Covenants and Events of Default
The A&R Term Loan Credit Agreement contains certain conditions to borrowings, events of default and affirmative, negative and financial covenants, including covenants that restrict the Company’s ability to sell assets, make changes to the nature of the Company’s business, engage in mergers or acquisitions, incur, assume or permit to exist additional indebtedness and guarantees, create or permit to exist liens, pay dividends, make distributions or redeem or repurchase capital stock or make investments, engage in transactions with affiliates and make payments in respect of certain debt. The A&R Term Loan Credit Agreement also requires that the Company will not exceed $15.0 million in unfinanced capital expenditures in any four-fiscal quarter period, tested as of the end of the second and fourth fiscal quarters of each calendar year starting with the period ending December 31, 2023; provided that such amount shall increase to $25.0 million if the Company’s Total Leverage Ratio (as defined in the A&R Term Loan Credit Agreement) is less than or equal to 2.00 to 1.00 on a pro forma basis for such additional expenditure. In addition, the A&R Term Loan Credit Agreement requires that the Company not exceed a maximum Net Leverage Ratio, tested as of the end of each fiscal quarter, beginning at 9.25 to 1.00 for the fiscal quarter ending June 30, 2023 and stepping down each quarter to a ratio of 4.75 to 1.00 for the fiscal quarters ending March 31, 2026 and thereafter. Further, the A&R Term Loan Credit Agreement includes certain events of default, the occurrence of which may require that the Company pay an additional 2.0% interest on the outstanding loans and other obligations under the A&R Term Loan Credit Agreement.
The foregoing summary of the A&R Term Loan Credit Agreement does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by, the full and complete text of the A&R Term Loan Credit Agreement, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.1 and is incorporated by reference herein.
Eclipse Amendment No. 3 to Credit Agreement
General
On June 16, 2023, the Company also entered into Amendment No. 3 (“ABL Amendment No. 3”) to that certain credit agreement, dated as of February 11, 2022 (as amended by Amendment No. 1 dated as of May 6, 2022 and Amendment No. 2 dated as of November 1, 2022, and as further amended from time to time, the “ABL Credit Agreement”) among the Company, as borrower, the lenders from time to time party thereto and Eclipse Business Capital LLC, as agent (the “ABL Agent”). The ABL Amendment No. 3 amended the ABL Credit Agreement to, among other things, (i) provide the Company with a new $27.4 million term loan (the “ME/RE Loans”) secured by a first priority lien and mortgage on certain real estate and machinery and equipment of the Company and the ABL Guarantors (as defined below) (the “Specified RE/ME”), (ii) increase borrowing base availability under the revolving credit facility by an additional $2.5 million, (iii) extend the maturity date for the entire facility under the ABL Credit Agreement to August 11, 2025, (iv) amend the financial maintenance covenant therein to match the maximum unfinanced capital expenditures covenant included in the A&R Term Loan Credit Agreement described above and (iv) amend provisions applicable to the $35.0 million delayed draw term loans under the ABL Credit Agreement to remove the ability of the Company to repay and reborrow such loans, to remove the ability to pay any portion of the interest on such loans in PIK and add a mandatory prepayment with respect to such loan in relation to the sale of certain collateral principally supporting such loans. The ME/RE Loans were drawn in full on the Closing Date and were used to pay off the amounts owed under the existing term loan credit agreement dated as of December 18, 2020 (as amended from time to time), among the Company, the lenders party thereto and Atlantic Park Strategic Capital Fund, L.P., as agent, which was repaid and terminated in full on June 16, 2023.
Guarantees and Collateral
The Company’s obligations in respect of the ME/RE Loans are guaranteed by certain direct and indirect material subsidiaries of the Company (the “ABL Guarantors” and, together with the Company, the “ABL Loan Parties”). The ME/RE Loans under the ABL Credit Agreement are secured on a first priority basis by, among other things, the Specified RE/ME, accounts receivable, deposit accounts, securities accounts and inventory of the ABL Loan Parties (the “ABL Priority Collateral”) and on a second priority basis by substantially all of the other assets of the ABL Loan Parties, subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement.
Interest, Fees and Prepayments
The ME/RE Loans borrowed under the ABL Credit Agreement bear interest at an annual rate of the Secured Overnight Financing Rate, plus a credit spread adjustment of 0.11448% per annum and a margin of 5.75% per annum and is payable monthly.
Amounts outstanding under the ME/RE Loans amortize each month in aggregate installments of $296,661, subject to certain adjustments.
The Company may make voluntary prepayments of the ME/RE Loans from time to time, and the Company is required in certain instances related to asset sales of the Specified RE/ME and with annual excess cash flow (as defined in the ABL Credit Agreement), to make mandatory prepayments of the loans under the ABL Credit Agreement, subject to certain prepayment premiums as specified in the ABL Credit Agreement (subject to certain exceptions), plus accrued and unpaid interest.