Dana Corp. 10-Q
UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-Q
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Quarterly Report Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 |
For the quarterly period ended: June 30, 2006
Commission File Number: 1-1063
Dana Corporation
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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Virginia
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34-4361040 |
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(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or
organization)
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(IRS Employer Identification Number) |
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4500 Dorr Street, Toledo, Ohio
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43615 |
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(Address of principal executive offices)
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(419) 535-4500
(Registrants telephone number, including area code)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by
Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for
such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been
subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.
Yes þ No o
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer,
or a non-accelerated filer. See definition of accelerated filer and large accelerated filer in
Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one)
Large accelerated filer: þ
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Accelerated filer: o
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Non-accelerated filer: o |
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the
Exchange Act).
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Indicate the number of shares outstanding of each of the issuers classes of common stock, as of
the latest practicable date.
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Class
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Outstanding at July 21, 2006 |
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Common stock, $1 par value
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150,374,968 |
DANA CORPORATION FORM 10-Q
FOR THE QUARTERLY AND YEAR-TO-DATE PERIODS
ENDED JUNE 30, 2006
Table of Contents
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FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION
Statements in this report that are not entirely historical constitute forward-looking statements
within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such
forwarding-looking statements are indicated by words such as anticipates, expects, believes,
intends, plans, estimates, projects and similar expressions. These statements represent
our present expectations based on our current information and assumptions. Forward-looking
statements are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties. Our actual results could differ
materially from those we currently anticipate or project due to a number of factors, including
those discussed elsewhere in this report, the risk factors included in our Form 10-K for the year
ended December 31, 2005 and the following:
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The reorganization of Dana Corporation and forty of its wholly-owned domestic subsidiaries under Chapter 11 of the
United States Bankruptcy Code (the Bankruptcy Code), which may have adverse consequences for Dana and our stakeholders
and may or may not be successful; |
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The cyclical nature of the vehicular markets we serve, particularly the heavy-duty commercial vehicle market; |
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Changes in national and international economic conditions that affect our markets, such as increased fuel prices and
legislation regulating vehicle emissions; |
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Increases in the cost of certain of our commodities (including steel, other raw materials and energy) that we cannot
recoup in our product pricing; |
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Price reduction pressures from our customers; |
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Changes in business relationships with our major customers and in the timing, size and duration of their various
programs; |
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Competitive pressures on our sales from other vehicle component suppliers; |
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Potential bankruptcy or consolidation of our key customers or suppliers; |
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The ability of our customers to maintain their market positions and achieve their projected sales and production levels; |
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Changes in the competitive environment in our markets due, in part, to outsourcing and consolidation by our customers; |
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Our ability to complete our previously announced strategic actions as contemplated, including the divestiture of our
non-core engine hard parts, fluid products and pump products businesses; the operational restructuring in our
Automotive Systems Group; and the establishment of a joint venture with Dongfeng Motor Co., Ltd. (Dongfeng) in China; |
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The ability of our suppliers to maintain their projected production levels and furnish critical components for our
products, as well as other necessary goods and services; |
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Our success in implementing our cost-savings, lean manufacturing and VA/VE (value added/value engineering) programs; |
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The strength of the U.S. dollar relative to other currencies in which we transact business; |
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Potential adverse effects on our operations and business resulting from
terrorism or hostilities; and |
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Potential adverse effects that could result from enactment of proposed U.S.
federal legislation relating to asbestos personal injury claims. |
While we continue our reorganization under Chapter 11, investments in our securities will be highly
speculative. Although shares of our common stock continue to trade on the Over The Counter
Bulletin Board under the symbol DCNAQ, the trading prices of the shares may have little or no
relationship to the actual recovery, if any, by the holders under any eventual court-approved
reorganization plan. The opportunity for any recovery by holders of our common stock under such
reorganization plan is uncertain and shares of our common stock may be cancelled without any
compensation pursuant to such plan.
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PART I FINANCIAL INFORMATION
(In millions, except per share amounts)
ITEM 1. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
DANA CORPORATION
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS (Unaudited)
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Three Months Ended |
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Six Months Ended |
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June 30, |
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June 30, |
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2006 |
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2005 |
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2006 |
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2005 |
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Net sales |
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2,300 |
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$ |
2,297 |
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$ |
4,497 |
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$ |
4,446 |
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Costs and expenses |
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Cost of sales |
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2,157 |
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2,139 |
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4,250 |
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4,161 |
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Selling, general and administrative expenses |
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120 |
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119 |
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239 |
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237 |
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Other income, net |
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(38 |
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(20 |
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(55 |
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(53 |
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Income from continuing operations before interest, reorganization
items and income taxes |
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61 |
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59 |
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63 |
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101 |
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Interest expense (contractual interest of $53 and $100
for the three and six months ended June 30, 2006) |
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26 |
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40 |
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65 |
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82 |
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Reorganization items, net |
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34 |
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89 |
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Income (loss) before income taxes |
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1 |
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19 |
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(91 |
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19 |
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Income tax benefit (expense) |
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(36 |
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(4 |
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(58 |
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2 |
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Minority interests |
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(2 |
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(2 |
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(3 |
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(5 |
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Equity in earnings of affiliates |
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6 |
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13 |
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16 |
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21 |
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Income (loss) from continuing operations |
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(31 |
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26 |
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(136 |
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37 |
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Income (loss) from discontinued operations |
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3 |
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4 |
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(18 |
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5 |
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Income (loss) before effect of change in accounting |
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(28 |
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30 |
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(154 |
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42 |
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Effect of change in accounting |
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4 |
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Net income (loss) |
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(28 |
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30 |
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(154 |
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46 |
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Basic earnings (loss) per common share |
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Income (loss) from continuing operations
before effect of change in accounting |
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$ |
(0.21 |
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$ |
0.17 |
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$ |
(0.91 |
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$ |
0.25 |
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Income (loss) from discontinued operations |
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0.02 |
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0.03 |
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(0.12 |
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0.03 |
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Effect of change in accounting |
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0.03 |
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Net income (loss) |
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(0.19 |
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$ |
0.20 |
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(1.03 |
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$ |
0.31 |
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Diluted earnings (loss) per common share |
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Income (loss) from continuing operations
before effect of change in accounting |
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(0.21 |
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$ |
0.17 |
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(0.91 |
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$ |
0.25 |
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Income (loss) from discontinued operations |
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0.02 |
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0.03 |
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(0.12 |
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0.03 |
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Effect of change in accounting |
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0.02 |
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Net income (loss) |
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(0.19 |
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$ |
0.20 |
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(1.03 |
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$ |
0.30 |
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Cash dividends declared and paid per common share |
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$ |
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0.12 |
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$ |
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0.24 |
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Average shares outstanding Basic |
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150 |
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150 |
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150 |
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150 |
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Average shares outstanding Diluted |
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150 |
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151 |
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150 |
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151 |
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of
the condensed consolidated financial statements.
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DANA CORPORATION
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET (Unaudited)
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June 30, 2006 |
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December 31, 2005 |
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Assets |
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Current assets |
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Cash and cash equivalents |
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$ |
871 |
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$ |
762 |
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Accounts receivable |
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Trade |
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1,352 |
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1,064 |
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Other |
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289 |
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244 |
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Inventories |
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681 |
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664 |
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Assets of discontinued operations |
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516 |
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521 |
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Other current assets |
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252 |
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141 |
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Total current assets |
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3,961 |
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3,396 |
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Investments and other assets |
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1,442 |
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1,516 |
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Investments in equity affiliates |
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850 |
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818 |
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Property, plant and equipment, net |
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1,703 |
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1,628 |
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Total assets |
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$ |
7,956 |
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$ |
7,358 |
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Liabilities and Shareholders Equity |
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Current liabilities |
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Notes payable, including current portion
of long-term debt |
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$ |
502 |
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$ |
2,578 |
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Accounts payable |
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1,039 |
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948 |
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Liabilities of discontinued operations |
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191 |
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201 |
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Other accrued liabilities |
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758 |
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1,137 |
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Total current liabilities |
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2,490 |
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4,864 |
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Liabilities subject to compromise |
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3,959 |
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Deferred employee benefits and other
noncurrent liabilities |
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227 |
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1,798 |
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Long-term debt |
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16 |
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67 |
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Debtor-in-possession financing |
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700 |
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Commitments and contingencies (Note 12)
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Minority interest in consolidated subsidiaries |
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80 |
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84 |
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Shareholders equity |
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484 |
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545 |
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Total liabilities and shareholders equity |
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$ |
7,956 |
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$ |
7,358 |
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of
the condensed consolidated financial statements.
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DANA CORPORATION
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS (Unaudited)
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Six Months Ended |
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June 30, |
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2006 |
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2005 |
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Operating activities |
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Net income (loss) |
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$ |
(154 |
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46 |
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Depreciation and amortization |
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135 |
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163 |
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Charges related to divestitures and asset sales |
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46 |
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Reorganization charges |
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89 |
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Payment of reorganization charges |
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(44 |
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Changes in working capital |
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(10 |
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(219 |
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Effect of change in accounting |
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(4 |
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Other |
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24 |
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(130 |
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Net cash flows provided by (used for) operating activities |
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86 |
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(149 |
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Investing activities |
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Purchases of property, plant and equipment |
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(182 |
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(124 |
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Proceeds from sales of other assets |
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28 |
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137 |
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Payments from partnerships |
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11 |
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38 |
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Payments received on leases and loans |
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6 |
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Other |
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13 |
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(11 |
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Net cash flows provided by (used for) investing activities |
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(124 |
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40 |
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Financing activities |
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Net change in short-term debt |
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(549 |
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225 |
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Payments of long-term debt |
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(4 |
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(45 |
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Proceeds from debtor-in-possession facility |
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700 |
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Issuance of long-term debt |
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7 |
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Dividends paid |
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(36 |
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Other |
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(7 |
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(3 |
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Net cash flows provided by financing activities |
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147 |
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141 |
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Net increase in cash and cash equivalents |
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109 |
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32 |
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Cash and cash equivalents beginning of period |
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762 |
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634 |
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Cash and cash equivalents end of period |
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$ |
871 |
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$ |
666 |
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of
the condensed consolidated financial statements.
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DANA CORPORATION
INDEX TO NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
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Basis of Presentation |
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Reorganization Under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code |
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Recent Accounting Pronouncements |
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Common Shares and Preferred Share Purchase Rights |
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Goodwill |
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Equity-Based Compensation |
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Pension and Postretirement Benefit Plans |
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Comprehensive Income |
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Cash Deposits |
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Financing Agreement |
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Income Taxes |
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Commitments and Contingencies |
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13. |
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Warranty Obligations |
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14. |
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Divestitures, Discontinued Operations and Realignment of Operations |
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Segments |
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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
(In millions, except share and per share amounts)
Note 1. Basis of Presentation
In our opinion, the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements include all normal
recurring adjustments necessary for a fair presentation of financial condition, results of
operations and cash flows for the interim periods presented. Interim results are not necessarily
indicative of full-year results. We have reclassified certain amounts in 2005 to conform to the
2006 presentation.
These condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited
consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in our 2005 Annual Report on Form
10-K.
Accounting Requirements
As described in Note 2, Dana Corporation and certain subsidiaries are reorganizing under Chapter 11
of the United States Bankruptcy Code (the Bankruptcy Code). American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants Statement of Position 90-7, Financial Reporting by Entities in Reorganization under
the Bankruptcy Code (SOP 90-7), which is applicable to companies operating under Chapter 11,
generally does not change the manner in which financial statements are prepared. However, it does
require that the financial statements for periods subsequent to the filing of the Chapter 11
petition distinguish transactions and events that are directly associated with the reorganization
from the ongoing operations of the business. Revenues, expenses, realized gains and losses and
provisions for losses that can be directly associated with the reorganization and restructuring of
the business must be reported separately as reorganization items in our statements of operations
beginning in the quarter ended March 31, 2006. Our balance sheet must distinguish pre-petition
liabilities subject to compromise both from those pre-petition liabilities that are not subject to
compromise and from post-petition liabilities. Liabilities that may be affected by our plan of
reorganization must be reported at the amounts expected to be allowed, even if they may be settled
for lesser amounts. In addition, cash provided by or used for reorganization items must be
disclosed separately in our statement of cash flows. We adopted SOP 90-7 effective March 3, 2006
(the Filing Date), and will prepare our financial statements in accordance with its requirements
for the duration of the reorganization proceedings.
Note 2. Reorganization Under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code
On March 3, 2006, Dana Corporation and forty of its wholly-owned domestic subsidiaries
(collectively, the Debtors) filed voluntary petitions for reorganization under the Bankruptcy Code
in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York (the Bankruptcy Court).
These Chapter 11 cases are collectively referred to as the Bankruptcy Cases. Neither Dana
Credit Corporation (DCC) nor any of our non-U.S. affiliates commenced any bankruptcy proceedings.
The wholly-owned subsidiaries included in the Bankruptcy Cases are Dakota New York Corp., Brake
Systems, Inc., BWDAC, Inc., Coupled Products, Inc., Dana Atlantic LLC f/k/a Glacier Daido America,
LLC, Dana Automotive Aftermarket, Inc., Dana Brazil Holdings I LLC f/k/a Wix Filtron LLC, Dana
Brazil Holdings LLC f/k/a/ Dana Realty Funding LLC, Dana Information Technology LLC, Dana
International Finance, Inc., Dana International Holdings, Inc., Dana Risk Management Services,
Inc., Dana Technology Inc., Dana World Trade Corporation, Dandorr L.L.C., Dorr Leasing Corporation,
DTF Trucking, Inc., Echlin-Ponce,
Inc., EFMG LLC, EPE, Inc., ERS LLC, Flight Operations, Inc., Friction, Inc., Friction Materials,
Inc., Glacier Vandervell, Inc., Hose & Tubing Products, Inc., Lipe Corporation, Long Automotive
LLC, Long Cooling LLC, Long USA LLC, Midland Brake, Inc., Prattville Mfg., Inc., Reinz Wisconsin
Gasket LLC, Spicer Heavy Axle & Brake, Inc., Spicer Heavy Axle Holdings, Inc., Spicer Outdoor Power
Equipment Components LLC, Torque-Traction Integration Technologies, LLC, Torque-Traction
Manufacturing Technologies, LLC, Torque-Traction Technologies, LLC and United Brake Systems Inc.
8
The Bankruptcy Cases are being jointly administered, with the Debtors managing their businesses in
the ordinary course as debtors in possession subject to the supervision of the Bankruptcy Court. We
intend to continue normal business operations during the Bankruptcy Cases while we evaluate our
businesses both financially and operationally and implement comprehensive improvements as
appropriate to enhance performance. We intend to proceed with previously announced divestiture and
restructuring plans, which include the sale of several non-core businesses, the closure of certain
facilities and the shift of production to lower-cost locations. In addition, we intend to take
steps to reduce costs, increase efficiency and enhance productivity. We intend to effect
fundamental, not incremental, change to our business. While we cannot predict with precision how
long the reorganization process will take, we expect it to take 18 to 24 months from the Filing
Date. Under an order entered by the Bankruptcy Court on June 28, 2006, the Debtors currently have
the exclusive right to file a plan of reorganization until January 3, 2007. The Debtors are
allowed, and currently expect, to seek an additional extension of this exclusive period.
Our continuation as a going concern is contingent upon, among other things, our ability (i) to
comply with the terms and conditions of the DIP Credit Agreement described below; (ii) to obtain
confirmation of a plan of reorganization under the Bankruptcy Code; (iii) to reduce wage and
benefit costs and liabilities through the bankruptcy process; (iv) to return to profitability; (v)
to generate sufficient cash flow from operations; and (vi) to obtain financing sources to meet our
future obligations. These matters create uncertainty relating to our ability to continue as a going
concern. The accompanying consolidated financial statements do not reflect any adjustments relating
to the recoverability of assets and classification of liabilities that might result from the
outcome of these uncertainties. In addition, our plan of reorganization could materially change the
amounts reported in our condensed consolidated financial statements. Our consolidated financial
statements as of June 30, 2006 do not give effect to all the adjustments to the carrying value of
assets and liabilities that may become necessary as a consequence of reorganization under Chapter
11.
Our bankruptcy filing triggered the immediate acceleration of certain direct financial obligations,
including, among others, an aggregate of $1,623 in principal and accrued interest on currently
outstanding non-secured notes issued under our Indentures dated as of December 15, 1997; August 8,
2001; March 11, 2002; and December 10, 2004. Such amounts are characterized as unsecured debt for
purposes of the reorganization proceedings and the related obligations have been classified as
liabilities subject to compromise in our condensed consolidated balance sheet as of June 30, 2006.
In addition, the Chapter 11 filing for reorganization created an event of default under certain of
our lease agreements. The ability of our creditors to seek remedies to enforce their rights under
the agreements described above is automatically stayed as a result of our bankruptcy filing and the
creditors rights of enforcement are subject to the applicable provisions of the Bankruptcy Code.
As required by SOP 90-7, we recorded the Debtors pre-petition debt instruments at the allowed
claim amount, as defined by SOP 90-7. Accordingly, we accelerated the amortization of the related deferred debt issuance costs, the original issuance discounts and
the valuation adjustment related to the termination of interest rate swaps, which resulted in a
pre-tax expense of $17 during March 2006 that is included in reorganization items in our condensed
consolidated statement of operations.
9
An official committee of the Debtors unsecured creditors and an official committee of equity
security holders have been appointed in the Bankruptcy Cases and, in accordance with the provisions
of the Bankruptcy Code, will have the right to be heard on all matters that come before the
Bankruptcy Court. We have filed a motion with the Bankruptcy Court for the appointment of an
official committee of retired employees to act as representatives of persons receiving retiree
health care benefits. The Debtors are required to bear certain of the committees costs and
expenses, including those of their counsel and financial advisors.
While we continue our reorganization under Chapter 11, investments in our securities will be highly
speculative. Although shares of our common stock continue to trade on the Over The Counter
Bulletin Board under the symbol DCNAQ, the trading prices of the shares may have little or no
relationship to the actual recovery, if any, by the holders under any eventual court-approved
reorganization plan. The opportunity for any recovery by holders of our common stock under such
reorganization plan is uncertain and shares of our common stock may be cancelled without any
compensation pursuant to such plan.
Under the Bankruptcy Code, the Debtors have the right to assume or reject executory contracts
(i.e., contracts that are to be performed by the contract parties after the Filing Date) and
unexpired leases, subject to Bankruptcy Court approval and other limitations. In this context,
assuming an executory contract or unexpired lease generally means that the Debtor will agree to
perform its obligations and cure certain existing defaults under the contract or lease and
rejecting it means that the Debtor will be relieved of its obligations to perform further under
the contract or lease, which will give rise to an unsecured pre-petition claim for damages for the
breach thereof. The Bankruptcy Court has authorized the Debtors to reject certain unexpired leases
and executory contracts.
On June 30, 2006, the Debtors filed their schedules of the assets
and liabilities existing on the Filing Date with the Bankruptcy Court. The Bankruptcy Court has set September 21, 2006 as the
general bar date. This is the date by which most entities that assert a pre-petition claim against
a Debtor must file a proof of claim in writing and in accordance with the order of the Bankruptcy
Court entered on July 19, 2006. Differences between amounts recorded by the
Debtors and claims filed by the creditors will be investigated and resolved as part of the
proceedings in the Bankruptcy Cases. The ultimate number and
allowed amounts of claims are not presently known.
The Debtors have received approval from the Bankruptcy Court to pay or otherwise honor certain of
their pre-petition obligations, subject to certain restrictions, including employee wages,
salaries, certain benefits and other employee obligations; claims of foreign vendors
and certain suppliers that are critical to our continued operation; and certain customer program
and warranty claims.
We anticipate that substantially all of the Debtors liabilities as of the Filing Date will be
addressed under, and treated in accordance with, a plan of reorganization to be proposed to and
voted on by their creditors in accordance with the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code. Although we
intend to file and seek confirmation of such a plan, there can be no assurance as to when the plan
will be filed or that the plan will be confirmed by the Bankruptcy
Court and consummated. Nor can there be any assurance that we will be successful in achieving our
restructuring goals, or that any measures that are achievable will result in sufficient improvement
to our financial position. Accordingly, until the time that the Debtors emerge from bankruptcy,
there will be no certainty about our ability to continue as a going concern. If a restructuring is
not completed, we could be forced to sell a significant portion of our assets to retire debt
outstanding or, under certain circumstances, to cease operations.
10
DIP Credit Agreement
In
March 2006, the Bankruptcy Court approved a Senior Secured Superpriority Debtor-in-Possession Credit Agreement
(the DIP Credit Agreement), a $1,450 debtor-in-possession credit facility. This facility provides funding to continue our operations
without disruption and meet our obligations to suppliers, customers and employees during the
Chapter 11 reorganization process. See Note 10 for additional information.
DCC Notes
Danas bankruptcy filing created an event of default under DCCs outstanding medium-term and
private placement notes (the DCC Notes). DCC is engaged in discussions with an Ad Hoc Committee
formed by certain of its noteholders regarding a potential forbearance agreement (see
Notes 10 and 14). Two DCC noteholders have commenced a lawsuit against DCC for nonpayment of the
principal and interest on their DCC Notes which were due in April 2006, and have filed a motion
for summary judgment which is scheduled for hearing in August 2006.
Financial Statement Presentation
Our condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with SOP 90-7 and
on a going-concern basis, which contemplates continuity of operations, realization of assets and
liquidation of liabilities in the ordinary course of business. However, as a result of our
bankruptcy filing, such realization of assets and liquidation of liabilities are subject to
uncertainty. While operating as debtors in possession under the protection of Chapter 11 of the
Bankruptcy Code all or some of the Debtors may sell or otherwise dispose of assets and liquidate or
settle liabilities for amounts other than those reflected in the condensed consolidated financial
statements, subject to Bankruptcy Court approval or otherwise as permitted in the ordinary course
of business. Further, Danas plan of reorganization could materially change the amounts and
classification of items reported in our historical consolidated financial statements.
Substantially all of the Debtors pre-petition debt is now in default due to the bankruptcy filing.
As described below, the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements present the
Debtors pre-petition debt of $1,585 within Liabilities subject to compromise. In accordance with
SOP 90-7, following the Filing Date, we discontinued recording interest expense on debt classified
as Liabilities subject to compromise. Contractual interest on all debt, including the portion
classified as Liabilities subject to compromise, amounted to $100 for the six months ended June 30,
2006. As required by SOP 90-7, the amount of the Liabilities subject to compromise represents our
estimate of known or potential pre-petition claims to be addressed in connection with the
Bankruptcy Cases. Such claims are subject to future adjustments. Adjustments may result from,
among other things, negotiations with creditors, rejection of executory contracts and unexpired
leases, and orders of the Bankruptcy Court. Payment terms and amounts for these claims will be
established in connection with the Bankruptcy Cases.
11
The Liabilities subject to compromise in the condensed consolidated and debtor-in-possession
balance sheets consisted of the following items at June 30, 2006:
|
|
|
|
|
Accounts payable |
|
$ |
280 |
|
Pension and postretirement plan obligations |
|
|
1,554 |
|
Debt
(including accrued interest of $38) |
|
|
1,623 |
|
Other |
|
|
502 |
|
|
|
|
|
Consolidated liabilities subject to compromise |
|
|
3,959 |
|
Payables to non-debtor subsidiaries |
|
|
1,486 |
|
|
|
|
|
Debtors liabilities subject to compromise |
|
$ |
5,445 |
|
|
|
|
|
Other includes accrued liabilities for environmental, asbestos, product liability, income tax,
deferred compensation, and lease rejection claims and warranty obligations.
Professional advisory fees and other costs directly associated with the reorganization are
separately reported pursuant to SOP 90-7 as reorganization items. Professional fees include
underwriting fees paid in connection with the DIP Credit Agreement, which were expensed in their
entirety in March 2006. Also included in reorganization items are provisions and adjustments to
reflect the carrying value of certain pre-petition liabilities at their estimated allowable claim
amounts. The debt valuation adjustments and the underwriting fees related to the DIP Credit
Agreement are associated with the initial phase of the reorganization and generally represent
one-time charges.
The reorganization items in the condensed consolidated statements of
operations for the three and six months ended June 30, 2006 consisted of the following items:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Three Months |
|
|
Six Months |
|
|
|
Ended June 30, |
|
|
Ended June 30, |
|
|
|
2006 |
|
|
2006 |
|
Professional fees |
|
$ |
30 |
|
|
$ |
67 |
|
Debt valuation adjustments |
|
|
|
|
|
|
17 |
|
Loss on rejection of leases |
|
|
10 |
|
|
|
11 |
|
Investment income |
|
|
(3 |
) |
|
|
(3 |
) |
Gain on settlement of claims |
|
|
(3 |
) |
|
|
(3 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total
reorganization items |
|
$ |
34 |
|
|
$ |
89 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Debtor-in-Possession Financial Information
In accordance with SOP 90-7, aggregate financial information of the Debtors is presented below as
of and for the three and six months ended June 30, 2006. Inter-company balances between Debtors
and non-debtors are not eliminated. The investment in non-debtor subsidiaries is recorded on an
equity basis and, accordingly, the net loss reported in the Debtor-In-Possession Statement of
Operations is equal to the consolidated net loss.
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DANA CORPORATION
DEBTOR-IN-POSSESSION STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS (Unaudited)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Three Months |
|
|
Six Months |
|
|
|
Ended June 30, |
|
|
Ended June 30, |
|
|
|
2006 |
|
|
2006 |
|
Net sales |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Customers |
|
$ |
1,126 |
|
|
$ |
2,234 |
|
Non-debtor subsidiaries |
|
|
65 |
|
|
|
126 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,191 |
|
|
|
2,360 |
|
Costs and expenses |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cost of sales |
|
|
1,191 |
|
|
|
2,381 |
|
Selling, general and administrative expenses |
|
|
80 |
|
|
|
161 |
|
Other income, net |
|
|
(45 |
) |
|
|
(85 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Loss from operations before interest,
reorganization items and income taxes |
|
|
(35 |
) |
|
|
(97 |
) |
Interest expense (contractual interest of
$39 and $78 for the three and six months
ended June 30, 2006) |
|
|
12 |
|
|
|
43 |
|
Reorganization items, net |
|
|
31 |
|
|
|
86 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Loss before income taxes |
|
|
(78 |
) |
|
|
(226 |
) |
Income tax expense |
|
|
(9 |
) |
|
|
(10 |
) |
Equity in earnings of affiliates |
|
|
(4 |
) |
|
|
(7 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Loss from continuing operations |
|
|
(91 |
) |
|
|
(243 |
) |
Loss from discontinued operations |
|
|
(14 |
) |
|
|
(43 |
) |
Equity in earnings of non-debtor subsidiaries |
|
|
77 |
|
|
|
132 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net loss |
|
$ |
(28 |
) |
|
$ |
(154 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
13
DANA CORPORATION
DEBTOR-IN-POSSESSION BALANCE SHEET (Unaudited)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
June 30, 2006 |
|
Assets |
|
|
|
|
Current assets |
|
|
|
|
Cash and cash equivalents |
|
$ |
282 |
|
Accounts receivable |
|
|
|
|
Trade |
|
|
589 |
|
Other |
|
|
189 |
|
Inventories |
|
|
252 |
|
Assets of discontinued operations |
|
|
247 |
|
Other current assets |
|
|
28 |
|
|
|
|
|
Total current assets |
|
|
1,587 |
|
Investments and other assets |
|
|
1,252 |
|
Investments in equity affiliates |
|
|
566 |
|
Investments in non-debtor subsidiaries |
|
|
3,237 |
|
Property, plant and equipment, net |
|
|
726 |
|
|
|
|
|
Total assets |
|
$ |
7,368 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Liabilities and Shareholders Equity |
|
|
|
|
Current liabilities |
|
|
|
|
Accounts payable |
|
$ |
370 |
|
Liabilities of discontinued operations |
|
|
55 |
|
Other accrued liabilities |
|
|
281 |
|
|
|
|
|
Total current liabilities |
|
|
706 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Liabilities subject to compromise |
|
|
5,445 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Deferred employee benefits and other noncurrent liabilities |
|
|
31 |
|
Debtor-in-possession financing |
|
|
700 |
|
Minority interest in consolidated subsidiaries |
|
|
2 |
|
Shareholders equity |
|
|
484 |
|
|
|
|
|
Total liabilities and shareholders equity |
|
$ |
7,368 |
|
|
|
|
|
14
DANA CORPORATION
DEBTOR-IN-POSSESSION STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS (Unaudited)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Six Months |
|
|
|
Ended June 30, |
|
|
|
2006 |
|
Operating activities |
|
|
|
|
Net income (loss) |
|
$ |
(154 |
) |
Depreciation and amortization |
|
|
60 |
|
Charges related to divestitures and asset sales |
|
|
31 |
|
Reorganization charges |
|
|
86 |
|
Payment of reorganization charges |
|
|
(42 |
) |
Equity in earnings of non-debtor subsidiaries |
|
|
(132 |
) |
Changes in working capital |
|
|
30 |
|
Other |
|
|
41 |
|
|
|
|
|
Net cash flows used for operating activities |
|
|
(80 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Investing activities |
|
|
|
|
Purchases of property, plant and equipment |
|
|
(107 |
) |
Other |
|
|
29 |
|
|
|
|
|
Net cash flows used for investing activities |
|
|
(78 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Financing activities |
|
|
|
|
Proceeds from debtor-in-possession facility |
|
|
700 |
|
Net change in short-term debt |
|
|
(546 |
) |
|
|
|
|
Net cash flows provided by financing activities |
|
|
154 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents |
|
|
(4 |
) |
Cash and cash equivalents beginning of period |
|
|
286 |
|
|
|
|
|
Cash and cash equivalents end of period |
|
$ |
282 |
|
|
|
|
|
15
Note 3. Recent Accounting Pronouncements
In May 2005, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Statement of Financial
Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 154, Accounting Changes and Error Corrections. SFAS No. 154
replaces Accounting Principles Board Opinion (APB) No. 20, Accounting Changes, and SFAS No. 3,
Reporting Accounting Changes in Interim Financial Statements, and requires the direct effects of
accounting principle changes to be retrospectively applied. The existing guidance with respect to
accounting estimate changes and error corrections is carried forward in SFAS No. 154. SFAS No. 154
is effective for accounting changes and corrections made in fiscal years beginning after December
15, 2005. We do not expect SFAS No. 154 to have a material effect on our consolidated financial
statements.
In December 2004, the FASB revised SFAS No. 123, Share-Based Payment (SFAS No. 123(R)), requiring
that the compensation cost relating to share-based payment transactions be recognized in financial
statements. The cost is to be measured based on the fair value of the equity or liability
instruments issued. We adopted SFAS No. 123(R) on January 1, 2006 using the modified prospective
transition method. See Note 6 for information about our equity-based compensation plans.
In December 2004, the FASB issued SFAS No. 151, Inventory Costs, an amendment of ARB No. 43,
Chapter 4. SFAS No. 151, which became effective January 1, 2006, requires the treatment of
certain abnormal costs such as idle facility expense and excessive freight and handling charges as
period expenses and requires that allocation of fixed overhead be based on normal capacity. We
adopted SFAS No. 151 as of January 1, 2006. The new guidance does not have a material effect on
our 2006 consolidated financial statements
In July 2006, the FASB issued FASB Interpretation No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainty in Income
Taxes, an interpretation of FASB Statement No. 109 (FIN
48). FIN 48 prescribes a comprehensive model for how a company should
recognize, measure, present, and disclose in its financial statements
uncertain tax positions that the company has taken or expects to take
on a tax return. FIN 48
will be effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2006. We are currently in the
process of evaluating the effect, if any, FIN 48 will have on our consolidated financial
statements.
In July 2006, the FASB issued FASB Staff Position No. FAS 13-2, Accounting for a Change or
Projected Change in the Timing of Cash Flows Relating to Income Taxes Generated by a Leveraged
Lease Transaction (FSP 13-2), which will require companies to recalculate the income recognition
for a leveraged lease if there is a change or projected change in the timing of income tax cash
flows directly related to the leveraged lease. FSP 13-2 will be effective for fiscal years
beginning after December 15, 2006. We are currently in the process of evaluating the effect, if
any, FSP 13-2 will have on our consolidated financial statements.
Note 4. Common Shares and Preferred Share Purchase Rights
The following table reconciles the average shares outstanding used in determining basic earnings
per share to the number of shares used in the diluted earnings per share calculation for the three
and six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Three Months Ended |
|
Six Months Ended |
|
|
June 30, |
|
June 30, |
|
|
2006 |
|
2005 |
|
2006 |
|
2005 |
Average shares outstanding
for the period basic |
|
|
149.8 |
|
|
|
149.5 |
|
|
|
149.8 |
|
|
|
149.5 |
|
Plus: Incremental shares from: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Deferred compensation units |
|
|
0.5 |
|
|
|
0.7 |
|
|
|
0.5 |
|
|
|
0.6 |
|
Restricted stock |
|
|
|
|
|
|
0.2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
0.3 |
|
Stock options |
|
|
|
|
|
|
0.4 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
0.5 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Potentially dilutive shares |
|
|
0.5 |
|
|
|
1.3 |
|
|
|
0.5 |
|
|
|
1.4 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Average shares outstanding
for the period diluted |
|
|
150.3 |
|
|
|
150.8 |
|
|
|
150.3 |
|
|
|
150.9 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
16
The potentially dilutive shares shown above for the three and six months ended June 30, 2006,
have been excluded from the computation, as the loss from continuing operations for these periods
caused the shares to have an anti-dilutive effect.
In addition, potential common shares of 13.6 and 14.2 for the 2006 and 2005 periods, respectively,
have also been excluded from the computation of earnings per share, as the effect of including them
is anti-dilutive in all periods shown. These shares represent stock options with exercise prices
higher than the average share-trading price of our stock during the respective periods.
Subsequent event Preferred Share Purchase Rights
We have a preferred share purchase rights plan that is designed to deter coercive or unfair
takeover tactics. The plan, which has been in place since 1996, replaced a prior rights plan that
was adopted in 1986 and expired after ten years. The plan is described in Note 2. Preferred
Share Purchase Rights to the consolidated financial statements in our 2005 Form 10-K. Under the
plan, one Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock Purchase Right has been issued on each
share of our common stock outstanding on and after July 25, 1996. The rights issued under the plan
were scheduled to expire on July 25, 2006 under the terms of the Rights Agreement that governs the
plan. On July 18, 2006, our Board adopted an amendment to the Rights Agreement to extend the
expiration date of the rights for another ten years. Consequently, the rights will now expire at
the close of business on July 25, 2016, unless exercised, redeemed or exchanged sooner. The
extension is intended to preserve the status quo and continue the protection provided by the plan
to Dana and all of our stakeholders while we proceed through the reorganization process.
Note 5. Goodwill
Changes in goodwill during the six months ended June 30, 2006, in both the Automotive Systems Group
(ASG) and the Heavy Vehicle Technology Systems Group (HVTSG), were as follows:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Effect of |
|
|
|
|
|
|
December 31, |
|
|
Currency |
|
|
June 30, |
|
|
|
2005 |
|
|
and Other |
|
|
2006 |
|
ASG |
|
$ |
328 |
|
|
$ |
14 |
|
|
$ |
342 |
|
HVTSG |
|
|
111 |
|
|
|
3 |
|
|
|
114 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
|
$ |
439 |
|
|
$ |
17 |
|
|
$ |
456 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Note 6. Equity-Based Compensation
Stock Incentive Plan
Our Stock Incentive Plan (SIP) provides for the issuance of up to 28,850,000 shares of Dana common
stock. Awards may be in the form of stock options, stock appreciation rights (SARs), restricted
stock or units, performance shares or units, stock or other stock-based awards, at the discretion
of the Compensation Committee of our Board.
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Stock Options
All outstanding options under the SIP were granted at exercise prices equal to the market price of
our underlying common shares on the date of the grant. The option grants generally provide that
the options will vest and be exercisable in 25% increments at each of the first four anniversary
dates of the grant and expire ten years from the date of the grant, with vesting accelerated upon
retirement if age and service minimums are met.
The following table contains information about stock options granted, exercised, exercisable and
lapsed or canceled in the six months ended June 30, 2006:
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|
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Weighted Average |
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|
Number |
|
Exercise |
|
Remaining |
|
|
of |
|
Price |
|
Contractual |
|
|
Options |
|
(in $'s) |
|
Life (Years) |
Outstanding at December 31, 2005 |
|
|
15,300,698 |
|
|
$ |
23.83 |
|
|
|
5.9 |
|
Granted |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Exercised |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lapsed or canceled |
|
|
(1,857,903 |
) |
|
$ |
24.77 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Outstanding at June 30, 2006 |
|
|
13,442,795 |
|
|
$ |
23.70 |
|
|
|
5.4 |
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|
|
|
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|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Exercisable at June 30, 2006 |
|
|
12,751,650 |
|
|
$ |
24.42 |
|
|
|
5.3 |
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|
|
|
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|
We adopted SFAS No. 123(R) as of January 1, 2006, using the modified prospective transition
method. Under this method, our share-based compensation expense for the first six months of 2006
includes expense for all share-based awards granted prior to but not vested as of January 1, 2006,
based on the grant date fair value. This expense is recognized on a straight-line basis over the
period during which the employee is required to provide service to earn the award. For the three
and six months ended June 30, 2006, such compensation expense, determined under the fair
value-based method of accounting, totaled $1 and $1 and reduced our earnings per
share by $0.00 and $0.01. Prior to 2006, as allowed by SFAS No. 123, we accounted
for stock options using the intrinsic-value method in APB No. 25. Under that method, no
compensation expense was recognized on the grant date, since the option exercise price equaled the
market price of the underlying common shares on that date. The intrinsic value for options
outstanding and exercisable at June 30, 2006 was nil.
The following table contains information about nonvested stock options granted, vested and
forfeited during the six months ended June 30, 2006:
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Number |
|
Weighted Average |
|
|
of |
|
Grant Date Fair |
|
|
Options |
|
Value (in $'s) |
Nonvested at December 31, 2005 |
|
|
1,370,818 |
|
|
|
3.40 |
|
Granted |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Vested |
|
|
(554,116 |
) |
|
|
3.43 |
|
Forfeited |
|
|
(125,557 |
) |
|
|
3.40 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nonvested at June 30, 2006 |
|
|
691,145 |
|
|
|
3.39 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
At June 30, 2006, there was $2 of total unrecognized compensation cost related to non-vested stock
options, which we expect to recognize over a period of approximately one year. The total fair
value of options that vested during the three and six months ended June 30, 2006, was $2 and $2.
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Prior to 2006, as permitted by SFAS No. 123, we chose the nominal vesting period approach for
recognizing the amount of stock option expense to be included in the pro forma compensation expense
for retirement eligible employees. Under this method, expense was recognized over the four-year
vesting period. Under SFAS No. 123(R), we are required to continue applying this approach for
unvested options granted prior to January 1, 2006, rather than the non-substantive vesting period
approach, where expense recognition is made over the period from grant date to the date retirement
eligibility is achieved, if expected to occur during the nominal vesting period. Our compensation
expense for the three and six months ended June 30, 2006 would have increased $0 and $1 had we utilized the non-substantive vesting period approach for this period.
Under the modified prospective transition method, our financial results for the years prior to 2006
have not been restated. The following table contains information about our stock option expense
for the three and six months ended June 30, 2005 on a pro-forma basis as if we had applied the fair
value recognition provisions of SFAS No. 123(R):
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|
|
|
|
|
|
Three Months Ended |
|
|
Six Months Ended |
|
|
|
June 30, |
|
|
June 30, |
|
|
|
2005 |
|
|
2005 |
|
Stock compensation expense, as reported |
|
$ |
1 |
|
|
$ |
2 |
|
Stock option expense, pro forma |
|
|
3 |
|
|
|
6 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Stock compensation expense, pro forma |
|
$ |
4 |
|
|
$ |
8 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net income, as reported |
|
$ |
30 |
|
|
$ |
46 |
|
Net income, pro forma |
|
|
27 |
|
|
|
40 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Basic earnings per share |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net income, as reported |
|
$ |
0.20 |
|
|
$ |
0.31 |
|
Net income, pro forma |
|
|
0.18 |
|
|
|
0.27 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Diluted earnings per share |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net income, as reported |
|
$ |
0.20 |
|
|
$ |
0.30 |
|
Net income, pro forma |
|
|
0.18 |
|
|
|
0.27 |
|
There were no grants in 2006.
The weighted average fair value of options granted during the three and six months of 2005 was
$3.27 and $4.05 per share under the binomial method, using a weighted average market value at date
of grant of $11.61 and $14.94; and the following weighted average assumptions: risk-free interest rate of 4.07% and 3.91%, a dividend yield of 2.83% and 2.68%,
volatility of 31.50% to 33.07% and 30.71% to 31.50%, expected
forfeitures of 16.70% and 17.33% and an expected option
life of 6.85 and 6.77 years. The total intrinsic value of options exercised during these three-
and six-months periods in 2005 was zero.
On December 1, 2005, our Compensation Committee approved the immediate vesting of all unvested
stock options and SARs granted under the SIP with an option exercise price or an SAR grant price of
$15.00 or more per share. As a result, unvested stock options to purchase 3,584,646 shares of our
common stock, with a weighted average exercise price of $21.97 per share, became exercisable on
December 1, 2005, rather than on the later dates when they would have vested in the normal course.
The decision to accelerate the vesting of these stock options and SARs was made to reduce the
compensation expense that we would have otherwise been required to record following our adoption of
SFAS No. 123(R). If the vesting of these stock options and SARs
had not been accelerated, we would have expected to recognize an incremental share-based compensation expense of
approximately $19 in the aggregate from 2006 through 2009. As a result of the acceleration, the
stock option expense reported for the six months ended June 30, 2006 was substantially lower than
the amount disclosed for the comparable period in 2005.
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Restricted Shares and Restricted Stock Units
Restricted shares and restricted stock units granted under the SIP are subject to forfeiture until
the restrictions lapse or terminate. At December 31, 2005, there were 250,000 restricted shares
and 50,000 restricted stock units outstanding, with an aggregate fair value of approximately $6.
Unrecognized compensation for these shares and units was $2 at June 30, 2006. We expect to
recognize that amount in 2006 to 2010. No restricted shares or restricted stock units were granted
in the first six months of 2006. Claims with respect to restricted stock units that were not
vested prior to our bankruptcy filing are pre-petition claims.
Performance Stock Awards (Performance Shares)
Performance shares awarded under the SIP will vest if Dana achieves certain pre-established
performance goals selected by the Compensation Committee over two three-year performance periods
(2004-2006 and 2005-2007). Generally, the employee must be actively employed with Dana at the end
of the performance period for his performance shares to vest. Upon vesting, certain of the
performance share awards will be payable in cash, while others will be payable in shares of Dana
common stock. At December 31, 2005, there were 627,031 performance shares outstanding, 280,520
payable in stock and 346,511 payable in cash. No performance shares were granted in the first six
months of 2006. We recorded compensation expense of $1 and $1 for the three and six months ended
June 30, 2005 with respect to the performance shares. No expense was recorded in the first six
months of 2006, as we no longer expect the performance goals to be met for either three-year
performance period.
1999 Restricted Stock Plan
The Compensation Committee may also grant restricted shares to key employees under our 1999
Restricted Stock Plan (1999 RSP). These shares are subject to forfeiture until the restrictions
lapse or terminate. Generally, the employee must remain employed by Dana for at least three years
after the date of grant to avoid forfeiting the shares. Historically, dividends have been credited
on granted restricted shares in the form of additional restricted shares.
Before 2005, participants in the 1999 RSP could elect to convert their unvested restricted stock
into an equal number of restricted stock units under certain conditions. The 1999 RSP provides
that such units be credited with the equivalent of dividends and be payable in unrestricted stock
upon the employees retirement or termination of employment unless subject to forfeiture at such
time. Claims with respect to restricted stock units granted under the 1999 RSP that vested prior to
our bankruptcy filing are pre-petition claims.
The following table contains information about the restricted shares granted, vested and forfeited
under the 1999 RSP in the six months ended June 30, 2006:
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Weighted Average |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Grant Date |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fair Value |
|
|
Shares |
|
Balance, beginning of period |
|
$ |
16.64 |
|
|
|
815,070 |
|
Granted |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Vested |
|
|
17.42 |
|
|
|
(129,392 |
) |
Forfeited |
|
|
17.41 |
|
|
|
(95,487 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Balance, end
of period |
|
$ |
16.34 |
|
|
|
590,191 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The aggregate fair value of the restricted shares that vested in the three and six months
ended June 30, 2006 was less than $1. Compensation expense recognized under the 1999 RSP with
respect to these shares was less than $1 in these two periods. The remaining unrecognized
compensation related to these shares totaled $4 at June 30, 2006. We expect to recognize that
amount in 2006 through 2011.
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Note 7. Pension and Postretirement Benefit Plans
Components of net periodic benefit costs for the three and six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005
were as follows:
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|
|
Three Months Ended |
|
|
Six Months Ended |
|
|
|
June 30, |
|
|
June 30, |
|
|
|
2006 |
|
|
2005 |
|
|
2006 |
|
|
2005 |
|
Pension Benefits |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Service cost |
|
$ |
11 |
|
|
$ |
13 |
|
|
$ |
23 |
|
|
$ |
26 |
|
Interest cost |
|
|
41 |
|
|
|
40 |
|
|
|
82 |
|
|
|
80 |
|
Expected return on plan assets |
|
|
(50 |
) |
|
|
(52 |
) |
|
|
(101 |
) |
|
|
(104 |
) |
Amortization of prior service cost |
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
2 |
|
|
|
2 |
|
Recognized net actuarial loss |
|
|
8 |
|
|
|
6 |
|
|
|
16 |
|
|
|
12 |
|
Loss on settlements |
|
|
7 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
11 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net periodic benefit cost |
|
$ |
18 |
|
|
$ |
8 |
|
|
$ |
33 |
|
|
$ |
16 |
|
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Other Benefits |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Service cost |
|
$ |
3 |
|
|
$ |
3 |
|
|
$ |
6 |
|
|
$ |
6 |
|
Interest cost |
|
|
23 |
|
|
|
25 |
|
|
|
45 |
|
|
|
50 |
|
Amortization of prior service cost |
|
|
(3 |
) |
|
|
(3 |
) |
|
|
(7 |
) |
|
|
(6 |
) |
Recognized net actuarial loss |
|
|
10 |
|
|
|
9 |
|
|
|
20 |
|
|
|
18 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net periodic benefit cost |
|
$ |
33 |
|
|
$ |
34 |
|
|
$ |
64 |
|
|
$ |
68 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Based on the amount of lump sum payments of pension benefits during the six months ended June
30, 2006, we recognized settlement costs of $11, representing a
portion of the previously unrecognized net actuarial loss.
Note 8. Comprehensive Income
Comprehensive income (loss) includes net income (loss) and components of other comprehensive income (loss),
such as foreign currency translation gains and losses that are charged or
credited directly to shareholders equity. The components of our total comprehensive loss for the
three and six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005 follow:
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|
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|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Three Months |
|
|
Six Months |
|
|
|
Ended June 30, |
|
|
Ended June 30, |
|
|
|
2006 |
|
|
2005 |
|
|
2006 |
|
|
2005 |
|
Net income (loss) |
|
$ |
(28 |
) |
|
$ |
30 |
|
|
$ |
(154 |
) |
|
$ |
46 |
|
Other comprehensive income (loss): |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Deferred translation gain (loss) |
|
|
57 |
|
|
|
(58 |
) |
|
|
90 |
|
|
|
(118 |
) |
Other |
|
|
(2 |
) |
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
5 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total comprehensive income (loss) |
|
$ |
27 |
|
|
$ |
(27 |
) |
|
$ |
(64 |
) |
|
$ |
(67 |
) |
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|
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|
The $57 deferred translation gain reported for the three months ended June 30, 2006 was
primarily the result of the strengthening of the euro ($44), Canadian dollar ($16) and British
pound ($14) relative to the U.S. dollar. These gains were partially offset by the effects of a
weaker South African rand ($7) and Mexican peso ($4). The $90 deferred gain for the six months
ended June 30, 2006 was due largely to a stronger euro ($60), Brazilian real ($23), British pound
($15) and Canadian dollar ($14). The South African rand ($6) and Mexican peso ($4) both lost value
relative to the U.S. dollar, partially offsetting the gains.
The deferred translation loss reported for the three months ended June 30, 2005 was $58. The
decline in the euro ($57), British pound ($10) and Swedish krona ($7) accounted for the largest
components of the quarterly change. The same currencies were primarily responsible for the $118
deferred loss for the six months ended June 30, 2005. The euro ($97), British pound ($49), Swedish
krona ($12) and Canadian dollar ($9) all fell in value relative to the U.S. dollar. These effects
were partially offset by the impact of a stronger Brazilian real ($30).
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Note 9. Cash Deposits
At June 30, 2006, we maintained cash deposits of $111, to provide
credit enhancement for certain lease agreements and to support surety bonds that allow us to
self-insure our workers compensation obligations. These financial instruments are typically
renewed each year and are recorded in Cash and cash equivalents.
In most jurisdictions, these cash payments can be withdrawn if we provide comparable
security in the form of letters of credit. Our banking facilities
provide for the issuance of letters of credit and the availability at
June 30, 2006 was adequate to cover the amounts on deposit.
Note 10. Financing Agreements
DCC Notes
At June 30, 2006, long-term debt at DCC included medium-term and private placement notes (the DCC
Notes) totaling $399, including $275 outstanding under a $500 Medium Term Note Program established
during 1999. The DCC Notes are general, unsecured obligations of DCC. Following Danas bankruptcy
filing, the holders of a majority of the DCC Notes formed an Ad Hoc Committee of Noteholders with
which DCC has been discussing the potential for restructuring the DCC Notes. A successful outcome
of DCCs efforts to complete a restructuring of the DCC Notes with the Ad Hoc Committee and its
other noteholders cannot be assured. See Note 14 for further information.
Debt Reclassification
Danas bankruptcy filing triggered the immediate acceleration of the Debtors direct financial
obligations including, among others, outstanding non-secured notes issued under our Indentures
dated as of December 15, 1997; August 8, 2001; March 11, 2002 and December 10, 2004, and DCCs
obligations under the DCC Notes. The amounts accelerated under our Indentures are characterized as
unsecured debt for purposes of the reorganization proceedings. The related Debtor obligations of
$1,585 have been classified as Liabilities subject to compromise (see Note 2), and the unsecured
DCC notes have been classified as part of the current portion of long-term debt in our condensed
consolidated balance sheet. As a result of the first quarter 2006 agreement to sell DCCs interest
in a limited partnership, $55 of DCC non-recourse debt expected to be assumed by the buyer has been
classified as a current liability. Certain non-U.S. borrowings totaling $16 continue to be
classified as Long-term debt.
DIP Credit Agreement
Dana, as borrower, and our debtor U.S. subsidiaries, as guarantors, are parties to a Senior Secured
Superpriority Debtor-in-Possession Credit Agreement (the DIP Credit Agreement) with Citicorp North
America, Inc., Bank of America, N.A. and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. as lenders. The DIP Credit
Agreement, as amended, was approved by the Bankruptcy Court in March 2006. The aggregate amount of
the facility is $1,450, including a $750 revolving credit facility (of which $400 is available for
the issuance of letters of credit) and a $700 term loan facility.
All of the loans and other obligations under the DIP Credit Agreement will be due and payable on
the earlier of 24 months after the effective date of the DIP Credit Agreement or the consummation
of a plan of reorganization under the Bankruptcy Code. Prior to maturity, Dana will be required to
make mandatory prepayments under the DIP Credit Agreement in the event that loans and letters of
credit exceed the available commitments, and from the proceeds of certain asset sales, unless
reinvested. Such
prepayments, if required, are to be applied first to the term loan facility and second to the
revolving credit facility with a permanent reduction in the amount of the commitments thereunder.
Interest under the DIP Credit Agreement will accrue, at Danas option, either at the London
interbank offered rate (LIBOR) plus a per annum margin of 2.25% for both the term loan facility and
the revolving credit facility or the prime rate plus a per annum margin of 1.25% for both
facilities. Dana will pay a fee for issued and undrawn letters of credit in an amount per annum
equal to the LIBOR margin applicable to the revolving credit facility and a per annum fronting fee
of 25 basis points. Dana will also pay a commitment fee of 0.375% per annum for unused committed
amounts under the revolving credit facility.
The DIP Credit Agreement is guaranteed by substantially all of Danas domestic subsidiaries,
excluding DCC. As collateral, Dana and each of its guarantor subsidiaries has granted a security
interest in and lien on effectively all of its assets, including a pledge of 66% of the equity
interests of each material foreign subsidiary directly or indirectly owned by Dana.
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Under the DIP Credit Agreement, Dana and each of its subsidiaries (other than certain excluded
subsidiaries) are required to comply with customary covenants for facilities of this type. These
include (i) affirmative covenants as to corporate existence, compliance with laws, insurance,
payment of taxes, access to books and records, use of proceeds, retention of a restructuring
advisor and financial advisor, maintenance of cash management systems, use of proceeds, priority of
liens in favor of the lenders, maintenance of properties and monthly,
quarterly, annual and other reporting obligations, and (ii) negative covenants, including
limitations on liens, additional indebtedness (beyond that permitted by the agreement), guaranties, dividends, transactions with affiliates,
claims in its bankruptcy proceedings, investments, asset dispositions, nature of business, payment
of pre-petition obligations, capital expenditures, mergers and consolidations, amendments to
constituent documents, accounting changes, and limitations on restrictions affecting subsidiaries
and sale-leasebacks.
Additionally, the DIP Credit Agreement requires us to (i) maintain a minimum amount of consolidated
earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization, restructuring and reorganization costs
(EBITDAR), for each period beginning on March 1, 2006 and ending on the last day of each month from
May 2006 through February 2007, and (ii) a rolling 12-month cumulative EBITDAR for Dana and our
direct and indirect subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, beginning on March 31, 2007 and ending
on February 28, 2008, at levels set forth in the DIP Credit Agreement. We must also maintain
minimum availability of $100 under the DIP Credit Agreement at all times. The DIP Credit Agreement
provides for certain events of default customary for debtor-in-possession financings of this type including cross default with other indebtedness.
Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any event of default under the DIP Credit
Agreement, interest on all outstanding amounts would be payable on demand at 2% above the then
applicable rate. We were in compliance with the requirements of the agreement at June 30, 2006.
In
March 2006, we borrowed $700 under the $1,450 DIP Credit Agreement and used the proceeds to pay off
debt obligations outstanding under our prior five-year bank facility (which had provided us with
$400 in borrowing capacity), our accounts receivable securitization program (which had provided us
with up to $275 borrowing capacity to meet periodic demand for short-term financing), and certain
other pre-petition obligations, as well as to provide for working capital and general corporate
expenses. As of June 30, 2006, we have utilized $239 of the net availability under the facility for the issuance of letters of credit.
Canadian Credit Agreement
In June 2006, Dana Canada Corporation (Dana Canada), as borrower, and certain of its Canadian
affiliates, as guarantors, entered into a Credit Agreement (the Canadian Credit Agreement) with
Citibank Canada, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Toronto Branch, and Bank of America, N.A., Canada
Branch, as issuing banks. The Canadian Credit Agreement provides for a $100 revolving credit
facility, of which $5 is available for the issuance of letters of credit. At June 30, 2006, there
were no borrowings under the Canadian Credit Agreement.
All of the loans and other obligations under the Canadian Credit Agreement will be due and payable
on the earlier of (i) 24 months after the effective date of the Canadian Credit Agreement or (ii)
the termination of the DIP Credit Agreement. Prior to maturity, Dana Canada will be required to
make mandatory prepayments under the Canadian Credit Agreement in the event that loans and letters
of credit exceed the available commitments.
Interest under the Canadian Credit Agreement will accrue, at Dana Canadas option, either at (i)
LIBOR plus a per annum margin of 2.25% or (ii) the prime rate in Toronto plus a per annum margin of
1.25%. Dana Canada will pay a fee for issued and undrawn letters of credit in an amount per annum
equal to 2.25%. Dana Canada will also pay a commitment fee of 0.375% per annum for unused
committed amounts under the facility.
The Canadian Credit Agreement is guaranteed by substantially all of the Canadian affiliates of Dana
Canada. As collateral, Dana Canada and each of its guarantor affiliates
has granted a security interest in and lien on effectively all of its assets, including a pledge of
66% of the equity interests of each direct foreign subsidiary owned by Dana Canada and each of its
Canadian affiliates.
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Under the Canadian Credit Agreement, Dana Canada and each of its Canadian affiliates will be
required to comply with customary affirmative covenants for facilities of this type, including
covenants as to corporate existence, compliance with laws, insurance, payment of taxes, access to
books and records, use of proceeds, maintenance of cash management systems, priority of liens in
favor of the lenders, maintenance of properties and monthly, quarterly, annual and other reporting
obligations. Dana Canada and each of its Canadian affiliates will also be required to comply with
customary negative covenants for facilities of this type, including limitations on liens,
additional indebtedness, guarantees, dividends, transactions with affiliates, investments, asset
dispositions, nature of business, capital expenditures, mergers and consolidations, amendments to
constituent documents, accounting changes, restrictions affecting subsidiaries, and sale and
lease-backs. In addition, Dana Canada must maintain a minimum availability under the Canadian
Credit Agreement of $20.
The Canadian Credit Agreement provides for certain events of default customary for facilities of
this type including cross default with the DIP Credit Agreement. Upon the occurrence and continuance of an event of default, Dana Canadas lenders may
have the right, among other things, to terminate their commitments under the Canadian Credit
Agreement, accelerate the repayment of all of Dana Canadas obligations thereunder and foreclose on
the collateral granted to them. As of June 30, 2006, there were no borrowings under this
agreement.
Note 11. Income Taxes
Income taxes are accounted for in accordance with SFAS No. 109, Accounting for Income Taxes.
Current and deferred income tax assets and liabilities are recognized based on events which have
occurred and are measured under enacted tax laws. Based on our recent history of losses in the
U.S. and our near-term prospects for continued losses, we established a 100% valuation allowance
against our U.S. deferred tax assets in the third quarter of 2005. Deferred tax assets resulting
from subsequent U.S. losses have been offset by increases in the valuation allowances, effectively
eliminating the benefit of those losses.
Since we no longer recognize income tax benefits on our U.S. losses, the income tax expense of $36
and $58 for the three and six months ended June 30, 2006 differs from $0 provision and a $32 tax
benefit for the three and six months ended June 30, 2006 that would be expected using a U.S.
federal statutory tax rate of 35%. With no U.S. tax benefit, the income tax expense reflected in
the condensed consolidated financial statements for the three and six months ended June 30, 2006,
is primarily the tax on profits of our non-U.S. operations at the expected annual effective tax
rates.
We
recognized $4 of income tax expense and $2 of income tax benefits for the three and six months
ended June 30, 2005 as compared to tax expenses of $7 and $7 that would have been expected using a
U.S. federal statutory rate of 35%. The tax benefits resulted primarily from the release of
valuation allowances against certain deferred tax assets and lower rates on international income,
partially offset by higher tax expenses resulting from enactment of a new tax system in the State
of Ohio.
Note 12. Commitments and Contingencies
Impact of Our Bankruptcy Filing
Under the Bankruptcy Code, the filing of our petition on March 3, 2006 automatically stayed most
actions against us. Substantially all of our pre-petition liabilities will be addressed under our plan of reorganization, if not otherwise addressed pursuant to orders of the Bankruptcy Court.
Class Action Lawsuit and Derivative Actions
Dana and certain of our current and former officers are defendants in a consolidated securities
class action pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. The plaintiffs
in this action allege violations of the U.S. securities laws and claim that the price at which
Danas shares traded at various times between February 2004 and November 2005 was artificially
inflated as a result of the defendants alleged wrongdoing. We expect that a consolidated amended
complaint will be filed in August 2006 in which Dana will not be named as a defendant. Two
shareholder derivative actions are also pending in the same court naming our current directors,
certain former directors and certain current and former officers as defendants. Among other
things, the plaintiffs in these actions allege breaches of the defendants fiduciary duties to Dana
arising from the same facts on which the consolidated class action is based. These claims have
been stayed. In addition, the plaintiff in one of these actions has asserted class claims
characterizing Danas bankruptcy filing as having been made in bad faith. Defendants intend to
move to dismiss or stay these claims. A hearing on this motion has been set for January 2007. Due
to the preliminary nature of these lawsuits, at this time we cannot predict their outcome or
estimate Danas potential exposure related thereto. While we have insurance coverage with respect
to these matters and do not currently believe that any liabilities that may result from these
proceedings are reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on our liquidity, financial
condition or results of operations, there can be no assurance that the impact of any loss not
covered by insurance would not be material.
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SEC Investigation
In September 2005, we reported that management was investigating accounting matters arising out of
incorrect entries related to a customer agreement in our Commercial Vehicle business unit, and that
our Audit Committee had engaged outside counsel to conduct an independent investigation of these
matters as well. Outside counsel informed the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the
investigation, which ended in December 2005, about when we filed restated financial statements for
the first two quarters of 2005 and the years 2002 through 2004. In January 2006, we learned that
the SEC had issued a formal order of investigation with respect to matters related to our
restatements. The SECs investigation is a non-public, fact-finding inquiry to determine whether
any violations of the law have occurred. This investigation has not been suspended as a result of
our bankruptcy filing. We are continuing to cooperate fully with the SEC in the investigation.
Legal Proceedings Arising in the Ordinary Course of Business
We are a party to various pending judicial and administrative proceedings arising in the ordinary
course of business. These include, among others, proceedings based on product liability claims and
alleged violations of environmental laws. We have reviewed these pending legal proceedings,
including the probable outcomes, our reasonably anticipated costs and expenses, the availability
and limits of our insurance coverage and surety bonds and our established reserves for uninsured
liabilities. We do not believe that any liabilities
that may result from these proceedings are reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on
our liquidity, financial condition or results of operations.
Tax Matters
We are involved in various tax matters, including transactions for which the related tax
regulations are relatively new and/or subject to interpretation. A number of years may elapse
before a particular matter is audited and a tax adjustment is proposed by the taxing authority.
The years with open tax audits vary depending on the tax jurisdiction. We establish a liability
when the payment of additional taxes related to certain matters is considered probable and the
amount is reasonably estimable. We adjust these liabilities, including the related interest and
penalties, in light of changing facts and circumstances, such as the progress of a tax audit.
These liabilities are recorded in Other accrued liabilities in our condensed consolidated balance
sheet. Favorable resolution of tax matters for which a liability had previously been recorded
would result in a reduction of income tax expense when payment of the tax is no longer considered
probable.
Asbestos-Related Product Liabilities
Under the Bankruptcy Code, our pending asbestos-related product liability lawsuits have been stayed
during our reorganization process and claimants may not commence new lawsuits against us for
pre-petition claims. However, proofs of additional asbestos claims may be filed in the Bankruptcy
Cases either voluntarily by claimants or if a bar date is established for asbestos claims. The
claims bar date order entered by the Bankruptcy Court on July 19, 2006 does not set a deadline for
claimants asserting asbestos-related personal injury claims to file proofs of claim. However,
claims alleging potential asbestos-related liability by insurers or other third parties who are not
one of the allegedly injured individuals or one of their personal representatives, and any claims
for property damage, must be filed by September 21, 2006. Our obligations with respect to asbestos
claims will be resolved pursuant to our plan of reorganization, if not otherwise addressed pursuant
to orders of the Bankruptcy Court.
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We had approximately 76,000 active pending asbestos-related product liability claims at June 30,
2006, compared to 77,000 at December 31, 2005, including 9,000 and 10,000 claims, respectively,
that were settled but awaiting final documentation and payment. We had accrued $96 for indemnity
and defense costs for pending asbestos-related product liability claims at June 30, 2006, compared
to $98 at December 31, 2005. We accrue for pending claims based on our claims settlement and
dismissal history.
The methodology we use for projecting future asbestos-related product claims and costs is described
in our 2005 Form 10-K. Based on this analysis, we estimated our potential liability through 2020
to be within a range of $70 to $120. Since the outcomes within that range are equally probable,
the accrual at June 30, 2006 represents the lower end of the range. While the process of
estimating future demands is highly uncertain beyond 2020, we believe there are reasonable
scenarios in which our expenditures related to asbestos-related
product liability claims after that date would be
de minimis.
At June 30, 2006, we had recorded $79 as an asset for probable recovery from our insurers for the
pending and projected claims, compared to $78 at December 31, 2005. The asset recorded reflects
our assessment of the capacity of our current insurance agreements to provide for the payment of
anticipated defense and indemnity costs for pending claims and
projected future demands. These recoveries assume elections under our existing coverage which we intend to adopt in order to maximize our insurance
recovery. The asset recorded does not
represent the limits of our insurance coverage, but rather the amount we would expect to recover if
we paid the accrued indemnity and defense costs.
At December 31, 2005, we had recorded a receivable of $8 in connection with an October 2005
settlement agreement with one of our insurers. We received a payment of $2 in the first quarter of
2006 and $6 in the second quarter of 2006. Proceeds from insurance commutations are first applied
to reduce any recorded recoverable amount. Any excess over the recoverable amount is evaluated to
assess whether any portion of the excess represents payments by the insurer for potential future
liabilities.
In addition, we had a net amount recoverable from our insurers and others of $14 at June 30, 2006
compared to $15 at December 31, 2005. This recoverable represents reimbursements for settled
asbestos-related product liability claims, including billings in progress and amounts subject to
alternate dispute resolution proceedings with some of our insurers. As a result of the stay in our
asbestos litigation during the reorganization process, we do not expect to make any asbestos
payments in the near term. However, we are continuing to pursue insurance collections with respect
to asbestos-related amounts paid prior to the Filing Date.
Other Product Liabilities
We had accrued $8 for contingent non-asbestos product liability costs at June 30, 2006, compared to
$13 at December 31, 2005, with no recovery expected from third parties at either date. We estimate
these liabilities based on assumptions about the value of the claims and about the likelihood of
recoveries against us, derived from our historical experience and current information. If there is
a range of equally probable outcomes, we accrue the lower end of the range. The difference between
our minimum and maximum estimates for these liabilities was $10 at both dates.
Environmental Liabilities
We had accrued $59 for contingent environmental liabilities at June 30, 2006, compared to $63 at
December 31, 2005. We estimate these liabilities based on the most probable method of remediation,
current laws and regulations and existing technology. Estimates are made on an undiscounted basis
and exclude the effects of inflation. If there is a range of equally probable remediation methods
or outcomes, we accrue the lower end of the range. The difference between our minimum and maximum
estimates for these liabilities was $1 at both dates.
Included in these accruals are amounts relating to the Hamilton Avenue Industrial Park Superfund
site in New Jersey, where we are presently one of four potentially responsible parties. Our
estimated liabilities for the three Operable Units (OUs) at this site at June 30, 2006 remained
unchanged from our estimates at December 31, 2005: $1 for future remedial work and past costs
incurred by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) at OU 1 relating to off-site
soil contamination; $14 for future remedial work at OU 2 relating to on-site soil contamination;
and less than $1 at OU 3 for the costs of a remedial investigation and feasibility study (RI/FS)
pertaining to groundwater contamination. Our obligations at this site occurred before the Filing
Date and we believe they constitute pre-petition liabilities. Consequently, we have discontinued
our work in connection with the RI/FS at OU 3 and informed the EPA that, as an unsecured creditor,
it will receive notice of the bar date for filing a proof of claim.
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Other Liabilities Related to Asbestos Claims
Until 2001, most of our asbestos-related claims were administered, defended and settled by the
Center for Claims Resolution (the CCR), which settled claims for its member companies on a shared
settlement cost basis. In that year, the CCR was reorganized and discontinued negotiating shared
settlements. Since then, we have independently controlled our legal strategy and settlements using
Peterson Asbestos Consulting Enterprise (PACE), a unit of Navigant Consulting, Inc., to administer
our claims, bill our insurance carriers and assist us in claims negotiation and resolution. Some former CCR members defaulted on the payment of their shares of some of the CCR-negotiated
settlements and some of the settling claimants have sought payment of the unpaid shares from Dana
and the other companies that were members of the CCR at the time of the settlements. We have been
working with the CCR, other former CCR members, our insurers and the claimants over a period of
several years in an effort to resolve these issues. Through June 30, 2006, we had paid $47 to
claimants and collected $29 from our insurance carriers with respect to these claims. At June 30,
2006, we had a net receivable of $13 that we expect to recover from available insurance and surety
bonds relating to these claims. We are continuing to pursue insurance collections with respect to
asbestos-related amounts paid prior to the filing of our bankruptcy petition.
Assumptions
The amounts we have recorded for contingent asbestos-related liabilities and recoveries are based
on assumptions and estimates reasonably derived from our historical experience and current
information. The actual amount of our liability for asbestos-related claims and the effect on us
could differ materially from our current expectations if our assumptions about the outcome of the
pending unresolved bodily injury claims, the volume and outcome of projected future bodily injury
claims, the outcome of claims relating to the CCR-negotiated settlements, the costs to resolve
these claims and the amount of available insurance and surety bonds prove to be incorrect, or if
currently proposed U.S. federal legislation impacting asbestos personal injury claims is enacted.
Although we have projected our liability for asbestos-related product liability claims that may be
brought against us in the future based upon historical trend data that we deem to be reliable,
there can be no assurance that our actual liability will not differ from what we currently project.
Note 13. Warranty Obligations
We record a liability for estimated warranty obligations at the time our products are sold.
Adjustments are made as new information becomes available. Changes in our warranty liabilities are
as follows:
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Ended June 30, |
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Ended June 30, |
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2006 |
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2005 |
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2006 |
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2005 |
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Balance, beginning of period |
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$ |
95 |
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$ |
72 |
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$ |
91 |
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$ |
80 |
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Amounts accrued for current period sales |
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10 |
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7 |
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25 |
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15 |
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Adjustments of prior accrual estimates |
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1 |
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(2 |
) |
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1 |
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(3 |
) |
Change in accounting |
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(6 |
) |
Settlements of warranty claims |
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(12 |
) |
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(11 |
) |
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(24 |
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(19 |
) |
Foreign currency translation |
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1 |
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(1 |
) |
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2 |
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(2 |
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Balance, end of period |
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$ |
95 |
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$ |
65 |
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$ |
95 |
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$ |
65 |
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In June 2005, we changed our method of accounting for warranty liabilities from estimating the
liability based on the credit issued to the customer to accounting for the warranty liabilities
based on our costs to settle the claim. Management believes that this is a change
to a preferable method in that it more accurately reflects the cost of settling the warranty
liability. In accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, the $6 pre-tax cumulative
effect of the change was effective as of January 1, 2005 and was reflected in the financial
statements for the six months ended June 30, 2005. Warranty obligations that are not subject to
compromise are reported as Other accrued liabilities in the condensed consolidated balance sheet.
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Note 14. Divestitures, Discontinued Operations and Realignment of Operations
Divestitures
Dana Credit Corporation
DCC has been divesting its businesses and assets in accordance with plans originally announced in
October 2001, and these activities continued during the first half of 2006 as DCC sold assets in
individually structured transactions. DCC reduced its assets to $475 at June 30, 2006, primarily
through asset sales and normal portfolio runoff, and we recognized after-tax gains and losses
during the first half of 2005 and 2006 as shown in the table below.
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Six Months |
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Ended June 30, |
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Ended June 30, |
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2006 |
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2005 |
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2006 |
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2005 |
Asset reduction |
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$ |
35 |
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$ |
115 |
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$ |
85 |
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$ |
190 |
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After-tax gain (loss) |
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$ |
(1 |
) |
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$ |
3 |
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$ |
(10 |
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$ |
4 |
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In February 2006, DCC signed a purchase and sale agreement to sell its remaining interest in a
limited partnership that owns and operates a hotel, apartment and commercial complex. Accordingly,
in the first quarter of 2006, DCC recorded a $14 provision to reduce
the asset carrying value to $95, the fair value less cost to sell based upon the agreed selling price. An additional
provision of $1 was recorded in the second quarter. The partnership also includes $55 of
nonrecourse debt that will be assumed by the buyer at time of sale. As the transaction is expected
to close by September 30, 2006, the investment and nonrecourse debt have been reclassified to
current accounts.
Subsequent event Dana Credit Corporation
Following
Danas bankruptcy filing, the holders of the majority of the outstanding principal amount
of DCC Notes formed an Ad Hoc Committee, which asserted that the DCC Notes became immediately due
and payable as a result of the filing. DCC has been engaged in ongoing discussions with the Ad Hoc
Committee regarding a forbearance agreement.
DCC and the Ad Hoc Committee are currently negotiating a forbearance agreement under
which DCC will undertake to use commercially reasonable efforts to sell its lease and other
portfolio assets over a period of 24 months and use the proceeds to make payments to the holders of
the DCC Notes who agree to forbear. Accordingly, the sale of DCCs assets could occur on a more expedited basis than had been
previously anticipated and DCC would no longer expect to retain certain assets for extended periods
of time. In that event, based on current market conditions, interest rates and other factors
impacting the market value of DCCs assets, we would expect to receive estimated asset sale
proceeds in the range of $200 to $300 for DCCs remaining assets, which have a net book value of
$475. If and when a forbearance agreement is executed that results in
a decision to sell these assets we would record an impairment based
on the terms of the agreement and the fair value of the assets, less cost to
sell. We would not recognize a tax benefit for this expected pre-tax loss because of the
uncertainty about our ability to realize this tax benefit (see Note 11).
Discontinued Operations
The engine hard parts, fluid products and pump products businesses that we intend to divest in 2006
are aggregated and presented as discontinued operations. In the motions and affidavits presented
to the Bankruptcy Court on the Filing Date, Dana advised the court of its plan to sell the
discontinued operations, and the anticipated proceeds were included in the court-approved DIP
Credit Agreement budget. Any final sale will be subject to Bankruptcy Court approval.
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The results of the discontinued operations for the three and six months ended June 30, 2006 and
2005 are as follows:
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Three Months Ended |
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Six Months Ended |
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June 30, |
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June 30, |
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2006 |
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2005 |
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2006 |
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2005 |
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Sales |
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$ |
328 |
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$ |
330 |
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$ |
653 |
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$ |
665 |
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Cost of sales |
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307 |
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308 |
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607 |
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625 |
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Selling, general and administrative expenses |
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15 |
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19 |
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33 |
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38 |
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Other expense (income) , net |
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3 |
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32 |
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(1 |
) |
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Income (loss) before income taxes |
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3 |
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3 |
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(19 |
) |
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3 |
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Income tax benefit |
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1 |
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1 |
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2 |
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Income (loss) from discontinued operations |
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$ |
3 |
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$ |
4 |
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$ |
(18 |
) |
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$ |
5 |
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In 2005, we had reduced the carrying
value of certain businesses comprising our discontinued operations to fair value less costs to
sell. During the first and second quarters of 2006, we monitored changes in both the expected
proceeds and the underlying net assets to determine whether additional adjustments were appropriate.
Capital expenditures and currency fluctuations combined caused net assets to increase in the second
quarter after decreasing slightly in the first quarter. These businesses also experienced increases
in raw material costs which reduced both the gross margins of the discontinued operations and the
proceeds anticipated from the related divestitures. As a result of these changes, we recorded net
non-cash adjustments in Other expense of $(3) and $21 in the three months and six months ended
June 30, 2006 to adjust these assets to their fair value less costs to sell and we recorded
transaction costs of $3 and $10. Tax benefits of these adjustments were $3 and $5 in the
three months and six months ended June 30, 2006.
The assets and liabilities of discontinued operations reported in the condensed consolidated
balance sheet as of June 30, 2006 and December 31, 2005 consisted of the following:
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June 30, |
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December 31, |
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2006 |
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2005 |
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Assets of discontinued operations: |
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Accounts receivable |
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$ |
265 |
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$ |
212 |
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Inventories |
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134 |
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141 |
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Cash and other current assets |
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12 |
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7 |
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Goodwill |
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4 |
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Investments and other assets |
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77 |
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101 |
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Investments in leases |
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7 |
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8 |
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Property, plant and equipment |
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21 |
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48 |
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Total assets of discontinued operations |
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$ |
516 |
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$ |
521 |
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Liabilities of discontinued operations |
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Accounts payable |
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$ |
113 |
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$ |
123 |
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Accrued payroll and employee benefits |
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41 |
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|
40 |
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Other current liabilities |
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29 |
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30 |
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Other noncurrent liabilities |
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8 |
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8 |
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Total liabilities of discontinued operations |
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$ |
191 |
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$ |
201 |
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In the condensed consolidated statement of cash flows, the cash flows of discontinued
operations are not separately classified or aggregated. They are reported in the respective categories of the condensed consolidated statement of cash flows along with those of our continuing
operations.
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Realignment of Operations
The following summarizes the charges and payments for the realignment activity recorded in our
continuing operations for the six months ended June 30, 2006:
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Employee |
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Termination |
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Exit |
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Benefits |
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Costs |
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Total |
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Balance at December 31, 2005 |
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$ |
41 |
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$ |
15 |
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$ |
56 |
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Activity during the quarter |
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Charges to expense |
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3 |
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3 |
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Adjustment of accrual |
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(1 |
) |
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(1 |
) |
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(2 |
) |
Adjustments due to bankruptcy |
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(2 |
) |
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(2 |
) |
Cash payments |
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(4 |
) |
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(2 |
) |
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(6 |
) |
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Balance at June 30, 2006 |
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$ |
36 |
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|
$ |
13 |
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$ |
49 |
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At June 30, 2006, $49 of restructuring charges remained in accrued liabilities. This balance
was comprised of $36 for the reduction of approximately 1,350 employees to be completed in 2006 and
$13 for lease terminations and other exit costs. The estimated annual cash expenditures will be
approximately $19 for the remainder of 2006, $17 in 2007 and $13 thereafter.
