregate a liability (not paid or fully covered by insurance as to which the relevant insurance company has acknowledged coverage) of $100,000,000 or more, and all such final judgements or orders shall not have been vacated, discharged, stayed or bonded pending appeal within 30 days from the entry thereof; or
24.7    Unlawfulness
It is or becomes unlawful for an Obligor to perform any of its obligations under the Finance Documents; or
24.8    Repudiation
An Obligor repudiates a Finance Document or evidences an intention to repudiate a Finance Document; or
24.9    Effectiveness
Any of the Finance Documents shall cease, for any reason, to be in full force and effect or the Borrower or the Parent shall so assert in writing; or
24.10    Tax Status
A notice under Section 36 Dutch Tax Collection Act (Invorderingswet 1990) has been given by any member of the Group.
24.11    Sustainability
No Event of Default shall occur by reason only of a failure by the Borrower to comply with Clause 19.21 (Sustainability Certificate) or Clause 20.13 (Provision and contents of Sustainability Certificate).
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24.12    Acceleration
On and at any time after the occurrence of an Event of Default (which is continuing) the Agent may, and shall if so directed by the Majority Lenders, by notice to the Borrower:
(a)    cancel the Total Commitments whereupon they shall immediately be cancelled; and/or
(b)    declare that all or part of the Loans, together with accrued interest, and all other amounts accrued or outstanding under the Finance Documents be immediately due and payable, whereupon they shall become immediately due and payable,
provided that if an Event of Default under Clause 24.5 (Insolvency and Insolvency Proceedings) shall occur in respect of the Group, then without notice or any other act by the Agent or any other person, the Loans, interest thereon and all other amounts owed under the Finance Documents shall become immediately due and payable without presentment, demand, protest or notice of any kind, all of which are expressly waived.
25.    USE OF WEBSITES
25.1    
(a)    The Borrower may satisfy its obligation to deliver any public information to the Lenders by posting this information onto an electronic website designated by the Borrower and the Agent (the "Designated Website") by notifying the Agent (i) of the address of the website together with any relevant password specifications and (ii) that such information has been posted on the website.
(b)    In any event the Borrower shall supply the Agent with one copy in paper form of any information which is posted onto the website.
25.2    The Agent shall supply each Lender with the address of and any relevant password specifications for the Designated Website following designation of that website by the Borrower and the Agent.
25.3    The Borrower shall promptly upon becoming aware of its occurrence notify the Agent if:
(a)    the Designated Website cannot be accessed due to technical failure;
(b)    the password specifications for the Designated Website change;
(c)    any new information which is required to be provided under this Agreement is posted onto the Designated Website;
(d)    any existing information which has been provided under this Agreement and posted onto the Designated Website is amended; or
(e)    the Borrower becomes aware that the Designated Website or any information posted onto the Designated Website is or has been infected by any electronic virus or similar software.
If the Borrower notifies the Agent under paragraph (a) or paragraph (e) above, all information to be provided by the Borrower under this Agreement after the date of that notice shall be supplied in paper form unless and until the Agent is satisfied that the circumstances giving rise to the notification are no longer continuing.
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25.4    "Know your customer" checks
(a)    If:
(i)    the introduction of or any change in (or in the interpretation, administration or application of) any law or regulation made after the date of this Agreement;
(ii)    any change in the status of an Obligor or the composition of the shareholders of an Obligor after the date of this Agreement; or
(iii)    a proposed assignment or transfer by a Lender of any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement to a party that is not a Lender prior to such assignment or transfer,
obliges the Agent or any Lender (or, in the case of sub-paragraph (iii) above, any prospective new Lender) to comply with "know your customer" or similar identification procedures in circumstances where the necessary information is not already available to it, each Obligor shall promptly upon the request of the Agent or any Lender supply, or procure the supply of, such documentation and other evidence as is reasonably requested by the Agent (for itself or on behalf of any Lender) or any Lender (for itself or, in the case of the event described in sub-paragraph (iii) above, on behalf of any prospective new Lender) in order for the Agent, such Lender or, in the case of the event described in sub-paragraph (iii) above, any prospective new Lender to carry out and be satisfied it has complied with all necessary "know your customer" or other similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations pursuant to the transactions contemplated in the Finance Documents.
(b)    Each Lender shall promptly upon the request of the Agent supply, or procure the supply of, such documentation and other evidence as is reasonably requested by the Agent (for itself) in order for the Agent to carry out and be satisfied it has complied with all necessary "know your customer" or other similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations pursuant to the transactions contemplated in the Finance Documents.
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CHANGES TO PARTIES
26.    CHANGES TO THE LENDERS
26.1    Assignments and transfers by the Lenders
Subject to this Clause 26, a Lender (the "Existing Lender") may:
(a)    assign any of its rights; or
(b)    transfer by novation any of its rights and obligations,
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 Lender").
26.2    Conditions of assignment or transfer
(a)    The consent of the Borrower (not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) is required for an assignment or transfer by a Lender, unless the assignment or transfer is to another Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender, or is made at a time when an Event of Default has occurred and has not been waived.
(b)    The Borrower will be deemed to have given its consent five Business Days after the Lender has requested it unless consent is expressly refused by the Borrower within that time.
(c)    An assignment will only be effective:
(i)    on receipt by the Agent of written confirmation from the New Lender (in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent) that the New Lender will assume the same obligations to the other Finance Parties as it would have been under if it was an Original Lender; and
(ii)    performance by the 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 Lender, the completion of which the Agent shall promptly notify to the Existing Lender and the New Lender.
(d)    A transfer will only be effective if the procedure set out in Clause 26.5 (Procedure for transfer) is complied with.
(e)    If:
(i)    a Lender assigns or transfers any of its rights or obligations under the Finance Documents or changes its Facility Office, at a time when no Event of Default is continuing; and
(ii)    as a result of circumstances existing at the date the assignment, transfer or change occurs, the Borrower would be obliged to make a payment to the New Lender or Lender acting through its new Facility Office under Clause 14 (Tax gross-up and indemnities) or Clause 15 (Increased costs),
then, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any Finance Document, the Borrower shall not be required to increase any amounts payable to a New Lender (in the case of an assignment or a transfer) or Lender
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(in the case of a change in Facility Office) pursuant to those Clauses except to the extent the Lender making such assignment or transfer or change in Facility Office was entitled, at the time of such assignment or transfer or change in Facility Office, to receive additional amounts from the Borrower with respect to such Clauses.
(f)    An assignment or transfer of part (but not all) of a Lender's Commitment and Loans must (unless such transfer or assignment is to an Existing Lender or is made at a time when an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing) be in a minimum aggregate amount of $10,000,000.
(g)    Without prejudice to paragraph (f) above, the amount transferred to a New Lender in relation to a Loan or a Commitment shall be at least the dollar equivalent of EUR100,000 or, if it is less, the New Lender shall confirm in writing to the Borrower that it is a PMP.
(h)    The Borrower hereby designates the Agent to serve as the Borrower’s agent, solely for the purpose of this paragraph (h), to maintain a register (the "Register") on which the Agent will record each Lender’s Commitment, the Loans made by each Lender and each repayment in respect of the principal amount of the Loans of each Lender and annexed to which the Agent shall retain a copy of each Transfer Certificate delivered to the Agent pursuant to this Clause 26 (Changes to the Lenders). Failure to make any recordation, or any error in such recordation, shall not affect the Borrower’s obligations in respect of such Loans. The entries in the Register shall be conclusive (provided, however, that any failure to make any recordation or any error in such recordation shall be corrected by the Agent upon notice or discovery thereof), and the Borrower, the Agent and the Lenders shall treat each Person in whose name a Loan is registered as the Lender thereof for all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding notice or any provision herein to the contrary. A Lender’s Commitment and the Loans made pursuant thereto may be assigned or otherwise transferred in whole or in part only by registration of such assignment or transfer in the Register. Any assignment or transfer of a Lender’s Commitment or the Loans made pursuant thereto shall be registered in the Register only upon delivery to the Agent of a Transfer Certificate duly executed by the assignor thereof. No assignment or transfer of a Lender’s Commitment or the Loans made pursuant thereto shall be effective unless such assignment or transfer shall have been recorded in the Register by the Agent, acting promptly, as provided in this paragraph (h). The Agent shall supply a copy of the Register to the Borrower upon request. It is intended that the procedures described in this paragraph (h) will cause the Loans to be treated as being in "registered form" within the meaning of Sections 163(f), 871(h)(2) and 881(c)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
26.3    Assignment or transfer fee
The New Lender shall, on the date upon which an assignment or transfer takes effect, pay to the Agent (for its own account) a fee of $3,000.
26.4    Limitation of responsibility of Existing Lenders
(a)    Unless expressly agreed to the contrary, an Existing Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility to a New Lender for:
(i)    the legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy or enforceability of the Finance Documents or any other documents;
(ii)    the financial condition of any Obligor;
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(iii)    the performance and observance by any Obligor of its obligations under the Finance Documents or any other documents; or
(iv)    the accuracy of any statements (whether written or oral) made in or in connection with any Finance Document or any other document,
and any representations or warranties implied by law are excluded.
(b)    Each New Lender confirms to the Existing Lender and the other Finance Parties that it:
(i)    has made (and shall continue to make) its own independent investigation and assessment of the financial condition and affairs of any member of the Group and its related entities in connection with its participation in this Agreement and has not relied exclusively on any information provided to it by the Existing Lender in connection with any Finance Document; and
(ii)    will continue to make its own independent appraisal of the creditworthiness of each Obligor and its related entities whilst any amount is or may be outstanding under the Finance Documents or any Commitment is in force.
(c)    Nothing in any Finance Document obliges an Existing Lender to:
(i)    accept a re-transfer from a New Lender of any of the rights and obligations assigned or transferred under this Clause 26; or
(ii)    support any losses directly or indirectly incurred by the New Lender by reason of the non-performance by any Obligor of its obligations under the Finance Documents or otherwise.
26.5    Procedure for transfer
(a)    Subject to the conditions set out in Clause 26.2 (Conditions of assignment or transfer) a transfer is effected in accordance with paragraph (b) below when the Agent executes an otherwise duly completed Transfer Certificate delivered to it by the Existing Lender and the New Lender. The 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 Agent shall only be obliged to execute a Transfer Certificate delivered to it by the Existing Lender and the New 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 Lender.
(c)    On the Transfer Date:
(i)    to the extent that in the Transfer Certificate the Existing Lender seeks to transfer by novation its rights and obligations under the Finance Documents each of the Obligors and the Existing Lender shall be released from further obligations towards one another under the Finance Documents and their respective rights against one another under the Finance Documents shall be cancelled (being the "Discharged Rights and Obligations");
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(ii)    each of the Obligors and the New 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 that Obligor and the New Lender have assumed and/or acquired the same in place of that Obligor and the Existing Lender;
(iii)    the Agent, the Arrangers, the New Lender and other Lenders shall acquire the same rights and assume the same obligations between themselves as they would have acquired and assumed had the New Lender been an Existing Lender with the rights and/or obligations acquired or assumed by it as a result of the transfer and to that extent the Agent, the Arrangers and the Existing Lender shall each be released from further obligations to each other under the Finance Documents; and
(iv)    the New Lender shall become a Party as a "Lender".
26.6    Security over Lenders' rights
In addition to the other rights provided to Lenders under this Clause 26 (Changes to the Lenders), each Lender may without consulting with or obtaining consent from the Borrower, at any time charge, assign or otherwise create Security in or over (whether by way of collateral or otherwise) all or any of its rights under any Finance Document to secure obligations of that Lender including, without limitation:
(a)    any charge, assignment or other Security to secure obligations to a federal reserve or central bank or government authority, department or agency including HM Treasury or equivalent or any other authorised government body; and
(b)    in the case of any Lender which is a fund, any charge, assignment or other Security granted to any holders (or trustee or representatives of holders) of obligations owed, or securities issued, by that Lender as security for those obligations or securities,
except that no such charge, assignment or Security shall:
(i)    release a Lender from any of its obligations under the Finance Documents or substitute the beneficiary of the relevant charge, assignment or Security for the Lender as a party to any of the Finance Documents; or
(ii)    require any payments to be made by the Borrower other than or in excess of, or grant to any person any more extensive rights than, those required to be made or granted to the relevant Lender under the Finance Documents.
27.    CHANGES TO THE BORROWER
The Borrower may not assign any of its rights or transfer any of its rights or obligations under the Finance Documents.
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THE FINANCE PARTIES
28.    ROLE OF THE AGENT AND THE ARRANGERS
28.1    Appointment of the Agent
(a)    Each other Finance Party appoints the Agent to act as its agent under and in connection with the Finance Documents.
(b)    Each other Finance Party authorises the Agent to exercise the rights, powers, authorities and discretions specifically given to the Agent under or in connection with the Finance Documents together with any other incidental rights, powers, authorities and discretions.
28.2    Instructions
(a)    The Agent shall:
(i)    unless a contrary indication appears in a Finance Document, exercise or refrain from exercising any right, power, authority or discretion vested in it as Agent in accordance with any instructions given to it by:
(A)    all Lenders if the relevant Finance Document stipulates the matter is an all Lender decision; and
(B)    in all other cases, the Majority Lenders; and
(ii)    not be liable for any act (or omission) if it acts (or refrains from acting) in accordance with paragraph (i) above.
(b)    The Agent shall be entitled to request instructions, or clarification of any instruction, from the Majority Lenders (or, if the relevant Finance Document stipulates the matter is a decision for any other Lender or group of Lenders, from that Lender or group of Lenders) as to whether, and in what manner, it should exercise or refrain from exercising any right, power, authority or discretion. The Agent may refrain from acting unless and until it receives any such instructions or clarification that it has requested.
(c)    Save in the case of decisions stipulated to be a matter for any other Lender or group of Lenders under the relevant Finance Document and unless a contrary indication appears in a Finance Document, any instructions given to the Agent by the Majority Lenders shall override any conflicting instructions given by any other Parties and will be binding on all Finance Parties.
(d)    The Agent may refrain from acting in accordance with any instructions of any Lender or group of Lenders until it has received any indemnification and/or security that it may in its discretion require (which may be greater in extent than that contained in the Finance Documents and which may include payment in advance) for any cost, loss or liability which it may incur in complying with those instructions.
(e)    In the absence of instructions, the Agent may act (or refrain from acting) as it considers to be in the best interest of the Lenders.
(f)    The Agent is not authorised to act on behalf of a Lender (without first obtaining that Lender's consent) in any legal or arbitration proceedings relating to any Finance Document.
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28.3    Duties of the Agent
(a)    The Agent's duties under the Finance Documents are solely mechanical and administrative in nature.
(b)    The Agent shall promptly forward to a Party the original or a copy of any document which is delivered to the Agent for that Party by any other Party.
(c)    Except where a Finance Document specifically provides otherwise, the Agent is not obliged to review or check the adequacy, accuracy or completeness of any document it forwards to another Party.
(d)    If the Agent receives notice from a Party referring to this Agreement, describing a Default and stating that the circumstance described is a Default, it shall promptly notify the other Finance Parties.
(e)    If the Agent is aware of the non-payment of any principal, interest, commitment fee or other fee payable to a Finance Party (other than the Agent or the Arrangers) under this Agreement it shall promptly notify the other Finance Parties.
(f)    The Agent shall have only those duties, obligations and responsibilities expressly specified in the Finance Documents to which it is expressed to be a party (and no others shall be implied).
28.4    Role of the Arrangers and Sustainability Co-ordinators
Except as specifically provided in the Finance Documents, the Arrangers and Sustainability Co-ordinators have no obligations of any kind to any other Party under or in connection with any Finance Document.
28.5    No fiduciary duties
(a)    Nothing in any Finance Document constitutes the Agent or the Arrangers or the Sustainability Co-ordinators as a trustee or fiduciary of any other person.
(b)    None of the Agent, Arrangers or Sustainability Co-ordinators shall be bound to account to any Lender for any sum or the profit element of any sum received by it for its own account.
28.6    Business with the Group
The Agent, the Arrangers and the Sustainability Co-ordinators may accept deposits from, lend money to and generally engage in any kind of banking or other business with any member of the Group.
28.7    Rights and discretions
(a)    The Agent may:
(i)    rely on any representation, communication, notice or document believed by it to be genuine, correct and appropriately authorised;
(ii)    assume that:
(A)    any instructions received by it from the Majority Lenders, any Lenders or any group of Lenders are duly given in accordance with the terms of the Finance Documents; and
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(B)    unless it has received notice of revocation, that those instructions have not been revoked; and
(iii)    rely on a certificate from any person;
(A)    as to any matter of fact or circumstance which might reasonably be expected to be within the knowledge of that person; or
(B)    to the effect that such person approves of any particular dealing, transaction, step, action or thing,
as sufficient evidence that that is the case and, in the case of paragraph (A) above, may assume the truth and accuracy of that certificate.
(b)    The Agent may assume (unless it has received notice to the contrary in its capacity as agent for the Lenders) that:
(i)    no Default has occurred (unless it has actual knowledge of a Default arising under Clause 24.1 (Non-payment));
(ii)    any right, power, authority or discretion vested in any Party or any group of Lenders has not been exercised; and
(iii)    any notice or request made by the Borrower (other than a Utilisation Request) is made on behalf of and with the consent and knowledge of all the Obligors.
(c)    The Agent may engage and pay for the advice or services of any lawyers, accountants, tax advisers, surveyors or other professional advisers or experts.
(d)    Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (c) above or paragraph (e) below, the Agent may at any time engage and pay for the services of any lawyers to act as independent counsel to the Agent (and so separate from any lawyers instructed by the Lenders) if the Agent in its reasonable opinion deems this to be necessary.
(e)    The Agent may rely on the advice or services of any lawyers, accountants, tax advisers, surveyors or other professional advisers or experts (whether obtained by the Agent or by any other Party) and shall not be liable for any damages, costs or losses to any person, any diminution in value or any liability whatsoever arising as a result of its so relying.
(f)    The Agent may act in relation to the Finance Documents through its officers, employees and agents.
(g)    Unless a Finance Document expressly provides otherwise the Agent may disclose to any other Party any information it reasonably believes it has received as agent under this Agreement.
(h)    Notwithstanding any other provision of any Finance Document to the contrary, neither the Agent nor the 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.
(i)    Notwithstanding any provision of any Finance Document to the contrary, the Agent is not obliged to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of its duties, obligations or
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responsibilities or the exercise of any right, power, authority or discretion if it has grounds for believing the repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against, or security for, such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.
28.8    Responsibility for documentation
None of the Agent, Arrangers or Sustainability Co-ordinators shall be responsible or liable for:
(a)    the adequacy, accuracy or completeness of any information (whether oral or written) supplied by the Agent, an Arranger, a Sustainability Co-ordinator, an Obligor or any other person in or in connection with any Finance Document or the transactions contemplated in the Finance Documents or any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with any Finance Document;
(b)    the legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy or enforceability of any Finance Document or any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with any Finance Document; or
(c)    any determination as to whether any information provided or to be provided to any Finance Party is non-public information the use of which may be regulated or prohibited by applicable law or regulation relating to insider dealing or otherwise.
28.9    No duty to monitor
The Agent shall not be bound to enquire:
(a)    whether or not any Default has occurred;
(b)    as to the performance, default or any breach by any Party of its obligations under any Finance Document; or
(c)    whether any other event specified in any Finance Document has occurred.
28.10    Exclusion of liability
(a)    Without limiting paragraph (b) below (and without prejudice to any other provision of any Finance Document excluding or limiting the liability of the Agent), the Agent will not be liable for:
(i)    any damages, costs or losses to any person, any diminution in value, or any liability whatsoever arising as a result of taking or not taking any action under or in connection with any Finance Document, unless directly caused by its gross negligence or wilful misconduct;
(ii)    exercising, or not exercising, any right, power, authority or discretion given to it by, or in connection with, any Finance Document or any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with, any Finance Document, other than by reason of its gross negligence or wilful misconduct; or
(iii)    without prejudice to the generality of paragraphs (i) and (ii) above, any damages, costs or losses to any person, any diminution in value or any liability whatsoever (including, without limitation, for negligence or
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any other category of liability whatsoever but not including any claim based on the gross negligence or wilful misconduct of the Agent) arising as a result of:
(A)    any act, event or circumstance not reasonably within its control; or
(B)    the general risks of investment in, or the holding of assets in, any jurisdiction,
including (in each case and without limitation) such damages, costs, losses, diminution in value or liability arising as a result of: nationalisation, expropriation or other governmental actions; any regulation, currency restriction, devaluation or fluctuation; market conditions affecting the execution or settlement of transactions or the value of assets (including any Disruption Event); breakdown, failure or malfunction of any third party transport, telecommunications, computer services or systems; natural disasters or acts of God; war, terrorism, insurrection or revolution; or strikes or industrial action.
(b)    No Party (other than the Agent) may take any proceedings against any officer, employee or agent of the Agent in respect of any claim it might have against the Agent or in respect of any act or omission of any kind by that officer, employee or agent in relation to any Finance Document and any officer, employee or agent of the Agent may rely on this Clause subject to Clause 1.4 (Third party rights) and the provisions of the Third Parties Act.
(c)    The Agent will not be liable for any delay (or any related consequences) in crediting an account with an amount required under the Finance Documents to be paid by the Agent if the 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 Agent for that purpose.
(d)    Nothing in this Agreement shall oblige the Agent or the Arranger to carry out:
(i)    any "know your customer" or other checks in relation to any person; or
(ii)    any check on the extent to which any transaction contemplated by this Agreement might be unlawful for any Lender or for any Affiliate of any Lender,
on behalf of any Lender, and each Lender confirms to the Agent and the Arranger that it is solely responsible for any such checks it is required to carry out and that it may not rely on any statement in relation to such checks made by the Agent or the Arranger.
(e)    Without prejudice to any provision of any Finance Document excluding or limiting the Agent's liability, any liability of the Agent arising under or in connection with any Finance Document shall be limited to the amount of actual loss which has been suffered (as determined by reference to the date of default of the Agent or, if later, the date on which the loss arises as a result of such default) but without reference to any special conditions or circumstances known to the Agent at any time which increase the amount of that loss. In no event shall the Agent be liable for any loss of profits, goodwill, reputation, business opportunity or anticipated saving, or for special, punitive, indirect or consequential damages, whether or not the Agent has been advised of the possibility of such loss or damages.
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(f)    The Sustainability Co-ordinators are not acting in an advisory capacity to any person in respect of the Sustainability-Linked Loan Principles published by the LMA from time to time (the "SLLP") nor will the Sustainability Co-ordinators be obliged to verify whether the Facility will comply with the SLLP on behalf of any of the Finance Parties and each Finance Party is solely responsible at all times for making its own independent appraisal of, and analysis in relation to each Sustainability Performance Target, each Sustainability Progress Target and any other sustainability-linked provision of this Agreement.
(g)    Neither Sustainability Co-ordinator will be liable for any action taken or not taken by it under or in connection with any Finance Document in such capacity, unless directly caused by its gross negligence or wilful misconduct.
(h)    No Party may take any proceedings against any officer, employee or agent of the Sustainability Co-ordinators in respect of any claim it might have against the Sustainability Co-ordinators or in respect of any act or omission of any kind by that officer, employee or agent in connection with the Facility.
(i)    Any officer, employee or agent of the Sustainability Co-ordinators may rely on this Clause subject to Clause 1.4 (Third party rights) and the provisions of the Third Parties Act.
28.11     Lenders' indemnity to the Agent
Each Lender shall (in proportion to its share of the Total Commitments or, if the Total Commitments are then zero, to its share of the Total Commitments immediately prior to their reduction to zero) indemnify the Agent, within three Business Days of demand, against any cost, loss or liability incurred by the Agent (otherwise than by reason of the Agent's gross negligence or wilful misconduct) in acting as Agent under the Finance Documents (unless the Agent has been reimbursed by an Obligor pursuant to a Finance Document, and provided that such Lender indemnification shall not affect any Obligor's reimbursement obligations to such Lender under any Finance Document).
28.12    Resignation of the Agent
(a)    The Agent may resign and appoint one of its Affiliates acting through an office as successor by giving notice to the Lenders and the Borrower.
(b)    Alternatively the Agent may resign by giving notice to the Lenders and the Borrower, in which case the Majority Lenders (after consultation with the Borrower) may appoint a successor Agent.
(c)    If the Majority Lenders have not appointed a successor Agent in accordance with paragraph (b) above within 30 days after notice of resignation was given, the Agent (after consultation with the Borrower) may appoint a successor Agent.
(d)    The retiring Agent shall, at its own cost, make available to the successor Agent such documents and records and provide such assistance as the successor Agent may reasonably request for the purposes of performing its functions as Agent under the Finance Documents.
(e)    The Agent's resignation notice shall only take effect upon the appointment of a successor.
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(f)    Upon the appointment of a successor, the retiring Agent shall be discharged from any further obligation in respect of the Finance Documents (other than its obligations under paragraph (d) above) but shall remain entitled to the benefit of Clause 16.3 (Indemnity to the Agent) and this Clause 28 (and any agency fees for the account of the retiring Agent shall cease to accrue from (and shall be payable on) that date). Any 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 Borrower, the Majority Lenders may, by notice to the Agent, require it to resign in accordance with paragraph (b) above. In this event, the Agent shall resign in accordance with paragraph (b) above.
(h)    The Agent shall resign in accordance with paragraph (b) above (and, to the extent applicable, shall use reasonable endeavours to appoint a successor Agent pursuant to paragraph (c) above) if on or after the date which is three months before the earliest FATCA Application Date relating to any payment to the Agent under the Finance Documents, either:
(i)    the Agent fails to respond to a request under Clause 14.7 (FATCA Information) and the Borrower or a Lender reasonably believes that the Agent will not be (or will have ceased to be) a FATCA Exempt Party on or after that FATCA Application Date;
(ii)    the information supplied by the Agent pursuant to Clause 14.7 (FATCA Information) indicates that the Agent will not be (or will have ceased to be) a FATCA Exempt Party on or after that FATCA Application Date; or
(iii)    the Agent notifies the Borrower and the Lenders that the Agent will not be (or will have ceased to be) a FATCA Exempt Party on or after that FATCA Application Date,
and (in each case) the Borrower or a Lender reasonably believes that a Party will be required to make a FATCA Deduction that would not be required if the Agent were a FATCA Exempt Party, and the Borrower or that Lender, by notice to the Agent, requires it to resign.
28.13    Replacement of the Agent
(a)    With the consent of the Borrower (not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed), the Majority Lenders may, by giving 30 days' notice to the Agent (or, at any time the Agent is an Impaired Agent, by giving any shorter notice determined by the Majority Lenders) replace the Agent by appointing a successor Agent.
(b)    The Borrower will be deemed to have given its consent five Business Days after the Lenders have requested it unless consent is expressly refused by the Borrower within that time.
(c)    The retiring Agent shall (at its own cost if it is an Impaired Agent and otherwise at the expense of the Lenders) make available to the successor Agent such documents and records and provide such assistance as the successor Agent may reasonably request for the purposes of performing its functions as Agent under the Finance Documents.
(d)    The appointment of the successor Agent shall take effect on the date specified in the notice from the Majority Lenders to the retiring Agent. As from such
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date, the retiring Agent shall be discharged from any further obligation in respect of the Finance Documents but shall remain entitled to the benefit of this Clause 28.13 (and any agency fees for the account of the retiring Agent shall cease to accrue from (and shall be payable on) that date).
(e)    Any successor Agent 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.
28.14    Confidentiality
(a)    In acting as agent for the Finance Parties, the 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 Agent, it may be treated as confidential to that division or department and the Agent shall not be deemed to have notice of it.
28.15    Relationship with the Lenders
The Agent may treat the person shown in its records as Lender at the opening of business (in the place of the Agent's principal office as notified to the Finance Parties from time to time) as the Lender acting through its Facility Office:
(a)    entitled to or liable for any payment due under this Agreement on that day; and
(b)    entitled to receive and act upon any notice, request, document or communication or make any decision or determination under any Finance Document made or delivered on that day,
unless it has received not less than five Business Days' prior notice from that Lender to the contrary in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
28.16    Credit appraisal by the Lenders
Without affecting the responsibility of any Obligor for information supplied by it or on its behalf in connection with any Finance Document, each Lender confirms to the Agent and the Arrangers that it has been, and will continue to be, solely responsible for making its own independent appraisal and investigation of all risks arising under or in connection with any Finance Document including but not limited to:
(a)    the financial condition, status and nature of each member of the Group;
(b)    the legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy or enforceability of any Finance Document and any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with any Finance Document;
(c)    whether that Lender has recourse, and the nature and extent of that recourse, against any Party or any of its respective assets under or in connection with any Finance Document, the transactions contemplated by the Finance Documents or any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with any Finance Document; and
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(d)    the adequacy, accuracy or completeness of any information provided by the Agent, any Party or by any other person under or in connection with any Finance Document, the transactions contemplated by the Finance Documents or any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with any Finance Document.
28.17    Deduction from amounts payable by the Agent
If any Party owes an amount to the Agent under the Finance Documents the Agent may, after giving notice to that Party, deduct an amount not exceeding that amount from any payment to that Party which the Agent would otherwise be obliged to make under the Finance Documents and apply the amount deducted in or towards satisfaction of the amount owed. For the purposes of the Finance Documents that Party shall be regarded as having received any amount so deducted.
29.    CONDUCT OF BUSINESS BY THE FINANCE PARTIES
No provision of this Agreement will:
(a)    interfere with the right of any Finance Party to arrange its affairs (tax or otherwise) in whatever manner it thinks fit;
(b)    oblige any Finance Party to investigate or claim any credit, relief, remission or repayment available to it or the extent, order and manner of any claim; or
(c)    oblige any Finance Party to disclose any information relating to its affairs (tax or otherwise) or any computations in respect of Tax.
30.    SHARING AMONG THE FINANCE PARTIES
30.1    Payments to Finance Parties
If a Finance Party (a "Recovering Finance Party") receives or recovers any amount from an Obligor other than in accordance with Clause 31 (Payment mechanics) and applies that amount to a payment due under the Finance Documents then:
(a)    the Recovering Finance Party shall, within three Business Days, notify details of the receipt or recovery, to the Agent;
(b)    the Agent shall determine whether the receipt or recovery is in excess of the amount the Recovering Finance Party would have been paid had the receipt or recovery been received or made by the Agent and distributed in accordance with Clause 31 (Payment mechanics), without taking account of any Tax which would be imposed on the Agent in relation to the receipt, recovery or distribution; and
(c)    the Recovering Finance Party shall, within three Business Days of demand by the Agent, pay to the Agent an amount (the "Sharing Payment") equal to such receipt or recovery less any amount which the Agent determines may be retained by the Recovering Finance Party as its share of any payment to be made, in accordance with Clause 31.6 (Partial payments).
30.2    Redistribution of payments
The Agent shall treat the Sharing Payment as if it had been paid by the Borrower and distribute it between the Finance Parties (other than the Recovering Finance Party) in accordance with Clause 31.6 (Partial payments).
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30.3    Recovering Finance Party's rights
(a)    On a distribution by the Agent under Clause 30.2 (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 Borrower shall be liable to the Recovering Finance Party for a debt equal to the Sharing Payment which is immediately due and payable.
30.4    Reversal of redistribution
If any part of the Sharing Payment received or recovered by a Recovering Finance Party becomes repayable and is repaid by that Recovering Finance Party, then:
(a)    each Finance Party which has received a share of the relevant Sharing Payment pursuant to Clause 30.2 (Redistribution of payments) shall, upon request of the Agent, pay to the Agent for account of that Recovering Finance Party an amount equal to the appropriate part of its share of the Sharing Payment (together with an amount as is necessary to reimburse that Recovering Finance Party for its proportion of any interest on the Sharing Payment which that Recovering Finance Party is required to pay); and
(b)    that Recovering Finance Party's rights of subrogation in respect of any reimbursement shall be cancelled and the Borrower will be liable to the reimbursing Finance Party for the amount so reimbursed.
30.5    Exceptions
(a)    This Clause 30 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 Borrower.
(b)    A Recovering Finance Party is not obliged to share with any other Finance Party any amount which the Recovering Finance Party has received or recovered as a result of taking legal or arbitration proceedings, if:
(i)    it notified that other Finance Party of the legal or arbitration proceedings; and
(ii)    that other Finance Party had an opportunity to participate in those legal or arbitration proceedings but did not do so as soon as reasonably practicable having received notice and did not take separate legal or arbitration proceedings.
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ADMINISTRATION
31.    PAYMENT MECHANICS
31.1    Payments to the Agent
On each date on which the Borrower or a Lender is required to make a payment under a Finance Document, the Borrower or Lender shall make the same available to the Agent (unless a contrary indication appears in a Finance Document) for value on the due date at the time and in such funds specified by the Agent as being customary at the time for settlement of transactions in dollars in the place of payment.
31.2    Distributions by the Agent
Each payment received by the Agent under the Finance Documents for another Party shall, subject to Clause 31.3 (Distributions to the Borrower), Clause 31.4 (Clawback) and Clause 28.17 (Deduction from amounts payable by the Agent) be made available by the Agent as soon as practicable after receipt to the Party entitled to receive payment in accordance with this Agreement (in the case of a Lender, for the account of its Facility Office), to such account as that Party may notify to the Agent by not less than five Business Days' notice.
31.3    Distributions to the Borrower
The Agent may (with the consent of the Borrower or in accordance with Clause 32 (Set-off)) apply any amount received by it for the Borrower in or towards payment (on the date and in the currency and funds of receipt) of any amount due from the Borrower under the Finance Documents or in or towards purchase of any amount of any currency to be so applied.
31.4    Clawback
(a)    Where a sum is to be paid to the Agent under the Finance Documents for another Party, the 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)    Unless paragraph (c) below applies, if the Agent pays an amount to another Party and it proves to be the case that the 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 Agent shall on demand refund the same to the Agent together with interest on that amount from the date of payment to the date of receipt by the Agent, calculated by the Agent to reflect its cost of funds.
(c)    If the Agent is willing to make available amounts for the account of the Borrower before receiving funds from the Lenders then if and to the extent that the Agent does so but it proves to be the case that it does not then receive funds from a Lender in respect of a sum which it paid to the Borrower:
(i)    the Borrower shall on demand refund it to the Agent; and
(ii)    the Lender by whom those funds should have been made available or, if that Lender fails to do so, the Borrower shall within three Business Days from demand pay to the Agent the amount (as certified by the Agent) which will indemnify the Agent against any funding cost incurred by it as a result of paying out that sum before receiving those funds from that Lender.
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31.5    Impaired Agent
(a)    If, at any time, the Agent becomes an Impaired Agent, the Borrower or a Lender which is required to make a payment under the Finance Documents to the Agent in accordance with Clause 31.1 (Payments to the Agent) may instead either pay that amount direct to the required recipient or pay that amount to an interest-bearing account held with an Acceptable Bank within the meaning of paragraph (a) of the definition of "Acceptable Bank" and in relation to which no Insolvency Event has occurred and is continuing, in the name of the Borrower or the Lender making the payment and designated as a trust account for the benefit of the Party or Parties beneficially entitled to that payment under the Finance Documents. In each case such payments must be made on the due date for payment under the Finance Documents.
(b)    All interest accrued on the amount standing to the credit of the trust account shall be for the benefit of the beneficiaries of that trust account pro rata to their respective entitlements.
(c)    A Party which has made a payment in accordance with this Clause 31.5 shall be discharged of the relevant payment obligation under the Finance Documents and shall not take any credit risk with respect to the amounts standing to the credit of the trust account.
(d)    Promptly upon the appointment of a successor Agent in accordance with Clause 28.13 (Replacement of the Agent), each Party which has made a payment to a trust account in accordance with this Clause 31.5 shall give all requisite instructions to the bank with whom the trust account is held to transfer the amount (together with any accrued interest) to the successor Agent for distribution in accordance with Clause 31.2 (Distributions by the Agent).
31.6    Partial payments
(a)    If the Agent receives a payment that is insufficient to discharge all the amounts then due and payable by the Borrower under the Finance Documents, the Agent shall apply that payment towards the obligations of the Borrower under the Finance Documents in the following order:
(i)    first, in or towards payment pro rata of any unpaid amount owing to the Agent and the Arrangers under the Finance Documents;
(ii)    secondly, in or towards payment pro rata of any accrued interest, fee or commission due but unpaid under this Agreement;
(iii)    thirdly, in or towards payment pro rata of any principal due but unpaid under this Agreement; and
(iv)    fourthly, in or towards payment pro rata of any other sum due but unpaid under the Finance Documents.
(b)    The Agent shall, if so directed by the Majority Lenders, vary the order set out in sub-paragraphs (a)(ii) to (a)(iv) above.
(c)    Paragraphs (a) and (b) above will override any appropriation made by the Borrower.
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31.7    No set-off by the Borrower
All payments to be made by the Borrower under the Finance Documents shall be calculated and be made without (and free and clear of any deduction for) set-off or counterclaim.
31.8    Business Days
(a)    Any payment under the Finance Documents which is due to be made on a day that is not a Business Day shall be made:
(i)    in respect of a payment due on the Final Maturity Date, on the preceding Business Day; or
(ii)    in respect of a payment due on any other date, 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.
31.9    Currency of account
(a)    Subject to paragraphs (b) to (e) below, dollars is the currency of account and payment for any sum due from the Borrower under any Finance Document.
(b)    A repayment of a Loan or Unpaid Sum or a part of a Loan or Unpaid Sum shall be made in the currency in which that Loan or Unpaid Sum is denominated on its due date.
(c)    Each payment of interest shall be made in the currency in which the sum in respect of which the interest is payable was denominated when that interest accrued.
(d)    Each payment in respect of costs, expenses or Taxes shall be made in the currency in which the costs, expenses or Taxes are incurred.
(e)    Any amount expressed to be payable in a currency other than dollars shall be paid in that other currency.
32.    SET-OFF
A Finance Party may set off any matured obligation due from the Borrower under the Finance Documents (to the extent beneficially owned by that Finance Party) against any matured obligation owed by that Finance Party to the Borrower, regardless of the place of payment, booking branch or currency of either obligation. If the obligations are in different currencies, the 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.
33.    NOTICES
33.1    Communications in writing
Except as otherwise provided in Clause 25 (Use of Websites), any communication to be made under or in connection with the Finance Documents shall be made in writing and, unless otherwise stated, may be made by fax, letter or e-mail, provided that in
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the case of e-mail a copy of the communication is also delivered to the Agent by fax or post.
33.2    Addresses
The address and fax number and e-mail address, if applicable, (and the department or officer, if any, for whose attention the communication is to be made) of each Party for any communication or document to be made or delivered under or in connection with the Finance Documents is:
(a)    in the case of the Borrower, that identified with its name below;
(b)    in the case of each Lender, that notified in writing to the Agent on or prior to the date on which it becomes a Party; and
(c)    in the case of the Agent, that identified with its name below,
or any substitute address, fax number, e-mail address or department or officer as the Party may notify to the Agent (or the Agent may notify to the other Parties, if a change is made by the Agent) by not less than five Business Days' notice.
The Borrower
Address:    1391 Timberlake Manor Parkway
Chesterfield, Missouri 63017
United States of America
Attention:    Treasurer
Email:         blm.treasuryoperations@bunge.com
Fax:        (636) 292 4029
with copies to:
Name:        Bunge Global SA
Address:    Route de Florissant 13
1206 Geneva, Switzerland

