[*]: THE IDENTIFIED INFORMATION HAS BEEN OMITTED FROM THE AGREEMENT BECAUSE IT IS BOTH (i) NOT MATERIAL AND (ii) WOULD BE COMPETITIVELY HARMFUL IF PUBLICLY DISCLOSED
Dated 19 May 2023
RIVIERA NEW BUILD, LLC
as Borrower
and
NCL CORPORATION LTD.
as Guarantor
and
OCEANIA CRUISES S. DE R.L.
as Charterer
and Shareholder
and
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd.
as the Holding
and
THE Banks and FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS listed IN Schedule 1
as Lenders
and
CRÉDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK
SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE
as Mandated Lead Arrangers
and
CRÉDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK
as Agent
and SACE Agent
AMENDMENT AND RESTATEMENT AGREEMENT
relating to a facility agreement originally dated 18 July 2008 (as amended from time to time, including as amended by a supplemental agreement dated 25 October 2010, a side letter dated 29 March 2012, as amended and restated by an amendment and restatement agreement dated 31 October 2014, as further amended by a framework agreement dated 31 January 2018,
as amended by a supplemental agreement dated 4 June 2020, as further amended and restated by an amendment and restatement agreement dated 17 February 2021, as further amended by a
supplemental agreement dated 23 December 2021 and as further amended by a supplemental agreement dated 16 December 2022)
in respect of the part financing of the passenger cruise ship m.v. "RIVIERA"
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Execution
Appendices
Form of Amended and Restated Facility Agreement (marked to indicate amendments)
Form of Amended and Restated Guarantee (marked to indicate amendments)
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THIS AGREEMENT is made on 19 May 2023
Parties
(2) | NCL CORPORATION LTD., an exempted company incorporated under the laws of Bermuda with its registered office at Park Place, 55 Par-la-Ville Road, Hamilton HM 11, Bermuda (the "Guarantor") |
(3) | NORWEGIAN CRUISE LINE HOLDINGS LTD., a company incorporated under the laws of Bermuda with its registered office at Park Place, 55 Par-la-Ville Road, Hamilton HM 11, Bermuda (the "Holding") |
(5) | THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS listed in Schedule 1 (The Lenders) as lenders (the "Lenders") |
Background
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Agreement") and further amended pursuant to a supplemental agreement dated 16 December 2022 (the "December 2022 Amendment Agreement") pursuant to which, inter alia, the parties agreed to the temporary amendment of certain covenants under the Guarantee and addition of certain covenants under the Original Facility Agreement.
(C) | The Parties have agreed to amend and restate the Facility Agreement as set out in this Agreement for the purposes of, inter alia, documenting the transition from LIBOR to SOFR (as defined below). |
Operative Provisions
Definitions and Interpretation |
Definitions |
In this Agreement:
"2023 Finance Documents" means this Agreement and the New Mortgage Addendum.
"Amended and Restated Facility Agreement" means the Facility Agreement as amended and restated by this Agreement in the form set out in Appendix 1.
"Amended and Restated Guarantee" means the Guarantee as amended and restated by this Agreement in the form set out in Appendix 2.
"Effective Date" means the date on which the Agent notifies the Borrower, the other Creditor Parties and SACE as to the satisfaction of the conditions precedent as provided in paragraph (a) of Clause 2.1 (Conditions Precedent).
"Facility Agreement" means the Original Facility Agreement, as amended by the 2020 Amendment Agreement, as amended and restated by the February 2021 Amendment and Restatement Agreement, as further amended by the December 2021 Amendment Agreement and as further amended by the December 2022 Amendment Agreement.
"New Mortgage Addendum" means the addendum to the Mortgage in the agreed form.
"Obligors" means the Borrower, the Guarantor, the Holding, the Charterer and the Shareholder.
"Original Facility Agreement" means the facility agreement dated 18 July 2008 (as amended pursuant to a supplemental agreement dated 25 October 2010, a side letter dated 29 March 2012, an amendment and restatement agreement dated 31 October 2014 and a framework agreement dated 31 January 2018) and made between, amongst others, (i) the Borrower, (ii) the Lenders, (iii) the Mandated Lead Arrangers and (iv) the Agent and the SACE Agent.
"Party" means a party to this Agreement.
"SOFR" means the secured overnight financing rate (SOFR) administered by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or any other person which takes over the administration of that rate) published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or for any other person which takes over the publication of that rate).
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Defined expressions |
Defined expressions in the Facility Agreement and, with effect from the Effective Date, the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement, shall have the same meanings when used in this Agreement unless the context otherwise requires or unless otherwise defined in this Agreement.
1.3 | Application of construction and interpretation provisions of Facility Agreement |
Clause 1.2 (construction of certain terms) of the Facility Agreement applies to this Agreement as if it were expressly incorporated in it with any necessary modifications.
1.4 | Agreed forms of new, and supplements to, Finance Documents |
References in Clause 1.1 (Definitions) to any new or supplement to a Finance Document being in "agreed form" are to that Finance Document:
(a) | in a form attached to a certificate dated the same date as this Agreement (and signed by the Borrower and the Agent); or |
(b) | in any other form agreed in writing between the Borrower and the Agent acting with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders or, where applicable, all the Lenders. |
1.5 | Designation as a Finance Document |
The Borrower and the Agent designate this Agreement as a Finance Document.
Third party rights |
(a) | Unless provided to the contrary in a Finance Document, a person who is not a Party has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 (the "Third Parties Act") to enforce or to enjoy the benefit of any term of this Agreement other than SACE, who may enforce or to enjoy the benefit of and rely on the provisions of this Agreement and the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement subject to the provisions of the Third Parties Act. |
(b) | Notwithstanding any term of any Finance Document, the consent of any person who is not a Party (other than SACE) is not required to rescind or vary this Agreement at any time. |
Conditions Precedent |
The Effective Date cannot occur unless: |
the Agent has received (or on the instructions of all the Lenders, waived receipt of) all of the documents and other evidence listed in Schedule 2 (Conditions Precedent) in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent; |
(b) | save as disclosed in writing to the Agent and SACE prior to the date of this Agreement, the representations and warranties contained in Clause 3 (Representations) are true and correct |
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on, and as of, each such time as if each was made with respect to the facts and circumstances existing at such time;
(d) | the Agent is satisfied that the Effective Date can occur and have not provided any instructions to the contrary informing the Parties that the Effective Date cannot occur. |
Upon fulfilment or waiver of the conditions set out in Clause 2.1 above, the Agent shall provide the Borrower and the Creditor Parties and SACE with a copy of the executed certificate in the form set out in Schedule 3 (Form of Effective Date Certificate) confirming that the Effective Date has occurred and such certificate shall be binding on all Parties. |
Representations |
3.1 | Facility Agreement representations |
On the date of this Agreement and on the Effective Date, each Obligor that is a party to the Facility Agreement makes each of the representations and warranties as set out in clause 12 (Representations and warranties) of the Facility Agreement, as amended and restated by this Agreement and updated with appropriate modifications to refer to this Agreement and (where relevant) the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement, the Amended and Restated Guarantee and the New Mortgage Addendum, by reference to the circumstances then existing.
3.2 | Finance Document representations |
On the date of this Agreement and on the Effective Date, each Obligor (save for the Holding) makes the representations and warranties set out in the Finance Documents (other than the Facility Agreement) to which it is a party, as amended and restated and/or supplemented by this Agreement and updated with appropriate modifications to refer to this Agreement, and, where appropriate, the Amended and Restated Guarantee and the New Mortgage Addendum, by reference to the circumstances then existing.
Amendment and Restatement of Facility Agreement and other Finance Documents |
Specific amendments to the Facility Agreement |
With effect on and from the Effective Date, the Facility Agreement shall be amended and restated in the form of the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement and, as so amended and
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restated, the Facility Agreement shall continue to be binding on each of the parties to it in accordance with its terms as so amended and restated.
With effect on and from the Effective Date, the Guarantee shall be amended and restated in the form of the Amended and Restated Guarantee and, as so amended and restated, the Guarantor confirms that:
(a) | its Guarantee extends to the obligations of the Borrower under the Finance Documents as amended, restated and/or supplemented by this Agreement; |
(b) | the obligations of the relevant Obligors under the Finance Documents as amended, restated and/or supplemented by this Agreement are included in the Secured Liabilities (as defined in the Facility Agreement); and |
(c) | the Guarantee shall continue to be binding on each of the parties to it and have full force and effect in accordance with its terms as so amended and restated. |
Holding confirmation |
On the Effective Date, the Holding confirms that, notwithstanding the amendments made to the Finance Documents pursuant to this Agreement, the undertakings given by the Holding under the Guarantee, as amended and restated by this Agreement and updated with appropriate modifications to refer to this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect in accordance with its original terms and the amendments to the Finance Documents as amended, restated and/or supplemented by this Agreement.
4.4 | Security Confirmation |
Without prejudice to the provisions of the New Mortgage Addendum, on the Effective Date, each Obligor confirms that:
(a) | any Security Interest created by it under the Finance Documents extends to the obligations of the relevant Obligors under the Finance Documents as amended, restated and/or supplemented by this Agreement; |
(b) | the obligations of the relevant Obligors under the Finance Documents as amended, restated and/or supplemented by this Agreement are included in the Secured Liabilities (as defined in the Finance Documents to which it is a party); |
(c) | the Security Interests created under the Finance Documents continue in full force and effect on the terms of the respective Finance Documents; and |
(d) | to the extent that this confirmation creates a new Security Interest, such Security Interest shall be on the terms of the Finance Documents in respect of which this confirmation is given. |
4.5 | Finance Documents to remain in full force and effect |
The Finance Documents shall remain in full force and effect and, from the Effective Date:
(a) | in the case of the Facility Agreement as amended and restated pursuant to Clause 4.1 (Specific amendments to the Facility Agreement); |
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(b) | in the case of the Guarantee, as amended and restated pursuant to Clause 4.2 (Specific amendments to the Guarantee); |
(c) | the Facility Agreement and the applicable provisions of this Agreement will be read and construed as one document; |
(d) | the Guarantee and the applicable provisions of this Agreement will be read and construed as one document; and |
(e) | except to the extent expressly waived by the amendments effected by this Agreement, no waiver is given by this Agreement and the Lenders expressly reserve all their rights and remedies in respect of any breach of or other default under the Finance Documents. |
Further Assurance |
Clause 13.19 (further assurance) of the Facility Agreement, as amended and restated by this Agreement, applies to this Agreement as if it were expressly incorporated in it with any necessary modifications.
Costs, Expenses and Fees |
Clause 11.6 (Transaction Costs) of the Facility Agreement, as amended and restated by this Agreement, applies to this Agreement as if it were expressly incorporated in it with any necessary modifications.
Notices |
Clause 32 (Notices) of the Facility Agreement, as amended and restated by this Agreement, applies to this Agreement as if it were expressly incorporated in it with any necessary modifications.
Counterparts |
This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, and this has the same effect as if the signatures on the counterparts were on a single copy of this Agreement.
Signing Electronically |
The Parties acknowledge and agree that they may execute this Agreement and any variation or amendment to the same, by electronic instrument. The Parties agree that the electronic signatures appearing on the documents shall have the same effect as handwritten signatures and the use of an electronic signature on this Agreement shall have the same validity and legal effect as the use of a signature affixed by hand and is made with the intention of authenticating this Agreement, and evidencing the Parties' intention to be bound by the terms and conditions contained herein. For the purposes of using an electronic signature, the Parties authorise each other to conduct the lawful processing of personal data of the signers for contract performance and their legitimate interests including contract management.
Governing Law |
This Agreement and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with it are governed by English law.
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Enforcement |
Jurisdiction |
(a) | The courts of England have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute arising out of or in connection with this Agreement (including a dispute regarding the existence, validity or termination of this Agreement or any non-contractual obligation arising out of or in connection with this Agreement) (a "Dispute"). |
(b) | The Obligors accept that the courts of England are the most appropriate and convenient courts to settle Disputes and accordingly no Obligor will argue to the contrary. |
Service of process |
(a) | Without prejudice to any other mode of service allowed under any relevant law, each Obligor (other than an Obligor incorporated in England and Wales): |
(i) | irrevocably appoints Hannaford Turner LLP, currently of 107 Cheapside, London UK, EC2V 6DN, UK as its agent for service of process in relation to any proceedings before the English courts in connection with any Finance Document; and |
(ii) | agrees that failure by a process agent to notify the relevant Obligor of the process will not invalidate the proceedings concerned. |
(b) | If any person appointed as an agent for service of process is unable for any reason to act as agent for service of process, the Borrower (on behalf of all the Obligors) must immediately (and in any event within 10 days of such event taking place) appoint another agent on terms acceptable to the Agent. Failing this, the Agent may appoint another agent for this purpose. |
This Agreement has been entered into on the date stated at the beginning of this Agreement.
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BORROWER
SIGNED by)/s/___Daniel S. Farkas___________
Its)
duly authorised)
for and on behalf of)
RIVIERA NEW BUILD, LLC )
GUARANTOR
SIGNED by) /s/___Daniel S. Farkas___________
duly authorised)
for and on behalf of)
NCL CORPORATION LTD. )
HOLDING
SIGNED by) /s/___Daniel S. Farkas___________
for and on behalf of)
NORWEGIAN CRUISE LINE)
HOLDINGS LTD.)
as its duly appointed attorney-in-fact)
in the presence of:)
CHARTERER
SIGNED by) /s/___Daniel S. Farkas___________
duly authorised)
for and on behalf of)
OCEANIA CRUISES S. DE R.L. )
SHAREHOLDER
SIGNED by) /s/___Daniel S. Farkas___________
duly authorised)
for and on behalf of)
OCEANIA CRUISES S. DE R.L. )
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LENDERS
SIGNED by ) /s/_______Anne-Laure Orange___________
duly authorised )
for and on behalf of)
AND INVESTMENT BANK ) /s/_______Jérôme Leblond______________
SIGNED by ) /s/______Megan Parry_____________
duly authorised )
for and on behalf of)
DEKABANK DEUTSCHE GIROZENTRALE)
SIGNED by ) /s/______Isabelle Seneca_____________
duly authorised )
for and on behalf of)
SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE )
MANDATED LEAD ARRANGERS
SIGNED by ) /s/_______Anne-Laure Orange___________
duly authorised)
for and on behalf of)
CRÉDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE)
AND INVESTMENT BANK ) /s/_______Jérôme Leblond______________
SIGNED by ) /s/______Isabelle Seneca_____________
duly authorised )
for and on behalf of)
SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE )
AGENT
SIGNED by ) /s/_______Anne-Laure Orange___________
duly authorised )
for and on behalf of)
CRÉDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE AND)
INVESTMENT BANK ) /s/_______Jérôme Leblond______________
SACE AGENT
SIGNED by ) /s/_______Anne-Laure Orange___________
duly authorised )
for and on behalf of)
CRÉDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE AND)
INVESTMENT BANK ) /s/_______Jérôme Leblond______________
Form of Amended and Restated Facility Agreement (marked to indicate amendments)
Amendments are indicated as follows:
1 | additions are indicated by underlined text in blue; and |
2 | deletions are shown by strike-through text in red. |
(as amended by a supplemental agreement dated 25 October 2010, as further amended by a side letter dated 29 March 2012, as further amended and restated by an amendment and restatement agreement dated 31 October 2014, as amended by a framework agreement dated 31 January 2018, as further amended by a supplemental agreement dated 4 June 2020 and , as further amended and restated by an amendment and restatement agreement dated ______ February 202117 February 2021, as further amended by a supplemental agreement dated 23 December 2021, as further amended by a supplemental agreement dated 16 December 2022 and as further and amended and restated by an amendment and restatement agreement dated ____________________2023)
RIVIERA NEW BUILD, LLC
as Borrower
and
THE BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
listed in Schedule 1
as Lenders
and
CRÉDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK
SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE
as Mandated Lead Arrangers
and
CRÉDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK
as Agent and SACE Agent
with the support of
SACE S.p.A.
AMENDED AND RESTATED Facility AGREEMENT
relating to
the part financing of the passenger cruise ship m.v. "RIVIERA"
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Execution
THIS AGREEMENT is originally made on 18 July 2008 (as previously amended by a supplemental agreement dated 25 October 2010, a side letter dated 29 March 2012, as amended and restated by an amendment and restatement agreement dated 31 October 2014, as amended by a framework agreement dated 31 January 2018, as amended by a supplemental agreement dated 4 June 2020 and , as further amended and restated by an amendment and restatement agreement dated ______ February 202117 February 2021, as further amended by a supplemental agreement dated 23 December 2021, as further amended by a supplemental agreement dated 16 December 2022 and as further and amended and restated by an amendment and restatement agreement dated ____________________2023)
RIVIERA NEW BUILD, LLC, a limited liability company formed in the Marshall Islands whose registered office is at c/o The Trust Company of the Marshall Islands Inc., Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Island, Ajeltake Road, Majuro MH 96960, Republic of the Marshall Islands (the "Borrower") |
THE BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS listed in Schedule 1 (Lenders and Commitments), as lenders (the "Lenders") |
CRÉDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK and SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE as mandated lead arrangers (the "Mandated Lead Arrangers") |
CRÉDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK, acting through its office at 12 Place des États-Unis, CS 70052, 92547, Montrouge Cedex, France, as agent (the "Agent") and SACE Agent (the "SACE Agent") |
Background
The total price payable by the Borrower to the Builder under the Original Shipbuilding Contract is EUR 409,095,000.00 (the "Initial Contract Price") which has been paid on the following terms: |
as to [*]% on the later of the start of steel cutting and 1 September 2009; |
as to [*]% on the later of float out and 30 November 2010; and |
as to [*]% on delivery of the Ship. |
By the amendment and restatement agreement dated 31 October 2014 (the "2014 Amending and Restating Agreement"), the parties thereto agreed to, among other things, (1) the Guarantor replacing the Prior Guarantors as a guarantor of the obligations of the Borrower under the Original Facility Agreement and (2) the amending and restating of the Original Facility Agreement pursuant to the terms set forth in the 2014 Amending and Restating Agreement. |
By a framework agreement dated 31 January 2018 (the "Framework Agreement"), Société Générale in its capacity as Lender sold forty-one point ten per cent. (41.10%) of its participation in the Loan to DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale as new lender. |
Due to the unprecedented and extraordinary impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the cruise sector and cruise operators, SACE informed the cruise operators of its availability to evaluate certain measures (the "Temporary Measures") applicable in relation to certain qualifying loan agreements in order to assist companies which are financially sound but dealing with the impact of the temporary but unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic; the possibility to access to such measures was subject, amongst other things, to certain principles dated 15 April 2020 for cruise lines offered by SACE (the "Original Principles"). |
Due to the continued impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the cruise sector and cruise operators, SACE confirmed on 31 December 2020 its availability to evaluate an extension of the Temporary Measures (the "Extended Temporary Measures"), again subject to certain principles set out in a document titled "Debt Deferral Extension Framework for ECA-backed Export Financings" dated 26 November 2020 for cruise lines offered by SACE (together with the Original Principles, the "Principles"). |
The Parties have agreed to enter into an amending and restating agreement (the "2023 Amendment and Restatement Agreement") to amend and restate the Facility Agreement in order to inter alia, incorporate certain amends to the Facility Agreement including the switch from LIBOR to SOFR (as defined below). |
(M)This Agreement sets out the terms and conditions of the Facility Agreement as amended and restated by the 2021 2023 Amendment and Restatement Agreement. |
Operative Provisions
Interpretation |
Definitions |
Subject to Clause 1.5 (General Interpretation), in this Agreement:
"2014 Amending and Restating Agreement" has the meaning given to the term in Recital (E).