Completion of realignment initiatives generally occurs over multiple reporting periods. In
connection with the realignment initiatives that were approved and announced but had not yet been
completed at June 30, 2006, we have expensed $89, including $3 in the six months ended June 30,
2006. In addition to the $49 accrued at June 30, 2006, we estimate that an additional $33 will be
expensed in connection with the completion of the pending initiatives. The following table
provides project-to-date and estimated future expenses for completion of our realignment
initiatives by business unit.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Expense Recognized |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Year-to- |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Future |
|
|
|
Prior to |
|
|
Date |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cost to |
|
|
|
2006 |
|
|
2006 |
|
|
Total |
|
|
Complete |
|
ASG |
|
$ |
39 |
|
|
$ |
3 |
|
|
$ |
42 |
|
|
$ |
33 |
|
HVTSG |
|
|
34 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
34 |
|
|
|
|
|
Corporate and other |
|
|
13 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
13 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
|
$ |
86 |
|
|
$ |
3 |
|
|
$ |
89 |
|
|
$ |
33 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Subsequent event Joint Venture Dissolution
In July 2006, Dana and Desc Automotriz, S.A. de C.V. (Desc) completed the dissolution of their
Mexican joint venture, Spicer S.A. de C.V. As part of the dissolution, Dana assumed 100% ownership
of the operations that manufacture and assemble axles, driveshafts, gears, forgings and castings in
which we previously held an indirect 49% interest. Desc, in turn, assumed full ownership of the
transmission and aftermarket gasket operations. We previously held a 51% interest in these operations. Along
with exchanging our minority interest in the joint venture, Dana also made a cash payment of $19.5
to Desc. The five Mexico-based manufacturing operations of which Dana acquired full ownership had
total sales of $296 in 2005, a substantial portion of which was to Dana. Dana expects to benefit from the addition of
technologically advanced operations that support the core axle and driveshaft businesses, and from
the manufacturing cost efficiencies that come from expanding our global presence in this key
competitive location.
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Note 15. Segments
We currently have three operating segments two manufacturing business units (ASG and HVTSG) and
one non-manufacturing business unit (DCC).
SFAS No. 131, Disclosures about Segments of an Enterprise and Related Information, establishes
standards for reporting information about operating segments and related disclosures about products
and services and geographic locations. SFAS No. 131 requires reporting on a single basis of
segmentation. The components that management establishes for purposes of making decisions about an
enterprises operating matters are referred to as operating segments.
Management evaluates the operating segments as if DCC were accounted for on the equity method of
accounting rather than on the fully consolidated basis used for external reporting. This is done
because DCC is not homogeneous with our manufacturing operations, its financing activities do not
support the sales of our other operating segments and its financial and performance measures are
inconsistent with those of our other operating segments. Moreover, the financial covenants
contained in the DIP Credit Agreement are measured with DCC accounted for on an equity basis.
Operating profit after tax (OPAT) is the key internal measure of performance used by management as
a measure of segment profitability. With the exception of DCC, OPAT represents earnings before
interest and taxes (EBIT), tax effected at 39% (our estimated long-term effective rate), plus
equity in earnings of affiliates. Net profit (loss), which is OPAT less allocated corporate
expenses and net interest expense, provides a secondary measure of profitability for our segments
that is more comparable to that of a free standing entity. The allocation is based on segment sales
because it is readily calculable, easily understood and, we believe, provides a reasonable
distribution of the various components of our corporate expenses among our diverse business units.
The accounting guidance does not permit the allocation of corporate expenses to discontinued
operations and we have elected not to allocate interest expense to discontinued operations.
Therefore, we have included the corporate expenses and interest expense previously allocated to the
three ASG businesses held for sale in Other in the segment table
below. These amounts totaled $6
and $6 in the three months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005 and $12 and $13 in the six months ended
June 30, 2006 and 2005. We believe this avoids distorting the net profit (loss) previously reported
for the remaining business units and presents amounts indicative of the reduced level of corporate
expenses and interest expense anticipated following the sale of the three held-for-sale businesses.
The Other category also includes businesses unrelated to the segments, trailing liabilities for
certain closed plants and the expense of corporate administrative functions. In addition, Other
includes interest expense net of interest income, elimination of inter-segment income and
adjustments to reflect the actual effective tax rate. In the Net Profit (Loss) column, Other
includes the net profit or loss of businesses not assigned to the segments and certain divested
businesses (but not discontinued operations), minority interest in earnings of unconsolidated
affiliates and the tax differential.
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Information used to evaluate our operating segments for the three months ended June 30,
2006 and 2005 is as follows:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Inter- |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net |
|
|
|
External |
|
|
Segment |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Profit |
|
2006 |
|
Sales |
|
|
Sales |
|
|
OPAT |
|
|
(Loss) |
|
ASG |
|
$ |
1,526 |
|
|
$ |
33 |
|
|
$ |
48 |
|
|
$ |
21 |
|
HVTSG |
|
|
767 |
|
|
|
3 |
|
|
|
27 |
|
|
|
8 |
|
DCC |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
8 |
|
|
|
8 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2,293 |
|
|
|
36 |
|
|
|
83 |
|
|
|
37 |
|
Other |
|
|
7 |
|
|
|
12 |
|
|
|
(80 |
) |
|
|
(34 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total continuing operations |
|
|
2,300 |
|
|
|
48 |
|
|
|
3 |
|
|
|
3 |
|
Discontinued operations |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3 |
|
|
|
3 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total operations |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
6 |
|
|
|
6 |
|
Reorganization items |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(34 |
) |
|
|
(34 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Consolidated |
|
$ |
2,300 |
|
|
$ |
48 |
|
|
$ |
(28 |
) |
|
$ |
(28 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2005 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ASG |
|
$ |
1,584 |
|
|
$ |
28 |
|
|
$ |
54 |
|
|
$ |
25 |
|
HVTSG |
|
|
705 |
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
20 |
|
|
|
4 |
|
DCC |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2,289 |
|
|
|
29 |
|
|
|
75 |
|
|
|
30 |
|
Other |
|
|
8 |
|
|
|
16 |
|
|
|
(49 |
) |
|
|
(4 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total continuing operations |
|
|
2,297 |
|
|
|
45 |
|
|
|
26 |
|
|
|
26 |
|
Discontinued operations |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4 |
|
|
|
4 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total operations |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
30 |
|
|
|
30 |
|
Effect of change in accounting |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Consolidated |
|
$ |
2,297 |
|
|
$ |
45 |
|
|
$ |
30 |
|
|
$ |
30 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
32
Information used to evaluate our operating segments for the six months ended June 30, 2006 and
2005 is as follows:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Inter- |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net |
|
|
|
External |
|
|
Segment |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Profit |
|
2006 |
|
Sales |
|
|
Sales |
|
|
OPAT |
|
|
(Loss) |
|
ASG |
|
$ |
3,000 |
|
|
$ |
64 |
|
|
$ |
77 |
|
|
$ |
20 |
|
HVTSG |
|
|
1,485 |
|
|
|
4 |
|
|
|
47 |
|
|
|
11 |
|
DCC |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4,485 |
|
|
|
68 |
|
|
|
125 |
|
|
|
32 |
|
Other |
|
|
12 |
|
|
|
24 |
|
|
|
(172 |
) |
|
|
(79 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total continuing operations |
|
|
4,497 |
|
|
|
92 |
|
|
|
(47 |
) |
|
|
(47 |
) |
Discontinued operations |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(18 |
) |
|
|
(18 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total operations |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(65 |
) |
|
|
(65 |
) |
Reorganization items |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(89 |
) |
|
|
(89 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Consolidated |
|
$ |
4,497 |
|
|
$ |
92 |
|
|
$ |
(154 |
) |
|
$ |
(154 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2005 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ASG |
|
$ |
3,059 |
|
|
$ |
59 |
|
|
$ |
93 |
|
|
$ |
34 |
|
HVTSG |
|
|
1,372 |
|
|
|
2 |
|
|
|
39 |
|
|
|
7 |
|
DCC |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
9 |
|
|
|
9 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4,431 |
|
|
|
61 |
|
|
|
141 |
|
|
|
50 |
|
Other |
|
|
15 |
|
|
|
30 |
|
|
|
(104 |
) |
|
|
(13 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total continuing operations |
|
|
4,446 |
|
|
|
91 |
|
|
|
37 |
|
|
|
37 |
|
Discontinued operations |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
5 |
|
|
|
5 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total operations |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
42 |
|
|
|
42 |
|
Effect of change in accounting |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4 |
|
|
|
4 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Consolidated |
|
$ |
4,446 |
|
|
$ |
91 |
|
|
$ |
46 |
|
|
$ |
46 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
DCC has been divesting its businesses and assets in accordance with plans announced in October
2001 and these activities are continuing during 2006. DCC is currently negotiating a forbearance
agreement with an Ad Hoc committee formed by its noteholders which, if finalized and executed as currently contemplated, could
result in the sale of DCC assets in a more expedited timeframe than previously anticipated (see
Notes 10 and 14).
33
ITEM 2. MANAGEMENTS DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL
CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
(Dollars in millions)
Overview
General
We are a leading supplier of axle, driveshaft, frame, sealing and thermal products. Our people
design and manufacture products for every major vehicle producer in the world. We are focused on
being an essential partner to light automotive, commercial truck and off-highway vehicle customers.
We employ 44,000 people in 28 countries, with world headquarters in Toledo, Ohio. Our Internet
address is: www.dana.com.
This management discussion and analysis (MD&A) should be read in conjunction with our condensed
consolidated financial statements and the accompanying notes.
Reorganization Proceedings under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code
On March 3, 2006 (the Filing Date), Dana Corporation and forty of its wholly-owned domestic
subsidiaries (collectively, the Debtors) filed voluntary petitions for reorganization under the
Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
Neither DCC nor any of our non-U.S. affiliates commenced any bankruptcy proceedings. See Note 2 to
our condensed consolidated financial statements for a list of the wholly owned subsidiaries
included in the Bankruptcy Cases.
The Bankruptcy Cases are being jointly administered, with the Debtors managing their businesses in
the ordinary course as debtors in possession subject to the supervision of the Bankruptcy Court.
We intend to continue normal business operations during the Bankruptcy Cases while we evaluate our
business both financially and operationally and implement comprehensive improvements as appropriate
to enhance performance. We intend to proceed with previously announced divestiture and
restructuring plans, which include the sale of several non-core businesses, the closure of certain
facilities and the shift of production to lower-cost locations. In addition, we intend to take
steps to reduce costs, increase efficiency and enhance productivity. We intend to effect
fundamental, not incremental, change to our business. While we cannot predict with precision how
long the reorganization process will take, we expect it to take 18 to 24 months from the Filing
Date. Under an order entered by the Bankruptcy Court on June 28, 2006, the Debtors currently have
the exclusive right to file a plan of reorganization until January 3, 2007. The Debtors are
allowed, and currently expect, to seek an additional extension of this exclusive period.
In March 2006, the Bankruptcy Court granted final approval of our $1,450 DIP Credit Agreement.
This facility provides funding to continue our operations without disruption to our obligations to
suppliers, customers and employees during the Chapter 11 reorganization process. The Bankruptcy
Court has also entered a variety of orders designed to permit us to continue to operate on a normal
basis post-petition (i.e., after the Filing Date). These included orders authorizing us to
continue our consolidated cash management system, pay employees their accrued pre-petition (i.e.,
pre-Filing Date) wages and salaries, honor our obligations to our customers and pay some or all of
the pre-petition claims of foreign vendors and certain suppliers that are critical to our continued
operation, subject to certain restrictions.
34
An official committee of the Debtors unsecured creditors and an official committee of equity
security holders have been appointed in the Bankruptcy Cases and, in accordance with the provisions
of the Bankruptcy Code, will have the right to be heard on all matters that come before the
Bankruptcy Court. We have filed a motion with the Bankruptcy Court for the appointment of an
official committee of retired employees to act as representatives of persons receiving retiree
health care benefits. The Debtors are required to bear certain of the committees costs and
expenses, including those of their counsel and financial advisors.
Under the Bankruptcy Code, the Debtors have the right to assume or reject executory contracts
(i.e., contracts that are to be performed by the contract parties after the Filing Date) and
unexpired leases, subject to Bankruptcy Court approval and other limitations. In this context,
assuming an executory contract or unexpired lease generally means that the Debtor will agree to
perform its obligations and cure certain existing defaults under the contract or lease; and
rejecting it means that the Debtor will be relieved of its obligations to perform further under
the contract or lease, which will give rise to an unsecured pre-petition claim for damages for the
breach thereof. The Bankruptcy Court has authorized the Debtors to reject certain unexpired leases
and executory contracts.
On June 30, 2006, the Debtors filed their schedules of the assets and liabilities existing on the Filing
Date with the Bankruptcy Court. The Bankruptcy Court has set September 21, 2006 as the general bar date. This is the date by which
most entities that assert a pre-petition claim against a Debtor must file a proof of claim in
writing and in accordance with the order of the Bankruptcy Court entered on July 19, 2006.
We anticipate that substantially all of the Debtors liabilities as of the Filing Date will be
addressed under, and treated in accordance with, a plan of reorganization to be proposed to and
voted on by their creditors in accordance with the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code. Although we
intend to file and seek confirmation of such a plan, there can be no assurance as to when the plan
will be filed, or that the plan will be confirmed by the Bankruptcy Court and consummated. Nor can
there be any assurance that we will be successful in achieving our reorganization goals, or that
any measures that are achievable will result in sufficient improvement to our financial position.
Accordingly, until the time the Debtors emerge from bankruptcy there will be no certainty about our
ability to continue as a going concern. If the reorganization is not completed, we could be forced
to sell a significant portion of our assets to retire outstanding debt or, under certain
circumstances, to cease operations.
While we continue our reorganization under Chapter 11, investments in our securities will be highly
speculative. Although shares of our common stock continue to trade on the Over The Counter
Bulletin Board under the symbol DCNAQ, the trading prices of the shares may have little or no
relationship to the actual recovery, if any, by the holders under any eventual court-approved
reorganization plan. The opportunity for any recovery by holders of our common stock under such
reorganization plan is uncertain and shares of our common stock may be cancelled without any
compensation pursuant to such plan.
DCC
Notes
Danas bankruptcy filing created an event of default under DCCs outstanding medium-term and
private placement notes (the DCC Notes). DCC is engaged in discussions with an Ad Hoc Committee
formed by certain of its noteholders regarding a potential
forbearance agreement (see
Notes 10 and 14). Two DCC noteholders have commenced a lawsuit against DCC for nonpayment of the
principal and interest on their DCC Notes which were due in April 2006, and have filed a motion for summary judgment which is scheduled for hearing in
August 2006.
35
Business
Our products are managed globally through two market-focused business units ASG and HVTSG. ASG
primarily supports the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of light vehicles, including light
trucks (sport utility vehicles (SUVs), pickup trucks, crossover vehicles (CUVs) and vans) and
passenger cars, and manufactures driveshafts for the commercial vehicle market. HVTSG supports the
OEMs of medium-duty and heavy-duty (Class 5 through Class 8) commercial vehicles (primarily trucks
and buses) and off-highway vehicles (primarily construction and agriculture vehicles).
Production levels in our key markets for the past three years, along with our outlook for 2006, are
shown below:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Production Units |
|
|
Danas |
|
|
|
|
Outlook |
|
Actual |
|
|
2006 |
|
2005 |
|
2004 |
|
2003 |
Light vehicle (in millions): |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
North America |
|
|
15.6 |
|
|
|
15.8 |
|
|
|
15.8 |
|
|
|
15.9 |
|
Europe |
|
|
22.1 |
|
|
|
21.8 |
|
|
|
21.7 |
|
|
|
19.6 |
|
Asia Pacific |
|
|
25.3 |
|
|
|
23.7 |
|
|
|
22.2 |
|
|
|
20.5 |
|
South America |
|
|
2.7 |
|
|
|
2.8 |
|
|
|
2.5 |
|
|
|
1.9 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
North American commercial
vehicle (in thousands): |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Medium-duty (Class 5-7) |
|
|
247 |
|
|
|
244 |
|
|
|
225 |
|
|
|
196 |
|
Heavy-duty (Class 8) |
|
|
356 |
|
|
|
333 |
|
|
|
263 |
|
|
|
177 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Off-Highway (in thousands)* |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
North America |
|
|
361 |
|
|
|
353 |
|
|
|
325 |
|
|
|
281 |
|
Western Europe |
|
|
447 |
|
|
|
453 |
|
|
|
450 |
|
|
|
452 |
|
Asia-Pacific |
|
|
564 |
|
|
|
549 |
|
|
|
526 |
|
|
|
480 |
|
South America |
|
|
73 |
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69 |
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65 |
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61 |
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* |
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Wheeled vehicles in construction, agriculture, mining, material handling and forestry
applications. |
Trends in Our Markets
Changing Consumer Preferences
Light trucks comprise our primary business within the light vehicle market. In recent years, light
truck sales have generally been stronger than those of passenger cars, as consumer interest in SUVs
and CUVs increased. More recently, however, the higher price of gasoline has negatively impacted
the traditional light truck market. SUVs in particular have experienced a significant drop in
demand, largely attributable to higher fuel prices and an increased interest in CUVs and, to a
lesser extent, in passenger cars.
During the first six months of 2006, North American light vehicle production levels were comparable
to the same period of 2005. However, within that market, production of light trucks was down about
6% and passenger car production was up about 8% when compared to the same period in 2005. For the
second quarter, North American light duty production was down 4% compared to 2005, with light trucks down about 8%, and passenger cars up about 1%.
Overall, inventory levels of North American light vehicles, particularly light trucks, have
increased over the first six months of 2006, even though production has been relatively comparable
for all light vehicles, or in the case of light trucks, down about 6%. Total light vehicle
inventories represented about 67 days supply at June 30, 2006, as compared to 65 days at December
31, 2005 and 58 days at June 30, 2005. In the light truck segment, days supply was 83 at June 30,
2006, compared to 71 days at December 31, 2005 and 64 days at June 30, 2005.
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OEM Pricing Pressures
We have been negatively
impacted by reduced light truck production and by a continuing market share decline experienced by our two largest customers Ford
Motor Company (Ford) and General Motors Corporation (GM). Light trucks are important to the
profitability of companies like Ford and GM, and the decline in demand and production of these
vehicles and recent re-introduction of customer price incentives for such vehicles by these
companies have adversely affected their financial performance. As a result, we and other suppliers
in the light vehicle market face the challenge of continued price reduction pressure from these
customers.
High Commodity Prices
The increased cost of steel, other raw materials and energy has had a significant adverse impact on
our results and those of others in our industry for the past two years. With steel in particular,
suppliers began assessing price surcharges and increasing base prices during the first quarter of
2004, and these continued throughout 2005 and the first half of 2006. While leverage continues to
be on the side of the steel suppliers at the present time, we have taken actions to mitigate the
impact by consolidating purchases, taking advantage of OEMs resale programs where possible,
finding new global steel sources, identifying alternative materials and re-designing our products
to be less dependent on steel. We are also working with our customers to recover the increases in
the cost of steel, either in the form of increased selling prices or reductions in price-downs that
they expect from us.
Although scrap steel prices declined during mid-2005, they began increasing again during the latter
part of 2005. Prices have continued to increase in 2006, with average prices on the #1 Bundled,
Tri Cities Scrap index for the first six months of 2006 being up 22% over the first six months of
2005. Average prices on the index for the three months ended June 30, 2006 were up about 60% over
the second quarter of 2005.
Cost increases on raw materials other than steel have been significant over the past year. First
six months 2006 average prices for aluminum, copper and brass increased approximately 33%, 90% and
95%, respectively, over prices for the first six months of 2005.
2007 Heavy-Duty Truck Emissions Regulations
Pre-buying in advance of more stringent heavy-truck emission regulations taking effect in North
America in 2007 has resulted in a strong 2006 commercial vehicle market. Class 8 North American
production for the second quarter was up about 2% from last year, with medium duty (Class 5-7)
production up about the same. For the six months ended June 30, 2006, Class 8 production was 7%
higher than 2005, while medium duty production was down about 2%. We expect that production in
both categories will decline in 2007 as the demand for vehicles in these categories declines after
the 2006 pre-buying.
Customer and Supplier Bankruptcies Another issue facing our markets is both supplier and customer
bankruptcies. Bankruptcies in our industry can be very disruptive to pricing patterns and can
create a potential for supply disruptions or credit exposures.
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New Business
A continuing major focus for us is growing our revenue through new business. In the OEM vehicular
business, new business programs are generally awarded to suppliers well in advance of the expected
start of production of a new model/platform. The amount of lead-time varies based on the nature of
the product, size of the program and required start-up investment. The awarding of new business
usually coincides with model changes on the part of vehicle manufacturers. Given the OEMs cost
and service concerns associated with changing suppliers, we expect to retain any awarded business
over the model/platform life, typically several years.
In our markets, concentration of business with certain customers in certain geographic regions is
common, so our efforts to achieve additional diversification are important. In the light vehicle
market, we have been successful in gaining new business with several manufacturers based outside of
the U.S. over the past several years. We expect to achieve greater customer diversity as this
business comes on stream and we expect to gain additional business with such customers.
Net new business is expected to contribute approximately $410, $440 and $110 of sales in 2006, 2007
and 2008, respectively. The majority of this net new business is outside North America with
customers other than the traditional Detroit-based Ford, GM and DaimlerChrysler (Big Three). We
are pursuing a number of additional opportunities that could further increase our new business for
the second half of 2006 and beyond.
United States Profitability
Given the losses we have experienced in recent years in the U.S. and the near-term prospects for
continued losses, we concluded in 2005 that it was not more likely than not that our U.S.
deferred tax assets would be realized in the future. Until such time as we are able to sustain
profitability in the U.S., any loss or profits attributable to the U.S. will not be tax-effected,
meaning that the before-tax profit or loss amount will not be adjusted for federal income taxes.
Business Strategy
Our strategy is to operate efficiently as one integrated company focused on growing our core light-
and heavy-duty drivetrain products (axles and driveshafts), structures, sealing and thermal
businesses. This focused product array will help us to better support our global automotive,
commercial vehicle and off-highway markets. Our strategy also includes achieving much stronger
operating levels and lower costs.
Our short-term strategy for 2006 is to continue normal business operations during the pendency of
the Bankruptcy Cases while we evaluate our business both financially and operationally and
implement comprehensive improvements, as appropriate, to enhance performance. We have retained a
third-party financial advisor and a restructuring advisor to assist us in developing a Chapter 11
reorganization plan. We intend to utilize the reorganization process to help drive necessary
change in our U.S. operations in furtherance of our corporate strategy. We intend to proceed with
a number of divestitures and restructuring initiatives (which have been previously announced),
including the sale of several non-core businesses, the closure of certain facilities, and the shift
of production to lower-cost locations. We intend to effect fundamental, not incremental, changes
to our business.
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During the second half of 2006, we will continue to pursue the following strategies.
Restructuring and consolidating manufacturing operations.
We will close facilities in ASG and shift production in several other operations to balance
capacity and take advantage of lower cost locations:
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The Buena Vista, Virginia axle facility will be closed and its
production consolidated into an existing facility in Dry Ridge,
Kentucky. |
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The Bristol, Virginia driveshaft facility will be closed and its
production consolidated into our operations in Mexico. |
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The assembly and component lines that support the steering shaft
business in the Lima, Ohio driveshaft facility will also be moved
to our operations in Mexico. |
We have completed the following actions to balance capacity and enhance manufacturing efficiencies
in our Commercial Vehicle business:
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Service parts activities at our principal commercial vehicle parts
assembly facility in Henderson, Kentucky were moved to our service
parts operation in Crossville, Tennessee. |
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Assembly activity has been increased at our facility in Monterrey,
Mexico to improve throughput at the Henderson plant. |
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Gear production has been increased at our operation in Toluca,
Mexico to relieve constraints at our principal commercial vehicle
gear plant in Glasgow, Kentucky. |
Shifting production to low-cost countries such as Mexico, China and Hungary.
In July 2006, we completed the dissolution of our Mexican joint venture with Desc, Spicer S.A. de
C.V., that was previously approved by the Bankruptcy Court. As part of the dissolution, Dana
assumed full ownership of operations that manufacture and assemble axles, driveshafts, gears,
forgings and castings. We previously held an indirect 49% interest in such operations.
We are continuing to take steps to implement a joint venture with Dongfeng to develop and produce
commercial vehicle axles in China.
We have begun assembling off-highway axles and transmissions in Gyor, Hungary. Our new facility
currently employs about 50 people in the assembly, testing, painting and packaging of axles and
transmissions for agricultural and construction vehicles. These products are supporting both
European and export markets.
Increasing the efficiency of production and non-production processes.
We are continuing to focus on the day-to-day execution of our productivity and efficiency
processes, which are critical to strengthening our performance. Our lean manufacturing and Six
Sigma teams are focused on increasing efficiencies and reducing costs
in our production facilities.
Our value analysis/value engineering (VA/VE) teams are continuing their efforts to remove cost
from products already being manufactured, as well as those still in development.
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Our support functions, including purchasing, information technology, finance and human resources,
are continuing their various efficiency and cost reduction efforts. These efforts generally
involve a more centralized model, commonality of systems and standardized processes.
In 2005, we announced a targeted deduction in our salaried workforce of at least 5% and reductions
to benefit programs which were expected to generate cost savings of more than $40 million in 2006
when compared to 2005. The above-mentioned actions in our operations and in our administrative
functions along with normal attrition were expected to produce much of the targeted salaried work
force reduction. As a result of our bankruptcy filing, we have experienced a higher level of
employee turnover. The efficiency improvement efforts in combination with turnover resulting from
the bankruptcy filing have resulted in a reduction of the salaried
workforce through June 30, 2006
of 5%. In certain areas where turnover to date has taken staffing levels below targets, we are
intending to add people, and in some cases we are incurring temporary staffing costs. While having
to address higher than expected reductions in certain areas, our focus continues to be on
streamlining the work force to operate more efficiently on an ongoing basis.
Expanding sales with certain customers to achieve a more balanced sales mix across our customer
base.
While continuing to support the Big Three, we are striving to further diversify our sales across
our customer base. The opportunity here is illustrated by the fact that we already serve every
major vehicle maker in the world in the light, commercial and off-highway vehicle markets.
We have achieved double-digit sales growth with European and Asian light-vehicle manufacturers over
the past several years. These customers will account for six of the top ten product launches for
ASG in 2006. Our success on this front has been achieved, in part, through our expanding global
operations and affiliates. Our people and facilities around the world are actively supporting the
global platforms of our foreign-based customers today.
Approximately 80% of our current book of net new business involves customers other than the Big
Three. Approximately 70% of these customers are based outside North America.
Our Commercial Vehicle Systems business, which currently operates predominantly in North America,
is pursuing sales outside this region, and we expect the joint venture in China with Dongfeng, when
implemented, to provide an opportunity to grow the non-U.S. sales of this business.
Approximately two-thirds of our Off-Highway Systems Groups sales already occur outside North
America and we are continuing to aggressively pursue new business in this market.
Narrowing our business and product focus by divesting non-core businesses.
In order to more fully leverage our strengths and to secure acceptable profit levels, as discussed
above, we intend to narrow the breadth of our product lines through the divestiture of our engine
hard parts, fluid products and pump products businesses. Collectively, these businesses employ
approximately 9,800 people worldwide and represented annual sales of approximately $1,200 in 2005.
These businesses were classified as discontinued operations during the fourth quarter of 2005.
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Results of Operations Summary (Second quarter 2006 versus Second quarter 2005)
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For the Three Months Ended |
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June 30, |
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Increase/ |
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2006 |
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2005 |
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(Decrease) |
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Net sales |
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$ |
2,300 |
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$ |
2,297 |
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$ |
3 |
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Cost of sales |
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2,157 |
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|
2,139 |
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18 |
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Gross margin |
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143 |
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158 |
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(15 |
) |
Selling, general and administrative expenses |
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120 |
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119 |
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1 |
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Gross margin
less SG&A* |
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$ |
23 |
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$ |
39 |
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$ |
(16 |
) |
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Reorganization items |
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$ |
34 |
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$ |
|
|
|
$ |
34 |
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Interest expense |
|
$ |
26 |
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|
$ |
40 |
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$ |
(14 |
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Income (loss) from continuing operations |
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$ |
(31 |
) |
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$ |
26 |
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$ |
(57 |
) |
Income (loss) from discontinued operations |
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3 |
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|
|
4 |
|
|
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(1 |
) |
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Net income (loss) |
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$ |
(28 |
) |
|
$ |
30 |
|
|
$ |
(58 |
) |
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* |
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Gross margin less SG&A is a non-GAAP financial measure.
It is derived by excluding Other income, net from the most closely
related GAAP measure, Income from continuing operations before
interest, reorganization items and taxes. |
Results of Operations (Second quarter 2006 versus second quarter 2005)
Geographical Sales Analysis
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Amount of Change Due To |
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Increase/ |
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Currency |
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Acquisitions/ |
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Organic |
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2006 |
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2005 |
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(Decrease) |
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Effects |
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Divestitures |
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Change |
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North America |
|
$ |
1,397 |
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|
$ |
1,437 |
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|
$ |
(40 |
) |
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$ |
22 |
|
|
$ |
(11 |
) |
|
$ |
(51 |
) |
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Europe |
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|
493 |
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|
|
431 |
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|
62 |
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|
3 |
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|
59 |
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South America |
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|
221 |
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|
217 |
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4 |
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|
|
11 |
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(6 |
) |
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(1 |
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Asia Pacific |
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189 |
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|
212 |
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(23 |
) |
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(3 |
) |
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|
(20 |
) |
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Total |
|
$ |
2,300 |
|
|
$ |
2,297 |
|
|
$ |
3 |
|
|
$ |
33 |
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|
$ |
(17 |
) |
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$ |
(13 |
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Business Unit Sales Analysis
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Amount of Change Due To |
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Increase/ |
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|
Currency |
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|
Acquisitions/ |
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Organic |
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2006 |
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2005 |
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(Decrease) |
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Effects |
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Divestitures |
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Change |
|
ASG |
|
$ |
1,526 |
|
|
$ |
1,584 |
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|
$ |
(58 |
) |
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$ |
29 |
|
|
$ |
(17 |
) |
|
$ |
(70 |
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HVTSG |
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|
767 |
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|
705 |
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|
62 |
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4 |
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58 |
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Other |
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|
7 |
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|
8 |
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(1 |
) |
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(1 |
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Total |
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$ |
2,300 |
|
|
$ |
2,297 |
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|
$ |
3 |
|
|
$ |
33 |
|
|
$ |
(17 |
) |
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$ |
(13 |
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Organic sales decreased $13, or less than 1%, in the second quarter of 2006, primarily due to
lower production levels in our light truck market. In North America, light truck production in the
second quarter of 2006 was about 8% lower than last years
second quarter. Partially offsetting
this sales decline were increased sales due to a somewhat stronger commercial vehicle market and new
business that came on stream in the second quarter of 2006.
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Regionally, our North American organic sales decreased in the second quarter of 2006 due to lower
overall light truck production levels and, in particular, lower production levels on vehicles with
significant Dana content. The currency-related increase was due to a stronger Canadian dollar. In
Europe, the sales increase was due primarily to net new business, principally in the off-highway
market.
By business segment, the organic sales decrease in ASG was primarily due to lower North American
production of light trucks having significant Dana content. Contributions from net new business
offset some of the production level decline. Customary price reductions in this market also
contributed to lower sales. HVTSG, on the other hand, benefited from a slightly stronger North
American Class 8 commercial vehicle market where overall production levels were up about 2%, and
from net new business, principally in its off-highway group.
The chart below shows our business unit margin analysis for the three months ended June 30, 2006
and 2005:
Margin Analysis
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As a Percentage of Sales |
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Increase / |
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2006 |
|
2005 |
|
(Decrease) |
Gross margin: |
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|
|
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ASG |
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|
7.8 |
% |
|
|
7.7 |
% |
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|
0.1 |
% |
HVTSG |
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|
8.3 |
% |
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8.8 |
% |
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(0.5 |
)% |
Consolidated |
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6.2 |
% |
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6.8 |
% |
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(0.6 |
)% |
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Selling, general and administrative expenses: |
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ASG |
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3.8 |
% |
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3.4 |
% |
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0.4 |
% |
HVTSG |
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2.9 |
% |
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4.5 |
% |
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(1.6 |
)% |
Consolidated |
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|
5.2 |
% |
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|
5.1 |
% |
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|
0.1 |
% |
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Gross margin less SG&A: |
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ASG |
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4.0 |
% |
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|
4.3 |
% |
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(0.3 |
)% |
HVTSG |
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5.4 |
% |
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|
4.3 |
% |
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|
1.1 |
% |
Consolidated |
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|
1.0 |
% |
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1.7 |
% |
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(0.7 |
)% |
In ASG, gross margin less SG&A declined 0.3%. Negatively impacting margins were lower overall
sales, customer price reductions, which reduced margin by $12, and higher freight cost of $4 due to
higher fuel costs and premium cost to avoid customer disruption. Partially offsetting these
reductions were slightly lower overall material costs, despite the higher prices on certain raw
materials like aluminum, brass and copper, and cost savings from work force and benefit reductions.
Gross margin less SG&A in HVTSG improved 1.1% in the second quarter of 2006 when compared to the
same period last year, benefiting in part from higher overall sales and fewer people relative to
sales. Margins benefited from lower overall material and benefit costs, partially offset by higher
fuel prices and premium freight costs which reduced HVTSG margins by $2.
Corporate expenses and other costs not allocated to the business units reduced consolidated gross
margins less SG&A by 3.3% for the second quarter of 2006 compared to the same period in 2005. During the second
quarter of 2006, we recognized a pension settlement cost of $7 based on the higher level of lump
sum distributions from certain pension plans. Margin reductions relating to adjustments to
accruals for long-term disability and other benefits were approximately $11 more for the quarter in
2006 than in 2005. Partially offsetting these increases were lower costs resulting from staffing
and other reductions.
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Other income (expense)
Other
income increased by $18 in the second quarter of 2006 compared to the
same period in 2005. DCC asset sales in 2005 resulted in pre-tax
losses of $12 as compared to losses of $1 in 2006. Additionally,
interest income in 2006 is $3 higher.
Interest expense
As a result of our Chapter 11 reorganization process, a substantial portion of our debt obligations
are now subject to compromise. Effective with our filing for reorganization under Chapter 11,
interest expense is no longer accrued on these obligations. The post-filing interest expense not
recognized in the second quarter of 2006 on these obligations amounted to $27.
Reorganization items
Reorganization items are expenses directly attributed to our Chapter 11 reorganization process.
See Note 2 to our condensed consolidated financial statements for a summary of these costs.
Reorganization items reported in the three months ended June 30, 2006 consisted of professional
advisory fees and lease rejection costs, which were partially reduced by interest income on higher
cash balances and settlements of pre-petition liabilities to suppliers.
Income tax (expense) benefit
The primary factor resulting in income tax expense of $36 during the second quarter of 2006, as
compared to $0 expense being expected based on the 35% U.S. statutory income tax rate, is the
discontinued recognition of tax benefits on U.S. losses. With no U.S. tax benefit, the income tax
expense reflected in the condensed consolidated financial statements for the three months ended
June 30, 2006 was primarily the tax on profits of our non-U.S. operations at their expected annual
effective tax rates.
During the second quarter of 2005, we were still recognizing tax benefits on U.S. losses. A tax
expense of $4 was recognized during the second quarter of 2005, as compared to an expected tax
expense of $7 at a 35% federal U.S. tax rate, primarily as a result of releasing valuation
allowances against deferred tax assets. Lower rates on income from international operations and
state tax benefits on U.S. losses also added to the benefit. Partially offsetting this and the
release of valuation allowances were charges relating to enactment of a new tax system in the State
of Ohio.
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Results
of Operations Summary (Year-to-date 2006 versus Year-to-date 2005)
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For the Six Months Ended |
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June 30, |
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|
|
|
|
|
Increase/ |
|
|
|
2006 |
|
|
2005 |
|
|
(Decrease) |
|
Net sales |
|
$ |
4,497 |
|
|
$ |
4,446 |
|
|
$ |
51 |
|
Cost of sales |
|
|
4,250 |
|
|
|
4,161 |
|
|
|
89 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gross margin |
|
|
247 |
|
|
|
285 |
|
|
|
(38 |
) |
Selling, general and administrative expenses |
|
|
239 |
|
|
|
237 |
|
|
|
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gross margin
less SG&A* |
|
$ |
8 |
|
|
$ |
48 |
|
|
$ |
(40 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reorganization items |
|
$ |
89 |
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
$ |
89 |
|
Interest expense |
|
$ |
65 |
|
|
$ |
82 |
|
|
$ |
(17 |
) |
|
Income (loss) from continuing operations |
|
$ |
(136 |
) |
|
$ |
37 |
|
|
$ |
(173 |
) |
Income (loss) from discontinued operations |
|
|
(18 |
) |
|
|
5 |
|
|
|
(23 |
) |
Effect of change in accounting |
|
|
|
|
|
|
4 |
|
|
|
(4 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net income (loss) |
|
$ |
(154 |
) |
|
$ |
46 |
|
|
$ |
(200 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
* |
|
Gross margin less SG&A is a non-GAAP financial measure.
It is derived by excluding Other income, net from the most closely
related GAAP measure, Income from continuing operations before
interest, reorganization items and taxes. |
Results of Operations (Year-to-date 2006 versus Year-to-date 2005)
Geographical Sales Analysis
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Amount of Change Due To |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Increase/ |
|
|
Currency |
|
|
Acquisitions/ |
|
|
Organic |
|
|
|
2006 |
|
|
2005 |
|
|
(Decrease) |
|
|
Effects |
|
|
Divestitures |
|
|
Change |
|
North America |
|
$ |
2,770 |
|
|
$ |
2,825 |
|
|
$ |
(55 |
) |
|
$ |
38 |
|
|
$ |
(21 |
) |
|
$ |
(72 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Europe |
|
|
958 |
|
|
|
835 |
|
|
|
123 |
|
|
|
(42 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
165 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
South America |
|
|
420 |
|
|
|
397 |
|
|
|
23 |
|
|
|
26 |
|
|
|
(11 |
) |
|
|
8 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Asia Pacific |
|
|
349 |
|
|
|
389 |
|
|
|
(40 |
) |
|
|
(10 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
(30 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
|
$ |
4,497 |
|
|
$ |
4,446 |
|
|
$ |
51 |
|
|
$ |
12 |
|
|
$ |
(32 |
) |
|
$ |
71 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Business Unit Sales Analysis
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Amount of Change Due To |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Increase/ |
|
|
Currency |
|
|
Acquisitions/ |
|
|
Organic |
|
|
|
2006 |
|
|
2005 |
|
|
(Decrease) |
|
|
Effects |
|
|
Divestitures |
|
|
Change |
|
ASG |
|
$ |
3,000 |
|
|
$ |
3,059 |
|
|
|
(59 |
) |
|
$ |
28 |
|
|
$ |
(32 |
) |
|
$ |
(55 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
HVTSG |
|
|
1,485 |
|
|
|
1,372 |
|
|
|
113 |
|
|
|
(16 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
129 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Other |
|
|
12 |
|
|
|
15 |
|
|
|
(3 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(3 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
|
$ |
4,497 |
|
|
$ |
4,446 |
|
|
$ |
51 |
|
|
$ |
12 |
|
|
$ |
(32 |
) |
|
$ |
71 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Organic sales increased $71, or 1.6%, in part as a result of new business that came on stream
in the first six months of 2006. Also contributing to higher total sales were high heavy vehicle
production levels. A stronger Class 8 commercial vehicle market in North America resulted in an
approximately 7% increase in unit production. Elsewhere in our heavy vehicle markets, Class 5-7
medium duty commercial vehicle production and off-highway production levels were relatively
comparable year over year. In our biggest market the light duty vehicles overall first
six-month 2006 production was relatively flat compared to 2005. However, our sales are mostly to
the light truck segment of this market where 2006 first-half production in North America declined
about 6%, with certain vehicles having large Dana content being down even more. Light vehicle production levels elsewhere in the world were up
slightly.
44
Regionally, our North American sales decrease in the first six months of 2006 was due to lower
overall light truck production levels, and in particular lower production levels on vehicles with
significant Dana content. This was offset to some extent by stronger Class 8 commercial vehicle
production levels in the first six months of 2006 and contributions from net new business. The
currency-related increase was due to a stronger Canadian dollar. In Europe, the sales increase was
due to net new business, and somewhat stronger markets. A weaker Euro in the first six months of
2006 offset some of the organic sales increase.
By business segment, the organic sales decrease in ASG was primarily due to lower North American
production of light trucks having significant Dana content. Contributions from net new business
offset some of the production level decline. Customary price reductions in this market also
contributed to lower sales. HVTSG, on the other hand, benefited from both net new business,
principally in its off-highway business, and the previously mentioned stronger Class 8 commercial
vehicle production level in North America.
The chart below shows our business unit margin analysis for the six months ended June 30, 2006 and
2005:
Margin Analysis
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
As a Percentage of Sales |
|
Increase / |
|
|
2006 |
|
2005 |
|
(Decrease) |
Gross margin: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ASG |
|
|
6.8 |
% |
|
|
7.3 |
% |
|
|
(0.5) |
% |
HVTSG |
|
|
8.1 |
% |
|
|
9.0 |
% |
|
|
(0.9) |
% |
Consolidated |
|
|
5.5 |
% |
|
|
6.4 |
% |
|
|
(0.9) |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Selling, general and administrative expenses: |
ASG |
|
|
3.6 |
% |
|
|
3.5 |
% |
|
|
0.1 |
% |
HVTSG |
|
|
3.4 |
% |
|
|
4.7 |
% |
|
|
(1.3) |
% |
Consolidated |
|
|
5.3 |
% |
|
|
5.3 |
% |
|
|
0.0 |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gross margin less SG&A: |
ASG |
|
|
3.2 |
% |
|
|
3.8 |
% |
|
|
(0.6) |
% |
HVTSG |
|
|
4.7 |
% |
|
|
4.3 |
% |
|
|
0.4 |
% |
Consolidated |
|
|
0.2 |
% |
|
|
1.1 |
% |
|
|
(0.9) |
% |
In ASG, gross margin less SG&A declined 0.6%.
In addition to margins being negatively impacted by lower sales of
$59, they were negatively effected by customer
price reductions. As we sought to minimize supply chain disruption associated with our bankruptcy
filing on March 3, 2006, we incurred some higher premium freight costs and other production
inefficiencies, which negatively impacted June 2006 year-to-date margins. In combination with
higher fuel costs, this resulted in higher freight costs of about $9. Higher quality and warranty
related expense also reduced year-over-year margins by $5. Partially offsetting the factors
reducing margin were cost savings from programs like lean manufacturing and value engineering, and
lower cost from work force and benefit program reductions.
Gross margin less SG&A in HVTSG
improved 0.4% in the first six months of 2006 when compared to the
same period last year. Margins in HVTSG benefited from higher sales of $114. Improved manpower
utilization and benefit program reductions also improved HVTSG margins.
45
Corporate expenses and other costs not allocated to the business units reduced gross margins less
SG&A by 0.9% for the first six months of 2006 as compared to the same period in 2005. As a result
of the bankruptcy filing, we have experienced a significant level of lump sum pension
distributions, which have resulted in pension settlement cost of $11. We incurred advisory and
legal costs of about $2 in connection with the arrangements for a new borrowing facility that was
intended to replace our previously existing bank revolver and asset securitization facilities.
While the costs associated with our DIP Credit Agreement are reported as part of reorganization
expenses, the costs associated with negotiating the potential predecessor arrangement, which was
not effectuated, are included in SG&A. Also negatively impacting margins in the first six months
of 2006 were a charge of $5 related to long-term disability coverage and $1 of stock option expense
associated with the adoption of SFAS No. 123(R).
Other income (expense)
Other
income for the six months ended June 30, 2006 is up $2 compared
with the corresponding period in 2005. DCC asset sale activities
generated pre-tax losses of $10 in 2006 and $11 in 2005.
Additionally, interest income in 2006 is $2 higher.
Interest expense
As a result of our Chapter 11 reorganization process, a substantial portion of our debt obligations
are now subject to compromise. Effective with our filing for reorganization under Chapter 11,
interest expense is no longer accrued on these obligations. The post-filing interest expense not
recognized in the first six months of 2006 on these obligations amounted to $35.
Reorganization items
Reorganization items are primarily expenses directly attributed to our Chapter 11 reorganization
process. See Note 2 to our condensed consolidated financial statements for a summary of these
costs. Reorganization items reported in the six months ended June 30, 2006 included professional
advisory fees, lease rejection costs, debt valuation adjustments on pre-petition liabilities and
underwriting fees related to the DIP Credit Agreement. These costs associated with the initial
phase of the reorganization generally represent one-time charges.
Income tax benefit (expense)
The primary factor resulting in income tax expense of $58 during the first six months of 2006, as
compared to a tax benefit of $32 that would be expected based on the 35% U.S. statutory income tax
rate, is the discontinued recognition of tax benefits on U.S. losses.
During the first six months of 2005, we were still recognizing tax benefits on U.S. losses. A tax
benefit of $2 was recognized during the six months ended June 30, 2005, as compared to an expected tax
expense of $7 at a 35% federal U.S. tax rate, primarily as a result of releasing valuation
allowances against deferred tax assets recorded outside the U.S. Lower rates on income from
international operations and state tax effects on U.S. losses also added to the benefit. Partially
offsetting the benefits of losses and the release of valuation allowances were charges relating to enactment of a new
tax system in the State of Ohio.
46
Discontinued Operations
In October 2005, our Board approved the divestiture of our engine hard parts products, fluid
products and pump products businesses with approximately 9,800 people in 44 operations worldwide,
representing annual revenues of more than $1,200 in 2005. Accordingly, these businesses are
reported as discontinued operations. In the motions and affidavits presented to the Bankruptcy
Court on the Filing Date, we advised the Bankruptcy Court of our plan to sell the discontinued operations,
and the anticipated proceeds were included in the court-approved DIP Credit Agreement budget. Any
final sale will be subject to Bankruptcy Court approval.
An analysis of the net sales and the income (loss) from discontinued operations of these
businesses for the three and six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, aggregated by business
segment, is shown in the table below:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Three Months Ended |
|
|
Six Months Ended |
|
|
|
June 30, |
|
|
June 30, |
|
|
|
2006 |
|
|
2005 |
|
|
2006 |
|
|
2005 |
|
Net Sales: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ASG |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Engine hard parts products |
|
$ |
175 |
|
|
$ |
181 |
|
|
$ |
354 |
|
|
$ |
366 |
|
Fluid products |
|
|
127 |
|
|
|
124 |
|
|
|
248 |
|
|
|
248 |
|
Pump products |
|
|
26 |
|
|
|
25 |
|
|
|
51 |
|
|
|
51 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total net sales from discontinued operations |
|
$ |
328 |
|
|
$ |
330 |
|
|
$ |
653 |
|
|
$ |
665 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Income (Loss) from Discontinued Operations: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ASG |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Engine hard parts products |
|
$ |
(1 |
) |
|
$ |
3 |
|
|
$ |
(19 |
) |
|
$ |
2 |
|
Fluid products |
|
|
(5 |
) |
|
|
(1 |
) |
|
|
(13 |
) |
|
|
(3 |
) |
Pump products |
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
1 |
|
Other |
|
|
8 |
|
|
|
2 |
|
|
|
13 |
|
|
|
5 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total income (loss) from discontinued operations |
|
$ |
3 |
|
|
$ |
4 |
|
|
$ |
(18 |
) |
|
$ |
5 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
In 2005, we had reduced the carrying
value of certain businesses comprising our discontinued operations to fair value less costs to
sell. During the first and second quarters of 2006, we monitored changes in both the expected
proceeds and the underlying net assets to determine whether additional adjustments were appropriate.
Capital expenditures and currency fluctuations combined caused net assets to increase in the second
quarter after decreasing slightly in the first quarter. These businesses also experienced increases
in raw material costs which reduced both the gross margins of the discontinued operations and the
proceeds anticipated from the related divestitures. As a result of these changes, we recorded net
non-cash adjustments in Other expense of $(3) and $21 in the three months and six months ended
June 30, 2006 to adjust these assets to their fair value less costs to sell and we recorded
transaction costs of $3 and $10. Tax benefits of these adjustments were $3 and $5 in the
three months and six months ended June 30, 2006.
Liquidity
A recap of the changes in cash and cash equivalents for the six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005
is shown in the following tables:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash Flow Summary |
|
2006 |
|
|
2005 |
|
Cash flows provided by (used for) operating activities |
|
$ |
86 |
|
|
$ |
(149 |
) |
Cash flows provided by (used for) investing activities |
|
|
(124 |
) |
|
|
40 |
|
Cash provided by financing activities |
|
|
147 |
|
|
|
141 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Increase in cash and cash equivalents |
|
|
109 |
|
|
|
32 |
|
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period |
|
|
762 |
|
|
|
634 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period |
|
$ |
871 |
|
|
$ |
666 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
47
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash Flows - Operating Activities: |
|
2006 |
|
|
2005 |
|
Net income (loss) |
|
$ |
(154 |
) |
|
$ |
46 |
|
Depreciation and amortization |
|
|
135 |
|
|
|
163 |
|
Charges related to divestitures and asset sales |
|
|
46 |
|
|
|
(5 |
) |
Reorganization items, net |
|
|
89 |
|
|
|
|
|
Payment of
reorganization items |
|
|
(35 |
) |
|
|
|
|
Increase in working capital |
|
|
(19 |
) |
|
|
(219 |
) |
Other |
|
|
24 |
|
|
|
(134 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash flows provided by (used for) operating activities |
|
$ |
86 |
|
|
$ |
(149 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash of $86 was provided by operating activities in the first six months of 2006 as compared
to a use of $149 in the same period of 2005. Working capital is generally a significant use during
the first half of the year based on the seasonality of our business. Trade receivables are customarily
lower at the end of the calendar year as customer production levels are lighter during the holiday
season. During the first six months of 2006, receivables increased
$388, while receivables in the
first half of 2005 increased by $54. The increase in trade receivables in 2005 had been partially
offset by the receipt of insurance commutation proceeds from a settlement with certain asbestos
insurers.
The
increase in receivables in 2006 was largely offset by an increase in
accounts payable and other accrued
liabilities. These liabilities increased $471 during the first six months of 2006 after they had
decreased by $29 in the corresponding period of 2005. The increase in these liabilities in 2006
resulted primarily from the non-payment of amounts owed prior to our bankruptcy filing that are now
classified as Liabilities subject to compromise. The decrease in 2005 was due in part to a tax
payment for settlement of prior period tax returns. Cash used for inventories was $22 during the
first half of 2006 as compared to a use of $36 in 2005.
Excluding the change in working capital, cash from operations was $105 in the six months ended June 30, 2006, which was slightly
higher than the $70 provided in the same period of 2005.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash Flows - Investing Activities: |
|
2006 |
|
|
2005 |
|
Purchases of property, plant and equipment |
|
$ |
(182 |
) |
|
$ |
(124 |
) |
Proceeds from sales of other assets |
|
|
28 |
|
|
|
137 |
|
Other |
|
|
30 |
|
|
|
27 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash flows provided by (used for) investing activities |
|
$ |
(124 |
) |
|
$ |
40 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash used for the purchase
of property, plant and equipment was higher in the six months ended June 30, 2006 when compared to the same period in 2005 due
to the timing of new customer program requirements and the delay of certain expenditures
during the second half of 2005. Capital spending for 2006 is currently expected to approximate
$300.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash Flows - Financing Activities: |
|
2006 |
|
|
2005 |
|
Net change in short-term debt |
|
$ |
(549 |
) |
|
$ |
225 |
|
Payments of long-term debt |
|
|
(4 |
) |
|
|
(45 |
) |
Proceeds from debtor-in-possession facility |
|
|
700 |
|
|
|
|
|
Issuance of long-term debt |
|
|
7 |
|
|
|
|
|
Dividends paid |
|
|
|
|
|
|
(36 |
) |
Other |
|
|
(7 |
) |
|
|
(3 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash flows provided by financing activities |
|
$ |
147 |
|
|
$ |
141 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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Financing Activities
Pre-petition Financing
Before the Filing Date, we had a five-year bank facility maturing on March 4, 2010, which provided
$400 of borrowing capacity and an accounts receivable securitization program that provided up to a
maximum of $275 to meet periodic demand for short-term financing. The obligations under these
facilities were paid off at the time of our bankruptcy filing with the proceeds of the DIP Credit
Agreement.
DIP Credit Agreement
We currently have drawn $700 of the net amount available under our $1,450 DIP Credit Agreements
term loan facility (see Note 10).
Debt Reclassification
Danas bankruptcy filing triggered the immediate acceleration of the Debtors direct financial
obligations including, among others, outstanding non-secured notes issued under our Indentures
dated as of December 15, 1997; August 8, 2001; March 11, 2002 and December 10, 2004 and DCCs
obligations under the DCC Notes. The amounts accelerated under our Indentures are characterized as
unsecured debt for purposes of the reorganization proceedings. The related Debtor obligations of
$1,585 have been classified as liabilities subject to compromise (see Note 2) and the unsecured DCC
Notes have been classified as part of the current portion of long-term debt in our condensed
consolidated balance sheet. As a result of the first quarter 2006 agreement to sell DCCs interest
in a limited partnership, $55 of DCC non-recourse debt expected to be assumed by the buyer has been
classified as a current liability. Certain non-U.S. borrowings totaling $16 continue to be
classified as Long-term debt.
Canadian Credit Agreement
In June 2006, Dana Canada, as borrower, and certain of its Canadian affiliates, as guarantors,
entered into the Canadian Credit Agreement. This agreement provides for a revolving credit
facility of $100, of which $5 is available for the issuance of letters
of credit. At June 30, 2006, there were no borrowings under the agreement (see Note 10).
Cash Obligations
Under various agreements, we are obligated to make future cash payments in fixed amounts. These
include payments under our long-term debt agreements, rent payments required under operating lease
agreements and payments for equipment, other fixed assets and certain raw materials. The following
table summarizes our fixed cash obligations over various future periods:
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|
|
|
|
Payments Due by Period |
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|
|
|
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|
Less than 1 |
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|
1 - 3 |
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|
4 - 5 |
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|
After 5 |
|
Contractual Cash Obligations |
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Total |
|
|
Year |
|
|
Years |
|
|
Years |
|
|
Years |
|
Principal of long-term debt |
|
$ |
2,760 |
|
|
$ |
148 |
|
|
$ |
1,521 |
|
|
$ |
78 |
|
|
$ |
1,013 |
|
Operating leases |
|
|
455 |
|
|
|
72 |
|
|
|
123 |
|
|
|
64 |
|
|
|
196 |
|
Unconditional purchase obligations |
|
|
230 |
|
|
|
201 |
|
|
|
19 |
|
|
|
8 |
|
|
|
2 |
|
Other long-term liabilities |
|
|
1,366 |
|
|
|
222 |
|
|
|
277 |
|
|
|
266 |
|
|
|
601 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total contractual cash obligations |
|
$ |
4,811 |
|
|
$ |
643 |
|
|
$ |
1,940 |
|
|
$ |
416 |
|
|
$ |
1,812 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
We are not able to determine the amounts and timing of our contractual cash obligations.
Future payment timing and amounts are expected to be modified as a result of our reorganization
under Chapter 11. Accordingly, the preceding table reflects the scheduled maturities based on the
original payment terms specified in the underlying agreements and contracts.
The unconditional purchase obligations principally comprise commitments for procurement of fixed
assets and the purchase of raw materials.
We have a number of sourcing arrangements with suppliers for various component parts used in the
assembly of our products, including certain outsourced components that we had manufactured
ourselves in earlier years. These agreements do not contain any specific minimum quantities that
we must order in any given year, but generally require that we purchase the specific component
exclusively from the supplier over the term of the agreement. Accordingly, our cash obligations
under these agreements are not fixed. However, if we were to estimate volumes to be purchased under
these agreements based on our production forecasts for 2006 and assume that the volumes were
constant over the respective contract periods, the annual purchases under those agreements where we
estimate the annual volume would exceed $20 would be as follows: $529, $371, $369, $332 and $589 in
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 and thereafter, respectively.
Other long-term liabilities include estimated obligations under our retiree healthcare programs,
our estimated 2006 contributions to our U.S. defined benefit pension plans and payments under our
long-term agreement with IBM for the outsourcing of certain human resource services that began in
June 2005. Obligations under the retiree healthcare programs are not fixed commitments and will
vary depending on various factors, including the level of participant utilization and inflation.
Our estimates of the payments to be made through 2010 took into consideration recent payment trends
and certain of our actuarial assumptions. We have not estimated pension contributions beyond 2006
due to uncertainty resulting from our bankruptcy filing.
We procure tooling from a variety of suppliers. In certain instances, in lieu of making progress
payments on the tooling, we may guarantee a tooling suppliers obligations under its credit
facility secured by the specific tooling purchase order. At June 30, 2006, there were $1 of
guarantees outstanding under this program.
At June 30, 2006, we maintained cash deposits of $111 to provide
credit enhancement for certain lease agreements and to support surety bonds that allow us to
self-insure our workers compensation obligations. These financial instruments are typically
renewed each year (see Note 9).
In connection with certain of our pre-petition divestitures, there may be future claims and
proceedings instituted or asserted against us relative to the period of our ownership or pursuant
to indemnifications or guarantees provided in connection with the
respective transactions. The
estimated maximum potential amount of payments under these obligations is not determinable due to
the significant number of divestitures and lack of a stated maximum liability for certain matters, and
because these obligations are subject to compromise as pre-petition obligations. In some cases, we
have insurance coverage available to satisfy claims related to the divested businesses. We believe
that payments, if any, in excess of amounts provided or insured related to such matters are not
reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on our liquidity, financial condition or
results of operations.
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Contingencies
Impact of Our Bankruptcy Filing
Under the Bankruptcy Code, the filing of our petition on March 3, 2006 automatically stayed most
actions against us. Substantially all of our pre-petition liabilities will be addressed under our
plan of reorganization, if not otherwise addressed pursuant to orders of the Bankruptcy Court.
Class Action Lawsuit and Derivative Actions
Dana and certain of our current and former officers are defendants in a consolidated securities
class action pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. The plaintiffs
in this action allege violations of the U.S. securities laws and claim that the price at which
Danas shares traded at various times between February 2004 and November 2005 was artificially
inflated as a result of the defendants alleged wrongdoing. We expect that a consolidated amended
complaint will be filed in August 2006 in which Dana will not be named as a defendant. Two
shareholder derivative actions are also pending in the same court naming our current directors,
certain former directors and certain current and former officers as defendants. Among other
things, the plaintiffs in these actions allege breaches of the defendants fiduciary duties to Dana
arising from the same facts on which the consolidated class action is based. These claims have
been stayed. In addition, the plaintiff in one of these actions has asserted class claims
characterizing Danas bankruptcy filing as having been made in bad faith. Defendants intend to
move to dismiss or stay these claims. A hearing on this motion has been set for January 2007. Due
to the preliminary nature of these lawsuits, at this time we cannot predict their outcome or
estimate Danas potential exposure related thereto. While we have insurance coverage with respect
to these matters and do not currently believe that any liabilities that may result from these
proceedings are reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on our liquidity, financial
condition or results of operations, there can be no assurance that the impact of any loss not
covered by insurance would not be material.
SEC Investigation
In September 2005, we reported that management was investigating accounting matters arising out of
incorrect entries related to a customer agreement in our Commercial Vehicle business unit, and that
our Audit Committee had engaged outside counsel to conduct an independent investigation of these
matters as well. Outside counsel informed the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the
investigation, which ended in December 2005, about when we filed restated financial statements for
the first two quarters of 2005 and the years 2002 through 2004. In January 2006, we learned that
the SEC had issued a formal
order of investigation with respect to matters related to our restatements. The SECs
investigation is a non-public, fact-finding inquiry to determine
whether any violations of the law
have occurred. This investigation has not been suspended as a result of our bankruptcy filing. We
are continuing to cooperate fully with the SEC in the investigation.
Legal Proceedings Arising in the Ordinary Course of Business
We are a party to various pending judicial and administrative proceedings arising in the ordinary
course of business. These include, among others, proceedings based on product liability claims and
alleged violations of environmental laws. We have reviewed these pending legal proceedings,
including the probable outcomes, our reasonably anticipated costs and expenses, the availability
and limits of our insurance coverage and surety bonds and our established reserves for uninsured
liabilities. We do not believe that any liabilities that may result from these proceedings are
reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on our liquidity, financial condition or
results of operations.
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Tax Matters
We are involved in various tax matters, including transactions for which the related tax
regulations are relatively new and/or subject to interpretation. A number of years may elapse
before a particular matter is audited and a tax adjustment is proposed by the taxing authority.
The years with open tax audits vary depending on the tax jurisdiction. We establish a liability
when the payment of additional taxes related to certain matters is considered probable and the
amount is reasonably estimable. We adjust these liabilities, including the related interest and
penalties, in light of changing facts and circumstances, such as the progress of a tax audit.
These liabilities are recorded in Other accrued liabilities in our condensed consolidated balance
sheet. Favorable resolution of tax matters for which a liability had previously been recorded
would result in a reduction of income tax expense when payment of the tax is no longer considered
probable.
Asbestos-Related Product Liabilities
Under the Bankruptcy Code, our pending asbestos-related product liability lawsuits have been stayed
during our reorganization process and claimants may not commence new lawsuits against us on account
of pre-petition claims. However, proofs of additional asbestos claims may be filed in the
Bankruptcy Cases either voluntarily by claimants or if a bar date is established for asbestos
claims. The claims bar date order entered by the Bankruptcy Court on July 19, 2006 does not set a
deadline for claimants asserting asbestos-related personal injury claims to file proofs of claim.
However, claims alleging potential asbestos-related liability by insurers or other third parties
who are not one of the allegedly injured individuals or one of their personal representatives, and
any claims for property damage, must be filed by September 21, 2006. Our obligations with respect
to asbestos claims will be resolved pursuant to our plan of reorganization, if not otherwise
resolved pursuant to orders of the Bankruptcy Court.
We had approximately 76,000 active pending asbestos-related product liability claims at June 30,
2006, compared to 77,000 at December 31, 2005, including 9,000 and 10,000 claims that were settled
but awaiting final documentation and payment. We had accrued $96 for indemnity and defense costs
for pending asbestos-related product liability claims at June 30, 2006, compared to $98 at December
31, 2005. We accrue for pending claims based on our claims settlement and dismissal history.
The methodology we used for projecting future asbestos-related product claims and costs is
described in our 2005 Form 10-K. Based on this analysis, we estimated our potential liability
through 2020 to be within a range of $70 to $120. Since the outcomes
within that range are equally
probable, the accrual at June 30, 2006 represents the lower end of the range. While the process of
estimating future demands is highly uncertain, beyond 2020, we believe there are reasonable
scenarios in which our expenditures related to asbestos-related
product liability claims after that date would be
de minimis.
At June 30, 2006, we had recorded $79 as an asset for probable recovery from our insurers for the
pending and projected claims compared to $78 at December 31, 2005. The asset recorded reflects our
assessment of the capacity of our current insurance agreements to provide for the payment of
anticipated defense and indemnity costs for pending claims and
projected future demands. These recoveries assume elections under our existing coverage, which we intend to adopt in order to maximize our insurance
recovery. The asset recorded does not represent the limits of our insurance coverage, but rather
the amount we would expect to recover if we paid the accrued indemnity and defense costs.
At December 31, 2005, we had recorded a receivable of $8 in connection with an October 2005
settlement agreement with one of our insurers. We received a payment
of $2 in the first quarter
of 2006, and the remainder was received in the second quarter of 2006. Proceeds from insurance
commutations are first applied to reduce any recorded recoverable amount. Any excess over the
recoverable amount is evaluated to assess whether any portion of the excess represents payments by
the insurer for potential future liabilities.
In addition, we had a net amount recoverable from our insurers and others of $14 at June 30, 2006,
compared to $15 at December 31, 2005. This recoverable represents reimbursements for settled
asbestos-related product liability claims, including billings in progress and amounts subject to
alternate dispute resolution proceedings with some of our insurers. As a result of the stay in our
asbestos litigation during the reorganization process, we do not expect to make any asbestos
payments in the near term. However, we are continuing to pursue insurance collections with respect
to asbestos-related amounts paid prior to the Filing Date.
Other Product Liabilities
We had accrued $8 for contingent non-asbestos product liability costs at June 30, 2006, compared to
$13 at December 31, 2005, with no recovery expected from third parties at either date. We estimate
these liabilities based on assumptions about the value of the claims and about the likelihood of
recoveries against us, derived from our historical experience and current information. If there is
a range of equally probable outcomes, we accrue the lower end of the range. The difference between
our minimum and maximum estimates for these liabilities was $10 at both dates.
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Environmental Liabilities
We had accrued $59 for contingent environmental liabilities at June 30, 2006, compared to $63 at
December 31, 2005. We estimate these liabilities based on the most probable method of remediation,
current laws and regulations and existing technology. Estimates are made on an undiscounted basis
and exclude the effects of inflation. If there is a range of equally probable remediation methods
or outcomes, we accrue the lower end of the range. The difference between our minimum and maximum
estimates for these liabilities was $1 at both dates.
Included in these accruals are amounts relating to the Hamilton Avenue Industrial Park Superfund
site in New Jersey, where we are presently one of four potentially responsible parties. Our
estimated liabilities for the three Operable Units (OUs) at this site at June 30, 2006 remained
unchanged from our estimates at December 31, 2005: $1 for future
remedial work and past costs
incurred by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) at OU 1 relating to off-site
soil contamination; $14 for future remedial work at OU 2 relating to on-site soil contamination;
and less than $1 at OU 3 for the costs of a remedial investigation and feasibility study (RI/FS)
pertaining to groundwater contamination. Our obligations at this site occurred before the Filing
Date and we believe they constitute pre-petition debt. Consequently, we have discontinued our work
in connection with the RI/FS at OU 3 and informed EPA that, as an unsecured creditor, it will
receive notice of the bar date for filing a proof of claim.
Other Liabilities Related to Asbestos Claims
Until 2001, most of our asbestos-related claims were administered, defended and settled by the CCR,
which settled claims for its member companies on a shared settlement cost basis. In that year, the
CCR was reorganized and discontinued negotiating shared settlements. Since then, we have
independently controlled our legal strategy and settlements using Peterson Asbestos Consulting
Enterprise (PACE), a unit of Navigant Consulting, Inc., to administer our claims, bill our
insurance carriers and assist us in claims negotiation and resolution. Some former CCR members
defaulted on the payment of their shares of some of the CCR-negotiated settlements and some of the
settling claimants have sought payment of the unpaid shares from Dana and the other companies that
were members of the CCR at the time of the settlements. We have been working with the CCR, other
former CCR members, our insurers and the claimants over a period of several years in an effort to
resolve these issues. Through June 30, 2006, we had paid $47 to claimants and collected $29 from
our insurance carriers with respect to these claims. At June 30, 2006, we had a net receivable of
$13 that we expect to recover from available insurance and surety bonds relating to these claims.
We are continuing to pursue insurance collections with respect to asbestos-related amounts paid
prior to the filing of our bankruptcy petition.
Assumptions
The amounts we have recorded for contingent asbestos-related liabilities and recoveries are based
on assumptions and estimates reasonably derived from our historical experience and current
information. The actual amount of our liability for asbestos-related claims and the effect on us
could differ materially from our current expectations if our assumptions about the outcome of the
pending unresolved bodily injury claims, the volume and outcome of projected future bodily injury
claims, the outcome of claims relating to the CCR-negotiated settlements, the costs to resolve
these claims and the amount of available insurance and surety bonds prove to be incorrect, or if
currently proposed U.S. federal legislation impacting asbestos personal injury claims is enacted.
Although we have projected our liability for asbestos-related product liability claims that may be
brought against us in the future based upon historical trend data that we deem to be reliable,
there can be no assurance that our actual liability will not differ from what we currently project.
Critical Accounting Estimates
The preparation of the interim financial statements involves the use of certain estimates that
differ from those used in the preparation of the annual financial statements, the most significant
of which relates to income taxes. For purposes of preparing our interim financial statements, we
utilize an estimated annual effective tax rate for ordinary items that is re-evaluated each period based on changes in the components used to determine the annual effective
rate. Our critical accounting estimates, as described in our 2005 Form 10-K, are unchanged. See
Note 3 for additional information.
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ITEM 3. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES
ABOUT MARKET RISK
We are exposed to various types of market risks including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange
rates, adverse movements in commodity prices for products we use in our manufacturing and adverse
changes in interest rates. To reduce our exposure to these risks, we maintain risk management
controls to monitor these risks and take appropriate actions to attempt to mitigate such forms of
market risks. There have been no material changes to our market risk exposure discussed in our
2005 Form 10-K.
ITEM 4. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Disclosure Controls and Procedures
We maintain disclosure controls and procedures that are designed to ensure that the information
disclosed in the reports we file with the SEC under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended
(Exchange Act) is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in
the SECs rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our
management, including our Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO), as
appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
Based on the continued existence of the material weaknesses discussed in Item 9A of our 2005 Form
10-K, management, including our CEO and CFO, has concluded that our disclosure controls and
procedures were not effective as of June 30, 2006.
You can find more information about the material weaknesses, their impact on our disclosure
controls and procedures and our internal control over financial reporting, and the actions we have
taken or are planning to take to remediate the material weaknesses in Item 9A of our 2005 Form 10-K
and Item 4 of our Form 10-Q for the three months ended March 31, 2006.
Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over
financial reporting to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial
reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external reporting purposes in accordance
with GAAP.
With the participation of our CEO and CFO, our management evaluates any changes in our internal
control over financial reporting that occurred during each fiscal
quarter that materially
affected, or are reasonably likely to affect, such internal control. During the second quarter of
2006, the following actions were taken to strengthen our internal controls:
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We continued the deployment of our account reconciliation software
to our major facilities to allow access to and review of
reconciliations from a central location, and we continued the related software
training; |
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|
As part of our program to establish centers of excellence for
finance functions to process transactions that require
specialized accounting knowledge, we dedicated a team of financial
people to account for all of our customer-paid tooling
arrangements; |
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|
We have appointed a human resource professional to focus on the
organizational development needs of our Finance group and to track
the training and career paths of our finance personnel, reassess
the competency requirements for our key financial positions and
determine our overall financial staffing needs; |
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We held the first in a series of meetings of our controller groups
in North America, with additional sessions scheduled on a global
basis for the third and fourth quarters of 2006; and |
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We strengthened our internal audit department by hiring two
experienced senior auditors and implementing certain of the
recommendations that came from the independent review of our
internal audit function that was conducted in 2005. |
However,
there has been turnover in our Finance and Information Technology functions,
which we attribute to the uncertainty surrounding the reorganization
process. We are addressing the situation through reassignment of
internal resources, recruitment of additional qualified personnel and
utilization of temporary resources.
CEO and CFO Certifications
The Certifications of our CEO and CFO, which are attached as Exhibits 31-A and 31-B, include
information about our disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial
reporting. These Certifications should be read in conjunction with the information contained in
this Item 4 and in Item 9A of our 2005 Form 10-K for a more complete understanding of the matters
covered by the Certifications.
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PART II
ITEM 1. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
On March 3, 2006, Dana Corporation and forty of its wholly owned subsidiaries filed voluntary
petitions for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. Under the Bankruptcy Code,
the filing of the petitions for reorganization automatically stayed most actions against the
Debtors, including most actions to collect on pre-petition indebtedness or to exercise control over
the property of the bankruptcy estates. Substantially all of our pre-petition liabilities will be
addressed under our plan of reorganization, if not otherwise addressed pursuant to orders of the
Bankruptcy Court.
As previously reported and as described herein, we are a party to a pending pre-petition securities
class action and pending shareholder derivative actions, as well as various pending judicial and
administrative proceedings that arose in the ordinary course of business (including both
pre-petition and subsequent proceedings), and we are cooperating with the SECs formal
investigation with respect to matters related to the restatement of our financial statements for
the first two quarters of 2005 and fiscal years 2002 through 2004. After reviewing the currently
pending lawsuits and proceedings (including the probable outcomes, reasonably anticipated costs and
expenses, availability and limits of our insurance coverage and surety bonds and our established
reserves for uninsured liabilities), we do not believe that any liabilities that may result are
reasonably likely to have a materially adverse effect on our liquidity, financial condition or
results of operations.
There have been no other material developments in the legal proceedings we reported in our 2005
Form 10-K, or any new matters that we are required to report in this quarterly report.
You can find more information about our legal proceedings in Note 12 to our condensed consolidated
financial statements, in Item 2 of Part 1, and in our Form 10-Q for the first quarter of 2006.
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ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS
There have been no material changes to the risk factors discussed in Item A and elsewhere in our
2005 Form 10-K.
ITEM 2. UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS
During the second quarter of 2006, we repurchased the following shares of our common stock to
satisfy the payment of withheld income taxes upon the vesting of previously granted
restricted stock.
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(d) Maximum |
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(c) Total Number of |
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Number (Approximate |
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Shares Puchased as |
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Dollar Value) of |
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(a) Total Number |
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(b) Average Price |
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Part of Publicly |
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Shares that May Yet Be |
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of Shares |
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Paid per |
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Announced Plans |
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Purchased Under |
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Period |
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Purchased |
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Share |
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or Programs |
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the Plans or Programs |
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April 1 to April 30, 2006 |
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$ |
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May 1 to May 31, 2006 |
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29,788 |
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1.12 |
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June 1 to June 30, 2006 |
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Total |
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29,788 |
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$ |
1.12 |
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ITEM 6. EXHIBITS
The Exhibits listed in the Exhibit Index are filed with or furnished as a part of this report.
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly
caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
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Dana Corporation
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(Registrant) |
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Date: July 28, 2006
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/s/ Kenneth A. Hiltz |
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Kenneth A. Hiltz |
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Chief Financial Officer and duly authorized officer
of Registrant |
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EXHIBIT INDEX
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Exhibit No. |
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Description |
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Method of Filing or Furnishing |
4-B (1)
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Amendment No. 2, effective
as of July 18, 2006, to the
Rights Agreement, dated as
of April 25, 1996, as
amended, by and between Dana
and The Bank of New York,
Rights Agent
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Filed by reference to
Exhibit 99.1 to our Form
8-K dated July 21, 2006 |
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10-Y
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Master Share Purchase
Relating to the Dissolution
of the Spicer Joint Venture
by
and among Desc Automatrix,
S.A. de C.V., Inmobiliaria
Unik, S.A. de C.V., Spicer,
S.A. de C.V., Dana
Corporation, and Dana
Holdings Mexico, S. de R.L.
de C.V., dated
as of May 31, 2006
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Filed with this report |
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10-Z
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Credit Agreement dated as of
June 22, 2006, among Dana
Canada Corporation, as
Borrower and as a Credit
Party, Dana Canada Holding
Company, Dana Canada Ltd.
and Dana Canada LP, as
Guarantors and as Credit
Parties, Citibank Canada,
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.,
Toronto Branch and Bank of
America, N.A., Canada
Branch, as Issuing Banks,
Citibank Canada, as Initial
Swing Line Lender, Citibank
Canada as Administrative
Agent, Citibank Canada,
JPMorgan Chase bank, N.A.,
Toronto Branch and Bank of
America, N.A., Canada
Branch, as Joint Lead
Arrangers and Joint
Bookrunners and Wachovia
Capital Finance Corporation
(Canada) and CIT Business
Credit Canada Inc., as
Documentation Agents
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31-A
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Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a)
Certification by Chief
Executive Officer
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Filed with this report |
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31-B
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Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a)
Certification by Chief
Financial Officer
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Filed with this report |
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Section 1350 Certifications
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EX-10.Y
Exhibit 10-Y
EXECUTION VERSION
MASTER SHARE PURCHASE AGREEMENT
RELATING TO THE DISSOLUTION OF THE SPICER JOINT VENTURE
by and among
DESC AUTOMOTRIZ, S.A. DE C.V.,
INMOBILIARIA UNIK, S.A. DE C.V.,
SPICER, S.A. DE C.V.,
DANA CORPORATION,
and
DANA HOLDINGS MEXICO, S. DE R.L. DE C.V.
