abg8k03102010.htm


 

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
 
FORM 8-K
 
CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
 
Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): March 11, 2010 (March 10, 2010)
 
Avis Budget Group, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 
Delaware
 
1-10308
 
06-0918165
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)
 
(Commission File Number)
 
(IRS Employer Identification Number)
         
6 Sylvan Way
Parsippany, NJ
 
07054
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
(Zip Code)
         
(973) 496-4700
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
         
N/A
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

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1.01
 
 
Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement

Avis Budget Group, Inc. (the “Company”) announced that it entered into an indenture on March 10, 2010 with respect to the sale by its wholly-owned subsidiary, Avis Budget Car Rental, LLC (“ABCR”), of $450 million aggregate principal amount of 9 5/8% senior notes due 2018 at an issue price of 98.634% (the “Notes”).  In connection with such sale, the Company also entered into a registration rights agreement with the initial purchasers of the Notes, under which we have agreed to use our reasonable best efforts to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission and cause to become effective a registration statement with respect to a registered offer to exchange the Notes for new notes, with terms substantially identical in all material respects to the Notes.
 
The Notes were issued in a private offering that is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), to qualified institutional buyers in accordance with Rule 144A and to persons outside of the United States pursuant to Regulation S under the Securities Act. The Notes are senior unsecured obligations of ABCR and will be guaranteed on a senior basis by the Company and certain of its domestic subsidiaries.
 
Interest is payable on the Notes on each March 15 and September 15, commencing September 15, 2010.  The Company may redeem some or all of the Notes at any time prior to March 15, 2014 at a price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, and an applicable make-whole premium. On or after March 15, 2014, the Company may redeem some or all of the Notes at redemption prices set forth in the indenture.  In addition, at any time prior to March 15, 2013, the Company may redeem up to 35% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes at a specified redemption price with the net cash proceeds of certain equity offerings.

 
 

 
 
The indenture contains contain covenants that, among other things, restrict the ability of ABCR and the ability of certain of its subsidiaries to: incur, assume or guarantee additional indebtedness; pay dividends or redeem or repurchase capital stock; make other restricted payments; incur liens; redeem debt that is junior in right of payment to the Notes; sell or otherwise dispose of assets, including capital stock of subsidiaries; enter into mergers or consolidations; enter into transactions with affiliates; and enter into new lines of businesses. These covenants are subject to a number of important exceptions and qualifications. In addition, in certain circumstances, if ABCR sells assets or experiences cetain changes of control, it must offer to purchase the Notes.
 
Net proceeds from the offering, were primarily used to repay outstanding indebtedness under the Company's floating rate term loan.  In connection with such repayment, the Company also announced that ABCR has entered into the Second Amendment, dated as of March 10, 2010, to the Credit Agreement dated as of April 19, 2006, as amended by the First Amendment dated as of December 23, 2008 with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent and the other lenders parties thereto (the “Second Amendment”).  As a result of such amendment, (i) the aggregate revolving commitments under the Company’s senior credit facilities are now $1.2 billion, with $983.2 million of such commitments having a term ending on April 19, 2013 and the balance having a term ending on April 19, 2011; and (ii) the term loan outstanding has been reduced to $324.8 million, with $272.8 million maturing on the earlier of (a) April 19, 2014 or (b) 91 calendar days prior to the maturity of our senior unsecured notes due 2014, if such senior unsecured notes are still outstanding on such date, and the balance maturing on April 19, 2012.  Pursuant to the Second Amendment, the financial and other covenants and certain other provisions of our senior credit agreement were amended and pricing was also amended for the portion of the facility terminating/maturing after 2012, as set forth in the Second Amendment, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 10.1.
 
The initial offering of the Notes and the related guarantees will not be registered under the Securities Act and the Notes and the Guarantees may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration requirements. This current report on Form 8-K is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy the Notes or any other securities and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any jurisdiction in which such offering, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.
 
The foregoing summary does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete terms of the Second Amendment, the indenture, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 4.1 hereto, the Notes, the form of which is filed as Exhibit 4.2 and the registration rights agreement, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 10.2 hereto, and all of which are incorporated herein by reference.
 

 

8.01
 
Other Events.

On March 10, 2010, the Company issued a press release announcing completion of the offering of the Notes and the Second Amendment, a copy of which is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 hereto.
 


 
9.01
 
 
Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(99)  
Exhibits.

Exhibit No.
 
Description
4.1
 
 
Indenture dated as of March 10, 2010 among Avis Budget Car Rental, LLC and Avis Budget Finance, Inc., as Issuers, the Guarantors from time to time parties thereto and The Bank of Nova Scotia Trust Company of New York as Trustee.
 
4.2
 
 
Form of 9 5/8% Senior Notes Due 2018.
10.1
 
 
Second Amendment, dated as of March 10, 2010, to the Credit Agreement dated as of April 19, 2006, as amended by the First Amendment dated as of December 23, 2008, among Avis Budget Holdings, LLC, Avis Budget Car Rental, LLC, the subsidiary borrowers from time to time parties thereto, the several lenders from time to time parties thereto, Bank of America, N.A., Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank New York Branch (formerly known as Calyon) and Citicorp USA, Inc. as documentation agents, Wachovia Bank, National Association as co-documentation agent, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. as syndication agent and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent.
 
10.2
 
 
Registration Rights Agreement, dated March 10, 2010, among Avis Budget Car Rental, LLC and Avis Budget Finance, Inc., the guarantors parties thereto, Banc of America Securities LLC, and the other initial purchasers parties thereto.
 
99.1
 
Press Release issued March 10, 2010.
     
     
     
     
 

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

 
AVIS BUDGET GROUP, INC.
 

 

 
 
By:
 
/s/ Jean M. Sera
 
Name:
Jean M. Sera
 
Title:
Senior Vice President and Secretary
     


Date: March 11, 2010
 

 
 

 
 

 
AVIS BUDGET GROUP, INC.
CURRENT REPORT ON FORM 8-K
Report Dated March 11, 2010 (March 10, 2010)

EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit No.
 
Description
4.1
 
 
Indenture dated as of March 10, 2010 among Avis Budget Car Rental, LLC and Avis Budget Finance, Inc., as Issuers, the Guarantors from time to time parties thereto and The Bank of Nova Scotia Trust Company of New York as Trustee.
 
4.2
 
 
Form of 9 5/8% Senior Notes Due 2018.
10.1
 
 
Second Amendment, dated as of March 10, 2010, to the Credit Agreement dated as of April 19, 2006, as amended by the First Amendment dated as of December 23, 2008, among Avis Budget Holdings, LLC, Avis Budget Car Rental, LLC, the subsidiary borrowers from time to time parties thereto, the several lenders from time to time parties thereto, Bank of America, N.A., Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank New York Branch (formerly known as Calyon) and Citicorp USA, Inc. as documentation agents, Wachovia Bank, National Association as co-documentation agent, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. as syndication agent and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent.
 
10.2
 
 
Registration Rights Agreement, dated March 10, 2010, among Avis Budget Car Rental, LLC and Avis Budget Finance, Inc., the guarantors parties thereto, Banc of America Securities LLC, and the other initial purchasers parties thereto.
 
99.1
 
Press Release issued March 10, 2010.
     

 


indenture.htm
Exhibit 4.1
 
 

AVIS BUDGET CAR RENTAL, LLC
 
and
 
AVIS BUDGET FINANCE, INC.,
 
as Issuers,
 
The GUARANTORS from time to time parties hereto
 
 
and
 
 
THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK
 
 
as Trustee
 
 
______
 
INDENTURE
DATED as of MARCH 10, 2010
 
______
 
9 5/8% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2018
 
 

 
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
Page
 
ARTICLE I
 
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
OF GENERAL APPLICATION
 
Section 101.                      Definitions
1
Section 102.                      Other Definitions
35
Section 103.                      Rules of Construction
36
Section 104.                      Incorporation by Reference of TIA
37
Section 105.                      Conflict with TIA
37
Section 106.                      Compliance Certificates and Opinions
37
Section 107.                      Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee
38
Section 108.                      Acts of Noteholders; Record Dates
38
Section 109.                      Notices, etc., to Trustee and Company
41
Section 110.                      Notices to Holders; Waiver
41
Section 111.                      Effect of Headings and Table of Contents
42
Section 112.                      Successors and Assigns
42
Section 113.                      Separability Clause
42
Section 114.                      Benefits of Indenture
42
Section 115.                      GOVERNING LAW
42
Section 116.                      Legal Holidays
42
Section 117.                      No Personal Liability of Directors, Officers, Employees, Incorporators, Equity Holders, Members and Stockholders
42
Section 118.                      Exhibits and Schedules
43
Section 119.                      Counterparts
43
ARTICLE II
NOTE FORMS
 
Section 201.                      Forms Generally
43
Section 202.                      Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication
44
Section 203.                      Restrictive and Global Note Legends
46
ARTICLE III
THE NOTES
 
Section 301.                      Title and Terms
48
Section 302.                      Denominations
49
Section 303.                      Execution, Authentication and Delivery and Dating
49
Section 304.                      Temporary Notes
50
Section 305.                      Note Registrar and Paying Agent
50
 
 


Section 306.                      Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Notes
51
Section 307.                      Payment of Interest Rights Preserved
52
Section 308.                      Persons Deemed Owners
53
Section 309.                      Cancellation
53
Section 310.                      Computation of Interest
53
Section 311.                      CUSIP Numbers, Etc.
53
Section 312.                      Book-Entry Provisions for Global Notes
54
Section 313.                      Special Transfer Provisions
55
Section 314.                      Payment of Additional Interest
58
ARTICLE IV
COVENANTS
 
Section 401.                      Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest
59
Section 402.                      Maintenance of Office or Agency
59
Section 403.                      Money for Payments to Be Held in Trust
59
Section 404.                      [Reserved]
60
Section 405.                      Reports
60
Section 406.                      Statement as to Default
61
Section 407.                      Limitation on Indebtedness
61
Section 408.                      [Reserved]
65
Section 409.                      Limitation on Restricted Payments
65
Section 410.                      Limitation on Restrictions on Distributions from Restricted Subsidiaries
68
Section 411.                      Limitation on Sales of Assets and Subsidiary Stock
70
Section 412.                      Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates
73
Section 413.                      Limitation on Liens
74
Section 414.                      Future Subsidiary Guarantors
75
Section 415.                      Purchase of Notes Upon a Change in Control
75
ARTICLE V
SUCCESSORS
 
Section 501.                      When the Company May Merge, Etc.
76
Section 502.                      Successor Company Substituted
78
ARTICLE VI
REMEDIES
 
Section 601.                      Events of Default
78
Section 602.                      Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment
80
Section 603.                      Other Remedies; Collection Suit by Trustee
81
Section 604.                      Trustee May File Proofs of Claim
81
Section 605.                      Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Notes
81

 



Section 606.                      Application of Money Collected
81
Section 607.                      Limitation on Suits
82
Section 608.                      Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal and Interest
82
Section 609.                      Restoration of Rights and Remedies
82
Section 610.                      Rights and Remedies Cumulative
82
Section 611.                      Delay or Omission Not Waiver
83
Section 612.                      Control by Holders
83
Section 613.                      Waiver of Past Defaults
83
Section 614.                      Undertaking for Costs
84
Section 615.                      Waiver of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws
84
ARTICLE VII
THE TRUSTEE
 
Section 701.                      Certain Duties and Responsibilities
84
Section 702.                      Notice of Defaults
85
Section 703.                      Certain Rights of Trustee
85
Section 704.                      Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Notes
86
Section 705.                      May Hold Notes
86
Section 706.                      Money Held in Trust
87
Section 707.                      Compensation and Reimbursement
87
Section 708.                      Conflicting Interests
87
Section 709.                      Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility
87
Section 710.                      Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor
88
Section 711.                      Acceptance of Appointment by Successor
89
Section 712.                      Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business
89
Section 713.                      Preferential Collection of Claims Against the Company
89
Section 714.                      Appointment of Authenticating Agent
89
ARTICLE VIII
HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY
TRUSTEE AND THE COMPANY
 
Section 801.                      The Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders
90
Section 802.                      Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders
90
Section 803.                      Reports by Trustee
90
ARTICLE IX
AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENT OR WAIVER
 
Section 901.                      Without Consent of Holders
91
Section 902.                      With Consent of Holders
92
Section 903.                      Execution of Amendments, Supplements or Waivers
93
 



Section 904.                      Revocation and Effect of Consents
93
Section 905.                      Conformity with TIA
93
Section 906.                      Notation on or Exchange of Notes
93
ARTICLE X
REDEMPTION OF NOTES
 
Section 1001.                                Right of Redemption
94
Section 1002.                                Applicability of Article
95
Section 1003.                                Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee
95
Section 1004.                                Selection by Trustee of Notes to Be Redeemed
95
Section 1005.                                Notice of Redemption
96
Section 1006.                                Deposit of Redemption Price
97
Section 1007.                                Notes Payable on Redemption Date
97
Section 1008.                                Notes Redeemed in Part
97
ARTICLE XI
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
 
Section 1101.                                Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture
98
Section 1102.                                Application of Trust Money
99
ARTICLE XII
DEFEASANCE OR COVENANT DEFEASANCE
 
Section 1201.                                The Company’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance
99
Section 1202.                                Defeasance and Discharge
99
Section 1203.                                Covenant Defeasance
100
Section 1204.                                Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance
100
Section 1205.                                Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions
102
Section 1206.                                Reinstatement
102
Section 1207.                                Repayment to the Company
102
ARTICLE XIII
GUARANTEES
 
Section 1301.                                Guarantees Generally
103
Section 1302.                                Continuing Guarantees
104
Section 1303.                                Release of Guarantees
105
Section 1304.                                [Reserved]
105
Section 1305.                                Waiver of Subrogation
105
 


Section 1306.                                Notation Not Required
106
Section 1307.                                Successors and Assigns of Guarantors
106
Section 1308.                                Execution and Delivery of Guarantees
106
Section 1309.                                Notices
106

 
Exhibit A
Form of Initial Note
Exhibit B
Form of Exchange Note
Exhibit C
Form of Certificate of Beneficial Ownership
Exhibit D
Form of Regulation S Certificate
Exhibit E
Form of Supplemental Indenture in Respect of Subsidiary Guarantees
Exhibit F
Form of Certificate from Acquiring Institutional Accredited Investors
Exhibit G
List of Agreements Named in Section 412(b)(iv)

 


Certain Sections of this Indenture relating to Sections 310 through 318
inclusive of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939:
 
Trust Indenture Act Section
Indenture Section
§ 310(a)(1)                                                                                                     
709
(a)(2)                                                                                             
709
(a)(3)                                                                                             
Not Applicable
(a)(4)                                                                                             
Not Applicable
(b)                                                                                             
708
§ 311(a)                                                                                                     
713
(b)                                                                                             
713
§ 312(a)                                                                                                     
801,
802
(b)                                                                                             
802
(c)                                                                                             
802
§ 313(a)                                                                                                     
803
(b)                                                                                             
803
(c)                                                                                             
803
(d)                                                                                             
803
§ 314(a)                                                                                                     
405
(a)(4)                                                                                             
106,
406
(b)                                                                                             
Not Applicable
(c)(1)                                                                                             
106
(c)(2)                                                                                             
106
(c)(3)                                                                                             
Not Applicable
(d)                                                                                             
Not Applicable
(e)                                                                                             
106
§ 315(a)                                                                                                     
701
(b)                                                                                             
702,
803
(c)                                                                                             
701
(d)                                                                                             
701
(d)(1)                                                                                             
701
(d)(2)                                                                                             
701
(d)(3)                                                                                             
612,
701
(e)                                                                                             
614
§ 316(a)                                                                                                     
612,
613
(a)(1)(A)                                                                                             
602,
612
(a)(1)(B)                                                                                             
613
(a)(2)                                                                                             
Not Applicable
(b)                                                                                             
608
(c)                                                                                             
108
 
 

 
 

 

§ 317(a)(1)                                                                                                     
603
(a)(2)                                                                                             
604
(b)                                                                                             
403
§ 318(a)                                                                                             
105
 
_____________________________
 
This cross-reference table shall not for any purpose be deemed to be part of this Indenture.
 
 


INDENTURE, dated as of March 10, 2010 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, this “Indenture”), among Avis Budget Car Rental, LLC, a limited liability company organized under the laws of the state of Delaware (the “Company”), and Avis Budget Finance, Inc., a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Delaware (together with the Company, “the Issuers”), the guarantors from time to time parties hereto (the “Guarantors”) and The Bank of Nova Scotia Trust Company of New York, as trustee (the “Trustee”).
 
RECITALS OF THE ISSUERS
 
The Issuers have duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the issuance of the Notes.
 
All things necessary to make the Original Notes, when executed and delivered by the Issuers and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee hereunder and duly issued by the Issuers, the valid several obligations of the Issuers, and to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Issuers in accordance with the terms of the Original Notes and this Indenture, have been done.
 
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
 
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Notes by the Holders thereof, it is mutually agreed, for the benefit of all Holders of the Notes, as follows:
 
ARTICLE I        
 
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
OF GENERAL APPLICATION
 
Section 101. Definitions.
 
9 5/8% Notes” means the Issuers’ 9 5/8% Senior Notes due 2018.
 
Acquired Indebtedness” means Indebtedness of a Person (i) existing at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary or (ii) assumed in connection with the acquisition of assets from such Person, in each case other than Indebtedness Incurred in connection with, or in contemplation of, such Person becoming a Subsidiary or such acquisition.  Acquired Indebtedness shall be deemed to be Incurred on the date of the related acquisition of assets from any Person or the date the acquired Person becomes a Subsidiary.
 
Additional Assets” means (i) any property or assets that replace the property or assets that are the subject of an Asset Disposition; (ii) any property or assets (other than Indebtedness and Capital Stock) used or to be used by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary or otherwise useful in a Related Business (including any capital expenditures on any property or assets already so used); (iii) the Capital Stock of a Person that is engaged in a Related Business and becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of the acquisition of such Capital Stock by the Company or another Restricted Subsidiary; or (iv) Capital Stock of any Person that at such time is a Restricted Subsidiary acquired from a third party.
 

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Additional Notes” means any notes issued under this Indenture in addition to the Original Notes (other than any Notes issued pursuant to Section 304, 305, 306, 312(c), 312(d) or 1008).
 
Affiliate” of any specified Person means any other Person, directly or indirectly, controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person.  For the purposes of this definition, “control” when used with respect to any Person means the power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing.
 
Asset Disposition” means any sale, lease (other than an operating lease entered into in the ordinary course of business), transfer or other disposition of shares of Capital Stock of a Restricted Subsidiary (other than directors’ qualifying shares, or (in the case of a Foreign Subsidiary) to the extent required by applicable law), property or other assets (each referred to for the purposes of this definition as a “disposition”) by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (including any disposition by means of a merger, consolidation or similar transaction), other than (i) a disposition to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, (ii) a sale or other disposition in the ordinary course of business, (iii) the sale or discount (with or without recourse, and on customary or commercially reasonable terms) of accounts receivable or notes receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, or the conversion or exchange of accounts receivable for notes receivable, (iv) any Restricted Payment Transaction, (v) a disposition that is governed by Article V, (vi) any Financing Disposition, (vii) any “fee in lieu” or other disposition of assets to any governmental authority or agency that continue in use by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, so long as the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary may obtain title to such assets upon reasonable notice by paying a nominal fee, (viii) any exchange of property pursuant to or intended to qualify under Section 1031 (or any successor section) of the Code, or any exchange of equipment to be leased, rented or otherwise used in a Related Business, (ix) any financing transaction with respect to property built or acquired by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary after the Issue Date, including without limitation any sale/leaseback transaction or asset securitization, (x) any disposition arising from foreclosure, condemnation or similar action with respect to any property or other assets, or exercise of termination rights under any lease, license, concession or other agreement, (xi) any disposition of Capital Stock, Indebtedness or other securities of an Unrestricted Subsidiary, (xii) a disposition of Capital Stock of a Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to an agreement or other obligation with or to a Person (other than the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary) from whom such Restricted Subsidiary was acquired, or from whom such Restricted Subsidiary acquired its business and assets (having been newly formed in connection with such acquisition), entered into in connection with such acquisition, (xiii) a disposition of not more than 5% of the outstanding Capital Stock of a Foreign Subsidiary that has been approved by the Board of Directors, (xiv) any disposition or series of related dispositions for aggregate consideration not to exceed $50.0 million, (xv) the creation of a Permitted Lien and dispositions in connection with Permitted Liens, (xvi) dispositions of Investments or receivables, in each case in connection with the compromise, settlement or collection thereof in the ordinary course of business or in bankruptcy or similar proceedings, (xvii) the unwinding of any Hedging Obligation, or (xviii) the licensing of any intellectual property.
 

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Authenticating Agent” means any Person authorized by the Trustee pursuant to Section 714 to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate the Notes.
 
Average Book Value” means, for any period, the amount equal to (x) the sum of the respective book values of Rental Vehicles of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries as of the end of each of the most recent thirteen fiscal months of the Company that have ended at or prior to the end of such period, divided by (y) 13.
 
Average Interest Rate” means, for any period, the amount equal to (x) the total interest expense of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period (excluding any interest expense on any Indebtedness of any Special Purpose Subsidiary that is a Restricted Subsidiary directly or indirectly Incurred to finance or refinance the acquisition of, or secured by, Rental Vehicles and/or related rights and/or assets), divided by (y) the Average Principal Amount of Indebtedness of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period (excluding any Indebtedness of any Special Purpose Subsidiary that is a Restricted Subsidiary directly or indirectly Incurred to finance or refinance the acquisition of, or secured by, Rental Vehicles and/or related rights and/or assets).
 
Average Principal Amount” means, for any period, the amount equal to (x) the sum of the respective aggregate outstanding principal amounts of the applicable Indebtedness as of the end of each of the most recent thirteen fiscal months of the Company that have ended at or prior to the end of such period, divided by (y) 13.
 
Bank Indebtedness” means any and all amounts, whether outstanding on the Issue Date or thereafter incurred, payable under or in respect of any Credit Facility, including without limitation principal, premium (if any), interest (including interest accruing on or after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy or for reorganization relating to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary whether or not a claim for post-filing interest is allowed in such proceedings), fees, charges, expenses, reimbursement obligations, guarantees, other monetary obligations of any nature and all other amounts payable thereunder or in respect thereof.
 
Board of Directors” means, for any Person, the board of directors or other governing body of such Person or, if such Person is owned or managed by a single entity, the board of directors or other governing body of such entity, or, in either case, any committee thereof duly authorized to act on behalf of such board or governing body.  Unless otherwise provided, “Board of Directors” means the Board of Directors of the Company.
 
Business Day” means a day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banking institutions are authorized or required by law to close in New York City (or any other city in which a Paying Agent maintains its office).
 
Canadian Securitization Entity” means WTH Funding Limited Partnership, an Ontario limited partnership, any other special purpose entity formed for the purpose of engaging in vehicle financing in Canada including, without limitation, any other partnership formed from time to time and each of the special purpose entities that may be partners in WTH Funding Limited Partnership or in any other such partnerships, and any successor of the foregoing.
 
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Capital Stock” of any Person means any and all shares of, rights to purchase, warrants or options for, or other equivalents of or interests in (however designated) equity of such Person, including any Preferred Stock, but excluding any debt securities convertible into such equity.
 
Capitalized Lease Obligation” means an obligation that is required to be classified and accounted for as a capitalized lease for financial reporting purposes in accordance with GAAP.  The Stated Maturity of any Capitalized Lease Obligation shall be the date of the last payment of rent or any other amount due under the related lease.
 
Cash Equivalents” means any of the following: (a) securities issued or fully guaranteed or insured by the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof, (b) marketable general obligations issued by any state of the United States of America or any political subdivision of any such state or any public instrumentality thereof having a credit rating of “A” or better at the time of acquisition from either S&P or Moody’s, (c) time deposits, certificates of deposit or bankers’ acceptances of (i) any lender under the Senior Credit Facilities or any affiliate thereof or (ii) any commercial bank having capital and surplus in excess of $500,000,000 and the commercial paper of the holding company of which is rated at least A-2 or the equivalent thereof by S&P or at least P-2 or the equivalent thereof by Moody’s (or if at such time neither is issuing ratings, then a comparable rating of another nationally recognized rating agency), (d) money market instruments, commercial paper or other short-term obligations rated at least A-2 or the equivalent thereof by S&P or at least P-2 or the equivalent thereof by Moody’s (or if at such time neither is issuing ratings, then a comparable rating of another nationally recognized rating agency), (e) investments in money market funds subject to the risk limiting conditions of Rule 2a-7 or any successor rule of the SEC under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended and (f) investments similar to any of the foregoing denominated in foreign currencies approved by the Board of Directors.
 
 “Change of Control” means:
 
(i) any “person” (as such term is used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act), other than one or more Permitted Holders or a Parent, becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of the Company, provided that (x) so long as the Company is a Subsidiary of any Parent, no “person” shall be deemed to be or become a “beneficial owner” of more than 50% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of the Company unless such “person” shall be or become a “beneficial owner” of more than 50% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of such Parent and (y) any Voting Stock of which any Permitted Holder is the “beneficial owner” shall not in any case be included in any Voting Stock of which any such “person” is the “beneficial owner”;
 
(ii) the Company or the Parent merges or consolidates with or into, or sells or transfers (in one or a series of related transactions) all or substantially all of the assets of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to, another Person (other than one or more Permitted Holders) and any “person” (as defined in clause (i) above), other than one or more Permitted Holders or any Parent, is or becomes the “beneficial
 
 

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owner” (as so defined), directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of the surviving Person in such merger or consolidation, or the transferee Person in such sale or transfer of assets, as the case may be, provided that (x) so long as such surviving or transferee Person is a Subsidiary of a parent Person, no “person” shall be deemed to be or become a “beneficial owner” of more than 50% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of such surviving or transferee Person unless such “person” shall be or become a “beneficial owner” of more than 50% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of such parent Person and (y) any Voting Stock of which any Permitted Holder is the “beneficial owner” shall not in any case be included in any Voting Stock of which any such “person” is the beneficial owner; or
 
(iii) during any period of two consecutive years (during which period the Company has been a party to this Indenture), individuals who at the beginning of such period were members of the Board of Directors of the Company (together with any new members thereof whose election by such Board of Directors or whose nomination for election by holders of Capital Stock of the Company was approved by one or more Permitted Holders or by a vote of a majority of the members of such Board of Directors then still in office who were either members thereof at the beginning of such period or whose election or nomination for election was previously so approved) cease for any reason to constitute a majority of such Board of Directors then in office.
 
Clearstream” means Clearstream Banking, société anonyme, or any successor securities clearing agency.
 
Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
 
Commodities Agreement” means, in respect of a Person, any commodity futures contract, forward contract, option or similar agreement or arrangement (including derivative agreements or arrangements), as to which such Person is a party or beneficiary.
 
Company” means Avis Budget Car Rental, LLC, and any and all successors thereto.
 
Company Request” and “Company Order” mean, respectively, a written request, or order signed in the name of the Company by an Officer of the Company.
 
Consolidated Coverage Ratio” as of any date of determination means the ratio of (i) the aggregate amount of Consolidated EBITDA for the period of the most recent four consecutive fiscal quarters ending prior to the date of such determination for which consolidated financial statements of the Company are available to (ii) Consolidated Interest Expense for such four fiscal quarters (in each of the foregoing clauses (i) and (ii), determined for each fiscal quarter of the four fiscal quarters ending prior to the Issue Date); provided, that
 
(1) if since the beginning of such period the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary has Incurred any Indebtedness that remains outstanding on such date of determination or if the transaction giving rise to the need to calculate the Consolidated Coverage Ratio is an Incurrence of Indebtedness, Consolidated EBITDA and Consolidated Interest Expense for such period shall be calculated after giving effect on a
 
 

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pro forma basis to such Indebtedness as if such Indebtedness had been Incurred on the first day of such period (except that in making such computation, the amount of Indebtedness under any revolving credit facility outstanding on the date of such calculation shall be computed based on (A) the average daily balance of such Indebtedness during such four fiscal quarters or such shorter period for which such facility was outstanding or (B) if such facility was created after the end of such four fiscal quarters, the average daily balance of such Indebtedness during the period from the date of creation of such facility to the date of such calculation);
 
(2) if since the beginning of such period the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary has repaid, repurchased, redeemed, defeased or otherwise acquired, retired or discharged any Indebtedness that is no longer outstanding on such date of determination or the Indebtedness of any Special Purpose Subsidiary which is an Unrestricted Subsidiary is reduced (each, a “Discharge”) or if the transaction giving rise to the need to calculate the Consolidated Coverage Ratio involves a Discharge of Indebtedness (in each case other than Indebtedness Incurred under any revolving credit facility unless such Indebtedness has been permanently repaid), Consolidated EBITDA and Consolidated Interest Expense for such period shall be calculated after giving effect on a pro forma basis to such Discharge of such Indebtedness, including with the proceeds of such new Indebtedness, as if such Discharge had occurred on the first day of such period;
 
(3) if since the beginning of such period the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary shall have disposed of any company, any business or any group of assets constituting an operating unit of a business (any such disposition, a “Sale”), the Consolidated EBITDA for such period shall be reduced by an amount equal to the Consolidated EBITDA (if positive) attributable to the assets that are the subject of such Sale for such period or increased by an amount equal to the Consolidated EBITDA (if negative) attributable thereto for such period and Consolidated Interest Expense for such period shall be reduced by an amount equal to (A) the Consolidated Interest Expense attributable to any Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary repaid, repurchased, redeemed, defeased or otherwise acquired, retired or discharged with respect to the Company and its continuing Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with such Sale for such period (including but not limited to through the assumption of such Indebtedness by another Person) plus (B) if the Capital Stock of any Restricted Subsidiary is sold, the Consolidated Interest Expense for such period attributable to the Indebtedness of such Restricted Subsidiary to the extent the Company and its continuing Restricted Subsidiaries are no longer liable for such Indebtedness after such Sale;
 
(4) if since the beginning of such period the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary (by merger, consolidation or otherwise) shall have made an Investment in any Person that thereby becomes a Restricted Subsidiary, or otherwise acquired any company, any business or any group of assets constituting an operating unit of a business, including any such Investment or acquisition occurring in connection with a transaction causing a calculation to be made hereunder (any such Investment or acquisition, a “Purchase”), Consolidated EBITDA and Consolidated Interest Expense for such period shall be calculated after giving pro forma effect thereto (including the Incurrence of any related Indebtedness) as if such Purchase occurred on the first day of such period; and
 

 
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(5) if since the beginning of such period any Person became a Restricted Subsidiary or was merged or consolidated with or into the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, and since the beginning of such period such Person shall have Discharged any Indebtedness or made any Sale or Purchase that would have required an adjustment pursuant to clause (2), (3) or (4) above if made by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary since the beginning of such period, Consolidated EBITDA and Consolidated Interest Expense for such period shall be calculated after giving pro forma effect thereto as if such Discharge, Sale or Purchase occurred on the first day of such period.
 
For purposes of this definition, whenever pro forma effect is to be given to any Sale, Purchase or other transaction, or the amount of income or earnings relating thereto and the amount of Consolidated Interest Expense associated with any Indebtedness Incurred or repaid, repurchased, redeemed, defeased or otherwise acquired, retired or discharged in connection therewith, the pro forma calculations in respect thereof (including without limitation in respect of anticipated cost savings or synergies relating to any such Sale, Purchase or other transaction) shall be as determined in good faith by the Chief Financial Officer or an authorized Officer of the Company.  If any Indebtedness bears a floating rate of interest and is being given pro forma effect, the interest expense on such Indebtedness shall be calculated as if the rate in effect on the date of determination had been the applicable rate for the entire period (taking into account any Interest Rate Agreement applicable to such Indebtedness).  If any Indebtedness bears, at the option of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, a rate of interest based on a prime or similar rate, a eurocurrency interbank offered rate or other fixed or floating rate, and such Indebtedness is being given pro forma effect, the interest expense on such Indebtedness shall be calculated by applying such optional rate as the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary may designate.  If any Indebtedness that is being given pro forma effect was Incurred under a revolving credit facility, the interest expense on such Indebtedness shall be computed based upon the average daily balance of such Indebtedness during the applicable period.  Interest on a Capitalized Lease Obligation shall be deemed to accrue at an interest rate determined in good faith by a responsible financial or accounting Officer of the Company to be the rate of interest implicit in such Capitalized Lease Obligation in accordance with GAAP.
 
Consolidated EBITDA” means, for any period, the Consolidated Net Income for such period, plus the following to the extent deducted in calculating such Consolidated Net Income, without duplication: (i) provision for all taxes (whether or not paid, estimated or accrued) based on income, profits or capital, (ii) Consolidated Interest Expense and any Special Purpose Financing Fees, (iii) depreciation (excluding Consolidated Vehicle Depreciation), amortization (including but not limited to amortization of goodwill and intangibles and amortization and write-off of financing costs) and all other non-cash charges or non-cash losses, (iv) any expenses or charges related to any Equity Offering, Investment or Indebtedness permitted by this Indenture (whether or not consummated or incurred), and (v) the amount of any minority interest expense.
 
Consolidated Interest Expense” means, for any period, (i) the total interest expense of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries to the extent deducted in calculating Consolidated Net Income, net of any interest income of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, including without limitation any such interest expense consisting of (a) interest expense attributable to Capitalized Lease Obligations, (b) amortization of debt discount, (c)
 
 

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interest in respect of Indebtedness of any other Person that has been Guaranteed by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, but only to the extent that such interest is actually paid by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, (d) non-cash interest expense, (e) the interest portion of any deferred payment obligation and (f) commissions, discounts and other fees and charges owed with respect to letters of credit and bankers’ acceptance financing, plus (ii) Preferred Stock dividends paid in cash in respect of Disqualified Stock of the Company held by Persons other than the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary and minus (iii) to the extent otherwise included in such interest expense referred to in clause (i) above, (x) Consolidated Vehicle Interest Expense and (y) amortization or write-off of financing costs, in each case under clauses (i) through (iii) as determined on a Consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP (to the extent applicable, in the case of Consolidated Vehicle Interest Expense); provided, that gross interest expense shall be determined after giving effect to any net payments made or received by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries with respect to Interest Rate Agreements; provided, further, that notwithstanding the definition of “Consolidated Vehicle Interest Expense,” “Consolidated Interest Expense” shall include the interest expense in respect of Indebtedness that is secured by Liens incurred pursuant to clause (v) of the definition of “Permitted Liens.”
 
Consolidated Net Income” means, for any period, the net income (loss) of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, determined on a Consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP and before any reduction in respect of Preferred Stock dividends; provided, that there shall not be included in such Consolidated Net Income:
 
(i) any net income (loss) of any Person if such Person is not a Restricted Subsidiary, except that (A) subject to the limitations contained in clause (iii) below, the Company’s equity in the net income of any such Person for such period shall be included in such Consolidated Net Income up to the aggregate amount actually distributed by such Person during such period to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary as a dividend or other distribution (subject, in the case of a dividend or other distribution to a Restricted Subsidiary, to the limitations contained in clause (ii) below) and (B) the Company’s equity in the net loss of such Person shall be included to the extent of the aggregate Investment of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such Person;
 
(ii) solely for purposes of determining the amount available for Restricted Payments under Section 409(a)(3)(A), any net income (loss) of any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Guarantor if such Restricted Subsidiary is subject to restrictions, directly or indirectly, on the payment of dividends or the making of similar distributions by such Restricted Subsidiary, directly or indirectly, to the Company by operation of the terms of such Restricted Subsidiary’s charter or any agreement, instrument, judgment, decree, order, statute or governmental rule or regulation applicable to such Restricted Subsidiary or its stockholders (other than (x) restrictions that have been waived or otherwise released, (y) restrictions pursuant to the Notes or this Indenture and (z) restrictions in effect on the Issue Date with respect to a Restricted Subsidiary and other restrictions with respect to such Restricted Subsidiary that taken as a whole are not materially less favorable to the Noteholders than such restrictions in effect on the Issue Date), except that (A) subject to the limitations contained in clause (iii) below, the Company’s equity in the net income of any such Restricted Subsidiary for such period shall be included in such Consolidated Net Income up to the aggregate amount of any
 
 

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dividend or distribution that was or that could have been made by such Restricted Subsidiary during such period to the Company or another Restricted Subsidiary (subject, in the case of a dividend that could have been made to another Restricted Subsidiary, to the limitation contained in this clause) and (B) the net loss of such Restricted Subsidiary shall be included to the extent of the aggregate Investment of the Company or any of its other Restricted Subsidiaries in such Restricted Subsidiary;
 
(iii) any gain or loss realized upon the sale or other disposition of any asset of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary (including pursuant to any sale/leaseback transaction) that is not sold or otherwise disposed of in the ordinary course of business (as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors);
 
(iv) the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principles;
 
(v) all deferred financing costs written off and premiums paid in connection with any early extinguishment of Indebtedness;
 
(vi) any unrealized gains or losses in respect of Currency Agreements;
 
(vii) any unrealized foreign currency transaction gains or losses in respect of Indebtedness of any Person denominated in a currency other than the functional currency of such Person;
 
(viii) any non-cash compensation charge arising from any grant of stock, stock options or other equity based awards;
 
(ix) to the extent otherwise included in Consolidated Net Income, any unrealized foreign currency translation or transaction gains or losses in respect of Indebtedness or other obligations of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary owing to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary;
 
(x) any non-cash charge, expense or other impact attributable to application of the purchase method of accounting (including the total amount of depreciation and amortization, cost of sales or other non-cash expense resulting from the write-up of assets to the extent resulting from such purchase accounting adjustments); and
 
(xi) any item classified as an extraordinary, unusual or non-recurring gain, loss or charge, including fees, expenses and charges associated with the Separation Transactions and any acquisition, merger or consolidation after the Issue Date.
 
For purposes of this definition, whenever pro forma effect is to be given to any Sale, Purchase or other transaction, or the amount of income or earnings relating thereto, the pro forma calculations in respect thereof (including without limitation in respect of anticipated cost savings or synergies relating to any such Sale, Purchase or other transaction) shall be as determined in good faith by a responsible financial or accounting Officer of the Company.
 
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reflected on the consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries as at the end of any fiscal quarter of the Company for which such a balance sheet is available, determined on a Consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP (and, in the case of any determination relating to any incurrence of Indebtedness or any Investment, on a pro forma basis including any property or assets being acquired in connection therewith).
 
Consolidated Secured Indebtedness” means, as of any date of determination, an amount equal to the Consolidated Total Indebtedness as of such date that in each case the payment of which is then secured by Liens on property or assets of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than property or assets held in a defeasance or similar trust or arrangement for the benefit of the Indebtedness secured thereby).
 
Consolidated Secured Leverage Ratio” means, as of any date of determination, the ratio of (x) Consolidated Secured Indebtedness as at such date to (y) the aggregate amount of Consolidated EBITDA for the period of the most recent four consecutive fiscal quarters ending prior to the date of such determination for which consolidated financial statements of the Company are available (determined for each fiscal quarter (or portion thereof) of the four fiscal quarters ending prior to the Issue Date), provided, that:
 
(1) if since the beginning of such period the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary has Incurred any Consolidated Secured Indebtedness that remains outstanding on such date of determination or if the transaction giving rise to the need to calculate the Consolidated Secured Leverage Ratio is an Incurrence of Consolidated Secured Indebtedness, Consolidated EBITDA and Consolidated Secured Indebtedness (to the extent it does not already include such Incurrence of Consolidated Secured Indebtedness) for such period shall be calculated after giving effect on a pro forma basis to such Consolidated Secured Indebtedness as if such Consolidated Secured Indebtedness had been Incurred on the first day of such period (except that in making such computation, the amount of Consolidated Secured Indebtedness under any revolving credit facility outstanding on the date of such calculation shall be computed based on (A) the average daily balance of such Consolidated Secured Indebtedness during such four fiscal quarters or such shorter period for which such facility was outstanding or (B) if such facility was created after the end of such four fiscal quarters, the average daily balance of such Indebtedness during the period from the date of creation of such facility to the date of such calculation);  
 
(2) if since the beginning of such period Consolidated Secured Indebtedness has been Discharged or if the transaction giving rise to the need to calculate the Consolidated Secured Leverage Ratio involves a Discharge of Consolidated Secured Indebtedness (in each case other than Indebtedness Incurred under any revolving credit facility unless such Indebtedness has been permanently repaid), Consolidated EBITDA and Consolidated Secured Indebtedness (to the extent it does not already exclude such Discharge of Consolidated Secured Indebtedness) for such period shall be calculated after giving effect on a pro forma basis to such Discharge of such Consolidated Secured Indebtedness, including with the proceeds of such new Consolidated Secured Indebtedness, as if such Discharge had occurred on the first day of such period;
 

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(3) if since the beginning of such period the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary shall have made a Sale, the Consolidated EBITDA for such period shall be reduced by an amount equal to the Consolidated EBITDA (if positive) attributable to the assets that are the subject of such Sale for such period or increased by an amount equal to the Consolidated EBITDA (if negative) attributable thereto for such period;
 
(4) if since the beginning of such period the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary (by merger, consolidation or otherwise) shall have made a Purchase (including any Purchase occurring in connection with a transaction causing a calculation to be made hereunder), Consolidated EBITDA for such period shall be calculated after giving pro forma effect thereto as if such Purchase occurred on the first day of such period; and
 
(5) if since the beginning of such period any Person became a Restricted Subsidiary or was merged or consolidated with or into the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, and since the beginning of such period such Person shall have made any Sale or Purchase that would have required an adjustment pursuant to clause (2), (3) or (4) above if made by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary since the beginning of such period, Consolidated EBITDA and Consolidated Secured Indebtedness for such period shall be calculated after giving pro forma effect thereto as if such Sale or Purchase occurred on the first day of such period.
 
For purposes of this definition, whenever pro forma effect is to be given to any Sale, Purchase or other transaction, or the amount of income or earnings relating thereto, the pro forma calculations in respect thereof (including without limitation in respect of anticipated cost savings or synergies relating to any such Sale, Purchase or other transaction) shall be as determined in good faith by a responsible financial or accounting Officer of the Company.
 
Consolidated Tangible Assets” means, as of any date of determination, the amount equal to (x) the sum of Consolidated Quarterly Tangible Assets as at the end of each of the most recently ended four fiscal quarters of the Company for which a calculation thereof is available, divided by (y) four; provided that for purposes of Section 407(b), Section 409 and the definition of “Permitted Investment,” Consolidated Tangible Assets shall not be deemed to be less than $10,646 million.
 
Consolidated Total Indebtedness” means, as of any date of determination, an amount equal to (1) the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Indebtedness of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than the Notes) as of such date consisting of (without duplication) Indebtedness for borrowed money (including Purchase Money Obligations and unreimbursed outstanding drawn amounts under funded letters of credit); Capitalized Lease Obligations; debt obligations evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments; Disqualified Stock; and (in the case of any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Guarantor) Preferred Stock, determined on a Consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP (excluding items eliminated in Consolidation, and for the avoidance of doubt, excluding Hedging Obligations), minus (2) the amount of such Indebtedness consisting of Indebtedness of a type referred to in, or Incurred pursuant to, Section 407(b)(ix) to the extent not Incurred to finance or refinance the acquisition of Rental Vehicles, and minus (3) the Consolidated Vehicle Indebtedness as of such date.
 
 

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Consolidated Vehicle Depreciation” means, for any period, depreciation on all Rental Vehicles (after adjustments thereto), to the extent deducted in calculating Consolidated Net Income for such period.
 
Consolidated Vehicle Indebtedness” means, as of any date of determination, the amount equal to either (a) the sum of (x) the aggregate principal amount of then outstanding Indebtedness of any Special Purpose Subsidiary that is a Restricted Subsidiary directly or indirectly Incurred to finance or refinance the acquisition of, or secured by, Rental Vehicles and/or related rights and/or assets plus (y) the aggregate principal amount of other then outstanding Indebtedness of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries that is attributable to the financing or refinancing of Rental Vehicles and/or related rights and/or assets, as determined in good faith by the Chief Financial Officer or an authorized Officer of the Company (which determination shall be conclusive) or, at the Company’s option, (b) 90% of the book value of Rental Vehicles of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries (such book value being determined as of the end of the most recently ended fiscal month of the Company for which internal consolidated financial statements of the Company are available, on a pro forma basis including (x) any Rental Vehicles acquired by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary since the end of such fiscal month and (y) in the case of any determination relating to any Incurrence of Indebtedness, any Rental Vehicles being acquired by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection therewith).
 
Consolidated Vehicle Interest Expense” means, for any period, the sum of (a) the aggregate interest expense for such period on any Indebtedness (including costs associated with letters of credit related to such Indebtedness) of any Special Purpose Subsidiary that is a Restricted Subsidiary directly or indirectly Incurred to finance or refinance the acquisition of, or secured by, Rental Vehicles and/or related rights and/or assets plus (b) either (x) the aggregate interest expense for such period on other Indebtedness of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries that is attributable to the financing or refinancing of Rental Vehicles and/or any related rights and/or assets, as determined in good faith by the Chief Financial Officer or an authorized Officer of the Company (which determination shall be conclusive) or, at the Company’s option, (y) an amount of the total interest expense of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period equal to (i) the Average Interest Rate for such period multiplied by (ii) the amount equal to (1) 90% of the Average Book Value for such period of Rental Vehicles of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries minus (2) the Average Principal Amount for such period of any Indebtedness of any Special Purpose Subsidiary that is a Restricted Subsidiary directly or indirectly Incurred to finance or refinance the acquisition of, or secured by, Rental Vehicles and/or related rights and/or assets.
 
Consolidation” means the consolidation of the accounts of each of the Restricted Subsidiaries with those of the Company in accordance with GAAP; provided that “Consolidation” will not include consolidation of the accounts of any Unrestricted Subsidiary, but the interest of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in any Unrestricted Subsidiary will be accounted for as an investment.  The term “Consolidated” has a correlative meaning.
 
Corporate Trust Office” means the office of the Trustee at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered, which office on the Issue Date is located at One Liberty Plaza, 23rd Floor, New York, NY 10006.
 
 

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Credit Facilities” means one or more of (i) the Senior Credit Facilities, and (ii) any other facilities or arrangements designated by the Company, in each case with one or more banks or other lenders or institutions providing for revolving credit loans, term loans, receivables or fleet financings (including without limitation through the sale of receivables or fleet assets to such institutions or to special purpose entities formed to borrow from such institutions against such receivables or fleet assets or the creation of any Liens in respect of such receivables or fleet assets in favor of such institutions), letters of credit or other Indebtedness, in each case, including all agreements, instruments and documents executed and delivered pursuant to or in connection with any of the foregoing, including but not limited to any notes and letters of credit issued pursuant thereto and any guarantee and collateral agreement, patent and trademark security agreement, mortgages or letter of credit applications and other guarantees, pledge agreements, security agreements and collateral documents, in each case as the same may be amended, supplemented, waived or otherwise modified from time to time, or refunded, refinanced, restructured, replaced, renewed, repaid, increased or extended from time to time (whether in whole or in part, whether with the original banks, lenders or institutions or other banks, lenders or institutions or otherwise, and whether provided under any original Credit Facility or one or more other credit agreements, indentures, financing agreements or other Credit Facilities or otherwise).  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the term “Credit Facility” shall include any agreement (i) changing the maturity of any Indebtedness Incurred thereunder or contemplated thereby, (ii) adding Subsidiaries as additional borrowers or guarantors thereunder, (iii) increasing the amount of Indebtedness Incurred thereunder or available to be borrowed thereunder or (iv) otherwise altering the terms and conditions thereof.
 
Currency Agreement” means, in respect of a Person, any foreign exchange contract, currency swap agreement, futures contract, option contract or other similar agreement or arrangements (including derivative agreements or arrangements), as to which such Person is a party or a beneficiary.
 
Default” means any event or condition that is, or after notice or passage of time or both would be, an Event of Default.
 
Depositary” means The Depository Trust Company, its nominees and successors.
 
Designated Noncash Consideration” means the Fair Market Value of noncash consideration received by the Company or one of its Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with an Asset Disposition that is so designated as Designated Noncash Consideration pursuant to an Officer’s Certificate, setting forth the basis of such valuation.
 
Direct Parent” means Avis Budget Holdings, LLC, a limited liability company organized under the laws of the State of Delaware.
 
Disinterested Directors” means, with respect to any Affiliate Transaction, one or more members of the Board of Directors of the Company, or one or more members of the Board of Directors of a Parent, having no material direct or indirect financial interest in or with respect to such Affiliate Transaction.  A member of any such Board of Directors shall not be deemed to
 
 

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have such a financial interest by reason of such member’s holding Capital Stock of the Company or any Parent or any options, warrants or other rights in respect of such Capital Stock.
 
Disqualified Stock” means, with respect to any Person, any Capital Stock that by its terms (or by the terms of any security into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable or exercisable) or upon the happening of any event (other than following the occurrence of a Change of Control or other similar event described under such terms as a “change of control,” or an Asset Disposition) (i) matures or is mandatorily redeemable pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, (ii) is convertible or exchangeable for Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock or (iii) is redeemable at the option of the holder thereof (other than following the occurrence of a Change of Control or other similar event described under such terms as a “change of control,” or an Asset Disposition), in whole or in part, in each case on or prior to the final Stated Maturity of the Notes.
 
Dollars” or “$” means dollars in lawful currency of the United States of America.
 
Domestic Subsidiary” means any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company other than a Foreign Subsidiary.
 
Equity Offering” means a sale of Capital Stock (x) that is a sale of Capital Stock of the Company (other than Disqualified Stock) or (y) proceeds of which in an amount equal to or exceeding the Redemption Amount are contributed to the equity capital of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries.
 
Equity Interests” means Capital Stock and all warrants, options, profits, interests, equity appreciation rights or other rights to acquire or purchase Capital Stock (but excluding any debt security that is convertible into, or exchangeable for, Capital Stock).
 
Euroclear” means Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V., as operator of the Euroclear System, or any successor securities clearing agency.
 
Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
 
Exchange Notes” means the Issuers’ 9 5/8% Senior Notes due 2018, containing terms substantially identical to the Initial Notes or any Initial Additional Notes (except that (i) such Exchange Notes may omit terms with respect to transfer restrictions and may be registered under the Securities Act, and (ii) certain provisions relating to an increase in the stated rate of interest thereon may be eliminated), that are issued and exchanged for (a) the Initial Notes, as provided for in the Registration Rights Agreement, or (b) such Initial Additional Notes as may be provided in any registration rights agreement relating to such Additional Notes that are Notes and this Indenture (including any amendment or supplement hereto.)
 
Fair Market Value” means, with respect to any asset or property, the fair market value of such asset or property as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors, whose determination will be conclusive.
 

 
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Financing Disposition” means any sale, transfer, conveyance or other disposition of, or creation or incurrence of any Lien on, property or assets by the Company or any Subsidiary thereof to or in favor of any Special Purpose Entity, or by any Special Purpose Subsidiary, in each case in connection with a financing by a Special Purpose Entity or in connection with the Incurrence by a Special Purpose Entity of Indebtedness or obligations to make payments to the obligor on Indebtedness, which may be secured by a Lien in respect of such property or assets.
 
Foreign Subsidiary” means (a) any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company that is not organized under the laws of the United States of America or any state thereof or the District of Columbia ,(b) any Restricted Subsidiary of a Restricted Subsidiary described in clause (a), and (c) any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company that has no material assets other than securities or Indebtedness of one or more Foreign Subsidiaries (or Subsidiaries thereof), and other assets relating to an ownership interest in any such securities, Indebtedness or Subsidiaries.
 
GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America as in effect on the Issue Date, including those set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other statements by such other entity as approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession.  All ratios and computations based on GAAP contained in this Indenture shall be computed in conformity to the extent possible with GAAP.
 
Guarantee” means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of any Person directly or indirectly guaranteeing any Indebtedness or other obligation of any other Person; provided that the term “Guarantee” shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business.  The term “Guarantee” used as a verb has a corresponding meaning.
 
Guarantor” means the Indirect Parent, the Direct Parent and each Subsidiary Guarantor.
 
Guarantor Subordinated Obligations” means, with respect to a Subsidiary Guarantor, any Indebtedness of such Subsidiary Guarantor (whether outstanding on the Issue Date or thereafter Incurred) that is expressly subordinated in right of payment to the obligations of such Subsidiary Guarantor under its Subsidiary Guarantee pursuant to a written agreement.
 
Hedging Obligations” of any Person means the obligations of such Person pursuant to any Interest Rate Agreement, Currency Agreement or Commodities Agreement.
 
Holder” or “Noteholder” means the Person in whose name a Note is registered in the Note Register.
 
Incur” means issue, assume, enter into any Guarantee of, incur or otherwise become liable for; and the terms “Incurs,” “Incurred” and “Incurrence” shall have a correlative meaning; provided, that any Indebtedness or Capital Stock of a Person existing at the time such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary (whether by merger, consolidation, acquisition or otherwise) shall be deemed to be Incurred by such Restricted Subsidiary at the time it becomes a
 
 

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Restricted Subsidiary.  Accrual of interest, the accretion of accreted value and the payment of interest in the form of additional Indebtedness will not be deemed to be an Incurrence of Indebtedness.  Any Indebtedness issued at a discount (including Indebtedness on which interest is payable through the issuance of additional Indebtedness) shall be deemed Incurred at the time of original issuance of the Indebtedness at the initial accreted amount thereof.
 
Indebtedness” means, with respect to any Person on any date of determination (without duplication):
 
(i) the principal of indebtedness of such Person for borrowed money;
 
(ii) the principal of obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments;
 
(iii) the principal component of all reimbursement obligations of such Person in respect of letters of credit, bankers’ acceptances or other similar instruments (except to the extent such reimbursement obligation relates to a Trade Payable or similar liability and such obligation is satisfied within 30 days of Incurrence);
 
(iv) the principal component of all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred and unpaid purchase price of property (except Trade Payables), which purchase price is due more than one year after the date of placing such property in final service or taking final delivery and title thereto;
 
(v) all Capitalized Lease Obligations of such Person;
 
(vi) the redemption, repayment or other repurchase amount of such Person with respect to any Disqualified Stock of such Person or (if such Person is a Subsidiary of the Company other than a Subsidiary Guarantor) any Preferred Stock of such Subsidiary, but excluding, in each case, any accrued dividends (the amount of such obligation to be equal at any time to the maximum fixed involuntary redemption, repayment or repurchase price for such Capital Stock, or if less (or if such Capital Stock has no such fixed price), to the involuntary redemption, repayment or repurchase price thereof  calculated in accordance with the terms thereof as if then redeemed, repaid or repurchased, and if such price is based upon or measured by the fair market value of such Capital Stock, such fair market value shall be as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors or the board of directors or other governing body of the issuer of such Capital Stock);
 
(vii) the principal component of all Indebtedness of other Persons secured by a Lien on any asset of such Person, whether or not such Indebtedness is assumed by such Person; provided that the amount of Indebtedness of such Person shall be the lesser of (A) the fair market value of such asset at such date of determination (as determined in good faith by the Company) and (B) the amount of such Indebtedness of such other Persons;
 
(viii) the principal component of Indebtedness of other Persons, to the extent Guaranteed by such Person; and
 
 

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(ix) to the extent not otherwise included in this definition, net Hedging Obligations of such Person (the amount of any such obligation to be equal at any time to the termination value of such agreement or arrangement giving rise to such Hedging Obligation that would be payable by such Person at such time).
 
The amount of Indebtedness of any Person at any date shall be determined as set forth above or otherwise provided in this Indenture, or otherwise shall equal the amount thereof that would appear as a liability on a balance sheet of such Person (excluding any notes thereto) prepared in accordance with GAAP.
 
Indirect Parent” means Avis Budget Group, Inc., a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Delaware.
 
Initial Additional Notes” means Additional Notes issued in an offering not registered under the Securities Act (and any Notes issued in respect thereof pursuant to Section 304, 305, 306, 312(c), 312(d) or 1008).
 
Initial Notes” means the 9 5/8% Notes issued on the Issue Date (and any Notes issued in respect thereof pursuant to Section 304, 305, 306, 312(c), 312(d) or 1008).
 
interest,” with respect to the Notes, means interest on the Notes and, except for purposes of Article IX, additional or special interest pursuant to the terms of any Note.
 
Interest Payment Date” means, when used with respect to any Note and any installment of interest thereon, the date specified in such Note as the fixed date on which such installment of interest is due and payable, as set forth in such Note.
 
Interest Period” means the period commencing on and including an interest payment date and ending on and including the day immediately preceding the next succeeding interest payment date, with the exception that the first Interest Period shall commence on and include the Issue Date and end on and include September 14, 2010.
 
Interest Rate Agreement” means, with respect to any Person, any interest rate protection agreement, future agreement, option agreement, swap agreement, cap agreement, collar agreement, hedge agreement or other similar agreement or arrangement (including derivative agreements or arrangements), as to which such Person is party or a beneficiary.
 
Inventory” means goods held for sale, lease or use by a Person in the ordinary course of business, net of any reserve for goods that have been segregated by such Person to be returned to the applicable vendor for credit, as determined in accordance with GAAP.
 
Investment” in any Person by any other Person means any direct or indirect advance, loan or other extension of credit (other than to customers, dealers, licensees, franchisees, suppliers, directors, officers or employees of any Person in the ordinary course of business) or capital contribution (by means of any transfer of cash or other property to others or any payment for property or services for the account or use of others) to, or any purchase or acquisition of Capital Stock, Indebtedness or other similar instruments issued by, such Person.  For purposes of the definition of “Unrestricted Subsidiary” and Section 409 only, (i)
 
 

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“Investment” shall include the portion (proportionate to the Company’s equity interest in such Subsidiary) of the Fair Market Value of the net assets of any Subsidiary of the Company at the time that such Subsidiary is designated an Unrestricted Subsidiary, provided that upon a redesignation of such Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary, the Company shall be deemed to continue to have a permanent “Investment” in an Unrestricted Subsidiary in an amount (if positive) equal to (x) the Company’s “Investment” in such Subsidiary at the time of such redesignation less (y) the portion (proportionate to the Company’s equity interest in such Subsidiary) of the Fair Market Value of the net assets of such Subsidiary at the time of such redesignation, and (ii) any property transferred to or from an Unrestricted Subsidiary shall be valued at its Fair Market Value at the time of such transfer.  Guarantees shall not be deemed to be Investments.  The amount of any Investment outstanding at any time shall be the original cost of such Investment, reduced (at the Company’s option) by any dividend, distribution, interest payment, return of capital, repayment or other amount or value received in respect of such Investment; provided, that to the extent that the amount of Restricted Payments outstanding at any time is so reduced by any portion of any such amount or value that would otherwise be included in the calculation of Consolidated Net Income, such portion of such amount or value shall not be so included for purposes of calculating the amount of Restricted Payments that may be made pursuant to Section 409(a).
 
Issue Date” means the first date on which Notes are issued.
 
Issuers” means Avis Budget Car Rental, LLC and Avis Budget Finance, Inc., and any and all successors thereto.
 
Lien” means any mortgage, pledge, security interest, encumbrance, lien or charge of any kind (including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement or lease in the nature thereof).
 
Management Advances” means loans or advances made to directors, officers or employees of any Parent, the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary (x) in respect of travel, entertainment or moving-related expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business, (y) in respect of moving-related expenses incurred in connection with any closing or consolidation of any facility, or (z) in the ordinary course of business and (in the case of this clause (z)) not exceeding $5.0 million in the aggregate outstanding at any time.
 
Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., and its successors.
 
Net Available Cash” from an Asset Disposition means an amount equal to all cash payments received (including any cash payments received by way of deferred payment of principal pursuant to a note or installment receivable or otherwise, but only as and when received, but excluding any other consideration received in the form of assumption by the acquiring person of Indebtedness or other obligations relating to the properties or assets that are the subject of such Asset Disposition or received in any other non-cash form) therefrom, in each case net of (i) all legal, accounting, investment banking, title and recording tax expenses, commissions and other fees and expenses incurred, and all federal, state, provincial, foreign and local taxes required to be paid or to be accrued as a liability under GAAP, as a consequence of such Asset Disposition (including as a consequence of any transfer of funds in connection with
 

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the application thereof in accordance with Section 411), (ii) all payments made, and all installment payments required to be made, on any Indebtedness that is secured by any assets subject to such Asset Disposition, in accordance with the terms of any Lien upon such assets, or that must by its terms, or in order to obtain a necessary consent to such Asset Disposition, or by applicable law, be repaid out of the proceeds from such Asset Disposition, (iii) all distributions and other payments required to be made to minority interest holders in Subsidiaries or joint ventures as a result of such Asset Disposition, or to any other Person (other than the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary) owning a beneficial interest in the assets disposed of in such Asset Disposition, (iv) the deduction of appropriate amounts to be provided by the Seller as a reserve, in accordance with GAAP, against any liabilities, (v) any liabilities or obligations associated with the assets disposed of in such Asset Disposition and retained by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary after such Asset Disposition, including without limitation pension and other post-employment benefit liabilities, liabilities related to environmental matters, and liabilities relating to any indemnification obligations associated with such Asset Disposition, and (vi) the amount of any purchase price or similar adjustment (x) claimed by any Person to be owed by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, until such time as such claim shall have been settled or otherwise finally resolved, or (y) paid or payable by the Company, in either case in respect of such Asset Disposition.
 
Net Cash Proceeds” means, with respect to any issuance or sale of any securities of the Company or any Subsidiary by the Company or any Subsidiary, or any capital contribution, an amount equal to all the cash proceeds of such issuance, sale or contribution net of attorneys’ fees, accountants’ fees, underwriters’ or placement agents’ fees, listing fees, discounts or commissions and brokerage, consultant and other fees and charges actually incurred in connection with such issuance, sale or contribution and net of taxes paid or payable as a result thereof.
 
Non-U.S. Person” means a Person who is not a U.S. person, as defined in Regulation S.
 
Notes” means the Initial Notes, any Additional Notes, the Exchange Notes and any notes issued in respect thereof pursuant to Section 304, 305, 306, 312(c), 312(d) or 1008.
 
Obligations” means, with respect to any Indebtedness, any principal, premium (if any), interest (including interest accruing on or after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy or for reorganization relating to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary whether or not a claim for post-filing interest is allowed in such proceedings), fees, charges, expenses, reimbursement obligations, Guarantees of such Indebtedness (or of Obligations in respect thereof), other monetary obligations of any nature and all other amounts payable thereunder or in respect thereof.
 
Officer” means, with respect to the Company or any other obligor upon the Notes, the Chairman of the Board, the President, the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, any Vice President, the Controller, the Treasurer or the Secretary (a) of such Person or (b) if such Person is owned or managed by a single entity, of such entity (or any other individual designated as an “Officer” for the purposes of this Indenture by the Board of Directors).
 

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Officer’s Certificate” means, with respect to the Company or any other obligor upon the Notes, a certificate signed by one Officer of such Person.
 
Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion from legal counsel who is reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.  The counsel may be an employee of or counsel to the Company, any Parent or the Trustee.
 
Original Notes” means the Initial Notes and any Exchange Notes issued in exchange therefor.
 
Outstanding,” when used with respect to Notes means, as of the date of determination, all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except:
 
(i) Notes theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
 
(ii) Notes for whose payment or redemption money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust for the Holders of such Notes, provided that, if such Notes are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee has been made; and
 
(iii) Notes in exchange for or in lieu of which other Notes have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture.
 
A Note does not cease to be Outstanding because the Company or any Affiliate of the Company holds the Note, provided that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite amount of Outstanding Notes have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, Notes owned by the Company or any Affiliate of the Company shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, for the purpose of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Notes which the Trustee actually knows are so owned shall be so disregarded.  Notes so owned that have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s right to act with respect to such Notes and that the pledgee is not the Company or an Affiliate of the Company.
 
Parent” means any of the Indirect Parent and any Other Parent and any other Person that is a Subsidiary of the Indirect Parent, or any Other Parent and of which the Company is a Subsidiary.  As used herein, “Other Parent” means a Person of which the Company becomes a Subsidiary after the Issue Date, provided that either (x) immediately after the Company first becomes a Subsidiary of such Person, more than 50% of the Voting Stock of such Person shall be held by one or more Persons that held more than 50% of the Voting Stock of a Parent of the Company immediately prior to the Company first becoming such Subsidiary or (y) such Person shall be deemed not to be an Other Parent for the purpose of determining whether a Change of Control shall have occurred by reason of the Company first becoming a Subsidiary of such Person.
 
 

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Parent Expenses” means (i) costs (including all professional fees and expenses) incurred by any Parent in connection with its reporting obligations under, or in connection with compliance with, applicable laws or applicable rules of any governmental, regulatory or self-regulatory body or stock exchange, this Indenture or any other agreement or instrument relating to Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, including in respect of any reports filed with respect to the Securities Act, Exchange Act or the respective rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, (ii) corporate overhead expenses Incurred in the ordinary course of business, and to pay salaries or other compensation of employees who perform services for any Parent or for both such Parent and the Company, (vi) of this paragraph, (iii) expenses incurred by any Parent in connection with the acquisition, development, maintenance, ownership, prosecution, protection and defense of its intellectual property and associated rights (including but not limited to trademarks, service marks, trade names, trade dress, patents, copyrights and similar rights, including registrations and registration or renewal applications in respect thereof; inventions, processes, designs, formulae, trade secrets, know-how, confidential information, computer software, data and documentation, and any other intellectual property rights; and licenses of any of the foregoing) to the extent such intellectual property and associated rights relate to the business or businesses of the Company or any Subsidiary thereof, (iv) indemnification obligations of any Parent owing to directors, officers, employees or other Persons under its charter or by-laws or pursuant to written agreements with any such Person, (v) other operational and tax expenses of any Parent incurred on behalf of the Company in the ordinary course of business, including obligations in respect of director and officer insurance (including premiums therefor); it being understood for purposes of this definition, that all operational and tax expenses of any Parent are deemed to be incurred on behalf of the Company if the Company’s activities represent substantially all of the operating activities of any Parent and all of its Subsidiaries, and (vi) fees and expenses incurred by any Parent in connection with any offering of Capital Stock or Indebtedness, (x) where the net proceeds of such offering are intended to be received by or contributed or loaned to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, or (y) in a prorated amount of such expenses in proportion to the amount of such net proceeds intended to be so received, contributed or loaned, or (z) otherwise on an interim basis prior to completion of such offering so long as any Parent shall cause the amount of such expenses to be repaid to the Company or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary out of the proceeds of such offering promptly if completed.
 
Paying Agent” means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Notes on behalf of the Company; provided that neither the Company nor any of its Affiliates shall act as Paying Agent for purposes of Section 1102 or Section 1205.
 
Permitted Holder” means any Person acting in the capacity of an underwriter in connection with a public or private offering of Voting Stock of any Parent or the Company.  In addition, any “person” (as such term is used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act) whose status as a “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act) constitutes or results in a Change of Control in respect of which a Change of Control Offer is made in accordance with the requirements of the Indenture, together with its Affiliates, shall thereafter constitute Permitted Holders.
 

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Permitted Investment” means an Investment by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in, or consisting of, any of the following:
 
(i) a Restricted Subsidiary, the Company, or a Person that will, upon the making of such Investment, become a Restricted Subsidiary so long as such Person is primarily engaged in a Related Business;
 
(ii) another Person if as a result of such Investment such other Person is merged or consolidated with or into, or transfers or conveys all or substantially all its assets to, or is liquidated into, the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary so long as such Person is primarily engaged in a Related Business;
 
(iii) Temporary Cash Investments or Cash Equivalents;
 
(iv) receivables owing to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, if created or acquired in the ordinary course of business;
 
(v) any securities or other Investments received as consideration in, or retained in connection with, sales or other dispositions of property or assets, including Asset Dispositions made in compliance with Section 411;
 
(vi) securities or other Investments received in settlement of debts created in the ordinary course of business and owing to, or of other claims asserted by, the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, or as a result of foreclosure, perfection or enforcement of any Lien, or in satisfaction of judgments, including in connection with any bankruptcy proceeding or other reorganization of another Person;
 
(vii) Investments in existence or made pursuant to legally binding written commitments in existence on the Issue Date;
 
(viii) Currency Agreements, Interest Rate Agreements, Commodities Agreements and related Hedging Obligations, which obligations are Incurred in compliance with Section 407;
 
(ix) pledges or deposits (x) with respect to leases or utilities in the ordinary course of business or (y) otherwise described in the definition of “Permitted Liens” or made in connection with Liens permitted under Section 413;
 
(x) (1) Investments in a Subsidiary, consisting of a demand note or promissory note of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary issued in favor of or for the benefit of a Special Purpose Subsidiary and which serves solely as credit enhancement for any vehicle-related financing in such Special Purpose Subsidiary, (2) Investments by a Special Purpose Subsidiary which is a Restricted Subsidiary in any such demand note or other promissory note issued by the Company, any Restricted Subsidiary or any Parent to such Special Purpose Subsidiary which is a Restricted Subsidiary, provided that if such Parent receives cash from the relevant Special Purpose Entity in exchange for such note, an equal cash amount is contributed by any Parent to the Company and (3) Investments
 

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made between Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with, or relating to, a Canadian Special Purpose Financing;
 
(xi) bonds secured by assets leased to and operated by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary that were issued in connection with the financing of such assets so long as the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary may obtain title to such assets at any time by paying a nominal fee, canceling such bonds and terminating the transaction;
 
(xii) Notes;
 
(xiii) any Investment to the extent made using Capital Stock of the Company (other than Disqualified Stock) or Capital Stock of any Parent as consideration;
 
(xiv) Management Advances;
 
(xv) Investments consisting of, or arising out of or related to, Vehicle Rental Concession Rights (including any Investments referred to in the definition of the term “Vehicle Rental Concession Rights”);
 
(xvi) any transaction to the extent it constitutes an Investment that is permitted by and made in accordance with Section 412(b) (except transactions described in clauses (i), (v) and (vi) of such paragraph);
 
(xvii) other Investments in an aggregate amount outstanding at any time not to exceed 1.0% of Consolidated Tangible Assets;
 
(xviii) Equity Interests, obligations or securities received in settlement of debts created in the ordinary course of business and owing to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or in satisfaction of judgments or pursuant to any plan of reorganization or similar arrangement upon the bankruptcy or insolvency of a debtor; and
 
(xix) endorsements of negotiable instruments and documents in the ordinary course of business or pledges or deposits permitted under clause (c) of the definition of “Permitted Liens.”
 
If any Investment pursuant to clause (xvii) above is made in any Person that is not a Restricted Subsidiary and such Person thereafter becomes a Restricted Subsidiary, such Investment shall thereafter be deemed to have been made pursuant to clause (i) above and not clause (xvii) above for so long as such Person continues to be a Restricted Subsidiary.
 