with copies to:         
Name:        Bunge Global SA
Address:    1391 Timberlake Manor Parkway
Chesterfield, Missouri 63017
United States of America
Attention:    Treasurer
Email:        blm.treasuryoperations@bunge.com
Fax:        (636) 292 4029
The Agent
Address:     Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank
12 Place des Etats Unis
CS 70052
92547 Montrouge Cedex

Tel:         +33 1 41 89 29 93 / +33 1 41 89 17 92
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Email:         julien.verhaeghe@ca-cib.com / mariam.ramli@ca-cib.com
Attention:    Julien VERHAEGHE / Mariam RAMLI
33.3    Delivery
(a)    Except as otherwise provided in Clause 25 (Use of Websites), any communication or document made or delivered by one person to another under or in connection with the Finance Documents will only be effective:
(i)    if by way of fax, when received in legible form;
(ii)    if by way of e-mail, when actually received in legible form and addressed in the manner specified by the recipient; or
(iii)    if by way of letter, when it has been left at the relevant address or five Business Days after being deposited in the post postage prepaid in an envelope addressed to it at that address;
and, if a particular department or officer is specified as part of its address details provided under Clause 33.2 (Addresses), if addressed to that department or officer.
(b)    Except as otherwise provided in Clause 25 (Use of Websites), any communication or document to be made or delivered to the Agent will be effective only when actually received by the Agent and then only if it is expressly marked for the attention of the department or officer identified with the Agent's signature below (or any substitute department or officer as the Agent shall specify for this purpose).
(c)    All notices from or to the Borrower shall be sent through the Agent.
33.4    Notification of address and fax number
Promptly upon changing its own address or fax number, the Agent shall notify the other Parties.
33.5    Communication when Agent is Impaired Agent
If the Agent is an Impaired Agent the Parties may, instead of communicating with each other through the Agent, communicate with each other directly and (while the Agent is an Impaired Agent) all the provisions of the Finance Documents which require communications to be made or notices to be given to or by the Agent shall be varied so that communications may be made and notices given to or by the relevant Parties directly. This provision shall not operate after a replacement Agent has been appointed.
33.6    Electronic communication
(a)    Any communication to be made between the Parties under or in connection with the Finance Documents may be made by electronic mail or other electronic means (including without limitation, by way of posting to a secure website) if those two Parties:
(i)    notify each other in writing of their electronic mail address and/or any other information required to enable the transmission of information by that means; and
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(ii)    notify each other of any change to their address or any other such information supplied by them.
(b)    Any such electronic communication as specified in paragraph (a) above to be made between an Obligor and a Finance Party may only be made in that way to the extent that those two Parties agree that, unless and until notified to the contrary, this is to be an accepted form of communication.
(c)    Any such electronic communication as specified in paragraph (a) above made between any two Parties will be effective only when actually received (or made available) in readable form and in the case of any electronic communication made by a Party to the Agent only if it is addressed in such a manner as the Agent shall specify for this purpose.
(d)    Any electronic communication which becomes effective, in accordance with paragraph (c) above, after 5:00 p.m. in the place in which the Party to whom the relevant communication is sent or made available has its address for the purpose of this Agreement shall be deemed only to become effective on the following day.
(e)    Any reference in a Finance Document to a communication being sent or received shall be construed to include that communication being made available in accordance with this Clause 33.6.
33.7    English language
(a)    Any notice given under or in connection with any Finance Document must be in English.
(b)    All other documents provided under or in connection with any Finance Document must be:
(i)    in English; or
(ii)    if not in English, and if so required by the Agent, accompanied by a certified English translation and, in this case, the English translation will prevail unless the document is a constitutional, statutory or other official document.
34.    CALCULATIONS AND CERTIFICATES
34.1    Accounts
In any litigation or arbitration proceedings arising out of or in connection with a Finance Document, the entries made in the accounts maintained by a Finance Party are prima facie evidence of the matters to which they relate.
34.2    Certificates and Determinations
Any certification or determination by a Finance Party of a rate or amount under any Finance Document is, in the absence of manifest error, conclusive evidence of the matters to which it relates.
34.3    Day count convention and interest calculation
(a)    Any interest, commission or fee accruing under a Finance Document will accrue from day to day and the amount of any such interest, commission or fee is calculated:
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(i)    on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed and a year of 360 days (or, in any case where the practice in the Relevant Market differs, in accordance with that market practice); and
(ii)    subject to paragraph (b) below, without rounding.
(b)    The aggregate amount of any accrued interest, commission or fee which is, or becomes, payable by an Obligor under a Finance Document shall be rounded to 2 decimal places.
35.    PARTIAL INVALIDITY
If, at any time, any provision of a Finance Document 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.
36.    REMEDIES AND WAIVERS
No failure to exercise, nor any delay in exercising, on the part of any Finance Party, any right or remedy under a Finance Document shall operate as a waiver of any such right or remedy or constitute an election to affirm any of the Finance Documents. No election to affirm any Finance Document on the part of any Finance Party shall be effective unless it is in writing. No single or partial exercise of any right or remedy shall prevent any further or other exercise or the exercise of any other right or remedy. The rights and remedies provided in each Finance Document are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights or remedies provided by law.
37.    AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS
37.1    Required consents
(a)    Subject to Clause 37.2 (Exceptions) and Clause 37.3 (Other Exceptions) any term of this Agreement may be amended or waived only with the consent of the Majority Lenders and the Borrower and any such amendment or waiver will be binding on all Parties.
(b)    The Agent may effect, on behalf of any Finance Party, any amendment or waiver permitted by this Clause.
37.2    Exceptions
Subject to Clause 37.4 (Changes to reference rates) an amendment or waiver of any term of any Finance Document that has the effect of changing or which relates to:
(a)    the definition of "Majority Lenders" in Clause 1.1 (Definitions);
(b)    an extension to the date of payment of any amount under this Agreement;
(c)    subject to Clauses 20A (Suspension of Sustainability Performance Targets, Sustainability Progress Targets and Sustainability Benchmarks Due to Merger) and 20B (Changes to Sustainability Performance Targets, Sustainability Progress Targets and Sustainability Benchmark), a reduction in the Applicable Margin or the Sustainability Premium, an increase in the Sustainability Discount or a reduction in the amount of any payment of principal, interest, fees or commission payable;
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(d)    a change in currency of payment of any amount under the Finance Documents;
(e)    except as provided in Clause 2.2 (Accordion Increase), an increase in or an extension of any Commitment or any requirement that a cancellation of Commitments reduces the Commitments of the Lenders rateably under the Facility;
(f)    a change to the Borrower;
(g)    any provision which expressly requires the consent of all the Lenders;
(h)    Clause 2.3 (Finance Parties' rights and obligations), Clause 21.4 (Merger), Clause 5.1 (Delivery of a Utilisation Request), Clause 8.1 (Illegality), Clause 8.2 (Change of control), Clause 22 (Acknowledgment), Clause 26 (Changes to the Lenders), Clause 27 (Changes to the Borrower), Clause 30 (Sharing among the Finance Parties), this Clause 37, Clause 42 (Governing law) or Clause 43.1 (Jurisdiction); or
(i)    any release of the Parent Guarantee or change to the Guarantor (as defined therein),
shall not be made without the prior consent of all the Lenders.
37.3    Other Exceptions
An amendment or waiver which relates to the rights or obligations of the Agent or the Arrangers (each in their capacity as such) may not be effected without the consent of the Agent, or the Arrangers, as the case may be.
37.4    Changes to reference rates
(a)    Subject to Clause 37.3 (Other exceptions), if a Published Rate Replacement Event has occurred in relation to any Published Rate for dollars, any amendment or waiver which relates to:
(i)    providing for the use of a Replacement Reference Rate; and
(ii)    
(A)    aligning any provision of any Finance Document to the use of that Replacement Reference Rate;
(B)    enabling that Replacement Reference Rate to be used for the calculation of interest under this Agreement (including, without limitation, any consequential changes required to enable that Replacement Reference Rate to be used for the purposes of this Agreement);
(C)    implementing market conventions applicable to that Replacement Reference Rate;
(D)    providing for appropriate fallback (and market disruption) provisions for that Replacement Reference Rate; or
(E)    adjusting the pricing to reduce or eliminate, to the extent reasonably practicable, any transfer of economic value from one Party to another as a result of the application of that Replacement Reference Rate (and if any adjustment or method
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for calculating any adjustment has been formally designated, nominated or recommended by the Relevant Nominating Body, the adjustment shall be determined on the basis of that designation, nomination or recommendation),
may be made with the consent of the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) and the Obligors.
(b)    An amendment or waiver that relates to, or has the effect of, aligning the means of calculation of interest on a Compounded SOFR Rate Loan or a Daily Simple SOFR Rate Loan (as applicable) under this Agreement to any recommendation of a Relevant Nominating Body which:
(i)    relates to the use of a risk-free reference rate on a compounded basis (in relation to a Compounded SOFR Rate Loan) or a simple basis (in relation to a Daily Simple SOFR Rate Loan) in the international or any relevant domestic syndicated loan markets; and
(ii)    is issued on or after the date of this Agreement,
may be made with the consent of the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) and the Obligors.
(c)    If any Lender fails to respond to a request for an amendment or waiver described in paragraphs (a) or (b) above within 5 Business Days (unless the Borrower and the Agent agree to a longer time period in relation to any request) of that request being made:
(i)    its Commitment shall not be included for the purpose of calculating the Total Commitments when ascertaining whether any relevant percentage of Total Commitments has been obtained to approve that request; and
(ii)    its status as a Lender shall be disregarded for the purpose of ascertaining whether the agreement of any specified group of Lenders has been obtained to approve that request.
(d)    In this Clause 37.4 (Changes to reference rates):
"Published Rate" means:
(i)    Term SOFR for any Quoted Tenor; or
(ii)    an RFR.
"Published Rate Replacement Event" means, in relation to a Published Rate:
(i)    the methodology, formula or other means of determining that Published Rate has, in the opinion of the Majority Lenders and the Obligors, materially changed; or
(ii)    
(A)    the administrator of that Published Rate or its supervisor publicly announces that such administrator is insolvent; or
(B)    information is published in any order, decree, notice, petition or filing, however described, of or filed with a court, tribunal,
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exchange, regulatory authority or similar administrative, regulatory or judicial body which reasonably confirms that the administrator of that Published Rate is insolvent,
provided that, in each case, at that time, there is no successor administrator to continue to provide that Published Rate;
(iii)    the administrator of that Published Rate publicly announces that it has ceased or will cease to provide that Published Rate permanently or indefinitely and, at that time, there is no successor administrator to continue to provide that Published Rate;
(iv)    the supervisor of the administrator of that Published Rate publicly announces that such Published Rate has been or will be permanently or indefinitely discontinued;
(v)    the administrator of that Published Rate or its supervisor announces that that Published Rate may no longer be used;
(vi)    in the case of the Term SOFR Reference Rate for any Quoted Tenor, the supervisor of the administrator of that Term SOFR Reference Rate makes a public announcement or publishes information stating that the Term SOFR Reference Rate for that Quoted Tenor is no longer, or as of a specified future date will no longer be, representative of the underlying market or the economic reality that it is intended to measure and that representativeness will not be restored (as determined by such supervisor); or
(vii)    the administrator of that Published Rate (or the administrator of an interest rate which is a constituent element of that Published Rate) determines that that Published Rate should be calculated in accordance with its reduced submissions or other contingency or fallback policies or arrangements and either:
(A)    the circumstance(s) or event(s) leading to such determination are not (in the opinion of the Majority Lenders and the Obligors) temporary; or
(B)    that Published Rate is calculated in accordance with any such policy or arrangement for a period no less than the period which is set out opposite the relevant Published Rate in Schedule 13 (Published Rate Contingency Period); or
(viii)    in the opinion of the Majority Lenders and the Obligors, that Published Rate is otherwise no longer appropriate for the purposes of calculating interest under this Agreement.
"Replacement Reference Rate" means a reference rate which is:
(i)    formally designated, nominated or recommended as the replacement for a Published Rate by:
(A)    the administrator of that Published Rate (provided that the market or economic reality that such reference rate measures is the same as that measured by that Published Rate); or
(B)    any Relevant Nominating Body,
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and if replacements have, at the relevant time, been formally designated, nominated or recommended under both paragraphs, the "Replacement Reference Rate" will be the replacement under paragraph (B) above;
(ii)    in the opinion of the Majority Lenders and the Obligors, generally accepted in the international or any relevant domestic syndicated loan markets as the appropriate successor to a Published Rate; or
(iii)    in the opinion of the Majority Lenders and the Obligors, an appropriate successor to a Published Rate.
37.5    Disenfranchisement of Defaulting Lenders
(a)    For so long as a Defaulting Lender has any Commitment or participations in the Loans, in ascertaining whether Majority Lenders approval has been obtained for any request for a consent, waiver, amendment or other vote under the Finance Documents, that Defaulting Lender's Available Commitment shall be disregarded; provided that a Defaulting Lender's consent will still be required where any consent, waiver, amendment or other vote under the Finance Documents expressly requires the consent of all Lenders.
(b)    For the purposes of this Clause 37.5 (Disenfranchisement of Defaulting Lenders), the Agent may assume that the following Lenders are Defaulting Lenders:
(i)    any Lender which has notified the Agent that it has become a Defaulting Lender;
(ii)    any Lender in relation to which it is aware that any of the events or circumstances referred to in paragraphs (a) or (b) of the definition of "Defaulting Lender" has occurred,
unless it has received notice to the contrary from the Lender concerned (together with any supporting evidence reasonably requested by the Agent) or the Agent is otherwise aware that the Lender has ceased to be a Defaulting Lender.
37.6    Replacement of a Defaulting Lender
(a)    The Borrower may, at any time a Lender has become and continues to be a Defaulting Lender, by giving at least 5 Business Days' prior written notice to the Agent and such Lender:
(i)    replace such Lender by requiring such Lender to (and such Lender shall) transfer pursuant to Clause 26 (Changes to the Lenders) all (and not part only) of its rights and obligations under this Agreement;
(ii)    require such Lender to (and such Lender shall) transfer pursuant to Clause 26 (Changes to the Lenders) all (and not part only) of the undrawn Commitment of the Lender; or
(iii)    require such Lender to (and such Lender shall) transfer pursuant to Clause 26 (Changes to the Lenders) all (and not part only) of its rights and obligations in respect of the Facility,
to a Lender or other bank, financial institution, trust, fund or other entity (a "Substitute Lender") selected by the Borrower, and which (unless the Agent
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is an Impaired Agent) is acceptable to the Agent (acting reasonably), which confirms its willingness to assume and does assume all the obligations or all the relevant obligations of the transferring Lender (including the assumption of the transferring Lender's participations or unfunded participations (as the case may be) on the same basis as the transferring Lender) for a purchase price in cash payable at the time of transfer equal to the outstanding principal amount of each Lender's participation in the outstanding Utilisations and all accrued interest, Break Costs and other amounts payable in relation thereto under the Finance Documents.
(b)    Any transfer of rights and obligations of a Defaulting Lender pursuant to this Clause shall be subject to the following conditions:
(i)    the Borrower shall have no right to replace the Agent;
(ii)    the Defaulting Lender shall not have any obligation to the Borrower to find a Substitute Lender;
(iii)    the transfer must take place no later than 15 Business Days after the notice referred to in paragraph (a) above;
(iv)    in no event shall the Defaulting Lender be required to pay or surrender to the Substitute Lender any of the fees received by the Defaulting Lender pursuant to the Finance Documents; and
(v)    the Defaulting Lender shall only be obliged to transfer its rights and obligations pursuant to paragraph (a) above once it is satisfied that it has complied with all necessary "know your customer" or other similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations in relation to that transfer to the Substitute Lender.
(c)    The Defaulting Lender shall perform the checks described in sub-paragraph (b)(v) above as soon as reasonably practicable following delivery of a notice referred to in paragraph (a) above and shall notify the Agent and the Borrower when it is satisfied that it has complied with those checks.
38.    CONFIDENTIALITY
38.1    Confidential Information
Each Finance Party agrees to keep all Confidential Information confidential and not to disclose it to anyone, save to the extent permitted by Clause 38.2 (Disclosure of Confidential Information) and Clause 38.3 (Disclosure to numbering service providers), and to ensure that all Confidential Information is protected with security measures and a degree of care that would apply to its own confidential information.
38.2    Disclosure of Confidential Information
Any Finance Party may disclose:
(a)    to any of its Affiliates and Related Funds and any of its or their officers, directors, employees, professional advisers, service providers, auditors, partners and Representatives such Confidential Information as that Finance Party shall consider appropriate if any person to whom the Confidential Information is to be given pursuant to this paragraph (a) is informed in writing of its confidential nature and that some or all of such Confidential Information may be price-sensitive information except that there shall be no such requirement to so inform if the recipient is subject to professional obligations
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to maintain the confidentiality of the information or is otherwise bound by requirements of confidentiality in relation to the Confidential Information;
(b)    to any person:
(i)    to (or through) whom it assigns or transfers (or may potentially assign or transfer) all or any of its rights and/or obligations under one or more Finance Documents or which succeeds (or which may potentially succeed) it as Agent and, in each case, to any of that person's Affiliates, Related Funds, Representatives and professional advisers;
(ii)    with (or through) whom it enters into (or may potentially enter into), whether directly or indirectly, any sub-participation in relation to, or any other transaction under which payments are to be made or may be made by reference to, one or more Finance Documents and/or one or more Obligors and to any of that person's Affiliates, Related Funds, Representatives and professional advisers;
(iii)    appointed by any Finance Party or by a person to whom sub-paragraph (b)(i) or (b)(ii) above applies to receive communications, notices, information or documents delivered pursuant to the Finance Documents on its behalf;
(iv)    who invests in or otherwise finances (or may potentially invest in or otherwise finance), directly or indirectly, any transaction referred to in sub-paragraph (b)(i) or (b)(ii) above;
(v)    to whom information is required or requested to be disclosed by any court of competent jurisdiction or any governmental, banking, taxation or other regulatory authority or similar body, the rules of any relevant stock exchange or pursuant to any applicable law or regulation;
(vi)    to whom information is required to be disclosed in connection with, and for the purposes of, any litigation, arbitration, administrative or other investigations, proceedings or disputes;
(vii)    to whom or for whose benefit that Finance Party charges, assigns or otherwise creates Security (or may do so) pursuant to Clause 26.6 (Security over Lenders' rights);
(viii)    who is an insurer, reinsurer or insurance broker of, or direct or indirect provider of credit protection to that Finance Party or any of its Affiliates or its brokers;
(ix)    who is a Party; or
(x)    with the consent of the Borrower;
in each case, such Confidential Information as that Finance Party shall consider appropriate if:
(A)    in relation to sub-paragraphs (b)(i), (b)(ii) and (b)(iii) above, the person to whom the Confidential Information is to be given has entered into a Confidentiality Undertaking except that there shall be no requirement for a Confidentiality Undertaking if the recipient is a professional adviser and is subject to professional obligations to maintain the confidentiality of the Confidential Information;
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(B)    in relation to sub-paragraph (b)(iv) above, the person to whom the Confidential Information is to be given has entered into a Confidentiality Undertaking or is otherwise bound by requirements of confidentiality in relation to the Confidential Information they receive and is informed that some or all of such Confidential Information may be price-sensitive information;
(C)    in relation to sub-paragraphs (b)(v), (b)(vi), (b)(vii) and (b)(viii) above, the person to whom the Confidential Information is to be given is informed of its confidential nature and that some or all of such Confidential Information may be price-sensitive information except that there shall be no requirement to so inform if, in the opinion of that Finance Party, it is not practicable so to do in the circumstances;
(c)    to any person appointed by that Finance Party or by a person to whom sub-paragraph (b)(i) or (b)(ii) above applies to provide administration or settlement services in respect of one or more of the Finance Documents including without limitation, in relation to the trading of participations in respect of the Finance Documents, such Confidential Information as may be required to be disclosed to enable such service provider to provide any of the services referred to in this paragraph (c) if the service provider to whom the Confidential Information is to be given has entered into a confidentiality agreement substantially in the form of the LMA Master Confidentiality Undertaking for Use With Administration/Settlement Service Providers or such other form of confidentiality undertaking agreed between the Borrower and the relevant Finance Party;
(d)    to any rating agency (including its professional advisers) such Confidential Information as may be required to be disclosed to enable such rating agency to carry out its normal rating activities in relation to the Finance Documents and/or the Obligors; and
(e)    to any financial information agency such information as may be necessary (but limited to the: names of the Obligors, the country of domicile of the Obligors, the place of incorporation of the Obligors, the sector and business type of the Obligors, the date and governing law of this Agreement, the names of the Agent and the Arrangers, the amount of the Total Commitments, the purpose for which the amounts that have been borrowed under the Facility will be applied, the currency of the Facility, the type of the Facility and the Final Maturity Date of the Facility) for the purpose of such financial information agency compiling league table data in relation to transactions and participants. The Parties acknowledge and agree that any such league table data compiled by a financial information agency may be disclosed to users of its service in accordance with the standard terms and conditions of that financial information agency.
38.3    Disclosure to numbering service providers
(a)    Any Finance Party may disclose to any national or international numbering service provider appointed by that Finance Party to provide identification numbering services in respect of this Agreement, the Facility and/or one or more Obligors the following information:
(i)    names of Obligors;
(ii)    country of domicile of Obligors;
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(iii)    place of incorporation of Obligors;
(iv)    date of this Agreement;
(v)    Clause 42 (Governing Law);
(vi)    the names of the Agent and the Arrangers;
(vii)    date of each amendment and restatement of this Agreement;
(viii)    amount of Total Commitments;
(ix)    currency of the Facility;
(x)    type of Facility;
(xi)    ranking of Facility;
(xii)    Final Maturity Date for Facility;
(xiii)    changes to any of the information previously supplied pursuant to sub-paragraphs (i) to (x) above; and
(xiv)    such other information agreed between such Finance Party and the Borrower,
to enable such numbering service provider to provide its usual syndicated loan numbering identification services.
(b)    The Parties acknowledge and agree that each identification number assigned to this Agreement, the Facility and/or one or more Obligors by a numbering service provider and the information associated with each such number may be disclosed to users of its services in accordance with the standard terms and conditions of that numbering service provider.
(c)    The Borrower represents that none of the information set out in sub-paragraphs (a)(i) to (a)(xii) above is, nor will at any time be, unpublished price-sensitive information.
(d)    The Agent shall notify the Borrower and the other Finance Parties of:
(i)    the name of any numbering service provider appointed by the Agent in respect of this Agreement, the Facility and/or one or more Obligors; and
(ii)    the number or, as the case may be, numbers assigned to this Agreement, the Facility and/or one or more Obligors by such numbering service provider.
38.4    Entire agreement
This Clause 38 constitutes the entire agreement between the Parties in relation to the obligations of the Finance Parties under the Finance Documents regarding Confidential Information and supersedes any previous agreement, whether express or implied, regarding Confidential Information.
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38.5    Inside information
Each of the Finance Parties acknowledges that some or all of the Confidential Information is or may be price-sensitive information and that the use of such information may be regulated or prohibited by applicable legislation including securities law relating to insider dealing and market abuse and each of the Finance Parties undertakes not to use any Confidential Information for any unlawful purpose.
38.6    Notification of disclosure
Each of the Finance Parties agrees (to the extent permitted by law and regulation) to inform the Borrower:
(a)    of the circumstances of any disclosure of Confidential Information made pursuant to sub-paragraph (b)(v) of Clause 38.2 (Disclosure of Confidential Information) except where such disclosure is made to any of the persons referred to in that paragraph during the ordinary course of its supervisory or regulatory function; and
(b)    upon becoming aware that Confidential Information has been disclosed in breach of this Clause 38.
38.7    Continuing obligations
The obligations in this Clause 38 are continuing and, in particular, shall survive and remain binding on each Finance Party for a period of twelve months from the earlier of:
(a)    the date on which all amounts payable by the Obligors under or in connection with this Agreement have been paid in full and all Commitments have been cancelled or otherwise cease to be available; and
(b)    the date on which such Finance Party otherwise ceases to be a Finance Party.
39.    CONFIDENTIALITY OF FUNDING RATES
39.1    Confidentiality and disclosure
(a)    The Agent and each Obligor agree to keep each Funding Rate confidential and not to disclose it to anyone, save to the extent permitted by paragraphs (b), (c) and (d) below.
(b)    The Agent may disclose:
(i)    any Funding Rate to the Borrower pursuant to Clause 10.6 (Notifications of rates of interest); and
(ii)    any Funding Rate to any person appointed by it to provide administration services in respect of one or more of the Finance Documents to the extent necessary to enable such service provider to provide those services if the service provider to whom that information is to be given has entered into a confidentiality agreement substantially in the form of the LMA Master Confidentiality Undertaking for Use With Administration/Settlement Service Providers or such other form of confidentiality undertaking agreed between the Agent and the relevant Lender.
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(c)    The Agent may disclose any Funding Rate and each Obligor may disclose any Funding Rate, to:
(i)    any of its Affiliates and any of its or their officers, directors, employees, professional advisers, auditors, partners and Representatives if any person to whom that Funding Rate is to be given pursuant to this paragraph (i) is informed in writing of its confidential nature and that it may be price-sensitive information except that there shall be no such requirement to so inform if the recipient is subject to professional obligations to maintain the confidentiality of that Funding Rate or is otherwise bound by requirements of confidentiality in relation to it;
(ii)    any person to whom information is required or requested to be disclosed by any court of competent jurisdiction or any governmental, banking, taxation or other regulatory authority or similar body, the rules of any relevant stock exchange or pursuant to any applicable law or regulation if the person to whom that Funding Rate is to be given is informed in writing of its confidential nature and that it may be price-sensitive information except that there shall be no requirement to so inform if, in the opinion of the Agent or the relevant Obligor, as the case may be, it is not practicable to do so in the circumstances;
(iii)    any person to whom information is required to be disclosed in connection with, and for the purposes of, any litigation, arbitration, administrative or other investigations, proceedings or disputes if the person to whom that Funding Rate is to be given is informed in writing of its confidential nature and that it may be price-sensitive information except that there shall be no requirement to so inform if, in the opinion of the Agent or the relevant Obligor, as the case may be, it is not practicable to do so in the circumstances; and
(iv)    any person with the consent of the relevant Lender (as applicable).
(d)    The Agent's obligations in this Clause 39 are without prejudice to its obligations to make notifications under Clause 10.6 (Notification of rates of interest).
39.2    Related obligations
(a)    The Agent and each Obligor acknowledge that each Funding Rate is or may be price-sensitive information and that its use may be regulated or prohibited by applicable legislation including securities law relating to insider dealing and market abuse and the Agent and each Obligor undertake not to use any Funding Rate for any unlawful purpose.
(b)    The Agent and each Obligor agree (to the extent permitted by law and regulation) to inform the relevant Lender:
(i)    of the circumstances of any disclosure made pursuant to paragraph (c)(ii) of Clause 39.1 (Confidentiality and disclosure) except where such disclosure is made to any of the persons referred to in that paragraph during the ordinary course of its supervisory or regulatory function; and
(ii)    upon becoming aware that any information has been disclosed in breach of this Clause 39.
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39.3    No Event of Default
No Event of Default will occur under Clause 24.3 (Other obligations) by reason only of an Obligor's failure to comply with this Clause 39.
40.    CONTRACTUAL RECOGNITION OF BAIL-IN
Notwithstanding any other term of any Finance Document or any other agreement, arrangement or understanding between the Parties, each Party acknowledges and accepts that any liability of any Party to any other Party under or in connection with the Finance Documents may be subject to Bail-In Action by the relevant Resolution Authority and acknowledges and accepts to be bound by the effect of:
(a)    any Bail-In Action in relation to any such liability, including (without limitation):
(i)    a reduction, in full or in part, in the principal amount, or outstanding amount due (including any accrued but unpaid interest) in respect of any such liability;
(ii)    a conversion of all, or part of, any such liability into shares or other instruments of ownership that may be issued to, or conferred on, it; and
(iii)    a cancellation of any such liability; and
(b)    a variation of any term of any Finance Document to the extent necessary to give effect to any Bail-In Action in relation to any such liability.
41.    COUNTERPARTS
Each Finance 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 Finance Document.
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GOVERNING LAW AND ENFORCEMENT
42.    GOVERNING LAW
This Agreement and all non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with this Agreement are governed by English law.
43.    ENFORCEMENT
43.1    Jurisdiction
(a)    The courts of England 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 or the consequences of its nullity) or any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with this Agreement (a "Dispute").
(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)    The Borrower waives, to the maximum extent not prohibited by law, any right it may have to claim or recover in any legal action or proceeding referred to in this Clause 43.1 any special exemplary, punitive or consequential damages.
43.2    Service of process
Without prejudice to any other mode of service allowed under any relevant law, the Borrower:
(a)    irrevocably appoints Bunge Corporation Limited, (company number 03132265, Room 113, 65 London Wall, London EC2M 5TU) as its agent for service of process in relation to any proceedings before the English courts in connection with any Finance Document; and
(b)    agrees that failure by a process agent to notify the Borrower of the process will not invalidate the proceedings concerned.
THIS AGREEMENT has been entered into on the date stated at the beginning of this Agreement.
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SCHEDULE 1
APPLICABLE MARGIN
1.    Applicable Margin
1.1    Subject to the other provisions of this Schedule, the Applicable Margin is 0.40 per cent. per annum unless:
(a)    an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and/or neither an Applicable Moody's Rating nor an Applicable S&P Rating is available, in which case the Applicable Margin shall be 0.90 per cent. per annum; or
(b)    Moody's are publishing an Applicable Moody's Rating and/or S&P are publishing an Applicable S&P Rating, in which case the Applicable Margin is the percentage rate per annum that corresponds to that rating, as in effect from time to time as set out in the following table:
Applicable S&P
Rating
Applicable Moody's Rating Applicable Margin (% per annum)
A- or above A3 or above 0.25
BBB+ Baa1 0.30
BBB Baa2 0.50
BBB- Baa3 0.70
BB+ or lower Ba1 or lower 0.90