Dated as of May 31, 2006
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I
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DEFINITIONS AND PRINCIPLES OF INTERPRETATION
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Section 1.1
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Definitions
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Section 1.2
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Rules of Construction
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Section 1.3
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Accounting Principles
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Section 1.4
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Governing Law
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ARTICLE II
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PURCHASE AND SALE
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Section 2.1
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Purchase and Sale of Dana JV Shares and Dana Target Shares
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Section 2.2
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Dana Account
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Section 2.3
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Closing
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Section 2.4
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Acknowledgements
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Section 2.5
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Transfer of Title of Purchased Shares
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ARTICLE III
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PURCHASE PRICE
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Section 3.1
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Purchase Price
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Section 3.2
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Purchase Price Adjustment
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Section 3.3
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Purchase Price Adjustment and Allocation
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Section 3.4
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Past Due Interest
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ARTICLE IV
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REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE DANA PARTIES
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Section 4.1
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Incorporation and Registration
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Section 4.2
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Dana JV Shares
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Section 4.3
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Litigation
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Section 4.4
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Enforceability of Obligations
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Section 4.5
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Absence of Conflicting Agreements
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Section 4.6
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Approvals
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Section 4.7
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No Broker
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Section 4.8
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Sufficiency of Financial Resources
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ARTICLE V
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REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE DESC PARTIES
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Section 5.1
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Incorporation and Registration
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Section 5.2
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Dana Target Shares
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Section 5.3
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Indebtedness
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Section 5.4
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Litigation
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Section 5.5
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Financial Statements
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Section 5.6
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Enforceability of Obligations
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Section 5.7
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Absence of Conflicting Agreements
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Section 5.8
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Approvals
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Section 5.9
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No Broker
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Section 5.10
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Sufficiency of Financial Resources
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ARTICLE VI
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NON-WAIVER; SURVIVAL
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Section 6.1
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Non-Waiver
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Section 6.2
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Nature and Survival
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ARTICLE VII
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COVENANTS OF THE PARTIES
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Section 7.1
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Conduct of the Business
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Section 7.2
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Covenants Related to Chapter 11 Case
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Section 7.3
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General Covenants Regarding Conditions Precedent
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Section 7.4
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Sale and Purchase of Real Property
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Section 7.5
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Water Rights Assignment Agreements
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Section 7.6
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Payment of Indebtedness and Certain Related Actions
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Section 7.7
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Cash Settlements and Hybrid Loans
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Section 7.8
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Capitalization and Assignment of Inter-Company Debt.
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Section 7.9
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Spicer and JV Subsidiaries Resolutions
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Section 7.10
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Books and Records
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Section 7.11
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Confidentiality
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Section 7.12
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Tax Returns; Cooperation and Exchange of Information
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Section 7.13
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Other Taxes and Expenses
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Section 7.14
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Filings with Governmental Authorities
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Section 7.15
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Forjas Tlaxcala Facility
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Section 7.16
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ENCO, Tremec and Autoprecisa Remediations
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Section 7.17
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Transfer and Termination of Certain Employees
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Section 7.18
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Non-Solicitation
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Section 7.19
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Transfer of Pension Funds of Transferred Employees
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Section 7.20
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JV Agreement and Management Services Agreement
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Section 7.21
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Use of Dana Trade Names
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Section 7.22
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Termination of Agreements.
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Section 7.23
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Acknowledgment and Releases
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ARTICLE VIII
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CONDITIONS TO CLOSING
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Section 8.1
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General
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Section 8.2
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Conditions to Obligations of all Parties
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Section 8.3
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Additional Conditions Precedent of the Desc Parties
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Section 8.4
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Additional Conditions Precedent of Dana and Dana Mexico
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ARTICLE IX
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INDEMNIFICATION
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Section 9.1
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Indemnification by Dana Mexico
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Section 9.2
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Indemnification by the Spicer
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Section 9.3
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Indemnification for Claims Related to AMSA
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Section 9.4
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Notice of Pre-Closing Third Party Claims Presented Post-Closing
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Section 9.5
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Conduct of Pre-Closing Claims Presented Pre-Closing.
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Section 9.6
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Defense of Pre-Closing Third Party Claims Presented Post-Closing
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Section 9.7
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Assistance for Third Party Claims
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Section 9.8
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Settlement of Third Party Claims
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Section 9.9
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Direct Claims
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Section 9.10
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Failure to Give Timely Notice
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Section 9.11
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Reductions and Subrogation
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Section 9.12
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Tax Effect
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Section 9.13
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Mitigation of Damages
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Section 9.14
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Payment and Interest
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Section 9.15
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Limitation
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ARTICLE X
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MISCELLANEOUS
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Section 10.1
Section 10.2
Section 10.3
Section 10.4
Section 10.5
Section 10.6
Section 10.7
Section 10.8
Section 10.9
Section 10.10
Section 10.11
Section 10.12
Section 10.13
Section 10.14
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Termination Events
Public Notices
Expenses
Notices
Assignment
Further Assurances
Limitations on Remedies
Counterparts
Dispute Resolution
No Third Party Beneficiary
Partial Invalidity
Desc Parties Guarantor
Dana Parties Guarantor
Prior Agreements
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LIST OF EXHIBITS AND SCHEDULES
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EXHIBITS |
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Exhibit A
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Adjusted Net Working Capital Amounts; Projected AMSA ANWC; Projected Desc Target ANWC; Projected
Remaining Dana Target ANWC |
Exhibit B
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Environmental Legislation |
Exhibit C
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Form of IT Agreement |
Exhibit D
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Form of Receipt and Release Letter |
Exhibit E
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Form of Release Agreement |
Exhibit F
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Form of Software License Agreement |
Exhibit G
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Form of Amended TSP License Agreement |
Exhibit H
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Form of Water Rights Assignment Agreements |
Exhibit I
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Form of TF Victor Trademark Agreement |
Exhibit J
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Form of TSA Agreement |
Exhibit K
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Form of Desc Automotriz Promissory Note |
Exhibit L
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Form of TTSP Facility Sale and Purchase Deed |
Exhibit M
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Form of TF Victor Facility Sale and Purchase Deed |
Exhibit N
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Form of Etrac Facility Sale and Purchase Deed |
Exhibit O
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Form of Cardanes Facility Sale and Purchase Deed |
Exhibit P
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Form of AMSA Facility Sale and Purchase Deed |
Exhibit Q-1
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Form of Cedei Facility Sale and Purchase Deed |
Exhibit Q-2
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Cedei Facility Equipment |
Exhibit R
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Scope of Phase One Environmental Study |
Exhibit S
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Form of Acknowledgment and Release |
Exhibit T
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Payments Out of Estimated Desc Cash |
Exhibit U
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Payments Out of Estimated Dana Cash |
Exhibit V
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Form of Securities Agreements |
Exhibit W
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Form of Termination, Release and Joinder Agreement to the License and Technical Assistance
Agreement |
Exhibit X
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Form of Dana Targets Debt Assignment Agreements |
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SCHEDULES |
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Schedule 1.1
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Product Warranty Reserves |
Schedule 2.2-A
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Dana Account (Activities) |
Schedule 2.2-B
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Dana Account (Projects) |
Schedule 5.3
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Indebtedness |
Schedule 5.4
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Litigation |
Schedule 5.5(b)
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Financial Statements |
Schedule 7.1(b)(xix)
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Severance and Termination Payments |
Schedule 7.1(b)(xxi)
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Capital Expenditures |
Schedule 7.6(b)
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Dana Target GE Agreements |
Schedule 7.6(c)
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Comerica Letters of Credit |
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Schedule 7.6(e)
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Dana Target Bonds |
Schedule 7.15(a)
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Tlaxcala Assets |
Schedule 7.16(a)-A
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ENCO Remediation |
Schedule 7.16(a)-B
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ENCO Remediation Plan |
Schedule 7.16(b)
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Tremec Remediation |
Schedule 7.16(f)
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Environmental Consultants |
Schedule 7.17(a)
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Transferred Employees |
Schedule 7.17(e)
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Terminated Employees |
Schedule 7.22(a)
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Debtor Assumed Agreements |
Schedule 7.22(b)
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Non-Assumed Non-Terminated Agreements |
Schedule 7.23
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Third Party Contracts |
Schedule 8.2(e)
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Pre-Petition Claims |
Schedule 8.2(k)
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Third Party Consents |
Schedule 8.3(i)
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Officers and Directors Resignations Desc Targets |
Schedule 8.4(h)
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Officers and Directors Resignations Dana Targets |
vi
MASTER SHARE PURCHASE AGREEMENT RELATING
TO THE DISSOLUTION OF THE SPICER JOINT VENTURE
THIS MASTER SHARE PURCHASE AGREEMENT RELATING TO THE DISSOLUTION OF THE SPICER JOINT VENTURE,
is made as of the 31st day of May, 2006 by and among:
DESC AUTOMOTRIZ, S.A. DE C.V., a corporation governed by the laws of the United Mexican States
(Desc Automotriz);
SPICER, S.A. DE C.V., a corporation governed by the laws of the United Mexican States
(Spicer);
INMOBILIARIA UNIK, S.A. DE C.V., a corporation governed by the laws of the United Mexican
States (Inmobiliaria Unik and together with Desc Automotriz and Spicer, the Desc Parties);
DANA CORPORATION, a corporation governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, United
States of America (Dana); and
DANA HOLDINGS MEXICO, S. DE R.L. DE C.V., a corporation governed by the laws of the United
Mexican States (Dana Mexico and together with Dana, the Dana Parties).
RECITALS
(A) |
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WHEREAS, Dana and Desc Automotriz (formerly known as UNIK, S.A. de C.V.) are both parties to
that certain Spicer, S.A. de C.V. Shareholders Agreement, dated as of May 19, 2000 (the JV
Agreement), which superseded the agreement dated January 1, 1995, pursuant to which Dana and
Desc Automotriz have for many years been Shareholders (as defined below) of Spicer; |
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WHEREAS, Spicer is a holding Company (as defined below) engaged, through its Subsidiaries (as
defined below), in the business of manufacturing and selling auto parts and components in the
United Mexican States; |
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(C) |
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WHEREAS, Dana is the legal owner of, and has full and unencumbered title to 48.803% of the
issued and outstanding shares of Spicer, consisting of 5,329,801,806 shares (the Dana JV
Shares); |
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WHEREAS Desc Automotriz is the legal owner of, and has full and unencumbered title to 51.193%
of the issued and outstanding shares of Spicer, consisting of 5,590,883,458 shares (Desc
Automotriz JV Shares); |
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WHEREAS, the Subsidiaries of Spicer are all of the following corporations (collectively, the
JV Subsidiaries): Ejes Tractivos, S.A. de C.V. (Etrac), Cardanes, S.A. de C.V.
(Cardanes), Forjas Spicer, S.A. de C.V. (Forjas), Autometales, S.A. de C.V.
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(AMSA), T.F. Victor, S.A. de C.V. (TF Victor), Direcspicer, S.A. de C.V. (Direcspicer),
Corporación Inmobiliaria de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. (Corporación Inmobiliaria), Engranes
Cónicos, S.A. de C.V. (ENCO), Transmisiones TSP, S.A. de C.V. (TTSP), Villa Industrial,
S.A. de C.V. (Villa Industrial), Spicer Servicios, S.A. de C.V. (Spicer Servicios), and
Transmisiones y Equipos Mecánicos, S.A. de C.V. (Tremec), all the foregoing of which are
organized under the laws of Mexico (as defined below), and Transmission Technologies
Corporation (TTC), which is organized under the laws of the State of Michigan; |
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(F) |
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WHEREAS, Desc Automotriz and Dana have concluded and agreed that it is in their mutual best
interests to terminate their joint venture association in Spicer by (i) Desc Automotriz
becoming the direct owner of 99.996% owner of Spicer and the indirect owner of the following
JV Subsidiaries (Spicer and such JV Subsidiaries together, the Desc Targets): Tremec, TF
Victor, TTSP, TTC, and Villa Industrial; and (ii) Dana, directly or indirectly, becoming the
100% owner of the remaining JV Subsidiaries (such remaining JV Subsidiaries together, the
Dana Targets), as follows: Etrac, ENCO, Cardanes, AMSA, Forjas, Direcspicer, Spicer
Servicios and Corporación Inmobiliaria, in each case on the terms and subject to the
conditions set forth herein; |
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(G) |
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WHEREAS, Inmobiliaria Unik is a wholly-owned Subsidiary of Desc Automotriz; |
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(H) |
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WHEREAS, Spicer is the legal owner of, and has full and unencumbered title to 67.35% of the
issued and outstanding shares of AMSA, as follows: 40,429,324 shares, consisting of 17,216
Series A shares, 11,477 Series B shares, 35,999,999 Series A-1, and 4,400,632 Series B-1
shares; Desc Automotriz is the legal owner of, and has full and unencumbered title to 32.64%
of the issued and outstanding shares of AMSA, as follows: 19,599,367 Series B-1 Shares; and
Inmobiliaria Unik is the legal owner of, and has full and unencumbered title to 0.01% of the
issued and outstanding shares of AMSA, as follows: 2 shares, consisting of 1 Series A-1 share,
and 1 Series B-1 share (together the AMSA Shares); |
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(I) |
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WHEREAS, Spicer is the legal owner of, and has full and unencumbered title to 99.99% of the
issued and outstanding shares of Cardanes, as follows: 69,999,998 shares, consisting of 30,000
Series A shares, 19,999 Series B shares, 41,969,999 Series A-1 shares, and 27,980,000 Series
B-1 shares; and Inmobiliaria Unik is the legal owner of, and has full and unencumbered title
to 0.01% of the issued and outstanding shares of Cardanes, as follows: 2 shares consisting of
1 Series B share and 1 Series A-1 share (together, the Cardanes Shares); |
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(J) |
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WHEREAS, Spicer is the legal owner of, and has full and unencumbered title to 99.99% of the
issued and outstanding shares of Direcspicer, as follows: 17,760,198 shares, consisting of
6,120 Series A shares, 4,079 Series B shares, 10,650,000 Series C shares, and 7,099,999 Series
D shares; Desc Automotriz is the legal owner of, and has full and unencumbered title 0.05% of
the issued and outstanding shares of Direcspicer, as follows: 1 Series B share; and
Inmobiliaria Unik is the legal owner of, and has full and
unencumbered title to 0.05% of the issued and outstanding shares of Direcspicer, consisting
of 1 Series D share (together, the Direcspicer Shares); |
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(K) |
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WHEREAS, Spicer is the legal owner of, and has full and unencumbered title to 99.99% of the
issued and outstanding shares of ENCO, as follows: 24,999,998 shares, consisting of 19,654
Series A shares, 13,101 Series B shares, 14,980,346 Series A-1 shares, and 9,986,897 Series
B-1 shares; and Inmobiliaria Unik is the legal owner of, and has full and unencumbered title
to 0.01% of the issued and outstanding shares of ENCO, as follows: 2 shares, consisting of 1
Series B share and 1 Series B-1 share (together, the ENCO Shares); |
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(L) |
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WHEREAS, Spicer is the legal owner of, and has full and unencumbered title to 99.99% of the
issued and outstanding shares of Etrac, as follows: 401,999,998 shares, consisting of 30,000
Series A shares, 19,999 Series B shares, 241,170,000 Series A-1 shares, and 160,779,999 Series
B-1 shares; and Inmobiliaria Unik is the legal owner of, and has full and unencumbered title
to 0.01% of the issued and outstanding shares of Etrac, as follows: 2 shares, consisting of 1
Series B share and 1 Series B-1 share (together, the Etrac Shares); |
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(M) |
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WHEREAS, Spicer is the legal owner of, and has full and unencumbered title to 99.99% of the
issued and outstanding shares of Forjas, as follows: 184,999,998 shares, consisting of 30,000
Class I Series A shares, 19,999 Class I Series B shares, 110,970,000 Class II Series A shares,
and 73,979,999 Class II Series B shares; and Inmobiliaria Unik is the legal owner of, and has
full and unencumbered title to 0.01% of the issued and outstanding shares of Forjas, as
follows: 2 shares, consisting of 1 Series B share and 1 Series B-1 share (together, the
Forjas Shares); |
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(N) |
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WHEREAS, Spicer is the legal owner of, and has full and unencumbered title to 99.99% of the
issued and outstanding shares of Spicer Servicios, as follows: 49,999 shares, consisting of
25,500 Series A shares and 24,499 Series B shares; and Direcspicer is the legal owner of, and
has full and unencumbered title to 0.01% of the issued and outstanding shares of Spicer
Servicios, as follows: 1 Series B share (together, the Spicer Servicios Shares); |
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(O) |
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WHEREAS, Spicer is the legal owner of, and has full and unencumbered title to 99.99% of the
issued and outstanding shares of Corporación Inmobiliaria, as follows: 16,286,774 shares,
consisting of 25,500 Series A shares, 24,499 Series B shares, 8,306,256 Series A-1 shares, and
7,980,519 Series B-1 shares; and Inmobiliaria Unik is the legal owner of, and has full and
unencumbered title to 0.01% of the issued and outstanding shares of Corporación Inmobiliaria
as follows: 2 shares, consisting of 1 Series B share and 1 Series B-1 share (together, the
Corporación Inmobiliaria Shares); |
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WHEREAS, Dana Mexico and Desc Automotriz have agreed that the liabilities of Spicer and the
JV Subsidiaries arising in respect of events or circumstances occurring prior to the
dissolution of Spicer shall be borne by Dana Mexico and Desc Automotriz in accordance with the
ownership percentages in Spicer and the JV Subsidiaries, as set forth in Article IX; and |
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WHEREAS, on March 3, 2006 (the Petition Date), Dana and forty (40) of its United States
subsidiaries filed before the Bankruptcy Court (as defined below), under case |
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number 06-10354,
voluntary petitions for reorganization under the Bankruptcy Code (as defined below) (the
Chapter 11 Case); |
(R) |
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NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the respective covenants contained herein and for other
good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged,
the parties hereto agree as follows: |
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND PRINCIPLES OF INTERPRETATION
Section 1.1 Definitions.
Whenever used in this Agreement, the following capitalized words and terms shall have the
meanings set out below, unless expressly stated to the contrary:
Actual AMSA ANWC has the meaning given in Section 3.2(c).
Actual AMSA ANWC Deficit has the meaning given in Section 3.2(f)(ii).
Actual AMSA ANWC Surplus has the meaning given in Section 3.2(f)(ii).
Actual AMSA Cash has the meaning given in Section 3.2(c).
Actual ANWC Adjustment Amount has the meaning given in Section 3.2(f)(iv).
Actual Dana Cash Surplus has the meaning given in Section 3.2(f)(xii).
Actual Dana Cash Target has the meaning given in Section 3.2(f)(viii).
Actual Dana Sum has the meaning given in Section 3.2(f)(x).
Actual Desc Cash has the meaning given in Section 3.2(b).
Actual Desc Cash Surplus has the meaning given in Section 3.2(f)(xi).
Actual Desc Cash Target has the meaning given in Section 3.2(f)(vii).
Actual Desc Sum has the meaning given in Section 3.2(f)(ix).
Actual Desc Target ANWC has the meaning given in Section 3.2(b).
Actual Desc Target ANWC Deficit has the meaning given in Section 3.2(f)(i).
Actual Desc Target ANWC Surplus has the meaning given in Section 3.2(f)(i).
Actual Remaining Dana Cash has the meaning given in Section 3.2(c).
Actual Remaining Dana Target ANWC has the meaning given in Section 3.2(c).
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Actual Remaining Dana Target ANWC Deficit has the meaning given in Section 3.2(f)(iii).
Actual Remaining Dana Target ANWC Surplus has the meaning given in Section 3.2(f)(iii).
Actual Spicer Cash has the meaning given in Section 3.2(c).
Adjusted Net Working Capital means the current asset and liability accounts set out in
Exhibit A.
Affiliate means a Person which controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with,
another Person.
Agreement means this Master Share Purchase Agreement Relating to the Dissolution of Spicer,
S.A. de C.V., including all Exhibits and Schedules hereto, and all instruments supplementing,
amending or confirming this Agreement.
Already Pending Proceeding has the meaning given in Section 10.9(e).
Amended TSP License Agreement means the Amendment to the Trademark License Agreement to be
entered into at or prior to Closing by and between Dana and TTSP for the license of the Spicer
trademark, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit G.
AMSA has the meaning given in Recital E hereof.
AMSA Capitalization has the meaning given in Section 7.8(a).
AMSA Facility has the meaning given in Section 7.4(e).
AMSA Shares has the meaning given in Recital H hereof.
Ancillary Agreements means, collectively, the IT Agreement, the Release Agreement, the
Software License Agreement, the Amended TSP License Agreement, the TF Victor Trademark Agreement,
the TSA Agreement, the Water Rights Assignment Agreements, the Termination, Release and Joinder to
the License and Technical Assistance Agreement, the Dana Target Debt Assignment Agreement and any
other agreement that is entered into pursuant hereto.
Applicable Laws means any Law, consent, exemption, approval or License of any Governmental
Authority, as of the date hereof, that applies in whole or in part to (i) Spicer or the JV
Subsidiaries or its or their respective business as conducted on or prior to the Closing Date, (ii)
any of the Purchased Shares or (iii) any of the Parties hereto.
Assets means any rights, title, or interests in and to properties, assets and rights of any
kind, tangible or intangible, real or personal.
Autoprecisa Land has the meaning given in Section 7.16(c).
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Average ANWC Amount means the amount equal to (i) the sum of the Projected Desc Target ANWC,
the Projected AMSA ANWC and the Projected Remaining Dana Target ANWC divided by (ii) two, which
amount shall (x) be equal to US$41,590,500 if the Closing occurs on or prior to July 7, 2006 and
(y) be calculated by the Parties if the Closing occurs after July 7, 2006.
Bankruptcy Code means Title 11 of the United States Code, 11 U.S.C. §§101 et seq, as it may
be amended from time to time.
Bankruptcy Court means the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New
York.
Bankruptcy Court Approval Motion means a motion, in a form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to Desc Automotriz, filed with the Bankruptcy Court by Dana, seeking the Bankruptcy
Court Approval Order of the Agreement and the Transactions.
Bankruptcy Court Approval Order means an order entered by the Bankruptcy Court granting the
Bankruptcy Court Approval Motion, which order (a) shall be (i) in a form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to Desc Automotriz and Dana, (ii) in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement
and the Ancillary Agreements, including Section 7.2 of this Agreement, and (iii) a final order that
has not been reversed, modified, rescinded, or stayed, and for which the time to appeal has expired
and is no longer subject to appeal or further judicial review; and (b) shall, among other things,
(i) approve this Agreement, the Ancillary Agreements, as appropriate, and the Transactions under,
inter alia, Sections 363 and 365 of the Bankruptcy Code and Bankruptcy Rule 9019, (ii) include a
specific finding that Desc Automotriz is a good faith purchaser, for purposes of Section 363(m) of
the Bankruptcy Code, of the Dana JV Shares, (iii) provide that Dana is authorized to enter into the
Hybrid Loans, (iv) provide that Dana is authorized to transfer the Desc Automotriz Promissory Note
to Dana Mexico, for the purpose of Dana Mexicos use of that note in payment for the stock of the
shares of the Dana Targets from Desc Automotriz, (v) provide that the sale of the Dana JV Shares
shall be free and clear of any Encumbrance whatsoever, pursuant to Section 363(f) of the Bankruptcy
Code and is vested with the right, title and interest of Dana in the Dana JV Shares, (vi) provide
that Dana is authorized to amend and assume as amended, its obligations under the contracts listed
on Schedule 7.22(a) hereof pursuant to Section 365 of the Bankruptcy Code, (vii) provide
for a waiver of the stays contemplated by Bankruptcy Rules 6004(h) and 6006(d), as applicable, and
that the Bankruptcy Court Approval Order is immediately effective and enforceable, (viii) authorize
Danas reimbursement to the Desc Parties of all amounts due in respect of the Dana Account, and
(ix) waive and release all claims of any kind of Dana and Danas Affiliates and Danas Subsidiaries
against Spicer, the Desc Entities (as defined in the Release Agreement) and the Desc Targets
including all avoidance claims pursuant to Sections 544, 545, 547, 548, 549, 550 and 553(b) of the
Bankruptcy Code, except for claims arising under this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements and
certain other exceptions as set forth in the Release Agreement; (x) include a determination that
the transfers pursuant to this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements, as appropriate, constitute
transfers for fair value; (xi) include a determination that all amounts to be paid by Dana or any
Debtor or to be borne by Dana or any Debtor pursuant to this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements
shall constitute administrative expenses under Section 503(b) and 507(a)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code,
shall be immediately payable, if, and when, any such
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obligations to pay or bear such amounts may arise under this Agreement and/or the Ancillary
Agreements without any further order of the Bankruptcy Court; (xii) include a determination that
approval of this Agreement, the Ancillary Agreements, as appropriate, and the Transactions and the
Bankruptcy Approval Order, and the consummation of the Transactions contemplated hereby and thereof
are in the best interests of Dana, its affiliated Debtors, their creditors and estates; (xiii)
include a determination that the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Ancillary Agreements,
as appropriate and the Transactions are fair and reasonable; and (xiv) provide that the provisions
of the Bankruptcy Court Approval Order are nonseverable and mutually dependent.
Bankruptcy Dispute has the meaning given in Section 10.9(a).
Bankruptcy Rules means the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure, as may be amended from
time to time.
Base Dana JV Share Purchase Price has the meaning given in Section 3.1(a).
Base Dana Target Share Purchase Price has the meaning given in Section 3.1(b).
Basket has the meaning given in Section 9.15(a).
Books and Records means all books and records of the Dana Targets or the Desc Targets, as
applicable, including financial, corporate, operations and sales books, records, books of account,
sales and purchase records, lists of suppliers and customers, formulae, business reports, plans and
projections and all other documents, surveys, plans, files, records, correspondence, and other data
and information, financial or otherwise, including all data and information stored on
computer-related or other electronic media.
Business Day means a day, other than a Saturday or Sunday, on which the principal commercial
banks located in Mexico City, D.F. and New York City are open for business during normal banking
hours.
Capital Lease Obligations with respect to any Person, for any applicable period, the
obligations of such Person that are permitted or required to be classified and accounted for as
capital obligations under applicable NIFs, and the amount of such obligations at any date will be
the capitalized amount of such obligations at such date determined in accordance with NIFs.
Cardanes has the meaning given in Recital E hereof.
Cardanes Dividend has the meaning given in Section 7.7(b)(ii).
Cardanes Facility has the meaning given in Section 7.4(d).
Cardanes GE Agreement has the meaning given in Section 7.6(b).
Cardanes Shares has the meaning given in Recital I hereof.
Cash means cash and cash equivalents.
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Cedei Facility has the meaning given in Section 7.4(f).
CFC Approval has the meaning given in Section 4.6.
Chapter 11 Case has the meaning given in Recital Q hereof.
Claim or Claims means one or more claims, demands, actions, causes of action or
proceedings and a series of related Claims resulting from the same act, omission, event,
circumstance, matter or facts shall be deemed a single Claim.
Closing means the completion of (i) the sale to and purchase by Desc Automotriz of the Dana
JV Shares and (ii) the sale to and purchase by Dana Mexico of the Dana Target Shares, in each case
on the terms and subject to the conditions hereof.
Closing Date has the meaning given in Section 2.3(a).
CNA Approval means the approval of the National Water Commission (Comisión Nacional del
Agua) with respect to the Water Rights Assignment Agreements.
Comerica has the meaning given in Section 7.6(c).
Comerica Letters of Credit has the meaning given in Section 7.6(c).
Company means any group or entity established under the General Corporation Law (Ley General
de Sociedades Mercantiles) of Mexico or any corresponding foreign law.
Contracts means contracts, licenses, leases, agreements, commitments, entitlements and
engagements of any Person, whether written or in electronic form, including any promises,
undertakings, assurances or guarantees, all quotations, orders or tenders for contracts which
remain open for acceptance and any manufacturers or suppliers warranty, guarantee or commitment.
Control, including the terms controlled by and under common control with, means the
possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management
and policies of a Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, as trustee or
executor, as general partner or managing member, by contract or otherwise, including the ownership,
directly or indirectly, of securities having the power to elect a majority of the board of
directors or similar body governing the affairs of such Person. A Party shall be deemed to have
Control of any or all of its Affiliates notwithstanding the fact that any third party which is a
shareholder, partner, quotaholder, or member of any such Affiliate has the right to require
unanimous approval of certain matters involving such Affiliate.
Corporación Inmobiliaria has the meaning given in Recital E hereof.
Corporación Inmobiliaria Capitalization I has the meaning given in Section 7.8(b).
Corporación Inmobiliaria Capitalization II has the meaning given in Section 7.8(c).
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Corporación Inmobiliaria Mortgage has the meaning given in Section 7.6(b).
Corporación Inmobiliaria Shares has the meaning given in Recital O hereof.
Court has the meaning given in Section 10.9(c).
Dana has the meaning given in the introductory paragraph.
Dana Account has the meaning given in Section 2.2.
Dana Adjustment Payment has the meaning given in Section 3.2(a)(ix).
Dana ANWC Excess has the meaning given in Section 3.2(f)(vi).
Dana Closing Adjustment Statement has the meaning given in Section 3.2(c).
Dana Closing Balance Sheets has the meaning given in Section 3.2(c).
Dana Closing Financial Statements has the meaning given in Section 3.2(c).
Dana JV Shares has the meaning given in Recital C hereof.
Dana Mexico has the meaning given in the introductory paragraph.
Dana Parties has the meaning given in the introductory paragraph.
Dana Target Bonds has the meaning given in Section 7.6(e).
Dana Target Claim has the meaning given in Section 9.2(b).
Dana Target GE Agreements has the meaning given in Section 7.6(b).
Dana Target Shares means, collectively, the AMSA Shares, the Cardanes Shares, the ENCO
Shares, the Etrac Shares, the Forjas Shares, the Direcspicer Shares, the Spicer Servicios Shares,
and the Corporación Inmobiliaria Shares and any other shares of the Dana Targets issued pursuant to
this Agreement.
Dana Target Transferred Employees has the meaning given in Section 7.17(a).
Dana Targets has the meaning given in Recital F hereof.
Dana Targets Debt Assignment Agreement means the agreements, substantially in the form
attached as Exhibit X, pursuant to which (i) Spicer shall assign to Corporación
Inmobiliaria the Dana Target Debts (as defined therein) and (ii) Spicer shall assign to Corporación
Inmobiliaria, and Spicer shall be released from, any and all rights and obligations of Spicer, in
each case under the Intercompany Credit Agreements by and between Spicer and each of Direcspicer,
Cardanes, ENCO, Etrac, AMSA, Forjas and Corporación Inmobiliaria, each dated as of February 1,
2003.
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Dana Targets Receivables has the meaning given in Section 7.8(b).
Defending Party has the meaning given in Section 9.7.
Desc means Desc, S.A. de C.V.
Desc Adjustment Payment has the meaning given in Section 3.2(a)(vii).
Desc ANWC Excess has the meaning given in Section 3.2(f)(v).
Desc Automotriz has the meaning given in the introductory paragraph.
Desc Automotriz JV Shares has the meaning given in Recital D hereof.
Desc Automotriz Promissory Note has the meaning given in Section 2.3(b)(iii).
Desc Closing Adjustment Statement has the meaning given in Section 3.2(b).
Desc Closing Balance Sheets has the meaning given in Section 3.2(b).
Desc Closing Financial Statements has the meaning given in Section 3.2(b).
Desc Corporativo means Desc Corporativo, S.A. de C.V.
Desc/Dana Purchase Orders shall mean all of the purchase orders between or among Desc and/or
any of its Affiliates, on the one hand, and Dana and/or any of its Affiliates, on the other hand,
that are outstanding as of the Closing Date. For the avoidance of doubt, Desc/Dana Purchase Orders
shall not include any purchase orders upon which payment is made in accordance with Section 8.2(e),
except to the extent that post-petition obligations remain outstanding under such purchase order
irrespective of such payment.
Desc Parties has the meaning given in the introductory paragraph.
Desc Targets has the meaning given in Recital F hereof.
Desc Transferred Employees has the meaning given in Section 7.17(a).
Determination Date means the earlier to occur of (i) if either Desc Automotriz or Dana does
not timely deliver a Dispute Notice, the date that is twenty-one (21) calendar days following the
later of the date on which the Desc Closing Financial Statements were delivered and the date on
which the Dana Closing Financial Statements were delivered, and (ii) if either Desc Automotriz or
Dana timely delivers a Dispute Notice, the earlier to occur of (A) the date on which Desc
Automotriz and Dana finally and conclusively resolve any and all disputes set forth in the Dispute
Notice and (B) the date of the Final Report of the Independent Accounting Firm.
DIP Credit Agreement means that certain credit agreement, dated as of March 3, 2006, between
Dana, as borrower, Citicorp North America, Inc. as administrative agent, Bank of America, N.A. and
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as co-syndication agents, Citicorp North
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America, Inc., as initial swing line lender, and Bank of America, N.A., Citicorp North
America, Inc. and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as initial issuing banks.
Direcspicer has the meaning given in Recital E hereof.
Direcspicer Shares has the meaning given in Recital J hereof.
Direct Claim has the meaning given in Section 9.9.
Discloser has the meaning given in Section 7.11(a).
Dispute has the meaning given in Section 10.9(b).
Dispute Notice has the meaning given in Section 3.2(d).
Employees means those individuals who are employed or were employed by the JV Subsidiaries
prior to or at Closing.
ENCO has the meaning given in Recital E hereof.
ENCO Dividend has the meaning given in Section 7.7(b)(i).
ENCO GE Agreement has the meaning given in Section 7.6(b).
ENCO Remediation has the meaning giving in Section 7.16(a).
ENCO Remediation Plan has the meaning given in Section 7.16(a).
ENCO Shares has the meaning given in Recital K hereof.
Encumbrance means any pledge, lien, claim, charge, security interest, lease, title retention
agreement, mortgage, restriction, development, or collateral security arrangement or similar
agreement, easement, right-of-way, title defect, option or adverse claim, or encumbrance of any
kind or character whatsoever.
Environment means the air, surface water, underground water, any land, all living organisms,
sediment, soil or subsurface strata, and natural resources and the environment or living
environment as defined in any Environmental Laws.
Environmental Approvals means all permits, certificates, licenses, authorizations, consents,
impact assessments, instructions, directions or registrations issued or required by Governmental
Authorities pursuant to Environmental Laws with respect to the operation of Spicer or the JV
Subsidiaries or its or their respective business or assets.
Environmental Consultant has the meaning given in Section 7.16(f)(ii).
Environmental Laws means all Applicable Laws, as (i) in effect on the date of this
Agreement, except as provided in clause (ii)(C) below, and (ii) in force in the country in which
the operation facilities of each of the Dana Targets and the Desc Targets are located at on the
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date of this Agreement, relating to (A) air emissions, water discharges, soil remediation,
natural resources or any other regulation standing for the protection of the Environment, (B) the
handling, storage, generation, treatment, release and disposal of Hazardous Substances or (C) soil
remediation, in which case certain of the regulations relating to soil remediation, which, as of
the date hereof are under consideration of the Mexican Governmental Authorities and have been
attached hereto as Exhibit B, shall be applicable notwithstanding the fact that they are
not yet in full force and effect as of the date hereof.
Estimated AMSA Cash has the meaning given in Section 3.2(a)(i).
Estimated Dana Cash has the meaning given in Section 3.2(a)(iii).
Estimated Dana Sum has the meaning given in Section 3.2(a)(vi).
Estimated Desc Cash has the meaning given in Section 3.2(a)(ii).
Estimated Desc Sum has the meaning given in Section 3.2(a)(vi).
Estimated Exhibit T has the meaning given in Section 3.2(a)(iv).
Estimated Exhibit U has the meaning given in Section 3.2(a)(iv).
Estimated Spicer Cash has the meaning given in Section 3.2(a)(i).
Etrac has the meaning given in Recital E hereof.
Etrac Facility has the meaning given in Section 7.4(c).
Etrac GE Agreement has the meaning given in Section 7.6(b).
Etrac Shares has the meaning given in Recital L hereof.
Final Dana JV Share Purchase Price has the meaning given in Section 3.3(b).
Final Dana Target Share Purchase Price has the meaning given in Section 3.3(a).
Final Report has the meaning given in Section 3.2(e).
Financial Statements means the audited balance sheets and income statements of Spicer and
each of the JV Subsidiaries as of December 31, 2005, and the unaudited balance sheet and income
statements of Spicer and each of the JV Subsidiaries as of March 31, 2006.
Forjas has the meaning given in Recital E hereof.
Forjas Shares has the meaning given in Recital M hereof.
FTC Approval has the meaning given in Section 4.6.
GE has the meaning given in Section 7.6(b).
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GE Assignments has the meaning given in Section 7.6(b).
GE Subleases has the meaning given in Section 7.6(b).
Governmental Authority means any federal, national, supranational, state, provincial,
departmental, local or similar government, regulatory or administrative authority, governmental
department, branch, agency, commission, board, tribunal or court or other law, rule or
regulation-making entity having jurisdiction over (i) Spicer or the JV Subsidiaries or its or their
respective business or (ii) where the context requires, over the Person in question or its business
as conducted, in each case on or prior to the Closing Date.
Hazardous Substance means any substance or waste classified as dangerous under any
Environmental Laws, including any asbestos or asbestos-containing materials, polychlorinated
biphenyls, chemical waste, radioactive materials and petroleum products.
Hybrid Loan Dividends has the meaning given to it in Section 7.7(b)(ii).
Hybrid Loans has the meaning given in Section 7.7(b).
ICC Rules has the meaning given in Section 10.9(b).
Indebtedness with respect to any Person, without duplication, (i) all obligations of such
Person for borrowed money, whether short-term or long-term, and whether secured or unsecured, or
with respect to deposits or advances of any kind (other than deposits and advances of any Person
relating to the purchase of products or services in the Ordinary Course of Business), (ii) all
obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments, (iii) all
obligations of such Person upon which interest charges are customarily paid (other than trade
payables incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business), (iv) all obligations of such Person under
conditional sale or other title retention agreements relating to property or Assets purchased by
such Person, (v) all obligations of such Person issued or assumed as the deferred purchase price of
property or services (other than current trade payables incurred in the Ordinary Course of
Business), (vi) all Indebtedness of others secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness
has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Encumbrance on Assets owned
or acquired by such Person, whether or not the obligations secured thereby have been assumed, (vii)
all guarantees by such Person of Indebtedness of others, (viii) all Capital Lease Obligations of
such Person, (ix) all net payments that such Person would have to make in the event of an early
termination, on the date Indebtedness of such Person is being determined, in respect of outstanding
interest rate protection agreements, foreign currency exchange arrangements or other interest or
exchange rate hedging arrangements, (x) all obligations including reimbursement obligations of such
Person in respect of letters of credit, fidelity bonds, surety bonds, performance bonds and
bankers acceptances, (xi) obligations of such Person to purchase, redeem, retire, defease or
otherwise acquire for value any capital stock of such Person or any warrants, rights or options to
acquire such capital stock, (xii) renewals, extensions, refundings, deferrals, restructurings,
amendments and modifications of any such Indebtedness or guarantee and (xiii) any other obligation
that in accordance with applicable accounting methods is required to be reflected as debt on the
balance sheet of such Person. The Indebtedness of any Person will include the Indebtedness of any
partnership in which such
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Person is a general partner, other than to the extent that the instrument or agreement
evidencing such Indebtedness expressly limits the liability of such Person in respect thereof.
Indemnified Party has the meaning given in Section 9.4.
Indemnifier has the meaning giving in Section 9.4.
Independent Accounting Firm has the meaning given in Section 3.2(e).
Inmobiliaria Corcel means Inmobiliaria Corcel, S.A. de C.V., a wholly owned Subsidiary of
Desc Automotriz.
Inmobiliaria Unik has the meaning given in the introductory paragraph.
Intellectual Property means all patents, copyrights, registered and unregistered
trade-marks, service marks, trade-names, logos, commercial symbols, industrial designs and circuit
topographies (including applications for all of the foregoing and renewals, divisions, extensions
and reissues, where applicable, relating thereto), inventions, licenses, trade secrets, patterns,
drawings, computer software, formulae, technical information, research data, designs, know how, and
all other intellectual property owned by, licensed to, held by or the subject matter of which is
used by Spicer or the JV Subsidiaries.
Inter-Company Debt has the meaning given in Section 7.8(b).
Interest Rate means the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) offered for three-month
deposits in US dollars, as such rate appears on the relevant page of the Bloomberg Money Market
Rates Services (or such other page as may replace such page on such service for the purpose of
displaying London Interbank Offered Rates of major banks for US dollar deposits), at or about 11
a.m. (London time) two (2) Business Days prior to the date of payment, plus 350 basis points.
IT Agreement means the Information Technology Transitional Services Agreement to be entered
into at or prior to Closing by and among Desc Corporativo, AMSA, Cardanes, Direcspicer, Etrac,
ENCO, Forjas, Spicer Servicios, Corporación Inmobiliaria and Dana Mexico, for the continuance on a
temporary basis of certain IT Transitional Services (as such term shall be defined in the IT
Agreement), substantially in the form attached as Exhibit C.
JV Agreement has the meaning given in Recital A hereof.
JV Subsidiaries has the meaning given in Recital E hereof.
Laws means all statutes, laws, by-laws, rules, regulations, requirements, orders,
ordinances, protocols, codes, guidelines, tax treaties, policies, notices, directions and judgments
or other requirements or standards of any Governmental Authority having the force of law.
License means any license, permit, approval, right, privilege, concession or franchise
issued, granted, conferred or otherwise created by a Governmental Authority under Applicable Law.
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Loss or Losses means any and all damages and losses (daños y perjuicios), liability, cost,
out-of-pocket expense, charge, fine, penalty or assessment actually suffered or incurred resulting
from or arising out of any Claim, including the reasonable costs and out-of-pocket expenses of any
action, suit, proceeding, demand, assessment, judgment, settlement or compromise relating thereto
and all interest, fines and penalties incurred and reasonable legal fees and out-of-pocket expenses
incurred in connection therewith, but excluding specifically any indirect, punitive, consequential
or special damages; provided, however, that (a) with respect to the Autoprecisa
Land, Losses shall not include any amounts incurred in connection with (i) any environmental
remediation of the Autoprecisa Land, (ii) any failure to comply with any Environmental Law,
including but not limited to any claim for failing to handle, transport, store, treat or dispose of
any Hazardous Substances or (iii) any Environmental Approval; and (b) with respect to product
warranty Claims only of Spicer or the JV Subsidiaries, Losses means only those amounts in excess
of those set out opposite the name of Spicer and each of the JV Subsidiaries on Schedule
1.1 .
Management Services Agreements means (i) the management services agreement between Villa
Industrial and Direcspicer, dated as of December 31, 2002 (together with its amendments), (ii) the
management services agreement between Desc Corporativo and Direcspicer dated as of January 1, 2004
(together with its amendments), (iii) the management services agreement between Corporativo Uniko,
S.A. de C.V. and Direcspicer, dated as of September 30, 2004 (together with its amendments), (iv)
the management services agreement between TF Victor and Direcspicer, dated as of December 31, 2002
(together with its amendments), (v) the management services agreement between Tremec and
Direcspicer, dated as of December 31, 2002 (together with its amendments), (vi) the management
services agreement between TTC and Direcspicer, dated as of January 1, 2005 (together with its
amendments), (vii) the management services agreement between TTSP and Direcspicer dated as of
December 31, 2002 (together with its amendments) and (viii) the management services agreement
between Direcspicer and Spicer, dated as of December 31, 2002 (together with its amendments).
Mexican Pesos and MX$ means the lawful currency of the United Mexican States.
Mexico means the United Mexican States.
New Claims has the meaning given in Section 10.9(e).
NIFs means the Financial Reporting Standards (Normas de Información Financiera) for Mexico,
as issued by the Mexican Board for Research and Development of NIFs (Consejo Mexicano para la
Investigación y Desarrollo de Normas de Información Financiera, A.C.).
Notice has the meaning given in Section 10.4.
Ordinary Course of Business when used in relation to the conduct of business means any
transaction which constitutes an ordinary day-to-day business activity of the applicable Company
consistent with such Companys past practices.
Parties means the Desc Parties together with the Dana Parties.
Pension Funds has the meaning given in Section 7.19.
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Permitted Encumbrances means (i) Encumbrances for Taxes, assessments or other similar
governmental charges that are not yet due or that are being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings and that are fully and properly reserved for in the balance sheet of the applicable
Company, (ii) any warehouse liens and other similar Encumbrances arising or incurred in the
Ordinary Course of Business in respect of obligations that are not overdue or, if overdue, are
being contested in good faith and are fully and properly reserved for in the balance sheet of the
applicable Company, and (iii) Encumbrances affecting the Real Properties arising from easements,
easement agreements, rights-of-way, restrictions or minor title defects (whether or not recorded)
that arise in the Ordinary Course of Business and that do not detract materially from the value of
the property subject thereto or materially impair the use of the property subject thereto.
Person means any individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, unincorporated association,
unincorporated syndicate, unincorporated organization, trust, body corporate, or any similar entity
by whatever name known, Governmental Authority, and a natural person in such persons capacity as
trustee, executor, administrator or other legal representative.
Petition Date has the meaning given in Recital Q hereof.
Phase One Study has the meaning given in Section 7.16(f)(i).
Phase Two Study has the meaning given in Section 7.16(f)(i).
PPA Determination Time means the close of business on June 30, 2006.
Pre-petition Payment Adjustment means an adjustment to take into account the payment of any
of the pre-petition claims set out in Schedule 8.2(e) after June 30, 2006.
Projected AMSA ANWC means the amount set forth on and calculated in accordance with
Exhibit A.
Projected Desc Target ANWC means the amount set forth on and calculated in accordance with
Exhibit A.
Projected Remaining Dana Target ANWC means the amount set forth on and calculated in
accordance with Exhibit A.
Proposed Purchaser has the meaning given in Section 7.15(a).
Purchased Shares means together the Dana JV Shares and the Dana Target Shares.
Real Properties means any real property currently or formerly owned or leased by Spicer or
the JV Subsidiaries.
Receipt and Release Letter means a receipt and release letter substantially in the form of
Exhibit D.
Receivables Consideration has the meaning given in Section 7.8(b).
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Recipient has the meaning given in Section 7.11(a).
Release Agreement means the release agreement to be executed and delivered at the Closing by
the Dana Parties, certain Affiliates of the Dana Parties, the Desc Parties, certain Affiliates of
the Desc Parties, the Dana Targets and the Desc Targets, substantially in the form attached as
Exhibit E.
Remedial Action has the meaning given in Section 7.16(f)(i).
Remedial Order means any administrative directive or request issued by any Governmental
Authority pursuant to any Environmental Laws.
Revised Exhibit T has the meaning given in Section 3.2(b).
Revised Exhibit U has the meaning given in Section 3.2(c).
Securities Agreements has the meaning given in Section 7.7(b).
Shareholder means any Person who owns or holds a share or shares in any Company.
Shareholders Meeting means, with respect to any Company, a meeting of the Shareholders of
that Company in accordance with the requirements of, and for the purposes provided in, the by-laws
of that Company and Applicable Law.
Software License Agreement means the Software License Agreement to be entered into at or
prior to Closing by and among TF Victor, Tremec and Dana for the licensing of certain software,
substantially in the form attached as Exhibit F.
Spicer has the meaning given in the introductory paragraph.
Spicer and JV Subsidiaries Resolutions has the meaning giving in Section 7.9.
Spicer Servicios has the meaning given in Recital E hereof.
Spicer Servicios Shares has the meaning given in Recital N hereof.
Subsidiary or Subsidiaries means, with respect to any Person, any Affiliate of such Person
directly or indirectly under the Control of such Person.
Tax Returns includes all returns, reports, declarations, elections, notices, filings,
information returns and statements filed or required to be filed in respect of Taxes or in respect
of or pursuant to any domestic or foreign federal, state, local, municipal, territorial or other
taxing statute.
Taxes includes all taxes, duties, fees, premiums, assessments, imposts, levies and other
charges of any kind whatsoever imposed by any Governmental Authority under Applicable Law, together
with all interest, penalties, fines, additions to tax or other additional amounts imposed in
respect thereof, including those levied on, or measured by, or referred to as income, value added
tax, profits, single business, capital, transfer, land transfer, sales, goods and services,
harmonized
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sales, use, value-added, excise, stamp, withholding, business, franchising, property, employer
health, payroll, employment, unemployment, social security (or similar) taxes, all surtaxes, all
customs duties and import and export taxes, all license, franchise and registration fees; for the
avoidance of doubt, the term Taxes shall include each and all of the concepts referred to in
articles 2, 3 and 4 of the Mexican Tax Code (Código Fiscal de la Federación).
Termination, Release and Joinder Agreement to the License and Technical Assistance Agreement
means the agreement, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit W, pursuant to which
Dana Mexico shall assume, and Spicer shall be released from, any and all rights and obligations of
Spicer under the License and Technical Assistance Agreement by and among Dana, Spicer, Cardanes,
ENCO and Etrac dated as of December 18, 2003.
TF Victor has the meaning given in Recital E hereof.
TF Victor Facility has the meaning given in Section 7.4(b).
TF Victor Trademark Agreement means the Trademark Assignment Agreement to be entered into at
or prior to Closing by and between Dana and TF Victor for the assignment of the rights of the
trademarks 136,890 and 203.451 for the TF VICTOR and V and design trademarks to TF Victor,
substantially in the form attached as Exhibit I.
Third Party means any Person other than the Dana Parties, the Desc Parties or any of their
respective Affiliates.
Third Party Claim has the meaning given in Section 9.4.
Third Party Consents means any consents, approvals, orders and authorizations of any Party
(or registrations, declarations, filings or recordings with any such Parties) required to be
obtained by it prior to Closing in connection with the completion of the Transactions and the
execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements, including the
actions to be performed in accordance with Section 2.1.
Third Party Debt has the meaning given in Section 7.6(a).
Tlaxcala Assets has the meaning given in Section 7.15(a).
Tlaxcala Facility has the meaning given in Section 7.15(a).
Tlaxcala Transaction has the meaning given in Section 7.15(a).
Transaction Documents means this Agreement, the Ancillary Agreements and the Contracts
listed in Schedule 7.22(a) and Schedule 7.22(b).
Transactions means each of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Ancillary
Agreements and all of them collectively.
Tremec has the meaning given in Recital E hereof.
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Tremec Remediation has the meaning given in Section 7.16(b).
Tremec Remediation Plan has the meaning given in Section 7.16(b).
TSA Agreement means the Transitional Services Agreement to be entered into at or prior to
Closing by and among Desc Corporativo, AMSA, Cardanes, ENCO and Forjas, for the continuance on a
temporary basis of certain Transitional Services (as such term shall be defined in the TSA
Agreement), substantially in the form attached as Exhibit J.
TTC has the meaning given in Recital E hereof.
TTSP has the meaning given in Recital E hereof.
TTSP Facility has the meaning given in Section 7.4(a).
US$ and US dollar means the lawful currency of the United States of America.
Villa Industrial has the meaning given in Recital E hereof.
Water Rights Assignment Agreements has the meaning given in Section 7.5.
Section 1.2 Rules of Construction.
Unless the context otherwise requires, as used in this Agreement:
(i) any term defined in Section 1.1 will have the meaning ascribed to it in Section
1.1;
(ii) any accounting term not otherwise defined herein will have the meaning ascribed
to it under NIFs;
(iii) or is not exclusive, and including means including without limitation;
(iv) words in the singular include the plural and vice versa, and words applicable to
one gender apply to each gender;
(v) hereof, herein, hereby, hereto, and any derivative or similar words refer
to this entire Agreement, including the attached Exhibits and Schedules;
(vi) Article, Section, Subsection, Exhibit or Schedule refer to the
specified Article, Section, Subsection, Exhibit or Schedule of or to this Agreement;
(vii) pursuant to, as described in and subject to the terms of, when used with
reference to a particular Section of this Agreement, or words of similar import, shall refer
both to such Section and any Exhibit or Schedule referred to therein;
(viii) a reference to any constitution, statute or legal code includes all
regulations, protocols, norms, executive orders, rules and ordinances issued or otherwise
having the force of law under that constitution, statute or legal code unless, in any such
case,
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otherwise expressly provided in any such statute or legal code or in this Agreement; a
reference to a particular section, paragraph or other part of a particular constitute,
statute or legal code shall be deemed to be a reference to any other part of a particular
section, paragraph or other part substituted therefore from time to time;
(ix) a reference to any Person includes that Persons successors and permitted assigns
under this Agreement;
(x) days or a period of days shall mean Business Days, unless calendar days are
expressly specified, and
(xi) the Exhibits and Schedules referred to in this Agreement are incorporated herein
by reference.
Section 1.3 Accounting Principles.
The preparation of any Financial Statements to be delivered under this Agreement shall be done
in accordance with NIFs, consistent with the historical methods, procedures, assumptions,
adjustment and the past policies and practices of each of Spicer and the JV Subsidiaries in the
Ordinary Course of Business.
Section 1.4 Governing Law.
THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND INTERPRETED, CONSTRUED AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE
WITH THE LAWS OF MEXICO.
ARTICLE II
PURCHASE AND SALE
Section 2.1 Purchase and Sale of Dana JV Shares and Dana Target Shares.
(a) Purchase of the Dana JV Shares by Desc Automotriz. Dana shall sell to Desc
Automotriz (or its nominee(s)), and Desc Automotriz (or its nominee(s)) shall purchase from Dana,
all of the Dana JV Shares for the purchase price specified in Section 3.1(a), which shall be
payable as provided in Section 2.3(b)(iii). The Dana JV Shares shall be sold free and clear of all
Encumbrances.
(b) Purchase of the Dana Target Shares by Dana Mexico. Except for the 1 Series B
Share of Spicer Servicios held by Direcspicer that will remain with Direcspicer, Spicer, Desc
Automotriz and Inmobiliaria Unik shall sell to Dana Mexico (or its nominee(s)), and Dana Mexico (or
its nominee(s)) shall purchase from Spicer, Desc Automotriz and Inmobiliaria Unik, all of the Dana
Target Shares for the purchase price specified in Section 3.1(b), which shall be payable as
provided in Section 2.3(b)(v). The Dana Target Shares shall be sold free and clear of all
Encumbrances.
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Section 2.2 Dana Account.
Pursuant to Article III and Section 7.7(a)(ii), Spicer shall be reimbursed by the Dana Parties
for 100% of the amount expended as of the Closing Date (as documented by evidence reasonably
satisfactory to Dana, with the understanding that any amounts set forth in Schedule 2.2-A
shall be deemed satisfactory to Dana), which amount shall not exceed US$7,000,000 (Seven million US
dollars), by certain Dana Targets with funds provided by Spicer, in connection with certain
expenses related to the activities listed on Schedule 2.2-A and the preparation and
execution of certain new projects listed in Schedule 2.2-B to be performed by Dana through
the Dana Targets after Closing (the Dana Account).
Section 2.3 Closing.
(a) Date and Location. The Closing shall be held at the Mexico City offices of
Basham, Ringe & Correa located at Paseo de los Tamarindos #400 A Piso 9, Col. Bosques de las Lomas,
at 10:00 a.m. on July 6, 2006 or at such other time, place and date as the Parties may agree in
writing (the Closing Date); provided that all of the conditions set forth in Article VIII
have been satisfied or (to the extent permitted by Applicable Laws) waived. All proceedings to be
taken and all documents to be executed and delivered by all Parties at the Closing shall be deemed
to have been taken and executed simultaneously, and no proceedings shall be deemed taken nor any
documents executed or delivered until all have been taken, executed and delivered;
provided, however, that the transfer of certain Real Properties and the assignment
of certain water rights, in each case among the JV Subsidiaries and certain Persons, shall take
place prior to Closing pursuant to the terms set forth in Section 7.4 and Section 7.5,
respectively.
(b) Closing Deliveries and Actions. At the Closing:
(i) Dana shall deliver to Desc Automotriz: (x) the share certificates representing the
Dana JV Shares duly endorsed in ownership (endoso en propiedad) in favor of Desc Automotriz
(or its nominee(s)); and (y) a notarized copy of the power of attorney for acts of ownership
(actos de dominio) and negotiable instruments (títulos de crédito) of the representative of
Dana endorsing the share certificates representing the Dana JV Shares.
(ii) Spicer, Desc Automotriz and Inmobiliaria Unik shall deliver to Dana Mexico: (x)
the share certificates representing the Dana Target Shares duly endorsed in ownership
(endoso en propiedad) in favor of Dana Mexico (or its nominee(s)), except with respect to
the 1 Series B Share of Spicer Servicios held by Direcspicer; and (y) a notarized copy of
the power of attorney for acts of ownership (actos de dominio) and negotiable instruments
(títulos de crédito) of the representatives of each of Spicer, Desc Automotriz and
Inmobiliaria Unik endorsing the share certificates representing the Dana Target Shares.
(iii) Desc Automotriz shall deliver to Dana the promissory note in the form attached
hereto as Exhibit K (the Desc Automotriz Promissory Note) as payment of the Base
Dana JV Share Purchase Price.
(iv) Dana shall transfer the Desc Automotriz Promissory Note to Dana Mexico duly
endorsed (endoso en propiedad) to Dana Mexico.
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(v) Dana Mexico shall deliver to Spicer the Desc Automotriz Promissory Note duly
endorsed (endoso en propiedad), as payment in kind of the Base Dana Target Shares Purchase
Price.
(vi) Spicer shall deliver to Dana Mexico the shareholder registry book and other Books
and Records of each of the Dana Targets in the possession of the Desc Parties.
(c) Acknowledgments Regarding any Postponement of Closing. The Parties acknowledge
and agree that in the event that the Closing Date does not occur on or prior to July 7, 2006, (i)
Desc Automotriz and Dana shall negotiate in good faith appropriate changes to (A) Exhibit A
to reflect projected levels of Adjusted Net Working Capital as of the Closing Date and (B)
Exhibit T and Exhibit U to reflect the amount due as of the Closing Date for each
line item on such Exhibits, and (ii) notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3.2(b) and Section
3.2(c), each of the Desc Closing Balance Sheet, the amounts set forth in the Desc Closing
Adjustment Statement, the amounts set out in Revised Exhibit T, the Dana Closing Balance Sheet, the
Dana Closing Adjustment Statement and the amounts set out in Revised Exhibit U shall be determined
as of the Closing Date.
Section 2.4 Acknowledgements. The Parties acknowledge the following:
(a) all of the actions and payments to be made at Closing are part of the Transactions as a
whole;
(b) Spicer shall (i) receive all of the proceeds of each of the Cardanes Dividend and the
ENCO Dividend in a total amount of US$19,500,000.00 (Nineteen million five hundred thousand US
dollars) to be funded through the Hybrid Loans pursuant to the terms of Section 7.7(b) and (ii)
loan US$1,000,000 (One million US Dollars) of such proceeds to Corporación Inmobiliaria for
purposes of the purchase by Corporación Inmobiliaria of the Cedei Facility as described in Section
7.4(f); and
(c) Dana Mexico is 100% owned, directly or indirectly, by Dana and, following the Closing,
Spicer will be 100% owned, directly or indirectly, by Desc Automotriz.
Section 2.5 Transfer of Title of Purchased Shares.
For purposes of Article 2249 of the Mexican Federal Civil Code, the Parties hereto acknowledge
and agree that the transfer of title (dominio) to the Dana JV Shares and the Dana Target Shares is
subject to the consummation of the Closing and the payment, in the manner described in Section
2.3(b), of the Base Dana JV Share Purchase Price and the Base Dana Target Shares Purchase Price,
and that title to the Dana JV Shares and the Dana Target Shares will be transferred by Dana to Desc
Automotriz (or its nominee(s)), and by Spicer, Desc Automotriz and Inmobiliaria Unik to Dana Mexico
(or its nominee(s)), respectively, exactly at the time of the Closing and in no event before the
Closing. If the Closing does not occur, (i) the title to the Dana JV Shares shall not be deemed to
be transferred by Dana to Desc Automotriz (or its nominee(s)), and (ii) the title to the Dana
Target Shares shall not be deemed to be transferred by Spicer, Desc Automotriz and Inmobiliaria
Unik to Dana Mexico (or its nominee(s)), notwithstanding that the Parties may have reached an
agreement before Closing with respect to
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the Purchased Shares, the Base Dana JV Share Purchase Price and the Base Dana Target Shares
Purchase Price.
ARTICLE III
PURCHASE PRICE
Section 3.1 Purchase Price.
(a) Dana JV Share Purchase Price. Subject to adjustment pursuant to Section 3.2, the
purchase price for the Dana JV Shares shall be US$166,010,000 (One hundred and sixty-six million
ten thousand US dollars) (the Base Dana JV Share Purchase Price). Such Base Dana JV Share
Purchase Price shall be payable pursuant to the terms of Section 2.3(b)(iii).
(b) Dana Target Shares Purchase Price. Subject to adjustment pursuant to Section
3.2, the purchase price for the Dana Target Shares shall be US$166,010,000 (One hundred and
sixty-six million ten thousand US dollars) (the Base Dana Target Share Purchase Price), allocated
among the Dana Targets as follows:
(i) the purchase price for the AMSA Shares shall be US$9,000 (nine thousand US
dollars);
(ii) the purchase price for the Cardanes Shares shall be US$22,540,000 (Twenty-two
million five hundred and forty thousand US dollars);
(iii) the purchase price for the Direcspicer Shares shall be US$1,000 (one thousand US
dollars);
(iv) the purchase price for the ENCO Shares shall be US$20,800,000 (Twenty million
eight hundred thousand US dollars);
(v) the purchase price for the Etrac Shares shall be US$350,000 (Three hundred and
fifty thousand US dollars);
(vi) the purchase price for the Forjas Shares shall be US$15,960,000 (Fifteen million
nine hundred and sixty thousand US dollars);
(vii) the purchase price for the Spicer Servicios Shares shall be US$1,000 (one
thousand US dollars); and
(viii) the purchase price for the Corporación Inmobiliaria Shares shall be
US$106,349,000 (One hundred and six million three hundred and forty-nine thousand US
dollars).
The Base Dana Target Share Purchase Price shall be payable pursuant to Section 2.3(b)(v).
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Section 3.2 Purchase Price Adjustment.
(a) On the Closing Date, the Parties shall:
(i) first, determine (A) the total Cash of Spicer and the JV Subsidiaries other than
AMSA (which shall not include US$18,500,000 of the Cash associated with the Hybrid Loan
Dividends) as of the PPA Determination Time with a Pre-petition Payment Adjustment (the
Estimated Spicer Cash), which determination shall be made on the basis of the Books and
Records of Spicer and the JV Subsidiaries other than AMSA, and (B) the total Cash of AMSA
(which shall not include US$18,500,000 of the Cash associated with the Hybrid Loan
Dividends) as of the PPA Determination Time with a Pre-petition Payment Adjustment (the
Estimated AMSA Cash), which determination shall be made on the basis of the Books and
Records of AMSA;
(ii) second, determine the amount equal to the sum of (A) 67.131% of the Estimated
AMSA Cash and (B) 51.197% of the Estimated Spicer Cash (such sum, the Estimated Desc
Cash);
(iii) third, determine the amount equal to the sum of (A) 32.869% of the Estimated
AMSA Cash and (B) 48.803% of the Estimated Spicer Cash (such sum, the Estimated Dana
Cash);
(iv) fourth, take all action necessary to cause (A) the Estimated Desc Cash to be
decreased by the sum of all amounts set out in Exhibit T (Estimated Exhibit T) as
provided in Section 7.7(a)(i) and (B) the Estimated Dana Cash to be decreased by the sum of
all amounts set out in Exhibit U (Estimated Exhibit U) as provided in Section
7.7(a)(ii);
(v) fifth, cause (A) the Estimated Desc Cash to be increased by the sum of any
payments received by the Desc Targets pursuant to Section 7.7(a)(ii) and (B) the Estimated
Dana Cash to be increased by the sum of any payments received by Dana Targets pursuant to
Section 7.7(a)(i);
(vi) sixth, calculate (A) the Estimated Desc Cash, as adjusted pursuant to clauses
(iv) and (v) above is referred to herein as the Estimated Desc Sum, and (B) the Estimated
Dana Cash, as adjusted pursuant to clauses (iv) and (v) above is referred to herein as the
Estimated Dana Sum;
(vii) seventh, if the Estimated Desc Sum is less than the total cash on the Books and
Records of the Desc Targets after accounting for the payments made and received pursuant to
Section 7.7(a), then Spicer shall cause the difference to be contributed to the Dana Targets
in such proportions as Dana, in its sole discretion, shall determine (such payment, if any,
the Desc Adjustment Payment);
(viii) eighth, to the extent the Desc Targets do not have sufficient funds to make the
Desc Adjustment Payment, Desc Automotriz shall pay to Dana (or its designee(s)), in cash by
wire transfer of immediately available funds to an account designated in writing by Dana;
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(ix) ninth, if the Estimated Dana Sum is less than the total cash on the Books and
Records of the Dana Targets (including AMSA) after accounting for the payments made and
received pursuant to Section 7.7(a), then Spicer shall cause the difference to be
contributed to the Desc Targets in such proportions as Desc Automotriz, in its sole
discretion, shall determine (such payment, if any, the Dana Adjustment Payment); and
(x) tenth, to the extent the Dana Targets do not have sufficient funds to make the
Dana Adjustment Payment, Dana or Dana Mexico shall pay to Desc Automotriz (or its
designee(s)), in cash by wire transfer of immediately available funds to an account
designated in writing by Desc Automotriz.
(b) Within thirty (30) calendar days after the Closing Date, Desc Automotriz shall prepare and
deliver to Dana (i) an unaudited consolidated balance sheet of the Desc Targets and unaudited
unconsolidated balance sheets of each of the Desc Targets, in each case as of the PPA Determination
Time with a Pre-petition Payment Adjustment (the Desc Closing Balance Sheets), (ii) a statement
(the Desc Closing Adjustment Statement and together with the Desc Closing Balance Sheets, the
Desc Closing Financial Statements) setting forth (A) the Adjusted Net Working Capital of the Desc
Targets as of the PPA Determination Time with a Pre-petition Payment Adjustment (the Actual Desc
Target ANWC) and (B) the total Cash of the Desc Targets as of the PPA Determination Time with a
Pre-petition Payment Adjustment and before the payments required by Section 7.7(a) (which shall not
include US$18,500,000 of the Cash associated with the Hybrid Loan Dividends) (the Actual Desc
Cash), and (iii) an updated Exhibit T with the actual amounts due as of June 30, 2006 in
respect of each of the line items set out in Exhibit T (the Revised Exhibit T), the
amounts in clauses (i) and (ii) above to be derived from the Desc Closing Financial Statements.
The Desc Closing Financial Statements and the Dana Closing Financial Statements shall be prepared
in accordance with NIFs (consistently applied) and the definition of Adjusted Net Working Capital
and Cash and if there is an inconsistency between NIFs and such definitions, the terms set forth in
such definitions shall control.
(c) Within thirty (30) calendar days after the Closing Date, Dana shall prepare and deliver to
Desc Automotriz (i) an unaudited consolidated balance sheet of the Dana Targets and unaudited
unconsolidated balance sheets of each of the Dana Targets, in each case as of the PPA Determination
Time with a Pre-petition Payment Adjustment (the Dana Closing Balance Sheets), (ii) a statement
(the Dana Closing Adjustment Statement and together with the Dana Closing Balance Sheets, the
Dana Closing Financial Statements) setting forth (A) the Adjusted Net Working Capital of AMSA as
of the PPA Determination Time with a Pre-petition Payment Adjustment, as derived from the unaudited
consolidated balance sheet of the Dana Targets (i.e., taking into account the effects of
consolidation of AMSA with the other Dana Targets) (the Actual AMSA ANWC), (B) the Adjusted Net
Working Capital of the Dana Targets other than AMSA as of the PPA Determination Time with a
Pre-petition Payment Adjustment (the Actual Remaining Dana Target ANWC), (C) the total Cash of
the Dana Targets other than AMSA as of the PPA Determination Time with a Pre-petition Payment
Adjustment and before the payments required by Section 7.7(a) (which shall not include
US$18,500,000 of the Cash associated with the Hybrid Loan Dividends) (the Actual Remaining Dana
Cash, and together with the Actual Desc Cash, the Actual Spicer Cash),
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and (D) the total Cash on the books and records of AMSA as of the PPA Determination Time with
a Pre-petition Payment Adjustment and before the payments required by Section 7.7(a) (which shall
not include US$18,500,000 of the Cash associated with the Hybrid Loan Dividends) (the Actual AMSA
Cash) and (iii) an updated Exhibit U with the actual amounts due as of June 30, 2006 in
respect of each of the line items set out in Exhibit U (the Revised Exhibit U), the
amounts in clauses (i) and (ii) above to be derived from the Dana Closing Financial Statements.
The Dana Closing Financial Statements shall be prepared in accordance with NIFs (consistently
applied) and the definition of Adjusted Net Working Capital and Cash and if there is an
inconsistency between NIFs and such definitions, the terms set forth in such definitions shall
control.
(d) In the event that neither Desc Automotriz nor Dana (i) has any objections to the Desc
Closing Financial Statements or the Dana Closing Financial Statements, as the case may be, and does
not deliver a Dispute Notice to the other Party or (ii) otherwise does not deliver a Dispute Notice
to the other Party within the time period required by the immediately following sentence, then, on
the date that is twenty-one (21) calendar days following the later of the date on which the Desc
Closing Financial Statements were delivered and the date on which the Dana Closing Financial
Statements were delivered, the Desc Closing Financial Statements and the Dana Closing Financial
Statements, including the calculations of Actual Desc Target ANWC, Actual AMSA ANWC, Actual
Remaining Dana Target ANWC, the Actual Desc Cash, Actual AMSA Cash and Actual Remaining Dana Cash
set forth therein, shall be deemed to be and shall become final, binding and conclusive on the
Parties. In the event that Dana disputes the Actual Desc Target ANWC or Actual Desc Cash, as set
forth in the Desc Closing Financial Statements, and/or Desc Automotriz disputes the Actual AMSA
ANWC, Actual Dana Remaining ANWC, Actual AMSA Cash or Actual Dana Remaining Cash, as set forth in
the Dana Closing Financial Statements, Dana and/or Desc Automotriz, as the case may be, shall,
within twenty (20) calendar days following the later of the date on which the Desc Closing
Financial Statements were delivered and the date on which the Dana Closing Financial Statements are
delivered, prepare and deliver to the other Party a written notice of dispute (the Dispute
Notice), which Dispute Notice shall (i) specifically identify, and provide a reasonably detailed
explanation of the basis upon which Dana and/or Desc Automotriz, as the case may be, has delivered
such Dispute Notice, including, without limitation, the applicable provisions of this Agreement on
which the dispute set forth in such Dispute Notice is based, and (ii) set forth the Actual Desc
Target ANWC, Actual AMSA ANWC, Actual Dana Remaining Target ANWC, Actual Desc Cash, Actual AMSA
Cash and Actual Remaining Dana Cash that Dana and/or Desc Automotriz, as the case may be, believes
existed immediately prior to the Closing, together with such documents and information that it has
utilized in connection with making such determinations and calculations.
(e) In the event Dana and/or Desc Automotriz, as the case may be, timely delivers a Dispute
Notice to the other Party in accordance with the terms hereof, Dana and Desc Automotriz shall
attempt to reconcile their differences, and any resolution by them as to any such disputes shall be
final, binding and conclusive on the Parties. If Dana and Desc Automotriz are unable to resolve
any such dispute within fifteen (15) calendar days of either Partys receipt of a Dispute Notice,
Dana and Desc Automotriz shall submit the items remaining in dispute or the nature of the dispute
for resolution to KPMG International or, in the event that KPMG International should be unwilling
or unable to act and so notifies the Parties, such firm of
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accountants as Dana and Desc Automotriz may jointly agree to instruct or, in default of
agreement as to such appointment within ten (10) Business Days after the notice from KPMG
International, such independent accountant as may be appointed by the President for the time being
of the Mexican Board for Research and Development of NIFs (Consejo Mexicano para la Investigación y
Desarrollo de Normas de Información Financiera, A.C.), on the application of either Dana or Desc
Automotriz (the Person appointed in any of the foregoing ways, the Independent Accounting Firm).
Promptly, but no later than five (5) Business Days after a dispute is submitted to the Independent
Accounting Firm, Dana and Desc Automotriz shall each submit to such Independent Accounting Firm
(and the other Party) all documentary materials and analyses that it believes to be relevant to a
resolution of the dispute set forth in the Dispute Notice. The Independent Accounting Firm shall,
within forty (40) calendar days after receipt of all such submissions by Dana and Desc Automotriz,
determine and deliver to Dana and Desc Automotriz a written report (the Final Report) containing
such Independent Accounting Firms determination of the disputed matters that were so submitted to
it (and only such matters), and the determinations of the Independent Accounting Firm that are
contained therein shall be final, binding and conclusive on the Parties. The fees and
disbursements of the Independent Accounting Firm shall be borne equally by Desc Automotriz and
Dana.
(f) On or prior to the date that is three (3) Business Days following the Determination Date,
the Parties shall:
(i) first, (A) calculate the amount by which the Actual Desc Target ANWC is greater
than the Projected Desc Target ANWC, which amount shall be zero if the Actual Desc Target
ANWC is less than or equal to the Projected Desc Target ANWC (any such amount, an Actual
Desc Target ANWC Surplus), or (B) calculate the amount by which the Actual Desc Target ANWC
is less than the Projected Desc Target ANWC, which amount shall be zero if the Actual Desc
Target ANWC is greater than or equal to the Projected Desc Target ANWC (any such amount, an
Actual Desc Target ANWC Deficit);
(ii) second, (A) calculate the amount by which the Actual AMSA ANWC is greater than the
Projected AMSA ANWC, which amount shall be zero if the Actual AMSA ANWC is less than or
equal to the Projected AMSA ANWC (any such amount, an Actual AMSA ANWC Surplus), or (B)
calculate the amount by which the Actual AMSA ANWC is less than the Projected AMSA ANWC,
which amount shall be zero if the Actual AMSA ANWC is greater than or equal to the Projected
AMSA ANWC (any such amount, an Actual AMSA ANWC Deficit);
(iii) third, (A) calculate the amount by which the Actual Remaining Dana Target ANWC is
greater than the Projected Remaining Dana Target ANWC, which amount shall be zero if the
Actual Remaining Dana Target ANWC is less than or equal to the Projected Remaining Dana
Target ANWC (any such amount, an Actual Remaining Dana Target ANWC Surplus), or (B)
calculate the amount by which the Actual Remaining Dana Target ANWC is less than the
Projected Remaining Dana Target ANWC, which amount shall be zero if the Actual Remaining
Dana Target ANWC is greater than or equal to the Projected Remaining Dana Target ANWC (any
such amount, an Actual Remaining Dana Target ANWC Deficit);
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(iv) fourth, calculate the amount (such amount, the Actual ANWC Adjustment Amount)
equal to:
(A) 48.803% of the Actual Desc Target ANWC Surplus,
minus
(B) 48.803% of the Actual Desc Target ANWC Deficit,
minus
(C) 67.131% of the Actual AMSA ANWC Surplus,
plus
(D) 67.131% of the Actual AMSA ANWC Deficit,
minus
(E) 51.197% of the Actual Remaining Dana Target ANWC Surplus,
plus
(F) 51.197% of the Actual Remaining Dana Target ANWC Deficit;
(v) fifth, if the Actual ANWC Adjustment Amount (A) is positive and (B) exceeds the
amount equal to 0.15 multiplied by the Average ANWC Amount, which amount shall be equal to
US$6,238,575 if the Closing occurs on or prior to July 7, 2006, (the amount of such excess
only, the Desc ANWC Excess), then Desc Automotriz shall be required to pay to Dana (or its
designee(s)), in cash by wire transfer of immediately available funds to an account
designated in writing by Dana, the Desc ANWC Excess;
(vi) sixth, if (A) the Actual ANWC Adjustment Amount is negative and (B) the absolute
value of the Actual ANWC exceeds the amount equal to 0.15 multiplied by the Average ANWC
Amount, which amount shall be equal to US$6,238,575 if the Closing occurs on or prior to
July 7, 2006, (the amount of such excess only, the Dana ANWC Excess), then Dana Mexico
shall be required to pay to Desc Automotriz (or its designee(s)), in cash by wire transfer
of immediately available funds to an account designated in writing by Desc Automotriz, the
Dana ANWC Excess;
(vii) seventh, (1) determine the amount equal to the sum of (A) 67.131% of the Actual
AMSA Cash and (B) 51.197% of the Actual Spicer Cash; (2) subtract from that sum an amount
equal to the aggregate amount of actual payments or adjustments set out in Revised Exhibit
T; and (3) add any actual payments received by the Desc Targets pursuant to the payments set
out Revised Exhibit U (the amount calculated pursuant to this clause (vii), the Actual Desc
Cash Target);
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(viii) eighth, (1) determine the amount equal to the sum of (A) 32.869% of the Actual
AMSA Cash and (B) 48.803% of the Actual Spicer Cash; (2) subtract from that sum an amount
equal to the aggregate amount of actual payments set out in Revised Exhibit U; and (3) add
any actual payments received by the Dana Targets pursuant to the payments set out in Revised
Exhibit T (the amount calculated pursuant to this clause (viii), the Actual Dana Cash
Target);
(ix) ninth, (1) determine from the Desc Closing Financial Statements the amount equal
to the Actual Desc Cash; (2) subtract from that sum an amount equal to the aggregate amount
set out in Estimated Exhibit T; (3) add any actual payments received by Desc Targets
pursuant to the payments set out in Estimated Exhibit U; (4) add the Dana Adjustment
Payment, if any; and (5) subtract the Desc Adjustment Payment, if any (the amount calculated
pursuant to this clause (ix), the Actual Desc Sum);
(x) tenth, (1) determine the amount equal to the sum of (A) the Actual Remaining Dana
Cash (as specified in the Dana Closing Financial Statements) and (B) the Actual AMSA Cash
(as specified in the Dana Closing Financial Statements); (2) subtract from that sum an
amount equal to the aggregate amount of actual payments set out in Estimated Exhibit U; (3)
add any actual payments received by Dana Targets pursuant to the payments set out in
Estimated Exhibit T; (4) add the Desc Adjustment Payment, if any; and (5) subtract the Dana
Adjustment Payment, if any (the amount calculated pursuant to this clause (x), the Actual
Dana Sum);
(xi) eleventh, calculate the amount by which the Actual Desc Sum is greater than the
Actual Desc Cash Target, which amount shall be zero if the Actual Desc Sum is less than or
equal to the Actual Desc Cash Target (any such amount, an Actual Desc Cash Surplus);
(xii) twelfth, (A) calculate the amount by which the Actual Dana Sum is greater than
the Actual Dana Cash Target, which amount shall be zero if the Actual Dana Sum is less than
or equal to the Actual Dana Cash Target (any such amount, an Actual Dana Cash Surplus);
(xiii) thirteenth, if there is an Actual Desc Cash Surplus, then Desc Automotriz shall
be required to pay to Dana (or its designee(s)), in cash by wire transfer of immediately
available funds to an account designated in writing by Dana, an amount equal to such Actual
Desc Target Cash Surplus;
(xiv) fourteenth, if there is an Actual Dana Cash Surplus, then Dana Mexico shall be
required to pay to Desc Automotriz (or its designee(s)), in cash by wire transfer of
immediately available funds to an account designated in writing by Desc Automotriz, an
amount equal to the Actual Dana Target Cash Surplus; and
(xv) fifteenth, any amounts due pursuant to clauses (v), (vi), (xiii) and (xiv) above
shall be set off against each other such that one net payment will be made by Desc
Automotriz or Dana Mexico, as the case may be.