"2020 Amendment Agreement" has the meaning given to the term in Recital (I).
"2020 Deferral Commitment" means in relation to any Lender as listed in Schedule 1 (Lenders and Commitments) to the 2020 Amendment Agreement, the amount in Dollars expressed as a percentage set opposite its name under the heading "Commitment" and the amount of any other commitment attributable to it (including the related 2020 Deferral Tranche Premium payable to SACE) under this Agreement in respect of the 2020 Deferral Tranche.
"2020 Deferral Effective Date" has the meaning given to the term Effective Date in the 2020 Amendment Agreement.
"2020 Deferral Fee Letters" means any letter between the Agent and any Obligor which sets out the fees payable in connection with the arrangements contemplated by the 2020 Amendment Agreement.
"2020 Deferral Final Repayment Date" means the Repayment Date falling 3 years and six months after the 2020 Deferral Repayment Starting Point, or, if earlier, the date on which the 2020 Deferral Tranche has been repaid or prepaid in full, as further set out in Schedule 4 (Deferred Repayment Schedule).
"2020 Deferral Period" means the period from 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021.
"2020 Deferral Repayment Starting Point" means the date of the first Repayment Date falling after 31 March 2021, namely 27 April 2021.
"2020 Deferral Tranche" means the part of the Loan made available to the Borrower to finance or refinance (as the case may be) the aggregate of the 2020 Deferred Repayment Instalments and the related 2020 Deferral Tranche Premium payable to SACE (amounting to [*] per cent. ([*]%) of the Total Commitments as of 1 April 2020) in a principal amount not exceeding forty-five million, eight hundred and twenty eight thousand, nine hundred and sixty-five Dollars and eighty-four Cents ($45,828,965.84).
"2020 Deferral Tranche Premium" has the meaning given to such term in paragraph (a) of Clause 9.5 10.5 (Deferral Tranches – additional premium).
"2020 Deferred Repayment Instalments" means the repayment instalments due during the 2020 Deferral Period.
"2021 Amendment and Restatement Agreement" has the meaning given to such term in Recital (L).
"2021 Deferral Commitment" means in relation to any Lender as listed in Schedule 1 (Lenders and Commitments) to the 2021 Amendment and Restatement Agreement, the amount in Dollars expressed as a percentage set opposite its name under the heading "Commitment" and the amount of any other commitment attributable to it under this Agreement in respect of the 2021 Deferral Tranche.
"2021 Deferral Effective Date" has the meaning given to the term Effective Date in the 2021 Amendment and Restatement Agreement.
"2021 Deferral Fee Letters" means any letter between the Agent or the SACE Agent and any Obligor which sets out the fees payable in connection with the arrangements contemplated by the 2021 Amendment and Restatement Agreement.
"2021 Deferral Final Repayment Date" means the Repayment Date falling 4 years and six months after the 2021 Deferral Repayment Starting Point, or, if earlier, the date on which the 2021 Deferral Tranche has been repaid or prepaid in full, as further set out in Schedule 4 (Deferred Repayment Schedule).
"2021 Deferral Period" means the period from 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022.
"2021 Deferred Repayment Instalments" means the repayment instalments due during the 2021 Deferral Period.
"2021 Deferral Repayment Starting Point" means the date of the first Repayment Date falling after 31 March 2022, namely 27 April 2022.
"2021 Deferral Tranche" means the part of the Loan made or to be made available to the Borrower to repay the aggregate of the 2021 Deferred Repayment Instalments, including, for the avoidance of doubt, the repayment instalments due pursuant to paragraph (a) of Clause 5.5 (Repayment of Deferral Tranches).
"2021 Deferral Tranche Premium" has the meaning given to such term in paragraph (b) of Clause 9.5 10.5 (Deferral Tranches – additional premium).
"2023 Amendment and Restatement Agreement" has the meaning given to such term in Recital (O).
"2023 Effective Date" has the meaning given to the term Effective Date in the 2023 Amendment and Restatement Agreement.
"Affiliate" means, with respect to any person, any other person controlling, controlled by or under common control with, such person and for purposes of this definition, "control" (including, with correlative meanings, the terms "controlling", "controlled by" and "under common control with"), as applied to any person, means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to vote ten per cent. (10%) or more of the securities having voting power for the election of directors of such person, or otherwise to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of that person, whether through the ownership of voting securities or by contract or otherwise.
"Agent" means Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, a French "société anonyme", having a share capital of EUR 7,851,636,342.00 and its registered office located at 12 Place des États-Unis, CS 70052 92547, Montrouge Cedex, France, registered under the n° Siren
304 187 701 at the Registre du Commerce et des Sociétés of Nanterre or any successor of it appointed under Clause 25 26 (Role of the Agent and the Mandated Lead Arrangers).
"Annex VI" means Annex VI (Regulations for the Prevention of Air Pollution from Ships) to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships 1973 (as modified in 1978 and 1997).
"Approved Flag" means the Marshall Islands flag or such other flag as the Agent may, with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, approve from time to time.
"Approved Manager" means the Borrower or any other company (whether or not a member of the Group) which the Agent may, with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, approve from time to time as the manager of the Ship.
"Approved Manager's Undertaking" means, in the event that the Approved Manager is a company other than the Borrower, a letter of undertaking executed by the Approved Manager in favour of the Agent, which will include, without limitation, an agreement by the Approved Manager to subordinate its rights against the Ship and the Borrower to the rights of the Creditor Parties under the Finance Documents, in the agreed form.
"Approved Project" means any of the projects identified in the Approved Projects List.
"Approved Projects List" means the approved projects list provided by the Guarantor and accepted by the Agent prior to the December 2021 Effective Date.
"Article 55 BRRD" means Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU establishing a framework for the recovery and resolution of credit institutions and investment firms.
"Availability Period" means the period commencing on 18 July 2008 and ending on:
if earlier, the date on which the Total Commitments are fully borrowed, cancelled or terminated. |
"Backstop Rate Switch Date" means 30 June 2023 or any other date agreed between the Agent, the Majority Lenders and the Borrower.
"Bail-In Action" means the exercise of any Write-down and Conversion Powers.
in relation to any state other than such an EEA Member Country or (to the extent that the United Kingdom is not such an EEA Member Country) the United Kingdom, any analogous law or regulation from time to time which requires contractual recognition of any Write-down and Conversion Powers contained in that law or regulation. |
"Base Rate" means one Euro for 1.5816 Dollars.
"Builder" has the meaning given in Recital (A).
"Builder Letter of Credit" means a letter of credit relating solely to the Shipbuilding Contract issued in favour of the Builder by the Letter of Credit Issuer in the form of Exhibit B or another agreed form.
"Business Day" means a day on which banks are open in London :
(in relation to the fixing of an interest rate for a Term SOFR Loan) which is a US Government Securities Business Day. |
the short-term interest rate target set by the US Federal Open Market Committee as published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from time to time; or |
if that target is not a single figure, the arithmetic mean of: |
the upper bound of the short-term interest rate target range set by the US Federal Open Market Committee and published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; and |
the lower bound of that target range. |
"Central Bank Rate Adjustment" means in relation to the Central Bank Rate prevailing at close of business on any US Government Securities Business Day, the 20 per cent trimmed arithmetic mean calculated by the Agent (or by any other Creditor Party which agrees to determine that mean in place of the Agent), of the Central Bank Rate Spreads for the five most immediately preceding US Government Securities Business Days for which SOFR is available.
"Central Bank Rate Spread" means in relation to any US Government Securities Business Day, the difference (expressed as a percentage rate per annum) calculated by the Agent (or by any other Creditor Party which agrees to calculate that rate in place of the Agent) of:
SOFR for that US Government Securities Business Day; and |
the Central Bank Rate prevailing at close of business on that US Government Securities Business Day. |
"Certified Copy" means in relation to any document delivered or issued by or on behalf of any company, a copy of such document certified as a true, complete and up-to-date copy of the original by any of the directors or the secretary or assistant secretary or any attorney-in-fact for the time being of that company.
"CIRR" (Commercial Interest Reference Rate) means 5.62% per annum or any other lower CIRR rate being the fixed rate for medium and long term export credits in Dollars applicable to the
financing of the Ship according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development rules as determined by the competent Italian Authorities.
"CISADA" means the United States Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability and Divestment Act of 2010 as it applies to non-US persons.
"Code" means the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
"Commitment" means, in relation to a Lender, the percentage of the Maximum Loan Amount set opposite its name in Schedule 1 (Lenders and Commitments) (including, in relation to a Lender, its Deferral Commitments), or, as the case may require, the amount specified in the relevant Transfer Certificate, as that amount may be reduced, cancelled or terminated in accordance with this Agreement (and "Total Commitments" means the aggregate of the Commitments of all the Lenders).
"Compliance Certificate" has the meaning given to "Compliance Certificate" in the Guarantee.
"Contribution" means, in relation to a Lender, the part of the Loan which is owing to that Lender.
"Conversion Rate" means the rate determined by the Agent on the Conversion Rate Fixing Date and notified to the Borrower as being:
the Base Rate; or |
in the event that the FOREX Contracts Weighted Average Rate is lower than the Base Rate (i.e. such that a lower amount in Dollars is necessary to purchase Euro than is reflected by the Base Rate), the FOREX Contracts Weighted Average Rate; or |
in the event that the FOREX Contracts Weighted Average Rate is higher than the Base Rate (i.e. such that a greater amount in Dollars is necessary to purchase Euro than is reflected by the Base Rate), the lower of: |
the FOREX Contracts Weighted Average Rate; and |
the Base Rate increased by 10% (ten per cent.); |
"Conversion Rate Fixing Date" means the date falling [*] ([*]) days before the Intended Delivery Date.
"Credit Adjustment Spread" means 0.42826% per annum.
"Creditor Party" means the Agent, the SACE Agent, the Mandated Lead Arrangers or any Lender, whether as at the date of the Original Facility Agreement or at any later time.
"Daily Rate" means for any US Government Securities Business Day:
SOFR for that US Government Securities Business Day; or |
if SOFR is not available for that US Government Securities Business Day, the percentage rate per annum which is the aggregate of: |
the Central Bank Rate for that US Government Securities Business Day; and |
the applicable Central Bank Rate Adjustment; or |
if paragraph (b) above applies but the Central Bank Rate for that US Government Securities Business Day is not available, the percentage rate per annum which is the aggregate of: |
the most recent Central Bank Rate for a day which is no more than five US Government Securities Business Days before that US Government Securities Business Day; and |
the applicable Central Bank Rate Adjustment, |
rounded, in either case, to five decimal places and if, in either case, the aggregate of that rate and the applicable Credit Adjustment Spread is less than zero, the Daily Rate shall be deemed to be such a rate that the aggregate of the Daily Rate and the applicable Credit Adjustment Spread is zero.
"Daily Simple SOFR" means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to the Daily Rate for the day that is:
for as long as the Interest Make-Up Agreement is in full force and effect, ten (10) US Government Securities Business Days; or |
if the Interest Make-Up Agreement ceases to be in full force and effect, five (5) US Government Securities Business Days, |
prior to (i) if such day is a US Government Securities Business Day, that day or (ii) if such day is not a US Government Securities Business Day, the US Government Securities Business Day immediately preceding such day.
"December 2021 Amendment Agreement" has the meaning given to such term in Recital (M).
"December 2021 Effective Date" has the meaning given to the term Effective Date in the December 2021 Amendment Agreement.
"December 2021 Fee Letters" means any letter between the Agent (or the SACE Agent, as applicable) and any Obligor which sets out the fees payable in connection with the arrangements contemplated by the December 2021 Amendment Agreement.
"December 2022 Amendment Agreement" has the meaning given to such term in Recital (N).
"December 2022 Fee Letters" means any letter between the Agent (or the SACE Agent, as applicable) and any Obligor which sets out the fees payable in connection with the arrangements contemplated by the December 2022 Amendment Agreement.
"Deferral Commitment" means the 2020 Deferral Commitment or the 2021 Deferral Commitment and, together, "Deferral Commitments".
"Deferral Fee Letters" means any of the 2020 Deferral Fee Letters and/or the 2021 Deferral Fee Letters.
"Deferral Final Repayment Date" means any of the 2020 Deferral Final Repayment Date and/or the 2021 Deferral Final Repayment Date.
"Deferral Period" means the period from 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2022.
"Deferral Prepayment Event" means the occurrence of any event entitling the Agent to exercise any rights granted to it pursuant to Clause 16.4 17.4 (Breach of new covenants or the Principles), including, without limitation, the ability to cancel any part, or demand the immediate repayment of, any Deferral Tranche and to terminate the waiver of the covenant granted pursuant to Clause 14 15 (Security Value Maintenance) or the waiver of the financial covenants granted pursuant to paragraphs (b) and (c) of clause 11.15 (Financial Covenants) of the Guarantee.
"Deferral Tranche" means the 2020 Deferral Tranche or the 2021 Deferral Tranche.
"Deferral Tranche Premia" has the meaning given to such term in paragraph (b) of Clause 9.5 10.5 (Deferral Tranches – additional premium).
"Deferred Costs Percentage" means:
in relation to the 2020 Deferral Tranche, [*]% p.a.; and |
in relation to the 2021 Deferral Tranche, [*]% p.a.. |
"Delivered Vessel Facilities" means, together, Marina Facility Agreement, Seven Seas Explorer Facility Agreement, Seven Seas Splendor Facility Agreement and this Agreement (as further amended, restated and supplemented from time to time).
"Delivery Date" means the date and time of delivery of the Ship by the Builder to the Borrower as stated in the Protocol of Delivery and Acceptance.
"Dollar Equivalent" means such amount in Dollars as is calculated by the Agent on the Conversion Rate Fixing Date to be the equivalent of an amount in Euro at the Conversion Rate.
"Dollars" and "$" means the lawful currency for the time being of the United States of America.
"Drawdown Date" means the date on which the Loan is drawn down and applied in accordance with Clause 2 (Facility).
"Drawdown Notice" means a notice in the form set out in Schedule 2 (Form of Drawdown Notice) (or in any other form which the Agent approves or reasonably requires).
"Earnings" means all moneys whatsoever which are now, or later become, payable (actually or contingently) to the Borrower and which arise out of the use or operation of the Ship, including (but not limited to):
all freight, hire, fare and passage moneys, compensation payable to the Borrower or the Agent in the event of requisition of the Ship for hire, remuneration for salvage and towage services, demurrage and detention moneys and damages for breach (or payments for variation or termination) of any charterparty or other contract for the employment of the Ship; |
all moneys which are at any time payable under Insurances in respect of loss of earnings; and |
if and whenever the Ship is employed on terms whereby any moneys falling within paragraphs (a) or (b) above are pooled or shared with any other person, that proportion of the net receipts of the relevant pooling or sharing arrangement which is attributable to the Ship. |
"EEA Member Country" means any member state of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
"Effective Date" means the Effective Date defined in the Original Facility Agreement.
"Eligible Amount" means eighty per cent. (80%) of the lesser of:
the Dollar Equivalent of EUR 418,237,911; and |
the Dollar Equivalent of the Final Contract Price |
in each case less any Letter of Credit Reduction;
"EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule" means the document described as such and published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor person) from time to time.
"EU Blocking Regulation" means EU Regulation (EC) 2271/96 of 22 November 1996.
"Euro" and "EUR" means the single currency of the Participating Member States.
"Event of Default" means any of the events or circumstances described in Clause 18.1 19.1 (Events of Default).
"Existing Indebtedness" means (a) Loan Agreement, dated as of July 31, 2013, by and among Explorer New Build, LLC, as Borrower, the banks and financial institutions party thereto, Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, Société Générale, KfW IPEX-Bank GmbH and HSBC Bank plc as Joint Mandated Lead Arrangers, Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, as Agent and as SACE Agent and Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, as Agent and as Security Trustee (as amended from time to time); (b) Loan Agreement, dated as of July 18, 2008, by and among Riviera New Build, LLC, as Borrower, the banks and financial institutions party thereto, Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank (formerly Calyon) and Société Générale, as Mandated Lead Arrangers, and Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, as Agent and as SACE Agent (as amended from time to time); (c) Credit Agreement, dated as of July 2, 2013, among Oceania Cruises, Inc., OCI Finance Corp., as Borrowers, the banks and financial institutions party thereto, Deutsche Bank AG, New York Branch, as administrative agent, as collateral agent and as mortgage trustee, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Barclays Bank Plc and UBS Securities LLC as co-syndication agents, HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. and Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank as co-documentation agents, Barclays Bank Plc, UBS Securities LLC, HSBC Securities (USA) INC. and Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, as joint bookrunners, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Barclays Bank Plc and Ubs Securities LLC, as joint lead arrangers; (d) Credit Agreement, dated as of August 21, 2012 and amended on February 1, 2013, among Classic Cruises, LLC, Classic Cruises II, LLC, Seven Seas Cruises S. De R.L., a Panamanian sociedad de responsibilidad limitada, SSC Finance Corp., as Borrowers, Deutsche Bank Ag, New York Branch, as Administrative Agent and as Collateral Agent, and each lender from time to time party thereto; (e) $225,000,000 of 9.125% Senior Secured Notes due 2019 and issued under that certain indenture dated as of May 19, 2011, by and among Seven Seas Cruises S. de R.L., as issuer; Celtic Pacific (UK) Two Limited; Supplystill Limited; Prestige Cruise Services (Europe) Limited (f/k/a Regent Seven Seas Cruises UK Limited); Celtic Pacific
(UK) Limited; SSC (France) LLC; Mariner, LLC, each of the foregoing (other than the Issuer) as subsidiary guarantors; Wilmington Trust, National Association (successor by merger to Wilmington Trust FSB), as Trustee and Collateral Agent and any secured hedges in connection with the foregoing; (f) Financial Indebtedness referred to in the financial statements of the Guarantor delivered to the Agent prior to the Effective Date; (g) Credit Agreement, dated as of 14 July 2014, by and among Seahawk Two, Ltd., as borrower, NCL Corporation Ltd., as guarantor, the lenders party thereto, KFW IPEX-Bank GmbH as Hermes agent and KFW IPEX-Bank GmbH as facility agent, as collateral agent and as CIRR agent (as amended from time to time); and (h) Credit Agreement, dated as of 14 July 2014, by and among Seahawk One, Ltd., as borrower, NCL Corporation Ltd., as guarantor, the lenders party thereto, KFW IPEX-Bank GmbH as Hermes agent and KFW IPEX-Bank GmbH as facility agent, as collateral agent and as CIRR agent (as amended from time to time).