(c)    If the Applicable Moody's Rating and the Applicable S&P Rating appear on different lines of the table at paragraph (b) of this Clause 1, the Applicable Margin will be determined as follows:
(i)    if there is a split Rating of one notch, the Applicable Margin shall be the average of the Applicable Margin of the two notches;
(ii)    if there is a split Rating of two notches, the Applicable Margin shall be the Applicable Margin for the intermediate notch;
(iii)    if there is a split rating of more than two notches, the Applicable Margin should be average of the Applicable Margin of the two notches; and
(iv)    if only one of the Rating Agencies has provided an Applicable Rating then the Applicable Margin shall be calculated by assuming that the Rating Agency that did not provide an Applicable Rating would provide an Applicable Rating two notches below the Applicable Rating that was provided.
(d)    Any change to the Applicable Margin in respect of any change in rating pursuant to this Clause 1 shall take effect on the first Business Day after the
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Borrower has notified the Agent of the change in rating by the relevant Rating Agency.
(e)    If the long term unsecured debt ratings service provided by S&P or Moody's ceases to be available, the Agent can, after consultation with the Borrower and the Lenders, specify an alternative provider of an equivalent service for the purposes of calculating the Applicable Margin.
2.    Sustainability Adjustments
(a)    Subject to paragraph (i) below, the Applicable Margin shall be reduced by:
(i)    [***] for each Sustainability Performance Target (as detailed in the Sustainability Benchmark) that has been achieved; and
(ii)    (in relation to Sustainability Performance Target 4 and Sustainability Performance Target 5 for 2025 only and provided that such applicable Sustainability Performance Target has not been achieved) [***] for each Sustainability Progress Target that has been achieved,
in each case, as demonstrated by the most recently delivered Sustainability Certificate (the "Sustainability Discount").
(b)    Subject to paragraph (i) below, the Applicable Margin shall be increased by [***] for each Sustainability Performance Target for which the penalty level has been reached as demonstrated by the most recently delivered Sustainability Certificate (the "Sustainability Premium").
(c)    The Applicable Margin shall be reset (such that it is not subject to any Sustainability Discount or Sustainability Premium) on:
(i)    if the most recent Sustainability Certificate has been delivered by the relevant Sustainability Certificate Due Date, the date falling 12 months from the date of delivery of the most recent Sustainability Certificate; or
(ii)    if the most recent Sustainability Certificate has not been delivered by the relevant Sustainability Certificate Due Date, the subsequent Sustainability Certificate Due Date.
(d)    In the event of:
(i)    a failure by the Borrower to deliver a Sustainability Certificate by the relevant Sustainability Certificate Due Date; or
(ii)    the Borrower delivering a Sustainability Certificate which is or proves to have been incorrect or inaccurate in any respect,
then, from the relevant Sustainability Certificate Due Date (in the case of sub-paragraph (i) above) or the date on which the incorrect or inaccurate Sustainability Certificate was delivered (in the case of sub-paragraph (ii) above):
(A)    no Sustainability Discount will be applied to the Applicable Margin; and
(B)    the maximum Sustainability Premium shall be applied to the Applicable Margin,
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(iii)    up until the Business Day following the date on which the Agent receives the applicable Sustainability Certificate (in the case of sub-paragraph (i) above) or a corrected Sustainability Certificate (in the case of sub-paragraph (ii) above) at which point the Applicable Margin shall be reset in accordance with the information contained in that Sustainability Certificate (in the case of sub-paragraph (i) above) or that corrected Sustainability Certificate (in the case of sub-paragraph (ii) above).
(e)    At no point shall the Applicable Margin be:
(i)    reduced by more than [***] as a result of the Sustainability Discount; or
(ii)    increased by more than [***] as a result of the Sustainability Premium.
(f)    Subject to paragraph (d) above, any change in the Applicable Margin pursuant to this Clause 2 shall become effective on and from the first Business Day immediately following the date the Agent receives the most recent Sustainability Certificate.
(g)    No Sustainability Discount or Sustainability Premium shall apply at any time an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.
(h)    Subject to paragraph (i) below, for the avoidance of doubt if any Sustainability Certificate does not certify the score of one or more of the Sustainability Performance Targets, or Sustainability Progress Targets, or does not certify or provide any required third-party verification for any relevant Sustainability Performance Target, or Sustainability Progress Targets, the rest of the information in that Sustainability Certificate will still be considered to be valid.
(i)    If any Sustainability Certificate delivered by the Borrower:
(i)    does not certify the score of any Sustainability Performance Target and/or Sustainability Progress Target (where applicable); or
(ii)    does not certify or provide any required third-party verification for any relevant Sustainability Performance Target and/or Sustainability Progress Targets (where applicable),
then:
(iii)    no Sustainability Discount will be applied to the Applicable Margin in respect of such Sustainability Performance Target and/or Sustainability Progress Target (where applicable); and
(iv)    the maximum Sustainability Premium shall be applied to the Applicable Margin in respect of such Sustainability Performance Target.
(j)    Subject to paragraph (d) above, a Sustainability Discount of [***] shall be applied to the Applicable Margin during the period beginning on the date of this Agreement and ending on (and including) the date the Agent receives a Sustainability Certificate in 2024.
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SCHEDULE 4
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO INITIAL UTILISATION
1.    Obligors
(a)    A copy of the constitutional documents of each Obligor (including the Parent) or, in the case of the Borrower, a copy of the articles of association (statuten) and deed of incorporation (oprichtingsakte) as well as an extract (uittreksel) from the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (Kamer van Koophandel) of the Borrower.
(b)    A copy of a resolution of the board of directors of each Obligor (including the Parent):
(i)    approving the terms of, and the transactions contemplated by, the Finance Documents to which it is a party and resolving that it execute the Finance Documents to which it is a party;
(ii)    if applicable, authorising a specified person or persons to execute the Finance Documents to which it is a party on its behalf; and
(iii)    if applicable, authorising a specified person or persons, on its behalf, to sign and/or despatch all documents and notices (including, if relevant, any Utilisation Request) to be signed and/or despatched by it under or in connection with the Finance Documents to which it is a party.
(c)    To the extent required under Dutch law or Borrower’s articles of association, a copy of the resolution of the general meeting (algemene vergadering) of the Borrower approving the resolutions of the board of managing directors referred to under paragraph (b) above.
(d)    To the extent required under Dutch law or Borrower’s articles of association, a copy of the resolution of the board of supervisory directors (raad van commissarissen) of the Borrower approving the resolutions of the board of managing directors referred to under paragraph (b) above.
(e)    If applicable, a copy of (i) the request for advice from each (central or European) works council (centrale of Europese) (ondernemingsraad) with jurisdiction over the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and (ii) the positive advice from such works council which contains no condition, which if complied with, could result in a breach of any of the Finance Documents.
(f)    A specimen of the signature of each person authorised by the resolution referred to in paragraph (b) above in relation to the Finance Documents.
(g)    A certificate of each Obligor (including the Parent) (signed by a Responsible Officer) confirming that borrowing or guaranteeing, as appropriate, the Total Commitments would not violate any borrowing or, guaranteeing limit set forth in any Contractual Obligation or Requirement of Law binding on the respective Obligor.
(h)    A certificate of an authorised signatory of each Obligor (including Parent) certifying that each copy document relating to it specified in this Schedule 4 is correct, complete and in full force and effect as at a date no earlier than the date of this Agreement.
2.    Legal opinions
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(a)    A legal opinion of Clifford Chance LLP, legal advisers to the Arrangers and the Agent as to matters of English law, opining notably as to the validity under English law of the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement.
(b)    A legal opinion of Clifford Chance LLP, legal advisers to the Arrangers and the Agent as to matters of Dutch law, opining notably as to (i) the capacity of the Borrower to enter into and perform its obligations under the Finance Documents, (ii) the recognition under Dutch law of the validity of such obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement and (iii) the recognition and enforcement in The Netherlands of any judgement rendered against the Borrower pursuant to the jurisdiction provisions of the Finance Documents.
(c)    A legal opinion of Conyers Dill & Pearman Limited, special legal counsel to Bunge Limited, as the original parent (in such capacity, the “Original Parent”), as to matters of Bermuda law, opining notably as to (i) the capacity of the Original Parent to enter into and perform its obligations under the Parent Guarantee, (ii) the recognition under Bermuda law of the validity of such obligations and the choice of law expressed in the Parent Guarantee and (iii) the recognition and enforcement in Bermuda of any judgement rendered against the Original Parent pursuant to the jurisdiction provisions of the Parent Guarantee.
(d)    A legal opinion of Reed Smith LLP, legal advisor to the Original Parent and the Parent as to matters of New York law, opining notably as to the validity under New York law of the obligations of the Original Parent and the Parent under the Parent Guarantee.
(e)    A legal opinion of Homburger AG, special legal counsel to the Parent as to matters of Swiss law, opining notably as to (i) the capacity of the Parent to enter into and perform its obligations under the Parent Guarantee, (ii) the recognition under Swiss law of the validity of such obligations and the choice of law expressed in the Parent Guarantee and (iii) the recognition and enforcement in Switzerland of any judgement rendered against the Parent pursuant to the jurisdiction provisions of the Parent Guarantee.
3.    Other documents and evidence
(a)    One signed original of the Parent Guarantee (signed by the Original Parent and the Parent).
(b)    An executed copy of each Fee Letter.
(c)    Evidence that any process agent referred to in Clause 43.2 (Service of process), has accepted its appointment.
(d)    A certificate of the Original Parent confirming the prevalent Ratings in respect of the Original Parent on the date of this Agreement.
(e)    The latest annual consolidated audited and certified financial statements of the Original Parent.
(f)    Evidence that the 2021 Facility has been, or will have been, on or by the first Utilisation Date, unconditionally and irrevocably prepaid or repaid and cancelled in full.
(g)    Evidence that the fees, costs and expenses then due from the Borrower pursuant to Clause 13 (Fees) and Clause 18 (Costs and expenses) have been paid or will be paid by the first Utilisation Date.
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(h)    A copy of any other document, authorisation, opinion or assurance reasonably requested by the Agent.
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SCHEDULE 7
TIMETABLES
Loans in dollars
Delivery of a duly completed Utilisation Request (Clause 5.1 (Delivery of a Utilisation Request))
U-3
4:00 p.m. Paris time
Agent notifies the Lenders of the Loan in accordance with Clause 5.4 (Lenders' participation)
U-3
Term SOFR Reference Rate is fixed As set out in the applicable SOFR Rate Terms
Starting time for required notice period in respect of a voluntary cancellation (Clause 8.3 (Voluntary cancellation))
4:00 p.m. Paris time
Starting time for required notice period in respect of a voluntary prepayment (Clause 8.4 (Voluntary Prepayment of Loans))
4:00 p.m. Paris time
Interpolated Term SOFR is used as a fallback (Clause 12.1(a) (Unavailability of Term SOFR)) As set out in the applicable SOFR Rate Terms
Shortened Interest Period for Term SOFR is used as a fallback (Clause 12.1(b) Unavailability of Term SOFR))
As set out in the applicable SOFR Rate Terms
"U" = date of utilisation
"U - X" = X Business Days prior to date of utilisation
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SCHEDULE 10
SOFR RATE TERMS
PART I
TERM SOFR – SOFR RATE TERMS FOR A TERM SOFR RATE LOAN
Definitions
Additional Business Days: An RFR Banking Day.
Break Costs:
The amount (if any) by which:
(a)    the interest minus the Applicable Margin which a Lender should have received for the period from the date of receipt of all or any part of its participation in a Term SOFR Rate Loan to the last day of the current Interest Period in respect of that Term SOFR Rate Loan, had the principal amount of that Term SOFR Rate Loan received been paid on the last day of that Interest Period;
exceeds
(b)    the amount which that Lender would be able to obtain by placing an amount equal to the principal amount of that Term SOFR Rate Loan received by it on deposit with a leading bank in the London interbank market for a period starting on the Business Day following receipt or recovery and ending on the last day of that Interest Period.
Credit Adjustment Spread:
The percentage rate per annum calculated as follows:

Interest Period
Credit Adjustment Spread
(per cent. per annum)
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3 months 0.25

If the Interest Period has a different tenor to that set out in the above table, then the appropriate Credit Adjustment Spread shall be determined by linear interpolation between the spread specified here and that associated with the next shortest tenor in Part III of this Schedule 10.
Business Day Conventions:
(definition of "Month" and Clause 11.2 (Non-Business Days)):
(a)    If any period is expressed to accrue by reference to a Month or any number of Months then, in respect of the last Month of that period:

(i)    subject to paragraph (iii) below, if the numerically corresponding day is not a Business Day, that period shall end on the next Business Day in that calendar month in which that period is to end if there is one, or if there is not, on the immediately preceding Business Day;
(ii)    if there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month in which that period is to end, that period shall end on the last Business Day in that calendar month; and
(iii)    if an Interest Period begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month, that Interest Period shall end on the last Business Day in the calendar month in which that Interest Period is to end.

