Certain Terms. The words such as “herein,” “hereinafter,” “hereof,” and “hereunder” refer to this Agreement (including the Exhibits and Schedules to this Agreement) as a whole and not merely to a subdivision in which such words appear unless the context otherwise requires. The word “including” or any variation thereof means “including, without limitation” and does not limit any general statement that it follows to the specific or similar items or matters immediately following it. The words “to the extent” when used in reference to a liability or other matter, means that the liability or other matter referred to is included in part or excluded in part, with the portion included or excluded determined based on the portion of such liability or other matter exclusively related to the subject or period. The word “or” shall be disjunctive but not exclusive. A reference to any Party or to any party to any other agreement or document shall include such party’s successors and permitted assigns. A reference to any legislation or to any provision of any legislation shall include any amendment to, and any modification or reenactment thereof, any legislative provision substituted therefor and all regulations and statutory instruments issued thereunder or pursuant thereto (provided, that for purposes of any representations and warranties contained in this Agreement that are made as of a specific date, references to any statute shall be deemed to refer to such statute and any rules or regulations promulgated thereunder as amended through such specific date). The phrase “ordinary course of business” refers to the ordinary course of business of the Acquired Companies and not of Sellers and their Affiliates generally. References to “$” shall mean U.S. dollars and references to “written” or “in writing” include in electronic form. Any reference to “days” shall mean calendar days unless Business Days are expressly specified. Any reference to information “made available” or “provided” to Purchaser by Sellers or the Acquired Companies means that such information has been provided to Purchaser, its counsel or other Representatives through access to the “Project Nickel” online data room maintained by Sellers and hosted by Donnelly Financial Solutions in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, with such information and access provided at least three (3) Business Days prior to the date hereof.

Each Defaulting Lender shall be entitled to receive fees payable under [Section 2.09(b)] for any period during which that Lender is a Defaulting Lender only to extent allocable to the sum of the outstanding principal amount of the Loans funded by it.

Certain Pledges. Any Lender may at any time without need for any consent pledge or assign a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including under its Note, if any) to secure obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank; provided that no such pledge or assignment shall release such Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee for such Lender as a party hereto.

Certain Reductions. The Company shall reduce an Executive’s severance benefits under this Plan, in whole or in part, by any other severance benefits, pay and benefits provided during a period following written notice of a plant closing or mass layoff, pay and benefits in lieu of such notice, or other similar benefits payable to the Executive by the Company in connection with the Executive’s termination of employment pursuant to # any applicable legal requirement, including, without limitation, the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act or any other similar state law (the “WARN Act”), # any severance plan, policy or practice or any individually negotiated employment contract or agreement or any other written employment or severance agreement with the Company, in each case, as is in effect on Executive’s termination date, or # any Company policy or practice providing for the Executive to remain on the payroll, including without being on active service, for a limited period of time after being given notice of the termination of the Executive’s employment, and the Plan Administrator shall so construe and implement the terms of the Plan. Any such reductions that the Company determines to make pursuant to this Section 3(e) shall be made such that any benefit under the Plan shall be reduced solely by any similar type of benefit under such legal requirement, agreement, policy or practice (i.e., any cash severance benefits under the Plan shall be reduced solely by any cash payments or severance benefits under such legal requirement, agreement, policy or practice, and any continued insurance benefits under the Plan shall be reduced solely by any continued insurance benefits under such legal requirement, agreement, policy or practice). The Company’s decision to apply such reductions to the severance benefits of one Executive and the amount of such reductions shall in no way obligate the Company to apply the same reductions in the same amounts to the severance benefits of any other Executive, even if similarly situated. In the Company’s sole discretion, such reductions may be applied on a retroactive basis, with severance benefits previously paid being re-characterized as payments pursuant to the Company’s statutory obligation.

Certain Limitations. Notwithstanding anything in paragraphs [(a), (b) and (c) above] to the contrary:

Certain Amounts. Whenever pursuant to this Note the Borrower is required to pay an amount in excess of the outstanding principal amount (or the portion thereof required to be paid at that time) plus accrued and unpaid interest plus Default Interest on such interest, the Borrower and the Holder agree that the actual damages to the Holder from the receipt of cash payment on this Note may be difficult to determine and the amount to be so paid by the Borrower represents stipulated damages and not a penalty and is intended to compensate the Holder in part for loss of the opportunity to convert this Note and to earn a return from the sale of shares of Common Stock acquired upon conversion of this Note at a price in excess of the price paid for such shares pursuant to this Note. The Borrower and the Holder hereby agree that such amount of stipulated damages is not plainly disproportionate to the possible loss to the Holder from the receipt of a cash payment without the opportunity to convert this Note into shares of Common Stock.

Certain Pledges. Any [[Organization B:Organization]] 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 [[Organization B:Organization]], including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank or any central bank having jurisdiction over such [[Organization B:Organization]]; provided that no such pledge or assignment shall release such [[Organization B:Organization]] from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee for such [[Organization B:Organization]] as a party hereto.

Certain Definitions. Capitalized terms used, but not otherwise defined, in this Agreement will have the meanings given to such terms in the Company’s 2016 Equity and Incentive Compensation Plan (the “Plan”). As used in this Agreement:

Certain Waivers. To the extent permitted by law, the ​ waives # any defense arising by reason of any disability or other defense of the Designated Borrower or any other ​ (other than a defense of payment or performance), or the cessation from any cause whatsoever (including any act or omission of the Administrative Agent or any Lender but excluding payment or performance) of the liability of the Designated Borrower; # any defense based on any claim that the ​’s obligations exceed or are more burdensome than those of the Designated Borrower; # any right to require the Administrative Agent or any Lender to proceed against the Designated Borrower, proceed against or exhaust any security for the Indebtedness, or pursue any other remedy in the Administrative Agent’s or any Lender’s power whatsoever; # any benefit of and any right to participate in any security now or hereafter held by the Administrative Agent or any Lender; and # to the fullest extent permitted by law, any and all other defenses or benefits that may be derived from or afforded by applicable law limiting the liability of or exonerating guarantors or sureties (other than a defense of payment or performance). The ​ expressly waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, all setoffs and counterclaims and all presentments, demands for payment or performance, notices of nonpayment or nonperformance, protests, notices of protest, notices of dishonor and all other notices or demands of any kind or nature whatsoever with respect to the ​ SA Obligations, and all notices of acceptance of this Guaranty or of the existence, creation or incurrence of new or additional ​ SA Obligations, except, in each case, for notices expressly required under the Credit Agreement.

Certain Affiliations. In the event that a Participant terminates his or her membership on the Board and becomes affiliated with a government agency, all amounts in such Participant’s Cash Account, shares equivalent to units in such Participant’s Stock Unit Account and Shares attributable to Restricted Stock Units that such Participant has elected to defer will be distributed to the Participant if such payment is necessary to avoid violation of any applicable federal, state, local or foreign ethics or conflict of interest law or if necessary to comply with an ethics agreement with the federal government.