Permitted Liens” means:
 
(a) Liens for taxes, assessments or other governmental charges not yet delinquent or the nonpayment of which in the aggregate would not reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries or that are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings if adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the books of the Company or a Subsidiary thereof, as the case may be, in accordance with GAAP;
 

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(b) carriers’, warehousemen’s, mechanics’, landlords’, materialmen’s, repairmen’s or other like Liens arising in the ordinary course of business in respect of obligations that are not overdue for a period of more than 60 days or that are bonded or that are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings;
 
(c) pledges, deposits or Liens in connection with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security and other similar legislation or other insurance-related obligations (including, without limitation, pledges or deposits securing liability to insurance carriers under insurance or self-insurance arrangements);
 
(d) pledges, deposits or Liens to secure the performance of bids, tenders, trade, government or other contracts (other than for borrowed money), obligations for utilities, leases, licenses, statutory obligations, completion guarantees, surety, judgment, appeal or performance bonds, other similar bonds, instruments or obligations, and other obligations of a like nature incurred in the ordinary course of business;
 
(e) easements (including reciprocal easement agreements), rights-of-way, building, zoning and similar restrictions, utility agreements, covenants, reservations, restrictions, encroachments, charges, and other similar encumbrances or title defects incurred, or leases or subleases granted to others, in the ordinary course of business, which do not in the aggregate materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole;
 
(f) Liens existing on, or provided for under written arrangements existing on, the Issue Date, or (in the case of any such Liens securing Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries existing or arising under written arrangements existing on the Issue Date) securing any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of such Indebtedness so long as the Lien securing such Refinancing Indebtedness is limited to all or part of the same property, assets or substitute assets (plus improvements, accessions, proceeds or dividends or distributions in respect thereof) that secured (or under such written arrangements could secure) the original Indebtedness; provided that liens incurred under the Senior Credit Facilities or any Refinancing Indebtedness with respect thereto shall not be deemed to be permitted under this clause (f);
 
(g) (i) mortgages, liens, security interests, restrictions, encumbrances or any other matters of record that have been placed by any developer, landlord or other third party on property over which the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company has easement rights or on any leased property and subordination or similar agreements relating thereto and (ii) any condemnation or eminent domain proceedings affecting any real property;
 
(h) Liens securing Indebtedness (including Liens securing any Obligations in respect thereof) consisting of Hedging Obligations, Purchase Money Obligations or Capitalized Lease Obligations Incurred in compliance with Section 407;
 
(i) Liens arising out of judgments, decrees, orders or awards in respect of which the Company shall in good faith be prosecuting an appeal or proceedings for
 
 

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review, which appeal or proceedings shall not have been finally terminated, or if the period within which such appeal or proceedings may be initiated shall not have expired;
 
(j) leases, subleases, licenses or sublicenses (including, without limitation, real property and intellectual property rights) to third parties;
 
(k) Liens securing Indebtedness (including Liens securing any Obligations in respect thereof) consisting of (1) Indebtedness Incurred in compliance with Section 407(b)(i), Section 407(b)(iv), Section 407(b)(v), Section 407(b)(vii), Section 407(b)(viii) or Section 407(b)(ix), or Section 407(b)(iii) (other than Refinancing Indebtedness Incurred in respect of Indebtedness described in Section 407(a)), (2) Bank Indebtedness Incurred in compliance with Section 407(b), (3) the Notes, (4) Indebtedness of any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Guarantor, and (5) Indebtedness or other obligations of any Special Purpose Entity;
 
(l) Liens existing on property or assets of a Person at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary of the Company (or at the time the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary acquires such property or assets, including any acquisition by means of a merger or consolidation with or into the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary); provided, however, that such Liens are not created in connection with, or in contemplation of, such other Person becoming such a Subsidiary (or such acquisition of such property or assets), and that such Liens are limited to all or part of the same property or assets (plus improvements, accessions, proceeds or dividends or distributions in respect thereof) that secured (or, under the written arrangements under which such Liens arose, could secure) the obligations to which such Liens relate;
 
(m) Liens on Capital Stock, Indebtedness or other securities of an Unrestricted Subsidiary that secure Indebtedness or other obligations of such Unrestricted Subsidiary;
 
(n) any encumbrance or restriction (including, but not limited to, put and call agreements) with respect to Capital Stock of any joint venture or similar arrangement pursuant to any joint venture or similar agreement;
 
(o) Liens securing Indebtedness (including Liens securing any Obligations in respect thereof) consisting of Refinancing Indebtedness Incurred in respect of any Indebtedness secured by, or securing any refinancing, refunding, extension, renewal or replacement (in whole or in part) of any other obligation secured by, any other Permitted Liens, provided that any such new Lien is limited to all or part of the same property or assets or replacements thereof (plus improvements, accessions, proceeds or dividends or distributions in respect thereof) that secured (or, under the written arrangements under which the original Lien arose, could secure) the obligations to which such Liens relate, other than Liens incurred in compliance with clause (k) above or clause (v) below;
 
(p) Liens (1) arising by operation of law (or by agreement to the same effect) in the ordinary course of business, (2) on property or assets under construction (and related rights) in favor of a contractor or developer or arising from progress or partial payments by a third party relating to such property or assets, (3) on cash set aside at the
 
 

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time of the Incurrence of any Indebtedness or government securities purchased with such cash, in either case to the extent that such cash or government securities prefund the payment of interest on such Indebtedness and are held in an escrow account or similar arrangement to be applied for such purpose, (4) securing or arising by reason of any netting or set-off arrangement entered into in the ordinary course of banking or other trading activities, (5) in favor of the Company or any Subsidiary (other than Liens on property or assets of the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor in favor of any Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Guarantor), (6) arising out of conditional sale, title retention, consignment or similar arrangements for the sale of goods entered into in the ordinary course of business, (7) relating to pooled deposit or sweep accounts to permit satisfaction of overdraft, cash pooling or similar obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business, (8) attaching to commodity trading or other brokerage accounts incurred in the ordinary course of business, (9) on receivables (including related rights) or (10) arising in connection with repurchase agreements permitted under Section 407 on assets that are the subject of such repurchase agreements;
 
(q) Liens on or under, or arising out of or relating to, any Vehicle Rental Concession Rights;
 
(r) other Liens securing obligations, which obligations do not exceed $50.0 million at any time outstanding;
 
(s) Liens securing Indebtedness (including Liens securing any Obligations in respect thereof) consisting of Indebtedness Incurred in compliance with Section 407 not to exceed $25 million;
 
(t) any interest or title of a lessor under any Capitalized Lease Obligation or operating lease;
 
(u) Liens securing the Notes and Subsidiary Guarantees;
 
(v) Liens securing Indebtedness which is secured by Rental Vehicles so long as the aggregate amount of Indebtedness secured by such Rental Vehicles does not exceed the sum of (i) 75% of the estimated value of such Rental Vehicles and (ii) the aggregate amount of letters of credit supporting such Indebtedness; and
 
(w) Liens securing Indebtedness (including Liens securing any Obligations in respect thereof) consisting of Indebtedness Incurred in compliance with Section 407, provided that on the date of the Incurrence of such Indebtedness after giving effect to such Incurrence (or on the date of the initial borrowing of such Indebtedness after giving pro forma effect to the Incurrence of the entire committed amount of such Indebtedness), the Consolidated Secured Leverage Ratio shall not exceed 4.0 to 1.0.
 
Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, association, joint-stock company, limited liability company, trust, unincorporated organization, government or any agency or political subdivision thereof or any other entity.
 

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Place of Payment” means a city or any political subdivision thereof in which any Paying Agent appointed pursuant to Article III is located.
 
Predecessor Notes” of any particular Note means every previous Note evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such particular Note; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Note authenticated and delivered under Section 306 in lieu of a mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen Note shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen Note.
 
Preferred Stock” as applied to the Capital Stock of any corporation means Capital Stock of any class or classes (however designated) that by its terms is preferred as to the payment of dividends, or as to the distribution of assets upon any voluntary or involuntary liquidation or dissolution of such corporation, over shares of Capital Stock of any other class of such corporation.
 
Public Facility” means (i) any airport; marine port; rail, subway, bus or other transit stop, station or terminal; stadium; convention center; or military camp, fort, post or base or (ii) any other facility owned or operated by any nation or government or political subdivision thereof, or agency, authority or other instrumentality of any thereof, or other entity exercising regulatory, administrative or other functions of or pertaining to government, or any organization of nations (including the United Nations, the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization).
 
Public Facility Operator” means a Person that grants or has the power to grant a Vehicle Rental Concession.
 
Purchase Money Obligations” means any Indebtedness Incurred to finance or refinance the acquisition, leasing, construction or improvement of property (real or personal) or assets, and whether acquired through the direct acquisition of such property or assets or the acquisition of the Capital Stock of any Person owning such property or assets, or otherwise; provided that for purposes of Section 407(b)(iv), the term “Purchase Money Obligations” shall not include Indebtedness to the extent Incurred to finance or refinance the direct acquisition of Inventory or Vehicles (not acquired through the acquisition of Capital Stock of any Person owning property or assets, or through the acquisition of property or assets, that include Inventory or Vehicles).
 
QIB” or “Qualified Institutional Buyer” means a “qualified institutional buyer,” as that term is defined in Rule 144A.
 
Receivable” means a right to receive payment pursuant to an arrangement with another Person pursuant to which such other Person is obligated to pay, as determined in accordance with GAAP.
 
Redemption Date,” when used with respect to any Note to be redeemed or purchased, means the date fixed for such redemption or purchase by or pursuant to this Indenture and the Notes.
 

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refinance” means refinance, refund, replace, renew, repay, modify, restate, defer, substitute, supplement, reissue, resell or extend (including pursuant to any defeasance or discharge mechanism); and the terms “refinances,” “refinanced” and “refinancing” as used for any purpose in this Indenture shall have a correlative meaning.
 
Refinancing Indebtedness” means Indebtedness that is Incurred to refinance any Indebtedness existing on the date of this Indenture or Incurred in compliance with this Indenture (including Indebtedness of the Company that refinances Indebtedness of any Restricted Subsidiary (to the extent permitted in this Indenture) and Indebtedness of any Restricted Subsidiary that refinances Indebtedness of another Restricted Subsidiary) including Indebtedness that refinances Refinancing Indebtedness; provided, that (1) if the Indebtedness being refinanced is Subordinated Obligations or Guarantor Subordinated Obligations, the Refinancing Indebtedness has a final Stated Maturity at the time such Refinancing Indebtedness is Incurred that is equal to or greater than the final Stated Maturity of the Indebtedness being refinanced (or if shorter, the Notes), (2) such Refinancing Indebtedness is Incurred in an aggregate principal amount (or if issued with original issue discount, an aggregate issue price) that is equal to or less than the sum of (x) the aggregate principal amount (or if issued with original issue discount, the aggregate accreted value) then outstanding of the Indebtedness being refinanced, plus (y) fees, underwriting discounts, premiums and other costs and expenses incurred in connection with such Refinancing Indebtedness and (3) Refinancing Indebtedness shall not include (x) Indebtedness of a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Guarantor that refinances Indebtedness of the Company or a Subsidiary Guarantor that could not have been initially Incurred by such Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to Section 407 or (y) Indebtedness of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary that refinances Indebtedness of an Unrestricted Subsidiary.
 
Registration Rights Agreement” means the Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of March 10, 2010, by and among the Issuers, the Guarantors and the other parties named on the signature pages thereof, as such agreement may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to time.
 
Regular Record Date” for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date means the date specified for that purpose in Section 301.
 
Regulation S” means Regulation S under the Securities Act.
 
Regulation S Certificate” means a certificate substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit D.
 
Related Business” means those businesses in which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is engaged on the date of this Indenture, or that are related, complementary, incidental or ancillary thereto or extensions, developments or expansions thereof.
 
Related Taxes” means any and all Taxes required to be paid by any Parent other than Taxes directly attributable to (i) the income of any entity other than any Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (ii) owning stock or other equity interests of any corporation or other entity other than any Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or (iii) withholding
 

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taxes on payments actually made by any Parent other than to another Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
 
Rental Vehicles” means all passenger Vehicles owned by or leased to the Company or any Subsidiary that are or have been offered for lease or rental by any of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries in their vehicle rental operations (and not, for the avoidance of doubt, in connection with any business or operations involving the leasing or renting of other types of Vehicles), including any such Vehicles being held for sale.
 
Representative Amount” means a principal amount of not less than U.S. $1,000,000 for a single transaction in the relevant market at the relevant time.
 
Resale Restriction Termination Date” means, with respect to any Note, the date that is the later of (1) the date that is one year after the later of (a) the original issue date in respect of such Note and (b) the last date on which the Company or any Affiliate of the Company was the owner of such Note (or any Predecessor Note thereto), or such shorter period of time as permitted by Rule 144 under the Securities Act, or any successor provision thereto, with respect to the resale by non-affiliates of Restricted Securities without restriction, and (2) such later date, if any, as may be required by applicable laws.
 
Responsible Officer” when used with respect to the Trustee means the chairman or vice-chairman of the board of directors, the chairman or vice-chairman of the executive committee of the board of directors, the president, any vice president or assistant vice president, the secretary, any assistant secretary, the treasurer, any assistant treasurer, the cashier, any assistant cashier, any trust officer or assistant trust officer, the controller and any assistant controller or any other officer of the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated officers and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of his knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.
 
Restricted Payment Transaction” means any Restricted Payment permitted pursuant to Section 409, any Permitted Payment, any Permitted Investment, or any transaction specifically excluded from the definition of the term “Restricted Payment” (including pursuant to the exception contained in clause (i) and the parenthetical exclusions contained in clauses (ii) and (iii) of such definition).
 
Restricted Security” has the meaning assigned to such term in Rule 144(a)(3) under the Securities Act; provided, however, that the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, at its request, and conclusively rely on an Opinion of Counsel with respect to whether any Note constitutes a Restricted Security.
 
Restricted Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Company other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary.
 
Rule 144A” means Rule 144A under the Securities Act.
 
S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., and its successors.
 
 

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SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission.
 
Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
 
Senior Credit Facilities” or “Senior Credit Agreement” means the senior secured credit facilities expected to be entered into by Avis Budget Car Rental, LLC, as borrower, and certain of its subsidiaries, as subsidiary borrowers, with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent, Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc., as syndication agent, and the lenders party thereto from time to time, any Loan Documents (as defined therein), any notes and letters of credit issued pursuant thereto and any guarantee and collateral agreement, patent and trademark security agreement, mortgages, letter of credit applications and other guarantees, pledge agreements, security agreements and collateral documents, and other instruments and documents, executed and delivered pursuant to or in connection with any of the foregoing, in each case as the same may be amended, supplemented, waived or otherwise modified from time to time, or refunded, refinanced, restructured, replaced, renewed, repaid, increased or extended from time to time (whether in whole or in part, whether with the original agent and lenders or other agents and lenders or otherwise, and whether provided under one or more credit agreements, indentures (including this Indenture) or financing agreements or otherwise).  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the term “Senior Credit Facilities” shall include any agreement (i) changing the maturity of any Indebtedness Incurred thereunder or contemplated thereby, (ii) adding Subsidiaries of the Company as additional borrowers or guarantors thereunder, (iii) increasing the amount of Indebtedness Incurred thereunder or available to be borrowed thereunder or (iv) otherwise altering the terms and conditions thereof.
 
Significant Subsidiary” means any Restricted Subsidiary that would be a “significant subsidiary” of the Company within the meaning of Rule 1-02 under Regulation S-X promulgated by the SEC, as such Regulation is in effect on the Issue Date.
 
Special Purpose Entity” means (x) any Special Purpose Subsidiary, (y) any other Person that is engaged in the business of (i) acquiring, selling, collecting, financing or refinancing Receivables, accounts (as defined in the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in any jurisdiction from time to time), other accounts and/or other receivables, and/or related assets, and/or (ii) acquiring, selling, leasing, financing or refinancing Vehicles, and/or related rights (including under leases, manufacturer warranties and buy-back programs, and insurance policies) and/or assets (including managing, exercising and disposing of any such rights and/or assets) or (z) any successor of any of the foregoing.
 
Special Purpose Financing” means any financing or refinancing of assets consisting of or including Receivables, Vehicles of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary that have been transferred to a Special Purpose Entity or made subject to a Lien in a Financing Disposition.
 
Special Purpose Financing Fees” means distributions or payments made directly or by means of discounts with respect to any participation interest issued or sold in connection with, and other fees paid to a Person that is not a Restricted Subsidiary in connection with, any Special Purpose Financing.
 

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Special Purpose Financing Undertakings” means representations, warranties, covenants, indemnities, guarantees of performance and (subject to clause (y) of the proviso below) other agreements and undertakings entered into or provided by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries that the Company determines in good faith (which determination shall be conclusive) are customary or otherwise necessary or advisable in connection with a Special Purpose Financing or a Financing Disposition; provided that (x) it is understood that Special Purpose Financing Undertakings may consist of or include (i) reimbursement and other obligations in respect of notes, letters of credit, surety bonds and similar instruments provided for credit enhancement purposes or (ii) Hedging Obligations, or other obligations relating to Interest Rate Agreements, Currency Agreements or Commodities Agreements entered into by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, in respect of any Special Purpose Financing or Financing Disposition, and (y) subject to the preceding clause (x), any such other agreements and undertakings shall not include any Guarantee of Indebtedness of a Special Purpose Subsidiary by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Special Purpose Subsidiary.
 
Special Purpose Subsidiary” means a Subsidiary of the Company that (a) is engaged solely in (x) the business of (i) acquiring, selling, collecting, financing or refinancing Receivables, accounts (as defined in the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in any jurisdiction from time to time) and other accounts and receivables (including any thereof constituting or evidenced by chattel paper, instruments or general intangibles), all proceeds thereof and all rights (contractual and other), collateral and other assets relating thereto, and/or (ii) acquiring, selling, leasing, financing or refinancing Vehicles, and/or related rights (including under leases, manufacturer warranties and buy-back programs, and insurance policies) and/or assets (including managing, exercising and disposing of any such rights and/or assets), all proceeds thereof and all rights (contractual and other), collateral and other assets relating thereto, and (y) any business or activities incidental or related to such business, and (b) is designated as a “Special Purpose Subsidiary” by the Board of Directors and which shall, for greater certainty, include any Canadian Securitization Entity.
 
Special Record Date” for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 307.
 
Stated Maturity” means, with respect to any security, the date specified in such security as the fixed date on which the payment of principal of such security is due and payable, including pursuant to any mandatory redemption provision (but excluding any provision providing for the repurchase of such security at the option of the holder thereof upon the happening of any contingency).
 
Subordinated Obligations” means any Indebtedness of the Company (whether outstanding on the date of this Indenture or thereafter Incurred) that is expressly subordinated in right of payment to the Notes pursuant to a written agreement.
 
Subsidiary” of any Person means (x) any corporation, association, partnership or other business entity of which more than 50% of the total voting power of shares of Capital Stock or other equity interests (including partnership interests) entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers or trustees thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by (i) such Person and/or (ii) one or
 

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more Subsidiaries of such Person or (y) any partnership, where more than 50% of the general partners of such partnership are owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by (i) such Person and/or (ii) one or more Subsidiaries of such Person.
 
Subsidiary Guarantee” means any guarantee that may from time to time be entered into by a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company on or after the Issue Date pursuant to Section 414.
 
Subsidiary Guarantor” means each Domestic Subsidiary that guarantees payment by the Company of any Indebtedness of the Company under the Senior Credit Facilities and any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company that enters into a Subsidiary Guarantee.
 
Successor Company” shall have the meaning assigned thereto in clause (i) under Section 501.
 
Supplemental Indenture” means a Supplemental Indenture, to be entered into substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit E.
 
Taxes” means any taxes, charges or assessments, including but not limited to income, sales, use, transfer, rental, ad valorem, value-added, stamp, property consumption, franchise, license, capital, net worth, gross receipts, excise, occupancy, intangibles or similar tax, charges or assessments.
 
Tax Sharing Agreement” means any tax sharing, indemnity or similar agreement of which the Indirect Parent or any of its subsidiaries is or will be a party.
 
Temporary Cash Investments” means any of the following: (i) any investment in (x) direct obligations of the United States of America, a member state of The European Union or any country in whose currency funds are being held pending their application in the making of an investment or capital expenditure by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary in that country or with such funds, or any agency or instrumentality of any thereof or obligations Guaranteed by the United States of America or a member state of The European Union or any country in whose currency funds are being held pending their application in the making of an investment or capital expenditure by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary in that country or with such funds, or any agency or instrumentality of any of the foregoing, or obligations guaranteed by any of the foregoing or (y) direct obligations of any foreign country recognized by the United States of America rated at least “A” by S&P or “A-1” by Moody’s (or, in either case, the equivalent of such rating by such organization or, if no rating of S&P or Moody’s then exists, the equivalent of such rating by any nationally recognized rating organization), (ii) overnight bank deposits, and investments in time deposit accounts, certificates of deposit, bankers’ acceptances and money market deposits (or, with respect to foreign banks, similar instruments) maturing not more than one year after the date of acquisition thereof issued by (x) any bank or other institutional lender under a Credit Facility or any affiliate thereof or (y) a bank or trust company that is organized under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or any foreign country recognized by the United States of America having capital and surplus aggregating in excess of $250.0 million (or the foreign currency equivalent thereof) and whose long term debt is rated at least “A” by S&P or “A-1” by Moody’s (or, in either case, the equivalent of such rating by such
 

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organization or, if no rating of S&P or Moody’s then exists, the equivalent of such rating by any nationally recognized rating organization) at the time such Investment is made, (iii) repurchase obligations with a term of not more than 30 days for underlying securities of the types described in clause (i) or (ii) above entered into with a bank meeting the qualifications described in clause (ii) above, (iv) Investments in commercial paper, maturing not more than 270 days after the date of acquisition, issued by a Person (other than that of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries), with a rating at the time as of which any Investment therein is made of “P-2” (or higher) according to Moody’s or “A-2” (or higher) according to S&P (or, in either case, the equivalent of such rating by such organization or, if no rating of S&P or Moody’s then exists, the equivalent of such rating by any nationally recognized rating organization), (v) Investments in securities maturing not more than one year after the date of acquisition issued or fully guaranteed by any state, commonwealth or territory of the United States of America, or by any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof, and rated at least “A” by S&P or “A” by Moody’s (or, in either case, the equivalent of such rating by such organization or, if no rating of S&P or Moody’s then exists, the equivalent of such rating by any nationally recognized rating organization), (vi) Preferred Stock (other than of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries) having a rating of “A” or higher by S&P or “A-2” or higher by Moody’s (or, in either case, the equivalent of such rating by such organization or, if no rating of S&P or Moody’s then exists, the equivalent of such rating by any nationally recognized rating organization), (vii) investment funds investing 95% of their assets in securities of the type described in clauses (i)-(vi) above (which funds may also hold reasonable amounts of cash pending investment and/or distribution), (viii) any money market deposit accounts issued or offered by a domestic commercial bank or a commercial bank organized and located in a country recognized by the United States of America, in each case, having capital and surplus in excess of $250.0 million (or the foreign currency equivalent thereof), or investments in money market funds subject to the risk limiting conditions of Rule 2a-7 (or any successor rule) of the SEC under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and (ix) similar investments approved by the Board of Directors in the ordinary course of business.
 
TIA” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C. §§ 77aaa-7bbbb), as amended from time to time.
 
Trade Payables” means, with respect to any Person, any accounts payable or any indebtedness or monetary obligation to trade creditors created, assumed or guaranteed by such Person arising in the ordinary course of business in connection with the acquisition of goods or services.
 
Trustee” means the party named as such in the first paragraph of this Indenture until a successor replaces it and, thereafter, means the successor.
 
Trust Officer” means the Chairman of the Board, the President or any other officer or assistant officer of the Trustee assigned by the Trustee to administer its corporate trust matters.
 
Unrestricted Subsidiary” means (i) any Subsidiary of the Company that at the time of determination is an Unrestricted Subsidiary, as designated by the Board of Directors in the manner provided below, (ii) any Special Purpose Subsidiary that is designated by the Board of Directors in the manner provided below and (iii) any Subsidiary of an Unrestricted Subsidiary.
 

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The Board of Directors may designate any Subsidiary of the Company (including any newly acquired or newly formed Subsidiary of the Company) to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary unless such Subsidiary or any of its Subsidiaries owns any Capital Stock or Indebtedness of, or owns or holds any Lien on any property of, the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary of the Company that is not a Subsidiary of the Subsidiary to be so designated; provided, that (A) such designation was made at or prior to the Issue Date, or (B) the Subsidiary to be so designated has total consolidated assets of $1,000 at the time of designation or less or (C) if such Subsidiary has consolidated assets greater than $1,000, then such designation would be permitted under Section 409.  The Board of Directors may designate any Unrestricted Subsidiary to be a Restricted Subsidiary; provided, that immediately after giving effect to such designation (x) the Company could Incur at least $1.00 of additional Indebtedness under Section 407(a) or (y) the Consolidated Coverage Ratio would be greater than it was immediately prior to giving effect to such designation or (z) such Subsidiary shall be a Special Purpose Subsidiary with no Indebtedness outstanding other than Indebtedness that can be Incurred (and upon such designation shall be deemed to be Incurred and outstanding) pursuant to Section 407(b).  Any such designation by the Board of Directors shall be evidenced to the Trustee by promptly filing with the Trustee a copy of the resolution of the Company’s Board of Directors giving effect to such designation and an Officer’s Certificate of the Company certifying that such designation complied with the foregoing provisions.
 
U.S. Government Obligation” means (x) any security that is (i) a direct obligation of the United States of America for the payment of which the full faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged or (ii) an obligation of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of America the payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by the United States of America, which, in either case under the preceding clause (i) or (ii), is not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and (y) any depositary receipt issued by a bank (as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act) as custodian with respect to any U.S. Government Obligation that is specified in clause (x) above and held by such bank for the account of the holder of such depositary receipt, or with respect to any specific payment of principal of or interest on any U.S. Government Obligation that is so specified and held, provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depositary receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the U.S. Government Obligation or the specific payment of principal or interest evidenced by such depositary receipt.
 
Vehicle Rental Concession” means any right, whether or not exclusive, to conduct a Vehicle rental business at a Public Facility, or to pick up or discharge persons or otherwise to possess or use all or part of a Public Facility in connection with such a business, and any related rights or interests.
 
Vehicle Rental Concession Rights” means any or all of the following: (a) any Vehicle Rental Concession, (b) any rights of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary thereof under or relating to (i) any law, regulation, license, permit, request for proposals, invitation to bid, lease, agreement or understanding with a Public Facility Operator in connection with which a Vehicle Rental Concession has been or may be granted to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary and (ii) any agreement with, or Investment or other interest or participation in, any
 

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Person, property or asset required (x) by any such law, ordinance, regulation, license, permit, request for proposals, invitation to bid, lease, agreement or understanding or (y) by any Public Facility Operator as a condition to obtaining or maintaining a Vehicle Rental Concession, and (c) any liabilities or obligations relating to or arising in connection with any of the foregoing.
 
Vehicles” means vehicles owned or operated by, or leased or rented to or by, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, including automobiles, trucks, tractors, trailers, vans, sport utility vehicles, buses, campers, motor homes, motorcycles and other motor vehicles.
 
Vice President”, when used with respect to any Person, means any vice president of such Person, whether or not designated by a number or a word or words added before or after the title “vice president.”
 
Voting Stock” of an entity means all classes of Capital Stock of such entity then outstanding and normally entitled to vote in the election of directors or all interests in such entity with the ability to control the management or actions of such entity.
 
Section 102. Other Definitions.
 
Term
Defined
in Section
   
“Act”
108
“Affiliate Transaction”
412
“Agent Members”
312
“Amendment”
410
“Applicable Premium”
1001
“Authentication Order”
303
“Bankruptcy Law”
601
“Certificate of Beneficial Ownership”
313
“Change of Control Offer”
415
“Covenant Defeasance”
1203
“Custodian”
601
“Defaulted Interest”
307
“Defeasance”
1202
“Defeased Notes”
1201
“Distribution Compliance Period”
201
“Event of Default”
601
“Excess Proceeds”
411
“Expiration Date”
108
“Global Notes”
201
“Initial Agreement”
410
“Initial Lien”
413
“Note Register” and “Note Registrar”
305
“Notice of Default”
601
“Offer”
411
“Permanent Regulation S Global Note”
201
“Permitted Payment”
409
“Physical Notes”
201
“Private Placement Legend”
203
“Redemption Amount”
1001
“Redemption Price”
1001
“Refinancing Agreement”
410
“Regular Record Date”
301
“Regulation S Global Notes”
201
“Regulation S Note Exchange Date”
313
“Regulation S Physical Notes”
201
“Restricted Payment”
409
“Rule 144A Global Note”
201
“Rule 144A Physical Notes”
201
“Subsidiary Guaranteed Obligations”
1301
“Successor Company”
501
“Temporary Regulation S Global Note”
201
“Treasury Rate”
1001
 
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Section 103. Rules of Construction.  For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
 
(1) the terms defined in this Indenture have the meanings assigned to them in this Indenture;
 
(2) or” is not exclusive;
 
(3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with GAAP;
 
(4) the words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision;
 
(5) all references to “$” or “dollars” shall refer to the lawful currency of the United States of America;
 
(6) all references to “”  shall refer to the lawful currency of the member states of the European Union that adopt the single currency in accordance with the Treaty establishing the European Communities;
 
(7) the words “include,” “included” and “including,” as used herein, shall be deemed in each case to be followed by the phrase “without limitation,” if not expressly followed by such phrase or the phrase “but not limited to”;
 
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(8) words in the singular include the plural, and words in the plural include the singular;
 
(9) references to sections of, or rules under, the Securities Act shall be deemed to include substitute, replacement or successor sections or rules adopted by the SEC from time to time; and
 
(10) any reference to a Section, Article or clause refers to such Section, Article or clause of this Indenture.
 
Section 104. Incorporation by Reference of TIA.  Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, the provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture.  This Indenture is subject to the mandatory provisions of the TIA, which are incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture.  Any terms incorporated by reference in this Indenture that are defined by the TIA, defined by any TIA reference to another statute or defined by SEC rule under the TIA, have the meanings so assigned to them therein.  The following TIA terms have the following meanings:
 
indenture securities” means the Notes.
 
indenture security holder” means a Noteholder.
 
indenture to be qualified” means this Indenture.
 
indenture trustee” or “institutional trustee” means the Trustee.
 
obligor” on the indenture securities means the Issuers, any Guarantor, and any successor or other Person that is liable thereon.
 
Section 105. Conflict with TIA.  If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with a provision of the TIA that is required under the TIA to be a part of and govern this Indenture, the latter provision shall control.  If any provision of this Indenture modifies or excludes any provision of the TIA that may be so modified or excluded, the latter provision shall be deemed (i) to apply to this Indenture as so modified or (ii) to be excluded, as the case may be.
 
Section 106. Compliance Certificates and Opinions.  Upon any application or request by the Issuers or by any other obligor upon the Notes (including any Guarantor) to the Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Issuers or such other obligor (including any Guarantor), as the case may be, shall furnish to the Trustee such certificates and opinions as may be required under the TIA.  Each such certificate or opinion shall be given in the form of one or more Officer’s Certificates, if to be given by an Officer, or an Opinion of Counsel, if to be given by counsel, and shall comply with the requirements of the TIA and any other requirements set forth in this Indenture.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case of any such request or application as to which the furnishing of any Officer’s Certificate or Opinion of Counsel is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture relating to such particular request or application, no additional certificate or opinion need be furnished.
 
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Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture (except for certificates provided for in Section 406) shall include:
 
(1) a statement that the individual signing such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating thereto;
 
(2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based;
 
(3) a statement that, in the opinion of such individual, he or she made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him or her to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and
 
(4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of such individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
 
Section 107. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee.  In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.
 
Any certificate or opinion of an Officer may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, counsel, unless such Officer knows that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based are erroneous.  Any such certificate or opinion of counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an Officer or Officers to the effect that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the Issuers, unless such counsel knows that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such matters are erroneous.
 
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument.
 
Section 108. Acts of Noteholders; Record Dates.  (a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Trustee, and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Issuers, as the case may be.  Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the “Act” of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments.  Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and
 
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(subject to Section 701) conclusive in favor of the Trustee, the Issuers and anyother obligor upon the Notes, if made in the manner provided in thisSection 108.
 
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such execution or by the certificate of any notary public or other officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof.  Where such execution is by an officer of a corporation or a member of a partnership or other legal entity other than an individual, on behalf of such corporation or partnership or entity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of such Person’s authority.  The fact and date of the execution of any such instrument or writing, or the authority of the person executing the same, may also be proved in any other manner that the Trustee deems sufficient.
 
(c) The ownership of Notes shall be proved by the Note Register.
 
(d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action by the Holder of any Note shall bind the Holder of every Note issued upon the transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof, in respect of anything done, suffered or omitted to be done by the Trustee, the Issuers or any other obligor upon the Notes in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Note.
 
(e)    (i) The Issuers may set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding Notes entitled to give, make or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be given, made or taken by Holders of Notes, provided that the Issuers may not set a record date for, and the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply with respect to, the giving or making of any notice, declaration, request or direction referred to in the next paragraph.  If any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding Notes on such record date (or their duly designated proxies), and no other Holders, shall be entitled to take the relevant action, whether or not such Persons remain Holders after such record date; provided that no such action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Notes on such record date.  Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Issuers from setting a new record date for any action for which a record date has previously been set pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall automatically and with no action by any Person be cancelled and of no effect), and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Notes on the date such action is taken.  Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Issuers, at their expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders and the applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Trustee in writing and to each Holder of Notes in the manner set forth in Section 110.
 
(ii) The Trustee may set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding Notes entitled to join in the giving or making of (A) any Notice of Default, (B) any declaration of acceleration referred to in Section 602, (C) any request to institute proceedings referred to in Section 607(ii) or (D) any direction
 
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referred to in Section 612, in each case with respect to Notes.  If any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding Notes on such record date, and no other Holders, shall be entitled to join in such notice, declaration, request or direction, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that no such action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Notes on such record date.  Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Trustee from setting a new record date for any action for which a record date has previously been set pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall automatically and with no action by any Person be cancelled and of no effect), and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Notes on the date such action is taken.  Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Trustee, at the Issuers’ expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders and the applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Issuers in writing and to each Holder of Notes in the manner set forth in Section 110.
 
(iii) With respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section 108, the party hereto that sets such record dates may designate any day as the “Expiration Date” and from time to time may change the Expiration Date to any earlier or later day; provided that no such change shall be effective unless notice of the proposed new Expiration Date is given to the Issuers or the Trustee, whichever such party is not setting a record date pursuant to this Section 108(e) in writing, and to each Holder of Notes in the manner set forth in Section 110, on or prior to the existing Expiration Date.  If an Expiration Date is not designated with respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section, the party hereto that set such record date shall be deemed to have initially designated the 180th day after such record date as the Expiration Date with respect thereto, subject to its right to change the Expiration Date as provided in this paragraph.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Expiration Date shall be later than the 180th day after the applicable record date.
 
(iv) Without limiting the foregoing, a Holder entitled hereunder to take any action hereunder with regard to any particular Note may do so with regard to all or any part of the principal amount of such Note or by one or more duly appointed agents each of which may do so pursuant to such appointment with regard to all or any part of such principal amount.
 
(v) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, a Holder, including the Depositary, that is the Holder of a Global Note, may make, give or take, by a proxy or proxies duly appointed in writing, any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided in this Indenture to be made, given or taken by Holders or the Depositary, as the Holder of a Global Note, may provide its proxy or proxies to the beneficial owners of interest in any such Global Note through such depositary’s standing instructions and customary practices.
 
(vi) The Issuers may fix a record date for the purpose of determining the persons who are beneficial owners of interests in any Global Note held by the
 
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Depositary entitled under the procedures of such depositary to make, give or take, by a proxy or proxies duly appointed in writing, any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided in this Indenture to be made, given or taken by Holders.  If such a record date is fixed, the Holders on such record date or their duly appointed proxy or proxies, and only such persons, shall be entitled to make, give or take such request, demand, authorization direction, notice consent, waiver or other action, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date.  No such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action shall be valid or effective if made, given or taken more than 90 days after such record date.
 
Section 109. Notices, etc., to Trustee and Company.  Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,
 
(1) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company or by any other obligor upon the Notes shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing to or with the Trustee at One Liberty Plaza, 23rd Floor, New York, NY 10006, Attention: Corporate Trust Department (telephone: 212-225-5427; telecopier: 212-225-5436), or at any other address furnished in writing to the Company by the Trustee, or
 
(2) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to the Company at Avis Budget Car Rental, LLC, One Campus Drive, Parsippany, NJ 07054, or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company.
 
(3) The Company or the Trustee, by notice to the other, may designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or communications.
 
Section 110. Notices to Holders; Waiver.  Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, or by overnight air courier guaranteeing next day delivery, to each Holder affected by such event, at such Holder’s address as it appears in the Note Register, not later than the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving of such notice.  In any case where notice to Holders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders.
 
Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice.  Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver.
 
In case, by reason of the suspension of regular mail service, or by reason of any other cause, it shall be impossible to mail notice of any event as required by any provision of this Indenture, then such notification as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee (such
 
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approval not to be unreasonably withheld) shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.
 
Section 111. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.  The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
 
Section 112. Successors and Assigns.  All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Issuers shall bind its respective successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.  All agreements of the Trustee in this Indenture shall bind its successors.
 
Section 113. Separability Clause.  In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Notes shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
 
Section 114. Benefits of Indenture.  Nothing in this Indenture or in the Notes, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors hereunder, any Paying Agent and the Holders, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.
 
Section 115. GOVERNING LAW.  THIS INDENTURE AND THE NOTES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.  THE TRUSTEE, THE COMPANY, ANY OTHER OBLIGOR IN RESPECT OF THE NOTES AND (BY THEIR ACCEPTANCE OF THE NOTES) THE HOLDERS AGREE TO SUBMIT TO THE JURISDICTION OF ANY UNITED STATES FEDERAL OR STATE COURT LOCATED IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS INDENTURE, THE NOTES OR THE GUARANTEES.
 
Section 116. Legal Holidays.  In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity of any Note shall not be a Business Day at any Place of Payment, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of the Notes) payment of interest or principal and premium (if any) need not be made at such Place of Payment on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day at such Place of Payment with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date or Redemption Date, or at the Stated Maturity, and no interest shall accrue on such payment for the intervening period.
 
Section 117. No Personal Liability of Directors, Officers, Employees, Incorporators, Equity Holders, Members and Stockholders.  No director, officer, employee, incorporator, equity holder, member or stockholder of the Company, any Guarantor or any Subsidiary of any thereof shall have any liability for any obligation of the Company or any Guarantor under this Indenture, the Notes or any Guarantee, or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, any such obligation or its creation.  Each Noteholder, by accepting the Notes, waives and releases all such liability.  The waiver and release are part of the consideration for issuance of the Notes.
 
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Section 118. Exhibits and Schedules.  All exhibits and schedules attached hereto are by this reference made a part hereof with the same effect as if herein set forth in full.
 
Section 119. Counterparts.  This Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original; but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
 
ARTICLE II   
NOTE FORMS
 
Section 201. Forms Generally.  The Initial Notes and Initial Additional Notes that are not Exchange Notes and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication relating thereto shall be in substantially the forms set forth, or referenced, in this Article II and Exhibit A, annexed hereto.  The Exchange Notes and any Additional Notes that are not Initial Additional Notes, or that are issued in a registered offering pursuant to the Securities Act, and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication relating thereto shall be in substantially the forms set forth, or referenced, in this Article II and Exhibit B, annexed hereto.  Each of Exhibits A and B is hereby incorporated in and expressly made a part of this Indenture.  The Notes may have such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions, notations, legends, endorsements, identifications and other variations as are required or permitted by law, stock exchange rule or depositary rule or usage, agreements to which the Company is subject, if any, or other customary usage, or as may consistently herewith be determined by the Officers of the Company executing such Notes, as evidenced by such execution (provided always that any such notation, legend, endorsement, identification or variation is in a form acceptable to the Company).  Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication.  The terms of the Notes set forth in Exhibits A and B are part of the terms of this Indenture.  Any portion of the text of any Note may be set forth on the reverse thereof or attached thereto, with an appropriate reference thereto on the face of the Note.
 
Initial Notes and any Initial Additional Notes offered and sold in reliance on Rule 144A shall, unless the Issuers otherwise notify the Trustee in writing, be issued in the form of one or more permanent global Notes in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit A hereto, except as otherwise permitted herein.  Such Global Notes shall be referred to collectively herein as the “Rule 144A Global Note.”  The Rule 144A Global Notes shall be deposited with the Trustee, as custodian for the Depositary or its nominee, in each case for credit to an account of an Agent Member, and shall be duly executed by the Issuers and authenticated by the Trustee as hereinafter provided.  The aggregate principal amount of a Rule 144A Global Note may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee as hereinafter provided.
 
Initial Notes and any Initial Additional Notes offered and sold in offshore transactions in reliance on Regulation S under the Securities Act shall, unless the Issuers otherwise notify the Trustee in writing, be issued in the form of one or more temporary global Notes in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit A hereto, except as otherwise permitted herein.  Such Global Notes shall be referred to collectively herein as the “Temporary Regulation S Global Note.”  The Temporary Regulation S Global Notes shall be deposited with the Trustee, as custodian for the Depositary or its nominee for the accounts of designated Agent Members
 
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holding on behalf of Euroclear or Clearstream, and shall be duly executed by the Issuers and authenticated by the Trustee as hereinafter provided.  The aggregate principal amount of a Regulation S Global Note may from time to time be increased or increased by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee as hereinafter provided.
 
Following the expiration of the distribution compliance period set forth in Regulation S (the “Distribution Compliance Period”) with respect to any Temporary Regulation S Global Note, beneficial interests in such Temporary Regulation S Global Note shall be exchanged as provided in Sections 312 and 313 for beneficial interests in one or more permanent global Notes in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit A hereto, except as otherwise permitted herein.  Such Global Notes shall be referred to collectively herein as the “Permanent Regulation S Global Note.”  The Permanent Regulation S Global Notes and the Temporary Regulation S Global Notes shall be referred to collectively herein as the “Regulation S Global Notes.” The Permanent Regulation S Global Notes shall be deposited with the Trustee, as custodian for the Depositary or its nominee for credit to the account of an Agent Member, and shall be duly executed by the Issuers and authenticated by the Trustee as hereinafter provided.  Simultaneously with the authentication of a Permanent Regulation S Global Note, the Trustee shall cancel the related Temporary Regulation S Global Note.
 
Subject to the limitations on the issuance of certificated Notes set forth in Sections 312 and 313, Initial Notes and any Initial Additional Notes issued pursuant to Section 305 in exchange for or upon transfer of beneficial interests (x) in a Rule 144A Global Note shall be in the form of permanent certificated Notes substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A hereto (the “Rule 144A Physical Notes”) or (y) in a Regulation S Global Note (if any), on or after the Regulation S Note Exchange Date with respect to such Regulation S Global Note, shall be in the form of permanent certificated Notes substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A hereto (the “Regulation S Physical Notes”), respectively, as hereinafter provided.
 
The Rule 144A Physical Notes and Regulation S Physical Notes shall be construed to include any certificated Notes issued in respect thereof pursuant to Section 304, 305, 306 or 1008, and the Rule 144A Global Notes and Regulation S Global Notes shall be construed to include any global Notes issued in respect thereof pursuant to Section 304, 305, 306 or 1008.  The Rule 144A Physical Notes and the Regulation S Physical Notes, together with any other certificated Notes issued and authenticated pursuant to this Indenture, are sometimes collectively herein referred to as the “Physical Notes.” The Rule 144A Global Notes and the Regulation S Global Notes, together with any other global Notes that are issued and authenticated pursuant to this Indenture, are sometimes collectively referred to as the “Global Notes.”
 
Exchange Notes shall be issued substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit B hereto and, subject to Section 312(b), shall be in the form of one or more Global Notes.  The 9 5/8% Notes issued in the form of a global Note are sometimes collectively referred to as “Global Notes.”
 
Section 202. Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication.  The Notes will have endorsed thereon a Trustee’s certificate of authentication in substantially the following form:
 
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This is one of the Notes referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
 


as Trustee
 
 
By:                                                                
 

Authorized officer
 
Dated:
 
 

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If an appointment of an Authenticating Agent is made pursuant to Section 714, the Notes may have endorsed thereon, in lieu of the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, an alternative certificate of authentication in substantially the following form:
 
This is one of the Notes referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
 
THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK
As Trustee
 
By:     
    

 As Authenticating Agent
 
By:                                                                
 

Authorized officer
Dated:
 
Section 203. Restrictive and Global Note Legends.  Each Global Note and Physical Note (and all Notes issued in exchange therefor or substitution thereof) shall bear the following legend set forth below (the “Private Placement Legend”) on the face thereof until the Private Placement Legend is removed or not required in accordance with Section 313(4):
 
THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”). THE HOLDER HEREOF, BY PURCHASING THIS SECURITY, AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMPANY THAT THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE RESOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED (X) PRIOR TO THE ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE ISSUANCE HEREOF (OR ANY PREDECESSOR SECURITY HERETO) OR (Y) BY ANY HOLDER THAT WAS AN AFFILIATE OF THE COMPANY AT ANY TIME DURING THE THREE MONTHS PRECEDING THE DATE OF SUCH TRANSFER, IN EITHER CASE OTHER THAN:
 
(1) TO THE COMPANY,
 
(2) SO LONG AS THIS SECURITY IS ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON WHOM THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A, PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE RESALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A (AS INDICATED BY THE BOX CHECKED BY THE TRANSFEROR ON THE CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER ON THE REVERSE OF THIS SECURITY),
 
(3) IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (AS INDICATED BY THE BOX CHECKED BY THE TRANSFEROR ON THE CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER ON THE REVERSE OF THIS SECURITY),
 
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(4) TO AN INSTITUTION THAT IS AN “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” AS DEFINED IN RULE 501(a)(1), (2), (3) OR (7) OF REGULATION D UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (AS INDICATED BY THE BOX CHECKED BY THE TRANSFEROR ON THE CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER ON THE REVERSE OF THIS SECURITY) THAT IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES AND NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION, AND A CERTIFICATE WHICH MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE COMPANY OR THE TRUSTEE IS DELIVERED BY THE TRANSFEREE TO THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE,
 
(5) PURSUANT TO ANY EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144 (IF APPLICABLE) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR
 
(6) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT,
 
IN EACH CASE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES.
 
AN INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR HOLDING THIS SECURITY AGREES THAT IT WILL FURNISH TO THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE SUCH CERTIFICATES, OPINIONS OF COUNSEL AND OTHER INFORMATION AS THEY MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER BY IT OF THIS SECURITY COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS. THE HOLDER HEREOF, BY PURCHASING THIS SECURITY, REPRESENTS AND AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMPANY THAT IT IS (1) A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A OR (2) PURCHASING FROM A PERSON NOT PARTICIPATING IN THE INITIAL DISTRIBUTION OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR SECURITY), THAT IT IS AN INSTITUTION THAT IS AN “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” AS DEFINED IN RULE 501(a)(l), (2), (3) OR (7) OF REGULATION D UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND THAT IT IS HOLDING THIS SECURITY FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES AND NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION OR (3) A NON-U.S. PERSON OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF (OR AN ACCOUNT SATISFYING THE REQUIREMENTS OF PARAGRAPH (k)(2)(i) OF RULE 902 UNDER) REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.
 
Each Global Note, whether or not an Initial Note, shall also bear the following legend on the face thereof:
 
UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”) TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR
 
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TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
 
TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL NOTE SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO NOMINEES OF CEDE & CO. OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL NOTE SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN SECTIONS 312 AND 313 OF THE INDENTURE (AS DEFINED HEREIN).
 
Each Temporary Regulation S Global Note shall also bear the following legend on the face thereof:
 
EXCEPT AS SPECIFIED IN THE INDENTURE, BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP INTERESTS IN THIS TEMPORARY REGULATION S GLOBAL NOTE WILL NOT BE EXCHANGEABLE FOR INTERESTS IN THE PERMANENT REGULATION S GLOBAL NOTE OR ANY OTHER NOTE REPRESENTING AN INTEREST IN THE NOTES REPRESENTED HEREBY WHICH DO NOT CONTAIN A LEGEND CONTAINING RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER, UNTIL THE EXPIRATION OF THE “40 DAY DISTRIBUTION COMPLIANCE PERIOD” (WITHIN THE MEANING of RULE 903(b)(2) of REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT).  DURING SUCH 40 DAY DISTRIBUTION COMPLIANCE PERIOD, BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP INTERESTS IN THIS TEMPORARY REGULATION S GLOBAL NOTE MAY ONLY BE SOLD, PLEDGED OR TRANSFERRED THROUGH EUROCLEAR BANK S.A./N.A., AS OPERATOR of THE EUROCLEAR SYSTEM, OR CLEARSTREAM BANKING, SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME.
 
ARTICLE III
THE NOTES
 
Section 301. Title and Terms.  The aggregate principal amount of Notes that may be authenticated and delivered and Outstanding under this Indenture will be limited.  The Initial Notes will be issued in an aggregate principal amount of $450 million.  The 9 5/8% Notes shall vote and consent together on all matters as one class, and, none of the Notes will have the right to vote or consent as a class separate from one another on any matter.  Additional Notes (including any Exchange Notes issued in exchange therefor) will vote (or consent) as a class with the other Notes (except as otherwise provided in Section 902) and otherwise be treated as Notes for all purposes of this Indenture.
 
The 9 5/8% Notes shall be known and designated as the “9 5/8% Senior Notes due 2018” of the Issuers.  The 9 5/8% Notes will mature on March 15, 2018. Each 9 5/8% Note will bear interest at a rate per annum of 9.625%.
 
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Interest on the 9 5/8% Notes will be payable semiannually in cash to Holders of record at the close of business on the March 1 and September 1 immediately preceding the interest payment date (each such March 1 and September 1, a “Regular Record Date”), on March 15 and September 15 of each year, commencing September 15, 2010. Interest will be paid on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months and accrue from the date of original issuance.
 
Interest on the Original Notes will accrue from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for or, if no interest has been paid, from March 10, 2010; and interest on any Additional Notes (and Exchange Notes issued in exchange therefor) will accrue (or will be deemed to have accrued) from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for or, if no interest has been paid on such Additional Notes, from the Interest Payment Date immediately preceding the date of issuance of such Additional Notes, or if the date of issuance of such Additional Notes is an Interest Payment Date, from such date of issuance; provided that if any Note is surrendered for exchange on or after a record date for an Interest Payment Date that will occur on or after the date of such exchange, interest on the Note received in exchange thereof will accrue from the date of such Interest Payment Date.
 
Section 302. Denominations.  The 9 5/8% Notes shall be issuable only in fully registered form, without coupons, and only in minimum denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.
 
Section 303. Execution, Authentication and Delivery and Dating.  The Notes shall be executed on behalf of the Issuers by one Officer of each of them.  The signature of any such Officer on the Notes may be manual or by facsimile. Notes bearing the manual or facsimile signature of an individual who was at any time an Officer of any Issuer shall bind such Issuer, notwithstanding that such individual has ceased to hold such office prior to the authentication and delivery of such Notes or did not hold such office at the date of such Notes.
 
At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Issuers may deliver Notes executed by the Issuers to the Trustee for authentication; and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver (i) Initial Notes for original issue in the aggregate principal amount not to exceed $450 million, (ii) Additional Notes from time to time for original issue in aggregate principal amounts specified by the Issuers and (iii) Exchange Notes from time to time for issue in exchange for a like principal amount of Initial Notes or Initial Additional Notes, in each case specified in clauses (i) through (iii) above, upon a written order of the Issuers in the form of an Officer’s Certificate of each of the Issuers (an “Authentication Order”).  Such Officer’s Certificate shall specify the amount of Notes to be authenticated and the date on which the Notes are to be authenticated, the “CUSIP”, “Common Code” or other similar identification numbers of such Notes, if any, whether the Notes are to be Initial Notes, Additional Notes or Exchange Notes and whether the Notes are to be issued as one or more Global Notes or Physical Notes and such other information as the Issuers may include or the Trustee may reasonably request.
 
All Notes shall be dated the date of their authentication.
 
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No Note shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose, unless there appears on such Note a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein executed by the Trustee by manual signature, and such certificate upon any Note shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Note has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder.
 
Section 304. Temporary Notes.  Until definitive Notes are ready for delivery, the Issuers may prepare and upon receipt of an Authentication Order the Trustee shall authenticate temporary Notes.  Temporary Notes shall be substantially in the form of definitive Notes but may have variations that the Issuers consider appropriate for temporary Notes.  If temporary Notes are issued, the Issuers will cause definitive Notes to be prepared without unreasonable delay.  After the preparation of definitive Notes, the temporary Notes shall be exchangeable for definitive Notes upon surrender of the temporary Notes at the office or agency of the Issuers in a Place of Payment, without charge to the Holder.  Upon surrender for cancellation of anyone or more temporary Notes the Issuers shall execute and upon receipt of an Authentication Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a like principal amount of definitive Notes of authorized denominations.  Until so exchanged the temporary Notes shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Notes.
 
Section 305. Note Registrar and Paying Agent.  The Issuers shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee a register (the register maintained in such office and in any other office or agency of the Issuers in a Place of Payment being herein sometimes collectively referred to as the “Note Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuers shall provide for the registration of Notes and of transfers of Notes.  The Issuers may have one or more co-registrars.  The term “Note Registrar” includes any co-registrars.
 
The Issuers shall also maintain an office or agent within the United States where Notes may be presented for payment (the “Paying Agent”); provided, however, that at the option of the Issuers payment of interest on a Note may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Note Register.  The Issuers may have one or more additional paying agents, and the term “Paying Agent” includes any such additional Paying Agent.
 
The Issuers initially appoint the Trustee as “Note Registrar” and “Paying Agent” in connection with the Notes, until such time as such entity has resigned or a successor has been appointed.  The Issuers may change the Paying Agent or Note Registrar for the Notes without prior notice to the Holders of Notes.  The Issuers may enter into an appropriate agency agreement with any Note Registrar or Paying Agent not a party to this Indenture.  Any such agency agreement shall implement the provisions of this Indenture that relate to such agent.  The Issuers shall notify the Trustee in writing of the name and address of any such agent.  If the Issuers fail to appoint or maintain a Note Registrar or Paying Agent, the Trustee shall act as such and shall be entitled to appropriate compensation therefor pursuant to Section 707.  The Company or any wholly-owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Company may act as Paying Agent, Note Registrar or transfer agent.
 
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Upon surrender for transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Issuers in a Place of Payment, in compliance with all applicable requirements of this Indenture and applicable law, the Issuers shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes of the same series of any authorized denominations and of a like tenor and aggregate principal amount.
 
At the option of the Holder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of any authorized denominations and of a like tenor and aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at such office or agency.  Whenever any Notes are so surrendered for exchange, the Issuers shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Notes that the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.
 
All Notes issued upon any transfer or exchange of Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuers, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such transfer or exchange.
 
Every Note presented or surrendered for transfer or exchange shall (if so required by the Issuers or the Trustee) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Issuers and the Note Registrar duly executed, by the Holder thereof or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing.
 
No service charge shall be made for any registration, transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Issuers may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection therewith.
 
The Issuers shall not be required (i) to issue, transfer or exchange any Note during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 Business Days before the day of the mailing of a notice of redemption (or purchase) of Notes selected for redemption (or purchase) under Section 1004 and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing, or (ii) to transfer or exchange any Note so selected for redemption (or purchase) in whole or in part.
 
Section 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Notes.  If a mutilated Note is surrendered to the Note Registrar or if the Holder of a Note claims that the Note has been lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken, the Issuers shall issue and the Trustee shall authenticate a replacement Note if the requirements of Section 8-405 of the Uniform Commercial Code are met, such that the Holder (a) satisfies the Issuers or the Trustee within a reasonable time after such Holder has notice of such loss, destruction or wrongful taking and the Note Registrar does not register a transfer prior to receiving such notification, (b) makes such request to the Issuers or the Trustee prior to the Note being acquired by a protected purchaser as defined in Section 8303 of the Uniform Commercial Code (a “protected purchaser”) and (c) satisfies any other reasonable requirements of the Trustee.  If required by the Trustee or the Issuers, such Holder shall furnish an indemnity bond sufficient in the judgment of the Trustee to protect the Issuers, the Trustee, a Paying Agent and the Note Registrar from any loss that any of them may suffer if a Note is replaced.
 
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In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note has become or is about to become due and payable, the Issuers in their discretion may, instead of issuing a new Note, pay such Note.
 
Upon the issuance of any new Note under this Section 306, the Issuers may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.
 
Every new Note issued pursuant to this Section 306 in lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Issuers, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and ratably with any and all other Notes duly issued hereunder.
 
The provisions of this Section 306 are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes.
 
Section 307. Payment of Interest Rights Preserved.  Interest on any Note that is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest specified in Section 301.
 
Any interest on any Note that is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (herein called “Defaulted Interest”) shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder; and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Issuers, at their election, as provided in clause (1) or clause (2) below:
 
(1) The Issuers may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the Persons in whose names the Notes (or their respective Predecessor Notes) are registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner.  The Issuers shall notify the Trustee and Paying Agent in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Note and the date of the proposed payment, and at the same time the Issuers shall deposit with the Trustee or Paying Agent an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee or Paying Agent for such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as provided in this clause (1).  Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than 15 nor less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee and the Paying Agent of the notice of the proposed payment.  The Trustee shall promptly notify the Issuers of such Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of the Issuers, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the
 
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Special Record Date therefor to be mailed, first class postage prepaid, to each Holder at such Holder’s address as it appears in the Note Register, not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date.  Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been so mailed, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Notes (or their respective Predecessor Notes) are registered on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following clause (2).
 
(2) The Issuers may make payment of any Defaulted Interest in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Notes may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after notice given by the Issuers to the Trustee and the Paying Agent of the proposed payment pursuant to this clause (2), such payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
 
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section 307, each Note delivered under this Indenture upon transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Note shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, that were carried by such other Note.
 
Section 308. Persons Deemed Owners.  The Issuers, any Guarantor, the Trustee, the Paying Agent and any agent of any of them may treat the Person in whose name any Note is registered as the owner of such Note for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of (and premium, if any), and (subject to Section 307) interest on, such Note and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Note be overdue, and neither the Issuers, any Guarantor, the Trustee, the Paying Agent nor any agent of any of them shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
 
Section 309. Cancellation.  All Notes surrendered for payment, redemption, transfer, exchange or conversion shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee and, if not already cancelled, shall be promptly cancelled by it.  The Issuers may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Notes previously authenticated and delivered hereunder that any of them may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Notes so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the Trustee.  No Notes shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Notes cancelled as provided in this Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture.  All cancelled Notes held by the Trustee shall be disposed of by the Trustee in accordance with its customary procedures (subject to the record retention requirements of the Exchange Act).
 
Section 310. Computation of Interest.  Interest on the Notes shall be computed as set forth in the Notes.
 
Section 311. CUSIP Numbers, Etc.  The Issuers in issuing the Notes may use “CUSIP” numbers and “Common Code” numbers (if then generally in use), and if so, the Trustee may use the CUSIP numbers and “Common Code” numbers in notices of redemption or exchange as a convenience to Holders; provided, however, that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness or accuracy of such numbers printed in the notice or on the Notes; that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the
 
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Notes; and that any redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers.
 
Section 312. Book-Entry Provisions for Global Notes.  (a) Each Global Note initially shall (i) be registered in the name of the Depositary for such Global Note or the nominee of such Depositary, in each case for credit to the account of an Agent Member, and (ii) be delivered to the Trustee as custodian for such Depositary.  Neither of the Issuers nor any of their agents shall have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership interests of a Global Note, or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests.
 
Members of, or participants in, the Depositary, Euroclear or Clearstream (“Agent Members”) shall have no rights under this Indenture with respect to any Global Note held on their behalf by the Depositary, or its custodian, or under such Global Notes.  The Depositary may be treated by the Issuers, any other obligor upon the Notes, the Trustee and any agent of any of them as the absolute owner of the Global Notes for all purposes whatsoever.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent the Issuers, any other obligor upon the Notes, the Trustee or any agent of any of them from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by the Depositary, or impair, as between the Depositary, Euroclear or Clearstream, as the case may be, and their respective Agent Members, the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of a beneficial owner of any Note.  The registered Holder of a Global Note may grant proxies and otherwise authorize any Person, including Agent Members and Persons that may hold interests through Agent Members, to take any action that a Holder is entitled to take under this Indenture or the Notes.
 
(b) Transfers of a Global Note shall be limited to transfers of such Global Note in whole, but, subject to the immediately succeeding sentence, not in part, to the Depositary, its successors or their respective nominees.  Interests of beneficial owners in a Global Note may not be transferred or exchanged for Physical Notes unless (i) the Issuers have consented thereto in writing, or such transfer or exchange is made pursuant to the next sentence, and (ii) such transfer or exchange is in accordance with the applicable rules and procedures of the Depositary, Euroclear or Clearstream, as the case may be, and the provisions of Sections 305 and 313.  Subject to the limitation on issuance of Physical Notes set forth in Section 313(3), Physical Notes shall be transferred to all beneficial owners in exchange for their beneficial interests in the relevant Global Note, if (i) the Depositary notifies the Issuers at any time that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for the Global Notes and a successor depositary is not appointed within 120 days; (ii) the Depositary ceases to be registered as a “Clearing Agency” under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and a successor depositary is not appointed within 120 days; (iii) the Issuers, at their option, notify the Trustee that they elect to cause the issuance of Physical Notes; or (iv) an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing with respect to the Notes and the Trustee has received a written request from the Depositary to issue Physical Notes.
 
(c) In connection with any transfer or exchange of a portion of the beneficial interest in any Global Note to beneficial owners for Physical Notes pursuant to Section 312(b), the Note Registrar shall record on its books and records the date and a decrease in the principal amount of such Global Note in an amount equal to the beneficial interest in the Global Note
 
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being transferred, and the Issuers shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, one or more Physical Notes of like tenor and principal amount of authorized denominations.
 
(d) In connection with a transfer of an entire Global Note to beneficial owners pursuant to Section 312(b), the applicable Global Note shall be deemed to be surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation, and the Issuers shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, to each beneficial owner identified by the Depositary, Euroclear or Clearstream, as the case may be, in exchange for its beneficial interest in the applicable Global Note, an equal aggregate principal amount at maturity of Rule 144A Physical Notes (in the case of any Rule 144A Global Note) or Regulation S Physical Notes (in the case of any Regulation S Global Note), as the case may be, of authorized denominations.
 
(e) The transfer and exchange of a Global Note or beneficial interests therein shall be effected through the Depositary, in accordance with this Indenture (including applicable restrictions on transfer set forth in Section 313) and the procedures therefor of the Depositary, Euroclear or Clearstream, as the case may be.  Any beneficial interest in one of the Global Notes that is transferred to a Person who takes delivery in the form of an interest in a different Global Note will, upon transfer, cease to be an interest in such Global Note and become an interest in the other Global Note and, accordingly, will thereafter be subject to all transfer restrictions, if any, and other procedures applicable to beneficial interests in such other Global Note for as long as it remains such an interest.  A transferor of a beneficial interest in a Global Note shall deliver to the Note Registrar a written order given in accordance with the procedures of the Depositary or of Euroclear or Clearstream, as applicable, containing information regarding the participant account of the Depositary to be credited with a beneficial interest in the relevant Global Note.  Subject to Section 313, the Note Registrar shall, in accordance with such instructions, instruct the Depositary or Euroclear or Clearstream, as applicable, to credit to the account of the Person specified in such instructions a beneficial interest in such Global Note and to debit the account of the Person making the transfer the beneficial interest in the Global Note being transferred.
 
(f) Any Physical Note delivered in exchange for an interest in a Global Note pursuant to Section 312(b) shall, unless such exchange is made on or after the Resale Restriction Termination Date applicable to such Note and except as otherwise provided in Section 203 and Section 313, bear the Private Placement Legend.
 
(g) Notwithstanding the foregoing, through the Restricted Period, a beneficial interest in a Regulation S Global Note may be held only through Euroclear or Clearstream, or designated Agent Members holding on behalf of Euroclear or Clearstream, unless delivery is made in accordance with the applicable provisions of Section 313.
 
(h) The Holder of any Global Note may grant proxies and otherwise authorize any Person, including Agent Members and Persons that may hold interests through Agent Members, to take any action which a Holder is entitled to take under this Indenture or the Notes.
 
Section 313. Special Transfer Provisions.
 
(1) Transfers to Non-U.S. Persons.  The following provisions shall apply with respect to the registration of any proposed transfer of a Note that is a Restricted Security
 
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to any Non-U.S. Person: The Note Registrar shall register such transfer if it complies with all other applicable requirements of this Indenture (including Section 305) and,
 
(a) if (x) such transfer is after the relevant Resale Restriction Termination Date with respect to such Note or (y) the proposed transferor has delivered to the Note Registrar and the Issuers and the Trustee a Regulation S Certificate and, unless otherwise agreed by the Issuers and the Trustee, an opinion of counsel, certifications and other information satisfactory to the Issuers and the Trustee, and
 
(b) if the proposed transferor is or is acting through an Agent Member holding a beneficial interest in a Global Note, upon receipt by the Note Registrar and the Issuers and the Trustee of (x) the certificate, opinion, certifications and other information, if any, required by clause (a) above and (y) written instructions given in accordance with the procedures of the Note Registrar and of the Depositary;
 
whereupon (i) the Note Registrar shall reflect on its books and records the date and (if the transfer does not involve a transfer of any Outstanding Physical Note) a decrease in the principal amount of the relevant Global Note in an amount equal to the principal amount of the beneficial interest in the relevant Global Note to be transferred, and (ii) either (A) if the proposed transferee is or is acting through an Agent Member holding a beneficial interest in a relevant Regulation S Global Note, the Note Registrar shall reflect on its books and records the date and an increase in the principal amount of such Regulation S Global Note in an amount equal to the principal amount of the beneficial interest being so transferred or (B) otherwise the Issuers shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver one or more Physical Notes of like tenor and amount.
 
(2) Transfers to QIBs.  The following provisions shall apply with respect to the registration of any proposed transfer of a Note that is a Restricted Security to a QIB (excluding transfers to Non-U.S. Persons): The Note Registrar shall register such transfer if it complies with all other applicable requirements of this Indenture (including Section 305) and,
 
(a) if such transfer is being made by a proposed transferor who has checked the box provided for on the form of such Note stating, or has otherwise certified to the Note Registrar and the Issuers and the Trustee in writing, that the sale has been made in compliance with the provisions of Rule 144A to a transferee who has signed the certification provided for on the form of such Note stating, or has otherwise certified to Note Registrar and the Issuers and the Trustee in writing, that it is purchasing such Note for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a QIB within the meaning of Rule 144A, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Issuers as it has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon its foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A; and
 
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(b) if the proposed transferee is an Agent Member, and the Note to be transferred consists of a Physical Note that after transfer is to be evidenced by an interest in a Global Note or consists of a beneficial interest in a Global Note that after the transfer is to be evidenced by an interest in a different Global Note, upon receipt by the Note Registrar of written instructions given in accordance with the procedures of the Note Registrar and of the Depositary, whereupon the Note Registrar shall reflect on its books and records the date and an increase in the principal amount of the transferee Global Note in an amount equal to the principal amount of the Physical Note or such beneficial interest in such transferor Global Note to be transferred, and the Trustee shall cancel the Physical Note so transferred or reflect on its books and records the date and a decrease in the principal amount of such transferor Global Note, as the case may be.
 
(3) Limitation on Issuance of Physical Notes.  No Physical Note shall be exchanged for a beneficial interest in any Global Note, except in accordance with Section 312 and this Section 313.
 
A beneficial owner of an interest a Temporary Regulation S Global Note (and, in the case of any Additional Notes for which no Temporary Regulation S Global Note is issued, any Regulation S Global Note) shall not be permitted to exchange such interest for a Physical Note or (in the case of such interest in a Temporary Regulation S Global Note) an interest in a Permanent Regulation S Global Note until a date, which must be after Distribution Compliance Date, on which the Issuers receive a certificate of beneficial ownership substantially in the form of Exhibit C from such beneficial owner (a “Certificate of Beneficial Ownership”).  Such date, as it relates to a Regulation S Global Note, is herein referred to as the “Regulation S Note Exchange Date.”
 
(4) Private Placement Legend.  Upon the transfer, exchange or replacement of Notes not bearing the Private Placement Legend, the Note Registrar shall deliver Notes that do not bear the Private Placement Legend.  Upon the transfer, exchange or replacement of Notes bearing the Private Placement Legend, the Note Registrar shall deliver only Notes that bear the Private Placement Legend unless (i) the requested transfer is after the relevant Resale Restriction Termination Date with respect to such Notes, (ii) upon written request of the Issuers after there is delivered to the Note Registrar an opinion of counsel (which opinion and counsel are satisfactory to the Issuers and the Trustee) to the effect that neither such legend nor the related restrictions on transfer are required in order to maintain compliance with the provisions of the Securities Act, (iii) with respect to a Regulation S Global Note (on or after the Regulation S Note Exchange Date with respect to such Regulation S Global Note) or Regulation S Physical Note, in each case with the agreement of the Issuers, or (iv) such Notes are sold or exchanged pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act.
 
(5) Other Transfers.  The Note Registrar shall effect and register, upon receipt of a written request from the Issuers to do so, a transfer not otherwise permitted by this Section 313, such registration to be done in accordance with the otherwise applicable provisions of this Section 313, upon the furnishing by the proposed transferor or transferee of a written opinion of counsel (which opinion and counsel are satisfactory to the Issuers and the Trustee) to the effect that, and such other certifications or information
 
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as the Issuers or the Trustee may require (including, in the case of a transfer to an Accredited Investor (as defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under Regulation D promulgated under the Securities Act), a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit F) to confirm that, the proposed transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.
 
A Note that is a Restricted Security may not be transferred other than as provided in this Section 313.  A beneficial interest in a Global Note that is a Restricted Security may not be exchanged for a beneficial interest in another Global Note other than through a transfer in compliance with this Section 313.
 
(6) General.  By its acceptance of any Note bearing the Private Placement Legend, each Holder of such a Note acknowledges the restrictions on transfer of such Note set forth in this Indenture and in the Private Placement Legend and agrees that it will transfer such Note only as provided in this Indenture.
 
The Note Registrar shall retain copies of all letters, notices and other written communications received pursuant to Section 312 or this Section 313 (including all Notes received for transfer pursuant to Section 313).  The Issuers shall have the right to require the Note Registrar to deliver to the Issuers, at the Issuers’ expense, copies of all such letters, notices or other written communications at any reasonable time upon the giving of reasonable written notice to the Note Registrar.
 
In connection with any transfer of any Note, the Trustee, the Note Registrar and the Issuers shall be entitled to receive, shall be under no duty to inquire into, may conclusively presume the correctness of, and shall be fully protected in relying upon the certificates, opinions and other information referred to herein (or in the forms provided herein, attached hereto or to the Notes, or otherwise) received from any Holder and any transferee of any Note regarding the validity, legality and due authorization of any such transfer, the eligibility of the transferee to receive such Note and any other facts and circumstances related to such transfer.
 
Section 314. Payment of Additional Interest.  (a) Under certain circumstances the Issuers will be obligated to pay certain additional amounts of interest to the Holders of certain Initial Notes, as more particularly set forth in such Initial Notes.
 
(b) Under certain circumstances the Issuers may be obligated to pay certain additional amounts of interest to the Holders of certain Initial Additional Notes, as may be more particularly set forth in such Initial Additional Notes.
 
(c) Prior to any Interest Payment Date on which any such additional interest is payable, the Issuers shall give notice to the Trustee of the amount of any additional interest due on such Interest Payment Date.
 
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ARTICLE IV
 
COVENANTS
 
Section 401. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.  The Issuers shall duly and punctually pay the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Notes in accordance with the terms of the Notes and this Indenture.  Principal amount (and premium, if any) and interest on the Notes shall be considered paid on the date due if the Issuers shall have deposited with the applicable Paying Agent (if other than the Company or a wholly-owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Company) as of 12:00 p.m. New York City time on the due date money in immediately available funds and designated for and sufficient to pay all principal amount (and premium, if any) and interest then due.
 
Section 402. Maintenance of Office or Agency.  (a) The Company shall maintain in the United States one or more offices or agencies where Notes may be presented or surrendered for payment, where Notes may be surrendered for transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be served.  The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and of any change in the location, of such office or agency.  If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain such office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee.
 
(b) The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where the Notes may be presented or surrendered for any or all purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations.
 
The Company hereby designates the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee as such office or agency of the Company where Notes may be presented or surrendered for payment or for transfer or exchange for so long as such Corporate Trust Office remains a Place of Payment, in accordance with Section 305 hereof.
 
Section 403. Money for Payments to Be Held in Trust.  If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent, it shall, on or before 12:00 p.m., New York City time each due date of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on, any of the Notes, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or interest so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided, and shall promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.
 
If the Company is not acting as its own Paying Agent, it shall, on or prior to 12:00 p.m., New York City time each due date of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on, any Notes, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or interest, so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such principal, premium or interest, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company shall promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.
 
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If the Company is not acting as its own Paying Agent, the Company shall cause any Paying Agent other than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section 403, that such Paying Agent shall
 
(1) hold all sums held by it for the payment of principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on Notes in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided;
 
(2) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company (or any other obligor upon the Notes) in the making of any such payment of principal (and premium, if any) or interest;
 
(3) at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent; and
 
(4) acknowledge, accept and agree to comply in all respects with the provisions of this Indenture and TIA relating to the duties, rights and liabilities of such Paying Agent.
 
The Issuers may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such money.
 
Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Note and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal (and premium, if any) or interest has become due and payable shall be paid to the Company on Company Request, or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Note shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease.
 
Section 404. [Reserved].
 
Section 405. Reports.  Prior to consummation of the exchange offer contemplated by the Registration Rights Agreement or the registration of the Notes with the SEC for resale and when any Notes under the Indenture are outstanding, the Company will provide to the Trustee and the holders of Notes: (a) within 90 days after the end of the Company’s fiscal year, financial statements and management’s discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations substantially equivalent to that which would be required to be included in an Annual Report on Form 10-K of the Company were the Company subject to an obligation to file such a report under the Exchange Act, and (b) within 45 days after the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters in each fiscal year of the Company, financial statements and management’s
 
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discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations substantially equivalent to that which would be required to be included in a Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of the Company were the Company subject to an obligation to file such a report under the Exchange Act; provided, however, that the reports set forth in clauses (a) and (b) above shall not be required to: (x) contain any certification required by any such form or the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, (y) include separate financial statements of any Guarantor or Avis Budget Finance, Inc. or (z) include any exhibit; provided, further, however, that if such reports do not include either (1) separate financial statements for each Guarantor or (2) consolidating condensed financial statements of the Subsidiary Guarantors, in accordance with Rule 3-10(d) of Regulation S-X promulgated by the SEC, then such reports shall include a calculation of the Consolidated Coverage Ratio, the Consolidated Secured Leverage Ratio and the amount of Restricted Payments that could be made pursuant to Section 409(a), in each case at the end of the period to which the report relates.
 
Following consummation of the exchange offer contemplated by the Registration Rights Agreement or the registration of the Notes with the SEC for resale, notwithstanding that the Company may not be required to be or remain subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the Company will file with the SEC (unless such filing is not permitted under the Exchange Act or by the SEC), so long as the Notes are Outstanding, the annual reports, information, documents and other reports that the Company is required to file with the SEC pursuant to such Section 13(a) or 15(d) or would be so required to file if the Company were so subject.  The Company will also, within 15 days after the date on which the Company was so required to file or would be so required to file if the Company were so subject, transmit by mail to all applicable Holders, as their names and addresses appear in the Note Register, and to the Trustee (or make available on a Company website) copies of any such information, documents and reports (without exhibits) so required to be filed.  The Company will be deemed to have satisfied the requirements of this Section 405 if any Parent files with the SEC and provides reports, documents and information of the types otherwise so required, in each case within the applicable time periods specified by the applicable rules and regulations of the SEC, and the Company is not required to file such reports, documents and information separately under the applicable rules and regulations of the SEC (after giving effect to any exemptive relief) because of the filings by such Parent.  The Company will comply with the other provisions of TIA § 314(a).
 
Section 406. Statement as to Default.  The Issuers shall deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company ending after January 1, 2010, an Officer’s Certificate to the effect that to the best knowledge of the signer thereof none of the Issuers is or is not in default in the performance and observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions of this Indenture (without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice provided hereunder) and, if any of the Issuers shall be in default, specifying all such defaults and the nature and status thereof of which such signer may have knowledge.  To the extent required by the TIA, each Guarantor shall comply with TIA § 314(a)(4).  The individual signing any certificate given by any Person pursuant to this Section 406 shall be the principal executive, financial or accounting Officer of such Person, in compliance with TIA § 314(a)(4).
 
Section 407. Limitation on Indebtedness.  (a) The Company will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, Incur any Indebtedness; provided, however, that
 
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the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary may Incur Indebtedness if on the date of the Incurrence of such Indebtedness, after giving effect to the Incurrence thereof, the Consolidated Coverage Ratio would be greater than 2.00 to 1.00.
 
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing paragraph (a), the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries may Incur the following Indebtedness:
 
(i) Indebtedness Incurred pursuant to any Credit Facility (including but not limited to in respect of letters of credit or bankers’ acceptances issued or created thereunder) and Indebtedness Incurred other than under any Credit Facility, and (without limiting the foregoing), in each case, any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof, in a maximum principal amount at any time outstanding not exceeding in the aggregate the amount equal to 2,675 million;
 
(ii) Indebtedness (A) of any Restricted Subsidiary to the Company or (B) of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary to any Restricted Subsidiary; provided, that any subsequent issuance or transfer of any Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary to which such Indebtedness is owed, or other event, that results in such Restricted Subsidiary ceasing to be a Restricted Subsidiary or any other subsequent transfer of such Indebtedness (except to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary) will be deemed, in each case, an Incurrence of such Indebtedness by the issuer thereof not permitted by this clause (ii);
 
(iii) Indebtedness represented by the Notes, the Subsidiary Guarantees and the related exchange notes and exchange guarantees issued in an exchange transaction pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, any Indebtedness (other than the Indebtedness described in clause (ii) above) outstanding on the Issue Date and any Refinancing Indebtedness Incurred in respect of any Indebtedness described in this clause (iii), Section 407(b)(x) or paragraph (a) above;
 
(iv) Purchase Money Obligations and Capitalized Lease Obligations, and any Refinancing Indebtedness with respect thereto;
 
(v) Indebtedness consisting of (x) accommodation guarantees for the benefit of trade creditors of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, (y) Guarantees in connection with the construction or improvement of all or any portion of a Public Facility to be used by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or (z) Guarantees required or reasonably necessary (in the good faith determination of the Company) in connection with Vehicle Rental Concession Rights;
 
(vi) (A) Guarantees by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of Indebtedness or any other obligation or liability of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary (other than any Indebtedness Incurred by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in violation of this Section 407), or (B) without limiting Section 413, Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary arising by reason of any Lien granted by or applicable to such Person securing Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary (other than any Indebtedness Incurred by the
 
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Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in violation of this Section 407);
 
(vii) Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary (A) arising from the honoring of a check, draft or similar instrument of such Person drawn against insufficient funds, provided that such Indebtedness is extinguished within five Business Days of its Incurrence, or (B) consisting of guarantees, indemnities, obligations in respect of earnouts or other purchase price adjustments, or similar obligations, Incurred in connection with the acquisition or disposition of any business, assets or Person;
 
(viii) Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in respect of (A) deductible obligations, self-insurance obligations, reinsurance obligations, completion guarantees, surety, judgment, appeal or performance bonds, or other similar bonds, instruments or obligations, provided, or relating to liabilities or obligations incurred, in the ordinary course of business, or (B) Hedging Obligations, entered into for bona fide hedging purposes that are incurred in the ordinary course of business, or (C) the financing of insurance premiums in the ordinary course of business, or (D) netting, overdraft protection and other arrangements arising under standard business terms of any bank at which the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary maintains an overdraft, cash pooling or other similar facility or arrangement;
 
(ix) Indebtedness (A) of a Special Purpose Subsidiary secured by a Lien on all or part of the assets disposed of in, or otherwise Incurred in connection with, a Financing Disposition or (B) otherwise Incurred in connection with a Special Purpose Financing; provided that (1) such Indebtedness is not recourse to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Special Purpose Subsidiary (other than with respect to Special Purpose Financing Undertakings or with respect to potential liability of Aviscar Inc. or Budgetcar Inc., or their respective successors, in their capacity as partners in a Canadian Securitization Entity), (2) in the event such Indebtedness shall become recourse to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Special Purpose Subsidiary (other than with respect to Special Purpose Financing Undertakings), such Indebtedness will be deemed to be, and must be classified by the Company as, Incurred at such time (or at the time initially Incurred) under one or more of the other provisions of this Section 407 for so long as such Indebtedness shall be so recourse; and (3) in the event that at any time thereafter such Indebtedness shall comply with the provisions of the preceding subclause (1), the Company may classify such Indebtedness in whole or in part as Incurred under this Section 407(b)(ix);
 
(x) Indebtedness of any Person that is assumed by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with its acquisition of assets from such Person or any Affiliate thereof or is issued and outstanding on or prior to the date on which such Person was acquired by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or merged or consolidated with or into any Restricted Subsidiary (other than Indebtedness Incurred to finance, or otherwise Incurred in connection with, such acquisition), provided that on the date of such acquisition, merger or consolidation, after giving effect thereto, the Company could Incur at least $1.00 of additional Indebtedness pursuant to paragraph (a) above; and any Refinancing Indebtedness with respect to any such Indebtedness;
 
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(xi) Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary that (A) is in the form of a demand note or other promissory note, (B) is in favor of, or for the benefit of, any Unrestricted Subsidiary, and (C) serves as credit enhancement for any vehicle-related financing; and
 
(xii) in addition to the items referred to in clauses (i) through (xi) above, Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in an aggregate outstanding principal amount at any time not exceeding an amount equal to 3.25% of Consolidated Tangible Assets.
 
(c) For purposes of determining compliance with, and the outstanding principal amount of any particular Indebtedness Incurred pursuant to and in compliance with, this Section 407, (i) any other obligation of the obligor on such Indebtedness (or of any other Person who could have Incurred such Indebtedness under this Section 407) arising under any Guarantee, Lien or letter of credit, bankers’ acceptance or other similar instrument or obligation supporting such Indebtedness shall be disregarded to the extent that such Guarantee, Lien or letter of credit, bankers’ acceptance or other similar instrument or obligation secures the principal amount of such Indebtedness; (ii) in the event that Indebtedness meets the criteria of more than one of the types of Indebtedness described in paragraphs (a) or (b) above, the Company, in its sole discretion, shall classify such item of Indebtedness and may include the amount and type of such Indebtedness in one or more of such clauses (including in part under one such clause and in part under another such clause), and may reclassify such item of Indebtedness in any manner that complies with this Section 407 and only be required to include the amount and type of such Indebtedness in one of such clauses; (iii) if obligations in respect of letters of credit are Incurred pursuant to a Credit Facility and are being treated as Incurred pursuant to Section 407(b)(i) and the letters of credit relate to other Indebtedness, then such other Indebtedness shall not be included; and (iv) the amount of Indebtedness issued at a price that is less than the principal amount thereof shall be equal to the amount of the liability in respect thereof determined in accordance with GAAP.
 
(d) For purposes of determining compliance with any Dollar-denominated restriction on the Incurrence of Indebtedness denominated in a foreign currency, the Dollar-equivalent principal amount of such Indebtedness Incurred pursuant thereto shall be calculated based on the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date that such Indebtedness was Incurred, in the case of term Indebtedness, or first committed, in the case of revolving credit Indebtedness, provided that (x) the Dollar-equivalent principal amount of any such Indebtedness outstanding on the Issue Date shall be calculated based on the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the Issue Date, (y) if such Indebtedness is Incurred to refinance other Indebtedness denominated in a foreign currency (or in a different currency from such Indebtedness so being Incurred), and such refinancing would cause the applicable Dollar-denominated restriction to be exceeded if calculated at the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date of such refinancing, such Dollar-denominated restriction shall be deemed not to have been exceeded so long as the principal amount of such refinancing Indebtedness does not exceed (i) the outstanding or committed principal amount (whichever is higher) of such Indebtedness being refinanced plus (ii) the aggregate amount of fees, underwriting discounts, premiums and other costs and expenses incurred in connection with such refinancing and (z) the Dollar-equivalent principal amount of Indebtedness denominated in a foreign currency and Incurred pursuant to the
 
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Senior Credit Facilities shall be calculated based on the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on, at the Company’s option, (i) the Issue Date, (ii) any date on which any of the respective commitments under such Senior Credit Facilities shall be reallocated between or among facilities or subfacilities thereunder, or on which such rate is otherwise calculated for any purpose thereunder, or (iii) the date of such Incurrence.  The principal amount of any Indebtedness Incurred to refinance other Indebtedness, if Incurred in a different currency from the Indebtedness being refinanced, shall be calculated based on the currency exchange rate applicable to the currencies in which such respective Indebtedness is denominated that is in effect on the date of such refinancing.
 
Section 408. [Reserved].
 
Section 409. Limitation on Restricted Payments.  (a) The Company shall not, and shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary, directly or indirectly, to (i) declare or pay any dividend or make any distribution on or in respect of its Capital Stock (including any such payment in connection with any merger or consolidation to which the Company is a party) except (x) dividends or distributions payable solely in its Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) and (y) dividends or distributions payable to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary (and, in the case of any such Restricted Subsidiary making such dividend or distribution, to other holders of its Capital Stock on no more than a pro rata basis), (ii) purchase, redeem, retire or otherwise acquire for value any Capital Stock of the Company held by Persons other than the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, (iii) voluntarily purchase, repurchase, redeem, defease or otherwise voluntarily acquire or retire for value, prior to scheduled maturity, scheduled repayment or scheduled sinking fund payment, any Subordinated Obligations (other than a purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement for value in anticipation of satisfying a sinking fund obligation, principal installment or final maturity, in each case due within one year of the date of such acquisition or retirement) or (iv) make any Investment (other than a Permitted Investment) in any Person (any such dividend, distribution, purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance, other acquisition or retirement or Investment being herein referred to as a “Restricted Payment”), if at the time the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary makes such Restricted Payment and after giving effect thereto:
 
(1) a Default shall have occurred and be continuing (or would result therefrom);
 
(2) the Company could not Incur at least an additional $1.00 of Indebtedness pursuant to Section 407(a); or
 
(3) the aggregate amount of such Restricted Payment and all other Restricted Payments (the amount so expended, if other than in cash, to be as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors, whose determination shall be conclusive and evidenced by a resolution of the Board of Directors) declared or made subsequent to the Issue Date and then outstanding would exceed, without duplication, the sum of:
 
(A) 50% of the Consolidated Net Income accrued during the period (treated as one accounting period) beginning on April 1, 2006 to the end of the most recent fiscal quarter ending prior to the date of such Restricted Payment for
 
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which consolidated financial statements of the Company are available (or, in case such Consolidated Net Income shall be a negative number, 100% of such negative number);
 
(B) 100% of the aggregate Net Cash Proceeds and the fair value (as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors) of property or assets received (x) by the Company as capital contributions to the Company after the Issue Date or from the issuance or sale (other than to a Restricted Subsidiary) of its Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) after the Issue Date or (y) by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary from the issuance and sale by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of Indebtedness that shall have been converted into or exchanged after the Issue Date for Capital Stock of the Company or any Parent (other than Disqualified Stock), plus the amount of any cash and the fair value (as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors) of any property or assets, received by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary upon such conversion or exchange;
 
(C) the aggregate amount equal to the net reduction in Investments in Unrestricted Subsidiaries resulting from (i) dividends, distributions, cancellation of indebtedness for borrowed money owed by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary to an Unrestricted Subsidiary, interest payments, return of capital, repayments of Investments or other transfers of assets to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary from any Unrestricted Subsidiary, including dividends or other distributions related to dividends or other distributions made pursuant to Section 409(b)(viii) (but only to the extent such amount is not included in Consolidated Net Income), or (ii) the redesignation of any Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary (valued in each case as provided in the definition of “Investment”), not to exceed in the case of any such Unrestricted Subsidiary the aggregate amount of Investments (other than Permitted Investments) made by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in such Unrestricted Subsidiary after the Issue Date; and
 
(D) in the case of any disposition or repayment of any Investment constituting a Restricted Payment (without duplication of any amount deducted in calculating the amount of Investments at any time outstanding included in the amount of Restricted Payments), an amount in the aggregate equal to the lesser of the return of capital, repayment or other proceeds with respect to all such Investments received by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary and the initial amount of all such Investments constituting Restricted Payments.
 
(b) The provisions of Section 409(a) will not prohibit any of the following, so long as a Default shall not have occurred and be continuing (or would result therefrom) (each, a “Permitted Payment”):
 
(i) any purchase, redemption, repurchase, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement of Capital Stock of the Company or Subordinated Obligations made by exchange (including any such exchange pursuant to the exercise of a conversion
 
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right or privilege in connection with which cash is paid in lieu of the issuance of fractional shares) for, or out of the proceeds of the substantially concurrent issuance or sale of, Capital Stock of the Company (other than Disqualified Stock and other than Capital Stock issued or sold to a Restricted Subsidiary) or a substantially concurrent capital contribution to the Company; provided, that the Net Cash Proceeds from such issuance, sale or capital contribution shall be excluded in subsequent calculations under Section 409(a)(3)(B);
 
(ii) any purchase, redemption, repurchase, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement of Subordinated Obligations (w) made by exchange for, or out of the proceeds of the substantially concurrent issuance or sale of, Indebtedness of the Company or Refinancing Indebtedness Incurred in compliance with Section 407, (x) from Net Available Cash to the extent permitted by Section 411, (y) following the occurrence of a Change of Control (or other similar event described therein as a “change of control”), but only if the Company shall have complied with Section 415 and, if required, purchased all Notes tendered pursuant to the offer to repurchase all the Notes required thereby, prior to purchasing or repaying such Subordinated Obligations or (z) constituting Acquired Indebtedness;
 
(iii) dividends paid within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof if at such date of declaration such dividend would have complied with Section 409(a);
 
(iv) the payment by the Company of, or loans, advances, dividends or distributions by the Company to any Parent to pay, any outstanding principal amount of, plus accrued and unpaid interest on, the Indirect Parent’s 3.50% Convertible Senior Notes due 2014;
 
(v) the payment by the Company of, or loans, advances, dividends or distributions by the Company to any Parent to pay, dividends on or purchase or repurchase the common stock or equity of such Parent in an amount not to exceed in any fiscal year $25 million;
 
(vi) notwithstanding the existence of any default or Event of Default, loans, advances, dividends or distributions to any Parent or other payments by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary to permit such Parent to make payments pursuant to (A) any Tax Sharing Agreement, or (B) to pay or permit any Parent to pay (1) any Parent Expenses or (2) any Related Taxes;
 
(vii) payments by the Company, or loans, advances, dividends or distributions by the Company to any Parent to make payments, to holders of Capital Stock of the Company or any Parent in lieu of issuance of fractional shares of such Capital Stock, not to exceed $5.0 million in the aggregate outstanding at any time;
 
(viii) dividends or other distributions of Capital Stock, Indebtedness or other securities of Unrestricted Subsidiaries;
 
(ix) the declaration and payment of dividends to holders of any class or series of Disqualified Stock, or of any Preferred Stock of a Restricted Subsidiary, Incurred in accordance with the terms of the covenant described under Section 407 above;
 
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(x) distributions by a Special Purpose Entity organized outside the United States to its partners pursuant to a financing arrangement solely out of the cash flows of such Special Purpose Entity;
 
(xi)  Restricted Payments (including loans and advances) in an aggregate amount outstanding at any time not exceeding an amount (net of repayments of such loans or advances) equal to 1% of Consolidated Tangible Assets;
 
(xii)  the purchase, redemption or other acquisition, cancellation or retirement for value of Equity Interests of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or any Parent held by any existing or former employees or management or directors of the Company or any Parent or any Subsidiary of the Company or their assigns, estates or heirs, in each case in connection with (x) the death or disability of such employee, manager or director or (y) the repurchase provisions under employee stock option or stock purchase agreements or other agreements to compensate management employees or directors; provided that in the case of clause (y) such redemptions or repurchases pursuant to such clause will not exceed $2.5 million in the aggregate during any twelve-month period plus the aggregate Net Cash Proceeds received by the Company after the Issue Date from the issuance of such Capital Stock or equity appreciation rights to, or the exercise of options, warrants or other rights to purchase or acquire Capital Stock of the Company by, any current or former director, officer or employee of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary; provided that the amount of such Net Cash Proceeds received by the Company and utilized pursuant to this Section 409(b)(xii) for any such repurchase, redemption, acquisition or retirement will be excluded from Section 409(a)(3)(B); and provided, further, that unused amounts available pursuant to this Section 409(b)(xii) to be utilized for Restricted Payments during any twelve-month period may be carried forward and utilized in the next succeeding twelve-month period; and
 
(xiii)  repurchases of Capital Stock deemed to occur upon the exercise of stock options, warrants or other convertible securities if such Capital Stock represents (i) a portion of the exercise price thereof or (ii) withholding incurred in connection with such exercise.
 
provided, that (A) in the case of clauses (iii), (v), (vi)(B)(1) (but only such Parent Expenses referred to in clause (ii) and clause (iv) of the definition of “Parent Expenses”), (vii), (ix) and (xi), the net amount of any such Permitted Payment shall be included in subsequent calculations of the amount of Restricted Payments (but only to the extent such amount was not included as an expense in the calculation of Consolidated Net Income), and (B) in all cases other than pursuant to clause (A) immediately above, the net amount of any such Permitted Payment shall be excluded in subsequent calculations of the amount of Restricted Payments.
 
Section 410. Limitation on Restrictions on Distributions from Restricted Subsidiaries.  The Company will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, create or otherwise cause to exist or become effective any consensual encumbrance or restriction on the
 
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ability of any Restricted Subsidiary to (i) pay dividends or make any other distributions on its Capital Stock or pay any Indebtedness or other obligations owed to the Company, (ii) make any loans or advances to the Company or (iii) transfer any of its property or assets to the Company (provided that dividend or liquidation priority between classes of Capital Stock, or subordination of any obligation (including the application of any remedy bars thereto) to any other obligation, will not be deemed to constitute such an encumbrance or restriction), except any encumbrance or restriction:
 
(1) pursuant to any agreement in effect at or entered into on the Issue Date, including, without limitation, this Indenture, the Notes, the Senior Credit Facilities or any other Credit Facility;
 
(2) pursuant to any agreement or instrument of a Person, or relating to Indebtedness or Capital Stock of a Person, which Person is acquired by or merged or consolidated with or into the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, or which agreement or instrument is assumed by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with an acquisition of assets from such Person, as in effect at the time of such acquisition, merger or consolidation (except to the extent that such Indebtedness was incurred to finance, or otherwise in connection with, such acquisition, merger or consolidation); provided that for purposes of this clause (2), if a Person other than the Company is the Successor Company with respect thereto, any Subsidiary thereof or agreement or instrument of such Person or any such Subsidiary shall be deemed acquired or assumed, as the case may be, by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, when such Person becomes such Successor Company;
 
(3) pursuant to an agreement or instrument (a “Refinancing Agreement”) effecting a refinancing of Indebtedness Incurred pursuant to, or that otherwise extends, renews, refunds, refinances or replaces, an agreement or instrument referred to in clause (1) or (2) of this Section 410 or this clause (3) (an “Initial Agreement”) or contained in any amendment, supplement or other modification to an Initial Agreement (an “Amendment”); provided, however, that the encumbrances and restrictions contained in any such Refinancing Agreement or Amendment taken as a whole are not materially less favorable to the Holders of the Notes than encumbrances and restrictions contained in the Initial Agreement or Initial Agreements to which such Refinancing Agreement or Amendment relates (as determined in good faith by the Company);
 
(4) (A) that restricts in a customary manner the subletting, assignment or transfer of any property or asset that is subject to a lease, license or similar contract, or the assignment or transfer of any lease, license or other contract, (B) by virtue of any transfer of, agreement to transfer, option or right with respect to, or Lien on, any property or assets of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary not otherwise prohibited by this Indenture, (C) contained in mortgages, pledges or other security agreements securing Indebtedness of a Restricted Subsidiary to the extent restricting the transfer of the property or assets subject thereto, (D) pursuant to customary provisions restricting dispositions of real property interests set forth in any reciprocal easement agreements of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, (E) pursuant to Purchase Money Obligations that impose encumbrances or restrictions on the property or assets so acquired, (F) on
 
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cash or other deposits or net worth imposed by customers or suppliers under agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business, (G) pursuant to customary provisions contained in agreements and instruments entered into in the ordinary course of business (including but not limited to leases and joint venture and other similar agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business), (H) that arises or is agreed to in the ordinary course of business and does not detract from the value of property or assets of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in any manner material to the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, (I) pursuant to Hedging Obligations or (J) in connection with or relating to any Vehicle Rental Concession Right or (K) that is included in the constating documents of a Special Purpose Entity;
 
(5) with respect to a Restricted Subsidiary (or any of its property or assets) imposed pursuant to an agreement entered into for the direct or indirect sale or disposition of all or substantially all the Capital Stock or assets of such Restricted Subsidiary (or the property or assets that are subject to such restriction) pending the closing of such sale or disposition;
 
(6) by reason of any applicable law, rule, regulation or order, or required by any regulatory authority having jurisdiction over the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or any of their businesses; or
 
(7) pursuant to an agreement or instrument (A) relating to any Indebtedness permitted to be Incurred subsequent to the Issue Date pursuant to the provisions of Section 407 (i) if the encumbrances and restrictions contained in any such agreement or instrument taken as a whole are not materially less favorable to the Holders of the Notes than the encumbrances and restrictions contained in the Initial Agreements (as determined in good faith by the Company), or (ii) if such encumbrance or restriction is not materially more disadvantageous to the Holders of the Notes than is customary in comparable financings (as determined in good faith by the Company) and either (x) the Company determines in good faith that such encumbrance or restriction will not materially affect the Company’s ability to make principal or interest payments on the Notes or (y) such encumbrance or restriction applies only if a default occurs in respect of a payment or financial covenant relating to such Indebtedness, (B) relating to any sale of receivables by a Foreign Subsidiary, (C) of or relating to Indebtedness of or a Financing Disposition by or to or in favor of any Special Purpose Entity or (D) of a financing arrangement of a Special Purpose Entity organized outside the United States.
 
Section 411. Limitation on Sales of Assets and Subsidiary Stock.  (a) The Company will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, make any Asset Disposition unless
 
(i) the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary receives consideration (including by way of relief from, or by any other Person assuming responsibility for, any liabilities, contingent or otherwise) at the time of such Asset Disposition at least equal to the fair market value of the shares and assets subject to such Asset Disposition, as such fair market value may be determined (and shall be determined, to the extent such Asset Disposition or any series of related Asset Dispositions involves aggregate consideration
 
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in excess of $25.0 million) in good faith by the Board of Directors, whose determination shall be conclusive (including as to the value of all non-cash consideration);
 
(ii) in the case of any Asset Disposition (or series of related Asset Dispositions) having a fair market value of $25.0 million or more other than in a sale of the Budget Truck Division for fair market value, at least 75% of the consideration therefor (excluding, in the case of an Asset Disposition (or series of related Asset Dispositions), any consideration by way of relief from, or by any other Person assuming responsibility for, any liabilities, contingent or otherwise, that are not Indebtedness) received by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary is in the form of cash; and
 
(iii) an amount equal to 100% of the Net Available Cash from such Asset Disposition is applied by the Company (or any Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be) as follows:
 
(A) first, either (x) to the extent the Company elects (or is required by the terms of any Bank Indebtedness, any senior indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor or any Indebtedness of a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Guarantor), to prepay, repay or purchase any such Indebtedness or (in the case of letters of credit, bankers’ acceptances or other similar instruments) cash collateralize any such Indebtedness (in each case other than Indebtedness owed to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary) within 365 days after the later of the date of such Asset Disposition and the date of receipt of such Net Available Cash, or (y) to the extent the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary elects, to invest in Additional Assets (including by means of an investment in Additional Assets by a Restricted Subsidiary with an amount equal to Net Available Cash received by the Company or another Restricted Subsidiary) within 365 days from the later of the date of such Asset Disposition and the date of receipt of such Net Available Cash, or, if such investment in Additional Assets is a project authorized by the Board of Directors that will take longer than such 365 days to complete, the period of time necessary to complete such project;
 
(B) second, if the balance of such Net Available Cash after application in accordance with clause (A) above exceeds $25.0 million (such balance, the “Excess Proceeds”), to the extent of such Excess Proceeds, to make an offer to purchase Notes and (to the extent the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary elects, or is required by the terms thereof) to purchase, redeem or repay any other unsubordinated indebtedness of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, pursuant and subject to Section 41l(b) and Section 41l(c) and the agreements governing such other Indebtedness; and
 
(C) third, to the extent of the balance of such Net Available Cash after application in accordance with clauses (A) and (B) above, to fund (to the extent consistent with any other applicable provision of this Indenture) any general corporate purpose (including but not limited to the repurchase, repayment or other acquisition or retirement of any Subordinated Obligations);
 
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provided, however, that in connection with any prepayment, repayment or purchase of Indebtedness pursuant to clause (A)(x) or (B) above, the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary will retire such Indebtedness and will cause the related loan commitment (if any) to be permanently reduced in an amount equal to the principal amount so prepaid, repaid or purchased.
 
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 411, the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall not be required to apply any Net Available Cash or equivalent amount in accordance with this Section 411 except to the extent that the aggregate Net Available Cash from all Asset Dispositions or equivalent amount that is not applied in accordance with this Section 411 exceeds $50.0 million.  If the aggregate principal amount of Notes or other Indebtedness of  the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary validly tendered and not withdrawn (or otherwise subject to purchase, redemption or repayment) in connection with an offer pursuant to clause (B) above exceeds the Excess Proceeds, the Excess Proceeds will be apportioned between such Notes and such other Indebtedness of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, with the portion of the Excess Proceeds payable in respect of such Notes to equal the lesser of (x) the Excess Proceeds amount multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the outstanding principal amount of such Notes and the denominator of which is the sum of the outstanding principal amount of the Notes and the outstanding principal amount of the relevant other Indebtedness of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, and (y) the aggregate principal amount of Notes validly tendered and not withdrawn.
 
For the purposes of clause (ii) of paragraph (a) above, the following are deemed to be cash: (1) Temporary Cash Investments and Cash Equivalents, (2) the assumption of Indebtedness of the Company (other than Disqualified Stock of the Company) or any Restricted Subsidiary and the release of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary from all liability on payment of the principal amount of such Indebtedness in connection with such Asset Disposition, (3) Indebtedness of any Restricted Subsidiary that is no longer a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such Asset Disposition, to the extent that the Company and each other Restricted Subsidiary are released from any Guarantee of payment of the principal amount of such Indebtedness in connection with such Asset Disposition, (4) securities received by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary from the transferee that are converted by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash within 180 days, and (5) consideration consisting of Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary.
 
(b) In the event of an Asset Disposition that requires the purchase of Notes pursuant to Section 41l(a)(iii)(B), the Company will be required to purchase Notes tendered pursuant to an offer by the Company for the Notes (the “Offer”) at a purchase price of 100% of their principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest to the Purchase Date in accordance with the procedures (including prorating in the event of oversubscription) set forth in Section 41l(c).  If the aggregate purchase price of the Notes tendered pursuant to the offer is less than the Net Available Cash allotted to the purchase of Notes, the remaining Net Available Cash will be available to the Company for use in accordance with Section 41l(a)(iii)(B) (to repay other Indebtedness of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary) or Section 41l(a)(iii)(C).  The Company shall not be required to make an offer for Notes pursuant to this Section 411 if the Net Available Cash available therefor (after application of the proceeds as provided in Section 41l(a)(iii)(A)) is less than $50.0 million for any particular Asset Disposition (which lesser amounts shall be carried forward for purposes of determining whether an offer is required
 
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with respect to the Net Available Cash from any subsequent Asset Disposition).  No Note will be repurchased in part if less than $2,000 in original principal amount of such Note would be left outstanding.
 
(c) The Company shall, not later than 45 days after the Company becomes obligated to make an offer pursuant to this Section 411, mail a notice to each Holder with a copy to the Trustee stating: (1) that an Asset Disposition that requires the purchase of a portion of the Notes has occurred and that such Holder has the right (subject to the prorating described below) to require the Company to purchase a portion of such Holder’s Notes at a purchase price in cash equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of purchase (subject to Section 307); (2) the circumstances and relevant facts and financial information regarding such Asset Disposition; (3) the repurchase date (which shall be no earlier than 30 days nor later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed; (4) the instructions determined by the Company, consistent with this Section 411, that a Holder must follow in order to have its Notes purchased; and (5) the amount of the offer.  If, upon the expiration of the period for which the offer remains open, the aggregate principal amount of Notes surrendered by the Holder exceeds the amount of the offer, the Company shall select the Notes to be purchased on a pro rata basis (with such adjustments as may be deemed appropriate by the Company so that only Notes in denominations of $2,000 or integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof shall be purchased).
 
(d) To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with provisions of this Section 411, the Company may comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and will not be deemed to have breached its obligations under this Section 411 by virtue thereof.
 
Section 412. Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates.  (a) The Company will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, enter into or conduct any transaction or series of related transactions (including the purchase, sale, lease or exchange of any property or the rendering of any service) with any Affiliate of the Company (an “Affiliate Transaction”) unless (i) such Affiliate Transaction is entered into in good faith and the terms of such Affiliate Transaction are, taken as a whole, fair and reasonable to the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, and (ii) if such Affiliate Transaction involves aggregate consideration in excess of $25.0 million, the terms of such Affiliate Transaction have been approved by a majority of the Disinterested Directors.  For purposes of this Section 412(a), any Affiliate Transaction shall be deemed to have satisfied the requirements set forth in this Section 412(a) if (x) such Affiliate Transaction is approved by a majority of the Disinterested Directors or (y) in the event there are no Disinterested Directors, the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary receives an opinion in customary form from a nationally recognized appraisal or investment banking firm to the effect that such Affiliate Transaction is fair to the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view.
 
(b) The provisions of Section 412(a) will not apply to:
 
(i) any Restricted Payment Transaction;
 
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(ii) (1) the entering into, maintaining or performance of any employment contract, collective bargaining agreement, benefit plan, program or arrangement, related trust agreement or any other similar arrangement for or with any employee, officer or director heretofore or hereafter entered into in the ordinary course of business, including vacation, health, insurance, deferred compensation, severance, retirement, savings or other similar plans, programs or arrangements, (2) the payment of compensation, performance of indemnification or contribution obligations, or any issuance, grant or award of stock, options, other equity-related interests or other securities, to employees, officers or directors in the ordinary course of business, (3) the payment of reasonable fees to directors of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (as determined in good faith by the Company or such Subsidiary), or (4) Management Advances and payments in respect thereof (or in reimbursement of any expenses referred to in the definition of such term);
 
(iii) any transaction with, including an investment in, the Company, any Restricted Subsidiary, or any Special Purpose Entity;
 
(iv) any transaction arising out of agreements or instruments in existence on the Issue Date and listed on Exhibit G hereto (other than any Tax Sharing Agreement referred to in Section 412(b)(vi)), and any payments made pursuant thereto;
 
(v) any transaction in the ordinary course of business, or approved by a majority of the Board of Directors, between the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary and any Affiliate of the Company controlled by the Company that is a joint venture or similar entity;
 
(vi) the execution, delivery and performance of any Tax Sharing Agreement;
 
(vii) any issuance or sale of Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Company or capital contribution to the Company;
 
(viii) transactions with Affiliates solely in their capacity as holders of Indebtedness or Capital Stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, where such Affiliates hold less Indebtedness or Capital Stock than non-Affiliates and such Affiliates receive the same consideration as non-Affiliates in such transactions;
 
(ix)  any transaction with any Person who is not an Affiliate immediately before the consummation of such transaction that becomes an Affiliate as a result of such transaction; and  
 
(x) transactions exclusively between or among the Company and any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, provided such transactions are not otherwise prohibited by this Indenture.
 
Section 413. Limitation on Liens.  The Company shall not, and shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, create or permit to exist any Lien (other than Permitted Liens) on any of its property or assets (including Capital Stock of any other Person),
 
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whether owned on the date of this Indenture or thereafter acquired, securing any Indebtedness (the “Initial Lien”), unless contemporaneously therewith effective provision is made to secure the Indebtedness due under this Indenture and the Notes or, in respect of Liens on any Restricted Subsidiary’s property or assets, any Subsidiary Guarantee of such Restricted Subsidiary, equally and ratably with (or on a senior basis to, in the case of Subordinated Obligations or Guarantor Subordinated Obligations) such obligation for so long as such obligation is so secured by such Initial Lien.  Any such Lien thereby created in favor of the Notes or any such Subsidiary Guarantee will be automatically and unconditionally released and discharged upon (i) the release and discharge of the Initial Lien to which it relates, (ii) in the case of any such Lien in favor of any such Subsidiary Guarantee, upon the termination and discharge of such Subsidiary Guarantee in accordance with the terms of Section 1303 or (iii) any sale, exchange or transfer (other than a transfer constituting a transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company that is governed by Section 501) to any Person not an Affiliate of the Company of the property or assets secured by such Initial Lien, or of all of the Capital Stock held by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in, or all or substantially all the assets of, any Restricted Subsidiary creating such Initial Lien.
 
Section 414. Future Subsidiary Guarantors.  From and after the Issue Date, the Company will cause each Domestic Subsidiary that guarantees payment by the Company of any Indebtedness of the Company under the Senior Credit Facilities to execute and deliver to the Trustee a supplemental indenture or other instrument pursuant to which such Domestic Subsidiary will guarantee payment of the Notes, whereupon such Domestic Subsidiary will become a Subsidiary Guarantor for all purposes under this Indenture.  In addition, the Company may cause any Subsidiary or other Person that is not a Subsidiary Guarantor to guarantee payment of the Notes and become a Subsidiary Guarantor.  Subsidiary Guarantees will be subject to release and discharge under certain circumstances prior to payment in full of the Notes.
 
Section 415. Purchase of Notes Upon a Change in Control.  (a) Upon the occurrence after the Issue Date of a Change of Control, each Holder of Notes will have the right to require the Company to repurchase all or any part of such Notes at a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the date of repurchase (subject to Section 307); provided, however, that the Company shall not be obligated to repurchase Notes pursuant to this Section 415 in the event that it has exercised its right to redeem all of the Notes as provided in Article X.
 
(b) In the event that, at the time of such Change of Control, the terms of any Bank Indebtedness restrict or prohibit the repurchase of the Notes pursuant to this Section 415, then prior to the mailing of the notice to Holders provided for in Section 415(c) but in any event not later than 30 days following the date the Company obtains actual knowledge of any Change of Control (unless the Company has exercised its right to redeem all the Notes as provided in Article X), the Company shall, or shall cause one or more of its Subsidiaries to, (i) repay in full all such Bank Indebtedness subject to such terms or offer to repay in full all such Bank Indebtedness and repay the Bank Indebtedness of each lender who has accepted such offer or (ii) obtain the requisite consent under the agreements governing such Bank Indebtedness to permit the repurchase of the Notes as provided for in Section 415(c).  The Company shall first comply with the provisions of the immediately preceding sentence before it shall be required to
 
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repurchase Notes pursuant to the provisions set forth in this Section 415.  The Company’s failure to comply with the provisions of this Section 415(b) or Section 415(c) shall constitute an Event of Default described in Section 601(iv) and not in Section 601(ii).
 
(c) Unless the Company has exercised its right to redeem all the Notes as described under Article X, the Company shall, not later than 30 days following the date the Company obtains actual knowledge of any Change of Control having occurred, mail a notice (a “Change of Control Offer”) to each Holder with a copy to the Trustee stating: (1) that a Change of Control has occurred or may occur and that such Holder has, or upon such occurrence will have, the right to require the Company to purchase such Holder’s Notes at a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the date of purchase (subject to the right of Holders of record on a record date to receive interest on the relevant interest payment date); (2) the repurchase date (which shall be no earlier than 30 days nor later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed); (3) the instructions determined by the Company, consistent with this Section 415, that a Holder must follow in order to have its Notes purchased; and (4) if such notice is mailed prior to the occurrence of a Change of Control, that such offer is conditioned on the occurrence of such Change of Control.  No Note will be repurchased in part if less than $2,000 in original principal amount of such Note would be left outstanding.
 
(d) The Company will not be required to make a Change of Control Offer upon a Change of Control if (i) a third party makes the Change of Control Offer in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements set forth in the Indenture applicable to a Change of Control Offer made by the Company and purchases all Notes validly tendered and not withdrawn under such Change of Control Offer, or (ii) notice of redemption has been given pursuant to the Indenture as provided in Article X, unless and until there is a default of the applicable redemption price.
 
(e) To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with provisions of this Section 415, the Company may comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and will not be deemed to have breached its obligations under this Section 415 by virtue thereof.
 
ARTICLE V
SUCCESSORS
 
Section 501. When the Company May Merge, Etc.  (a) The Company will not consolidate with or merge with or into, or convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all its assets to, any Person, unless:
 
(i) the resulting, surviving or transferee Person (the “Successor Company”) will be a Person organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia and the Successor Company (if not the Company) will expressly assume all the obligations of the Company under the Notes and this Indenture by executing and delivering to the Trustee a supplemental indenture or one or more other documents or instruments;
 
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(ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction (and treating any Indebtedness that becomes an obligation of the Successor Company or any Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction as having been Incurred by the Successor Company or such Restricted Subsidiary at the time of such transaction), no Default will have occurred and be continuing;
 
(iii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, either (A) the Successor Company could Incur at least $1.00 of additional Indebtedness pursuant to Section 407(a), or (B) the Consolidated Coverage Ratio of the Company (or, if applicable, the Successor Company with respect thereto) would equal or exceed the Consolidated Coverage Ratio of the Company immediately prior to giving effect to such transaction;
 
(iv) each applicable Subsidiary Guarantor (other than (x) any Subsidiary Guarantor that will be released from its obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee in connection with such transaction and (y) any party to any such consolidation or merger) shall have delivered a supplemental indenture or other document or instrument, confirming its Subsidiary Guarantee (other than any Subsidiary Guarantee that will be discharged or terminated in connection with such transaction); and
 
(v) the Company will have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each to the effect that such consolidation, merger or transfer complies with the provisions described in this paragraph, provided that (x) in giving such opinion such counsel may assume compliance with the foregoing clauses (ii) and (iii) to the extent such opinion would otherwise be required to address financial matters or tests, and as to any matters of fact may rely on an Officer’s Certificate, and (y) no Opinion of Counsel will be required for a consolidation, merger or transfer described in Section 50l(b).
 
Any Indebtedness that becomes an obligation of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary (or that is deemed to be Incurred by any Person that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary) as a result of any such transaction undertaken in compliance with this Section 501, and any Refinancing Indebtedness with respect thereto, shall be deemed to have been Incurred in compliance with Section 407.
 
(b) Clauses (ii) and (iii) of Section 50l(a) will not apply to any transaction in which (1) any Restricted Subsidiary consolidates with, merges with or into or conveys or transfers all or part of its assets to the Company or (2) the Company consolidates with or merges with or into or conveys or transfers all or substantially all its properties and assets to (x) an Affiliate incorporated or organized for the purpose of reincorporating or reorganizing the Company in another jurisdiction or changing its legal structure to a corporation or other entity or (y) a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company so long as all assets of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries immediately prior to such transaction (other than Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary) are owned by such Restricted Subsidiary and its Restricted Subsidiaries immediately after the consummation thereof.
 
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Section 502. Successor Company Substituted.  Upon any transaction involving the Company in accordance with Section 501 in which the Company is not the Successor Company, the Successor Company shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Indenture, and thereafter the predecessor Company shall be relieved of all obligations and covenants under this Indenture, except that the predecessor Company in the case of a lease of all or substantially all its assets shall not be released from the obligation to pay the principal of and interest on the Notes.
 
ARTICLE VI 
REMEDIES
 
Section 601. Events of Default.  An “Event of Default” means the occurrence of the following:
 
(i) a default in any payment of interest on any Note when due, continued for a period of 30 days;
 
(ii) a default in the payment of principal of any Note when due, whether at its Stated Maturity, upon optional redemption, upon required repurchase, upon declaration of acceleration or otherwise;
 
(iii) the failure by the Company to comply with its obligations under Section 50l(a);
 
(iv) the failure by the Company to comply for 30 days after the notice specified in the penultimate paragraph of this Section 601 with any of its obligations under Section 415 (other than a failure to purchase the Notes);
 
(v) the failure by the Company to comply for 60 days after the notice specified in the penultimate paragraph of this Section 601 with its other agreements contained in the Notes or this Indenture;
 
(vi) the failure by any Subsidiary Guarantor to comply for 45 days after the notice specified in the penultimate paragraph of this Section 601 with its obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee;
 
(vii) the failure by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary to pay any Indebtedness within any applicable grace period after final maturity or the acceleration of any such Indebtedness by the holders thereof because of a default, if the total amount of such Indebtedness so unpaid or accelerated exceeds $50.0 million or its foreign currency equivalent; provided, that no Default or Event of Default will be deemed to occur with respect to any such accelerated Indebtedness that is paid or otherwise acquired or retired within 30 days after such acceleration;
 
(viii) the taking of any of the following actions by the Company or a Significant Subsidiary, or by each of such other Restricted Subsidiaries that are not
 
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Significant Subsidiaries but would in the aggregate constitute a Significant Subsidiary if considered as a single Person, pursuant to or within the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law:
 
(A) the commencement of a voluntary case;
 
(B) the consent to the entry of an order for relief against it in an involuntary case;
 
(C) the consent to the appointment of a Custodian of it or for any substantial part of its property; or
 
(D) the making of a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors;
 
(ix) a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under any Bankruptcy Law that:
 
(A) is for relief against the Company or any Significant Subsidiary, or against each of such other Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Significant Subsidiaries but would in the aggregate constitute a Significant Subsidiary if considered as a single Person, in an involuntary case;
 
(B) appoints (x) a Custodian of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary or for any substantial part of its property, or (y) a Custodian of each of such other Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Significant Subsidiaries but would in the aggregate constitute a Significant Subsidiary if considered as a single Person, or for any substantial part of their property in the aggregate; or
 
(C) orders the winding up or liquidation of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary, or of each of such other Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Significant Subsidiaries but would in the aggregate constitute a Significant Subsidiary if considered as a single Person;
 
and the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 60 days;
 
(x) the rendering of any judgment or decree for the payment of money in an amount (net of any insurance or indemnity payments actually received in respect thereof prior to or within 90 days from the entry thereof, or to be received in respect thereof in the event any appeal thereof shall be unsuccessful) in excess of $50.0 million or its foreign currency equivalent against the Company or a Significant Subsidiary, or jointly and severally against other Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Significant Subsidiaries but would in the aggregate constitute a Significant Subsidiary if considered as a single Person, that is not discharged, or bonded or insured by a third Person, if such judgment or decree remains outstanding for a period of 90 days following such judgment or decree and is not discharged, waived or stayed; or
 
(xi) the failure of any Subsidiary Guarantee by a Subsidiary Guarantor that is a Significant Subsidiary to be in full force and effect (except as contemplated by the terms thereof or of this Indenture) or the denial or disaffirmation in writing by any
 
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Subsidiary Guarantor that is a Significant Subsidiary of its obligations under this Indenture or its Subsidiary Guarantee (other than by reason of the termination of this Indenture or such Subsidiary Guarantee or the release of such Subsidiary Guarantee in accordance with such Subsidiary Guarantee and this Indenture), if such Default continues for 10 days.
 
The foregoing will constitute Events of Default whatever the reason for any such Event of Default and whether it is voluntary or involuntary or is effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body.
 
The term “Bankruptcy Law” means Title 11, United States Code, or any similar federal, state or foreign law for the relief of debtors.  The term “Custodian” means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator, custodian or similar official under any Bankruptcy Law.
 
However, a Default under clause (iv), (v) or (vi) will not constitute an Event of Default until the Trustee or the Holders of at least 30% in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes notify the Company of the Default and the Company does not cure such Default within the time specified in such clause after receipt of such notice.  Such notice must specify the Default, demand that it be remedied and state that such notice is a “Notice of Default.” When a Default or an Event of Default is cured, it ceases.
 
The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 30 days after the occurrence thereof, written notice in the form of an Officer’s Certificate of any Event of Default under clause (vii) or (x) and any event that with the giving of notice or the lapse of time would become an Event of Default under clause (iv), (v) or (vi), its status and what action the Company is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto.
 
Section 602. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.  If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default specified in Section 601(viii) or Section 60l(ix)) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee by notice to the Company, or the Holders of at least 30% in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes by notice to the Company and the Trustee, in either case specifying in such notice the respective Event of Default and that such notice is a “notice of acceleration,” may declare the principal of and accrued but unpaid interest on all the Notes to be due and payable.  Upon the effectiveness of such a declaration, such principal and interest will be due and payable immediately.
 
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if an Event of Default specified in Section 60l(viii) or Section 60l(ix) occurs and is continuing, the principal of and accrued but unpaid interest on all the Outstanding Notes will ipso facto become immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holder.  The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes by notice to the Company and the Trustee may rescind an acceleration and its consequences if the rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree and if all existing Events of Default have been cured or waived except non-payment of principal or interest that has become due solely because of such acceleration.  No such rescission shall affect any subsequent Default or impair any right consequent thereto.
 
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Section 603. Other Remedies; Collection Suit by Trustee.  If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may, but is not obligated under Section 603 to, pursue any available remedy to collect the payment of principal of or interest on the Notes or to enforce the performance of any provision of the Notes or this Indenture.  If an Event of Default specified in Section 60l(i) or 60l(ii) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may recover judgment in its own name and as trustee of an express trust against the Company for the whole amount then due and owing (together with interest on any unpaid interest to the extent lawful) and the amounts provided for in Section 707.
 
Section 604. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.  The Trustee may file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee and the Holders allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the Notes, its creditors or its property and, unless prohibited by law or applicable regulations, may vote on behalf of the Holders in any election of a trustee in bankruptcy or other Person performing similar functions, and any Custodian in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and its counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 707.
 
No provision of this Indenture shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Notes or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.
 
Section 605. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Notes.  All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Notes may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Notes or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Notes in respect of which such judgment has been recovered.
 
Section 606. Application of Money Collected.  Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article VI shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such money on account of principal (or premium, if any) or interest, upon presentation of the Notes and the notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
 
First: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section 707;
 
Second: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid upon the Notes for principal (and premium, if any) and interest, in respect of which or for the benefit of which such money has been collected, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind,
 
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 according to the amounts due and payable on such Notes for principal (and premium, if any) and interest, respectively; and
 
Third: To the Company.
 
Section 607. Limitation on Suits.  Subject to Section 608 hereof, no Holder may pursue any remedy with respect to this Indenture or the Notes unless:
 
(i) such Holder has previously given the Trustee written notice that an Event of Default is continuing;
 
(ii) Holders of at least 30% in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes have requested the Trustee in writing to pursue the remedy;
 
(iii) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against any loss, liability or expense;
 
(iv) the Trustee has not complied with the request within 60 days after receipt of the request and the offer of security or indemnity; and
 
(v) the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes have not given the Trustee a direction inconsistent with the request within such 60-day period.
 
A Holder may not use this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of another Holder, to obtain a preference or priority over another Holder or to enforce any right under this Indenture except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all Holders.
 
Section 608. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal and Interest.  Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any Note shall have the absolute and unconditional right to receive payment of the principal of, premium, (if any) and all (subject to Section 307) interest on such Note on the respective Stated Maturity or Interest Payment Dates expressed in such Note and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such respective Stated Maturity or Interest Payment Dates, and such right shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.
 
Section 609. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.  If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture or any Note and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case the Company, any other obligor upon the Notes, the Trustee and the Holders shall, subject to any determination in such proceeding, be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder, and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.
 
Section 610. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.  No right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any
 
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other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise.  The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
 
Section 611. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.  No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Note to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein.  Every right and remedy given by this Article VI or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may be.
 
Section 612. Control by Holders.  The Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or of exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, provided that
 
(1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture, and
 
(2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction.
 
However, the Trustee may refuse to follow any direction that conflicts with law or this Indenture or, subject to Section 701, that the Trustee determines is unduly prejudicial to the rights of any other Holder or that would involve the Trustee in personal liability; provided, however, that the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee that is not inconsistent with such direction.  Prior to taking any action under this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to indemnification satisfactory to it in its sole discretion against all losses and expenses caused by taking or not taking such action.  This Section 612 shall be in lieu of § 316(a)(1)(A) of the TIA, and such § 316(a)(1)(A) of the TIA is hereby expressly excluded from this Indenture and the Notes, as permitted by the TIA.
 
Section 613. Waiver of Past Defaults.  The Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes may on behalf of the Holders of all the Notes waive any past Default hereunder and its consequences, except a Default
 
(1) in the payment of the principal of or interest on any Note (which may only be waived with the consent of each Holder of Notes affected), or
 
(2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof that pursuant to the second paragraph of Section 902 cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Note affected.
 
Upon any such waiver, such Default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default or impair any
 
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right consequent thereon.  In case of any such waiver, the Company, any other obligor upon the Notes, the Trustee and the Holders shall be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder and under the Notes, respectively.  This paragraph of this Section 613 shall be in lieu of § 316(a)(1)(B) of the TIA, and such § 316(a)(1)(B) of the TIA is hereby expressly excluded from this Indenture and the Notes, as permitted by the TIA.
 
Section 614. Undertaking for Costs.  All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Note by such Holder’s acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture or the Notes, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant.  This Section 614 shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes, or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any Note on or after the respective Stated Maturity or Interest Payment Dates expressed in such Note.
 
Section 615. Waiver of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws.  The Company (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) shall not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law or any usury or other similar law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, that would prohibit or forgive the Company from paying all or any portion of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on the Notes contemplated herein or in the Notes or that may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and shall not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
 
ARTICLE VII  
THE TRUSTEE
 
Section 701. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.  (a) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default,
 
(1) the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and
 
(2) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; but in the case of any such certificates or opinions that by any provision hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall be under a
 
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duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture, but need not verify the contents thereof.
 
(b) In case an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person’s own affairs.
 
(c) No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that (i) this paragraph does not limit the effect of Section 70l(a); (ii) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Trust Officer, unless it is proved that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; and (iii) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in accordance with a direction received by it pursuant to Section 612.
 
(d) No provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds to believe that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.
 
(e) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section 701 and Section 703.
 
Section 702. Notice of Defaults.  If a Default occurs and is continuing and is known to the Trustee, the Trustee must mail within 90 days after it occurs, to all Holders as their names and addresses appear in the Note Register, notice of such Default hereunder known to the Trustee unless such Default shall have been cured or waived; provided, however, that, except in the case of a Default in the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on any Note, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as the board of directors, the executive committee or a trust committee of Responsible Officers of the Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Holders.
 
Section 703. Certain Rights of Trustee.  Subject to the provisions of Section 701:
 
(1) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;
 
(2) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order thereof, and any resolution of any Person’s Board of Directors shall be sufficiently evidenced if certified
 
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by an Officer of such Person as having been duly adopted and being in full force and effect on the date of such certificate;
 
(3) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely upon an Officer’s Certificate of the Company;
 
(4) the Trustee may consult with counsel and the written advice of such counselor and any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;
 
(5) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction;
 
(6) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document; and
 
(7) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder.
 
Section 704. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Notes.  The recitals contained herein and in the Notes, except the Trustee’s certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent assumes any responsibility for their correctness.  The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Notes, except that the Trustee represents that it is duly authorized to execute and deliver this Indenture, authenticate the Notes and perform its obligations hereunder and that the statements made by it in a Statement of Eligibility and Qualification on Form T-l supplied to the Company and any other obligor upon the Notes in connection with the registration of any Notes and any Subsidiary Guarantees issued hereunder are and will be true and accurate subject to the qualifications set forth therein.  Neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent shall be accountable for the use or application by the Company of the Notes or the proceeds thereof.
 
Section 705. May Hold Notes.  The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any Note Registrar or any other agent of the Company, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and, subject to Section 708 and Section 713, may otherwise deal with the Company or its Affiliates with the same rights it
 
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would have if it were not Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent, Note Registrar or such other agent.
 
Section 706. Money Held in Trust.  Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.  The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed in writing with the Company.
 
Section 707. Compensation and Reimbursement.  The Company agrees,
 
(1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation for all services rendered by the Trustee hereunder (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);
 
(2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Trustee in accordance with any provision of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its negligence or bad faith; and
 
(3) to indemnify the Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on the Trustee’s part, arising out of or in connection with the administration of the trust or trusts hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder.
 
The Company need not pay for any settlement made without its consent.  The provisions of this Section 707 shall survive the termination of this Indenture.
 
Section 708. Conflicting Interests.  If the Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting interest within the meaning of the TIA, the Trustee shall eliminate such interest, apply to the SEC for permission to continue as Trustee with such conflict or resign, to the extent and in the manner provided by, and subject to the provisions of, the TIA and this Indenture.  To the extent permitted by the TIA, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have a conflicting interest by virtue of being a trustee under this Indenture with respect to Original Notes and Additional Notes, or a trustee under any other indenture between the Company and the Trustee.
 
Section 709. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.  There shall at all times be one (and only one) Trustee hereunder.  The Trustee shall be a Person that is eligible pursuant to the TIA to act as such and has a combined capital and surplus (together with its corporate parent) of at least $50,000,000.  If any such Person publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of its supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section and to the extent permitted by the TIA, the combined capital and surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published.  If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 709, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.
 
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Section 710. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.  No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 711.
 
The Trustee may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Company.  If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by Section 711 shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.
 
The Trustee may be removed at any time by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes, delivered to the Trustee and to the Company.
 
If at any time:
 
(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 708 after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Note for at least six months, or
 
(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 709 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any such Holder, or
 
(3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,
 
then, in any such case, (A) the Company may remove the Trustee, or (B) subject to Section 614, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Note for at least six months may, on behalf of itself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees.
 
If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause, the Company shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee and shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 711.  If, within one year after such resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee shall be appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 711, become the successor Trustee and to that extent supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the Company.  If no successor Trustee shall have been so appointed by the Company or the Holders and accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 711, then, subject to Section 614, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Note for at least six months may, on behalf of itself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.
 
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The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of the Trustee and each appointment of a successor Trustee to all Holders in the manner provided in Section 110.  Each notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee and the address of its Corporate Trust Office.
 
Section 711. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.  In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee, every such successor Trustee so appointed shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on the request of the Company or the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder.
 
Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts referred to above.
 
No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under this Article VII.
 
Section 712. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.  Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article VII, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto.  In case any Notes shall have been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt such authentication and deliver the Notes so authenticated with the same effect as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Notes.
 
Section 713. Preferential Collection of Claims Against the Company.  If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Company (or any other obligor upon the Notes), the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of the TIA regarding the collection of claims against the Company (or any such other obligor) or realizing on certain property received by it in respect of such claims.
 
Section 714. Appointment of Authenticating Agent.  The Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent acceptable to the Company to authenticate the Notes.  Any such appointment shall be evidenced by an instrument in writing signed by a Trust Officer, a copy of which instrument shall be promptly furnished to the Company.  Unless limited by the terms of such appointment, an Authenticating Agent may authenticate Notes whenever the Trustee may do so.  Each reference in this Indenture to authentication (or execution of a certificate of authentication) by the Trustee includes authentication (or execution of a certificate of
 
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authentication) by such Authenticating Agent.  An Authenticating Agent has the same rights as any Registrar, Paying Agent or agent for service of notices and demands.
 
ARTICLE VIII
HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY
TRUSTEE AND THE COMPANY
 
Section 801. The Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.  The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee
 
(1) semi-annually, not more than 10 days after each Regular Record Date, a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders as of such Regular Record Date, and
 
(2) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is furnished;
 
provided, however, that if and to the extent and so long as the Trustee shall be the Note Registrar, no such list need be furnished pursuant to this Section 801.
 
Section 802. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.  The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of Holders contained in the most recent list, if any, furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 801 and the names and addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as Note Registrar; provided, however, that if and so long as the Trustee shall be the Note Registrar, the Note Register shall satisfy the requirements relating to such list.  None of the Company, any Guarantor or the Trustee or any other Person shall be under any responsibility with regard to the accuracy of such list.  The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in Section 801 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
 
The rights of Holders to communicate with other Holders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Notes, and the corresponding rights and privileges of the Trustee, shall be as provided by the TIA.
 
Every Holder of Notes, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee, nor any agent of either of them, shall be held accountable by reason of any disclosure of information as to names and addresses of Holders made pursuant to the TIA.
 
Section 803. Reports by Trustee.  Within 60 days after each December 15, beginning with December 15, 2006, the Trustee shall transmit to Holders such reports concerning the Trustee and its actions under this Indenture as may be required pursuant to the TIA at the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto for so long as any Notes remain outstanding.  A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission to Holders, be filed by the Trustee or any applicable listing agent with each stock exchange upon which any
 
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Notes are listed, with the SEC and with the Company.  The Company will notify the Trustee when any Notes are listed on any stock exchange.
 
ARTICLE IX
AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENT OR WAIVER
 
Section 901. Without Consent of Holders.  Without the consent of the Holders of any Notes, the Company, the Trustee and (as applicable) each Subsidiary Guarantor may amend or supplement this Indenture or the Notes, for any of the following purposes:
 
(1) to cure any ambiguity, manifest error, omission, defect or inconsistency;
 
(2) to provide for the assumption by a Successor Company of the obligations of the Company or a Subsidiary Guarantor under this Indenture;
 
(3) to provide for uncertificated Notes in addition to or in place of certificated Notes;
 
(4) to add Guarantees with respect to the Notes, to secure the Notes, to confirm and evidence the release, termination or discharge of any Guarantee or Lien with respect to or securing the Notes when such release, termination or discharge is provided for under this Indenture;
 
(5) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the Holders or to surrender any right or power conferred upon the Company;
 
(6) to provide for or confirm the issuance of Additional Notes;
 
(7) to conform the text of this Indenture, the Notes or any Subsidiary Guarantee to any provision of the “Description of Notes” section of the offering memorandum to the extent that such provision in such “Description of Notes” section was intended to be a verbatim recitation of a provision of this Indenture, Guarantee or the Notes;
 
(8) to provide additional rights or benefits to the Holders or make any change that does not materially adversely affect the rights of any Holder under the Notes or this Indenture;
 
(9) to release a Subsidiary Guarantor from its obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee or this Indenture in accordance with the applicable provisions of this Indenture;
 
(10) to provide for the appointment of a successor Trustee, provided that the successor Trustee is otherwise qualified and eligible to act as such under the terms of this Indenture; or
 
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(11) to comply with any requirement of the SEC in connection with the qualification of this Indenture under the TIA or otherwise.
 
Section 902. With Consent of Holders.  Subject to Section 608, the Company, the Trustee and (if applicable) each Subsidiary Guarantor may amend or supplement this Indenture or the Notes with the written consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for Notes); provided that the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes by written notice to the Trustee (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for Notes) may waive any existing Default or Event of Default or compliance by the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor with any provision of this Indenture, the Notes or any Subsidiary Guarantee.
 
Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 902, without the consent of each Holder of an Outstanding Note affected, an amendment or waiver, including a waiver pursuant to Section 613, may not:
 
(i) reduce the principal amount of Notes whose Holders must consent to an amendment or waiver;
 
(ii) reduce the rate of or extend the time for payment of interest on any Note;
 
(iii) reduce the principal of or extend the Stated Maturity of any Note;
 
(iv) reduce the premium payable upon the redemption of any Note or change the date on which any Note may be redeemed as described in Section 1001;
 
(v) make any Note payable in money other than that stated in such Note;
 
(vi) impair the right of any Holder to receive payment of principal of and interest on such Holder’s Notes on or after the due dates therefor or to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or with respect to such Holder’s Notes; or
 
(vii) make any change in the amendment or waiver provisions described in this paragraph.
 
It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders under this Section 902 to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment, supplement or waiver, but it shall be sufficient if such consent approves the substance thereof.
 
After an amendment, supplement or waiver under this Section 902 becomes effective, the Company shall mail to the Holders, with a copy to the Trustee, a notice briefly describing the amendment, supplement or waiver.  Any failure of the Company to mail such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any supplemental indenture or the effectiveness of any such amendment, supplement or waiver.
 
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Section 903. Execution of Amendments, Supplements or Waivers.  The Trustee shall sign any amendment, supplement or waiver authorized pursuant to this Article IX if the amendment, supplement or waiver does not adversely affect the rights, duties, liabilities or immunities of the Trustee.  If it does, the Trustee may, but need not, sign it.  In signing or refusing to sign such amendment, supplement or waiver, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the execution of such amendment, supplement or waiver has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and that, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and other laws now or hereinafter in effect affecting creditors’ rights or remedies generally and to general principles of equity (including standards of materiality, good faith, fair dealing and reasonableness), whether considered in a proceeding at law or at equity, such amendment, supplement or waiver is a valid and binding agreement of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms.
 
Section 904. Revocation and Effect of Consents.  Until an amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective, a consent to it by a Holder is a continuing consent by the Holder and every subsequent Holder of that Note or any Note that evidences all or any part of the same debt as the consenting Holder’s Note, even if notation of the consent is not made on any Note.  Subject to the following paragraph of this Section 904, any such Holder or subsequent Holder may revoke the consent as to such Holder’s Note by written notice to the Trustee or the Company, received by the Trustee or the Company, as the case may be, before the date on which the Trustee receives an Officer’s Certificate certifying that the Holders of the requisite principal amount of Notes have consented (and not theretofore revoked such consent) to the amendment, supplement or waiver.  The Company may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders entitled to consent to any amendment, supplement or waiver as set forth in Section 108.
 
After an amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective, it shall bind every Holder of Notes, unless it makes a change described in any of clauses (i) through (vii) of the second paragraph of Section 902.  In that case, the amendment, supplement or waiver shall bind each Holder of a Note who has consented to it and every subsequent Holder of such Note or any Note that evidences all or any part of the same debt as the consenting Holder’s Note.
 
Section 905. Conformity with TIA.  Every amendment or supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall conform to the requirements of the TIA as then in effect.
 
Section 906. Notation on or Exchange of Notes.  If an amendment, supplement or waiver changes the terms of a Note, the Trustee shall (if required by the Company and in accordance with the specific direction of the Company) request the Holder of the Note to deliver it to the Trustee.  The Trustee shall (if required by the Company and in accordance with the specific direction of the Company) place an appropriate notation on the Note about the changed terms and return it to the Holder.  Alternatively, if the Company or the Trustee so determines, the Company in exchange for the Note shall issue and the Trustee shall authenticate a new Note that reflects the changed terms.  Failure to make the appropriate notation or issue a new Note shall not affect the validity and effect of such amendment, supplement or waiver.
 
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ARTICLE X
REDEMPTION OF NOTES
 
Section 1001. Right of Redemption.  (a) The 9 5/8% Notes will be redeemable, at the Company’s option, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time on or after March 15, 2014 and prior to maturity at the applicable redemption price set forth below.  Such redemption may be made upon notice mailed by first-class mail to each Holder’s registered address in accordance with Section 1005.  The Company may provide in such notice that payment of the redemption price and the performance of the Company’s obligations with respect to such redemption may be performed by another Person.  Any such redemption and notice may, in the Company’s discretion, be subject to the satisfaction of one or more conditions precedent, including but not limited to the occurrence of a Change of Control.  The Notes will be so redeemable at the following redemption prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount), plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the relevant Redemption Date (subject to Section 307), if redeemed during the 12-month period commencing on March 15 of each of the years set forth below:
 
Redemption Period
Price
2014                                                                                                   
104.813%
2015                                                                                                   
102.406%
2016 and thereafter                                                                                                   
100.000%

(b) In addition, at any time and from time to time on or prior to March 15, 2013, the Company at its option may redeem Notes in an aggregate principal amount equal to up to 35% of the original aggregate principal amount of the 9 5/8% Notes (including the principal amount of any Additional Notes), with funds in an aggregate amount (the “Redemption Amount”) not exceeding the aggregate proceeds of one or more Equity Offerings, at a redemption price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount thereof) of 109.625% for the 9 5/8% Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the Redemption Date (subject to Section 307); provided, however, that if 9 5/8% Notes are redeemed, an aggregate principal amount of 9 5/8% Notes equal to at least 65% of the original aggregate principal amount of 9 5/8% Notes (including the principal amount of any Additional Notes) must remain outstanding after each such redemption of 9 5/8% Notes.
 
The Company may make such redemption upon notice mailed by first-class mail to each Holder’s registered address in accordance with Section 1005 (but in no event more than 180 days after the completion of the related Equity Offering).  The Company may provide in such notice that payment of the redemption price and performance of the Company’s obligations with respect to such redemption may be performed by another Person.  Any such notice may be given prior to the completion of the related Equity Offering, and any such redemption or notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to the satisfaction of one or more conditions precedent, including but not limited to the completion of the related Equity Offering.
 
(c) At any time prior to March 15, 2014, the 9 5/8% Notes may also be redeemed or purchased (by the Company or any other Person) in whole or in part, at the Company’s option, at a price (the “Redemption Price”) equal to 100% of the principal amount
 
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thereof plus the Applicable Premium as of, and accrued but unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the Redemption Date (subject to Section 307).  Such redemption or purchase may be made upon notice mailed by first-class mail to each Holder’s registered address in accordance with Section 1005.  The Company may provide in such notice that payment of the Redemption Price and performance of the Company’s obligations with respect to such redemption or purchase may be performed by another Person.  Any such redemption, purchase or notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to the satisfaction of one or more conditions precedent, including but not limited to the occurrence of a Change of Control.
 
Applicable Premium” means, with respect to a Note at any Redemption Date, the greater of (i) 1.0% of the principal amount of such Note and (ii) the excess of (A) the present value at such Redemption Date of (1) the redemption price of such Note on March 15, 2014 (such redemption price being that described in Section 100l(a)) plus (2) all required remaining scheduled interest payments due on such Note through such date, computed using a discount rate equal to the Treasury Rate plus 50 basis points, over (B) the principal amount of such Note on such Redemption Date; as calculated by the Company or on behalf of the Company by such Person as the Company shall designate; provided that such calculation shall not be a duty or obligation of the Trustee.
 
Treasury Rate” means, with respect to a Redemption Date, the yield to maturity at the time of computation of United States Treasury securities with a constant maturity (as compiled and published in the most recent Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.15(519) that has become publicly available at least two Business Days prior to such Redemption Date (or, if such Statistical Release is no longer published, any publicly available source of similar market data)) most nearly equal to the period from such Redemption Date to March 15, 2014; provided, however, that if the period from the Redemption Date to such date is not equal to the constant maturity of a United States Treasury security for which a weekly average yield is given, the Treasury Rate shall be obtained by linear interpolation (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth of a year) from the weekly average yields of United States Treasury securities for which such yields are given, except that if the period from the Redemption Date to such date is less than one year, the weekly average yield on actually traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to a constant maturity of one year shall be used.
 
Section 1002. Applicability of Article.  Redemption or purchase of Notes as permitted by Section 1001 shall be made in accordance with this Article X.
 
Section 1003. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.  In case of any redemption at the election of the Company of less than all of the Notes, the Company shall, at least two Business Days (but not more than 60 days) prior to the date on which notice is required to be mailed or caused to be mailed to Holders pursuant to Section 1005, notify the Trustee of such Redemption Date and of the principal amount of Notes to be redeemed.
 
Section 1004. Selection by Trustee of Notes to Be Redeemed.  In the case of any partial redemption, selection of the Notes for redemption will be made by the Trustee not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date on a pro rata basis or, to the extent a pro rata basis is not permitted, by such other method as the Trustee shall deem to be fair and appropriate, although no Note of $2,000 in original principal amount or less will be redeemed in part.
 
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The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Notes selected for redemption and, in the case of any Note selected for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.  On and after the Redemption Date, interest will cease to accrue on Notes or portions thereof called for redemption.
 
For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Notes shall relate, in the case of any Note redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the principal of such Note that has been or is to be redeemed.
 
Section 1005. Notice of Redemption.  Notice of redemption or purchase as provided in Section 1001 shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date, to each Holder of Notes to be redeemed, at such Holder’s address appearing in the Note Register.
 
Any such notice shall state:
 
(1) the expected Redemption Date;
 
(2) the redemption price (or the formula by which the redemption price will be determined);
 
(3) if less than all Outstanding Notes are to be redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of partial redemption, the portion of the respective principal amounts) of the Notes to be redeemed;
 
(4) that, on the Redemption Date, the redemption price will become due and payable upon each such Note, and that, unless the Company defaults in making such redemption payment or the Paying Agent is prohibited from making such payment pursuant to the terms of this Indenture, interest thereon shall cease to accrue from and after said date; and
 
(5) the place where such Notes are to be surrendered for payment of the redemption price.
 
In addition, if such redemption, purchase or notice is subject to satisfaction of one or more conditions precedent, as permitted by Section 1001, such notice shall describe each such condition, and if applicable, shall state that, in the Company’s discretion, the Redemption Date may be delayed until such time as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied, or such redemption or purchase may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied by the Redemption Date, or by the Redemption Date as so delayed.
 
The Company may provide in such notice that payment of the redemption price and the performance of the Company’s obligations with respect to such redemption may be performed by another Person.
 
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Notice of such redemption or purchase of Notes to be so redeemed or purchased at the election of the Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company’s request (made to the Trustee at least 40 days (or such shorter period as shall be satisfactory to the Trustee) prior to the Redemption Date), by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company.  Any such request will set forth the information to be stated in such notice, as provided by this Section 1005.
 