(b)    If an Interest Period would otherwise end on a day which is not a Business Day, that Interest Period will instead end on the next Business Day in that calendar month (if there is one) or the preceding Business Day (if there is not).
Fallback Interest Period: One month
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Market Disruption Rate: The percentage rate per annum which is the aggregate of the Term SOFR Reference Rate and the applicable Credit Adjustment Spread.
Relevant Market:
The market for overnight cash borrowing collateralised by US Government securities.
RFR Banking Day:
Any day other than:
(a)    a Saturday or Sunday; and
(b)    a day on which the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (or any successor organisation) recommends that the fixed income departments of its members be closed for the entire day for purposes of trading in US Government securities.
SOFR: The secured overnight financing rate administered by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or any other person which takes over the administration of that rate) published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or any other person which takes over the publication of that rate).
Term SOFR: The term SOFR reference rate administered by CME Group Benchmark Administration Limited (or any other person which takes over the administration of that rate) for the relevant period published by CME Group Benchmark Administration Limited (or any other person which takes over the publication of that rate).
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Quotation Day: In relation to any period for which an interest rate is to be determined for a Term SOFR Rate Loan, two RFR Banking Days before the first day of that period (unless market practice differs in the relevant syndicated loan market, in which case the Quotation Day will be determined by the Agent in accordance with that market practice (and if quotations would normally be given on more than one day, the Quotation Day will be the last of those days)).
Term SOFR Contingency Period: 30 days
Interest Periods
Periods capable of selection as Interest Periods (paragraph (b) of Clause 11.1 (Selection of Interest Periods)):
Three Months
Timetables:
Term SOFR is fixed Quotation Day
Interpolated Term SOFR is used as a fallback (Clause 12.1(a) (Unavailability of Term SOFR)) 5:00 p.m. (New York City time)
Shortened Interest Period for Term SOFR is used as a fallback (Clause 12.1(b) (Unavailability of Term SOFR)) 5:00 p.m. (New York City time)

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PART II
COMPOUNDED SOFR – SOFR RATE TERMS FOR A COMPOUNDED SOFR RATE LOAN
Cost of funds will apply as a fallback
Definitions
Additional Business Days: An RFR Banking Day
Break Costs: None specified.
Business Day Conventions:
(definition of "Month" and Clause 11.2 (Non-Business Days)):
(a)    If any period is expressed to accrue by reference to a Month or any number of Months then, in respect of the last Month of that period:
(i)    subject to paragraph (iii) below, if the numerically corresponding day is not a Business Day, that period shall end on the next Business Day in that calendar month in which that period is to end if there is one, or if there is not, on the immediately preceding Business Day;
(ii)    if there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month in which that period is to end, that period shall end on the last Business Day in that calendar month; and
(iii)    if an Interest Period begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month, that Interest Period shall end on the last Business Day in the calendar month in which that Interest Period is to end.
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(b)    If an Interest Period would otherwise end on a day which is not a Business Day, that Interest Period will instead end on the next Business Day in that calendar month (if there is one) or the preceding Business Day (if there is not).
Central Bank Rate:
(a)    The short-term interest rate target set by the US Federal Open Market Committee as published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from time to time; or
(b)    if that target is not a single figure, the arithmetic mean of:
(i)    the upper bound of the short-term interest rate target range set by the US Federal Open Market Committee and published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; and
(ii)    the lower bound of that target range.
Central Bank Rate Adjustment:
In relation to the Central Bank Rate prevailing at close of business on any RFR Banking Day, the 20 per cent. trimmed arithmetic mean (calculated by the Agent, or by any other Finance Party which agrees to do so in place of the Agent) of the Central Bank Rate Spreads for the five most immediately preceding RFR Banking Days for which the RFR is available.
Central Bank Rate Spread: In relation to any RFR Banking Day, the difference (expressed as a percentage rate per annum) calculated by the Agent between:
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(a)    the RFR for that RFR Banking Day; and
(b)    the Central Bank Rate prevailing at close of business on that RFR Banking Day.
Credit Adjustment Spread: The percentage rate per annum calculated as follows:
Interest Period
Credit Adjustment Spread
(per cent. per annum)
3 months 0.25
If the Interest Period has a different tenor to that set out in the above table, then the appropriate Credit Adjustment Spread shall be determined by linear interpolation between the spread specified here and that associated with the next shortest tenor in Part III of this Schedule 10.
Daily Rate:
The "Daily Rate" for any RFR Banking Day is:
(a)    the RFR for that RFR Banking Day; or
(b)    if the RFR is not available for that RFR Banking Day, the percentage rate per annum which is the aggregate of:
(i)    the Central Bank Rate for that RFR Banking Day; and
(ii)    the applicable Central Bank Rate Adjustment; or
(c)    if paragraph (b) above applies but the Central Bank Rate for that RFR Banking Day is not available, the percentage rate per annum which is the aggregate of:
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(i)    the most recent Central Bank Rate for a day which is no more than five RFR Banking Days before that RFR Banking Day; and
(ii)    the applicable Central Bank Rate Adjustment,
rounded, in either case, to five decimal places and if, in either case, the aggregate of that rate and the applicable Credit Adjustment Spread is less than zero, the Daily Rate shall be deemed to be such a rate that the aggregate of the Daily Rate and the applicable Credit Adjustment Spread is zero.
Lookback Period: Five RFR Banking Days.
Market Disruption Rate:
The percentage rate per annum which is the aggregate of:
(a)    the Cumulative Compounded SOFR Rate for the Interest Period of the relevant Loan; and
(b) the applicable Credit Adjustment Spread.
Relevant Market:
The market for overnight cash borrowing collateralised by US Government securities.
Reporting Day: The Business Day which follows the day which is the Lookback Period prior to the last day of the Interest Period.
RFR: The secured overnight financing rate (SOFR) administered by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or any other person which takes over the administration of that rate) published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or any other person which takes over the publication of that rate).
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RFR Banking Day:
Any day other than:
(a)    a Saturday or Sunday; and
(b)    a day on which the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (or any successor organisation) recommends that the fixed income departments of its members be closed for the entire day for purposes of trading in US Government securities.
Reporting Times
Deadline for Lenders to report market disruption in accordance with Clause 12.4 (Market disruption)
Close of business in Paris on the Reporting Day for the relevant Loan.
Deadline for Lenders to report their cost of funds in accordance with Clause 12.5 (Cost of funds)
Close of business on the date falling two Business Days after the Reporting Day for the relevant Loan (or, if earlier, on the date falling two Business Days before the date on which interest is due to be paid in respect of the Interest Period for that Loan).
RFR Contingency Period: 30 days
Interest Periods
Periods capable of selection as Interest Periods (paragraph (b) of Clause 11.1 (Selection of Interest Periods)):
Three Months

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PART III
DAILY SIMPLE SOFR – SOFR RATE TERMS FOR A DAILY SIMPLE SOFR
RATE LOAN

Cost of funds will apply as a fallback
Definitions
Additional Business Days: An RFR Banking Day
Break Costs: None specified.
Business Day Conventions (definition of "Month" and Clause 11.2 (Non-Business Days)):
(a)    If any period is expressed to accrue by reference to a Month or any number of Months then, in respect of the last Month of that period:
(i)    subject to paragraph (iii) below, if the numerically corresponding day is not a Business Day, that period shall end on the next Business Day in that calendar month in which that period is to end if there is one, or if there is not, on the immediately preceding Business Day;
(ii)    if there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month in which that period is to end, that period shall end on the last Business Day in that calendar month; and
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(iii)    if an Interest Period begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month, that Interest Period shall end on the last Business Day in the calendar month in which that Interest Period is to end.
(b)    If an Interest Period would otherwise end on a day which is not a Business Day, that Interest Period will instead end on the next Business Day in that calendar month (if there is one) or the preceding Business Day (if there is not).
Central Bank Rate:
(a)    The short-term interest rate target set by the US Federal Open Market Committee as published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from time to time; or
(b)    if that target is not a single figure, the arithmetic mean of:
(i)    the upper bound of the short-term interest rate target range set by the US Federal Open Market Committee and published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; and
(ii)    the lower bound of that target range.
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Central Bank Rate Adjustment:
In relation to the Central Bank Rate prevailing at close of business on any RFR Banking Day, the 20 per cent. trimmed arithmetic mean (calculated by the Agent, or by any other Finance Party which agrees to do so in place of the Agent) of the Central Bank Rate Spreads for the five most immediately preceding RFR Banking Days for which the RFR is available.
Central Bank Rate Spread: In relation to any RFR Banking Day, the difference (expressed as a percentage rate per annum) calculated by the Agent between:
(a)    the RFR for that RFR Banking Day; and
(b)    the Central Bank Rate prevailing at close of business on that RFR Banking Day.
Credit Adjustment Spread: The percentage rate per annum calculated as follows:
Interest Period
Credit Adjustment Spread
(per cent. per annum)
Five RFR Banking Days 0.05
1 Month 0.10
If the Interest Period has a different tenor to those set out in the above table, then the appropriate Credit Adjustment Spread shall be determined by linear interpolation between the spreads specified here associated with the next shortest tenor and the next longest tenor.
Daily Rate:
The "Daily Rate" for any RFR Banking Day is:
(a)    the RFR for that RFR Banking Day; or
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(b)     if the RFR is not available for that RFR Banking Day, the most recent RFR for a day which is no more than five RFR Banking Days before that RFR Banking Day;
(c)    if paragraph (b) above applies but an RFR for a day which is no more than five RFR Banking Days before that RFR Banking Day is not available, the percentage rate per annum which is the aggregate of:
(i)    the Central Bank Rate for that RFR Banking Day; and
(ii)    the applicable Central Bank Rate Adjustment; or
(d)    if paragraph (c) above applies but the Central Bank Rate for that RFR Banking Day is not available, the percentage rate per annum which is the aggregate of:
(i)    the most recent Central Bank Rate for a day which is no more than five RFR Banking Days before that RFR Banking Day; and
(ii)    the applicable Central Bank Rate Adjustment,
rounded, in either case, to five decimal places and if, in either case, the aggregate of that rate and the applicable Credit Adjustment Spread is less than zero, the Daily Rate shall be deemed to be such a rate that the aggregate of the Daily Rate and the applicable Credit Adjustment Spread is zero.
Lookback Period: Five RFR Banking Days.
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Market Disruption Rate: The percentage rate per annum which is the aggregate of the applicable Daily Simple SOFR Reference Rates for the days in the Interest Period of the relevant Loan prior to the Reporting Day.
Relevant Market:
The market for overnight cash borrowing collateralised by US Government securities.
Reporting Day: The Business Day which follows the day which is the Lookback Period prior to the last day of the Interest Period.
RFR: The secured overnight financing rate (SOFR) administered by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or any other person which takes over the administration of that rate) published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or any other person which takes over the publication of that rate).
RFR Banking Day:
Any day other than:
(a)    a Saturday or Sunday; and
(b)    a day on which the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (or any successor organisation) recommends that the fixed income departments of its members be closed for the entire day for purposes of trading in US Government securities.
Reporting Times
Deadline for Lenders to report market disruption in accordance with Clause 12.4 (Market disruption)
Close of business in Paris on the Reporting Day for the relevant Loan.
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Deadline for Lenders to report their cost of funds in accordance with Clause 12.5 (Cost of funds)
Close of business on the date falling two Business Days after the Reporting Day for the relevant Loan (or, if earlier, on the date falling two Business Days before the date on which interest is due to be paid in respect of the Interest Period for that Loan).
RFR Contingency Period: 30 days
Interest Periods
Periods capable of selection as Interest Periods (paragraph (a) of Clause 11.1 (Selection of Interest Periods)):
Five RFR Banking Days (ending on an RFR Banking Day) or one Month.


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SCHEDULE 11
DAILY NON-CUMULATIVE COMPOUNDED SOFR RATE
The "Daily Non-Cumulative Compounded SOFR Rate" for any RFR Banking Day "i" during an Interest Period for a Compounded SOFR Rate Loan is the percentage rate per annum (without rounding, to the extent reasonably practicable for the Finance Party performing the calculation, taking into account the capabilities of any software used for that purpose) calculated as set out below:
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where:
"UCCDRi" means the Unannualised Cumulative Compounded Daily Rate for that RFR Banking Day "i";
"UCCDRi-1" means, in relation to that RFR Banking Day "i", the Unannualised Cumulative Compounded Daily Rate for the immediately preceding RFR Banking Day (if any) during that Interest Period;
"dcc" means 360 or, in any case where market practice in the Relevant Market is to use a different number for quoting the number of days in a year, that number;
"ni" means the number of calendar days from, and including, that RFR Banking Day "i" up to, but excluding, the following RFR Banking Day; and
the "Unannualised Cumulative Compounded Daily Rate" for any RFR Banking Day (the "Cumulated RFR Banking Day") during that Interest Period is the result of the below calculation (without rounding, to the extent reasonably practicable for the Finance Party performing the calculation, taking into account the capabilities of any software used for that purpose):
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where:
"ACCDR" means the Annualised Cumulative Compounded Daily Rate for that Cumulated RFR Banking Day;
"tni" means the number of calendar days from, and including, the first day of the Cumulation Period to, but excluding, the RFR Banking Day which immediately follows the last day of the Cumulation Period;
"Cumulation Period" means the period from, and including, the first RFR Banking Day of that Interest Period to, and including, that Cumulated RFR Banking Day;
"dcc" has the meaning given to that term above; and
the "Annualised Cumulative Compounded Daily Rate" for that Cumulated RFR Banking Day is the percentage rate per annum (rounded to 5 decimal places) calculated as set out below:
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where:
"d0" means the number of RFR Banking Days in the Cumulation Period;
"Cumulation Period" has the meaning given to that term above;
"i" means a series of whole numbers from one to d0, each representing the relevant RFR Banking Day in chronological order in the Cumulation Period;
"DailyRatei-LP" means, for any RFR Banking Day "i" in the Cumulation Period, the Daily Rate for the RFR Banking Day which is the applicable Lookback Period prior to that RFR Banking Day "i";
"ni" means, for any RFR Banking Day "i" in the Cumulation Period, the number of calendar days from, and including, that RFR Banking Day "i" up to, but excluding, the following RFR Banking Day;
"dcc" has the meaning given to that term above; and
"tni" has the meaning given to that term above.

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SCHEDULE 12
CUMULATIVE COMPOUNDED SOFR RATE
The "Cumulative Compounded SOFR Rate" for any Interest Period for a Compounded SOFR Rate Loan is the percentage rate per annum (rounded to the same number of decimal places as is specified in the definition of "Annualised Cumulative Compounded Daily Rate" in Schedule 11 (Daily Non-Cumulative Compounded SOFR Rate)) calculated as set out below:
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where:
"d0" means the number of RFR Banking Days during the Interest Period;
"i" means a series of whole numbers from one to d0, each representing the relevant RFR Banking Day in chronological order during the Interest Period;
"DailyRatei-LP" means for any RFR Banking Day "i" during the Interest Period, the Daily Rate for the RFR Banking Day which is the applicable Lookback Period prior to that RFR Banking Day "i";
"ni" means, for any RFR Banking Day "i", the number of calendar days from, and including, that RFR Banking Day "i" up to, but excluding, the following RFR Banking Day;
"dcc" means 360 or, in any case where market practice in the Relevant Market is to use a different number for quoting the number of days in a year, that number; and
"d" means the number of calendar days during that Interest Period.


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SCHEDULE 13
PUBLISHED RATE CONTINGENCY PERIOD

Published Rate Period
RFR As set out in the applicable SOFR Rate Terms
Term SOFR (all Quoted Tenors) As set out in the applicable SOFR Rate Terms


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SIGNATURES

THE BORROWER
BUNGE FINANCE EUROPE B.V.

By:                         
Name:
Title:




Signature Page to the Revolving Facility Agreement


THE ARRANGERS
BNP PARIBAS

By:

Name:


By:

Name:

Signature Page to the Revolving Facility Agreement



ING BANK N.V.


By:

Name:


By:

Name:

Signature Page to the Revolving Facility Agreement



NATIXIS


By:

Name:


By:

Name:
Signature Page to the Revolving Facility Agreement


SUMITOMO MITSUI BANKING CORPORATION

By:


Name:                                                                                                             


















Signature Page to the Revolving Facility Agreement


CRÉDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK


By:

Name:



By:

Name:


Signature Page to the Revolving Facility Agreement


THE ORIGINAL LENDERS
BNP PARIBAS

By:

Name:



By:

Name:

Signature Page to the Revolving Facility Agreement



CITIBANK N.A., JERSEY BRANCH


By:

Name:

Signature Page to the Revolving Facility Agreement



COMMERZBANK AG, NEW YORK BRANCH


By:

Name:



By:

Name:

Signature Page to the Revolving Facility Agreement



COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA (EUROPE) N.V.


By:

Name:



By:

Name:

Signature Page to the Revolving Facility Agreement



COÖPERATIEVE RABOBANK U.A.



By:



Name:





By:



Name:

Signature Page to the Revolving Facility Agreement



DBS BANK LTD.



By:



Name:





By:



Name:

Signature Page to the Revolving Facility Agreement



DEUTSCHE BANK LUXEMBOURG S.A.



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DZ BANK AG DEUTSCHE ZENTRAL-GENOSSENSCHAFTSBANK, NEW YORK BRANCH



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ERSTE GROUP BANK AG



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INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED, NEW YORK BRANCH



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ING BANK N.V.



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ITAU UNIBANCO S.A., MIAMI BRANCH



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MIZUHO BANK, LTD.



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NATIXIS



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OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED, NEW YORK AGENCY



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PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION



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ROYAL BANK OF CANADA



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SKANDINAVISKA ENSKILDA BANKEN AB (PUBL) FRANKFURT BRANCH



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SUMITOMO MITSUI BANKING CORPORATION



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THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA



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U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION



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WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION



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CRÉDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK
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BANK OF CHINA, NEW YORK BRANCH

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BANK OF MONTREAL

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STANDARD CHARTERED BANK

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WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION                    
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AGRICULTURAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED, NEW YORK BRANCH

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INTESA SANPAOLO S.P.A. AMSTERDAM BRANCH

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ABANCA CORPORACION BANCARIA S.A.

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EMIRATES NBD BANK (P.J.S.C), LONDON BRANCH

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ABU DHABI COMMERCIAL BANK PJSC

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AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND BANKING GROUP LIMITED



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BANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA ARGENTARIA, S.A. NEW YORK BRANCH



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BANCO SANTANDER, S.A., NEW YORK BRANCH



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THE AGENT

CRÉDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK



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THE SUSTAINABILITY CO-ORDINATORS

NATIXIS



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BNP PARIBAS



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EXHIBIT
Form of Parent Guarantee


