Untitled - Irish Stock Exchange
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quarter for which financial statements are available as adjusted to give effect to any capital contributions and<br />
distributions that occurred after such fiscal quarter.<br />
"Fund Investments" means all Cash, Cash Equivalents, Bank Loans, Securities and Structured Product<br />
Transactions owned by the Issuer. Fund Investments which the Issuer has contracted to purchase shall not be<br />
deemed for purposes of the Credit Agreement and the Indenture to be owned by the Issuer until settlement of such<br />
purchase and Fund Investments which the Issuer has contracted to sell shall not cease to be Fund Investments for<br />
purposes of the Credit Agreement and the Indenture until settlement of such sale.<br />
"Hedging and Short Sale Transaction" means any transaction entered into by the Issuer or a Hedging<br />
SPE with a counterparty that is (i) a Swap Transaction; (ii) a Currency Hedging Transaction; (iii) an Interest Rate<br />
Hedging Transaction; (iv) a transaction under which the Issuer or such Hedging SPE borrows a Bank Loan or<br />
Security and sells or otherwise disposes of such or any substantially similar Bank Loan or Security prior to the date<br />
on which the same must be returned to the lender thereof (and commonly known as a "short sale"), (v) a Securities<br />
Lending Transaction; (vi) a credit derivative transaction or repurchase agreement; (vii) an obligation to enter into<br />
any of the foregoing; or (viii) any combination of any of the foregoing.<br />
"Hedging SPEs" means any entities which are subsidiaries of the Issuer and organized for the purpose of (i)<br />
holding and acquiring investments similar to Fund Investments, (ii) incurring indebtedness on a secured or<br />
unsecured basis, (iii) entering into Hedging and Short Sale Transactions and (iv) any other activity incidental,<br />
necessary, ancillary or appropriate to the foregoing and which have provisions for bankruptcy-remote special<br />
purpose entities in their organizational documents.<br />
"High Yield Securities" means debt Securities (including convertible debt securities), Preferred <strong>Stock</strong>,<br />
other debt obligations, and other senior equity investments, in each case, (a) issued by public or private issuers, (b)<br />
issued pursuant to an effective registration statement or pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act (or any<br />
successor provision thereunder), and (c) that are not Cash Equivalents, Bank Loans, Mezzanine Investments or CDO<br />
Securities.<br />
"Holder" means, at any date, with respect to any outstanding Rated Note, the record holder of such Rated<br />
Note as reflected in the Note Register; and "Holders" means the record holders of all Rated Notes then outstanding.<br />
"Illiquid Investments" means (a) all Unquoted Investments that do not qualify as Semi-Liquid Investments;<br />
(b) any Unquoted Investments (other than Bank Loans) that are subject to any enforceable agreement containing a<br />
material condition to, or material restriction on, the ability of the holder of such Unquoted Investment or an assignee<br />
of such holder to sell, assign, transfer or otherwise liquidate the obligation in a commercially reasonable time and<br />
manner (other than in any agreement contained in the Collateral Documents and customary securities law<br />
arrangement or restrictions); (c) CDO Debt Securities that are not rated "Baa3" or better by Moody's; (d) CDO<br />
Equity Securities; (e) Private Equity Securities; (f) Bank Loan Participations (other than (x) Bank Loan<br />
Participations that qualify as Semi-Liquid Investments and (y) Bank Loan Participations which may be converted<br />
into a Bank Loan assignment at the option of the Issuer) and (g) Asset-Backed Securities that are not rated "Ba3" or<br />
better by Moody's.<br />
"Industry" means any industry category listed in Schedule 7 to the Credit Agreement or any other such<br />
industry category designated by the Issuer in writing and approved by the Administrative Agent (so long as the<br />
Credit Agreement is in effect), Moody's in their reasonable discretion.<br />
"Interest Rate Hedging Transaction" means (i) any Swap Transaction entered into by the Issuer with an<br />
Eligible Counterparty intended to protect the Issuer against increases of the floating rate of interest payable on all or<br />
a portion of any Debt or other obligation of the Issuer or its subsidiaries or on any Fund Investment or to protect<br />
against a risk in the fluctuation of interest rates, (ii) any Swap Transaction entered into by the Issuer or repurchase<br />
agreement, in each case with an Eligible Counterparty, intended to protect against a risk in the fluctuation of the<br />
market value of certain Collateral from the fluctuation of interest rates or (iii) a Swap Transaction entered into by the<br />
Issuer intended to protect against a risk in the fluctuation of the market value of certain Collateral from the<br />
fluctuation of interest rates and pursuant to which the Issuer has no on-going payment obligations.<br />
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