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Section 3.3 Purchase Price Adjustment and Allocation.
(a) The net amount allocated or distributed to the Desc Targets or paid by Dana or its
designee(s) pursuant to the adjustments required by Section 3.2(a)(v), 3.2(a)(ix), 3.2(a)(x),
3.2(f)(vi) and/or 3.2(f)(xiv) shall be added to the Base Dana Target Share Purchase Price, and such
resulting amount shall be the Final Dana Target Share Purchase Price. The Final Dana Target
Share Purchase Price shall be allocated among the Dana Targets, as determined by Dana in its sole
discretion.
(b) The net amount allocated or distributed to the Dana Targets or paid by Desc Automotriz or
its designee(s) pursuant to the adjustments required by Sections 3.2(a)(v), 3.2(a)(vii),
3.2(a)(viii), 3.2(f)(v) and/or 3.2(f)(xiii) shall be added to the Base Dana JV Share Purchase
Price, and such resulting amount shall be the Final Dana JV Share Purchase Price.
Section 3.4 Past Due Interest.
In the event any Party fails to pay when due any amount owed to any other Party pursuant to
this Agreement, interest on such past due amount shall accrue at a per annum interest rate equal to
the Interest Rate (determined as of date on which such past due amount becomes due and unpaid) from
(and including) the date that such amount is due until (but excluding) the date on which such
amount is actually paid.
ARTICLE IV
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE DANA PARTIES
Each of the Dana Parties hereby represents and warrants to the other Parties as follows
(except that the representation and warranty in Section 4.2 shall only be made by Dana):
Section 4.1 Incorporation and Registration.
(a) Organization. Each of the Dana Parties is a corporation duly organized, validly
existing and in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of organization.
(b) Authorization. Subject to the Bankruptcy Court Approval Order (with respect to
Dana only), each of the Dana Parties has all necessary power, authority and capacity to enter into
this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements to which it is a party and to perform and carry out its
covenants and obligations hereunder and thereunder. The execution and delivery by each of the Dana
Parties of this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements to which it is a party, the performance by
it of its obligations hereunder and thereunder and the consummation of the Transactions have been
duly and validly authorized by all necessary action on its part.
Section 4.2 Dana JV Shares.
(a) Capitalization. The Dana JV Shares consist of 5,329,801,806 shares of common
stock, without par value, which shares are outstanding, fully paid and non-assessable and
constitute 48.803% of all the issued and outstanding shares and equity interests of Spicer.
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(b) Title. Dana has, and at Closing Desc Automotriz (or its designee(s)) shall
acquire, good and marketable title to the Dana JV Shares free and clear of all Encumbrances and
there are no restrictions on the transfer of the Dana JV Shares except those relating to the Dana
JV Shares set forth in the bylaws of Spicer and the JV Agreement, which restrictions have been
complied with or waived, in both cases subject to the Bankruptcy Court Approval Order.
(c) Absence of Conflicting Rights. No Person, other than Desc Automotriz, has any
oral or written agreement, option, warrant, privilege or other right capable of becoming any of the
foregoing (whether legal, contractual or otherwise) for the purchase of the Dana Shares or
acquisition of any right, title or interest in or to any of the Dana JV Shares.
Section 4.3 Litigation.
Subject to receipt of the Bankruptcy Court Approval Order (with respect to Dana only), there
is (i) no suit, action or claim, (ii) no investigation or inquiry by any Governmental Authority,
and (iii) no legal, administrative, arbitration or other proceeding pending or, to the knowledge of
each of the Dana Parties, threatened against either of the Dana Parties or any of their Affiliates
which seeks to terminate or modify or which might affect their rights to enter into this Agreement
or the Ancillary Agreements or consummate the Transactions.
Section 4.4 Enforceability of Obligations.
Subject to receipt of the Bankruptcy Court Approval Order (with respect to Dana only), this
Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by each of the Dana Parties, and this Agreement
constitutes a valid and binding obligation of each of the Dana Parties enforceable against each of
them in accordance with its terms.
Section 4.5 Absence of Conflicting Agreements.
Subject to receipt of the Bankruptcy Court Approval Order (with respect to Dana only), the
execution, delivery and performance by the Dana Parties of this Agreement and the Closing will not
contravene or result in a violation of or a default under (with or without the giving of notice or
the lapse of time, or both) or the acceleration of any obligation under: (i) any Applicable Law,
(ii) any License to which any of the Dana Parties is a party, (iii) any of the articles of
incorporation, bylaws or other organizational documents of any of the Dana Parties, or (iv) the
provisions of any agreement, lease, mortgage, security document, obligation other instrument to
which either of the Dana Parties is a party, or by which any of its Assets are bound or affected.
Section 4.6 Approvals.
Except for (i) the Bankruptcy Court Approval Order (with respect to Dana only), (ii) the
approval of the Transactions by the Federal Competition Commission (Comisión Federal de
Competencia), which has been obtained as of the date of this Agreement, (the CFC Approval), and
(iii) the approval of the Transactions by the Federal Trade Commission of the United States of
America (the FTC Approval), which has been obtained as of the date of this Agreement, no order,
License, consent, permission, authorization, registration or declaration of, or filing with, any
Governmental Authority or other Person or under Applicable Law is required
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on the part of any of the Dana Parties, in connection with its execution, delivery and
performance of this Agreement or any other documents and agreements to be delivered under this
Agreement or the performance by it of its obligations hereunder.
Section 4.7 No Broker.
Each of the Dana Parties has carried on all negotiations relating to this Agreement, the
Ancillary Agreements and the Transactions directly and without intervention on its behalf of any
other Person in such manner as to give rise to any valid claim for any brokerage commission,
finders fee or other like payment for which any Desc Party or any Desc Target will be liable.
Section 4.8 Sufficiency of Financial Resources.
Subject to receipt of the Bankruptcy Court Approval Order, at Closing each of Dana Parties
will have the financial and other resources sufficient to timely comply with each of its
obligations hereunder.
ARTICLE V
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE DESC PARTIES
Each of the Desc Parties hereby represents and warrants to the other Parties as follows:
Section 5.1 Incorporation and Registration.
(a) Organization. Each of the Desc Parties is a corporation duly organized, validly
existing and in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of organization.
(b) Authorization. Each of the Desc Parties has all necessary power, authority and
capacity to enter into this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements to which it is a party and to
perform and carry out its covenants and obligations hereunder and thereunder. The execution and
delivery by each of the Desc Parties of this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements to which it is
a party, the performance by it of its obligations hereunder and thereunder and the consummation of
the Transactions have been duly and validly authorized by all necessary action on its part. Spicer
has all necessary power and authority to cause the JV Subsidiaries to do or take any action
necessary for the consummation of the Transactions, as contemplated by this Agreement, and all such
actions have been duly and validly authorized, as necessary, by the JV Subsidiaries.
Section 5.2 Dana Target Shares.
(a) Capitalization. The Dana Target Shares consist of the following:
(i) Etrac Shares: 30,000 Series A shares, 19,999 Series B shares, 241,170,000 Series
A-1 shares, and 160,779,999 Series B-1 shares owned by Spicer, and 1 Series B share and 1
Series B-1 share owned by Inmobiliaria Unik, all of which represent 100% of the issued and
outstanding shares and equity interests of Etrac. All Etrac Shares are outstanding, fully
paid and non-assessable.
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(ii) ENCO Shares: 19,654 Series A shares, 13,101 Series B shares, 14,980,346 Series
A-1 shares, and 9,986,897 Series B-1 shares owned by Spicer, and 1 Series B share and 1
Series A share owned by Inmobiliaria Unik, all of which represent 100% of the issued and
outstanding shares and equity interests of ENCO. All ENCO Shares are outstanding, fully
paid and non-assessable.
(iii) Cardanes Shares: 30,000 Series A shares, 19,999 Series B shares, 41,969,999
Series A-1 shares, and 27,980,000 Series B-1 shares owned by Spicer, and 1 Series B share
and 1 Series B-1 share owned by Inmobiliaria Unik, all of which represent 100% of the issued
and outstanding shares and equity interests of Cardanes. All Cardanes Shares are
outstanding, fully paid and non-assessable.
(iv) Forjas Shares: 30,000 Series A shares, 19,999 Series B shares, 110,970,000 Class
I Series A shares, and 73,979,999 Class II Series B shares owned by Spicer, and 1 Series B
share and 1 Series B-1 share owned by Inmobiliaria Unik, all of which represent 100% of the
issued and outstanding shares and equity interests of Forjas. All Forjas Shares are
outstanding, fully paid and non-assessable.
(v) Direcspicer Shares: 6,120 Series A shares, 4,079 Series B shares, 10,650,000
Series C shares, and 7,099,999 Series D shares owned by Spicer, and 1 Series B shares owned
by Desc Automotriz, 1 Series B share owned by Inmobiliaria Unik, all of which represent 100%
of the issued and outstanding shares and equity interests of Direspicer. All Direcspicer
Shares are outstanding, fully paid and non-assessable.
(vi) Spicer Servicios Shares: 25,500 Series A shares and 24,499 Series B shares owned
by Spicer, 1 Series B share owned by Direcspicer, all of which represent 100% of the issued
and outstanding shares and equity interests of Spicer Servicios. All Spicer Servicios
Shares are outstanding, fully paid and non-assessable.
(vii) Corporación Inmobiliaria Shares: 25,500 Series A shares, 24,499 Series B shares,
8,306,256 Series A-1 shares, and 7,980,519 Series B-1 shares owned by Spicer, and 1 Series B
share and 1 Series B-1 owned by Inmobiliaria Unik, all of which represent 100% of the issued
and outstanding shares and equity interests of Corporación Inmobiliaria. All Corporación
Inmobiliaria Shares are outstanding, fully paid and non-assessable.
(viii) AMSA Shares: AMSAs Shares are 17,216 Series A shares, 11,477 Series B shares,
35,999,999 Series A-1, and 4,400,632 Series B-1 shares owned by Spicer, 19,599,367 Series
B-1 shares owned by Desc Automotriz, and 1 Series A-1 share, and 1 Series B-1 share owned
by Inmobiliaria Unik, all of which represent 100% of the issued and outstanding shares and
equity interests of AMSA. All AMSAs Shares are outstanding, fully paid and non-assessable.
(b) Title. Each of the Desc Parties and Direcspicer has, and at Closing Dana Mexico
(or its designee(s))shall acquire, good and marketable title to the Dana Target Shares free and
clear of all Encumbrances. There are no restrictions on the transfer of the Dana Target Shares
except
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those relating to the Dana Target Shares set forth in the bylaws of each Dana Target, which
restrictions have been complied with or waived in accordance with Applicable Laws.
(c) Absence of Conflicting Rights. No Person, other than (i) Inmobiliaria Unik (with
respect to its ownership of the Etrac Shares , the Enco Shares, the Cardanes Shares, the Forjas
Shares, the Direcspicer Shares, the Corporación Inmobiliaria Shares and the AMSA Shares, in each
case as detailed in Section 5.2(a)), (ii) Direcspicer (with respect to its ownership of the Spicer
Servicios Shares as detailed in Section 5.2(a)), and (iii) Desc Automotriz (with respect to its
ownership of the AMSA Shares as detailed in Section 5.2(a)), has any oral or written agreement,
option, warrant, privilege or other right capable of becoming any of the foregoing (whether legal,
contractual or otherwise) for the purchase, subscription or issuance of any issued or unissued
shares or other securities of any of the Dana Targets and no securities or obligations convertible
into or exchangeable for shares or other securities of any of the Dana Targets has been authorized
or agreed to be issued or are outstanding.
Section 5.3 Indebtedness. Except as set forth on Schedule 5.3 and except for any
Indebtedness owed by any Desc Target or Dana Target to any other Desc Target or Dana Target,
neither Spicer nor any JV Subsidiary has any Indebtedness.
Section 5.4 Litigation.
There is (i) no suit, action or claim, (ii) no investigation or inquiry by any Governmental
Authority, and (iii) no legal, administrative, arbitration or other proceeding pending or, to the
knowledge of each of the Desc Parties, threatened against any of them or any of their Affiliates
which seeks to terminate or modify or which might affect their rights to enter into this Agreement
or the Ancillary Agreements or consummate the Transactions. Except as set forth on Schedule
5.4, there is no legal, administrative, arbitration or other proceeding pending or, to the
knowledge of each of the Desc Parties, threatened against any of the Dana Targets, that has a
stated claim amount, individually or in the aggregate for related claims, in excess of US$100,000
or the equivalent in Mexican Pesos and there are no material judgments, orders, decrees, writs or
injunctions entered into by or against the Dana Targets that are currently in effect in accordance
with Applicable Laws.
Section 5.5 Financial Statements.
(a) The Desc Parties have delivered or caused to be delivered to Dana complete and accurate
copies of the Financial Statements and the December 31, 2005 actuarial report for the Financial
Statements.
(b) The Financial Statements (i) have been prepared from the Books and Records of Spicer and
each of the JV Subsidiaries, (ii) have been prepared in accordance with NIFs throughout the periods
involved and (iii) present fairly in all material respects the financial condition of Spicer and
each of the JV Subsidiaries as of such date and the results of their operations for the period then
ended. Except for the filing by Dana of the Chapter 11 Case and as set forth in Schedule
5.5(b), after giving effect to the Transactions, since December 31, 2005 there has been no
material adverse change in the business, financial conditions or results of operations of Spicer or
any of the JV Subsidiaries.
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Section 5.6 Enforceability of Obligations.
This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by each of the Desc Parties, and this
Agreement constitutes a valid and binding obligation of each of the Desc Parties enforceable
against each of them in accordance with its terms.
Section 5.7 Absence of Conflicting Agreements.
The execution, delivery and performance by the Desc Parties of this Agreement and the Closing
will not contravene or result in a violation of or a default under (with or without the giving of
notice or the lapse of time, or both) or the acceleration of any obligation under: (i) any
Applicable Law, (ii) any License to which any of the Desc Parties is a party, (iii) any of the
articles of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational documents of any of the Desc Parties, or
(iv) the provisions of any agreement, lease, mortgage, security document, obligation or other
instrument to which any of the Desc Parties is a party, or by which any of their Assets are bound
or affected.
Section 5.8 Approvals.
Except for the CFC Approval, the FTC Approval and the CNA Approval, no order, License,
consent, permission, authorization, registration or declaration of, or filing with, any
Governmental Authority or other Person or under Applicable Law is required on the part of any of
the Desc Parties, in connection with its execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement or
any other documents and agreements to be delivered under this Agreement or the performance by it of
its obligations hereunder.
Section 5.9 No Broker.
Each of the Desc Parties has carried on all negotiations relating to this Agreement, the
Ancillary Agreements and the Transactions directly and without intervention on its behalf of any
other Person in such manner as to give rise to any valid claim for any brokerage commission,
finders fee or other like payment for which any Dana Party or any Dana Target will be liable.
Section 5.10 Sufficiency of Financial Resources.
Each of the Desc Parties has the financial and other resources sufficient to timely comply
with each of its obligations hereunder.
ARTICLE VI
NON-WAIVER; SURVIVAL
Section 6.1 Non-Waiver.
No investigation made by or on behalf of any Party at any time shall waive, diminish the scope
of or otherwise affect any representation, warranty or covenant made by the other Parties in this
Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement. No waiver of any condition or other provisions, in whole or
in part, shall constitute or be construed as a waiver of any other condition or
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provision (whether or not similar), nor shall such waiver constitute a continuing waiver
unless otherwise expressly provided for in writing.
Section 6.2 Nature and Survival.
All representations and warranties made by the Parties shall survive the Closing and shall
terminate on the fifth (5th) anniversary of the Closing Date; provided, however,
that the representations regarding title to shares set forth in Section 4.2(b) and Section 5.2(b)
and any covenants of the Parties set forth in this Agreement shall survive the Closing Date until
the expiration of the applicable statute of limitations. After the end of any applicable survival
period, no Party shall have any further liability hereunder with respect to such representations,
warranties and covenants, except with respect to Claims for which notice has been provided to the
Indemnifier prior to the expiration of such period.
ARTICLE
VII
COVENANTS OF THE PARTIES
Section 7.1 Conduct of the Business.
(a) Except as otherwise contemplated by this Agreement, during the period from the date of
this Agreement to the earlier of the Closing Date and the Termination Date, Desc Automotriz and
Dana shall cause Spicer to, Spicer shall, and Spicer shall cause each of the JV Subsidiaries to, do
the following: (i) conduct its business in the Ordinary Course of Business (except as otherwise
mutually agreed in writing); (ii) use reasonable best efforts to maintain the services of all
employees and officers (other than those employees to be terminated pursuant to Section 7.17(e));
(iii) use reasonable best efforts to preserve intact the organization and goodwill of its or their
business; (iv) use commercially reasonable efforts to maintain in all material respects its current
relationships with customers, suppliers, distributors and others having business dealings with it;
(v) pay their Indebtedness and trade and other accounts payable punctually when and as the same
will become due and payable and perform and observe, in all material respects, their duties and
obligations under all material Contracts; and (vi) take any action that is required so that all
representations or warranties of the Desc Parties and of the Dana Parties are true and correct in
all material respects as of the Closing.
(b) Without limiting the generality or effect of Section 7.1(a), unless otherwise provided
under this Agreement and/or the Ancillary Agreements, prior to the Closing, Spicer will not, and
will not permit any of the JV Subsidiaries to take, without the prior written consent of Desc
Automotriz (which such consent shall be given by Miguel Ángel Sosa or such other person as Desc
Automotriz may designate in writing) and Dana (which such consent shall be given by Ruperto Jiménez
or such other person as Dana may designate in writing), to:
(i) amend or modify their governing or organizational documents, from those existing on
the date of this Agreement;
(ii) change any salaries or other compensation of, or pay any bonuses to, any director,
manager, officer or employee of Spicer or any JV Subsidiary, as applicable, or enter into
any employment, severance or similar agreement with any director, manager,
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officer or employee of Spicer or any JV Subsidiary; provided, however,
that the compensation of employees of Spicer or any of JV Subsidiary receiving annual
compensation of less than US$50,000 may be changed in the Ordinary Course of Business;
(iii) adopt, amend or increase any benefits under any profit sharing, bonus, deferred
compensation, savings, insurance, pension, retirement or other employee benefit plan or
policy;
(iv) procure, enter into, amend or terminate (A) with respect to any of the Desc
Targets, any Contract (including sales agreements and purchase orders) to which it is a
party that involves future payments to, by or on its behalf in excess of US$2,500,000 and
(B) with respect to any of the Dana Targets, any Contract (including sales agreements and
purchase orders) to which it is a party that involves future payments to, by or on its
behalf in excess of US$100,000;
(v) incur, assume or guarantee any Indebtedness, other than, in the case of the Desc
Targets, guarantees to suppliers of any of the Desc Targets that are given by another Desc
Target;
(vi) except for the sale of the Tlaxcala Assets and the Autoprecisa Land, enter into
any transaction or commitment relating to the Assets or the business of Spicer or such JV
Subsidiary that, individually or in the aggregate, could be material to the business of
Spicer or such JV Subsidiary, or cancel or waive any claim or right of substantial value
that, individually or in the aggregate, could be material to the business of Spicer or such
JV Subsidiary or amend any term of any outstanding securities of Spicer or any JV
Subsidiary;
(vii) except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, set aside or pay any dividend
or distribution with respect to any securities of Spicer or any JV Subsidiary, repurchase,
redeem or otherwise acquire directly or indirectly, any outstanding securities of Spicer or
any JV Subsidiary or make any payment to or for the benefit of Dana, Desc Automotriz or any
of their Affiliates;
(viii) make any change in financial or Tax accounting methods or practices, except as
required by Applicable Laws (in which case Spicer will promptly notify Desc Automotriz and
Dana of such change);
(ix) except as required by this Agreement, issue or sell any securities of Spicer or
any JV Subsidiary, as applicable, or make any other changes in Spicers or any of the JV
Subsidiaries capital structures;
(x) except as expressly permitted under this Agreement (including the sale of the
Tlaxcala Assets and of the Autoprecisa Land), sell, lease or otherwise dispose of any
material Asset or otherwise sell, lease or dispose of any Asset other than in the Ordinary
Course of Business;
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(xi) except as expressly permitted under this Agreement (A) write-off as uncollectible
any notes or accounts receivable except write-offs in the Ordinary Course of Business
charged to reserves, none of which is, individually or in the aggregate, material, (B)
write-off, write-up or write-down any other material Asset of Spicer or any JV Subsidiary or
(C) alter the customary time periods for collection of accounts receivable or payments of
accounts payable;
(xii) grant any Encumbrance other than a Permitted Encumbrance;
(xiii) except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, pay, discharge, settle or
satisfy any claims, liabilities or obligations (absolute, accrued, asserted or unasserted,
contingent or otherwise) in excess of US$100,000, other than the payment, discharge or
satisfaction of liabilities in the Ordinary Course of Business;
(xiv) merge or consolidate with any Person;
(xv) enter into any compromise or settlement of, or take any other action with respect
to, any litigation, action, suit, claim, proceeding or investigation unless required by law
or if failure to act would have a material adverse effect with respect to the business of
Spicer or any JV Subsidiary;
(xvi) except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, make any loan, advance or
capital contributions to or investment in any Person;
(xvii) terminate or close any material facility, business or operation of Spicer or any
JV Subsidiary;
(xviii) cause any damage, destruction or other casualty loss (whether or not covered by
insurance) affecting the business or Assets of Spicer or any JV Subsidiary, which,
individually or in the aggregate, has had or would reasonably be expected to have, a
material adverse effect with respect to the business of Spicer or any JV Subsidiary;
(xix) grant or pay any severance or termination pay to any former officer, director,
manager or employee of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, except as required under
existing employment agreements and as set forth in Schedule 7.1(b)(xix);
(xx) cause or take any other action that could cause an event, occurrence, development
or state of circumstances or facts which individually or in the aggregate, would reasonably
be expected to have a material adverse effect with respect to the business, financial
conditions or results of operations of Spicer or any JV Subsidiary;
(xxi) spend or commit to spend on or prior to June 30, 2006 an amount of capital
expenditures that is greater than that set forth in Schedule 7.1(b)(xxi);
(xxii) license outside of the Ordinary Course of Business, assign or transfer any
intangible Assets; or
(xxiii) agree or otherwise commit to do any of the foregoing.
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Section 7.2 Covenants Related to Chapter 11 Case.
(a) Bankruptcy Court Approval Motion. Dana shall file with the Bankruptcy Court the
Bankruptcy Court Approval Motion no later than five (5) days after execution of this Agreement and
shall serve such Bankruptcy Court Approval Motion, by mail, on all parties entitled to notice under
this Agreement, the Bankruptcy Code, the Bankruptcy Rules and any order entered by the Bankruptcy
Court. The Bankruptcy Court Approval Motion shall seek approval of the Agreement and entry of the
Bankruptcy Court Approval Order.
(b) Timing of Entry of the Bankruptcy Court Approval Order. Dana shall use its best
efforts to obtain entry of the Bankruptcy Court Approval Order no later than June 21, 2006. Desc
Automotriz agrees to reasonably cooperate with such efforts.
(c) Appeal of the Bankruptcy Court Approval Order. If the Bankruptcy Court Approval
Order or any other order of the Bankruptcy Court relating to this Agreement or the Transactions
shall be appealed by any Person (or a petition for certiorari or motion for rehearing, reargument
or stay shall be filed with respect thereto), Dana agrees to take all commercially reasonable steps
and use commercially reasonable efforts, to defend against such appeal, petition or motion, and
Desc Automotriz agrees to reasonably cooperate in such efforts. Dana and Desc Automotriz shall use
commercially reasonable efforts to obtain an expedited resolution of such appeal; provided
that nothing herein shall preclude the Parties, in their sole and absolute discretion, from
consummating the Transactions if the Bankruptcy Court Approval Order shall have been entered and
shall have not been stayed and Desc Automotriz shall have waived in writing the requirement that
the Bankruptcy Court Approval Order be a final order that has not been reversed, modified,
rescinded, or stayed, and for which the time to appeal has expired and is no longer subject to
appeal or further judicial review.
(d) Consultation and Notice. Dana shall, and shall cause its Affiliates to, (i)
consult with Desc Automotriz, prior to its submission to the Bankruptcy Court, on the form and
substance of the Bankruptcy Court Approval Motion and the proposed Bankruptcy Court Approval Order
and all other court submissions by Dana relating to this Agreement, the Ancillary Agreements or the
Transactions, and (ii) promptly deliver to Desc Automotriz copies of any and all pleadings,
motions, notices, statements, schedules, applications, reports, proposed orders, creditor
presentations and other documents related to this Agreement, the Ancillary Agreements or the
Transactions to be filed with the Bankruptcy Court by Dana and any and all pleadings, motions,
notices, statements, schedules, applications, reports, proposed orders and other documents related
to this Agreement, the Ancillary Agreements or the Transactions that have been filed by Dana or
other entities, including any objections to this Agreement or any of the Ancillary Agreements, any
objections to the Transactions, any objections to the Bankruptcy Court Approval Motion, or any
pleadings filed with the Bankruptcy Court in connection with the Transactions or the transfer of
the Dana JV Shares.
(e) Plan of Reorganization or Liquidation. Dana further covenants and agrees that,
to the extent this Agreement, the Ancillary Agreements and the Transactions are approved by the
Bankruptcy Court, the terms of any plan of reorganization or liquidation submitted by Dana or its
Affiliates to the Bankruptcy Court for confirmation shall not conflict with, supersede, abrogate,
nullify, modify or restrict the terms of this Agreement, the Ancillary Agreements and the rights
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of Desc Automotriz or its Affiliates hereunder or thereunder, or in any way prevent or
interfere with the consummation or performance of the Transactions, including any transaction that
is contemplated by or approved pursuant to the Bankruptcy Court Approval Order.
Section 7.3 General Covenants Regarding Conditions Precedent.
The Parties shall use their reasonable best efforts to cause the conditions precedent to
Closing set forth in Article VIII to be satisfied as soon as possible following the execution of
this Agreement. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Parties shall, and shall
cause each of the Dana Targets, the Desc Targets and their respective Affiliates to, do or cause to
be done the actions detailed in Section 7.4 through Section 7.23.
Section 7.4 Sale and Purchase of Real Property.
Prior to the Closing Date, Corporación Inmobiliaria and Villa Industrial shall acquire from
the current owner the Real Properties on which the operating units of the Dana Targets and the Desc
Targets, respectively, have been conducting their respective business, as set forth below, with the
understanding that each Party shall pay any fees incurred by it in connection therewith. Taxes,
costs and expenses incurred in connection with the sale and purchase of Real Property as
contemplated by this Agreement shall be paid by the acquiring Party (except for the income Tax
which shall be borne by the selling Party) pursuant to this Section 7.4.
(a) TTSP Facility. Villa Industrial shall acquire from Corporación Inmobiliaria, the
land, buildings and any interests therein located at the Municipio de Pedro Escobedo, Querétaro,
with a total surface of 77,800 square meters (m2) (the TTSP Facility), for an
aggregate price of MX$106,450,000, which shall be fully paid, in cash, on the date of execution of
the corresponding public deed, in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit L.
(b) TF Victor Facility. Villa Industrial shall acquire from Corporación Inmobiliaria
the land, buildings and any interests therein located at Lote #5, Manzana 10, Superfraccionamiento
Industrial Alce Blanco, Municipio de San Bartolo Naucalpan, Estado de Mexico, with a total
surface of 1,880.76 square meters (m2) (the TF Victor Facility), for an aggregate
price of MX$8,889,667, which shall be fully paid, in cash, on the date of execution of the
corresponding public deed, in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit M.
(c) Etrac Facility. Corporación Inmobiliaria shall acquire from Spicer, the land,
buildings and any interests therein located at Avenida de las Industrias #10, Tlalnepantla, Estado
de Mexico, with a total surface of 34,094.50 square meters (m2) (the Etrac Facility),
for an aggregate price of MX$130,000,000, which shall be fully paid, in cash, on the date of
execution of the corresponding public deed, in substantially the form attached hereto as
Exhibit N.
(d) Cardanes Facility. Corporación Inmobiliaria shall acquire from Inmobiliaria
Corcel, the land, buildings and any interests therein located at Acceso tres (formerly known as
Fracción II de la Zona Industrial de Carrillo Puerto, Ciudad Industrial Benito Juárez, Querétaro,
Querétaro, with a total surface of 47,256 square meters (m2) (the Cardanes Facility),
for an aggregate price of MX$57,806,150, which shall be fully paid, in cash, on the date of
execution of the corresponding public deed, in substantially the form attached hereto as
Exhibit O.
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(e) AMSA Facility. Corporación Inmobiliaria shall acquire from Inmobiliaria Unik and
Villa Industrial, the land, buildings and any interests therein located at Avenida de las
Industrias #24, Fraccionamiento Industrial La Presa, at San Juan Ixhuatepec, Tlalnepantla, Estado
de Mexico, with a total surface of 39,965.25 square meters (m2) (the AMSA Facility),
for an aggregate price of MX$101,085,000, which shall be fully paid, in cash, on the date of
execution of the corresponding public deed, in substantially the form attached hereto as
Exhibit P.
(f) Cedei Facility. Corporación Inmobiliaria shall acquire from Inmobiliaria Corcel
the land, buildings, and any interests therein located at Municipio de Querétaro, Querétaro, with a
total surface of 7,500 square meters (m2) (the Cedei Facility) for an aggregate price
of MX$11,398,544, which shall be fully paid, in cash, on the date of execution of the corresponding
public deed, in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit Q. In connection of such
sale and for an amount included in such purchase price, Corporación Inmobiliaria shall also acquire
the equipment of the data center located at the Cedei Facility, which equipment is listed in
Exhibit Q-2.
Section 7.5 Water Rights Assignment Agreements.
Tremec and Corporación Inmobiliaria, on one hand, and Cardanes, Forjas and ENCO, on the other,
shall enter into separate water rights assignment agreements (the Water Rights Assignment
Agreements), pursuant to which Tremec shall assign to each of Cardanes, Forjas and ENCO, and will
agree to supply as from the date of execution thereof until definitive approval of such assignments
is obtained from the corresponding Governmental Authorities, certain volume of its water rights
under Tremecs Water Concession Titles Number 4QRO101076/12FMGR95, 4QRO101077/12FMGR95 and
4QRO101020/12FMGR94, as detailed in Exhibit H and the Parties shall cause the Water Rights
Assignment Agreements to be filed with the National Water Commission for approval.
Section 7.6 Payment of Indebtedness and Certain Related Actions.
(a) Indebtedness.
(i) Spicer and the JV Subsidiaries shall take all necessary actions to pay, or cause
to be paid, any Indebtedness of Spicer and the JV Subsidiaries owed to any Third Party,
outstanding as of the Closing Date, including the Indebtedness set forth on Schedule
5.3 (the Third Party Debt). To the extent that any JV Subsidiary does not have funds
available to pay any Third Party Debt, Spicer shall loan such funds to such JV Subsidiary as
are necessary to pay such Third Party Debt. To the extent that Spicer does not have funds
available to loan to a JV Subsidiary to repay Third Party Debt, Desc Automotriz shall take
all necessary actions to repay its Indebtedness to Spicer, and Spicer shall use such funds
to make the loans contemplated by this Section 7.6(a)(i).
(ii) As of the Closing, Desc Automotriz shall repay any remaining Indebtedness owed by
Desc Automotriz or any of its Affiliates to Spicer or any of the JV Subsidiaries.
(b) GE Agreements. The Parties acknowledge that each of Cardanes, ENCO and Etrac is
a party to an equipment lease agreement (the one with Cardanes, the Cardanes GE Agreement; the
one with ENCO, the ENCO GE Agreement; and the one with Etrac, the
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Etrac GE Agreement and, together with the Cardanas GE Agreement and the ENCO GE Agreement,
the Dana Target GE Agreements) executed between such Dana Target, as lessee, and Desc, as joint
obligor, on the one hand, and General Electric Capital CEF Mexico, S. de R.L. de C.V. (GE), on
the other hand, as detailed in Schedule 7.6(b). The Parties agree that, at Closing,
Cardanes, Enco and Etrac will assign the Cardanes GE Agreement, the ENCO GE Agreement and the Etrac
GE Agreement, respectively, to Desc Automotriz pursuant to three (3) assignment agreements in a
form to be agreed in good faith by the Parties (the GE Assignments). Immediately upon receipt of
such assignments, Desc Automotriz shall sublease all the equipment that is the subject of the
Cardanes GE Agreement, the ENCO GE Agreement and the Etrac GE Agreement to Cardanes, ENCO and
Etrac, respectively, pursuant to three (3) sublease in a form to be agreed in good faith by the
Parties (the GE Subleases), each of which subleases shall provide for (i) quarterly lease
payments by Cardanes, ENCO and Etrac, as the case may be, to Desc Automotriz in the amount of the
lease payments due in such quarter under the relevant agreement, (ii) quarterly payments of a
sublease fee in an amount equal to 0.25% of the total unpaid balance under the relevant agreement
as of the date of payment of such fee and (iii) the creation and perfection of a first priority
mortgage (hipoteca en primer lugar y grado de prelación) in favor of Desc Automotriz on Real
Property of Corporación Inmobiliaria, the value of which as of the Closing Date shall be no less
than 150% of the total unpaid balance as of the Closing Date under the relevant agreement (the
Corporación Inmobiliaria Mortgage).
(c) Letters of Credit. The Parties acknowledge that certain letters of credit have
been issued by Comerica Bank, N.A. (Comerica) for the account of Forjas, as detailed in
Schedule 7.6(c), and have been guaranteed by both Desc Automotriz and Desc (the Comerica
Letters of Credit). Spicer shall (and Dana and Desc Automotriz shall cause Spicer to) provide
funds to Forjas to pay in full any amount outstanding under the Comerica Letters of Credit
(including fees), in a total amount of US$8,927,710, on or prior to the Closing Date.
(d) Release by Comerica. Spicer shall, and shall cause Forjas to, and Desc
Automotriz and Desc shall cause Spicer to, take all necessary action to obtain from Comerica, an
unconditional and complete release of Desc and Desc Automotriz by Comerica in connection with the
Comerica Letters of Credit.
(e) Bonds. The Parties agree that certain payment and performance bonds issued by
Afianzadora Insurgentes, S.A., Fianzas Atlas, S.A., Fianzas Guardiana Inbursa, S.A. and Fianzas
Monterrey, S.A. to guarantee and secure the payment of certain obligations of certain Dana Targets,
as detailed in Schedule 7.6(e), and guaranteed by both Desc Automotriz and Desc (the Dana
Target Bonds) shall remain outstanding after the Closing. Any costs associated with maintaining
the Dana Target Bonds outstanding after the Closing shall be borne 48.803% by Dana Mexico and
51.197% by Spicer.
Section 7.7 Cash Settlements and Hybrid Loans.
(a) Cash Settlement of Certain Payments. The Parties agree that at the Closing and
in the manner contemplated by Section 3.2(a):
(i) Spicer shall cause the Estimated Desc Cash to be used for or allocated to the
payments for the account of Desc Automotriz detailed in Exhibit T; and
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(ii) Spicer shall cause the Estimated Dana Cash to be used for and allocated to the
payments for the account of Dana detailed in Exhibit U.
(b) Hybrid Loans and Hybrid Loan Dividends. Prior to the Closing Date, Dana shall
provide funding to each of ENCO and Cardanes in an amount equal to US$14,500,000 and US$5,000,000,
respectively (the Hybrid Loans) pursuant to two securities agreements in the form of Exhibit
V attached hereto (the Securities Agreements) to be entered into by Dana (as holder) and each
of ENCO and Cardanes (each, as issuer). With the proceeds of such Hybrid Loans, on the Closing
Date, each of ENCO and Cardanes shall declare and pay a cash dividend (after the purchase of the
Dana JV Shares by Desc Automotriz has taken place), as detailed below:
(i) ENCO Dividend. The Shareholders of ENCO shall hold a Shareholders Meeting to,
among other resolutions, declare a cash dividend in a total amount of US$14,500,000 (the
ENCO Dividend) to be paid as follows: (i) US$14,499,998.84 to be paid to Spicer; and (ii)
US$1.16 to be paid to Inmobiliaria Unik. Such ENCO Dividend shall have been fully paid as
of the Closing Date.
(ii) Cardanes Dividend. The Shareholders of Cardanes shall hold a Shareholders
Meeting to, among other resolutions, declare a dividend in a total amount of US$5,000,000
(the Cardanes Dividend and together with the ENCO Dividend, the Hybrid Loan Dividends)
to be paid as follows: (i) US$4,999,999.86 to be paid to Spicer; and (ii) US$0.14 to be
paid to Inmobiliaria Unik. Such Cardanes Dividend shall have been fully paid as of the
Closing Date.
(c) Tremec Dividend. Prior to the Closing, Desc Automotriz and Dana shall cause
Spicer, and Spicer shall cause Tremec to declare a cash dividend in the amount of US$10,000,000.
For such purpose, the Shareholders of Tremec shall hold a Shareholders Meeting to, among other
resolutions, declare such dividend.
(d) ENCO Dividend. Prior to the Closing, Desc Automotriz and Dana shall cause
Spicer, and Spicer shall cause ENCO to declare a cash dividend in the amount of US$4,500,000. For
such purpose, the Shareholders of ENCO shall hold a Shareholders Meeting to, among other
resolutions, declare such dividend.
(e) Corporación Inmobiliaria Dividend. Prior to the Closing, Desc Automotriz and
Dana shall cause Spicer, and Spicer shall cause Corporación Inmobiliaria to declare a cash dividend
in the amount of US$12,000,000. For such purpose, the Shareholders of Corporación Inmobiliaria
shall hold a Shareholders Meeting to, among other resolutions, declare such dividend.
Section 7.8 Capitalization and Assignment of Inter-Company Debt.
(a) At Closing, Dana, Desc Automotriz and Spicer shall take all necessary actions to: (i)
cause an amount equal to the amount owed as of the Closing Date by AMSA to Spicer to be capitalized
(A) 32.64% by Desc Automotriz in the form of cash, (B) 0.01% by Corporación Inmobiliaria in the
form of cash and (C) 67.35% by Spicer in the form of capitalization of indebtedness; and (ii) AMSA
to issue shares in favor of Desc Automotriz, Corporación Inmobiliaria and Spicer as a result of
such capitalization (AMSA Capitalization).
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(b) Immediately after the AMSA Capitalization, Spicer shall assign to Corporación
Inmobiliaria any and all of the amounts owed as of the Closing Date (the Dana Targets
Receivables) to Spicer by any and all of the Dana Targets (other than Corporación Inmobiliaria)
(the Inter-Company Debt). Corporación Inmobiliaria shall pay as consideration for such Dana
Targets Receivables an amount equal to the face value of such Dana Targets Receivables (the
Receivables Consideration), which payment shall be made by the issuance of additional shares of
stock of Corporación Inmobiliaria to Spicer (the Corporación Inmobiliaria Capitalization I).
Dana, Desc Automotriz and Spicer shall take all necessary actions to cause Corporación Inmobiliaria
to hold a Shareholders Meeting to approve the Corporación Inmobiliaria Capitalization I.
(c) At Closing, Desc Automotriz and Spicer shall take all necessary actions to cause an
amount equal to the amount owed as of the Closing Date by Corporación Inmobiliaria to Spicer
(including the loan referenced in Section 2.4(b)(ii)) to be capitalized by Spicer and Corporación
Inmobiliaria to issue shares in favor of Spicer as a result of such capitalization (the
Corporación Inmobiliaria Capitalization II). Desc Automotriz and Spicer shall take all necessary
actions to cause Corporación Inmobiliaria to hold a Shareholders Meeting to approve the Corporación
Inmobiliaria Capitalization II.
Section 7.9 Spicer and JV Subsidiaries Resolutions.
Desc Automotriz and Dana shall cause Spicer, and Spicer shall cause each of the JV
Subsidiaries, to hold Shareholders Meetings and, if required by Applicable Law or any applicable
organizational documents, directors meetings to approve each of the transactions and arrangements
contemplated herein as part of the Transactions (the Spicer and JV Subsidiaries Resolutions).
Section 7.10 Books and Records.
(a) Preservation of and Access to Books and Records. Dana Mexico, on the one hand,
and Desc Automotriz and Spicer, on the other hand, shall (i) cause each of the Dana Targets and the
Desc Targets, respectively, to preserve and keep their respective Books and Records delivered to
them in connection with or in the possession of the Dana Targets or the Desc Targets, as the case
may be, at the completion of the Transactions for a period of five (5) years from the Closing Date,
or for any longer period as may be required by Applicable Law or Governmental Authority or as set
forth in this Section 7.10(a), and (ii) make such Books and Records available to the other Parties
as may be reasonably required by them, including in connection with a Claim by any Party against
another under this Agreement, any Third Party Claim, any external reporting requirements, or in
order to comply with any Applicable Law, regulation or stock exchange rule; provided,
however, that the foregoing right of access shall not be exercisable in such a manner as to
interfere unreasonably with the normal operations and business of the Dana Targets or the Desc
Targets. Furthermore, Desc Automotriz acknowledges that Dana Mexico shall not be liable to Desc
Automotriz in the event of any accidental destruction of the Books and Records of the Dana Targets
caused after Closing other than by the negligence of the Dana Parties or the Dana Targets
management. Dana Mexico acknowledges that Desc Automotriz shall not be liable to Dana Mexico in
the event of any accidental
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destruction of the Books and Records of the Desc Targets caused after Closing other than by
the negligence of Desc Parties or the Desc Targets management.
(b) Post-Closing External Reporting Requirements. For purposes of supporting
compliance by each of Dana Mexico and Desc Automotriz with its respective immediate post-Closing
external reporting requirements, the Dana Parties and the Desc Parties hereby agree to provide and
make available to each other, and to cause the Dana Targets and the Desc Targets (as applicable),
to provide and make available to Dana Mexico or Desc Automotriz, as the case may be, the financial
information relating to the preliminary unaudited balance sheets and income statements of each of
the Dana Targets and the Desc Targets as of June 30, 2006 to be prepared by each of the Dana
Targets management and the Desc Targets management, and delivered to each of Dana Mexico and Desc
Automotriz, within a time frame consistent with past practice, but in no event exceeding five (5)
Business Days after the Closing Date.
Section 7.11 Confidentiality.
(a) Confidential Information. For a period of five (5) years after the Closing, each
of the Parties (each acting as Recipient) shall refrain from disclosing any confidential
information of any other Party hereto, including any confidential information of the JV
Subsidiaries owned directly or indirectly by such other Party (in such capacity, a Discloser)
(whether such information is received before or after Closing), except information which:
(i) is as of the date of this Agreement or thereafter becomes a part of the public
domain through no act or failure to act on the part of the Recipients;
(ii) was disclosed to Recipient by a Third Party; provided that such Third
Party did not acquire the information, knowledge or data directly or indirectly from the
Recipient or, to the knowledge of the Recipient, such third party was not breaching any
agreement or any confidential relationship in doing so;
(iii) was independently developed by the Recipient without reference to the
confidential information of Discloser; or
(iv) was required to be disclosed pursuant to judicial, administrative or regulatory
process or in connection with any inquiry, investigation, action, suit, proceeding or claim;
provided that, if such disclosure is required, the Recipient shall first give notice
to the Discloser so that such Discloser will have an opportunity (at its own expense) to
seek a protective order or other appropriate remedy;
provided, however, that any combination of the information which comprises part of
the confidential information of the Discloser shall not be included in the foregoing exceptions
merely because individual parts of the information were within the public domain or were disclosed
to Recipient by a Third Party unless the combination itself was in the public domain or was so
received, as applicable.
(b) Authorized Use of the Confidential Information. The Recipient shall hold in
trust and confidence all such confidential information and will use it only in the course of
complying
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with their obligations and exercising their rights under this Agreement and the Ancillary
Agreements for the periods stated herein and therein and for no other purpose.
(c) Non-Disclosure. The Recipient shall disclose such confidential information only
to those employees and agents having a need to know such confidential information in complying with
Recipients obligations and exercising their rights under this Agreement and the Ancillary
Agreements; provided, however, that such employees and agents shall have been
expressly advised of the confidential nature of such information.
(d) Standard of Care. The Recipient shall maintain adequate procedures to preserve
the integrity of such confidential information, such procedures to be at least equal to the
procedures the Recipient uses to protect its own information and in no event less than ordinary
care.
(e) No Implied License. Under no circumstances shall the possession of such
confidential information by the Recipient be deemed to constitute a license or implied license from
the Discloser to the Recipient to use any industrial or intellectual property contained in such
confidential information.
(f) Scope. Dana and Dana Mexico, on the one hand, and Desc Automotriz and Spicer on
the other hand, shall cause the Dana Targets (and the management of each such Dana Target) and the
Desc Targets (and the management of each such Desc Target), respectively, to comply with the
provisions of this Section 7.11.
Section 7.12 Tax Returns; Cooperation and Exchange of Information.
(a) Tax Returns. Each of Dana Mexico and Desc Automotriz shall cause the Dana
Targets and the Desc Targets, as applicable, to prepare and duly and timely file all Tax Returns
required to be filed by each of such Dana Targets and Desc Targets on or before the Closing Date
and, to include or cause to be included the results of operations of such Companies for such
taxable periods. All such Tax Returns shall be prepared in accordance with past practice, and to
the extent any items are not covered by past practices (or in the event past practices are not
permissible under Applicable Tax laws), in accordance with reasonable Tax accounting practices with
respect to such Tax Return.
(b) Cooperation. Each of Dana Mexico and Desc Automotriz shall, and shall cause the
Dana Targets and the Desc Targets, as applicable, to, provide each other with such cooperation and
information as any of them may reasonably request of the other in (i) filing any Tax Returns, (ii)
determining a liability, Claim or Third Party Claim related to Taxes, (iii) conducting any audit or
other proceeding in respect of Taxes, or (iv) complying with a request of any Governmental
Authority in respect of Taxes. Such cooperation and information shall include providing copies of
relevant Tax Returns or portions thereof, together with accompanying schedules and related work
papers and documents relating to rulings or other determinations by taxing authorities. Each of
Dana Mexico and Desc Automotriz shall, and shall cause the Dana Targets and the Desc Targets to,
make its employees and representatives available on a mutually convenient basis to provide
explanation of any documents or information provided hereunder. Upon reasonable request, Dana
Mexico or Desc Automotriz shall deliver, and shall cause the Dana Targets and the Desc Targets to
deliver, to the other Party or its designees all Books and
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Records with respect to Tax matters pertinent to the Dana Targets or the Desc Targets, as the
case may be, and relating to any taxable period beginning before the Closing Date for which the
applicable statute of limitations has not then expired, such historical Tax information as may be
reasonably appropriate for the preparation of such Companys Tax Returns required to be filed by or
on behalf of such Company after the Closing Date, or for which a record retention agreement entered
into with any taxing authority requires retention of such records or which information is needed to
complete the current years Tax Returns; provided that such Party delivering the requested
Books and Records shall be entitled to make and retain such electronic or photographic copies of
such Books and Records as, in its sole discretion, it deems appropriate. Each Party shall give
each other reasonable written notice prior to transferring, destroying or discarding any Books or
Records with respect to Tax matters pertinent to the Dana Targets or the Desc Targets, as the case
may be, and relating to any taxable period beginning before the Closing Date and shall, if so
requested, allow the other Party or its designees to take possession of such Books and Records.
(c) Timely Filing. Each of Dana Mexico and Desc Automotriz shall prepare or cause to
be prepared and shall duly and timely file or cause to be filed all Tax Returns required to be
filed by or on behalf of the Dana Targets and the Desc Targets, respectively and as applicable,
after the Closing Date.
Section 7.13 Other Taxes and Expenses.
All the income Taxes relating to the sale of the Dana Target Shares and the Dana JV Shares
shall be paid by the Party selling such shares under this Agreement. As a result of the foregoing
and because Dana will pay the applicable Tax on any capital gain resulting from the sale of the
Dana JV Shares pursuant to Applicable Law, Desc Automotriz (acting as purchaser) shall be released
from making any withholdings otherwise required under Applicable Laws. Each Party shall pay its
own fees, Taxes and expenses, including the fees and expenses of its legal, financing, accounting
and other advisors incurred in connection with the consummation of the Transactions.
Section 7.14 Filings with Governmental Authorities.
As soon as practicable after the Closing, each of the Parties shall make all filings, notices
or requests for approval required to be given or made by each of them, respectively, to any
Governmental Authority under Applicable Law in connection with the sale and transfer of the Dana
Target Shares and the Dana JV Shares, including any filings with the National Registry of Foreign
Investment (Registro Nacional de Inversiones Extranjeras), the Federal Competition Commission
(Comisión Federal de Competencia) of Mexico, and the Federal Trade Commission of the United States
of America. Each of the Parties agrees to cooperate fully in the preparation and submission of
such filings and shall furnish to the other Parties such information and assistance as it may
reasonably request in order to prepare any filings or submissions or notices to be made or given by
it.
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Section 7.15 Forjas Tlaxcala Facility.
(a) In the event that (i) the closing of a sale (by any means) of all or substantially all of
the assets of the Forjas Facility located at Carretera Federal 136 Mexico-Veracruz, Km. 143.6,
Municipio San Cosme, Xalostoc, Tlaxcala (the Tlaxcala Facility), which assets (including the Real
Property on which such Tlaxcala Facility is located) are listed in Schedule 7.15(a) (the
Tlaxcala Assets), takes place within two (2) years following the Closing Date, and (ii) the
purchaser of such Tlaxcala Assets is any of ATG de Mexico, S.A. de C.V., or any other Affiliate or
Subsidiary of (x) Catalina Precision Products, L.L.C., or (y) Catalina Capital Advisors, L.L.C.
(any of the foregoing, a Proposed Purchaser), then Dana Mexico shall (or shall cause Forjas, as
applicable, to) deliver to Spicer 51.197% of the net proceeds of such asset sale after deducting:
(A) any expenses (including environmental remediation costs) incurred by Dana Mexico or Forjas in
connection with such sale and (B) the Mexican Peso equivalent of US$3,200,000 to replace assets
from the Tlaxcala Facility that Forjas had expected to receive to renew its physical assets. A
sale of the Tlaxcala Assets, as contemplated by clauses (i) and (ii) of this Section 7.15(a), is
referred to herein as the Tlaxcala Transaction.
(b) In the event that the Tlaxcala Transaction is not consummated within six (6) months after
the Closing (or such earlier date as the Proposed Purchaser withdraws its offer in writing), Forjas
shall have the option, for one (1) year after the end of such six (6) month period (or shorter
period in the case of a withdrawal of the Proposed Purchasers offer), to shut down the Tlaxcala
Facility and transfer any or all of the Tlaxcala Assets to its Querétaro location, in which event
(i) the Desc Parties shall reimburse Forjas, within sixty (60) calendar days of receipt of an
invoice in connection therewith, for 51.197% of the amount equal to the out-of-pocket costs
incurred in connection with the shut down of the Tlaxcala Facility and transfer of the Tlaxcala
Assets and (ii) Forjas shall pay to Desc Automotriz 51.197% of the proceeds from the sale of any
Assets of the Tlaxcala Facility, within sixty (60) calendar days of any such sale.
Section 7.16 ENCO, Tremec and Autoprecisa Remediations.
(a) ENCO Remediation. Dana Mexico will cause ENCO to conduct the ENCO remediation
detailed in Schedule 7.16(a)-A (the ENCO Remediation), in accordance with the scope of
the ENCO Remediation Plan attached hereto as Schedule 7.16(a)-B (the ENCO Remediation
Plan). Subject to Section 7.16(g), the costs incurred in connection with the ENCO Remediation
after Closing shall be borne 48.803% by Dana Mexico and 51.197% by Spicer. Dana Mexico will
invoice Spicer periodically for all such costs incurred, and Spicer will remit payment in cash for
each such invoice within sixty (60) days of receipt.
(b) Tremec Remediation. Spicer shall cause Tremec to continue performing the
remediation of certain specific areas of the facility of Tremec, as detailed in Schedule
7.16(b), and to perform certain other remediations based on the characterization studies, scope
and criteria which are also set forth in Schedule 7.16(b) (together, the Tremec
Remediation), in accordance with the scope of a Tremec remediation plan to be agreed by Dana
Mexico and Spicer as soon as practicable after the Closing Date (the Tremec Remediation Plan).
Subject to Section 7.16(g), the costs of the Tremec Remediation shall be borne 48.803% by Dana
Mexico and 51.197% by Spicer. Spicer shall invoice Dana Mexico periodically for all such costs
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incurred, and Dana Mexico shall remit payment in cash for each such invoice within sixty (60)
days of receipt.
(c) Autoprecisa Remediation. Spicer shall supervise the performance of the
remediation of the land located at Calle Carlos B. Zetina No. 130, Col. Industrial Xalostoc, Edo.
de Mexico, (the Autoprecisa Land), currently owned by Spicer and where certain operations of a
former subsidiary of Spicer (Autoprecisa, S.A. de C.V.) were located.
(d) Cooperation. All the works necessary to perform the ENCO Remediation and the
Tremec Remediation that are not in progress as of the Closing Date shall be approved in writing by
Dana Mexico, on the one hand, and Spicer, on the other, including the characterization programs and
analysis, the remediation techniques and methodologies, and the selection of the contractors to be
designed to perform such remediation actions.
(e) AMSA and Tremec Transformers. The Parties acknowledge and agree that the AMSA
facility has two (2) 9570 Kg transformers that contain PCB fluids and that, to comply with
Environmental Laws, such PCB fluids must be disposed of by 2008. AMSA shall complete such disposal
prior to 2008. The Parties acknowledge and agree that the Tremec facility has seven (7)
transformers that contain PCB fluids and that, to comply with Environmental Laws, such PCB fluids
must be disposed of by 2008. The costs of disposing of PCB fluids in the existing AMSA transformers
shall be borne 32.869% by Dana Mexico and 67.131% by Spicer and the cost of disposing of PCB fluids
in the existing Tremec transformers shall be borne 48.803% by Dana Mexico and 51.197% by Spicer.
The Parties acknowledge and agree that (i) the disposal of the PCB fluids contained in the existing
Tremec transformers and the AMSA transformers shall be conducted to the extent such disposal is
required under the Mexican Environmental Laws, and (ii) the costs of purchasing and installing new
transformers shall be borne entirely by Dana Mexico with respect to the AMSA facility transformers
and by Spicer with respect to the Tremec facility transformers.
(f) Remediation Actions.
(i) Notwithstanding any other term, condition or provision contained in this Agreement
to the contrary (including any other term, condition or provision of this Article IX), Dana
Mexico, with respect to any real property owned by the Dana Targets and upon prior written
notice to Desc Automotriz, and Spicer, with respect to any real property owned by the Desc
Targets and upon prior written notice to Dana Mexico, shall conduct a phase one
environmental study covering the matters set forth in Exhibit R on each of the Real
Properties of Spicer and the JV Subsidiaries as soon as reasonably practicable after the
Closing Date and each Party may conduct any other audit, study or investigation with respect
to its real property as such Party deems necessary (any such audit, investigation or study,
a Phase One Study). In the event that the results of any such Phase One Study or any
other audit, study or investigation reasonably warrant additional audit, investigation or
surveys, the applicable Party shall conduct such additional testing, investigation or
surveys a (Phase Two Study). In the event that any such Phase Two Study reasonably
demonstrates the need for a remedial action, correction of noncompliance or other action
required pursuant to Environmental Laws (a Remedial
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Action), the Parties shall cause such Remedial Action to be undertaken and the cost of
such Remedial Action shall be subject to the indemnification provisions of Article IX.
(ii) In the event either Party disagrees with (x) the need for a Remedial Action in
respect of any of the Desc Targets or the Dana Targets, (y) any other matter arising under
this Section 7.16(f) or (z) any other matter under Environmental Laws, within sixty (60)
calendar days from the date on which the dispute arises, either Party may notify the other
Party in writing that it wishes to submit the dispute to an independent expert. In the event
that such a notice is delivered, the Parties shall submit the dispute in question to one of
the environmental consultants listed in Schedule 7.16(f), such environmental
consultant to be mutually agreed by the Parties (the Environmental Consultant). The
Environmental Consultant shall establish an expedited procedure for hearing and resolving
the dispute. Unless the Parties agree otherwise, the Environmental Consultant shall be
required to render a written decision in respect of the dispute no more than sixty (60)
calendar days after the Environmental Consultant is retained. The costs of the
Environmental Consultant shall be borne equally by the Desc Parties and the Dana Parties.
(iii) The Parties acknowledge and agree that (A) any Remedial Action to be undertaken
in accordance with this Section 7.16(f) and (B) the ENCO Remediation and the Tremec
Remediation shall (x) be the most reasonable cost-effective method in light of the
circumstances and based on the assumption that the Real Properties of the Dana Targets and
the Desc Targets are, and will continue to be, used for industrial (as opposed to
residential) purposes, (y) not exceed the least stringent requirements of any applicable
Environmental Law or Governmental Entity having jurisdiction over such Remedial Action,
correction of noncompliance or action, and (z) conducted in compliance in all material
respects with Environmental Laws.
(g) Set-off for Payments Owed in Connection with the Remediation Plans. With respect
to amounts owed under the ENCO Remediation Plan and/or the disposal of the PCB fluids in the AMSA
transformers, Spicer may set off any amount owed to Dana Mexico against any amount owed by Dana
Mexico to Spicer in connection with the Tremec Remediation Plan and/or the disposal of PCB fluids
contained in Tremec transformers. With respect to amounts owed under the Tremec Remediation Plan
and/or the disposal of PCB fluids contained in Tremec transformers, Dana Mexico may set off any
amount owed to Spicer against any amount owed by Spicer to Dana Mexico in connection with the ENCO
Remediation Plan and/or the disposal of the PCB fluids in the AMSA transformers.
Section 7.17 Transfer and Termination of Certain Employees.
(a) Desc Automotriz and Dana agree that, at or before Closing, (i) certain Employees will be
transferred from certain Desc Targets or Affiliates of Desc Automotriz to the Dana Targets (the
Dana Target Transferred Employees), and (ii) certain Employees will be transferred from certain
Dana Targets to the Desc Targets or Affiliates of Desc Automotriz (the Desc Transferred
Employees). The Dana Target Transferred Employees and the Desc Transferred Employees are listed
on Schedule 7.17(a).
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(b) Desc Automotriz and Dana shall cause Spicer and the applicable JV Subsidiaries to
transfer, at or before Closing, the Desc Transferred Employees and the Dana Transferred Employees
pursuant the provisions of this Section 7.17.
(c) With regard to the Dana Target Transferred Employees and the Desc Transferred Employees,
Dana or Desc Automotriz, respectively, shall cause (i) the applicable JV Subsidiary or Desc
Affiliate employer to accept his/her voluntary resignation and to pay him/her any amounts such Dana
Target Transferred Employee or Desc Transferred Employee is entitled to receive upon resignation
and corresponding to earned but unpaid salaries, wages and other benefits, and (ii) the applicable
JV Subsidiary or Desc Affiliate to become the new employer of such transferred employee and to hire
him/her (upon resignation of the applicable transferred employee), expressly recognizing and
assuming the seniority of any such Dana Target Transferred Employee and Desc Transferred Employees.
(d) If one or more of the Dana Target Transferred Employees or the Desc Transferred Employees
does not resign as provided for in Section 7.17(c) and such employee is terminated by the
applicable employer, the applicable employer shall be responsible for any severance or other
payments owed to such employee; provided that nothing in this Agreement shall require any
such applicable employer to terminate any employee who refuses a transfer as contemplated by this
Section 7.17.
(e) Desc Automotriz and Dana agree that those Employees of Spicer and the JV Subsidiaries
listed on Schedule 7.17(e) will be terminated prior to the Closing. If any such terminated
Employee is rehired within one (1) year of the Closing by either the Dana Targets or the Desc
Targets, then Dana Mexico or Desc Automotriz, as the case may be, shall be required to reimburse
the other Party for 48.803% and 51.197%, respectively, of any amounts paid prior to the Closing by
either Spicer or a JV Subsidiary to such Employee as a result of his/her termination, including
statutory severance payments payable under the Mexican Federal Labor Law (Ley Federal del Trabajo).
Section 7.18 Non-Solicitation.
The Desc Parties and the Dana Parties hereby agree that for a period of two (2) years after
the Closing, (i) neither the Desc Parties nor any of their Affiliates shall (A) solicit any
employee of the Dana Parties or any of their Affiliates to terminate his or her employment
relationship with such Dana Party or its Affiliate or (B) hire (as a result of any solicitation in
violation of clause (i)(A) above, any general solicitation for employment or otherwise) any
salaried employee as of the Closing Date of the Dana Parties or any of their Affiliates (unless
such employee was terminated by the Dana Parties or their Affiliates), unless written permission is
first obtained from Dana Mexico, and (ii) neither the Dana Parties nor any of their Affiliates
shall (A) solicit any employee of the Desc Parties or any of their Affiliates to terminate his or
her employment relationship with such Desc Party or its Affiliate or (B) hire (as a result of any
solicitation in violation of clause (ii)(A) above, any general solicitation for employment or
otherwise) any salaried employee as of the Closing Date of the Desc Parties or any of their
Affiliates (unless such employee was terminated by the Desc Parties or their Affiliates), unless
written permission is first obtained from Desc Automotriz; provided that it shall not
constitute a violation of this Section 7.18 for either the Desc Parties or any of their Affiliates,
on the one
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hand, or the Dana Parties and any of their Affiliates, on the other hand, to make a general
solicitation for employment or other services contained in a newspaper or other periodical or on
the radio, internet or similar media.
Section 7.19 Transfer of Pension Funds of Transferred Employees.
As soon as practicable after the Closing Date, but in no event later than thirty (30) calendar
days from the Closing Date, Dana or Desc Automotriz, as applicable, shall cause the former employer
of any Dana Target Transferred Employees and Desc Transferred Employees to instruct Banco Inbursa,
S.A or Banco Nacional de Mexico, S.A., as the applicable trustee may be, to transfer to the trustee
to be appointed by the new employer of such Transferred Employees, the balance of the pensions
funds associated with any such Dana Target Transferred Employees and Desc Transferred Employees, as
applicable (the Pension Funds).
Section 7.20 JV Agreement and Management Services Agreement.
Desc Automotriz and Dana hereby agree that the JV Agreement and the Management Services
Agreements shall remain in full force and effect until Closing, and neither such Party shall seek
to terminate the JV Agreement and the Management Services Agreements prior to the earlier of the
Closing and the termination of this Agreement. As of the Closing, Desc Automotriz and Dana hereby
agree that the JV Agreement and the Management Services Agreements shall terminate without any
further action by either Party or any of their Affiliates and be of no further force and effect,
including Section VIII of the JV Agreement and any other provision in the JV Agreement and the
Management Services Agreements that would otherwise survive termination.
Section 7.21 Use of Dana Trade Names.
The Desc Parties hereby agree that, except as set forth in any of the Ancillary Agreements,
(i) from and after the six (6) month anniversary of the Closing, none of the Desc Parties shall use
the name Spicer, S.A. de C.V. or any derivative thereof and (ii) from and after the Closing, none
of the Desc Parties shall use the name Dana Corporation, or any other trade name owned by Dana or
its Affiliates, or any derivative thereof.
Section 7.22 Termination of Agreements.
Each of the Parties hereby agrees that, as of the Closing, except for this Agreement, the
Ancillary Agreements, and as set forth in the following sentence, any and all Contracts by and
between or by and among any Desc Party and/or any Desc Target, on the one hand, and any Dana Party
and/or any Dana Target, on the other, shall be terminated and of no further force and effect
without any further action by any Party. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, each of the
Parties hereby agrees that (a) the Contracts listed on Schedule 7.22(a) shall not terminate
pursuant to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and shall be assumed by Dana, as set forth
in the Bankruptcy Court Approval Order, and (b) the Contracts listed on Schedule 7.22(b)
shall not terminate pursuant to, and the rights and obligations of the parties thereto shall not
otherwise be affected by, the terms and conditions of this Agreement or the Transactions, except to
the extent an amendment or other modification is specifically contemplated by this Agreement or the
Transactions.
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Section 7.23 Acknowledgment and Releases.
Upon the request of Dana, Desc Automotriz shall, and shall cause Spicer and the JV
Subsidiaries to, use reasonable best efforts in assisting Dana and the Dana Targets with obtaining
an acknowledgment and release substantially in the form of Exhibit S from, and providing
any required or appropriate notice to, any Third Party that is a party to those Contracts listed in
Schedule 7.23.
ARTICLE VIII
CONDITIONS TO CLOSING
Section 8.1 General.
The respective obligations set forth herein of the Parties to consummate the Transactions at
the Closing shall be subject to the fulfillment, on or before the Closing Date, in the case of the
Desc Parties, of the conditions set forth in Section 8.2 and Section 8.3, and in the case of the
Dana Parties, of the conditions set forth in Section 8.2 and Section 8.4.
Section 8.2 Conditions to Obligations of all Parties.
(a) No Actions or Court Orders. Except as set forth in Section 8.2(b), there shall
be (i) no suit, action or claim, (ii) no investigation or inquiry by any Governmental Authority,
and (iii) no legal, administrative, arbitration or other proceeding pending or threatened against
any of the Parties or their respective Affiliates which seeks to terminate or modify or which might
affect this Agreement, the Ancillary Agreements or the consummation of the Transactions.
(b) Notice of Bankruptcy Court Approval Motion. Dana shall have timely served,
consistent with the Bankruptcy Rules and any applicable orders of the Bankruptcy Court
(provided, however, that Dana shall not seek to shorten notice for the Bankruptcy
Court Approval Motion without Desc Automotriz consent), a copy of the Bankruptcy Court Approval
Motion upon: (i) all parties on the General Service List and the Special Service List (as defined
in the Bankruptcy Courts Amended Administrative Order, Pursuant to Rule 1015(c) of the Federal
Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure, Establishing Case Management and Scheduling Procedures (D.I. 574));
(ii) counsel to the committee for Danas unsecured creditors; (iii) counsel to the administrative
agent for the Danas prepetition lenders; (iv) counsel to the lenders under the DIP Credit
Agreement; (v) the Internal Revenue Service; (vi) any state taxing authority which may assert an
Encumbrance on the Dana JV Shares; and (vii) non-debtor parties to the agreements that will be
assumed, listed on Schedule 7.22(a).
(c) Bankruptcy Court Approval. (i) The Bankruptcy Court shall have entered the
Bankruptcy Court Approval Order (including the terms set forth in the definition of Bankruptcy
Court Approval Order hereof); (ii) the Bankruptcy Court Approval Order shall be in a form and
substance reasonably satisfactory to Desc Automotriz; and (iii) the Bankruptcy Court Approval Order
shall be a final order that has not been reversed, modified, rescinded, or stayed, and for which
the time to appeal the Bankruptcy Court Approval Order shall have expired and the Bankruptcy Court
Approval Order shall no longer subject to appeal or further judicial review.
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(d) Dana DIP Lender Approval. The Parties shall have received any required formal
written approval of the lenders under the DIP Credit Agreement, consenting to the consummation of
the Transactions and releasing any and all security interests in the Dana JV Shares.
(e) Satisfaction of Pre-petition Claims. Dana shall have paid in full (i) all
amounts owed to Spicer and the JV Subsidiaries for goods or services provided on or before March 3,
2006, as detailed in Schedule 8.2(e), which amount shall be no less than US$19,744,596.87
and no more than US$19,840,321.71, and (ii) US$32,442.96 to Pistones Moresa Celaya, S.A. de C.V.
(successor to Pistones Moresa, S.A. de C.V.), an Affiliate of Desc Automotriz.
(f) Satisfaction of Post-petition Claims. Dana shall have paid or otherwise
satisfied in full all amounts due to Spicer and the JV Subsidiaries for goods delivered to or
received by Dana and its Affiliates after March 3, 2006, which amounts shall be agreed in good
faith by Desc Automotriz and Dana.
(g) CFC Approval. The CFC Approval shall continue to be in full force and effect as
of the Closing Date.
(h) Transfer and Termination of Certain Employees. (i) The transfer of the Dana
Target Transferred Employees and the Desc Transferred Employees, and the termination of certain
Employees, as provided for in Section 7.17, shall have occurred, and (ii) any and all of all the
amounts payable as a result of such transfers and terminations shall have been fully paid or
reimbursed (as the case may be) by Dana and Desc Automotriz in accordance with the provisions of
Section 7.17.
(i) Transfer of the Pension Funds. The transfer of the Pension Funds shall have been
made pursuant the provisions of Section 7.19 or as otherwise agreed by the Parties.
(j) Public Deeds (Purchase and Sale of Real Property). The Parties shall have
received certified copies of all of the public deeds and evidence of filing with the corresponding
Public Registry of Property with respect to each of the transfers of Real Property described in
Section 7.4.
(k) Third Party Consents. The Parties shall have received any Third Party Consent
set forth on Schedule 8.2(k).
(l) Payment of Third Party Indebtedness. The Parties shall have received evidence
reasonably satisfactory to them that all Third Party Debt has been fully paid, pursuant to the
provisions of Section 7.6(a)(i).
(m) Assignment and Capitalization of Inter-Company Debt. The Parties shall have
received copy of the documents evidencing the assignment of the Dana Targets Receivables and copy
of the minutes of Shareholders Meetings approving the Corporación Inmobiliaria Capitalization I,
the Corporación Inmobiliaria Capitalization II and the AMSA Capitalization, as described in Section
7.8, certified by a duly authorized officer of each such JV Subsidiary.
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(n) Funding of Hybrid Loans. The Parties shall have received evidence that each of
ENCO and Cardanes shall have received the Hybrid Loans, pursuant to the Securities Agreements, in
order to provide ENCO and Cardanes with the funds necessary to pay the Hybrid Loan Dividends
referred to in Section 7.7(b) hereof.
(o) Hybrid Loan Dividends. The Parties shall have received (i) a copy of the minutes
of Shareholders Meetings and any required directors meeting of each of ENCO and Cardanes
formalizing the cash dividends described in Section 7.7(b) certified by a duly authorized officer
of each of ENCO and Cardanes; and (ii) one original counterpart of the Receipt and Release Letter
to be delivered by each of the Shareholders of ENCO and Cardanes acknowledging receipt of the ENCO
Dividend and the Cardanes Dividend.
(p) Tremec, ENCO and Corporación Inmobiliaria Dividends. The Parties shall have
received (i) a copy of the minutes of Shareholders Meetings and any required directors meeting of
each of Tremec, ENCO and Corporación Inmobiliaria formalizing the cash dividends described in
Section 7.7(c), Section 7.7(d) and Section 7.7(e), respectively, certified by a duly authorized
officer of each of Tremec, ENCO and Corporación Inmobiliaria; and (ii) one original counterpart of
a receipt and release substantially in the form of the Receipt and Release Letter to be delivered
by each of the Shareholders of Tremec, ENCO and Corporación Inmobiliaria acknowledging receipt of
the relevant dividend.
(q) Termination of the Comerica Letters of Credit. The Parties shall have received
evidence reasonably satisfactory to them that the outstanding amount under the Comerica Letters of
Credit (including fees) has been paid as described in Section 7.6(c).
(r) Releases by Comerica. The Parties shall have received an unconditional,
irrevocable and full release by Comerica of Desc and Desc Automotriz in connection with the Letters
of Credit, as described in Section 7.6(d).
(s) GE Approval or GE Release. The Parties shall have received either (i) pursuant
to the Dana Target GE Agreements, the written approval of GE of the GE Assignments and the GE
Subleases or (ii) an unconditional, irrevocable and full release by GE of Desc in connection with
the Dana Target GE Agreements.
Section 8.3 Additional Conditions Precedent of the Desc Parties.
(a) Share Certificates. Dana shall deliver to Desc Automotriz: (i) the share
certificates representing the Dana JV Shares duly endorsed in ownership (endoso en propiedad) in
favor of Desc Automotriz (or its designee(s)) and (ii) a notarized copy of the power of attorney
for acts of ownership (actos de dominio) of the representative of Dana endorsing the share
certificates representing the Dana JV Shares.
(b) Representations and Warranties. Each of the representations and warranties of
the Dana Parties contained in this Agreement shall be true and correct, as of the date of this
Agreement and as of the Closing Date as though made again on and as of the Closing Date (except to
the extent in either case that any such representations or warranties speak as of another date, in
which case such representations or warranties shall be true and correct in all respects at and as
of the date specified therein). Desc Automotriz and Spicer shall have received a
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certificate of an executive officer of each of the Dana Parties, dated the Closing Date, to
such effect.
(c) Covenants. Each of the Dana Parties shall have performed or complied with all
agreements and covenants required by this Agreement to be performed or complied with by the Dana
Parties on or prior to the Closing. Desc Automotriz and Spicer shall have received a certificate
of an executive officer of each of the Dana Parties, dated the Closing Date, to such effect.
(d) Ancillary Agreements. Each of the Ancillary Agreements (other than the Release
Agreement) shall have been executed and delivered by the Dana Parties or Affiliates of Dana or Dana
Targets that are a party thereto.
(e) Release Agreement. Each of the Dana Parties, each of the Dana Targets and each
Affiliate of a Dana Party that is a party thereto shall have executed and delivered the Release
Agreement to the Desc Parties.
(f) Organizational Documents; Board Resolutions. The Desc Parties shall have
received certified copies of (i) all organizational documents of the Dana Parties and (ii)
resolutions of the Shareholders or the board of directors of each of Dana and Dana Mexico
authorizing Dana and Dana Mexico, respectively, to enter into this Agreement and the Ancillary
Agreements to which it is a party and approving the Transactions.
(g) Trademark Filings. The TF Victor Trademark Agreement and the Amended TSP License
Agreement shall have been filed before the Mexican Institute of Intellectual Property (Instituto
Mexicano de la Propiedad Industrial).
(h) Directors and Officers Resignations. Desc Automotriz and Spicer shall have
received one original counterpart of the resignations from all directors and officers appointed by
Dana from all positions with the Desc Targets, in the form set forth in Schedule 8.3(i),
all of which shall take effect from the Closing.
(i) Board Appointees. Desc Automotriz and Spicer shall have received a list of
individuals to be appointed by the Shareholders of each of the Dana Targets as members to the Board
of Directors of each of the Dana Targets.
(j) GE Release. Desc Automotriz shall have received from GE an unconditional,
irrevocable and full release of Desc and Corfuerte, S.A. de C.V. by GE in connection with certain
car lease agreements executed between certain Dana Targets, as lessee, and Desc and Corfuerte, S.A.
de C.V., as joint obligors, on the one hand, and GE, on the other hand.
(k) GE Assignments and Subleases. In the event that the written approval of GE of
the GE Assignments and the GE Subleases has been obtained, the applicable Dana Targets shall have
executed and delivered to Desc Automotriz the GE Assignment and the GE Sublease.
(l) Corporación Inmobiliaria Mortgage. In the event that the written approval of GE
of the GE Assignments and the GE Subleases has been obtained, (i) Desc Automotriz shall have
received certified copies of the public deeds, evidence of filing with the corresponding Public
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Registry of Property and a no lien certificate with respect to the Corporación Inmobiliaria
Mortgage and (ii) a precautionary notice (aviso preventivo) with respect to the Corporación
Inmobiliaria Mortgage shall have been filed with the Public Registry of Property and Commerce.
Section 8.4 Additional Conditions Precedent of Dana and Dana Mexico.
(a) Share Certificates. Spicer, Desc Automotriz and Inmobiliaria Unik shall deliver
to Dana Mexico: (i) the share certificates representing the Dana Target Shares duly endorsed in
ownership (endoso en propiedad) in favor of Dana Mexico (or its designee(s)) and (ii) a notarized
copy of the power of attorney for acts of ownership (actos de dominio) of the representatives of
each of Spicer, Desc Automotriz and Inmobiliaria Unik endorsing the share certificates representing
the Dana Target Shares.
(b) Representations and Warranties. Each of the representations and warranties of
the Desc Parties contained in this Agreement shall be true and correct, as of the date of this
Agreement and as of the Closing Date as though made again on and as of the Closing Date (except to
the extent in either case that any such representations or warranties speak as of another date, in
which case such representations or warranties shall be true and correct in all respects at and as
of the date specified therein). The Dana Parties shall have received a certificate of an executive
officer of each of the Desc Parties, dated the Closing Date, to such effect.