The notice if mailed in the manner herein provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been given, whether or not the Holder receives such notice.  In any case, failure to give such notice by mail or any defect in the notice to the Holder of any Note designated for redemption as a whole or in part shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other Note.
 
Section 1006. Deposit of Redemption Price.  On or prior to 12:00 p.m., New York City time, on any Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, the Company shall segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 403) an amount of money sufficient to pay the redemption price of, and any accrued and unpaid interest on, all the Notes or portions thereof which are to be redeemed on that date.
 
Section 1007. Notes Payable on Redemption Date.  Notice of redemption having been given as provided in this Article X, the Notes so to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the redemption price herein specified and from and after such date (unless the Company shall default in the payment of the redemption price or the Paying Agent is prohibited from paying the redemption price pursuant to the terms of this Indenture) such Notes shall cease to bear interest.  Upon surrender of such Notes for redemption in accordance with such notice, such Notes shall be paid by the Company at the redemption price.  Installments of interest whose Interest Payment Date is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be payable to the Holders of such Notes registered as such on the relevant Regular Record Dates according to their terms and the provisions of Section 307.
 
On and after any Redemption Date, if money sufficient to pay the redemption price of and any accrued and unpaid interest on Notes called for redemption shall have been made available in accordance with Section 1006, the Notes (or the portions thereof) called for redemption will cease to accrue interest and the only right of the Holders of such Notes (or portions thereof) will be to receive payment of the redemption price of and, subject to the last sentence of the preceding paragraph, any accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes (or portions thereof) to the Redemption Date.  If any Note (or portion thereof) called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof for redemption, the principal (and premium, if any) shall, until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate borne by the Note (or portion thereof).
 
Section 1008. Notes Redeemed in Part.  Any Note that is to be redeemed only in part shall be surrendered at the Place of Payment (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or its attorney duly authorized in writing) and the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Note without service charge, a new Note or Notes, of any
 
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authorized denomination as requested by such Holder in aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the principal of the Note so surrendered.
 
ARTICLE XI
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
 
Section 1101. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.  This Indenture shall be discharged and shall cease to be of further effect (except as to any surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of Notes herein expressly provided for), and the Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when
 
(i) either
 
(a) all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than Notes that have been destroyed, lost or stolen and that have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 306, and (ii) Notes for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 403) have been delivered to the Trustee cancelled or for cancellation; or
 
(b) all such Notes not theretofore delivered to the Trustee cancelled or for cancellation
 
(1) have become due and payable, or
 
(2) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one year, or
 
(3) have been or are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Company,
 
(ii) the Company has irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee money or U.S. Government Obligations, or a combination thereof, sufficient (without reinvestment) to pay and discharge the entire Indebtedness on such Notes not theretofore delivered to the Trustee cancelled or for cancellation, for principal (and premium, if any) and interest to, but not including, the date of such deposit (in the case of Notes that have become due and payable), or to the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case may be (provided that if such redemption shall be pursuant to Section 1001(c), (x) the amount of money or U.S. Government Obligations or a combination thereof that the Company must irrevocably deposit or cause to be deposited shall be determined using an assumed Applicable Premium calculated as of the date of such deposit, and (y) the Company must irrevocably deposit or cause to be deposited additional money in trust on the Redemption Date, as required by Section 1006, as necessary to pay the Applicable Premium as determined on such date);
 
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(iii) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums then payable hereunder by the Company; and
 
(iv) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate of the Company and an Opinion of Counsel, each to the effect that all conditions precedent provided for in this Section 1101 relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with, provided that any such counsel may rely on any Officer’s Certificate as to matters of fact (including as to compliance with the foregoing clauses (i), (ii) and (iii)).
 
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 707 and, if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 110l(ii), the obligations of the Trustee under Section 1102 shall survive.
 
Section 1102. Application of Trust Money.  Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 403, all money and/or U.S. Government Obligations (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 1101 shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Notes and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal (and premium, if any) and interest on the Notes; but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.
 
ARTICLE XII
DEFEASANCE OR COVENANT DEFEASANCE
 
Section 1201. The Company’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.  The Company may, concurrently (and not separately) at its option, at any time, elect to have terminated the obligations of the Company with respect to Outstanding Notes and to have terminated all of the obligations of the Subsidiary Guarantors with respect to the Subsidiary Guarantees, in each case, as set forth in this Article XII, and elect to have either Section 1202 or Section 1203 be applied to all of the Outstanding Notes (the “Defeased Notes”), upon compliance with the conditions set forth below in Section 1204.  Either Section 1202 or Section 1203 may be applied to the Defeased Notes to any Redemption Date or the Stated Maturity of the Notes.
 
Section 1202. Defeasance and Discharge.  Upon the Company’s exercise under Section 1201 of the option applicable to this Section 1202, the Company shall be deemed to have been released and discharged from its obligations with respect to the Defeased Notes on the date the relevant conditions set forth in Section 1204 below are satisfied (hereinafter, “Defeasance”).  For this purpose, such Defeasance means that the Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire Indebtedness represented by the Defeased Notes, which shall thereafter be deemed to be “Outstanding” only for the purposes of Section 1205 and the other Sections of this Indenture referred to in clauses (a) and (b) below, and the Company and each of the Subsidiary Guarantors shall be deemed to have satisfied all other obligations under such Notes and this Indenture insofar as such Notes are concerned (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company,
 
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shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), except for the following, which shall survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder: (a) the rights of Holders of Defeased Notes to receive, solely from the trust fund described in Section 1204 and as more fully set forth in such Section, payments in respect of the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on such Notes when such payments are due, (b) the Company’s obligations with respect to such Defeased Notes under Sections 304, 305, 306, 402 and 403, (c) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder, including the Trustee’s rights under Section 707, and (d) this Article XII.  If the Company exercises its option under this Section 1202, payment of the Notes may not be accelerated because of an Event of Default with respect thereto.  Subject to compliance with this Article XII, the Company may, at its option and at any time, exercise its option under this Section 1202 notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option under Section 1203 with respect to the Notes.
 
Section 1203. Covenant Defeasance.  Upon the Company’s exercise under Section 1201 of the option applicable to this Section 1203, (a) the Company and the Subsidiary Guarantors shall be released from their respective obligations under any covenant or provision contained in Section 405 and Sections 407 through 415 and the provisions of clauses (iii), (iv) and (v) of Section 50l(a) shall not apply, and (b) the occurrence of any event specified in clause (iv), (v) (with respect to Section 405 and Sections 407 through 415, inclusive), (vi), (vii), (viii) (with respect to Subsidiaries), (ix) (with respect to Subsidiaries), (x) or (xi) of Section 601 shall be deemed not to be or result in an Event of Default, in each case with respect to the Defeased Notes on and after the date the conditions set forth below are satisfied (hereinafter, “Covenant Defeasance”), and the Notes shall thereafter be deemed not to be “Outstanding” for the purposes of any direction, waiver, consent or declaration or Act of Holders (and the consequences of any thereof) in connection with such covenants or provisions, but shall continue to be deemed “Outstanding” for all other purposes hereunder.  For this purpose, such Covenant Defeasance means that, with respect to the Outstanding Notes, the Company and the Subsidiary Guarantors may omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in any such covenant or provision, whether directly or indirectly, by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such covenant or provision or by reason of any reference in any such covenant or provision to any other provision herein or in any other document and such omission to comply shall not constitute a Default or an Event of Default under Section 601, but, except as specified above, the remainder of this Indenture and such Outstanding Notes shall be unaffected thereby.
 
Section 1204. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.  The following shall be the conditions to application of either Section 1202 or Section 1203 to the Outstanding Notes:
 
(1) The Company shall have irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee, in trust, money or U.S. Government Obligations, or a combination thereof, in amounts as will be sufficient (without reinvestment), to pay and discharge the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on the Defeased Notes to the Stated Maturity or relevant Redemption Date in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and the Notes (provided that if such redemption shall be pursuant to Section 1001(c), (x) the amount of money or U.S. Government Obligations or a combination thereof that the Company must irrevocably deposit or cause to be deposited shall be determined using an
 
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assumed Applicable Premium calculated as of the date of such deposit, and (y) the Company must irrevocably deposit or cause to be deposited additional money in trust on the Redemption Date, as required by Section 1006, as necessary to pay the Applicable Premium as determined on such date);
 
(2) No Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit;
 
(3) Such deposit shall not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a Default or Event of Default under, this Indenture or any other material agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound;
 
(4) In the case of an election under Section 1202, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel (subject to customary exceptions and exclusions) to the effect that (x) the Company has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling or (y) since the Issue Date, there has been a change in the applicable federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such opinion shall confirm to the effect that, the Holders of the Outstanding Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such Defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such Defeasance had not occurred; provided that such Opinion of Counsel need not be delivered if all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (i) Notes that have been destroyed, lost or stolen and that have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 306, and (ii) Notes for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 403) not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation have become due and payable, will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one year, or are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Company;
 
(5) In the case of an election under Section 1203, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel (subject to customary exceptions and exclusions) to the effect that the Holders of the Outstanding Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such Covenant Defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such Covenant Defeasance had not occurred; and
 
(6) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each to the effect that all conditions precedent provided for in this Section 1204 relating to either the Defeasance under Section 1202 or the Covenant Defeasance under Section 1203, as the case may be, have been complied with.  In rendering such Opinion of Counsel, counsel may rely on an Officer’s Certificate as to compliance with the foregoing clauses (1), (2) and (3) of this Section 1204 or as to any matters of fact.
 
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Section 1205. Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions.  Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 403, all money and U.S. Government Obligations (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee (or such other Person that would qualify to act as successor Trustee under Article VII, collectively and solely for purposes of this Section 1205, the “Trustee”) pursuant to Section 1204 in respect of the Defeased Notes shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such Notes and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Notes of all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of principal, premium, if any, and interest, but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.
 
The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee and its agents and hold them harmless against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against the U.S. Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 1204, or the principal, premium, if any, and interest received in respect thereof, other than any such tax, fee or other charge that by law is for the account of the Holders of the Defeased Notes.
 
Anything in this Article XII to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall deliver to the Company from time to time, upon Company Request, any money or U.S. Government Obligations held by it as provided in Section 1204 that, in the opinion of a nationally recognized accounting or investment banking firm expressed in a written certification thereof to the Trustee, are in excess of the amount thereof that would then be required to be deposited to effect an equivalent Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.  Subject to Article VII, the Trustee shall not incur any liability to any Person by relying on such opinion.
 
Section 1206. Reinstatement.  If the Trustee or Paying Agent is unable to apply any money or U.S. Government Obligations in accordance with Section 1202 or 1203, as the case may be, by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, then the obligations of the Company and each of the Subsidiary Guarantors under this Indenture, the Notes and the Subsidiary Guarantees shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to Section 1202 or 1203, as the case may be, until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such money and U.S. Government Obligations in accordance with Section 1202 or 1203, as the case may be; provided, however, that if the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor makes any payment of principal, premium, if any, or interest on any Note following the reinstatement of its obligations, the Company or Subsidiary Guarantor, as the case may be, shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of such Notes to receive such payment from the money and U.S. Government Obligations held by the Trustee or Paying Agent.
 
Section 1207. Repayment to the Company.  The Trustee shall pay to the Company upon Company Request any money held by it for the payment of principal or interest that remains unclaimed for two years.  After payment to the Company, Holders entitled to money must look to the Company for payment as general creditors unless an applicable abandoned property law designates another Person and all liability of the Trustee or Paying Agent with respect to such money shall thereupon cease.
 
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ARTICLE XIII 
GUARANTEES
 
Section 1301. Guarantees Generally.
 
(a) Guarantee of Each Guarantor.  Each Guarantor, as primary obligor and not merely as surety, will jointly and severally, irrevocably, fully and unconditionally Guarantee, on an unsecured unsubordinated basis, the punctual payment when due, whether at Stated Maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, of all monetary obligations of the Company under this Indenture and the Notes, whether for principal of or interest on the Notes, expenses, indemnification or otherwise (all such obligations guaranteed by the Subsidiary Guarantors being herein called the “Subsidiary Guaranteed Obligations”).
 
The obligations of each Guarantor will be limited to the maximum amount as will, after giving effect to all other contingent and fixed liabilities of such Guarantor (including but not limited to any Guarantee by it of any Bank Indebtedness) and after giving effect to any collections from or payments made by or on behalf of any other Guarantor in respect of the obligations of such other Guarantor under its Guarantee or pursuant to its contribution obligations under this Indenture, result in the obligations of such Guarantor under the Guarantee not constituting a fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer under applicable law, or being void or unenforceable under any law relating to insolvency of debtors.
 
(b) Further Agreements of Each Guarantor.  (i) Each Guarantor hereby agrees that (to the fullest extent permitted by law) its obligations hereunder shall be unconditional, irrespective of the validity, regularity or enforceability of this Indenture, the Notes or the obligations of the Company or any other Guarantor to the Holders or the Trustee hereunder or thereunder, the absence of any action to enforce the same, any waiver or consent by any Holder with respect to any provisions hereof or thereof, any release of any other Guarantor, the recovery of any judgment against the Company, any action to enforce the same, whether or not a notation concerning its Guarantee is made on any particular Note, or any other circumstance that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a Guarantor.
 
(ii) Each Guarantor hereby waives (to the fullest extent permitted by law) the benefit of diligence, presentment, demand of payment, filing of claims with a court in the event of insolvency or bankruptcy of the Company, any right to require a proceeding first against the Company, protest, notice and all demands whatsoever and covenants that (except as otherwise provided in Section 1303) its Guarantee will not be discharged except by complete performance of the obligations contained in the Notes, this Indenture and this Guarantee.  Such Guarantee is a guarantee of payment and not of collection.  Each Guarantor further agrees (to the fullest extent permitted by law) that, as between it, on the one hand, and the Holders of Notes and the Trustee, on the other hand, subject to this Article XIII, (1) the maturity of the obligations guaranteed by its Guarantee may be accelerated as and to the extent provided in Article VI for the purposes of such Guarantee, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition preventing such acceleration in respect of the obligations guaranteed by such Guarantee, and (2) in
 
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the event of any acceleration of such obligations as provided in Article VI, such obligations (whether or not due and payable) shall forthwith become due and payable by such Guarantor in accordance with the terms of this Section 1301 for the purpose of such Guarantee.  Neither the Trustee nor any other Person shall have any obligation to enforce or exhaust any rights or remedies or to take any other steps under any security for the Subsidiary Guaranteed Obligations or against the Company or any other Person or any property of the Company or any other Person before the Trustee is entitled to demand payment and performance by any or all Subsidiary Guarantors of their obligations under their respective Subsidiary Guarantees or under this Indenture.
 
(iii) Until terminated in accordance with Section 1303, each Guarantee shall remain in full force and effect and continue to be effective should any petition be filed by or against the Company for liquidation or reorganization, should the Company become insolvent or make an assignment for the benefit of creditors or should a receiver or trustee be appointed for all or any significant part of the Company’s assets, and shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment and performance of the Notes are, pursuant to applicable law, rescinded or reduced in amount, or must otherwise be restored or returned by any obligee on such Notes, whether as a “voidable preference,” “fraudulent transfer” or otherwise, all as though such payment or performance had not been made.  In the event that any payment, or any part thereof, is rescinded, reduced, restored or returned, the Notes shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, be reinstated and deemed reduced only by such amount paid and not so rescinded, reduced, restored or returned.
 
(c) Each Subsidiary Guarantor that makes a payment or distribution under its Subsidiary Guarantee shall have the right to seek contribution from the Company or any nonpaying Subsidiary Guarantor that has also Guaranteed the relevant Subsidiary Guaranteed Obligations in respect of which such payment or distribution is made, so long as the exercise of such right does not impair the rights of the Holders under the Subsidiary Guarantees.
 
(d) Each Guarantor acknowledges that it will receive direct and indirect benefits from the financing arrangements contemplated by this Indenture and that its Guarantee, and the waiver set forth in Section 1305, are knowingly made in contemplation of such benefits.
 
(e) Each Guarantor, pursuant to its Guarantee, also hereby agrees to pay any and all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses (including reasonable counsel fees and expenses) incurred by the Trustee or the Holders in enforcing any rights under a Guarantee.
 
Section 1302. Continuing Guarantees.  (a) Each Guarantee shall be a continuing Guarantee and shall (i) subject to Section 1303, remain in full force and effect until payment in full of the principal amount of all Outstanding Notes (whether by payment at maturity, purchase, redemption, defeasance, retirement or other acquisition) and all other applicable obligations then due and owing, (ii) be binding upon such Guarantor and (iii) inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by the Trustee, the Holders and their permitted successors, transferees and assigns.
 
(b) The obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall continue to be effective or shall be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any payment which would
 
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otherwise have reduced or terminated the obligations of any Guarantor hereunder and under its Guarantee (whether such payment shall have been made by or on behalf of the Company or by or on behalf of a Guarantor) is rescinded or reclaimed from any of the Holders upon the insolvency, bankruptcy, liquidation or reorganization of the Company or any Guarantor or otherwise, all as though such payment had not been made.
 
Section 1303. Release of Guarantees.  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 1302, a Guarantee will be subject to termination and discharge under the circumstances described in this Section 1303.  A Guarantor will automatically and unconditionally be released from all obligations under its Guarantee, and such Guarantee shall thereupon terminate and be discharged and of no further force or effect, (i) in the case of a Subsidiary Guarantor, concurrently with any direct or indirect sale or disposition (by merger or otherwise) of any Subsidiary Guarantor or any interest therein not prohibited by the terms of this Indenture (including Section 411 and Section 501) by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary or any other transaction, following which such Subsidiary Guarantor is no longer a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, (ii) at any time that such Guarantor is released from all of its obligations under all of its Guarantees of payment by the Company of any Indebtedness of the Company under the Senior Credit Facilities (it being understood that a release subject to contingent reinstatement is still a release, and that if any such Guarantee is so reinstated, such Guarantee shall also be reinstated); provided that the release of obligations described in this clause (ii) shall not apply to the Indirect Parent, (iii) upon the merger or consolidation of any Guarantor with and into the Company or another Guarantor that is the surviving Person in such merger or consolidation, or upon the liquidation of such Guarantor following or contemporaneously with the transfer of all of its assets to the Company or another Guarantor; provided that the release of obligations described in this clause (iii) shall not apply to the Indirect Parent, (iv) concurrently with a Subsidiary Guarantor becoming an Unrestricted Subsidiary, (v) upon legal or covenant defeasance of the Company’s obligations, or satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, or (vi) subject to Section 1302(b), upon payment in full of the aggregate principal amount of all Notes then Outstanding.  In addition, the Company will have the right, upon 5 days’ notice to the Trustee, to cause any Subsidiary Guarantor that has not guaranteed payment by the Company of any Indebtedness of the Company under the Senior Credit Facilities to be unconditionally released from all obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee, and such Subsidiary Guarantee shall thereupon terminate and be discharged and of no further force or effect.
 
Upon any such occurrence specified in this Section 1303, the Trustee shall execute any documents reasonably required in order to evidence such release, discharge and termination in respect of the applicable Guarantee.
 
Section 1304. [Reserved].
 
Section 1305. Waiver of Subrogation.  Each Guarantor hereby irrevocably waives any claim or other rights that it may now or hereafter acquire against the Company that arise from the existence, payment, performance or enforcement of the Company’s obligations under the Notes and this Indenture or such Guarantor’s obligations under its Subsidiary and this Indenture, including any right of subrogation, reimbursement, exoneration, indemnification, and any right to participate in any claim or remedy of any Holder of Notes against the Company, whether or not such claim, remedy or right arises in equity, or under contract, statute or common
 
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law, until this Indenture is discharged and all of the Notes are discharged and paid in full.  If any amount shall be paid to any Guarantor in violation of the preceding sentence and the Notes shall not have been paid in full, such amount shall be deemed to have been paid to such Guarantor for the benefit of, and held in trust for the benefit of, the Holders of the Notes, and shall forthwith be paid to the Trustee for the benefit of such Holders to be credited and applied upon the Notes, whether matured or unmatured, in accordance with the terms of this Indenture.
 
Section 1306. Notation Not Required.  Neither the Company nor any Guarantor shall be required to make a notation on the Notes to reflect any Guarantee or any release, termination or discharge thereof.
 
Section 1307. Successors and Assigns of Guarantors.  All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by each Guarantor shall bind its respective successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
 
Section 1308. Execution and Delivery of Guarantees.  The Notes shall be guaranteed by the Indirect Parent and the Direct Parent.  In addition, the Company shall cause each Restricted Subsidiary that is required to become a Subsidiary Guarantor pursuant to Section 414, and each Subsidiary of the Company that the Company causes to become a Subsidiary Guarantor pursuant to Section 414, to promptly execute and deliver to the Trustee a Supplemental Indenture substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit E to this Indenture, or otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, evidencing its Subsidiary Guarantee on substantially the terms set forth in this Article XIII.  Concurrently therewith, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee to the effect that such Supplemental Indenture has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Restricted Subsidiary and that, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and other laws now or hereafter in effect affecting creditors’ rights or remedies generally and to general principles of equity (including standards of materiality, good faith, fair dealing and reasonableness), whether considered in a proceeding at law or at equity, such Supplemental Indenture is a valid and binding agreement of such Restricted Subsidiary, enforceable against such Restricted Subsidiary in accordance with its terms.
 
Section 1309. Notices.  Notice to any Guarantor shall be sufficient if addressed to such Guarantor in care of the Company at the address, place and manner provided in Section 109.
 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed, all as of the date first written above.
 

 
   
AVIS BUDGET CAR RENTAL, LLC
 
 
By
/s/ Rochelle Tarlowe
   
Name:           Rochelle Tarlowe
Title:           Vice President and Treasurer

 
   
AVIS BUDGET FINANCE, INC.
 
 
By
/s/ Rochelle Tarlowe
   
Name:           Rochelle Tarlowe
Title:           Vice President and Treasurer

 
   
AVIS BUDGET GROUP, INC.
 
 
By
/s/ Rochelle Tarlowe
   
Name:           Rochelle Tarlowe
Title:           Vice President and Treasurer

 
   
AVIS BUDGET HOLDINGS, LLC
 
 
By
/s/ Rochelle Tarlowe
   
Name:           Rochelle Tarlowe
Title:           Vice President and Treasurer

 
   
AB CAR RENTAL SERVICES, INC.
ARACS LLC
AVIS ASIA AND PACIFIC, LIMITED
AVIS CAR RENTAL GROUP, LLC
AVIS CARIBBEAN, LIMITED
AVIS ENTERPRISES, INC.
AVIS GROUP HOLDINGS, LLC
AVIS INTERNATIONAL, LTD.
AVIS OPERATIONS, LLC
AVIS RENT A CAR SYSTEM, LLC
PF CLAIMS MANAGEMENT, LTD.
PR HOLDCO, INC.
WIZARD CO., INC.
WIZARD SERVICES, INC.
 
 
By
/s/ Rochelle Tarlowe
   
Name:           Rochelle Tarlowe
Title:           Vice President and Treasurer

 


 
   
BGI LEASING, INC.
BUDGET RENT A CAR SYSTEM, INC.
BUDGET TRUCK RENTAL LLC
RUNABOUT, LLC
 
 
By
/s/ David B. Wyshner
   
Name:           David B. Wyshner
Title:           Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

 
 

 


   
THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA TRUST
COMPANY OF NEW YORK,
as Trustee
 
 
By
/s/ Warren A. Goshine
   
Name:           Warren A. Goshine
Title:           Vice President

 
 

 

 

EXHIBIT A
 
Form of Initial Note1
 

 
AVIS BUDGET CAR RENTAL, LLC
AVIS BUDGET FINANCE, INC.
 

 
9 5/8% Senior Notes due 2018
 
CUSIP No. _______________                                                     No. ___
$______________
 
Avis Budget Car Rental, LLC, a limited liability company duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, and Avis Budget Finance, Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (together, “the Company,” which term includes their successors and assigns), promise to pay to CEDE & CO., or registered assigns, the principal sum of $________________ ([                                  ] United States Dollars) [(or such lesser or greater amount as shall be outstanding hereunder from time to time in accordance with Sections 312 and 313 of the Indenture referred to herein)]2 (the “Principal Amount”) on March 15, 2018.  The Company promises to pay interest semi-annually in cash on March 15 and September 15 of each year, commencing September 15, 2010, at the rate of 9.625% per annum (subject to adjustment as provided below)3 until the Principal Amount is paid or made available for payment.  [Interest on this Note will accrue from the most recent date to which interest on this Note or any of its Predecessor Notes has been paid or duly provided for or, if no interest has been paid, from the Issue Date.]4  [Interest on this Note will accrue (or will be deemed to have accrued) from the most recent date to which interest on this Note or any of its Predecessor Notes has been paid or duly provided for or, if no such interest has been paid, from ______, ______5.]6  Interest on the Notes shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.  The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the March 1 or September 1 (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date.  Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Notes not more than 15 days nor less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not
 

inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Notes may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture.
 
[The Holder of this Note is entitled to the benefits of the Registration Rights Agreement, dated March 10, 2010, among the Company, the Guarantors and the initial purchasers named therein (the “Registration Rights Agreement”).  Until (i) this Note has been exchanged for an Exchange Security (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) in an Exchange Offer (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement); (ii) a Shelf Registration Statement (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) registering this Note under the Securities Act has been declared or becomes effective and this Note has been sold or otherwise transferred by the Holder thereof pursuant to and in a manner contemplated by such effective Shelf Registration Statement; (iii) this Note is sold under circumstances in which any legend borne by this Note relating to restrictions on transferability thereof, under the Securities Act or otherwise, is removed by the Company or pursuant to the Indenture referred to herein; or (iv) this Note is eligible to be sold pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act by a Person that is not an “affiliate” (within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Securities Act) of the Company or any Guarantor: From and including the date on which a Registration Default (as defined below) shall occur to but excluding the date on which such Registration Default has been cured, additional interest will accrue on this Note until such time as all Registration Defaults have been cured at the rate of (a) prior to the 91st day of such period (for so long as such period is continuing), 0.25% per annum and (b) thereafter (so long as such period is continuing), 0.50% per annum.  Any such additional interest shall not exceed such respective rates for such respective periods, and shall not in any event exceed 0.50% per annum in the aggregate, regardless of the number of Registration Defaults that shall have occurred and be continuing.  Any such additional interest shall be paid in the same manner and on the same dates as interest payments in respect of this Note.  Following the cure of all Registration Defaults, the accrual of such additional interest will cease.  A Registration Default under clause (iii) or (iv) below will be deemed cured upon consummation of the Exchange Offer in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement required to be filed due to a failure to consummate the Exchange Offer within the required time period.  For purposes of the foregoing, each of the following events, as more particularly defined in the Registration Rights Agreement, is a “Registration Default”: (i) the Exchange Offer has not been consummated within 405 days after the Issue Date; (ii) if a Shelf Registration Statement required by the Registration Rights Agreement is not declared effective by the SEC on or before the later of (1) 405 days after the Issue Date or (2) 90 days after the delivery of a request to file a Shelf Registration Statement as provided for in the Registration Rights Agreement; or (iii) if any Shelf Registration Statement required by the Registration Rights Agreement is filed and declared effective, and during the period the Company is required to use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Shelf Registration Statement to remain effective, the Company shall have suspended the Shelf Registration Statement or it ceases to be effective for more than 75 days in any twelve-
 

month period and be continuing to suspend the availability of the Shelf Registration Statement.]7 8
 
Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on this Note will be made at the office of the applicable Paying Agent, or such other office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose; provided, however, that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Note Register.
 
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the attached Additional Terms of the Notes, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
 
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to herein by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
 


 
1
Insert any applicable legends from Article II.
 
2
Include only if the Note is issued in global form.
 
3
Include only for Initial Note.
 
4
Include only for Original Notes.
 
5
Insert the Interest Payment Date immediately preceding the date of issuance of the applicable Additional Notes, or if the date of issuance of such Additional Notes is an Interest Payment Date, such date of issuance.
 
6
Include only for Additional Notes.
 
7
Include only for Initial Note when required by the Registration Rights Agreement.
 
8
For an Initial Additional Note, add any similar provision, if any, as may be agreed by the Company with respect to additional interest on such Initial Additional Note.
 
 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.
 
AVIS BUDGET CAR RENTAL, LLC

By:  __________________________
Name:
 
Title:
 

AVIS BUDGET FINANCE, INC.

By:  __________________________
Name:
 
Title:
 

 


This is one of the Notes referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
 
THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK,
as Trustee

By:  __________________________
Name:
 
Title:
 
 
Dated:
 


Additional Terms of the Notes
 
This Note is one of the duly authorized issue of 9 5/8% Senior Notes due 2018 of the Company (herein called the “Notes”), issued under an Indenture, dated as of March 10, 2010 (herein called the “Indenture,” which term shall have the meanings assigned to it in such instrument), among the Company, the Guarantors from time to time parties thereto (“the Guarantors”) and The Bank of Nova Scotia Trust Company of New York, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), and reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, any other obligor upon this Note, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes and of the terms upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered.  The terms of the Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made a part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, as in effect from time to time (the “TIA”).  The Notes are subject to all such terms, and Holders are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of such terms.  Additional Notes may be issued under the Indenture which will vote as a class with the Notes and otherwise be treated as Notes for purposes of the Indenture.
 
All terms used in this Note that are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
 
This Note may hereafter be entitled to certain other Guarantees made for the benefit of the Holders.  Reference is made to Article XIII of the Indenture for terms relating to such Guarantees, including the release, termination and discharge thereof.  Neither the Company nor any Guarantor shall be required to make any notation on this Note to reflect any Guarantee or any such release, termination or discharge.
 
The Notes will be redeemable, at the Company’s option, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time on or after March 15, 2014, and prior to maturity at the applicable redemption price set forth below.  Such redemption may be made upon notice mailed by first-class mail to each Holder’s registered address in accordance with the Indenture.  The Company may provide in such notice that payment of the redemption price and the performance of the Company’s obligations with respect to such redemption may be performed by another Person.  Any such redemption and notice may, in the Company’s discretion, be subject to the satisfaction of one or more conditions precedent, including but not limited to the occurrence of a Change of Control.  The Notes will be so redeemable at the following redemption prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount), plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the relevant Redemption Date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant Regular Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date), if redeemed during the 12-month period commencing on March 15 of each of the years set forth below:
 
Period
Redemption Price
2014                                                                                            
104.813%
2015                                                                                            
102.406%
2016 and thereafter                                                                                            
100.000%
   
 

In addition, at any time and from time to time on or prior to March 15, 2013, the Company at its option may redeem Notes in an aggregate principal amount equal to up to 35% of the original aggregate principal amount of Notes (including the principal amount of any Additional Notes), with funds in an aggregate amount not exceeding the aggregate proceeds of one or more Equity Offerings, at a redemption price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount thereof) of 109.625%, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the Redemption Date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date); provided, however, that an aggregate principal amount of Notes equal to at least 65% of the original aggregate principal amount of Notes (including the principal amount of any Additional Notes) must remain outstanding after each such redemption.  The Company may make such redemption upon notice mailed by first-class mail to each Holder’s registered address in accordance with the Indenture (but in no event more than 180 days after the completion of the related Equity Offering).  The Company may provide in such notice that payment of the redemption price and performance of the Company’s obligations with respect to such redemption may be performed by another Person.  Any such notice may be given prior to the completion of the related Equity Offering, and any such redemption or notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to the satisfaction of one or more conditions precedent, including the completion of the related Equity Offering.
 
At any time prior to March 15, 2014, Notes may also be redeemed or purchased (by the Company or any other Person) in whole or in part, at the Company’s option, at a price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof plus the Applicable Premium as of, and accrued but unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the Redemption Date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date).  Such redemption or purchase may be made upon notice mailed by first-class mail to each Holder’s registered address in accordance with the Indenture.  The Company may provide in such notice that payment of the Redemption Price and performance of the Company’s obligations with respect to such redemption or purchase may be performed by another Person.  Any such redemption, purchase or notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to the satisfaction of one or more conditions precedent, including but not limited to the occurrence of a Change of Control.
 
The Indenture provides that, upon the occurrence after the Issue Date of a Change of Control, each Holder will have the right to require that the Company repurchase all or any part of such Holder’s Notes at a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the date of such repurchase (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date); provided, however, that the Company shall not be obligated to repurchase Notes in the event it has exercised its right to redeem all the Notes as described above.
 
The Notes will not be entitled to the benefit of a sinking fund.
 
The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of the entire indebtedness of this Note or certain restrictive covenants and certain Events of Default with respect to this Note, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth in the Indenture.
 

If an Event of Default with respect to the Notes shall occur and be continuing, the principal of and accrued but unpaid interest on the Notes may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.
 
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Notes to be effected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding to be affected.  The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Notes, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences.  Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note.
 
As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Note shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with respect to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee or for any other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall have previously given the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Notes, the Holders of not less than 30% in principal amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding shall have made written request to the Trustee to pursue such remedy in respect of such Event of Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against any loss, liability or expense, and the Trustee shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of Notes at the time Outstanding a direction inconsistent with such request, and shall have failed to institute any such proceeding, for 60 days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of security or indemnity.  The foregoing shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Note for the enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or any premium or interest hereon on or after the respective due dates expressed herein.
 
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium and interest on this Note at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.
 
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the Note Register, upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Note Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
 
The Notes are issuable only in fully registered form without coupons in minimum denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $l,000 in excess thereof.  As provided in
 

the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the Notes are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Notes of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
 
No service charge shall be made for any such registration, transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
 
Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration or transfer, the Company, any other obligor in respect of this Note, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, such other obligor or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and none of the Company, any other obligor upon this Note, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
 
No director, officer, employee, incorporator, equity holder, member or stockholder, as such, of the Company, any Guarantor or any Subsidiary of any thereof shall have any liability for any obligation of the Company or any Guarantor under the Indenture, the Notes or any Guarantee, or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, any such obligation or its creation.  Each Holder, by accepting this Note, hereby waives and releases all such liability.  The waiver and release are part of the consideration for issuance of the Notes.
 
THE INDENTURE AND THE NOTES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.  THE TRUSTEE, THE COMPANY, ANY OTHER OBLIGOR IN RESPECT OF THE NOTES AND (BY THEIR ACCEPTANCE OF THE NOTES) THE HOLDERS, AGREE TO SUBMIT TO THE JURISDICTION OF ANY UNITED STATES FEDERAL OR STATE COURT LOCATED IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE INDENTURE, THE NOTES OR THE GUARANTEES.
 


GUARANTEE
 
For value received, the undersigned hereby unconditionally guarantees, as principal obligor and not only as a surety, to the Holder of this Note the cash payments in United States dollars of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on this Note (and including Additional Interest payable thereon) in the amounts and at the times when due and interest on the overdue principal, premium, if any, and interest, if any, of this Note, if lawful, and the payment or performance of all other Obligations of the Company under the Indenture (as defined below) or the Note, to the Holder of this Note and the Trustee, all in accordance with and subject to the terms and limitations of this Note, Article XIII of the Indenture and this Guarantee. This Guarantee will become effective in accordance with Article XIII of the Indenture and its terms shall be evidenced therein. The validity and enforceability of this Guarantee shall not be affected by the fact that it is not affixed to any particular Note.
 
Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Indenture, dated as of March 10, 2010, among Avis Budget Car Rental, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and Avis Budget Finance, Inc., a Delaware corporation (together, “the Company”), the Guarantors from time to time parties thereto and The Bank of Nova Scotia Trust Company of New York, as Trustee.
 
THIS GUARANTEE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.  EACH GUARANTOR HEREBY AGREES TO SUBMIT TO THE JURISDICTION OF ANY UNITED STATES FEDERAL OR STATE COURT LOCATED IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS GUARANTEE.
 
This Guarantee is subject to release upon the terms set forth in the Indenture.
 
 


AVIS BUDGET GROUP, INC.

By:  __________________________
Name:
 
Title:
 

AVIS BUDGET HOLDINGS, LLC

By:  __________________________
Name:
 
Title:
 

AB CAR RENTAL SERVICES, INC.
ARACS LLC
AVIS ASIA AND PACIFIC, LIMITED
AVIS CAR RENTAL GROUP, LLC
AVIS CARIBBEAN, LIMITED
AVIS ENTERPRISES, INC.
AVIS GROUP HOLDINGS, LLC
AVIS INTERNATIONAL, LTD.
AVIS OPERATIONS, LLC
AVIS RENT A CAR SYSTEM, LLC
PF CLAIMS MANAGEMENT, LTD.
PR HOLDCO, INC.
WIZARD CO., INC.
WIZARD SERVICES, INC.

By:  __________________________
Name:
 
Title:
 

 


BGI LEASING, INC.
BUDGET RENT A CAR SYSTEM, INC.
BUDGET TRUCK RENTAL LLC
RUNABOUT, LLC

By:  __________________________
Name:
 
Title:
 
 


[FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER]
 
FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned Holder hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto
 
 
Insert Taxpayer Identification No.
 
 
(Please print or typewrite name and address including zip code of assignee)
 
 

 

 
 
the within Note and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing
 
 


 
attorney to transfer such Note on the books of the Company with full power of substitution in the premises.
 
 
This Note is being sold, assigned and transferred (check one):
 
 
[  ] (a)
to the Company;
 
or
 
 
[  ] (b)
to a person whom the Holder reasonably believes is a qualified institutional buyer within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, purchasing for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that the resale, pledge or other transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933;
 
or
 
 
[  ] (c)
in an offshore transaction in accordance with Regulation S under the Securities Act of 1933;
 
or
 
 
[  ] (d)
to an institution that is an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) of Regulation D under the Securities Act of 1933 that is acquiring this Note for investment purposes and not for distribution;
 
or
 

 
 
[  ] (e)
pursuant to any exemption from registration under the Securities Act of 1933 provided by Rule 144 (if applicable) under the Securities Act of 1933;
 
or
 
 
[  ] (f)
pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933;
 
or
 
 
[  ] (g)
this Note is being transferred other than in accordance with (a), (b) or (c) above and documents are being furnished which comply with the conditions of transfer set forth in this Note and the Indenture.
 
If none of the foregoing boxes is checked, the Trustee or other Note Registrar shall not be obligated to register this Note in the name of any Person other than the Holder hereof unless and until the conditions to any such transfer of registration set forth herein and in Section 313 of the Indenture shall have been satisfied.
 
Date:                                                      
 

NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the within-mentioned instrument in every particular, without alteration or any change whatsoever.
 
 
Signature Guarantee:                                                                                                        
 
 

 
Signatures must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Note Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
 
 
 

 

TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (a) ABOVE IS CHECKED.
 
The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Note for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.
 
   
Dated:                                                      
 
 
NOTICE: To be executed by an executive officer

 


OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE
 
If you wish to have this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 411 or 415 of the Indenture, check the box: [   ].
 
If you wish to have a portion of this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 411 or 415 of the Indenture, state the amount (in principal amount) below:
 
$________________
 
 
Date:                         
 

                  
 
Your Signature:                           
 

                                
 
(Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Note)
 
Signature Guarantee:                                                                      
 

 
Signatures must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Note Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
 


SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN GLOBAL NOTE
 
The following increases or decreases in this Global Note have been made:
 
Date of Exchange
Amount of decreases in Principal Amount of this Global Note
Amount of increases in Principal Amount of this Global Note
Principal amount of this Global Note following such decreases or increases
Signature of authorized officer of Trustee or Notes Custodian
         
 
 

 

 
EXHIBIT B
 
Form of Exchange Note9
 
AVIS BUDGET CAR RENTAL, LLC
 
AVIS BUDGET FINANCE, INC.
 

 
9 5/8% Senior Notes due 2018
 
CUSIP No. _______________                                                              No. ___
 
$______________
 
Avis Budget Car Rental, LLC, a limited liability company duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, and Avis Budget Finance, Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (together, “the Company,” which term includes their successors and assigns), promise to pay to ___________, or registered assigns, the principal sum of $___________________ ([                                ] United States Dollars) [(or such lesser or greater amount as shall be outstanding hereunder from time to time in accordance with Sections 312 and 313 of the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof)]10 (the “Principal Amount”) on March 15, 2018.  The Company promises to pay interest semi-annually in cash on March 15 and September 15 of each year, commencing September 15, 2010, at the rate of 9.625% per annum, except that interest accrued on this Note for periods prior to the date on which the Initial Note was surrendered in exchange for this Note will accrue at the rate or rates borne by such Initial Note from time to time during such periods, until the Principal Amount is paid or made available for payment.  [Interest on this Note will accrue from the most recent date to which interest on this Note or any of its Predecessor Notes has been paid or duly provided for or, if no interest has been paid, from the Issue Date.]11  [Interest on this Note will accrue (or will be deemed to have accrued) from the most recent date to which interest on this Note or any of its Predecessor Notes has been paid or duly provided for or, if no such interest has been paid, from ____________, ____12.]13  Interest on the Notes shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.  The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the March 1 or September 1 (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date.  Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Notes not more than 15 days nor less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Notes may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture.
 
Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on this Note will be made at the office of the applicable Paying Agent, or such other office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose; provided, however, that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Note Register.
 
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the attached Additional Terms of the Notes, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
 
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to herein by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
 


 
9
Insert any applicable legends from Article II.
 
10
Include only if the Note is issued in global form.
 
11
Include only for Original Notes.
 
12
Insert the Interest Payment Date immediately preceding the date of issuance of the applicable Additional Notes, or if the date of issuance of such Additional Notes is an Interest Payment Date, such date of issuance.
 
13
Include only for Exchange Notes issued in the exchange for Additional Notes.
 
 


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.
 
AVIS BUDGET CAR RENTAL, LLC

By:  __________________________
Name:
 
Title:
 

AVIS BUDGET FINANCE, INC.

By:  __________________________
Name:
 
Title:
 

 
 


This is one of the Notes referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
 
THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK,
as Trustee

By:  __________________________
Name:
 
Title:
 
 
Dated:
 
 


Additional Terms of the Notes
 
This Note is one of the duly authorized issue of 9 5/8% Senior Notes due 2018 of the Company (herein called the “Notes”), issued under an Indenture, dated as of March 10, 2010 (herein called the “Indenture,” which term shall have the meanings assigned to it in such instrument), among the Company, the Guarantors from time to time parties thereto (“the Guarantors”) and The Bank of Nova Scotia Trust Company of New York, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), and reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, any other obligor upon this Note, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes and of the terms upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered.  The terms of the Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made a part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, as in effect from time to time (the “TIA”).  The Notes are subject to all such terms, and Holders are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of such terms.  Additional Notes may be issued under the Indenture which will vote as a class with the Notes and otherwise be treated as Notes for purposes of the Indenture.
 
All terms used in this Note that are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
 
This Note may hereafter be entitled to certain other Guarantees made for the benefit of the Holders.  Reference is made to Article XIII of the Indenture for terms relating to such Guarantees, including the release, termination and discharge thereof.  Neither the Company nor any Guarantor shall be required to make any notation on this Note to reflect any Guarantee or any such release, termination or discharge.
 
The Notes will be redeemable, at the Company’s option, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time on or after March 15, 2014, and prior to maturity at the applicable redemption price set forth below.  Such redemption may be made upon notice mailed by first-class mail to each Holder’s registered address in accordance with the Indenture.  The Company may provide in such notice that payment of the redemption price and the performance of the Company’s obligations with respect to such redemption may be performed by another Person.  Any such redemption and notice may, in the Company’s discretion, be subject to the satisfaction of one or more conditions precedent, including but not limited to the occurrence of a Change of Control.  The Notes will be so redeemable at the following redemption prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount), plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the relevant Redemption Date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant Regular Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date), if redeemed during the 12-month period commencing on March 15 of each of the years set forth below:
 
Period
Redemption Price
2014                                                                                            
104.813%
2015                                                                                            
102.406%
2016 and thereafter                                                                                            
100.000%
   
 
 

 
In addition, at any time and from time to time on or prior to March 15, 2013, the Company at its option may redeem Notes in an aggregate principal amount equal to up to 35% of the original aggregate principal amount of Notes (including the principal amount of any Additional Notes), with funds in an aggregate amount not exceeding the aggregate proceeds of one or more Equity Offerings, at a redemption price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount thereof) of 109.625%, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the Redemption Date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date); provided, however, that an aggregate principal amount of Notes equal to at least 65% of the original aggregate principal amount of Notes (including the principal amount of any Additional Notes) must remain outstanding after each such redemption.  The Company may make such redemption upon notice mailed by first-class mail to each Holder’s registered address in accordance with the Indenture (but in no event more than 180 days after the completion of the related Equity Offering).  The Company may provide in such notice that payment of the redemption price and performance of the Company’s obligations with respect to such redemption may be performed by another Person.  Any such notice may be given prior to the completion of the related Equity Offering, and any such redemption or notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to the satisfaction of one or more conditions precedent, including the completion of the related Equity Offering.
 
At any time prior to March 15, 2014, Notes may also be redeemed or purchased (by the Company or any other Person) in whole or in part, at the Company’s option, at a price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof plus the Applicable Premium as of, and accrued but unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the Redemption Date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date).  Such redemption or purchase may be made upon notice mailed by first-class mail to each Holder’s registered address in accordance with the Indenture.  The Company may provide in such notice that payment of the Redemption Price and performance of the Company’s obligations with respect to such redemption or purchase may be performed by another Person.  Any such redemption, purchase or notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to the satisfaction of one or more conditions precedent, including but not limited to the occurrence of a Change of Control.
 
The Indenture provides that, upon the occurrence after the Issue Date of a Change of Control, each Holder will have the right to require that the Company repurchase all or any part of such Holder’s Notes at a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the date of such repurchase (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date); provided, however, that the Company shall not be obligated to repurchase Notes in the event it has exercised its right to redeem all the Notes as described above.
 
The Notes will not be entitled to the benefit of a sinking fund.
 
The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of the entire indebtedness of this Note or certain restrictive covenants and certain Events of Default with respect to this Note, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth in the Indenture.
 

If an Event of Default with respect to the Notes shall occur and be continuing, the principal of and accrued but unpaid interest on the Notes may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.
 
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Notes to be effected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding to be affected.  The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Notes, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences.  Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note.
 
As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Note shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with respect to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee or for any other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall have previously given the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Notes, the Holders of not less than 30% in principal amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding shall have made written request to the Trustee to pursue such remedy in respect of such Event of Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against any loss, liability or expense, and the Trustee shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of Notes at the time Outstanding a direction inconsistent with such request, and shall have failed to institute any such proceeding, for 60 days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of security or indemnity.  The foregoing shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Note for the enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or any premium or interest hereon on or after the respective due dates expressed herein.
 
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium and interest on this Note at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.
 
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the Note Register, upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Note Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
 
The Notes are issuable only in fully registered form without coupons in minimum denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $l,000 in excess thereof.  As provided
 

 in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the Notes are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Notes of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
 
No service charge shall be made for any such registration, transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
 
Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration or transfer, the Company, any other obligor in respect of this Note, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, such other obligor or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and none of the Company, any other obligor upon this Note, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
 
No director, officer, employee, incorporator, equity holder, member or stockholder, as such, of the Company, any Guarantor or any Subsidiary of any thereof shall have any liability for any obligation of the Company or any Guarantor under the Indenture, the Notes or any Guarantee, or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, any such obligation or its creation.  Each Holder, by accepting this Note, hereby waives and releases all such liability.  The waiver and release are part of the consideration for issuance of the Notes.
 
THE INDENTURE AND THE NOTES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.  THE TRUSTEE, THE COMPANY, ANY OTHER OBLIGOR IN RESPECT OF THE NOTES AND (BY THEIR ACCEPTANCE OF THE NOTES) THE HOLDERS, AGREE TO SUBMIT TO THE JURISDICTION OF ANY UNITED STATES FEDERAL OR STATE COURT LOCATED IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE INDENTURE, THE NOTES OR THE GUARANTEES.
 
 


GUARANTEE
 
For value received, the undersigned hereby unconditionally guarantees, as principal obligor and not only as a surety, to the Holder of this Note the cash payments in United States dollars of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on this Note (and including Additional Interest payable thereon) in the amounts and at the times when due and interest on the overdue principal, premium, if any, and interest, if any, of this Note, if lawful, and the payment or performance of all other Obligations of the Company under the Indenture (as defined below) or the Note, to the Holder of this Note and the Trustee, all in accordance with and subject to the terms and limitations of this Note, Article XIII of the Indenture and this Guarantee. This Guarantee will become effective in accordance with Article XIII of the Indenture and its terms shall be evidenced therein. The validity and enforceability of this Guarantee shall not be affected by the fact that it is not affixed to any particular Note.
 
Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Indenture, dated as of March 10, 2010, among Avis Budget Car Rental, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Avis Budget Finance, Inc., a Delaware corporation (together, “the Company”), the Guarantors from time to time parties thereto and The Bank of Nova Scotia Trust Company of New York, as Trustee.
 
THIS GUARANTEE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.  EACH GUARANTOR HEREBY AGREES TO SUBMIT TO THE JURISDICTION OF ANY UNITED STATES FEDERAL OR STATE COURT LOCATED IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS GUARANTEE.
 
This Guarantee is subject to release upon the terms set forth in the Indenture.
 


AVIS BUDGET GROUP, INC.

By:  __________________________
Name:
 
Title:
 

AVIS BUDGET HOLDINGS, LLC

By:  __________________________
Name:
 
Title:
 

AB CAR RENTAL SERVICES, INC.
ARACS LLC
AVIS ASIA AND PACIFIC, LIMITED
AVIS CAR RENTAL GROUP, LLC
AVIS CARIBBEAN, LIMITED
AVIS ENTERPRISES, INC.
AVIS GROUP HOLDINGS, LLC
AVIS INTERNATIONAL, LTD.
AVIS OPERATIONS, LLC
AVIS RENT A CAR SYSTEM, LLC
PF CLAIMS MANAGEMENT, LTD.
PR HOLDCO, INC.
WIZARD CO., INC.
WIZARD SERVICES, INC.

By:  __________________________
Name:
 
Title:
 

 


BGI LEASING, INC.
BUDGET RENT A CAR SYSTEM, INC.
BUDGET TRUCK RENTAL LLC
RUNABOUT, LLC

By:  __________________________
Name:
 
Title:
 
 
 

 

[FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER]
 
FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned Holder hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto
 
 
Insert Taxpayer Identification No.
 
 
(Please print or typewrite name and address including zip code of assignee)
 
 

 


 
the within Note and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing
 
 


 
attorney to transfer such Note on the books of the Company with full power of substitution in the premises.
 
NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the within-mentioned instrument in every particular, without alteration or any change whatsoever.
 
Signature Guarantee:                                                                                              
 

  
 
Signatures must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Note Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
 
 


OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE
 
If you wish to have this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 411 or 415 of the Indenture, check the box: [   ].
 
If you wish to have a portion of this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 411 or 415 of the Indenture, state the amount (in principal amount) below:
 
$_______________
 
 
Date:                                           
 
Your Signature:                                                           
 
(Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Note)
 
Signature Guarantee:                                                                      
 
Signatures must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Note Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
 


SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN GLOBAL NOTE
 
The following increases or decreases in this Global Note have been made:
 
Date of Exchange
Amount of decreases in Principal Amount of this Global Note
Amount of increases in Principal Amount of this Global Note
Principal amount of this Global Note following such decreases or increases
Signature of authorized officer of Trustee or Notes Custodian
         

 


EXHIBIT C
 
 
Form of Certificate of Beneficial Ownership
 
On or after [_________________], 20[  ]
 
THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA TRUST
COMPANY OF NEW YORK
One Liberty Plaza
23rd Floor
New York, NY 10006
 
Attention: Corporate Trust Department
 
 
Re:
Avis Budget Car Rental, LLC and Avis Budget Finance, Inc. (the “Company”)
 
 
9 5/8% Senior Notes due 2018 (the “Notes”)
 
Ladies and Gentlemen:
 
This letter relates to $450 million principal amount of Notes represented by the offshore [temporary] global note certificate (the “[Temporary] Regulation S Global Note”).  Pursuant to Section 313(3) of the Indenture dated as of March 10, 2010 relating to the Notes (the “Indenture”), we hereby certify that (1) we are the beneficial owner of such principal amount of Notes represented by the [Temporary] Regulation S Global Note and (2) we are either (i) a Non-U.S. Person to whom the Notes could be transferred in accordance with Rule 903 or 904 of Regulation S (“Regulation S”) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”) or (ii) a U.S. Person who purchased securities in a transaction that did not require registration under the Act.
 
You, the Company and counsel for the Company are entitled to rely upon this letter and are irrevocably authorized to produce this letter or a copy hereof to any interested party in any administrative or legal proceedings or official inquiry with respect to the matters covered hereby.  Terms used in this certificate have the meanings set forth in Regulation S.
 
Very truly yours,
 
[Name of Holder]
 
By:                                                      
Authorized Signature

 


EXHIBIT D
 
 
Form of Regulation S Certificate
 
Regulation S Certificate
 
THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA TRUST
COMPANY OF NEW YORK
One Liberty Plaza
23rd Floor
New York, NY 10006
 
Attention: Corporate Trust Department
 
 
Re:
Avis Budget Car Rental, LLC and Avis Budget Finance, Inc. (the “Company”)
 
9 5/8% Senior Notes due 2018 (the “Notes”)
 
Ladies and Gentlemen:
 
In connection with our proposed sale of $450 million aggregate principal amount of Notes, we confirm that such sale has been effected pursuant to and in accordance with Regulation S (“Regulation S”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and accordingly, we hereby certify as follows:
 
1. The offer of the Notes was not made to a person in the United States (unless such person or the account held by it for which it is acting is excluded from the definition of “U.S. person” pursuant to Rule 902(k) of Regulation S under the circumstances described in Rule 902(h)(3) of Regulation S) or specifically targeted at an identifiable group of U.S. citizens abroad.
 
2. Either (a) at the time the buy order was originated, the buyer was outside the United States or we and any person acting on our behalf reasonably believed that the buyer was outside the United States or (b) the transaction was executed in, on or through the facilities of a designated offshore securities market, and neither we nor any person acting on our behalf knows that the transaction was pre-arranged with a buyer in the United States.
 
3. No directed selling efforts have been made in the United States in contravention of the requirements of Rule 903(a)(2) or Rule 904(a)(2) of Regulation S, as applicable.
 
4. The proposed transfer of Notes is not part of a plan or scheme to evade the registration requirements of the Securities Act.
 
5. If we are a dealer or a person receiving a selling concession or other fee or remuneration in respect of the Notes, and the proposed transfer takes place before the end of the distribution compliance period under Regulation S, or we are an officer or director of the Company or a distributor, we certify that the proposed transfer is being made in accordance with the provisions of Rules 903 and 904 of Regulation S.
 

6. If the proposed transfer takes place before the end of the distribution compliance period under Regulation S, the beneficial interest in the Notes so transferred will be held immediately thereafter through Euroclear (as defined in the Indenture) or Clearstream (as defined in the Indenture).
 
7. We have advised the transferee of the transfer restrictions applicable to the Notes.
 
You, the Company and counsel for the Company are entitled to rely upon this Certificate and are irrevocably authorized to produce this Certificate or a copy hereof to any interested party in any administrative or legal proceeding or official inquiry with respect to the matters covered hereby.  Terms used in this certificate have the meanings set forth in Regulation S.
 
Very truly yours,
 
[NAME of SELLER]
 
By:                                                      
Name:
Title:
Address:
 
Date of this Certificate: _____________________ __, 20__
 
 


EXHIBIT E
 
 
Form of Supplemental Indenture in Respect of Subsidiary Guarantee
 
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of [_________] (this “Supplemental Indenture”), among [name of Subsidiary Guarantor(s)] (the “Subsidiary Guarantor(s)”), Avis Budget Car Rental, LLC, a limited liability company duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, and Avis Budget Finance, Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (together, the “Company,” which term includes their successors and assigns), each other then existing Guarantor under the Indenture referred to below (the “Existing Guarantors”), and The Bank of Nova Scotia Trust Company of New York, as trustee (“the Trustee”) under the Indenture referred to below.
 
WITNESSETH:
 
WHEREAS, the Company, any Existing Guarantors and the Trustee have heretofore become parties to an Indenture, dated as of March 10, 2010 (as amended, supplemented, waived or otherwise modified, the “Indenture”), providing for the issuance of 9 5/8% Senior Notes due 2018 of the Company (the “Notes”);
 
WHEREAS, Section 1308 of the Indenture provides that the Company is required to cause the Subsidiary Guarantors to execute and deliver to the Trustee a supplemental indenture pursuant to which the Subsidiary Guarantors shall guarantee the Company’s Subsidiary Guaranteed Obligations under the Notes pursuant to a Subsidiary Guarantee on the terms and conditions set forth herein and in Article XIII of the Indenture;
 
WHEREAS, each Subsidiary Guarantor desires to enter into such supplemental indenture for good and valuable consideration, including substantial economic benefit in that the financial performance and condition of such Subsidiary Guarantor is dependent on the financial performance and condition of the Company, the obligations hereunder of which such Subsidiary Guarantor has guaranteed, and on such Subsidiary Guarantor’s access to working capital through the Company’s access to revolving credit borrowings under the Senior Credit Agreement; and
 
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 901 of the Indenture, the parties hereto are authorized to execute and deliver this Supplemental Indenture to amend the Indenture, without the consent of any Holder;
 
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the Subsidiary Guarantors, the Company, the Existing Guarantors and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes as follows:
 

 
1. Defined Terms.  As used in this Supplemental Indenture, terms defined in the Indenture or in the preamble or recital hereto are used herein as therein defined.  The words “herein,” “hereof’ and “hereby” and other words of similar import used in this Supplemental Indenture refer to this Supplemental Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Section hereof.
 
2. Agreement to Guarantee.  [The] [Each] Subsidiary Guarantor hereby agrees, jointly and severally with [all] [any] other Subsidiary Guarantors and irrevocably, fully and unconditionally, to guarantee the Subsidiary Guaranteed Obligations under the Indenture and the Notes on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in Article XIII of the Indenture and to be bound by (and shall be entitled to the benefits of) all other applicable provisions of the Indenture as a Subsidiary Guarantor.
 
3. Termination, Release and Discharge.  [The] [Each] Subsidiary Guarantor’s Subsidiary Guarantee shall terminate and be of no further force or effect, and [the] [each] Subsidiary Guarantor shall be released and discharged from all obligations in respect of such Subsidiary Guarantee, as and when provided in Section 1303 of the Indenture.
 
4. Parties.  Nothing in this Supplemental Indenture is intended or shall be construed to give any Person, other than the Holders and the Trustee, any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of [the] [each] Subsidiary Guarantor’s Subsidiary Guarantee or any provision contained herein or in Article XIII of the Indenture.
 
5. Governing Law.  THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.  THE TRUSTEE, THE COMPANY, ANY OTHER OBLIGOR IN RESPECT OF THE NOTES AND (BY THEIR ACCEPTANCE OF THE NOTES) THE HOLDERS AGREE TO SUBMIT TO THE JURISDICTION OF ANY UNITED STATES FEDERAL OR STATE COURT LOCATED IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE.
 
6. Ratification of Indenture; Supplemental Indentures Part of Indenture.  Except as expressly amended hereby, the Indenture is in all respects ratified and confirmed and all the terms, conditions and provisions thereof shall remain in full force and effect.  This Supplemental Indenture shall form a part of the Indenture for all purposes, and every Holder of Notes heretofore or hereafter authenticated and delivered shall be bound hereby.  The Trustee makes no representation or warranty as to the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture or as to the accuracy of the recitals to this Supplemental Indenture.
 
7. Counterparts.  The parties hereto may sign one or more copies of this Supplemental Indenture in counterparts, all of which together shall constitute one and the same agreement.
 
8. Headings.  The Section headings herein are for convenience of reference only and shall not be deemed to alter or affect the meaning or interpretation of any provisions hereof.
 
 


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed as of the date first above written.
 
[NAME OF SUBSIDIARY GUARANTOR(S)],
as Subsidiary Guarantor

By:  __________________________
Name:
 
Title:
 

AVIS BUDGET GROUP, INC.

By:  __________________________
Name:
 
Title:
 

AVIS BUDGET HOLDINGS, LLC

By:  __________________________
Name:
 
Title:
 

THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK,
as Trustee

By:  __________________________
Name:
 
Title:
 
 


EXHIBIT F
 
[Form of Certificate from Acquiring Institutional Accredited Investors]
 
Certificate from Acquiring Institutional Accredited Investor
 
THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA TRUST
COMPANY OF NEW YORK
One Liberty Plaza
23rd Floor
New York, NY 10006
 
Attention: Corporate Trust Department
 
 
Re:
Avis Budget Car Rental, LLC and Avis Budget Finance, Inc. (the “Company”)
 
9 5/8% Senior Notes due 2018 (the “Notes”)
 
 
Ladies and Gentlemen:
 
In connection with our proposed sale of $450 million aggregate principal amount of Notes, we confirm that:
 
1. We understand that any subsequent transfer of the Notes is subject to certain restrictions and conditions set forth in the Indenture dated as of March 10, 2010 relating to the Notes (the “Indenture”) and the undersigned agrees to be bound by, and not to resell, pledge or otherwise transfer the Notes except in compliance with, such restrictions and conditions and the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).
 
2. We understand that the Notes have not been registered under the Securities Act or any other applicable securities law, and that the Notes may not be offered, sold or otherwise transferred except as permitted in the following sentence.  We agree, on our own behalf and on behalf of any accounts for which we are acting as hereinafter stated, that if we should offer, sell, transfer, pledge, hypothecate or otherwise dispose of any Notes within two years after the original issuance of the Notes, we will do so only (A) to the Company, (B) inside the United States to a “qualified institutional buyer” in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act, (C) inside the United States to an institutional “accredited investor” (as defined below) that, prior to such transfer, furnishes to you a signed letter substantially in the form of this letter, (D) outside the United States to a foreign person in compliance with Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act, (E) pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act (if available), or (F) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act, and we further agree to provide to any person purchasing any of the Notes from us a notice advising such purchaser that resales of the Notes are restricted as stated herein and in the Indenture.
 
3. We understand that, on any proposed transfer of any Notes prior to the later of the original issue date of the Notes and the last date the Notes were held by an affiliate of the Company pursuant to paragraphs 2(C), 2(D) and 2(E) above, we will be required to furnish to you and the Company such certifications, legal opinions and other information as you and the Company may reasonably require to confirm that the proposed transfer complies with the foregoing restrictions.  We further understand that the Notes purchased by us will bear a legend to the foregoing effect.
 

4. We are an institutional “accredited investor” (as defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act) and have such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of our investment in the Notes, and we and any accounts for which we are acting are acquiring the Notes for investment purposes and not with a view to, or offer or sale in connection with, any distribution in violation of the Securities Act, and we are each able to bear the economic risk of our or its investment.
 
5. We are acquiring the Notes purchased by us for our own account or for one or more accounts (each of which is an institutional “accredited investor”) as to each of which we exercise sole investment discretion.
 
You and the Company are entitled to rely upon this letter and are irrevocably authorized to produce this letter or a copy hereof to any interested party in any administrative or legal proceedings or official inquiry with respect to the matters covered hereby.
 
Very truly yours,
 
(Name of Transferee)
 
By                                                                
 
      Authorized Signature
 
 


EXHIBIT G
 
The Agreements in Existence on the Issue Date and Identified under “Certain relationships and related transactions” of the Company’s Offering Memorandum, dated March 5, 2010
 
 
 
1.
Separation and Distribution Agreement, dated as of July 27, 2006 (as amended, modified or supplemented in accordance with its terms), among Avis Budget Group, Inc., Realogy Corporation, Wyndham Worldwide Corporation and Travelport Inc.
 
 
 
2.
Tax Sharing Agreement, dated as of July 28, 2006 (as amended, modified or supplemented in accordance with its terms), Avis Budget Group, Inc., Realogy Corporation, Wyndham Worldwide Corporation and Travelport Inc.
 
 


notes.htm
 
Exhibit 4.2
 
Form of 9 5/8% Senior Notes
AVIS BUDGET CAR RENTAL, LLC
AVIS BUDGET FINANCE, INC.

 
9 5/8% Senior Notes due 2018
 
CUSIP No.                                            0;                        No.
$ ________________ 
 
Avis Budget Car Rental, LLC, a limited liability company duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, and Avis Budget Finance, Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (together, “the Company,” which term includes their successors and assigns), promise to pay to ________________ , or registered assigns, the principal sum of ________________  ) (or such lesser or greater amount as shall be outstanding hereunder from time to time in accordance with Sections 312 and 313 of the Indenture referred to herein) (the “Principal Amount”) on March 15, 2018.  The Company promises to pay interest semi-annually in cash on March 15 and September 15 of each year, commencing September 15, 2010, at the rate of 9.625% per annum (subject to adjustment as provided below) until the Principal Amount is paid or made available for payment.  Interest on this Note will accrue from the most recent date to which interest on this Note or any of its Predecessor Notes has been paid or duly provided for or, if no interest has been paid, from the Issue Date.  Interest on the Notes shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.  The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the March 1 or September 1 (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date.  Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Notes not more than 15 days nor less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Notes may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture.
 
The Holder of this Note is entitled to the benefits of the Registration Rights Agreement, dated March 10, 2010, among the Company, the Guarantors and the initial purchasers named therein (the “Registration Rights Agreement”).  Until (i) this Note has been exchanged for an Exchange Security (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) in an Exchange Offer (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement); (ii) a Shelf Registration Statement (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) registering this Note under the Securities Act has been declared or becomes effective and this Note has been sold or otherwise transferred by the Holder thereof pursuant to and in a manner contemplated by such effective Shelf Registration Statement; (iii) this Note is sold under circumstances in which any legend borne by this Note relating to restrictions on transferability thereof, under the Securities Act or otherwise, is removed by the Company or pursuant to the Indenture referred to herein; or (iv) this
 
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Note is eligible to be sold pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act by a Person that is not an “affiliate” (within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Securities Act) of the Company or any Guarantor: From and including the date on which a Registration Default (as defined below) shall occur to but excluding the date on which such Registration Default has been cured, additional interest will accrue on this Note until such time as all Registration Defaults have been cured at the rate of (a) prior to the 91st day of such period (for so long as such period is continuing), 0.25% per annum and (b) thereafter (so long as such period is continuing), 0.50% per annum.  Any such additional interest shall not exceed such respective rates for such respective periods, and shall not in any event exceed 0.50% per annum in the aggregate, regardless of the number of Registration Defaults that shall have occurred and be continuing.  Any such additional interest shall be paid in the same manner and on the same dates as interest payments in respect of this Note.  Following the cure of all Registration Defaults, the accrual of such additional interest will cease.  A Registration Default under clause (iii) or (iv) below will be deemed cured upon consummation of the Exchange Offer in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement required to be filed due to a failure to consummate the Exchange Offer within the required time period.  For purposes of the foregoing, each of the following events, as more particularly defined in the Registration Rights Agreement, is a “Registration Default”: (i) the Exchange Offer has not been consummated within 405 days after the Issue Date; (ii) if a Shelf Registration Statement required by the Registration Rights Agreement is not declared effective by the SEC on or before the later of (1) 405 days after the Issue Date or (2) 90 days after the delivery of a request to file a Shelf Registration Statement as provided for in the Registration Rights Agreement; or (iii) if any Shelf Registration Statement required by the Registration Rights Agreement is filed and declared effective, and during the period the Company is required to use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Shelf Registration Statement to remain effective, the Company shall have suspended the Shelf Registration Statement or it ceases to be effective for more than 75 days in any twelve-month period and be continuing to suspend the availability of the Shelf Registration Statement.
 
Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on this Note will be made at the office of the applicable Paying Agent, or such other office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose; provided, however, that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Note Register.
 
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the attached Additional Terms of the Notes, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
 
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to herein by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
 

 
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 
   
AVIS BUDGET CAR RENTAL, LLC
 
 
By
 
   
Name:           Rochelle Tarlowe
Title:           Vice President and Treasurer

 
   
AVIS BUDGET FINANCE, INC.
 
 
By
 
   
Name:           Rochelle Tarlowe
Title:           Vice President and Treasurer

 
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This is one of the Notes referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
 
 
   
THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA TRUST
COMPANY OF NEW YORK,
as Trustee
 
 
 
By
 
 
   
Name:           Warren A. Goshine
Title:           Vice President
 
 
 
Dated: March 10, 2010
 

 
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Additional Terms of the Notes
 
This Note is one of the duly authorized issue of 9 5/8% Senior Notes due 2018 of the Company (herein called the “Notes”), issued under an Indenture, dated as of March 10, 2010 (herein called the “Indenture,” which term shall have the meanings assigned to it in such instrument), among the Company, the Guarantors from time to time parties thereto (“the Guarantors”) and The Bank of Nova Scotia Trust Company of New York, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), and reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, any other obligor upon this Note, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes and of the terms upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered.  The terms of the Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made a part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, as in effect from time to time (the “TIA”).  The Notes are subject to all such terms, and Holders are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of such terms.  Additional Notes may be issued under the Indenture which will vote as a class with the Notes and otherwise be treated as Notes for purposes of the Indenture.
 
All terms used in this Note that are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
 
This Note may hereafter be entitled to certain other Guarantees made for the benefit of the Holders.  Reference is made to Article XIII of the Indenture for terms relating to such Guarantees, including the release, termination and discharge thereof.  Neither the Company nor any Guarantor shall be required to make any notation on this Note to reflect any Guarantee or any such release, termination or discharge.
 
The Notes will be redeemable, at the Company’s option, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time on or after March 15, 2014, and prior to maturity at the applicable redemption price set forth below.  Such redemption may be made upon notice mailed by first-class mail to each Holder’s registered address in accordance with the Indenture.  The Company may provide in such notice that payment of the redemption price and the performance of the Company’s obligations with respect to such redemption may be performed by another Person.  Any such redemption and notice may, in the Company’s discretion, be subject to the satisfaction of one or more conditions precedent, including but not limited to the occurrence of a Change of Control.  The Notes will be so redeemable at the following redemption prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount), plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the relevant Redemption Date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant Regular Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date), if redeemed during the 12-month period commencing on March 15 of each of the years set forth below:
 
Period
Redemption Price
2014                                                                                            
104.813%
2015                                                                                            
102.406%
2016 and thereafter                                                                                            
100.000%
 

 
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In addition, at any time and from time to time on or prior to March 15, 2013, the Company at its option may redeem Notes in an aggregate principal amount equal to up to 35% of the original aggregate principal amount of Notes (including the principal amount of any Additional Notes), with funds in an aggregate amount not exceeding the aggregate proceeds of one or more Equity Offerings, at a redemption price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount thereof) of 109.625%, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the Redemption Date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date); provided, however, that an aggregate principal amount of Notes equal to at least 65% of the original aggregate principal amount of Notes (including the principal amount of any Additional Notes) must remain outstanding after each such redemption.  The Company may make such redemption upon notice mailed by first-class mail to each Holder’s registered address in accordance with the Indenture (but in no event more than 180 days after the completion of the related Equity Offering).  The Company may provide in such notice that payment of the redemption price and performance of the Company’s obligations with respect to such redemption may be performed by another Person.  Any such notice may be given prior to the completion of the related Equity Offering, and any such redemption or notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to the satisfaction of one or more conditions precedent, including the completion of the related Equity Offering.
 
At any time prior to March 15, 2014, Notes may also be redeemed or purchased (by the Company or any other Person) in whole or in part, at the Company’s option, at a price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof plus the Applicable Premium as of, and accrued but unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the Redemption Date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date).  Such redemption or purchase may be made upon notice mailed by first-class mail to each Holder’s registered address in accordance with the Indenture.  The Company may provide in such notice that payment of the Redemption Price and performance of the Company’s obligations with respect to such redemption or purchase may be performed by another Person.  Any such redemption, purchase or notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to the satisfaction of one or more conditions precedent, including but not limited to the occurrence of a Change of Control.
 
The Indenture provides that, upon the occurrence after the Issue Date of a Change of Control, each Holder will have the right to require that the Company repurchase all or any part of such Holder’s Notes at a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the date of such repurchase (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date); provided, however, that the Company shall not be obligated to repurchase Notes in the event it has exercised its right to redeem all the Notes as described above.
 
The Notes will not be entitled to the benefit of a sinking fund.
 
The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of the entire indebtedness of this Note or certain restrictive covenants and certain Events of Default with
 
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respect to this Note, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth in the Indenture.
 