"External Management Agreement" means, in the event that the Approved Manager is not a member of the Group, the management agreement entered or to be entered into between the Borrower and the Approved Manager with respect to the Ship.
"External Management Agreement Assignment" means an assignment of the rights of the Borrower under the External Management Agreement (if any) executed or to be executed by the Borrower in favour of the Agent, the SACE Agent and the Lenders in the agreed form.
"Facility Office" means the office or offices notified by a Lender to the Agent in writing on or before the date it becomes a Lender (or, following that date, by not less than five (5) Business Days' written notice) of the office or offices through which it will perform its obligations under this Agreement.
"Fallback Interest Payment" means the aggregate amount of interest that is, or is scheduled to become, payable under paragraph (d) of Clause 7.10 (Unavailability of Term SOFR) and relates to a Term SOFR Loan.
"FATCA" means:
sections 1471 to 1474 of the Code or any associated regulations or other official guidance; |
any treaty, law, regulation or other official guidance enacted in any other jurisdiction, or relating to an intergovernmental agreement between the US and any other jurisdiction, which (in either case) facilitates the implementation of paragraph (a) above; or |
any agreement pursuant to the implementation of paragraphs (a) or (b) above with the US Internal Revenue Service, the US government or any governmental or taxation authority in any other jurisdiction. |
"FATCA Application Date" means:
in relation to a "withholdable payment" described in section 1473(1)(A)(i) of the Code (which relates to payments of interest and certain other payments from sources within the US), 1 July 2014; |
in relation to a "withholdable payment" described in section 1473(1)(A)(ii) of the Code (which relates to "gross proceeds" from the disposition of property of a type that can produce interest from sources within the US), 1 January 2017; or |
in relation to a "passthru payment" described in section 1471(d)(7) of the Code not falling within paragraphs (a) or (b) above, 1 January 2017, |
or, in each case, such other date from which such payment may become subject to a deduction or withholding required by FATCA as a result of any change in FATCA after the date of the Original Facility Agreement.
"FATCA Deduction" means a deduction or withholding from a payment under a Finance Document required by FATCA.
"FATCA Exempt Party" means a Party that is entitled to receive payments free from any FATCA Deduction.
"February 2021 Effective Date" has the meaning given to the term Effective Date in the 2021 Amendment and Restatement Agreement.
"Final Contract Price" has the meaning given in Recital (C).
the 2020 Amendment this Agreement; |
(b) |
the Deferral Fee Letters; |
the December 2021 Amendment Agreement; |
the December 2022 Amendment Agreement; |
the 2023 Amendment and Restatement Agreement; |
the December 2021 Fee Letters; |
the Deferral Fee Letters; |
the December 2022 Fee Letters; |
(e)the Approved Manager's Undertaking; |
(f)any External Management Agreement Assignment; |
(g)the Guarantee; |
(h)the Letter of Credit; |
(i)the Mortgage; |
(j)the Mortgage Addenda; |
(k)the Limited Liability Company Interests Security Deed; |
(l)the Post-Delivery Assignment; |
(m)the SACE Reimbursement Agreement; |
(n)the Supplemental Security Documents; |
(o)any Time Charter Assignment; |
(p)any Transfer Certificate; |
(q)the Tripartite General Assignment; and |
(r)any other document (whether creating a Security Interest or not) which is designated as a Finance Document by agreement between the Borrower and the Agent or which is executed at any time by the Borrower or any other person as security for, or to establish any form of subordination or priorities arrangement in relation to, any amount payable to the Lenders under this Agreement or any of the other documents referred to in this definition. |
"Financial Indebtedness" means, in relation to a person (the "debtor"), a liability of the debtor:
for principal, interest or any other sum payable in respect of any moneys borrowed or raised by the debtor; |
under any loan stock, bond, note or other security issued by the debtor; |
under any acceptance credit, guarantee or letter of credit facility made available to the debtor; |
under a financial lease, a deferred purchase consideration arrangement or any other agreement having the commercial effect of a borrowing or raising of money by the debtor; |
under any foreign exchange transaction, any interest or currency swap or any other kind of derivative transaction entered into by the debtor or, if the agreement under which any such transaction is entered into requires netting of mutual liabilities, the liability of the debtor for the net amount; or |
under a guarantee, indemnity or similar obligation entered into by the debtor in respect of a liability of another person which would fall within paragraphs (a) to (e) if the references to the debtor referred to the other person; |
"Fixed Interest Rate" means CIRR.
"Floating Interest Rate" means, in respect of any Interest Period, the rate per annum determined by the Agent to be the aggregate of::
in relation to each LIBOR Loan, the percentage rate per annum which is the aggregate of: |
(a)the Margin; and |
LIBOR for the relevant period. |
LIBOR. |
in relation to each Term SOFR Loan, the percentage rate per annum which is the aggregate of: |
the Margin; |
Term SOFR Reference Rate; and |
Credit Adjustment Spread. |
"FOREX Contracts" means each actual purchase contract, spot or forward contract and any other contract, such as an option or collar arrangement, which is entered into in the foreign exchange markets for the acquisition of Euro intended to pay the delivery instalment under the Shipbuilding Contract, which:-
matures not later than the Intended Delivery Date, provided that option arrangements may mature up to one month after such date if at the time they are entered into there exists a reasonable uncertainty as to the date on which the Ship will be delivered; |
is entered into by the Borrower or either Prior Guarantor (or, prior to the Effective Date, the Prior Guarantors) or a combination of the foregoing not later than two (2) days before the Conversion Rate Fixing Date so that the Borrower, directly or through a Prior Guarantor, purchases or may purchase Euro with Dollars at a pre-agreed rate; and |
is notified to the Agent within ten (10) days of its execution but in any event no later than the day preceding the Conversion Rate Fixing Date, with a Certified Copy of each such contract being delivered to the Agent at such time; |
"FOREX Contracts Weighted Average Rate" means the rate determined by the Agent at around 12 noon (Paris time) on the Conversion Rate Fixing Date in accordance with the following principles which (inter alia) are intended to take into account any maturity mismatch between the maturity of the FOREX Contracts and the Intended Delivery Date as well as FOREX Contracts that are unwound as part of the hedging strategy of the Borrower:
FOREX Contracts that are spot or forward foreign exchange contracts, if any, shall be valued at the contract value (taking into account any rescheduling); |
any FOREX Contract which is an option or collar arrangement and is not unwound at the Conversion Rate Fixing Date will be marked to market and the resulting profit or loss shall reduce or increase the Dollar countervalue of the purchased Euro; |
any FOREX Contract which is an option or collar arrangement and is sold or purchased back at the time FOREX Contract(s) are entered into for an identical Euro amount shall be accounted for the net premium cost or profit, as the case may be. |
Any marked to market valuation, as required in (iii), shall be performed by Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank's dedicated desk in accordance with market practices. The Borrower shall have the right to request indicative valuations from time to time prior to the Conversion Rate Fixing Date.
"Framework Agreement" has the meaning given to such term in Recital (F).
"Funding Rate" means any individual rate notified by a Lender to the Agent pursuant to sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (e) of Clause 6.10 7.12 (Cost of funds).
"GAAP" means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America consistently applied (or, if not consistently applied, accompanied by details of the inconsistencies) including, without limitation, those set forth in the opinion 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.
"German Blocking Provisions" means section 7 of the German Foreign Trade Regulation (AWV) (Außenwirtschaftsverordnung) (in connection with section 4 paragraph 1 a no. 3 German Foreign Trade Law (AWG) (Außenwirtschaftsgesetz)).
"Group" means the Guarantor and its subsidiaries.
"Guarantee" means the Original Guarantee, as amended pursuant to the 2020 Amendment Agreement and , as amended and restated pursuant to the 2021 Amendment and Restatement Agreement , as amended pursuant to the December 2021 Amendment Agreement, as further amended pursuant to the December 2022 Amendment Agreement and as further amended and restated by the 2023 Amendment and Restatement Agreement, and as may be further amended and/or supplemented from time to time.
"Guarantor" means NCL Corporation Ltd., a Bermuda company with its registered office at Park Place 55, 55 Par-la-Ville Road, Hamilton HM 11, Bermuda.
"Historic Term SOFR" means, in relation to any Term SOFR Loan, the most recent applicable Term SOFR for a period equal in length to the Interest Period of that Term SOFR Loan and which is as of a day which is no more than five US Government Securities Business Days before the Quotation Day.
"Holding" means Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd., a company incorporated under the laws of Bermuda with its registered office at Park Place 55, 55 Par-la-Ville Road, Hamilton HM 11, Bermuda.
"IAPPC" means a valid international air pollution prevention certificate for the Ship issued under Annex VI.
"Illicit Origin" means any origin which is illicit, fraudulent or in breach of Sanctions including, without limitation, drug trafficking, corruption, organised criminal activities, terrorism, money laundering or fraud.
the information package in connection with the "Debt Holiday" application in the form set out in Schedule 4 (Information Package) of the 2020 Amendment Agreement, |
submitted by the Borrower (or the Guarantor on its behalf) in order to obtain the benefit of the measures provided for in the Original Principles; and
"Initial Contract Price" has the meaning given in Recital (B).
all policies and contracts of insurance, including entries of the Ship in any protection and indemnity or war risks association, which are effected in respect of the Ship, its Earnings or otherwise in relation to it; and |
all rights and other assets relating to, or derived from, any of the foregoing, including any rights to a return of a premium. |
"Intended Delivery Date" means 30 July 2011 (the date on which the Ship will be ready for delivery pursuant to the Shipbuilding Contract as at the date of the Original Facility Agreement) or any other date notified by the Borrower to the Agent in accordance with paragraph (a) of Clauses 3.5 (No later than sixty (60) days before the Intended Delivery Date) or paragraph (c) of Clause 3.7 (No later than five (5) Business Days before the Intended Delivery Date) as being the date on which the Builder and the Borrower have agreed that the Ship will be ready for delivery pursuant to the Shipbuilding Contract.
"Interest Make-up Agreement" means an agreement to be entered into between SIMEST and the Agent on behalf of the Lenders, in form and substance acceptable to the Mandated Lead Arrangers, whereby, inter alia, the return to the Lenders on the Loan made hereunder will be supplemented by SIMEST so that it equals that which the Lenders would have received if interest were payable on the Loan at LIBOR plus the Margin.
"Interest Period" means a period determined in accordance with Clause 7 8 (Interest Periods).
"Interpolated Screen RateHistoric Term SOFR" means, in relation to the Loan or any part of the Term SOFR Loan, the rate (rounded to the same number of decimal places as Term SOFR) which results from interpolating on a linear basis between:
either: |
if no such Term SOFR is available for a period which is less than the Interest Period of that Term SOFR Loan, the most recent SOFR for a day which is no more than five US Government Securities Business Days (and no less than two US Government Securities Business Days) before the Quotation Day; and |
the most recent applicable Term SOFR (as of a day which is not more than five US Government Securities Business Days before the Quotation Day) for the shortest period (for which Term SOFR is available) which exceeds the Interest Period of that Term SOFR Loan. |
"Interpolated Screen Rate" means, in relation to any LIBOR Loan, the rate (rounded to the same number of decimal places as the two relevant Screen Rates) which results from interpolating on a linear basis between:
the applicable Screen Rate for the longest period (for which that Screen Rate is available) which is less than the Interest Period of that LIBOR Loan; and |
the applicable Screen Rate for the shortest period (for which that Screen Rate is available) which exceeds the Interest Period of the Loan or that part of the LIBOR Loan, |
each as of the Specified Time for Dollars..
"Interpolated Term SOFR" means, in relation to any Term SOFR Loan, the rate (rounded to the same number of decimal places as Term SOFR) which results from interpolating on a linear basis between:
either: |
the applicable Term SOFR (as of the Quotation Day) for the longest period (for which Term SOFR is available) which is less than the Interest Period of that Term SOFR Loan; or |
if no such Term SOFR is available for a period which is less than the Interest Period of that Term SOFR Loan, SOFR for the day which is five (5) US Government Securities Business Days before the Quotation Day; and |
the applicable Term SOFR (as of the Quotation Day) for the shortest period (for which Term SOFR is available) which exceeds the Interest Period of that Term SOFR Loan. |
"ISM Code" means the International Safety Management Code (including the guidelines on its implementation), adopted by the International Maritime Organisation Assembly as Resolutions A.741 (18) and A.788 (19), as the same may be amended or supplemented from time to time (and the terms "safety management system", "Safety Management Certificate" and "Document of Compliance" have the same meanings as are given to them in the ISM Code).
"ISPS Code" means the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code adopted by the International Maritime Organisation.
"Italian Authorities" means SACE and/or SIMEST and any other relevant Italian authorities involved in the implementation of the Loan.
"Lender" means a bank or financial institution listed in Schedule 1 (Lenders and Commitments) and acting through its Facility Office or its transferee, successor or assign.
"Letter of Credit" means a letter of credit issued by the Letter of Credit Issuer in favour of the Agent and released on 16 May 2014.
"Letter of Credit Amount" means the face amount of the Letter of Credit.
"Letter of Credit Issue Date" means the date falling fifteen (15) Business Days prior to the Intended Delivery Date.
"Letter of Credit Issuer" means Lehman Brothers Bank, Federal Savings Bank, a company incorporated in Delaware or any other financial institution acceptable to the Agent.
"Letter of Credit Reduction" means USD50,000,000 less the aggregate of:
the Letter of Credit Amount; and |
the cumulative amount of all drawings in respect of the Builder Letter of Credit on or prior to the earlier of: |
the date of issue of the Letter of Credit; and |
the Letter of Credit Issue Date; |
"Limited Liability Company Interests Security Deed" means a security pledge in relation to the limited liability company interests of the Borrower executed or to be executed by Oceania Cruises in favour of the Agent, the SACE Agent and the Lenders in the agreed form.
"LIBOR" means, in relation to the Loan or any part of the LIBOR Loan:
the applicable Screen Rate as of the Specified Time for Dollars dollars and for a period equal in length to the Interest Period of the Loan or that part of the LIBOR Loan; or |
as otherwise determined pursuant to Clause 6.7 7.8 (Unavailability of Screen Rate before Rate Switch Date), |
and if, in either case, that rate is less than zero, LIBOR shall be deemed to be zero.
"LIBOR Loan" means the Loan, any Deferral Tranche, any other part of the Loan or, if applicable, Unpaid Sum to which the Floating Interest Rate applies and which is not a Term SOFR Loan.
"Loan" means the loan made or to be made available under this Agreement (including under the Deferral Tranches) or the principal amount outstanding for the time being of that loan.
before the Loan has been made, Lenders whose Commitments total [*] per cent. of the Total Commitments; and |
after the Loan has been made, Lenders whose Contributions total [*] per cent. of the Loan. |
"Margin" means zero point fifty -five per cent. per annum (0.55% p.a.), save for the 2021 Deferral Tranche in respect of which it shall mean zero point seventy -five per cent. per annum (0.75% p.a.).
"Marina Facility Agreement" means, in respect of m.v. MARINA, a facility agreement originally dated 18 July 2008 (as amended by a supplemental agreement dated 25 October 2010, as
further amended and restated by an amendment and restatement agreement dated 31 October 2014, as amended by a supplemental agreement dated 4 June 2020, as further amended and restated by an amendment and restatement agreement dated 17 February 2021, as further amended by a supplemental agreement dated 23 December 2021 and as further amended by a supplemental agreement dated 16 December 2022), as further amended, restated and supplemented from time to time.
"Maritime Registry" means the maritime registry which the Borrower will specify to the Lenders no later than three (3) months before the Intended Delivery Date, being that of the Marshall Islands or such other registry as the Agent may, with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, approve.
"Market Disruption Rate" means the percentage rate per annum which is the aggregate of the Term SOFR Reference Rate and the applicable Credit Adjustment Spread.
"Maximum Loan Amount" means the aggregate of:
the Dollar Equivalent of Euro 334,590,328.80; |
100% of the Second Instalment of the SACE Premium payable on the original Drawdown Date, |
with (X) the Loan currently outstanding (including the drawn part of the 2020 Deferral Tranche and the 2021 Deferral Tranche) on the February 2021 Deferral Effective Date being equal to $ 203,032,583.10 and (Y) an amount equal to $ 56,372,560.68 under the 2021 Deferral Tranche being available for utilisation, to be made (or deemed to be made) available as provided for in this Agreement.
"Mortgage" means the Original Mortgage, as amended pursuant to both Mortgage Addenda and as may be further amended and/or supplemented from time to time.
the addendum to the Original Mortgage executed pursuant to the 2020 Amendment Agreement on 4 June 2020; and |
the addendum to the Original Mortgage executed pursuant to the 2021 Amendment and Restatement Agreement; and |
"Obligors" means the Borrower, the Guarantor, Oceania Cruises and (in the event that the Approved Manager is a member of the Group) the Approved Manager.
"OFAC" means the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Department of the Treasury.
"Oceania Cruises" means Oceania Cruises S. De de R.L., a Panamanian sociedad de responsabilidad limitada domiciled in Panama whose resident agent is at Arifa Building, West Boulevard, Santa Maria Business District, Panama, Republic of Panama.
"Oceania Cruises Guarantee" means a guarantee issued as provided in Clause 3.2 (No later than the date of the Original Facility Agreement) by Oceania Cruises in favour of the Agent, the SACE Agent and the Lenders and terminated on the Effective Date.
"Original Facility Agreement" has the meaning given to such term in Recital (D).
"Original Guarantee" means the guarantee originally dated 31 October 2014 granted by the Guarantor in favour of, among others, the Agent.
"Original Mortgage" means the first preferred Marshall Islands mortgage on the Ship executed by the Borrower in favour of, among others, the Agent dated 19 January 2011.
"Original Principles" has the meaning given in Recital (G).