EX-10.6 7 a106-bfeguarantydatedmarch.htm EX-10.6 Document
Exhibit 10.6
FIRST AMENDED AND RESTATED GUARANTY
This First Amended and Restated Guaranty (as amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified in accordance with the terms hereof and in effect from time to time, this “Guaranty”) is made as of 1 March 2024 by Bunge Global SA, a corporation incorporated under the laws of Switzerland (the “Guarantor”) to Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank (“CA-CIB”), in its capacity as the facility agent (together with its successors and assigns, the “Agent”) under the U.S.$1,750,000,000 (to be increased to U.S. $3,500,000,000) Facility Agreement, dated as of 6 October 2023, as amended and restated on 1 March 2024 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof, the “Facility Agreement”), among Bunge Finance Europe B.V., a company incorporated under the laws of The Netherlands (“BFE”), BNP Paribas, CA-CIB, ING Bank N.V., Natixis and SMBC Bank International plc, as mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners (collectively, the “Arrangers”), the financial institutions from time to time party thereto as lenders (each a “Lender” and collectively, the “Lenders”) and the Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders.
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Facility Agreement the Lenders have agreed to make revolving loans (the “Loans”) to BFE from time to time; and
WHEREAS, the execution and delivery of this amended Guaranty is a condition precedent to the effectiveness of the Facility Agreement;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual covenants contained herein, the parties hereby agree as follows:
Section 1.    Definitions.
(a)    For all purposes of this Guaranty, except as otherwise expressly provided in Annex A hereto or unless the context otherwise requires, capitalized terms used herein shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Facility Agreement.
(b)    Notwithstanding any other provision contained herein or in the other Finance Documents, all terms of an accounting or financial nature used herein and in the other Finance Documents shall be construed, and all computations of amounts and ratios referred to herein and in the other Finance Documents shall be made, and prepared:
(i)    in accordance with GAAP (including principles of consolidation where appropriate), and all accounting or financial terms shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms by GAAP; provided, however, that all accounting terms used in Section 8.2 below (and all defined terms used in the definition of any accounting term used in Section 8.2 below) shall have the meaning given to such terms (and defined terms) under GAAP as in effect on the date hereof applied on a basis consistent with those used in preparing the financial statements referred to in Section 7(a) below. In the event of any change after the date hereof in GAAP, and if such change would affect the computation of any of the financial covenants set forth in Section 8.2 below, then the parties hereto agree to endeavor, in good faith, to agree upon an amendment to this Guaranty that would adjust such financial covenants in a manner that would preserve the original intent thereof, but would allow compliance therewith to be determined in accordance with the Guarantor’s financial statements at that time, provided that, until so amended such financial covenants shall continue to be computed in accordance with GAAP prior to such change therein; and
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(ii)    without giving effect to any election under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 159 (or any other Financial Accounting Standard having a similar result or effect) to value any Indebtedness or other liabilities of BFE, the Guarantor or any of their Subsidiaries at “fair value”, as defined therein.
Notwithstanding any other provision contained herein, all obligations of the Guarantor, BFE and any of their respective Subsidiaries that are or would be characterized as an operating lease as determined in accordance with GAAP as in effect on December 14, 2018 (whether or not such operating lease was in effect on such date) shall continue to be accounted for as an operating lease (and not as a capital lease) for purposes of the Finance Documents regardless of any change in GAAP following December 14, 2018  (or any change in the implementation in GAAP for future periods that are contemplated as of December 14, 2018) that would otherwise require such obligation to be re-characterized as a capital lease and the Guarantor, BFE and their respective Subsidiaries shall continue to provide financial reporting which differentiates between operating leases and capital leases in accordance with GAAP as in effect on December 14, 2018.
Section 2.    Guaranty. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Guaranty, the Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees (collectively, the “Guaranty Obligations”) (a) the prompt and punctual payment of all amounts due and owing (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration, or otherwise) in respect of Loans made by the Lenders to BFE under the Facility Agreement and the other Finance Documents and (b) to the extent not timely paid, all fees, costs, expenses and indemnifications of the Lenders and the Agent owed by BFE under the Facility Agreement and the other Finance Documents, in any case described in (a) or (b) above whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, due or to become due, or now existing or hereafter incurred. This Guaranty is a guaranty of payment and not of collection. All payments by the Guarantor under this Guaranty shall be made in Dollars, and (i) with respect to Loans, shall be made to the Agent for disbursement pro rata (determined at the time such payment is sought) to the Lenders in accordance with the proportion that each Lender’s respective Commitment bears to the Total Commitments (each such proportion constituting the respective Lender’s “Aggregate Exposure Percentage”), (ii) with respect to fees, costs, expenses and indemnifications owed to the Lenders, shall be made to the Agent for disbursement pro rata (determined at the time such payment is sought) to the Lenders in accordance with their respective Aggregate Exposure Percentages (except as otherwise provided in the Facility Agreement with respect to Defaulting Lenders) and (iii) with respect to fees, costs, expenses and indemnifications owed to the Agent, shall be made to the Agent. This Guaranty shall remain in full force and effect until the Guaranty Obligations are irrevocably and unconditionally paid in full and the Commitments are terminated, notwithstanding that from time to time prior thereto BFE may be free from any payment obligations under the Finance Documents.
Section 3.    Guaranty Absolute. The Guarantor guarantees that the Guaranty Obligations will be paid, regardless of any applicable law, regulation or order now or hereinafter in effect in any jurisdiction affecting any of such terms or the rights of the Agent or any Lender with respect thereto. The liability of the Guarantor under this Guaranty shall be absolute and unconditional irrespective of:
(a)    Any lack of validity or enforceability of or defect or deficiency in the Facility Agreement or any other Finance Document or any other agreement or instrument executed in connection with or pursuant thereto;
(b)    Any change in the time, manner, terms or place of payment of, or in any other term of, all or any of the Guaranty Obligations, or any other amendment or waiver of or any consent to departure from the Facility Agreement or any other Finance Document or any other agreement or instrument relating thereto or executed in connection therewith or pursuant thereto;
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(c)    Any sale, exchange or non-perfection of any property standing as security for the liabilities hereby guaranteed or any liabilities incurred directly or indirectly hereunder or any setoff against any of said liabilities, or any release or amendment or waiver of or consent to departure from any other guaranty, for all or any of the Guaranty Obligations;
(d)    The failure of the Agent or a Lender to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any right or remedy against BFE or any other Person hereunder or under the Facility Agreement or any other Finance Document;
(e)    Any failure by BFE in the performance of any obligation with respect to the Facility Agreement or any other Finance Document;
(f)    Any change in the corporate existence, structure or ownership of BFE, or any insolvency, bankruptcy reorganization or other similar proceeding affecting BFE or its assets or resulting release or discharge of any of the Guaranty Obligations;
(g)    Any other circumstance which might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a discharge of, the Guarantor, BFE or any other Person (including any other guarantor) that is a party to any document or instrument executed in respect of the Guaranty Obligations; or
(h)    Any law, regulation, decree or order of any jurisdiction, or any other event, affecting any term of any Guaranty Obligations or the Agent’s or the Lenders’ rights with respect thereto, including, without limitation: (A) the application of any such law, regulation, decree or order, including any prior approval, which would prevent the exchange of a currency other than Dollars for Dollars or the remittance of funds outside of such jurisdiction or the unavailability of Dollars in any legal exchange market in such jurisdiction in accordance with normal commercial practice; or (B) a declaration of banking moratorium or any suspension of payments by banks in such jurisdiction or the imposition by such jurisdiction or any Governmental Authority thereof of any moratorium on, the required rescheduling or restructuring of, or required approval of payments on, any indebtedness in such jurisdiction; or (C) any expropriation, confiscation, nationalization or requisition by such country or any Governmental Authority that directly or indirectly deprives BFE of any assets or their use or of the ability to operate its business or a material part thereof; or (D) any war (whether or not declared), insurrection, revolution, hostile act, civil strife or similar events occurring in such jurisdiction which has the same effect as the events described in clause (A), (B) or (C) above (in each of the cases contemplated in clauses (A) through (D) above, to the extent occurring or existing on or at any time after the date of this Guaranty).
The obligations of the Guarantor under this Guaranty shall not be affected by the amount of credit extended to BFE, any repayment by BFE to the Agent or the Lenders (in each case, other than the full and final payment of all of the Guaranty Obligations), the allocation by the Agent or the Lenders of any repayment, any compromise or discharge of the Guaranty Obligations, any application, release or substitution of collateral or other security therefor, the release of any guarantor, surety or other Person obligated in connection with any document or instrument executed in respect of the Guaranty Obligations, or any further advances to BFE.
Section 4. Waiver.
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The Guarantor hereby waives (a) promptness, diligence, notice of acceptance, presentment, demand, protest, notice of protest and dishonor, notice of default, notice of intent to accelerate, notice of acceleration and any other notice with respect to any of the Guaranty Obligations and this Guaranty, (b) any requirement that the Agent or the Lenders protect, secure, perfect or insure any security interest or Lien on any property subject thereto or exhaust any right or take any action against BFE or any other Person or entity or any collateral or that BFE or any other Person or entity be joined in any action hereunder, (c) the defense of the statute of limitations in any action under this Guaranty or for the collection or performance of the Guaranty Obligations, (d) any defense arising by reason of any lack of corporate authority, (e) any defense based upon any guaranteed party’s errors or omissions in the administration of the Guaranty Obligations except to the extent that any error or omission is caused by such guaranteed party’s bad faith, gross negligence or willful misconduct, (f) any rights to set-offs and counterclaims and (g) any defense based upon an election of remedies which destroys or impairs the subrogation rights of the Guarantor or the right of the Guarantor to proceed against BFE or any other obligor of the Guaranty Obligations for reimbursement. All dealings between BFE or the Guarantor, on the one hand, and the Agent and the Lenders, on the other hand, shall likewise be conclusively presumed to have been had or consummated in reliance upon this Guaranty. Should the Agent seek to enforce the obligations of the Guarantor hereunder by action in any court, the Guarantor waives any necessity, substantive or procedural, that a judgment previously be rendered against BFE or any other Person, or that any action be brought against BFE or any other Person, or that BFE or any other Person should be joined in such cause. Such waiver shall be without prejudice to the Agent at its option to proceed against BFE or any other Person, whether by separate action or by joinder. The Guarantor further expressly waives each and every right to which it may be entitled by virtue of the suretyship law of the State of New York or any other applicable jurisdiction.
Section 5.    Several Obligations; Continuing Guaranty. The obligations of the Guarantor hereunder are separate and apart from BFE or any other Person (other than the Guarantor), and are primary obligations concerning which the Guarantor is the principal obligor. The Guarantor agrees that this Guaranty is a continuing guaranty and that it shall not be discharged except by payment in full of the Guaranty Obligations, termination of the Commitments and complete performance of the obligations of the Guarantor hereunder. The obligations of the Guarantor hereunder shall not be affected in any way by the release or discharge of BFE from the performance of any of the Guaranty Obligations, whether occurring by reason of law or any other cause, whether similar or dissimilar to the foregoing.
Section 6.    Subrogation Rights. If any amount shall be paid to the Guarantor on account of subrogation rights at any time when all the Guaranty Obligations shall not have been irrevocably and unconditionally paid in full, such amount shall be held in trust for the benefit of the Agent and shall forthwith be paid to the Agent to be applied to the Guaranty Obligations as specified in the Finance Documents. If (a) the Guarantor makes a payment to the Agent of all or any part of the Guaranty Obligations and (b) all the Guaranty Obligations have been irrevocably and unconditionally paid in full and the Commitments have terminated, the Agent will, at the Guarantor’s request, execute and deliver to the Guarantor appropriate documents, without recourse and without representation or warranty of any kind whatsoever, necessary to evidence the transfer by subrogation to the Guarantor of any interest in the Guaranty Obligations resulting from such payment by the Guarantor. The Guarantor hereby agrees that it shall have no rights of subrogation with respect to amounts due to the Agent or the Lenders until such time as all obligations of BFE to the Lenders and the Agent have been irrevocably and unconditionally paid in full, the Commitments have been terminated and the Facility Agreement has been terminated.
Section 7.    Representations and Warranties. The Guarantor hereby represents and warrants to each Finance Party as follows:
(a)    Financial Condition.
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(i) The consolidated balance sheet of the Guarantor and its consolidated Subsidiaries as at December 31, 2023 and the related consolidated statements of income for the fiscal year ended on such date, reported on by the Guarantor’s independent public accountants, copies of which have heretofore been furnished to the Agent, are complete and correct, in all material respects, and present fairly the financial condition of the Guarantor and its consolidated Subsidiaries as at such date, and the results of operations for the fiscal year then ended. Such financial statements, including any related schedules and notes thereto, have been prepared in accordance with GAAP applied consistently throughout the periods involved (except as approved by the external auditors and as disclosed therein, if any).
(ii)    Except as disclosed in Schedule V attached hereto, neither the Guarantor nor its consolidated Subsidiaries had, at the date of the most recent balance sheet referred to above, any material guarantee obligation, contingent liability (as defined in accordance with GAAP), or any long-term lease or unusual forward or long-term commitment, including, without limitation, any interest rate or foreign currency swap or exchange transaction, which is not reflected in the foregoing statements or in the notes thereto, except for guarantees, indemnities or similar obligations of the Guarantor or a consolidated Subsidiary supporting obligations of one Subsidiary to another Subsidiary.
(iii)    During the period from December 31, 2023 to and including the date hereof, except as disclosed in Schedule V attached hereto, neither the Guarantor nor its consolidated Subsidiaries has sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of any material part of its business or property, nor has it purchased or otherwise acquired any business or property (including any capital stock of any other Person) material in relation to the consolidated financial condition of the Guarantor and its consolidated Subsidiaries at December 31, 2023.
(b)    No Change. Since December 31, 2023, except as disclosed in Schedule I hereof, there has been no development or event which has had or could, in the Guarantor’s good faith reasonable judgment, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(c)    Corporate Existence; Compliance with Law. The Guarantor and each of its Material Subsidiaries (i) is duly organized and validly existing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, (ii) has the corporate power and authority, and the legal right, to own and operate its property, to lease the property it operates as lessee and to conduct the business in which it is currently engaged, (iii) is duly qualified under the laws of each jurisdiction where its ownership, lease or operation of property or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except where the failure to be so duly qualified could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and (iv) is in compliance with all Requirements of Law and Contractual Obligations, except any non-compliance which could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
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(d) Corporate Power; Authorization; Enforceable Obligations. Each of the Guarantor and BFE has the corporate power and authority, and the legal right, to make, deliver and perform this Guaranty and each of the other Finance Documents to which such Person is a party and to borrow thereunder and has taken all necessary corporate action to authorize (i) the borrowings on the terms and conditions of the Finance Documents to which such Person is a party, (ii) the execution, delivery and performance of this Guaranty and each of the other Finance Documents to which such Person is a party and (iii) the remittance of payments of all amounts payable hereunder and thereunder. No consent or authorization of, filing with, notice to or other act by or in respect of, any Governmental Authority or any other Person is required in connection with the borrowings under the Finance Documents, the remittance of payments in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof or with the execution, delivery, performance, validity or enforceability of this Guaranty and each of the other Finance Documents. This Guaranty and each of the other Finance Documents to which the Guarantor and/or BFE are a party have been duly executed and delivered on behalf of the Guarantor and BFE. Each of this Guaranty and each of the other Finance Documents to which the Guarantor and BFE are a party constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Guarantor and BFE enforceable against the Guarantor and BFE in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by general equitable principles (whether enforcement is sought by proceedings in equity or law).
(e)    No Legal Bar. The execution, delivery and performance by the Guarantor of this Guaranty, and by the Guarantor and BFE of the other Finance Documents to which each such entity is a party, the borrowings thereunder and the use of the proceeds thereof will not violate any Requirement of Law or Contractual Obligation to which the Guarantor or BFE are a party or by which it or they are bound and will not result in, or require, the creation or imposition of any Lien on any of the properties or revenues of any of the Guarantor or BFE pursuant to any such Requirement of Law or Contractual Obligation.
(f)    No Material Litigation. Except as disclosed in Schedule VI attached hereto, no litigation, investigation or proceeding of or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority is pending or, to the knowledge of the Guarantor, threatened by or against the Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries or against any of their respective properties or revenues (a) with respect to this Guaranty or the other Finance Documents or any of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby or (b) which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(g)    Liens. None of the property of the Guarantor nor any of its Subsidiaries is subject to any Lien that secures Secured Indebtedness, other than a Lien that secures Permitted Secured Indebtedness or any other Secured Indebtedness permitted under Section 8.2(a)(iii) of this Guaranty.
(h) Environmental Matters. The Guarantor and its Subsidiaries have obtained all permits, licenses and other authorizations that are necessary to operate their respective business and required under all applicable Environmental Laws, except where the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Except as set forth on Schedule II attached hereto, (i) Hazardous Materials have not at any time been generated, used, treated or stored on, released or disposed of on, or transported to or from, any property owned, leased, used, operated or occupied by the Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries or, to the best of the Guarantor’s knowledge, any property adjoining or in the vicinity of any such property except in compliance with all applicable Environmental Laws other than where the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect and (ii) there are no past, pending or threatened (in writing) Environmental Claims against the Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries or any property owned, leased, used, operated or occupied by the Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries that individually or in the aggregate would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The operations of the Guarantor and its Subsidiaries are in compliance in all material respects with all terms and conditions of the required permits, licenses, certificates, registrations and authorizations, and are also in compliance in all material respects with all other limitations, restrictions, conditions, standards, prohibitions, requirements, obligations, schedules and timetables contained in the Environmental Laws, except where the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
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(i)    No Default. Except with respect to the Indebtedness set forth on Schedule III attached hereto, neither the Guarantor nor any of its Subsidiaries is in default under or with respect to any agreement, instrument or undertaking to which it is a party or by which it is bound in any respect which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. No Event of Default or Default has occurred and is continuing.
(j)    Taxes. Under the laws of Switzerland, the execution, delivery and performance by the Guarantor of this Guaranty and by it and each of its Subsidiaries (as the case may be) of the other Finance Documents to which they are a party and all payments of principal, interest, fees and other amounts hereunder and thereunder are exempt from all income or withholding taxes, stamp taxes, charges or contributions of Switzerland or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof, irrespective of the fact that the Agent or any of the Lenders may have a representative office or subsidiary in Switzerland. Except as otherwise provided herein or therein, the Guarantor is validly obligated to make all payments due under this Guaranty and BFE is validly obligated to make all payments due under the other Finance Documents free and clear of any such tax, withholding or charge so that the Agent and the Lenders shall receive the amounts due as if no such tax withholding or charge had been imposed.
(k)    Pari Passu Status. The obligations of the Guarantor hereunder constitute direct, general obligations of the Guarantor and rank at least pari passu (in priority of payment) with all other unsecured, unsubordinated Indebtedness (other than any such Indebtedness that is preferred by mandatory provisions of law) of the Guarantor.
(l)    Purpose of Loans. The proceeds of the Loans under the Facility Agreement shall be used by BFE to either (i) repay any amounts outstanding under the 2021 Facility or (ii) for general corporate purposes. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any other use of the proceeds of the Loans under the Facility Agreement shall not affect the obligations of the Guarantor hereunder.
(m)    Information. All information (including, with respect to the Guarantor, without limitation, the financial statements required to be delivered pursuant hereto), which has been made available to the Agent or any Lender by or on behalf of the Guarantor in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby and the other Finance Documents is complete and correct in all material respects and does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements contained therein not materially misleading in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made; provided, that, with respect to projected financial information provided by or on behalf of the Guarantor, the Guarantor represents only that such information was prepared in good faith by management of the Guarantor on the basis of assumptions believed by such management to be reasonable as of the time made.
(n)    Material Subsidiaries. On the date hereof, the Guarantor directly or indirectly owns the percentage of the voting stock of each Material Subsidiary set forth on Schedule IV attached hereto.
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(o) Federal Regulations. No part of the proceeds of any advances under the Facility Agreement will be used for “purchasing” or “carrying” any “margin stock” within the respective meanings of each of the quoted terms under Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States as now and from time to time hereafter in effect. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any use of advances under the Facility Agreement as so described in this subsection shall not affect the obligations of the Guarantor hereunder.
(p)    Investment Company Act. The Guarantor is not an “investment company”, or a company “controlled” by an “investment company”, within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
(q)    Solvency. The Guarantor is, individually and together with its Subsidiaries, Solvent.
(r)    Consideration. The Guarantor has received, or will receive, direct or indirect benefit from the making of this Guaranty. The Guarantor has, independently and without reliance upon the Agent or any Lender and based on such documents and information it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Guaranty.
(s)    Sanctions.
(i)    To the best of the knowledge of the Responsible Officers of the Guarantor, the Guarantor and its Subsidiaries are, to the extent applicable, in compliance in all material respects with Sanctions and Anti-Corruption Laws.
(ii)    To the best of the knowledge of the Responsible Officers of the Guarantor, the Guarantor is not, and no Subsidiary and no director or senior officer of the Guarantor or any Subsidiary is, any of the following:
(A)    a Restricted Party;
(B)    a Person owned fifty percent (50%) or more or controlled by, or acting on behalf of, any Restricted Party or Restricted Parties; or
(C)    a Person that commits, threatens or conspires to commit or support “terrorism” as defined in the Executive Order.
(iii)    The Guarantor has implemented and maintains in effect policies and procedures designed to promote and achieve continued compliance by the Guarantor, its Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers and employees with applicable Anti-Corruption Laws and Sanctions.
The Guarantor agrees that the foregoing representations and warranties shall be deemed to have been made by the Guarantor on the date hereof, and on the date of each Utilisation Request by BFE and each Utilisation Date under the Facility Agreement, on and as of all such dates.
Section 8.    Covenants.
8.1    Affirmative Covenants. The Guarantor hereby agrees that, so long as (i) any Loan remains outstanding and unpaid or any other amount is owing to the Agent or any Lender under the Facility Agreement or (ii) the Commitments have not been terminated:
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(a)    Financial Statements. The Guarantor shall furnish to the Agent (who shall furnish a copy to each Lender):
(i)    promptly after each annual meeting of the Guarantor, but in any event within one hundred and twenty (120) days after the end of each fiscal year of the Guarantor, a copy of the audited consolidated balance sheet of the Guarantor and its consolidated Subsidiaries at the end of such year and related audited consolidated statements of income and retained earnings and of cash flows for such year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous year, certified by independent public accountants reasonably acceptable to the Agent;
(ii)    as soon as available, but in any event not later than sixty (60) days after the end of each of the first three quarters of each fiscal year of the Guarantor, the unaudited consolidated balance sheet of the Guarantor as at the end of such quarter and the related unaudited consolidated statement of income for such quarter and the portion of the fiscal year through the end of such quarter, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous year, each in the form reasonably acceptable to the Agent, certified by the chief financial officer of the Guarantor; and
(iii)    such additional financial and other information as the Agent (at the request of any Lender or otherwise) may from time to time reasonably request;
all such financial statements furnished under clause (i) above to be complete and correct in all material respects and prepared in reasonable detail in accordance with GAAP applied consistently throughout the periods reflected therein and with prior periods (except as approved by such accountants or officer, as the case may be, and disclosed therein); provided, however, that the Guarantor shall not be required to deliver the financial statements described under clauses (i) and (ii) above if such statements are available within the time period required by applicable Requirements of Law on EDGAR or from other public sources.
(b)    Quarterly Compliance Certificates. The Guarantor shall, within sixty (60) days after the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year and one hundred and twenty (120) days after the end of each fiscal year, furnish to the Agent its certificate signed by its chief financial officer, treasurer or controller stating that, to the best of such officer’s knowledge, during such period each of the Guarantor and BFE has observed or performed all of its covenants and other agreements, and satisfied every condition contained in this Guaranty and the other Finance Documents and any other related documents to be observed, performed or satisfied by each of them, and that such officer has obtained no knowledge of any Event of Default or Default except as specified in such certificate and showing in reasonable detail the calculations evidencing compliance with the covenants in subsection 8.2(a).
(c)    Conduct of Business and Maintenance of Existence. The Guarantor shall, and shall cause each of the Material Subsidiaries to: (i) except as permitted by subsection 8.2(b), preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence; and (ii) take all reasonable action to maintain all rights, privileges and franchises necessary or desirable in the normal conduct of its business, except where the failure to maintain the same would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
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(d)    Compliance with Laws and Contractual Obligations; Authorization. The Guarantor shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, comply in all respects with all Requirements of Law and Contractual Obligations, except where failure to so comply would not have a Material Adverse Effect, and the Guarantor shall obtain, comply with the terms of and do all that is necessary to maintain in full force and effect all authorizations, approvals, licenses and consents required in or by any applicable laws and regulations to enable it lawfully to enter into and perform its obligations under this Guaranty or to ensure the legality, validity, enforceability or admissibility in evidence of this Guaranty and the other Finance Documents.