If an Event of Default with respect to the Notes shall occur and be continuing, the principal of and accrued but unpaid interest on the Notes may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.
 
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Notes to be effected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding to be affected.  The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Notes, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences.  Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note.
 
As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Note shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with respect to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee or for any other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall have previously given the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Notes, the Holders of not less than 30% in principal amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding shall have made written request to the Trustee to pursue such remedy in respect of such Event of Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against any loss, liability or expense, and the Trustee shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of Notes at the time Outstanding a direction inconsistent with such request, and shall have failed to institute any such proceeding, for 60 days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of security or indemnity.  The foregoing shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Note for the enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or any premium or interest hereon on or after the respective due dates expressed herein.
 
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium and interest on this Note at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.
 
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the Note Register, upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Note Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
 
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The Notes are issuable only in fully registered form without coupons in minimum denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $l,000 in excess thereof.  As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the Notes are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Notes of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
 
No service charge shall be made for any such registration, transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
 
Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration or transfer, the Company, any other obligor in respect of this Note, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, such other obligor or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and none of the Company, any other obligor upon this Note, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
 
No director, officer, employee, incorporator, equity holder, member or stockholder, as such, of the Company, any Guarantor or any Subsidiary of any thereof shall have any liability for any obligation of the Company or any Guarantor under the Indenture, the Notes or any Guarantee, or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, any such obligation or its creation.  Each Holder, by accepting this Note, hereby waives and releases all such liability.  The waiver and release are part of the consideration for issuance of the Notes.
 
THE INDENTURE AND THE NOTES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.  THE TRUSTEE, THE COMPANY, ANY OTHER OBLIGOR IN RESPECT OF THE NOTES AND (BY THEIR ACCEPTANCE OF THE NOTES) THE HOLDERS, AGREE TO SUBMIT TO THE JURISDICTION OF ANY UNITED STATES FEDERAL OR STATE COURT LOCATED IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE INDENTURE, THE NOTES OR THE GUARANTEES.
 

 
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GUARANTEE
 
For value received, the undersigned hereby unconditionally guarantees, as principal obligor and not only as a surety, to the Holder of this Note the cash payments in United States dollars of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on this Note (and including Additional Interest payable thereon) in the amounts and at the times when due and interest on the overdue principal, premium, if any, and interest, if any, of this Note, if lawful, and the payment or performance of all other Obligations of the Company under the Indenture (as defined below) or the Note, to the Holder of this Note and the Trustee, all in accordance with and subject to the terms and limitations of this Note, Article XIII of the Indenture and this Guarantee. This Guarantee will become effective in accordance with Article XIII of the Indenture and its terms shall be evidenced therein. The validity and enforceability of this Guarantee shall not be affected by the fact that it is not affixed to any particular Note.
 
Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Indenture, dated as of March 10, 2010, among Avis Budget Car Rental, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and Avis Budget Finance, Inc., a Delaware corporation (together, “the Company”), the Guarantors from time to time parties thereto and The Bank of Nova Scotia Trust Company of New York, as Trustee.
 
THIS GUARANTEE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.  EACH GUARANTOR HEREBY AGREES TO SUBMIT TO THE JURISDICTION OF ANY UNITED STATES FEDERAL OR STATE COURT LOCATED IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS GUARANTEE.
 
This Guarantee is subject to release upon the terms set forth in the Indenture.
 

 

 
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AVIS BUDGET GROUP, INC.
 
 
By
 
   
Name:           Rochelle Tarlowe
Title:           Vice President and Treasurer


   
AVIS BUDGET HOLDINGS, LLC
 
 
By
 
   
Name:           Rochelle Tarlowe
Title:           Vice President and Treasurer


   
AB CAR RENTAL SERVICES, INC.
ARACS LLC
AVIS ASIA AND PACIFIC, LIMITED
AVIS CAR RENTAL GROUP, LLC
AVIS CARIBBEAN, LIMITED
AVIS ENTERPRISES, INC.
AVIS GROUP HOLDINGS, LLC
AVIS INTERNATIONAL, LTD.
AVIS OPERATIONS, LLC
AVIS RENT A CAR SYSTEM, LLC
PF CLAIMS MANAGEMENT, LTD.
PR HOLDCO, INC.
WIZARD CO., INC.
WIZARD SERVICES, INC.
 
 
By
 
   
Name:           Rochelle Tarlowe
Title:           Vice President and Treasurer
 

 
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BGI LEASING, INC.
BUDGET RENT A CAR SYSTEM, INC.
BUDGET TRUCK RENTAL LLC
RUNABOUT, LLC
 
 
By
 
   
Name:           David B. Wyshner
Title:           Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

 

 
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 [FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER]
 
FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned Holder hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto
 
 
Insert Taxpayer Identification No.
 
 
(Please print or typewrite name and address including zip code of assignee)
 

 

 
the within Note and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing
 
 


 
attorney to transfer such Note on the books of the Company with full power of substitution in the premises.
 
 
This Note is being sold, assigned and transferred (check one):
 
 
[  ] (a)
to the Company;
 
or
 
 
[  ] (b)
to a person whom the Holder reasonably believes is a qualified institutional buyer within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, purchasing for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that the resale, pledge or other transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933;
 
or
 
 
[  ] (c)
in an offshore transaction in accordance with Regulation S under the Securities Act of 1933;
 
or
 
 
[  ] (d)
to an institution that is an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) of Regulation D under the Securities Act of 1933 that is acquiring this Note for investment purposes and not for distribution;
 
or
 
 
[  ] (e)
pursuant to any exemption from registration under the Securities Act of 1933 provided by Rule 144 (if applicable) under the Securities Act of 1933;
 
or
 
 
[  ] (f)
pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933;
 
or
 
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[  ] (g)
this Note is being transferred other than in accordance with (a), (b) or (c) above and documents are being furnished which comply with the conditions of transfer set forth in this Note and the Indenture.
 
If none of the foregoing boxes is checked, the Trustee or other Note Registrar shall not be obligated to register this Note in the name of any Person other than the Holder hereof unless and until the conditions to any such transfer of registration set forth herein and in Section 313 of the Indenture shall have been satisfied.
 
Date:        ________________                                             
 
NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the within-mentioned instrument in every particular, without alteration or any change whatsoever.
 
 
Signature Guarantee:       ________________ 
                                                                                                
 
Signatures must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Note Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
 

 
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TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (a) ABOVE IS CHECKED.
 
The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Note for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.
 
   
Dated:                ________________                                      
 ________________
 
NOTICE: To be executed by an executive officer

 

 
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OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE
 
If you wish to have this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 411 or 415 of the Indenture, check the box: [   ].
 
If you wish to have a portion of this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 411 or 415 of the Indenture, state the amount (in principal amount) below:
 
$________________
 
 
Date:          ________________                                 
 
Your Signature:             ________________                                              
 
(Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Note)
 
Signature Guarantee:            ________________                                                          
 
 
Signatures must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Note Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
 

 
17

 

SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN GLOBAL NOTE
 
The following increases or decreases in this Global Note have been made:
 
Date of Exchange
Amount of decreases in Principal Amount of this Global Note
Amount of increases in Principal Amount of this Global Note
Principal amount of this Global Note following such decreases or increases
Signature of authorized officer of Trustee or Notes Custodian
         

 
 
 
18


 
secondamendment.htm
Exhibit 10.1
 
SECOND AMENDMENT
 
This Second Amendment, dated as of March 10, 2010 (this “Amendment”), to the Credit Agreement  dated as of April 19, 2006, as amended by the First Amendment dated as of December 23, 2008 (the “Credit Agreement”), among AVIS BUDGET HOLDINGS, LLC (“Holdings”), AVIS BUDGET CAR RENTAL, LLC (the “Borrower”), the subsidiary borrowers from time to time parties thereto, the several lenders from time to time parties thereto (the “Lenders”), BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., CREDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE & INVESTMENT BANK NEW YORK BRANCH (formerly known as CALYON) and CITICORP USA, INC. as documentation agents, WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION as co-documentation agent, DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC. as syndication agent and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as administrative agent (the “Administrative Agent”; and together with the other agents named therein, the “Agents”).
 
W I T N E S S E T H:
 
 
WHEREAS, Holdings, the Borrower, the Lenders and the Agents are parties to the Credit Agreement;  
 
 
WHEREAS, the Borrower has requested that the Lenders agree to extend the tenor of their respective Term Loans and Revolving Commitments, as applicable, and amend certain other terms in the Credit Agreement in the manner provided for herein; and  
 
 
WHEREAS, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders are willing to agree to the requested amendments subject to the provisions of this Amendment;  
 
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises contained herein, the parties hereto agree as follows:
 
1. Defined Terms.  Unless otherwise defined herein, capitalized terms are used herein as defined in the Credit Agreement as amended hereby.
 
2. Amendments.  The Credit Agreement (including the Annexes, Schedules and Exhibits thereto) is hereby amended in accordance with Exhibit A hereto: (a) by deleting each term thereof which is lined out and (b) by inserting each term thereof which is double underlined, in each case in the place where such term appears therein.
 
3. Extension of Maturity Date.
 
(a)           Each Extending Term Loan Lender hereby extends the final maturity date applicable to all or any portion of its Term Loan (as detailed on its signature page hereto) to the Extended Term Loan Maturity Date. The final maturity date applicable to each other Term Lender (in each case, a “Non-Extending Term Loan Lender”) shall be the Non-Extended Term Loan Maturity Date, and the Extending Lenders understand and agree that the Term Loans of each Non-Extending Term Loan Lender shall become due and be payable, together with all interest and fees related thereto, on the Non-Extended Term Loan Maturity Date.
 
(b) Each Extending Revolving Lender hereby extends the termination date as applicable to all or any portion of its Revolving Commitment (as detailed on its signature page hereto) to the Extended Revolving Termination Date.  The termination date applicable to each other Revolving Lender (in each case, a “Non-Extending Revolving Lender”; Non-Extending Revolving Lenders and Non-Extending Term Loan Lenders, collectively, the “Non-Extending Lenders”) shall be the Non-Extended Revolving Termination Date and the Extending Lenders understand and agree that
 

the Revolving Loans of each Non-Extending Revolving Lender shall become due and payable, together with all interest and fees related thereto, on the Non-Extended Revolving Termination Date.

4. Reduction in Revolving Commitment and Prepayment of Term Loans.  On the Second Amendment Effective Date, the Borrower shall (a) reduce the Extended Revolving Commitment of each Extending Revolving Lender that has delivered a Commitment Reduction Notice substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto in an amount equal to 20% of such Extending Revolving Lender’s Extended Revolving Commitment and (b) prepay pro rata the principal amounts owing to the Term Lenders so that the sum of (i) the aggregate amount of Term Loans outstanding and (ii) the aggregate amount of Revolving Commitments outstanding after giving effect to the reduction pursuant to clause (a) above shall not exceed $1,500,000,000. With respect to the prepayment of the Term Loans, each Extending Term Loan Lender shall have the right to refuse such prepayment by checking the applicable box on its signature page hereto indicating such refusal, and any prepayment of the Term Loans so refused shall be reallocated and applied pro rata towards the payment of the principal amounts of (i) the then outstanding Term Loans of the Non- Extending Term Loan Lenders and (ii) any portion of the then outstanding Term Loans of the Extending Term Loan Lenders not being extended pursuant to this Amendment.
 
5. Allocation and Repayment of Revolving Loans and Letters of Credit.  Notwithstanding anything in the Credit Agreement to the contrary:
 
                        (a)          From the Second Amendment Effective Date until the Non-Extended Revolving Termination Date, all Revolving Loans shall be made in accordance with the aggregate Revolving Commitments (including both the Extended Revolving Commitments and the Non-Extended Revolving Commitments thereunder from time to time in effect).
 
(b)           On the Second Amendment Effective Date, the participations in any outstanding Letters of Credit shall be reallocated so that after giving effect thereto the Extending Revolving Lenders and the Non-Extending Revolving Lenders thereunder shall share ratably in the Aggregate Exposures thereunder in accordance with the aggregate Revolving Commitments (including both the Extended Revolving Commitments and the Non-Extended Revolving Commitments thereunder from time to time in effect). Thereafter until the Non-Extended Revolving Termination Date, the participations in any new Letters of Credit shall be allocated in accordance with the aggregate Revolving Commitments.  On the Non-Extended Revolving Termination Date, the participations in the outstanding Letters of Credit of the Non-Extending Revolving Lenders shall be reallocated to the Extending Revolving Lenders ratably in accordance with their Extended Revolving Commitments but in any case, only to the extent the sum of the outstanding Revolving Extensions of Credit of all Extending Revolving Lenders before giving effect to such reallocation plus the participations in the outstanding Letters of Credit of the Non-Extending Revolving Lenders does not exceed the total Revolving Commitments of all Extending Revolving Lenders.
 
(c)            If the reallocation described in clause (b) above cannot, or can only partially, be effected as a result of the limitations set forth therein, the Borrower shall within five Business Days following notice by the Administrative Agent, either (x) cash collateralize such Non-Extending Revolving Lender’s participations in the outstanding Letters of Credit (after giving effect to any partial reallocation pursuant to clause (b) above) or (y) backstop such Non-Extending Revolving Lender’s participations in the Letters of Credit (after giving effect to any partial reallocation pursuant to clause (b) above) with a letter of credit reasonably satisfactory to the Issuing Lender, in each case, for so long as any Letters of Credit are outstanding.

6. Replacement Lenders.  The Lenders party hereto and the Administrative Agent agree that the Borrower shall have the right on or before the Non-Extended Term Loan Maturity Date (with respect to Term Loans) or Non-Extended Revolving Termination Date (with respect to Revolving Commitments) to replace, in whole or in part (but if in part, in an aggregate principal amount of not
 

less than $1,000,000 (with respect to Term Loans) and $5,000,000 (with respect to Revolving Commitments) (other than in the case of the replacement of all of a Non-Extending Lender’s interest under the Credit Agreement)), the Commitment of any Non-Extending Lender with increases in the outstanding Term Loans or Revolving Commitments of one or more Extending Lenders or with new Term Loans or Revolving  Commitments of one or more other lenders or financial institutions or other entities that will become “Lenders” (each, a “Replacement Term Loan Lender” or “Replacement Revolving Lender”, as applicable; the Replacement Term Loan Lenders and Replacement Revolving Lenders collectively, the “Replacement Lenders”), subject (in the case of the replacement of the Term Loans or Revolving Commitments of any Non-Extending Lenders) to the payment at par of all amounts, including principal and accrued interest and fees, owing to such Non-Extending Lender with respect to the portion of the Term Loans or the Revolving Commitments, as applicable, being replaced under the Credit Agreement. Each Replacement Lender shall (i) be subject to the consent of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (such consent, in each case, shall not be unreasonably withheld) and (ii) have entered into an Assignment and Assumption or other documentation reasonably satisfactory to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent pursuant to which such Replacement Lender shall assume all or part of the outstanding Term Loan or Revolving Commitment of such Non-Extending Lender or shall agree to have a new or additional Term Loan or Revolving Commitment under which Loans may be borrowed only from the date of any reduction in or termination of the Term Loan or Revolving Commitment of such Non-Extending Lender; provided that after giving effect to any such replacement, the aggregate amount of the outstanding Term Loans and Revolving Commitments under the Credit Agreement shall not exceed the Maximum Facilities Amount. For the avoidance of doubt, after the Second Amendment Effective Date and on or before the Non-Extended Term Loan Maturity Date (with respect to Term Loans) or Non-Extended Revolving Termination Date (with respect to Revolving Commitments), any Non-Extending Lender that has not been replaced may, with the consent of the Borrower, extend all, or a portion of, its Term Loan or Revolving Commitment (but if electing to extend only a portion of its Term Loan or Revolving Commitment, in an aggregate amount not less than $1,000,000 and $5,000,000, respectively), converting such Lender (as to the portion so extended) into an Extending Term Loan Lender or Extending Revolving Lender, as applicable.
 
7. Termination of Local Facilities.  On and as of the Second Amendment Effective Date, each New Local Facility (as defined in the existing Credit Agreement before giving effect to the Second Amendment) shall be terminated, the commitments outstanding thereunder shall be redesignated for availability under the Revolving Facility and each letter of credit outstanding thereunder shall be deemed to be a Letter of Credit outstanding under the Revolving Facility.
 
8. Fees.
 
(a)           The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Extending Term Loan Lender that has executed and delivered a counterpart of this Amendment by 5:00 P.M., New York City time, on March 8, 2010, an extension fee in an amount equal to 12.5 basis points of such Lender’s Extended Term Loan.
 
(b)           The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Extending Revolving Lender that has executed and delivered a counterpart of this Amendment by 5:00 P.M., New York City time, on March 8, 2010, an extension fee in an amount equal to 100.0 basis points of such Lender’s Extended Revolving Commitment.
 
9.           Representations and Warranties.  On and as of the date hereof, after giving effect to this Amendment, the Borrower hereby confirms that the representations and warranties set forth in Section 4 of the Credit Agreement are true and correct in all material respects except to the extent that such representations and warranties expressly relate solely to a specific earlier date.
 

10.           Effectiveness of Amendment.  This Amendment shall become effective upon satisfaction of the following conditions precedent (such date, the “Second Amendment Effective Date”):
 
(a)  
the Lenders shall have consented to extend at least 75% of the existing Term Loans; provided that the Borrower shall have the right to waive this condition in its sole discretion;
 
(b)  
the Borrower shall have received, or substantially concurrently with the satisfaction of the other conditions precedent set forth in this Section, shall receive gross cash proceeds of not less than $250,000,000 from a public or private capital markets transaction not otherwise prohibited by the terms of the Credit Agreement (as amended by this Amendment); and
 
(c)  
the Administrative Agent shall have received the following:
 
(i)  
counterparts to this Amendment duly executed by Holdings, the Borrower, the Majority Facility Lenders for each Facility, each Extending Revolving Lender and each Extending Term Loan Lender
 
(ii)  
an extension fee for the account of each Extending Term Loan Lender that is a party to this Amendment in accordance with Section 8(a) hereof;
 
(iii)  
an extension fee for the account of each Extending Revolving Lender that is a party to this Amendment in accordance with Section 8(b) hereof;
 
(iv)  
all other fees required to be paid, and all expenses for which invoices have been presented (including the reasonable fees and expenses of legal counsel) required to be paid;
 
(v)  
executed counterparts from each Loan Party of the Guarantee and Collateral Acknowledgement substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C;

(vi)  
certified resolutions from the board of directors, members or other similar body of each Loan Party authorizing the execution, delivery and performance of the Amendment; and

(vii)  
the legal opinion of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, counsel to the Loan Parties and each special and local counsel as may be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent.  Each such legal opinion shall cover such customary matters incidental to the Amendment as the Administrative Agent may request and shall be addressed to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders.
 
10.           Continuing Effect; No Other Amendments or Consents.  Except as expressly provided herein, all of the terms and provisions of the Credit Agreement are and shall remain in full force and effect.  The amendments provided for herein are limited to the specific subsections of the Credit Agreement specified herein and shall not constitute a consent, waiver or amendment of, or an indication of the Administrative Agent’s or the Lenders’ willingness to consent to any action requiring consent under any other provisions of the Credit Agreement or the same subsection for any other date or time period.
 

11.           Expenses.  The Borrower agrees to pay and reimburse the Administrative Agent for all its reasonable costs and out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection with the preparation and delivery of this Amendment, including, without limitation, the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel to the Administrative Agent.
 
12.           Counterparts.  This Amendment may be executed in any number of counterparts by the parties hereto (including by facsimile and electronic (e.g. “.pdf”, or “.tif”) transmission), each of which counterparts when so executed shall be an original, but all the counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument.
 
13.           GOVERNING LAW.  THIS AMENDMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
 


 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this Amendment to be duly executed and delivered by their proper and duly authorized officers as of the day and year first above written.
 

 
 
 
 
 
AVIS BUDGET HOLDINGS, LLC
 
 
 
 
 
               By
/s/ Rochelle Tarlowe
 
 
 
 
Name:  Rochelle Tarlowe
Title:    Vice President and Treasurer
 

 
 
 
 
 
AVIS BUDGET CAR RENTAL, LLC
 
 
 
 
               By
/s/ Rochelle Tarlowe
 
 
 
 
Name: Rochelle Tarlowe
Title:  Vice President and Treasurer
 
 



 
 
 
 
 
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent
 
 
 
 
             By
/s/ Robert P. Kellas
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Name:  Robert P. Kellas
 Title:   Executive Director
 
 
 

 
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,
           as an Extending Term Loan Lender
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                By
 /s/ Susan E. Atkins
 
 
 
 
Name:  Susan E. Atkins
Title:    Managing Director

 

 
 
 
 
 
J.P. Morgan Whitefriars Inc.,
           as an Extending Term Loan Lender
 
 
 
             By
/s/ Virginia R. Conway    
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Name:  Virginia R. Conway
 Title:   Attorney-in-Fact
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
Citibank, N.A.,
           as an Extending Term Loan Lender
 
 
 
             By
/s/ Brian Blessing   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Name:  Brian Blessing
 Title:   Attorney-in-Fact

 
 

 

 
 
 
 
 
Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch,
           as an Extending Term Loan Lender
 
 
 
             By
/s/ Edward Schaffer  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Name:  Edward Schaffer
 Title:   Vice President
 
 
 
 
 
 
             By
/s/ Peter Schoepe     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Name:  Peter Schoepe
 Title:   Authorized Signatory
 
 
 
 

 

 
 
 
 
Deutsche Bank AG London Branch,
           as an Extending Term Loan Lender
 
 
 
             By
/s/ Deirdre Cesario    
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Name:  Deirdre Cesario
 Title:   Assistant Vice President
 
 
 
 
 
             By
/s/ Angeline Quintana     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Name:  Angeline Quintana
 Title:   Assistant Vice President
 
 

 

 
 
 
 
Wells Fargo Bank,
as an Extending Term Loan Lender
 
 
 
             By
/s/ Ross Berger
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Name:  Ross Berger
 Title:   Senior Vice President
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
Bank of America, N.A.,
as an Extending Term Loan Lender
 
 
 
             By
/s/ Jonathan M. Barnes
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Name:  Jonathan M. Barnes
 Title:   Vice President
 
 

 
 
 
____________,
           as an Extending Term Loan Lender



 

By:  ____________                                                     
Name:
Title:
 

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,
as an Extending Revolving Lender
 
 
 
             By
/s/ Robert P. Kellas
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Name:  Robert P. Kellas
 Title:   Executive Director
 


 
 
Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank,
as an Extending Revolving Lender
 
 
 
             By
/s/ Rod Hurst   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Name:  Rod Hurst
 Title:   Managing Director

 
 
 
 
 
             By
/s/ Yuri Muzichenko  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Name:  Yuri Muzichenko
 Title:   Director
 

 
 
Wachovia Bank, National Association,
as an Extending Revolving Lender
 
 
 
             By
/s/ Ronald F. Bentien, Jr.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Name:  Ronald F. Bentien, Jr.
 Title:   Director
 

 
 
 
 
 
Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch,
as an Extending Revolving Lender
 
 
 
             By
/s/ Omayra Laucella  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Name:  Omayra Laucella
 Title:   Vice President

 
 
 
 
 
             By
/s/ Carin Keegan
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Name:  Carin Keegan
 Title:   Director

 
 
 
Citibank, N.A.,
as an Extending Revolving Lender
 
 
 
             By
/s/ Michael M. Schadt
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Name:  Michael M. Schadt
 Title:   Director
 

 
 
 
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association,
as an Extending Revolving Lender
 
 
 
             By
/s/ Jennifer Clark
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Name:  Jennifer Clark
 Title:   Vice President
 
 

 
 
 
Bank of America, N.A.,
as an Extending Revolving Lender
 
 
 
             By
/s/ Chas A. McDonell
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Name:  Chas A. McDonell
 Title:   Senior Vice President
 
 

____________,
           as an Extending Revolving Lender

 
 

By: ____________                                                     
Name:
Title:
 

 
 

 
 

____________,
           as an Amending Non-Extending Lender

 

By: ____________                                                     
Name:
Title:
 

 
 

 

EXHIBIT A




CREDIT AGREEMENT1
 
among
 
AVIS BUDGET HOLDINGS, LLC,
 
AVIS BUDGET CAR RENTAL, LLC,
as Borrower,
 
The Subsidiary Borrowers from Time to Time Parties Hereto,
 
The Several Lenders from Time to Time Parties Hereto,
 
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent
 
DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC.,
as Syndication Agent,
 
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
CREDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE & INVESTMENT BANK
NEW YORK BRANCH (formerly known as CALYON),
and
CITICORP USA, INC.,
as Documentation Agents,

and

WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Co-Documentation Agent
 
Dated as of April 19, 2006
 



JPMORGAN SECURITIES INC.
and
DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC.,
as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners


 
 
1 Reflects changes made pursuant to the Second Amendment dated as of March 10, 2010
 

 
 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS
 

 
SECTION 1.                      DEFINITIONS
1
1.1           Defined Terms
1
1.2           Other Definitional Provisions
25
SECTION 2.                      AMOUNT AND TERMS OF COMMITMENTS
26
2.1           Term Commitments
26
2.2           Procedure for Term Loan Borrowing
26
2.3           Repayment of Term Loan
27
2.4           Revolving Commitments
27
2.5           Procedure for Revolving Loan Borrowing
28
2.6           Swingline Commitment
28
2.7           Procedure for Swingline Borrowing; Refunding of Swingline Loans
29
2.8           Commitment Fees, et
30
2.9           Termination or Reduction of Revolving Commitments
30
2.10           Optional Prepayments
31
2.11           Mandatory Prepayments
31
2.12           Conversion and Continuation Options
32
2.13           Limitations on Eurocurrency Tranche
32
2.14           Interest Rates and Payment Dates
32
2.15           Computation of Interest and Fees
33
2.16           Inability to Determine Interest Rate
33
2.17           Pro Rata Treatment and Payments
33
2.18           Requirements of Law
35
2.19           Taxes
36
2.20           Indemnity
37
2.21           Change of Lending Office
38
2.22           Replacement of Lenders
38
2.23           Incremental Facilities
38
2.24           Prepayments Required Due to Currency Fluctuation
40
2.25           Defaulting Lenders
41
SECTION 3.                      LETTERS OF CREDIT
42
3.1           L/C Commitment
42
3.2           Procedure for Issuance of Letter of Credit
42
3.3           Fees and Other Charges
43
3.4           L/C Participations
43
3.5           Reimbursement Obligation of the Borrowe
44
3.6           Obligations Absolute
44
3.7           Letter of Credit Payments
45
3.8           Applications
45
3.9           Existing Letters of Credit
45

 
 


SECTION 4                      REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
45
4.1           Financial Condition
45
4.2           No Change
46
4.3           Existence; Compliance with Law
46
4.4           Power; Authorization; Enforceable Obligations
46
4.5           No Legal Bar
46
4.6           Litigation
46
4.7           No Default
47
4.8           Ownership of Property; Liens
47
4.9           Intellectual Property
47
4.10           Taxes
47
4.11           Federal Regulations
47
4.12           ERISA
47
4.13           Investment Company Act; Other Regulations
48
4.14           Subsidiaries
48
4.15           Use of Proceeds
48
4.16           Accuracy of Information, etc
48
4.17           Security Documents
48
4.18           Certain Documents
49
SECTION 5.                      CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
49
5.1           Conditions to Initial Extension of Credit
49
5.2           Conditions to Each Extension of Credit
51
SECTION 6                      AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
51
6.1           Financial Statements
51
6.2           Certificates; Other Information
52
6.3           Payment of Obligations
53
6.4           Maintenance of Existence; Compliance
53
6.5           Maintenance of Property; Insurance
53
6.6           Inspection of Property; Books and Records; Discussions
53
6.7           Notices
54
6.8           Environmental Laws
54
6.9           Additional Collateral, etc
55
SECTION 7                      NEGATIVE COVENANTS
56
7.1           Financial Condition Covenants
56
7.2           Indebtedness
57
7.3           Liens
59
7.4           Fundamental Changes
61
7.5           Disposition of Property
61
7.6           Restricted Payments
62
7.7           Investments
63

 
 


7.8           Optional Payments and Modifications of Certain Agreements
64
7.9           Transactions with Affiliates
64
7.10           Sales and Leasebacks
65
7.11           Changes in Fiscal Periods
65
7.12           Clauses Restricting Subsidiary Distributions
65
7.13           Lines of Business
65
7.14           Business Activities of Holdings
65
SECTION 8.                      EVENTS OF DEFAULT
66
SECTION 9                      THE AGENTS
68
9.1           Appointment
68
9.2           Delegation of Duties
69
9.3           Exculpatory Provisions
69
9.4           Reliance by Administrative Agent
69
9.5           Notice of Default
69
9.6           Non-Reliance on Agents and Other Lenders
70
9.7           Indemnification
70
9.8           Agent in Its Individual Capacity
70
9.9           Successor Administrative Agent
71
9.10           Co-Documentation Agent, Documentation Agent and Syndication Agent
71
SECTION 10                                MISCELLANEOUS
71
10.1           Amendments and Waivers
71
10.2           Notices
73
10.3           No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies
74
10.4           Survival of Representations and Warranties
74
10.5           Payment of Expenses and Taxes
74
10.6           Successors and Assigns; Participations and Assignments
75
10.7           Adjustments; Set-off
78
10.8           Counterparts
78
10.9           Severability
78
10.10           Integration
78
10.11           GOVERNING LAW
79
10.12           Submission To Jurisdiction; Waivers
79
10.13           Judgment
79
10.14           Acknowledgements
79
10.15           Releases of Guarantees and Liens
80
10.16           Confidentiality
80
10.17           WAIVERS OF JURY TRIAL
80
10.18           USA Patriot Act
81

 


 
 

 

SCHEDULES:
 
1.1A           Commitments
1.1B           Excluded Subsidiaries
1.1C           Mandatory Costs
1.1D           Separation Agreement
1.1E           Tax Sharing Agreement
1.1F           Mortgaged Properties
2                Extended and Non-Extended Revolving Commitments
3.9             Existing Letters of Credit
4.4             Consents, Authorizations, Filings and Notices
4.9             Intellectual Property Matters
4.14           Subsidiaries
4.17           UCC Filing Jurisdictions
7.2(f)         Existing Indebtedness
7.3(g)        Existing Liens
7.5(h)        Dispositions
7.7(k)        Investments
7.9             Permitted Transactions
7.12           Certain Agreements

EXHIBITS:
 
A           Form of Guarantee and Collateral Agreement
B           Form of Compliance Certificate
C           Form of Closing Certificate
D           Form of Assignment and Assumption
E           Form of Legal Opinion of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
F           Form of Exemption Certificate
G           Form of Joinder
H           Form of Mortgage

ANNEXES:

A           Form of Fleet Financing Forecast

 
 

 

CREDIT AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of April 19, 2006, among AVIS BUDGET HOLDINGS, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Holdings”), AVIS BUDGET CAR RENTAL, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Borrower”), the Subsidiary Borrowers (as defined herein) from time to time parties hereto, the several banks and other financial institutions or entities from time to time parties hereto (the “Lenders”), DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC., as syndication agent (in such capacity, the “Syndication Agent”), BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., CREDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE & INVESTMENT BANK NEW YORK BRANCH (formerly known as CALYON) and CITICORP USA, INC., as documentation agents (in such capacity, the “Documentation Agents”), WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as co-documentation agent (in such capacity, the “Co-Documentation Agent”), 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 (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/16 of 1%) equal to the greatest of (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day, (b)(i) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day plus (ii) ½ of 1% and (c)(i) the Eurocurrency Rate for a one month interest period in effect on such day (or if such day is not a Business Day, the immediately preceding Business Day) plus (ii) 1%.  For purposes hereof:  (1) “Prime Rate” shall mean the rate of interest per annum publicly announced from time to time by JPMorgan Chase Bank as its prime rate in effect at its principal office in New York City (the Prime Rate not being intended to be the lowest rate of interest charged by JPMorgan Chase Bank in connection with extensions of credit to debtors) and (2) the Eurocurrency Rate for any day shall be based on the rate for deposits in Dollars appearing on the Reuters BBA Libor Rates Page 3750 (or on any successor or substitute page of such page) at approximately 11:00 a.m. London time on such day.  Any change in the ABR due to a change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate or the Eurocurrency Rate shall be effective as of the opening of business on the effective day of such change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate or the Eurocurrency Rate, respectively.
 
 “ABR Loans”:  Loans the rate of interest applicable to which is based upon the ABR.
 
AESOP Base Indenture”:  the Second Amended and Restated Base Indenture, dated as of June 3, 2004, between the AESOP Issuer and the AESOP Trustee, as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time.
 
AESOP Financing Program”:  the transactions contemplated by the AESOP Base Indenture, as it may be from time to time further amended, supplemented or modified, and the instruments and agreements referenced therein and otherwise executed in connection therewith, and any successor program.
 
 “AESOP Indebtedness”:  any Indebtedness incurred pursuant to the AESOP Financing Program.
 
AESOP Issuer”:  Avis Budget Rental Car Funding (AESOP) LLC.
 
 “AESOP Trustee”:  The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., in its capacity as Trustee under the AESOP Base Indenture.
 
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 “Administrative Agent”:  JPMorgan Chase Bank, 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.
 
Affiliate”:  as to any Person, any other Person which, directly or indirectly, is in control of, is controlled by, or is under common control with, such Person.  For purposes of this definition, a Person shall be deemed to be “controlled by” another if such latter Person possesses, directly or indirectly, power either to (i) vote 10% or more of the securities having ordinary voting power for the election of directors of such controlled Person or (ii) direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such controlled Person whether by contract or otherwise.
 
Agents”:  the collective reference to the Syndication Agent, the Documentation Agents, the Co-Documentation Agent and the Administrative Agent.
 
Aggregate Exposure”:  with respect to any Lender at any time, an amount equal to (a) until the Closing Date, the aggregate amount of such Lender’s Commitments at such time and (b) thereafter, the sum of (i) the aggregate then unpaid principal amount of such Lender’s Term Loans and (ii) the amount of such Lender’s Revolving Commitment then in effect or, if the Revolving Commitments have been terminated, the amount of such Lender’s Revolving Extensions of Credit 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.
 
Amending Non-Extending Lender”:  any Lender who agreed to the amendments set forth in the Second Amendment, but declined to extend any portion of its Term Loan or Revolving Commitment, as applicable, beyond its scheduled maturity date.
 
Applicable Margin”: (a) with respect to Non-Extended Term Loans, (i) 2.75% in the case of ABR Loans and (ii) 3.75% in the case of Eurocurrency Loans, (b) with respect to Revolving Loans and Swingline Loans made pursuant to Non-Extended Revolving Commitments, (i) 3.00% in the case of ABR Loans and (ii) 4.00% in the case of Eurocurrency Loans, (c) with respect to Extended Term Loans, (i) 3.25% in the case of ABR Loans and (ii) 4.25% in the case of Eurocurrency Loans and (d) with respect to Revolving Loans made pursuant to Extended Revolving Commitments, a rate determined in accordance with the Pricing Grid, provided that prior to and on the Non-Extended Revolving Termination Date, such rate shall not be, in any event, lower than (x) 3.00% in the case of ABR Loans and (y) 4.00% in the case of Eurocurrency Loans.
 
Application”:  an application, in such form as the Issuing Lender may specify from time to time, requesting the Issuing Lender to open a Letter of Credit.
 
Approved Fund”:  as defined in Section 10.6(b).
 
Asset Sale”:  any Disposition of property or series of related Dispositions of property (excluding any such Disposition permitted by clause (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e) of Section 7.5) that yields gross proceeds to any Loan Party (valued at the initial principal amount thereof in the case of non-cash proceeds consisting of notes or other debt securities and valued at fair market value in the case of other non-cash proceeds) in excess of $15,000,000.
 

 
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Assignee”:  as defined in Section 10.6(b).
 
Assignment and Assumption”:  an Assignment and Assumption, substantially in the form of Exhibit D.
 
Australian Dollars” and “A$”:  the lawful money of Australia.
 
Available Revolving Commitment”:  as to any Revolving Lender at any time, an amount equal to the excess, if any, of (a) such Lender’s Revolving Commitment then in effect over (b) such Lender’s Revolving Extensions of Credit then outstanding; provided, that in calculating any Lender’s Revolving Extensions of Credit for the purpose of determining such Lender’s Available Revolving Commitment pursuant to Section 2.8(a), the aggregate principal amount of Swingline Loans then outstanding shall be deemed to be zero.
 
Avis Budget Finance”:  Avis Budget Finance, Inc., a Delaware corporation.
 
Benefitted Lender”:  as defined in Section 10.7(a).
 
Board”:  the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States (or any successor).
 
Borrower”:  as defined in the preamble hereto.
 
Borrowing Date”:  any Business Day specified by the Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower as a date on which the Borrower or such Subsidiary Borrower requests the relevant Lenders to make Loans hereunder.
 
Budget”:  as defined in Section 6.2(c).
 
Budget Truck Division”:  the truck rental business of Budget Rent A Car System, Inc. and its Subsidiaries.
 
Business Day”:  any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which banks in the State of New York are permitted to close; provided, however, that when used in connection with a Eurocurrency Loan, the term “Business Day” shall also exclude any day on which banks are not open for dealings in Dollar deposits or deposits in any Optional Currency, as applicable, in the London Interbank market.
 
Canadian Dollars” and “C$”:  the lawful money of Canada.
 
Canadian Securitization Entity” means WTH Funding Limited Partnership, WTH Car Rental Limited Partnership, each an Ontario limited partnership, and any other special purpose entity formed for the purpose of engaging in vehicle financing in Canada including, without limitation, any other partnerships formed from time to time and each of the special purpose entities that may be partners in WTH Funding Limited Partnership, WTH Car Rental Limited Partnership or in any other such partnerships.
 
Capital Lease Obligations”:  as to any Person, the obligations of such Person to pay rent or other amounts under any lease of (or other arrangement conveying the right to use) real or personal property, or a combination thereof, which obligations are required to be classified and accounted for as capital leases on a balance sheet of such Person under GAAP and, for the purposes of this Agreement, the
 

 
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amount of such obligations at any time shall be the capitalized amount thereof at such time determined in accordance with GAAP.
 
Capital Stock”:  any and all shares, interests, participations or other equivalents (however designated) of capital stock of a corporation, any and all equivalent ownership interests in a Person (other than a corporation) and any and all warrants, rights or options to purchase any of the foregoing.
 
Cash Equivalents”:  any of the following, to the extent acquired for investment and not with a view to achieving trading profits: (i) obligations fully backed by the full faith and credit of the United States of America maturing not in excess of twelve months from the date of acquisition, (ii) commercial paper maturing not in excess of twelve months from the date of acquisition and rated at least “P-1” by Moody’s or “A-1” by S&P on the date of such acquisition, (iii) the following obligations of any Lender or any domestic commercial bank having capital and surplus in excess of $500,000,000, which has, or the holding company of which has, a commercial paper rating meeting the requirements specified in clause (ii) above: (a) time deposits, certificates of deposit and acceptances maturing not in excess of twelve months from the date of acquisition, or (b) repurchase obligations with a term of not more than thirty days for underlying securities of the type referred to in clause (i) above, (iv) money market funds that invest exclusively in interest bearing, short-term money market instruments and adhere to the minimum credit standards established by Rule 2a-7 of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and (v) municipal securities: (a) for which the pricing period in effect is not more than twelve months long and (b) rated at least “P-1” by Moody’s or “A-1” by S&P.
 
Cendant”:  Cendant Corporation, a Delaware corporation.
 
Change in Control”: (i) the acquisition by any Person or group (within the meaning of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules of the SEC thereunder as in effect on the Closing Date), directly or indirectly, beneficially or of record, of ownership or control of in excess of 50% of the voting common stock of Cendant on a fully diluted basis at any time or (ii) if at any time, individuals who at the Closing Date constituted the Board of Directors of Cendant (together with any new directors whose election by such Board of Directors or whose nomination for election by the shareholders of Cendant, as the case may be, was approved by a vote of the majority of the directors then still in office who were either directors at the Closing Date or whose election or nomination for election was previously so approved) cease for any reason to constitute a majority of the Board of Directors of Cendant, (iii) Cendant shall cease to own, directly or through one or more Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries, all of the capital stock of Holdings, free and clear of any direct or indirect Liens (other than statutory Liens) or (iv) Holdings shall cease to directly own all of the capital stock of the Borrower, free and clear of any direct or indirect Liens (other than statutory Liens or Liens created by the Loan Documents).  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this definition, the consummation of the Spin-Off Transactions shall not result in a Change in Control.
 
Closing Date”:  the date on which the conditions precedent set forth in Section 5.1 shall have been satisfied, which date is April 19, 2006.
 
Code”:  the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time.
 
Co-Documentation Agent”:  as defined in the preamble hereto.
 
Collateral”:  all property of the Loan Parties, now owned or hereafter acquired, upon which a Lien is purported to be created by any Security Document, provided, however, that Collateral shall not include the assets of any Foreign Subsidiary or more than 66% of the voting Capital Stock of any Foreign Subsidiary.
 

 
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Commitment”:  as to any Lender, the sum of the Term Commitment and the Revolving Commitment of such Lender.
 
Commitment Fee Rate”:  with respect to (i) Extended Revolving Commitments, 0.75% and (ii) Non-Extended Revolving Commitments, 0.50%.
 
Commonly Controlled Entity”:  an entity, whether or not incorporated, that is under common control with the Borrower within the meaning of Section 4001 of ERISA or is part of a group that includes the Borrower and that is treated as a single employer under Section 414 of the Code.
 
Compliance Certificate”:  a certificate duly executed by a Responsible Officer substantially in the form of Exhibit B.
 
Collateralized”:  secured by cash collateral arrangements and/or backstop letters of credit entered into on terms and in amounts reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the relevant Issuing Lender.
 
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 2.18, 2.19, 2.20 or 10.5 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.
 
Confidential Information Memorandum”:  the Confidential Information Memorandum dated March 2006 and furnished to certain Lenders.
 
Consolidated EBITDA”:  without duplication, for any period, Consolidated Net Income plus (a) provision for taxes based on income, (b) depreciation expense (excluding any such expense attributable to depreciation of Eligible Assets), (c) Consolidated Total Interest Expense, (d) amortization expense (excluding any such expense attributable to amortization of Eligible Assets), (e) non-cash stock option and restricted stock grant expense, (f)(i) separation, integration, restructuring and severance cash items and (ii) other extraordinary, unusual or non-recurring cash items, in the case of each of (i) and (ii) in an aggregate amount not to exceed $60,000,000 for any period, (g) other unusual or non-recurring non-cash expenses or losses, including fees, expenses and charges associated with the transactions contemplated by the Separation Agreement, (h) unrealized losses from interest rate, foreign exchange and gasoline Swap Agreements and (i) any other non-cash charges and expenses (including amortization of deferred financing fees), in the case of each of (a)-(i) above, to the extent such items are reflected as a charge in the calculation of Consolidated Net Income for such period.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, in calculating Consolidated EBITDA for any period, pro forma effect shall be given to (i)(A) any non-recurring gains (losses) on business unit dispositions outside the ordinary course of business and (B) any unusual or non-recurring non-cash income, in the case of each of (A) and (B) above, to the extent such items are reflected as income (losses) in the calculation of Consolidated Net Income for such period and (ii) any cash payments made during such period in respect of items described in clause (g) and (h) above subsequent to the fiscal quarter in which the relevant non-cash expenses or non-cash or unrealized losses were reflected as a charge in the calculation of Consolidated Net Income, all as determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP. For the purposes of calculating Consolidated EBITDA for any period of four consecutive fiscal
 

 
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quarters (each, a “Reference Period”) pursuant to any determination of the Consolidated Leverage Ratio, (i) if at any time during such Reference Period the Borrower or any Subsidiary shall have made any Material Disposition, the Consolidated EBITDA for such Reference Period shall be reduced by an amount equal to the Consolidated EBITDA (if positive) attributable to the property that is the subject of such Material Disposition for such Reference Period or increased by an amount equal to the Consolidated EBITDA (if negative) attributable thereto for such Reference Period and (ii) if during such Reference Period the Borrower or any Subsidiary shall have made a Material Acquisition, Consolidated EBITDA for such Reference Period shall be calculated after giving pro forma effect thereto as if such Material Acquisition occurred on the first day of such Reference Period.  As used in this definition, “Material Acquisition” means any acquisition of property or series of related acquisitions of property that (a) constitutes assets comprising all or substantially all of an operating unit of a business or constitutes all or substantially all of the common stock of a Person and (b) involves the payment of consideration by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in excess of $25,000,000; and “Material Disposition” means any Disposition of property or series of related Dispositions of property under Section 7.5(f), (g) or (h) that yields gross proceeds to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in excess of $25,000,000.
 
Consolidated Financial Statements”:  as defined in Section 4.1(b).
 
Consolidated Interest Coverage Ratio”:  for any period, the ratio of (a) Consolidated EBITDA for such period to (b) Consolidated Interest Expense for such period.
 
Consolidated Interest Expense”:  for any period, (a) total interest expense paid or payable in cash (including that properly attributable to Capital Leases Obligations, but excluding in any event (w) all capitalized interest and amortization of debt discount and debt issuance costs, (x) upfront fees in connection with any debt issuance and fees and expenses in connection with any amendment of debt, and (y) debt extinguishment costs) of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP including, without limitation, all commissions, discounts and other fees and charges owed with respect to letters of credit and bankers’ acceptance financing paid or payable in cash and net cash costs (or minus net profits) under interest rate Swap Agreements minus, (b) without duplication, any interest income of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP during such period (other than interest income earned on any Related Eligible Assets).  Notwithstanding the foregoing, interest expense in respect of any (i) Securitization Indebtedness, (ii) AESOP Indebtedness or (iii) Recourse Vehicle Indebtedness, in an amount, for this clause (iii), of up to $750,000,000, shall not be included in Consolidated Interest Expense; provided that for any period when the Consolidated Leverage Ratio is less than 3.25 to 1.0, interest expense on Recourse Vehicle Indebtedness in an amount up to $850,000,000 shall not be included in Consolidated Interest Expense.  For purposes of calculating Consolidated Interest Expense related to Recourse Vehicle Indebtedness, such amount shall be equal to the product of:
 
Recourse Vehicle Indebtedness – $750,000,000 (or $850,000,000, as applicable)
x
total cash interest expense on Recourse Vehicle Indebtedness
Recourse Vehicle Indebtedness
 
Consolidated Leverage Ratio”:  as at the last day of any period, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Total Debt on such day to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for such period.
 
Consolidated Net Income”:  for any period for which such amount is being determined, the net income (or loss) of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries during such period determined on a consolidated basis for such period taken as a single accounting period in accordance with GAAP; provided that there shall be excluded (i) income (loss) of any Person (other than a Subsidiary of the Borrower) in which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries has any equity investment or comparable interest, except to the extent of the amount of dividends or other distributions actually paid to the Borrower or its Subsidiaries
 

 
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by such Person during such period, (ii) the income of any Subsidiary of the Borrower to the extent that the declaration or payment of dividends or similar distributions by that Subsidiary of the income is not at the time permitted by operation of the terms of its charter, or any agreement, instrument, judgment, decree, order, statute, rule or governmental regulation applicable to that Subsidiary, (iii) any extraordinary after-tax gains and (iv) any extraordinary or unusual pretax non-cash losses.
 
Consolidated Total Debt”:  at any date, the aggregate principal amount of all Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries at such date, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP; provided that, for purposes of this definition, Indebtedness shall not include (i)(x) Securitization Indebtedness, (y) AESOP Indebtedness or (z) Recourse Vehicle Indebtedness up to $750,000,000;  provided that for any period when the Consolidated Leverage Ratio is less than 3.25 to 1.0, Recourse Vehicle Indebtedness up to $850,000,000 shall be excluded from Consolidated Total Debt, (ii) the aggregate undrawn amount of outstanding Letters of Credit, (iii) the aggregate undrawn amount of outstanding letters of credit under the Letter of Credit Facilities or (iv) obligations under Swap Agreements.  In addition, for purposes of this definition, the amount of Indebtedness at any time shall be reduced (but not to less than zero) by the amount of Excess Cash.
 
Consolidated Total Interest Expense”:  for any period, without duplications (a) total interest expense paid or payable in cash (including that properly attributable to Capital Leases Obligations) plus, (b)(x) all capitalized interest and amortization of debt discount and debt issuance costs and (y) debt extinguishment costs, in each case, of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP including, without limitation, all commissions, discounts and other fees and charges owed with respect to letters of credit and bankers’ acceptance financing and net cash costs (or minus net profits) under interest rate Swap Agreements minus, (c) without duplication, any interest income of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP during such period (other than interest income earned on any Related Eligible Assets).  Notwithstanding the foregoing, interest expense in respect of any (i) Securitization Indebtedness, (ii) AESOP Indebtedness or (iii) Recourse Vehicle Indebtedness, in an amount up to $750,000,000, shall not be included in Consolidated Total Interest Expense; provided that for any period when the Consolidated Leverage Ratio is less than 3.25 to 1.0, interest expense on Recourse Vehicle Indebtedness in an amount up to $850,000,000 shall not be included in Consolidated Total Interest Expense.  For purposes of calculating Consolidated Total Interest Expense related to Recourse Vehicle Indebtedness, such amount shall be equal to the product of:
 
Recourse Vehicle Indebtedness – $750,000,000 (or $850,000,000, as applicable)
x
total interest expense on Recourse Vehicle Indebtedness
Recourse Vehicle Indebtedness
 
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.
 
Currency”:  Dollars or any Optional Currency.
 
Default”:  any of the events specified in Section 8, whether or not any requirement for the giving of notice, the lapse of time, or both, has been satisfied.
 
Defaulting Lender” means any Lender, as reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent, that has (a) failed to fund any portion of its Loans or participations in Letters of Credit or Swingline Loans within three Business Days of the date required to be funded by it hereunder, unless such requirement to fund such Loan or participation in Letters of Credit or Swingline Loans is based on such Lender's good faith determination that the conditions precedent to funding such Loan or participation in Letters of Credit

 
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or Swingline Loans under this Agreement have not been satisfied and such Lender has notified the Administrative Agent  in writing to that effect, (b) notified the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender, the Swingline Lender or any Lender in writing that it does not intend to comply with any of its funding obligations generally under this Agreement or has made a public statement to the effect that it does not intend to comply with its funding obligations generally under this Agreement or under other agreements in which it commits to extend credit, (c) failed, within three Business Days after written request by the Administrative Agent, to confirm that it will comply with the terms of this Agreement relating to its obligations to fund prospective Loans and participations in then outstanding Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans, provided that such Lender shall cease to be a Defaulting Lender under this clause (c) upon receipt of such confirmation by the Administrative Agent, or (d) otherwise failed to pay over to the Administrative Agent or any other Lender any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder within three Business Days of the date when due, unless the subject of a good faith dispute; provided that a Lender shall not be a Defaulting Lender solely by virtue of the ownership or acquisition of any ownership interest in such Lender or a parent company thereof or the exercise of control over a Lender or parent company thereof by a Governmental Authority or instrumentality thereof.
 
Disposition”:  with respect to any property, any sale, lease, sale and leaseback, assignment, conveyance, transfer or other disposition thereof.  The terms “Dispose” and “Disposed of” shall have correlative meanings.
 
Documentation Agents”:  as defined in the preamble hereto.
 
Dollar Equivalent”:  on any date of determination, (a) with respect to any amount denominated in Dollars, such amount, and (b) with respect to an amount denominated in any Optional Currency, the equivalent in Dollars of such amount determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with normal banking industry practice using the Exchange Rate on the date of determination of such equivalent.  In making any determination of the Dollar Equivalent (for purposes of calculating the amount of Loans to be borrowed from the respective Lenders on any date or for any other purpose), the Administrative Agent shall use the relevant Exchange Rate in effect on the date on which the Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower delivers a request for Revolving Loans or on such other date upon which a Dollar Equivalent is required to be determined pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement.  As appropriate, amounts specified herein as amounts in Dollars shall be or include any relevant Dollar Equivalent amount.
 
Dollars” and “$”:  the lawful money of the United States.
 
Domestic Subsidiary”:  any Subsidiary of the Borrower organized under the laws of any jurisdiction within the United States.
 
Domestic Subsidiary Borrower”:  any Subsidiary Borrower which is a Domestic Subsidiary.
 
Eligible Assets”:  any of the following and any proceeds thereof: (a) assets (and interests in assets) that are of the type described as “assets under vehicle programs” in the consolidated financial statements of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, dated December 31, 2005, which shall include, without limitation, vehicles, vehicle leases, fleet maintenance contracts, fleet management contracts, other service contracts, receivables generated by any of the foregoing and other asset servicing rights, and (b) equity interests or other securities issued by any Subsidiary or other Person issuing securities or incurring Indebtedness secured by, payable from or representing beneficial interests in, or holding title or ownership interests in, assets of the type described in clause (a) above or interests in such assets.
 

 
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Environmental Laws”:  all laws, rules, orders, regulations, statutes, ordinances, codes, decrees, judgments, injunctions, notices or requirements issued, promulgated or entered into by any Governmental Authority, relating in any way to the environment, preservation or reclamation of natural resources, the management, release or threatened release of any Materials of Environmental Concern or to health and safety matters, including without limitation, the Clean Water Act also known as the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (“FWPCA”) 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq., the Clean Air Act (“CAA”), 42 U.S.C. §§ 7401 et seq., the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (“FIFRA”), 7 U.S.C. §§ 136 et seq., the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (“SMCRA”), 30 U.S.C. §§ 1201 etseq., the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (“CERCLA”), 42 U.S.C. § 9601 et seq., the Superfund Amendment and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (“SARA”), Public Law 99-499, 100 Stat. 1613, the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act (“ECPCRKA”), 42 U.S.C. § 11001 et seq., the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”), 42 U.S.C. § 6901 etseq., the Occupational Safety and Health Act as amended (“OSHA”), 29 U.S.C. § 655 and § 657, together, in each case, with any amendment thereto, and the regulations adopted and binding publications promulgated thereunder and all substitutions thereof.
 
ERISA”:  the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time.
 
Euro” and “”:  the official currency of the European Union.
 
Eurocurrency Base Rate”:  with respect to each day during each Interest Period pertaining to a Eurocurrency Loan, the rate per annum determined on the basis of the rate for deposits in Dollars or the applicable Optional Currency for a period equal to such Interest Period commencing on the first day of such Interest Period appearing on the applicable page of the Telerate screen as of 11:00 A.M., London time, two Business Days prior to the beginning of such Interest Period.  In the event that such rate does not appear on such page of the Telerate screen (or otherwise on such screen), the “Eurocurrency Base Rate” shall be determined by reference to such other comparable publicly available service for displaying eurocurrency rates for the applicable Currency as may be selected by the Administrative Agent or, in the absence of such availability, by reference to the rate at which the Administrative Agent is offered Dollar deposits or deposits in the applicable Optional Currency at or about 11:00 A.M., New York City time, two Business Days prior to the beginning of such Interest Period in the London interbank eurocurrency for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period for the number of days comprised therein.
 
Eurocurrency Loans”:  Loans the rate of interest applicable to which is based upon the Eurocurrency Rate.
 
Eurocurrency Rate”:  with respect to each day during each Interest Period pertaining to a Eurocurrency Loan, a rate per annum determined for such day in accordance with the following formula (rounded upward to the nearest 1/100th of 1%):
 
Eurocurrency Base Rate
1.00 - Eurocurrency Reserve Requirements
 
; provided that with respect to any Eurocurrency Loan denominated in Euro or Pounds Sterling, the Eurocurrency Rate shall the mean the Eurocurrency Base Rate plus if applicable, as reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with Schedule 1.1C, the Mandatory Costs; and provided further that the Eurocurrency Rate applicable to any Term Loan shall, in any event, be at all times no less than 1.50%.
 

 
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Eurocurrency Reserve Requirements”:  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 Board and any other banking authority to which the Administrative Agent or any Lender is subject, for Eurocurrency Liabilities (as defined in Regulation D).  Such reserve percentages shall include those imposed under Regulation D.  Eurocurrency Loans shall be deemed to constitute Eurocurrency Liabilities and as such shall be deemed to be subject to such reserve requirements without benefit of or credit for proration, exceptions or offsets which may be available from time to time to any Lender under Regulation D.  Eurocurrency Reserve Requirements shall be adjusted automatically on and as of the effective date of any change in any reserve percentage.
 
Eurocurrency Tranche”:  the collective reference to Eurocurrency Loans under a particular Facility the then current Interest Periods with respect to all of which begin on the same date and end on the same later date (whether or not such Loans shall originally have been made on the same day).
 
Event of Default”:  any of the events specified in Section 8, provided that any requirement for the giving of notice, the lapse of time, or both, has been satisfied.
 
Excess Cash”:  all cash and Cash Equivalents of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries at such time determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP in excess of $25,000,000.
 
Exchange Rate”:  for any day with respect to any Optional Currency, the rate at which such Optional Currency may be exchanged into Dollars, as set forth at 11:00 A.M., London time, on such day on the applicable Reuters currency page with respect to such Optional Currency.  In the event that such rate does not appear on the applicable Reuters currency page, the Exchange Rate with respect to such Optional Currency shall be determined by reference to such other publicly available service for displaying exchange rates as may be agreed upon by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower or, in the absence of such agreement, such Exchange Rate shall instead be the spot rate of exchange of the Administrative Agent in the London Interbank market or other market where its foreign currency exchange operations in respect of such Optional Currency are then being conducted, at or about 11:00 A.M., London time, on such day for the purchase of Dollars with such Optional Currency, for delivery two Business Days later; provided, however, that if at the time of any such determination, for any reason, no such spot rate is being quoted, the Administrative Agent may use any reasonable method it deems appropriate to determine such rate, and such determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
 
Excluded Person”:  as defined in the definition of “Subsidiary”.
 
Excluded Subsidiary”:  each Subsidiary listed on Schedule 1.1B and any other Subsidiary so long as the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower does not have the controlling authority under the organizational documents of such Excluded Subsidiary to incur Indebtedness on its behalf or grant Liens on its assets (other than purchase money security interests).
 
 
Existing Letters of Credit:  as defined in Section 3.9.
 
Extended Revolving Commitment”:  with respect to any Extending Revolving Lender at any time, the portion of such Lender’s Revolving Commitment extended pursuant to the Second Amendment (including any increase thereof in connection with the Second Amendment).
 
Extended Revolving Termination Date”:  the date that is the earlier of (a) April 19, 2013 or (b) 91 calendar days prior to the Non-Extended Term Loan Maturity Date unless on such date, either (i)
 

 
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the principal amount of Term Loans (other than Extended Term Loans) that remain outstanding does not exceed $75,000,000 or (ii) the Consolidated Leverage Ratio is not more than 4.00 to 1.00.
 
Extended Term Loan”:  with respect to any Extending Term Loan Lender at any time, the portion of such Lender’s outstanding Term Loan extended pursuant to the Second Amendment (including any increase thereof in connection with the Second Amendment).
 
Extending Lenders”:  the Extending Term Loan Lenders and Extending Revolving Lenders, individually or collectively, as the context may require.
 
Extending Revolving Lender”:  (a) any Revolving Lender who has agreed to extend all or a portion of its Revolving Commitment until the Extended Revolving Termination Date, (b) any Replacement Revolving Lender (as defined in the Second Amendment) or (c) any non-Extending Lender that has converted to become an Extending Revolving Lender pursuant to Section 6 of the Second Amendment.  A Lender shall only be an Extending Revolving Lender (x) for the period from, as the case may be, the Second Amendment Effective Date, the date that it becomes a Replacement Revolving Lender or the date it converts to become an Extending Revolving Lender and (y) only with respect to its Extended Revolving Commitment and any Loans made by it thereunder.
 
Extending Term Loan Lender”:  (a) any Term Loan Lender who has agreed to extend all or a portion of its outstanding Term Loan until the Extended Term Loan Maturity Date, (b) any Replacement Term Loan Lender (as defined in the Second Amendment) or (c) any non-Extending Lender that has converted to become an Extending Term Loan Lender pursuant to Section 6 of the Second Amendment.  A Lender shall only be an Extending Term Loan Lender (x) for the period from, as the case may be, the Second Amendment Effective Date, the date that it becomes a Replacement Term Loan Lender or the date it converts to become an Extending Term Loan Lender and (y) only with respect to the Extended Term Loans made by it thereunder.
 
Extended Term Loan Maturity Date”:  earlier of (a) April 19, 2014 or (b) 91 calendar days prior to the maturity of the Senior Unsecured Notes due May 15, 2014, if such Senior Unsecured Notes have not been repaid or refinanced by such date.
 
Facility”:  each of (a) the Term Commitments and the Term Loans made thereunder (the “Term Facility”) and (b) the Revolving Commitments and the extensions of credit made thereunder (the “Revolving Facility”).
 
Federal Funds Effective Rate”:  for any day, the weighted average of the rates on overnight federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by federal funds brokers, as published on the next succeeding Business Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such rate is not so published for any day that is a Business Day, the average of the quotations for the day of such transactions received by JPMorgan Chase Bank from three federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by it.
 
Fee Payment Date”:  (a) the third Business Day following the last day of each March, June, September and December and (b) the last day of the Revolving Commitment Period.
 
First Amendment Effective Date”:  December 23, 2008.
 
Fleet Financing Forecast”:  the Borrower’s annual forecast of financing needs for its domestic rental car rental fleet (including detailed sources and uses), substantially in the form set forth in Section 1 of Annex A.
 

 
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Foreign Subsidiary”:  any Subsidiary of the Borrower that is not a Domestic Subsidiary.
 
Foreign Subsidiary Borrower”:  any Subsidiary Borrower that is not a Domestic Subsidiary.
 
Funding Office”:  the office of the Administrative Agent specified in Section 10.2 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 federal, state, municipal or other governmental department, commission, board, bureau, agency or instrumentality, or any federal, state or municipal court, in each case whether of the United States or foreign.
 
Group Members”:  the collective reference to Holdings, the Borrower and their respective Subsidiaries.
 
Guarantee and Collateral Agreement”:  the Amended and Restated Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, dated as of the First Amendment Effective Date, as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time.
 
Guarantee Obligation”:  any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of the Person guaranteeing or having the economic effect of guaranteeing any Indebtedness of any other Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of the guarantor, direct or indirect, (a) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness (including reasonable fees and expenses related thereto) or to purchase (or to advance or supply funds for the purchase of) any security for the payment thereof, (b) to purchase or lease property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the owner of such Indebtedness of the payment thereof, (c) to maintain working capital, equity capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or (d) as an account party in respect of any letter of credit or letter of guaranty issued to support such Indebtedness; provided, however, that the amount of any Guarantee Obligation shall be limited to the extent necessary so that such amount does not exceed the value of the assets of such Person (as reflected on a consolidated balance sheet of such Person prepared in accordance with GAAP) to which any creditor or beneficiary of such Guarantee Obligation would have recourse.  Notwithstanding the foregoing definition, the term “Guarantee Obligation” shall not include any direct or indirect obligation of a Person as a general partner of a general partnership or a joint venturer of a joint venture in respect of Indebtedness of such general partnership or joint venture, to the extent such Indebtedness is contractually non-recourse to the assets of such Person as a general partner or joint venturer (other than assets comprising the capital of such general partnership or joint venture).  The term “Guarantee Obligation” shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business.
 
Guarantors”:  the collective reference to Holdings and the Subsidiary Guarantors.
 
Holdings”:  as defined in the preamble hereto.
 
Increased Amount Date”:  is defined in Section 2.23.
 
Incremental Commitment Agreement”:  is defined in Section 2.23.
 

 
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Incremental Loan Commitments”:  is defined in Section 2.23.
 
Incremental Revolving Commitments”:  is defined in Section 2.23.
 
Incremental Revolving Lender”:  is defined in Section 2.23.
 
Incremental Revolving Loan”:  is defined in Section 2.23.
 
 “Incremental Term Loan”:  is defined in Section 2.23.
 
Incremental Term Loan Commitments”:  is defined in Section 2.23.
 
Incremental Term Loan Lender”:  is defined in Section 2.23.
 
Indebtedness”:  of any Person at any date, without duplication, (a) all indebtedness of such Person for borrowed money, (b) all obligations of such Person for the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than current trade payables incurred in the ordinary course of such Person’s business), (c) all obligations of such Person evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures or other similar instruments, (d) all indebtedness created or arising under any conditional sale or other title retention agreement with respect to property acquired by such Person (even though the rights and remedies of the seller or lender under such agreement in the event of default are limited to repossession or sale of such property), (e) all Capital Lease Obligations of such Person, (f) all obligations of such Person, contingent or otherwise, as an account party or applicant under or in respect of acceptances, letters of credit, surety bonds or similar arrangements, (g) the liquidation value of all mandatorily redeemable preferred Capital Stock of such Person, (h) all Guarantee Obligations of such Person in respect of obligations of the kind referred to in clauses (a) through (g) above, (i) all obligations of the kind referred to in clauses (a) through (h) above secured by (or for which the holder of such obligation has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on property (including accounts and contract rights) owned by such Person, whether or not such Person has assumed or become liable for the payment of such obligation, and (j) for the purposes of Section 8(e) only, all obligations of such Person in respect of Swap Agreements.  The Indebtedness of any Person shall include the Indebtedness of any other entity (including any partnership in which such Person is a general partner) to the extent such Person is liable therefor as a result of such Person’s ownership interest in or other relationship with such entity, except to the extent the terms of such Indebtedness expressly provide that such Person is not liable therefor.
 
Insolvency”:  with respect to any Multiemployer Plan, the condition that such Plan is insolvent within the meaning of Section 4245 of ERISA.
 
Insolvent”:  pertaining to a condition of Insolvency.
 
Intellectual Property”:  the collective reference to all rights, priorities and privileges with respect to intellectual property, whether arising under United States, multinational or foreign laws or otherwise, including copyrights, copyright licenses, patents, patent licenses, trademarks, trademark licenses, technology, know-how and processes, and all rights to sue at law or in equity for any infringement or other impairment thereof, including the right to receive all proceeds and damages therefrom.
 
Interest Payment Date”:  (a) as to any ABR Loan (other than any Swingline Loan), the last day of each March, June, September and December to occur while such Loan is outstanding and the final maturity date of such Loan, (b) as to any Eurocurrency Loan having an Interest Period of three months or less, the last day of such Interest Period, (c) as to any Eurocurrency Loan having an Interest Period longer than three months, each day that is three months, or a whole multiple thereof, after the first day of such
 

 
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Interest Period and the last day of such Interest Period, (d) as to any Loan (other than any Revolving Loan that is an ABR Loan and any Swingline Loan), the date of any repayment or prepayment made in respect thereof and (e) as to any Swingline Loan, the day that such Loan is required to be repaid.
 
Interest Period”:  as to any Eurocurrency Loan, (a) initially, the period commencing on the borrowing or conversion date, as the case may be, with respect to such Eurocurrency Loan and ending one, two, three or six (or, if agreed to by all Lenders under the relevant Facility, nine or twelve) months thereafter, as selected by the Borrower or relevant Subsidiary Borrower in its notice of borrowing or notice of conversion, as the case may be, given with respect thereto; and (b) thereafter, each period commencing on the last day of the next preceding Interest Period applicable to such Eurocurrency Loan and ending one, two, three or six (or, if agreed to by all Lenders under the relevant Facility, nine or twelve) months thereafter, as selected by the Borrower or relevant Subsidiary Borrower by irrevocable notice to the Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 Noon, New York City time, on the date that is three Business Days prior to the last day of the then current Interest Period with respect thereto; provided that, all of the foregoing provisions relating to Interest Periods are subject to the following:
 
(i)  
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;

(ii)  
the Borrower or relevant Subsidiary Borrower may not select an Interest Period under a particular Facility that would extend beyond the Revolving Termination Date or beyond the date final payment is due on the Term Loans;
 
(iii)  
any Interest Period that begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of a calendar month; and
 
(iv)  
the Borrower and any relevant Subsidiary Borrower shall select Interest Periods so as not to require a payment or prepayment of any Eurocurrency Loan during an Interest Period for such Loan.
 
Investments”:  as defined in Section 7.7.
 
Issuing Lender”:  JPMorgan Chase Bank or any affiliate thereof and such other Lenders or affiliates thereof as may be designated in writing by the Borrower which agree in writing to act as such in accordance with the terms hereof and are reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent (including the issuer of any Existing Letters of Credit), in the capacity as issuer of any Letter of Credit.
 
Joinder Agreement”: is defined in Section 10.1.
 
JPMorgan Chase Bank”:  JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
 
judgment currency”:  as defined in Section 10.13.
 
L/C Obligations”:  at any time, an amount equal to the sum of (a) the aggregate then undrawn and unexpired amount of the then outstanding Letters of Credit and (b) the aggregate amount of drawings under Letters of Credit that have not then been reimbursed pursuant to Section 3.5.
 

 
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L/C Participants”:  the collective reference to all the Revolving Lenders other than the Issuing Lender.
 
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.
 
 
Letter of Credit Facilities”:  the Cendant letter of credit facilities, dated as of July 2, 2004, as such agreements may be amended, supplemented and amended and restated from time to time.
 
Letters of Credit”:  as defined in Section 3.1(a).
 
Lien”:  with respect to any asset, (a) any mortgage, deed of trust, lien, pledge, hypothecation, encumbrance, charge or security interest in, on or of such asset and (b) the interest of a vendor or a lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or title retention agreement (or any financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing) relating to such asset.
 
 “Loan”:  any loan made by any Lender pursuant to this Agreement.
 
Loan Documents”:  this Agreement, the Security Documents, the Notes and any amendment, waiver, supplement or other modification to any of the foregoing.
 
Loan Parties”:  each Group Member that is a party to a Loan Document.
 
 “Majority Facility Lenders”:  with respect to any Facility, the holders of more than 50% of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Term Loans or the Total Revolving Extensions of Credit, as the case may be, outstanding under such Facility (or, in the case of the Revolving Facility, prior to any termination of the Revolving Commitments, the holders of more than 50% of the Total Revolving Commitments).
 
Material Acquisition”: as defined in the definition of “Consolidated EBITDA”.
 
Material Adverse Effect”:  any event, development or circumstance that has had or could reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on (i) the business, operations, property or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole (it being understood that a bankruptcy filing by, or change in the actual or perceived credit quality of, or work stoppage affecting any “big three” auto manufacturer shall not constitute a Material Adverse Effect so long as such “big three” auto manufacturer has not failed to perform its material performance obligations owed to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries) or (ii) the validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents or the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent or the Lenders hereunder or thereunder; provided that on the date of making the initial extensions of credit under this Agreement, “Material Adverse Effect” shall mean any event, development or circumstance that has had or could reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the business, operations, property or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, excluding in any case, any event, development or circumstance resulting from (A) general changes or developments (other than those resulting from acts of terrorism, war or armed hostilities) in the vehicle rental industry or in the general economy (except to the extent such changes or developments have a disproportionate adverse effect on the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, relative to other participants in the vehicle rental industry), (B) normal seasonal changes in the results of operations of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, (C) the announcement of the Spin-Off Transactions and the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby, (D) changes in accounting requirements or principles or any changes in applicable laws or interpretations thereof, or (E)
 

 

 
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any failure in and of itself by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries to meet any estimates of revenues or earnings or other financial performance for any period (it being agreed that the facts and circumstances giving rise to such failure may be taken into account in determining whether there has been a Material Adverse Effect); provided that a bankruptcy filing by, or change in the actual or perceived credit quality of, or work stoppage affecting any “big three” auto manufacturer shall not constitute a Material Adverse Effect so long as such “big three” auto manufacturer has not failed to perform its material performance obligations owed to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries.
 
Material Disposition”: as defined in the definition of “Consolidated EBITDA”.
 
Materials of Environmental Concern”:  all explosive or radioactive substances or wastes and all hazardous or toxic substances, wastes or other pollutants, including petroleum or petroleum distillates, asbestos or asbestos containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas, infectious or medical wastes and all other substances or wastes of any nature regulated pursuant to any Environmental Law.
 
“Maximum Facilities Amount”: as defined in Section 2.23.
 
Moody’s”:  Moody’s Investors Service, Inc.
 
Mortgaged Properties”:  the real properties listed on Schedule 1.1F, as to which the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Lenders shall be granted a Lien pursuant to the Mortgages.
 