"Other Loan Agreement" means the loan agreement between Marina New Build, LLC and the parties to this Agreement (other than the Borrower) (as previously amended by a supplemental agreement dated 25 October 2010, as amended and restated by an amendment and restatement agreement dated 31 October 2014, as further amended by a supplemental agreement dated 4 June 2020 and , as further amended and restated by an amendment and restatement agreement dated on or about the date of the 2021 Amendment and Restatement Agreement, as further amended by a supplemental agreement dated 23 December 2021 and as further amended by a supplemental agreement dated 16 December 2022).
"Other Ship" means the passenger cruise ship defined as the "Ship" in the Other Loan Agreement.
"Overnight LIBOR" means, in relation to the Loan or any part of the LIBOR Loan:
on any date, the applicable day to day Screen Rate as of the Specified Time for Dollars; or |
as otherwise determined pursuant to Clause 6.7 7.8 (Unavailability of Screen Rate before Rate Switch Date), |
and if, in either case, that rate is less than zero, Overnight LIBOR shall be deemed to be zero.
"Participating Member State" means any member state of the European Union that adopts or has adopted the euro as its lawful currency in accordance with legislation of the European Union relating to Economic and Monetary Union.
"Party" means a party to this Agreement from time to time.
"Permitted Financial Indebtedness" means any Financial Indebtedness:
(a) | incurred under the Finance Documents; or |
(b) | permitted pursuant to Clause 13.13 14.13 (Financial Indebtedness and subordination of indebtedness). |
"Permitted Security Interests" means:
in the case of the Borrower: |
any of the Security Interests referred to in paragraph (A) below, and |
in the case of the Guarantor: |
any of the Security Interests referred to in paragraphs (A), (D), (F) and (G) below, and |
liens on the Ship up to an aggregate amount at any time not exceeding [*] Dollars ($[*]) for current crew's wages and salvage and liens incurred in the ordinary course of trading the Ship; |
other liens arising in the ordinary course of business of the Group unrelated to Financial Indebtedness and securing obligations not yet |
delinquent or which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which adequate reserves have been established provided that (i) the aggregate amount of all cash and the fair market value of all other property subject to such liens as are described in this paragraph (F) does not exceed [*] Dollars ($[*]) and (ii) such cash and/or other property is not an asset of the Borrower;
liens in favour of credit card companies on unearned customer deposits pursuant to agreements therewith; and |
liens in favour of customers on unearned customer deposits. |
any Finance Document; |
any policy or contract of insurance contemplated by or referred to in Clause 13 14 (Undertakings) or any other provision of this Agreement or another Finance Document; |
any other document contemplated by or referred to in any Finance Document; and |
any document which has been or is at any time sent by or to the Agent in contemplation of or in connection with any Finance Document or any policy, contract or document falling within paragraphs (b) or (c). |
any transaction or matter contemplated by, arising out of, or in connection with a Pertinent Document; or |
any statement relating to a Pertinent Document or to a transaction or matter falling within paragraph (a); |
and covers any such transaction, matter or statement, whether entered into, arising or made at any time before the signing of this Agreement or on or at any time after that signing.
"Poseidon Principles" means the financial industry framework for assessing and disclosing the climate alignment of ship finance portfolios published in June 2019 as the same may be amended or replaced to reflect changes in applicable law or regulation or the introduction of or changes to mandatory requirements of the International Maritime Organisation from time to time.
"Post-Delivery Assignment" means an assignment of the rights of the Borrower in respect of the post-delivery guarantee liability of the Builder under Article 25 of the Shipbuilding Contract executed or to be executed by the Borrower in favour of the Agent, the SACE Agent and the Lenders in the agreed form.
"Prestige Holdings" means Prestige Cruise Holdings Inc. a Panamanian sociedad anonima domiciled in Panama whose resident agent is Arias, Fabrega & Fabrega at Plaza 2000 Building, 16th Floor, 50th Street, Panama, Republic of Panama.
"Prestige Holdings Guarantee" means a guarantee issued as provided in Clause 3.2 (No later than the date of the Original Facility Agreement) by Prestige Holdings in favour of the Agent, the SACE Agent and the Lenders and terminated on the Effective Date.
"Principles" has the meaning given in Recital (I).
"Prior Guarantees" means the Oceania Cruises Guarantee and the Prestige Holdings Guarantee.
"Prior Guarantors" means Oceania Cruises and Prestige Holdings.
any offer, gift, payment, promise to pay, commission, fee, loan or other consideration which would constitute bribery or an improper gift or payment under, or a breach of Sanctions or any laws of the Republic of Italy, England and Wales, Panama, the United States of America or any other applicable jurisdiction; or |
any offer, gift, payment, promise to pay, commission, fee, loan or other consideration which would or might constitute bribery within the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions of 17 December 1997. |
"Prohibited Person" means any person (whether designated by name or by reason of being included in a class of persons) against whom Sanctions are directed.
"Protocol of Delivery and Acceptance" means the protocol of delivery and acceptance of the Ship to be signed by the Borrower and the Builder in accordance with Article 8 of the Shipbuilding Contract.
"Quotation Day" means in relation to any period for which an interest rate is to be determined two Business Days before the first day of that period unless market practice differs in the Relevant Interbank Market in which case the Quotation Day will be determined by the Agent in accordance with market practice in the Relevant Interbank Market (and if quotations would normally be given by leading banks in the Relevant Interbank Market on more than one day, the Quotation Day will be the last of those days).:
"Quoted Tenor" means any period for which:
in relation to a LIBOR Loan, the Screen Rate is customarily displayed on the relevant page or screen of an information service (other than for one week and two months); and |
in relation to a Term SOFR Loan, Term SOFR is customarily displayed on the relevant page or screen of an information service. |
"Rate Switch Date" means the earlier of:
(a) the Backstop Rate Switch Date; and
(b) any Rate Switch Trigger Event Date.
"Rate Switch Trigger Event" means:
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the administrator of the Screen Rate or its supervisor publicly announces that such administrator is insolvent; or |
provided that, in each case, at that time, there is no successor administrator to continue to provide the Screen Rate;
the supervisor of the administrator of the Screen Rate publicly announces that the Screen Rate has been or will be permanently or indefinitely discontinued for any Quoted Tenor; or |
the administrator of the Screen Rate or its supervisor publicly announces that the Screen Rate for any Quoted Tenor may no longer be used; or |
the supervisor of the administrator of the Screen Rate publicly announces or publishes information: |
stating that the Screen Rate for any Quoted Tenor is no longer, or as of a specified future date will no longer be, |
representative of the underlying market and the economic reality that it is intended to measure and that such representativeness will not be restored (as determined by such supervisor); and
with awareness that any such announcement or publication will engage certain triggers for fallback provisions in contracts which may be activated by any such pre-cessation announcement or publication. |
"Rate Switch Trigger Event Date" means:
in the case of an occurrence of a Rate Switch Trigger Event described in sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph (1) of the definition of Rate Switch Trigger Event, the date on which the Screen Rate ceases to be published or otherwise becomes unavailable; |
in the case of an occurrence of a Rate Switch Trigger Event described in sub-paragraph (2), (3) or (4) of paragraph (1) of the definition of Rate Switch Trigger Event, the date on which the Screen Rate for the relevant Quoted Tenor ceases to be published or otherwise becomes unavailable; and |
in the case of an occurrence of a Rate Switch Trigger Event described in paragraph (2) of the definition of Rate Switch Trigger Event, the date on which the Screen Rate for the relevant Quoted Tenor ceases to be representative of the underlying market and the economic reality that it is intended to measure (as determined by the supervisor of the administrator of such Screen Rate). |
"Reference Bank Quotation" means any quotation supplied to the Agent by a Reference Bank.
"Reference Bank Rate" means the arithmetic mean of the rates (rounded upwards to four decimal places) as supplied to the Agent at its request by the Reference Banks:
if: |
the Reference Bank is a contributor to the Screen Rate; and |
it consists of a single figure, |
as the rate (applied to the relevant Reference Bank and the relevant currency and period) which contributors to the Screen Rate are asked to submit to the relevant administrator; or
in any other case, as the rate at which the relevant Reference Bank could fund itself in Dollars for the relevant period with reference to the unsecured wholesale funding market. |
"Reference Banks" means such entities as may be appointed by the Agent in consultation with the Borrower.
in relation to this Agreement (as further amended, restated and supplemented from time to time), 19 January 2027; |
in relation to the Riviera Facility Agreement, 27 October 2026; |
in relation to the Seven Seas Explorer Facility Agreement, 31 December 2026; and |
in relation to the Seven Seas Splendor Facility Agreement, 29 January 2027. |
"Reinstatement Event" means the final Reinstatement Date or any date when all Deferral Tranches under the Delivered Vessel Facilities (as defined therein) are repaid or prepaid in full.
"Relevant Interbank Market" means the London interbank market.:
subject to paragraph (b) below, the London interbank market; and |
on or after the Rate Switch Date, the market for overnight cash borrowing collateralised by US Government securities. |
"Relevant Nominating Body" means any applicable central bank, regulator or other supervisory authority or a group of them, or any working group or committee sponsored or chaired by, or constituted at the request of, any of them or the Financial Stability Board.
"Repayment Date" means a date on which a repayment is required to be made under Clause 5 (Repayment).
"Replacement Benchmark" means a benchmark rate which is:
formally designated, nominated or recommended as the replacement for a Screen Rate by: |
(i) | the administrator of that Screen Rate (provided that the market or economic reality that such benchmark rate measures is the same as that measured by that Screen Rate); or |
any Relevant Nominating Body, |
and if replacements have, at the relevant time, been formally designated, nominated or recommended under both paragraphs, the "Replacement Benchmark" will be the replacement under paragraph (ii) above;
in the opinion of the Majority Lenders and the Borrower, generally accepted in the international or any relevant domestic syndicated loan markets as the appropriate successor to a Screen Rate; or |
(c)in the opinion of the Majority Lenders and the Borrower, an appropriate successor to a Screen Rate.
"Requisition Compensation" includes all compensation or other moneys payable by reason of any act or event such as is referred to in paragraph (b) of the definition of "Total Loss".
"Resolution Authority" means any body which has authority to exercise any Write-down and Conversion Powers.
"Restricted Creditor Party" means a Creditor Party which serves a notice pursuant to paragraph (b) of Clause 1.5 (Non-applicable provisions between the Obligors, German Lenders and any Creditor Party subject to the EU Blocking Regulation).
"Riviera Facility Agreement" means, in respect of m.v. RIVIERA, a facility agreement originally dated 18 July 2008 (as amended by a supplemental agreement dated 25 October 2010, as amended by a side letter dated 29 March 2012, as amended and restated by an amendment and restatement agreement dated 31 October 2014, as amended by a framework agreement dated 31 January 2018, as amended by a supplemental agreement dated 4 June 2020, as further amended and restated by an amendment and restatement agreement dated 17 February 2021, as further amended by a supplemental agreement dated 23 December 2021 and as further amended by a supplemental agreement dated 16 December 2022), as further amended, restated and supplemented from time to time.
"SACE" means SACE S.p.A., an Italian joint stock company (società per azioni) with a sole shareholder, whose registered office is located at Piazza Poli 37/42, 00187 Rome, Italy and registered with the Companies Registry of Rome under number 05804521002.
"SACE Agent" means Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, a French "société anonyme", having a share capital of EUR 7,851,636,342.00 and its registered office located at 12 Place des États-Unis, CS 70052 92547, Montrouge Cedex, France, registered under the n° Siren 304 187 701 at the Registre du Commerce et des Sociétés of Nanterre or any successor of it appointed under Clause 25 26 (Role of the Agent and the Mandated Lead Arrangers).
"SACE Insurance Policy" means the insurance policy (as amended and supplemented from time to time) in respect of this Agreement issued by SACE for the benefit of the Lenders, in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent.
"SACE Premium" means the amount payable by the Borrower to SACE through the Agent in several instalments in respect of the SACE Insurance Policy as set out in Clause 9 10 (SACE Premium and Italian Authorities) including the Deferral Tranche Premia (provided, for the avoidance of doubt, that the 2021 Deferral Tranche Premium shall not be financed).
"SACE Reimbursement Agreement" means the reimbursement agreement entered into on or before the Effective Date, as the context may require, between the Borrower, the Guarantor, the Lenders, the Agent, the SACE Agent and SACE.
"Safety Management Certificate" has the meaning given to it in the ISM Code.
"Sanctions" means any sanctions, embargoes, freezing provisions, prohibitions or other restrictions relating to trading, doing business, investment, exporting, financing or making assets available (or other activities similar to or connected with any of the foregoing):
imposed by law or regulation of the United Kingdom, the Council of the European Union, the United Nations or its Security Council or imposed by any member state of the European Union or Switzerland; |
imposed by CISADA or OFAC; or |
otherwise imposed by any law or regulation, |
by which any Obligor is bound or to which it is subject or, as regards a regulation, compliance with which is reasonable in the ordinary course of business of any Obligor.
"Screen Rate" means the London interbank offered rate administered by ICE Benchmark Administration Limited (or any other person which takes over the administration of that rate) for Dollars for the relevant period displayed (before any correction, recalculation or republication by the administrator) on page LIBOR01 of the Thomson Reuters screen (or any replacement Thomson Reuters page which displays that rate) or on the appropriate page of such other information service which publishes that rate from time to time in place of Thomson Reuters. If such page or service ceases to be available, the Agent may specify another page or service displaying the relevant rate after consultation with the Borrower.
"Screen Rate Contingency Period" means fifteen (15) Business Days.
"Screen Rate Replacement Event" means, in relation to a Screen Rate:
the methodology, formula or other means of determining that Screen Rate has, in the opinion of the Majority Lenders and the Borrower materially changed; |
(i)
the administrator of that Screen Rate or its supervisor publicly announces that such administrator is insolvent; or |
provided that, in each case, at that time, there is no successor administrator to continue to provide that Screen Rate; |
the supervisor of the administrator of that Screen Rate publicly announces that such Screen Rate has been or will be permanently or indefinitely discontinued; or |
(v) | the administrator of that Screen Rate or its supervisor announces that that Screen Rate may no longer be used; or |
the circumstance(s) or event(s) leading to such determination are not (in the opinion of the Majority Lenders and the Borrower) temporary; or |
that Screen Rate is calculated in accordance with any such policy or arrangement for a period no less than the Screen Rate Contingency Period; or |
(d)in the opinion of the Majority Lenders and the Borrower, that Screen Rate is otherwise no longer appropriate for the purposes of calculating interest under this Agreement.
"Second Supplemental Tripartite General Assignment" means second priority assignment, supplemental to the Tripartite General Assignment, as previously supplemented by the Supplemental Tripartite General Assignment, dated on or about the date of the 2021 Amendment and Restatement Agreement and made between the parties to the Tripartite General Assignment.
"Secured Liabilities" means all liabilities which the Borrower, the Obligors or any of them have, at the date of the Original Facility Agreement or at any later time or times, under or in connection with any Finance Document or any judgment relating to any Finance Document; and for this purpose, there shall be disregarded any total or partial discharge of these liabilities, or variation of their terms, which is effected by, or in connection with, any bankruptcy, liquidation, arrangement or other procedure under the insolvency laws of any country.
a mortgage, charge (whether fixed or floating) or pledge, any maritime or other lien or any other security interest of any kind; |
the security rights of a plaintiff under an action in rem; and |
"Security Period" means the period commencing on the date of the Original Facility Agreement and ending on the date on which:
all amounts which have become due for payment by the Borrower or any Obligor under the Finance Documents have been paid; |
no amount is owing or has accrued (without yet having become due for payment) under any Finance Document; |
the Agent and the Majority Lenders do not consider that there is a significant risk that any payment or transaction under a Finance Document would be set aside, or would have to be reversed or adjusted, in any present or possible future bankruptcy of the Borrower or an Obligor or in any present or possible future proceeding relating to a Finance Document or any asset covered (or previously covered) by a Security Interest created by a Finance Document. |
"Security Requirement" means the amount in Dollars (as certified by the Agent whose certificate shall, in the absence of manifest error, be conclusive and binding on the Borrower and the Agent) which is at any relevant time one hundred per cent (100%) of the Loan.
"Security Value" means the amount in Dollars (as certified by the Agent whose certificate shall, in the absence of manifest error, be conclusive and binding on the Borrower and the Agent) which, at any relevant time, is the aggregate of (i) the market value of the Ship as most recently determined in accordance with Clause 13.18 14.18 (Trading with the United States of America); and (ii) the market value of any additional security for the time being actually provided to the Agent pursuant to Clause 14 15 (Security Value Maintenance).
"Seven Seas Explorer Facility Agreement" means, in respect of m.v. SEVEN SEAS EXPLORER, a facility agreement originally dated 31 July 2013 (as amended and restated by an amendment and restatement agreement dated 31 October 2014, as amended by a supplemental agreement dated 4 June 2020, as further amended and restated pursuant to an amendment and restatement agreement dated 17 February 2021, as further amended by a supplemental agreement dated 23 December 2021 and as further amended by a supplemental agreement dated 16 December 2022), as further amended, restated and supplemented from time to time.
"Seven Seas Splendor Facility Agreement" means, in respect of m.v. SEVEN SEAS SPLENDOR, a facility agreement originally dated 30 March 2016 (as amended by a supplemental agreement dated 4 June 2020, as further amended and restated pursuant to an amendment and restatement agreement dated 17 February 2021, as further amended by a supplemental agreement dated 23 December 2021 and as further amended by a supplemental agreement dated 16 December 2022), as further amended, restated and supplemented from time to time.
"Ship" means the passenger cruise ship "Riviera" (ex. Hull number [*]) in the registered ownership of the Borrower under the Marshall Islands maritime registry (official no. 4353).
"Shipbuilding Contract" has the meaning given in Recital (A).
"SIMEST" means Società Italiana per Le Imprese all'Estero - SIMEST Spa, which grants export subsidies in Italy under and according to the Italian Legislative Decree n. 143/98 and its amendments.
"SOFR" means the secured overnight financing rate (SOFR) administered by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or any other person which takes over the administration of that rate) published (before any correction, recalculation or republication by the administrator) by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or any other person which takes over the publication of that rate).
"Specified Time" means a day or time determined in accordance with the following:
if LIBOR is fixed, the Quotation Day as of 11:00 am London time; and |
in relation to a Reference Bank Rate calculated by reference to the available quotations in accordance with Clause 6.8 7.9 (Calculation of Reference Bank Rate), noon on the Quotation Day. |
"Supplemental Security Document" means each of:
the Supplemental Tripartite General Assignment; |
the Second Supplemental Tripartite General Assignment; and |
the Mortgage Addenda. |
"Supplemental Tripartite General Assignment" means a second priority assignment, supplemental to the Tripartite General Assignment, dated 4 June 2020 and made between the parties to the Tripartite General Assignment.
"Taxes" means all present and future income and other taxes, levies, imposts, deductions, compulsory liens and withholdings whatsoever together with interest thereon and penalties with respect thereto, if any, and any payments made on or in respect thereof and "Taxation" shall be construed accordingly.