(c) Covenants. Each of the Desc Parties shall have performed or complied with all
agreements and covenants required by this Agreement to be performed or complied with by the Desc
Parties on or prior to the Closing. The Dana Parties shall have received a certificate of an
executive officer of each of the Desc Parties, dated the Closing Date, to such effect.
(d) Ancillary and Agreements. Each of the Ancillary Agreements (other than the
Release Agreement) shall have been executed and delivered by the Desc Parties or Affiliates of Desc
Automotriz or Desc Targets that are a party thereto.
(e) Release Agreement. Each of the Desc Parties, each of the Desc Targets and each
Affiliate of a Desc Party that is a party thereto shall have executed and delivered the Release
Agreement to the Dana Parties.
(f) Organizational Documents; Board Resolutions. The Dana Parties shall have
received certified copies of (i) all organizational documents of each of the Desc Parties and (ii)
resolutions of the board of directors of each of the Desc Parties authorizing such Desc Party to
enter into this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements to which it is a party and approving the
Transactions.
(g) Directors and Officers Resignations. Dana and Dana Mexico shall have received
one original counterpart of the resignations from all directors and officers appointed by Desc
Automotriz from all positions with the Dana Targets, in the form set forth in Schedule
8.4(h), all of which shall take effect from the Closing.
(h) Other Resolutions. Dana and Dana Mexico shall have received one certified copy
of the minute of the Shareholders Meeting held by the Shareholders of (A) each of the Desc
Targets, approving, among other issues: (i) the resignation and releases of the directors and
officers appointed by Dana from all the positions with the Desc Targets; (ii) the appointment by
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Desc and/or Spicer of the members of the Board of Directors of each of the Desc Targets, all
of which shall take effect from the Closing, and (iii) the revocation of all powers of attorney
granted to any directors, officers or employees to be retained by Dana Mexico or the Dana Targets,
and (B) each of the Dana Targets, approving (x) the appointment of the members of the Board of
Directors of each of the Dana Targets, as informed to Desc Automotriz and Spicer pursuant to
Section 8.3(i), and (y) unless otherwise requested by Dana and Dana Mexico, the revocations of all
powers of attorney granted to any directors, officers and employees to be retained by Desc
Automotriz or the Desc Targets, except for those powers of attorney to remain in place for purposes
of Descs and Desc Automotriz obligations under Section 9.5.
(i) Acknowledgments and Releases. Dana Mexico shall have received the acknowledgments
and releases described in Schedule 7.25.
(j) Books and Records. Dana shall have received all Books and Records of the Dana
Targets.
(k) Payment of Desc Automotriz Indebtedness. The Dana Targets shall have received
evidence reasonably satisfactory to them that all Indebtedness owed by Desc Automotriz or any of
its Affiliates to Spicer or any JV Subsidiary as of the Closing has been fully paid pursuant to the
provisions of Section 7.6(a)(ii).
(l) GE Assignments and Subleases. In the event that the written approval of GE of
the GE Assignments and the GE Subleases has been obtained, Desc Automotriz shall have executed and
delivered to Dana Mexico the GE Assignments and the GE Subleases.
ARTICLE IX
INDEMNIFICATION
Section 9.1 Indemnification by Dana Mexico.
(a) General Principle. Subject to the terms of this Article IX and the time
limitations set forth in Section 6.2, Dana Mexico shall indemnify and hold harmless each of the
Desc Parties from and against 100% of any and all Losses suffered or incurred by any of them as a
result of a Claim arising out of:
(i) any misrepresentation or breach of warranty made or given by Dana or Dana Mexico
in Article IV or any certificate delivered pursuant to Article VIII at and as of the date
hereof and at and as of the Closing Date, as if made at and as of such time (except to the
extent, in either case, that any such representations or warranties speak as of another
date, in which case any inaccuracy shall be determined at and as of the date specified
therein); and
(ii) the breach of any covenant or obligation of Dana or Dana Mexico contained in this
Agreement, or an other agreement to be entered into pursuant hereto (including the Ancillary
Agreements), whether such covenant is to be performed on, prior to or after the Closing.
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(b) Indemnification for a Desc Target Claim. In accordance with the principle
enunciated in Recital P but subject to the terms of this Article IX and the time limitations set
forth in Section 6.2, Dana Mexico shall indemnify and hold harmless the Desc Parties and the Desc
Targets from and against 48.803% of any and all Losses suffered or incurred by any of them as a
result of a Claim arising out of any act, omissions event or circumstance occurring prior to the
Closing Date, including:
(i) any Tax Claim, including but not limited to, any Claim for failing to timely pay
any Taxes when due or for timely filing any Tax Returns when due or for failure to satisfy
any arms length or similar standard imposed by Applicable Law or for failure to make any
withholding as required under Applicable Law or for any Claim relating to raw materials,
products or equipment imported either on a temporary or a definitive basis or any Claim for
failing to comply with any requirements under any PITEX Program, Sectorial Program or other
import regime or temporary import regime;
(ii) any labor Claim, including any Claim for failing to timely pay any salaries or
benefits to any Employees or any individuals that may be deemed Employees of any Desc
Targets under Applicable Law;
(iii) any Claim for failing to pay any dues or other similar contributions to the
Mexican Institute of Social Security (Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social or IMSS), the
National Workers Housing Fund Institute (Instituto Nacional del Fondo para la Vivienda de
los Trabajadores or INFONAVIT) or the Retirement Savings Fund (Sistema de Ahorro para el
Retiro or SAR);
(iv) any Intellectual Property Claim, including any Claim relating to Spicer or any
other Desc Target failing to have any software license or relating to Spicer or any other
Desc Target infringing the Intellectual Property rights of any Third Party;
(v) any Claim for breach of Contract other than this Agreement or any of the Ancillary
Agreements;
(vi) any Claim for any failure to obtain and maintain any Licenses or to timely comply
with any requirement under such Licenses;
(vii) any Claim for failing (x) to comply with any Environmental Law, including but
not limited to any Claim for failing to handle, transport, store, treat or dispose of any
Hazardous Substances, or (y) to have, or comply with any requirement of, any Environmental
Approval or any Claim alleging any contamination of any Real Property of Spicer or any other
Desc Targets or the Environment, including any Remedial Order;
(viii) any Claim for any liability, damage or other Claim relating to inventory or
finished products sold by any Desc Targets;
(ix) any Loss resulting from the outcome of any litigation against any Desc Target
that is pending as of the Closing Date;
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(x) any Claim that any Desc Target has failed to comply with any Applicable Law; and
(xi) any Claim that any Desc Target does not have clear title to its Assets.
Section 9.2 Indemnification by the Spicer.
(a) General Principle. Subject to the terms of this Article IX and the time
limitations set forth in Section 6.2, Spicer shall indemnify and hold harmless each of the Dana
Parties from and against 100% of any and all Losses suffered or incurred by any of them as a result
of a Claim arising out of:
(i) any misrepresentation or breach of warranty made or given by any of the Desc
Parties in Article V or any certificate delivered pursuant to Article VIII at and as of the
date hereof and at and as of the Closing Date, as if made at and as of such time (except to
the extent, in either case, that any such representations or warranties speak as of another
date, in which case any inaccuracy shall be determined at and as of the date specified
therein); and
(ii) the breach of any covenant or obligation of any of the Desc Parties contained in
this Agreement, or an other agreement to be entered into pursuant hereto (including the
Ancillary Agreements), whether such covenant is to be performed on, prior to or after the
Closing.
(b) Indemnification for a Dana Target Claim. In accordance with the principle
enunciated in Recital P but subject to the terms of this Article IX and the time limitations set
forth in Section 6.2, Spicer shall indemnify and hold harmless the Dana Parties and the Dana
Targets (other than AMSA) from and against 51.197% of any and all Losses suffered or incurred by
any of them as a result of a Claim arising out of any act, omissions event or circumstance
occurring prior to the Closing Date (all of the foregoing a Dana Target Claim), including:
(i) any Tax Claim, including but not limited to, any Claim for failing to timely pay
any Taxes when due or for timely filing any Tax Returns when due or for failure to satisfy
any arms length or similar standard imposed by Applicable Law or for failure to make any
withholding as required under Applicable Law or for any Claim relating to raw materials,
products or equipment imported either on a temporary or a definitive basis or any Claim for
failing to comply with any requirements under any PITEX Program, Sectorial Program or other
import regime or temporary import regime;
(ii) any labor Claim, including, any Claim for failing to timely pay any salaries or
benefits to any Employees or any individuals that may be deemed Employees of any of the Dana
Targets under Applicable Law;
(iii) any Claim for failing to pay any dues or other similar contributions to the
IMSS, the INFONAVIT or the SAR;
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(iv) any Intellectual Property Claim, including any Claim relating to any Dana Target
failing to have any software license or relating to any Dana Target infringing the
Intellectual Property rights of any Third Party;
(v) any Claim for breach of Contract other than this Agreement or any of the Ancillary
Agreements;
(vi) any Claim for failure to obtain and maintain any Licenses or to timely comply
with any requirement under such Licenses:
(vii) any Claim for failing (x) to comply with any Environmental Law, including but
not limited to any Claim for failing to handle, transport, store, treat or dispose of any
Hazardous Substances, or (y) to have, or comply with any requirement of, any Environmental
Approval or any Claim alleging any contamination of any Real Property of any other Dana
Targets or the Environment, including any Remedial Order;
(viii) any Claim for any liability, damage or other Claim relating to inventory or
finished products sold by any Dana Targets;
(ix) any Loss resulting from the outcome of any litigation against any Dana Targets
that is pending as of the Closing Date;
(x) any Claim that any Dana Target has failed to comply with any Applicable Law;
(xi) any Claim that any Dana Target does not have clear title to its Assets; and
(xii) any Claim for loss of water supply to any Dana Target as a result of the failure
to maintain all necessary Licenses relating thereto.
Section 9.3 Indemnification for Claims Related to AMSA.
(a) Subject to the terms of this Article IX and the time limitations set forth in Section
6.2, Desc Automotriz shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Dana Parties and AMSA from and
against 32.650% of any and all Losses suffered or incurred by them in connection with any Dana
Target Claim relating specifically to AMSA.
(b) Subject to the terms of this Article IX and the time limitations set forth in Section
6.2, Spicer shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Dana Parties and AMSA from and against
34.481% of any and all Losses suffered or incurred by them in connection with any Dana Target Claim
relating specifically to AMSA.
Section 9.4 Notice of Pre-Closing Third Party Claims Presented Post-Closing.
If a Party entitled to indemnification under this Agreement (the Indemnified Party) receives
notice of the commencement or assertion of any Third Party Claim arising from any matter that is
subject to the indemnities set out in this Article IX (each, a Third Party Claim), the
Indemnified Party shall give the Party obligated to provide indemnification under this
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Agreement (the Indemnifier) prompt notice thereof, but in any event no later than five (5)
Business Days after receiving notice of such Third Party Claim. Such notice to the Indemnifier
shall describe the Third Party Claim in reasonable detail and shall indicate, if reasonably
practicable, the estimated amount of the Loss that has been or may be sustained by the Indemnified
Party.
Section 9.5 Conduct of Pre-Closing Claims Presented Pre-Closing.
Except to the extent that Dana elects otherwise, Desc and/or Desc Automotriz shall continue to
manage the defense of all Claims against the Dana Targets that were asserted prior to Closing and
that are currently being managed by Desc and/or Desc Automotriz. Dana Mexico shall cause the
relevant Dana Target to continue to cooperate with Desc and/or Desc Automotriz in any reasonable
way in the defense of such Claims. Any settlement or compromise of any such claim shall require
the consent of the relevant Dana Target, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. Any
legal fees and other expenses paid by Desc and/or Desc Automotriz for work performed after the
Closing with respect to such Claims shall be reimbursed 48.803% by Dana Mexico. Desc and/or Desc
Automotriz shall invoice Dana Mexico periodically for all such fees and expenses incurred, and Dana
Mexico shall remit payment in cash for each such invoice within sixty (60) calendar days of
receipt.
Section 9.6 Defense of Pre-Closing Third Party Claims Presented Post-Closing.
The Indemnifier may participate in the defense of any Third Party Claim by giving notice to
that effect to the Indemnified Party. The Indemnifiers right to participate shall be subject to
the rights of any insurer or other Person who has potential liability with respect to such Third
Party Claim. The Indemnifier shall be responsible for all of its own expenses of participating in
such defense. If the Indemnifier elects to participate in the defense of a Third Party Claim, Dana
Mexico and Spicer shall each be responsible for the payment of its respective share (48.803% or
51.197%, as applicable, other than in respect of AMSA, with respect to which Spicer shall be
responsible for 67.131% of any and all Losses arising from such Claim, and Dana Mexico shall be
responsible for 32.869% of any and all such Losses) of any Losses or other amount required to be
paid in respect thereof pending resolution of any contest of such Third Party Claim. The
Indemnified Party shall cooperate in good faith in the defense of each Third Party Claim, even if
the Indemnifier is participating in the defense. The Indemnifier shall not enter into any
compromise or settlement of any Third Party Claim without obtaining the prior written consent of
the Indemnified Party, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. If the
Indemnified Party has not received notice of the Indemnifiers election to participate in the
defense of such Third Party Claim, the Indemnified Party may, at its option, elect to settle or
compromise the Third Party Claim.
Section 9.7 Assistance for Third Party Claims.
The Indemnifier and the Indemnified Party shall use all reasonable efforts to cause the
applicable Party to grant any powers of attorney that may be necessary to assume and control the
defense of any Third Party Claim and make available to the Party which is undertaking and
controlling the defense of any Third Party Claim (the Defending Party):
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(i) those employees whose assistance, testimony or presence is necessary to assist the
Defending Party in evaluating and in defending any Third Party Claim; and
(ii) all documents, records and other materials in the possession of such Party
reasonably required by the Defending Party for its use in defending any Third Party Claim;
and shall otherwise cooperate with the Defending Party. The Defending Party shall be entitled to
assert against the Third Party making the Third Party Claim any rights, claims or defenses which
the Indemnified Party may have against such Third Party relating to such Third Party Claim. The
Indemnifier shall be responsible for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses associated with making
documents, records and materials available and for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred
by any employees made available by the Indemnified Party to the Indemnifier hereunder.
Section 9.8 Settlement of Third Party Claims.
If an Indemnifier elects to assume the defense of any Third Party Claim as provided in Section
9.6, the Indemnifier shall not be liable for any legal expenses subsequently incurred by the
Indemnified Party in connection with the defense of such Third Party Claim unless the
representation of the Indemnifier and the Indemnified Party by the same counsel would be
inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interests between them. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, if the Indemnifier fails to take reasonable steps necessary to defend diligently such
Third Party Claim within a reasonable time after receiving notice from the Indemnified Party that
the Indemnified Party has reasonable grounds to believe that the Indemnifier has failed to take
such steps, the Indemnified Party may, at its option, elect to assume the defense of and to
compromise or settle the Third Party Claim assisted by counsel of its choice and the Indemnifier
shall be liable for all reasonable costs and out-of-pocket expenses paid or incurred in connection
therewith. Without the prior written consent of the Indemnified Party, the Indemnifier shall not
enter into any compromise or settlement of any Third Party Claim which would lead to liability or
create any financial or other material obligation on the part of the Indemnified Party.
Section 9.9 Direct Claims.
Any Claim by an Indemnified Party against an Indemnifier based on any indemnification provided
for in this Article IX that does not arise from a Third Party Claim (a Direct Claim) shall be
asserted by giving the Indemnifier reasonably prompt written notice thereof, but in any event not
later than forty-five (45) Business Days after the Indemnified Party becomes aware of such Direct
Claim. The Indemnifier shall then have a period of thirty (30) Business Days within which to
respond in writing to such Direct Claim. If the Indemnifier does not so respond within such thirty
(30) Business Day period, the Indemnifier shall be deemed to have rejected such Direct Claim, and
in such event the Indemnified Party shall be free to pursue such remedies as may be available to
the Indemnified Party.
Section 9.10 Failure to Give Timely Notice.
A failure to give timely notice as provided in this Article IX shall not affect the rights or
obligations of any Party except and only to the extent that, as a result of such failure, any Party
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which was entitled to receive such notice was deprived of its right to recover any payment
under its applicable insurance coverage, was unable to defend the Claim or was otherwise directly
and materially damaged as a result of such failure. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in
this Article IX, no Claim for indemnification may be made under this Agreement beyond the
expiration period for such Claim set forth in Section 6.2.
Section 9.11 Reductions and Subrogation.
If the amount of any Loss is at any time after the making of an indemnity payment reduced by
any recovery, settlement or otherwise under or pursuant to any insurance coverage, or pursuant to
any Claim, recovery, settlement or payment by or against any other Person, the amount of such
reduction (less any costs, out-of-pocket expenses (including Taxes) or premiums incurred in
connection therewith) shall promptly be repaid by the Indemnified Party to the Indemnifier. Upon
making a full indemnity payment, the Indemnifier shall, to the extent of such indemnity payment, be
subrogated to all rights of the Indemnified Party against any Third Party that is not an Affiliate
of the Indemnified Party in respect of the Loss to which the indemnity payment relates. Until the
Indemnified Party recovers full payment of its Loss, any and all claims of the Indemnifier against
any such Third Party on account of such indemnity payment shall be subject to the Indemnified
Partys rights against such Third Party. Without limiting the generality or effect of any other
provision hereof, the Indemnified Party and Indemnifier shall duly execute upon request all
instruments reasonably necessary to evidence and perfect such arrangement.
Section 9.12 Tax Effect.
Any indemnity payment under this Article IX shall be treated for all Tax purposes as an
adjustment to the Final Dana Target Share Purchase Price or the Final Dana JV Share Purchase Price,
as applicable. If, notwithstanding such treatment, any indemnity payment received by an Indemnified
Party would constitute taxable income to such Indemnified Party, the Indemnifier shall pay a tax
gross up to the Indemnified Party at the time any such tax payment is made, subject to the
limitations set forth in Section 9.15; provided, however, that the Indemnifier
shall have the right (i) to review any Tax filing wherein such Tax liability may arise prior to the
filing thereof and (ii) to protest such determination, at its own expense, with the relevant
taxation authority.
Section 9.13 Mitigation of Damages.
With respect to any and all Losses that may be claimed for indemnification by any Indemnified
Party against any Indemnifier pursuant to this Agreement, any such Indemnified Party will use all
reasonable best efforts to mitigate and minimize the amount of the indemnifiable Losses with
respect thereto, and in all respects (including without limitation in all related actions,
omissions and negotiations) will do so taking into account only the best interests of such
Indemnified Party, without regard to the interests of any other individual or entity, with the
understanding, however, that any costs or expenses incurred by any such Indemnified Party in
connection therewith shall be Losses subject to indemnification by Indemnifier.
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Section 9.14 Payment and Interest.
All Losses shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the Interest Rate from (and
including) the date that the Indemnified Party suffered or incurred a Loss, liability or
out-of-pocket expense in respect of a Loss, to (but excluding) the date of payment by the
Indemnifier to the Indemnified Party. The Indemnifier shall pay the amount of any Loss set forth
in any Claim with all accrued interest thereon within twenty (20) Business Days from the date on
which such amount has become due.
Section 9.15 Limitation.
Notwithstanding any other term, condition or provision contained in this Agreement to the
contrary (including any other term, condition or provision of this Section 9.15):
(a) Threshold. No Claims for indemnification may be made by any Indemnified Party
under this Article IX unless and until (i) the aggregate of all Losses suffered or incurred by such
Party exceeds US$100,000.00 (One hundred thousand US dollars) (the Basket) in the aggregate, and
then only to the extent such Losses exceed the Basket; and (ii) each Loss suffered or incurred by
such Party to reach the Basket exceeds US$10,000.00 (Ten thousand US dollars); provided,
however, that the foregoing limitations shall not apply to any Claim for indemnification
for Taxes (which claims shall neither be subject to the limitations provided above nor be taken
into account when calculating whether the Loss suffered by the Indemnified Party exceeds the
aggregate threshold provided for in subsection (i) above);
(b) Written Notice. Any Claims for indemnification under this Article IX may be made
by the Parties against each other subject to written notice of such Claim being given in accordance
with the terms provided in Section 9.4.
(c) Cap.
(i) The right of Dana or Dana Mexico to seek or obtain indemnification hereunder for
any Loss arising from the breach of any representation or warranty of any Desc Party, and
the obligation of the Desc Parties to provide any such indemnification, shall be subject to
a maximum liability of the Desc Parties for all Losses to be paid to Dana or Dana Mexico of
an amount equal to 100% of the Final Dana Target Share Purchase Price.
(ii) The right of any Desc Party to seek or obtain indemnification hereunder for any
Loss arising from the breach of any representation or warranty of Dana or Dana Mexico, and
the obligation of Dana and Dana Mexico to provide any such indemnification, shall be subject
to a maximum liability of Dana and Dana Mexico for all Losses to be paid to the Desc Parties
of an amount equal to 100% of the Final Dana JV Share Purchase Price.
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ARTICLE X
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 10.1 Termination Events.
(a) Termination. This Agreement may, by notice given prior to the Closing, be
terminated:
(i) by Desc Automotriz, if the Bankruptcy Court shall fail to enter the Bankruptcy
Court Approval Order on or before June 30, 2006;
(ii) by Desc Automotriz or Dana if the Closing Date does not occur on or prior to
August 31, 2006 or there shall have been, since the date hereof, any change, condition,
circumstance or occurrence of any event that, individually or in the aggregate, has had or
would reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the Transactions.
(b) Effect of Termination.
In the event of a termination of this Agreement as provided in Section 10.1(a), this Agreement
shall forthwith become void and there shall be no liability or obligation on the part of any Party
except for: (x) the provisions of Section 1.4 (Governing Law), Section 7.11 (Confidentiality),
this Section 10.1, Section 10.2 (Public Notices), Section 10.3 (Expenses), Section 10.4 (Notices),
Section 10.9 (Dispute Resolution) and Section 10.10 (No Third Party Beneficiary); and (y) liability
for any breach of this Agreement or any other agreement entered into pursuant to this Agreement.
Section 10.2 Public Notices.
All public notices and press releases to Third Parties, all communications with the employees
of Spicer and the JV Subsidiaries and all other publicity concerning the Transactions shall be
jointly planned and coordinated by Desc Automotriz and Dana, and no Party shall make any such
public communications concerning the Transactions without the prior approval of the other Party,
such approval not to be unreasonably withheld.
Section 10.3 Expenses.
Except as expressly provided in this Agreement, each of the Parties shall pay their respective
legal, accounting and other professional advisory fees, costs and expenses incurred in connection
with the purchase and sale of the Purchased Shares and the preparation, execution and delivery of
this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements and any other costs and expenses incurred in connection
with the Transactions.
Section 10.4 Notices.
Any notice or other writing required or permitted to be given under this Agreement or for the
purposes of this Agreement (a Notice) shall be in writing and shall be sufficiently given if (i)
delivered, (ii) sent by recognized courier delivery service or (iii) transmitted by facsimile or
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other form of electronic communication tested prior to transmission provided that a duplicate
copy is also sent by recognized courier delivery service, in each case to such Party at the
following address:
in the case of a Notice to any Desc Party, to:
DESC AUTOMOTRIZ, S.A. de C.V.
Paseo de los Tamarindos
400-B, piso 30
Bosques de las Lomas
C.P. 05120, Mexico, D.F.
Mexico
Attention: Ramón F. Estrada Rivero, Esq.
Fax: 52-55-5261-8087
with a copy to (which copy shall not be deemed notice):
Basham, Ringe & Correa, S.C.
Paseo de los Tamarindos
400-A, piso 9
Bosques de las Lomas
C.P. 05120, Mexico, D.F.
Mexico
Attention: Daniel Del Río, Esq.
Fax: 52-55-5261-0432
and
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
One Liberty Plaza
New York, NY 10006
United States of America
Attention: Deborah M. Buell, Esq.
Fax: 212-225-3999
in the case of a Notice to Dana or Dana Mexico, to:
DANA CORPORATION
4500 Dorr Street
Toledo, OH 43615
United States of America
Attention: Secretary
Fax: 419-535-4827
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with a copy to (which copy shall not be deemed notice):
Jones Day
325 John H. McConnell Boulevard, Suite 600
Columbus, OH 43215-2673
United States of America
Attention: Randy Walters, Esq.
Fax: 614-461-4198
or at such other address as the Party to whom such Notice is to be given shall have last notified
the Party giving the same in the manner provided in this Section 10.4. Any Notice delivered to the
Party to whom it is addressed as provided above shall be deemed to have been given and received on
the day it is so delivered at such address provided that if such day is not a Business Day
then the Notice shall be deemed to have been given and received on the next Business Day. Any
Notice sent by a recognized courier delivery service or transmitted by facsimile or other form of
electronic communication shall be deemed given and received on the first (1st) Business Day after
deposit with such delivery service or its transmission.
Section 10.5 Assignment.
No Party may assign any rights or benefits under this Agreement to any Person without the
prior written consent of the other Parties. Any assignment in violation of the foregoing shall be
null and void and of no effect whatsoever, and no assignment of benefits or arrangement for
substituted performance by one Party shall be of any effect against the other Party except to the
extent that the other Party has consented to it in writing. Subject to the foregoing, this
Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the Parties and their respective
successors (including any successor by reason of merger, amalgamation or statutory arrangement of
any Party) and permitted assigns.
Section 10.6 Further Assurances.
The Parties shall, with reasonable diligence, do all such things and provide all such
reasonable assurances as may be required to consummate the Transactions, and each Party shall
provide such further documents or instruments required by any other Party as may be reasonably
necessary or desirable to effect the purpose of this Agreement and carry out its provisions,
whether before or after the Closing.
Section 10.7 Limitations on Remedies.
(a) Limitations. The rights and remedies of the Parties under this Agreement are
cumulative and in addition to and not in substitution for any rights or remedies provided by Law;
provided, however, that: (i) the Parties shall be bound by the arbitration
provision of Section 10.9; (ii) the provisions of Article III shall be the sole remedy with respect
to any matter relating to the purchase price adjustment (but only to the extent any Loss is
actually recovered); and (iii) the indemnification provided for in Article IX shall be the sole
remedy with respect to any Loss compensated thereby (but only to the extent any Loss is actually
recovered).
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(b) Non-Duplicative Remedies. For the avoidance of doubt, the Parties acknowledge
and agree that any recovery in respect of express remedies set forth in this Agreement, including
the purchase price adjustment set forth in Article III and the indemnity provisions set out in
Article IX, shall be exclusive and non-duplicative.
(c) Independent Rights. The Parties agree that each Partys rights under Article IX
are independent of and enforceable against the other Party irrespective of such other Partys
rights under Article IX.
(d) Special Damages. The Parties agree that in no event shall a Party be liable for
any indirect, special, punitive or consequential damages.
Section 10.8 Counterparts.
This Agreement may be executed by the Parties in any number counterparts, each of which when
so executed and delivered shall be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute
one and the same instrument.
Section 10.9 Dispute Resolution.
(a) Submission to Bankruptcy Court. In the event of any dispute between the Parties
regarding the interpretation of the Bankruptcy Approval Order or Danas rights and obligations
under this Agreement, other than as provided in Section 3.2(e) and Section 7.16(f), (each a
Bankruptcy Dispute), the Bankruptcy Dispute shall be heard in the Bankruptcy Court until the
earlier of (i) the confirmation of a plan of reorganization for Dana or (ii) the termination of the
Chapter 11 Case; provided, however, that this Section 10.9(a) shall not apply to
any disputes regarding the rights or obligations of Dana or any other entity under the Ancillary
Agreements or under any Contract listed in Schedule 7.22(a) or Schedule 7.22(b).
(b) Submission to Arbitration. Except as provided in Section 3.2(e), Section 7.16(f)
and Section 10.9(a), in the event of any dispute between the Parties relating to the Transactions
or any Transaction Document (other than the Water Rights Assignment Agreements) or arising
hereunder (each a Dispute), then the Dispute shall be submitted, upon written demand of any
Party, to arbitration in Mexico City in accordance with the Rules of Arbitration of the
International Chamber of Commerce (ICC Rules).
(c) Arbitrators. There shall be a total of three (3) arbitrators. The Desc Parties,
on the one side, and the Dana Parties, on the other side, each shall select one (1) arbitrator
within thirty (30) calendar days after delivery of the demand for arbitration. Such arbitrators
shall be freely selected, and the Parties shall not be limited in their selection to any prescribed
list. A third (3rd) arbitrator, who shall be the chairman of the arbitral tribunal, shall be
appointed by mutual agreement of the two (2) arbitrators so selected. In the event of the failure
of said arbitrators to agree as to the chairman within twenty (20) calendar days after the
appointment of the last of said arbitrators, the chairman shall be appointed by the International
Court of Arbitration (the Court) within fifteen (15) calendar days thereafter. In the event that
both sides of the arbitration are composed of only one party, and the Desc Parties, on the one
hand, or the Dana Parties, on the other, as the case may be, fails to nominate an arbitrator
pursuant to this Section 10.9(c), upon request of any other party to the arbitration, such
arbitrator shall instead be
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appointed by the ICC within thirty (30) calendar days of receiving such request. In the event
that either side of the arbitration is composed of more than one party, and the Desc Parties that
are party to the arbitration, on the one hand, or the Dana Parties, on the other, as the case may
be, fails to nominate an arbitrator pursuant to this Section 10.9(c), then the Court may appoint
each member of the arbitral panel in accordance with Article 10(2) of the ICC Rules. Each
arbitrator shall be fluent in English and Spanish.
(d) Arbitration Proceedings. The arbitration proceedings shall be conducted in
Spanish, provided that the arbitrators may permit any portion of the proceeding to be conducted in
English if this will facilitate the conduct of the arbitration. The arbitrators shall apply the ICC
Rules, and shall specify the same at the commencement of the arbitration. Documents in English
shall be admissible as evidence without need to translation into Spanish and witnesses who are not
native Spanish speakers may render their testimonies in English if they so prefer.
(e) Consolidation of Arbitration Proceedings. When a party to a Transaction Document
submits a Request for Arbitration (as defined in the ICC Rules) in connection with a legal
relationship in respect of which arbitration proceedings between the parties to the same or another
Transaction Document are already pending under the ICC Rules (an Already Pending Proceeding), the
parties to such Transaction Document may request that the Court include the claims contained in the
request (the New Claims) in the Already Pending Proceeding. If a party to a Transaction Document
makes such a request before the Terms of Reference (as defined in the ICC Rules) have been signed
or approved by the Court in the Already Pending Proceeding, pursuant to Article 4(6) of the ICC
Rules, the Court shall determine whether to include the New Claims in the Already Pending
Proceeding. If a party to a Transaction Document makes such a request after the Terms of Reference
in the Already Pending Proceeding have been signed or approved by the Court, pursuant to Article 19
of the ICC Rules, the Arbitral Tribunal (as defined in the ICC Rules) in the Already Pending
Proceeding shall determine whether to include the New Claims in the Already Pending Proceeding.
For the avoidance of doubt, two (2) or more arbitration proceedings may be consolidated in
accordance with this Section 10.9(e) under Articles 4(6) or 19 of the ICC Rules, even if the
parties to such arbitration proceedings are not identical.
(f) Award. The arbitral award shall be final and binding upon all Parties, and not
subject to any appeal, to the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, and shall deal with the
question of costs of arbitration and all matters related thereto. The arbitrators may in their
discretion award costs, including legal fees, to the prevailing Party. Decisions of the
arbitrators shall be in writing and shall set forth the reasons therefore and, to the extent
applicable, the manner in which the amount of the award was calculated.
(g) Enforceability of Certain Provisions of this Agreement. Each Party irrevocably
submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Bankruptcy Court for purposes of any Bankruptcy
Dispute. Each Party irrevocably submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Mexico
for purposes of a suit, action or proceeding to enforce the provisions Section 10.9(b) through
Section 10.9(h), to obtain an order to preserve the status quo pending resolution of any Dispute
described in Section 10.9(b) or to enforce an arbitration award rendered hereunder. Each Party
irrevocably waives any objection or defense such Party may have to venue or personal jurisdiction
in any such court including any claim that the suit, action or
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proceeding has been brought in an inconvenient forum and any right to which it may become
entitled on account of place of residence or domicile.
(h) Enforceability of the Award. Judgment upon the award rendered by the arbitration
may be entered in any court having jurisdiction, or application may be made to such court for a
judicial recognition of the award or any order of enforcement thereof.
Section 10.10 No Third Party Beneficiary.
Nothing expressed or referred to in this Agreement will be construed to give any Person other
than the Parties to this Agreement (and any Indemnified Party under Article IX) any legal or
equitable right, remedy or claim under or with respect to this Agreement or any provision of this
Agreement. This Agreement and all of its provisions and conditions are for the sole and
exclusive benefit of the Parties to this Agreement and their successors and assigns.
Section 10.11 Partial Invalidity.
Wherever possible, each provision hereof shall be interpreted in such manner as to be
effective and valid under Applicable Law, but in the event that any one or more of the provisions
contained herein shall, for any reason, be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any
respect, such provision shall be ineffective to the extent, but only to the extent, of such
invalidity, illegality or unenforceability without invalidating the remainder of such provision(s)
to the extent valid, legal or enforceable or any other provisions hereof, unless such a
construction would be unreasonable.
Section 10.12 Desc Parties Guarantor.
Desc Automotriz also executes this Agreement as guarantor (fiador) of each and every
undertaking of the Desc Parties contained or referred to in this Agreement and all Schedules
attached hereto and expressly waives the benefit of priority (beneficio de orden) and the right of
excussio (beneficio de excusión) and articles 2814 and 2815 of the Mexican Federal Civil Code and
all corresponding Articles in the Civil Code of all of the States of Mexico.
Section 10.13 Dana Parties Guarantor.
Dana Mexico also executes this Agreement as guarantor (fiador) of each and every undertaking
of the Dana Parties contained or referred to in this Agreement and all Schedules attached hereto
and expressly waives the benefit of priority (beneficio de orden) and the right of excussio
(beneficio de excusión) and articles 2814 and 2815 of the Mexican Federal Civil Code and all
corresponding Articles in the Civil Code of all of the States of Mexico.
Section 10.14 Prior Agreements.
This Agreement precludes and supersedes any other agreements between any of the Parties with
respect to the subject matter hereof, including any other agreements related to the purchase and
sale of the Purchased Shares set forth in the JV Agreement.
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IN WITNESS OF WHICH the Parties have duly executed this Agreement as of the date first
above written.
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DESC AUTOMOTRIZ, S.A. DE C.V.
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Chief Corporate Officer and Legal
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/s/ Ramón F. Estrada Rivero
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General Counsel and Legal
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SPICER, S.A. DE C.V.
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/s/ Juan Marco Gutiérrez Wanless
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Juan Marco Gutiérrez Wanless |
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Chief Corporate Officer and Legal
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/s/ Ramón F. Estrada Rivero
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INMOBILIARIA UNIK, S.A. DE C.V.
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/s/ Juan Marco Gutiérrez Wanless
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Juan Marco Gutiérrez Wanless |
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Chief Corporate Officer and Legal
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/s/ Ramón F. Estrada Rivero
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Signature page to the Master Share Purchase Agreement Relating to the Dissolution of the Spicer
Joint Venture
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DANA CORPORATION
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/s/ Dennis Greenwald
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DANA HOLDINGS MEXICO S. DE R.L. DE C.V.
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Joint Venture
The undersigned join as a Party to the foregoing Agreement for the limited purposes provided
in Section 7.22.
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DESC, S.A. DE C.V.
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/s/ Ramón F. Estrada Rivero
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Ramón F. Estrada Rivero |
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DESC CORPORATIVO, S.A. DE C.V.
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/s/ Ramón F. Estrada Rivero
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Ramón F. Estrada Rivero |
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INMOBILIARIA CORCEL, S.A. DE C.V.
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/s/ Ramón F. Estrada Rivero
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Ramón F. Estrada Rivero |
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AEROPYCSA, S.A. DE C.V.
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Ramón F. Estrada Rivero |
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CORPORATIVO UNIKO, S.A. DE C.V.
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/s/ Ramón F. Estrada Rivero
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Ramón F. Estrada Rivero |
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T.F. VICTOR, S.A. DE C.V.
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/s/ Ramón F. Estrada Rivero
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Ramón F. Estrada Rivero |
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TRANSMISIONES TSP, S.A. DE C.V.
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/s/ Ramón F. Estrada Rivero
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Ramón F. Estrada Rivero |
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TRANSMISIONES Y EQUIPOS MECÁNICOS, S.A. DE C.V.
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/s/ Ramón F. Estrada Rivero
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Ramón F. Estrada Rivero |
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VILLA INDUSTRIAL, S.A. DE C.V.
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/s/ Ramón F. Estrada Rivero
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Ramón F. Estrada Rivero |
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EJES TRACTIVOS, S.A. DE C.V.
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/s/ Ramón F. Estrada Rivero
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Ramón F. Estrada Rivero |
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CARDANES, S.A. DE C.V.
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/s/ Ramón F. Estrada Rivero
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Ramón F. Estrada Rivero |
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FORJAS SPICER, S.A. DE C.V.
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/s/ Ramón F. Estrada Rivero
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Ramón F. Estrada Rivero |
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AUTOMETALES, S.A. DE C.V.
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/s/ Ramón F. Estrada Rivero
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Ramón F. Estrada Rivero |
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DIRECSPICER, S.A. DE C.V.
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CORPORACIÓN INMOBILIARIA DE MEXICO, S.A. DE C.V.
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/s/ Ramón F. Estrada Rivero
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Ramón F. Estrada Rivero |
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/s/ Ramón F. Estrada Rivero
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Ramón F. Estrada Rivero |
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SPICER SERVICIOS, S.A. DE C.V.
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/s/ Ramón F. Estrada Rivero
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Ramón F. Estrada Rivero |
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TRANSMISSION TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
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/s/ Ramón F. Estrada Rivero
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Ramón F. Estrada Rivero |
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Joint Venture
EX-10.Z
Exhibit 10-Z
EXECUTION COPY
CREDIT AGREEMENT
dated as of
June 22, 2006
among
DANA CANADA CORPORATION
as Borrower and as a Credit Party
DANA CANADA HOLDING COMPANY,
DANA CANADA LTD., and
DANA CANADA LP
as Guarantors and as Credit Parties
THE LENDERS FROM TIME TO TIME PARTIES HERETO
as Lenders
CITIBANK CANADA
as Administrative Agent
CITIBANK CANADA,
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., TORONTO BRANCH, and
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., CANADA BRANCH
as Issuing Banks
CITIBANK CANADA,
as Initial Swing Line Lender
CITIBANK CANADA,
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., TORONTO BRANCH, and
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., CANADA BRANCH,
as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners
WACHOVIA CAPITAL FINANCE CORPORATION (CANADA), and
CIT BUSINESS CREDIT CANADA INC.,
as Documentation Agents
CREDIT AGREEMENT
THIS CREDIT AGREEMENT is dated as of June 22, 2006 and is entered into among Dana Canada
Corporation, as Borrower and as a Credit Party, Dana Canada Holding Company, Dana Canada Ltd. and
Dana Canada LP, as Guarantors and as Credit Parties, the Lenders from time to time parties hereto,
as Lenders, Citibank Canada, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Toronto Branch and Bank of America, N.A.,
Canada Branch, as Issuing Banks, Citibank Canada, as Initial Swing Line Lender, Citibank Canada, as
Administrative Agent, Citibank Canada, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Toronto Branch and Bank of
America, N.A., Canada Branch, as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners (collectively, the
Lead Arrangers) and Wachovia Capital Finance Corporation (Canada) and CIT Business Credit Canada
Inc., as Documentation Agents (collectively, the Documentation Agents) .
RECITALS
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NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual conditions and agreements set forth in this
Agreement and for good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the
parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS
1.1 Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings
specified below:
Accounts means, in respect of each Credit Party, all of such Credit Partys now existing and
future: (a) accounts (as defined in the PPSA), and any and all other receivables (whether or not
specifically listed on schedules furnished to the Administrative Agent), including all accounts
created by, or arising from, all of such Credit Partys sales, leases, loans, rentals of goods or
renditions of services to its customers, including those accounts arising under any of such Credit
Partys trade names or styles, or through any of such Credit Partys divisions; (b) any and all
instruments, documents, chattel paper (including electronic chattel paper) (all as defined in the
PPSA); (c) unpaid sellers or lessors rights (including rescission, replevin, reclamation,
repossession and stoppage in transit) relating to the foregoing or arising therefrom; (d) rights to
any goods represented by any of the foregoing, including rights to returned, reclaimed or
repossessed goods; (e) reserves and credit balances arising in connection with or pursuant hereto;
(f) guarantees, indemnification rights, supporting obligations, payment intangibles, tax refunds
and letter of credit rights; (g) insurance policies or rights relating to any of the foregoing; (h)
intangibles pertaining to any and all of the foregoing (including all rights to payment, including
those arising in connection with bank and non-bank credit cards), and including books and records
and any electronic media and software relating thereto; (i) notes, deposits or property of
borrowers or other account debtors securing the obligations of any such borrowers or other account
debtors to such Credit Party; (j) cash and non cash proceeds (as defined in the PPSA) of any and
all of the foregoing; and (k) all monies and claims for monies now or hereafter due and payable in
connection with any and all of the foregoing or otherwise.
Acceptance Fee means a fee payable by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent for the
account of a Lender in Canadian Dollars with respect to the acceptance of a B/A or the making of a
B/A Equivalent Loan, calculated on the face amount of the B/A or the B/A Equivalent Loan at a rate
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annum equal to the Applicable Margin from time to time in effect on the basis of the actual
number of days in the applicable Contract Period (including the date of acceptance and excluding
the date of maturity) and a year of 365 days, (it being agreed that the Applicable Margin in
respect of a B/A Equivalent Loan is equivalent to the Applicable Margin otherwise applicable to the
B/A Borrowing which has been replaced by the making of such B/A Equivalent Loan pursuant to Section
2.11 (h)).
Acquisition means any transaction or series of related transactions for the purpose of or
resulting, directly or indirectly, in (i) the acquisition of all or substantially all of the assets
of any Person, or any business or division of any Person, (ii) the acquisition or ownership of in
excess of 50% of the Equity Securities in any Person, or (iii) the acquisition of another Person by
a merger, consolidation, amalgamation or any other combination with such Person.
Administrative Agent means Citibank Canada, in its capacity as administrative agent for the
Lenders hereunder, or any successor Administrative Agent appointed pursuant to Section 8.9.
Administrative Questionnaire means an administrative questionnaire in a form supplied by the
Administrative Agent.
Affiliate means, (a) any Person which, directly or indirectly, Controls, is Controlled by or
is under common Control with any other Person; (b) any Person which beneficially owns or holds,
directly or indirectly, 10% or more of any class of voting stock or equity interest (including
partnership interests) of any other Person; (c) any Person, 10% or more of any class of the voting
stock (or if such Person is not a corporation, 10% or more of the equity interest, including
partnership interests) of which is beneficially owned or held, directly or indirectly, by any other
Person; or (d) any Person related within the meaning of the ITA to any such Person and includes any
Affiliate within the meaning specified in the Canada Business Corporations Act on the date
hereof.
Agreement means this Credit Agreement, as it may be amended, modified, supplemented or
restated from time to time.
Agreement Value means, for each Hedge Agreement, on any date of determination, an amount
equal to: (a) in the case of a Hedge Agreement documented pursuant to the Master Agreement
(Multicurrency-Cross Border) published by the International Swap and Derivatives Association, Inc.
(the Master Agreement), the amount, if any, that would be payable by any Credit Party to its
counterparty to such Hedge Agreement, as if (i) such Hedge Agreement were being terminated early on
such date of determination, (ii) such Credit Party was the sole Affected Party, and (iii) the
Administrative Agent was the sole party determining such payment amount (with the Administrative
Agent making such determination pursuant to the provisions of the form of Master Agreement); (b) in
the case of a Hedge Agreement traded on an exchange, the mark-to-market value of such Hedge
Agreement, which will be the unrealized loss or gain on such Hedge Agreement to the Credit Party
signatory to such Hedge Agreement based on the settlement price of such Hedge Agreement on such
date of determination; or (c) in all other cases, the mark-to-market value of such Hedge Agreement,
which will be the unrealized loss or gain on such Hedge Agreement to the Credit Party signatory to
such Hedge Agreement determined as the amount, if any, by which (i) the present value of the future
cash flows to be paid by such Credit Party exceeds (ii) the present value of the future cash flows
to be received by such Credit Party pursuant to such Hedge Agreement; capitalized terms used and
not otherwise defined in this definition shall have the respective meanings set forth in the above
described Master Agreement.
Applicable Law means all federal, provincial, municipal, foreign and international statutes,
acts, codes, ordinances, decrees, treaties, rules, regulations, municipal by-laws, judicial or
arbitral or administrative or ministerial or departmental or regulatory judgments, orders, decisions,
rulings or awards
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or any provisions of the foregoing, including general principles of common and
civil law and equity, and all policies, practices and guidelines of any Governmental Authority
binding on the Person referred to in the context in which such word is used, in each case having
the force of law.
Applicable Margin means, with respect to (a) Canadian Prime Loans and Base Rate Loans, 1.25%
per annum, and (b) LIBO Rate Loans and B/A Borrowings, 2.25% per annum.
Applicable Percentage means with respect to any Lender, the percentage of the total
Commitments represented by such Lenders Commitment. If any Commitments have terminated or
expired, the Applicable Percentages in respect of the terminated or expired Commitments shall be
determined based upon the relevant Commitments most recently in effect (i.e., prior to their
termination or expiry), giving effect to any assignments.
Assignment and Assumption means an assignment and assumption entered into by a Lender and an
assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is required by Section 9.4), and accepted by
the Administrative Agent, in the form of Exhibit I or any other form approved by the Administrative
Agent.
Availability Reserves means, as of any date of determination, such amounts as shall
initially be mutually agreed to by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, and thereafter may be
fixed and revised from time to time by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable commercial
judgment, reducing the Borrowing Base which would otherwise be available to the Borrower under the
lending formulas provided for herein, without duplication, (a) to reflect criteria, events,
conditions, contingencies or risks which, as determined by the Administrative Agent in its
commercially reasonable judgment, do or may affect either (i) the value of any component of the
Borrowing Base or (ii) the enforceability, perfection and priority of the security interests and
other rights of the Administrative Agent in the Collateral, or (b) to reflect the Administrative
Agents customary practice or its commercially reasonable belief that any collateral report or
financial information furnished by or on behalf of the Borrower to the Administrative Agent is or
may have been incomplete, inaccurate or misleading. Without limiting the foregoing, the
Administrative Agent, in its sole discretion, may establish and/or increase Availability Reserves
in respect of: (a) (i) up to three months rental payments or similar charges for any Credit Partys
Designated Leased Locations for which the Borrower has not delivered to the Administrative Agent a
landlords waiver or bailees letter substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibits G and H,
respectively, plus (ii) up to three months estimated payments plus any other fees or charges owing
by the Credit Parties to any applicable warehousemen or third party processor (as determined by the
Administrative Agent in its commercially reasonable business judgment), provided that any
of the foregoing amounts shall be adjusted from time to time hereafter upon (x) delivery to the
Administrative Agent of any such acceptable waiver, (y) the opening or closing of a collateral
location and/or (z) any change in the amount of rental, storage or processor payments or similar
charges; (b) statutory claims, deemed trusts, or inventory subject to rights of suppliers under
Section 81.1 of the BIA (generally known as the 30-day goods rule), or any other Applicable Law;
(c) collective agreement, employee or employee benefit related liabilities which have priority by
operation of law over the claims of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders; and (d) any other
claims that have priority over the claims of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, including
Priority Payables.
Authorization means, with respect to any Person, any authorization, order, permit, approval,
grant, licence, consent, right, franchise, privilege, certificate, judgment, writ, injunction,
award, determination, direction, decree, by-law, rule or regulation of any Governmental Authority
having jurisdiction over such Person, whether or not having the force of Law.
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B/A Borrowing means a Borrowing comprised of one or more Bankers Acceptances or, as
applicable, B/A Equivalent Loans. For greater certainty, unless the context requires otherwise,
all provisions of this Agreement which are applicable to Bankers Acceptances are also applicable,
mutatis mutandis, to B/A Equivalent Loans.
B/A Equivalent Loan has the meaning set out in Section 2.11(h).
Bankers Acceptance and B/A mean an instrument denominated in Canadian Dollars, drawn by
the Borrower and accepted by a Lender in accordance with this Agreement, and includes a depository
note within the meaning of the Depository Bills and Notes Act (Canada) and a bill of exchange
within the meaning of the Bills of Exchange Act (Canada).
Base Rate means, on any day, the annual rate of interest equal to the greater of (i) the
annual rate of interest announced from time to time by the Administrative Agent and in effect as
its base rate at its principal office in Toronto, Ontario on such day for determining interest
rates on U.S. Dollar-denominated commercial loans made by it in Canada, (ii) the Deposit Rate plus
0.50%, and (iii) the Federal Funds Effective Rate plus 0.50%.
Base Rate Borrowing means a Borrowing comprised of one or more Base Rate Loans.
Base Rate Loan means a Loan denominated in U.S. Dollars made by the Lenders to the Borrower
hereunder pursuant to a drawdown, rollover or conversion of a Loan on which interest is payable
upon the Base Rate.
BIA means the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (Canada).
Blocked Account Agreement has the meaning set out in Section 2.18(b).
Blocked Accounts has the meaning set out in Section 2.18(a).
Borrower means Dana Canada Corporation, a Nova Scotia unlimited liability company.
Borrowing means any availment of the Credit, which includes a Loan, the issuance of a Letter
of Credit (or any amendment thereto or renewal or extension thereof), and a rollover or conversion
of any outstanding Loan.
Borrowing Availability means, as of any date of determination, the lesser of (i) the Maximum
Amount and (ii) the Borrowing Base, in each case, less the Exposure at such time.
Borrowing Base means, at any time, an amount (which may not be less than zero) equal to the
sum of:
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cost (determined on a first-in, first-out basis) or book value and based on the then
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Borrowing Base Report means the report of the Borrower concerning the amount of the
Borrowing Base, to be delivered pursuant to Section 5.1, substantially in the form of Exhibit A.
Borrowing Request means a request by the Borrower for a Borrowing substantially in the form
of Exhibit B.
Business Day means any day that is not (i) a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which
commercial banks in Toronto, Ontario are authorized or required by Applicable Law to remain closed,
and (ii) in the case of any U.S. Dollar denominated Borrowing, any other day on which commercial
banks in New York, New York are authorized or required by Applicable Law to remain closed, and
(iii) in the case of any LIBO Rate Loan, any other day on which commercial banks in London, England
are authorized or required by Applicable Law to remain closed.
Canadian Dollars and Cdn.$ refer to lawful money of Canada.
Canadian $ Equivalent means, on any day, the amount of Canadian Dollars that the
Administrative Agent could purchase, in accordance with its normal practice, with a specified
amount of U.S. Dollars based on the Bank of Canada noon spot rate on such date.
Canadian Prime Borrowing means a Borrowing comprised of one or more Canadian Prime Loans.
Canadian Prime Loan means a Loan denominated in Canadian Dollars made by the Lenders to the
Borrower hereunder pursuant to a drawdown, rollover or conversion of a Loan which bears interest at
a rate based upon the Canadian Prime Rate.
Canadian Prime Rate means, on any day, the annual rate of interest equal to the greater of
(i) the annual rate of interest announced from time to time by the Administrative Agent and in
effect as its prime rate at its principal office in Toronto, Ontario on such day for determining
interest rates on Canadian Dollar denominated commercial loans made by it in Canada, and (ii) the
annual rate of interest equal to the sum of (A) the one month CDOR Rate in effect on such day, plus
(B) 1.00%.
Canadian Resident Lender means, a Person which is (i) not a non-resident of Canada for the
purposes of the ITA, or (ii) an authorized foreign bank, as defined in section 2 of the Bank Act
(Canada) and in section 248(1) of the ITA, and which acquires and holds all of its interests under
the Credit as part of its Canadian banking business, as defined in subsection 248(1) of the ITA.
Canadian Subsidiary means any Subsidiary of any Credit Party organized under the laws of
Canada or of a province or territory located within Canada.
Capital Expenditures means, for any Person for any period, the sum (without duplication) of
all expenditures made, directly or indirectly, by such Person during such period for equipment,
fixed assets, real property or improvements, or for replacements or substitutions therefor or
additions thereto, that have been or should be, in accordance with GAAP, reflected as additions to
property, plant or equipment on a consolidated balance sheet of such Person. For purposes of this
definition, the purchase price of equipment that is purchased simultaneously with the trade in of existing equipment or
with insurance proceeds shall be included in Capital Expenditures only to the extent of the gross
amount of such purchase price less the credit granted by the seller of such equipment for the
equipment being traded in at such time or the amount of such proceeds, as the case may be.
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Capital Lease Obligations of any Person means the obligations of such Person to pay rent or
other amounts under any Capitalized Lease, and the amount of such obligations shall be the
capitalized amount thereof determined in accordance with GAAP.
Capitalized Leases means all leases that have been or should be, in accordance with GAAP,
recorded as capitalized leases.
Cases means the proceedings relating to Dana Corporation and certain of its United States
Subsidiaries commenced pursuant to voluntary petitions filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for
relief under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.
Cash Equivalents means any of the following, to the extent owned by any Credit Party free
and clear of all Liens other than Permitted Liens and having a maturity of not greater than 12
months from the date of issuance thereof: (a) readily marketable direct obligations of the
Government of the United States or Canada or any agency or instrumentality thereof or obligations
unconditionally guaranteed by the full faith and credit of the Government of the United States or
Canada, (b) certificates of deposit of or time deposits with any commercial bank that is a Lender
or a member of the Federal Reserve System or a chartered bank of Canada listed on Schedules I, II
or III of the Bank Act (Canada) that issues (or the parent of which issues) commercial paper rated
as described in clause (c), is organized under the laws of the United States or Canada or any state
or province thereof and has combined capital and surplus of at least U.S.$500,000,000, (c)
commercial paper in an aggregate amount of no more than U.S.$10,000,000 per issuer outstanding at
any time, issued by any corporation organized under the laws of any state of the United States or
Canada and rated at least Prime 1 (or the then equivalent grade) by Moodys or A 1 (or the then
equivalent grade) by S&P or R-1 High (or the then equivalent) by DBRS, (d) Investments, classified
in accordance with GAAP, as current assets of a Credit Party, in money market investment programs
registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, which are administered by
financial institutions that have the highest rating obtainable from either Moodys or S&P, or (e)
offshore overnight interest bearing deposits in foreign branches of Citibank, N.A., JP Morgan Chase
Bank, N.A. or Bank of America, N.A.
Cash Management Obligations means all Obligations of any Credit Party owing to a Lender (or
a Lender Affiliate) in respect of any overdrafts and related liabilities arising from treasury,
depositary and cash management services or in connection with any automated clearing house
transfers of funds, which Obligations shall be Secured Obligations to the extent provided for, and
subject to the limitations set forth, in Section 6.2(viii) and Section 2.16(b)(ii).
CDOR Rate means, on any day and for any period, an annual rate of interest equal to the
average rate applicable to Canadian Dollar bankers acceptances for the applicable period appearing
on the Reuters Screen CDOR Page (as defined in the International Swaps and Derivatives
Association, Inc. 2000 definitions, as modified and amended from time to time), rounded to the
nearest 1/100th of 1% (with .005% being rounded up), at approximately 10:00 a.m., Toronto time, on
such day, or if such day is not a Business Day, then on the immediately preceding Business Day,
provided that if such rate does not appear on the Reuters Screen CDOR Page on such day as
contemplated, then the CDOR Rate on such day shall be calculated as the average of the rates for
such period applicable to Canadian Dollar bankers acceptances quoted by the banks listed in Schedule I of the Bank Act (Canada) as of 10:00
a.m., Toronto time, on such day or, if such day is not a Business Day, then on the immediately
preceding Business Day.
Change in Control means (a) the acquisition of ownership, directly or indirectly,
beneficially or of record, by any Person or group of Persons acting jointly or otherwise in concert
of Equity Securities (i) of any Credit Party other than by another Credit Party or Dana
International, (ii) of Dana International other than by Dana Corporation, or (iii) representing
more than 40% of the aggregate ordinary voting
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power represented by the issued and outstanding
Equity Securities of Dana Corporation; or (b) after the Effective Date, the occupation of a
majority of the seats (other than vacant seats) on the board of directors of the Borrower or Dana
Corporation by Persons who were neither (i) nominated by the board of directors of the Borrower or
Dana Corporation, as applicable, nor (ii) appointed by directors so nominated.
Change in Law means (i) the adoption of any new Applicable Law after the date of this
Agreement, or (ii) any change in any existing Applicable Law or in the interpretation or
application thereof by any Governmental Authority after the date of this Agreement.
Collateral means the property described in and subject to the Liens, privileges, priorities
and security interests purported to be created by any Security Document.
Commitment means a Revolving Commitment or a Swing Line Commitment.
Completion Date has the meaning specified in Section 6.7.
Contract Date has the meaning specified in Section 6.7.
Contract Period means the term of any B/A Borrowing selected by the Borrower in accordance
with Section 2.3(a)(iv) commencing on the date of such B/A Borrowing and expiring on a Business Day
which shall be either one month, two months, three months or six months thereafter (or such other
terms as may be requested by the Borrower and approved unanimously by the Lenders);
provided that (i) subject to subparagraph (ii) below, each such period shall be subject to
such extensions or reductions as may be determined by the Administrative Agent to ensure that each
Contract Period will expire on a Business Day, and (ii) no Contract Period shall extend beyond the
Maturity Date.
Control means, in respect of a particular Person, the possession, directly or indirectly, of
the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of such Person, whether
through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. Controlling and
Controlled have meanings correlative thereto.
Cover means an amount equal to, as applicable, the maximum amount of LC Exposure available
for drawing at such time, or the face amount of all Bankers Acceptances outstanding at such time,
and when required by this Agreement for LC Exposure or Bankers Acceptances, shall be effected by
paying to the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds, to be held by the Administrative
Agent in a collateral account maintained by the Administrative Agent at its Payment Office and
collaterally assigned to the Administrative Agent as security. Such amount shall be retained by
the Administrative Agent in such collateral account until such time as the applicable Letters of
Credit and Bankers Acceptances shall have expired or matured and Reimbursement Obligations, if
any, with respect thereto shall have been fully satisfied; provided that if any such
Reimbursement Obligations are not satisfied when due hereunder, the Administrative Agent may apply
any or all amounts in such collateral account in satisfaction of any or all such Reimbursement
Obligations.
Credit means the U.S.$100,000,000 (or the Canadian $ Equivalent thereof) revolving credit
facility established pursuant to the Commitments of the Lenders.
Credit Card Program means the credit card program established pursuant to the Citibank One
Card Agreement dated May 22, 2002 between Dana Canada Corporation and Citibank Canada.
Credit Party means the Borrower, each Guarantor, and any other Person which is a party to a
Loan Document (other than the Administrative Agent and the Lenders).
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Dana Canada Note means the unsecured amended and restated promissory note in the original
principal amount of Cdn.$229,518,300 (as such amount may have been increased by capitalization of
interest), originally dated December 19, 2003 and restated on June 22, 2006, issued by the Borrower
to Dana Canada LP, as it may be further amended, restated, replaced or supplemented from time to
time, in accordance with this Agreement.
Dana Corporation means Dana Corporation, a Virginia corporation and, at the date hereof, a
debtor-in-possession in the Cases.
Dana Holding means Dana Canada Holding Company.
Dana Holding Note means the unsecured amended and restated promissory note in the original
principal amount of Cdn.$229,518,300 (as such amount may have been increased by capitalization of
interest), originally dated December 19, 2003 and restated on June 22, 2006, issued by Dana Holding
to Dana International, as it may be further amended, restated, replaced or supplemented from time
to time, in accordance with this Agreement.
Dana International means Dana International Holdings, Inc.
Dana Notes means, collectively, the Dana Canada Note and the Dana Holding Note.
DBRS shall mean Dominion Bond Rating Service Limited, or its successor.
Default means any event or condition which constitutes an Event of Default or which, upon
notice, lapse of time or both, would, unless cured or waived, become an Event of Default.
Deposit Rate means, for any day, the secondary market rate for three-month certificates of
deposit reported as being in effect on such day (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next
preceding Business Day) by the Federal Reserve Board through the public information telephone line
of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (which rate will, under the current practices of the
Federal Reserve Board, be published in Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.15(519) during the
week following such day) or, if such rate is not so reported for any day which is a Business Day,
the average of the secondary market quotations for such day on such three-month certificates of
deposit received by the Administrative Agent from three negotiable certificate of deposit dealers
of recognized standing selected by it.
Designated Leased Location means each of the locations set out in Schedule C and each and
every other premises or location from time to time leased by a Credit Party after the Effective
Date where assets having a fair value in excess of US$1 million will be situated.
Disclosed Matters means the actions, suits and proceedings and the environmental matters
disclosed in Schedule B.
Discount Proceeds means, for any B/A (or, as applicable, any B/A Equivalent Loan), an amount
(rounded to the nearest whole cent, and with one-half of one cent being rounded up) calculated on
the applicable date of Borrowing by multiplying:
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a fraction, the numerator of which is the Contract Period of
the B/A (or, as applicable, the B/A Equivalent Loan) and the denominator of
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with such quotient being rounded up or down to the nearest fifth decimal place, and with .000005
being rounded up.
Discount Rate means, with respect to either a B/A for a particular Contract Period being
purchased by a Lender on any day or a B/A Equivalent Loan being made by a Lender on any day, (i)
for any Lender which is a Schedule I chartered bank under the Bank Act (Canada), the CDOR Rate on
such day for such Contract Period; and (ii) for any other Lender, the lesser of (a) the CDOR Rate
on such day for such Contract Period, plus 0.10%, and (b) the percentage discount rate quoted by
such Lender as the percentage discount rate at which such Lender would, in accordance with its
normal practices, at or about 10:00 a.m., Toronto time, on such date, be prepared to purchase
bankers acceptances or make B/A Equivalent Loans having a face amount and term comparable to the
face amount and term of such B/A or, in the case of a Lender making a B/A Equivalent Loan.
Documentation Agents has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this Agreement.
EDC Account means an Account which is fully insured by export/import insurance provided by
Export Development Canada and its successors and assigns.
Effective Date means the date on which all of the conditions specified in Section 4.1 are
satisfied or waived in accordance with Section 9.2, as confirmed in a written notice from the
Administrative Agent to the Borrower.
Eligible Account means, at the time of any determination thereof, the invoice amount (which
shall be the Canadian $ Equivalent at such time of any amount denominated in U.S.$) owing on each
Account of a Credit Party (net of any credit balance, returns, trade discounts, unapplied cash,
unbilled amounts or retention or finance charges) at such time that is not ineligible for inclusion
in the calculation of the Borrowing Base by reason of any of the statements in (1) to (21) below
not being accurate and complete. Criteria and eligibility standards shall initially be mutually
agreed to by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, and thereafter may be fixed and revised
from time to time by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion. Unless otherwise from
time to time approved in writing by the Administrative Agent, no Account shall be deemed an
Eligible Account unless each of the following statements with respect to such Account is accurate
and complete:
(1) Such Account is a binding and valid obligation of the obligor thereon and is in full force
and effect;
(2) Such Account is evidenced by an invoice and is payable in either (x) Canadian Dollars or
U.S. Dollars or (y) any other currency as to which an Availability Reserve is taken by the
Administrative Agent in the exercise of its reasonable discretion;
(3) Such Account is genuine as appearing on its face or as represented in the books and
records of the Borrower and the applicable Credit Party;
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(4) Such Account is free from asserted claims regarding rescission, cancellation or avoidance,
whether by operation of Applicable Law or otherwise, provided that only the portion subject
to such claims shall be excluded;
(5) Payment of such Account is not more than 90 days past the original invoice date thereof
and not more than 60 days past the original due date thereof;
(6) Such Account is net of concessions, offset, deduction, contras, returns, chargebacks or
understandings with the obligor thereon that in any way could reasonably be expected to adversely
affect the payment of, or the amount of, such Account, provided that only the portion
subject to such claims shall be excluded;
(7) The Administrative Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties, has a first priority (subject
only to Permitted Senior Liens) perfected Lien covering such Account and such Account is, and at
all times will be, free and clear of all other Liens (other than Permitted Liens);
(8) The obligor on such Account is not an Affiliate or a director, officer or employee of any
Credit Party;
(9) Such Account arose in the ordinary course of business of the Credit Party out of the sale
of goods or services by the Credit Party;
(10) Such Account is not payable by an obligor in respect of which 50% or more (by amount) of
the total aggregate Accounts owed to a Credit Party by such obligor are more than 90 days past the
original invoice date thereof or more than 60 days past the original due date thereof;
(11) All consents, licenses, approvals or authorizations of, or registrations or declarations
with, any Governmental Authority required to be obtained, effected or given in connection with the
execution, delivery and performance of such Account by each party obligated thereunder, or in
connection with the enforcement and collection thereof by the Administrative Agent, if any, have
been duly obtained, effected or given and are in full force and effect;
(12) The obligor on such Account is not the subject of any bankruptcy or insolvency
proceeding, does not have a trustee or receiver appointed for all or a substantial part of its
property, has not made an assignment for the benefit of creditors, admitted its inability to pay
its debts as they mature, suspended its business or initiated negotiations regarding a compromise
of its debt with its creditors (other than postpetition Accounts of an obligor that is a
debtor-in-possession under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and is reasonably acceptable to the
Administrative Agent);
(13) The obligor of such Account is organized and existing under the laws of the United States
of America or a state or other political subdivision thereof or the federal laws of Canada, a
province or territory thereof, or if the obligor is not so organized and existing, (A) such Account
is supported by a letter of credit from an institution and in form and substance satisfactory to
the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion or (B) a Credit Party provides evidence
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that there is an enforceable, perfected security interest
under the laws of the applicable foreign jurisdiction in such Account in favour of the
Administrative Agent or (C) such Account is an EDC Account;
(14) The obligor of such Account is not a Governmental Authority, if the enforceability or
effectiveness against such Governmental Authority of an assignment of such Account is subject to
any precondition which has not been fulfilled;
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(15) In the case of the sale of goods, the subject goods have been completed, sold and
shipped, on a true sale basis on open account, or subject to contract, and not on consignment, on
approval, on a sale or return basis, or on a bill and hold or pre-sale basis or subject to
any other repurchase or return agreement; no material part of the subject goods has been returned,
rejected, lost or damaged; and such Account is not evidenced by chattel paper or a promissory note
or an instrument of any kind, unless such chattel paper, promissory note or other instrument has
been delivered to the Administrative Agent and is subject to a Lien under the Security Documents;
(16) Each of the representations and warranties set forth herein and in the Loan Documents
with respect to such Account is true and correct on such date;
(17) A cheque, promissory note, draft, trade acceptance or other instrument has not been
received with respect to such Account (or with respect to any other account due from the same
account debtor), presented for payment and returned uncollected for any reason;
(18) Such Account is not a pre-billed account or an account arising from progress billing;
(19) The assignment (whether absolutely or by way of security) of such Account is not limited
or restricted by the terms of the contract evidencing or relating to such Account or, if assignment
of such Account is so restricted, such limitation or restriction has been complied with or the laws
of the jurisdiction(s) governing the validity of such assignment provide that such limitation or
restriction is ineffective as against the secured creditor with a security interest therein;
(20) Such Account is not an Account which is designated by a Credit Party as a convenience
account; and
(21) Such Account is not created on cash on delivery terms, or on extended terms and is not
due and payable more than 90 days from the invoice date;
provided that, if at any time the aggregate amount of all Eligible Accounts owed to a
Credit Party by a particular obligor or its Affiliates exceeds 20% (or 25% in the case of Ford
Motor Company and its Affiliates) of the aggregate amount of all Eligible Accounts at such time
owed to such Credit Party (determined without giving effect to any reduction in Eligible Accounts
pursuant to this proviso), then, unless the Accounts of such obligors and its Affiliates are
insured pursuant to credit insurance acceptable to the Administrative Agent which has been assigned
to the Administrative Agent in form acceptable to the Administrative Agent, the amount of such
Accounts in excess of 20% (or 25% in the case of Ford Motor Company and its Affiliates) of such
aggregate amount of all Eligible Accounts shall be excluded in determining the aggregate amount of
all Eligible Accounts at such time. In addition, in determining the aggregate amount from the same
obligor that is unpaid more than 90 days past the original invoice date or more than 60 days past
the original due date pursuant to clause (5) above, there shall be excluded the amount of any net credit balances relating to Accounts due from an obligor with invoice dates more
than 90 days from the date of invoice or more than 60 days from the due date.
Eligible Assignee means (a) another Lender, (b) with respect to any Lender, any Affiliate of
that Lender, (c) any commercial bank or chartered bank having total assets of Cdn.$2,500,000,000
(or during an Event of Default, $250,000,000) or more, (d) any (i) trust company, savings bank,
savings and loan association or similar financial institution, or (ii) insurance company engaged in
the business of writing insurance which, in either case (A) has total assets of Cdn.$2,500,000,000
(or during an Event of Default, $250,000,000) or more, (B) is engaged in the business of lending
money and extending credit under credit facilities substantially similar to those extended under
this Agreement, (C) is operationally
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and procedurally able to meet the obligations of a Lender
hereunder to the same degree as a commercial bank or chartered bank, and (e) any other financial
institution (including a mutual fund or other fund) having total assets of Cdn.$2,500,000,000 (or
during an Event of Default, $250,000,000) or more which meets the requirements set forth in
subclauses (B) and (C) of clause (d) above, provided, that in each case such assignee is a
Canadian Resident Lender (except during the continuance of an Event of Default), and
provided further that, no Credit Party or Affiliate of a Credit Party shall qualify
as an Eligible Assignee.
Eligible Equipment means, at the time of any determination thereof, without duplication, all
Equipment of the Credit Parties, valued in Canadian Dollars at such time on a lower of cost or
market basis in accordance with GAAP, that is not ineligible for inclusion in the Borrowing Base by
reason of any of the statements in (1) to (6) below not being accurate and complete. Criteria and
eligibility standards used in determining Eligible Equipment shall initially be mutually agreed to
by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, and thereafter may be fixed and revised from time to
time by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion. Unless otherwise from time to time
approved in writing by the Administrative Agent, no item of Equipment shall be deemed Eligible
Equipment unless each of the following statements with respect to such item of Equipment is
accurate and complete:
(1) Such Equipment is in good condition, merchantable, meets all material standards imposed by
any Governmental Authority having regulatory authority over it or its use and/or sale and is not
obsolete and is either currently usable or currently saleable in the normal course of business of a
Credit Party;
(2) Such Equipment is
(a) in possession of such Credit Party and located on real property
owned or leased by such Credit Party within the United States of America or
Canada (provided that if such Equipment is located on a Designated
Leased Location, the landlord of such real property shall have executed and
delivered to the Administrative Agent a landlord waiver substantially in the
form attached hereto as Exhibit G), or
(b) in the possession of a bailee within Canada and such bailee shall
have executed and delivered to the Administrative Agent, a bailee letter
substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit H;
(3) Each of the representations and warranties set forth in the Loan Documents with respect to
such Equipment is true and correct on such date;
(4) The Administrative Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties, has a first priority (subject
only to Permitted Senior Liens) perfected Lien covering such Equipment, and such Equipment is, and
at all times will be, free and clear of all Liens other than Permitted Liens;
(5) Such Equipment is covered by casualty insurance (which may include a program of self
insurance);
(6) Such Equipment is not Equipment which the Administrative Agent has determined in the
exercise of its reasonable discretion that the Administrative Agent may not sell or otherwise
dispose of in accordance with the terms of the applicable Security Documents without infringing
upon the rights of another Person or violating any contract with any other Person.
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Eligible Inventory means, at the time of any determination thereof, without duplication, all
Inventory of the Credit Parties, valued in Canadian Dollars at such time on a lower of cost (on a
first-in, first out basis and excluding any component of cost representing intercompany profit in
the case of Inventory acquired from an Affiliate) or book value basis in accordance with GAAP, that
is not ineligible for inclusion in the Borrowing Base by reason of any of the statements in (1) to
(13) below not being accurate and complete. Criteria and eligibility standards used in determining
Eligible Inventory shall initially be mutually agreed to by the Borrower and the Administrative
Agent, and thereafter may be fixed and revised from time to time by the Administrative Agent in its
reasonable discretion. Unless otherwise from time to time approved in writing by the
Administrative Agent, no Inventory shall be deemed Eligible Inventory unless each of the following
statements is accurate and complete:
(1) Such Inventory is in good condition, is merchantable, meets all standards imposed by any
Governmental Authority having regulatory authority over it or its use and/or sale and is not
obsolete and is either currently usable or currently saleable in the normal course of business of a
Credit Party;
(2) Such Inventory is
(a) in possession of a Credit Party and located on real property owned
or leased by a Credit Party within the United States of America or Canada
(provided that if such Inventory is located at a Designated Leased
Location, either (i) the landlord of such real property shall have executed
and delivered to the Administrative Agent a landlord waiver substantially in
the form attached hereto as Exhibit G or (ii) the applicable Availability
Reserves have been taken with respect to such Inventory), or
(b) in the possession of a bailee within Canada and such bailee shall
have either (i) executed and delivered to the Administrative Agent, a bailee
letter substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit H or (ii) the
applicable Availability Reserves have been taken with respect to such
Inventory, or
(c) in transit within the United States of America or Canada
(provided that the jurisdictions through which such Inventory is in
transit are jurisdictions where the Liens in such inventory under the
Security Documents are validly perfected first priority (subject only to
Permitted Senior Liens) Liens, and such inventory is subject only to
Permitted Liens) and between Credit Parties, and upon arrival at its
destination, will comply with either paragraph (a) or (b) above until title
to such Inventory passes to purchaser, or
(d) located in a third party warehouse or at a third party processor
(it being understood that the Borrower will provide its best estimate of the
value of such Inventory to be agreed to by the Administrative Agent and
reflected in the Borrowing Base Report), and either (i) the landlord or
bailee of such third party warehouse or processor has executed and delivered
to the Administrative Agent, a landlord waiver or bailee letter, as
applicable, in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent,
(ii) the applicable Availability Reserves have been taken with respect to
such Inventory, or (iii) an enforceable agreement in form and substance
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, acting reasonably, pursuant to
which the relevant Credit Party has validly assigned its access rights to
such Inventory and property to the Administrative Agent.
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(3) Each of the representations and warranties set forth in the Loan Documents with
respect to such Inventory is true and correct on such date;
(4) The Administrative Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties, has a first priority (subject
only to Permitted Senior Liens) perfected Lien covering such Inventory, and such Inventory is, and
at all times will be, free and clear of all Liens other than Permitted Liens;
(5) Such Inventory does not include goods (i) that are not owned by such Credit Party, (ii)
that are held by such Credit Party pursuant to a consignment agreement, (iii) which have been sold
by such Credit Party on a bill and hold basis, or (iv) that are discontinued goods;
(6) Such Inventory is not subject to repossession under the BIA except to the extent the
applicable vendor has entered into an agreement with the Administrative Agent, in form and
substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, acting reasonably, waiving its right to
repossession;
(7) Such Inventory does not consist of store room materials, supplies, parts, samples,
prototypes, or packing and shipping materials;
(8) Such Inventory does not consist of goods that are discontinued, obsolete, slow-moving,
nonconforming or returned or repossessed or used goods taken in trade;
(9) Such Inventory is not evidenced by negotiable documents of title unless delivered to the
Administrative Agent with endorsements;
(10) Such Inventory is covered by casualty insurance (which may include a program of self
insurance);
(11) Such Inventory is not Inventory which the Administrative Agent has determined in the
exercise of its reasonable discretion that the Administrative Agent may not sell or otherwise
dispose of in accordance with the terms of the applicable Security Documents without infringing
upon the rights of another Person or violating any contract with any other Person;
(12) Such Inventory is Inventory as to which the Borrower does not take an unrecorded book to
physical inventory reduction based on its most recent physical inventory or cycle counts or as
otherwise determined by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion; and
(13) Such Inventory is Inventory as to which the Borrower does not take a revaluation reserve
whereby favourable variances are added to Eligible Inventory and unfavourable variances are not
deducted from Eligible Inventory.
Environmental Action means any action, suit, written demand, demand letter, written claim,
written notice of noncompliance or violation, written notice of liability or potential liability,
investigation, proceeding, consent order or consent agreement relating in any way to any
Environmental Law, any Environmental Permit or any Hazardous Material, or arising from alleged
injury or threat to public or employee health or safety, as such relates to exposure to Hazardous
Material, or to the environment, including, without limitation, (a) by any Governmental Authority
for enforcement, cleanup, removal, response, remedial or other actions or damages and (b) by any
Governmental Authority or third party for damages, contribution, indemnification, cost recovery,
compensation or injunctive relief.
Environmental Laws means all federal, provincial, local or foreign laws, rules, regulations,
codes, ordinances, orders, decrees, judgments, injunctions, notices or binding agreements issued,
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promulgated or entered into by any Governmental Authority and having the force of law, binding
on the Person referred to in the context in which such word is used, relating to the environment,
preservation or reclamation of natural resources, the generation, use, handling, collection,
treatment, storage, transportation, recovery, recycling, release, threatened release or disposal of
any Hazardous Material, or to health and safety matters.