Mortgages”:  each of the mortgages and deeds of trust made by any Loan Party in favor of, or for the benefit of, the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Lenders, substantially in the form of Exhibit H (with such changes thereto as the Administrative Agent may approve or as shall be advisable under the law of the jurisdiction in which such mortgage or deed of trust is to be recorded).
 
Multiemployer Plan”:  a Plan that is a multiemployer plan as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA.
 
Net Cash Proceeds”:  (a) in connection with any Asset Sale or any Recovery Event, the proceeds thereof in the form of cash and Cash Equivalents (including any such proceeds received by way of deferred payment of principal pursuant to a note or installment receivable or purchase price adjustment receivable or otherwise, but only as and when received), net of attorneys’ fees, accountants’ fees, investment banking fees, amounts required to be applied to the repayment of Indebtedness secured by a Lien expressly permitted hereunder on any asset that is the subject of such Asset Sale or Recovery Event (other than any Lien pursuant to a Security Document) and other customary fees and expenses actually incurred in connection therewith and net of taxes paid or reasonably estimated to be payable as a result thereof (after taking into account any available tax credits or deductions and any tax sharing arrangements, to the extent such tax credits or deductions or tax sharing arrangements are utilized) and (b) in connection with any issuance or sale of Capital Stock or any incurrence of Indebtedness, the cash proceeds received from such issuance or incurrence, net of attorneys’ fees, investment banking fees, accountants’ fees, underwriting discounts and commissions and other customary fees and expenses actually incurred in connection therewith.
 
New Zealand Dollars” and “NZ$”:  the lawful money of New Zealand.
 
Non-Excluded Taxes”:  as defined in Section 2.19(a).
 
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Non-Extended Term Loan”:  any Term Loan or portion thereof not extended pursuant to the Second Amendment.
 
Non-Extended Revolving Commitment”:  any Revolving Commitment or portion thereof not extended pursuant to the Second Amendment.
 
Non-Extended Revolving Termination Date”:  April 19, 2011.
 
Non-Extended Term Loan Maturity Date”:  April 19, 2012.
 
Non-U.S. Lender”:  as defined in Section 2.19(d).
 
Notes”:  the collective reference to any promissory note evidencing Loans.
 
Obligations”:  the unpaid principal of and interest on (including interest accruing after the maturity of the Loans and Reimbursement Obligations 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 or any Subsidiary 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 and each Subsidiary Borrower to any Agent or Lender (or, in the case of Specified Swap Agreements and Specified Cash Management Agreements, any affiliate of any Agent or Lender, in each case, at the time such agreement was entered into), 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, the Letters of Credit, any Specified Swap Agreement, any Specified Cash Management Agreement or any other document made, delivered or given in connection herewith or therewith, whether on account of principal, interest, reimbursement obligations, swap coupon or termination payments, fees or indemnities, or reasonable out-of-pocket costs or expenses (including reasonable out-of-pocket fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the Administrative Agent or to any Lender that are required to be paid by the Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower pursuant hereto) or otherwise.
 
OID”: is defined in Section 2.23.
 
Optional Currency”:  at any time, Australian Dollars, Canadian Dollars, Euro, New Zealand Dollars, Pounds Sterling and such other currencies which are convertible into Dollars and are freely traded and available in the London interbank eurocurrency market.
 
original currency”:  as defined in Section 10.13.
 
Other Taxes”:  any and all present or future stamp or documentary taxes or any other excise or property taxes, charges or similar levies arising from any payment made hereunder or from the execution, delivery or enforcement of, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
 
Parent”:  each of Cendant, Cendant Financing Holding Company, LLC and any other direct or indirect parent of Holdings and the Borrower.
 
Parent Expenses”:  (i) costs (including all professional fees and expenses) incurred by any Parent in connection with its reporting obligations under, or in connection with compliance with, applicable laws or applicable rules of any applicable laws or applicable rules of any governmental, regulatory or self-regulatory body or stock exchange, the Senior Unsecured Note Indenture, or any other agreement or
 

 
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instrument relating to Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor, including in respect of any reports filed with respect to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the respective rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, (ii) an aggregate amount not to exceed $5,000,000 in any fiscal year to permit any Parent to pay its corporate overhead expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business, and to pay salaries or other compensation of employees who perform services for any Parent or for such Parent and the Borrower, provided that Cendant allocates such overhead among its Subsidiaries in conformity with clause (vi) of this paragraph, (iii) expenses incurred by any Parent in connection with the acquisition, development, maintenance, ownership, prosecution, protection and defense of its Intellectual Property and associated rights to the extent such Intellectual Property and associated rights relate to the business or businesses of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, (iv) indemnification obligations of any Parent owing to directors, officers, employees or other Persons under its charter or by-laws or pursuant to written agreements with any such Person, (v) other operational and tax expenses of any Parent attributable to or incurred on behalf of Holdings, the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business, including reimbursement obligations under the Letter of Credit Facilities and including obligations in respect of director and officer insurance (including premiums therfor); provided, that following the completion of the Spin-Off Transactions, all operational and tax expenses of any Parent are deemed to be attributable to or incurred on behalf of the Borrower if the Borrower’s and its Subsidiaries’ activities represent substantially all of the operating activities of such Parent and all of its Subsidiaries, (vi) prior to the completion of the Spin-Off Transactions, general corporate overhead expenses allocated in conformity with past practices of the Borrower or as applied to other Subsidiaries of Cendant (or, if applicable, to former Subsidiaries of Cendant), and (vii) fees and expenses incurred by any Parent in connection with any offering of Capital Stock or Indebtedness, (x) where the net proceeds of such offering are intended to be received by or contributed or loaned to the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor, or (y) in a prorated amount of such expenses in proportion to the amount of such net proceeds intended to be so received, contributed or loaned, or (z) otherwise on an interim basis prior to completion of such offering so long as any Parent shall cause the amount of such expenses to be repaid to the Borrower or the relevant Subsidiary Guarantor out of the proceeds of such offering promptly if completed.
 
Participant”:  as defined in Section 10.6(c).
 
PBGC”:  the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation established pursuant to Subtitle A of Title IV of ERISA (or any successor).
 
Permitted Acquisition”:  an acquisition or any series of related acquisitions by a Loan Party (including any merger where such Loan Party (or a Subsidiary that becomes a Loan Party) is the surviving entity) of (a) all or substantially all of the assets or a majority of the outstanding Capital Stock of any Person or (b) any division, line of business or other business unit of any Person (such Person or such division, line of business or other business unit of such Person shall be referred to herein as the “Target”), in each case that is a type of business (or assets used in a type of business) permitted to be engaged in by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries pursuant to Section 7.13, so long as (i) no Default or Event of Default shall then exist or would exist after giving effect thereto, (ii) the Borrower shall demonstrate to the reasonable satisfaction of the Administrative Agent (which calculations and information provided to the Administrative Agent shall be made available to the Lenders) that, after giving effect to the acquisition on a pro forma basis, the Borrower is in compliance with each of the financial covenants set forth in Section 7.1 as of the most recently ended fiscal quarter for which financial statements have been delivered hereunder, (iii) the Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Lenders, shall have received (or shall receive in connection with the closing of such acquisition) a first priority perfected security interest, subject only to Permitted Liens, in Collateral described in the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement (including, without limitation, Capital Stock) acquired with respect to the Target in accordance with the terms of Section 6.9 and the Target, if a Person that has not merged with any Loan Party, shall have taken such actions as are required of
 

 
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it under Section 6.9 and (iv) such acquisition shall not be a “hostile” acquisition and shall have been approved by the Board of Directors and/or shareholders of the applicable Loan Party and the Target.
 
Permitted Lien”:  any Lien permitted by Section 7.3.
 
 Permitted Refinancing”:  any Indebtedness or Capital Stock issued in exchange for, or the net proceeds of which are used to extend, refinance, renew, replace, defease or refund other Indebtedness; provided that:
 
(i)  the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of such Indebtedness does not exceed the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of the Indebtedness so extended, refinanced, renewed, replaced, defeased or refunded (plus all accrued interest thereon and the amount of all fees, expenses and premiums incurred in connection therewith);
 
(ii)  such Indebtedness has a final maturity date later than the final maturity date of, and has a weighted average life to maturity equal to or greater than the weighted average life to maturity of, the Indebtedness being extended, refinanced, renewed, replaced, defeased or refunded; and
 
(iii)  such Indebtedness is incurred by the obligor (or obligors) on the Indebtedness being extended, refinanced, renewed, replaced, defeased or refunded.
 
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”:  at a particular time, any employee benefit plan that is covered by ERISA and in respect of which the Borrower or a Commonly Controlled Entity is (or, if such plan were terminated at such time, would under Section 4069 of ERISA be deemed to be) an “employer” as defined in Section 3(5) of ERISA.
 
Pounds Sterling” and “£:  the lawful money of the United Kingdom.
 
Pricing Grid”:  the table set forth below (in basis points):
 
 
Level
Specified
Rating
Applicable Margin
Eurodollar Loans
Applicable Margin
ABR Loans
Level I
≥ Ba3 from Moody’s and
≥ BB- from S&P
3.75%
2.75%
Level II
B1 from Moodys’s and
B+ from S&P
4.00%
3.00%
Level III
<B1 from Moody’s and
<B+ from S&P
4.50%
3.50%
 
In the event the Specified Rating assigned by Moody’s is not equivalent to the Specified Rating assigned by S&P, the lower of the two Specified Ratings will determine the Applicable Margin, unless the Specified Ratings are two or more levels apart, in which case the Applicable Margin shall be based on Level II so long as the lower Specified Rating is at least B1 from Moody’s or B+ from S&P. In the event either

 
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Moody’s or S&P shall cease to assign a Specified Rating, then the Applicable Margin shall be based on Level III. Any change in the Applicable Margin determined in accordance with the foregoing table shall become effective on the date of announcement or publication by the Borrower or either rating agency of any change in the Specified Ratings or, in the absence of such announcement or publication, on the effective date of such change in the Specified Ratings.
 

Pro Forma Balance Sheet”:  as defined in Section 4.1(a).
 
Properties”:  the facilities and properties owned, leased or operated by any Group Member.
 
Recourse Vehicle Indebtedness”:  Indebtedness (i) secured by, payable from or representing beneficial interests in Eligible Assets or (ii) that is unsecured, the proceeds of which are used, directly or indirectly, to purchase Eligible Assets, which provides for recourse to the Borrower or any Subsidiary (other than a Securitization Entity); provided that Recourse Vehicle Indebtedness shall not include any Indebtedness of the Borrower and Avis Budget Finance in respect of the Senior Unsecured Notes and any Permitted Refinancing thereof.
 
Recovery Event”:  any settlement of or payment in a principal amount greater than $15,000,000 in respect of any property or casualty insurance claim or any condemnation proceeding relating to any asset of any Loan Party.
 
Reference Period”: as defined in the definition of  “Consolidated EBITDA”.
 
Refunded Swingline Loans”:  as defined in Section 2.7.
 
Register”:  as defined in Section 10.6(b).
 
Regulation S-X”:  Regulation S-X, promulgated pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as such Regulation is in effect on the date hereof.
 
Regulation U”:  Regulation U of the Board as in effect from time to time.
 
Reimbursement Obligation”:  the obligation of the Borrower or relevant Subsidiary Borrower to reimburse the Issuing Lender pursuant to Section 3.5 for amounts drawn under Letters of Credit.
 
Reinvestment Deferred Amount”:  with respect to any Reinvestment Event, the aggregate Net Cash Proceeds received by any Loan Party in connection therewith that are not applied to prepay the Term Loans or reduce the Revolving Commitments pursuant to Section 2.11(b) as a result of the delivery of a Reinvestment Notice.
 
Reinvestment Event”:  any Asset Sale or Recovery Event in respect of which the Borrower has delivered a Reinvestment Notice.
 
 “Reinvestment Notice”:  a written notice executed by a Responsible Officer stating that no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and that the Borrower (directly or indirectly through a Subsidiary) intends and expects to use all or a specified portion of the Net Cash Proceeds of an Asset Sale or Recovery Event to acquire or repair assets useful in its business.
 
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Reinvestment Prepayment Amount”:  with respect to any Reinvestment Event, the Reinvestment Deferred Amount relating thereto less any amount expended prior to the relevant Reinvestment Prepayment Date to acquire or repair assets useful in the Borrower’s business.
 
Reinvestment Prepayment Date”:  with respect to any Reinvestment Event, the earlier of (a) the date occurring six months after such Reinvestment Event and (b) the date on which the Borrower shall have determined not to, or shall have otherwise ceased to, acquire or repair assets useful in the Borrower’s business with all or any portion of the relevant Reinvestment Deferred Amount.
 
Related Eligible Assets”:  Eligible Assets that secure or are the direct or indirect source of payment for AESOP Indebtedness, Securitization Indebtedness or Recourse Vehicle Indebtedness.
 
Related Taxes”:  any and all Taxes required to be paid by the Borrower or any Parent other than Taxes directly attributable to (i) the income of any entity other than any Parent, Holdings, the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, (ii) owning the Capital Stock of any corporation or other entity other than any Parent, Holdings, the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or (iii) withholding taxes on payments actually made by any Parent other than to any other Parent, Holdings, the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries.
 
Reorganization”:  with respect to any Multiemployer Plan, the condition that such plan is in reorganization within the meaning of Section 4241 of ERISA.
 
Replaced Term Loan”:  as defined in Section 10.1(b).
 
Replacement Term Loan”:  as defined in Section 10.1(b).
 
Reportable Event”:  any of the events set forth in Section 4043(c) of ERISA, other than those events as to which the thirty day notice period is waived under subsections .27, .28, .29, .30, .31, .32, .34 or .35 of PBGC Reg. § 4043.
 
Required Lenders”:  at any time, the holders of more than 50% of (a) until the Closing Date, the Commitments then in effect and (b) thereafter, the sum of (i) the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Term Loans then outstanding and (ii) the Total Revolving Commitments then in effect or, if the Revolving Commitments have been terminated, the Total Revolving Extensions of Credit then outstanding.
 
Requirements 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 of competent jurisdiction or other Governmental Authority, in each case applicable to and binding upon such Person and any of its property, and to which such Person and any of its property is subject.
 
Responsible Officer”:  the chief executive officer, president, chief accounting officer, chief financial officer, treasurer or assistant treasurer of the Borrower.
 
Restricted Payments”:  as defined in Section 7.6.
 
Revolving Commitment”:  as to any Lender, the obligation of such Lender, if any, to make Revolving Loans and participate in Swingline Loans and Letters of Credit in an aggregate principal and/or face amount not to exceed the amount set forth under the heading “Revolving Commitment” opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 1.1A or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which
 

 
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such Lender became a party hereto, as the same may be changed from time to time pursuant to the terms hereof.  The amount of the Extended Revolving Commitment and the Non-Extended Revolving Commitment of such Lender after the Second Amendment Effective date is set forth in Schedule 2.
 
Revolving Commitment Period”:  the period from and including the Closing Date to the Revolving Termination Date.
 
Revolving Extensions of Credit”:  as to any Revolving Lender at any time, an amount equal to the sum of (a) the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate principal amount of all Revolving Loans held by such Lender then outstanding, (b) the Dollar Equivalent of such Lender’s Revolving Percentage of the L/C Obligations then outstanding and (c) such Lender’s Revolving Percentage of the aggregate principal amount of Swingline Loans then outstanding.
 
Revolving Lender”:  each Lender that has a Revolving Commitment or that holds Revolving Loans.
 
Revolving Loans”:  as defined in Section 2.4(a).
 
Revolving Percentage”:  as to any Revolving Lender at any time, the percentage which such Lender’s Revolving Commitment then constitutes of the Total Revolving Commitments or, at any time after the Revolving Commitments shall have expired or terminated, the percentage which the aggregate principal amount of such Lender’s Revolving Loans then outstanding constitutes of the aggregate principal amount of the Revolving Loans then outstanding, provided, that, in the event that the Revolving Loans are paid in full prior to the reduction to zero of the Total Revolving Extensions of Credit, the Revolving Percentages shall be determined in a manner designed to ensure that the other outstanding Revolving Extensions of Credit shall be held by the Revolving Lenders on a comparable basis.
 
Revolving Termination Date”:  (a) with respect to Revolving Commitments other than Extended Revolving Commitments, the Non-Extended Revolving Termination Date and (b) with respect to Extended Revolving Commitments, the Extended Revolving Termination Date.
 
S&P”:  Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group.
 
SEC”:  the Securities and Exchange Commission, any successor thereto and any analogous Governmental Authority.
 
Second Amendment”:  the Second Amendment to this Agreement, dated as of March 10, 2010, among Holdings, Borrower, the Extending Term Loan Lenders, the Extending Revolving Lenders and the Amending Non-Extending Lenders party thereto.
 
Second Amendment Effective Date”:  the date on which all the conditions set forth in Section 10 of the Second Amendment are satisfied.
 
Securitization Entity”:  any Subsidiary or other Person (a) engaged solely in the business of effecting asset securitization transactions and related activities or (b) whose primary purpose is to hold title or ownership interests in Eligible Assets, it being understood that each Canadian Securitization entity, shall be deemed to be a Securitization Entity.
 
Securitization Indebtedness”:  Indebtedness incurred by or attributable to a Securitization Entity that does not permit or provide for recourse (other than Standard Securitization Undertakings) to the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower (other than a Securitization Entity or a Foreign Subsidiary
 

 
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organized under the laws of Canada) or any property or asset of the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower (other than the property or assets of, or any equity interests or other securities issued by, a Securitization Entity or a Foreign Subsidiary organized under the laws of Canada).
 
Security Documents”:  the collective reference to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, the Mortgages and all other security documents hereafter delivered to the Administrative Agent granting a Lien on any property of any Person to secure the obligations and liabilities of any Loan Party under any Loan Document.
 
Senior Unsecured Note Indenture”:  the Indenture entered into by the Borrower and Avis Budget Finance in connection with the issuance of the Senior Unsecured Notes, together with all instruments and other agreements entered into by the Borrower, Avis Budget Finance and any other Subsidiary of the Borrower in connection therewith.
 
Senior Unsecured Notes”:  (i) the 7.625% senior notes of the Borrower and Avis Budget Finance due 2014, (ii) the 7.75% senior notes of the Borrower and Avis Budget Finance due 2016 and (iii) the floating rate senior notes of the Borrower and Avis Budget Finance due 2014 issued pursuant to the Senior Unsecured Note Indenture.
 
Separation Agreement”:  as described on Schedule 1.1D.
 
Significant Subsidiary”:  any Subsidiary that would be a “significant subsidiary” as defined in Article 1, Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X.
 
Single Employer Plan”:  any Plan that is covered by Title IV of ERISA, but that is not a Multiemployer Plan.
 
Specified Cash Management Agreement”:  any agreement providing for treasury, depositary or cash management services, including in connection with any automated clearing house transfers of funds or any similar transactions between the Borrower or any Guarantor and any Lender or affiliate thereof or any Agent or affiliate thereof, which has been designated by such Lender and the Borrower, by notice to the Administrative Agent not later than 90 days after the execution and delivery by the Borrower or such Guarantor, as a “Specified Cash Management Agreement”.
 
 
Specified Ratings”:  the corporate credit rating assigned by Moody’s and the corporate issuer rating assigned by S&P, in each case, with respect to the Borrower. In the event that either Moody’s or S&P places the Borrower’s corporate credit rating on “Watchlist” for a possible downgrade in the case of Moody’s or the Borrowers’ corporate issuer rating on “CreditWatch” with negative implications in the case of S&P (or, in each case, any successor, replacement or analogous list) the Specified Rating from such rating agency shall be the next lower rating below the then corporate credit rating or the corporate issuer rating, as the case may be, of the Borrower assigned by such rating agency.
 

 “Specified Swap Agreement”:  any Swap Agreement entered into by the Borrower or any Guarantor and any counterparty that at the time such Swap Agreement was entered into was an Agent, Lender or affiliate thereof, to hedge or mitigate its risk with respect to interest rates, currency exchange rates or commodity prices, including, without limitation, Swap Agreements entered into by such parties with respect to AESOP Indebtedness, Recourse Vehicle Indebtedness or Securitization Indebtedness.
 
Spin-Off Transactions”:  the separation of Cendant as contemplated by the Separation Agreement.
 
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Standard Securitization Undertakings”:  representations, warranties (and any related repurchase obligations), servicer obligations, guaranties, covenants and indemnities entered into by the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower of a type that are reasonably customary in securitizations.
 
 “Subsidiary”:  (a) with respect to any Person, any corporation, association, joint venture, partnership, limited liability company or other business entity (whether now existing or hereafter organized) of which at least a majority of the voting stock or other ownership interests having ordinary voting power for the election of directors (or the equivalent) is, at the time as of which any determination is being made, owned or controlled by such Person or one or more subsidiaries of such Person or by such Person and one or more subsidiaries of such Person or (b) any partnership where more than 50% of the general partners of such partnership are owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by (i) such Person and/or (ii) one or more Subsidiaries of 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; provided, that, at Borrower’s election, any Person in which an investment is made pursuant to Section 7.7(p) shall, so long as such investment is maintained in reliance on such Section, not be a “Subsidiary” of the Borrower for any purpose of this Agreement (other than Section 6.1) (each such Person referred to in this proviso being an “Excluded Person”); provided, further, that Borrower may elect to designate any Excluded Person as a “Subsidiary” at any time, upon which such Excluded Person shall be a “Subsidiary” for all purposes of this Agreement and be required to comply with all requirements applicable to such Subsidiary herein.
 
Subsidiary Borrower”:  any Subsidiary of the Borrower that becomes a party hereto pursuant to Section 10.1(c)(i) until such time as such Subsidiary Borrower is removed as a party hereto pursuant to Section 10.1(c)(ii).
 
Subsidiary Guarantor”:  each Subsidiary of the Borrower other than any Foreign Subsidiary, Excluded Subsidiary or Securitization Entity.
 
Swap Agreement”:  any agreement with respect to any swap, forward, future or derivative transaction or option or similar agreement involving, or settled by reference to, one or more rates, currencies, commodities, equity or debt instruments or securities, or economic, financial or pricing indices or measures of economic, financial or pricing risk or value or any similar transaction or any combination of these transactions; provided that no phantom stock or similar plan providing for payments only on account of services provided by current or former directors, officers, employees or consultants of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries shall be a “Swap Agreement”.
 
Swingline Commitment”:  the obligation of the Swingline Lender to make Swingline Loans pursuant to Section 2.6 in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed $50,000,000.
 
Swingline Lender”:  JPMorgan Chase Bank, in its capacity as the lender of Swingline Loans.
 
Swingline Loans”:  as defined in Section 2.6.
 
Swingline Participation Amount”:  as defined in Section 2.7.
 
Syndication Agent”:  as defined in the preamble hereto.
 
Target”: as defined in the definition of “Permitted Acquisition”.
 
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Tax Sharing Agreement”:  as described on Schedule 1.1E.
 
Taxes” means any taxes, charges or assessments, including but not limited to income, sales, use, transfer, rental, ad valorem, value-added, stamp, property consumption, franchise, license, capital, net worth, gross receipts, excise, occupancy, intangibles or similar tax, charges or assessments.
 
Term Commitment”:  as to any Lender, the obligation of such Lender, if any, to make a Term Loan to the Borrower in a principal amount not to exceed the amount set forth under the heading “Term Commitment” opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 1.1A.
 
Term Lender”:  each Lender that has a Term Commitment or holds a Term Loan.
 
Term Loans”:  as defined in Section 2.1.
 
Term Percentage”:  as to any Term Lender at any time, (i) in the case of Extended Term Loans, the percentage which the aggregate principal amount of such Lender’s Extended Term Loans then outstanding constitutes of the aggregate principal amount of the Extended Term Loans then outstanding and (ii) in the case of the Non-Extended Term Loans, the percentage which the aggregate principal amount of such Lender’s Non-Extended Term Loans then outstanding constitutes of the aggregate principal amount of the Non-Extended Term Loans then outstanding.
 
 “Total Revolving Commitments”:  at any time, the aggregate amount of the Revolving Commitments then in effect.
 
Total Revolving Extensions of Credit”:  at any time, the aggregate amount of the Revolving Extensions of Credit of the Revolving Lenders outstanding at such time.
 
Transferee”:  any Assignee or Participant.
 
Type”:  as to any Loan, its nature as an ABR Loan or a Eurocurrency Loan.
 
United States”:  the United States of America.
 
Wholly Owned Subsidiary”:  as to any Person, any other Person all of the Capital Stock of which (other than directors’ qualifying shares required by law) is owned by such Person directly and/or through other Wholly Owned Subsidiaries.
 
WTH Funding LP”:  WTH Funding Limited Partnership, an Ontario limited partnership, and any successor special purpose entity formed for the purpose of engaging in vehicle financings in Canada.
 
1.2           Other Definitional Provisions
 (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
 

 
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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.
 
(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.
 
SECTION 2.                      AMOUNT AND TERMS OF COMMITMENTS
 
2.1           Term Commitments.  Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each Term Lender severally agrees to make a term loan (a “Term Loan”) in Dollars to the Borrower on the Closing Date in an amount not to exceed the amount of the Term Commitment of such Lender.  The Term Loans may from time to time be Eurocurrency Loans or ABR Loans, as determined by the Borrower and notified to the Administrative Agent in accordance with Sections 2.2 and 2.12.

2.2           Procedure for Term Loan Borrowing.  The Borrower shall give the Administrative Agent irrevocable notice (which notice must be received by the Administrative Agent prior to (a) 12:00 Noon, New York City time, three Business Days prior to the anticipated Closing Date, in the case of Eurocurrency Loans, or (b) 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on the day of the anticipated Closing Date, in the case of ABR Loans) requesting that the Term Lenders make the Term Loans on the Closing Date and specifying the amount to be borrowed.  Upon receipt of such notice the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Term Lender thereof.  Not later than 12:00 Noon, New York City time, on the Closing Date each Term Lender shall make available to the Administrative Agent at the Funding Office an amount in immediately available funds equal to the Term Loan or Term Loans to be made by such Lender.  The Administrative Agent shall credit the account of the Borrower on the books of such office of the Administrative Agent with the aggregate of the amounts made available to the Administrative Agent by the Term Lenders in immediately available funds.

 
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2.3           Repayment of Term Loans.  (a) The Non-Extended Term Loans shall be repayable on each date set forth below in an amount equal to such Non-Extending Term Loan Lender’s Term Percentage multiplied by the amount set forth below opposite such date, subject to reduction pursuant to Section 2.17(b):

Installment
Principal Amount
April 30, 2010
$146,654.38
July 30, 2010
$146,654.38
October 29, 2010
$146,654.38
January 31, 2011
$146,654.38
April 29, 2011
$146,654.38
July 29, 2011
$146,654.38
October 31, 2011
$146,654.38
January 31, 2012
$146,654.38
Non-Extended Term Loan Maturity Date
$50,847,169.57
   

(b) The Extended Term Loans shall be repayable on each date set forth below in an amount equal to such Extending Term Loan Lender’s Term Percentage multiplied by the amount set forth below opposite such date, subject to reduction pursuant to Section 2.17(b):

Installment
Principal Amount
April 30, 2010
$769,012.15
July 30, 2010
$769,012.15
October 29, 2010
$769,012.15
January 31, 2011
$769,012.15
April 29, 2011
$769,012.15
July 29, 2011
$769,012.15
October 31, 2011
$769,012.15
January 31, 2012
$769,012.15
April 30, 2012
$769,012.15
July 31, 2012
$769,012.15
October 31, 2012
$769,012.15
January 31, 2013
$769,012.15
April 30, 2013
$769,012.15
July 31, 2013
$769,012.15
October 31, 2013
$769,012.15
January 31, 2014
$769,012.15
Extended Term Loan Maturity Date
$260,475,400.97

2.4           Revolving Commitments  (a)  Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each Revolving Lender severally agrees to make revolving credit loans (“Revolving Loans”) in Dollars and in any Optional Currency to the Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower from time to time during the Revolving Commitment Period in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding which, when added to such Lender’s Revolving Percentage of the sum of the Dollar Equivalent of (i) the L/C Obligations then outstanding and (ii) the aggregate principal amount of the Swingline Loans then outstanding, does not exceed the amount of such Lender’s Revolving Commitment.  During the Revolving Commitment Period the Borrower and any Subsidiary Borrower may use the Revolving Commitments by borrowing, prepaying

 
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the Revolving Loans in whole or in part, and reborrowing, all in accordance with the terms and conditions hereof.  The Revolving Loans may from time to time be Eurocurrency Loans or ABR Loans, as determined by the Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower and notified to the Administrative Agent in accordance with Sections 2.5 and 2.12.  ABR Loans shall be denominated only in Dollars.

(b)           The Borrower and any relevant Subsidiary Borrower shall repay all outstanding
Revolving Loans on the Revolving Termination Date.

2.5           Procedure for Revolving Loan Borrowing.   The Borrower and any Subsidiary Borrower may borrow under the Revolving Commitments during the Revolving Commitment Period on any Business Day, provided that the Borrower or the relevant Subsidiary Borrower shall give the Administrative Agent irrevocable notice (which notice must be received by the Administrative Agent prior to (a) 12:00 Noon, New York City time, three Business Days prior to the requested Borrowing Date, in the case of Eurocurrency Loans, or (b) 12:00 Noon, New York City Time, on the date of the proposed borrowing, in the case of ABR Loans) (provided that any such notice of a borrowing of ABR Loans under the Revolving Facility to finance payments required by Section 3.5 may be given not later than 12:00 Noon, New York City time, on the date of the proposed borrowing), specifying (i) the amount and Type of Revolving Loans to be borrowed, (ii) the requested Borrowing Date and (iii) in the case of Eurocurrency Loans, the respective amounts of each such Type of Loan, the Currency with respect thereto and the respective lengths of the initial Interest Period therefor.  If no election as to the Type of a Revolving Loan is specified in any such notice, then the requested borrowing shall be an ABR Loan.  If no Currency with respect to any Eurocurrency Loans is specified in any such notice, then the Borrower or the relevant Subsidiary Borrower shall be deemed to have requested a borrowing in Dollars.  If no Interest Period with respect to any Eurocurrency Loan is specified in any such notice, then the Borrower or the relevant Subsidiary Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month’s duration.  Each borrowing under the Revolving 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 Revolving Commitments are less than $1,000,000, such lesser amount) and (y) in the case of Eurocurrency Loans, $5,000,000 or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof; provided, that the Swingline Lender may request, on behalf of the Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower, borrowings under the Revolving Commitments that are ABR Loans in other amounts pursuant to Section 2.7.  Upon receipt of any such notice from the Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Revolving Lender thereof.  Each Revolving Lender will make the amount of its pro rata share of each borrowing available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Borrower or the relevant Subsidiary Borrower at the Funding Office prior to 2:00 P.M., New York City time, on the Borrowing Date requested by the Borrower in funds immediately available to the Administrative Agent.  Such borrowing will then be made available to the Borrower or the relevant Subsidiary Borrower by the Administrative Agent crediting the account of the Borrower or the relevant Subsidiary Borrower on the books of such office or such other account as the Borrower or relevant Subsidiary Borrower may specify to the Administrative Agent in writing with the aggregate of the amounts made available to the Administrative Agent by the Revolving Lenders and in like funds as received by the Administrative Agent.
 
2.6           Swingline Commitment.  (a) Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Swingline Lender agrees to make a portion of the credit otherwise available to the Borrower and any Subsidiary Borrower under the Revolving Commitments from time to time during the Revolving Commitment Period by making swing line loans (“Swingline Loans”) in Dollars to the Borrower and any Subsidiary Borrower; provided that (i) the aggregate principal amount of Swingline Loans outstanding at any time shall not exceed the Swingline Commitment then in effect (notwithstanding that the Swingline Loans outstanding at any time, when aggregated with the Swingline Lender’s other outstanding Revolving Loans, may exceed the Swingline Commitment then in effect) and (ii) the Borrower or the relevant Subsidiary Borrower shall not request, and the Swingline Lender shall not make, any Swingline Loan if,


 
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after giving effect to the making of such Swingline Loan, the aggregate amount of the Available Revolving Commitments would be less than zero.  During the Revolving Commitment Period, the Borrower and any Subsidiary Borrower may use the Swingline Commitment by borrowing, repaying and reborrowing, all in accordance with the terms and conditions hereof.  Swingline Loans shall be ABR Loans only.
 
(b)           The Borrower or relevant Subsidiary Borrower shall repay to the Swingline Lender the then unpaid principal amount of each Swingline Loan on the earlier of the Revolving Termination Date and the first date after such Swingline Loan is made that is the 15th or last day of a calendar month and is at least two Business Days after such Swingline Loan is made; provided that on each date that a Revolving Loan is borrowed, the Borrower or relevant Subsidiary Borrower shall repay all Swingline Loans then outstanding.

 
2.7           Procedure for Swingline Borrowing; Refunding of Swingline Loans.  (a) Whenever the Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower desires that the Swingline Lender make Swingline Loans it shall give the Swingline Lender irrevocable telephonic notice confirmed promptly in writing (which telephonic notice must be received by the Swingline Lender not later than 1:00 P.M., New York City time, on the proposed Borrowing Date), specifying (i) the amount to be borrowed and (ii) the requested Borrowing Date (which shall be a Business Day during the Revolving Commitment Period).  Each borrowing under the Swingline Commitment shall be in an amount equal to $500,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof.  Not later than 3:00 P.M., New York City time, on the Borrowing Date specified in a notice in respect of Swingline Loans, the Swingline Lender shall make available to the Administrative Agent at the Funding Office an amount in immediately available funds equal to the amount of the Swingline Loan to be made by the Swingline Lender.  The Administrative Agent shall make the proceeds of such Swingline Loan available to the Borrower or relevant Subsidiary Borrower on such Borrowing Date by depositing such proceeds in the account of the Borrower or relevant Subsidiary Borrower with the Administrative Agent or such other account as the Borrower or relevant Subsidiary Borrower may specify to the Administrative Agent in writing on such Borrowing Date in immediately available funds.

(b)  The Swingline Lender, at any time and from time to time in its sole and absolute discretion may, on behalf of the Borrower or relevant Subsidiary Borrower (each of which hereby irrevocably directs the Swingline Lender to act on its behalf), on one Business Day’s notice given by the Swingline Lender no later than 12:00 Noon, New York City time, request each Revolving Lender to make, and each Revolving Lender hereby agrees to make, a Revolving Loan, in an amount equal to such Revolving Lender’s Revolving Percentage of the aggregate amount of the Swingline Loans (the “Refunded Swingline Loans”) outstanding on the date of such notice, to repay the Swingline Lender.  Each Revolving Lender shall make the amount of such Revolving Loan available to the Administrative Agent at the Funding Office in immediately available funds, not later than 10:00 A.M., New York City time, one Business Day after the date of such notice.  The proceeds of such Revolving Loans shall be immediately made available by the Administrative Agent to the Swingline Lender for application by the Swingline Lender to the repayment of the Refunded Swingline Loans.  The Borrower and relevant Subsidiary Borrower irrevocably authorize the Swingline Lender to charge the Borrower’s and relevant Subsidiary Borrower’s accounts with the Administrative Agent (up to the amount available in each such account) in order to immediately pay the amount of such Refunded Swingline Loans to the extent amounts received from the Revolving Lenders are not sufficient to repay in full such Refunded Swingline Loans.
 
(c)  If prior to the time a Revolving Loan would have otherwise been made pursuant to Section 2.7(b), one of the events described in Section 8(f) shall have occurred and be continuing with respect to the Borrower or relevant Subsidiary Borrower or if for any other reason, as determined by the Swingline Lender in its sole discretion, Revolving Loans may not be made as contemplated by Section 2.7(b), each Revolving Lender shall, on the date such Revolving Loan was to have been made pursuant to the notice referred to in Section 2.7(b), purchase for cash an undivided participating interest in the then outstanding Swingline Loans by paying to the Swingline Lender an amount (the “Swingline Participation
 

 
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Amount”) equal to (i) such Revolving Lender’s Revolving Percentage times (ii) the sum of the aggregate principal amount of Swingline Loans then outstanding that were to have been repaid with such Revolving Loans.
 
(d)  Whenever, at any time after the Swingline Lender has received from any Revolving Lender such Lender’s Swingline Participation Amount, the Swingline Lender receives any payment on account of the Swingline Loans, the Swingline Lender will distribute to such Lender its Swingline Participation Amount (appropriately adjusted, in the case of interest payments, to reflect the period of time during which such Lender’s participating interest was outstanding and funded and, in the case of principal and interest payments, to reflect such Lender’s pro rata portion of such payment if such payment is not sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on all Swingline Loans then due); provided, however, that in the event that such payment received by the Swingline Lender is required to be returned, such Revolving Lender will return to the Swingline Lender any portion thereof previously distributed to it by the Swingline Lender.
 
(e)  Each Revolving Lender’s obligation to make the Loans referred to in Section 2.7(b) and to purchase participating interests pursuant to Section 2.7(c) shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including (i) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right that such Revolving Lender or the Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower may have against the Swingline Lender, the Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever, (ii) the occurrence or continuance of a Default or an Event of Default or the failure to satisfy any of the other conditions specified in Section 5, (iii) any adverse change in the condition (financial or otherwise) of the Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower, (iv) any breach of this Agreement or any other Loan Document by the Borrower, any Subsidiary Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other Revolving Lender or (v) any other circumstance, happening or event whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing.
 
2.8           Commitment Fees, etc.  (a)  The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving Lender a commitment fee for the period from and including the date hereof to the last day of the Revolving Commitment Period, computed at the Commitment Fee Rate on the average daily amount of the Available Revolving Commitment of such Lender during the period for which payment is made, payable quarterly in arrears on each Fee Payment Date, commencing on the first such date to occur after the date hereof.

(b)  The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent the fees in the amounts and on the dates as set forth in any fee agreements with the Administrative Agent and to perform any other obligations contained therein.

2.9           Termination or Reduction of Revolving Commitments.  The Borrower shall have the right, upon not less than three Business Days’ notice to the Administrative Agent, to terminate the Revolving Commitments or, from time to time, to reduce the amount of the Revolving Commitments; provided that no such termination or reduction of Revolving Commitments shall be permitted if, after giving effect thereto and to any prepayments of the Revolving Loans and Swingline Loans made on the effective date thereof, the Total Revolving Extensions of Credit would exceed the Total Revolving Commitments.  Any such reduction shall be in an amount equal to $1,000,000, or a whole multiple thereof, and shall reduce permanently the Revolving Commitments then in effect.  Each notice delivered by the Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.9 shall be irrevocable; provided, that a notice to terminate the Revolving Commitments delivered by the Borrower may state that such notice is conditioned upon the effectiveness of other credit facilities or a Change in Control, in either case, which such notice may be revoked by the Borrower (by notice to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the specified effective date) if such condition is not satisfied.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the revocation of a termination notice

 
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shall not affect the Borrower’s obligation to indemnify any Lender in accordance with Section 2.20 for any loss or expense sustained or incurred as a consequence thereof.

2.10           Optional Prepayments.   The Borrower and any relevant Subsidiary 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 (except as otherwise provided below) delivered to the Administrative Agent no later than 12:00 Noon, New York City time, three Business Days prior thereto, in the case of Eurocurrency Loans, and no later than 12:00 Noon, New York City time, on the day of such prepayment, in the case of ABR Loans, which notice shall specify the date and amount of prepayment and whether the prepayment is of Eurocurrency Loans or ABR Loans; provided, that if a Eurocurrency Loan is prepaid on any day other than the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, the Borrower or relevant Subsidiary Borrower shall also pay any amounts owing pursuant to Section 2.20; provided, further, that such notice to prepay the Loans delivered by the Borrower may state that such notice is conditioned upon the effectiveness of other credit facilities or a Change in Control, in either case, which such notice may be revoked by the Borrower (by further notice to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the specified effective date) if such condition is not satisfied.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the revocation of a termination notice shall not affect the Borrower’s obligation to indemnify any Lender in accordance with Section 2.20 for any loss or expense sustained or incurred as a consequence thereof.  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 (except in the case of Revolving Loans that are ABR Loans and Swingline Loans) accrued interest to such date on the amount prepaid.  Partial prepayments of Term Loans and Revolving Loans shall be in an aggregate principal amount of $1,000,000 or a whole multiple thereof.  Partial prepayments of Swingline Loans shall be in an aggregate principal amount of $100,000 or a whole multiple thereof.

2.11           Mandatory Prepayments  (a)  If any Indebtedness shall be issued or incurred by any Group Member (excluding (i) any Indebtedness incurred in accordance with Section 7.2, other than paragraph (y) thereof to the extent that the Net Cash Proceeds of any such Indebtedness incurred under Section 7.2(y) exceeds $150,000,000 and (ii) any Permitted Refinancing of Indebtedness incurred under Section 7.2(y)), an amount equal to 75% of the Net Cash Proceeds thereof shall be applied on the date of such issuance or incurrence, or in the event such Net Cash Proceeds are received after 12:00 Noon, New York City time, on the next Business Day, toward the prepayment of the Term Loans as set forth in Section 2.11(c).

(b)  If on any date any Loan Party shall receive Net Cash Proceeds from any Asset Sale or Recovery Event then, unless a Reinvestment Notice shall be delivered in respect thereof, 100% of such Net Cash Proceeds or, in the case of any Disposition permitted by Section 7.5(f), 100% of such Net Cash Proceeds, shall be applied within three Business Days toward the prepayment of the Term Loans as set forth in Section 2.11(c); provided that on each Reinvestment Prepayment Date, an amount equal to the Reinvestment Prepayment Amount with respect to the relevant Reinvestment Event shall be applied toward the prepayment of the Term Loans as set forth in Section 2.11(c).

(c)  Amounts to be applied in connection with prepayments of the outstanding Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.11 shall be applied, first, to ABR Loans and, second, to Eurocurrency Loans and, in each case, in accordance with Section 2.17(b).  Each prepayment of the Term Loans under this Section 2.11 shall be accompanied by accrued interest to the date of such prepayment on the amount prepaid.  If no Term Loans are outstanding, such remaining amounts shall be retained by the relevant Group Member.

(d)  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the provisions of this Section 2.11 shall be suspended at any time when the Specified Ratings are Baa3 or better from Moody’s and BBB- or better from S&P, in each case with stable or positive outlook.

 
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2.12           Conversion and Continuation Options.  (a)  The Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower may elect from time to time to convert Eurocurrency 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 Business Day preceding the proposed conversion date, provided that any such conversion of Eurocurrency Loans may only be made on the last day of an Interest Period with respect thereto.  The Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower may elect from time to time to convert ABR Loans to Eurocurrency Loans by giving the Administrative Agent prior irrevocable notice of such election no later than 12:00 Noon, New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding the proposed conversion date (which notice shall specify the length of the initial Interest Period therefor), provided that no ABR Loan under a particular Facility may be converted into a Eurocurrency Loan when any Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Administrative Agent or the Majority Facility Lenders in respect of such Facility 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 Eurocurrency Loan may be continued as such upon the expiration of the then current Interest Period with respect thereto by the Borrower or relevant Subsidiary 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, of the length of the next Interest Period to be applicable to such Loans, provided that no Eurocurrency Loan under a particular Facility may be continued as such when any Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Administrative Agent has or the Majority Facility Lenders in respect of such Facility have determined in its or their sole discretion not to permit such continuations (and the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower within a reasonable amount of time of any such determination), and provided, further, that if the Borrower or such Subsidiary Borrower shall fail to give any required notice as described above in this paragraph such Loans shall be automatically continued as Eurocurrency Loans having an Interest Period of one month in duration or if such continuation is not permitted pursuant to the preceding proviso such Loans shall be automatically converted to ABR Loans on the last day of such then expiring Interest Period.  Upon receipt of any such notice the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each relevant Lender thereof.
 
2.13           Limitations on Eurocurrency Tranches.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, all borrowings, conversions and continuations of Eurocurrency Loans and all selections of Interest Periods shall be in such amounts and be made pursuant to such elections so that, (a) after giving effect thereto, the aggregate principal amount of the Eurocurrency Loans comprising each Eurocurrency Tranche shall be equal to $5,000,000 or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof and (b) no more than ten Eurocurrency Tranches shall be outstanding at any one time.

2.14           Interest Rates and Payment Dates.  (a)  Each Eurocurrency Loan shall bear interest for each day during each Interest Period with respect thereto at a rate per annum equal to the Eurocurrency Rate determined for such day plus the Applicable Margin.

(b)  Each ABR Loan shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the ABR plus the Applicable Margin.
 
(c) (i)  If all or a portion of the principal amount of any Loan or Reimbursement Obligation 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 (x) in the case of the Loans, the rate that would otherwise be applicable thereto pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section plus 2% or (y) in the case of Reimbursement Obligations, the rate applicable to ABR Loans under the Revolving Facility plus 2%, and (ii) if all or a portion of any interest payable on any Loan or Reimbursement Obligation or any commitment fee or other amount payable hereunder 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
 

 
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the rate then applicable to ABR Loans under the relevant Facility plus 2% (or, in the case of any such other amounts that do not relate to a particular Facility, the rate then applicable to ABR Loans under the Revolving Facility plus 2%), in each case, with respect to clauses (i) and (ii) above, from the date of such non-payment until such amount is paid in full (as well after as before judgment).
 
(d)  Interest shall be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date, provided that interest accruing pursuant to paragraph (c) of this Section shall be payable from time to time on demand.
 
2.15           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 or relevant Subsidiary Borrower and the relevant Lenders of each determination of a Eurocurrency Rate.  Any change in the interest rate on a Loan resulting from a change in the ABR or the Eurocurrency Reserve Requirements 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 or relevant Subsidiary 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, any Subsidiary Borrower and the Lenders in the absence of manifest error.  The Administrative Agent shall, at the request of the Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower, deliver to the Borrower or such Subsidiary Borrower a statement showing the quotations used by the Administrative Agent in determining any interest rate pursuant to Section 2.14(a).
 
2.16           Inability to Determine Interest Rate.  If prior to the first day of any Interest Period:
 
(a)  the Administrative Agent shall have determined (which determination shall be conclusive and binding upon the Borrower or relevant Subsidiary Borrower) that, by reason of circumstances affecting the relevant market, adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the Eurocurrency Rate for such Interest Period, or
 
(b) the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Majority Facility Lenders in respect of the relevant Facility that the Eurocurrency Rate determined or to be determined for such Interest Period will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders (as conclusively certified by such Lenders) of making or maintaining their affected Loans during such Interest Period,
 
the Administrative Agent shall give telecopy or telephonic notice thereof to the Borrower or relevant Subsidiary Borrower and the relevant Lenders as soon as practicable thereafter.  If such notice is given (w) any Eurocurrency Loans under the relevant Facility requested to be made on the first day of such Interest Period shall be made as ABR Loans, (x) any Loans under the relevant Facility that were to have been converted on the first day of such Interest Period to Eurocurrency Loans shall be continued as ABR Loans and (y) any outstanding Eurocurrency Loans under the relevant Facility shall be converted, on the last day of the then-current Interest Period, to ABR Loans. Until such notice has been withdrawn by the Administrative Agent, no further Eurocurrency Loans under the relevant Facility shall be made or continued as such, nor shall the Borrower nor any Subsidiary Borrower have the right to convert Loans under the relevant Facility to Eurocurrency Loans.
 
2.17           Pro Rata Treatment and Payments.  (a)  Each borrowing of Revolving Loans by the Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower from the Lenders hereunder, each payment by the Borrower on

 
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account of any commitment fee and any reduction of the Commitments of the Lenders shall be made pro rata according to the respective Revolving Percentages of the relevant Lenders.

(b)  Each payment (including each prepayment) by the Borrower on account of principal of and interest on the Term Loans shall be made pro rata according to the respective outstanding principal amounts of the Term Loans then held by the Term Lenders; provided that at the option of the Borrower, all or a portion of any optional prepayments of the Term Loans made in accordance with Section 2.10 may be applied to repay the Term Loans other than the Extended Term Loans.  The amount of each principal prepayment of the Term Loans shall be applied to reduce the then remaining installments of the Term Loans as directed by the Borrower.  Amounts prepaid on account of the Term Loans may not be reborrowed.
 
(c)  Each payment (including each prepayment) by the Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower on account of principal of and interest on the Revolving Loans shall be made pro rata according to the respective outstanding principal amounts of the Revolving Loans then held by the Revolving Lenders.
 
(d)  All payments (including prepayments) to be made by the Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower hereunder, whether on account of principal, interest, fees or otherwise, shall be made without setoff or counterclaim and shall be made prior to 1:00 P.M., New York City time, on the due date thereof to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Lenders, at the Funding Office, in Dollars or in any other applicable currency and in immediately available funds.  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 the Eurocurrency 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 Eurocurrency 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. Any obligation under this Agreement denominated in currency other than Dollars should be payable in such currency unless the obligor, the obligee and the Administrative Agent shall otherwise agree.
 
(e)  Unless the Administrative Agent shall have been notified in writing by any Lender prior to a borrowing that such Lender will not make the amount that would constitute its share of such borrowing available to the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender is making such amount available to the Administrative Agent, and the Administrative Agent may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower a corresponding amount.  If such amount is not made available to the Administrative Agent by the required time on the Borrowing Date therefor, such Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent, on demand, such amount with interest thereon, at a rate up to the greater of (i) the Federal Funds Effective 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 such Lender’s share of such borrowing is not made available to the Administrative Agent by such Lender within three 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 under the relevant Facility, on demand, from the Borrower or relevant Subsidiary Borrower.
 
(f)  Unless the Administrative Agent shall have been notified in writing by the Borrower or relevant Subsidiary Borrower prior to the date of any payment due to be made by the Borrower or such Subsidiary Borrower hereunder that the Borrower or such Subsidiary Borrower will not make such payment
 

 
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to the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower or such Subsidiary 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 or relevant Subsidiary Borrower within three 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 Federal Funds Effective Rate.  Nothing herein shall be deemed to limit the rights of the Administrative Agent or any Lender against the Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower.
 
2.18           Requirements of Law.  Except with respect to Taxes, which shall be governed exclusively by Section 2.19 of this Agreement:

(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 date hereof:

 
(i) 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 Eurocurrency Rate; or
 
  (ii) 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 Eurocurrency Loans or issuing or participating in Letters of Credit, or to reduce any amount receivable hereunder in respect thereof, then, in any such case, the Borrower or relevant Subsidiary 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 or relevant Subsidiary 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 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 (whether or not having the force of law) from any Governmental Authority made subsequent to the date hereof 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 or under or in respect of any Letter of Credit 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) 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.
 
(c)  A certificate as to any additional amounts payable pursuant to this Section submitted by any Lender to the Borrower or relevant Subsidiary Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section, the Borrower or relevant Subsidiary Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender pursuant to this Section for any amounts incurred more than six months prior to the date that such Lender
 

 
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notifies the Borrower or such Subsidiary Borrower of such Lender’s intention to claim compensation therefor; 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.  The obligations of the Borrower or relevant Subsidiary Borrower pursuant to this Section shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the payment of the Loans and all other amounts payable hereunder.
 
2.19           Taxes.  (a)  All payments made by the Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower under this Agreement shall be made free and clear of, and without deduction or withholding for or on account of, any present or future income, stamp or other taxes, levies, imposts, duties, charges, fees, deductions or withholdings, now or hereafter imposed, levied, collected, withheld or assessed by any Governmental Authority, excluding (a) net income taxes and franchise taxes (imposed in lieu of net income taxes) imposed on the Administrative Agent or any Lender as a result of a present or former connection between the Administrative Agent or such Lender and the jurisdiction of the Governmental Authority imposing such tax or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein (other than any such connection arising solely from the Administrative Agent or such Lender having executed, delivered or performed its obligations or received a payment under, or enforced, this Agreement or any other Loan Document) and (b) any branch profit taxes imposed by the United States or any similar tax imposed by any other Governmental Authority.  If any such non-excluded taxes, levies, imposts, duties, charges, fees, deductions or withholdings (“Non-Excluded Taxes”) or Other Taxes are required to be withheld from any amounts payable to the Administrative Agent or any Lender hereunder, the amounts so payable to the Administrative Agent or such Lender shall be increased to the extent necessary to yield to the Administrative Agent or such Lender (after payment of all Non-Excluded Taxes and Other Taxes) interest or any such other amounts payable hereunder at the rates or in the amounts specified in this Agreement, provided, however, that neither the Borrower nor any Subsidiary Borrower shall be required to increase any such amounts payable to any Lender with respect to any Non-Excluded Taxes (i) that are attributable to such Lender’s failure to comply with the requirements of paragraph (d) or (e) of this Section, (ii) that are United States withholding taxes imposed on amounts payable to such Lender at the time such Lender becomes a party to this Agreement (or designates a new lending office or offices) except, in the case of an assignment or designation of a new lending office, to the extent that the Lender making such assignment or designation was entitled, at the time of such assignment or designation, to receive additional amounts from the Borrower or the relevant Subsidiary Borrower with respect to Non-Excluded Taxes pursuant to this section or (iii) that are imposed as a result of a Lender’s gross negligence or willful misconduct.

(b)  In addition, the Borrower or any relevant Subsidiary Borrower shall pay any Other Taxes to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law.

(c) Whenever any Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes are payable by the Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower, as promptly as possible thereafter the Borrower or such Subsidiary 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 or such Subsidiary Borrower showing payment thereof.  If the Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower fails to pay any Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes when due to the appropriate taxing authority or fails to remit to the Administrative Agent the required receipts or other required documentary evidence, the Borrower and each Subsidiary Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative Agent and the Lenders for any incremental taxes, interest or penalties that may become payable by the Administrative Agent or any Lender as a result of any such failure.
 
 
(d) Each Lender (or Transferee) (i) that is not a “U.S. Person” as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code (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) two copies of either U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN or Form W-8ECI, or, in the

 
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case of a Non-U.S. Lender claiming exemption from U.S. federal withholding tax under Section 871(h) or 881(c) of the Code with respect to payments of “portfolio interest”, a statement substantially in the form of Exhibit F and a Form W-8BEN, or any subsequent versions thereof or successors thereto, properly completed and duly executed by such Non-U.S. Lender claiming complete exemption from, or a reduced rate of, U.S. federal withholding tax on all payments by the Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and (ii) that is a “U.S. Person” as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code 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) two copies of U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9.  Such forms shall be delivered by each 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).  In addition, each Lender shall deliver such forms promptly upon the obsolescence or invalidity of any form previously delivered by such Lender at any other time prescribed by applicable law or as reasonably requested by the Borrower.  Each Non-U.S. Lender shall promptly notify the Borrower at any time it determines that it is no longer in a position to provide any previously delivered certificate to the Borrower (and any other form of certification adopted by the U.S. taxing authorities for such purpose).

 
(e)  A Lender or Transferee 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 or any Subsidiary 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 prescribed by applicable law or reasonably requested by the Borrower, 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.
 
(f)  If the Administrative Agent, any Transferee or any Lender determines, in its sole good faith discretion, that it has received a refund of any Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes as to which it has been indemnified by the Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower or with respect to which the Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower has paid additional amounts pursuant to this Section 2.19, it shall pay over such refund to the Borrower or such Subsidiary Borrower (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, by the Borrower or such Subsidiary Borrower under this Section 2.19 with respect to the Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses of the Administrative Agent, such Transferee 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 or such Subsidiary Borrower, upon the request of the Administrative Agent , such Transferee or such Lender, agrees to repay the amount paid over to the Borrower or such Subsidiary Borrower (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) to the Administrative Agent, such Transferee or such Lender in the event the Administrative Agent, such Transferee or such Lender is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority. This paragraph shall not be construed to require the Administrative Agent, any Transferee or any Lender to make available its tax returns (or any other information relating to its taxes which it deems confidential) to the Borrower, any Subsidiary Borrower or any other Person.
 
(g)  Each Assignee shall be bound by this Section 2.19.
 
(h)  The agreements in this Section shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the payment of the Loans and all other amounts payable hereunder.
 
2.20           Indemnity.  The Borrower or relevant Subsidiary Borrower agrees to indemnify each Lender for, and to hold each Lender harmless from, any actual loss or expense that such Lender may sustain or incur as a consequence of (a) default by the Borrower or relevant Subsidiary Borrower in making

 
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a borrowing of, conversion into or continuation of Eurocurrency Loans after the Borrower or such Subsidiary Borrower has given a notice requesting the same in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, (b) default by the Borrower or relevant Subsidiary Borrower in making any prepayment of or conversion from Eurocurrency Loans after the Borrower or such Subsidiary Borrower has given a notice thereof in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement or (c) the making of a prepayment of Eurocurrency Loans on a day that is not the last day of an Interest Period with respect thereto.  Such indemnification may include an amount up to the excess, if any, of (i) the amount of interest that would have accrued on the amount so prepaid, or not so borrowed, converted or continued, for the period from the date of such prepayment or of such failure to borrow, convert or continue to the last day of such Interest Period (or, in the case of a failure to borrow, convert or continue, the Interest Period that would have commenced on the date of such failure) in each case at the applicable rate of interest for such Loans provided for herein (excluding, however, the Applicable Margin and any minimum Eurocurrency Rate to the extent in effect, included therein, if any) over (ii) the amount of interest (as reasonably determined by such Lender) that would have accrued to such Lender on such amount by placing such amount on deposit for a comparable period with leading banks in the interbank eurocurrency market.  A certificate as to any amounts payable pursuant to this Section submitted to the Borrower or relevant Subsidiary 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.

2.21  Change of Lending Office.  Each Lender agrees that, upon the occurrence of any event giving rise to the operation of Section 2.18 or 2.19(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 any Subsidiary Borrower or the rights of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.18 or 2.19(a).

2.22           Replacement of Lenders.  The Borrower shall be permitted to replace any Lender that (a) requests reimbursement for amounts owing pursuant to Section 2.18 or 2.19(a), (b) becomes a Defaulting Lender or (c) fails to give its consent for any issue requiring the consent of 100% of the Lenders or all affected Lenders (and such Lender is an affected Lender) and for which Lenders holding 66 2/3 of the Loans and/or Commitments required for such vote have consented, 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) prior to any such replacement, such Lender shall have taken no action under Section 2.21 so as to eliminate the continued need for payment of amounts owing pursuant to Section 2.18 or 2.19(a), (iv) the replacement financial institution shall purchase, at par, all Loans and other amounts owing to such replaced Lender on or prior to the date of replacement, (v) the Borrower shall be liable to such replaced Lender under Section 2.20 if any Eurocurrency Loan owing to such replaced Lender shall be purchased other than on the last day of the Interest Period relating thereto, (vi) the replacement financial institution shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, (vii) the replaced Lender shall be obligated to make such replacement in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.6 (provided that the Borrower shall be obligated to pay the registration and processing fee referred to therein), (viii) until such time as such replacement shall be consummated, the Borrower shall pay all additional amounts (if any) required pursuant to Section 2.18 or 2.19(a), as the case may be, and (ix) 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.

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(a)           After the Second Amendment Effective Date and before the Extended Term Loan Maturity Date (with respect to Term Loans) and Extended Revolving Termination Date (with respect to Revolving Loans), as applicable, the Borrower, by written notice to Administrative Agent, may request (i) the establishment of one or more additional tranches of term loans (the commitments thereto, the “Incremental Term Loan Commitments”) and/or (ii) increases in the Revolving Commitments (the “Incremental Revolving Commitments” and, together with the Incremental Term Loan Commitments, the “Incremental Loan Commitments”); provided that (i) each such request shall be for not less than $25,000,000 (or such lesser amount up to the Maximum Facilities Amount) and (ii) after giving effect to each such request, the aggregate amount (the “Maximum Facilities Amount”) of outstanding Term Loans and Revolving Commitments shall not exceed $1,500,000,000.  Each such notice shall specify the date (each, an “Increased Amount Date”) on which the Borrower proposes that the Incremental Loan Commitments shall be effective, which shall be a date not less than 10 Business Days after the date on which such notice is delivered to the Administrative Agent.  The Borrower may approach any Lender or any Person to provide all or a portion of the Incremental Loan Commitments; provided that (i) no Lender will be required to provide such Incremental Loan Commitment and (ii) any entity providing all or a portion of the Incremental Loan Commitments other than a Lender, an affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund, shall be reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent (with such acceptance by the Administrative Agent to not be unreasonably withheld or delayed).

(b)           In each case, such Incremental Loan Commitments shall become effective as of the applicable Increased Amount Date, provided that (i) no Default or Event of Default shall exist on such Increased Amount Date before or after giving effect to such Incremental Loan Commitments, (ii) the Borrower shall be in compliance with Section 7.1 as of the most recently ended fiscal quarter after giving effect to such Incremental Loan Commitments, (iii) the weighted average life to maturity of any Incremental Term Loan shall be greater than or equal to the then-remaining weighted average life to maturity of the Extended Term Loans, (iv) the interest rate margin in respect of any Incremental Revolving Loans that is in effect on the Increased Amount Date (giving effect to original issue discount (“OID”) or upfront fees, (which shall be deemed to constitute like amounts of OID, with OID being equated to interest rates in a manner determined by the Administrative Agent based on a four-year life to maturity) paid to all of the Incremental Revolving Lenders in connection therewith) shall not exceed the sum of (x) the Applicable Margin for the Revolving Loans made pursuant to Extended Revolving Commitments that is in effect on the Increased Amount Date, and (y) the upfront fees paid to all of the Lenders in respect of their Extended Revolving Commitments, which shall be equated to interest rate based on a four-year life to maturity, or if it does so exceed the sum of such Applicable Margin and such fees, such Applicable Margin for the Revolving Loans made pursuant to Extended Revolving Commitments shall be increased so that the interest rate margin in respect of such Incremental Revolving Loan that is in effect on the Increased Amount Date (giving effect to any OID issued or upfront fees paid to all of the Incremental Lenders in connection therewith) is no greater than the sum of (x) the Applicable Margin for the Revolving Loans made pursuant to Extended Revolving Commitments that is in effect on the Increased Amount Date and (y) the upfront fees paid to all of the Lenders in respect of their Extended Revolving Commitments, (v) unless the final maturity date of such Incremental Term Loans is at least one year later than the final maturity date of the Extended Term Loans, the interest rate margin in respect of such Incremental Term Loans (giving effect to OID or upfront fees paid to all of the Incremental Term Lenders in connection therewith (with fees and OID being equated to interest rate in the manner set forth above)) shall not exceed the sum of (x) the Applicable Margin for the Extended Term Loans, and (y) the upfront fees paid to all of the Lenders in respect of their Extended Term Loans, which shall be equated to interest rate based on a four-year life to maturity, or if it does so exceed the sum of such Applicable Margin and such fees, such Applicable Margin for the Extended Term Loans shall be increased so that the interest rate margin in respect of such Incremental Term Loan (giving effect to any OID issued or upfront fees paid to all of the Incremental Term Lenders in connection therewith) is no greater than the sum of (x) the Applicable Margin for the Extended Term Loans and (y) the upfront fees paid to all of the Lenders in respect of their Extended Term Loans, (vi) if the final maturity date
 

 
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of such Incremental Term Loans is at least one year later than the final maturity date of the Extended Term Loans, the interest rate margin in respect of such Incremental Term Loans (giving effect to OID or upfront fees paid to all of the Incremental Term Lenders in connection therewith (with fees and OID being equated to interest rate in the manner set forth above)) shall not exceed by more than 25 bps the sum of (x) the Applicable Margin for the Extended Term Loans, and (y) the upfront fees paid to all of the Lenders in respect of their Extended Term Loans, which shall be equated to interest rate based on a four-year life to maturity, or if it does so exceed by more than 25 bps the sum of such Applicable Margin and such fees, such Applicable Margin for the Extended Term Loans shall be increased so that the interest rate margin in respect of such Incremental Term Loan (giving effect to any OID issued or upfront fees paid to all of the Incremental Term Lenders in connection therewith) is no greater than the sum of (x) the Applicable Margin for the Extended Term Loans, (y) the upfront fees paid to all of the Lenders in respect of their Extended Term Loans and (z) 25 bps, and (vii) the Incremental Loan Commitments shall be effected pursuant to one or more incremental commitment agreements in a form reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent (each, a “Incremental Commitment Agreement”) executed and delivered by the Borrower, the applicable Incremental Term Loan Lender and the Administrative Agent pursuant to which such Incremental Term Loan Lender agrees to be bound to the terms of this Agreement as a Lender.  Any Incremental Term Loans made on an Increased Amount Date shall be designated a separate tranche of Incremental Term Loans for all purposes of this Agreement.
 
(c)           On any Increased Amount Date on which Incremental Revolving Commitments are effected, subject to the satisfaction of the foregoing terms and conditions, (a) each of the Lenders with Revolving Commitments shall assign to each Person with an Incremental Revolving Commitment (each, an “Incremental Revolving Lender”) and each of the Incremental Revolving Lenders shall purchase from each of the Lenders with Revolving Commitments, at the principal amount thereof, such interests in the Revolving Loans outstanding on such Increased Amount Date as shall be necessary in order that, after giving effect to all such assignments and purchases, the Revolving Loans will be held by existing Revolving Lenders and Incremental Revolving Lenders ratably in accordance with their Revolving Commitments after giving effect to the addition of such Incremental Revolving Commitments to the Revolving Commitments, (b) each Incremental Revolving Commitment shall be deemed for all purposes a Revolving Commitment and each Loan made thereunder (an “Incremental Revolving Loan”) shall be deemed, for all purposes, a Revolving Loan and (c) each Incremental Revolving Lender shall become a Lender with respect to the Incremental Revolving Commitment and all matters relating thereto. The terms and provisions of the Incremental Revolving Loans and Incremental Revolving Commitments shall be identical to the Revolving Loans and the Revolving Commitments.
 
(d)           On any Increased Amount Date on which any Incremental Term Loan Commitments are effected, subject to the satisfaction of the foregoing terms and conditions, (i) each Person with an Incremental Term Loan Commitment (each, an “Incremental Term Loan Lender”) shall make a Loan to the Borrower (an “Incremental Term Loan”) in an amount equal to its Incremental Term Loan Commitment, and (ii) each Incremental Term Loan Lender shall become a Lender hereunder with respect to the Incremental Term Loan Commitment and the Incremental Term Loans made pursuant thereto.
 
(e)           Each Incremental Commitment Agreement may, without the consent of any other Lenders, effect such amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as may be necessary or appropriate, in the opinion of the Administrative Agent, to effect the provisions of this Section 2.23.
 
2.24           Prepayments Required Due to Currency Fluctuation.  On the last Business Day of each fiscal quarter, or at such other time as is reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent shall determine the Dollar Equivalent of aggregate outstanding Revolving Extensions of Credit.  If, at the time of such determination the aggregate outstanding Revolving Extensions of Credit exceed the Revolving Commitments then in effect by 5% or more, then within five Business Days

 
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of notice to the Borrower, the Borrower or the relevant Subsidiary Borrower shall prepay Revolving Loans or Swingline Loans or cash collateralize the outstanding Letters of Credit in an aggregate principal amount at least equal to such excess; provided that the failure of the Administrative Agent to determine the Dollar Equivalent Amount of the aggregate outstanding Revolving Extensions of Credit as provided in this Section 2.24 shall not subject the Administrative Agent to any liability hereunder.

2.25           Defaulting Lenders.  Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, if any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, then the following provisions shall apply for so long as such Lender is a Defaulting Lender:

 (a)  if any L/C Obligations exist at the time a Revolving Lender is a Defaulting Lender then:
 
(i)  subject to the satisfaction of the condition precedent in Section 5.2(b) of the Credit Agreement and following notice by the Administrative Agent, all or any part of the Defaulting Lender’s ratable participating interest in the L/C Obligations shall be reallocated among the Revolving Lenders that are not Defaulting Lenders in accordance with their respective Revolving Percentages but, in any case, only to the extent the sum of the outstanding Revolving Extensions of Credit of all Revolving Lenders that are not Defaulting Lenders before giving effect to such reallocation plus such Defaulting Lender’s ratable participating interest in the L/C Obligations does not exceed the total of the Revolving Commitments of all Revolving Lenders that are not Defaulting Lenders; provided that if such condition precedent is not satisfied on the date of such notice by the Administrative Agent, the Borrower shall within five Business Days following notice by the Administrative Agent, either (x) cash collateralize such Defaulting Lender’s ratable participating interest in the L/C Obligations or (y) backstop such Defaulting Lender’s participating interest in the L/C Obligations with a letter of credit reasonably satisfactory to the Issuing Lender;

(ii)  if the reallocation described in clause (i) above cannot, or can only partially, be effected as a result of the limitations set forth therein, the Borrower shall within five Business Days following notice by the Administrative Agent, either (x) cash collateralize such Defaulting Lender’s participating interest in the L/C Obligations (after giving effect to any partial reallocation pursuant to clause (i) above) or (y) backstop such Defaulting Lender’s participating interest in the L/C Obligations (after giving effect to any partial reallocation pursuant to clause (i) above) with a letter of credit reasonably satisfactory to the Issuing Lender, in each case, for so long as such L/C Obligations are outstanding;

(iii)  if the Borrower cash collateralizes or backstops any portion of such Defaulting Lender’s L/C Obligations pursuant to this paragraph (a), the Borrower shall not be required to pay any fees to such Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section 3.3 with respect to such Defaulting Lender’s L/C Obligations during the period such Defaulting Lender’s L/C Obligations are cash collateralized or backstopped;

(iv)  if the L/C Obligations attributable to the Defaulting Lenders that are Revolving Lenders is reallocated pursuant to this paragraph (a), then the fees payable to the Lenders pursuant to Sections 2.8 and 3.3 shall be adjusted in accordance with the non-Defaulting Lenders’ respective Revolving Percentages;

(v)  if any Defaulting Lender’s participating interest in L/C Obligations is neither cash collateralized, backstopped nor reallocated pursuant to this paragraph (a), then, without prejudice to any rights or remedies of the Issuing Lenders or any Lender hereunder, all letter of credit fees payable under Section 3.3 with respect to such Defaulting Lender’s participating interest
 
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in all L/C Obligations shall be payable to the applicable Issuing Lenders until such participating interest in all L/C Obligations is backstopped, cash collateralized and/or reallocated;

(vii) any subsequent request for issuance, amendment or increase of any Letter of Credit shall be subject to reallocating or cash collateralizing the relating L/C Obligations attributable to any Defaulting Lender that is a Revolving Lender in the manner described above; and

(viii) in the event a Revolving Lender ceases to be a Defaulting Lender, all outstanding L/C Obligations shall be immediately reallocated ratably to the Revolving Lenders who are not Defaulting Lenders and any cash collateral posted in respect of such Lender’s participating interest shall be returned to the Borrower and any letter of credit issued to backstop such Lender’s participating interest shall be terminated, cancelled or returned to the Borrower for cancellation, in each case, within three Business Days.
 
 
 (b)           if any Swingline Loans are outstanding at the time a Lender is a Defaulting Lender, the Borrower shall within five Business Days following notice by the Administrative Agent prepay such Swingline Loans or, if agreed by the Swingline Lender, cash collateralize the participating interests in the Swingline Loans of the Defaulting Lender on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Swingline Lender; and

(c)           following the notice by the Administrative Agent to the Borrower pursuant to clauses (a) or (b) above, the Swingline Lender shall not be required to fund any Swingline Loan and the Issuing Lender shall not be required to issue or increase any Letter of Credit unless it is reasonably satisfied that the reallocation and cash collateral requirements described in clauses (a) and (b) above shall be provided for.

 
SECTION 3                      LETTERS OF CREDIT
 
3.1           L/C Commitment.  (a)  Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Issuing Lender, in reliance on the agreements of the other Revolving Lenders set forth in Section 3.4(a), agrees to issue letters of credit (“Letters of Credit”) for the account of the Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower on any Business Day during the Revolving Commitment Period in such form as may be approved from time to time by the Issuing Lender; provided that the Issuing Lender shall not issue any Letter of Credit if, after giving effect to such issuance, the aggregate amount of the Available Revolving Commitments would be less than zero.  Each Letter of Credit shall (i) be denominated in Dollars or an Optional Currency and (ii) expire no later than the earlier of (x) the first anniversary of its date of issuance and (y) the date that is five Business Days prior to the Revolving Termination Date, provided that any Letter of Credit with a one-year term may provide for the automatic renewal or renewal thereof for additional one-year periods (which shall in no event extend beyond the date referred to in clause (y) above).

(b) The Issuing Lender shall not at any time be obligated to issue any Letter of Credit if such issuance would conflict with, or cause the Issuing Lender or any L/C Participant to exceed any limits imposed by, any applicable Requirement of Law.