"Term and Revolving Credit Facilities" means the facilities granted pursuant to the credit agreement originally dated 24 May 2013 (as amended and restated from time to time) between, inter alios, the Guarantor and Voyager Vessel Company, LLC as borrowers, the lenders party thereto and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent and collateral agent.
"Term SOFR" means the term SOFR reference rate administered by CME Group Benchmark Administration Limited (or any other person which takes over the administration of that rate) for the relevant period published (before any correction, recalculation or republication by the administrator) by CME Group Benchmark Administration Limited (or any other person which takes over the publication of that rate).
"Term SOFR Loan" means the Loan, any Deferral Tranche, any other part of the Loan or, if applicable, Unpaid Sum to which the Floating Interest Rate applies and which is, or becomes, a "Term SOFR Loan" pursuant to Clause 6 (Rate Switch).
"Term SOFR Reference Rate" means, in relation to any Term SOFR Loan:
the applicable Term SOFR as of the Quotation Day and for a period equal in length to the Interest Period of that Term SOFR Loan; or |
as otherwise determined pursuant to Clause 7.10 (Unavailability of Term SOFR), |
and if, in either case, the aggregate of that rate and the applicable Credit Adjustment Spread is less than zero, the Term SOFR Reference Rate shall be deemed to be such a rate that the aggregate of the Term SOFR Reference Rate and the Credit Adjustment Spread is zero.
"Time Charter Assignment" means a deed creating security in respect of a time or consecutive voyage charter in respect of the Ship (including any guarantee in respect of the obligations of the charterer under the charter) executed by the Borrower in favour of the Agent, the SACE Agent and the Lenders pursuant to Clause 13.14 14.14 (Pooling of earnings and charters).
actual, constructive, compromised, agreed or arranged total loss of the Ship; |
any expropriation, confiscation, requisition or acquisition of the Ship, whether for full consideration, a consideration less than its proper value, a nominal consideration or without any consideration, which is effected by any government or official authority or by any person or persons claiming to be or to represent a government or official |
authority, (excluding a requisition for hire for a fixed period not exceeding 1 year without any right to an extension) unless it is within 1 month redelivered to the Borrower's full control;
any arrest, capture, seizure or detention of the Ship (including any hijacking or theft) unless it is within 1 month redelivered to the Borrower's full control. |
in the case of an actual loss of the Ship, the date on which it occurred or, if that is unknown, the date when the Ship was last heard of; |
in the case of a constructive, compromised, agreed or arranged total loss of the Ship, the earliest of: |
the date on which a notice of abandonment is given to the insurers; and |
the date of any compromise, arrangement or agreement made by or on behalf of the Borrower with the Ship's insurers in which the insurers agree to treat the Ship as a total lossTotal Loss; and |
"Transaction Documents" means the Finance Documents and the Underlying Documents.
"Tripartite General Assignment" means the tripartite general assignment dated 27 April 2012 and entered into between the Borrower, Oceania Cruises, the Lenders and the Agent, as supplemented (where the context requires) by the Supplemental General Assignment and the Second Supplemental General Assignment.
"Underlying Documents" means the Shipbuilding Contract, any External Management Agreement and any charter and associated guarantee in respect of which a Time Charter Assignment is, or by the terms of this Agreement is required to be, executed.
"UK Bail-In Legislation" means (to the extent that the United Kingdom is not an EEA Member Country which has implemented, or implements, Article 55 BRRD) Part 1 of the United Kingdom Banking Act 2009 and any other law or regulation applicable in the United Kingdom relating to the resolution of unsound or failing banks, investment firms or other financial institutes or their affiliates (otherwise than through liquidation, administration or other insolvency proceedings).
"Unpaid Sum" means any sum due and payable but unpaid by a Transaction Obligor under the Finance Documents.
"US" means the United States of America.
"US Government Securities Business Day" means any day other than:
a Saturday or a Sunday; and |
a day on which the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (or any successor organisation) recommends that the fixed income departments of its members be closed for the entire day for purposes of trading in US Government securities. |
"Write-down and Conversion Powers" means:
in relation to any Bail-In Legislation described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule from time to time, the powers described as such in relation to that Bail-In Legislation in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule; |
in relation to any other applicable Bail-In Legislation: |
any powers under that Bail-In Legislation to cancel, transfer or dilute shares issued by a person that is a bank or investment firm or other financial institution or affiliate of a bank, investment firm or other financial institution, to cancel, reduce, modify or change the form of a liability of such a person or any contract or instrument under which that liability arises, to convert all or part of that liability into shares, securities or obligations of that person or any other person, to provide that any such contract or instrument is to have effect as if a right had been exercised under it or to suspend any obligation in respect of that liability or any of the powers under that Bail-In Legislation that are related to or ancillary to any of those powers; and |
any similar or analogous powers under that Bail-In Legislation; and |
in relation to any UK Bail-In Legislation: |
any powers under that UK Bail-In Legislation to cancel, transfer or dilute shares issued by a person that is a bank or investment firm or other financial institution or affiliate of a bank, investment firm or other financial institution, to cancel, reduce, modify or change the form of a liability of such a person or any contract or instrument under which that liability arises, to convert all or part of that liability into shares, securities or obligations of that person or any other person, to provide that any such contract or instrument is to have effect as if a right had been exercised under it or to suspend any obligation in respect of that liability or any of the powers under that UK Bail-In Legislation that are related to or ancillary to any of those powers; and |
any similar or analogous powers under that UK Bail-In Legislation. |
Construction of certain terms |
In this Agreement:
"approved" means, for the purposes of Clause 13.20 14.20 (Valuation of the Ship), approved in writing by the Agent;
"asset" includes every kind of property, asset, interest or right, including any present, future or contingent right to any revenues or other payment;
"company" includes any partnership, joint venture and unincorporated association;
"consent" includes an authorisation, consent, approval, resolution, licence, exemption, filing, registration, notarisation and legalisation;
"contingent liability" means a liability which is not certain to arise and/or the amount of which remains unascertained;
"date of this Agreement" means ______ February 2021the 2023 Effective Date;
"document" includes a deed; also a letter or electronic mail;
"excess risks" means the proportion of claims for general average, salvage and salvage charges not recoverable under the hull and machinery policies in respect of the Ship in consequence of its insured value being less than the value at which the Ship is assessed for the purpose of such claims;
"expense" means any kind of cost, charge or expense (including all legal costs, charges and expenses) and any applicable value added or other tax;
a Lender's "cost of funds" in relation to its participation in the Loan or any part of the Loan is a reference to the average cost (determined either on an actual or a notional basis) which that Lender would incur if it were to fund, from whatever source(s) it may reasonably select, an amount equal to the amount of that participation in the Loan or that part of the Loan for a period equal in length to the Interest Period of the Loan or that part of the Loan;
"law" includes any order or decree, any form of delegated legislation, any treaty or international convention and any regulation or resolution of the Council of the European Union, the European Commission, the United Nations or of its Security Council;
"legal or administrative action" means any legal proceeding or arbitration and any administrative or regulatory action or investigation;
"liability" includes every kind of debt or liability (present or future, certain or contingent), whether incurred as principal or surety or otherwise;
"months" shall be construed in accordance with Clause 1.3 (Meaning of "month");
"obligatory insurances" means all insurances effected, or which the Borrower is obliged to effect, under Clause 13.20 (Valuation of Ship14.22 (Insurances) or any other provision of this Agreement or another Finance Document;
"parent company" has the meaning given in Clause 1.4 (Meaning of "subsidiary");
"person" includes any company; any state, political sub-division of a state and local or municipal authority; and any international organisation;
"policy", in relation to any insurance, includes a slip, cover note, certificate of entry or other document evidencing the contract of insurance or its terms;
"protection and indemnity risks" means the usual risks covered by a protection and indemnity association managed in London, including pollution risks and the proportion (if any) of any sums payable to any other person or persons in case of collision which are not recoverable under the hull and machinery policies by reason of the incorporation in them of Clause 1 of the Institute Time Clauses (Hulls)(1/10/83) or Clause 8 of the Institute Time Clauses (Hulls)
(1/11/1995) or the Institute Amended Running Down Clause (1/10/71) or any equivalent provision;
"regulation" includes any regulation, rule, official directive, request or guideline whether or not having the force of law of any governmental, intergovernmental or supranational body, agency, department or regulatory, self-regulatory or other authority or organisation;
"subsidiary" has the meaning given in Clause 1.4 (Meaning of "subsidiary");
"tax" includes any present or future tax, duty, impost, levy or charge of any kind which is imposed by any state, any political sub-division of a state or any local or municipal authority (including any such imposed in connection with exchange controls), and any connected penalty, interest or fine; and
"war risks" includes the risk of mines and all risks excluded by Clause 23 of the Institute Time Clauses (Hulls)(1/10/83) or Clause 24 of the Institute Time Clauses (Hulls) (1/11/1995).
Meaning of "month" |
A period of one or more "months" ends on the day in the relevant calendar month numerically corresponding to the day of the calendar month on which the period started ("the numerically corresponding day"), but:
on the Business Day following the numerically corresponding day if the numerically corresponding day is not a Business Day or, if there is no later Business Day in the same calendar month, on the Business Day preceding the numerically corresponding day; or |
on the last Business Day in the relevant calendar month, if the period started on the last Business Day in a calendar month or if the last calendar month of the period has no numerically corresponding day; |
and "month" and "monthly" shall be construed accordingly.
Meaning of "subsidiary" |
A company (S) is a subsidiary of another company (P) if:
a majority of the issued shares in S (or a majority of the issued shares in S which carry unlimited rights to capital and income distributions) are directly owned by P or are indirectly attributable to P; or |
P has direct or indirect control over a majority of the voting rights attaching to the issued shares of S; or |
P has the direct or indirect power to appoint or remove a majority of the directors of S; or |
P otherwise has the direct or indirect power to ensure that the affairs of S are conducted in accordance with the wishes of P; |
and any company of which S is a subsidiary is a parent company of S.
Non-applicable provisions between the Obligors, German Lenders and any Creditor Party subject to the EU Blocking Regulation. |
A Creditor Party (other than a Creditor Party incorporated in the Federal Republic of Germany) that is subject to the EU Blocking Regulation or any similar applicable anti-boycott law or regulation may notify the Agent in writing that it elects that any Sanctions Provisions shall only enure to the benefit of, and be applicable to, that Creditor Party to the extent that such provisions would not result in any violation of, conflict with or liability under the EU Blocking Regulation or any similar applicable anti-boycott law or regulation. |
(c) | If a Creditor Party elects to be a Restricted Creditor Party pursuant to the foregoing paragraph (b), in respect of any proposed requirement to comply, enforcement, waiver, non-waiver, consent, variation or amendment of or in relation to a Finance Document relating to any Sanctions Provision (a "Relevant Action"), the Restricted Creditor Party shall notify the Agent in writing whether or not it shall be deemed to be a Lender for the purposes of ascertaining whether the agreement of any specified group of Lenders has been obtained to approve the Relevant Action and upon receipt by the Agent of such notice such Restricted Creditor Party shall be so deemed for such purposes. |
1.6 | General Interpretation |
In this Agreement:
references in Clause 1.1 (Definitions) to a Finance Document or any other document being an "agreed form" are to the form agreed between the Agent (acting with the authorisation of each of the Creditor Parties) and the Borrower with any modifications to that form which the Agent (with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders in the case of substantial modifications) approves or reasonably requires; |
references to, or to a provision of, a Finance Document or any other document are references to it as amended, amended and restated, or supplemented, whether before the date of this Agreement or otherwise; |
references to, or to a provision of, any law or regulation include any amendment, extension, re-enactment or replacement, whether made before the date of this Agreement or otherwise; |
words denoting the singular number shall include the plural and vice versa; and |
Clauses 1.1 (Definitions) to 1.5 (General Interpretation) apply unless the contrary intention appears. |
Headings |
In interpreting a Finance Document or any provision of a Finance Document, all clauses, sub-clauses and other headings in that and any other Finance Document shall be entirely disregarded.
Effective Date |
This Agreement is effective from the 2021 Deferral 2023 Effective Date.
Facility |
Amount of facility |
Subject to the other provisions of this Agreement, the Lenders agree to make available to the Borrower a loan not exceeding the Maximum Loan Amount intended to be applied as follows:
in payment to the Builder of all or part of 80% of the Final Contract Price up to the Eligible Amount; and |
in reimbursement to the Agent on behalf of the Lenders of the amount of the second instalment of the SACE Premium payable by it to SACE on the Drawdown Date. |
Lenders' participations in Loan |
Subject to the other provisions of this Agreement, each Lender shall participate in the Loan in the proportion which, as at the Drawdown Date, its Commitment bears to the Total Commitments.
Purpose of Loan |
The Borrower undertakes with each Creditor Party to use the Loan only to pay for:
goods and services of Italian origin incorporated in the design, construction or delivery of the Ship; |
subject to the limits and conditions fixed by the Italian Authorities, goods and services incorporated in the design, construction or delivery of the Ship and originating from countries other than Italy where the provision of such goods or services has been sub-contracted by the Builder and therefore remains the Builder's responsibility under the Shipbuilding Contract; |
the second instalment of the SACE Premium payable on the Drawdown Date; and |
such purposes, relating to the 2020 Deferral Tranche and the 2021 Deferral Tranche, as specified in accordance with the 2020 Amendment Agreement and the 2021 Amendment and Restatement Agreement respectively. |
Proceedings by individual Lender requiring Majority Lender consent |
Except for the SACE Agent, no Lender may commence proceedings against the Borrower or any other Obligor in connection with a Finance Document without the prior consent of all the Lenders.
Obligations of Lenders several |
The obligations of the Lenders under this Agreement are several; and a failure of a Lender to perform its obligations under this Agreement shall not result in:
the obligations of the other Lenders being increased; nor |
any Obligor or any other Lender being discharged (in whole or in part) from its obligations under any Finance Document; |
and in no circumstances shall a Lender have any responsibility for a failure of another Lender to perform its obligations under this Agreement.
Conditions Precedent |
General |
The Borrower may only draw under the Loan when the following conditions have been fulfilled to the satisfaction of the Agent and provided no Event of Default shall have occurred and remains unremedied or is likely to occur as a consequence of the drawing of the Loan. This Clause 3 (Conditions Precedent) shall not apply to the 2020 Deferral Tranche or the 2021 Deferral Tranche, save for Clause 3.10 (Deferral Tranches).
No later than the date of the Original Facility Agreement |
The Agent shall have received no later than the date of the Original Facility Agreement:
an opinion from legal counsel to the Agent as to Marshall Islands law, together with the limited liability company documentation of the Borrower supporting the opinion, including but without limitation the Certificate of Formation and Limited Liability Company Agreement as filed with the competent authorities and a certificate of a competent officer or manager of the Borrower containing specimen signatures of the persons authorised to sign the documents on behalf of the Borrower, to the effect that: |
the Borrower has been duly formed and is validly existing as a limited liability company under the laws of the Republic of the Marshall Islands; |
the Original Facility Agreement falls within the scope of the Borrower's limited liability company purpose as defined by its Certificate of Formation and Limited Liability Company Agreement; |
the Borrower's representatives were at the date of the Original Facility Agreement fully empowered to sign the Original Facility Agreement; |
either all administrative requirements applicable to the Borrower (whether in the Republic of the Marshall Islands), concerning the transfer of funds abroad and acquisitions of Dollars to meet its obligations hereunder have been complied with, or that there are no such requirements; and |
the Original Facility Agreement constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligations of the Borrower enforceable in accordance with its terms, |
and containing such exceptions as are standard for opinions of this type;
an opinion from legal counsel to the Agent as to English law confirming that the obligations of the Borrower under the Original Facility Agreement are legally valid and binding obligations enforceable by the relevant Creditor Parties in the English courts; |
a Certified Copy of the executed Shipbuilding Contract; |
a confirmation from EC3 Services Limited that it will act for the Borrower as agent for service of process in England in respect of the Original Facility Agreement and any other Finance Document; |
an opinion from legal counsel to the Agent as to Panamanian law, together with the corporate documentation of each Prior Guarantor supporting the opinion, including but without limitation the Articles of Incorporation and By-laws as filed with the competent authorities and a certificate of a competent officer of each Prior Guarantor containing specimen signatures of the persons authorised to sign the documents on behalf of the Prior Guarantor, to the effect that: |
each Prior Guarantor has been duly organised and is validly existing and in good standing as a Panamanian sociedad anonima with its domicile in the Republic of Panama and its Resident Agent being (in the case of Prestige Holdings) Arias Fabrega & Fabrega with address at Plaza 2000 Building, 16th Floor, 50th Street, Panama and (in the case of Oceania Cruises) Marcela Rojas de Perez with address at 10 Elvira Mendez Street, Top Floor, Panama; |
each Prior Guarantee falls within the scope of the relevant Prior Guarantor's corporate purpose as defined by its Articles of Incorporation and By-laws; |
each Prior Guarantor's representative was at the date of the Prior Guarantee issued by it fully empowered to sign that Prior Guarantee; |
either all administrative requirements applicable to each Prior Guarantor (whether in the Republic of Panama) concerning the transfer of funds abroad and acquisitions of Dollars to meet its obligations under the Prior Guarantee issued by it have been complied with, or that there are no such requirements; |
each Prior Guarantee is the legal, valid and binding obligations of the Prior Guarantor which issued it enforceable in accordance with its terms; and |
none of the undertakings of either Prior Guarantor contained in either Prior Guarantee are contrary to public policy in the Republic of Panama, |
and containing such exceptions as are standard for opinions of this type;
duly executed originals of the Prior Guarantees; |
an opinion from legal counsel to the Agent as to English law confirming that the obligations of each Prior Guarantor under the Prior Guarantee issued by it are legally valid and binding obligations enforceable by the relevant Creditor Parties in the English courts; and |
confirmation from EC3 Services Limited that it will act for each Prior Guarantor as agent for service of process in England in respect of the Prior Guarantee issued by that Prior Guarantor and any other Finance Document. |
No later than ninety (90) days before the Intended Delivery Date |
The Agent shall have received no later than ninety (90) days before the Intended Delivery Date:
notification from the Borrower of its preferred Maritime Registry; |
the SACE Insurance Policy documentation relating to the transaction contemplated by the Original Facility Agreement issued on terms whereby the SACE Insurance Policy will enter into full force and effect upon fulfilment of the conditions specified therein to be fulfilled on or before the Drawdown Date; and |
notification of the Approved Manager. |
The Agent shall have received on the date falling ninety (90) days before the Intended Delivery Date and also on each subsequent date on which a Compliance Certificate (as defined in and is to be received by the Agent pursuant to) clause 11.3(e) of the Prestige Holdings Guarantee and clause 11.3(e) of the Oceania Cruises Guarantee a duly completed Compliance Certificate (as defined in each Prior Guarantee) from each Prior Guarantor;
No later than sixty (60) days before the Intended Delivery Date |
The Agent shall have received from the Borrower no later than sixty (60) days before the Intended Delivery Date:
notification of the Intended Delivery Date; |
notification, signed by a duly authorised signatory of the Borrower, specifying which of the Fixed Interest Rate or the Floating Interest Rate shall be applicable to the Loan until the date of payment of the final repayment instalment of the Loan; and in absence of any such notification, the Borrower shall be deemed to have opted for the Floating Interest Rate. |
No later than fifteen (15) Business Days before the Intended Delivery Date |
The Agent shall have received no later than fifteen (15) Business Days before the Intended Delivery Date insurance documents in form and substance satisfactory to the Lenders confirming that the Insurances have been effected and will be in full force and effect on the Delivery Date.
