SECTION 3. Conditions Precedent. This Agreement shall become effective only upon
satisfaction of the following conditions precedent on or before the date hereof:
(a) execution and delivery of this
Agreement by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, and the Required Lenders; and
(b) the Borrower shall have paid the
Administrative Agents fees, outstanding legal fees, and costs incurred in connection with this Agreement.
SECTION 4. Conduct of
Administrative Agent and Lenders; Release of Claims. The Loan Parties and their Affiliates, successors, assigns, and legal representatives (collectively, the Releasors), acknowledge and agree that through the date hereof, each
Secured Party has acted in good faith and has conducted itself in a commercially reasonable manner in its relationships with the Releasors in connection with this Agreement and in connection with the Secured Obligations, the Credit Agreement, and
the other Loan Documents, and the obligations and liabilities of the Releasors existing thereunder or arising in connection therewith, and the Releasors hereby waive and release any claims to the contrary. The Releasors hereby release, acquit, and
forever discharge each Secured Party and its Affiliates (including, without limitation, its parent and its subsidiaries) and their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, attorneys, advisors, successors and assigns, both present and
former (collectively, the Secured Party Affiliates) from any and all manner of losses, costs, defenses, damages, liabilities, deficiencies, actions, causes of action, suits, debts, controversies, damages, judgments, executions,
claims, demands, and expenses whatsoever, asserted or unasserted, known or unknown, foreseen or unforeseen, in contract, tort, law or equity (generically, Claims), that any Releasor has or may have against any Secured Party and/or
any Secured Party Affiliate by reason of any action, failure to act, event, statement, accusation, assertion, matter, or thing whatsoever arising from or based on facts occurring prior to the effectiveness of this Agreement that arises out of or is
connected to the Loan Documents or the Secured Obligations. Each of the Releasors hereby unconditionally and irrevocably agrees that it will not sue any Secured Party or any Secured Party Affiliate on the basis of any Claim released, remised, and
discharged by such Releasor pursuant to this paragraph. If any Releasor or any of their respective successors, assigns or other legal representatives violates the foregoing covenant, each Releasor, for itself and its successors, assigns, and legal
representatives, agrees to pay, in addition to such other damages as any Secured Party or any Secured Party Affiliate may sustain as a result of such violation, all reasonable and documented attorneys fees and costs incurred by any Secured
Party or any Secured Party Affiliate as a result of such violation.
SECTION 5. Miscellaneous Terms.
(a) Loan Document. For avoidance of doubt, the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, and the Lenders party hereto hereby
acknowledge and agree that this Agreement is a Loan Document.
(b) Effect of Agreement. Except as set forth
expressly hereinabove, all terms of the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be and remain in full force and effect, and shall constitute the legal, valid, binding, and enforceable obligations of the Loan Parties. Except to the extent
otherwise expressly set forth herein, the amendments and waiver set forth herein shall have prospective application only from and after the date of this Agreement.
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