Environmental Liability means any liability, contingent or otherwise (including any
liability for damages, costs of environmental remediation, fines, penalties or indemnities), of any
Credit Party directly or indirectly resulting from or based upon (a) violation of any Environmental
Laws, (b) the generation, use, handling, collection, treatment, storage, transportation, recovery,
recycling or disposal of any Hazardous Materials, (c) exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the
Release or threatened Release of any Hazardous Materials into the environment, or (e) any contract,
agreement or other consensual arrangement pursuant to which liability is assumed or imposed with
respect to any of the foregoing.
Environmental Permit means any permit, approval, registration, license or other
authorization required under any Environmental Law.
Equity Securities means, with respect to any Person, any and all shares, interests,
participations, rights in, or other equivalents (however designated and whether voting and
non-voting) of, such Persons capital, whether outstanding on the date hereof or issued after the
date hereof, including any interest in a partnership, limited partnership or other similar Person
and any beneficial interest in a trust, and any and all rights, warrants, debt securities, options
or other rights exchangeable for or convertible into any of the foregoing.
ETA means Part IX of the Excise Tax Act (Canada).
Equipment means all equipment, as such term is defined in the PPSA, now owned or hereafter
acquired by any Credit Party, wherever located and, in any event, including all such Credit Partys
machinery and equipment, including processing equipment, conveyors, machine tools, data processing
and computer equipment, including embedded software and peripheral equipment and all engineering,
processing and manufacturing equipment, office machinery, furniture, materials handling equipment,
tools, attachments, accessories, automotive equipment, trailers, trucks, forklifts, molds, dies,
stamps, motor vehicles, rolling stock and other equipment of every kind and nature, trade fixtures
and fixtures not forming a part of real property, all whether now owned or hereafter acquired, and
wherever situated, together with all additions and accessions thereto, replacements therefor, all
parts therefor, all substitutes for any of the foregoing, fuel therefor, and all manuals, drawings,
instructions, warranties and rights with respect thereto, and all products and proceeds thereof and
condemnation awards and insurance proceeds with respect thereto.
Event of Default has the meaning set out in Section 7.1.
Excluded Property means all Equipment and Cash Collateral as such terms are defined in
the GE Canada Master Lease Documents.
Excluded Taxes means, with respect to the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any other
recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower hereunder,
income, franchise or branch Taxes imposed on (or measured by) its overall net income or capital
Taxes imposed on (or measured by) its capital, in each case by Canada, or by the jurisdiction or
any political subdivision thereof under the Applicable Laws of which such recipient is organized,
present or engaged in a trade or business in such jurisdiction or any political subdivision
thereof.
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Exposure means, with respect to any Lender at any time, the sum of the outstanding principal
amount of such Lenders Loans, its LC Exposure and its pro rata share of the outstanding amount of
all Swing Line Loans.
Federal Funds Effective Rate means, for any day, the per annum rate equal to the weighted
average of the rates on overnight federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve
System of the United States of America arranged by federal funds brokers, as published for such day
(or, if such day is not a Business Day, for the next preceding Business Day) by the Federal Reserve
Board of New York, or, if such rate is not so published for any day which is a Business Day, the
average of the quotations for such day on such transactions received by the Administrative Agent
from three federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by it.
Fee Letter means the letter dated April 19, 2006 between the Borrower and the Lead Arrangers
providing for the payment by the Borrower of certain fees.
Financial Event of Default means any Event of Default (a) which occurs as a result of the
failure of the Borrower to comply with the financial covenant set forth in Section 5.11, (b) which
occurs as a result of the failure of the Borrower to make any payment required to be made by it
hereunder on the date when due, or (c) with respect to the Borrower described in Section 7.1 (h),
(i) or (j).
Financial Officer means the chief financial officer of the Borrower, if any, or if a chief
financial officer has not been appointed by the Borrower, any other Responsible Officer(s) of the
Borrower.
Fiscal Quarter means any fiscal quarter of the Borrower.
Fiscal Year means any fiscal year of the Borrower.
Foreign Lender means any Lender that is not a Canadian Resident Lender.
Foreign Subsidiary means any Subsidiary of any Credit Party that is not a Canadian
Subsidiary.
GAAP means (a) generally accepted accounting principles in Canada as in effect from time to
time and (b) for the purposes of the financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 5.1, and at
the option of the Borrower, generally accepted accounting principles in the United States as in
effect from time to time.
GE Canada Master Lease Documents means the master lease agreement dated as of June 27, 2003
between GE Canada Asset Financing Holding Company (as assignee from GE Canada Leasing Services
Company) (GE Canada), as lessor, and Dana Canada Corporation, as lessee, and all schedules,
exhibits and annexes thereto, together with a pledge and security agreement dated as of June 26,
2003 between Dana Canada Corporation and GE Canada, and a pledge and security agreement dated as of
December 10, 2004 between Dana Canada Corporation and GE Canada Asset Financing Holding Company (as
assignee from GE Canada Asset Financing, Inc.).
Governmental Authority means the Government of Canada, any other nation or any political
subdivision thereof, whether provincial, state, territorial or local, and any agency, authority,
instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank, fiscal or monetary authority or other
authority regulating financial institutions, and any other entity exercising executive,
legislative, judicial, taxing,
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regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government, including the
Bank Committee on Banking Regulation and Supervisory Practices of the Bank of International
Settlements.
GST means all amounts payable under the ETA or any similar legislation in any other
jurisdiction of Canada, including QST and HST.
Guarantee Obligation means, with respect to any Person, any obligation or arrangement of
such Person to guarantee or intended to guarantee any Indebtedness (primary obligations) of any
other Person (the primary obligor) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, including,
without limitation, (a) the direct or indirect guarantee, endorsement (other than for collection or
deposit in the ordinary course of business), co making, discounting with recourse or sale with
recourse by such Person of the primary obligation of a primary obligor, (b) the obligation to make
take-or-pay or similar payments, if required, regardless of nonperformance by any other party or
parties to an agreement or (c) any obligation of such Person, whether or not contingent, (i) to
purchase any such primary obligation or any property constituting direct or indirect security
therefor, (ii) to advance or supply funds (A) for the purchase or payment of any such primary
obligation or (B) to maintain working capital or equity capital of the primary obligor or otherwise
to maintain the net worth or solvency of the primary obligor, (iii) to purchase property, assets,
securities or services primarily for the purpose of assuring the owner of any such primary
obligation of the ability of the primary obligor to make payment of such primary obligation or (iv)
otherwise to assure or hold harmless the holder of such primary obligation against loss in respect
thereof. The amount of any Guarantee Obligation shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the
stated or determinable amount of the primary obligation in respect of which such Guarantee
Obligation is made (or, if less, the maximum amount of such primary obligation for which such
Person may be liable pursuant to the terms of the instrument evidencing such Guarantee Obligation)
or, if not stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof
(assuming such Person is required to perform thereunder), as determined by such Person in good
faith.
Guarantors means Dana Holding, Dana Canada Ltd., Dana Canada LP, together with each future
Subsidiary required to provide a guarantee pursuant to Section 5.10, and Guarantor means any one
of them.
Hazardous Materials means any substance, product, liquid, waste, pollutant, chemical,
contaminant, insecticide, pesticide, gaseous or solid matter, organic or inorganic matter, fuel,
micro organism, ray, odour, radiation, energy, vector, plasma, constituent or material which (a) is
or becomes regulated under any Environmental Laws, or (b) is, or is deemed to be, alone or in any
combination, hazardous, hazardous waste, toxic, a pollutant, a deleterious substance, a contaminant
or a source of pollution or contamination under any Environmental Laws, including, asbestos,
petroleum and polychlorinated biphenyls, including petroleum or petroleum distillates, asbestos or
asbestos containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas, infectious or medical wastes
and all other substances or wastes of any nature regulated pursuant to any Environmental Laws.
Hedge Agreements means interest rate swap, cap or collar agreements, interest rate future or
option contracts, currency swap agreements, currency future or option contracts and other hedging
agreements.
HST means all amounts payable as harmonised sales tax in the Provinces of Nova Scotia,
Newfoundland and New Brunswick under the ETA.
Indebtedness of any Person means, without duplication, (a) all indebtedness of such Person
for borrowed money, (b) all indebtedness of such Person for the deferred purchase price of property
or services (other than trade payables incurred in the ordinary course of such Persons
business), (c) all
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obligations of such Person evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures or other
similar instruments, (d) all indebtedness of such Person created or arising under any conditional
sale or other title retention agreement with respect to property acquired by such Person (even
though the rights and remedies of the seller or lender under such agreement in the event of default
are limited to repossession or sale of such property), (e) all obligations of such Person as lessee
under Capitalized Leases, (f) all obligations of such Person under acceptance, letter of credit or
similar facilities, (g) all mandatory obligations of such Person to purchase, redeem, retire,
defease or otherwise make any payment in cash in respect of any Equity Securities in such Person or
any other Person or any warrants, rights or options to acquire such Equity Securities, valued, in
the case of Redeemable Preferred Interests, at the greater of its voluntary or involuntary
liquidation preference plus accrued and unpaid dividends, (h) all obligations of such Person in
respect of Hedge Agreements, valued at the Agreement Value thereof, (i) all Guarantee Obligations
and Synthetic Debt of such Person and (j) all indebtedness and other payment obligations referred
to in clauses (a) through (i) above of another Person secured by (or for which the holder of such
Indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on property
(including, without limitation, accounts and contract rights) owned by such Person, even though
such Person has not assumed or become liable for the payment of such indebtedness or other payment
obligations.
Indemnified Taxes means all Taxes other than Excluded Taxes.
Indemnitee has the meaning set out in Section 9.3(b).
Initial Swing Line Lender has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this
Agreement.
Interest Payment Date means, (a) in the case of any Loan other than a LIBO Rate Loan or a
B/A Equivalent Loan, in arrears on the first Business Day of each month, (b) in the case of a LIBO
Rate Loan, the last day of each Interest Period relating to such LIBO Rate Loan; provided
that if the Interest Period with respect to such LIBO Rate Loan is greater than three months, then
an additional Interest Payment Date shall occur on the last day of the numerically corresponding
day in the calendar month that is three months following such Borrowing, and (c) in the case of a
B/A Equivalent Loan, on the first day of each Contract Period relating to such B/A Equivalent Loan.
Interest Period means, with respect to a LIBO Rate Borrowing, the period commencing on the
date of such Borrowing and ending on the numerically corresponding day in the calendar month that
is one, two, three or six months thereafter, as the Borrower may elect; provided that (i)
if any Interest Period would end on a day other than a Business Day, such Interest Period shall be
extended to the immediately succeeding Business Day unless such next succeeding Business Day would
fall in the next calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding
Business Day, (ii) any Interest Period that commences on the last Business Day of a calendar month
(or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the last calendar month of such
Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the last calendar month of such Interest
Period, (iii) no Interest Period shall extend beyond any date that any principal payment or
prepayment is scheduled to be due unless the aggregate principal amount of (A) Canadian Prime
Borrowings and Base Rate Borrowings and (B) B/A Borrowings and LIBO Rate Borrowings which have
Interest Periods or Contract Periods which will expire on or before such date, less the aggregate
amount of any other principal payments or prepayments due during such Interest Period, is equal to
or in excess of the amount of such principal payment or prepayment, and (iv) no Interest Period
shall extend beyond the Maturity Date. For purposes hereof, the date of a Borrowing initially
shall be the date on which such Borrowing is made and, in the case of a converted or continued Borrowing, thereafter shall be the effective date of the most recent conversion or
continuation of such Borrowing.
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Inventory means, in respect of each Credit Party, all of such Credit Partys present and
hereafter acquired inventory (as defined in the PPSA) and including all merchandise, inventory and
goods, and all additions, substitutions and replacements thereof, wherever located, together with
all goods and materials used or usable in manufacturing, processing, packaging or shipping same in
all stages of production from raw materials through work in process to finished goods, and all
stores inventory or operating and maintenance supplies inventory, and all proceeds of any
thereof (of whatever sort).
Investment means, with respect to any Person, (a) any direct or indirect purchase or other
acquisition (whether for cash, securities, property, services or otherwise) by such Person of, or
of a beneficial interest in, any Equity Securities or Indebtedness of any other Person, (b) any
direct or indirect purchase or other acquisition (whether for cash, securities, property, services
or otherwise) by such Person of all or substantially all of the property and assets of any other
Person or of any division, branch or other unit of operation of any other Person, (c) any direct or
indirect loan, advance, other extension of credit or capital contribution by such Person to, or any
other investment by such Person in, any other Person and (d) any written agreement to make any
Investment. The amount of any Investment shall be the original cost of such Investment
plus the cost of all additions thereto, without any adjustments for increases or decreases
in value, or write-ups, write-downs or write-offs with respect to such Investment minus any
amounts (a) realized upon the disposition of assets comprising an Investment (including the value
of any liabilities assumed by any Person other than a Credit Party in connection with such
disposition), (b) constituting repayments of Investments that are loans or advances or (c)
constituting cash returns of principal or capital thereon (including any dividend, redemption or
repurchase of equity that is accounted for, in accordance with GAAP, as a return of principal or
capital).
Issuing Banks means Citibank Canada, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Toronto Branch and Bank of
America, N.A., Canada Branch, in their respective capacities as issuers of Letters of Credit
hereunder, and their respective successors in such capacities as provided in Section 2.19(i).
ITA means the Income Tax Act (Canada).
LC Cash Collateral Account means the account established by the Borrower in the name of the
Administrative Agent (for the benefit of the Secured Parties), under which the Administrative Agent
shall have exclusive dominion and control, including the exclusive right of withdrawal, and shall
be used solely for the purposes set forth herein.
LC Disbursement means a payment made by an Issuing Bank pursuant to a Letter of Credit.
LC Exposure means, at any time, the sum of (a) the aggregate undrawn amount of all
outstanding Letters of Credit at such time, plus (b) the aggregate amount of all LC Disbursements
that have not yet been reimbursed by or on behalf of the Borrower at such time. The LC Exposure of
any Lender at any time shall be its Applicable Percentage of the total LC Exposure at such time.
Lead Arrangers has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this Agreement.
Lender Affiliate means, with respect to any Lender, an Affiliate of such Lender which
Affiliate is a Canadian Resident Lender (except to the extent it becomes a Lender during the
continuance of an Event of Default).
Lenders means the Persons listed as lenders on Schedule A and any other Person that shall
have become a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption, other than any such Person
that ceases to be a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption. Unless the context
otherwise requires, the term Lenders includes the Issuing Banks and the Swing Line Lender.
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Letter of Credit means any letter of credit issued pursuant to this Agreement.
LIBO Rate means, for any Interest Period, the rate for U.S. Dollar borrowings appearing on
Page LIBOR01 of the Reuters Service (or on any successor or substitute page of such Service, or any
successor to or substitute for such Service providing rate quotations comparable to those currently
provided on such page of such Service, as determined by the Administrative Agent from time to time
for purposes of providing quotations of interest rates applicable to U.S. Dollar deposits in the
London interbank market) at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior to the
commencement of such Interest Period, as the rate for U.S. Dollar deposits with a maturity
comparable to such Interest Period. In the event that such rate is not available at such time for
any reason, then the LIBO Rate for such Interest Period shall be the rate at which U.S. Dollar
deposits of $5,000,000 and for a maturity comparable to such Interest Period are offered by the
principal London office of the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds in the London
interbank market at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior to the
commencement of such Interest Period.
LIBO Rate Borrowing means a Borrowing comprised of one or more LIBO Rate Loans.
LIBO Rate Loan means a Loan denominated in U.S. Dollars made by the Lenders to the Borrower
hereunder pursuant to a drawdown, rollover or conversion of a Loan which bears interest at a rate
based upon the LIBO Rate.
Lien means, (a) with respect to any asset, any mortgage, deed of trust, lien, pledge,
hypothec, hypothecation, encumbrance, charge, security interest, royalty interest, adverse claim,
defect of title or right of set off in, on or of such asset, (b) the interest of a vendor or a
lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease, title retention agreement or
consignment agreement (or any financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any
of the foregoing) relating to any asset, (c) in the case of securities, any purchase option, call
or similar right of a third party with respect to such securities, and (d) any other arrangement
having the effect of providing security.
Loan means any loan made by the Lenders to the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement, and
includes any B/A accepted (and any B/A Equivalent Loan purchased) by any Lender hereunder.
Loan Documents means this Agreement, the Security Documents, the Blocked Account Agreement,
the Borrowing Requests, the Borrowing Base Reports and the Fee Letter, together with any other
document, instrument or agreement (other than participation, agency or similar agreements among the
Lenders or between any Lender and any other bank or creditor with respect to any indebtedness or
obligations of any Credit Party hereunder or thereunder) now or hereafter entered into in
connection with this Agreement (including, solely for the purposes of the Security Documents, each
Secured Hedge Agreement), as such documents, instruments or agreements may be amended, modified or
supplemented from time to time.
Material Adverse Change means any event or occurrence which has resulted in or would
reasonably be expected to result in any material adverse change in the business, financial or other
condition, operations or properties of the Credit Parties, taken as a whole (other than events
publicly disclosed prior to the commencement of the Cases and the commencement and continuation of
the Cases and the consequences that would normally result therefrom); provided that events,
developments and circumstances disclosed in public filings and press releases of Dana Corporation
and any other events of information made available in writing to the Administrative Agent, in each
case at least three days prior to the Effective Date, shall not be considered in determining
whether a Material Adverse Change has occurred, although subsequent events, developments and
circumstances relating thereto may be considered in determining whether or not a Material Adverse
Change has occurred
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Material Adverse Effect means a material adverse effect on (a) the business, financial or
other condition, operations or properties of the Credit Parties, taken as a whole (other than
events publicly disclosed prior to the commencement of the Cases and the commencement and
continuation of the Cases and the consequences that would normally result therefrom), (b) the
rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent or any Lender under any Loan Document or (c) the
ability of any Credit Party to perform its Obligations under any Loan Document to which it is or is
to be a party; provided that events, developments and circumstances disclosed in public
filings and press releases of Dana Corporation and any other events of information made available
in writing to the Administrative Agent, in each case at least three days prior to the Effective
Date, shall not be considered in determining whether a Material Adverse Effect has occurred,
although subsequent events, developments and circumstances relating thereto may be considered in
determining whether or not a Material Adverse Effect has occurred.
Material Indebtedness means any Indebtedness (other than the Loans) of any one or more of
the Credit Parties in an aggregate principal amount exceeding U.S.$5,000,000.
Maturity Date means the earlier of (i) the date that is twenty-four (24) months following
the Effective Date (or, if such date is not a Business Day, the next Business Day thereafter) and
(ii) the Termination Date (as such term is defined in the U.S. Credit Agreement as in effect on the
date hereof).
Maximum Amount means, as of any date of determination, an amount equal to the total
Commitments of all Lenders as of that date.
Moodys means Moodys Investors Service, Inc.
Net Orderly Liquidation Value means, with respect to Inventory or Equipment, as the case may
be, the orderly liquidation value with respect to such Inventory or Equipment, net of expenses
estimated to be incurred in connection with such liquidation, based on the most recent third party
appraisal in form and substance, and by an independent appraisal firm, reasonably satisfactory to
the Administrative Agent.
Net Recovery Rate means, with respect to (a) Inventory at any time, the quotient (expressed
as a percentage) of (i) the Net Orderly Liquidation Value of all Inventory owned by the Credit
Parties divided by (ii) the gross inventory cost of such Inventory, determined on the basis of the
then most recently conducted third party inventory appraisal in form and substance, and performed
by an independent appraisal firm, reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, and (b)
Equipment at any time, the quotient (expressed as a percentage) of (i) the Net Orderly Liquidation
Value of all Equipment owned by the Credit Parties divided by (ii) the gross cost of such
Equipment, determined on the basis of the then most recently conducted third party appraisal in
form and substance, and performed by an independent appraisal firm, reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent.
Obligations means all loans, advances, debts, liabilities and obligations, for the
performance of covenants, tasks or duties or for payment of monetary amounts (whether or not such
performance is then required or contingent, or such amounts are liquidated or determinable) owing
by any Credit Party to the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank or any Lender, and all covenants and duties regarding
such amounts, of any kind or nature, present or future, whether or not evidenced by any note,
agreement, letter of credit agreement or other instrument, arising under this Agreement or any of
the other Loan Documents. This term includes all principal, interest (including all interest that
accrues after the commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding upon or after the
insolvency of a Credit Party, whether or not allowed in such proceeding), fees, hedging obligations
under swaps, caps and collar arrangements relating to the Credit provided by any Lender or any
Lender Affiliate, expenses, legal fees
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and any other sum chargeable to any Credit Party under this
Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents.
Operating Account(s) means the bank account(s) (including, without limitation, Canadian
Dollar and U.S. Dollar deposit accounts, collection accounts and disbursement accounts) maintained
by the Borrower at a financial institution acceptable to the Administrative Agent, acting
reasonably.
Out-of-Pocket Expenses means all of the Administrative Agents present and future expenses
incurred relative to this Agreement or any other Loan Documents, whether incurred heretofore or
hereafter, which expenses shall include, without being limited to: the reasonable cost of retaining
external legal counsel, record searches, all costs and expenses incurred by the Administrative
Agent in opening bank accounts, depositing cheques, receiving and transferring funds, and wire
transfer charges, any charges imposed on the Administrative Agent due to returned items and
insufficient funds of deposited cheques and the Administrative Agents standard fees relating
thereto, any amounts paid by, incurred by or charged to, the Administrative Agent by an Issuing
Bank under a Letter of Credit or the reimbursement agreements related thereto, applications for
Letters of Credit or other like document which pertain either directly or indirectly to such
Letters of Credit, and the Administrative Agents standard fees relating to Letters of Credit and
any drafts thereunder, reasonable travel, lodging and similar expenses of the Administrative
Agents personnel (or any of its agents) in connection with inspecting and monitoring the
Collateral from time to time at reasonable intervals hereunder, any applicable reasonable counsel
fees and disbursements, fees and taxes relative to the filing of financing statements, and all
expenses, costs and fees set forth incurred by or imposed on the Administrative Agent by reason of
the exercise of any of its rights and remedies under this Agreement or any of the other Loan
Documents.
Participant has the meaning set out in Section 9.4.
Payment Office means the Administrative Agents office located at Citibank Place, 123 Front
Street West, Suite 1700, Toronto, Ontario, M5J 2M3, Attention: Mr. Cal Fryer (or such other office
or individual as the Administrative Agent may hereafter designate in writing to the other parties
hereto).
Pension Plan means any pension benefit plan within the meaning of the Pension Benefits Act
(Ontario) in respect of which any Credit Party makes or has made contributions in respect of its
employees.
Permitted Acquisition means any Acquisition by any Credit Party; provided that (A)
such Acquisition shall be in property and assets which are part of, or in lines of business that
are, substantially the same lines of business as (or ancillary to) one or more of the businesses of
the Credit Parties in the ordinary course; (B) any determination of the amount of consideration
paid in connection with such investment shall include all cash consideration paid, the aggregate
amounts paid or to be paid under noncompete, consulting and other affiliated agreements with, the
sellers of such investment, and the principal amount of all assumptions of debt, liabilities and
other obligations in connection therewith; (C) immediately before and immediately after giving
effect to any such purchase or other acquisition, no Default shall have occurred and be continuing
and (D) immediately after giving effect to such purchase or other acquisition, the Credit Parties shall be in pro forma compliance with the financial
covenant set forth in Section 5.11 hereof.
Permitted Inter-Corporate Payments means:
(a) the Dana Notes and repayments of principal on, and payments of interest on, and any
applicable withholding Taxes payable on payments of interest on, the Dana Notes;
provided that (i) no Default or Event of Default would occur and be continuing after
giving effect to any
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such repayments; (ii) any changes in or amendments to the terms of
repayment under the Dana Notes shall be approved by the Lenders, acting reasonably, (iii)
the Dana Notes shall at all times remain unsecured obligations of the respective obligors
thereunder, and (iv) the Dana Notes shall be subject to the Postponement Agreement which
shall prohibit repayments thereunder at any time during the continuance of an Event of
Default or in circumstances where such repayments would result in an Event of Default; and
(b) unsecured, intercompany loans and advances, and repayments of principal, interest
and applicable Taxes thereon, made directly or indirectly, by one Credit Party (the
obligee) to another Credit Party or to Dana International or Dana Corporation (the
obligor); provided that (A) the obligee shall cause each such obligor to execute
and deliver to the obligee, a demand note (collectively, the Intercompany Notes) to
evidence any such intercompany Indebtedness owing at any time by such obligor to the
obligee, which Intercompany Notes shall be in form and substance satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent, acting reasonably, and shall be pledged and delivered by the obligee
to the Administrative Agent pursuant to the Pledge Agreement or the Postponement Agreement
as additional collateral security for the Obligations; (B) the obligor shall record all
intercompany transactions on its books and records in a manner satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent, acting reasonably; (C) the obligations of the obligee under any such
Intercompany Notes shall be subordinated and postponed to the Obligations of the obligee
hereunder in a manner satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, acting reasonably; (D) at
the time any such intercompany loan or advance is made, the obligee and the obligor shall be
Solvent; (E) no Default or Event of Default would occur and be continuing after giving
effect to any such proposed intercompany loan; (F) the aggregate principal balance of all
such intercompany loans owing to the Borrower shall not exceed U.S.$15,000,000 at any time;
and
(c) dividends or distributions paid directly or indirectly by any Credit Party to
another Credit Party or to Dana International.
Permitted Liens means:
(a) Liens in favour of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties
and the other parties intended to share the benefits of the Collateral securing the Secured
Obligations;
(b) Purchase Money Liens securing Indebtedness and Liens to secure Capital Lease
Obligations, in each case only to the extent such Indebtedness is permitted by Section
6.2(vii);
(c) Liens imposed by any Governmental Authority for Taxes not yet due and delinquent or
which are being contested in good faith in compliance with Section 5.3, and, during such
period during which such Liens are being so contested, such Liens shall not be executed on
or enforced against any of the assets of any Credit Party;
(d) carriers, warehousemens, mechanics, materialmens, repairmens, construction and
other like Liens arising by operation of Applicable Law, arising in the ordinary course of
business, which are not overdue for a period of more than 30 days or which are being
contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings, and, during such period during which
such Liens are being so contested, such Liens shall not be executed on or enforced against
any of the assets of any Credit Party, provided that such Credit Party shall have
set aside on its books reserves deemed adequate therefor and not resulting in qualification
by auditors;
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(e) statutory Liens incurred or pledges or deposits made under workers compensation,
unemployment insurance and other social security legislation, including, without limitation,
cash collateral provided for surety bonds issued on behalf of the Borrower for its workers
compensation liabilities;
(f) Liens or deposits to secure the performance of bids, tenders, trade contracts,
leases, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other
obligations of a like nature (other than for borrowed money) incurred in the ordinary course
of business;
(g) servitudes, easements, rights of way, restrictions, reservations in favour of the
Crown and other similar encumbrances on real property imposed by Applicable Law or incurred
in the ordinary course of business and encumbrances consisting of zoning or building
restrictions, easements, licenses, restrictions on the use of property or minor
imperfections in title thereto which, in the aggregate, are not material, and which do not
in any case materially detract from the value of the property subject thereto or interfere
with the ordinary conduct of the business of the Credit Parties from the applicable real
property;
(h) Liens of or resulting from any judgment or award, the time for the appeal or
petition for rehearing of which shall not have expired, or in respect of which the Credit
Parties shall at any time in good faith be prosecuting an appeal or proceeding for review
and in respect of which a stay of execution pending such appeal or proceeding for review
shall have been secured;
(i) undetermined or inchoate Liens and charges arising or potentially arising under
statutory provisions which have not at the time been filed or registered in accordance with
Applicable Law or of which written notice has not been duly given in accordance with
Applicable Law or which although filed or registered, relate to obligations not due or
delinquent;
(j) the rights reserved to or vested in Governmental Authorities by statutory
provisions or by the terms of leases, licenses, franchises, grants or permits, which affect
any land, to terminate the leases, licenses, franchises, grants or permits or to require
annual or other periodic payments as a condition of the continuance thereof so long as such
rights have not been exercised by such Governmental Authorities in a manner that impairs in
any material respect the value or usefulness to the relevant Credit Party of the relevant
property;
(k) securities to public utilities or to any municipalities or other Governmental
Authorities or other public authority when required by the utility, municipality or
Governmental Authorities or other public authority in connection with the supply of services
or utilities to a Credit Party;
(l) Liens or covenants restricting or prohibiting access to or from lands abutting on
controlled access highways or covenants affecting the use to which lands may be put;
provided that, in the case of a Credit Party such Liens or covenants do not materially and
adversely affect the use of the lands by the Credit Party;
(m) Liens consisting of royalties payable with respect to any property of a Credit
Party, provided that the existence of any such Lien on any material property of a
Credit Party in favour of any Person other than Dana Corporation or any of its Subsidiaries
shall be disclosed in writing to the Lenders;
(n) Liens securing reimbursement obligations relating to letters of credit issued
pursuant to this Agreement, provided that the value of the collateral subject to any
such Lien does
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not exceed the amount of the related reimbursement obligation, including,
without limitation, cash collateral provided by the Borrower to The Toronto-Dominion Bank to
support the General Electric capital lease p-221 program;
(o) statutory Liens incurred or pledges or deposits made in favour of a Governmental
Authority to secure the performance of obligations of a Credit Party under Environmental
Laws to which any assets of such Credit Party are subject, provided that no Default
or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;
(p) a Lien granted by a Credit Party to a landlord to secure the payment of arrears of
rent in respect of leased properties in the Province of Quebec leased from such landlord,
provided that such Lien is limited to the assets located at or about such leased
properties;
(q) any Lien on any property or asset of a Credit Party existing on the date hereof and
set forth in Schedule 3.9; provided that (i) such Lien shall not apply to any other
property or asset of such Credit Party, and (ii) such Lien shall secure only those
obligations which it secures on the date hereof;
(r) any Lien existing on any property or asset prior to the acquisition thereof by a
Credit Party or existing on any property or asset of any Person that becomes a Credit Party
after the date hereof prior to the time such Person becomes a Credit Party; provided
that (i) such Lien is not created in contemplation of or in connection with such acquisition
or such Person becoming a Credit Party, as the case may be, (ii) such Lien shall not apply
to any other property or assets of such Credit Party or any other Credit Party, and (iii)
such Lien shall secure only those obligations which it secures on the date of such
acquisition or the date such Person becomes a Credit Party, as the case may be;
(s) statutory Liens in respect of deemed statutory trusts under pension benefits
standards legislation over (i) employee contributions to pension funds that have been
deducted but not remitted and (ii) employer contributions that are accrued and due but not
paid;
(t) servicing agreements, development agreements, site plan agreements, and other
agreements with Governmental Authorities pertaining to the use or development of any of the
Collateral consisting of real property, provided same are complied with;
(u) the right reserved to or vested in any municipality or Governmental Authority by
the terms of any lease, licence, franchise, grant or permit acquired by such Credit Party or
by any statutory provision, to terminate any such lease, licence, franchise, grant or
permit, or to require annual or other payments as a condition to the continuance thereof:
(v) Liens to secure Indebtedness for borrowed money incurred by the Borrower or arising
pursuant to any Hedge Agreement, sundry facilities or corporate VISA and/or commercial card
transactions to the extent such Indebtedness is an Obligation owing to any Lender; provided
that such Liens are granted on a basis as to priority consistent with the scheme of priority
contemplated hereunder;
(w) any other Liens consented to in writing by all of the Lenders, including those PPSA
registrations set out in Schedule 3.9;
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(x) Liens in favor of GE Canada Asset Financing Holding Company and its Affiliates to
secure the obligations of the Borrower under the GE Canada Master Lease Documents; and
(y) any extension, renewal or replacement of any of the foregoing; provided,
however, that the Liens permitted hereunder shall not be extended to cover any additional
Indebtedness of the Credit Parties or their property (other than a substitution of like
property), except Liens in respect of Capital Lease Obligations and Purchase Money Liens as
permitted by (c) above.
Permitted Senior Liens means, with respect to any item of Collateral, a Lien thereon, senior
to the Liens thereon granted or created pursuant to the Security Documents in favour of the Secured
Parties permitted to be created or to exist pursuant to clause (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (i), (j),
(k), (o), (s), (u) or, to the extent relating to the foregoing, (x) of the definition of Permitted
Liens.
Person includes any natural person, corporation, company, limited liability company, trust,
joint venture, association, incorporated organization, partnership, Governmental Authority or other
entity.
Postponement Agreement means, in respect of the Dana Notes, a postponement agreement in form
and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and delivered on or before the
Effective Date, setting forth the circumstances in which payments with respect to any Indebtedness
of any Credit Party under the Dana Notes may or may not be paid.
PPSA means the Personal Property Security Act (Ontario), as amended from time to time.
Preferred Interests means, with respect to any Person, Equity Securities issued by such
Person that are entitled to a preference or priority over any other Equity Securities issued by
such Person upon any distribution of such Persons property and assets, whether by dividend or upon
liquidation.
Priority Payables means, with respect to any Person, any amount (other than the Secured
Obligations) payable by such Person which is secured by a Lien in favour of a Governmental
Authority or any other Person which ranks or is capable of ranking prior to or pari passu with the
Liens created by the Security Documents in respect of any Eligible Accounts or Eligible Inventory,
including amounts owing for wages, vacation pay, severance pay, employee deductions, sales tax
(including PST), excise tax, Tax payable pursuant to the ETA (net of GST input credits), income
tax, workers compensation, government royalties, pension fund obligations, overdue rents or Taxes,
and other statutory or other claims (including rights of subrogation) that have priority over, or
rank pari passu with, such Liens created by the Security Documents.
PST means all taxes payable under the Retail Sales Tax Act (Ontario) or any similar statute
of another jurisdiction of Canada.
Purchase Money Lien means a Lien taken or reserved in personal property (other than
Inventory) to secure payment of all or part of its purchase price, provided that such Lien
(i) secures an amount not exceeding the purchase price of such personal property, (ii) extends only
to such personal property and its proceeds, and (iii) is granted prior to or within 30 days after
the purchase of such personal property.
QST means the Quebec sales tax imposed pursuant to an Act respecting the Québec sales tax.
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Quarterly Date means each of the last day of each of March, June, September, and December in
each calendar year.
Redeemable means, with respect to any Equity Securities, Indebtedness or other right or
obligation, any such right or obligation that (a) the issuer has undertaken to redeem at a fixed or
determinable date or dates, whether by operation of a sinking fund or otherwise, or upon the
occurrence of a condition not solely within the control of the issuer or (b) is redeemable at the
option of the holder.
Register has the meaning set out in Section 9.4(c).
Reimbursement Obligations means, at any date, the sum of the outstanding obligations of the
Borrower in respect of the Letters of Credit, to reimburse the Administrative Agent for the account
of each Issuing Bank for the amount paid by such Issuing Bank in respect of any drawings under
Letters of Credit.
Related Parties means, with respect to any Person, such Persons Affiliates and the
respective directors, officers, employees, agents, advisors, attorneys and representatives of such
Person and of such Persons Affiliates.
Release means a discharge, deposit, spill, leak, pumping, pouring, emission, emptying,
injection, escape, leaching, seepage or disposal of a Hazardous Material in breach of any
Environmental Laws.
Required Lenders means, at any time, Lenders having Exposure and unused Commitments
representing at least a majority in interest of the sum of the total Exposure and unused
Commitments at such time.
Responsible Officer means, with respect to any Person, the chairman, the president, any vice
president, the chief executive officer, the chief operating officer or the Treasurer, and, in
respect of financial or accounting matters, any Financial Officer of such Person; unless otherwise
specified, all references herein to a Responsible Officer mean a Responsible Officer of the
Borrower.
Restricted Payment shall mean, with respect to any Person, any payment (other than a
Permitted Inter-Corporate Payment) by such Person (i) of any dividends on any of its Equity
Securities, (ii) on account of, or for the purpose of setting apart any property for a sinking or
other analogous fund for, the purchase, redemption, retirement or other acquisition of any of its
Equity Securities or any warrants, options or rights to acquire any such shares, or the making by
such Person of any other distribution in respect of any of its Equity Securities, (iii) of any
principal of or interest or premium on or of any amount in respect of a sinking or analogous fund
or defeasance fund for any Indebtedness of such Person ranking in right of payment subordinate to
any liability of such Person under the Loan Documents, (iv) of any principal of or of any amount in
respect of a sinking or analogous fund or defeasance fund for any Indebtedness of such Person to a
shareholder of such Person or to an Affiliate of a shareholder of such Person that in either case is not a Credit Party or a Subsidiary of a Credit Party, or
(v) of any management, consulting or similar fee (other than payments or reimbursements in respect
of shared or reasonably allocated overhead or other analogous costs and expenses) or any bonus
payment or comparable payment, or by way of gift or other gratuity, to any Affiliate of such Person
or to any director or officer thereof.
Revolving Commitment means, with respect to each Lender, the commitment(s) of such Lender to
make Revolving Loans or purchase and accept Bankers Acceptances hereunder as such commitment(s)
may be reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.6, and as such commitment(s)
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may be reduced or increased from time to time pursuant to assignments by or to such Lender pursuant to Section
9.4. The initial amount(s) of each Lenders Revolving Commitment(s) are set forth on Schedule A,
or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender shall have assumed its Revolving
Commitment(s), as applicable. The initial aggregate amount of the Revolving Commitments is
U.S.$100,000,000 (or the Canadian $ Equivalent thereof).
Revolving Loan has the meaning set out in Section 2.1(a).
Rolling Period means, as at the end of any calendar month, such calendar month taken
together with the eleven immediately preceding calendar months.
S&P means Standard & Poors Ratings Services, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
SEC means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission or any Governmental Authority
succeeding to any of its principal functions.
Secured Credit Card Obligations means any Obligations arising under the Credit Card Program
(to the extent provided for, and subject to the limitations set forth, in Section 6.2(viii) and
2.16(b)(ii).
Secured Hedge Agreement means any Hedge Agreement required or permitted under Section 6.9
that is entered into by and between any Credit Party and any Swap Bank , in each case solely to the
extent that the obligations in respect of such Hedge Agreement are not cash collateralized or
otherwise secured (other than pursuant to the Security Documents).
Secured Obligations means, without duplication, the Obligations of the Credit Parties under
the Loan Documents, Cash Management Obligations of the Credit Parties (to the extent provided for,
and subject to the limitations set forth, in Section 6.2(viii) and 2.16(b)(ii), all Obligations of
the Credit Parties under Secured Hedge Agreements (to the extent provided for, and subject to the
limitations set forth, in Section 6.2(viii) and 2.16(b)(ii) and all Secured Credit Card
Obligations, and all Obligations under each agreement or instrument delivered by any Credit Party
pursuant to any of the foregoing (whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, and whether
for principal, reimbursement obligations, interest, fees, premiums, penalties, indemnifications,
contract causes of action, costs, expenses or otherwise.
Secured Parties means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the Issuing
Banks, the Swap Banks, and the Lender Affiliates to which Secured Obligations are owing from time
to time.
Security Documents means the agreements, documents or instruments described or referred to
in Section 4.1 and Section 5.10 (including, to the extent such Section describes an amendment, the
agreement, document or instrument amended thereby) and any and all other agreements, documents or instruments now or hereafter executed and delivered by any Credit Party or any other Person as
security for the payment or performance of all or part of the Secured Obligations, as any of the
foregoing may have been, or may hereafter be, amended, modified or supplemented.
Settlement Date means the date, which shall be weekly, or more frequently at the discretion
of the Administrative Agent upon the occurrence of an Event of Default or a continuing decline or
increase of the Loans, that the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall settle among themselves
so that (a) the Administrative Agent shall not at any time have, as the agent for the Lenders, any
money at risk, and (b) on such Settlement Date each Lender shall be responsible for its pro rata
amount of the Revolving Loan,
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calculated on the basis of each of their Applicable Percentages in
respect of the outstanding Exposure as at such date, provided that each Settlement Date
shall be a Business Day.
Solvent means, with respect to any Person on a particular date, that on such date (i) the
property of such Person is sufficient, if disposed of at a fairly conducted sale under legal
process, to enable payment of all its obligations, due and accruing due, (ii) the property of such
Person is, at a fair valuation, greater than the total amount of liabilities, including contingent
liabilities, of such Person; (iii) such Person has not ceased paying its current obligations in the
ordinary course of business as they generally become due; and (iv) such Person is not for any
reason unable to meet its obligations as they generally become due. The amount of contingent
liabilities (such as litigation, guarantees and pension plan liabilities) at any time shall be
computed as the amount that, in light of all the facts and circumstances existing at the time,
represents the amount that can be reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability.
Subsidiary of any Person means any corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited
liability company, trust or estate of which (or in which) more than 50% of (a) the issued and
outstanding capital stock having ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the Board of
Directors of such corporation (irrespective of whether at the time capital stock of any other class
or classes of such corporation shall or might have voting power upon the occurrence of any
contingency), (b) the interest in the capital or profits of such partnership, joint venture or
limited liability company or (c) the beneficial interest in such trust or estate is at the time
directly or indirectly owned or controlled by such Person, by such Person and one or more of its
other Subsidiaries or by one or more of such Persons other Subsidiaries.
Supermajority Lenders means, at any time, Lenders having Exposure and unused Commitments
representing at least 80% in interest of the sum of the total Exposure and unused Commitments at
such time.
Swap Bank means any Lender or Lender Affiliate in its capacity as a party to a Secured Hedge
Agreement.
Swing Line Commitment means, with respect to the Swing Line Lender, the commitment of such
Lender to make Swing Line Loans hereunder, as such commitment(s) may be reduced or increased from
time to time pursuant to assignments by or to such Lender pursuant to Section 9.4. The initial
amount of the Swing Line Lenders Swing Line Commitment is set forth on Schedule A, or in the
Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Swing Line Lender shall have assumed its Swing
Line Commitment, as applicable. The initial amount of the Swing Line Commitment is U.S.$10,000,000
(or the Canadian $ Equivalent thereof).
Swing Line Lender means the Initial Swing Line Lender and any Eligible Assignee to which the
Swing Line Commitment hereunder has been assigned pursuant to Section 9.4 so long as such Eligible
Assignee expressly agrees to perform in accordance with their terms all obligations that by the
terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Swing Line Lender and notifies the
Administrative Agent of its applicable lending office and the amount of its Swing Line Commitment,
for so long as such Initial Swing Line Lender or Eligible Assignee, as the case may be, shall have
a Swing Line Commitment.
Swing Line Loan has the meaning specified in Section 2.1(b).
Synthetic Debt means, with respect to any Person as of any date of determination thereof,
all obligations of such Person in respect of transactions entered into by such Person that are
intended to function primarily as a borrowing of funds (including, without limitation, any minority
interest
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transactions that function primarily as a borrowing) but are not otherwise included in the
definition of Indebtedness or as a liability on the consolidated balance sheet of such Person and
its Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP.
Taxes means all taxes, charges, fees, levies, imposts and other assessments, including all
income, sales, use, goods and services, value added, capital, capital gains, alternative, net
worth, transfer, profits, withholding, payroll, employer health, excise, real property and personal
property taxes, and any other taxes, customs duties, fees, assessments, or similar charges in the
nature of a tax, including Canada Pension Plan and provincial pension plan contributions,
unemployment insurance payments and workers compensation premiums, together with any instalments
with respect thereto, and any interest, fines and penalties with respect thereto, imposed by any
Governmental Authority (including federal, state, provincial, municipal and foreign Governmental
Authorities), and whether disputed or not.
Tooling Program means any program whereby tooling equipment is purchased or progress
payments are made to facilitate production customers products and whereby the customer will
ultimately repurchase the tooling equipment after the final approval by such customer.
Transactions means the execution, delivery and performance by the Borrower of this Agreement
and the other Loan Documents, the borrowing of Loans, the use of the proceeds thereof and the
issuance of Letters of Credit hereunder.
Type, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether the rate of
interest on such Loan, or on the Loans comprising such Borrowing, is determined by reference to the
Canadian Prime Rate, the CDOR Rate, the Base Rate, the LIBO Rate, or is an LC.
U.S. Bankruptcy Code means U.S. Bankruptcy Code (11 U.S.C. §§ 101 et seq), as
amended from time to time.
U.S. Bankruptcy Court means the United States District Court for the Southern District of
New York when such court is exercising direct jurisdiction over the Cases.
U.S. Credit Agreement means the U.S.$1,450,000,000 Senior Secured Superpriority
Debtor-In-Possession Credit Agreement dated as of March 3, 2006 among Dana Corporation, as Debtor
and Debtor-In-Possession, as Borrower, the Guarantors party thereto, as Debtors and Debtors in
Possession under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, Citicorp North America, Inc., as
Administrative Agent, Bank of America, N.A. and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Co-Syndication
Agents, Citicorp North America, Inc., as Initial Swing Line Lender, Bank of America, N.A., Citicorp
North America, Inc., and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Initial Issuing Banks, and the Initial
Lenders and the other lenders party thereto, as such agreement has been amended, modified,
supplemented and/or restated.
U.S. Dollars and U.S.$ refer to lawful money of the United States of America.
U.S.$ Equivalent means, on any day, the amount of U.S. Dollars that the Administrative Agent
could purchase, in accordance with its normal practice, with a specified amount of Canadian Dollars
based on the Bank of Canada noon spot rate on such day.
1.2 Classification of Loans and Borrowings. For purposes of this Agreement, Loans may be
classified and referred to by Type (e.g., a Canadian Prime Rate Loan) and Borrowings also may be
classified and referred to by Type (e.g., a Canadian Prime Rate Borrowing).
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1.3 Terms Generally. The definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the
singular and plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun
shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words include,
includes and including shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase without limitation. The
word will shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word shall. The word
shall is mandatory; the word may is permissive. The words to the knowledge of means, when
modifying a representation, warranty or other statement of any Person, that the fact or situation
described therein is known by the Person (or, in the case or a Person other than a natural Person,
known by the Responsible Officer of that Person) making the representation, warranty or other
statement, or with the exercise of reasonable due diligence under the circumstances (in accordance
with the standard of what a reasonable Person in similar circumstances would have done) would have
been known by the Person (or, in the case of a Person other than a natural Person, would have been
known by such Responsible Officer of that Person). Unless the context requires otherwise (a) any
definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document herein shall be construed
as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, supplements or
modifications set forth herein), (b) any reference herein to any statute or any section thereof
shall, unless otherwise expressly stated, be deemed to be a reference to such statute or section as
amended, restated or re-enacted from time to time, (c) any reference herein to any Person shall be
construed to include such Persons successors and permitted assigns, (d) the words herein,
hereof and hereunder, and words of similar import, shall be construed to refer to this
Agreement in its entirety and not to any particular provision hereof, (e) all references herein to
Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of,
and Exhibits and Schedules to, this Agreement, and (f) the words asset and property shall be
construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible
assets and properties, including cash, securities, accounts and contract rights. Unless otherwise
specified, all references to dollar amounts in this Agreement shall mean Canadian Dollars.
1.4 References to Real and Personal Property. With respect to real or tangible personal
property located in the Province of Quebec, (a) the terms real property, personal property and
real and personal property and words of similar import shall be deemed to also refer to
immovable property, movable property and immovable and movable property respectively. The
terms tangible and intangible and words of similar import shall be deemed to also refer to
corporeal and incorporeal respectively.
1.5 Accounting Terms; GAAP. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all terms of an
accounting or financial nature shall be construed in accordance with GAAP. All calculations for
the purposes of determining compliance with the financial ratios and financial covenant contained
herein shall be made on a basis consistent with GAAP in existence from time to time and used in the
preparation of the financial statements of the Borrower referred to in Section 5.1(a).
1.6 Time. All time references herein shall, unless otherwise specified, be references to
local time in Toronto, Ontario. Time is of the essence of this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents.
1.7 Permitted Liens. Any reference in any of the Loan Documents to a Permitted Lien is not
intended to subordinate or postpone, and shall not be interpreted as subordinating or postponing,
or as any agreement to subordinate or postpone, any Lien created by any of the Loan Documents to
any Permitted Lien.
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ARTICLE 2
THE CREDITS
2.1 Commitments.
(a) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Lender commits to make Loans
(each such Loan made under this Section 2.1(a), a Revolving Loan) to the Borrower from time to
time during the period commencing on the Effective Date and ending on the Maturity Date up to an
aggregate principal amount equal to the amount set forth beside such Lenders name in Schedule A
under the heading Commitment, provided that any Revolving Loans made by any Lender as requested
by the Borrower will not result in (i) such Lenders Exposure exceeding such Lenders Commitment,
or (ii) the sum of the total Exposure exceeding the lesser of (x) the Maximum Amount and (y) the
Borrowing Base. Within the foregoing limits and subject to the terms and conditions set forth
herein, the Borrower may borrow, repay and reborrow Revolving Loans.
(b) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Swing Line Lender commits to
make Loans (each such Loan made under this Section 2.1(b), a Swing Line Loan) to the Borrower
from time to time during the period commencing on the Effective Date and ending on the Maturity
Date up to an aggregate principal amount equal to the amount set forth beside the Swing Line
Lenders name in Schedule A under the heading Swing Line Commitment, provided that any
Swing Line Loans made by the Swing Line Lender as requested by the Borrower will not result in (i)
the aggregate amount of Swing Line Loans exceeding the Swing Line Commitment, or (ii) the sum of
the total Exposure exceeding the lesser of (x) the Maximum Amount and (y) the Borrowing Base.
Within the foregoing limits and subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower
may borrow, repay and reborrow Swing Line Loans.
2.2 Loans and Borrowings.
(a) Each Revolving Loan shall be made as part of a Borrowing consisting of Revolving Loans
made by the Lenders ratably in accordance with their respective Commitments. The failure of any
Lender to make any Loan required to be made by it shall not relieve any other Lender of its
obligations hereunder; provided that the Commitments of the Lenders are several and no
Lender shall be responsible for any other Lenders failure to make Loans as required.
(b) Subject to Section 2.19, each Borrowing shall be comprised entirely of Canadian Prime
Loans, Bankers Acceptances, B/A Equivalent Loans, Base Rate Loans or LIBO Rate Loans as the
Borrower may request in accordance herewith. If the initial Borrowing occurs on or within five
Business Days of the Effective Date, such Borrowing shall be comprised of Canadian Prime Loans or
Base Rate Loans.
(c) At the commencement of each Interest Period for any LIBO Rate Borrowing, such Borrowing
shall be in an aggregate amount that is an integral multiple of U.S.$100,000 and not less than
U.S.$500,000. At the time that each Canadian Prime Borrowing or Base Rate Borrowing is made, such
Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is an integral multiple of $100,000 and not less
than $500,000; provided that a Canadian Prime Borrowing or a Base Rate Borrowing may be in an
aggregate amount that is required to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement. At the
commencement of each Contract Period for any B/A Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate
amount that is an integral multiple of Cdn.$100,000 and not less than Cdn.$500,000. Borrowings of
more than one Type may be outstanding at the same time; provided that there shall not at
any time be more than a total of five B/A Borrowings and five LIBO Rate Borrowings outstanding.
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(d) Each Swing Line Loan shall be comprised entirely of Canadian Prime Loans or Base Rate
Loans. No Swing Line Loan shall be used for the purpose of funding the payment of principal of any
other Swing Line Loan. Immediately upon the making of a Swing Line Loan, each Revolving Lender
shall be deemed to, and hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to, purchase from the Swing
Line Lender a risk participation in such Swing Line Loan in an amount equal to the product of such
Lenders pro rata share of the Revolving Commitments times the principal amount of such Swing Line
Loan.
2.3 Requests for Borrowings and Swing Line Loans.
(a) To request a Borrowing (other than a Letter of Credit), the Borrower shall notify the
Administrative Agent of such request by written Borrowing Request (i) in the case of a LIBO Rate
Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., Toronto time, three Business Days before the date of the
proposed Borrowing, (ii) in the case of a B/A Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., Toronto time,
two Business Days before the date of the proposed Borrowing, or (iii) in the case of a Canadian
Prime Borrowing or a Base Rate Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., Toronto time, one Business Day
before the date of the proposed Borrowing. Each such Borrowing Request shall be irrevocable. The
Administrative Agent and each Lender are entitled to rely and act upon any written Borrowing
Request given or purportedly given by the Borrower. Each such written Borrowing Request shall be
substantially in the form of Exhibit B and shall specify the following information:
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Period to be applicable thereto, which shall be a period contemplated by the
definition of the term Interest Period, and in the case of a B/A Borrowing,
the initial Contract Period to be applicable thereto, which shall be a period
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(b) If no election as to the Type of Borrowing is specified, then the requested Borrowing
shall be a Canadian Prime Borrowing (if denominated in Canadian Dollars) or a Base Rate Borrowing
(if denominated in U. S. Dollars). If no currency is specified, the Borrowing shall be denominated
in Canadian Dollars. If no Interest Period is specified with respect to any requested LIBO Rate
Borrowing, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of a one month
duration. If no Contract Period is specified with respect to any requested B/A Borrowing, then the
Borrower shall be deemed to have selected a Contract Period of a one month duration. Promptly
following receipt of a Borrowing Request in accordance with this Section 2.3, the Administrative
Agent shall advise each Lender of the details thereof and of the amount of such Lenders Loan to be
made as part of the requested Borrowing.
(c) Each Borrowing initially shall be of the Type specified in the applicable Borrowing
Request. Thereafter, the Borrower may elect to convert a Borrowing to a different Type or to
continue such Borrowing and, in the case of (i) a LIBO Rate Borrowing, may elect a new Interest
Period therefor, or (ii)
a B/A Borrowing, may elect a new Contract Period therefor, all as provided in this Section
2.3(c). The
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Borrower may elect different options with respect to different portions of the
affected Borrowing, in which case each such portion shall be allocated ratably among the Lenders
holding the Loans comprising such Borrowing in accordance with their Applicable Percentage, and the
Loans comprising each such portion shall be considered a separate Borrowing. To make an election
pursuant to this Section 2.3(c), the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such
election in the manner and by the time that a Borrowing Request would be required under Section
2.3(a) if the Borrower were requesting a Borrowing of the Type resulting from such election to be
made on the effective date of such election. In addition to the information specified in Section
2.3(a), each written Borrowing Request shall specify the Borrowing to which such request applies
and, if different options are being elected with respect to different portions thereof, the
portions thereof to be allocated to each resulting Borrowing.
(d) In the absence of a timely and proper election with regard to (i) LIBO Rate Borrowings,
the Borrower shall be deemed to have elected to convert such LIBO Rate Borrowings to Base Rate
Borrowings on the last day of the Interest Period of the relevant LIBO Rate Borrowings, and (ii)
B/A Borrowings, the Borrower shall be deemed to have elected to convert such B/A Borrowings to
Canadian Prime Borrowings on the last day of the Contract Period of the relevant B/A Borrowings.
(e) Each Swing Line Loan shall be made on notice, given not later than 11:00 a.m., Toronto
time, on the date of the proposed Swing Line Loan, by the Borrower to the Swing Line Lender and the
Administrative Agent. Each such notice of a Swing Line Loan shall be by telephone, confirmed
immediately in writing, or telecopier, specifying therein the requested (i) date of such Swing Line
Loan, (ii) amount of such Swing Line Loan and (iii) maturity of such Swing Line Loan (which
maturity shall be no later than the seventh day after the requested date of such Swing Line Loan).
Each request for a Swing Line Loan shall be irrevocable. The Administrative Agent and the Swing
Line Lender are entitled to rely and act upon any request for a Swing Line Loan given or
purportedly given by the Borrower.
2.4 Funding of Borrowings and Swing Line Loans.
(a) Each Lender shall make each Loan to be made by it hereunder on the proposed Borrowing
Date by wire transfer of immediately available funds by 12:00 noon, Toronto time, to the account of
the Administrative Agent most recently designated by it for such purpose by notice to the Lenders.
The Administrative Agent will make such Loans available to the Borrower by promptly crediting the
amounts so received, in like funds, and for same day credit, to an account of the Borrower and
designated by the Borrower in the applicable Borrowing Request. The Borrower shall satisfy
Reimbursement Obligations promptly as they arise by way of a request for a Loan and all Loans made
hereunder to satisfy Reimbursement Obligations shall be remitted by the Administrative Agent to the
applicable Issuing Bank in accordance with such Letter of Credit (unless the applicable Issuing
Bank has already been fully reimbursed directly by the Borrower).
(b) The Administrative Agent may, upon notice given by the Administrative Agent no later than
12:00 p.m. Toronto time, on any Settlement Date, request each Lender to make, and each Lender
hereby agrees to make, a Revolving Loan in an amount equal to such Lenders Applicable Percentage
(calculated with respect to the aggregate Commitments then outstanding) of the aggregate amount of
the Revolving Loans made by the Administrative Agent from the preceding Settlement Date to the date
of such notice. Each Lenders obligation to make the Revolving Loans and to make the settlements
pursuant to this Section 2.4 shall not be affected by any circumstance, including (i) any set-off,
counterclaim, recoupment, defence or other right which any such Lender or the Borrower may have
against the Administrative Agent, the Borrower, any Lender or any other Person for any reason
whatsoever; (ii) any adverse change in the condition (financial or otherwise) of the Borrower; or
(iii) any other circumstance, happening or
event whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing. Without limiting the
liability and obligation of each Lender to make such advances, the Borrower authorizes the
Administrative Agent to
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charge the Borrowers Operating Account to the extent amounts received from
the Lenders are not sufficient to repay in full the amount of any such deficiency. To the extent
that any Lender has failed to fund all such payments and Revolving Loans, the Administrative Agent
shall be entitled to set off the funding short-fall against that Lenders pro rata share of all
payments received from the Borrower.
(c) The Administrative Agent, for the account of the Lenders, shall disburse all amounts to
the Borrower and shall handle all collections. It is understood that for purposes of advances to
the Borrower and for purposes of this Section 2.4, the Administrative Agent is using the funds of
the Administrative Agent.
(d) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have been notified in writing by any Lender prior
to any advance to the Borrower that such Lender will not make the amount which would constitute its
share of the Borrowing on such date available to the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent
may assume that such Lender shall make such amount available to the Administrative Agent on a
Settlement Date, and the Administrative Agent may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available
to the Borrower a corresponding amount. A certificate of the Administrative Agent submitted to any
Lender with respect to any amount owing under this Section 2.4 shall be conclusive, absent manifest
error. If such Lenders share of such Borrowing is not in fact made available to the Administrative
Agent by such Lender on the Settlement Date, the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to recover
such amount with interest thereon at the rate per annum applicable to Canadian Prime Loans (if the
unpaid amount is denominated in Canadian Dollars) or to Base Rate Loans (if the unpaid amount is
denominated in U.S. Dollars), on demand, from the Borrower without prejudice to any rights which
the Administrative Agent may have against such Lender hereunder. Nothing contained in this Section
2.4 shall relieve any Lender which has failed to make available its Applicable Percentage of any
Borrowing hereunder from its obligation to do so in accordance with the terms hereof. Nothing
contained herein shall be deemed to obligate the Administrative Agent to make available to the
Borrower the full amount of a requested advance when the Administrative Agent has any notice
(written or otherwise) that any of the Lenders will not advance its Applicable Percentage thereof.
(e) On the Settlement Date, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall each remit to the
other, in immediately available funds, all amounts necessary so as to ensure that, as of the
Settlement Date, the Lenders shall have their Applicable Percentage share of all outstanding
Obligations.
(f) The Administrative Agent shall forward to each Lender, at the end of each calendar month,
a copy of the account statement rendered by the Administrative Agent to the Borrower.
(g) The Administrative Agent shall, after receipt of any interest and fees earned under this
Agreement, promptly remit to the Lenders their Applicable Percentage of any (i) fees they are
entitled to receive, and (ii) interest computed at the rate and as provided for in this Agreement
on all outstanding amounts advanced by the Lenders on each Settlement Date, prior to adjustment,
that are subsequent to the last remittance by the Administrative Agent to the Lenders of such
interest amounts.
(h) (i) Upon receipt of a notice of a Swing Line Loan pursuant to Section 2.3(e) above, the
Swing Line Lender will make the amount of the requested Swing Line Loans available to the
Administrative Agent at the Administrative Agents account, in same day funds. After the
Administrative Agents receipt of such funds and upon fulfillment of the applicable conditions set
forth in Section 4.2, the Administrative Agent will make such funds available to the Borrower by
crediting the account designated by the Borrower.
(ii) The Swing Line Lender may, at any time in its sole and absolute discretion, request on
behalf of the Borrower (and the Borrower hereby irrevocably authorizes the Swing Line Lender to so
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request on its behalf) that each Revolving Lender make a Base Rate Loan in an amount equal to such
Lenders pro rata share of the amount of Swing Line Loans then outstanding. Such request shall be
deemed to be a Borrowing Request for purposes hereof and shall be made in accordance with the
provisions of Section 2.3(a) without regard solely to the minimum amounts specified therein but
subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 4.2 (except that the Borrower
shall not be deemed to have made any representations and warranties).
(iii) If for any reason any Swing Line Loan cannot be refinanced by a Borrowing as
contemplated by Section 2.4(h)(ii), the request for Base Rate Loans submitted by the Swing Line
Lender as set forth in Section 2.4(h)(ii) shall be deemed to be a request by such Swing Line Lender
that each of the Revolving Lenders fund its risk participation in the relevant Swing Line Loan and
each Revolving Lenders payment to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Swing Line
Lender pursuant to Section 2.4(h)(ii) shall be deemed payment in respect of such participation.
(iv) If and to the extent that any Revolving Lender shall not have made the amount of its pro
rata share of such Swing Line Loan available to the Administrative Agent in accordance with the
provisions of Section 2.4(h)(ii), such Revolving Lender agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent
forthwith on demand such amount together with interest thereon, for each day from the date of the
applicable Borrowing Request delivered by the Swing Line Lender until the date such amount is paid
to the Administrative Agent, at the Federal Funds Effective Rate.
(v) Each Revolving Lenders obligation to make Revolving Loans or to purchase and fund risk
participations in a Swing Line Loan pursuant to this Section 2.4(h) shall be absolute and
unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including (A) any set-off,
counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right which such Lender may have against the Swing Line
Lender, the Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever, (B) the occurrence or
continuance of a Default, or (C) any other occurrence, event or condition, whether or not similar
to any of the foregoing; provided, however, that each Revolving Lenders obligation
to make Revolving Loans pursuant to this Section 2.4(h) is subject to satisfaction of the
conditions set forth in Section 4.2. No funding of risk participations shall relieve or otherwise
impair the obligation of the Borrower to repay Swing Line Loans, together with interest as provided
herein.
2.5 Interest and Acceptance Fees.
(a) The Loans comprising each Canadian Prime Borrowing shall bear interest (computed on the
basis of the actual number of days elapsed over a year of 365 days or 366 days, as the case may be)
at a rate per annum equal to the Canadian Prime Rate plus the Applicable Margin from time to time
in effect. The Loans comprising each Base Rate Borrowing shall bear interest (computed on the
basis of the actual number of days elapsed over a year of 365 days or 366 days, as the case may be)
at a rate per annum equal to the Base Rate plus the Applicable Margin from time to time in effect.
The Loans comprising each LIBO Rate Borrowing shall bear interest (computed on the basis of the
actual number of days in the relevant Interest Period over a year of 360 days) at the LIBO Rate for
the Interest Period in effect for such LIBO Rate Borrowing plus the Applicable Margin.
(b) The Loans comprising each B/A Borrowing shall be subject to the Acceptance Fee which
shall be payable as set out in Section 2.11.
(c) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, upon the express
request of, or with the express consent of, the Required Lenders (or automatically upon the
commencement of any proceeding of a type described in Section 7.1(h) or (i)), all amounts
outstanding hereunder shall bear interest, after as well as before judgment, at a rate per annum
equal to 2% plus the
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rate otherwise applicable to such Loan or, in the case of any amount not
constituting principal or interest on a Loan, at a rate equal to 2% plus the rate otherwise
applicable to, in the case of Canadian Dollar amounts, Canadian Prime Loans, or in the case of U.S.
Dollar amounts, Base Rate Loans.
(d) Accrued interest on each Loan (other than B/A Borrowings) shall be payable in arrears on
the earlier of (i) each applicable Interest Payment Date, and (ii) the date of termination of the
Commitments. In addition, in the event of any repayment or prepayment of any Loan, accrued
interest on the principal amount repaid or prepaid shall be payable on the date of such repayment
or prepayment.
(e) All interest hereunder shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including
the first day but excluding the last day). Any Loan that is repaid on the same day on which it is
made shall bear interest for one day. The applicable Canadian Prime Rate, Base Rate, LIBO Rate or
Discount Rate shall be determined by the Administrative Agent, and such determination shall be
conclusive absent manifest error.
(f) For the purposes of the Interest Act (Canada) and disclosure thereunder, whenever any
interest or any fee to be paid hereunder or in connection herewith is to be calculated on the basis
of a 360-day or 365-day year, the yearly rate of interest to which the rate used in such
calculation is equivalent is the rate so used multiplied by the actual number of days in the
calendar year in which the same is to be ascertained and divided by 360 or 365, as applicable. The
rates of interest under this Agreement are nominal rates, and not effective rates or yields. The
principle of deemed reinvestment of interest does not apply to any interest calculation under this
Agreement.
(g) If any provision of this Agreement would oblige the Borrower to make any payment of
interest or other amount payable to any Lender in an amount or calculated at a rate which would be
prohibited by any Applicable Law or would result in a receipt by that Lender of interest at a
criminal rate (as such terms are construed under the Criminal Code (Canada)), then,
notwithstanding such provision, such amount or rate shall be deemed to have been adjusted with
retroactive effect to the maximum amount or rate of interest, as the case may be, as would not be
so prohibited by Applicable Law or so result in a receipt by that Lender of interest at a
criminal rate, such adjustment to be effected, to the extent necessary (but only to the extent
necessary), as follows:
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2.6 Termination and Reduction of Commitments.
(a) Unless previously terminated, the Commitments shall terminate on the Maturity Date.
(b) The Borrower may, upon two (2) Business Days prior written notice to the Administrative
Agent, permanently cancel any unused portion of the Commitments, without premium or penalty;
provided that any such cancellation shall be in a minimum amount of U.S.$5,000,000 and
multiples of
U.S.$1,000,000 in excess thereof (or the then outstanding principal amount of the Credit).
The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of the receipt by the Administrative
Agent of any such notice. Any such cancellation shall be applied ratably in respect of the
Commitments of each Lender. Each notice delivered by the Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.6(b)
shall be irrevocable.
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(c) Upon the occurrence of the Maturity Date, the Commitment of each Lender shall be
permanently reduced to an amount equal to the amount of the Loans made by such Lender at such date.
(d) The Swing Line Commitment shall be permanently reduced from time to time on the date of
each reduction of the Revolving Commitments by the amount, if any, by which the amount of the Swing
Line Commitment exceeds the Revolving Commitments after giving effect to such reduction of the
Revolving Commitments.
2.7 Repayment of Loans. (a) The Borrower hereby unconditionally promises to pay to the
Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender the then unpaid principal amount of each
Revolving Loan on the earlier of the Maturity Date and the date that its Commitment is fully and
completely terminated pursuant to Section 7.1.
(b) The Borrower shall repay to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Swing Line
Lender and each other Revolving Lender that has purchased a risk participation in a Swing Line Loan
the outstanding principal amount of each Swing Line Loan made by the Swing Line Lender on the
earliest of (i) the maturity date specified in the applicable notice of a Swing Line Loan pursuant
to Section 2.3(e) (which maturity shall be no later than the seventh day after the requested date
of such Borrowing), (ii) the date that the Swing Line Commitment is fully and completely terminated
and (iii) the Maturity Date.
2.8 Evidence of Indebtedness.
(a) Each Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice an account or accounts
evidencing the Obligations of the Borrower to such Lender resulting from each Borrowing made by
such Lender hereunder, including the amounts of principal and interest payable and paid to such
Lender from time to time hereunder.
(b) The Administrative Agent shall maintain accounts in which it shall record (i) the amount
of each Borrowing made hereunder, the Type thereof and, in the cases of Bankers Acceptances and
LIBO Rate Loans, the relevant Contract Period or Interest Period, applicable thereto, (ii) the
amount of any principal or interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the Borrower
to each Lender hereunder, and (iii) the amount of any sum received by the Administrative Agent
hereunder for the account of the Lenders and each Lenders share thereof.
(c) The entries made in the accounts maintained pursuant to Sections 2.8(a) and (b) shall be
conclusive evidence (absent manifest error) of the existence and amounts of the obligations
recorded therein; provided that the failure of any Lender or the Administrative Agent to
maintain such accounts or any error therein shall not in any manner affect the obligation of the
Borrower to repay the Borrowings in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. In the event of a
conflict between the records maintained by the Administrative Agent and any Lender, the records
maintained by the Administrative Agent shall govern.
(d) Any Lender may request (through the Administrative Agent) that Loans (other than B/As)
made by it be evidenced by a promissory note. In such event, the Borrower shall prepare, execute
and deliver to such Lender (through the Administrative Agent) a promissory note payable to the
order of such
Lender (or, if requested by such Lender, to such Lender and its registered assigns) and in a
form approved by the Administrative Agent. Thereafter, the Loans evidenced by such promissory note
and interest thereon shall at all times be represented by one or more promissory notes in such form
payable to the order of the payee named therein.
2.9 Prepayments.
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(a) Mandatory Prepayments. If at any time the aggregate Exposure of all Lenders
exceeds the Maximum Amount or the Borrowing Base, the Borrower shall within three (3) Business Days
following a request from the Administrative Agent, and in any event on or prior to any further
Borrowing, pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Lenders, the amount of such
excess to be applied (i) first, in satisfaction of all Reimbursement Obligations, if any,
outstanding at such time, (ii) second, as a prepayment of the Swing Line Loans, (iii) third, as a
prepayment of the Revolving Loans, and (iv) fourth, as Cover for any remaining LC Exposure and
reimbursement obligations in respect of any outstanding Bankers Acceptances in an amount of such
remaining excess.
(b) Currency Fluctuations. If as a result of Canadian Dollar exchange rate
fluctuations, the aggregate Exposure of all Lenders (taking into account the sum of U.S. Dollar
Borrowings and the U.S. $ Equivalent of Canadian Dollar Borrowings) exceeds (i) the Maximum Amount,
or (ii) the Borrowing Base (any such excess being referred to in this Section as an Excess
Amount), then the Borrower shall within three (3) Business Days following a request from the
Administrative Agent, and in any event on or prior to any further Borrowing, pay to the
Administrative Agent, for the account of the Lenders, an amount equal to the Excess Amount.
(c) General Prepayments. Subject to Section 2.11(e), the Borrower may prepay the
Obligations at any time without premium or penalty (other than breakage costs, if applicable).
(d) Notice by Borrower. Each prepayment notice provided by the Borrower hereunder in
respect of any permanent repayment or prepayment hereunder shall be in the form acceptable to the
Administrative Agent and shall be irrevocable.
(e) Notice by Administrative Agent. Upon receipt of a notice of prepayment pursuant
to this Section 2.9, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each applicable Lender of the
contents thereof and of such Lenders Applicable Percentage of such prepayment.
2.10 Fees.
(a) The Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of and distribution to
each Lender ratably in accordance with each such Lenders Applicable Percentage a standby fee for
the period commencing on the Effective Date to and including the Maturity Date (or such earlier
date as the Commitments shall have been terminated entirely) computed at a rate of 0.375% per annum
on the average daily excess amount of the aggregate Commitments over the aggregate Exposure
(provided that Swing Line Loans shall not be deemed to be Exposure for such purpose). The standby
fee on the Commitments shall be payable in arrears on each Quarterly Date, commencing on the first
Quarterly Date to occur after the Effective Date, and on the date on which the Commitments
terminate. All standby fees shall be computed on the basis of a year of 365 days or 366 days, as
the case may be, and shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first
day but excluding the last day). For greater clarity, the standby fee payable on the first
Quarterly Date shall be payable only in respect of the period from the Effective Date to the first
Quarterly Date.
(b) The Borrower agrees to pay (i) to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender
a participation fee with respect to its participations in Letters of Credit, which shall accrue at
the same interest rate as the Applicable Margin for LIBO Rate Loans on the average daily amount of
such Lenders LC Exposure (excluding any portion thereof attributable to unreimbursed LC
Disbursements) during the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the later
of the date on which such Lenders Commitment terminates and the date on which such Lender ceases
to have any LC Exposure, and (ii) to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Issuing Bank
a fronting fee, which shall accrue at the rate or rates per annum separately agreed upon between
the Borrower and each Issuing Bank on the
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average daily amount of such Issuing Banks LC Exposure
(excluding any portion thereof attributable to unreimbursed LC Disbursements) during the period
from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the later of the date on which such Issuing
Banks Commitment terminates and the date on which such Issuing Bank ceases to have any LC
Exposure. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, upon the express
request of, or with the express consent of, the Required Lenders (or automatically upon the
commencement of any proceeding of a type described in Section 7.1(h) or (i)), all participation
fees shall increase at a rate per annum equal to 2%. The Borrower agrees to pay to the applicable
Issuing Bank, such Issuing Banks standard fees with respect to the issuance, amendment, renewal or
extension of any Letter of Credit or processing of drawings thereunder. Participation fees and
fronting fees shall be payable on each Quarterly Date, commencing on the first such date to occur
after the Effective Date; provided that all such fees shall be payable on the date on which
the Commitments terminate and any such fees accruing after the date on which the Commitments
terminate shall be payable on demand. Any other fees payable to any Issuing Bank pursuant to this
Section 2.10(b) shall be payable within 10 days after demand. All participation fees and fronting
fees shall be computed on the basis of a year of 365 days or 366 days, as the case may be, and
shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the
last day).
(c) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for its own account, fees payable
in the amounts and at the times separately agreed upon in writing between the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent.
(d) All fees payable hereunder shall be paid on the dates due, in immediately available
funds, to the Administrative Agent (or to the applicable Issuing Bank, in the case of fees payable
to it), for its own account or for distribution, in the case of standby and participation fees, to
the Lenders and, in the case of fronting fees, to the Issuing Banks. Fees paid shall not be
refundable except in the case of manifest error in the calculation of any fee payment.
2.11 Bankers Acceptances.
(a) Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Borrower may request a
Borrowing by presenting drafts for acceptance and purchase as B/As by the Lenders.
(b) No Contract Period with respect to a B/A to be accepted and purchased under the Credit
shall extend beyond the Maturity Date.
(c) To facilitate availment of B/A Borrowings, the Borrower hereby appoints each Lender as
its attorney to sign and endorse on its behalf (in accordance with a Borrowing Request relating to
a B/A Borrowing), in handwriting or by facsimile or mechanical signature as and when deemed
necessary by such Lender, blank forms of B/As in the form requested by such Lender. In this
respect, it is each Lenders responsibility to maintain an adequate supply of blank forms of B/As
for acceptance under this Agreement. The Borrower recognizes and agrees that all B/As signed
and/or endorsed by a Lender on behalf of the Borrower shall bind the Borrower as fully and
effectually as if signed in the handwriting of
and duly issued by the proper signing officers of the Borrower. Each Lender is hereby
authorized (in accordance with a Borrowing Request relating to a B/A Borrowing) to issue such B/As
endorsed in blank in such face amounts as may be determined by such Lender; provided that
the aggregate amount thereof is equal to the aggregate amount of B/As required to be accepted and
purchased by such Lender. No Lender shall be liable for any damage, loss or other claim arising by
reason of any loss or improper use of any such instrument except the gross negligence or wilful
misconduct of the Lender or its officers, employees, agents or representatives. Each Lender shall
maintain a record with respect to B/As (i) received by it in blank hereunder, (ii) voided by it for
any reason, (iii) accepted and purchased by it hereunder, and (iv) cancelled at their respective
maturities. On request by or on behalf of the Borrower, a Lender shall cancel
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all forms of B/A
which have been pre-signed or pre-endorsed on behalf of the Borrower and which are held by such
Lender and are not required to be issued in accordance with the Borrowers irrevocable notice.
Alternatively, the Borrower agrees that, at the request of the Administrative Agent, the Borrower
shall deliver to the Administrative Agent a depository note which complies with the requirements
of the Depository Bills and Notes Act (Canada), and consents to the deposit of any such depository
note in the book-based debt clearance system maintained by the Canadian Depository for Securities.
(d) Drafts of the Borrower to be accepted as B/As hereunder shall be signed as set out in
this Section 2.11. Notwithstanding that any person whose signature appears on any B/A may no
longer be an authorized signatory for any Lender or the Borrower at the date of issuance of a B/A,
such signature shall nevertheless be valid and sufficient for all purposes as if such authority had
remained in force at the time of such issuance and any such B/A so signed shall be binding on the
Borrower.
(e) Promptly following receipt of a Borrowing Request specifying a Borrowing by way of B/As,
the Administrative Agent shall so advise the Lenders and shall advise each Lender of the aggregate
face amount of the B/As to be accepted by it and the applicable Contract Period (which shall be
identical for all Lenders). The aggregate face amount of the B/As to be accepted by the Lenders
shall be in a minimum aggregate amount of Cdn.$500,000 and shall be a whole multiple of
Cdn.$100,000, and such face amount shall be in the Lenders pro rata portions of such Borrowing,
provided that the Administrative Agent may in its sole discretion increase or reduce any
Lenders portion of such B/A Borrowing to the nearest Cdn.$100,000 without reducing the overall
Commitments.