No later than five (5) Business Days before the Intended Delivery Date |
The Agent shall have received no later than five (5) Business Days before the Intended Delivery Date:
the Drawdown Notice from the Borrower, signed by a duly authorised signatory of the Borrower, specifying the amount of the Loan to be drawn down; |
a Certified Copy of each of the Change Orders, of any amendments to the Shipbuilding Contract and of the power of attorney pursuant to which the authorised signatory of the Borrower signed the Drawdown Notice and a specimen of his signature; and |
a final confirmation of the Intended Delivery Date signed by a duly authorised signatory of the Borrower, and counter-signed by a duly authorised signatory of the Builder. |
No later than the Delivery Date |
The Agent shall have received no later than the Delivery Date:
an opinion from legal counsel to the Agent as to Marshall Islands law together with the limited liability company documentation of the Borrower and a certificate of a competent officer or manager of the Borrower containing specimen signatures of the persons authorised to sign the documents on behalf of the Borrower, confirming that: |
the Lenders may continue to rely on the legal opinion given pursuant to paragraph (a) of Clause 3.2 (No later than the date of the Original Facility Agreement); |
the Original Mortgage, the Tripartite General Assignment, the External Management Agreement Assignment (if any), the Post-Delivery Assignment and the Time Charter Assignment (if any) fall within the scope of the Borrower's limited liability company purpose as defined by its Certificate of Formation and Limited Liability Company Agreement and are binding on it; and |
the Borrower's representatives are fully empowered to sign the Protocol of Delivery and Acceptance, the Original Mortgage, the Tripartite General Assignment, the External Management Agreement Assignment (if any), the Post-Delivery Assignment and the Time Charter Assignment (if any) |
in the event that the Approved Manager is not a member of the Group, an opinion from legal counsel to the Agent as to the law of the place of incorporation of the Approved Manager, together with the corporate documentation of the Approved Manager supporting the opinion, that the Tripartite General Assignment (if applicable) and the acknowledgement of the notice of assignment of the External Management Agreement fall within the scope of the Approved Manager's corporate purpose as defined by its constitutional documents and are binding on it and the Approved Manager's representatives are fully empowered to sign the Tripartite General Assignment (if applicable) and the acknowledgement of the notice of assignment of the External Management Agreement; |
evidence of payment to the Builder of: |
the [*] ([*]) pre-delivery instalments of the Final Contract Price; and |
any other part of the Final Contract Price as at the Delivery Date not being financed hereunder; |
evidence of payment of all amounts which are due and payable hereunder by the Borrower on or prior to the Delivery Date; |
a certificate from the Borrower, signed by an authorised representative of the Borrower, confirming that the representations and warranties contained in Clause 12 13 (Representations |
and Warranties) are true and correct as of the Delivery Date in consideration of the facts and circumstances existing as of the Delivery Date;
the Interest Make-up Agreement relative to the Loan and in full force and effect; |
provided always that the obligations of the Lenders to make the Loan available on the Delivery Date are subject to the Agent remaining satisfied that each of the SACE Insurance Policy and the Interest Make-up Agreement will cover the Loan following the advance of the Loan, payment of the second instalment of the SACE Premium and delivery to SACE of the documents listed in Schedule 3 (Documents to be produced by the Builder to the Agent on Delivery).
At Delivery |
Immediately prior to the delivery of the Ship by the Builder to the Borrower, the Agent shall have received:
evidence that immediately following delivery: |
the Ship will be registered in the name of the Borrower in the Maritime Registry; |
title to the Ship will be held by the Borrower free of all Security Interests other than any maritime lien in respect of crew's wages and trade debts arising out of equipment, consumable and other stores placed on board the Ship prior to or concurrently with delivery, none of which is overdue; |
the Original Mortgage will be duly registered in the Maritime Registry and constitutes a first priority security interest over the Ship and that all taxes and fees payable to the Maritime Registry in respect of the Ship have been paid in full; and |
the opinions mentioned in paragraphs (j), (k) and (l) of Clause 3.9 (At Delivery) and the documents mentioned in paragraph (m) of Clause 3.9 will be received by the Agent; |
duly executed originals of the Tripartite General Assignment, any External Management Agreement Assignment, any Approved Manager's Undertaking, the Post-Delivery Assignment and any Time Charter Assignment together with relevant notices of assignment and the acknowledgement of the notice of assignment to be issued pursuant to any External Management Agreement Assignment and the Post-Delivery Assignment and the Time Charter Assignment (if any); |
a duly executed original of the Limited Liability Company Interests Security Deed (and of each document required to be delivered under the Limited Liability Company Interests Security Deed); |
a Certified Copy of any executed External Management Agreement and any time charterparty in respect of the Ship; |
a Certified Copy of any current certificate of financial responsibility in respect of the Ship issued under OPA, a valid Safety Management Certificate (or interim Safety Management Certificate) issued to the Ship in respect of its management by the Approved Manager pursuant to the ISM |
Code, a valid Document of Compliance (or interim Document of Compliance) issued to the Approved Manager in respect of ships of the same type as the Ship pursuant to the ISM Code, a valid International Ship Security Certificate issued to the Ship in accordance with the ISPS Code and a valid IAPPC issued to the Ship in accordance with Annex VI and, if entered into, any carrier initiative agreement with the United States' Customs and Border Protection under the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) programme;
a Certified Copy of the power of attorney pursuant to which the authorised signatory(ies) of the Borrower signed the documents referred to in this Clause 3.9 (At Delivery) and to which the Borrower is a party and a specimen of his or their signature(s); |
a confirmation from EC3 Services Limited that it will act for each of the relevant Obligors as agent for service of process in England in respect of the deed of covenants constituting part of the Original Mortgage (if applicable), the Tripartite General Assignment, the External Management Agreement Assignment (if any), the Post-Delivery Assignment and the Time Charter Assignment (if any). |
Immediately following the delivery of the Ship by the Builder to the Borrower, the Agent shall receive:
a duly executed original of the Original Mortgage; |
an opinion from legal counsel to the Agent as to Panamanian law, together with the corporate documentation of Oceania Cruises supporting the opinion and a certificate of a competent officer of Oceania Cruises containing specimen signatures of the persons authorised to sign the Limited Liability Company Interests Security Deed on behalf of Oceania Cruises confirming that: |
the Lenders may continue to rely on the legal opinion given pursuant to paragraph (e) of Clause 3.2 (No later than the date of the Original Facility Agreement) in so far as it relates to Oceania Cruises; |
the Limited Liability Company Interests Security Deed falls within the scope of Oceania Cruises' corporate purpose as defined by its Articles of Incorporation and By-laws; and |
the representative of Oceania Cruises was at the date of the Limited Liability Company Interests Security Deed fully empowered to sign the Limited Liability Company Interests Security Deed. |
an opinion from legal counsel to the Agent as to the law of the Maritime Registry confirming: |
the valid registration of the Ship in the Maritime Registry; and |
the Original Mortgage over the Ship has been validly registered in the Maritime Registry; |
an opinion from legal counsel to the Agent as to English law confirming that the obligations of the Borrower under the deed of covenants constituting part of the Original Mortgage (if applicable), the Tripartite General Assignment, any External Management Agreement Assignment, the Post-Delivery Assignment and any Time Charter Assignment are legally valid and binding obligations enforceable by the relevant Creditor Parties in the English courts; |
the documents listed in Schedule 3 (Documents to be produced by the Builder to the Agent on Delivery). |
Deferral Tranches |
The relevant part of a Deferral Tranche shall only be advanced if the Agent shall have received (a) no later than five (5) Business Days before the date of the relevant advance (and only if required under Clause 4.9 (Deferral Tranches) hereunder), a Drawdown Notice from the Borrower, signed by a duly authorised signatory of the Borrower, specifying the amount of the Deferral Tranche to be drawn down, and (b) on the relevant date of the relevant advance or deemed advance (as applicable), confirmation that:
it being provided that two advances under the 2020 Deferral Tranche have been made to the Borrower in respect of the 2020 Deferred Repayment Instalments.
Drawdown |
Borrower's irrevocable payment instructions |
The Lenders shall not be obliged to fulfil their obligation to make the Loan available other than by paying the Builder all or part of 80% of the Final Contract Price up to the Eligible Amount on behalf of and in the name of the Borrower and by reimbursing the Agent for the instalment of the SACE Premium payable on the Delivery Date.
The Borrower hereby instructs the Lenders in accordance with this Clause 4.1 (Borrower's irrevocable payment instructions):
to pay to the Builder all or part of 80% of the Final Contract Price up to the Eligible Amount. |
to pay to the Agent on behalf of the Lenders for onward payment to SACE (such payment to SACE to be made for value on the Drawdown Date), by drawing under the Loan, the amount of the second instalment of the related SACE Premium. |
Payment to the Builder of the Dollar amount drawn under paragraph (a) of Clause 4.1 (Borrower's irrevocable payment instructions) above shall be made on the Delivery Date of the Ship during usual banking hours in Italy to the Builder's account as specified by the Builder in accordance with the Shipbuilding Contract after receipt and verification by the Agent of the documents provided under Schedule 3 (Documents to be produced by the Builder to the Agent on delivery).
Verification of the documents provided under Schedule 3 (Documents to be produced by the Builder to the Agent on delivery) shall be limited to checking their apparent compliance as defined in the Uniform Customs and Practices for Documentary Credits - ICC Publication 600 (UCP 600 latest revision).
Save as contemplated in Clause 4.3 (Modification of payment terms) below, the payment instruction contained in this Clause 4.1 (Borrower's irrevocable payment instructions) is irrevocable.
Conversion Rate for Loan |
The Dollar amount to be drawn down under paragraph (a) of Clause 4.1 (Borrower's irrevocable payment instructions) shall be calculated by the Agent on the Conversion Rate Fixing Date in accordance with the definitions of "Eligible Amount" and "Conversion Rate" in Clause 1.1 (Definitions).
Modification of payment terms |
The Borrower expressly acknowledges that the payment terms set out in this Clause may only be modified with the agreement of the Builder, the Agent, the Lenders and the Borrower in the case of paragraph (a) of Clause 4.1 (Borrower's irrevocable payment instructions) and with the agreement of the Agent, the Lenders and the Borrower in the case of paragraph (b) of Clause 4.1 (Borrower's irrevocable payment instructions); provided that it is the intention of the Borrower, the Lenders and the Agent that prior to the Delivery Date agreement shall be reached with those financial institutions with whom the Borrower has entered into the FOREX Contracts (the "Counterparties") in order that the Euro payments due from the Counterparties under the FOREX Contracts shall be paid to the Agent for holding in escrow and to be released by the Agent simultaneously with (i) the payment in full to the Builder of the balance of the Final Contract Price denominated in Euro at the time of delivery of the Ship and (ii) the payment to the Counterparties of the Dollars due to them under the relevant FOREX Contracts out of the Dollar amount available under paragraph (a) of Clause 4.1 (Borrower's irrevocable payment instructions), subject only to delivery of the Ship by the Builder to the Borrower taking place as evidenced by the execution and delivery of the Protocol of Delivery and Acceptance and to the Borrower having deposited with the Agent before delivery, if and to the extent required, any Dollar and/or Euro amounts as may be needed to ensure the payment in full of both the balance of the Final Contract Price in Euro and the Dollars owed to the Counterparties under all the relevant FOREX Contracts.
Availability |
Except as permitted by the provisions of the 2020 Amendment Agreement in respect of the 2020 Deferral Tranche and the 2021 Amendment and Restatement Agreement in respect of the 2021 Deferral Tranche, drawing may not be made under this Agreement (and the Loan shall not be available) after the earlier of the Delivery Date and the expiry of the Availability Period.
Notification to Lenders of receipt of a Drawdown Notice |
The Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders that it has received a Drawdown Notice and shall inform each Lender of:
the amount of the Loan and the Drawdown Date; |
the amount of that Lender's participation in the Loan; and |
the duration of the first Interest Period. |
Lenders to make available Contributions |
Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, each Lender shall, on and with value on the Drawdown Date, make available to the Agent the amount due from that Lender under Clause 2.2 (Lenders' participations in Loan).
Disbursement of Loan |
Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, the Agent shall on the Drawdown Date pay the amounts which the Agent receives from the Lenders under Clause 4.6 (Lenders to make available Contributions):
in the case of the amount referred to in paragraph (a) of Clause 4.1 (Borrower's irrevocable payment instructions), to the account which the Borrower specifies in the Drawdown Notice; |
in the case of the amount referred to in paragraph (b) of Clause 4.1 (Borrower's irrevocable payment instructions) to the account of SACE which the SACE Agent shall specify; and |
in the like funds as the Agent received the payments from the Lenders. |
Disbursement of Loan to third party |
The payment by the Agent under Clause 4.7 (Disbursement of Loan) shall constitute the making of the Loan and the Borrower shall at that time become indebted, as principal and direct obligor, to each Lender in an amount equal to that Lender's Contribution.
Deferral Tranches |
The Lenders have agreed, pursuant to the 2020 Amendment Agreement and the 2021 Amendment and Restatement Agreement, as set out in this Agreement (but without increasing the Maximum Loan Amount and the Total Commitments of each Lender save for the related 2020 Deferral Tranche Premium to be advanced in accordance with paragraph (d) below) to make available to the Borrower the Deferral Tranches as follows, as set out in further detail in Schedule 4 (Deferred Repayment Schedule):
(b) | if a 2020 Deferred Repayment Instalment has fallen due and been paid during the Deferral Period and prior to the 2020 Deferral Effective Date (the “Paid Amount”), on the date falling five (5) Business Days after the Effective Date (as such term is described in the 2020 Amendment Agreement), an amount equal to the Paid Amount shall be reimbursed to the Borrower to the account notified by the Borrower to the Agent on or prior to the Effective Date in accordance with the relevant Drawdown Notice; |
on each Repayment Date during the 2021 Deferral Period, a portion of the 2021 Deferral Tranche in an amount equal to the relevant 2021 Deferred Repayment Instalment due on such Repayment Date shall be automatically drawn by the Borrower and applied towards repayment of the relevant 2021 Deferred Repayment Instalment due on such date. Each such advance under the 2021 Deferral Tranche shall be automatic and notional only, and effected by means of a book entry to finance the 2021 Deferred Repayment Instalments then due; and |
together with the first advance of the 2020 Deferral Tranche under this Clause 4.9 (Deferral Tranches), a portion of the 2020 Deferral Tranche in an amount equal to the amount to be paid to SACE in respect of the 2020 Deferral Tranche Premium payable to SACE due on the first advance under the 2020 Deferral Tranche shall be drawn by the Borrower and paid to SACE as specified in the relevant Drawdown Notice, it being provided that such amount was advanced to the Borrower on 29 June 2020 together with the first advance under the 2020 Deferral Tranche in respect of the 2020 Deferred Repayment Instalments. |
Accordingly, the other provisions of this Clause 4 (Drawdown) shall not apply to the advances under the Deferral Tranches and each advance of any Deferral Tranches under this Clause 4.9 (Deferral Tranches) shall be deemed to satisfy the Borrower's obligations under Clause 5 (Repayment) in respect of the corresponding Deferred Repayment Instalment.
Repayment |
Number of repayment instalments |
Subject to Clause 5.5 (Repayment of Deferral Tranches), the Borrower shall repay the Loan by twenty-four (24) consecutive six-monthly instalments.
Repayment Dates |
Subject to Clause 5.5 (Repayment of Deferral Tranches), the first instalment shall be repaid on the date falling six (6) months after the Drawdown Date and the last instalment on the date falling one hundred and forty four (144) months after the Drawdown Date, each date of payment of an instalment being a "Repayment Date".
Amount of repayment instalments |
Subject to Clause 5.5 (Repayment of Deferral Tranches), each of the twenty-four (24) consecutive six-monthly repayment instalments of the Loan shall be of an equal amount.
Final Repayment Date |
Subject to Clause 5.5 (Repayment of Deferral Tranches), on the final Repayment Date, the Borrower shall additionally pay to the Agent for the account of the Creditor Parties all other sums then accrued or owing under any Finance Document.
Repayment of Deferral Tranches |
Subject to Clause 4.9 (Deferral Tranches):
Rate Switch |
Switch to Term SOFR Reference Rate |
Subject to Clause 6.2 (Delayed switch for existing LIBOR Loans), on and from the Rate Switch Date, where the Floating Interest Rate applies:
use of the Term SOFR Reference Rate will replace the use of LIBOR for the calculation of interest for the Loan or any part of the Loan; and |
the Loan or any part of the Loan or Unpaid Sum shall be a "Term SOFR Loan" and paragraph (b) of the definition of Floating Interest Rate shall apply to the Loan, any such part of the Loan or Unpaid Sum. |
Delayed Switch for Existing LIBOR Loans |
If the Rate Switch Date falls before the last day of an Interest Period for a LIBOR Loan:
the Loan, relevant part of the Loan or Unpaid Sum (as applicable) shall continue to be a LIBOR Loan for that Interest Period and paragraph (a) of the definition of Floating Interest Rate shall continue to apply to the Loan, relevant part of the Loan or Unpaid Sum (as applicable) for that Interest Period; |
any provision of this Agreement which is expressed to relate solely to a Term SOFR Loan shall not apply in relation to the Loan, relevant part of the Loan or Unpaid Sum (as applicable) for that Interest Period; and |
on and from the first day of the next Interest Period (if any) for the Loan, relevant part of the Loan or Unpaid Sum (as applicable): |
the Loan, relevant part of the Loan or Unpaid Sum (as applicable) shall be a "Term SOFR Loan"; and |
paragraph (b) of the definition of Floating Interest Rate shall apply to it. |
Notifications by Agent |
Subject to paragraph (3) below, following the occurrence of a Rate Switch Trigger Event, the Agent shall: |
promptly upon becoming aware of the occurrence of that Rate Switch Trigger Event, notify the Borrower and the Lenders of that occurrence; and |
promptly upon becoming aware of the date of the Rate Switch Trigger Event Date applicable to that Rate Switch Trigger Event, notify the Borrower and the Lenders of that date |
The Agent shall, promptly upon becoming aware of the occurrence of the Rate Switch Date, notify the Borrower and the Lenders of that occurrence. |
The Parties agree that the FCA Cessation Announcement constitutes a Rate Switch Trigger Event, that the Rate Switch Trigger Event Date applicable to such Rate Switch Trigger Event will be 1 July 2023 and that the Agent is not under any obligation under paragraph (1) above to notify any Party of such Rate Switch Trigger Event or Rate Switch Trigger Event Date resulting from the FCA Cessation Announcement. |
For the purposes of paragraph (3) above, the "FCA Cessation Announcement" means the announcement on 5 March 2021 by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority that all LIBOR settings will, as of certain specified future dates, either cease to be provided by any administrator or no longer be representative of the market and economic reality that they are intended to measure and that such representativeness will not be restored. |
6Interest |
6.1Fixed Interest Rate |
If the Borrower has specified a Fixed Interest Rate pursuant to paragraph (b) of Clause 3.5 (No later than Sixty (60) days before the Intended Delivery Date), the Loan shall bear interest at the CIRR. Such interest shall accrue on the actual number of days elapsed based upon a 360 day year and shall be paid on each Repayment Date.
