consolidated, combined, or unitary income tax return with any
Parent Entity and
(ii) to
allow any Parent Entity to pay franchise and excise taxes, fees and other similar taxes and expenses, in each case, required to maintain its existence.
Section 6.04 Burdensome Agreements. The Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit its Material Subsidiaries
to, enter into, or permit to exist, any consensual Contractual Obligation that (a) encumbers or restricts the ability of such Material Subsidiary to (i) make dividends or distributions to the Borrower, (ii) pay any Debt or other
obligation owed to the Borrower, (iii) make loans or advances to the Borrower or (iv) transfer any of its property to the Borrower or (b) encumbers or restricts the ability of the Borrower or such Material Subsidiary to pledge its
property pursuant to the Loan Documents or any renewals, refinancings, exchanges, refundings or extensions thereof (other than pursuant to the ABL Intercreditor Agreement), except, in each case, those (1) existing under (x) the Loan
Documents and any other agreement in effect on the Closing Date and (y) the ABL Credit Agreement and the other ABL Loan Documents, and in each case any amendments, modifications, restatements, renewals, extensions, supplements, refundings,
replacements or refinancings thereof, provided that the encumbrances and restrictions in any such amendments, modifications, restatements, renewals, extensions, supplements, refundings, replacements or refinancings are not materially more
restrictive, taken as a whole, than those contained in such existing agreement, (2) existing under, by reason of, or with respect to, applicable law, rule, regulation or order, (3) with respect to any Person or the property or assets of a
Person acquired by the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary existing at the time of such acquisition and not incurred in connection with or in contemplation of such acquisition and any amendments, modifications, restatements, renewals, extensions,
supplements, refundings, replacements or refinancings thereof, provided that the encumbrances or restrictions in any such amendments, modifications, restatements, renewals, extensions, supplements, refundings, replacements, or refinancings
are not materially more restrictive, taken as a whole, than those in effect at the time of the acquisition, (4) that restrict in a customary manner the subletting, assignment or transfer of any property or asset that is subject to a lease,
license, conveyance or contract or are customary provisions restricting the subletting or assignment thereof, (5) existing by virtue of any transfer of, agreement to transfer, option or right with respect to, or Lien on, any property or assets
of the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary not otherwise prohibited by the Loan Documents, (6) arising or agreed to in the ordinary course of business, not relating to any Debt, and that do not, individually or in the aggregate, materially
detract from the value of any property or assets of the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary, (7) existing under, by reason of or with respect to any agreement for the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the capital stock
of, or property and assets of, a Material Subsidiary that restrict distributions by that Material Subsidiary pending such sale or other disposition, (8) existing under, by reason of, or with respect to, customary supermajority voting provisions
and customary provisions with respect to the disposition or distribution of assets or property, in each case contained in joint venture, partnership or limited liability company agreements, (9) restrictions on cash or other deposits or net
worth imposed by customers or lessors or required by insurance, surety or bonding companies, in each case, under contracts, leases or other agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business, (10) with respect to any Lien that is
permitted to be incurred pursuant to Section 6.05, and (11) encumbrances or restrictions contained in the documents governing any Debt or other instrument or agreement entered into after the Closing Date that, as determined by the
Borrower, will not materially adversely affect the Borrowers ability to make payments on the Loans.
Section 6.05 Liens. The Borrower shall not create, incur, assume or suffer to exist, or permit any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries to create, incur, assume or suffer to exist, any Lien, upon or with respect to any of its properties or assets, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, in each case to secure any Debt of any Person or entity, other than the
following:
(a) Liens existing on the Closing Date and listed on Schedule 6.05 hereto;
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