(f) Upon acceptance of a B/A by a Lender, such Lender shall purchase, or arrange for the
purchase of, each B/A from the Borrower at the Discount Rate for such Lender applicable to such B/A
accepted by it and provide to the Administrative Agent the Discount Proceeds for the account of the
Borrower. The Acceptance Fee payable by the Borrower to a Lender under Section 2.5 in respect of
each B/A accepted by such Lender shall be set off against the Discount Proceeds payable by such
Lender under this Section 2.11.
(g) Each Lender may at any time and from time to time hold, sell, rediscount or otherwise
dispose of any or all B/As accepted and purchased by it.
(h) If a Lender is not a chartered bank under the Bank Act (Canada) or if a Lender notifies
the Administrative Agent in writing that it is otherwise unable to accept Bankers Acceptances,
such Lender will, instead of accepting and purchasing Bankers Acceptances, make a Loan (a B/A
Equivalent Loan) to the Borrower in the amount and for the same term as the draft which such
Lender would otherwise have been required to accept and purchase hereunder. Each such Lender will
provide to the Administrative Agent the Discount Proceeds of such B/A Equivalent Loan for the
account of the Borrower. Each such B/A Equivalent Loan will bear interest at the same rate which
would result if such Lender had accepted (and been paid an Acceptance Fee) and purchased (on a
discounted basis) a Bankers Acceptance for the relevant Contract Period (it being the intention of
the parties that each such B/A
Equivalent Loan shall have the same economic consequences for the Lenders and the Borrower as
the Bankers Acceptance which such B/A Equivalent Loan replaces). All such interest shall be paid
in advance on the date such B/A Equivalent Loan is made, and will be deducted from the principal
amount of such B/A Equivalent Loan in the same manner in which the Discount Proceeds of a Bankers
Acceptance would be deducted from the face amount of the Bankers Acceptance. Subject to repayment
requirements, on the last day of the relevant Contract Period for such B/A Equivalent Loan, the
Borrower shall be entitled to convert each such B/A Equivalent Loan into another type of Loan, or
to roll over each such B/A Equivalent Loan into another B/A Equivalent Loan, all in accordance with
the applicable provisions of this Agreement.
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(i) With respect to each B/A Borrowing, at or before 10:00 a.m., Toronto time, two Business
Days before the last day of the Contract Period of such B/A Borrowing, the Borrower shall notify
the Administrative Agent in writing, if the Borrower intends to issue B/As on such last day of the
Contract Period to provide for the payment of such maturing B/A Borrowing. If the Borrower fails
to notify the Administrative Agent of its intention to issue B/As on such last day of the Contract
Period, the Borrower shall provide payment to the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders of
an amount equal to the aggregate face amount of such B/A Borrowing on the last day of the Contract
Period of thereof. If the Borrower fails to make such payment, such maturing B/As shall be deemed
to have been converted on the last day of the Contract Period into a Canadian Prime Loan in an
amount equal to the face amount of such B/As.
(j) The Borrower waives presentment for payment and any other defence to payment of any
amounts due to a Lender in respect of a B/A accepted and purchased by it pursuant to this Agreement
which might exist solely by reason of such B/A being held, at the maturity thereof, by such Lender
in its own right, and the Borrower agrees not to claim any days of grace if such Lender, as holder,
sues the Borrower on the B/A for payment of the amount payable by the Borrower thereunder. On the
last day of the Contract Period of a B/A, or such earlier date as may be required or permitted
pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, the Borrower shall pay the Lender that has accepted
and purchased such B/A the full face amount of such B/A and, after such payment, the Borrower shall
have no further liability in respect of such B/A and such Lender shall be entitled to all benefits
of, and be responsible for all payments due to third parties under, such B/A.
(k) If a Lender grants a participation in a portion of its rights under this Agreement to a
Participant under Section 9.4(e), then, in respect of any B/A Borrowing, a portion thereof may, at
the option of such Lender, be by way of Bankers Acceptance accepted by such Participant. In such
event, the Borrower shall upon request of the Administrative Agent or the Lender granting the
participation execute and deliver a form of Bankers Acceptance undertaking in favour of such
Participant for delivery to such participant.
(l) Except as required by any Lender upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, no B/A
Borrowing may be repaid by the Borrower prior to the expiry date of the Contract Period applicable
to such B/A Borrowing; provided, however, that the Borrower may defease any B/A Borrowing
by depositing with the Administrative Agent an amount that is sufficient to repay such B/A
Borrowing on the expiry date of the Contract Period applicable to such B/A Borrowing.
2.12 Alternate Rate of Interest. If prior to the commencement of any Interest Period for a
LIBO Rate Borrowing:
(a) the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive absent
manifest error) that adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the LIBO Rate for
such Interest Period; or
(b) the Administrative Agent is advised by the Required Lenders that the LIBO Rate for such
Interest Period will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of making or
maintaining their Loans included in such Borrowing for such Interest Period;
then the Administrative Agent shall give notice thereof to the Borrower and the Lenders by
telephone or telecopy as promptly as practicable thereafter and, until the Administrative Agent
notifies the Borrower and the Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to such notice no longer
exist, (i) any Borrowing Request that requests the conversion of any Borrowing to, or continuation
of any Borrowing as, a LIBO Rate Borrowing shall be ineffective, and (ii) if any Borrowing Request
requests a LIBO Rate Borrowing,
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such Borrowing shall be made as a Base Rate Borrowing;
provided that (A) if the circumstances giving rise to such notice do not affect all the
Lenders, then requests by the Borrower for a LIBO Rate Borrowing may be made to Lenders that are
not affected thereby, and (B) if the circumstances giving rise to such notice affect only one Type
of Borrowing, then the other Type of Borrowing shall be permitted.
2.13 Increased Costs; Illegality.
(a) If any Change in Law shall:
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impose on any Lender or any Issuing Bank or the London
interbank market any other condition affecting this Agreement (including the
imposition on any Lender of, or any change to, any charge with respect to its
LIBO Rate Loans or any Letter of Credit or participation therein, or its
obligation to make LIBO Rate Loans or any Letter of Credit); |
and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such Lender of making or
maintaining any Loan (or of maintaining its obligation to make any such Loan) or to increase the
cost to such Lender or such Issuing Bank of participating in, issuing or maintaining any Letter of
Credit or any Loan or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender or such
Issuing Bank hereunder (whether of principal, interest or otherwise), then the Borrower will pay to
such Lender or such Issuing Bank, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will
compensate such Lender or such Issuing Bank, as the case may be, for such additional costs incurred
or reduction suffered. For the purposes of this Section 2.13(a), any such increased cost resulting
from (x) Indemnified Taxes (as to which Section 2.15 shall govern) and (y) changes in the bases of
taxation of overall net income or overall gross income, including, without limitation, Excluded
Taxes, by Canada or by the foreign jurisdiction or state under the laws of which such Lender is
organized or has its applicable lending office or any political subdivision thereof, shall be
excluded from this section. A Lender claiming additional amounts under this Section 2.13(a) agrees
to use reasonable efforts (consistent with its internal policy and legal and regulatory
restrictions) to designate a different applicable lending office if the making of such a
designation would avoid the need for, or reduce the amount of, such increased cost that may
thereafter accrue and would not, in the reasonable judgment of such Lender, be otherwise
disadvantageous to such Lender, or create any Tax liability for the Borrower. Each Lender
covenants and agrees that it shall only
claim additional amounts from the Borrower under this Section 2.13(a) where it is also seeking to
recover such increased costs from its other borrowers generally.
(b) If any Lender or any Issuing Bank determines that any Change in Law regarding capital
requirements has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lenders or such
Issuing Banks capital or on the capital of such Lenders or such Issuing Banks holding company,
if any, as a consequence of this Agreement or the Loans made by, or participations in Letters of
Credit held by such Lender, or the Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank, to a level below
that which such Lender or such Issuing Bank or such Lenders or such Issuing Banks holding company
could have achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into consideration such Lenders or such
Issuing Banks policies and the policies of such Lenders or such Issuing Banks holding company
with respect to capital adequacy) and such Lenders desired return on capital, then from time to
time the Borrower will pay to such Lender or such Issuing Bank, as the case may be, such additional
amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or such Issuing Bank or such Lenders or such
Issuing Banks holding company for any such reduction suffered, to the extent that such Lender
reasonably determines such increase in capital to be
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allocable to the existence of such Lenders
Commitment to lend or to issue or participate in Letters of Credit hereunder or to the issuance or
maintenance or participation in any Letters of Credit.
(c) A certificate of a Lender setting forth amount or amounts necessary to compensate such
Lender as specified in Sections 2.13(a) or (b), together with a brief description of the Change of
Law, shall be delivered to the Borrower, and shall be conclusive absent manifest error. In
preparing any such certificate, a Lender shall be entitled to use averages and to make reasonable
estimates, and shall not be required to match contracts or to isolate particular transactions.
The Borrower shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate within 10 days
after receipt thereof.
(d) Failure or delay on the part of any Lender to demand compensation pursuant to this
Section 2.13 shall not constitute a waiver of such Lenders right to demand such compensation.
(e) In the event that any Lender shall have determined (which determination shall be
reasonably exercised and shall, absent manifest error, be final, conclusive and binding upon all
parties) at any time that the making or continuance of any LIBO Rate Loan has become unlawful or
materially restricted as a result of compliance by such Lender in good faith with any Change in
Law, or by any applicable guideline or order (whether or not having the force of law), then, in any
such event, such Lender shall give prompt notice (by telephone and confirmed in writing) to the
Borrower and to the Administrative Agent of such determination (which notice the Administrative
Agent shall promptly transmit to the other Lenders). Upon the giving of the notice to the Borrower
referred to in this Section 2.13(e), the Borrowers right to request (by continuation, conversion
or otherwise), and such Lenders obligation to make, LIBO Rate Loans shall be immediately
suspended, and thereafter any requested Borrowing of LIBO Rate Loans shall, as to such Lender only,
be deemed to be a request for a Base Rate Loan, and if the affected LIBO Rate Loan or Loans are
then outstanding, the Borrower shall immediately, or if permitted by Applicable Law, no later than
the date permitted thereby, upon at least one Business Day prior written notice to the
Administrative Agent and the affected Lender, convert each such LIBO Rate Loan into a Base Rate
Loan, provided that if more than one Lender is affected at any time, then all affected
Lenders must be treated the same pursuant to this Section 2.13(e); further provided,
however, that before giving any such notice, such Lender agrees to use reasonable efforts
(consistent with its internal policy and legal and regulatory restrictions) to designate a
different lending office if the making of such a designation would allow such Lender to continue to
perform its obligations to make LIBO Rate Loans or to continue to fund or maintain LIBO Rate Loans
in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and would not, in the judgment of such Lender, be
otherwise disadvantageous to such Lender, or create any Tax liability for the Borrower.
2.14 Break Funding Payments. In the event of (a) the failure by the Borrower to borrow,
convert, continue or prepay any Loan on the date specified in any notice delivered by the Borrower
pursuant hereto or (b) the payment or conversion of any B/A Borrowing or LIBO Rate Loan other than
on the last day of a Contract Period or Interest Period, as applicable (including as a result of an
Event of Default), then, in any such event, the Borrower shall compensate each Lender for the
direct loss, cost and expense attributable to such event. In the case of a LIBO Rate Loan, such
direct loss, cost or expense to any Lender shall be deemed to include an amount reasonably
determined by such Lender to be the excess, if any, of (i) the amount of interest which would have
accrued on the principal amount of such Loan had such event not occurred, at the LIBO Rate that
would have been applicable to such Loan, for the period from the date of such event to the last day
of the then current Interest Period therefor (or, in the case of a failure to borrow, convert or
continue, for the period that would have been the Interest Period for such Loan), over (ii) the
amount of interest which would accrue on such principal amount for such period and the interest
rate which such Lender would bid were it to bid, at the commencement of such period, for U.S.
Dollar deposits of a comparable amount and period from other banks in the eurodollar market. A
certificate of any Lender setting forth any amount or amounts that such Lender is entitled to
receive
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pursuant to this Section 2.14 shall be delivered to the Borrower and shall be conclusive
absent manifest error. The Borrower shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on any such
certificate within 10 days after receipt thereof.
2.15 Taxes.
(a) Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower hereunder shall
be made free and clear of and without deduction or withholding for any Indemnified Taxes;
provided that if the Borrower shall be required to deduct or withhold any Indemnified Taxes
from such payments, then (i) the sum payable shall be increased as necessary so that, after making
all required deductions or withholdings (including deductions or withholdings applicable to
additional sums payable under this Section 2.15), the Administrative Agent, Lender or Issuing Bank
(as the case may be) receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such
deduction or withholding been made, (ii) the Borrower shall make such deduction or withholding, and
(iii) the Borrower shall pay to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with Applicable
Law the full amount deducted or withheld.
(b) In addition to the payments by the Borrower required by Section 2.15(a), the Borrower
shall pay any and all present or future stamp or documentary Taxes or any other excise or property
Taxes, charges or similar levies arising from any payment made hereunder or from the execution,
delivery or enforcement of, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement to the relevant
Governmental Authority in accordance with Applicable Law.
(c) The Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative Agent, each Lender and each Issuing Bank,
within 10 days after written demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes paid by
the Administrative Agent, such Lender or such Issuing Bank, as the case may be, on or with respect
to any payment by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower hereunder (including Indemnified
Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section 2.15) and any
penalties, interest and reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or
not such Indemnified Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant
Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to
the Borrower by a Lender or an Issuing Bank, or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on
behalf of a Lender or an Issuing Bank, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
(d) As soon as practicable after any payment of Indemnified Taxes by the Borrower to a
Governmental Authority, the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent the original or a
certified
copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of the
return reporting such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent.
(e) For greater clarity, the provisions of this Section 2.15 shall not require the Borrower
to make any payments under Section 2.15(a), (b) or (c) where Taxes have arisen by virtue of an
assignment, transfer or sale made to, or a participation interest granted to, a Lender in
contravention of any Canadian residency requirement applicable in respect to the assignee,
transferee or participant, as the case may be, and set forth in Section 9.4 of this Agreement.
(f) If, following the imposition of any Taxes on any payment by the Borrower to any Lender in
respect of which the Borrower is required to make an additional payment pursuant to this Section
2.15, any Lender receives or is granted a credit against or remission for or deduction from or in
respect of any Taxes paid by it or shall obtain any other relief which, in such Lenders opinion,
is both reasonably identifiable and quantifiable by it without involving it in an unacceptable
administrative burden (any of the foregoing being a saving), such Lender will reimburse the
Borrower with such amount as such
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Lender shall have concluded, in its absolute discretion but in
good faith, to be the amount or value of the relevant saving. Nothing herein contained shall
interfere with the right of any Lender to arrange its affairs in whatever manner it thinks fit and,
in particular, no Lender shall be under any obligation to claim relief for tax purposes on its
corporate profits or otherwise, or to claim such relief in priority to any other claims, reliefs,
credits or deductions available to it or to disclose details of its affairs. Each Lender will
notify the Borrower promptly of the receipt by such Lender of any such saving and of such Lenders
opinion as to the amount or value thereof, and any reimbursement to be made by such Lender will be
made promptly on the date of receipt of such saving by such Lender or, if later, on the last date
on which the applicable taxation authority would be able in accordance with Applicable Law to
reclaim or reduce such saving.
(g) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 2.15, (i) each Lender
that becomes party to this Agreement on the Effective Date shall be, and hereby certifies that it
is, as of the Effective Date, a Canadian Resident Lender, (ii) no Lender or Participant that
acquires an interest in the Borrowings hereunder in contravention of Section 9.4 shall be entitled
to the benefits of this Section 2.15 in respect of withholding taxes and (iii) any Lender which
voluntarily takes any action (other than by way of compulsion by reason of any act or order of any
Governmental Authority) which thereby causes such Lender to cease to be a Canadian Resident Lender
shall not be entitled to the benefits of this Section 2.15 in respect of withholding taxes.
2.16 Payments Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Set-offs.
(a) The Borrower shall make each payment required to be made by it hereunder (whether of
principal, interest, fees or amounts payable in respect of Reimbursement Obligations, amounts
payable under any of Sections 2.13, 2.14 or 2.15, or amounts otherwise payable hereunder) prior to
2:00 p.m., Toronto time, on the date when due, in immediately available funds, without set-off or
counterclaim. Any amounts received after such time on any date may, in the discretion of the
Administrative Agent, be deemed to have been received on the next succeeding Business Day for
purposes of calculating interest thereon. All such payments shall be made to the Administrative
Agent at the Payment Office, except that payments pursuant to any indemnities contained herein
shall be made directly to the Persons entitled thereto. The Administrative Agent shall distribute
any such payments received by it for the account of any other Person to the appropriate recipient
promptly following receipt thereof. If any payment hereunder shall be due on a day that is not a
Business Day, the date for payment shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day, and, in
the case of any payment accruing interest, interest thereon shall be
payable for the period of such extension, provided that, in the case of any payment
with respect to a LIBO Rate Loan, the date for payment shall be advanced to the next preceding
Business Day if the next succeeding Business Day is in a subsequent calendar month. All payments
under this Section 2.16 in respect of LIBO Rate Loans and Base Rate Loans and in respect of U.S.
Dollar denominated Letters of Credit shall be made in U.S. Dollars. All other payments under this
Section 2.16 shall be made in Canadian Dollars. The Borrower hereby authorizes the Administrative
Agent to debit the Operating Account to effect any payment due to the Lenders or the Administrative
Agent pursuant to this Agreement. Any resulting overdraft in such account shall be payable by the
Borrower to the Administrative Agent in same day funds.
(b) Any cash held by or on behalf of the Administrative Agent and all cash proceeds received
by or on behalf of the Administrative Agent in respect of any sale of, collection from, or other
realization upon all or any part of the Collateral may, in the discretion of the Administrative
Agent, be held by the Administrative Agent as collateral for, and/or then or at any time thereafter
applied in whole or in part by the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties
against, all or any part of the Secured Obligations, in the following manner:
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second, ratably and pari passu amongst the parties
described in (A), (B), (C) and (D), namely (A) to the Lenders for any amounts
then owing to them, in their capacities as such, in respect of the obligations
on account of principal, interest, fees and other amounts payable under this
Agreement, ratably in accordance with such respective amounts then owing to
such Lenders, (B) to each Secured Party for any amounts then owing to such
Secured Party in respect of Secured Hedge Agreements and Cash Management
Obligations in an aggregate amount for all such obligations not to exceed
U.S.$3,000,000 plus the unused amount, if any, under clause (C) of this Section
2.16(b)(ii), (C) to each Secured Party for any amounts then owing to such
Secured Party in respect of Secured Credit Card Obligations in an aggregate
amount for all such obligations not to exceed U.S.$5,000,000 plus the
unused amount, if any, under clause (B) of this Section 2.16(b)(ii), and (D) to
the Issuing Banks, to be deposited as Collateral in the LC Cash Collateral
Account up to an amount equal to 105% of the aggregate LC Exposure of all
outstanding Letters of Credit, provided that in the event that any such
Letter of Credit is drawn, the Administrative Agent shall pay to the Issuing
Bank that issued such Letter of Credit the amount held in the LC Cash
Collateral Account in respect of such Letter of Credit, provided
further that, to the extent that any such Letter of Credit shall expire
or terminate undrawn and as a result thereof the amount of the Collateral in
the LC Cash Collateral Account shall exceed 105% of the aggregate LC Exposure
of all then outstanding Letters of Credit, such excess amount of such
Collateral shall be applied in accordance with the order of priority set out in
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for any amounts then owing to such Secured Party, to the extent not included in
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(c) If any Secured Party shall, by exercising any right of set-off or counterclaim or
otherwise, obtain payment in respect of any principal of or interest on or fees in respect of any
of its Revolving Loans or its share of Reimbursement Obligations and other Secured Obligations
resulting in such Secured Party receiving payment of a greater proportion of the aggregate amount
of any principal of or interest on or fees in respect of any of its Revolving Loans or
participations in Reimbursement Obligations and other Secured Obligations than the proportion to
which it is entitled, then the Secured Party receiving such greater proportion shall, if such
Secured Party is a Lender or any Issuing Bank, as applicable, purchase (for cash at face value)
participations in the Revolving Loans or participations in Reimbursement Obligations owed to other
Lenders (as the case may be) to the extent necessary so that the benefit of all such payments shall
be shared by the Lenders ratably taking into account each of the Applicable Percentages in respect
of each Lender; provided that (i) if any such participations are purchased and all or any
portion of the payment giving rise thereto is recovered, such participations shall be rescinded and
the purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, without interest, and (ii) this Section
2.16(c) shall not apply to any payment made by the Borrower pursuant to and in accordance with the
express terms of this Agreement or any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the
assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Loans or participations in Reimbursement
Obligations to any assignee or participant, other than to the Borrower or any Subsidiary or
Affiliate thereof (as to which the provisions of this paragraph shall apply). The Borrower
consents to the foregoing and agrees, to the extent it may effectively do so under Applicable Law,
that any Lender acquiring a participation pursuant to the
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foregoing arrangements may exercise against the Borrower rights of set-off and counterclaim
with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were a direct creditor of the
Borrower in the amount of such participation.
(d) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received written notice from the Borrower
prior to the date on which any payment is due to the Administrative Agent for the account of the
Lenders or the Issuing Banks hereunder that the Borrower will not make such payment, the
Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower has made such payment on such date in accordance
herewith and may, in reliance upon such assumption, distribute to the Lenders or the Issuing Banks,
as the case may be, the amount due. In such event, if the Borrower has not in fact made such
payment, then each of the Lenders or the Issuing Banks, as the case may be, severally agrees to
repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the amount so distributed to such Lender or
Issuing Bank with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is
distributed to it to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at the
applicable rate for Canadian Prime Loans (if such amount is denominated in Canadian Dollars) or the
applicable rate for Base Rate Loans (if such amount is denominated in U.S. Dollars).
(e) If any Lender shall fail to make any payment required to be made by it pursuant to
Section 2.16(d), then the Administrative Agent may, in its discretion (notwithstanding any contrary
provision hereof), apply any amounts thereafter received by the Administrative Agent for the
account of such Lender to satisfy such Lenders obligations under such Section 2.16(d) until all
such unsatisfied obligations are fully paid.
(f) Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to obligate any Lender to obtain the funds for
any Loan in any particular place or manner or to constitute a representation by any Lender that it
has obtained or will obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner.
2.17 Currency Indemnity. If, for the purposes of obtaining judgment in any court in any
jurisdiction with respect to this Agreement or any other Loan Document, it becomes necessary to
convert into a particular currency (the Judgment Currency) any amount due under this Agreement or
under any other Loan Document in any currency other than the Judgment Currency (the Currency
Due), then conversion shall be made at the rate of exchange prevailing on the Business Day before
the day on which judgment is given. For this purpose rate of exchange means the rate at which
the Administrative Agent is able, on the relevant date, to purchase the Currency Due with the
Judgment Currency in accordance with its normal practice at its head office in Toronto, Ontario.
In the event that there is a change in the rate of exchange prevailing between the Business Day
before the day on which the judgment is given and the date of receipt by the Administrative Agent
of the amount due, the Borrower will, on the date of receipt by the Administrative Agent, pay such
additional amounts, if any, or be entitled to receive reimbursement of such amount, if any, as may
be necessary to ensure that the amount received by the Administrative Agent on such date is the
amount in the Judgment Currency which when converted at the rate of exchange prevailing on the date
of receipt by the Administrative Agent is the amount then due under this Agreement or such other
Loan Document in the Currency Due. If the amount of the Currency Due which the Administrative
Agent is so able to purchase is less than the amount of the Currency Due originally due to it, the
Borrower shall indemnify and save the Administrative Agent and the Lenders harmless from and
against all loss or damage arising as a result of such deficiency. This indemnity shall constitute
an obligation separate and independent from the other obligations contained in this Agreement and
the other Loan Documents, shall give rise to a separate and independent cause of action, shall
apply irrespective of any indulgence granted by the Administrative Agent from time to time and
shall continue in full force and effect notwithstanding
any judgment or order for a liquidated sum in respect of an amount due under this Agreement or any
other Loan Document or under any judgment or order.
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2.18 Collection of Accounts.
(a) Each Credit Party shall establish and maintain in Canada, in its own respective name and
at its expense, a main cash concentration account, as well as deposit, collection and chequing
accounts (other than disbursement accounts maintained in the ordinary course of business consistent
with past practices) with the Administrative Agent, an Affiliate of the Administrative Agent, The
Toronto-Dominion Bank or any other financial institution acceptable to the Administrative Agent
(including, without limitation, JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A.) (the Blocked Accounts). For greater
certainty, this Section 2.18 shall not apply to (i) cash collateral accounts for Hedge Agreements,
letters of credit, surety bonds and existing equipment leases (solely for purposes of
collateralizing such letters of credit, surety bonds and existing equipment leases and solely to
the extent permitted by this Agreement), (ii) payroll accounts maintained in the ordinary course of
business, (iii) disbursement accounts maintained in the ordinary course of business for the prompt
disbursement of amounts payable in the ordinary course of business, and (iv) deposit accounts to
the extent the aggregate amount on deposit in each such deposit account does not exceed
U.S.$1,000,000 at any time and the aggregate amount on deposit in all deposit accounts under this
clause (iv) does not exceed U.S.$5,000,000 at any time.
(b) Each applicable Credit Party shall obtain and deliver to the Administrative Agent, as
promptly as reasonably practicable but in any event no later than 30 days following the Effective
Date (or such later date as the Administrative Agent may reasonably determine), with respect to all
Blocked Accounts, tri-party agreements in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent (the Blocked Account Agreements), providing that, among other things, all
cash, cheques and items received or deposited in the Blocked Accounts are subject to Liens in
favour of the Administrative Agent, that the depository bank has no Lien upon, or right of set off
against, the Blocked Accounts and any cash, cheques, items, wires or other funds from time to time
on deposit therein, except as otherwise provided in the Blocked Account Agreements or as otherwise
acceptable to the Administrative Agent, and that on a daily basis the depository bank will wire, or
otherwise transfer, in immediately available funds, all funds received or deposited into the
Blocked Accounts to such bank account as the Administrative Agent may from time to time designate
for such purpose. Each Credit Party hereby confirms and agrees that all amounts deposited in such
Blocked Accounts and any other funds received and collected by the Administrative Agent, whether as
proceeds of Inventory or other Collateral or otherwise, shall be subject to the Liens in favour of
the Administrative Agent.
2.19 Letters of Credit.
(a) General. Subject to the terms and conditions set out herein, the Borrower may
request the issuance of Letters of Credit as an availment of the Commitment, in a form reasonably
acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the applicable Issuing Bank, at any time and from time
to time up to the Maturity Date. In the event of any inconsistency between the terms and
conditions of this Agreement and the terms and conditions of any form of letter of credit
application or other agreement submitted by the Borrower to, or entered into by the Borrower with,
any Issuing Bank relating to any Letter of Credit, the terms and conditions of this Agreement shall
govern.
(b) Notice of Issuance, Amendment, Renewal, Extension, Certain Conditions. To
request the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or the amendment, renewal or extension of an
outstanding Letter of Credit), the Borrower shall hand deliver or telecopy (or transmit by
electronic communication, if arrangements for doing so have been approved by the applicable Issuing
Bank) to the applicable Issuing Bank and the Administrative Agent (at least five Business Days in advance of the requested date of
issuance, amendment, renewal or extension) a notice requesting the issuance of a Letter of Credit,
or identifying the Letter of Credit to be amended, renewed or extended, the date of issuance,
amendment, renewal or extension, the date on which such Letter of Credit is to expire (which shall
comply with Section 2.19(c)),
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the amount and currency (being either Canadian Dollars or U.S.
Dollars) of such Letter of Credit, the name and address of the beneficiary thereof and such other
information as shall be necessary to prepare, amend, renew or extend such Letter of Credit. If
requested by the applicable Issuing Bank, the Borrower also shall submit a letter of credit
application on such Issuing Banks standard form in connection with any request for a Letter of
Credit. A Letter of Credit shall be issued, amended, renewed or extended only if (and upon
issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of each Letter of Credit, the Borrower shall be deemed to
represent and warrant that), after giving effect to such issuance, amendment, renewal or extension,
(i) the aggregate LC Exposure shall not exceed U.S.$5,000,000, and (ii) the aggregate Exposure
shall not exceed the Borrowing Base.
(c) Expiration Date. Each Letter of Credit shall expire at or prior to the close of
business on the earlier of (i) the date one year after the date of the issuance of such Letter of
Credit (or, in the case of any renewal or extension thereof, one year after such renewal or
extension; provided that, in no event shall any such renewal or extension expire after the date
that is five Business Days prior to the Maturity Date) and (ii) the date that is five Business Days
prior to the Maturity Date, in each case, unless permitted by the applicable Issuing Bank.
(d) Participations. By the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or an amendment to a
Letter of Credit increasing the amount thereof) and without any further action on the part of the
Issuing Banks or the Lenders, each Issuing Bank hereby grants to each Lender, and each Lender
hereby acquires from each Issuing Bank, a participation in such Letter of Credit equal to such
Lenders Applicable Percentage of the aggregate amount available to be drawn under such Letter of
Credit. In consideration and in furtherance of the foregoing, each Lender hereby absolutely and
unconditionally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the applicable
Issuing Bank, such Lenders Applicable Percentage of each LC Disbursement made by such Issuing Bank
and not reimbursed by the Borrower on the date due as provided in Section 2.19(e), or of any
reimbursement payment required to be refunded to the Borrower for any reason. Each Lender
acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to acquire participations pursuant to this Section
2.19(d) in respect of Letters of Credit is absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by
any circumstance whatsoever, including any amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit
or the occurrence and continuance of a Default or Event of Default or reduction or termination of
the Commitments, and that each such payment shall be made without any offset, abatement,
withholding or reduction whatsoever.
(e) Reimbursement. If any Issuing Bank shall make any LC Disbursement in respect of
a Letter of Credit, the Borrower shall reimburse such LC Disbursement by paying to the
Administrative Agent an amount equal to such LC Disbursement not later than 12:00 noon, Toronto
time, on the date that such LC Disbursement is made, if the Borrower shall have received notice of
such LC Disbursement prior to 10:00 a.m., Toronto time, on such date, or, if such notice has not
been received by the Borrower prior to such time on such date, then not later than 12:00 noon,
Toronto time, on the Business Day immediately following the day that the Borrower receives such
notice; provided that the Borrower may, subject to the conditions to borrowing set out herein,
request in accordance with Section 2.3 that such payment be financed with a Canadian Prime
Borrowing or a Base Rate Borrowing in an equivalent amount and, to the extent so financed, the
Borrowers obligation to make such payment shall be discharged and replaced by the resulting
Canadian Prime Borrowing or Base Rate Borrowing. If the Borrower fails to make such payment when
due, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Lender of the applicable LC Disbursement, the
payment then due from the Borrower in respect thereof and such Lenders Applicable
Percentage thereof. Promptly following receipt of such notice, each Lender shall pay to the
Administrative Agent its Applicable Percentage of the payment then due from the Borrower, and the
Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to the applicable Issuing Bank the amounts so received by
it from the Lenders. Promptly following receipt by the Administrative Agent of any payment from
the Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.19(e), the Administrative Agent shall distribute such
payment to the
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applicable Issuing Bank or, to the extent that Lenders have made payments pursuant
to this Section 2.19(e) to reimburse such Issuing Bank, then to such Lenders and Issuing Banks as
their interests may appear. Any payment made by Lenders pursuant to this paragraph to reimburse
any Issuing Bank for any LC Disbursement shall be deemed to constitute a Canadian Prime Borrowing
or Base Rate Borrowing in the amount of the LC Disbursement and shall be payable upon demand.
(f) Obligations Absolute. The Borrowers obligation to reimburse LC Disbursements as
provided in Section 2.19(e) shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable, and shall be
performed strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement under any and all circumstances
whatsoever and irrespective of (i) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Letter of Credit
or this Agreement, or any term or provision therein or herein, (ii) any draft or other document
presented under a Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent or invalid in any respect or
any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect, (iii) payment by any Issuing Bank
under a Letter of Credit against presentation of a draft or other document that does not comply
with the terms of such Letter of Credit, or (iv) any other event or circumstance whatsoever,
whether or not similar to any of the foregoing, that might, but for the provisions of this Section
2.19, constitute a legal or equitable discharge of, or provide a right of set-off against, the
Borrowers obligations hereunder. Neither the Administrative Agent, the Lenders nor the Issuing
Banks, nor any of their Related Parties, shall have any liability or responsibility by reason of or
in connection with the issuance or transfer of any Letter of Credit or any payment or failure to
make any payment thereunder (irrespective of any of the circumstances referred to in the preceding
sentence), or any error, omission, interruption, loss or delay in transmission or delivery of any
draft, notice or other communication under or relating to any Letter of Credit (including any
document required to make a drawing thereunder), any error in interpretation of technical terms or
any consequence arising from causes beyond the control of the Issuing Banks; provided that the
foregoing shall not be construed to excuse the Issuing Banks from liability to the Borrower to the
extent of any direct damages (as opposed to indirect, special, punitive or consequential damages,
claims in respect of which are hereby waived by the Borrower to the extent permitted by Applicable
Law) suffered by the Borrower that are caused by any Issuing Banks failure to exercise care when
determining whether drafts and other documents presented under a Letter of Credit comply with the
terms thereof. The parties hereto expressly agree that, in the absence of gross negligence or
wilful misconduct on the part of any Issuing Bank (as finally determined by a court of competent
jurisdiction), such Issuing Bank shall be deemed to have exercised care in each such determination.
In furtherance of the foregoing and without limiting the generality thereof, the parties agree
that, with respect to documents presented which appear on their face to be in substantial
compliance with the terms of a Letter of Credit, the applicable Issuing Bank may, in its sole
discretion, either accept and make payment upon such documents without responsibility for further
investigation, regardless of any notice or information to the contrary, or refuse to accept and
make payment upon such documents if such documents are not in strict compliance with the terms of
such Letter of Credit.
(g) Disbursement Procedures. Each Issuing Bank shall, promptly following its receipt
thereof, examine all documents purporting to represent a demand for payment under a Letter of
Credit. Such Issuing Bank shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent and the Borrower by
telephone (confirmed by telecopy) of such demand for payment and whether such Issuing Bank has made
or will make an LC Disbursement thereunder; provided that any failure to give or delay in
giving such notice shall not relieve the Borrower of its obligation to reimburse such Issuing Bank
and the Lenders with respect to any such LC Disbursement.
(h) Interim Interest. If any Issuing Bank shall make any LC Disbursement, then,
unless the Borrower shall reimburse such LC Disbursement in full on the date such LC Disbursement
is made, the unpaid amount thereof shall bear interest, for each day from and including the date
such LC Disbursement is made to but excluding the date that the Borrower reimburses such LC
Disbursement, at the rate then applicable to Canadian Prime Loans (if in Canadian Dollars) or Base
Rate Loans (if in U.S. Dollars).
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Interest accrued pursuant to this Section 2.19(h) shall be for
the account of the applicable Issuing Bank, except that interest accrued on and after the date of
payment by any Lender pursuant to this Section 2.19(e) to reimburse such Issuing Bank shall be for
the account of such Lender to the extent of such payment.
(i) Replacement of an Issuing Bank. Any Issuing Bank may be replaced at any time by
written agreement among the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, such replaced Issuing Bank and such
successor Issuing Bank; provided that, except during the continuance of an Event of
Default, such successor Issuing Bank shall be a Canadian Resident Lender. The Administrative Agent
shall notify the Lenders of any such replacement of any Issuing Bank. At the time any such
replacement shall become effective, the Borrower shall pay all unpaid fees accrued for the account
of such replaced Issuing Bank. From and after the effective date of any such replacement, (i) such
successor Issuing Bank shall have all the rights and obligations of an Issuing Bank under this
Agreement with respect to Letters of Credit to be issued thereafter, and (ii) references herein to
the term Issuing Banks shall be deemed to refer to such successor or to any previous
Issuing Banks, or to such successor and all previous Issuing Banks, as the context shall require.
After the replacement of an Issuing Bank hereunder, the replaced Issuing Bank shall remain a party
hereto and shall continue to have all the rights and obligations of an Issuing Bank under this
Agreement with respect to Letters of Credit issued by it prior to such replacement, but shall not
be required to issue additional Letters of Credit.
(j) Cash Collateralization. If any Event of Default shall occur and be continuing,
and/or if there are any Letters of Credit outstanding on the Maturity Date (notwithstanding any
provisions to the contrary contained herein), then on the Business Day that the Borrower receives
notice from the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders (or, if the maturity of the Loans has
been accelerated, Lenders with LC Exposure representing greater than 50% of the total LC Exposure)
demanding the deposit of cash collateral pursuant to this Section 2.19(j), in the case of an Event
of Default which is continuing, and promptly within two (2) Business Days after the Maturity Date
or the date of termination of the Commitments, the Borrower shall deposit in the LC Cash Collateral
Account, an amount in cash equal to the LC Exposure as of such date plus any accrued and unpaid
interest thereon; provided that the obligation to deposit such cash collateral shall become
effective immediately, and such deposit shall become immediately due and payable, without demand or
other notice of any kind, upon the occurrence of any Event of Default with respect to the Borrower
described in Section 7.1 (h), (i) or (j). Such deposit shall be held by the Administrative Agent
as collateral for the payment and performance of the obligations of the Borrower under this
Agreement. The Administrative Agent shall have exclusive dominion and control, including the
exclusive right of withdrawal, over such LC Cash Collateral Account. Other than any interest
earned on the investment of such deposits, which investments shall be made at the option and sole
discretion of the Administrative Agent, acting reasonably, and at the Borrowers risk and expense,
such deposits shall not bear interest. Interest or profits, if any, on such investments shall
accumulate in such LC Cash Collateral Account. Moneys in such LC Cash Collateral Account shall be
applied by the Administrative Agent to reimburse each Issuing Bank for LC Disbursements for which
it has not been reimbursed and, to the extent not so applied, shall be held for the satisfaction of
the reimbursement obligations of the Borrower for the LC Exposure at such time or, if the maturity
of the Loans has been accelerated (but subject to the consent of Lenders with LC Exposure
representing greater than 50% of the total LC Exposure), be applied to satisfy other obligations of
the Borrower under this Agreement. If the Borrower is required to provide an amount of cash
collateral hereunder as a result of the occurrence of an Event of Default, such amount and any applicable
interest (to the extent not applied as aforesaid) shall be returned to the Borrower within three
Business Days after the earlier of the date on which (i) all Events of Default have been cured or
waived unless the Maturity Date has occurred or the Commitments have been terminated and the
Secured Obligations have not been repaid in full and (ii) the Secured Obligations are repaid in
full.
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ARTICLE 3
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
In order to induce the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Issuing Banks to enter into
this Agreement, to make any Loans hereunder and to issue any Letters of Credit hereunder, each
Credit Party hereby represents and warrants to the Administrative Agent, each Lender and each
Issuing Bank that each statement set forth in this Article 3 is true and correct on the date
hereof, and will be true and correct on the date of each Borrowing, on the date each Letter of
Credit is requested hereunder, and on the date each Letter of Credit is issued hereunder (except to
the extent made as of a specific date, in which case such representation and warranty shall be true
and correct as of such specific date):
3.1 Organization; Powers. Each Credit Party (i) is duly organized, validly existing and in
good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, except where the failure to
be in good standing, individually or in the aggregate, would not have a Material Adverse Effect,
(ii) has all requisite power and authority to carry on its business as now and formerly conducted,
except where the failure to have such power or authority, individually or in the aggregate, would
not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, and (iii) except where the
failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a
Material Adverse Effect, is qualified to do business in, and is in good standing in, every
jurisdiction where such qualification is required.
3.2 Authorization; Enforceability. The Transactions are within each Credit Partys
corporate, partnership or other constitutive powers and have been duly authorized by all necessary
corporate, partnership or other constitutive action, as applicable, and, if required, shareholder
or partner action, as applicable. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents have been duly
executed and delivered by each Credit Party (as applicable) and constitute legal, valid and binding
obligations of each Credit Party (as applicable), enforceable in accordance with their terms,
subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other Applicable Laws
affecting creditors rights generally and subject to general principles of equity, regardless of
whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.
3.3 Governmental Approvals; No Conflicts. The Transactions (i) do not require any consent
or approval of, registration or filing with, or any other action by, any Governmental Authority,
except as disclosed in Schedule 3.3, (ii) will not violate any Applicable Law or the charter,
by-laws, partnership agreement or other organizational documents of any applicable Credit Party or
any order of any Governmental Authority, (iii) will not violate or result in a default under any
indenture, agreement or other instrument binding upon any Credit Party or its assets, other than
any violation or default which, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected
to result in a Material Adverse Effect, or give rise to a right thereunder to require any payment
to be made by any Credit Party, and (iv) will not result in the creation or imposition of any Lien
on any asset of any Credit Party, except for any Lien arising in favour of the Administrative Agent, for
the benefit of the Secured Parties, under the Loan Documents.
3.4 Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Effect or Material Adverse Change.
(a) The Borrower has furnished to the Administrative Agent its unaudited Canadian statutory accounts
(prepared for tax reporting purposes only) for the Borrower for the fiscal periods ending December
31, 2004 and December 31, 2005.
(b) Since December 31, 2005, there has been no Material Adverse Change.
(c) The Borrower has furnished to the Administrative Agent its business plan (including
projected balance sheets, income statements and cash flow statements of the Borrower prepared on a
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quarterly basis for Fiscal Year 2006 and on an annual basis thereafter through Fiscal Year 2007),
prepared in good faith on the basis of the assumptions stated therein, which assumptions were fair
in the light of conditions existing at the time of delivery of such business plan to the
Administrative Agent, and represented, at the time of such delivery, the Borrowers best estimate
of its future financial performance.
(d) The written information (including that disclosed in all financial statements) pertaining
to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (other than the Borrowers business plan and all projections,
and any historical financial information delivered prior to the restatement thereof by Dana
Corporation and its auditors) that has been made available on or after February 4, 2006 to the
Lenders or the Administrative Agent by the Borrower, taken as a whole and in light of the
circumstances in which made, did not, as of the date so made available, contain any untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the
statements contained therein not materially misleading in light of the circumstances under which
such statements are made.
3.5 Litigation. Except as disclosed in Schedule 3.5 or in any SEC filing by Dana
Corporation at least three days prior to the Effective Date, there is no action, suit or proceeding
before any Governmental Authority or arbitrator pending against or, to the knowledge of any Credit
Party, threatened against or affecting any Credit Party that (i) is reasonably expected to be
determined adversely thereto and, if so determined, would reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect (other than the Disclosed Matters), or (ii) purports to affect the legality,
validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
3.6 Compliance with Applicable Laws and Agreements. Each Credit Party is in compliance
with all Applicable Laws applicable to it or its property and all indentures, agreements and other
instruments binding upon it or its property, except where the failure to do so, individually or in
the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. No Credit
Party has violated or failed to obtain any Authorization necessary to the ownership of any of its
property or assets or the conduct of its business, which violation or failure would reasonably be
expected to have (in the event that such a violation or failure were asserted by any Person through
appropriate action) a Material Adverse Effect.
3.7 Taxes. Each Credit Party has timely filed or caused to be filed all Tax returns and
reports required to have been filed and has paid or caused to be paid all Taxes required to have
been paid by it, except (i) Taxes that are
being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which such Credit Party has set
aside on its books adequate reserves or (ii) to the extent that the failure to do so could not
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
3.8 Title to Real Property. Each Credit Party has indefeasible fee simple title to their
respective owned real properties (or in Quebec, immoveable properties), and with respect to leased
real properties, indefeasible title to the leasehold estate with respect thereto, pursuant to valid
and enforceable leases, free and clear of all Liens except Permitted Liens, including the Liens
disclosed to the Lenders in Schedule 3.8.
3.9 Title to Personal Property. Each Credit Party has title to its material owned personal
properties (or, in Quebec, moveable properties), and with respect to material leased personal
properties, title to the leasehold estate with respect thereto, pursuant to valid and enforceable
leases, free and clear of all Liens except Permitted Liens, including the Liens disclosed in
Schedule 3.9.
3.10 Pension Plans. The Pension Plans are duly registered under the ITA and any other
Applicable Laws which require registration and have been administered in all material respects in
accordance with the ITA and such other Applicable Laws and no event has occurred which could
reasonably be expected to cause the loss of such registered status, except to the extent that any
failure to do so, or such loss of
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registered status, could not reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect. There are no material outstanding disputes concerning the assets of the
Pension Plans or any benefit plans. All material obligations of each Credit Party (including
fiduciary, funding, investment and administration obligations) required to be performed in
connection with the Pension Plans and the funding agreements therefor have been performed on a
timely basis, except (i) as set forth on Schedule 3.10 or (ii) to the extent that any failure to do
so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
3.11 [ Reserved ]
3.12 Defaults. No Default has occurred and is continuing.
3.13 Equity Securities. As of the Effective Date, Schedule 3.13 correctly sets forth the
(i) name of, (ii) legal form of, (iii) outstanding Equity Securities issued by, and (iv)
jurisdiction of organization of, each Credit Party. Except as described in Schedule 3.13, as of
the Effective Date, no Credit Party owns any Equity Securities or debt security which is
convertible, or exchangeable, for Equity Securities of any other Person. Unless otherwise
indicated in Schedule 3.13, as of the Effective Date, there are no outstanding options, warrants or
other rights to purchase Equity Securities issued by any Credit Party, and all Equity Securities
issued by any Credit Party are duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable, and
were issued in compliance with all applicable federal, provincial or foreign securities and other
Applicable Laws, and are free and clear of all Liens, except for Permitted Liens.
3.14 Insurance. Each Credit Party maintains insurance at all times, against such risks, including fire and other
risks insured against by extended coverage, as is customary with companies of the same or similar
size in the same or similar businesses (subject to deductibles and including provisions for
self-insurance).
3.15 Solvency. Each Credit Party is Solvent.
3.16 Environmental Matters. Except as set forth in Schedule 3.16 hereto, the operations
and properties of each Credit Party comply with all applicable Environmental Laws and Environmental
Permits except for non-compliance that could not reasonably be likely to have a Material Adverse
Effect; all past non-compliance with such Environmental Laws and Environmental Permits has been
resolved in a manner that could not be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect; and, to
the knowledge of the Credit Parties after reasonable inquiry, no circumstances exist that would be
reasonably likely to (i) form the basis of an Environmental Action against any Credit Party or any
of its properties that could be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) cause
any such property to be subject to any restrictions on ownership, occupancy, use or transferability
under any Environmental Law that could be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
3.17 Employee Matters. Each Credit Party has withheld from each payment to each of their
respective officers, directors and employees the amount of all Taxes, including income tax, pension
plan, unemployment insurance and other payments and deductions required to be withheld therefrom,
and has paid the same, prior to such payments being overdue, to the proper taxation or other
receiving authority in accordance with Applicable Law, except to the extent the failure to do so
would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. No Credit Party has any
overdue workers compensation or like obligations, except for those that would not reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and there are no proceedings, claims, actions, orders
or investigations of any Governmental Authority relating to workers, compensation outstanding,
pending or, to their knowledge, threatened relating to them or any of their employees or former
employees which would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Those Pension
Plans or funds maintained by or on behalf of any Credit Party for the benefit of any officer,
director or employee of any Credit Party that constitute so-called
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defined benefit plans are listed
on Schedule 3.10. For any Pension Plan or fund, and for any other employee benefit plan, which is
a defined contribution plan requiring any Credit Party to contribute thereto, or to deduct from
payments to any individual and pay such deductions into or to the credit of such Pension Plan or
fund, all required employer contributions have been properly withheld by such Credit Party and
fully paid into the funding arrangements for the applicable Pension Plan or fund, except to the
extent the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Any assessments owed to the Pension Benefits Guarantee Fund established under the Pension Benefits
Act (Ontario), or other assessments or payments required under similar legislation in any other
jurisdiction, have been paid when due, except to the extent the failure to do so would not
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. None of the Credit Parties maintains any
Pension Plan that is subject to the United States Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974,
as amended.
3.18 Fiscal Year. The Fiscal Year of the Borrower ends on December 31st of each calendar year, and the Borrowers
Fiscal Quarters end on the last day of each of March, June, September, and December of each
calendar year.
3.19 Intellectual Property Rights. Each Credit Party is the registered and beneficial
owner of, with good and marketable title, free of all licenses, franchises and Liens other than
Permitted Liens, to, or is a licensee of, all patents, patent applications, trade marks, trade mark
applications, trade names, service marks, copyrights, industrial designs, integrated circuit
topographies, or other rights with respect to the foregoing and other similar property, in each
case to the extent necessary for the present and planned future conduct of its business and the
failure to own or have licensee rights to which would have a Material Adverse Effect, without any
conflict with the rights of any other Person, other than as listed on Schedule 3.19, or other than
for such conflicts as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. All
material patents, trade marks, trade names, service marks, copyrights, industrial designs,
integrated circuit topographies, and other similar rights owned or licensed by any Credit Party,
and all rights of any Credit Party to the use of any patents, trade marks, trade names, service
marks, copyrights, industrial designs, integrated circuit topographies, or other similar rights,
are described in Schedule 3.19 (collectively, the Intellectual Property Rights). Except as set
forth in Schedule 3.19 or except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect, no claim has been asserted and is pending by any Person with respect to the use by any
Credit Party of any Intellectual Property Rights or challenging or questioning the validity,
enforceability or effectiveness of any Intellectual Property Rights necessary for the conduct of
the business of any Credit Party that is reasonably likely to be determined adversely to any Credit
Party.
3.20 Residency of Borrower for Tax Purposes. The Borrower is a resident of Canada for
purposes of the ITA.
3.21 Bank Accounts. Schedule 3.21 contains as of the Effective Date a complete and
accurate list of all bank accounts maintained by each Credit Party with any bank or other financial
institution.
3.22 Real Property and Leases. Schedule 3.22 hereto is, as of the Effective Date, a
correct and complete list, of all real property owned by each Credit Party, all leases and
subleases of real property by each Credit Party, as lessee or sublessee, and all leases and
subleases of real property by each Credit Party, as lessor or sublessor. Each of such leases and
subleases is valid and enforceable in accordance with its terms and is in full force and effect,
and no default by any party to any such lease or sublease exists to the knowledge of the Credit
Party in its capacity as tenant, except where the failure to be valid, enforceable and in full
force and effect, or except where such default, as applicable, would not have a Material Adverse
Effect.
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3.23 Further Real Property Matters. No Inventory is located at any leased real property of
any Credit Party except as indicated in Schedule 3.23.
3.24 Jurisdictions of Credit Parties. Schedule 3.24 sets out the various jurisdictions in which each Credit Party has tangible assets
having an aggregate value in excess of Cdn.$1,000,000.
ARTICLE 4
CONDITIONS
4.1 Effective Date. The obligations of the Lenders to make Loans and of the Issuing Banks
to issue Letters of Credit hereunder shall not become effective until the date on which each of the
following conditions is satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section 9.2) except to the extent
set forth in a post-closing matters agreement in accordance with clause (v) below:
(a) Credit Agreement. The Administrative Agent (or its counsel), each Lender, and
each Issuing Bank shall have received from each party hereto either (i) a counterpart of this
Agreement signed on behalf of each party hereto, or (ii) written evidence satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent (which may include facsimile transmission of a signed signature page of this
Agreement) that each such party has signed a counterpart of this Agreement. Each Lender on the
Effective Date shall be a Canadian Resident Lender.
(b) Legal Opinions. The Administrative Agent shall have received a favourable
written opinion of Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP, counsel to the Credit Parties, substantially in
the form of Exhibit D, and covering such other matters relating to the Borrower, the Credit
Parties, this Agreement, the other Loan Documents, or the Transactions as the Lenders shall
reasonably request (together with copies of all factual certificates and legal opinions delivered
to such counsel in connection with such opinion upon which counsel has relied), subject to
qualifications and assumptions customarily found in opinions for similar financings. The
Administrative Agent shall also have received favourable written opinions of McInnes Cooper LLP and
such special and other local counsel as may be required by the Administrative Agent (together with
copies of all factual certificates and legal opinions delivered to such counsel in connection with
such opinion upon which such counsel has relied), subject to qualifications and assumptions
customarily found in opinions for similar financings. The legal opinions to be delivered to the
Administrative Agent shall include opinions as to the title of the Borrower or any other Credit
Party, as the case may be, to all owned real property which is subject to the Security Documents
(or, in the alternative, the Borrower may deliver to the Administrative Agent a title insurance
policy in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent as to any parcel of owned
real property which is subject to the Security Documents in respect of which a title opinion is not
delivered). The Borrower hereby requests each such counsel to deliver such opinions and supporting
materials. All opinions and certificates referred to in this Section 4.1(b) shall be addressed to
the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and dated the Effective Date.
(c) Corporate Certificates. The Administrative Agent shall have received:
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certified copies of the resolutions of the board of directors
or general partner, as applicable, of each Credit Party, dated as of the
Effective Date, and approving, as appropriate, the Loans, this Agreement and
the other Loan Documents, and all other documents, if any, to which such Credit
Party is a party and evidencing authorization with respect to such documents;
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each officer of such Person authorized to execute this Agreement and the
other Loan Documents to which it is a party, (B) the name, title and true
signature of each officer of such Person authorized to provide the
certifications required pursuant to this Agreement, including certifications
required pursuant to Section 5.1 and Borrowing Requests, and (C) that
attached thereto is a true and complete copy of the constating documents of
such Credit Party, as amended to date, and a recent certificate of status,
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(d) Closing Conditions and Solvency Certificate. The Administrative Agent shall have
received a certificate, dated the Effective Date and signed by a Financial Officer of the Borrower
(i) confirming compliance with the financial covenant set forth in Section 5.11 and with the
conditions set forth in Section 4.2(a) and (b), and (ii) confirming that, after giving effect to
the Transactions, each Credit Party is Solvent.
(e) Fees. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall have received all fees and
other amounts due and payable on or prior to the Effective Date, including, to the extent invoiced,
reimbursement or payment of all reasonable legal fees and other Out-of-Pocket Expenses required to
be reimbursed or paid by the Borrower hereunder or under any other Loan Document, and all fees
payable under the Fee Letter.
(f) Insurance. The Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate of
insurance coverage, dated not more than 30 days prior to the Effective Date, evidencing that the
Credit Parties are carrying insurance in accordance with Section 5.9 hereof. In addition, the
Administrative Agent shall have received evidence satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that
none of the improved real estate collateral is situated in an area that has been identified by any
Governmental Authority or the Credit Parties insurers as an area having special flood hazards.
Should it be determined, however, that any of the real estate collateral is situated in an area
identified as having special flood hazards, the Administrative Agent shall have received a copy of
the applicable flood insurance policies (or policy applications), in form and substance
satisfactory to the Required Lenders, indicating that the maximum limits of coverage have been
obtained and that the full premium therefor has been paid in full.
(g) Inventory Control Systems; Appraisal; Field Audit. The Administrative Agent shall
have reviewed and be satisfied with the Collateral, the inventory control systems, the books and
records, and the reporting capability of the Credit Parties. The Administrative Agent shall have
received and be satisfied with such field audits, asset appraisals, and such other reports as may
reasonably be requested by the Administrative Agent, in form, scope and substance satisfactory to
the Administrative Agent, including, without limitation, third party appraisals completed by a
reputable and independent appraisal firm at the expense of the Borrower and acceptable to the
Administrative Agent determining (i) the Net Orderly Liquidation Value of each Credit Partys
Inventory and Equipment, and (ii) the fair market value of the real and personal property of each
Credit Party.
(h) Environmental Report. The Administrative Agent shall have received in respect of
each material real property a copy of a Phase I environmental site assessment prepared by an
environmental consultant satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and a certificate of the
Borrower, dated as of the Effective Date, to the effect that to the Borrowers best knowledge, no
relevant facts, conditions or circumstances pertaining to environmental claims or liabilities
shall have arisen that would cause such report, if deemed to have been delivered on the Effective
Date, to contain any material misstatement of fact, or any omission of any material fact necessary
to make such report accurate, complete and not
misleading, except to the extent that any such fact, condition, or circumstance could not
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
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(i) No Cessation of Financing Market. There shall have not been occurred and be
continuing on the Effective Date any general banking moratorium or any practical cessation in the
bank or private debt financing markets, and there shall not have been introduced any material
governmental restrictions imposed on lending institutions, which materially affect the type of
lending transactions contemplated by this Agreement. There shall not have occurred and be
continuing on the Effective Date any loan syndication, financial or capital market condition which
could, in the Lead Arrangers reasonable judgment, materially impair syndication of the Credit.
(j) Execution and Delivery of Documentation. Each Credit Party shall have duly
authorized, executed and delivered all documents, including Loan Documents, required hereunder, all
in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and its counsel, and all of the
Security Documents shall have been registered in all offices in which, in the opinion of the
Administrative Agent or its counsel, acting reasonably, registration is necessary or of advantage
to preserve the priority of the Liens intended to be created thereby, and duplicate copies of such
Security Documents bearing or accompanied by appropriate endorsements or certificates of
registration shall have been delivered to the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall
have received and be satisfied with the results of all personal property, pending litigation,
judgment, bankruptcy, bulk sale, execution and other searches reasonably conducted by the
Administrative Agent and its counsel with respect to the Credit Parties in all jurisdictions
reasonably selected by the Administrative Agent and its counsel.
(k) Security Documents. The Administrative Agent shall have received:
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a guarantee executed by each Credit Party (other than the
Borrower) in favour of the Administrative Agent, as agent for the Secured
Parties, in respect of the Secured Obligations of each of the other Credit
Parties, and dated as of the Effective Date and substantially in the form of
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a general security agreement executed by each Credit Party in
favour of the Administrative Agent, as agent for the Secured Parties, securing
the Secured Obligations of such Credit Party, and dated as of the Effective
Date and substantially in the form of Exhibit E, constituting a first priority
(subject only to Permitted Senior Liens) Lien on all property (other than
Excluded Property) from time to time of each Credit Party including, without
limitation, a pledge of the Dana Canada Note and Intercompany Notes owing to
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a pledge agreement executed by each Credit Party in favour of
the Administrative Agent, as agent for the Secured Parties, securing the
Secured Obligations of such Credit Party, and dated as of the Effective Date
and substantially in the form of Exhibit F, pledging all Equity Securities of
its domestic Canadian Affiliates, if any, subject only to Permitted Liens,
together with all stock and unit certificates, instruments and other documents
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a Postponement Agreement executed by each applicable Credit
Party in favour of the Administrative Agent, as agent for the Secured Parties,
and dated as of the Effective Date, together with all other documents required to be delivered
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out in Schedule 3.22 (other than the Cambridge,
Ontario property described in item 7 under Owned Properties therein and any
Excluded Property) securing the Secured Obligations of such Credit Party, and
dated as of the Effective Date and in form and substance satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent, constituting a first priority (subject only to Permitted
Senior Liens) Lien on all real property from time to time of such Credit Party,
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(i) a Deed of Hypothec and Issue of Bonds (excluding Excluded
Property) by the Borrower in favour of the Administrative Agent, as fondé de
pouvoir under Article 2692 of the Civil Code of Quebec, to be executed before a
notary of the Province of Quebec, (ii) a bond issued by the Borrower pursuant
to such Deed of Hypothec and Issue of Bonds, and (iii) a pledge agreement to be
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provided that if any of the foregoing documents are not suitable for use in any
jurisdiction, the applicable Credit Party shall provide to the Administrative Agent
alternative document(s) with substantially equivalent substantive effect and which are
suitable for use in such jurisdiction.
(l) Landlord Waivers. The Administrative Agent shall have received executed copies
of a landlord waiver, in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, acting
reasonably, from each landlord of a Designated Leased Location to the extent that any such landlord
shall execute the same or the Administrative Agent shall have had the opportunity to create an
Availability Reserve of up to three months rental in respect thereof.
(m) Regulatory Approval; Consents; Waivers. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders
shall be satisfied, acting reasonably, that all material Authorizations required in connection with
the Transactions contemplated hereby have been obtained, are in full force and effect, and do not
impose any conditions on the applicable Credit Party that are not acceptable to the Lenders, acting
reasonably (including all approvals listed in Schedule 3.3), and that all consents and waivers
required to consummate the Transactions have been obtained, to the extent that consummation of the
Transactions would otherwise be restricted or prohibited under the terms of any material contract
to which any Credit Party is a party, or by which it is bound, in each case without the imposition
of any burdensome provisions.
(n) Delivery of Financial Statements. The Administrative Agent shall have received
and be reasonably satisfied with the form and substance of (i) the unaudited Canadian statutory
accounts (prepared for tax purposes only) of the Borrower for the Fiscal Years ended December 31,
2004 and December 31, 2005 and (ii) the business plan for the Borrower, which shall include a
financial forecast (which shall include appropriate balance sheet, income statement and cash flow
detail for the periods under forecast) on a quarterly basis for the first year after the Effective
Date and on annual basis thereafter through the year after the Maturity Date prepared by the
Borrowers management.
(o) No Material Adverse Change. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall be
satisfied that, since December 31, 2005, there has not been a Material Adverse Change; provided
that events, developments and circumstances disclosed in public filings and press releases of Dana
Corporation and other events or information made available to the Lead Arrangers at least three days prior to
the Effective Date shall not be considered in determining whether a material adverse change has
occurred.
(p) Indebtedness. The Transactions contemplated in this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents shall not have caused any event or condition to occur which has resulted, or which will
result, in any Material Indebtedness becoming due prior to its scheduled maturity or that permits
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without the giving of notice, the lapse of time, or both) the holder or holders of any
Material Indebtedness or any trustee or agent on its or their behalf to cause any Material
Indebtedness to become due, or to require the prepayment, repurchase, redemption or defeasance
thereof, prior to its scheduled maturity, or which will result in the creation of any Liens under
any Material Indebtedness.
(q) [Reserved]
(r) Due Diligence. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall have completed,
and be satisfied with, their business and legal due diligence.
(s) [Reserved]
(t) Capitalization Arrangement. The Lenders shall be satisfied with the capital
structure of the Borrower, that the Borrower is Solvent, and that the Borrower has sufficient
working capital to pay its debts as they become due.
(u) Other Documentation. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall have
received such other documents, reports and instruments as are customary for transactions of this
type or as they may reasonably request.
(v) Post-Closing Matters Agreement. The Administrative Agent shall have received a
fully executed copy of a post-closing matters agreement substantially in the form attached hereto
as Exhibit H.
The obligations of the Lenders to make Loans and of the Issuing Banks to issue Letters of Credit
hereunder shall not become effective unless each of the foregoing conditions is satisfied (or
waived pursuant to Section 9.2) at or prior to 3:00 p.m., Toronto time, on June 30, 2006 (and, in
the event such conditions are not so satisfied or waived by such time, the Commitments shall
terminate at such time).
4.2 Each Credit Event. The obligation of each Lender to make a Loan on the occasion of any
Borrowing, of the Swing Line Lender to make Swing Line Loans and of each Issuing Bank to issue,
amend, renew or extend any Letter of Credit (including on the occasions of the initial Borrowings
hereunder), is subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions:
(a) the representations and warranties of each Credit Party set forth in this Agreement and
in the other Loan Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the
date of each such Borrowing (including the date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of
such Letter of Credit, as applicable) as if made on such date (except where such representation or
warranty refers to a different date);
(b) no event has occurred and is continuing, or would result from such Borrowing (including
the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of such Letter of Credit, as applicable) or from the
application of proceeds, if any, therefrom, that constitutes a Default;
(c) the Administrative Agent shall be satisfied that the making of a Loan on the occasion of
any Borrowing and the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit will not
violate any Applicable Law and will not be enjoined, temporarily, preliminarily or permanently;
(d) the Administrative Agent shall have received a Borrowing Request in the manner and within
the time period required by Section 2.3;
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(e) the Administrative Agent shall have received the Borrowing Base Report most
recently required to be delivered pursuant to Section 5.1, the calculations contained in which
shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent; and
(f) after giving effect to such Borrowing (including the issuance, amendment, renewal or
extension of such Letter of Credit, as applicable), the aggregate Exposure will not exceed the
Borrowing Base.
Each Borrowing, including each issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of a Letter of Credit,
shall be deemed to constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrower on the date thereof as
to the accuracy of the matters specified in paragraphs (a) and (b) above (except where any such
representation or warranty refers to a specific date). This requirement does not apply on the
conversion or rollover of an existing Borrowing provided that the aggregate outstanding Borrowings
will not be increased as a consequence thereof.
ARTICLE 5
AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
From (and including) the Effective Date until the Commitments have expired or been terminated
and the principal of and interest on each Loan and all fees payable hereunder shall have been paid
in full and all Letters of Credit shall have expired and been terminated and all Reimbursement
Obligations have been satisfied by the Borrower:
5.1 Financial Statements and Other Information. The Borrower will furnish to the
Administrative Agent:
(a) as soon as available and in any event within 90 days after the end of each Fiscal Year
(or 120 days after the end of Fiscal Year 2006, or in any case such later date as the SEC may
permit for the delivery of similar financial statements for Dana Corporation) of the Borrower
commencing with Fiscal Year 2006 a copy of the annual audit report for such Fiscal Year, including
therein a consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (provided that
the balance sheet of Dana Mauritius shall be provided separately) as of the end of such Fiscal Year
and consolidated statements of income and cash flows of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries
(provided that the statements of income and cash flows of Dana Mauritius shall be provided
separately) for such Fiscal Year, in each case accompanied by (A) a report acceptable to the
Administrative Agent of independent public accountants of recognized national standing acceptable
to the Administrative Agent and (B) a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower stating
that no Default has occurred and is continuing or, if a Default has occurred and is continuing, a
statement as to the nature thereof and the action that the Borrower has taken and proposes to take
with respect thereto, together with a schedule in form reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent of the computations used in determining, as of the end of such Fiscal Year,
compliance with the covenants contained in Sections 5.11 and 6.16; provided that, in the
event of any change in GAAP used in the preparation of such financial statements, the Borrower
shall also provide, if necessary for the determination of compliance with Sections 5.11 and 6.16, a
statement of reconciliation conforming such financial statements to GAAP;
(b) commencing with the Fiscal Quarter ending March 31, 2006, as soon as available and in any
event within 45 days after the end of each of the first three quarters of each Fiscal Year (or such
earlier date as Dana Corporation may be required by the SEC to deliver its Form 10-Q or such later
date as the SEC may permit for the delivery of Dana Corporations Form 10-Q), an unaudited
consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (provided that the
unaudited balance sheet of Dana Mauritius shall be provided separately) as of the end of such
quarter except as to any period ending prior to May 31,
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2006 such report shall instead be for the five month period ended May 31, 2006, and unaudited
consolidated statements of income and cash flows of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries
(provided that the unaudited statements of income and cash flows of Dana Mauritius shall be
provided separately) for the period commencing at the end of the previous quarter (or other period)
and ending with the end of such quarter (or other period), and consolidated statements of income
and cash flows of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (provided that the statements of income
and cash flows of Dana Mauritius shall be provided separately) for the period commencing at the end
of the previous Fiscal Year and ending with the end of such quarter (or other period), all in
reasonable detail and duly certified (subject to normal year end audit adjustments) by a
Responsible Officer of the Borrower as having been prepared in accordance with GAAP, together with
a certificate of said officer stating that no Default has occurred and is continuing or, if a
Default has occurred and is continuing, a statement as to the nature thereof and the action that
the Borrower has taken and proposes to take with respect thereto;
(c) for each month, as soon as available and in any event on the later of (i) 30 days after
the end of such month and (ii) the date on which the Bankruptcy Court shall require the delivery of
comparable financial information by Dana Corporation (but in no event later than the 60th days
after the end of such month), the Borrowers unaudited consolidated balance sheet and related
statements of income as of the end of such month (but no statements of cash flows or changes in
financial position), all certified by a Responsible Officer as presenting fairly in all material
respects the financial condition and income of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated
basis (provided that the unaudited consolidated balance sheet and related statements of
income of Dana Mauritius shall be provided separately) in accordance with GAAP consistently
applied, subject to normal year-end audit adjustments;
(d) as soon as available and in any event within 30 days after the end of each Fiscal Year of
the Borrower (commencing with the Fiscal Year ending December 31, 2006) (or within such later
period as is permitted by the SEC in respect of the delivery of similar information for Dana
Corporation), an annual forecast (which shall include appropriate balance sheet, income statement
and cash flow detail for the periods under forecast and be presented in a format consistent with
the format delivered to the Administrative Agent prior to the Effective Date) of the Borrower and
its Subsidiaries on a quarterly basis;
(e) as soon as possible and in any event within three Business Days after any Responsible
Officer of the Borrower has knowledge of the occurrence of a Default or of the occurrence of any
event, development or condition (including those relating to tax and pension plans) reasonably
likely to have a Material Adverse Effect continuing on the date of such statement, a statement of a
Responsible Officer (or Person performing similar functions) of the Borrower setting forth details
of such Default or other event, development or condition and the action that the Borrower has taken
and proposes to take with respect thereto;
(f) promptly (but in any event within three Business Days) after a Responsible Officer has
knowledge of the commencement thereof, notice of each unstayed action, suit, investigation,
litigation and proceeding before any Governmental Authority affecting any Credit Party that (i) is
reasonably likely to be determined adversely and if so determined adversely would be reasonably
likely to have a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) purports to affect the legality, validity or
enforceability of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the consummation of the
Transactions;
(g) promptly after the assertion or occurrence thereof, notice of any Environmental Action
against or of any non-compliance by any Credit Party with any Environmental Law or Environmental
Permit that would reasonably be expected to (i) have a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) cause any
real property to be subject to any restrictions on ownership, occupancy, use or transferability
under any Environmental Law that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
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(h) within a reasonable time after a request by the Administrative Agent, additional title
information in form and substance acceptable to the Administrative Agent as is reasonably necessary
covering the Collateral so that the Lenders shall have received, together with the title
information previously delivered by the Lenders, satisfactory title information covering all of the
Collateral;
(i) a Borrowing Base Report as of the date required to be delivered or so requested, in each
case with supporting documentation shall be furnished to the Lenders: (i) (A) on or before the
15th day following the end of each fiscal month, which monthly Borrowing Base Report shall reflect
the Accounts and Inventory updated as of the end of each such month and (B) in addition to such
monthly Borrowing Base Reports, (x) upon the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default or
if Borrowing Availability is less than U.S.$25,000,000, on or before the third Business Day
following the end of each week, which weekly Borrowing Base Report shall recertify the prior
month-end Inventory and reflect the Accounts updated as of the immediately preceding Thursday;
provided that if Borrowing Availability is equal to or greater than U.S.$25,000,000 for
three consecutive Business Days, such Borrowing Base Certificate shall be delivered pursuant to
clause (i)(A) herein and (y) at least 10 Business Days prior to a Contract Date, an updated
Borrowing Base Report reflecting, pro forma, any disposition as required pursuant to Section 6.7,
and (ii) if requested by the Administrative Agent at any other time when the Administrative Agent
reasonably believes that the then existing Borrowing Base Certificate is materially inaccurate, as
soon as reasonably available after such request, in each case with supporting documentation as the
Administrative Agent may reasonably request;
(j) on or before the 15th day following the end of each fiscal month, a
certificate of a Responsible Officer, certifying compliance by the Borrower, at all times during
the preceding fiscal month and as at the date of such certificate, with the financial covenant in
Section 5.11 (which certificate may be combined with the monthly Borrowing Base Report referred to
above);
(k) upon request by the Administrative Agent, a summary of the insurance coverages of the
Credit Parties, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, and upon
renewal of any insurance policy, a copy of an insurance certificate summarizing the terms of such
policy, and upon request by the Administrative Agent, copies of the applicable policies.
(l) all financial statements, forecasts and reports can, at the option of Borrower, be
prepared on the basis of generally accepted accounting principals acceptable in the United States
and be expressed in U.S. Dollars.
5.2 Existence; Conduct of Business. Each Credit Party will preserve and maintain in full
force and effect all governmental rights, privileges, qualifications, permits, licenses and
franchises necessary or desirable in the normal conduct of its business except (i)(A) if in the
reasonable business judgment of such Credit Party, it is in its best economic interest not to
preserve and maintain such rights, privileges, qualifications, permits, licenses and franchises and
the loss thereof is not materially disadvantageous to the Credit Parties, taken as a whole, and (B)
such failure to preserve the same could not, in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect, and (ii) as otherwise permitted by Section 6.7 or 6.8.
5.3 Payment of Obligations. Each Credit Party will pay its obligations, including Tax
liabilities, that, if not paid, would result in a Material Adverse Effect, before the same shall
become delinquent or in default, except where (a) the validity or amount thereof is being contested
in good faith by appropriate proceedings and (b) such Credit Party has set aside on its books adequate reserves with respect
thereto in accordance with GAAP.
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5.4 Maintenance of Properties. Each Credit Party will keep and maintain all property
material to the conduct of its business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear
excepted, except to the extent that the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect; provided that this Section 5.4 shall not prohibit the sale, transfer or
other disposition of any such property consummated in accordance with the other terms of this
Agreement.
5.5 Books and Records; Inspection Rights. Each Credit Party will keep proper books of
record and account in which full, true and correct entries are made of all dealings and
transactions in relation to its business and activities. Each Credit Party will permit any
representatives designated by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, upon reasonable prior notice,
to visit and inspect its properties, to examine and make extracts from its books and records, and
to discuss its affairs, finances and condition with its officers and independent accountants,
subject to such limitations as shall be necessary to preserve attorney client privilege, and
provided that the Borrower shall have the right to be present at any such visit or
inspection, all at such reasonable times and as often as reasonably requested. Each Credit Party
will, at any reasonable time and from time to time during regular business hours, upon reasonable
prior notice, permit any representatives designated by the Administrative Agent or any Lender
(including any consultants, accountants, lawyers and appraisers retained by the Administrative
Agent or any Lender) to visit the properties of each Credit Party to conduct evaluations,
appraisals, environmental assessments and ongoing maintenance and monitoring in connection with the
Borrowers computation of the Borrowing Base and the assets included in the Borrowing Base and such
other assets and properties of the Credit Parties as the Administrative Agent or the Lenders may
require, and to monitor the Collateral and all related systems; provided that third party
appraisals and field audits shall be conducted in accordance with, and subject to the limitations
contained in, Section 5.13 and the Borrower shall have the right to be present at any such visit
and, unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, such visits permitted under this
Section 5.5 shall be coordinated through the Administrative Agent and shall be made no more
frequently than (x) annually, in respect of third party appraisals and (y) once in any Fiscal
Quarter, in the case of field audits.
5.6 Compliance with Applicable Laws. Each Credit Party will comply with all Applicable
Laws, including, without limitation, all Environmental Laws and orders of any Governmental
Authority applicable to it or its property, except in each case above where the failure to do so,
individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Effect.
5.7 Use of Proceeds and Letters of Credit. The proceeds of the Revolving Loans and the
Swing Line Loans will be used for working capital and other general corporate purposes of the
Credit Parties, including the refinancing of existing Indebtedness of the Credit Parties (including
intercompany indebtedness) and acquisitions, investments and other transactions permitted under
this Agreement. Letters of Credit will be issued for general corporate purposes of the Borrower or
any other Credit Party.
5.8 Further Assurances. Each Credit Party will cure promptly any defects in the execution
and delivery of the Loan Documents, including this Agreement. Upon request, the applicable Credit
Party will, at its expense, as promptly as practical, execute and deliver to the Administrative
Agent, all such other and further documents, agreements and instruments in compliance with or
performance of the covenants and agreements of any Credit Party in any of the Loan Documents,
including this Agreement, or to further evidence and more fully describe the Collateral, or to
correct any omissions in any of the Loan Documents, or more fully to state the security obligations
set out herein or in any of the Loan Documents, or to perfect, protect or preserve any Liens
created pursuant to any of the Loan Documents, or to make any recordings, to file any notices, or obtain any consents, all as may be necessary or
appropriate in connection therewith, in the judgment of the Administrative Agent, acting
reasonably.
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5.9 Insurance. Each Credit Party will keep its insurable properties insured at all times,
against such risks, including fire and other risks insured against by extended coverage, as is
customary with companies of the same or similar size in the same or similar businesses (subject to
deductibles and including provisions for self-insurance); and maintain in full force and effect
public liability insurance against claims for personal injury or death or property damage occurring
upon, in, about or in connection with the use of any properties owned, occupied or controlled by it
in such amounts and with such deductibles as are customary with companies of the same or similar
size in the same or similar businesses and in the same geographic area and in each case with
financially sound and reputable insurance companies (subject to provisions for self-insurance).