3.2           Procedure for Issuance of Letter of Credit.  The Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower may from time to time request that the Issuing Lender issue a Letter of Credit by delivering to the Issuing Lender at its address for notices specified herein an Application therefor, completed to the satisfaction of the Issuing Lender, and such other certificates, documents and other papers and information as the Issuing Lender may request.  Upon receipt of any Application, the Issuing Lender will process such Application and the certificates, documents and other papers and information delivered to it in connection

 
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therewith in accordance with its customary procedures and shall promptly issue the Letter of Credit requested thereby (but in no event shall the Issuing Lender be required to issue any Letter of Credit earlier than three Business Days after its receipt of the Application therefor and all such other certificates, documents and other papers and information relating thereto) by issuing the original of such Letter of Credit to the beneficiary thereof or as otherwise may be agreed to by the Issuing Lender and the Borrower or relevant Subsidiary Borrower.  The Issuing Lender shall furnish a copy of such Letter of Credit to the Borrower or relevant Subsidiary Borrower promptly following the issuance thereof.  The Issuing Lender shall promptly furnish to the Administrative Agent, which shall in turn promptly furnish to the Lenders, notice of the issuance of each Letter of Credit (including the amount thereof).

3.3           Fees and Other Charges. (a)  The Borrower will pay a fee on all outstanding Letters of Credit issued for the account of the Borrower and any relevant Subsidiary Borrower at a per annum rate equal to the Applicable Margin then in effect with respect to Eurocurrency Loans under the Revolving Facility, shared ratably among the Revolving Lenders and payable quarterly in arrears on each Fee Payment Date after the issuance date.  In addition, the Borrower shall pay a fronting fee in an amount to be agreed with the Issuing Lender (but, in any event, not greater than of 0.125% per annum) on the undrawn and unexpired amount of each Letter of Credit issued for the account of the Borrower or any relevant Subsidiary Borrower, payable quarterly in arrears on each Fee Payment Date after the issuance date.
 
(b)   In addition to the foregoing fees, the Borrower shall pay or reimburse the Issuing Lender for such normal and customary costs and expenses as are incurred or charged by the Issuing Lender in issuing, negotiating, effecting payment under, amending or otherwise administering any Letter of Credit.

3.4           L/C Participations. (a)  The Issuing Lender irrevocably agrees to grant and hereby grants to each L/C Participant, and, to induce the Issuing Lender to issue Letters of Credit, each L/C Participant irrevocably agrees to accept and purchase and hereby accepts and purchases from the Issuing Lender, on the terms and conditions set forth below, for such L/C Participant’s own account and risk an undivided interest equal to such L/C Participant’s Revolving Percentage in the Issuing Lender’s obligations and rights under and in respect of each Letter of Credit and the amount of each draft paid by the Issuing Lender thereunder.  Each L/C Participant agrees with the Issuing Lender that, if a draft is paid under any Letter of Credit for which the Issuing Lender is not reimbursed in full by the Borrower or relevant Subsidiary Borrower in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, such L/C Participant shall pay to the Issuing Lender upon demand at the Issuing Lender’s address for notices specified herein an amount equal to such L/C Participant’s Revolving Percentage of the amount of such draft, or any part thereof, that is not so reimbursed.  Each L/C Participant’s obligation to pay such amount shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including (i) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right that such L/C Participant may have against the Issuing Lender, the Borrower, any Subsidiary Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever, (ii) the occurrence or continuance of a Default or an Event of Default or the failure to satisfy any of the other conditions specified in Section 5, (iii) any adverse change in the condition (financial or otherwise) of the Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower, (iv) any breach of this Agreement or any other Loan Document by the Borrower, any Subsidiary Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other L/C Participant or (v) any other circumstance, happening or event whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing

(b)  If any amount required to be paid by any L/C Participant to the Issuing Lender pursuant to Section 3.4(a) in respect of any unreimbursed portion of any payment made by the Issuing Lender under any Letter of Credit is paid to the Issuing Lender within three Business Days after the date such payment is due, such L/C Participant shall pay to the Issuing Lender on demand an amount equal to the product of (i) such amount, times (ii) the daily average Federal Funds Effective Rate during the period from and including the date such payment is required to the date on which such payment is immediately available to the Issuing Lender, times (iii) a fraction the numerator of which is the number of days that elapse during

 
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such period and the denominator of which is 360.  If any such amount required to be paid by any L/C Participant pursuant to Section 3.4(a) is not made available to the Issuing Lender by such L/C Participant within three Business Days after the date such payment is due, the Issuing Lender shall be entitled to recover from such L/C Participant, on demand, such amount with interest thereon calculated from such due date at the rate per annum applicable to ABR Loans under the Revolving Facility.  A certificate of the Issuing Lender submitted to any L/C Participant with respect to any amounts owing under this Section shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error.

 
(c) Whenever, at any time after the Issuing Lender has made payment under any Letter of Credit and has received from any L/C Participant its pro rata share of such payment in accordance with Section 3.4(a), the Issuing Lender receives any payment related to such Letter of Credit (whether directly from the Borrower or relevant Subsidiary Borrower or otherwise, including proceeds of collateral applied thereto by the Issuing Lender), or any payment of interest on account thereof, the Issuing Lender will distribute to such L/C Participant its pro rata share thereof; provided, however, that in the event that any such payment received by the Issuing Lender shall be required to be returned by the Issuing Lender, such L/C Participant shall return to the Issuing Lender the portion thereof previously distributed by the Issuing Lender to it.
 
3.5           Reimbursement Obligation of the Borrower.  If any draft is paid under any Letter of Credit, the Borrower or relevant Subsidiary Borrower shall reimburse the Issuing Lender for the amount of (a) the draft so paid and (b) any taxes, fees, charges or other costs or expenses incurred by the Issuing Lender in connection with such payment, not later than 1:00 P.M., New York City time, on (i) the Business Day that the Borrower or relevant Subsidiary Borrower receives notice of such draft, if such notice is received on such day prior to 10:00 A.M., New York City time, or (ii) if clause (i) above does not apply, the Business Day immediately following the day that the Borrower or relevant Subsidiary Borrower receives such notice.  Each such payment shall be made to the Issuing Lender at its address for notices referred to herein in Dollars or in any other applicable currency and in immediately available funds.  Interest shall be payable on any such amounts from the date on which the relevant draft is paid until payment in full at the rate set forth in (x) until the Business Day next succeeding the date of the relevant notice, Section 2.14(b) and (y) thereafter, Section 2.14(c).

3.6           Obligations Absolute.  The obligations of the Borrower and any relevant Subsidiary Borrower under this Section 3 shall be absolute and unconditional under any and all circumstances and irrespective of any setoff, counterclaim or defense to payment that the Borrower or such Subsidiary Borrower, as the case may be, may have or have had against the Issuing Lender, any beneficiary of a Letter of Credit or any other Person.  The Borrower and each relevant Subsidiary Borrower also agrees with the Issuing Lender that the Issuing Lender shall not be responsible for, and the Reimbursement Obligations under Section 3.5 of the Borrower and any relevant Subsidiary Borrower shall not be affected by, among other things, the validity or genuineness of documents or of any endorsements thereon, even though such documents shall in fact prove to be invalid, fraudulent or forged, or any dispute between or among the Borrower or such Subsidiary Borrower, as the case may be, and any beneficiary of any Letter of Credit or any other party to which such Letter of Credit may be transferred or any claims whatsoever of the Borrower or such Subsidiary, as the case may be, against any beneficiary of such Letter of Credit or any such transferee.  The Issuing Lender shall not be liable for any error, omission, interruption or delay in transmission, dispatch or delivery of any message or advice, however transmitted, in connection with any Letter of Credit, except for errors or omissions found by a final and nonappealable decision of a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Issuing Lender.  The Borrower and each relevant Subsidiary Borrower agrees that any action taken or omitted by the Issuing Lender under or in connection with any Letter of Credit or the related drafts or documents, if done in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct, shall be binding on the Borrower or such

 
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Subsidiary Borrower and shall not result in any liability of the Issuing Lender to the Borrower or such Subsidiary Borrower.

3.7           Letter of Credit Payments.  If any draft shall be presented for payment under any Letter of Credit, the Issuing Lender shall promptly notify the Borrower or relevant Subsidiary Borrower of the date and amount thereof.  The responsibility of the Issuing Lender to the Borrower or relevant Subsidiary Borrower in connection with any draft presented for payment under any Letter of Credit shall, in addition to any payment obligation expressly provided for in such Letter of Credit, be limited to determining that the documents (including each draft) delivered under such Letter of Credit in connection with such presentment are substantially in conformity with such Letter of Credit.

3.8           Applications.  To the extent that any provision of any Application related to any Letter of Credit is inconsistent with the provisions of this Section 3, the provisions of this Section 3 shall apply.
 
3.9           Existing Letters of Credit.  On and as of the Closing Date the letters of credit set forth on Schedule 3.9 (the “Existing Letters of Credit”) will constitute Letters of Credit under this Agreement and for the purposes hereof will be deemed to have been issued for the account of the Borrower on the Closing Date.

SECTION 4. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
 
To induce the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to enter into this Agreement and to make the Loans and issue or participate in the Letters of Credit, Holdings and the Borrower hereby jointly and severally represent and warrant to the Administrative Agent and each Lender that:

4.1           Financial Condition.  (a) The unaudited pro forma consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as at December 31, 2005 (including the notes thereto) (the “Pro Forma Balance Sheet”), copies of which have heretofore been furnished to each Lender, has been prepared giving effect (as if such events had occurred on such date) to (i) the Loans to be made on the Closing Date and the use of proceeds thereof, (ii) the issuance of the Senior Unsecured Notes and the use of proceeds thereof and (iii) the payment of fees and expenses in connection with the foregoing.  The Pro Forma Balance Sheet has been prepared based on the best information available to the Borrower as of the date of delivery thereof, and presents fairly on a pro forma basis the estimated financial position of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as at December 31, 2005, assuming that the events specified in the preceding sentence had actually occurred at such date.

(b)  The audited consolidated balance sheets of the Borrower as at December 31, 2005, December 31, 2004 and December 31, 2003, and the related consolidated statements of income and of cash flows for the fiscal years ended on such dates (the “Consolidated Financial Statements”), reported on by and accompanied by an unqualified report from Deloitte & Touche LLP, present fairly the consolidated financial condition of the Borrower as at such date, and the consolidated results of its operations and its consolidated cash flows for the respective fiscal years then ended.  All such financial statements, including the related schedules and notes thereto, have been prepared in accordance with GAAP applied consistently throughout the periods involved (except as approved by the aforementioned firm of accountants and disclosed therein).  No Group Member has any material Guarantee Obligations, or any unusual forward or long-term commitments, including any interest rate or foreign currency swap or exchange transaction or other obligation in respect of derivatives, that are not reflected in the most recent financial statements referred to in this paragraph.  During the period from December 31, 2005 to and including the date hereof there has been no Disposition by any Group Member of any material part of the business or property of the Group Members taken as a whole.
 
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4.2           No Change.  Since December 31, 2008, there has been no development or event that has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

4.3           Existence; Compliance with Law.  Each Group Member (a) is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, except where (other than the Borrower) the failure to be so organized, existing or in good standing could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (b) has the 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, except where failure to have such power, authority and legal right could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (c) is duly qualified as a foreign corporation or other organization and in good standing or has applied for authority to operate as a foreign corporation under the laws of each jurisdiction where its ownership, lease or operation of property or the conduct of its business requires such qualification and where a failure to be in good standing as a foreign corporation would 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.

4.4           Power; Authorization; Enforceable Obligations.  Each Loan Party has the power and authority, and the legal right, to make, deliver and perform the Loan Documents to which it is a party and, in the case of the Borrower, to obtain extensions of credit hereunder.  Each Loan Party has taken all necessary organizational action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents to which it is a party and, in the case of the Borrower, to authorize the extensions of credit 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 extensions of credit hereunder or with the execution, delivery, performance, validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the Loan Documents, except (i) consents, authorizations, filings and notices described in Schedule 4.4, which consents, authorizations, filings and notices have been obtained or made and are in full force and effect and (ii) the filings referred to in Section 4.17.  Each Loan Document has been duly executed and delivered on behalf of each Loan Party party thereto.  This Agreement constitutes, and each other Loan Document upon execution will constitute, a legal, valid and binding obligation of each Loan Party party thereto, enforceable against each such Loan Party 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).

4.5           No Legal Bar.  The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, the issuance of Letters of Credit, the borrowings hereunder and the use of the proceeds thereof will not violate any material Requirement of Law or any material Contractual Obligation of any Group Member and will not result in, or require, the creation or imposition of any Lien on any of their respective properties or revenues pursuant to any Requirement of Law or any such Contractual Obligation (other than the Liens created by the Security Documents).  No Requirement of Law or Contractual Obligation applicable to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

4.6           Litigation.  Except as disclosed by the Borrower to the Lenders in writing at least three Business Days prior to the Closing Date, there shall not exist any action, investigation, litigation or proceeding pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened in any court or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority that if adversely determined would have a Material Adverse Effect.

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4.7           No Default.  No Group Member is 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.

4.8           Ownership of Property; Liens.  Each Group Member has title in fee simple to, or a valid leasehold interest in, all its real property (except as could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect) and none of such property is subject to any Lien except a Permitted Lien.

4.9           Intellectual Property.  Each Group Member owns, or is licensed to use, to its knowledge, all material Intellectual Property necessary for the conduct of its business as currently conducted.  Except as set forth on Schedule 4.9, to each Group Member’s knowledge, no claim has been asserted and is pending against such Group Member by any Person challenging or questioning the use of any Intellectual Property or the validity or effectiveness of any Intellectual Property, nor does Holdings or the Borrower know of any valid basis for any such claim that if adversely determined could have a material adverse effect on the value of any material Intellectual Property owned by such Group Member.  Subject to the foregoing sentence, the use of Intellectual Property by each Group Member does not infringe, to its knowledge, on the rights of any Person in any material respect.

4.10           Taxes.  Each Group Member has filed or caused to be filed all federal, state and local income and other material tax returns that are required to be filed by it 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 amount the validity of which is 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 relevant Group Member or to the extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect) or with respect to which the failure to have filed such tax returns or have paid such taxes would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

4.11           Federal Regulations.  No part of the proceeds of any Loans, and no other extensions of credit hereunder, will be used (a) 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 for any purpose that violates the provisions of the Regulations of the Board or (b) for any purpose that violates the provisions of the 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.

4.12           ERISA.  (a) Neither a Reportable Event nor an “accumulated funding deficiency” (within the meaning of Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA) has occurred during the five-year period prior to the date on which this representation is made or deemed made with respect to any Plan, and each Plan has complied in all material respects with the applicable provisions of ERISA and the Code; (b) no termination of a Single Employer Plan has occurred, and no Lien in favor of the PBGC or a Plan has arisen, during such five-year period; (c) the present value of all accrued benefits under each Single Employer Plan (based on those assumptions used to fund such Plans) did not, as of the last annual valuation date prior to the date on which this representation is made or deemed made, exceed the value of the assets of such Plan allocable to such accrued benefits by a material amount; (d) neither the Borrower nor any Commonly Controlled Entity has had a complete or partial withdrawal from any Multiemployer Plan that has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in a liability under ERISA, and neither the Borrower nor any Commonly Controlled Entity would become subject to any material liability under ERISA if the Borrower or any such Commonly Controlled Entity were to withdraw completely from all Multiemployer Plans as of the valuation date most closely preceding the date on which this representation is made or

 
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deemed made; and (e) no such Multiemployer Plan is in Reorganization or Insolvent, except where, in each of clauses (a) through (e), such event or condition, together with all other events or conditions, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

4.13           Investment Company Act; Other Regulations.  No Loan Party is an “investment company”, or a company “controlled” by an “investment company”, within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

4.14           Subsidiaries.  As of the Closing Date, (a) Schedule 4.14 sets forth the name and jurisdiction of organization of each Subsidiary and, (i) as to each such Subsidiary (other than WTH Funding LP), the percentage of each class of Capital Stock owned by any Loan Party and (ii) in the case of WTH Funding LP, the names of the partners of such partnership and to the extent that the partners of such partnership are Subsidiaries, the percentage of Capital Stock of such Subsidiaries owned by any Loan Party and (b) there are no outstanding subscriptions, options, warrants, calls, rights or other agreements or commitments (other than stock options granted to employees or directors and directors’ qualifying shares) of any nature relating to any Capital Stock of the Borrower or any Subsidiary (other than WTH Funding LP), except as created by the Loan Documents.

4.15           Use of Proceeds.  The proceeds of the Term Loans shall be used (i) to repay AESOP Indebtedness, (ii) to pay costs and expenses in connection with the entering into of the Loan Documents and the issuance of the Senior Unsecured Notes and (iii) to finance the working capital needs and general corporate purposes of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries.  The proceeds of the Revolving Loans and the Swingline Loans, and the Letters of Credit, shall be used to finance the working capital needs and general corporate purposes of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries.

4.16           Accuracy of Information, etc.  No statement or information (other than the projections and pro forma financial information) contained in this Agreement, any other Loan Document, the Confidential Information Memorandum or any other document, certificate or statement furnished by or on behalf of any Loan Party to the Administrative Agent or the Lenders, or any of them, for use in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the other Loan Documents taken as a whole, contained as of the date such statement, information, document or certificate was so furnished (or, in the case of the Confidential Information Memorandum, as of the date of this Agreement), any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the statements contained herein or therein not misleading.  The projections and pro forma financial information contained in the materials referenced above are based upon good faith estimates and assumptions believed by management of the Borrower to be reasonable at the time made, it being recognized by the Lenders that such financial information as it relates to future events is not to be viewed as fact and that actual results during the period or periods covered by such financial information may differ from the projected results set forth therein by a material amount.  As of the Closing Date there is no fact known to any Loan Party that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect that has not been expressly disclosed herein, in the other Loan Documents, in the Confidential Information Memorandum or in any other documents, certificates and statements furnished to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders for use in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby and by the other Loan Documents.

4.17           Security Documents.  (a) The Guarantee and Collateral Agreement is effective to create in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties (as defined in the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement), a legal, valid and enforceable security interest in the Collateral described therein and proceeds thereof.  In the case of the Pledged Stock described in the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, when stock certificates representing such Pledged Stock are delivered to the Administrative Agent, and in the case of the other Collateral described in the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, when financing statements and other filings specified on Schedule 4.17 in appropriate form are

 
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filed in the offices specified on Schedule 4.17, the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement shall constitute a fully perfected Lien on, and security interest in, all right, title and interest of the Loan Parties in such Collateral and the proceeds thereof, as security for the Obligations (as defined in the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement), in each case prior and superior in right to any other Person (except (i) in the case of Collateral other than Pledged Stock, Permitted Liens and (ii) in the case of Pledged Stock, statutory Liens); and (b) When executed, each of the Mortgages will be effective to create in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, a legal, valid and enforceable Lien on the Mortgaged Properties described therein and proceeds thereof, and when the Mortgages are accepted for recording in the applicable recording offices, each such Mortgage shall constitute a fully perfected Lien on, and security interest in, all right, title and interest of the Loan Parties in the Mortgaged Properties and the proceeds thereof, as security for the Obligations (as defined in the relevant Mortgage), in each case prior and superior in right to any other Person (except for any Permitted Lien other than Liens securing Indebtedness).  Schedule 1.1F lists, as of the First Amendment Effective Date, each parcel of owned real property and each leasehold interest in real property located in the United States and held by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries that has a value, in the reasonable opinion of the Borrower, in excess of $400,000.
 
4.18           Certain Documents.  The Borrower has delivered to the Administrative Agent a complete and correct copy of the Senior Unsecured Note Indenture and such other documents as the Administrative Agent shall have reasonably requested.

SECTION 5.                      CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

5.1           Conditions to Initial Extension of Credit.  The agreement of each Lender to make the initial extension of credit requested to be made by it is subject to the satisfaction, prior to or concurrently with the making of such extension of credit on the Closing Date, of the following conditions precedent:
 
(a) Credit Agreement; Guarantee and Collateral Agreement.  The Administrative Agent shall have received (i) this Agreement, executed and delivered by the Administrative Agent, Holdings, the Borrower and each Person listed on Schedule 1.1A and (ii) the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, executed and delivered by Holdings, the Borrower and each Subsidiary Guarantor.

(b) Senior Unsecured Notes Issuance.  The Borrower and Avis Budget Finance shall have received at least $1,000,000,000 in gross cash proceeds from the issuance of the Senior Unsecured Notes on terms and conditions reasonably satisfactory to the Joint Arrangers.

(c) Pro Forma Balance Sheet; Financial Statements.  The Lenders shall have received (i) the Pro Forma Balance Sheet, (ii) the Consolidated Financial Statements and (iii) unaudited interim consolidated financial statements of the Borrower for each fiscal quarter ended more than 45 days before the Closing Date and after the date of the latest applicable financial statements delivered pursuant to clause (ii) of this paragraph as to which such financial statements are available, and such financial statements shall not, in the reasonable judgment of the Lenders, reflect any material inconsistency with the financial statements or projections contained in the Confidential Information Memorandum, except as a result of changes thereto required by GAAP.
 
(d) Projections.  The Lenders shall have received satisfactory projections through 2011.

(e) Approvals.  All material governmental and third party approvals necessary in connection with the continuing operations of the Group Members, the issuance of the Senior Unsecured Notes and the financing contemplated hereby shall have been obtained and be in full force and effect, and all applicable waiting periods shall have expired without any action being
 

 
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taken or threatened by any competent authority that would restrain, prevent or otherwise impose adverse conditions on the issuance of the Senior Unsecured Notes or the financing contemplated hereby.
 
(f) Lien Searches.  The Administrative Agent shall have received the results of a recent lien search in each jurisdiction where the Loan Parties have their chief executive office or are organized, and such search shall reveal no Liens on any of the assets of the Loan Parties except for Liens permitted by Section 7.3, Liens discharged on or prior to the Closing Date or Liens for which termination arrangements have been made pursuant to documentation and on terms satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
 
(g) 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.  All such amounts will be paid with proceeds of Loans made on the Closing Date and will be reflected in the funding instructions given by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent on or before the Closing Date.
 
(h) Closing Certificate; Certified Certificate of Incorporation; Good Standing Certificates.  The Administrative Agent shall have received (i) a certificate of each Loan Party, dated the Closing Date, substantially in the form of Exhibit C, with appropriate insertions and attachments, including the certificate of incorporation of each Loan Party that is a corporation certified by the relevant authority of the jurisdiction of organization of such Loan Party, and (ii) a long form good standing certificate for each Loan Party from its jurisdiction of organization.
 
(i) Legal Opinions.  The Administrative Agent shall have received the executed legal opinion of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, counsel to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, substantially in the form of Exhibit E.
 
(j) Pledged Stock; Stock Powers; Pledged Notes.  The Administrative Agent shall have received (i) the certificates representing the shares of Capital Stock pledged pursuant to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, together with an undated stock power for each such certificate executed in blank by a duly authorized officer of the pledgor thereof and (ii) each promissory note (if any) pledged to the Administrative Agent pursuant to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement endorsed (without recourse) in blank (or accompanied by an executed transfer form in blank) by the pledgor thereof.
 
(k) Filings, Registrations and Recordings.  Each document (including any Uniform Commercial Code financing statement) required by the Security Documents or under law or reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent to be filed, registered or recorded in order to create in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, a perfected Lien on the Collateral described therein, prior and superior in right to any other Person (other than with respect to Liens expressly permitted by Section 7.3), shall be in proper form for filing, registration or recordation.
 
(l) Solvency Opinion.  The Administrative Agent shall have received a satisfactory solvency opinion from Duff & Phelps LLC that shall document the solvency of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries after giving effect to the financing contemplated hereby and the issuance of the Senior Unsecured Notes.
 
(m) Officer’s Certificate.  The Lenders shall have received a certificate from the chief financial officer of the Borrower documenting the Borrower’s compliance with the conditions set
 
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forth in paragraphs (a) and (b) of Section 5.2 on a pro forma basis after giving effect to the financing contemplated hereby and the issuance of the Senior Unsecured Notes.
 
5.2           Conditions to Each Extension of Credit.  The agreement of each Lender to make any extension of credit requested to be made by it on any date (including its initial extension of credit) is subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions precedent:

(a) 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 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 extensions of credit requested to be made on such date.
 
(c) No Excess Proceeds.  The amount of any extension of credit, after giving effect to the application of proceeds thereof, shall not exceed the reasonable working capital needs of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries by a material amount.
 
(d) Extensions of Credit to a Subsidiary Borrower.  The representations and warranties contained in Sections 4.3, 4.4 and 4.5 as to any Subsidiary Borrower to which an extension of credit is to be made shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of such date as if made on and as of such date.
 
Each borrowing by and issuance of a Letter of Credit on behalf of the Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower hereunder shall constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrower, or such Subsidiary Borrower, as applicable, as of the date of such extension of credit that the conditions contained in this Section 5.2 have been satisfied.
 
SECTION 6.                      AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
 
Holdings and the Borrower hereby jointly and severally agree that, so long as the Commitments remain in effect, any Letter of Credit remains outstanding or any Loan or other amount is owing to any Lender or the Administrative Agent hereunder, each of Holdings and the Borrower shall and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to:
 
6.1           Financial Statements.  Furnish to the Administrative Agent and each Lender:
 
(a) as soon as available, but in any event within 100 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower, a copy of the audited consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as at the end of such year and the related audited consolidated statements of income and of cash flows for such year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous year, reported on without a “going concern” or like qualification or exception, or qualification arising out of the scope of the audit, by Deloitte & Touche LLP or other independent certified public accountants of nationally recognized standing; and
 
(b) as soon as available, but in any event not later than 55 days after the end of each of the first three quarterly periods of each fiscal year of the Borrower, the unaudited consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as at the end of such quarter and the related unaudited consolidated statements of income and of cash flows 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
 

 
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figures for the previous year, certified by a Responsible Officer as being fairly stated in all material respects (subject to normal year-end audit adjustments).
 
All such financial statements shall be complete and correct in all material respects and shall be prepared in reasonable detail and in accordance with GAAP applied (except as approved by such accountants or officer, as the case may be, and disclosed in reasonable detail therein) consistently throughout the periods reflected therein and with prior periods and shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date on which the Borrower provides notice to the Administrative Agent that such information has been posted on the Borrower’s website at the website address listed on the signature pages of such notice, at www.sec.gov or at such other website identified in such notice and accessible by the Lenders without charge; provided that the Borrower shall deliver paper copies of such financial statements to the Administrative Agent or any Lender who requests the Borrower to deliver such paper copies until written notice to cease delivering paper copies is given by the Administrative Agent or such Lender.  The Borrower will be deemed to have satisfied the requirements of this Section 6.1 if any parent files with the SEC and provides reports, documents and information of the types otherwise so required, in each case within the applicable time periods specified by the applicable rules and regulations of the SEC, and the Borrower is not required to file such reports, documents and information separately under the applicable rules and regulations of the SEC (after giving effect to any exemptive relief) because of the filings by such parent.
 
6.2           Certificates; Other Information.  Furnish to the Administrative Agent and each Lender (or, in the case of clause (d), to the relevant Lender):

(a) concurrently with the delivery of the financial statements referred to in Section 6.1(a), a letter, written and signed by the independent certified public accountants reporting on such financial statements describing the scope of such financial statements and certifying that such financial statements are presented in an accurate manner and in accordance with GAAP;

(b) concurrently with the delivery of any financial statements pursuant to Section 6.1, (i) a certificate of a Responsible Officer stating that, to the best of each such Responsible Officer’s knowledge, each Loan Party during such period has observed or performed all of its covenants and other agreements, and satisfied every condition contained in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which it is a party to be observed, performed or satisfied by it, and that such Responsible Officer has obtained no knowledge of any Default or Event of Default except as specified in such certificate and (ii) in the case of quarterly or annual financial statements, (x) a Compliance Certificate containing all information and calculations necessary for determining compliance by each Group Member with the provisions of this Agreement referred to therein as of the last day of the fiscal quarter or fiscal year of the Borrower, as the case may be, and (y) to the extent not previously disclosed to the Administrative Agent, (1) a description of any change in the jurisdiction of organization of any Loan Party and the name and jurisdiction of organization of any new Subsidiary and the percentage of each class of Capital Stock owned by any Loan Party and (2) a list of any Intellectual Property registrations and applications acquired by any Loan Party since the date of the most recent report delivered pursuant to this clause (y) (or, in the case of the first such report so delivered, since the Closing Date);
 
(c) as soon as available, and in any event no later than 45 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower, a consolidated budget for the following fiscal year (which shall include the Fleet Financing Forecast for such fiscal year) and, as soon as available, significant revisions, if any, of such budget with respect to such fiscal year (the “Budget”), which Budget shall in each case be accompanied by a certificate of a Responsible Officer stating that such Budget is based on reasonable estimates, information and assumptions and that such Responsible Officer has no reason to believe that such Budget is incorrect or misleading in any material respect, it being understood
 

 
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that such Budget is based upon good faith estimates and assumptions believed by management of the Borrower to be reasonable at the time made, and it being recognized by the Lenders that such financial information as it relates to future events is not to be viewed as fact and that actual results during the period or periods covered by such financial information may differ from Budget by a material amount;
 
(d) unless the Borrower shall at such time have Specified Ratings of at least Ba2 or better from Moody’s and BB or better from S&P (in each case with a stable or positive outlook), as soon as available, but in any event not later than ten Business Days after the end of each calendar month, a financial report setting forth in comparative detail the Borrower’s financial performance and liquidity for such calendar month (including rental car financing activity) against the projected performance and liquidity for such calendar month contained in the consolidated budget for the fiscal year (including the Fleet Financing Forecast, it being understood that the financial performance information provided pursuant to this Section 6.2(e) will be subject to quarterly and year-end adjustments), substantially in the form set forth in Section 2 of Annex A; and
 
(e) promptly, such additional financial and other information as any Lender may from time to time reasonably request.
 
6.3           Payment of Obligations.  Pay, discharge or otherwise satisfy at or before maturity or before they become delinquent, as the case may be, its obligations and liabilities in respect of taxes, assessments and governmental charges or levies imposed upon it or upon its income or profits or in respect of its property, except where the amount or validity thereof is currently being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and reserves in conformity with GAAP with respect thereto have been provided on the books of the relevant Group Member or except to the extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

6.4           Maintenance of Existence; Compliance.  (a)(i)  Preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect its organizational existence (provided that Holdings and any of its Subsidiaries may change its organizational form so long as such change shall not adversely affect the interests of the Lenders) and (ii) take all reasonable action to maintain all rights, privileges and franchises necessary or desirable in the normal conduct of its business, except, in each case, as otherwise permitted by Section 7.4 and except to the extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and (b) comply with all Contractual Obligations and Requirements of Law except to the extent that failure to comply therewith could not, in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

6.5           Maintenance of Property; Insurance.  (a)  Keep all property material to its business in good working order and condition consistent with industry practices, ordinary wear and tear excepted, except where the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect and (b) maintain with financially sound and reputable insurance companies insurance on all its material property in amounts and against such risks (but including in any event, to the extent available on commercially reasonable terms, public liability, product liability and business interruption) as are usually insured against in the same general area by companies engaged in the same or a similar business.

 
6.6           Inspection of Property; Books and Records; Discussions.  (a)  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 (b) permit the Administrative Agent, and after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, representatives of any Lender (in coordination with the Administrative Agent), to visit and inspect any of its properties and examine and make abstracts from any of its books and records at any reasonable time and upon reasonable advance notice, and to discuss the business, operations, properties and financial

 
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and other condition of the Group Members with officers and employees of the Group Members and with their independent certified public accountants; provided that a representative of the Loan Parties shall be permitted to be present for any discussion with independent certified accountants referred to above.  Notwithstanding Section 10.5, unless any such visit or inspection is conducted after the occurrence and during the continuance of a Default or Event of Default, the Borrower shall not be required to pay any costs or expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent, any Lender or Lender’s representative in connection with such visit or inspection.

6.7           Notices.  Promptly upon obtaining actual knowledge thereof, give notice to the Administrative Agent and each Lender of:

(a) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default;

(b) any (i) default or event of default under any Contractual Obligation of any Group Member or (ii) litigation, investigation or proceeding that may exist at any time between any Group Member and any Governmental Authority, that in either case, if not cured or if adversely determined, as the case may be, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
 
(c)  any litigation or proceeding affecting any Group Member (i) in which the amount involved is $50,000,000 or more and not covered by insurance, (ii) in which injunctive or similar relief is sought or (iii) which relates to any Loan Document;

(d) the following events, as soon as possible and in any event within 30 days after the Borrower knows or has reason to know thereof:  (i) the occurrence of any Reportable Event with respect to any Plan, a failure to make any required contribution to a Plan, the creation of any Lien in favor of the PBGC or a Plan or any withdrawal from, or the termination, Reorganization or Insolvency of, any Multiemployer Plan or (ii) the institution of proceedings or the taking of any other action by the PBGC or the Borrower or any Commonly Controlled Entity or any Multiemployer Plan with respect to the withdrawal from, or the termination, Reorganization or Insolvency of, any Plan; and


(e) any development or event that has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
 
Each notice pursuant to this Section 6.7 shall be accompanied by a statement of a Responsible Officer setting forth details of the occurrence referred to therein and stating what action the relevant Group Member proposes to take with respect thereto.
 
6.8           Environmental Laws.  (a) Comply with, and use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure compliance by all tenants and subtenants, if any, with, all applicable Environmental Laws, and obtain and comply with and maintain, and use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that all tenants and subtenants obtain and comply with and maintain, any and all licenses, approvals, binding notifications, registrations or permits required by applicable Environmental Laws, except where the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(b)  Conduct and complete all investigations, studies, sampling and testing, and all remedial, removal and other actions required under Environmental Laws and promptly comply with all lawful orders and directives of all Governmental Authorities regarding Environmental Laws, except where the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
 
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6.9           Additional Collateral, etc. (a) With respect to any property constituting Collateral described in the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement acquired after the Closing Date by any Loan Party as to which the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, does not have a perfected Lien, promptly (i) execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent such amendments to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement or such other documents as the Administrative Agent deems necessary or advisable to grant to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, a security interest in such property and (ii) take all actions necessary or advisable to grant to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, a perfected first priority security interest in such property, including the filing of Uniform Commercial Code financing statements in such jurisdictions as may be required by the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement or by law or as may be requested by the Administrative Agent; provided that the Loan Parties shall not be required to take any such action with respect to any Intellectual Property acquired after the Closing Date until the earlier of the date on which (i) the aggregate value of all such Intellectual Property with respect to which the actions described above have not already been taken shall be at least $10,000,000 or (ii) the list describing such Intellectual Property is required to be furnished to the Administrative Agent and each Lender pursuant to Section 6.2(b).

(b)  With respect to any new Subsidiary (other than a Foreign Subsidiary, an Excluded Subsidiary, an Excluded Person, a Securitization Entity or any Subsidiary of a Foreign Subsidiary, Excluded Subsidiary or Securitization Entity) created or acquired after the Closing Date by any Loan Party, promptly (i) execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent such amendments to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement as the Administrative Agent deems necessary or advisable to grant to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, a perfected first priority security interest in the Capital Stock of such new Subsidiary that is owned by any Loan Party, (ii) deliver to the Administrative Agent the certificates representing such Capital Stock, together with undated stock powers, in blank, executed and delivered by a duly authorized officer of the relevant Loan Party, (iii) cause such new Subsidiary (A) to become a party to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, (B) to take such actions necessary or advisable to grant to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Lenders a perfected first priority security interest in the Collateral described in the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement with respect to such new Subsidiary, including the filing of Uniform Commercial Code financing statements in such jurisdictions as may be required by the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement or by law or as may be requested by the Administrative Agent and (C) to deliver to the Administrative Agent a certificate of such Subsidiary, substantially in the form of Exhibit C, with appropriate insertions and attachments, and (iv) if reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, deliver to the Administrative Agent legal opinions relating to the matters described above, which opinions shall be in form and substance, and from counsel, reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

 
(c) With respect to any new Foreign Subsidiary created or acquired after the Closing Date by any Loan Party (other than by any Foreign Subsidiary, an Excluded Subsidiary, an Excluded Person or a Securitization Entity), promptly (i) execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent such amendments to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement as the Administrative Agent deems necessary or advisable to grant to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, a perfected first priority security interest in a portion of the Capital Stock of such new Subsidiary that is owned by any such Loan Party (provided that in no event shall more than 66% of the total outstanding voting Capital Stock of any such new Subsidiary be required to be so pledged), (ii) deliver to the Administrative Agent the certificates representing such Capital Stock, together with undated stock powers, in blank, executed and delivered by a duly authorized officer of the relevant Group Member, and take such other action as may be necessary or, in the opinion of the Administrative Agent, desirable to perfect the Administrative Agent’s security interest therein, and (iii) if reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, deliver to the Administrative Agent legal opinions relating to the matters described above, which opinions shall be in form and substance, and from counsel, reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
 
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(d)  With respect to any fee interest or leasehold interest in any real property having a value (together with improvements thereof) of at least $1,000,000 acquired after the Second Amendment Effective Date by any Group Member (other than (x) any such real property subject to a Lien expressly permitted by Section 7.3(h) or 7.3(o) and (y) real property acquired by any Excluded Subsidiary, Excluded Person or Foreign Subsidiary), promptly (i) execute and deliver a first priority Mortgage, in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, covering such real property; provided that the obligation to deliver a Mortgage covering any leasehold property shall be limited to the use by the applicable Group Member of its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain any necessary landlord consents or waivers and (ii) in the case of any real property with a value of $5,000,000 or more, if requested by the Administrative Agent (x) provide the Lenders with title and extended coverage insurance covering such real property in an amount at least equal to the purchase price of such real property (or such other amount as shall be reasonably specified by the Administrative Agent) and (y) deliver to the Administrative Agent legal opinions relating to the matters described above, which opinions shall be in form and substance, and from counsel, reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
 

SECTION 7.                      NEGATIVE COVENANTS
 
Holdings and the Borrower hereby jointly and severally agree that, so long as the Commitments remain in effect, any Letter of Credit remains outstanding or any Loan or other amount is owing to any Lender or the Administrative Agent hereunder, each of Holdings and the Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly:
 
7.1           Financial Condition Covenants(a)  Consolidated Leverage Ratio.  Permit the Consolidated Leverage Ratio as at the last day of any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower ending with any fiscal quarter set forth below (commencing with the fiscal quarter ending June 30, 2010) to exceed the ratio set forth below opposite such fiscal quarter:
 
 
Fiscal Quarter
Consolidated
Leverage Ratio
June 30, 2010
6.25 to 1.00
 
September 30, 2010
5.75 to 1.00
 
December 31, 2010
5.50 to 1.00
 
March 31, 2011
5.50 to 1.00
 
June 30, 2011
5.25 to 1.00
 
September 30, 2011
5.00 to 1.00
 
December 31, 2011
4.75 to 1.00
 
March 31, 2012
4.75 to 1.00
 
June 30, 2012
4.75 to 1.00
 
September 30, 2012
4.50 to 1.00
 
December 31, 2012
4.50 to 1.00
 
March 31, 2013
4.50 to 1.00
 
June 30, 2013
4.50 to 1.00
 
September 30, 2013
4.25 to 1.00
 
December 31, 2013
4.25 to 1.00
 
March 31, 2014
4.25 to 1.00
 
 
 
 
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(b) Consolidated Interest Coverage Ratio.  Permit the Consolidated Interest Coverage Ratio for any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower ending with any fiscal quarter set forth below (commencing with the fiscal quarter ending June 30, 2010) to be less than the ratio set forth below opposite such fiscal quarter:
 
Fiscal Quarter
Consolidated
Interest Coverage Ratio
June 30, 2010
1.30 to 1.00
September 30, 2010
1.30 to 1.00
December 31, 2010
1.35 to 1.00
March 31, 2011
1.40 to 1.00
June 30, 2011
1.45 to 1.00
September 30, 2011
1.55 to 1.00
December 31, 2011
1.60 to 1.00
March 31, 2012
1.60 to 1.00
June 30, 2012
1.65 to 1.00
September 30, 2012
1.70 to 1.00
December 31, 2012
1.70 to 1.00
March 31, 2013
1.70 to 1.00
June 30, 2013
1.70 to 1.00
September 30, 2013
1.75 to 1.00
December 31, 2013
1.75 to 1.00
March 31, 2014
1.75 to 1.00
 

7.2           Indebtedness.  Create, issue, incur, assume, become liable in respect of or suffer to exist any Indebtedness, except:

(a) Indebtedness of any Loan Party pursuant to any Loan Document;
 
(b) Indebtedness of the Borrower to any Subsidiary and of any Subsidiary Guarantor to the Borrower or any other Subsidiary;
 
(c) Guarantee Obligations of the Borrower, Holdings and any Subsidiary of the Borrower in respect of the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement;
 
(d) Guarantee Obligations incurred by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries of obligations of any Subsidiary Guarantor or the Borrower;
 
(e) Guarantee Obligations of the Borrower in respect of obligations under the Letter of Credit Facilities;
 
(f) Indebtedness outstanding on the date hereof or required to be incurred pursuant to a Contractual Obligation in existence on the date hereof (other than AESOP Indebtedness and Securitization Indebtedness) and listed on Schedule 7.2(f) and any Permitted Refinancing thereof;
 
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(g) Indebtedness (including, without limitation, Capital Lease Obligations) secured by Liens permitted by Section 7.3(h) in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $100,000,000 at any one time outstanding;
 
(h) Indebtedness of the Borrower and Avis Budget Finance in respect of the Senior Unsecured Notes and any Permitted Refinancing thereof;
 
(i) unsecured Guarantee Obligations of Holdings and any Subsidiary of the Borrower in respect of the Senior Unsecured Notes; provided that each guarantor under the Senior Unsecured Notes or any Permitted Refinancing thereof shall be a guarantor of the Obligations pursuant to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement or such other agreement as the Administrative Agent may approve in its reasonable discretion;
 
(j) AESOP Indebtedness;
 
(k) Securitization Indebtedness;
 
(l) Recourse Vehicle Indebtedness;
 
(m) Indebtedness incurred in connection with any acquisition by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries of vehicles directly from a manufacturer pursuant to such manufacturer’s repurchase program; provided that (i) such Indebtedness is not greater than the net book value of such vehicles and (ii) such vehicles could not be financed under the AESOP Financing Program;
 
(n) Indebtedness incurred pursuant to terminal rental adjustment clause lease financings of trucks to be used in the truck rental operations of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries;
 
(o) Indebtedness under any Swap Agreement;
 
(p) Indebtedness of any Foreign Subsidiary, Excluded Subsidiary or Securitization Entity to the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor incurred in the ordinary course of business or to satisfy the general financing needs of such Foreign Subsidiary, Excluded Subsidiary or Securitization Entity;
 
(q) Indebtedness of any Foreign Subsidiary, Excluded Subsidiary or Securitization Entity to the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor in an amount not to exceed $50,000,000 at any one time outstanding;
 
(r) Indebtedness of any Foreign Subsidiary, Excluded Subsidiary or Securitization Entity to any Foreign Subsidiary, Excluded Subsidiary or Securitization Entity;
 
(s) Guarantee Obligations incurred by any Foreign Subsidiary, Excluded Subsidiary or Securitization Entity in respect of Indebtedness of any Foreign Subsidiary, Excluded Subsidiary or Securitization Entity;
 
(t) Indebtedness of any Foreign Subsidiary in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $50,000,000 at any one time outstanding and any Permitted Refinancing thereof;
 
(u) Indebtedness of any Person that becomes a Subsidiary pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition or that is otherwise assumed by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in connection
 
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with a Permitted Acquisition which is not incurred in contemplation of such Permitted Acquisition and any Permitted Refinancing thereof;
 
(v) unsecured or subordinated Indebtedness of the Borrower, Holdings or any Subsidiary Guarantor of the Borrower having no scheduled principal payments or prepayments prior to the Extended Term Loan Maturity Date incurred in connection with Permitted Acquisitions and any Permitted Refinancing thereof;
 
(w) additional Indebtedness of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $50,000,000 at any one time outstanding;
 
(x) Indebtedness incurred in connection with the financing of any insurance premiums; and
 
(y) additional unsecured or subordinated Indebtedness of the Borrower, Holdings or any Subsidiary Guarantor having no scheduled principal payments or prepayments (other than (i) as a result of change of control, asset sale, or issuance of Capital stock or Indebtedness or (ii) pursuant to other mandatory prepayment requirements customary for similar Indebtedness after taking into account then prevailing market conditions, in each case, not otherwise in conflict with the mandatory prepayment requirements contained in Section 2.11) prior to the Extended Term Loan Maturity Date and any Permitted Refinancing thereof;
 
provided, that if the Group Member’s action or event meets the criteria of more than one of the types of Indebtedness described in the clauses above, the Borrower in its sole discretion may classify such action or event in one or more clauses (including in part under one such clause and in part under another such clause).
 
7.3           Liens.  Create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien upon any of its property, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, except:

(a) Liens for taxes, assessments, governmental charges or other similar obligations not yet due or that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings, provided that adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the books of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries, as the case may be, in conformity with GAAP;
 
(b) carriers’, warehousemen’s, mechanics’, landlord’s, materialmen’s, repairmen’s or other like Liens arising in the ordinary course of business that are not overdue for a period of more than 60 days or that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings;
 
(c) Liens incidental to the conduct of the Borrower’s business or the ownership of its assets which were not incurred in connection with the borrowing of money, and which do not in the aggregate materially detract from the value of its assets or materially impair the use thereof in the operation of its business;
 
(d) pledges or deposits in connection with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security legislation;
 
(e) pledges or deposits to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts (other than for borrowed money), leases, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature incurred in the ordinary course of business;
 
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(f) easements, rights-of-way, restrictions, covenants and other similar encumbrances incurred in the ordinary course of business or of record that, in the aggregate, are not substantial in amount and that do not in any case materially detract from the value of the property subject thereto or materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries;
 
(g) Liens in existence on the date hereof listed on Schedule 7.3(g), securing Indebtedness permitted by Section 7.2(f), provided that no such Lien is spread to cover any additional property after the Closing Date and that the amount of Indebtedness secured thereby is not increased;
 
(h) Liens securing Indebtedness of the Borrower or any other Subsidiary incurred pursuant to Section 7.2(g) to finance the acquisition of fixed or capital assets, provided that (i) such Liens shall be created substantially simultaneously with the acquisition of such fixed or capital assets, (ii) such Liens do not at any time encumber any property other than the property financed by such Indebtedness and (iii) the amount of Indebtedness secured thereby is not increased;
 
(i) Liens created pursuant to the Security Documents;
 
(j) Liens on any Related Eligible Assets or arising out of the transfer of Related Eligible Assets to Securitization Entities; provided that such transfer is otherwise permitted by the Agreement;
 
(k) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted under Section 7.2(j), (k), (l), (m) and (n);
 
(l) Liens securing judgments which do not constitute an Event of Default;
 
(m) statutory rights of tenants under leases with respect to which the Borrower or any Subsidiary is the lessor;
 
(n) any interest or title of a lessor under any lease entered into by the Borrower or any other Subsidiary in the ordinary course of its business and covering only the assets so leased;
 
(o) Liens existing on any property or asset prior to the acquisition thereof by any Group Member or existing on any property or asset of any Person that becomes a Subsidiary after the date hereof prior to the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary; provided that such Lien is not created in contemplation of or in connection with such acquisition or such Person becoming a Subsidiary, as the case may be, and such Lien shall secure only those obligations which it secures on the date of such acquisition or the date on which such Person becomes a Subsidiary, as the case may be, and any Permitted Refinancing of such obligations; provided further that no such Liens shall be permitted to exist on the Capital Stock of any Person that is required to be a Subsidiary Guarantor hereunder; and
 
(p) Liens attaching solely to cash earnest money deposits in connection with any permitted Investment or Permitted Acquisition;
 
(q) Liens on insurance policies and the proceeds thereof securing the financing of the insurance premiums with respect thereto;
 
(r) Encumbrances permitted under Section 7.12 or otherwise imposed pursuant to an agreement that has been entered into in connection with a Disposition of assets; and
 
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(s) Liens not otherwise permitted by this Section so long as neither (i) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the obligations secured thereby nor (ii) the aggregate fair market value (determined as of the date such Lien is incurred) of the assets subject thereto exceeds (as to the Borrower and all Subsidiaries) $50,000,000 at any one time;
 
provided, that if the Group Member’s action or event meets the criteria of more than one of the types of Liens described in the clauses above, the Borrower in its sole discretion may classify such action or event in one or more clauses (including in part under one such clause and in part under another such clause).
 
7.4           Fundamental Changes.  Enter into any merger, consolidation or amalgamation, or liquidate, wind up or dissolve itself (or suffer any liquidation or dissolution), or Dispose of all or substantially all of its property or business, except that:

(a) any Subsidiary of the Borrower may be merged or consolidated with or into the Borrower (provided that the Borrower shall be the continuing or surviving corporation) or with or into any Wholly Owned Subsidiary (provided that the Wholly Owned Subsidiary shall be the continuing or surviving corporation); provided that any such merger or consolidation of a Subsidiary Guarantor shall only be with or into the Borrower or another Subsidiary Guarantor;
 
(b) any Subsidiary of the Borrower may Dispose of any or all of its assets (i) to the Borrower or any Wholly Owned Subsidiary (upon voluntary liquidation or otherwise); provided that any such Disposition by a Subsidiary Guarantor shall only be to the Borrower or another Subsidiary Guarantor or (ii) pursuant to a Disposition permitted by Section 7.5; and
 
(c) any Investment expressly permitted by Section 7.7 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation.
 
7.5           Disposition of Property.  Dispose of any of its property, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, or, in the case of any Subsidiary, issue or sell any shares of such Subsidiary’s Capital Stock to any Person, except:

(a) the Disposition of obsolete or worn out property in the ordinary course of business;
 
(b)  the sale of inventory in the ordinary course of business;
 
(c) Dispositions permitted by clause (i) of Section 7.4(b), Investments permitted under Section 7.7 (other than Section 7.7 (m)) and Restricted Payments permitted under Section 7.6;
 
(d) the sale or issuance of any Subsidiary’s Capital Stock to the Borrower or any Wholly Owned Subsidiary; provided that any sale or issuance of any Subsidiary Guarantor’s Capital Stock shall only be to the Borrower or another Subsidiary Borrower;
 
(e) Dispositions of any Related Eligible Assets (i) in connection with the AESOP Financing Program, (ii) to any Securitization Entity or (iii) in connection with the incurrence of any Securitization Indebtedness;
 
(f) the sale of the Budget Truck Division for fair market value as determined by the board of directors of the Borrower;
 
(g) the Disposition of other property having a fair market value not to exceed $200,000,000 in the aggregate for any fiscal year of the Borrower;
 
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(h) the Dispositions listed on Schedule 7.5(h);
 
(i) Dispositions of properties subject to condemnation, eminent domain or taking;
 
(j) leases, subleases, licenses and sublicenses of real or personal property in the ordinary course of business;
 
(k) dispositions or use of cash and Cash Equivalents in the ordinary course of business;
 
(l) the abandonment, termination or other disposition of intellectual property or leasehold properties in the ordinary course of business; and
 
(m)  dispositions, discounts or forgiveness of accounts receivable in connection with the collection or compromise thereof;
 
provided that all Dispositions permitted under paragraphs (f) and (g) of this Section 7.5 shall be made for fair value and for at least 75% cash consideration.
 
7.6           Restricted Payments.  Declare or pay any dividend (other than dividends payable solely in common stock of the Person making such dividend) on, or make any payment on account of, or set apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, the purchase, redemption, defeasance, retirement or other acquisition of, any Capital Stock of any Group Member, whether now or hereafter outstanding, or make any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of any Group Member (collectively, “Restricted Payments”), except that:

(a) any Subsidiary may make Restricted Payments to the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor; provided, that any non-Subsidiary Guarantor may make Restricted Payments to any Group Member;

(b)  so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Borrower may pay dividends to Holdings and Holdings may pay dividends to Cendant to purchase Cendant common stock or common stock options from present or former officers or employees of any Group Member upon the death, disability or termination of employment of such officer or employee;

(c) the Borrower may make Restricted Payments to Holdings to permit Holdings to (i) pay corporate overhead expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and (ii) pay any taxes that are due and payable by Holdings or the Borrower;
 
(d) (i) the Borrower may make Restricted Payments to Holdings to permit Holdings to pay dividends to any higher tier entity to provide for the payment of (A) Parent Expenses, (B) Related Taxes and (C) any Taxes that are due and payable by any Group Member as part of a consolidated group or which have been paid for the account of any Group Member pursuant to the Tax Sharing Agreement and (ii) so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Borrower may make Restricted Payments to Holdings to permit Holdings to pay dividends to any Parent in an aggregate amount not to exceed $40,000,000 plus 50% of Consolidated Net Income of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, determined on a cumulative basis since April 1, 2010, during the term of this Agreement;
 
(e) Investments permitted by Section 7.7; and
 
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(f) any Subsidiary may make Restricted Payments (including in respect of management fees) to the holders of the Capital Stock of such Subsidiary ratably based on the respective ownership interests of such holders.
 
7.7           Investments
.  Make any advance, loan, extension of credit (by way of guaranty or otherwise) or capital contribution to, or purchase any Capital Stock, bonds, notes, debentures or other debt securities of, or any assets constituting a business unit of, or make any other investment in, any other Person (all of the foregoing, “Investments”), except:

(a) Investments consisting of extensions of trade credit and Investments received in satisfaction or partial satisfaction thereof from financially troubled account debtors and other credits to suppliers in the ordinary course of business;
 
(b) Investments in Cash Equivalents;
 
(c) Guarantee Obligations permitted by Section 7.2;
 
(d) loans and advances to employees of any Group Member in the ordinary course of business (including for travel, entertainment and relocation expenses) in an aggregate amount not to exceed $500,000 in any fiscal year;
 
(e) Investments in assets useful in the business of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries made by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries with the proceeds of any Reinvestment Deferred Amount;
 
(f) intercompany Investments by any Group Member in the Borrower or any Person that, prior to such investment, is a Subsidiary Guarantor;
 
(g) intercompany Investments by the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor in any Securitization Entity, Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary made in the ordinary course of business or to satisfy the general financing needs of such Securitization Entity, Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary;
 
(h) intercompany Investments by the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor in any Securitization Entity, Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Subsidiary in an amount not to exceed $50,000,000 at any one time outstanding;
 
(i) intercompany Investments by any Foreign Subsidiary, Excluded Subsidiary or Securitization Entity in any Foreign Subsidiary, Excluded Subsidiary or Securitization Entity;
 
(j) Restricted Payments to Cendant permitted by Section 7.6 in the form of loans and advances;
 
(k) Investments listed on Schedule 7.7(k);
 
(l) Permitted Acquisitions, provided that the aggregate amount (or, in the case of consideration consisting of assets, fair market value) of the consideration paid by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (net of acquired cash and Cash Equivalents and excluding consideration in respect of acquired vehicles as long as (i) the purchase price for such vehicles does not exceed their fair market value and (ii) such vehicles will be financed in the Borrower’s normal operation of its business through the AESOP Financing Program or any other similar financing program, or will be
 

 
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replaced with vehicles financed through the AESOP Financing Program or any other similar financing program) shall not exceed (i) $50,000,000 or (ii) $200,000,000 in the event that after giving pro forma effect to such acquisition, the Consolidated Leverage Ratio is less than 4.00 to 1.00 as of the most recently ended fiscal quarter for which financial statements have been delivered hereunder, in each case, on a cumulative basis for all such acquisitions;
 
(m) Investments consisting of Liens, Indebtedness, fundamental changes, Dispositions, Restricted Payments permitted under Sections 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5 or 7.6 respectively;
 
(n) any seller-financing or other non-cash consideration received in connection with Dispositions permitted by Section 7.5;
 
(o) the Borrower or any Subsidiary may make Investments to purchase from a minority shareholder the Capital Stock of such shareholder in a joint venture entity in which any Group Member owns a majority equity interest (regardless of whether such a joint venture entity is a Subsidiary); and
 
(p) in addition to Investments otherwise expressly permitted by this Section, Investments by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount (valued at cost) not to exceed $50,000,000 during the term of this Agreement;
 
provided, that (i) if the Group Member’s action or event meets the criteria of more than one of the types of Investments described in the clauses above, the Borrower in its sole discretion may classify such action or event in one or more clauses (including in part under one such clause and in part under another such clause) and (ii) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may not make any Investment in an Excluded Person except to the extent permitted by Section 7.7(p).
 
7.8           Optional Payments and Modifications of Certain Agreements.  (a)  Make or offer to make any optional or voluntary payment, prepayment, repurchase or redemption of or otherwise optionally or voluntarily defease or segregate funds with respect to the Indebtedness permitted by Section 7.2(h), (t) or (v); provided that any such Indebtedness may be repaid, prepaid, repurchased or redeemed (i) in connection with a Permitted Refinancing or (ii) for consideration (including any premium paid in connection therewith) in an aggregate amount of up to $50,000,000 plus an additional $50,000,000 in the event that after giving pro forma effect to such prepayment, repurchase or redemption, the Consolidated Leverage Ratio is less than 4.00 to 1.00, (b) amend, modify, waive or otherwise change, or consent or agree to any amendment, modification, waiver or other change to, any of the terms of the Senior Unsecured Notes in a manner materially adverse to the Lenders or (c) amend, modify, waive or otherwise change, or consent or agree to any amendment, modification, waiver or other change to, any of the terms of the Separation Agreement or the Tax Sharing Agreement in a manner materially adverse to the Lenders, it being understood that an increase of the obligations or potential liability of Cendant resulting from any such amendment, modification or other change to the Separation Agreement or Tax Sharing Agreement shall not, in and of itself, be regarded as materially adverse to the Lenders.
 
7.9           Transactions with Affiliates.  Enter into any transaction (other than (i) transactions listed on Schedule 7.9, (ii) transactions permitted by Section 7.6, (iii) Investments permitted by Section 7.7(d) and (o), (iv) Investments in joint ventures permitted by Section 7.7 and (v) issuances of Equity Interests, including any servicing agreement, purchase, sale, lease or exchange of property, the rendering of any service or the payment of any management, advisory or similar fees, with any Affiliate (other than Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary) unless such transaction is (a) otherwise permitted under this Agreement and (b) upon fair and reasonable terms taken as a whole no less favorable to the relevant Group Member than it would obtain in a comparable arm’s length transaction with a Person that is not an Affiliate.

 
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7.10           Sales and Leasebacks.  Enter into any arrangement with any Person providing for the leasing by any Group Member of real or personal property that has been or is to be sold or transferred by such Group Member to such Person or to any other Person to whom funds have been or are to be advanced by such Person on the security of such property or rental obligations of such Group Member except sale-lease back transactions relating to Eligible Assets not in excess of $50,000,000 and without duplication of any such transactions permitted by Section 7.2.

7.11           Changes in Fiscal Periods.  Permit the fiscal year of the Borrower to end on a day other than December 31 or change the Borrower’s method of determining fiscal quarters.

7.12           Clauses Restricting Subsidiary Distributions.  Enter into or suffer to exist or become effective any consensual encumbrance or restriction on the ability of any Subsidiary of the Borrower (other than a Securitization Entity) to (a) make Restricted Payments in respect of any Capital Stock of such Subsidiary held by, or pay any Indebtedness owed to, the Borrower or any other Subsidiary of the Borrower, (b) make loans or advances to, or other Investments in, the Borrower or any other Subsidiary of the Borrower or (c) transfer any of its assets to the Borrower or any other Subsidiary of the Borrower, except for such encumbrances or restrictions existing under or by reason of (i) any restrictions existing under the Loan Documents, (ii) any restrictions with respect to a Subsidiary or assets imposed pursuant to an agreement that has been entered into in connection with the Disposition of all or substantially all of the Capital Stock or assets of such Subsidiary or such assets other than the Senior Unsecured Note Indenture and such other agreements listed on Schedule 7.12 , (iii) restrictions which are not more restrictive than those contained in this Agreement contained in any documents governing any Indebtedness incurred in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, (iv) any documents relating to joint ventures to the extent that such joint ventures are not prohibited hereunder, (v) any agreement in effect at the time a Person became a Subsidiary or assets are first acquired pursuant to an Investment permitted under Section 7.7, so long as (x) such agreement was not entered into solely in contemplation of such Investment and (y) such encumbrance or restriction applies only to such Person and assets, and (vi)with respect to the restrictions in clause (c), (x) restrictions or conditions imposed by any agreement relating to secured debt permitted by this Agreement if such restrictions or conditions apply only to the property or assets securing such debt, and (y) customary provisions in leases, licenses or contracts restricting assignability or subleasing prohibit the granting of Liens on the rights contained therein; provided that loans made by the Borrower or any Subsidiary to any other Subsidiary that is a Securitization Entity or a partner or direct equity owner of a Securitization Entity may be subject to customary repayment restrictions required by the lenders to such Securitization Entity.

 
7.13           Lines of Business.  Enter into any business, either directly or through any Subsidiary, except for those businesses in which the Borrower and its Subsidiaries are engaged on the date of this Agreement or that are reasonably related thereto.

7.14           Business Activities of Holdings.  In the case of Holdings, (i) conduct, transact or otherwise engage in, or commit to conduct, transact or otherwise engage in, any business or operations other than those incidental to its ownership of the Capital Stock of the Borrower, (ii) incur, create, assume or suffer to exist any Indebtedness or other liabilities or financial obligations, except (w) Guarantee Obligations permitted pursuant to Section 7.2(c) and 7.2(i), (x) nonconsensual obligations imposed by operation of law, (y) obligations pursuant to the Loan Documents to which it is a party and (z) obligations with respect to its Capital Stock, or (iii) own, lease, manage or otherwise operate any properties or assets (including cash (other than cash received in connection with dividends made by the Borrower in accordance with Section 7.6 pending application in the manner contemplated by said Section) and cash equivalents (other than cash received from capital contributions to, or the issuance of Capital Stock by Holdings) other than the ownership of shares of Capital Stock of the Borrower.
 

 
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SECTION 8.                      EVENTS OF DEFAULT
 
If any of the following events shall occur and be continuing:
 
(a) the Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower shall fail to pay any principal of any Loan or Reimbursement Obligation when due in accordance with the terms hereof; or the Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower shall fail to pay any interest on any Loan or Reimbursement Obligation, or any other amount payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document, within five days after any such interest or other amount becomes due in accordance with the terms hereof; or
 
(b) any representation or warranty made or deemed made by any Loan Party 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 false or misleading in any material respect on or as of the date made or delivered; or
 
(c) any Loan Party shall default in the observance or performance of any agreement contained in clause (i) or (ii) of Section 6.4(a) (with respect to Holdings and the Borrower only), Section 6.7(a) or Section 7 of this Agreement or Sections 6.4 or 6.6(b) of the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement; or
 
(d) any Loan Party 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 30 days after notice to the Borrower 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 (x) the outstanding principal amount of which exceeds in the aggregate $50,000,000; and (y) in the case of such Indebtedness which is Securitization Indebtedness (including AESOP Indebtedness), (1) an amortization or termination event pursuant to a securitization program prior to the end of the scheduled term or revolving period thereunder shall have occurred, (2) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries shall become unable to finance the purchase of vehicles and (3) the Borrower shall have failed, by the 45th day after the occurrence of an event referred to in clause (y)(1) and the expiration of all grace periods applicable thereto, to either (A) replace such securitization program with an alternative source of financing having terms not materially adverse to the Lenders from the program being replaced or having terms acceptable to the Required Lenders, or (B) obtain a waiver with respect to the occurrence of such event from the applicable required noteholders or lenders under such
 

 
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securitization program, and provided that until and unless the event described in clause (y)(3) shall have occurred, no Event of Default shall exist as a result of the occurrence of an event referred to in clause (y)(1).  Upon the entering into of any replacement facility referred to in clause (y)(1)(A), the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent a written officer’s certificate providing that the Borrower has sufficient vehicle financing arrangements available to it to carry-on its business activities consistent, in all material respects, with its past practices; or
 
(f) (i) any Group Member (other than any Subsidiary which is not a Significant Subsidiary) 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 (other than any Subsidiary which is not a Significant Subsidiary) 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 or undischarged for a period of 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 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
 
(g) (i) any Person shall engage in any “prohibited transaction” (as defined in Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) involving any Plan, (ii) any “accumulated funding deficiency” (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA), whether or not waived, shall exist with respect to any Plan or any Lien in favor of the PBGC or a Plan shall arise on the assets of any Group Member or any Commonly Controlled Entity, (iii) a Reportable Event shall occur with respect to, or proceedings shall commence to have a trustee appointed, or a trustee shall be appointed, to administer or to terminate, any Single Employer Plan, which Reportable Event or commencement of proceedings or appointment of a trustee is, in the reasonable opinion of the Required Lenders, likely to result in the termination of such Plan for purposes of Title IV of ERISA, (iv) any Single Employer Plan shall terminate for purposes of Title IV of ERISA, (v) any Group Member or any Commonly Controlled Entity shall, or in the reasonable opinion of the Required Lenders is likely to, incur any liability in connection with a withdrawal from, or the Insolvency or Reorganization of, a Multiemployer Plan or (vi) any other event or condition shall occur or exist with respect to a Plan; and in each case in clauses (i) through (vi) above, such event or condition, together with all other such events or conditions in this clause (g), if any, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; or
 
(h) one or more judgments or decrees shall be entered against any Group Member involving in the aggregate a liability (to the extent not paid or fully covered by insurance provided by a carrier not disputing coverage) of $50,000,000 or more, and all such judgments or decrees shall not have been vacated, discharged, stayed or bonded pending appeal within 30 days from the entry thereof; or
 
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(i) any material provision of any Security Documents shall cease, for any reason, to be in full force and effect, or any Loan Party or any Affiliate of any Loan Party shall so assert, or any Lien created by any of the Security Documents shall cease to be enforceable and of the same effect and priority purported to be created thereby with respect to any Collateral, other than Collateral having a de minimus value (unless due to action or inaction by the Administrative Agent); or
 
(j) the guarantees contained in Section 2 and Section 3 of the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement shall cease, for any reason, to be in full force and effect or any Loan Party or any Affiliate of any Loan Party shall so assert; or
 
(k) the occurrence of a Change in Control;
 
then, and in any such event, (A) if such event is an Event of Default specified in clause (i) or (ii) of paragraph (f) above with respect to the Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower, 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 (including all amounts of L/C Obligations, whether or not the beneficiaries of the then outstanding Letters of Credit shall have presented the documents required thereunder) shall immediately become due and payable, and (B) if such event is any other Event of Default, either or both 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 Revolving Commitments to be terminated forthwith, whereupon the Revolving 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 (including all amounts of L/C Obligations, whether or not the beneficiaries of the then outstanding Letters of Credit shall have presented the documents required thereunder) to be due and payable forthwith, whereupon the same shall immediately become due and payable.  With respect to all Letters of Credit with respect to which presentment for honor shall not have occurred at the time of an acceleration pursuant to this paragraph, the Borrower or the relevant Subsidiary Borrower shall at such time deposit in a cash collateral account opened by the Administrative Agent an amount equal to the aggregate then undrawn and unexpired amount of such Letters of Credit.  Amounts held in such cash collateral account shall be applied by the Administrative Agent to the payment of drafts drawn under such Letters of Credit, and the unused portion thereof after all such Letters of Credit shall have expired or been fully drawn upon, if any, shall be applied to repay other obligations of the Borrower and any Subsidiary Borrower hereunder and under the other Loan Documents.  After all such Letters of Credit shall have expired or been fully drawn upon, all Reimbursement Obligations shall have been satisfied and all other obligations of the Borrower and any Subsidiary Borrower hereunder and under the other Loan Documents shall have been paid in full, the balance, if any, in such cash collateral account shall be returned to the Borrower or such Subsidiary Borrower (or such other Person as may be lawfully entitled thereto).  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 and each Subsidiary Borrower.
 
SECTION 9.                      THE AGENTS

9.1           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
 
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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.

9.2           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.

9.3           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 (except to the extent that any of the foregoing are found by a final and nonappealable decision of a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from its or such Person’s own gross negligence or willful misconduct) or (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 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.

9.4           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, e-mail, 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 Holdings 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.

9.5           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, Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary 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

 
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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.

9.6           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.  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.

9.7           Indemnification.  The Lenders agree to indemnify each Agent in its capacity as such (to the extent not reimbursed by Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower and without limiting the obligation of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary 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 final and nonappealable 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.

9.8           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 and with respect to any Letter of Credit issued or participated in 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.


 
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9.9           Successor Administrative Agent.  The Administrative Agent may resign as Administrative Agent upon 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 Section 8(a) or Section 8(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 10 days following a retiring Administrative Agent’s notice of resignation, the retiring Administrative Agent may, on behalf of the Lenders and with the consent of the Borrower (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld), appoint a successor Administrative Agent, which shall be a commercial bank organized or licensed under the laws of the United States of America or of any State thereof and having a combined capital and surplus of at least $500,000,000.  Upon the acceptance of any appointment as Administrative Agent hereunder by a successor Administrative Agent, such successor Administrative Agent shall thereupon succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Administrative Agent, and the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations under this Agreement. After any retiring Administrative Agent’s resignation as Administrative Agent, the provisions of this Section 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.

9.10           Co-Documentation Agent, Documentation Agent and Syndication Agent.  Neither of the Co-Documentation Agent, the Documentation Agents nor the Syndication Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities hereunder in its capacity as such.

SECTION 10.                                MISCELLANEOUS


10.1           Amendments and Waivers.  (a)           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 10.1.  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 (A) forgive any principal amount or extend the final scheduled date of maturity of any Loan or any Reimbursement Obligation or extend the scheduled date of any amortization payment in respect of any Term Loan (for the purpose of clarity each of the foregoing not to include any waiver of a prepayment), reduce the 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 (which waiver shall be effective with the consent of the Majority Facility Lenders of each adversely affected Facility) and (2) that any amendment or modification of defined terms used in the financial covenants in this Agreement shall not constitute a reduction in the rate of interest or fees for purposes of this clause (A)) or extend the scheduled date of any payment thereof, or increase the amount or extend the expiration date of any Lender’s Revolving Commitment, in each case without the written consent of each Lender directly affected thereby; (B) eliminate or reduce the voting rights of any Lender under this Section 10.1 without the written consent

 
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of such Lender; (C) reduce any percentage specified in the definition of Required Lenders, consent to the assignment or transfer by the Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower of any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, release all or substantially all of the Collateral or release all or substantially all of the Subsidiary Guarantors from their obligations under the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement except as otherwise provided in the Loan Documents, in each case without the written consent of all Lenders; (D) amend, modify or waive any provision of Section 2.11 or 2.17 without the written consent of the Majority Facility Lenders in respect of each Facility adversely affected thereby; (E) reduce the percentage specified in the definition of Majority Facility Lenders with respect to any Facility without the written consent of all Lenders under such Facility; (F) after the Closing Date, amend, modify or waive any provision of Section 5.2 without the written consent of the Majority Facility Lenders with respect of the Revolving Facility, (G) amend, modify or waive any provision of Section 9 without the written consent of the Administrative Agent; (H) amend, modify or waive any provision of Section 2.6 or 2.7 without the written consent of the Swingline Lender; or (I) amend, modify or waive any provision of Section 3 without the written consent of the Issuing Lender.  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.

(b)  Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Agreement may be amended with the written consent of the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and each of the Lenders providing the relevant Replacement Term Loans (as defined below) to permit the refinancing, replacement or modification of all outstanding Term Loans (“Replaced Term Loans”) with a replacement term loan tranche hereunder (“Replacement Term Loans”), provided that (i) the aggregate principal amount of such Replacement Term Loans shall not exceed the aggregate principal amount of such Replaced Term Loans, (ii) the Applicable Margin for such Replacement Term Loans shall not be higher than the Applicable Margin for such Replaced Term Loans and (iii) the weighted average life to maturity of such Replacement Term Loans shall not be shorter than the weighted average life to maturity of such Replaced Term Loans at the time of such refinancing.