(e)    Insurance. The Guarantor shall, and shall cause each of its Material Subsidiaries to, maintain with financially sound and reputable insurance companies insurance on all its property in at least such amounts and against at least such risks as are customary for the Guarantor’s type of business.
(f)    Inspection of Property; Books and Records. The Guarantor shall, and shall cause each of BFE and the Material Subsidiaries to, keep proper books of records and account in which full, true and correct entries in conformity with GAAP and all Requirements of Law shall be made of all dealings and transactions in relation to its business and activities; and permit representatives of the Agent and each Lender to visit and inspect any of its properties and examine and make abstracts from any of its books and records at any time and as often as may reasonably be desired, provided that the Agent and each Lender has given reasonable prior written notice and the Agent and each Lender has executed a confidentiality agreement reasonably satisfactory to the Guarantor.
(g)    Notices. The Guarantor shall give notice to the Agent promptly after becoming aware of the same, of (i) the occurrence of any Event of Default or Default, including any steps taken to remedy or mitigate the effect of such default; (ii) any changes in taxes, duties or other fees of Switzerland or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or any change in any laws of Switzerland, in each case, that may affect any payment due under this Guaranty or the other Finance Documents; (iii) any change in the Guarantor’s or BLFC’s public or private rating by S&P or Moody’s; and (iv) any development or event which has had, or which the Guarantor in its good faith judgment believes will have, a Material Adverse Effect.
(h)    Pari Passu Obligations. The Guarantor shall ensure that its obligations hereunder at all times constitute direct, general obligations of the Guarantor ranking at least pari passu in right of payment with all other unsecured, unsubordinated Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness that is preferred by mandatory provisions of law) of the Guarantor.
(i)    Payment of Taxes.
(i)    The Guarantor shall pay, discharge or otherwise satisfy at or before maturity or before they become delinquent, as the case may be, all taxes, assessments and similar governmental charges imposed on it, its incomes, profits or properties, except where (x) the amount or validity thereof is currently being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and reserves to the extent required by GAAP with respect thereto have been provided on the books of the Guarantor or (y) the nonpayment of all such taxes, assessments and charges in the aggregate would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(ii) The proceeds of the Loans received by the Guarantor and, at all times while any Loans are outstanding, used in Switzerland do not exceed the amount accepted by the Swiss federal tax administration as set out in their practice note 010-DVS-2019 dated February 5, 2019 regarding Swiss withholding tax in the group (Mitteilung-010-DVS-2019-d vom 5. Februar 2019 - Verrechnungssteuer: Guthaben im Konzern).
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(j)    Environmental Laws. Unless, in the good faith judgment of the Guarantor, the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, the Guarantor will comply in all material respects, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to comply in all material respects, with the requirements of all applicable Environmental Laws and will immediately pay or cause to be paid all costs and expenses incurred in such compliance, except such costs and expenses which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings if the Guarantor or such Subsidiary, as applicable, is maintaining adequate reserves (in the good faith judgment of the management of the Guarantor) with respect thereto in accordance with GAAP. Unless the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, the Guarantor shall not, nor shall it permit or suffer any of its Subsidiaries to, generate, use, manufacture, refine, transport, treat, store, handle, dispose of, transfer, produce or process Hazardous Materials other than in the ordinary course of business and in material compliance with all applicable Environmental Laws, and shall not, and shall not permit or suffer any of its Subsidiaries to, cause or permit, as a result of any intentional or unintentional act or omission on the part of the Guarantor or any Subsidiary thereof, the installation or placement of Hazardous Materials in material violation of or actionable under any applicable Environmental Laws onto any of its property or suffer the material presence of Hazardous Materials in violation of or actionable under any applicable Environmental Laws on any of its property without having taken prompt steps to remedy such violation. Unless its failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, the Guarantor shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, promptly undertake and diligently pursue to completion any investigation, study, sampling and testing, as well as any cleanup, removal, remedial or other action required of the Guarantor or any Subsidiary under any applicable Environmental Laws in the event of any release of Hazardous Materials.
(k)    ERISA. The Guarantor shall give notice to the Agent to the extent that any of the following is reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect:
(i)    ERISA Events. Promptly and in any event within ten (10) days after the Guarantor or any of its ERISA Affiliates knows or has reason to know that any ERISA Event has occurred, a statement of the chief financial officer of the Guarantor or such ERISA Affiliate describing such ERISA Event and the action, if any, that the Guarantor or such ERISA Affiliate has taken and proposes to take with respect thereto;
(ii)    Plan Terminations. Promptly and in any event within two (2) Business Days after receipt thereof by the Guarantor or any of its ERISA Affiliates, copies of each notice from the PBGC stating its intention to terminate any Plan or to have a trustee appointed to administer any Plan; and
(iii) Multiemployer Plan Notices. Promptly and in any event within five (5) Business Days after receipt thereof by the Guarantor or any of its ERISA Affiliates from the sponsor of a Multiemployer Plan, copies of each notice concerning (A) the imposition of Withdrawal Liability by any such Multiemployer Plan, (B) the termination, within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA, of any such Multiemployer Plan and (C) the amount of liability incurred by the Guarantor or any of its ERISA Affiliates in connection with any event described in clause (A) or (B) above.
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(l)    Sanctions Actions or Investigations. Promptly upon a Responsible Officer of the Guarantor becoming aware that the Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries has received formal notice that it has become the subject of any material action or investigation under any Sanctions, the Guarantor shall, to the extent permitted by law, supply to the Agent details of any such material action or investigation.
(m)    Anti-Corruption and Sanctions Compliance Policies and Procedures. The Guarantor will maintain in effect policies and procedures designed to promote and achieve continued compliance by the Guarantor, its Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers and employees with applicable Anti-Corruption Laws and Sanctions.
8.2    Negative Covenants. The Guarantor hereby agrees that, so long as (i) any Loan remains outstanding and unpaid or any other amount is owing to the Agent or any Lender under the Facility Agreement or (ii) the Commitments have not been terminated:
(a)    Financial Covenants. The Guarantor shall not at any time permit:
(i)    the ratio of its Total Consolidated Current Assets to Adjusted Total Consolidated Current Liabilities, each as calculated at the end of each fiscal quarter of the Guarantor, to be less than 1.1 to 1.0 (to be tested quarterly);
(ii)    the ratio of its consolidated Adjusted Net Debt to consolidated Adjusted Capitalization (each as calculated at the end of each fiscal quarter of the Guarantor) to be greater than 0.635:1.0 (to be tested quarterly); and
(iii)    the aggregate outstanding principal balance of all Secured Indebtedness (excluding any Permitted Secured Indebtedness) incurred by the Guarantor and its Subsidiaries to be greater than an amount equal to seven and one-half percent (7.5%) of the Total Tangible Assets of the Guarantor and its Subsidiaries, as calculated at the end of each fiscal quarter of the Guarantor and as determined in accordance with GAAP (to be tested quarterly).
(b)    Limitation of Fundamental Changes. The Guarantor shall not, and shall not cause or permit any Subsidiary to, consolidate with or merge or amalgamate with or into, or sell, lease, or convey all or substantially all of its assets to, any Person, unless:
(a) in the case of the Guarantor:
(i)    the resulting, surviving or transferee Person shall be either the Guarantor or a Person organized under the laws of Bermuda, the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia, any full member state of the European Union, Canada, Australia, Switzerland or the United Kingdom, and the resulting, surviving or transferee Person (if not the Guarantor) shall expressly assume, by an agreement or instrument reasonably acceptable to the Agent, all the obligations of the Guarantor under this Guaranty; and
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(ii)    immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of Default or event which with notice or lapse of time would be an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing; or
(b) in the case of any Subsidiary of the Guarantor (other than the Borrower):
(i)    such transaction is a merger or amalgamation of such Subsidiary with or into, or a consolidation of such Subsidiary with, the Guarantor (so long as the Guarantor is the surviving, continuing or resulting entity) or another Subsidiary or the sale, lease or conveyance by such Subsidiary of all or substantially all of its property to the Guarantor or another Subsidiary; or
(ii)    such transaction is the merger or amalgamation of such Subsidiary with or into, the consolidation of such Subsidiary with, or the sale, lease or conveyance by such Subsidiary of all or substantially all of its property to, another Person (provided that such Person is not an Affiliate of such Subsidiary), so long as immediately prior to, and after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or Event of Default exists or would exist.
For purposes of this Section 8.2(b), the sale, lease, conveyance, assignment, transfer, or other disposition of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of one or more Subsidiaries of the Guarantor, which properties and assets, if held by the Guarantor instead of such Subsidiaries, would constitute all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Guarantor on a consolidated basis, shall be deemed to be the transfer of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Guarantor.
If the Guarantor engages in one of the transactions described above and complies with the conditions listed above, the resulting, surviving or transferee Person (if not the Guarantor) will succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Guarantor under this Guaranty, but, in the case of a lease of all or substantially all its assets, the Guarantor will not be released from its obligations under this Guaranty.
In the event that the Guarantor consolidates with or merges or amalgamates with or into, or sells, leases or conveys all or substantially all of its assets to, another Person subject to the terms of this Section 8.2(b) (a “Transfer”) and the resulting, surviving or transferee Person (if not the Guarantor) is a Person organized under the laws of a member state of the European Union, Canada, Australia, Switzerland, the United Kingdom or Bermuda, then the Guarantor and the resulting, surviving or transferee Person shall, as a condition to such Transfer, (A) enter into an agreement or instrument reasonably acceptable to the Agent providing for full, unconditional and irrevocable indemnification of the Lenders against any tax or duty of whatever nature (other than any tax imposed by reason of the Lenders having some connection with any such jurisdiction, other than their participation as Lenders under the Facility Agreement) which is incurred or otherwise suffered by such Lenders and which would not have been incurred or otherwise suffered in the absence of such Transfer; and (B) deliver to the Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, legal opinions of independent legal counsel in New York and the applicable member state of the European Union, Canada, Australia, Switzerland, the United Kingdom or Bermuda under whose laws the resulting, surviving or transferee Person (if not the Guarantor) is organized under, as applicable, to the effect that the Obligations of the resulting, surviving or transferee Person with respect to this Guaranty, as the case may be, are legal, valid, binding and enforceable in accordance with their terms.
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(c)    Anti-Money Laundering. The Guarantor will not knowingly conduct its operations in violation of any applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the U.S. Bank Secrecy Act, the money laundering statutes of all jurisdictions, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines issued, administered or enforced by any applicable authority (collectively, the “Money Laundering Laws”), and no action or inquiry by or before any authority involving the Guarantor with respect to Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the best of the knowledge of the Responsible Officers of the Guarantor, is threatened.
(d)    Sanctions and Anti-Corruption. The Guarantor will not knowingly use, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to use, any funds derived from any activity that would violate Sanctions or any Anti-Corruption Laws to pay any of the obligations under the Finance Documents.
8.3    Use of Websites.
(a)    The Guarantor may satisfy its obligation to deliver any public information to the Lenders by posting this information onto an electronic website designated by the Guarantor and the Agent (the “Designated Website”) by notifying the Agent (i) of the address of the website together with any relevant password specifications and (ii) that such information has been posted on the website; provided, that in any event the Guarantor shall supply the Agent with one copy in paper form of any information which is posted onto the website.
(b)    The Agent shall supply each Lender with the address of and any relevant password specifications for the Designated Website following designation of that website by the Guarantor and the Agent.
(c)    The Guarantor shall promptly upon becoming aware of its occurrence notify the Agent if:
(i)    the Designated Website cannot be accessed due to technical failure;
(ii)    the password specifications for the Designated Website change;
(iii)    any new information which is required to be provided under this Guaranty is posted onto the Designated Website;
(iv)    any existing information which has been provided under this Guaranty and posted onto the Designated Website is amended; or
(v)    the Guarantor becomes aware that the Designated Website or any information posted onto the Designated Website is or has been infected by any electronic virus or similar software.
If the Guarantor notifies the Agent under Section 8.3(c)(i) or Section 8.3(c)(v) above, all information to be provided by the Guarantor under this Guaranty after the date of that notice shall be supplied in paper form unless and until the Agent is satisfied that the circumstances giving rise to the notification are no longer continuing.
Section 9.    Acknowledgement. Each Party acknowledges and agrees that the Guarantor does not:
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(a)    represent under Section 7(u) of this Guaranty; nor
(b)    covenant pursuant to Section 8.1(l), Section 8.1(m) or Section 8.2(e) of this Guaranty,
in favor of DZ Bank AG Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank New York Branch (“DZ”) as Lender, and DZ shall not have any rights thereunder. Furthermore, DZ shall be deemed not to be a party to the provisions of Section 7(s), Section 8.1(l), Section 8.1(m) or Section 8.2(d).
Each party further acknowledges that the representations and warranties included in Section 7(s) given by, and the undertakings included in Section 8.1(l), Section 8.1(m) and Section 8.2(d) of, the Guarantor to any Lender resident in Germany (“Inländer”) within the meaning of Section 2 Para. 15 of the German Foreign Trade and Payments Regulation (“AWV”) are made only to the extent that such Lender would be permitted to make such representations and warranties or undertakings pursuant to Section 7 of the AWV.
Each party further acknowledges and agrees that the representations and warranties included in Section 7(s) and the undertakings included in Sections 8.1(l), 8.1(m) and 8.2(d) shall be given by and apply to the Guarantor for the benefit of any Finance Party only to the extent that giving, complying with or receiving the benefit of (as applicable) such representation or undertaking does not result in any violation of the Blocking Regulation.
Section 10.    Amendments. No amendment or waiver of any provision of this Guaranty nor consent to any departure by the Guarantor therefrom shall in any event be effective unless such amendment or waiver shall be in writing and signed by the Guarantor and the Agent who shall act following the receipt of the consent of the Majority Lenders. Such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given.
Section 11.    Notices, Etc. All notices, demands, instructions and other communications required or permitted to be given to or made upon any Person pursuant hereto shall be in writing and shall be personally delivered or sent by registered, certified or express mail, postage prepaid, return receipt requested, by recognized overnight courier service or by facsimile transmission, and shall be deemed to be given for purposes of this Guaranty, in the case of a notice sent by registered, certified or express mail, or by recognized overnight courier service, on the date that such writing is actually delivered to the intended recipient thereof in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11, or in the case of facsimile transmission, when received and telephonically confirmed. Unless otherwise specified in a notice sent or delivered in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Section 11, notices, demands, instructions and other communications in writing shall be given to or made upon the subject parties at their respective Notice Addresses (or to their respective facsimile transmission numbers) or at such other address or number as any party may notify to the other parties in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.
Section 12.     No Waiver; Remedies. No failure on the part of the Agent to exercise, and no delay in exercising, any right hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right hereunder 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 13. Costs and Expenses. The Guarantor agrees to pay, and cause to be paid, on demand all costs and expenses actually incurred by the Agent in connection with the enforcement of this Guaranty including, without limitation, the fees and out-of-pocket expenses of outside counsel to the Agent with respect thereto. The agreements of the Guarantor contained in this Section 13 shall survive the payment of all other amounts owing hereunder or under any of the other Guaranty Obligations.
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Section 14.    Separability. Should any clause, sentence, paragraph, subsection or Section of this Guaranty be judicially declared to be invalid, unenforceable or void, such decision will not have the effect of invalidating or voiding the remainder of this Guaranty, and the parties hereto agree that the part or parts of this Guaranty so held to be invalid, unenforceable or void will be deemed to have been stricken herefrom and the remainder will have the same force and effectiveness as if such part or parts had never been included herein.
Section 15.    Captions. The captions in this Guaranty have been inserted for convenience only and shall be given no substantive meaning or significance whatever in construing the terms and provisions of this Guaranty.
Section 16.    Successors and Assigns. This Guaranty shall (a) be binding upon the Guarantor and its successors and assigns and (b) inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by the Agent (for the ratable benefit of the Lenders) and its successors, transferees and assigns; provided, however, that any assignment by the Guarantor of its obligations hereunder shall (i) be subject to the prior written consent of the Agent acting on the instructions of all of the Lenders at their complete discretion, and (ii) subject to the satisfaction of clause (i) above, only be made to a one hundred percent (100%) owned Affiliate of the Guarantor.
Section 17.    Limitation by Law. All rights, remedies and powers provided in this Guaranty may be exercised only to the extent that the exercise thereof does not violate any applicable provision of law, and all the provisions of this Guaranty are intended to be subject to all applicable mandatory provisions of law which may be controlling and to be limited to the extent necessary so that they will not render this Guaranty invalid, unenforceable, in whole or in part, or not entitled to be recorded, registered or filed under the provisions of any applicable law.
Section 18.    Substitution of Guaranty. Subject to the prior written consent of the Agent acting on the instructions of all of the Lenders at their complete discretion, the Guarantor shall, during the term of this Guaranty, be permitted at its option to provide collateral to the Agent or another form of credit support as a substitute for its obligations under this Guaranty. The Guarantor agrees to execute whatever security or credit support documents the Agent reasonably requests in order to effectuate the provisions of this Section 18.
Section 19.    GOVERNING LAW; FOREIGN PARTY PROVISIONS.
(a)    THIS GUARANTY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, SECTION 5-1401 OF THE GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK).
(b)    Consent to Jurisdiction. The Guarantor irrevocably submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of any New York state or U.S. federal court sitting in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, in any action or proceeding relating to its obligations, liabilities or any other matter arising out of or in connection with this Guaranty or the other Finance Documents. The Guarantor hereby irrevocably agrees that all claims in respect of any such action or proceeding may be heard and determined in such New York state or U.S. federal court. The Guarantor also hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any objection to venue or the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of any such action or proceeding in any such court.
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(c)    Appointment of Agent for Service of Process. The Guarantor hereby (i) irrevocably designates and appoints its chief financial officer (from time to time) at its principal executive offices at 1391 Timberlake Manor Parkway, Chesterfield, Missouri 63017 (the “Authorized Agent”), as its agent upon which process may be served in any suit, action or proceeding related to this Guaranty and represents and warrants that the Authorized Agent has accepted such designation and (ii) agrees that service of process upon the Authorized Agent and written notice of said service to the Guarantor mailed or delivered by a recognized international courier service (with proof of delivery) to its Secretary or any Assistant Secretary at its office at 1391 Timberlake Manor Parkway, Chesterfield, Missouri 63017, shall be deemed in every respect effective service of process upon the Guarantor in any such suit or proceeding. The Guarantor further agrees to take any and all action, including the execution and filing of any and all such documents and instruments, as may be necessary to continue such designation and appointment of the Authorized Agent in full force and effect so long as this Guaranty is in existence.
(d)    Waiver of Immunities. To the extent that the Guarantor or any of its properties, assets or revenues may have or may hereafter become entitled to, or have attributed to them, any right of immunity, on the grounds of sovereignty, from any legal action, suit or proceeding, from set-off or counterclaim, from the jurisdiction of any court, from service of process, from attachment upon or prior to judgment, or from attachment in aid of execution of judgment, or from execution of judgment, or other legal process or proceeding for the giving of any relief or for the enforcement of any judgment, in any jurisdiction in which proceedings may at any time be commenced, with respect to its obligations, liabilities or any other matter under or arising out of or in connection with this Guaranty or any other Finance Documents, the Guarantor hereby irrevocably and unconditionally, to the extent permitted by applicable law, waives and agrees not to plead or claim any such immunity and consents to such relief and enforcement.
(e)    Foreign Taxes. Any payments by the Guarantor to the Agent hereunder shall be made free and clear of, and without deduction or withholding for or on account of, any and all present and future income, stamp or other taxes, levies, imposts, duties, charges, fees, deductions or withholdings, now or hereinafter imposed, levied, collected, withheld or assessed by Switzerland or any other jurisdiction in which the Guarantor has an office from which payment is made or deemed to be made, excluding (i) any such tax imposed by reason of the Agent, having some connection with any such jurisdiction other than its participation as the Agent under the Finance Documents, and (ii) any income or franchise tax on the overall net income of the Agent imposed by the United States or by the State of New York or any political subdivision of the United States or of the State of New York on the office of the Agent through which it is acting in connection with this transaction (all such non-excluded taxes, “Foreign Taxes”). If the Guarantor is prevented by operation of law or otherwise from paying, causing to be paid or remitting that portion of amounts payable hereunder represented by Foreign Taxes withheld or deducted, then amounts payable under this Guaranty shall, to the extent permitted by law, be increased to such amount as is necessary to yield and remit to the Agent an amount which, after deduction of all Foreign Taxes (including all Foreign Taxes payable on such increased payments) equals the amount that would have been payable if no Foreign Taxes applied.
(f)    Judgment Currency. The obligations of the Guarantor in respect of any sum due to the Agent or any Lender hereunder or any holder of the obligations owing hereunder (the “Applicable Creditor”) shall, notwithstanding any judgment in a currency (the “Judgment Currency”) other than the currency in which such sum is stated to be due hereunder (the “Agreement Currency”), be discharged only to the extent that, on the
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Business Day following receipt by the Applicable Creditor of any sum adjudged to be so due in the Judgment Currency, the Applicable Creditor may in accordance with normal banking procedures in the relevant jurisdiction purchase the Agreement Currency with the Judgment Currency; if the amount of the Agreement Currency so purchased is less than the sum originally due to the Applicable Creditor in the Agreement Currency, the Guarantor as a separate obligation and notwithstanding any such judgment, agrees to indemnify the Applicable Creditor against such loss. The obligations of the Guarantor contained in this Section shall survive the termination of this Guaranty and the Facility Agreement and the payment of all other amounts owing hereunder and thereunder.
Section 20.    WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. THE GUARANTOR HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS GUARANTY, ANY OTHER FINANCE DOCUMENT OR FOR ANY TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED BY THIS GUARANTY AND FOR ANY COUNTERCLAIM THEREIN. THE GUARANTOR ACKNOWLEDGES THAT (A) THIS WAIVER IS A MATERIAL INDUCEMENT TO ENTER INTO THIS GUARANTY, (B) IT HAS RELIED ON THIS WAIVER IN ENTERING INTO THIS GUARANTY AND (C) IT WILL CONTINUE TO RELY ON THIS WAIVER IN FUTURE DEALINGS RELATED TO THIS GUARANTY. THE GUARANTOR REPRESENTS THAT IT HAS REVIEWED THIS WAIVER WITH ITS LEGAL ADVISERS AND THAT IT KNOWINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY WAIVES ITS JURY TRIAL RIGHTS AFTER CONSULTATION WITH ITS LEGAL ADVISERS. IN THE EVENT OF ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS GUARANTY, ANY OTHER FINANCE DOCUMENT OR FOR ANY TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED BY THIS GUARANTY, THIS GUARANTY MAY BE FILED AS EVIDENCE OF THE GUARANTOR’S WAIVER OF A TRIAL BY JURY.
Section 21.    Reinstatement. This Guaranty shall be reinstated to the extent of payments made to the Guarantor as reimbursement of amounts advanced by the Guarantor hereunder. The Guarantor agrees that this Guaranty shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any part of any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Guaranty Obligations is stayed, rescinded or must otherwise be restored by the Agent upon the bankruptcy or reorganization of BFE or any other Person.
Section 22.    CA-CIB Conflict Waiver. CA-CIB acts as Agent and Lender and may provide other services or facilities from time to time (the “CA-CIB Roles”). The Guarantor hereto acknowledges and consents to any and all CA-CIB Roles, waives any objections it may have to any actual or potential conflict of interest caused by CA-CIB acting as Agent or as Lender hereunder and acting as or maintaining any of the CA-CIB Roles, and agrees that in connection with any CA-CIB Role, CA-CIB may take, or refrain from taking, any action which it in its discretion deems appropriate.
Section 23.    Setoff. In addition to any rights now or hereafter granted under applicable law and not by way of limitation of any such rights, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, each Lender is hereby authorized at any time or from time to time, without notice to the Guarantor or to any other Person, any such notice being hereby expressly waived to the extent permitted by applicable law, to set-off and to appropriate and apply any and all deposits (general or special) and any other indebtedness at any time held or owing by such Lender, to or for the credit or the account of the Guarantor against and on account of the obligations and liabilities of the Guarantor to such Lender, as applicable, under this Guaranty or any other Finance Document, including, without limitation, all claims of any nature or description arising out of or connected with this Guaranty or any other Finance Document, irrespective of whether or not such Lender shall have made any demand hereunder and although said obligations, liabilities or claims, or any of them, shall be contingent or unmatured.
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If any Lender, whether by setoff or otherwise, has payment made to it under this Guaranty or any other Finance Document upon its Loans in a greater proportion than that received by any other Lender, such Lender agrees, promptly upon demand, to purchase a portion of the Loans held by the other Lenders so that after such purchase each Lender will hold its ratable proportion of Loans.
Section 24.    Acknowledgment and Consent to Bail-in. The parties hereto acknowledge that the provisions of clause 40 (Contractual Recognition of Bail-In) of the Facility Agreement shall apply to this Guaranty mutatis mutandis and as if references to the Finance Documents therein were references to this Guaranty and as if all defined terms (and all defined terms within such defined terms) used in such clause 40 (Contractual Recognition of Bail-In) of the Facility Agreement were definitions included in this Guaranty for the purposes of this Section 24.1
Section 25.    Amendment and Restatement. On the date hereof, that certain Guaranty, dated as of 6 October 2023 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified prior to the date hereof, the “Existing Guaranty”), made by Bunge Limited, as the existing guarantor, and Bunge Global SA, as the successor guarantor, to the Agent, shall be amended, restated and superseded in its entirety by this Guaranty. The Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that (a) this Guaranty does not constitute a novation or termination of the Existing Guaranty as in effect immediately prior to the effectiveness of this Guaranty and (b) the obligations of the Guarantor under the Existing Guaranty as in effect immediately prior to the effectiveness of this Guaranty are in all respects continuing (as amended and restated hereby) with only the terms thereof being modified as provided in this Guaranty. Each reference to the Existing Guaranty or the “Parent Guarantee” in any Finance Document shall be deemed to be a reference to this Guaranty as amended and restated hereby.
[Signature pages follow.]