6.2Floating Interest Rate |
If:
the Borrower has specified a Floating Interest Rate pursuant to paragraph (b) of Clause 3.5 (No later than Sixty (60) days before the Intended Delivery Date); or |
the Borrower has specified a Fixed Interest Rate pursuant to paragraph (b) of Clause 3.5 (No later than Sixty (60) days before the Intended Delivery Date) but thereafter for any reason whatsoever the Interest Make-up Agreement shall cease to be in effect, |
the rate of interest on the Loan in respect of any Interest Period shall be the Floating Interest Rate applicable for that Interest Period and the following provisions of this Clause 6 (Interest) shall apply (in the case of the circumstances referred to in paragraph (b) above, with effect from the date on which the Interest Make-up Agreement ceases to be in effect, with such consequential amendments as shall be necessary to give effect to the switch from a Fixed Interest Rate to a Floating Interest Rate).
6.3Interest in respect of Deferral Tranches |
The rate of interest for each Interest Period in respect of each Deferral Tranche shall be the relevant Floating Interest Rate.
6.4Deferred Costs |
Independently to any other obligation to pay costs, expenses or interest under or in connection with this Agreement, the Borrower shall, as a separate obligation, also pay to the Agent (for distribution to each Lender) deferred costs in respect of any drawn portion of a Deferral Tranche at the relevant Deferred Costs Percentage for each Interest Period during which any part of that Deferral Tranche remains outstanding. Whilst not an interest liability, such deferred costs shall be charged from and including the first day of the applicable Interest Period in which an amount of the relevant Deferral Tranche is outstanding to (but not
including) the last day of such Interest Period, and will be payable semi-annually in arrears on each interest payment date. Any deferred costs payable in accordance with this Clause 6.4 7.4 (Deferred Costs) shall be calculated on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed over a year comprised of 360 days. Any non-payment of such deferred costs shall be an Event of Default in accordance with Clause 18.2 19.2 (Non-payment).
6.5Payment of Floating Interest Rate |
Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, interest on the Loan in respect of each Interest Period shall accrue on the actual number of days elapsed based upon a 360 day year and shall be paid by the Borrower on the last day of that Interest Period.
6.6Notification of Interest Periods and Floating Interest Rate |
The Save where paragraph (d) of Clause 7.10 (Unavailability of Term SOFR) applies, the Agent shall notify the Borrower and each Lender of each Floating Interest Rate and the duration of each Interest Period as soon as reasonably practicable after each is determined and no later than the Quotation Day. |
In respect of any Fallback Interest Payment, the Agent shall promptly upon a Fallback Interest Payment being determinable notify: |
the Borrower of that Fallback Interest Payment; |
each relevant Lender of the proportion of that Fallback Interest Payment which relates to that Lender's participation in the Loan or the relevant part of the Loan; and |
the relevant Lenders and the Borrower of each applicable Daily Simple SOFR relating to the determination of that Fallback Interest Payment. |
The Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower of each Funding Rate relating to the Loan or any part of the Loan. |
This Clause 7.6 (Notification of Interest Periods and Floating Interest Rate) shall not require the Agent to make any notification to any Party on a day which is not a Business Day. |
Reference Bank Rate: If no Screen Rate is available for LIBOR for: |
Dollars; |
the Interest Period of the Loan or any part of the LIBOR Loan and it is not possible to calculate the Interpolated Screen Rate, |
the applicable LIBOR shall be the Reference Bank Rate as of the Specified Time and for a period equal in length to the Interest Period of the Loan or that part of the LIBOR Loan. |
6.8Calculation of Reference Bank Rate |
Subject to paragraph (b) below, if LIBOR is to be determined on the basis of a Reference Bank Rate but a Reference Bank does not supply a quotation by the Specified Time, the Reference Bank Rate shall be calculated on the basis of the quotations of the remaining Reference Banks. |
If at or about noon on the Quotation Day none or only one of the Reference Banks supplies a quotation, there shall be no Reference Bank Rate for the relevant Interest Period. |
Unavailability of Term SOFR |
Interpolated Term SOFR: If no Term SOFR is available for the Interest Period of any Term SOFR Loan, the applicable Term SOFR Reference Rate shall be the Interpolated Term SOFR for a period equal in length to the Interest Period of that Term SOFR Loan. |
Historic Term SOFR: If no Term SOFR is available for the Interest Period of any Term SOFR Loan and it is not possible to calculate the Interpolated Term SOFR, the applicable Term SOFR Reference Rate shall be the Historic Term SOFR for that Term SOFR Loan. |
Interpolated Historic Term SOFR: If paragraph (b) above applies but no Historic Term SOFR is available for the Interest Period of any Term SOFR Loan, the applicable Term SOFR Reference Rate shall be the Interpolated Historic Term SOFR for a period equal in length to the Interest Period of that Term SOFR Loan. |
Daily Simple SOFR: If, after giving effect to paragraph (c) above, no Term SOFR is available for the Interest Period of a Term SOFR Loan and it is not possible to calculate the Interpolated Historic Term SOFR, that Term SOFR Loan shall bear interest for any day of the relevant Interest Period at a rate per annum equal to the aggregate of the applicable (i) Daily Simple SOFR; (ii) Margin; and (iii) Credit Adjustment Spread. |
Cost of funds: If paragraph (d) above applies but it is not possible to calculate the Daily Simple SOFR, there shall be no Term SOFR Reference Rate for that Term SOFR Loan and Clause 7.12 (Cost of funds) shall apply to that Term SOFR Loan for that Interest Period. |
6.9Market Disruption |
In the case of a Term SOFR Loan, if before close of business in London on the Quotation Day for the relevant Interest Period, the Agent receives notification from a Lender or Lenders (whose participations in the Loan or the relevant part of the Loan exceed 50 per cent. of the Loan or the relevant part of the Loan as appropriate) that its cost of funds relating to its |
participation in the Loan or that part of the Loan would be in excess of the Market Disruption Rate then Clause 7.12 (Cost of funds) shall apply to the Loan or that part of the Loan (as applicable) for the relevant Interest Period
6.10Cost of funds |
the Margin; and |
If paragraph (e) below does not apply and any rate notified to the Agent under sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (a) above is less than zero, the relevant rate shall be deemed to be zero. |
If this Clause 6.10 7.12 (Cost of funds) applies pursuant to Clause 6.9 7.10 (Market disruption) and: |
in relation to a Term SOFR Loan, a Lender's Funding Rate is less than the Market Disruption Rate, that Lender’s cost of funds relating to its participation in the Loan or the relevant part of the Loan for that Interest Period shall be deemed, for the purposes of sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (a) above, to be the Market Disruption Rate for that Term SOFR Loan. |
a Lender does not supply a quotation by the time specified in sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (a) above, |
the cost to that Lender of funding its participation in the Loan or the relevant part of the Loan for that Interest Period shall be deemed, for the purposes of paragraph (a) above, to be LIBOR.
If this Clause 6.10 7.12 (Cost of funds) applies but any Lender does not supply a quotation notify a rate to the Agent by the time specified in sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (a) above, the rate |
of interest shall be calculated on the basis of the quotations of rates notified by the remaining Lenders.
Replacement of Screen Rate |
Changes to the reference rates |
If a Screen If a Published Rate Replacement Event has occurred in relation to the Screen Published Rate for Dollars, any amendment or waiver which relates to: |
(a)providing for the use of a Replacement BenchmarkReference Rate; and |
(b) |
(i)aligning any provision of any Finance Document to the use of that Replacement BenchmarkReference Rate; |
(iii)implementing market conventions applicable to that Replacement BenchmarkReference Rate; |
(iv)providing for appropriate fallback (and market disruption) provisions for that Replacement BenchmarkReference Rate; or |
may be made with the consent of the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders), SACE and SIMEST (if applicable) and the Borrower.
If, as at 30 September 2021, this Agreement provides that the rate of interest for the Loan in Dollars is to be determined by reference to the Screen Rate for LIBOR: |
a Screen Rate Replacement Event shall be deemed to have occurred on that date in relation to the Screen Rate for Dollars; and |
the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) and the Obligors shall enter into negotiations in good faith with a view to agreeing the use of a Replacement Benchmark in relation to Dollars in place of that Screen Rate from and including a date no later than 30 November 2021, unless the Borrower and the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) agree to defer the date of the negotiations required under this sub-paragraph (ii) together with the date for the use of such a Replacement Benchmark, in which case such dates shall be those so agreed. |
SOFR; or |
Term SOFR for any Quoted Tenor. |
"Published Rate Contingency Period" means, in relation to:
Term SOFR (all Quoted Tenors), ten US Government Securities Business Days; |
"Published Rate Replacement Event" means, in relation to a Published Rate:
the methodology, formula or other means of determining that Published Rate has, in the opinion of the Majority Lenders, and the Borrower materially changed; |
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the administrator of that Published Rate or its supervisor publicly announces that such administrator is insolvent; or |
information is published in any order, decree, notice, petition or filing, however described, of or filed with a court, tribunal, exchange, regulatory authority or similar administrative, regulatory or judicial body which reasonably confirms that the administrator of that Published Rate is insolvent, |
provided that, in each case, at that time, there is no successor administrator to continue to provide that Published Rate;
the administrator of that Published Rate publicly announces that it has ceased or will cease, to provide that Published Rate permanently or indefinitely and, at that time, there is no successor administrator to continue to provide that Published Rate; |
the supervisor of the administrator of that Published Rate publicly announces that such Published Rate has been or will be permanently or indefinitely discontinued; or |
the administrator of that Published Rate or its supervisor announces that that Published Rate may no longer be used; or |
the administrator of that Published Rate (or the administrator of an interest rate which is a constituent element of that Published Rate) determines that that Published Rate |
should be calculated in accordance with its reduced submissions or other contingency or fallback policies or arrangements and either:
the circumstance(s) or event(s) leading to such determination are not (in the opinion of the Majority Lenders and the Borrower) temporary; or |
that Published Rate is calculated in accordance with any such policy or arrangement for a period no less than the applicable Published Rate Contingency Period; or |
in the opinion of the Majority Lenders and the Borrower, that Published Rate is otherwise no longer appropriate for the purposes of calculating interest under this Agreement. |
"Replacement Reference Rate" means a reference rate which is:
formally designated, nominated or recommended as the replacement for a Published Rate by: |
the administrator of that Published Rate (provided that the market or economic reality that such reference rate measures is the same as that measured by that Published Rate); or |
any Relevant Nominating Body, |
and if replacements have, at the relevant time, been formally designated, nominated or recommended under both paragraphs, the "Replacement Reference Rate" will be the replacement under sub-paragraph (ii) above;
in the opinion of the Majority Lenders and the Borrower, an appropriate successor or alternative to a Published Rate. |
6.12Notice of prepayment |
If no agreement is reached with the Borrower under Clause 6.11 7.13 (Replacement of Screen RateChanges to the reference rates), the Borrower may give the Agent not less than 15 Business Days', or, if the Fixed Interest Rate has been selected pursuant to paragraph (a) of Clause 3.5 (No later than Sixty (60) days before the Intended Delivery Date), the Borrower may give the Agent not less than 60 days' notice of its intention to prepay at the end of the interest period set by the Agent.
6.13Prepayment; termination of Commitments |
A notice under Clause 6.12 7.14 (Notice of prepayment) shall be irrevocable; the Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders of the Borrower's notice of intended prepayment; and:
on the date on which the Agent serves that notice, the Total Commitments shall be cancelled; and |
on the last Business Day of the Interest Period set by the Agent, the Borrower shall prepay (without premium or penalty) the Loan, together with accrued interest thereon at the applicable rate plus the Margin. |
6.14Application of prepayment |
The provisions of Clause 16 17 (Cancellation and Prepayment) shall apply in relation to the prepayment.
7Interest Periods |
7.1Floating Interest Rate |
This Clause 7 8 (Interest Periods) applies where the Borrower has specified a Floating Interest Rate pursuant to paragraph (b) of Clause 3.5 (No later than sixty (60) days before the Intended Delivery Date) or in the case of each Deferral Tranche.
7.2Commencement of Interest Periods |
The first Interest Period shall commence on the Drawdown Date and each subsequent Interest Period shall commence on the expiry of the preceding Interest Period.
7.3Duration of Interest Periods |
Each Interest Period shall be 6 months and shall end on the next succeeding Repayment Date.
7.4The first Interest Period in relation to each advance or deemed advance (as applicable) under each Deferral Tranche shall start on the date of such advance or deemed advance (as applicable) and end on the last day of the current Interest Period in respect of the Loan, following which all Interest Periods will be consolidated. |
8Claims or Defences may not be opposed to the Lenders |
8.1Liability Preserved |
The Borrower may not escape liability under the terms of this Agreement by opposing to the Lenders claims or defences of any kind whatsoever arising under the Shipbuilding Contract, and in particular from its performance, or from any other relationship between the Borrower and the Builder.
9SACE Premium and Italian Authorities |
9.1SACE Premium |
The estimated SACE Premium is due and payable in two instalments as follows:
the first instalment of the SACE Premium shall be paid to SACE within 30 days of the issue of the SACE Insurance Policy documentation in the form required by paragraph (b) of Clause 3.3 (No later than ninety (90) days before the Intended Delivery Date) of this Agreement and shall be in such amount in Dollars as is calculated by the Agent to be the equivalent of EUR [*] converted at the Base Rate (the "First Instalment"); and |
the second instalment of the SACE Premium shall be such amount in Dollars as is calculated by the Agent to be the product of (i) [*]% of the Loan actually advanced on the Drawdown Date |
LESS (ii) the amount of the First Instalment (the "Second Instalment")and shall be payable on the Drawdown Date.
9.2Reimbursement by the Borrower of the SACE Premium |
The Borrower irrevocably agrees to pay the First Instalment, and to instruct the Lenders to pay the Second Instalment on behalf of the Borrower, as follows:
The Borrower has requested and the Lenders have agreed to finance the payment of one hundred per cent. (100%) of the Second Instalment on the Drawdown Date in accordance with paragraph (b) of Clause 2.1 (Amount of facility) of this Agreement. |
Consequently, the Borrower hereby irrevocably instructs the Agent on behalf of the Lenders to pay the Second Instalment to SACE on the Drawdown Date and to reimburse themselves by drawing under the Loan the amount of the Second Instalment in accordance with paragraph (b) of Clause 2.1 (Amount of facility) of this Agreement.
The Second Instalment financed by the Loan will be repayable in any event by the Borrower to the Lenders in the manner specified in Clause 5 (Repayment) and under any and all circumstances including but without limitation in the event of prepayment or acceleration of the Loan.
9.3Italian Authorities |
The Borrower acknowledges and agrees that the Agent and the Lenders are entitled to provide the Italian Authorities with any information they may have relative to the Loan and the business of the Group, to allow the Italian Authorities to inspect all their records relating to this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents and to furnish them with copies thereof. Any such information relative to the Loan may also be given by any Italian Authorities to international institutions charged with collecting statistical data. |
The Borrower acknowledges that, in the making of any decision or determination or the exercise of any discretion or the taking or refraining to take any action under this Agreement or any of the other Finance Documents, the Agent and the Lenders shall be deemed to have acted reasonably if they have acted on the instructions of either of the Italian Authorities. |
Each Party further undertakes not to act in a manner which is inconsistent with the terms of the SACE Insurance Policy. |
9.4Refund |
In accordance with the SACE Insurance Policy, the Borrower has the right to receive a refund of the first instalment of the SACE Premium referred to in paragraph (a) of Clause 9.1 10.1 (SACE Premium), provided that no Event of Default has occurred, in the event that no drawings have been made under this Agreement and the parties have mutually decided to cancel the SACE Insurance Policy following cancellation of the Total Commitments in accordance with Clause 16.1 17.1 (Cancellation). In these circumstances, the Borrower may request in writing through the SACE Agent, and shall be entitled to receive from SACE through the SACE Agent, a
refund of the first instalment of the SACE Premium subject to a deduction for SACE's administrative charges as calculated by SACE in an amount of not less than 15% of the refund or EUR 3,000 (calculated at the exchange rate valid at the date of the refund request) whichever is the higher.
In no event shall the SACE Agent be liable for any refund of the SACE Premium to be made by SACE.
9.5Deferral Tranches – additional premium |
A premium is payable by the Borrower to SACE in respect of:
the 2020 Deferral Tranche (the "2020 Deferral Tranche Premium"), it being provided that an amount of $[*] was advanced to the Borrower and paid to SACE on 29 June 2020 with the first Advance under the 2020 Deferral Tranche in respect of the 2020 Deferred Repayment Instalments; and |
Each of the Deferral Tranche Premia paid or to be paid to SACE is non-refundable, and the 2021 Deferral Tranche Premium will not be financed.