All such policies are, subject to the rights of any holders of Permitted Liens holding claims
senior to those of the Administrative Agent, to be made payable to the Administrative Agent, to the
extent required herein, in case of loss, under a standard non contributory mortgagee, lender or
secured party clause and are to contain such other provisions as the Administrative Agent may
reasonably require to fully protect the Administrative Agents interest in the property and assets
subject to the Liens in favour of the Administrative Agent and to any payments to be made under
such policies, subject as aforesaid. All original policies or true copies thereof are to be
delivered to the Administrative Agent, upon request, premium prepaid, with the loss payable
endorsement in the Administrative Agents favour, subject as aforesaid, and shall provide for not
less than thirty (30) days prior written notice to the Administrative Agent of the exercise of any
right of cancellation. Upon the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default which is not
waived in writing by the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent shall, subject to the
rights of any holders of Permitted Liens holding claims senior to the Administrative Agent, have
the sole right, in the name of the Administrative Agent, the Borrower or any other applicable
Credit Party, to file claims under any insurance policies, to receive, receipt and give acquittance
for any payments that may be payable thereunder, and to execute any and all endorsements, receipts,
releases, assignments, reassignments or other documents that may be necessary to effect the
collection, compromise or settlement of any claims under any such insurance policies. If any part
of the Collateral is lost or damaged by fire or other casualty and the insurance proceeds for such
loss or damage are less than or equal to U.S.$2,000,000, such insurance proceeds shall be paid to
the applicable Credit Party. Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent such insurance proceeds
are received by the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent shall promptly, and in any event
within one (1) Business Day of receipt, remit such insurance proceeds to the applicable Credit
Party. If any part of the Collateral is lost or damaged by fire or other casualty and the
insurance proceeds for such loss or damage are greater than U.S.$2,000,000, such insurance proceeds
shall be paid to the Administrative Agent, and the applicable Credit Party may irrevocably elect
(by delivering written notice to the Administrative Agent) to replace, repair or restore such
Collateral to substantially the equivalent condition prior to such fire or other casualty as set
forth herein, and the Administrative Agent shall remit such proceeds to the applicable Credit Party
within one (1) Business Day of receipt of such notice. If such election is not made by such Credit
Party, insurance proceeds shall be used by the Borrower to repay outstanding Revolving Loans,
subject to the rights of holders of Permitted Liens holding claims senior to those of the
Administrative Agent, with any excess to be remitted to the Borrower. Upon the occurrence and
during the continuance of an Event of Default, all insurance proceeds in respect of any Collateral
shall be paid to the Administrative Agent, subject to the rights of holders of Permitted Liens
holding claims senior to those of the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent may apply
such insurance proceeds to the Obligations in such manner as it may deem advisable in its sole
discretion, subject to the rights of holders of Permitted Liens holding claims senior to those of
the Administrative Agent. In the event the Credit Parties fail to provide the Administrative Agent
with timely evidence, acceptable to the Administrative Agent, of the maintenance of insurance
coverage required pursuant to this Section, or in the event that any Credit Party fails to
maintain or cause to maintained such insurance (including programs of self-insurance), the
Administrative Agent may purchase or otherwise arrange for such insurance, but at the Borrowers
expense and without any responsibility on the Administrative Agents part for: (i) obtaining the
insurance; (ii) the solvency of the insurance companies; (iii) the adequacy of the coverage; or
(iv) the
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collection of claims. The insurance acquired by the Administrative Agent may, but need
not, protect the Borrowers or any other Credit Partys interest in the Collateral, and therefore
such insurance may not pay claims which the Borrower may have with respect to the Collateral or pay
any claim which may be made against the Borrower in connection with the Collateral. In the event
the Administrative Agent purchases, obtains or acquires insurance covering all or any portion of
the Collateral, the Borrower shall be responsible for all of the applicable costs of such
insurance, including premiums, interest (at the applicable interest rate for Revolving Loans set
forth in Section 2.5), fees and any other charges with respect thereto, until the effective date of
the cancellation or the expiration of such insurance. The Administrative Agent may charge all of
such premiums, fees, costs, interest and other charges to the Borrowers Operating Account. The
Borrower hereby acknowledges that the costs of the premiums of any insurance acquired by the
Administrative Agent may exceed the costs of insurance which the Borrower may be able to purchase
on its own. In the event that the Administrative Agent intends to purchase such insurance, the
Administrative Agent will promptly, and in any event no later than fifteen (15) days prior to such
purchase, notify the Borrower of said intended purchase; provided that any failure by the
Administrative Agent to notify the Borrower, shall not obviate the Borrowers obligation to
reimburse the Administrative Agent for the costs thereof.
5.10 Additional Subsidiaries; Additional Liens. If, at any time on or after the Effective
Date, any Credit Party creates or acquires an additional Canadian Subsidiary or in some other
fashion becomes the holder of any Equity Securities of a new Canadian Subsidiary:
(a) the relevant Credit Party will immediately execute and deliver to the Administrative
Agent a securities pledge agreement, in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative
Agent, granting a security interest in 100% of the Equity Securities of such new Canadian
Subsidiary owned by such Credit Party; and
(b) to the extent permitted by Applicable Law, the relevant Credit Party will cause each new
wholly owned Canadian Subsidiary to immediately execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent (i)
a guarantee, and (ii) mortgages, security agreements and other security-related documents covering
such new wholly owned Canadian Subsidiarys property, all in form and substance satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent, acting reasonably.
If, at any time after the Effective Date, any Credit Party makes an Acquisition permitted by
Section 6.6 with respect to a Person that is not a Credit Party, such Credit Party shall execute
and deliver to the Administrative Agent at the time of such Acquisition, additional pledge
agreements granting a security interest in 100% of the Equity Securities of such Person owned by
such Credit Party and/or mortgages, security agreements and other security-related documents
covering the assets acquired in such Acquisition, all in form and substance satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent, acting reasonably. In connection with the execution and delivery of any
guarantee, pledge agreement, mortgage, security agreement or related document pursuant to this
Section, the relevant Credit Party will deliver to the Administrative Agent such corporate
resolutions, certificates, legal opinions and such other related documents as shall be reasonably
requested by the Administrative Agent and consistent with the relevant forms and types thereof
delivered on the Effective Date or as shall be otherwise reasonably acceptable to the
Administrative Agent. Each guarantee, pledge agreement, mortgage, security agreement and other
document delivered pursuant to this Section shall be deemed to be a Security Document from and
after the date of execution thereof.
5.11 Financial Covenant. The Borrower will not permit Borrowing Availability to be less
than U.S.$20,000,000 on any Business Day if Borrowing Availability on the immediately preceding
Business Day is less than U.S.$20,000,000.
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5.12 Registrations. Each Credit Party agrees to record, file or register, at its own
expense, applications for registration or financing statements (and continuation or financing
change statements when applicable), and make any other registrations or filings, including where
required, the registration of each of the Security Documents (collectively, Registrations) with
respect to the Collateral now existing and hereafter created or arising and the creation of Liens
therein under and as contemplated by the Security Documents, meeting the requirements of Applicable
Law, in such manner and in such jurisdictions as are necessary or desirable to protect, perfect and
maintain the protection and perfection of, such Liens, and to deliver a file stamped copy of each
such Registration or other evidence of such Registration to the Administrative Agent on or prior to
the Effective Date. If any Credit Party (i) makes any change in its name, identity or corporate
structure, (ii) changes its domicile, chief place of business or chief executive office, or (iii)
takes any other action, which in any such case would, under the applicable Law, require the
amendment of any Registration recorded, registered and filed in accordance with the provisions
hereof, such Credit Party shall within 10 days after a change referred to in clause (i) or prior to
the taking of any action referred to in clause (ii) or (iii), give the Administrative Agent notice
of any such change or other action and shall promptly file such Registrations as may be necessary
or desirable to continue the perfection of the Liens in the Collateral intended under the Security
Documents. The Administrative Agent shall be under no obligation whatsoever to record, file or
register any Registration, or to make any other recording, filing or registration in connection
herewith. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Administrative Agent determines, in its reasonable
judgment, that the expense associated with such Registrations exceed the benefits to the
Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the Issuing Banks, and any other Person secured thereby, the
Administrative Agent shall, by written notice to the Borrower, waive the requirement for such
Registrations.
5.13 Appraisal. The Borrower shall provide to the Administrative Agent appraisals,
completed by a reputable and independent appraisal firm at the expense of the Borrower, as the
Administrative Agent may request, acting reasonably, determining the Net Orderly Liquidation Value
of the Inventory and Equipment of the Credit Parties and the fair market value of the real property
owned by the Credit Parties; provided that such appraisals may be conducted (a) no more
than once per year or (b) upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default,
at any time, at the reasonable request of the Administrative Agent.
5.14 Maintenance of Cash Management System and Account Control Agreements. Each Credit
Party shall maintain a cash management system on terms reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent and Lenders and in accordance with the requirements of Section 2.18 hereof, it
being acknowledged that such systems, as in effect on the Effective Date, are reasonably acceptable
to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders.
5.15 Post Closing Undertakings. Each Credit Party will ensure that all post closing
undertakings as set forth in Schedule 5.15 (collectively, the Undertakings) have been satisfied
within the time periods set forth therein and any failure to satisfy any of the Undertakings within
the applicable time periods shall constitute an Event of Default.
ARTICLE 6
NEGATIVE COVENANTS
From (and including) the Effective Date until the Commitments have expired or been terminated
and the principal of and interest on each Loan and all fees payable hereunder shall have been paid
in full and all Letters of Credit shall have expired or terminated and all Reimbursement
Obligations have been satisfied by the Borrower, the Borrower and each other Credit Party covenants
and agrees with the Lenders that:
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6.1 Liens. No Credit Party will incur, create, assume or suffer to exist any Lien on any
asset now owned or hereafter acquired by it, other than the following: (i) Liens existing on the
Effective Date and, if securing more than $250,000, listed in Schedule 6.1(i); (ii) Permitted
Liens; (iii) Liens in favour of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties
created pursuant to the Security Documents; (iv) Liens in connection with Indebtedness permitted to
be incurred pursuant to Section 6.2(vii) so long as such Liens extend solely to the property other
than Inventory (and improvements and proceeds of such property other than Inventory) acquired with
the proceeds of such Indebtedness or subject to the applicable Capitalized Lease; (v) Liens in the
form of cash collateral deposited to secure obligations under Hedge Agreements provided
that such cash collateral is not in excess of U.S.$5,000,000 at any time; (vi) Liens arising
pursuant to the Tooling Program; and (vii) other Liens not otherwise permitted under this Section
6.1 securing obligations in an aggregate amount not to exceed $2,000,000.
6.2 Indebtedness. No Credit Party will contract, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist
any Indebtedness, except for the following:
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Indebtedness under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents; |
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Indebtedness incurred prior to the Effective Date and, if more
than $250,000, set forth on Schedule 6.2(ii); |
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Indebtedness arising from Investments among the Credit Parties
and their Subsidiaries that are permitted under Section 6.6 and, if outstanding
on the Effective Date and more than $250,000, listed in Schedule 6.2(iii); |
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Indebtedness in respect of any overdrafts and related
liabilities arising from treasury, depository and cash management services or
in connection with any automated clearing house transfers of funds and, if
outstanding on the Effective Date and more than $250,000, listed in Schedule
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Indebtedness consisting of Guarantee Obligations permitted by
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Indebtedness constituting purchase money debt and Capital
Lease Obligations (not otherwise included in subclause (ii) above) in an
aggregate outstanding amount not in excess of U.S.$10,000,000; |
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any Indebtedness (x) in respect of Hedge Agreements entered into in the
ordinary course of business to protect against fluctuations in interest rates,
foreign exchange rates and commodity prices (provided that the
aggregate of the Agreement Value under all Hedge Agreements shall not exceed
U.S.$5,000,000) and (y) in respect of Cash Management Obligations;
provided that the aggregate amount of Indebtedness in respect of (A)
Secured Hedge Agreements and Cash Management Obligations secured pursuant to
the Security Documents shall not at any time exceed U.S.$3,000,000 in the
aggregate, and (B) Secured Credit Card Obligations shall not at any time exceed
U.S.$5,000,000; provided that, if at the time of determination, (i) the
outstanding aggregate liability of the Credit Parties owing to all Swap Banks,
Lenders and Lender Affiliates, as applicable, under the Secured Hedge
Agreements and in respect of Cash Management Obligations is less than
U.S.$3,000,000 (such surplus being, the Hedge and Cash Surplus), and the
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Lender Affiliates under the Secured Credit Card Obligations exceeds
U.S.$5,000,000, then the Hedge and Cash Surplus shall be made available to
further secure the over-exposure of the relevant Lenders and Lender
Affiliates under the Secured Credit Card Obligations, or (ii) the
outstanding liability of the Credit Parties owing to all Lenders under the
Secured Credit Card Obligations is less than U.S.$5,000,000 (such surplus
being, the Credit Card Surplus), and the aggregate outstanding liability
of the Credit Parties owing to all Swap Banks, Lenders and Lender
Affiliates, as applicable, under the Secured Hedge Agreements and the Cash
Management Obligations exceeds U.S.$3,000,000, then the Credit Card Surplus
shall be made available to further secure the over-exposure of the relevant
Swap Banks, Lenders and Lender Affiliates, as applicable, under the Secured
Hedge Agreements and the Cash Management Obligations; |
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Indebtedness which may be deemed to exist pursuant to any
surety bonds, appeal bonds or similar obligations incurred in connection with
any judgment not constituting an Event of Default; |
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Indebtedness in respect of netting services, customary
overdraft protections and otherwise in connection with deposit accounts in the
ordinary course of business; |
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payables owing to suppliers in connection with the Tooling
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unsecured Indebtedness not otherwise permitted hereunder in an aggregate
outstanding principal amount at any time of U.S.$5,000,000. |
6.3 Guarantee Obligations. No Credit Party will contract, create, assume or permit to
exist any Guarantee Obligations, except (i) for Guarantee Obligations in respect of Indebtedness or
other obligations of any Credit Party if such Credit Party could have incurred such Indebtedness or
other obligations without violating this Agreement, (ii) by endorsement of negotiable instruments
for deposit or collection in the ordinary course of business and (iii) Guarantee Obligations
constituting Investments of any Credit Party permitted hereunder.
6.4 Restricted Payments. No Credit Party will declare, pay or make, or agree to pay or
make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment, except that any Credit Party (i) may declare
and pay dividends with respect to its Equity Securities payable solely in additional Equity
Securities, (ii) may declare and pay, directly or indirectly, dividends and distributions to any
other Credit Party and, provided that no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and no
Default or Event of Default would occur as a result thereof, to Dana International, and any wholly-owned Credit Party may redeem or
repurchase its own Equity Securities; provided that Dana Holding shall not redeem or repurchase its
own Equity Securities from Dana International if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing
or if a Default or Event of Default would occur as a result thereof, (iii) may make Restricted
Payments to any other Credit Party, (iv) may make Permitted Inter-Corporate Payments, and (v) may
make Restricted Payments pursuant to and in accordance with stock option plans, profit sharing
plans and/or other benefit plans for its management or employees, and as otherwise provided in
Section 6.5(iii), provided that the cash payments made by the Credit Parties pursuant to
all such stock option plans, profit sharing plans and other compensation benefit plans shall be on
a basis consistent with past practices.
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6.5 Transactions with Affiliates. No Credit Party will enter into any transaction with any
Affiliate, other than on terms and conditions at least as favourable to the Credit Party as would
reasonably be obtained at that time in a comparable arms-length transaction with a Person other
than an Affiliate, except for the following: (i) any transaction between any Credit Party and any
other Credit Party; (ii) any transaction individually or of a type expressly permitted pursuant to
the terms of the Loan Documents; (iii) reasonable and customary director, officer and employee
compensation (including bonuses) and other benefits (including retirement, health, stock option and
other benefit plans) and indemnification arrangements, in each case approved by the relevant Board
of Directors; (iv) transactions (including transfer pricing arrangements) in existence, or of a
type in existence, on the Effective Date or (v) any payment or reimbursement of reasonable costs
and expenses incurred by an Affiliate of a Credit Party on behalf of or for the account of any
Credit Party and shared or reasonably allocated overhead and other analogous costs and expenses.
6.6 Investments. No Credit Party will make or hold any Investment in any Person, except
for the following: (i) (A) ownership by the Credit Parties of the capital stock of each of the
Subsidiaries listed on Schedule 6.6 and (B) other Investments existing on the Effective Date; (ii)
Investments in Cash Equivalents; (iii) advances and loans existing on the Effective Date among the
Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries and Dana Corporation and its Subsidiaries (including any
refinancings or extensions thereof but excluding any increases thereof or any further advances of
any kind in connection therewith other than Permitted Inter-Corporate Payments); (iv) Investments
(including intercompany loans or advances) made on or after the Effective Date by any Credit Party
to or in any other Credit Party; (v) Investments (A) received in satisfaction or partial
satisfaction thereof from financially troubled account debtors or in connection with the settlement
of delinquent accounts and disputes with customers and suppliers, or (B) received in settlement of
debts created in the ordinary course of business and owing to any Credit Party or any Subsidiary
thereof or in satisfaction of judgments; (vi) Investments (A) in the form of deposits, prepayments
and other credits to suppliers made in the ordinary course of business consistent with current
market practices, (B) in the form of extensions of trade credit in the ordinary course of business,
or (C) in the form of prepaid expenses and deposits to other Persons in the ordinary course of
business; (vii) Investments made in any Person to the extent such Investment represents the
non-cash portion of consideration received for an asset sale permitted under the terms of the Loan
Documents; (viii) loans or advance to directors, officers and employees for bona fide business
purposes and in the ordinary course of business in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed
U.S.$5,000,000 at any time outstanding; (ix) Investments constituting Guarantee Obligations
permitted pursuant to Section 6.3(i) or (ii); (x) Permitted Acquisitions in an amount not to exceed
U.S.$10,000,000 in the case of the Credit Parties during any Fiscal Year; (xi) Permitted
Inter-Corporate Payments; (xii) Investments in connection with the Tooling Program in an aggregate
amount (together with any Investments in connection with the Tooling Program permitted under
sub-clause (i)(B) above) not in excess of U.S.$10,000,000; and (xiii) additional net Investments by
Credit Parties in Foreign Subsidiaries (A) in an aggregate amount (net of returns of capital, and
interest, dividends or other yield, on all Investments by the Credit Parties in Foreign
Subsidiaries) not to exceed U.S. $10,000,000 at any time outstanding and (B) to the extent that
Letters of Credit are permitted to be issued hereunder to provide credit support for third party Indebtedness
of Foreign Subsidiaries; and (xiv) other Investments to the extent not permitted pursuant to any
other subpart of this Section (net of returned capital, and interest, dividends, or other yield, on
all Investments made pursuant to this clause) in an amount not to exceed U.S.$5,000,000 in any
Fiscal Year.
6.7 Disposition of Assets. No Credit Party will sell or otherwise dispose of any assets
(including, without limitation, the capital stock of any Subsidiary) except for:
(a) proposed divestures publicly disclosed at least three days prior to the Effective Date or
otherwise disclosed to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders at least three days prior to the
Effective Date:
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(b) sales, leases or transfers of property by any Credit Party to any Credit Party or a
Subsidiary thereof or any third party in connection with the asset recovery program to be
established with GOIndustries;
(c) (x) sales of inventory or obsolete or worn-out property by any Credit Party in the
ordinary course of business and (y) sales, leases or transfers of property by any Credit Party to
any Credit Party;
(d) the sale, lease, transfer or other disposition of any assets by any Credit Party to any
other Credit Party;
(e) sales, transfers or other dispositions of assets in connection with the Tooling Program;
(f) any Permitted Inter-Company Payment;
(g) other sales, transfers or other dispositions in an aggregate amount not to exceed
$500,000 in any Fiscal Year;
(h) any sale, lease, transfer or other disposition made in connection with any Investment
permitted under Section 6.6;
(i) licenses, sublicenses or similar transactions of intellectual property in the ordinary
course of business and the abandonment of intellectual property deemed no longer useful; and
(j) any other sale, transfer, conveyance, assignment or other disposition by any such Credit
Party of any of its properties or other assets for fair value at the time of such disposition (as
reasonably determined by the Borrower); provided that
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the fair value of all such assets disposed of in any Fiscal
Year does not exceed an amount equal to $10,000,000; |
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the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent for the
Administrative Agents prior approval, at least 10 Business Days (or such
shorter period as the Administrative Agent may agree) prior to the date when
the agreement to dispose of such assets is to be entered into (the Contract
Date), a Borrowing Base Report adjusted to reflect such disposition on a pro
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no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing on
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either (A) the date of disposition of such properties or other
assets (the Completion Date) shall occur on or within ninety (90) days of
the Contract Date and no Financial Event of Default shall have occurred during
the period between the Contract Date and the Completion Date, which remains
outstanding on the Completion Date or (B) the Completion Date shall occur more
than ninety (90) days after the Contract Date and no Event of Default (whether
or not a Financial Event of Default) shall have occurred during the period
between the Contract Date and the Completion Date, which remains outstanding on the
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such Credit Party shall deliver to the Administrative Agent, at
least 10 Business Days prior to the Completion Date, a written request for
release describing the properties and/or assets being disposed of, and the
terms of the disposition in reasonable detail, including, without limitation,
the price thereof and any expenses in connection therewith, together with a
form of release for execution by the Administrative Agent and a certificate of
such Credit Party to the effect that the disposition is in compliance with the
Loan Documents and as to such other matters as the Administrative Agent may
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all fees, costs and expenses incurred by the Administrative
Agent in connection with this Section 6.7 shall be paid by the Borrower on
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6.8 Fundamental Changes.
(a) No Credit Party will merge into or amalgamate or consolidate with any Person or permit
any Person to merge into or amalgamate or consolidate with it, or dissolve or liquidate, except for
(i) mergers, amalgamations or consolidations constituting permitted Investments under Section 6.6
or asset dispositions permitted pursuant to Section 6.7, (ii) mergers, amalgamations,
consolidations, liquidations or dissolutions by any Credit Party with or into any other Credit
Party; provided that, in the case of any such merger, amalgamation or consolidation (x) to
which the Borrower is a party, the Person formed by such merger, amalgamation or consolidation
shall be the Borrower and (y) to which a Credit Party (other than the Borrower) is a party, the
Person formed by such merger or consolidation shall be a Credit Party on the same terms; and (iii)
the dissolution, liquidation or winding up of any Credit Party other than the Borrower;
provided that such dissolution, liquidation or winding up would not reasonably be expected
to have a Material Adverse Effect and the assets of the Person so dissolved, liquidated or wound-up
are distributed to the Borrower or to another Credit Party; provided that any amalgamation
pursuant to Section 6.8(a)(i) shall not be permitted unless permitted by Section 6.6 and unless the
amalgamated corporation confirms to the Administrative Agent in writing that the amalgamated
corporation is liable, by operation of law or otherwise, for the obligations of the amalgamating
corporations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
(b) No Credit Party will engage to any material extent in any material business other than
businesses of the type conducted by the Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries on the Effective Date
and businesses reasonably related thereto.
6.9 Hedge Agreements. No Credit Party will enter into any Hedge Agreement, except (a) in
the ordinary course of business to protect against fluctuations in interest rates, foreign exchange
rates and commodity prices, (b) not for speculative purposes and (c) any investments made by a Pension Plan
in Hedge Agreements consistent with the Pension Plans investment policy.
6.10 Restrictive Agreements. No Credit Party will, directly or indirectly, enter into,
incur or permit to exist any agreement or other arrangement that prohibits, restricts or imposes
any condition upon (a) the ability of any Credit Party to create, incur or permit to exist any Lien
upon any of its property or assets, (b) the ability of any Credit Party to pay dividends or other
distributions with respect to any Equity Securities or with respect to, or measured by, its profits
or to make or repay loans or advances to the Credit Parties or to incur Guarantee Obligations in
respect of any Indebtedness of any other Credit Party, (c) the ability of any Credit Party to make
any loan or advance to any Credit Party, or (d) the ability of any Credit Party to sell, lease or
transfer any of its property to any Credit Party; provided that (i) the foregoing shall not
apply to restrictions and conditions imposed by Applicable Law or by this Agreement, (ii) the
foregoing shall not apply to restrictions and condition existing on the date hereof identified on
Schedule 6.10 (but shall apply to any extension or renewal of, or any amendment or modification
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expanding the scope of, any such restriction or condition), (iii) the foregoing shall not apply to
customary restrictions and conditions contained in agreements relating to the sale of a Subsidiary
pending such sale, provided such restrictions and conditions apply only to the Subsidiary
that is to be sold and such sale is permitted hereunder, (iv) clause (a) of the foregoing shall not
apply to restrictions or conditions imposed by any agreement relating to secured Indebtedness
permitted by this Agreement if such restrictions or conditions apply only to the property or assets
securing such Indebtedness, and (v) clause (a) of the foregoing shall not apply to customary
provisions in leases and other ordinary course contracts restricting the assignment thereof.
6.11 [ Reserved ]
6.12 Sales and Leasebacks. No Credit Party will enter into any arrangement, directly or
indirectly, with any Person (other than another Credit Party) whereby the Credit Party shall sell
or transfer any property, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, and whereby the Credit Party
shall then or thereafter rent or lease as lessee such property or any part thereof which the Credit
Party intends to use for substantially the same purpose or purposes as the property sold or
transferred.
6.13 Pension Plan Compliance. No Credit Party will (a) terminate any Pension Plan in a
manner, or take any other action with respect to any Pension Plan, which could reasonably be
expected to result in any material liability of the Credit Party, except where such termination or
other actions in respect to any Pension Plan could not reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect, (b) fail to make full payment when due of all amounts which, under the provisions
of any Pension Plan, agreement relating thereto or Applicable Law, the Credit Party is required to
pay as contributions thereto, except where the failure to make such payments could not reasonably
be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (c) permit to exist any accumulated funding
deficiency, whether or not waived, with respect to any Pension Plan (other than a Pension Plan
which is a multi-employer pension plan to which a Credit Party contributes pursuant to collective
agreement) in an amount which could reasonably be expected to cause a Material Adverse Effect.
Schedule 3.10 sets forth the surplus/unfunded actuarial liability status of all Pension Plans on
both a going concern basis and a solvency basis.
6.14 Capital Expenditures. No Credit Party will make Capital Expenditures that would cause
the aggregate of all such Capital Expenditures during any Fiscal Year to exceed U.S.$20,000,000;
provided that, if for any Fiscal Year, the aggregate amount of all such Capital
Expenditures is less than U.S.$20,000,000 (the difference between U.S.$20,000,000 and the amount of
such Capital Expenditures in such Fiscal Year being the Excess Amount), the Credit Parties shall
be entitled to make additional Capital Expenditures in the immediately succeeding Fiscal Year in an
amount equal to the Excess Amount, it being understood that the Excess Amount for any Fiscal Year shall be deemed the first
amount used in any succeeding Fiscal Year.
6.15 No Amendments to Constating Documents. No Credit Party will amend, modify or
terminate any of its constating documents except for amendments or modifications that would not
reasonably be expected to materially and adversely affect the interests of the Lenders.
6.16 Accounting Changes. No Credit Party will, and no Credit Party will permit its
Subsidiaries to, change their (a) accounting policies or reporting practices, except as required or
permitted by GAAP, or (b) Fiscal Year.
ARTICLE 7
EVENTS OF DEFAULT
7.1 Events of Default. If any of the following events (Events of Default) shall occur:
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(a) the Borrower shall fail to pay any principal of any Loan or any reimbursement obligation
in respect of any LC Disbursement when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at the
due date thereof or at a date fixed for prepayment thereof or otherwise;
(b) the Borrower shall fail to pay any interest on any Loan or any fee or any other amount
(other than an amount referred to in clause (a) above) payable under this Agreement, when and as
the same shall become due and payable and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of
three (3) Business Days;
(c) any representation or warranty made or deemed made by or on behalf of any Credit Party in
or in connection with any Loan Document or any amendment or modification thereof or waiver
thereunder, or in any report, certificate, financial statement or other document furnished pursuant
to or in connection with any Loan Document or any amendment or modification thereof or waiver
thereunder, shall prove to have been incorrect in any material respect when made or deemed to be
made;
(d) any Credit Party shall fail to observe or perform (i) any covenant, condition or
agreement contained in Section 5.1 (Financial Statements and Other Information), 5.7 (Use of
Proceeds and Letters of Credit), 5.11 (Financial Covenant) or in Article 6 or (ii) any covenant,
condition or agreement contained in Article 5 (other than those specified in clause (i) above), and
such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of 5 Business Days;
(e) any Credit Party shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement
contained in this Agreement (other than those specified in clauses (a), (b) or (d) above) or any
other Loan Document, and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of 10 days;
(f) (i) any Credit Party shall fail to make any payment whether of principal, premium or
interest, and regardless of amount, in respect of any Material Indebtedness, when and as the same
shall become due and payable (whether by scheduled maturity, required prepayment, acceleration,
demand or otherwise), and such failure shall continue after the applicable grace period, if any,
specified in the agreements or instruments relating to all such Material Indebtedness;
provided that, this Section 7.1(f) shall not apply to any failure by any Credit Party to
make any payments in respect of the Dana Notes; or (ii) any other event shall occur or condition
shall exist under the agreements or instruments relating to one or more items of Indebtedness of
the Credit Parties (excluding Indebtedness outstanding hereunder) that is outstanding in an
aggregate principal or notional amount of at least U.S.$5,000,000, and such other event or condition shall continue after the applicable grace period, if any, specified in all such
agreements or instruments, if the effect of such event or condition is to accelerate, or to permit
the acceleration of, the maturity of such Material Indebtedness or otherwise to cause, or to permit
the holder thereof to cause, such Material Indebtedness to mature; or (iii) one or more items of
Indebtedness of the Credit Parties (excluding Indebtedness outstanding hereunder) that is
outstanding in an aggregate principal or notional amount (or, in the case of any Hedge Agreement,
an Agreement Value) of at least U.S.$5,000,000 shall be declared to be due and payable or required
to be prepaid or redeemed (other than by a regularly scheduled or required prepayment or
redemption), purchased or defeased, or an offer to prepay, redeem, purchase or defease such
Indebtedness shall be required to be made, in each case prior to the stated maturity thereof;
(g) the taking of any judicial action by any Person to enforce any payment or non payment
under the Dana Notes at any time when any Obligations are outstanding;
(h) any Credit Party:
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pay its debts or meet its liabilities as the same become due, or admits in
writing its inability to pay its debts generally, or declares any general
moratorium on its indebtedness, or proposes a compromise or arrangement between
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assignment of its property for the general benefit of its creditors under the
BIA, or makes a proposal (or files a notice of its intention to do so) under
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institutes any proceeding seeking to adjudicate it an
insolvent, or seeking liquidation, dissolution, winding-up, reorganization,
compromise, arrangement, adjustment, protection, moratorium, relief, stay of
proceedings of creditors generally (or any class of creditors), or composition
of it or its debts or any other relief, under any federal, provincial or
foreign Applicable Law now or hereafter in effect relating to bankruptcy,
winding-up, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, plans of arrangement or
relief or protection of debtors (including the BIA, the Companies Creditors
Arrangement Act (Canada), the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and any applicable
corporations legislation) or at common law or in equity, or files an answer
admitting the material allegations of a petition filed against it in any such
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applies for the appointment of, or the taking of possession by,
a receiver, interim receiver, receiver/manager, sequestrator, conservator,
custodian, administrator, trustee, liquidator or other similar official for it
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threatens to do any of the foregoing, or takes any action,
corporate or otherwise, to approve, effect, consent to or authorize any of the
actions described in this Section 7.1(h) or in Section 7.1(i), or otherwise
acts in furtherance thereof or, in the case of actions described in Section
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(i) any petition is filed, application made or other proceeding instituted against or in
respect of any Credit Party:
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seeking liquidation, dissolution, winding-up, reorganization,
compromise, arrangement, adjustment, protection, moratorium, relief, stay of
proceedings of creditors generally (or any class of creditors), or composition
of it or its debts or any other relief under any federal, provincial or foreign
Applicable Law now or hereafter in effect relating to bankruptcy, winding-up,
insolvency, reorganization, receivership, plans of arrangement or relief or protection of debtors
(including the BIA, the Companies Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada) or the
U.S. Bankruptcy Code and any applicable corporations legislation) or at
common law or in equity; or
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seeking the entry of an order for relief or the appointment of,
or the taking of possession by, a receiver, interim receiver, receiver/manager,
sequestrator, conservator, custodian, administrator, trustee, liquidator or
other similar official for it or any substantial part of its property; |
and such petition, application or proceeding continues undismissed, or unstayed and in effect, for
a period of 60 days after the institution thereof, provided that if an order, decree or
judgment is granted or entered (whether or not entered or subject to appeal) against the Credit
Party thereunder in the interim, such grace period will cease to apply, and provided
further that if the Credit Party files an answer admitting the material allegations of a
petition filed against it in any such proceeding, such grace period will cease to apply;
(j) any other event occurs which, under the Applicable Laws of any applicable jurisdiction,
has an effect equivalent to any of the events referred to in either of Sections 7.1(h) or (i)
(subject to the 60 day grace period);
(k) one or more final, non-appealable judgments or orders for the payment of money in excess
of U.S.$5,000,000 (exclusive of any judgment or order the amounts of which are fully covered by
insurance (less any applicable deductible) which is not in dispute) in the aggregate at any time
shall be rendered against any Credit Party and enforcement proceedings shall have been commenced by
any creditor upon such judgment or order (other than the mere filing of a judgment lien so long as
no foreclosure or analogous action in respect thereof shall have been commenced); or;
(l) one or more nonmonetary judgments or orders shall be rendered against any Credit Party
that is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect, and there shall be any period of 10
consecutive days during which a stay of enforcement of such judgment or order, by reason of a
pending appeal or otherwise, shall not be in effect;
(m) any property of any Credit Party having a fair market value in excess of U.S.$5,000,000
(or its then equivalent in any other currency) in the aggregate is seized (including by way of
execution, attachment, garnishment, levy or distraint), or any Lien thereon securing Indebtedness
in excess of U.S.$5,000,000 (or its then equivalent in any other currency) is enforced, or such
property has become subject to any charging order or equitable execution of a Governmental
Authority, or any writ of execution or distress warrant exists in respect of the Borrower, any other Credit Party or the
property of any of them, or any sheriff or other Person becomes lawfully entitled by operation of
law or otherwise to seize or distrain upon such property and in any case such seizure, enforcement,
execution, attachment, garnishment, distraint, charging order or equitable execution, or other
seizure or right, continues in effect and is not released or discharged for more than 60 days or
such longer period during which entitlement to the use of such property continues with such Credit
Party, and such Credit Party is contesting the same in good faith and by appropriate proceedings,
provided that if the property is removed from the use of such Credit Party, or is sold, in
the interim, such grace period will cease to apply;
(n) this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any material obligation or other material
provision hereof or thereof at any time for any reason terminates or ceases to be in full force and
effect and a legally valid, binding and enforceable obligation of any Credit Party, is declared to
be void or voidable or is repudiated, or the validity, binding effect, legality or enforceability
hereof or thereof is at any time contested by any Credit Party, or any Credit Party denies that it
has any or any further liability or obligation hereunder or thereunder or any action or proceeding
is commenced by any Credit Party to enjoin or restrain the performance or observance by any Credit
Party of any material terms hereof or thereof or to question the validity or enforceability hereof
or thereof, or at any time it is unlawful or impossible for any Credit Party to perform any of its
material obligations hereunder or thereunder;
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(o) any Lien purported to be created by any Security Document shall cease to be (due to
any act or omission of any Credit Party and other than pursuant to the terms of the Loan Documents)
a valid, perfected, first priority (subject only to Permitted Senior Liens, and except as otherwise
expressly provided in this Agreement or such Security Document) Lien in any material Collateral
purported to be covered thereby;
(p) a Change in Control shall occur;
(q) (A)(i) any default or breach by Dana Corporation under the U.S. Credit Agreement occurs
and is continuing and has not been waived by the appropriate lenders under the U.S. Credit
Agreement and (ii) in response to such default or breach, the Agent and or Lenders under the U.S.
Credit Agreement, has/have accelerated all or any portion of the indebtedness and liabilities of
one or more of the borrowers under the U.S. Credit Agreement, or (B) the commitments under the U.S.
Credit Agreement shall have been terminated for any reason,
then, and in every such event, and at any time thereafter during the continuance of such event or
any other such event, the Administrative Agent may, and at the request of the Required Lenders
shall, by notice to the Borrower, take any or all of the following actions, at the same or
different times: (i) terminate the Commitments, and thereupon the Commitments shall terminate
immediately, (ii) declare the Loans then outstanding to be due and payable in whole (or in part, in
which case any principal not so declared to be due and payable may thereafter be declared to be due
and payable), and thereupon the principal of the Loans so declared to be due and payable, together
with accrued interest thereon and all fees and other obligations of the Borrower accrued hereunder,
shall become due and payable immediately, without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of
any kind except as set forth earlier in this paragraph, all of which are hereby waived by the
Borrower, (iii) apply any amounts outstanding to the credit of the Borrower to repayment of all
amounts outstanding under this Agreement, and (iv) declare any or all of the Security Documents to
be immediately enforceable.
ARTICLE 8
THE AGENT
8.1 Appointment of Administrative Agent. Each Lender and each Issuing Bank hereby
designates Citibank Canada as Administrative Agent to act as herein specified and as specified in
the other Loan Documents. Each Lender and each Issuing Bank hereby irrevocably authorizes the
Administrative Agent to take such action on its behalf under the provisions of the Loan Documents
and to exercise such powers and to perform such duties thereunder as are specifically delegated to
or required of the Administrative Agent by the terms thereof and such other powers as are
reasonably incidental thereto. The Administrative Agent may perform any of its duties hereunder by
or through its agents or employees.
8.2 Limitation of Duties of Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall have no
duties or responsibilities except those expressly set forth with respect to the Administrative
Agent in this Agreement and as specified in the other Loan Documents. None of the Administrative
Agent nor any of its Related Parties shall be liable for any action taken or omitted by it as such
hereunder or in connection herewith, unless caused by its or their gross negligence or willful
misconduct. The duties of the Administrative Agent shall be mechanical and administrative in
nature; the Administrative Agent shall not have, by reason of this Agreement or the other Loan
Documents, a fiduciary relationship in respect of any Lender or any Issuing Bank. Nothing in this
Agreement or the other Loan Documents, expressed or implied, is intended to or shall be so
construed as to impose upon the Administrative Agent any obligations in respect of this Agreement
except as expressly set forth herein. The Administrative Agent shall be under no duty to take any
discretionary action permitted to be taken by it pursuant to this
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Agreement or the other Loan Documents unless it is requested in writing to do so by the Required
Lenders.
8.3 Lack of Reliance on the Administrative Agent.
(a) Independent Investigation. Independently, and without reliance upon the
Administrative Agent, each Lender and each Issuing Bank, to the extent it deems appropriate, has
made and shall continue to make (i) its own independent investigation of the financial condition
and affairs of the Credit Parties in connection with the taking or not taking of any action in
connection herewith, and (ii) its own appraisal of the creditworthiness of the Credit Parties, and,
except as expressly provided in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, the Administrative
Agent shall have no duty or responsibility, either initially or on a continuing basis, to provide
any Lender or any Issuing Bank with any credit or other information with respect thereto, whether
coming into its possession before the consummation of the Transactions or at any time or times
thereafter.
(b) Administrative Agent Not Responsible. The Administrative Agent shall not be
responsible to any Lender or any Issuing Bank for any recitals, statements, information,
representations or warranties herein or in any document, certificate or other writing delivered in
connection herewith or for the execution, effectiveness, genuineness, validity, enforceability,
collectibility, priority or sufficiency of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or the
financial condition of the Credit Parties or be required to make any inquiry concerning either the
performance or observance of any of the terms, provisions or conditions of this Agreement or the
other Loan Documents, or the financial condition of the Credit Parties, or the existence or
possible existence of any Default or Event of Default.
8.4 Certain Rights of the Administrative Agent. If the Administrative Agent shall request
instructions from the Lenders or the Required Lenders (as the case may be) with respect to any act
or action (including the failure to act) in connection with this Agreement or the other Loan
Documents, the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to refrain from such act or taking such
action unless and until the Administrative Agent shall have received written instructions from the
Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, and the Administrative Agent shall not incur
liability to any Person by reason of so refraining. Without limiting the foregoing, no Lender
shall have any right of action whatsoever against the Administrative Agent as a result of the
Administrative Agent acting or refraining from acting under this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents in accordance with the instructions of the Required Lenders, or, to the extent required
by Section 9.2, all of the Lenders.
8.5 Reliance by Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely,
and shall be fully protected in relying, upon any note, writing, resolution, notice, statement,
certificate, telex, teletype or facsimile message, electronic mail, cablegram, radiogram, order or
other documentary teletransmission or telephone message believed by it to be genuine and correct
and to have been signed, sent or made by the proper Person. The Administrative Agent may consult
with legal counsel (including counsel for the Borrower), independent public accountants and other
experts selected by it and shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in
good faith in accordance with the advice of such counsel, accountants or experts.
8.6 Indemnification of Administrative Agent. To the extent the Administrative Agent is not
reimbursed and indemnified by the Borrower, each Lender will reimburse and indemnify the
Administrative Agent, in proportion to its aggregate Applicable Percentage, for and against any and
all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs,
expenses (including reasonable counsel fees and disbursements) or disbursements of any kind or
nature whatsoever which may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against the Administrative Agent
in performing its duties hereunder, in any way relating to or arising out of this Agreement or any
other Loan Document; provided
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that no Lender shall be liable to the Administrative Agent for any portion of such liabilities,
obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or
disbursements resulting from the Administrative Agents gross negligence or willful misconduct.
8.7 The Administrative Agent in its Individual Capacity. With respect to its obligations
under this Agreement and the Loans made by it, Citibank Canada, in its capacity as a Lender
hereunder, shall have the same rights and powers hereunder as any other Lender and may exercise the
same as though it were not performing the duties, if any, specified herein; and the terms
Lenders, Required Lenders, Supermajority Lenders, and any similar terms shall, unless the
context clearly otherwise indicates, include Citibank Canada, in its capacity as a Lender
hereunder. The Administrative Agent may accept deposits from, lend money to, and generally engage
in any kind of banking, trust, financial advisory or other business with any Credit Party as if it
were not performing the duties, if any, specified herein, and may accept fees and other
consideration from any Credit Party for services in connection with this Agreement and otherwise
without having to account for the same to the Lenders.
8.8 May Treat Lender as Owner. The Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Issuing
Banks may deem and treat each Lender as the owner of the Loans recorded on the Register maintained
pursuant to Section 9.4(c) for all purposes hereof until a written notice of the assignment or
transfer thereof shall have been filed with the Administrative Agent. Any request, authority or
consent of any Person who at the time of making such request or giving such authority or consent is
the owner of a Loan shall be conclusive and binding on any subsequent owner, transferee or assignee
of such Loan.
8.9 Successor Administrative Agent.
(a) Administrative Agent Resignation. The Administrative Agent may resign at any
time by giving written notice thereof to the Lenders, the Issuing Banks and the Borrower. Upon any
such resignation or removal, the Required Lenders shall have the right, upon five Business Days
notice to the Borrower, to appoint a successor Administrative Agent (who shall not be a
non-resident of Canada within the meaning of the ITA), subject to the approval of the Borrower,
such approval not to be unreasonably withheld. If no successor Administrative Agent shall have
been so appointed by the Required Lenders, and shall have accepted such appointment, within 30 days
after the retiring Administrative Agents giving of notice of resignation or the Required Lenders
removal of the retiring Administrative Agent, then, upon five Business Days notice to the
Borrower, the retiring Administrative Agent may, on behalf of the Lenders, appoint a successor
Administrative Agent (subject to approval of the Borrower, such approval not to be unreasonably
withheld), which shall be a financial institution organized under the laws of Canada having total
assets of at least Cdn.$2,500,000,000 or having a parent company with total assets of at least
Cdn.$2,500,000,000.
(b) Rights, Powers, etc. Upon the acceptance of any appointment as Administrative
Agent hereunder by a successor Administrative Agent, such successor Administrative Agent shall
thereupon succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the
retiring Administrative Agent, and the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its
duties and obligations under this Agreement. After any retiring Administrative Agents resignation
or removal hereunder as Administrative Agent, the provisions of this Article 8 shall inure to its
benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was Administrative Agent
under this Agreement.
8.10 No Independent Legal Action by Lenders.
No Lender may take any independent action to enforce any obligation of the Borrower hereunder.
Each Lender hereby acknowledges that, to the extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Security
Documents and the remedies provided thereunder to the Lenders are for the benefit of the
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Lenders collectively and acting together and not severally, and further acknowledges that each
Lenders rights hereunder and under the Security Documents are to be exercised collectively, not
severally, by the Administrative Agent upon the decision of the Required Lenders. Accordingly,
notwithstanding any of the provisions contained herein or in the Security Documents, each of the
Lenders hereby covenants and agrees that it shall not be entitled to take any action hereunder or
thereunder, including any declaration of Default hereunder or thereunder, but that any such action
shall be taken only by the Administrative Agent with the prior written agreement of the Required
Lenders, provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, in the absence of instructions from
the Lenders (or the Required Lenders) and where in the sole opinion of the Administrative Agent the
exigencies of the situation so warrant such action, the Administrative Agent may without notice to
or consent of the Lenders (or the Required Lenders) take such action on behalf of the Lenders as it
deems appropriate or desirable in the interests of the Lenders. Each Lender hereby further
covenants and agrees that upon any such written consent being given by the Required Lenders, it
shall co-operate fully with the Administrative Agent to the extent requested by the Administrative
Agent, and each Lender further covenants and agrees that all proceeds from the realization of or
under the Security Documents, to the extent permitted by Applicable Law, are held for the benefit
of all of the Lenders and shall be shared among the Lenders ratably in accordance with this
Agreement, and each Lender acknowledges that all costs of any such realization (including all
amounts for which the Administrative Agent is required to be indemnified under the provisions
hereof) shall be shared among the Lenders ratably in accordance with this Agreement. Each Lender
covenants and agrees to do all acts and things and to make, execute and deliver all agreements and
other instruments, so as to fully carry out the intent and purpose of this Section and each Lender
hereby covenants and agrees that it shall not seek, take, accept or receive any security for any of
the Secured Obligations, or under any other document, instrument, writing or agreement ancillary
hereto or thereto, other than such security as is provided hereunder or thereunder, and that it
shall not enter into any agreement with any of the parties hereto or thereto relating in any manner
whatsoever to the Credit, unless all of the Lenders shall at the same time obtain the benefit of
any such security or agreement, as the case may be.
8.11 Lead Arrangers and Documentation Agents. The Lead Arrangers and Documentation Agents
have no duties, liabilities or obligations hereunder.
8.12 Quebec Security. For greater certainty, and without limiting the powers of the
Administrative Agent or any other Person acting as an agent or mandatary for the Administrative
Agent hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents, each Credit Party hereby acknowledges
that, for purposes of holding any security granted by any Credit Party on property pursuant to the
laws of the Province of Quebec to secure obligations of a Credit Party under any debenture, bond or
other title of indebtedness issued by a Credit Party, the Administrative Agent shall be the holder
of an irrevocable power of attorney (fondé de pouvoir) (within the meaning of the Civil Code of
Quebec) for all present and future Secured Parties, and in particular for all present and future
holders of any debenture, bond or other title of indebtedness issued by a Credit Party. Each
Secured Party hereby irrevocably constitutes, to the extent necessary, the Administrative Agent as
the holder of an irrevocable power of attorney (fondé de pouvoir) (within the meaning of Article
2692 of the Civil Code of Quebec) in order to hold security granted by any Credit Party in the
Province of Quebec to secure the obligations of such Credit Party under any debenture, bond or
other title of indebtedness that may be issued by a Credit Party and pledged in favour of the
Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties. Each assignee of a Lender, Lender
Affiliate, or Swap Bank shall be deemed to have confirmed and ratified the constitution of the
Administrative Agent as the holder of such irrevocable power of attorney (fondé de pouvoir) by
execution of an Assignment and Assumption. Each assignee of an Issuing Bank shall be deemed to
have confirmed and ratified the constitution of the Administrative Agent as the holder of such
irrevocable power of attorney (fondé de pouvoir) by the execution of the assignment agreement
contemplated in Section 2.19(i) hereof. The execution by the Administrative Agent, acting as fondé
de pouvoir and mandatary, prior to this Agreement, of any deeds of hypothec or other security
documents is hereby ratified and confirmed.
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Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 32 of the An Act respecting the special powers of legal
persons (Quebec), the Administrative Agent may acquire and be the holder of any debenture, bond or
other title of indebtedness issued under any deed of hypothec and issue of bonds executed by any
Credit Party in favour of the Administrative Agent as fondé de pouvoir. Each Credit Party hereby
acknowledges that such debenture or bond constitutes a title of indebtedness, as such term is used
in Article 2692 of the Civil Code of Quebec.
The Administrative Agent, acting as holding of an irrevocable power of attorney (fondé de pouvoir),
shall have the same rights, powers, immunities, indemnities and exclusions from liability as are
prescribed in favour of the Administrative Agent in the Agreement, which shall apply mutatis
mutandis. Without limitation, the provisions of Section 8.9 of this Agreement shall apply mutatis
mutandis to the resignation and appointment of a successor Administrative Agent, acting as the
holder of an irrevocable power of attorney (fondé de pouvoir).
ARTICLE 9
MISCELLANEOUS
9.1 Notices. (a) Except in the case of notices and other communications expressly
permitted to be given by telephone (and subject to paragraph (b) below), all notices and other
communications provided for herein shall be in writing and shall be delivered by hand or overnight
courier service, mailed by certified or registered mail or sent by facsimile in each case to the
addressee, as follows:
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DANA CANADA CORPORATION
656 Kerr Street
Oakville, Ontario
L6K 3E4
Attention: President
Facsimile: (905) 849-8942
with a copy to each of:
DANA CORPORATION
4500 Dorr Street
Toledo, Ohio 43615
Attention: General Counsel
and
JONES DAY
222 East 41st Street
New York, New York 10017
Attention: Robert L. Cunningham
Facsimile: (212) 755-7306
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and
GOWLING LAFLEUR HENDERSON LLP
Suite 1600
1 First Canadian Place
100 King Street West
Toronto, Ontario
M5X 1G5
Attention: Rod Seyffert
Facsimile: (416) 862-7661
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CITIBANK CANADA
c/o Citicorp North America, Inc.
388 Greenwich Street
New York, NY 10013
Attention: Hien Nugent
Facsimile: (212) 816-2613
with a copy to:
CITIBANK CANADA
Citibank Place
123 Front Street West, Suite 1700
Toronto, ON M5J 2M3
Attention: Vice President, Legal Department
Facsimile: (416) 947-4123
(iii) if to any Lender or any Issuing Bank, to it at its address (or facsimile number) set
forth opposite its name in the execution page(s) of this Agreement or the applicable Assignment and
Assumption Agreement, as the case may be.
(b) Notices and other communications to the Lenders hereunder may be delivered or furnished
by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by the Administrative Agent. The
Administrative Agent or the Borrower may, in its discretion, agree to accept notices and other
communication to it hereunder by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by it;
provided that approval of such procedures may be limited to particular notices or
communications.
(c) Any party hereto may change its address or facsimile number for notices and other
communications hereunder by notice to the other parties hereto. All notices and other
communications given to any party hereto in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement shall
be deemed to have been given on the date of receipt.
9.2 Waivers; Amendments; Release; Termination.
(a) No failure or delay by the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank or any Lender in
exercising any right or power hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or
partial exercise of any such right or power, or any abandonment or discontinuance of steps to
enforce such a right or power, preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of
any other right or power.
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The rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Banks and the Lenders
hereunder are cumulative and are not exclusive of any rights or remedies that they would otherwise
have. No waiver of any provision of this Agreement or consent to any departure by the Borrower
therefrom shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be permitted by Section 9.2(b), and
then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the purpose
for which given. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the making of a Loan or
issuance of a Letter of Credit shall not be construed as a waiver of any Default, regardless of
whether the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank or any Lender may have had notice or knowledge
of such Default at the time.
(b) Neither this Agreement nor any other Loan Document (or any provision hereof or thereof)
may be waived, amended or modified except pursuant to an agreement or agreements in writing entered
into by the Borrower and the Required Lenders (or the Administrative Agent or the Supermajority
Lenders, as applicable) or by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent with the consent of the
Required Lenders (or the Administrative Agent or the Supermajority Lenders, as applicable); and
for greater certainty, any such waiver, amendment or modification shall not require any consent
or other agreement of any Credit Party other than the Borrower, notwithstanding that any such
Credit Party may be a party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document; provided further
that no such agreement shall:
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increase the amount or extend the expiry date of any Commitment
of any Lender without the prior written consent of each Lender directly
affected thereby; |
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reduce the principal amount of any Loan or reduce the rate of
interest or any fee applicable to any Loan without the prior written consent of
each Lender directly affected thereby; |
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postpone the scheduled date of payment of the principal amount
of any Loan, or any interest thereon, or any fees payable in respect thereof,
or reduce the amount of, waive or excuse any such payment, or postpone the
scheduled date of expiration of any Commitment without the prior written
consent of each Lender directly affected thereby; |
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change any aspect of this Agreement in a manner that would
alter the pro rata sharing of payments required herein without the prior
written consent of each Lender directly affected thereby; |
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change any of the provisions of this Section 9.2 or the
definition of Required Lenders, Supermajority Lenders or any other
provision hereof specifying the number or percentage of Lenders required to
waive, amend or modify any rights hereunder or make any determination or grant
any consent hereunder without the prior written consent of each Lender; |
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waive any Event of Default under Section 7.1(h), (i) or (j)
without the prior written consent of each Lender; |
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amend, modify or waive the provisions of Section 5.11 without
the consent of the Supermajority Lenders; |
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change the definition of any of Availability Reserves, Borrowing
Availability, Borrowing Base, Eligible Accounts, Eligible Equipment,
Eligible Inventory or, Priority Payables, in each case, without the written
consent of the Required Lenders; provided that any change in the
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Borrowing Base or Borrowing Availability that would result in an
increase in either the Borrowing Base or Borrowing Availability shall
require the written consent of the Supermajority Lenders; or |
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release any Credit Party from any material obligations under
the Security Documents and other instruments contemplated by this Agreement,
release or discharge any of the Liens arising under the Security Documents,
permit the creation of any Liens, other than Permitted Liens, on any of the
assets subject to the Liens arising under the Security Documents, lower the
priority of any Lien arising under any of the Security Documents, or lower the
priority of any payment obligation of any Credit Party under any of the Loan
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and provided further that no such agreement shall amend, modify or otherwise affect the
rights or duties of the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank or the Swing Line Lender hereunder,
as the case may be, without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent, such Issuing
Bank or the Swing Line Lender (as applicable).
(c) If:
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requiring the consent of all Lenders, the
consent of the Supermajority Lenders is obtained, but the consent of
the other Lenders whose consent is required is not obtained (any such
Lender whose consent is not obtained as described in this clause (A)
and in clause (B) below being referred to as a Non Consenting
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requiring the consent of the Supermajority
Lenders, the consent of the Required Lenders is obtained, but the
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a Lender is owed any amounts under any of Sections 2.13, 2.14
or 2.15 in a material amount in excess of those being generally charged by the
other Lenders (any such Lender who is owed such amounts as described in this
clause (A) referred to as an Owed Lender, and together with a Non Consenting
Lender, the Replaced Lenders), |
then, so long as the Administrative Agent is not a Replaced Lender, at Borrowers request, the
Administrative Agent, or a Person reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, shall have the
right, with the Administrative Agents consent and in the Administrative Agents sole discretion
(but shall have no obligation), to purchase from such Replaced Lenders, and such Replaced Lenders
agree that they shall, upon the Administrative Agents request, sell and assign to the
Administrative Agent or such Person, all of the Commitments of such Replaced Lenders for an amount
equal to the principal balance of all Loans held by the Replaced Lenders and all accrued interest
and fees with respect thereto through the date of sale, such purchase and sale to be consummated
pursuant to an executed Assignment and Assumption in accordance with this Agreement.
(d) Upon any sale, lease, transfer or other disposition of any item of Collateral of any
Credit Party in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents (other than sales of Inventory in
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course of business), the Administrative Agent will, at such Credit Partys expense, execute
and deliver to such Credit Party such documents as such Credit Party shall reasonably request to
evidence the release of such item of Collateral from the Security Documents; provided,
however, that such Credit Party shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent (to the extent not
previously delivered under Section 6.7), at least 5 Business Days prior to the date of the proposed
release, a written request for release together with a form of release for execution by the
Administrative Agent and a certificate of such Credit Party to the effect that the transaction is
in compliance with the Loan Documents.
(e) Upon (i) the payment in full in cash of the Secured Obligations (other than contingent
indemnification obligations which are not then due and payable), (ii) the Commitments have been
terminated, and (iii) the termination or expiration or cash collateralization of all Letters of
Credit, the Liens granted pursuant to the Security Documents shall terminate and all rights to the
Collateral shall revert to the applicable Credit Party. Upon any such termination, the
Administrative Agent will, at the applicable Credit Partys expense, execute and deliver to such
Credit Party such documents as such Credit Party shall reasonably request to evidence such
termination.
9.3 Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver.
(a) The Credit Parties shall pay (i) all reasonable Out-of-Pocket Expenses incurred by the
Administrative Agent and its Affiliates, including the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements
of counsel for the Administrative Agent and, subject to Section 2.15(e) and (g), all applicable
Indemnified Taxes, in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein
and the preparation and administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, (ii) all
reasonable Out-of-Pocket Expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent and its Affiliates,
including the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of counsel for the Administrative Agent
and, subject to Section 2.15(e) and (g), applicable Indemnified Taxes, in connection with any
amendments, modifications or waivers of the provisions hereof or of any of the other Loan
Documents, (whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby shall be consummated),
and (iii) all Out-of-Pocket Expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, including
the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for the Administrative Agent or any
Lender and all applicable Taxes, in connection with the enforcement or protection of their rights
in connection with this Agreement, including its rights under this Section, or in connection with
the Loans made hereunder, including all such Out-of-Pocket Expenses incurred during any workout,
restructuring or negotiations in respect of such Loans.
(b) The Credit Parties shall indemnify the Administrative Agent, each Issuing Bank and each
Lender, as well as each Related Party and each assignee of any of the foregoing Persons (each such
Person and each such assignee being called an Indemnitee) against, and hold each Indemnitee
harmless from, any and all losses, claims, cost recovery actions, damages, expenses and liabilities
of whatsoever nature or kind and all Out-of-Pocket Expenses and, subject to Section 2.15(e) and
(g), all applicable Indemnified Taxes to which any Indemnitee may become subject arising out of or
in connection with or relating to any investigation, litigation or proceeding or the preparation of
any defence with respect thereto arising out of or in connection with (i) the execution or delivery
of the Loan Documents or any agreement or instrument contemplated thereby, the performance by the
parties thereto of their respective obligations thereunder, and the consummation of the
Transactions or any other transactions thereunder, (ii) any Loan or Letter of Credit or any actual
or proposed use of the proceeds therefrom, including any refusal by any Issuing Bank to honour a
demand for payment under a Letter of Credit if the documents presented in connection with such
demand do not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit, (iii) any actual or alleged
presence or release of Hazardous Materials on or from any property owned or operated by any Credit
Party, or any Environmental Liability related in any way to any Credit Party, (iv) any actual or
prospective claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing,
whether based on contract, tort or any other theory and regardless of whether any Indemnitee is a
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thereto, (v) any other aspect of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, or (vi) the
enforcement of any Indemnitees rights hereunder and any related investigation, defence,
preparation of defence, litigation and enquiries, in each case regardless of whether or not the
Transactions are consummated; provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be
available to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or related expenses are
determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and non-appealable judgment to have
resulted from the gross negligence or wilful misconduct of or material breach of this Agreement by
such Indemnitee.
(c) To the extent that the Credit Parties fail to pay any amount required to be paid under
Sections 9.3 (a) or (b), each Lender severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent or the
applicable Issuing Bank (as applicable) such Lenders Applicable Percentage (determined as of the
time that the applicable unreimbursed expense or indemnity payment is sought) of such unpaid
amount; provided that the unreimbursed expense or indemnified loss, claim, damage,
liability or related expense, as the case may be, was incurred by or asserted against the
Administrative Agent or such Issuing Bank, in its capacity as such.
(d) No Credit Party shall assert, and each Credit Party hereby waives (to the fullest extent
permitted by Applicable Law), any claim against any Indemnitee, on any theory of liability, for
special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages)
arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of, any Loan Document, or any agreement or
instrument contemplated thereby, the Transactions, any Loan or Letter of Credit or the use of the
proceeds thereof save and except for the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Indemnitee.
(e) Any inspection of any property of any Credit Party made by or through the Administrative
Agent or any Lender is for purposes of administration of the Credits only, and no Credit Party is
entitled to rely upon the same (whether or not such inspections are at the expense of the
Borrower).
(f) By accepting or approving anything required to be observed, performed, fulfilled or given
to the Administrative Agent or the Lenders pursuant to the Loan Documents, neither the
Administrative Agent nor the Lenders shall be deemed to have warranted or represented the
sufficiency, legality, effectiveness or legal effect of the same, or of any term, provision or
condition thereof, and such acceptance or approval thereof shall not constitute a warranty or
representation to anyone with respect thereto by the Administrative Agent or the Lenders.
(g) The relationship between the Borrower and the Administrative Agent and the Lenders is,
and shall at all times remain, solely that of borrower and lenders. Neither the Administrative
Agent nor the Lenders shall under any circumstance be construed to be partners or joint venturers
of the Borrower or its Affiliates. Neither the Administrative Agent nor the Lenders shall under
any circumstance be deemed to be in a relationship of confidence or trust or a fiduciary
relationship with the Borrower or its Affiliates, or to owe any fiduciary duty to the Borrower or
its Affiliates. Neither the Administrative Agent nor the Lenders undertake or assume any
responsibility or duty to the Borrower or its Affiliates to select, review, inspect, supervise,
pass judgment upon or inform the Borrower or its Affiliates of any matter in connection with their
property or the operations of the Borrower or its Affiliates. The Borrower and its Affiliates
shall rely entirely upon their own judgment with respect to such matters, and any review,
inspection, supervision, exercise of judgment or supply of information undertaken or assumed by the
Administrative Agent or the Lenders in connection with such matters is solely for the protection of
the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, and neither the Borrower nor any other Person is entitled
to rely thereon.
(h) This Agreement is made for the purpose of defining and setting forth certain obligations,
rights and duties of the Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders in connection
with the
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Loans, and is made for the sole benefit of the Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent and
the Lenders, and the Administrative Agents and each Lenders successors and assigns, and each
Credit Partys successors and permitted assigns. Except as provided in Sections 9.3(b) and 9.4, no
other Person shall have any rights of any nature hereunder or by reason hereof.
(i) All amounts due under this Section 9.3 shall be payable not later than thirty days after
the Indemnitee shall have provided the Borrower with sufficient details of the amounts claimed in
writing for the Borrowers review and consideration.
9.4 Successors and Assigns.
(a) The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the
parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby (including any
Affiliate of any Issuing Bank that issues Letters of Credit) provided that (i) except as otherwise
provided in Section 9.4(b), such successors and assigns of the Lenders are Canadian Resident
Lenders, as required under this Section 9.4, (ii) the Borrower may not assign or otherwise transfer
any of its rights or obligations hereunder without (A) the prior written consent of the Lenders or
(B) in the case of an assignment or transfer to an Affiliate, the prior consent of the
Supermajority Lenders (and any attempted assignment or transfer by the Borrower without such
consent shall be null and void), and (iii) no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer its rights or
obligations hereunder except in accordance with this Section. Nothing in this Agreement, expressed
or implied, shall be construed to confer upon any Person (other than the parties hereto, their
respective successors and assigns permitted hereby (including any Affiliate of any Issuing Bank
that issues Letters of Credit) and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the Related
Parties of each of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders) any legal or equitable right, remedy
or claim under or by reason of this Agreement.
(b) Any Lender may assign to one or more assignees all or a portion of its rights and
obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents (including all or a portion of its
Commitments and the Loans at the time owing to it); provided that (i) except in the case of an
assignment to a Lender or a Lender Affiliate (who is a Canadian Resident Lender), the Borrower and
each Lead Arranger must give its prior written consent to such assignment (which consent shall not
be unreasonably withheld or delayed); (ii) the Borrowers consent shall not be required with
respect to any assignment (including to a Lender or Lender Affiliate) made at any time after the
occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, (iii) except in respect of any
assignment made at any time during the continuance of an Event of Default, each assignee shall be a
Canadian Resident Lender, (iv) except in the case of an assignment to a Lender or a Lender
Affiliate, or an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Lenders Commitment,
the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment (determined as
of the date on which the Assignment and Assumption relating to such assignment is delivered to the
Administrative Agent) shall not be less than Cdn.$5,000,000 (or, in the case of a U.S.
Dollar-denominated Commitment, the U.S. $ Equivalent of Cdn.$5,000,000), unless each of the
Borrower and the Administrative Agent otherwise consents in writing and the amount held by each
Lender after each such assignment shall not be less than Cdn.$5,000,000 (or, in the case of a U.S.
Dollar-denominated Commitment, the U.S.$ Equivalent of Cdn.$5,000,000), unless each of the Borrower
and the Administrative Agent otherwise consents in writing, (v) each partial assignment in respect
of a Commitment and the related Loans shall be made as an assignment of a proportionate part of all
the assigning Lenders rights and obligations under this Agreement in respect of such Commitment
and the related Loans, (vi) the parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the
Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption, together with (except in the case of an
assignment to a Lender or a Lender Affiliate) a processing and recordation fee of Cdn.$2,000.00,
payable by the assigning Lender, and (vii) the assignee, if it shall not be a Lender, shall deliver
to the Administrative Agent an Administrative Questionnaire. The Administrative Agent shall
provide the Borrower and each Lender with written notice
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of any change in (or new) address of a Lender disclosed in an Administrative Questionnaire.
Subject to acceptance and recording thereof pursuant to Section 9.4(d), from and after the
effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption, the assignee thereunder shall be a
party hereto and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, shall
have all of the rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning Lender
thereunder shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, be
released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and
Assumption covering all of the assigning Lenders rights and obligations under this Agreement, such
Lender shall cease to be a party hereto but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of
Sections 2.13, 2.14, and 2.15 and 9.3). Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or
obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with this Section 9.4 shall be treated for
purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such Lender of a participation in such rights and
obligations in accordance with Section 9.4(e), provided that the same complies otherwise
with the requirements therein.
(c) The Administrative Agent, acting for this purpose as an agent of the Borrower, shall
maintain at one of its offices in Toronto, Ontario a copy of each Assignment and Assumption
delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders, and
the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Loans and the amount of the Reimbursement
Obligations owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the Register).
The entries in the Register shall be conclusive, and the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the
Issuing Banks, and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register
pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The
Register shall be available for inspection by any Credit Party, any Issuing Bank and any Lender at
any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.
(d) Upon its receipt of a duly completed Assignment and Assumption executed by an assigning
Lender and an assignee, the assignees completed Administrative Questionnaire (unless the assignee
shall already be a Lender hereunder), the processing and recordation fee referred to in Section
9.4(b) and any written consent to such assignment required by Section 9.4(b), the Administrative
Agent shall accept such Assignment and Assumption and record the information contained therein in
the Register. No assignment shall be effective for purposes of this Agreement unless it has been
recorded in the Register as provided in this Section 9.4(d).
(e) Any Lender may, without notice to the Borrower or the consent of the Borrower, any
Issuing Bank or the Administrative Agent, sell participations to one or more Persons (a
Participant) in all or a portion of such Lenders rights and obligations under this Agreement and
the other Loan Documents (including all or a portion of its Commitment and the Loans owing to it);
provided that (i) such Lenders obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged,
(ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of
such obligations, and (iii) the Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Banks and the
other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such
Lenders rights and obligations under this Agreement. Any agreement or instrument pursuant to
which a Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole
right to enforce this Agreement and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any
provision of this Agreement; provided that such agreement or instrument may provide that
such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, modification
or waiver described in the first proviso to Section 9.2(b) that affects such Participant. Subject
to Section 9.4(f), the Borrower agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of
Sections 2.13, 2.14 and 2.15 to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its
interest by assignment pursuant to this Section 9.4(b), provided that each Participant
shall be subject to all restrictions contained herein in respect of Taxes (including but not
limited to the restriction that a Participant must be a Canadian Resident Lender, unless the
participation is acquired by the Participant at any time when an Event of Default has occurred and
is continuing). To the extent permitted by Applicable Law, each Participant also shall be
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entitled to the benefits of Section 9.8 as though it were a Lender, provided that such
Participant agrees to be subject to Section 2.16(c) as though it were a Lender.
(f) A Participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 2.13 or
2.14 than the applicable Lender would have been entitled to receive with respect to the
participation sold to such Participant, unless the sale of the participation to such Participant is
made with the Borrowers prior written consent provided that, the foregoing sentence shall not
apply where the participation is sold to a Participant at any time when an Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing.
(g) Any Lender may at any time pledge or assign a security interest in all or any portion of
its rights under this Agreement to secure obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or
assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank or to the Bank of Canada, and Section
9.4 shall not apply to any such pledge or assignment of a security interest; provided that
no such pledge or assignment of a security interest shall (x) release a Lender from any of its
obligations hereunder, (y) substitute any such pledgee or assignee for such Lender as a party
hereto, or (z) require any Credit Party to make any payment to such pledgee or assignee.
(h) Any assignment or grant of a participation pursuant to Section 9.4 shall constitute
neither a repayment by the Borrower to the assigning or granting Lender of any Loan included
therein, nor a new advance of any such Loan to the Borrower by such Lender or by the Assignee or
Participant, as the case may be. The parties acknowledge that the Borrowers obligations hereunder
with respect to any such Loans will continue and will not constitute new obligations as a result of
such assignment or participation.
9.5 Survival. All covenants, agreements, representations and warranties made by the
Borrower herein and in the certificates or other instruments delivered in connection with or
pursuant to this Agreement shall be considered to have been relied upon by the other parties hereto
and shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the making of any Loans and
issuance of any Letters of Credit, regardless of any investigation made by any such other party or
on its behalf and notwithstanding that the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank or any Lender may
have had notice or knowledge of any Default or incorrect representation or warranty at the time any
credit is extended hereunder, and shall continue in full force and effect as long as the principal
of or any accrued interest on any Loan or any fee or any other amount payable under this Agreement
is outstanding and unpaid or any Letter of Credit is outstanding and so long as the Commitments
have not expired or terminated. Sections 2.13, 2.14, 2.15 and 9.3 shall survive and remain in full
force and effect, regardless of the consummation of the Transactions, the repayment of the Loans,
the expiration or termination of the Letters of Credit and the Commitments or the termination of
this Agreement or any provision hereof.
9.6 Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness. This Agreement may be executed in
counterparts (and by different parties hereto on different counterparts), each of which shall
constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract.
This Agreement, the other Loan Documents and any separate letter agreements with respect to fees
payable to the Administrative Agent, constitute the entire contract among the parties relating to
the subject matter hereof and supersede any and all previous agreements and understandings, oral or
written, relating to the subject matter hereof. Except as provided in Section 4.1, this Agreement
shall become effective when it shall have been executed by the Administrative Agent and when the
Administrative Agent shall have received counterparts hereof which, when taken together, bear the
signatures of each of the other parties hereto, and thereafter shall be binding upon and inure to
the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns. Delivery of an
executed original counterpart of a signature page of this Agreement by facsimile or other
electronically scanned method of delivery shall be as effective as delivery of a manually executed
original counterpart of this Agreement.
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9.7 Severability. Any provision of this Agreement held to be invalid, illegal or
unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of
such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability without affecting the validity, legality and
enforceability of the remaining provisions hereof, and the invalidity of a particular provision in
a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate such provision in any other jurisdiction.
9.8 Right of Set-Off. If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, each
Lender and each of its Affiliates is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, to the
fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general or
special, time or demand, provisional or final) at any time held and other obligations at any time
owing by such Lender or Affiliate to or for the credit or the account of the Borrower against any
of and all of the obligations of the Borrower now or hereafter existing under this Agreement held
by such Lender, irrespective of whether or not such Lender shall have made any demand under this
Agreement and although such obligations may be unmatured. The rights of each Lender under this
Section are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of set off) which such
Lender may have.
9.9 Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process.
(a) This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the
Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein.
(b) The Borrower hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for itself and its property,
to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of the Province of Ontario, and any appellate court
thereof, in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement, or any other
Loan Document or for recognition or enforcement of any judgment, and each of the parties hereto
hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that all claims in respect of any such action or
proceeding may be heard and determined in Ontario. Each of the parties hereto agrees that a final
judgment in any such action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other
jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by Applicable Law. Nothing
in this Agreement shall affect any right that the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank, or any
Lender may otherwise have to bring any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any other
Loan Document against the Borrower or its properties in the courts of any other jurisdiction.
(c) The Borrower hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent it may
legally and effectively do so, any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of
venue of any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement in any court
referred to in this Section 9.9. Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the
fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, any forum non conveniens defence to the maintenance of
such action or proceeding in any such court.
(d) Each party to this Agreement irrevocably consents to service of process in the manner
provided for notices in Section 9.1. Nothing in this Agreement will affect the right of any party
to this Agreement to serve process in any other manner permitted by Applicable Law.
9.10 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT
PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING
DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT, OR
THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER
THEORY). EACH PARTY HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER
PARTY HAS REPRESENTED,
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EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO
ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (B) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN
INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS
IN THIS SECTION.
9.11 Headings. Article and Section headings and the Table of Contents used herein are for
convenience of reference only, are not part of this Agreement and shall not affect the construction
of, or be taken into consideration in interpreting, this Agreement.
9.12 Confidentiality. Each of the Administrative Agent, each Issuing Bank and each Lender
agrees to maintain the confidentiality of the Information (as defined below), except that
Information may be disclosed (a) to each of their Affiliates, directors, officers, employees,
agents and advisors, including accountants, legal counsel and other advisors (it being understood
that the Persons to whom such disclosure is made will be informed of the confidential nature of
such Information and instructed to keep such Information confidential), (b) to the extent requested
by any rating agency, regulatory authority or other Governmental Authority, or their legal counsel,
or (c) to the extent required by Applicable Laws or by any subpoena or similar legal process, (d)
to any other party to this Agreement, (e) in connection with the exercise of any remedies under any
Loan Document or any suit, action or proceeding relating to any Loan Document or the enforcement of
rights thereunder, (f) subject to an agreement containing provisions substantially the same as
those of this Section, to (A) any actual or prospective assignee of or Participant (or such
assignees or Participants advisors) in any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement, or
(B) any actual or prospective counterparty (or its advisors) to any swap or derivative transaction
relating to the Borrower and its obligations, or (g) with the consent of the Borrower. For the
purposes of this Section, Information means all information received from the Borrower or any
Credit Party relating to the Borrower, any of the Credit Parties, or their respective business,
other than Information that is (i) is or becomes publicly available other than as a result of a
breach of this Section, (ii) any such Information that is or becomes available to the
Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank, or any Lender on a non-confidential basis prior to
disclosure by the Borrower, or (iii) was already in the possession of the Administrative Agent, any
Issuing Bank, or any Lender prior to its disclosure by the Borrower; provided that, in the
case of information received from the Borrower after the date hereof, such information is clearly
identified as confidential in writing at the time of delivery. Any Person required to maintain the
confidentiality of Information as provided in this Section shall be considered to have complied
with its obligation to do so if such Person has exercised the same degree of care to maintain the
confidentiality of such Information as such Person would accord to its own confidential
information.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed by their
respective authorized officers as of the day and year first above written.
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DANA CANADA LTD., as a Guarantor and a
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DANA CANADA LP , as a Guarantor and a
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CITIBANK CANADA, as Administrative |
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EX-31.A
EXHIBIT 31-A
Certification of Chief Executive Officer
I, Michael J. Burns, certify that:
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I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of Dana Corporation; |
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Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in
light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with
respect to the period covered by this report; |
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Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information
included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition,
results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods
presented in this report; |
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The registrants other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing
and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules
13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in
Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have: |
(a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure
controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material
information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made
known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this
report is being prepared;
(b) Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal
control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide
reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation
of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted
accounting principles;
(c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrants disclosure controls and procedures
and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure
controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such
evaluation; and
(d) Disclosed in this report any change in the registrants internal control over
financial reporting that occurred during the registrants most recent fiscal quarter (the
registrants fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially
affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrants internal control
over financial reporting; and
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recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrants
auditors and the audit committee of the registrants board of directors (or persons
performing the equivalent functions): |
(a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of
internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely
affect the registrants ability to record, process, summarize and report financial
information; and
(b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees
who have a significant role in the registrants internal control over financial reporting.
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EX-31.B
EXHIBIT 31-B
Certification of Chief Financial Officer
I, Kenneth A. Hiltz, certify that:
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Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in
light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with
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Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information
included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition,
results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods
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The registrants other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing
and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules
13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in
Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have: |
(a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure
controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material
information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made
known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this
report is being prepared;
(b) Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal
control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide
reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation
of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted
accounting principles;
(c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrants disclosure controls and procedures
and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure
controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such
evaluation; and
(d) Disclosed in this report any change in the registrants internal control over
financial reporting that occurred during the registrants most recent fiscal quarter (the
registrants fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially
affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrants internal control
over financial reporting; and
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recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrants
auditors and the audit committee of the registrants board of directors (or persons
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(a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of
internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely
affect the registrants ability to record, process, summarize and report financial
information; and
(b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees
who have a significant role in the registrants internal control over financial reporting.
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EX-32
EXHIBIT 32
Certifications Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350
In connection with the Quarterly Report of Dana Corporation (the Company) on Form 10-Q for the
three months ended June 30, 2006, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date
hereof (the Report), each of the undersigned officers of the Company certifies pursuant to 18
U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that to
such officers knowledge:
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The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the
financial condition and results of operations of the Company as of the dates and for the
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