1 CC Note to Lenders: The existing Section 25 "Assignment of Guaranty" has been removed given that the re-domiciliation has already taken place. Equally references to Bunge Limited have been removed on that basis that it's no longer a Guarantor under the Guaranty.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Guarantor has caused this Guaranty to be duly executed by its officers thereunto duly authorized, as of the date first written above.
GUARANTOR:
BUNGE GLOBAL SA

By: /s/ Rajat Gupta    
Name: Rajat Gupta
Title: Treasurer

By: /s/ Lisa Ware-Alexander    
Name: Lisa Ware-Alexander
Title: Secretary

[Signature Page to First A&R Guaranty (CA-CIB European Revolving Credit Facility)]


Acknowledged and agreed to by:
AGENT:
CRÉDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK
By: /s/ Gaëlle Martin    
Name: Gaëlle MARTIN
Title: Chargée d’Affaires Agency

By: /s/ Nicolas Brochot    
Name: Nicolas BROCHOT
Title: Chargé d’Affaires Agency
[Signature Page to First A&R Guaranty (CA-CIB European Revolving Credit Facility)]



ANNEX A
“2021 Facility”: as defined in the Facility Agreement.
“Adjusted Capitalization”: the sum of the Guarantor’s Consolidated Net Worth and the Guarantor’s consolidated Adjusted Net Debt.
“Adjusted Net Debt”: with respect to any Person on any date of determination, (a) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness of such Person on such date (including, without limitation, letter of credit obligations of such Person) minus (b) the sum of all cash, time deposits, marketable securities and Liquid Inventory of such Person on such date.
“Adjusted Total Consolidated Current Liabilities”: (a) the total consolidated current liabilities of the Guarantor and its consolidated Subsidiaries determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP minus (b) the total letter of credit obligations under any trade structured finance program of the Guarantor and its consolidated Subsidiaries minus (c) the total sum of all drawings under any revolving credit facility that has a maturity, as of any test date, greater than or equal to twelve (12) months from such test date minus (d) any drawings under a commercial paper program, so long as the drawn portion thereunder is supported by undrawn commitments under a revolving credit facility that has a maturity, as of any test date, greater than or equal to twelve (12) months from such test date.
“Aggregate Exposure Percentage”: as defined in Section 2.
“Agreement Currency”: as defined in Section 19(f).
“Anti-Corruption Laws”: all laws, rules and regulations of any jurisdiction applicable to the Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries from time to time concerning or relating to bribery or corruption.
“Applicable Creditor”: as defined in Section 19(f).
“Authorized Agent”: as defined in Section 19(c).
“BFE”: as defined in the preamble hereto.
“Blocking Regulation”: the UK Blocking Regulation and/or the EU Blocking Regulation.
“CA-CIB Roles”: as defined in Section 22.
“Code”: the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder from time to time.
“Consolidated Net Worth”: the Net Worth of the Guarantor and its consolidated Subsidiaries determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, plus minority interests in Subsidiaries.
“Designated Website”: as defined in Section 8.3(a).
“Dollars” and “$”: dollars in lawful currency of the United States.
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“EDGAR”: the Electronic Data-Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval system, which performs automated collection, validation, indexing and forwarding of submissions by Persons who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Environmental Claim”: any and all administrative, regulatory or judicial actions, suits, demands, demand letters, claims, liens, notices of non-compliance or violation, investigations or proceedings relating in any way to any Environmental Law or any permit issued under any such law (hereinafter “Claims”), including, without limitation, (a) any and all Claims by governmental or regulatory authorities for enforcement, cleanup, removal, response, remedial or other actions or damages pursuant to any applicable Environmental Law and (b) any and all Claims by any third party seeking damages, contribution, indemnification, cost recovery, compensation or injunctive relief resulting or arising from alleged or actual injury or threat of injury to the environment by reason of a violation of or liability arising under any Environmental Law.
“Environmental Law”: any and all federal, state, local or foreign laws, rules, orders, regulations, statutes, ordinances, codes, decrees, requirements of any Governmental Authority or other Requirements of Law (including common law) regulating, relating to or imposing liability or standards of conduct concerning protection of human health or the environment, as now or may at any time hereafter be in effect.
“ERISA”: the United States Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time.
“ERISA Affiliate”: any Person that is under common control with the Guarantor under Section 4001 of ERISA, or that, together with the Guarantor, is treated as a single employer under Section 414 of the Code.
“ERISA Event”: (a) (i) the occurrence of a reportable event, within the meaning of Section 4043 of ERISA, with respect to any Plan unless the 30-day notice requirement with respect to such event has been waived by the PBGC or (ii) the requirements of Section 4043(b) of ERISA apply with respect to a contributing sponsor, as defined in Section 4001(a)(13) of ERISA, of a Plan, and an event described in paragraph (9), (10), (11), (12) or (13) of Section 4043(c) of ERISA is reasonably expected to occur with respect to such Plan within the following 30 days; (b) any failure by any Plan to satisfy the minimum funding standards (within the meaning of Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA) applicable to such Plan, whether or not waived, the filing of an application for a minimum funding waiver with respect to a Plan, or the failure to make by its due date a required installment under Section 430(j) of the Code with respect to any Plan or the failure by the Guarantor or any of its ERISA Affiliates to make any required contribution to a Multiemployer Plan; (c) the provision by the administrator of any Plan of a notice of intent to terminate such Plan, pursuant to Section 4041(a)(2) of ERISA (including any such notice with respect to a plan amendment referred to in Section 4041(e) of ERISA); (d) the cessation of operations at a facility of the Guarantor or any ERISA Affiliate in the circumstances described in Section 4062(e) of ERISA; (e) the withdrawal by the Guarantor or any ERISA Affiliate from a Multiple Employer Plan during a plan year for which it was a substantial employer, as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA; (f) the conditions for imposition of a lien under Section 303(k) of ERISA shall have been met with respect to any Plan; (g) the institution by the PBGC of proceedings to terminate a Plan pursuant to Section 4042 of ERISA, or the occurrence of any event or condition described in Section 4042 of ERISA that constitutes grounds for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, such Plan; (h) a determination that any Plan is, or is expected to be, in “at risk” status, within the meaning of Section 430 of the Code; or (i) the receipt by the Guarantor or any of its ERISA Affiliates of a determination that a Multiemployer Plan is in endangered, critical or critical and declining status, within the meaning of Section 432 of the Code or Section 305 of ERISA.
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“EU Blocking Regulation”: the Regulation (EU) No 2271/96 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 November 1996 protecting against the effects of the extraterritorial application of legislation adopted by a third country, and actions based on or resulting therefrom.
“Executive Order”: Executive Order No. 13224 of September 23, 2001 – Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten to Commit, or Support Terrorism.
“Existing Guaranty”: as defined in Section 25.
“Facility Agreement”: as defined in the preamble hereto.
“Foreign Taxes”: as defined in Section 19(e).
“GAAP”: generally accepted accounting principles in the United States as in effect from time to time.
“Guarantor”: as defined in the preamble hereto.
“Guaranty”: as defined in the preamble hereto.
“Guaranty Obligations”: as defined in Section 2.
“Hazardous Materials”: (a) any petroleum or petroleum products, radioactive materials, asbestos in any form that is or could become friable, urea formaldehyde foam insulation, transformers or other equipment that contain dielectric fluid containing levels of polychlorinated biphenyls, and radon gas; (b) any chemicals, materials or substances defined as or included in the definition of “hazardous substances,” “hazardous waste,” “hazardous materials,” “extremely hazardous waste,” “restricted hazardous waste,” “toxic substances,” “toxic pollutants,” “contaminants,” or “pollutants,” or words of similar import, under any applicable Environmental Law; and (c) any other chemical, material or substance, exposure to which is prohibited, limited or regulated by any governmental authority having jurisdiction over the Guarantor or its Subsidiaries and the manufacturing, trading or extraction of which constitutes a material portion of the business of the Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries.
“Indebtedness”: as to any Person, without duplication, (a) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money, (b) all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments, (c) all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of property, except trade accounts payable arising in the ordinary course of business, (d) all obligations of such Person as lessee which are capitalized in accordance with GAAP other than any liability in respect of a lease which would, in accordance with GAAP in effect prior to 15 December 2018, have been treated as an operating lease, (e) all obligations of such Person created or arising under any conditional sales or other title retention agreement with respect to any property acquired by such Person (including without limitation, obligations under any such agreement which provides that the rights and remedies of the seller or lender thereunder in the event of default are limited to repossession or sale of such property), (f) all obligations of such Person with respect to letters of credit and similar instruments, including without limitation obligations under reimbursement agreements, (g) all Indebtedness of others secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness has existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) a Lien on any asset of such Person, whether or not such Indebtedness is assumed by such Person, and (h) all guarantees by such Person of Indebtedness of others (other than guarantees of obligations of direct or indirect Subsidiaries of such Person).
“Judgment Currency”: as defined in Section 19(f).
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“Lien”: with respect to any asset, (a) any mortgage, deed of trust, lien, pledge, encumbrance, charge or security interest in or on such asset and (b) the interest of a vendor or a lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or title retention agreement relating to such asset.
“Liquid Inventory”: as to the Guarantor and its consolidated Subsidiaries at any time, its inventory at such time of commodities which are traded on any recognized commodities exchange, valued depending on the type of such commodity at either (a) the lower of cost or the market value at such time or (b) the market value at such time.
“Multiemployer Plan”: a multiemployer plan, as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA, to which the Guarantor or any ERISA Affiliate (other than one considered an ERISA Affiliate only pursuant to subsection (m) or (o) of Section 414 of the Code) is making or accruing an obligation to make contributions, or has within any of the preceding five plan years made or accrued an obligation to make contributions.
“Multiple Employer Plan”: a single employer plan, as defined in Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA, that (a) is maintained for employees of the Guarantor or any ERISA Affiliate and at least one Person other than the Guarantor and the ERISA Affiliates or (b) was so maintained and in respect of which the Guarantor or any of its ERISA Affiliates could have liability under Sections 4063, 4064 or 4069 of ERISA.
“Net Worth”: with respect to any Person, the sum of such Person’s capital stock, capital in excess of par or stated value of shares of its capital stock, retained earnings and any other account which, in accordance with GAAP, constitutes stockholders’ equity, excluding any treasury stock.
“Notice Address”:
Agent:
CRÉDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK
12 Place des Etats Unis
CS 70052
92547 Montrouge Cedex
Attention: Julien VERHAEGHE / Mariam RAMLI
Tel. No: +33 1 41 89 29 93 / +33 1 41 89 17 92
Guarantor:
BUNGE GLOBAL SA
Route de Florissant 13
1206 Geneva, Switzerland

with a copy to:

BUNGE GLOBAL SA
1391 Timberlake Manor Parkway
Chesterfield, Missouri 63017
Attention: Treasurer
Tel. No: (636) 292-3029
Telecopy No.:     (636) 292-4029

“OFAC”: the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
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“PBGC”: the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation established pursuant to Subtitle A of Title IV of ERISA and any Person succeeding to the functions thereof.
“Permitted Secured Indebtedness”: any Secured Indebtedness that:
(a)    is secured by any mechanic, laborer, workmen, repairmen, materialmen, supplier, carrier, warehousemen, landlord or vendor Lien or any other Lien provided for by mandatory provisions of law, any order, attachment or similar legal process arising in connection with a court or other similar proceeding, any tax, charge or assessment ruling or required by any Governmental Authority under any other similar circumstances;
(b)    is incurred or assumed solely for the purpose of financing all or any part of the cost of constructing or acquiring Property, and any Secured Indebtedness extending, renewing or replacing, in whole or in part Secured Indebtedness permitted pursuant to this clause (b), so long as the principal amount of the Secured Indebtedness secured by such Lien does not exceed its original principal amount;
(c)    is secured by Property existing prior to the acquisition of such Property or the acquisition of any Subsidiary that is the owner of such Property and is not incurred in contemplation of such acquisition and any Secured Indebtedness extending, renewing or replacing, in whole or in part Secured Indebtedness permitted pursuant to this clause (c), so long as the principal amount of the Secured Indebtedness secured by such Lien does not exceed its original principal amount;
(d)    is owed by any Subsidiary to the Guarantor or any other Subsidiary;
(e)    is secured by any accounts receivable from or invoices to export customers (including, but not limited to, Subsidiaries), any contracts to sell, purchase or receive commodities to or from export customers and any cash collateral and proceeds thereof;
(f)    is incurred pursuant to the Finance Documents;
(g)    is secured by accounts receivable and other related assets arising in connection with transfers thereof to the extent such transfers are treated as true sales;
(h)    is secured by a Lien on any checking account, saving account, clearing account, futures account, deposit account, securities account, brokerage account, custody account or other account (or on any assets held in such account), securing obligations under any agreement or arrangement related to the opening of or provision of clearing, pooling, zero-balancing, brokerage, settlement, margin or other services related to such account (or on any assets held in such account), which customarily exist on similar accounts (or on any assets held in such accounts) of corporations in connection with the opening of, or provision of clearing, pooling, zero-balancing, brokerage, settlement, margin or other services related, to such accounts; or
(i)    is incurred in connection with letters of credit or other similar instruments issued in the normal course of business of the Guarantor or any Subsidiary, including without limitation, obligations under reimbursement agreements.
“Plan”: a Single Employer Plan or a Multiple Employer Plan.
“Property”: any of the Guarantor’s or any Subsidiary’s present or future property including any asset, revenue, or right to receive income or any other property, whether tangible or intangible, real or personal.
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“Rating Agency”: either one of (a) S&P Global Ratings, or any successor thereto, or (b) Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. or any successor thereto.
“Restricted Party”: any person listed:
(a)    in the Annex to the Executive Order;
(b)    on the “Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons” list maintained by OFAC; or
(c)    in any successor list to either of the foregoing.
“Secured Indebtedness”: all Indebtedness incurred by the Guarantor and any of its Subsidiaries (without duplication) which is secured by Property pledged by the Guarantor or any Subsidiary.
“Single Employer Plan”: a single employer plan, as defined in Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA, that (a) is maintained for employees of the Guarantor or any of its ERISA Affiliates and no Person other than the Guarantor and its ERISA Affiliates or (b) was so maintained and in respect of which the Guarantor or any of its ERISA Affiliates could have liability under Sections 4062 or 4069 of ERISA in the event such plan has been or were to be terminated.
“Total Consolidated Current Assets”: (a) the total consolidated current assets of the Guarantor and its consolidated Subsidiaries determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP minus (b) the total time deposits under any trade structured finance program of the Guarantor and its consolidated Subsidiaries.
“Total Tangible Assets”: at any date of determination, the total amount of assets of the Guarantor and its Subsidiaries (without duplication and excluding any asset owned by the Guarantor or any Subsidiary that represents an obligation of the Guarantor or any other Subsidiary to such Subsidiary or Guarantor) after deducting therefrom all goodwill, trade names, trademarks, patents, licenses, copyrights and other intangible assets.
“Transfer”: as defined in Section 8.2(b).
“UCC”: the Uniform Commercial Code, as amended, replaced or otherwise revised from time to time, as in effect in any specified jurisdiction.
“UK Blocking Regulation”: the Regulation (EU) No 2271/96 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 November 1996 protecting against the effects of the extraterritorial application of legislation adopted by a third country, and actions based on or resulting therefrom as it forms part of domestic law of the United Kingdom by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018.
“Withdrawal Liability”: liability to a Multiemployer Plan as a result of a complete or partial withdrawal from such Multiemployer Plan, as such terms are defined in Title IV of ERISA.



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