10Fees |
10.1Fees |
The following fees shall be paid to the Agent by the Borrower as required hereunder:
for the Mandated Lead Arrangers and the SACE Agent, an arrangement fee in an amount and payable at the time separately agreed in writing between the Mandated Lead Arrangers, the SACE Agent and the Borrower; |
For the purpose of the computation of the periodical commitment fee payable to the Lenders, the Maximum Loan Amount is assumed to be USD 608,082,164;
In the event the actual amount drawn under the Loan on the Delivery Date is higher, the Borrower shall on the Delivery Date pay the difference between the aggregate commitment fee amounts paid up to that date and the aggregate commitment fee computed on the actual amount to be drawn on the Delivery Date;
With effect from the date of the 2020 Amendment Agreement, the Borrower shall pay to the Agent (for the account of the Lenders for application pro rata to their Commitments) a commitment fee in the amount of [*] per cent. ([*]%) per annum on the daily undrawn 2020 Deferral Commitment. The commitment fee shall be payable in arrears on the date of each advance or deemed advance, as applicable, of the 2020 Deferral Tranche in accordance with Clause 4.9 (Deferral Tranches) or, if cancelled, on the date of cancellation of the 2020 Deferral Tranche; |
With effect from the date of the 2021 Amendment and Restatement Agreement, the Borrower shall pay to the Agent (for the account of the Lenders for application pro rata to their Commitments) a commitment fee in the amount of [*] per cent. ([*]%) per annum on the daily undrawn 2021 Deferral Commitment. The commitment fee shall be payable in arrears on the date of each advance or deemed advance, as applicable, of the 2021 Deferral Tranche in accordance with Clause 4.9 (Deferral Tranches) or, if cancelled, on the date of cancellation of the 2021 Deferral Tranche; |
11Taxes, Increased Costs, Costs and Related Charges |
11.1Warranty |
The Creditor Parties each warrant to the Borrower that as at the effective date Effective Date of this Agreement there are no Taxes payable in France as a consequence of the signature or performance of this Agreement (other than Taxes payable by each of the Lenders on its overall net income). Each of the Lenders specified in Schedule 1 (Lenders and Commitments) undertakes that: (i) its Facility Office is located in France at the effective date Effective Date of this Agreement; and (ii) it will not relocate its Facility Office to another jurisdiction if such relocation could result in the imposition of Taxes in connection with signature or performance of this Agreement (other than Taxes payable by a Lender on its overall net income), it being agreed, for the avoidance of doubt, that each Lender shall be entitled at any time to relocate its Facility Office to another jurisdiction provided that such relocation does not affect the tax status of the transaction for the Borrower by reference to the tax status that would apply were its Facility Office to be located in France.
11.2Taxes |
(a) | All Taxes legally payable (other than Taxes payable by each of the Lenders on its overall net income) as a consequence of the signature or performance of this Agreement shall be paid by the Borrower. In consequence, all payments of principal and interest, interest on late payments, compensation, costs, fees and related charges, due in connection with this Agreement shall be made without any deduction or withholding in respect of Taxes. The Borrower therefore hereby agrees expressly that if for any reason full payment of the above amounts is not made, it will immediately pay the Lenders the sums necessary to compensate |
exactly the effect of the deductions or withholdings made in respect of Taxes. If the Borrower fails to perform this obligation, the Lenders shall be entitled, in accordance with Clause 18 19 (Events of Default), either not to make available the Loan or, as the case may require, to require immediate repayment of the Loan.
(b) | If an additional payment is made under this Clause and any Lender or the Agent on its behalf determines that it has received or been granted a credit against or relief of or calculated with reference to the deduction or withholding giving rise to such additional payment, such Lender or the Agent (as the case may be) shall, to the extent that it can do so without prejudice to the retention of the amount of such credit, relief, remission or repayment and provided that it has received the cash benefit of such credit, relief or remission, pay to the Borrower such amount as such Lender or the Agent shall in its reasonable opinion have concluded to be attributable to the relevant deduction or withholding. Any such payment shall be conclusive evidence of the amount due to the Borrower hereunder and shall be accepted by the Borrower in full and final settlement of its rights of reimbursement hereunder in respect of such deduction or withholding. Nothing herein contained shall interfere with the right of any Lender and the Agent to arrange their respective tax affairs in whatever manner they think fit. |
(c) | Nothing in this Clause 11.2 12.2 (Taxes) shall require the Borrower to compensate the Lenders in respect of any tax imposed under or in connection with FATCA. |
11.3FATCA Deduction |
Each Party may make any FATCA Deduction it is required to make by FATCA, and any payment required in connection with that FATCA Deduction, and no Party shall be required to increase any payment in respect of which it makes such a FATCA Deduction or otherwise compensate the recipient of the payment for that FATCA Deduction. |
Each Party shall promptly, upon becoming aware that it must make a FATCA Deduction (or that there is any change in the rate or the basis of such FATCA Deduction) notify the Party to whom it is making the payment and, in addition, shall notify the Borrower, the Agent and the other Creditor Parties. |
11.4FATCA Information |
Subject to paragraph (c) below, each Party shall, within ten Business Days of a reasonable request by another Party: |
confirm to that other Party whether it is: |
a FATCA Exempt Party; or |
not a FATCA Exempt Party; and |
supply to that other Party such forms (including any applicable W8 BEN-E or W9 or other equivalent form), documentation and other information relating to its status under FATCA as that other Party reasonably requests for the purposes of that other Party's compliance with FATCA or any other law, regulation, or exchange of information regime. |
If a Party confirms to another Party pursuant to paragraph (a)(i) of Clause 11.4 12.4 (FATCA Information) above that it is a FATCA Exempt Party and it subsequently becomes aware that it |
is not, or has ceased to be a FATCA Exempt Party, that Party shall notify that other Party reasonably promptly.
Paragraph (a) above shall not oblige any Creditor Party to do anything which would or might in its reasonable opinion constitute a breach of: |
any law or regulation; |
any fiduciary duty; or |
any duty of confidentiality. |
If a Party fails to confirm whether or not it is a FATCA Exempt Party or to supply forms, documentation or other information requested in accordance with paragraph (a) above (including, for the avoidance of doubt, where paragraph (c) above applies), then such Party shall be treated for the purposes of the Finance Documents (and payments under them) as if it is not a FATCA Exempt Party until such time as the Party in question provides the requested confirmation, forms, documentation or other information.
11.5Increased Costs |
If after the date of the Original Facility Agreement by reason of:
any change in law or in its interpretation or administration; and/or |
compliance with any request from or requirement of any central bank or other fiscal, monetary or other authority including but without limitation the Basel Committee on Banking Regulations and Supervisory Practices whether or not having the force of law: |
any of the Lenders incurs a cost as a result of its performing its obligations under this Agreement and/or its making available its Commitment hereunder; or |
there is any increase in the cost to any of the Lenders of funding or maintaining all or any of the advances comprised in a class of advances formed by or including its Commitment advanced or to be advanced by it hereunder; or |
any of the Lenders incurs a cost as a result of its having entered into and/or its assuming or maintaining its commitment under this Agreement; or |
any of the Lenders becomes liable to make any payment on account of Tax or otherwise (other than Tax on its overall net income) on or calculated by reference to the amount of its Commitment advanced or to be advanced hereunder and/or any sum received or receivable by it hereunder; or |
any of the Lenders suffers any decrease in its rate of return as a result of any changes in the requirements relating to capital ratios, monetary control ratios, the payment of special deposits, liquidity costs or other similar requirements affecting that Lender, |
then the Borrower shall from time to time on demand pay to the Agent for the account of the relevant Lender or Lenders amounts sufficient to indemnify the relevant Lender or Lenders against, as the case may be, such cost, such increased cost (or such proportion of such increased cost as is in the reasonable opinion of the relevant Lender or Lenders attributable to the funding or maintaining of its or their Commitment(s) hereunder) or such liability.
A Lender affected by any provision of this Clause 11.3 12.3 (FATCA Deduction) shall promptly inform the Agent after becoming aware of the relevant change and its possible results (which notice shall be conclusive evidence of the relevant change and its possible results) and the Agent shall, as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter, notify the Borrower of the change and its possible results. Without affecting the Borrower's obligations under this Clause 11.3 12.3 (FATCA Deduction) and in consultation with the Agent, the affected Lender will then take all such reasonable steps as may be open to it to mitigate the effect of the change (for example (if then possible) by changing its Facility Office or transferring some or all of its rights and obligations under this Agreement to another financial institution reasonably acceptable to the Borrower and the Agent). The reasonable costs of mitigating the effect of any such change shall be borne by the Borrower save where such costs are of an internal administrative nature and are not incurred in dealings by any Lender with third parties.
Nothing in this Clause 11.5 12.5 (Increased Costs) shall require the Borrower to compensate the Lenders in respect of any tax imposed under or in connection with FATCA.
11.6Transaction Costs |
The Borrower undertakes to pay to the Agent, upon demand, all costs and expenses, duties and fees, including but without limitation agreed legal costs, out of pocket expenses and travel costs, incurred by the Mandated Lead Arrangers and the Lenders (but not including any bank which becomes a Lender after the date of the Original Facility Agreement) in connection with the negotiation, preparation and execution of all agreements, guarantees, security agreements and related documents entered into, or to be entered into, for the purpose of the transaction contemplated hereby as well as all costs and expenses, duties and fees incurred by the Agent or the Lenders in connection with the registration, filing, enforcement or discharge of the said guarantees or security agreements, including without limitation the fees and expenses of legal advisers and insurance experts and the fees and expenses of SACE (including the fees and expenses of its legal advisers) payable by the Mandated Lead Arrangers to SACE, the cost of registration and discharge of security interests and the related travel and out of pocket expenses; the Borrower further undertakes to pay to the Agent all costs, expenses, duties and fees incurred by the Lenders and SACE in connection with any variation of this Agreement and the related documents, guarantees and security agreements, any supplements thereto and waiver given in relation thereto, in connection with the enforcement or preservation of any rights under this Agreement and/or the related guarantees and security agreements, including in each case the fees and expenses of legal advisers, and in connection with the consultations or proceedings made necessary or in the opinion of the Agent desirable by the acts of, or failure to act on the part of, the Borrower.
11.7Costs of delayed Delivery Date |
The Borrower undertakes to pay to the Agent, upon demand, any costs incurred by the Lenders in funding the Loan in the event that the Delivery Date is later than the Intended Delivery Date unless the Borrower has given the Agent at least three (3) Business Days' notification of such delay in the Delivery Date.
12Representations and Warranties |
12.1Timing and repetition |
The following applies in relation to the time at which representations and warranties are made and repeated:
12.2Continuing representations and warranties |
The Borrower represents and warrants to each of the Lenders that:
each Obligor is a limited liability company or body corporate duly organised, constituted and validly existing under the laws of the country of its formation or (as the case may be) incorporation, possessing perpetual existence, the capacity to sue and be sued in its own name and the power to own and charge its assets and carry on its business as it is now being conducted; |
each Obligor has the power to enter into and perform this Agreement and those of the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby and has taken all necessary action to authorise the entry into and performance of this Agreement and such other Transaction Documents and such transactions; |
this Agreement and each other Transaction Document constitutes (or will constitute when executed) legal, valid and binding obligations of each Obligor expressed to be a party thereto enforceable in accordance with their respective terms and in entering into this Agreement and borrowing the Loan, the Borrower is acting on its own account; |
the entry into and performance of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby do not and will not conflict with: |
any law or regulation or any official or judicial order; or |
the constitutional documents of any Obligor; or |
any agreement or document to which any Obligor is a party or which is binding upon such Obligor or any of its assets, |
nor result in the creation or imposition of any Security Interest on the Borrower or its assets pursuant to the provisions of any such agreement or document, except for Security Interests which qualify as Permitted Security Interests with respect to the Borrower;
except for: |
the filing of UCC-1 Financing Statements against the Borrower in respect of those Financing Documents to which it is a party and which create Security Interests; |
the recording of the Original Mortgage in the office of the Maritime Administrator of the Republic of the Marshall Islands; and |
the registration of the Ship under an Approved Flag, |
all authorisations, approvals, consents, licences, exemptions, filings, registrations, notarisations and other matters, official or otherwise, required in connection with the entry into, performance, validity and enforceability of this Agreement and each of the other Transaction Documents to which any Obligor is a party and the transactions contemplated thereby have been obtained or effected and are in full force and effect except authorisations, approvals, consents, licences, exemptions, filings and registrations required in the normal day to day course of the operation of the Ship and not already obtained by the Borrower;
all information furnished by any Obligor relating to the business and affairs of any Obligor in connection with this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents was and remains true and correct in all material respects and there are no other material facts or considerations the omission of which would render any such information misleading; |
each Obligor has fully disclosed to the Agent all facts relating to each Obligor which it knows or should reasonably know and which might reasonably be expected to influence the Lenders in deciding whether or not to enter into this Agreement; |
the claims of the Creditor Parties against the Borrower under this Agreement will rank at least pari passu with the claims of all unsecured creditors of the Borrower (other than claims of such creditors to the extent that they are statutorily preferred) and in priority to the claims of any creditor of the Borrower who is also an Obligor; |
the Borrower is and shall remain, after the advance to it of the Loan, solvent in accordance with the laws of the Marshall Islands and the United Kingdom and in particular with the provisions of the Insolvency Act 1986 (as from time to time amended) and the requirements thereof; |
neither the Borrower nor any other Obligor has taken any corporate action nor have any other steps been taken or legal proceedings been started or (to the best of its knowledge and belief) threatened against any of them for the reorganisation, winding-up, dissolution or for the appointment of a liquidator, administrator, receiver, administrative receiver, trustee or similar officer of any of them or any or all of their assets or revenues nor has it sought any other relief under any applicable insolvency or bankruptcy law; |
none of the Obligors nor any of their respective assets enjoys any right of immunity (sovereign or otherwise) from set-off, suit or execution in respect of their obligations under this Agreement or any of the other Transaction Documents or by any relevant or applicable law; |
all the membership interest in the Borrower and all shares or membership interest in any Approved Manager which is a member of the Group shall be legally and beneficially owned directly or indirectly by (in the case of the Borrower) Oceania Cruises and (in the case of such Approved Manager) the Guarantor and such structure shall remain so throughout the Security Period; |
no Obligor is: |
a Prohibited Person; |
is owned or controlled by or acting directly or indirectly on behalf of or for the benefit of, a Prohibited Person; or |
owns or controls a Prohibited Person; |
no proceeds of the Loan shall be made available directly or indirectly to or for the benefit of a Prohibited Person nor shall they be otherwise directly or indirectly applied in a manner or for a purpose prohibited by Sanctions; |
to the best of the Borrower's, Oceania Cruises and the Guarantor's knowledge, no Prohibited Payment has been or will be made or provided, directly or indirectly, by (or on behalf of) it, any of its affiliates, its or its officers, directors or any other person acting on its behalf to, or for the benefit of, any authority (or any official, officer, director, agent or key employee of, or other person with management responsibilities in, of any authority) in connection with the Ship, this Agreement and/or the Finance Documents; |
no payments made or to be made by the Borrower, Oceania Cruises or the Guarantor in respect of amounts due under this Agreement or any Finance Document have been or shall be funded out of funds of Illicit Origin and none of the sources of funds to be used by the Borrower, Oceania Cruises or the Guarantor in connection with the construction of the Ship or its business are of Illicit Origin. |
12.3Semi-continuing representations and warranties |
The Borrower represents and warrants to each of the Lenders that:
no event has occurred which constitutes a default under or in respect of any Transaction Document to which any Obligor or the Builder is a party or by which any Obligor or the Builder may be bound (including (inter alia) this Agreement) and no event has occurred which constitutes a default under or in respect of any agreement or document to which any Obligor is a party or by which any Obligor may be bound to an extent or in a manner which might have a material adverse effect on the ability of that Obligor to perform its obligations under the Transaction Documents to which it is a party; |
no litigation, arbitration or administrative proceedings are current or pending or, to its knowledge, threatened, which might, if adversely determined, have a material adverse effect on the ability of an Obligor to perform its obligations under the Transaction Documents to which it is a party; |
to the best of its knowledge, each of the Obligors has complied with all taxation laws in all jurisdictions in which it is subject to taxation and has paid all Taxes due and payable by it; |
none of the Obligors has a place of business in any jurisdiction (except as already disclosed) which requires any of the Finance Documents to be filed or registered in that jurisdiction to ensure the validity of the Finance Documents to which it is a party; |
each of the Obligors and each member of the Group: |
is in compliance with all applicable federal, state, local, foreign and international laws, regulations, conventions and agreements relating to pollution prevention or protection of human health or the environment (including, without limitation, ambient air, surface water, ground water, navigable waters, water of the contiguous zone, ocean waters and international waters), including without limitation, laws, regulations, conventions and agreements relating to: |
emissions, discharges, releases or threatened releases of chemicals, pollutants, contaminants, wastes, toxic substances, hazardous materials, oil, hazard substances, petroleum and petroleum products and by-products ("Materials of Environmental Concern"); or |
the manufacture, processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal, transport or handling of Materials of Environmental Concern (such laws, regulations, conventions and agreements the "Environmental Laws"); |
has all permits, licences, approvals, rulings, variances, exemptions, clearances, consents or other authorisations required under applicable Environmental Laws ("Environmental Approvals") and is in compliance with all Environmental Approvals |
required to operate its business as presently conducted or as reasonably anticipated to be conducted;
has not received any notice, claim, action, cause of action, investigation or demand by any other person, alleging potential liability for, or a requirement to incur, investigatory costs, clean-up costs, response and/or remedial costs (whether incurred by a governmental entity or otherwise), natural resources damages, property damages, personal injuries, attorney's fees and expenses or fines or penalties, in each case arising out of, based on or resulting from: |
the presence or release or threat of release into the environment of any Material of Environmental Concern at any location, whether or not owned by such person; or |
circumstances forming the basis of any violation, or alleged violation, of any Environmental Law or Environmental Approval ("Environmental Claim"); and |
there are no circumstances that may prevent or interfere with such full compliance in the future.
There is no material Environmental Claim pending or threatened against any of the Obligors or any member of the Group.
There are no past or present actions, activities, circumstances, conditions, events or incidents, including, without limitation, the release, emission, discharge or disposal of any Material of Environmental Concern, that could form the basis of any Environmental Claim against any of the Obligors or any member of the Group.
12.4Representations on the Delivery Date |
The Borrower further represents and warrants to each of the Lenders that on the Delivery Date the Ship was:
in its absolute and unencumbered ownership save as contemplated by the Finance Documents; |
registered in its name under the laws and flag of the Maritime Registry; |
classed with the highest classification available for a Ship of its type free of all recommendations and qualifications with Lloyd's Register, RINA or Bureau Veritas; |
operationally seaworthy and in compliance with all relevant provisions, regulations and requirements (statutory or otherwise) applicable to ships registered under the laws and flag of the Maritime Registry; |
in compliance with the ISM Code, the ISPS Code and Annex VI; |
insured in accordance with the provisions of Clause 13.22 14.22 (Insurances) and in compliance with the requirements therein in respect of such insurances; and |
managed by the Approved Manager and, in the event that the Approved Manager is not a member of the Group, on and subject to the terms set out in the External Management Agreement. |