Participations. Any Lender may at any time, without the consent of, or notice to, the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, sell participations to any Person (other than a natural person or the Borrower or any of the Borrower’s Affiliates or Subsidiaries) (each, a “Participant”) in all or a portion of such Lender’s rights and/or obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Revolver Commitment and/or the Revolver Advances owing to it); provided that # such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, # such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations and # the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement.

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 any Issuing Bank or [[Lenders:Organization]], each Issuing Bank hereby grants to each Lender, and each Lender hereby acquires from such Issuing Bank, a participation in such Letter of Credit equal to such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the aggregate Dollar Amount 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 Lender’s Applicable Percentage of each LC Disbursement made by such Issuing Bank and not reimbursed by [[Company:Organization]] or any applicable LC Account Party on the date due as provided in paragraph # of this Section, or of any reimbursement payment required to be refunded to [[Company:Organization]] or any applicable LC Account Party for any reason. Each Lender acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to acquire participations pursuant to this paragraph 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 reduction or termination of the Commitments, and that each such payment shall be made without any offset, abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever.

Participations. Permitted Participants; Effect. Any Lender may at any time sell to one or more banks or other entities (“Participants”), other than an Ineligible Institution, participating interests in any Revolving Credit Obligations or Term Loans of such Lender, any promissory note issued hereunder held by such Lender, any Revolving Loan Commitment or Term Loan Commitment of such Lender or any other interest of such Lender under the Loan Documents. In the event of any such sale by a Lender of participating interests to a Participant, such Lender’s obligations under the Loan Documents shall remain unchanged, such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, such Lender shall remain the owner of its Revolving Credit Obligations and Term Loans, as applicable, and the holder of any promissory note issued to it hereunder in evidence thereof for all purposes under the Loan Documents, all amounts payable by the Borrowers under this Agreement shall be determined as if such Lender had not sold such participating interests, and the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under the Loan Documents.

Participations. In addition to the accounts and records referred to in subSection (a), each Revolving Credit Lender and the Administrative Agent shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice accounts or records evidencing the purchases and sales by such Revolving Credit Lender of participations in Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans. In the event of any conflict between the accounts and records maintained by the Administrative Agent and the accounts and records of any Revolving Credit Lender in respect of such matters, the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent shall control in the absence of manifest error.

Participations. Any [[Organization B:Organization]] may at any time, without the consent of, or notice to, the [[Organization A:Organization]] or the Administrative Agent, sell participations to any Person (other than a natural Person, or a holding company, investment vehicle or trust for, or owned and operated for the primary benefit of, a natural Person, or the [[Organization A:Organization]] or any of the [[Organization A:Organization]]’s Affiliates or Subsidiaries) (each, a “Participant”) in all or a portion of such [[Organization B:Organization]]’s rights and/or obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment, the Loans owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided that # such [[Organization B:Organization]]’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, # such [[Organization B:Organization]] shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, and # the [[Organization A:Organization]], the Administrative Agent and Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such [[Organization B:Organization]] in connection with such [[Organization B:Organization]]’s rights and obligations under this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, each [[Organization B:Organization]] shall be responsible for the indemnity under [Section 7.05] with respect to any payments made by such [[Organization B:Organization]] to its Participant(s).

Each Lender may, with the prior written consent of Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender, Issuing Bank and Lead Borrower, which consents shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed (which consent of Lead Borrower shall not be required # at any time a Default or Event of Default exists or has occurred and is continuing or # in connection with an assignment to a Person that is a Lender, an Affiliate (other than individuals) of a Lender or an Approved Fund so long as no Default or Event of Default exists at the time of such assignment), assign all or, if less than all, # with respect to assignments of the Tranche A Revolving Loans, a portion equal to at least $5,000,000 in the aggregate for the assigning Tranche A Lender, and # with respect to assignments of the Tranche A-1 Revolving Loans, a portion equal to at least $1,000,000 in the aggregate for the assigning Tranche A-1 Lender, of such rights and obligations under this Agreement to one or more Eligible Transferees (but not including for this purpose any assignments in the form of a participation), each of which assignees shall become a party to this Agreement as a Lender by execution of an Assignment and Acceptance; provided, that, # such transfer or assignment will not be effective until recorded by Administrative Agent on the Register and # Administrative Agent shall have received for its sole account payment of a processing fee from the assigning Lender or the assignee in the amount of $5,000.

Immediately upon each LC Issuance, the LC Issuer of such Letter of Credit shall be deemed to have sold and transferred to each Revolving Lender with a Revolving Commitment, and each such Lender (each an “LC Participant”) shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally to have purchased and received from such LC Issuer, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation (an “LC Participation”), to the extent of such Lender’s Revolving Facility Percentage of the Stated Amount of such Letter of Credit in effect at such time of issuance, in such Letter of Credit, each substitute Letter of Credit, each drawing made thereunder, the obligations of any LC Obligor under this Agreement with respect thereto (although LC Fees relating thereto shall be payable directly to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Revolving Lenders as provided in Section 2.11 and the LC Participants shall have no right to receive any portion of any fees of the nature contemplated by Section 2.11 [(d) or (e)]), the obligations of any LC Obligor under any LC Documents pertaining thereto, and any security for, or guaranty pertaining to, any of the foregoing.

At any time after any Revolving Credit Lender has purchased and funded a risk participation in a Swing Line Loan, if Swing Line Lender receives any payment on account of such Swing Line Loan, Swing Line Lender will distribute to such Revolving Credit Lender its Applicable Percentage thereof in the same funds as those received by Swing Line Lender.

At any time after L/C Issuer has made a payment under any Letter of Credit and has received from any Revolving Credit Lender such Revolving Credit Lender’s L/C Advance in respect of such payment in accordance with [Section 2.3(c)], if Administrative Agent receives for the account of L/C Issuer any payment in respect of the related Unreimbursed Amount or interest thereon (whether directly from Borrower or otherwise, including proceeds of Cash Collateral applied thereto by Administrative Agent), Administrative Agent will distribute to such Revolving Credit Lender its Applicable Percentage thereof in the same funds as those received by Administrative Agent.

With the consent of Borrower (which consent of Borrower shall not be # required if # a Payment Default or an Insolvency Default has occurred and is continuing or # any other Event of Default has occurred and has been continuing for a period of at least 30 days, or # other than with respect to Direct Competitors, unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), any Lender may assign and delegate to one or more assignees (each an “Assignee”) that are Eligible Transferees all, or any ratable part of all, of the Obligations, the Revolver Commitments, the Loans and the other rights and obligations of such Lender hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, in a minimum amount of $5,000,000 (or the remaining amount of any Lender’s Revolver Commitment or amount of Loans, if less); provided, however, that Borrower and Agent may continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with the interest so assigned to an Assignee until # written notice of such assignment, together with payment instructions, addresses, and related information with respect to the Assignee, have been given to Borrower and Agent by such Lender and the Assignee, # such Lender and its Assignee have delivered to Borrower and Agent an Assignment and Acceptance, fully executed and delivered by each party thereto, and # the assigning Lender or Assignee has paid to Agent for Agent’s separate account a processing fee in the amount of $3,500. Anything contained herein to the contrary notwithstanding, the payment of any fees shall not be required and the consent of Borrower shall not be required if such assignment is in connection with any merger, consolidation, sale, transfer, or other disposition of all or any substantial portion of the business or loan portfolio of the assigning Lender.