(c)  In addition, notwithstanding the foregoing, this Agreement may be amended without consent of the Lenders, so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, as follows:
 
(i)  to designate any Domestic Subsidiary of the Borrower as a Domestic Subsidiary Borrower under the Revolving Facility upon (A) ten Business Days prior notice to the Lenders (such notice to contain the name, primary business address and taxpayer identification number of such Subsidiary), (B) the execution and delivery by the Borrower, such Subsidiary and the Administrative Agent of a Joinder Agreement, substantially in the form of Exhibit G (a “Joinder Agreement”), providing for such Subsidiary to become a Subsidiary Borrower, (C) the agreement and acknowledgment by the Borrower and each other Subsidiary Borrower that the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement covers the Obligations of such Subsidiary and (D) the delivery to the Administrative Agent of (1) corporate or other applicable resolutions, other corporate or other applicable documents, certificates and legal opinions in respect of such Subsidiary reasonably equivalent to comparable documents delivered on the Closing Date and (2) such other documents with respect thereto as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably request; and

 
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(ii)  to remove any Subsidiary as a Subsidiary Borrower upon execution and delivery by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent of a written notification to such effect and repayment in full of all Loans made to such Subsidiary Borrower, cash collateralization of all L/C Obligations in respect of any Letters of Credit issued for the account of such Subsidiary Borrower and repayment in full of all other amounts owing by such Subsidiary Borrower under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents (it being agreed that any such repayment shall be in accordance with the other terms of this Agreement).

10.2           Notices.  All notices, requests and demands to or upon the respective parties hereto to be effective shall be in writing (including by telecopy or electronic transmission), and, unless otherwise expressly provided herein, shall be deemed to have been duly given or made when delivered, or three Business Days after being deposited in the mail, postage prepaid, or, in the case of telecopy notice or electronic transmission, when received, addressed as follows in the case of Holdings, 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:

Holdings:
Avis Budget Holdings, LLC
 
1 Campus Drive
Parsippany, New Jersey 07054
Attention:  David B. Wyshner
 
Telecopy:  (973) 496-5080
 
Telephone:  (973) 496-7938
   
Borrower:
Avis Budget Car Rental, LLC
 
1 Campus Drive
Parsippany, New Jersey 07054
Attention:  David B. Wyshner
 
Telecopy:  (973) 496-5080
 
Telephone:  (973) 496-7938
   
Administrative Agent:
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
1111 Fannin Street
10th Floor
Houston, Texas 77002
 
Attn: Syed A Abbas
Telecopy: (713) 750-2938
Telephone: (713) 750-7924
   
with a copy to:
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
383 Madison Avenue
Floor 24
New York, NY 10179
Attention:  Robert Kellas
Telecopy:  212-270-5100
Telephone: 212-270-3560
 
   
 
provided that any notice, request or demand to or upon the Administrative Agent or the Lenders shall not be effective until received.
 

 
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Notices and other communications to the Lenders hereunder may be delivered or furnished by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by the Administrative Agent; provided that the foregoing shall not apply to notices pursuant to Section 2 unless otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent and the applicable Lender.  The Administrative Agent or the Borrower may, in its discretion, agree to accept notices and other communications to it hereunder by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by it; provided that approval of such procedures may be limited to particular notices or communications.

10.3           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.

10.4           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 and other extensions of credit hereunder.

10.5           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 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP 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 reasonable out-of-pocket 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 to the Lenders and of counsel to the Administrative Agent; provided, that the Borrower shall not be liable for the fees and disbursements of more than one separate firm for the Lenders (unless there shall exist an actual conflict of interest among the Lenders) in connection with any one action or any separate but substantially similar or related actions in the same jurisdiction, nor shall the Borrower be liable for any settlement or extra-judicial resolution of claims without the Borrower’s written consent, (c) to pay, indemnify, and hold each Lender and the Administrative Agent harmless from, any and all recording and filing fees and any and all liabilities with respect to, or resulting from any delay in paying, stamp, excise and similar taxes, if any, 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 (other than with respect to taxes, which shall be governed exclusively by Section 2.19) 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

 
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Properties 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 and nonappealable decision of a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee; provided further, that that the Borrower shall not be liable for the fees and disbursements of more than one separate firm for any Indemnitees (unless there shall exist an actual conflict of interest among such Indemnitees) in connection with any one action or any separate but substantially similar or related actions in the same jurisdiction, nor shall the Borrower be liable for any settlement or extra-judicial resolution of such Indemnitees’ claims without the Borrower’s written consent.  Without limiting the foregoing, and to the extent permitted by applicable law, the Borrower agrees not to assert and to cause its Subsidiaries not to assert, and hereby waives and agrees to cause its Subsidiaries to waive, 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.  All amounts due under this Section 10.5 shall be payable not later than 10 days after written demand therefor.  Statements payable by the Borrower pursuant to this Section 10.5 shall be submitted to David B. Wyshner (Telephone No.  973-496-7938) (Telecopy No. 973-496-5080), at the address of the Borrower set forth in Section 10.2, 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 10.5 shall survive repayment of the Loans and all other amounts payable hereunder.

10.6           Successors and Assigns; Participations and Assignments.  (a)  The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby (including any affiliate of the Issuing Lender that issues any Letter of Credit), except that (i) the Borrower may not assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each Lender (and any attempted assignment or transfer by the Borrower without such consent shall be null and void) and (ii) no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer its rights or obligations hereunder except in accordance with this Section.

(b)(i)  Subject to the conditions set forth in paragraph (b)(ii) below, any Lender may assign to one or more assignees (each, an “Assignee”) all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitments and the Loans at the time owing to it) with the prior written consent of:

(A) the Borrower (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld), provided that no consent of the Borrower shall be required for an assignment to a Lender, an affiliate of a Lender, an Approved Fund (as defined below) or, if an Event of Default under Section 8(a) or (f) has occurred and is continuing, any other Person; and

(B) the Administrative Agent, provided that no consent of the Administrative Agent shall be required for an assignment of all or any portion of a Term Loan to a Lender, an affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund.

(C) the Issuing Lender, provided that no consent of the Issuing Lender shall be required for an assignment of all or any portion of a Term Loan or Term Commitment.

(ii) Assignments shall be subject to the following additional conditions:
 
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(A) except in the case of an assignment to a Lender, an affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund or an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Lender’s Commitments or Loans under any Facility, the amount of the Commitments or Loans of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment (determined as of the date the Assignment and Assumption with respect to such assignment is delivered to the Administrative Agent) shall not be less than, in the case of the Revolving Facility, $5,000,000 or, in the case of the Term Facility, $1,000,000 unless each of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent otherwise consent, provided that (1) no such consent of the Borrower shall be required if an Event of Default under Section 8(a) or (f) has occurred and is continuing and (2) such amounts shall be aggregated in respect of each Lender and its affiliates or Approved Funds, if any;

(B) the parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption, together with a processing and recordation fee of $3,500; and

(C) the Assignee, if it shall not be a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an administrative questionnaire.

For the purposes of this Section 10.6, “Approved Fund” means any Person (other than a natural person) that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or investing in bank loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business and that is administered or managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an affiliate of a Lender or (c) an entity or an affiliate of an entity that administers or manages a Lender.

(iii) Subject to acceptance and recording thereof pursuant to paragraph (b)(iv) below, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption the Assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption covering all of the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.18, 2.19, 2.20 and 10.5).  Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with this Section 10.6 shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such Lender of a participation in such rights and obligations in accordance with paragraph (c) of this Section.

(iv)  The Administrative Agent, acting for this purpose as an agent of the Borrower, shall maintain at one of its offices a copy of each Assignment and Assumption delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the Commitments of, and principal amount of and interest on the Loans and L/C Obligations owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the “Register”).  The entries in the Register shall be conclusive, and the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the contrary.  The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower, the Issuing Lender and any Lender, at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.

(v)  Upon its receipt of a duly completed Assignment and Assumption executed by an assigning Lender and an Assignee, the Assignee’s completed administrative questionnaire (unless the Assignee shall already be a Lender hereunder), the processing and recordation fee referred to in paragraph (b) of this Section and any written consent to such assignment required by paragraph (b) of this Section, the Administrative Agent shall accept such Assignment and Assumption and record the

 
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information contained therein in the Register.  No assignment shall be effective for purposes of this Agreement unless it has been recorded in the Register as provided in this paragraph.

(c)(i)  Any Lender may, without the consent of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (a “Participant”) in all or a portion of such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitments and the Loans owing to it); provided that (A) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (B) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations and (C) the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement.  Any agreement pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce this Agreement and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement; provided that such agreement may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, modification or waiver that (1) requires the consent of each Lender directly affected thereby pursuant to the proviso to the second sentence of Section 10.1 and (2) directly affects such Participant.  Subject to paragraph (c)(ii) of this Section, the Borrower agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.18, 2.19 and 2.20 to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to paragraph (b) of this Section.  To the extent permitted by law, and subject to paragraph (c)(ii) of this Section, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 10.7(b) as though it were a Lender, provided such Participant shall be subject to Section 10.7(a) as though it were a Lender.

(ii)  A Participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 2.18 or 2.19 than the applicable Lender would have been entitled to receive with respect to the participation sold to such Participant.  A Participant shall not be entitled to receive any funds directly from the Borrower in respect of Sections 2.18, 2.19, 2.20 or 10.7 unless such Participant shall have provided to Administrative Agent, acting for this purpose as an agent of the Borrower, such information as is required to be recorded in the Register pursuant to paragraph (b)(iv) above as if such Participant were a Lender.  Any Participant that is a Non-U.S. Lender shall not be entitled to the benefits of Section 2.19 unless such Participant complies with Section 2.19(d) as though it were a Lender.

(d)  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, and this Section shall not apply to any such pledge or assignment of a security interest; provided that no such pledge or assignment of a security interest shall release a Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or Assignee for such Lender as a party hereto.

(e)  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 (d) above.
 
             (f)  Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Conduit Lender may assign any or all of the Loans it may have funded hereunder to its designating Lender without the consent of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent and without regard to the limitations set forth in Section 10.6(b).  Each of Holdings, the Borrower, each Subsidiary 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
 

 
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loss, cost, damage or expense arising out of its inability to institute such a proceeding against such Conduit Lender during such period of forbearance.
 
10.7           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 under a particular Facility, if any Lender (a “Benefitted Lender”) shall, at any time after the Loans and other amounts payable hereunder shall immediately become due and payable pursuant to Section 8, 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 8(f), 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 Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower, any such notice being expressly waived by Holdings, the Borrower and each Subsidiary Borrower to the extent permitted by applicable law, upon any amount becoming due and payable by Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary 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 Holdings, the Borrower or such Subsidiary 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.

10.8           Counterparts.  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 or other electronic transmission 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.

10.9           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.

10.10           Integration.  This Agreement and the other Loan Documents represent the entire agreement of Holdings, 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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10.11          GOVERNING LAW.  THIS AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES UNDER THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

10.12           Submission To Jurisdiction; Waivers.  Each of the Agents, Lenders, Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiary Borrowers 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 non-exclusive general jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New York, the courts of the United States for the Southern District of New York, and appellate courts from any thereof;

(b) consents that any such action or proceeding may be brought in such courts and waives any objection that it may now or hereafter have to the venue of any such action or proceeding in any such court or that such action or proceeding was brought in an inconvenient court and agrees not to plead or claim the same;

(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 Holdings, the Borrower or the relevant Subsidiary Borrower, as the case may be, at its address set forth in Section 10.2 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 to sue in 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.

10.13           Judgment.  The obligations of the Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower in respect of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents due to any party hereto shall, notwithstanding any judgment in a currency (the “judgment currency”) other than the currency in which the sum originally due to such party is denominated (the “original currency”), be discharged only to the extent that on the Business Day following receipt by such party of any sum adjudged to be so due in the judgment currency such party may in accordance with normal banking procedures purchase the original currency with the judgment currency; if the amount of the original currency so purchased is less than the sum originally due under such judgment to such party in the original currency, the Borrower or such Subsidiary Borrower, as the case may be, agrees, as a separate obligation and notwithstanding any such judgment, to indemnify such party against such loss, and if the amount of the original currency so purchased exceeds the sum originally due to any party to this Agreement, such party agrees to remit to the Borrower such excess.  The provisions of this Section 10.13 shall survive the termination of this Agreement and payment of the obligations of the Borrower and the Subsidiary Borrowers under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.

10.14           Acknowledgements.  Each of Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiary Borrowers hereby acknowledges that:
 
(a) it has been advised by counsel in the negotiation, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents;

 
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(b) neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender has any fiduciary relationship with or duty to Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower arising out of or in connection with this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, and the relationship between Administrative Agent and Lenders, on one hand, and Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower, on the other hand, in connection herewith or therewith is solely that of debtor and creditor; and


(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 Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary Borrower and the Lenders.

10.15           Releases of Guarantees and Liens.  (a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or in any other Loan Document, the Administrative Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized by each Lender (without requirement of notice to or consent of any Lender except as expressly required by Section 10.1) to take any action requested by the Borrower having the effect of releasing any Collateral or guarantee obligations (i) to the extent necessary to permit consummation of any transaction not prohibited by any Loan Document or that has been consented to in accordance with Section 10.1 or (ii) under the circumstances described in paragraph (b) below.

(b) At such time as the Loans, the Reimbursement Obligations and the other obligations under the Loan Documents (other than obligations under or in respect of Specified Swap Agreements) shall have been paid in full, the Commitments have been terminated and no Letters of Credit shall be outstanding (or such Letters of Credit are Collateralized), the Collateral shall be released from the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Security Documents and all obligations (other than those expressly stated to survive such termination) of the Administrative Agent and each Loan Party under the Security Documents shall terminate, all without delivery of any instrument or performance of any act by any Person.

10.16           Confidentiality.  Each of the Administrative Agent and each Lender agrees to keep confidential all non-public information provided to it by any Loan Party, the Administrative Agent or any Lender pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement that is designated by the provider thereof 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 affiliate thereof, (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 Swap Agreement (or any professional advisor to such counterparty), (c) to its employees, directors, agents, attorneys, accountants and other professional advisors or those of any of its affiliates for performing the purposes of a Loan Document, (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, after notice to the Borrower if reasonably feasible, (f) if requested or required to do so in connection with any litigation or similar proceeding, after notice to the Borrower if reasonably feasible, (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 with respect to such Lender, or (i) in connection with the exercise of any remedy hereunder or under any other Loan Document.
 
10.17           WAIVERS OF JURY TRIAL.  HOLDINGS, 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 AND FOR ANY COUNTERCLAIM THEREIN.

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10.18           USA Patriot Act.  Each Lender hereby notifies Holdings and 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 “USA Patriot Act”), it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies Holdings and the Borrower, which information includes the name and address of Holdings and the Borrower and other information that will allow such Lender to identify Holdings and the Borrower in accordance with the USA Patriot Act

 
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed and delivered by their proper and duly authorized officers as of the day and year first above written.
 
AVIS BUDGET HOLDINGS, LLC
 
By: 

        Name: 
Title:   
 
AVIS BUDGET CAR RENTAL, LLC
 
By:      

        Name: 
Title: 
 
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent and as a Lender
 
By:                                                  

        Name: 
Title: 
 
DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC., as Syndication Agent
 
By:                                                      

        Name:
Title:
 
By:  

        Name:
Title:
 
DEUTSCHE BANK AG NEW YORK BRANCH, as a Lender
 
 
By:                                                      

        Name:
Title:
 
By:                                                      

        Name:
Title:
 

 
 

 

BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as a Documentation Agent and as a Lender
 
By:                                                      

        Name:
Title:
 
CREDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE & INVESTMENT BANK NEW YORK BRANCH (formerly known as CALYON), as a Documentation Agent and as a Lender
 
By:  

        Name:
Title:
 
CITICORP USA, INC., as a Documentation Agent and as a Lender
 
By:       

        Name:
Title:
 
WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Documentation Agent and as a Lender
 
By:  

        Name:
Title:
 

 
 

 

Schedule 2
REVOLVING COMMITMENTS

Lenders
Aggregate
Revolving Commitments
 
Extended Revolving Commitments2
 
Non-Extended Revolving Commitments
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
$125,000,000.00
$125,000,000.00
$0.00
DEUTSCHE BANK AG NEW YORK BRANCH
$125,000,000.00
$125,000,000.00
$0.00
DEUTSCHE BANK AG NEW YORK BRANCH GCT
$30,666,666.67
$0.00
$30,666,666.67
DEUTSCHE BANK AG - LONDON BRANCH
$2,300,000.00
$0.00
$2,300,000.00
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.
$97,033,333.33
$97,033,333.33
$0.00
CITIBANK, N.A.
$95,833,333.33
$95,833,333.33
$0.00
WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
$82,033,333.33
$82,033,333.33
$0.00
CREDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK (fka CALYON)
$82,033,333.33
$82,033,333.33
$0.00
BARCLAYS BANK PLC
$82,000,000.00
$82,000,000.00
$0.00
THE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND PLC
$75,000,000.00
$75,000,000.00
$0.00
THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA
$57,500,000.00
$57,500,000.00
$0.00
THE BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI UFJ, LTD
$46,000,000.00
$46,000,000.00
$0.00
CREDIT SUISSE GROUP AG
$34,500,000.00
$0.00
$34,500,000.00
SUMITOMO MITSUI BANKING CORPORATION
$30,666,666.66
$30,666,666.66
$0.00
BANK OF MONTREAL
$27,600,000.00
$27,600,000.00
$0.00
COMMERZBANK AG
$24,533,333.33
$0.00
$24,533,333.33
MIZUHO CORPORATE BANK LTD
$19,500,000.00
 $0.00
$19,500,000.00
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
$19,166,666.67
$19,166,666.67
$0.00
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON
$19,166,666.67
$0.00
$19,166,666.67
IBM CREDIT LLC
$19,166,666.67
$0.00
$19,166,666.67
UNICREDIT BANK AG, NEW YORK BRANCH
$15,333,333.34
$15,333,333.34
$0.00
FIRST COMMERCIAL BANK LTD
$15,333,333.33
$0.00
$15,333,333.33
BANK HAPOALIM BM
$11,500,000.00
$0.00
$11,500,000.00
WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION
$9,200,000.00
$9,200,000.00
$0.00
MERRILL LYNCH CAPITAL CORPORATION
$7,666,666.67
$7,666,666.67
$0.00
NATIXIS
$7,666,666.67
$0.00
$7,666,666.67
CHANG HWA COMMERCIAL BANK LIMITED
$7,666,666.67
$0.00
$7,666,666.67
RAYMOND JAMES BANK, FSB
$6,133,333.34
$6,133,333.34
$0.00
 
 
 

 


 
2After giving effect to the reduction of the Extended Revolving Commitments pursuant to Section 4 of the Second   Amendment.

 
 

 

EXHIBIT B
 
Form of Commitment Reduction Notice
 
Reference is made to the Credit Agreement dated as of April 19, 2006 (as amended from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”) among Avis Budget Car Rental, LLC, the Lenders and other parties thereto and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent.  Capitalized terms used but not defined herein are used with the meanings assigned to them in the Credit Agreement.
 
The undersigned Lender hereby elects to have its Revolving Commitment reduced in accordance with Section 4 of the Second Amendment.
 

 
Lender Name:                     _________________
 
 
Revolving Commitment: $ _________________

 

 
 
 
                    
[          ]
By:
 
 
 
Name:
 
 
Title:
 
 

 
 
 
EXHIBIT C
 
Form of Guarantee and Collateral Acknowledgement
 
Reference is made to the Credit Agreement dated as of April 19, 2006 (as amended from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”) among others Avis Budget Car Rental, LLC, the Lenders and other parties thereto and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent.  Capitalized terms used but not defined herein are used with the meanings assigned to them in the Credit Agreement.
 
Each Loan Party executing a copy of this Guarantee and Collateral Acknowledgement confirms and agrees that notwithstanding the effectiveness of the foregoing Second Amendment, each Loan Document to which such Person is a party is, and shall continue to be, in full force and effect and is hereby ratified and confirmed in all respects, in each case as amended by the Second Amendment.
 
 
 
                    
[          ]
By:
 
 
 
Name:
 
 
Title:

 
 
 
                    
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     
registrationrightsagreement.htm
Exhibit 10.2

REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT
 
This REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT dated March 10, 2010 (the “Agreement”) is entered into by and among Avis Budget Car Rental, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and Avis Budget Finance, Inc., a Delaware corporation (together, the “Company”), the guarantors listed in Schedule 1 hereto (the “Guarantors”), Banc of America Securities LLC (the “Representative”), and the other initial purchasers listed on Schedule 2 hereto (collectively, with the Representative, the “Initial Purchasers”).
 
The Company, the Guarantors and the Initial Purchasers are parties to the Purchase Agreement dated March 5, 2010 (the “Purchase Agreement”), which provides for the sale by the Company to the Initial Purchasers of $450,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 9 5/8% Senior Notes due 2018 (the “Securities”) which will be guaranteed on an unsecured senior basis by each of the Guarantors.  As an inducement to the Initial Purchasers to enter into the Purchase Agreement, the Company and the Guarantors have agreed to provide to the Initial Purchasers and their direct and indirect transferees the registration rights set forth in this Agreement.  The execution and delivery of this Agreement is a condition to the closing under the Purchase Agreement.
 
In consideration of the foregoing, the parties hereto agree as follows:
 
1.  
Definitions.  As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
 
Additional Guarantor” shall mean any subsidiary of the Company that executes a Guarantee under the Indenture after the date of this Agreement.
 
Business Day” shall mean any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York City are authorized or required by law to remain closed.
 
Closing Date” shall mean March 10, 2010.
 
Company” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble and shall also include the Company’s successors.
 
Exchange Act” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended from time to time.
 
Exchange Dates” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(a)(ii) hereof.
 
Exchange Offer” shall mean the exchange offer by the Company and the Guarantors of Exchange Securities for Registrable Securities pursuant to Section 2(a) hereof.
 
Exchange Offer Registration” shall mean a registration under the Securities Act effected pursuant to Section 2(a) hereof.
 
Exchange Offer Registration Statement” shall mean an exchange offer registration statement on Form S-4 (or, if applicable, on another appropriate form) and all amendments and
 
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supplements to such registration statement, in each case including the Prospectus contained therein or deemed a part thereof, all exhibits thereto and any document incorporated by reference therein.
 
Exchange Securities” shall mean senior notes issued by the Company and guaranteed by the Guarantors under the Indenture containing terms identical to the Securities (except that the Exchange Securities will not be subject to restrictions on transfer or to any increase in annual interest rate for failure to comply with this Agreement) and to be offered to Holders of Securities in exchange for Securities pursuant to the Exchange Offer.
 
Free Writing Prospectus” means each free writing prospectus (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) prepared by or on behalf of the Company or used or referred to by the Company in connection with the sale of the Securities.
 
Guarantees” shall mean the guarantees of the Securities and Exchange Securities by the Guarantors under the Indenture.
 
Guarantors” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble and shall also include any Guarantor’s successors and any Additional Guarantors.
 
Holders” shall mean the Initial Purchasers, for so long as they own any Registrable Securities, and each of their successors, assigns and direct and indirect transferees who become owners of Registrable Securities under the Indenture; provided that for purposes of Sections 4 and 5 of this Agreement, the term “Holders” shall include Participating Broker-Dealers.
 
Indemnified Person” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5(c) hereof.
 
Indemnifying Person” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5(c) hereof.
 
Indenture” shall mean the Indenture relating to the Securities dated as of March 10, 2010 among the Company, the Guarantors and The Bank of Nova Scotia Trust Company of New York, as Trustee, and as the same may be amended from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof.
 
Initial Purchasers” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble.
 
Inspector” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3(a)(xiii) hereof.
 
Issuer Information” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5(a) hereof.
 
Majority Holders” shall mean the Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Registrable Securities; provided that whenever the consent or approval of Holders of a specified percentage of Registrable Securities is required hereunder, any Registrable Securities owned directly or indirectly by the Company or any of its affiliates shall not be counted in determining whether such consent or approval was given by the Holders of such required percentage or amount; and provided, further, that if the Company shall issue any additional Securities under the Indenture prior to consummation of the Exchange Offer or, if applicable, the effectiveness of any Shelf Registration Statement, such additional Securities and
 
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the Registrable Securities to which this Agreement relates shall be treated together as one class for purposes of determining whether the consent or approval of Holders of a specified percentage of Registrable Securities has been obtained.
 
Participating Broker-Dealers” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4(a) hereof.
 
Person” shall mean an individual, partnership, limited liability company, corporation, trust or unincorporated organization, or a government or agency or political subdivision thereof.
 
Prospectus” shall mean the prospectus included in a Registration Statement, including any preliminary prospectus, and any such prospectus as amended or supplemented by any prospectus supplement, including a prospectus supplement with respect to the terms of the offering of any portion of the Registrable Securities covered by a Shelf Registration Statement, and by all other amendments and supplements to such prospectus, and in each case including any document incorporated by reference therein.
 
Purchase Agreement” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble.
 
Registrable Securities” shall mean the Securities; provided that the Securities shall cease to be Registrable Securities when (i) a Registration Statement with respect to such Securities has become effective under the Securities Act and such Securities have been exchanged or disposed of pursuant to such Registration Statement, (ii) such Securities become eligible to be sold pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act by a Person that is not an “affiliate” (within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Securities Act) of the Company or any Guarantor, (iii) such Securities are sold under circumstances in which any legend borne by such Securities relating to restrictions on transferability thereof, under the Securities Act or otherwise, is removed by the Company or (iv) such Securities cease to be outstanding.
 
Registration Expenses” shall mean any and all expenses incident to performance of or compliance by the Company and the Guarantors with this Agreement, including without limitation: (i) all SEC, stock exchange or Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. registration and filing fees, (ii) all fees and expenses incurred in connection with compliance with state securities or blue sky laws (including reasonable fees and disbursements of not more than one counsel for any Underwriters or Holders (whose counsel shall be selected by the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of Registrable Securities to be registered in the applicable Registration Statement) in connection with blue sky qualification of any Exchange Securities or Registrable Securities), (iii) all expenses of any Persons in preparing or assisting in preparing, word processing, printing and distributing any Registration Statement, any Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto, any underwriting agreements, securities sales agreements or other similar agreements and any other documents relating to the performance of and compliance with this Agreement, (iv) all rating agency fees, (v) all fees and disbursements relating to the qualification of the Indenture under applicable securities laws, (vi) the fees and disbursements of the Trustee and its counsel, (vii) the fees and disbursements of counsel for the Company and the Guarantors and, in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, the fees and disbursements of one counsel for the Holders (which counsel shall be selected by the Majority Holders and which counsel may also be counsel for the Initial Purchasers), and (viii) the fees and disbursements of the independent public accountants of the Company and the Guarantors,
 
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including the expenses of any special audits or “comfort” letters required by or incident to the performance of and compliance with this Agreement, but excluding any and all fees and expenses of advisors or counsel to the Underwriters (other than fees and expenses set forth in clause (ii) above) or the Holders and underwriting discounts and commissions, brokerage commissions and transfer taxes, if any, relating to the sale or disposition of Registrable Securities by a Holder pursuant to any Registration Statement.
 
Registration Statement” shall mean any registration statement of the Company and the Guarantors that covers any of the Exchange Securities or Registrable Securities pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement and all amendments and supplements to any such registration statement, including post-effective amendments, in each case including the Prospectus contained therein or deemed a part thereof, all exhibits thereto and any document incorporated by reference therein.
 
Representative” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble.
 
SEC” shall mean the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
 
Securities” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble.
 
Securities Act” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended from time to time.
 
Shelf Additional Interest Date” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(d) hereof.
 
Shelf Effectiveness Period” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(b) hereof.
 
Shelf Registration” shall mean a registration effected pursuant to Section 2(b) hereof.
 
Shelf Registration Statement” shall mean a “shelf” registration statement of the Company and the Guarantors that covers all or a portion of the Registrable Securities (but no other securities unless approved by a majority of the Holders whose Registrable Securities are to be covered by such Shelf Registration Statement) on an appropriate form under Rule 415 under the Securities Act, or any similar rule that may be adopted by the SEC, and all amendments and supplements to such registration statement, including post-effective amendments, in each case including the Prospectus contained therein or deemed a part thereof, all exhibits thereto and any document incorporated by reference therein.
 
Shelf Request” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(b) hereof.
 
Staff” shall mean the staff of the SEC.
 
Target Registration Date” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(d) hereof.
 
Trust Indenture Act” shall mean the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended from time to time.
 
Trustee” shall mean the trustee with respect to the Securities under the Indenture.
 
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Underwriter” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3(e) hereof.
 
Underwritten Offering” shall mean an offering in which Registrable Securities are sold to an Underwriter for reoffering to the public.
 
2.  
Registration Under the Securities Act.  (a)  To the extent not prohibited by any applicable law or applicable interpretations of the Staff, the Company and the Guarantors shall use their reasonable best efforts to (i) cause to be filed with the SEC an Exchange Offer Registration Statement covering an offer to the Holders to exchange all the Registrable Securities for Exchange Securities and (ii) have such Registration Statement remain effective until 180 days after the last Exchange Date for use by one or more Participating Broker-Dealers.  The Company and the Guarantors shall commence the Exchange Offer promptly after the Exchange Offer Registration Statement is declared effective by the SEC and use their reasonable best efforts to complete the Exchange Offer not later than 45 days after such effective date.
 
The Company and the Guarantors shall commence the Exchange Offer by mailing the related Prospectus, appropriate letters of transmittal and other accompanying documents to each Holder stating, in addition to such other disclosures as are required by applicable law, substantially the following:
 
(i) that the Exchange Offer is being made pursuant to this Agreement and that all Registrable Securities validly tendered and not properly withdrawn will be accepted for exchange;
 
(ii) the dates of acceptance for exchange (which shall be a period of at least 20 Business Days from the date such notice is mailed) (the “Exchange Dates”);
 
(iii) that any Registrable Security not tendered will remain outstanding and continue to accrue interest but will not retain any rights under this Agreement, except as otherwise specified herein;
 
(iv) that any Holder electing to have a Registrable Security exchanged pursuant to the Exchange Offer will be required to (A) surrender such Registrable Security, together with the appropriate letters of transmittal, to the institution and at the address (located in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York) and in the manner specified in the notice, or (B) effect such exchange otherwise in compliance with the applicable procedures of the depositary for such Registrable Security, in each case prior to the close of business on the last Exchange Date; and
 
(v) that any Holder will be entitled to withdraw its election, not later than the close of business on the last Exchange Date, by (A) sending to the institution and at the address (located in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York) specified in the notice, a telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or letter setting forth the name of such Holder, the principal amount of Registrable Securities delivered for exchange and a statement that such Holder is withdrawing its election to have such Securities exchanged or (B) effecting such withdrawal in compliance with the applicable procedures of the depositary for the Registrable Securities.
 
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As a condition to participating in the Exchange Offer, each Holder will be required to represent to the Company and the Guarantors prior to the consummation of the Exchange Offer (which representation may be contained in the letter of transmittal contemplated by the Exchange Offer Registration Statement) that (i) any Exchange Securities to be received by it will be acquired in the ordinary course of its business, (ii) at the time of the commencement of the Exchange Offer it is not engaged in, and does not intend to engage in, and has no arrangement or understanding with any Person to participate in the distribution (within the meaning of the Securities Act) of the Exchange Securities in violation of the provisions of the Securities Act, (iii) it is not an “affiliate” (within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Securities Act) of the Company or any Guarantor and (iv) if such Holder is a broker-dealer that will receive Exchange Securities for its own account in exchange for Registrable Securities that were acquired as a result of market-making or other trading activities, then such Holder will deliver a Prospectus (or, to the extent permitted by law, make available a Prospectus to purchasers) in connection with any resale of such Exchange Securities.
 
As soon as practicable after the last Exchange Date, the Company and the Guarantors shall:
 
(i) accept for exchange Registrable Securities or portions thereof validly tendered and not properly withdrawn pursuant to the Exchange Offer; and
 
(ii) deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the Trustee for cancellation all Registrable Securities or portions thereof so accepted for exchange by the Company and issue, and cause the Trustee to promptly authenticate and deliver to each Holder, Exchange Securities equal in principal amount to the principal amount of the Registrable Securities validly tendered by such Holder and accepted for exchange pursuant to the Exchange Offer.
 
The Company and the Guarantors shall use their reasonable best efforts to complete the Exchange Offer as provided above and shall comply with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Exchange Act and other applicable laws and regulations in connection with the Exchange Offer.  The Exchange Offer shall not be subject to any conditions, other than that the Exchange Offer does not violate any applicable law or applicable interpretations of the Staff.
 
(b) In the event that (i) the Company and the Guarantors determine that the Exchange Offer Registration provided for in Section 2(a) above is not available or may not be completed as soon as practicable after the last Exchange Date because it would violate any applicable law or applicable interpretations of the Staff, (ii) the Exchange Offer is not for any other reason completed by April 19, 2011 or (iii) upon receipt of a written request (a “Shelf Request”) from any Initial Purchaser representing that it holds Registrable Securities that are or were ineligible to be exchanged in the Exchange Offer, the Company and the Guarantors shall use their reasonable best efforts to cause to be filed as soon as practicable after such determination, date or Shelf Request, as the case may be, a Shelf Registration Statement providing for the sale of all the Registrable Securities by the Holders thereof and to have such Shelf Registration Statement become effective.
 
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In the event that the Company and the Guarantors are required to file a Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to clause (iii) of the preceding sentence, the Company and the Guarantors shall use their reasonable best efforts to file and have become effective both an Exchange Offer Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2(a) with respect to all Registrable Securities and a Shelf Registration Statement (which may be a combined Registration Statement with the Exchange Offer Registration Statement) with respect to offers and sales of Registrable Securities held by the Initial Purchasers after completion of the Exchange Offer.
 
The Company and the Guarantors agree to use their reasonable best efforts to keep the Shelf Registration Statement continuously effective (i) until the expiration of the time period referred to in Rule 144(b)(i) under the Securities Act or (ii) for such shorter period that will terminate when all the Registrable Securities covered by the Shelf Registration Statement (x) have been sold pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement or (y) cease to be outstanding (the “Shelf Effectiveness Period”).  The Company and the Guarantors further agree to supplement or amend the Shelf Registration Statement and the related Prospectus if required by the rules, regulations or instructions applicable to the registration form used by the Company for such Shelf Registration Statement or by the Securities Act or by any other rules and regulations thereunder or if reasonably requested by a Holder of Registrable Securities with respect to information relating to such Holder, and to use their reasonable best efforts to cause any such amendment to become effective, if required, and such Shelf Registration Statement and Prospectus to become usable as soon as thereafter practicable.  The Company and the Guarantors agree to furnish to the Holders of Registrable Securities copies of any such supplement or amendment promptly after its being used or filed with the SEC.
 
(c) The Company and the Guarantors shall pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any registration pursuant to Section 2(a) or Section 2(b) hereof.  Each Holder shall pay all underwriting discounts and commissions, brokerage commissions and transfer taxes, if any, relating to the sale or disposition of such Holder’s Registrable Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement.
 
(d) An Exchange Offer Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2(a) hereof will not be deemed to have become effective unless it has been declared effective by the SEC.  A Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2(b) hereof will not be deemed to have become effective unless it has been declared effective by the SEC or is automatically effective upon filing with the SEC as provided by Rule 462 under the Securities Act.
 
In the event that either the Exchange Offer is not completed or the Shelf Registration Statement, if required pursuant to Section 2(b)(i) or 2(b)(ii) hereof, has not become effective on or prior to April 19, 2011 (the “Target Registration Date”), the interest rate on the Registrable Securities will be increased by (i) 0.25% per annum for the first 90-day period immediately following the Target Registration Date and (ii) an additional 0.25% per annum with respect to each subsequent 90-day period, in each case until the Exchange Offer is completed or the Shelf Registration Statement, if required hereby, becomes effective or the Securities become freely tradable under the Securities Act, up to a maximum increase of 0.50% per annum.  In the event that the Company receives a Shelf Request pursuant to Section 2(b)(iii), and the Shelf Registration Statement required to be filed thereby has not become effective by the later of (x) April 19, 2011 or (y) 90 days after delivery of such Shelf Request (such later date, the “Shelf
 
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Additional Interest Date”), then the interest rate on the Registrable Securities will be increased by (i) 0.25% per annum for the first 90-day period payable commencing from one day after the Shelf Additional Interest Date and (ii) an additional 0.25% per annum with respect to each subsequent 90-day period, in each case until the Shelf Registration Statement becomes effective or the Securities become freely tradable under the Securities Act, up to a maximum increase of 0.50% per annum.
 
If the Shelf Registration Statement, if required hereby, has become effective and thereafter either ceases to be effective or the Prospectus contained therein ceases to be usable, in each case whether or not permitted by this Agreement, at any time during the Shelf Effectiveness Period, and such failure to remain effective or usable exists for more than 75 days (whether or not consecutive) in any 12-month period, then the interest rate on the Registrable Securities will be increased commencing on the 75th day in such 12-month period by (i) 0.25% per annum for the first 90-day period immediately following such 75th day, and (ii) an additional 0.25% per annum with respect to each subsequent 90-day period, up to a maximum increase of 0.50% per annum, and ending on such date that the Shelf Registration Statement has again become effective or the Prospectus again becomes usable.
 
(e) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the increased interest rate described in Section 2(d) above is the sole and exclusive remedy available to Holders due to a registration default, so long as the Company and the Guarantors are acting in good faith hereunder, including, without limitation, with respect to satisfying their obligations.
 
(f) The Company represents, warrants and covenants that, unless it obtains the prior consent of counsel for the Majority Holders or the consent of the managing underwriter(s) in connection with any Underwritten Offering of Registrable Securities, it (including its agents and representatives) will not prepare, make, use, authorize, approve or refer to any “free writing prospectus” (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) in connection with the Securities or the Exchange Securities, other than any communication pursuant to Rule 134 under the Securities Act or any document constituting an offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to buy the Securities or the Exchange Securities that falls within the exception from the definition of prospectus in Section 2(a)(10)(a) of the Securities Act.
 
3.  
Registration Procedures.  (a)  In connection with their obligations pursuant to Section 2(a) and Section 2(b) hereof, the Company and the Guarantors shall as soon as practicable (unless otherwise stated below):
 
(i) prepare and file with the SEC a Registration Statement on the appropriate form under the Securities Act, which form (x) shall be selected by the Company and the Guarantors, (y) shall, in the case of a Shelf Registration, be available for the sale of the Registrable Securities by the Holders thereof and (z) shall comply as to form in all material respects with the requirements of the applicable form and include all financial statements required by the SEC to be filed therewith; and use their reasonable best efforts to cause such Registration Statement to become effective and remain effective for the applicable period in accordance with Section 2 hereof;
 
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(ii) prepare and file with the SEC such amendments and post-effective amendments to each Registration Statement as may be necessary to keep such Registration Statement effective for the applicable period in accordance with Section 2 hereof and cause each Prospectus to be supplemented by any required prospectus supplement and, as so supplemented, to be filed pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act; and keep each Prospectus current during the period described in Section 4(3) of and Rule 174 under the Securities Act that is applicable to transactions by brokers or dealers with respect to the Registrable Securities or Exchange Securities;
 
(iii) in the case of a Shelf Registration, upon written request, furnish to each Holder of Registrable Securities, to counsel for the Initial Purchasers, to counsel for all such Holders and to each Underwriter of an Underwritten Offering of Registrable Securities, if any, without charge, as many copies of each Prospectus or preliminary prospectus, and any amendment or supplement thereto, as such Holder, counsel or Underwriter may reasonably request in writing in order to facilitate the sale or other disposition of the Registrable Securities thereunder; and the Company and the Guarantors consent to the use of such Prospectus, preliminary prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto in accordance with applicable law by each of the Holders of Registrable Securities and any such Underwriters in connection with the offering and sale of the Registrable Securities covered by and in the manner described in such Prospectus, preliminary prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto in accordance with applicable law;
 
(iv) use their reasonable best efforts to register or qualify the Registrable Securities under all applicable state securities or blue sky laws of such jurisdictions as any Holder of Registrable Securities covered by a Registration Statement shall reasonably request in writing by the time the applicable Registration Statement becomes effective; cooperate with such Holders in connection with any filings required to be made with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.; and use their reasonable best efforts to do any and all other acts and things that may be reasonably necessary or advisable to enable each Holder to complete the disposition in each such jurisdiction of the Registrable Securities owned by such Holder; provided that neither the Company nor any Guarantor shall be required to (1) qualify as a foreign corporation or other entity or as a dealer in securities in any such jurisdiction where it would not otherwise be required to so qualify, (2) file any general consent to service of process in any such jurisdiction, (3) subject itself to taxation in any such jurisdiction if it is not so subject, or (4) make any changes to its incorporating or organizational documents or limited liability agreement, if applicable, or any other agreement between it and its stockholders or members, if any;
 
(v) notify counsel for the Initial Purchasers and, in the case of a Shelf Registration, notify each Holder of Registrable Securities and counsel for such Holders promptly and, if requested by any such Holder or counsel, confirm such advice in writing (1) when a Registration Statement has become effective, when any post-effective amendment thereto has been filed and becomes effective and when any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus has been filed, (2) of any request by the SEC or any state securities authority for amendments and supplements to a Registration Statement or Prospectus or for additional information after the Registration Statement has become
 
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effective, (3) of the issuance by the SEC or any state securities authority of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of a Registration Statement or the initiation of any proceedings for that purpose, including the receipt by the Company of any notice of objection of the SEC to the use of a Shelf Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) under the Securities Act, (4) if, between the applicable effective date of a Shelf Registration Statement and the closing of any sale of Registrable Securities covered thereby, the representations and warranties of the Company or any Guarantor contained in any underwriting agreement, securities sales agreement or other similar agreement, if any, relating to an offering of such Registrable Securities cease to be true and correct in all material respects or if the Company or any Guarantor receives any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Registrable Securities for sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation of any proceeding for such purpose, (5) of the happening of any event during the period a Shelf Registration Statement is effective that makes any statement made in such Shelf Registration Statement or the related Prospectus untrue in any material respect or that requires the making of any changes in such Shelf Registration Statement or Prospectus in order to make the statements therein, with respect to a Prospectus, in the light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading, and (6) of any determination by the Company or any Guarantor that a post-effective amendment to a Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus would be appropriate;
 
(vi) use their reasonable best efforts to obtain the withdrawal of any order suspending the effectiveness of a Registration Statement or, in the case of a Shelf Registration, the resolution of any objection of the SEC pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2), including by promptly filing an amendment to such Shelf Registration Statement on the proper form, and provide notice promptly to each Holder of the withdrawal of any such order or such resolution;
 
(vii) in the case of a Shelf Registration, furnish to each Holder of Registrable Securities, without charge, at least one conformed copy of each Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto (without any documents incorporated therein by reference or exhibits thereto, unless requested);
 
(viii) in the case of a Shelf Registration, cooperate with the Holders of Registrable Securities to facilitate the timely preparation and delivery of certificates representing Registrable Securities to be sold and not bearing any restrictive legends and enable such Registrable Securities to be issued in such denominations and registered in such names (consistent with the provisions of the Indenture) as such Holders may reasonably request at least three Business Days prior to the closing of any sale of Registrable Securities made by such Holders;
 
(ix) in the case of a Shelf Registration, upon the occurrence of any event contemplated by Section 3(a)(v)(5) hereof, use their reasonable best efforts to prepare and file with the SEC a supplement or post-effective amendment to such Shelf Registration Statement or the related Prospectus or any document incorporated therein by reference or file any other required document so that, as thereafter delivered (or, to the
 
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extent permitted by law, made available) to purchasers of the Registrable Securities, such Prospectus will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and the Company shall notify the Holders of Registrable Securities to suspend use of the Prospectus as promptly as practicable after the occurrence of such an event, and such Holders hereby agree to suspend use of the Prospectus until the Company and the Guarantors have amended or supplemented the Prospectus to correct such misstatement or omission;
 
(x) a reasonable time prior to the filing of any Registration Statement, any Prospectus, any amendment to a Registration Statement or amendment or supplement to a Prospectus (other than any document that is to be incorporated by reference into a Registration Statement or a Prospectus after initial filing of a Registration Statement and doesn’t name the Holders of Registrable Securities in their capacity as such), provide copies of such document to the Initial Purchasers and their counsel (if the Initial Purchasers holds any Registrable Securities) (and, in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, to the Holders of Registrable Securities and their counsel) and make such of the representatives of the Company and the Guarantors as shall be reasonably requested by the Initial Purchasers or their counsel (if the Initial Purchasers holds any Registrable Securities) (and, in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, the Holders of Registrable Securities or their counsel) available for discussion of such document; and the Company and the Guarantors shall not, at any time after initial filing of a Registration Statement, use or file any Prospectus, any amendment of or supplement to a Registration Statement or a Prospectus (other than any document that is to be incorporated by reference into a Registration Statement or a Prospectus and doesn’t name the Holders of Registrable Securities in their capacity as such), of which the Initial Purchasers and their counsel (if the Initial Purchasers holds any Registrable Securities) (and, in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, the Holders of Registrable Securities and their counsel) shall not have previously been advised and furnished a copy or to which the Initial Purchasers or their counsel (if the Initial Purchasers hold any Registrable Securities) (and, in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, the Holders of Registrable Securities or their counsel) shall reasonably object within five Business Days after receipt thereof, unless the Company believes such Prospectus, amendment or supplement to a Prospectus is required by applicable law;
 
(xi) obtain a CUSIP number for all Exchange Securities or Registrable Securities, as the case may be, not later than the initial effective date of a Registration Statement covering such Exchange Securities or Registrable Securities;
 
(xii) cause the Indenture to be qualified under the Trust Indenture Act in connection with the registration of the Exchange Securities or Registrable Securities, as the case may be; cooperate with the Trustee and the Holders to effect such changes to the Indenture as may be required for the Indenture to be so qualified in accordance with the terms of the Trust Indenture Act; and execute, and use their reasonable best efforts to cause the Trustee to execute, all documents as may be required to effect such changes and all other forms and documents required to be filed with the SEC to enable the Indenture to be so qualified in a timely manner;
 
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(xiii) in the case of a Shelf Registration, make available for inspection by a representative of the Holders of a majority of the outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Registrable Securities to be included in such Shelf Registration (an “Inspector”), any Underwriter participating in any disposition pursuant to such Shelf Registration Statement, any attorneys and one firm of accountants designated by such Holders and any attorneys (but not more than one counsel acting for all such Holders) and accountants designated by such Underwriter, at reasonable times and in a reasonable manner, all pertinent financial and other records, documents and properties of the Company, the Guarantors and their subsidiaries, and cause the respective officers, directors and employees of the Company and the Guarantors to supply all information reasonably requested by any such Inspector, Underwriter, attorney or accountant to conduct reasonable investigation within the meaning of Section 11 of the Securities Act in connection with a Shelf Registration Statement; provided that the foregoing investigation and information gathering shall be coordinated on behalf of such parties by one counsel designated by and on behalf of such parties; and provided further that if any such information is identified by the Company or any Guarantor as being confidential or proprietary, each Person receiving such information shall take such actions as are reasonably necessary to protect the confidentiality of such information to the extent such action is otherwise not inconsistent with, an impairment of or in derogation of the rights and interests of any Inspector, Holder or Underwriter);
 
(xiv) in the case of a Shelf Registration, use their reasonable best efforts to cause all Registrable Securities to be listed on any securities exchange or any automated quotation system on which similar securities issued or guaranteed by the Company or any Guarantor are then listed if requested by the Majority Holders, to the extent such Registrable Securities satisfy applicable listing requirements;
 
(xv) if reasonably requested by any Holder of Registrable Securities covered by a Shelf Registration Statement, promptly include in a Prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment such information with respect to such Holder as such Holder reasonably requests to be included therein and make all required filings of such Prospectus supplement or such post-effective amendment promptly after the Company has received notification of the matters to be so included in such filing;
 
(xvi) in the case of a Shelf Registration, enter into such customary agreements, including, but not limited to, an underwriting agreement which contains indemnities substantially similar to those contained in the Purchase Agreement, and use its reasonable best efforts to take all such other actions in connection therewith (including those requested by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Registrable Securities covered by the Shelf Registration Statement) in order to expedite or facilitate the disposition of such Registrable Securities including, but not limited to, an Underwritten Offering and in such connection, (1) to the extent possible, make such representations and warranties to the Holders and any Underwriters of such Registrable Securities with respect to the business of the Company, the Guarantors and their subsidiaries and the Registration Statement, Prospectus and documents incorporated by reference or deemed incorporated by reference, if any, in each case, in form, substance and scope as are customarily made by issuers and guarantors to underwriters in Underwritten Offerings
 
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and confirm the same if and when required by the applicable underwriting agreement, (2) obtain opinions of counsel to the Company and the Guarantors (which counsel and opinions, in form, scope and substance, shall be reasonably satisfactory to such Underwriters and their counsel) addressed to each Underwriter of Registrable Securities, in customary form subject to customary limitations, assumptions and exclusions and covering the matters customarily covered in opinions requested in Underwritten Offerings, (3) obtain “comfort” letters from the independent certified public accountants of the Company and the Guarantors (and, if necessary, any other certified public accountant of any subsidiary of the Company or any Guarantor, or of any business acquired by the Company or any Guarantor for which financial statements and financial data are or are required to be included in the Registration Statement) addressed to each selling Holder (to the extent permitted by applicable professional standards) and Underwriter of Registrable Securities, such letters to be in customary form and covering matters of the type customarily covered in “comfort” letters in connection with Underwritten Offerings, including but not limited to financial information contained in any preliminary prospectus or Prospectus and (4) deliver such documents and certificates as may be reasonably requested by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Registrable Securities being sold or the Underwriters, and which are customarily delivered in Underwritten Offerings, to evidence the continued validity of the representations and warranties of the Company and the Guarantors made pursuant to clause (1) above and to evidence compliance with any customary conditions contained in the applicable underwriting agreement; and
 
(xvii) so long as any Registrable Securities remain outstanding, cause each Additional Guarantor upon the creation or acquisition by the Company of such Additional Guarantor, to execute a counterpart to this Agreement in the form attached hereto as Annex A and to deliver such counterpart to the Initial Purchasers no later than five Business Days following the execution thereof.
 
(b) In the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, the Company may require each Holder of Registrable Securities to furnish to the Company such information regarding such Holder and the proposed disposition by such Holder of such Registrable Securities as the Company and the Guarantors may from time to time reasonably request in writing.  The Company and the Guarantors shall be entitled to refuse to include for registration the Registrable Securities held by any Holder who fails to comply with such request and provide the requested information after being given 15 Business Days notice of such request to the extent such information is required by applicable law to be included in the Shelf Registration Statement, and such Holder shall not be entitled to additional interest pursuant to Section 2(d) above.
 
(c) In the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, each Holder of Registrable Securities covered in such Shelf Registration Statement agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company and the Guarantors of the happening of any event of the kind described in Section 3(a)(v)(3), (5), or (6) hereof, such Holder will forthwith discontinue disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement until such Holder’s receipt of the copies of the supplemented or amended Prospectus contemplated by Section 3(a)(ix) hereof, or until it is advised in writing by the Company that the use of the Prospectus may be resumed, and, if so directed by the Company and the Guarantors, such Holder will deliver to the Company
 
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and the Guarantors all copies in its possession, other than permanent file copies then in such Holder’s possession, of the Prospectus covering such Registrable Securities that is current at the time of receipt of such notice.
 
(d) If the Company and the Guarantors shall give any notice pursuant to Section 3(c) hereof to suspend the disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to a Shelf Registration Statement, the Company and the Guarantors shall extend the period during which such Shelf Registration Statement shall be maintained effective pursuant to this Agreement by the number of days equal to the number of days in the period from and including the date of the giving of such notice to and including the date when the Holders of such Registrable Securities shall have received copies of the supplemented or amended Prospectus necessary to resume such dispositions.  The Company and the Guarantors may give any such notice pursuant to Section 3(c) only twice during any 365-day period and any such suspensions shall not exceed 75 days in any 365-day period and there shall not be more than two suspensions in effect during any 365-day period.
 
(e) In the case of an Underwritten Offering, the investment bank or investment banks and manager or managers (each an “Underwriter”) that will administer the offering will be selected by the Holders of a majority of the outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Registrable Securities included in such offering, subject to the Company’s consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.  Such Holders shall be responsible for all underwriting commissions and discounts in connection therewith.  No Holder of Registrable Securities may participate in any Underwritten Offering unless such Holder (i) agrees to sell such Holder’s Registrable Securities on the basis provided in any underwriting arrangements approved by the Persons entitled hereunder to approve such arrangements and (ii) completes and executes all questionnaires, powers of attorney, indemnities, underwriting agreements and other documents required under the terms of such underwriting arrangements, provided that the Holders are given 15 Business Days notice of such requests.
 
(f) Notwithstanding anything contained herein, the Holders may only sell their Registrable Securities in an Underwritten Offering with the Company’s consent, which may be granted or withheld in the Company’s sole discretion.
 
4.  
Participation of Broker-Dealers in Exchange Offer.  (a)  The Staff has taken the position that any broker-dealer that receives Exchange Securities for its own account in the Exchange Offer in exchange for Securities that were acquired by such broker-dealer as a result of market-making or other trading activities (a “Participating Broker-Dealer”) may be deemed to be an “underwriter” within the meaning of the Securities Act and must deliver a prospectus meeting the requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resale of such Exchange Securities.
 
The Company and the Guarantors understand that it is the Staff’s position that if the Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement includes a plan of distribution containing a statement to the above effect and the means by which Participating Broker-Dealers may resell the Exchange Securities, without naming the Participating Broker-Dealers or specifying the amount of Exchange Securities owned by them, such Prospectus may be delivered by Participating Broker-Dealers (or, to the extent permitted by law, made available to purchasers) to satisfy their prospectus delivery obligation under the Securities Act in
 
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connection with resales of Exchange Securities for their own accounts, so long as the Prospectus otherwise meets the requirements of the Securities Act.
 
(b) In light of the above, and notwithstanding the other provisions of this Agreement, the Company and the Guarantors agree to use their reasonable best efforts to amend or supplement the Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement for a period of up to 180 days after the last Exchange Date (as such period may be extended pursuant to Section 3(d) of this Agreement (in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement that is combined with an Exchange Offer Registration Statement)), if requested by the Initial Purchasers or by one or more Participating Broker-Dealers, in order to expedite or facilitate the disposition of any Exchange Securities by Participating Broker-Dealers consistent with the positions of the Staff recited in Section 4(a) above.  The Company and the Guarantors further agree that Participating Broker-Dealers shall be authorized to deliver such Prospectus (or, to the extent permitted by law, make available) during such period in connection with the resales contemplated by this Section 4.  The Participating Broker-Dealers shall not be authorized by the Company to deliver and shall not deliver such Prospectus after such period in connection with the resales contemplated by this Section 4.
 
(c) The Initial Purchasers shall have no liability to the Company, any Guarantor or any Holder with respect to any request that they may make pursuant to Section 4(b) above.
 
5.  
Indemnification and Contribution.  (a)  The Company and each Guarantor, jointly and severally, agree to indemnify and hold harmless (i) each Initial Purchaser and each Holder, their respective affiliates, directors and officers and each Person, if any, who controls any Initial Purchaser or any Holder within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, from and against any and all losses, claims, damages and liabilities (including, without limitation, legal fees and other expenses incurred in connection with any suit, action or proceeding or any claim asserted, as such fees and expenses are incurred), joint or several, that arise out of, or are based upon, (1) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Registration Statement or any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading, or (2) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Prospectus, any Free Writing Prospectus used in violation of this Agreement or any “issuer information” (“Issuer Information”) filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act, or any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, in each case except insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities arise out of, or are based upon, any untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission made in reliance upon and in conformity with any information relating to any Initial Purchaser or information relating to any Holder furnished to the Company in writing through the Representative or any selling Holder respectively expressly for use therein.  In connection with any Underwritten Offering permitted by Section 3, the Company and the Guarantors, jointly and severally, will also indemnify the Underwriters, if any, selling brokers, dealers and similar securities industry professionals participating in the distribution, their respective affiliates and each Person who controls such Persons(within the meaning of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act) to the same extent as provided above with respect to the
 
 
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indemnification of the Holders, if requested in connection with any Registration Statement, any Prospectus, any Free Writing Prospectus or any Issuer Information.)
 
(b) Each Holder agrees, severally and not jointly, to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, the Guarantors, the Initial Purchasers and the other selling Holders, the directors of the Company and the Guarantors, each officer of the Company and the Guarantors who signed the Registration Statement and each Person, if any, who controls the Company, the Guarantors, any Initial Purchaser and any other selling Holder within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act to the same extent as the indemnity set forth in paragraph (a) above, but only with respect to any losses, claims, damages or liabilities that arise out of, or are based upon, any untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission made in reliance upon and in conformity with any information relating to such Holder furnished to the Company in writing by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for use in any Registration Statement and any Prospectus.
 
(c) If any suit, action, proceeding (including any governmental or regulatory investigation), claim or demand shall be brought or asserted against any Person in respect of which indemnification may be sought pursuant to either paragraph (a) or (b) above, such Person (the “Indemnified Person”) shall promptly notify the Person against whom such indemnification may be sought (the “Indemnifying Person”) in writing; provided that the failure to notify the Indemnifying Person shall not relieve it from any liability that it may have under paragraph (a) or (b) above except to the extent that it has been materially prejudiced (through the forfeiture of substantive rights or defenses) by such failure; and provided, further, that the failure to notify the Indemnifying Person shall not relieve it from any liability that it may have to an Indemnified Person otherwise than under paragraph (a) or (b) above.  If any such proceeding shall be brought or asserted against an Indemnified Person and it shall have notified the Indemnifying Person thereof, the Indemnifying Person shall retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified Person (who shall not, without the consent of the Indemnified Person, be counsel to the Indemnifying Person) to represent the Indemnified Person and any others entitled to indemnification pursuant to this Section 5 that the Indemnifying Person may designate in such proceeding and shall pay the fees and expenses of such proceeding and shall pay the fees and expenses of such counsel related to such proceeding, as incurred.  In any such proceeding, any Indemnified Person shall have the right to retain its own counsel, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such Indemnified Person unless (i) the Indemnifying Person and the Indemnified Person shall have mutually agreed to the contrary; (ii) the Indemnifying Person has failed within a reasonable time to retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified Person; (iii) the Indemnified Person shall have reasonably concluded that there may be legal defenses available to it that are different from or in addition to those available to the Indemnifying Person; or (iv) the named parties in any such proceeding (including any impleaded parties) include both the Indemnifying Person and the Indemnified Person and representation of both parties by the same counsel would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interests between them.  It is understood and agreed that the Indemnifying Person shall not, in connection with any proceeding or related proceeding in the same jurisdiction, be liable for the fees and expenses of more than one separate firm (in addition to any local counsel) for all Indemnified Persons, and that all such fees and expenses shall be reimbursed as they are incurred.  Any such separate firm (x) for any Initial Purchaser, its affiliates, directors and officers and any control Persons of such Initial Purchaser shall be
 
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designated in writing by the Representative, (y) for any Holder, its directors and officers and any control Persons of such Holder shall be designated in writing by the Majority Holders and (z) in all other cases shall be designated in writing by the Company.  The Indemnifying Person shall not be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent, but if settled with such consent or if there be a final judgment for the plaintiff, the Indemnifying Person agrees to indemnify each Indemnified Person from and against any loss or liability by reason of such settlement or judgment.  Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, if at any time an Indemnified Person shall have requested that an Indemnifying Person reimburse the Indemnified Person for fees and expenses of counsel as contemplated by this paragraph, the Indemnifying Person shall be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement is entered into more than 30 days after receipt by the Indemnifying Person of such request; (ii) the Indemnifying Person shall not have reimbursed the Indemnified Person in accordance with such request prior to the date of such settlement and (iii) the Indemnified Person shall have given at least 30 days prior written notice of its intention to settle.  No Indemnifying Person shall, without the written consent of the Indemnified Person, effect any settlement of any pending or threatened proceeding in respect of which any Indemnified Person is or could have been a party and indemnification could have been sought hereunder by such Indemnified Person, unless such settlement (A) includes an unconditional release of such Indemnified Person, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to such Indemnified Person, from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such proceeding and (B) does not include any statement as to or any admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of any Indemnified Person.
 
(d) If the indemnification provided for in paragraphs (a) and (b) above is unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless an Indemnified Person in respect of any losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to therein, then each Indemnifying Person under such paragraph, in lieu of indemnifying such Indemnified Person thereunder, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such Indemnified Person as a result of such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company and the Guarantors from the offering of the Securities and the Exchange Securities, on the one hand, and by the Holders from receiving Securities or Exchange Securities registered under the Securities Act, on the other hand, or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) but also the relative fault of the Company and the Guarantors on the one hand and the Holders  on the other in connection with the statements or omissions that resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations.  The relative fault of the Company and the Guarantors on the one hand and the Holders on the other shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company and the Guarantors on the one hand or by the Holders on the other and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission.
 
(e) The Company, the Guarantors and the Holders agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 5 were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Holders were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation that does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to in paragraph (d) above.  The amount paid or payable by an Indemnified Person as a result of the losses, claims,
 
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damages and liabilities referred to in paragraph (d) above shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth above, any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such Indemnified Person in connection with investigating, preparing to defend, or defending any such action or claim.  Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 5, in no event shall a Holder be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Securities or Exchange Securities sold by such Holder exceeds the amount of any damages that such Holder has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission.  No Person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any Person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation.  The Holders’ obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 5 are several in proportion to the respective principal amount of the Registrable Securities held by each Holder and not joint.
 
(f) The remedies provided for in this Section 5 are not exclusive and shall not limit any rights or remedies that may otherwise be available to any Indemnified Person at law or in equity.
 
(g) The indemnity and contribution provisions contained in this Section 5 shall remain operative and in full force and effect regardless of (i) any termination of this Agreement, (ii) any investigation made by or on behalf of the Initial Purchasers or any Holder or any Person controlling any Initial Purchaser or any Holder, or by or on behalf of the Company or the Guarantors or the officers or directors of or any Person controlling the Company or the Guarantors, (iii) acceptance of any of the Exchange Securities and (iv) any sale of Registrable Securities pursuant to a Shelf Registration Statement .
 
6.  
General.
 
(a) No Inconsistent Agreements.  The Company and the Guarantors represent, warrant and agree that (i) the rights granted to the Holders hereunder do not in any way conflict with and are not inconsistent with the rights granted to the holders of any other outstanding securities issued or guaranteed by the Company or any Guarantor under any other agreement and (ii) neither the Company nor any Guarantor has entered into, or on or after the date of this Agreement will enter into, any agreement that is inconsistent with the rights granted to the Holders of Registrable Securities in this Agreement or otherwise conflicts with the provisions hereof.
 
(b) Amendments and Waivers.  The provisions of this Agreement, including the provisions of this sentence, may not be amended, modified or supplemented, and waivers or consents to departures from the provisions hereof may not be given unless the Company and the Guarantors have obtained the written consent of Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Registrable Securities affected by such amendment, modification, supplement, waiver or consent ; provided that no amendment, modification, supplement, waiver or consent to any departure from the provisions of Section 5 hereof shall be effective as against any Holder of Registrable Securities unless consented to in writing by such Holder.  Any amendments, modifications, supplements, waivers or consents pursuant to this Section 6(b) shall be by a writing executed by each of the parties hereto.
 
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(c) Notices.  All notices and other communications provided for or permitted hereunder shall be made in writing by hand-delivery, registered first-class mail, telex, telecopier, or any courier guaranteeing overnight delivery (i) if to a Holder, at the most current address given by such Holder to the Company by means of a notice given in accordance with the provisions of this Section 6(c), which address initially is, with respect to the Initial Purchasers, the address set forth in the Purchase Agreement; (ii) if to the Company and the Guarantors, initially at the Company’s address set forth in the Purchase Agreement and thereafter at such other address, notice of which is given in accordance with the provisions of this Section 6(c); and (iii) to such other persons at their respective addresses as provided in the Purchase Agreement and thereafter at such other address, notice of which is given in accordance with the provisions of this Section 6(c).  All such notices and communications shall be deemed to have been duly given: at the time delivered by hand, if personally delivered; five Business Days after being deposited in the mail, postage prepaid, if mailed; when answered back, if telexed; when receipt is acknowledged, if telecopied; and on the next Business Day if timely delivered to an air courier guaranteeing overnight delivery.  Copies of all such notices, demands or other communications shall be concurrently delivered by the Person giving the same to the Trustee, at the address specified in the Indenture.
 
(d) Successors and Assigns.  This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the successors, assigns and transferees of each of the parties, including, without limitation and without the need for an express assignment, subsequent Holders; provided that nothing herein shall be deemed to permit any assignment, transfer or other disposition of Registrable Securities in violation of the terms of the Purchase Agreement or the Indenture.  If any transferee of any Holder shall acquire Registrable Securities in any manner, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Registrable Securities shall be held subject to all the terms of this Agreement, and by taking and holding such Registrable Securities such Person shall be conclusively deemed to have agreed to be bound by and to perform all of the terms and provisions of this Agreement and such Person shall be entitled to receive the benefits hereof.  The Initial Purchasers (in their capacity as Initial Purchasers) shall have no liability or obligation to the Company or the Guarantors with respect to any failure by a Holder to comply with, or any breach by any Holder of, any of the obligations of such Holder under this Agreement.
 
(e) Third Party Beneficiaries.  Each Holder shall be a third party beneficiary to the agreements made hereunder between the Company and the Guarantors, on the one hand, and the Initial Purchasers, on the other hand, and shall have the right to enforce such agreements directly to the extent it deems such enforcement necessary or advisable to protect its rights or the rights of other Holders hereunder.
 
(f) Counterparts.  This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement.
 
(g) Headings.  The headings in this Agreement are for convenience of reference only, are not a part of this Agreement and shall not limit or otherwise affect the meaning hereof.
 
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(h) Governing Law.  This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.
 
(i) Entire Agreement; Severability.  This Agreement contains the entire agreement between the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all oral statements and prior writings with respect thereto.  If any term, provision, covenant or restriction contained in this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, void or unenforceable or against public policy, the remainder of the terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions contained herein shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated.  The Company, the Guarantors and the Initial Purchasers shall endeavor in good faith negotiations to replace the invalid, void or unenforceable provisions with valid provisions the economic effect of which comes as close as possible to that of the invalid, void or unenforceable provisions.
 
 
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement as of the date first written above.
 
   
AVIS BUDGET CAR RENTAL, LLC
 
By
/s/ Rochelle Tarlowe
   
Name:           Rochelle Tarlowe
Title:           Vice President and Treasurer

 
   
AVIS BUDGET FINANCE, INC.
 
 
By
/s/ Rochelle Tarlowe
   
Name:           Rochelle Tarlowe
Title:           Vice President and Treasurer

 
   
AVIS BUDGET GROUP, INC.
 
 
By
/s/ Rochelle Tarlowe
   
Name:           Rochelle Tarlowe
Title:           Vice President and Treasurer
 
 
   
AVIS BUDGET HOLDINGS, LLC
 
 
By
/s/ Rochelle Tarlowe
   
Name:           Rochelle Tarlowe
Title:           Vice President and Treasurer

 


 
   
AB CAR RENTAL SERVICES, INC.
ARACS LLC
AVIS ASIA AND PACIFIC, LIMITED
AVIS CAR RENTAL GROUP, LLC
AVIS CARIBBEAN, LIMITED
AVIS ENTERPRISES, INC.
AVIS GROUP HOLDINGS, LLC
AVIS INTERNATIONAL, LTD.
AVIS OPERATIONS, LLC
AVIS RENT A CAR SYSTEM, LLC
PF CLAIMS MANAGEMENT, LTD.
PR HOLDCO, INC.
WIZARD CO., INC.
WIZARD SERVICES, INC.
 
 
By
/s/ Rochelle Tarlowe
   
Name:           Rochelle Tarlowe
Title:           Vice President and Treasurer

 

 
   
BGI LEASING, INC.
BUDGET RENT A CAR SYSTEM, INC.
BUDGET TRUCK RENTAL LLC
RUNABOUT, LLC
 
 
By
/s/ David B. Wyshner
   
Name:           David B. Wyshner
Title:           Executive Vice President, ChiefFinancial Officer and Treasurer

 
 

 

Confirmed and accepted as of the date first above written:
 
By
BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES LLC
For itself and on behalf of the
several Initial Purchasers
 
/s/ William H. Pegler
 
Authorized Signatory

 
 
 
 

Annex A
 
 
 
Counterpart to Registration Rights Agreement
 
The undersigned hereby absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably agrees as a Guarantor (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of March 10, 2010 by and among the Company, a Delaware limited liability company, the guarantors party thereto and Banc of America Securities LLC, on behalf of itself and the other Initial Purchasers) to be bound by the terms and provisions of such Registration Rights Agreement.
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this counterpart as of _______________.
 
 
[NAME]
 
 
By:___________________________
 
 
Name:
 
 
Title:
 

 

 
Schedule 1
AB Car Rental Services, Inc.
ARACS LLC
Avis Asia and Pacific, Limited
Avis Budget Group, Inc.
Avis Budget Holdings, LLC
Avis Car Rental Group, LLC
Avis Caribbean, Limited
Avis Enterprises, Inc.
Avis Group Holdings, LLC
Avis International, Ltd.
Avis Operations, LLC
Avis Rent A Car System, LLC
BGI Leasing, Inc.
Budget Rent A Car System, Inc.
Budget Truck Rental LLC
PF Claims Management, Ltd.
PR Holdco, Inc.
Runabout, LLC
Wizard Co., Inc.
Wizard Services, Inc.
 

 

 
Schedule 2
 
Barclays Capital Inc.
Banc of America Securities LLC
Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc.
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.
J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.
RBS Securities Inc.
Scotia Capital (USA) Inc.
Wells Fargo Securities, LLC
 

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Exhibit 99.1

Press Release

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AVIS BUDGET GROUP AMENDS EXISTING CREDIT FACILITY AND COMPLETES OFFERING OF SENIOR NOTES
 
PARSIPPANY, N.J., March 10, 2010 - Avis Budget Group, Inc. (NYSE: CAR) announced today that it has completed an amendment of its existing senior secured credit facility, as well as its recently announced offering of $450 million aggregate principal amount of senior notes due 2018.
 
The credit facility amendment and senior notes offering:
 
 
·  
extend the maturity of nearly $1.0 billion of revolving credit commitments (under which no borrowings are currently outstanding) by two years, to 2013;
 
·  
revise the financial and non-financial covenants in the credit facility to provide significantly greater flexibility to the Company;
 
·  
result in the repayment of approximately $450 million of outstanding term loan borrowings; and
 
·  
extend the maturity of approximately $275 million of remaining term loan borrowings by two years, to 2014.
 
"We are extremely pleased to have executed against our plan to refinance and extend future corporate debt maturities well in advance of their stated maturity dates," said David B. Wyshner, Avis Budget Group executive vice president and chief financial officer.  "The transactions that we completed today demonstrate our strong access to the capital markets and the confidence of our bank lending group in our prospects.  Our corporate debt maturities over the next three years now total only $50 million, and we feel very good about our current capitalization and liquidity position."
 
The 9⅝% senior notes due 2018 were priced at 98.634% of par.  They are senior unsecured obligations of the Company's Avis Budget Car Rental, LLC subsidiary and are guaranteed on a senior basis by Avis Budget Group, Inc. and certain of its domestic subsidiaries.  Net proceeds from the offering were used primarily to repay outstanding term loan borrowings which, including the effect of interest rate hedges, carried an effective interest rate of approximately 9.2%.
 
The senior notes and the related guarantees have not been registered under the under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements.  This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell nor the solicitation of an offer to buy the senior notes or any other securities and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any jurisdiction in which, or to any person to whom, such an offer, solicitation or sale is unlawful. Any offers of the senior notes will be made only by means of a private offering memorandum.
 
 


Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements that are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements.  Important assumptions and other important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements are specified in Avis Budget Group's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009 including under headings such as "Forward-Looking Statements", “Risk Factors” and "Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" and in other filings and furnishings made by the Company with the SEC from time to time.  Except to the extent required by applicable federal securities laws, the Company undertakes no obligation to release publicly any revisions to any forward-looking statements, to report events or to report the occurrence of unanticipated events.

About Avis Budget Group, Inc.
Avis Budget Group is a leading provider of vehicle rental services, with operations in more than 70 countries.  Through its Avis and Budget brands, the Company is a leading general-use vehicle rental company in each of North America, Australia, New Zealand and certain other regions.  Avis Budget Group is headquartered in Parsippany, N.J. and has approximately 23,000 employees.  For more information about Avis Budget Group, visit www.avisbudgetgroup.com.

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