Participations. Any Lender may at any time, without the consent of, or notice to, any Borrower 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 one or more natural Persons, a Defaulting Lender or any Borrower or any Affiliate or Subsidiary of any Borrower) (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 Commitment and/or the Loans (including such Lender’s participations in L/C Obligations and/or Swing Line Loans) 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 Borrowers, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the L/C Issuer shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, each Lender shall be responsible for the indemnity under [Section 11.04(c)] without regard to the existence of any participation.

Participations. In addition to the accounts and records referred to in [subsection (a)], each Lender and the Administrative Agent shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice accounts or records evidencing the purchases and sales by such 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 Lender in respect of such matters, the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent shall control in the absence of manifest error.

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 a holding company, investment vehicle or trust for, or owned and operated for the primary benefit of one or more natural Persons, a Defaulting Lender 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 Commitment and/or the Loans (including such Lender’s participations in L/C Obligations and/or Swing Line Loans) 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, the Lenders and the L/C Issuers shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, each Lender shall be responsible for the indemnity under [Section 10.04(c)] without regard to the existence of any participation.

Any Lender may at any time, without the consent of, or notice to, the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent, sell participations to any Person (other than a natural person or the Borrowers or any of the Borrowers' 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 Commitment and/or the Loans 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 Borrowers, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, and the Issuing Lender shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement.

Participations. Each Lender may, without the consent of, or notice to, the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent, sell, transfer or grant participations in all or any part of such Lender’s interests and obligations hereunder to one or more banks or other entities (other than the Borrowers, their Affiliates and Subsidiaries, or a Defaulting Lender)(a “Participant”); provided that # such selling Lender shall remain a “Lender” for all purposes under this Credit Agreement (such selling Lender’s obligations under the Credit Documents remaining unchanged) and the Participant shall not constitute a Lender hereunder, and the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent and the other Lenders shall continue to deal exclusively with such selling Lender, and # no such Participant shall have, or be granted, rights to approve any amendment or waiver relating to this Credit Agreement or the other Credit Documents except to the extent any such amendment or waiver would # reduce the principal of or rate of interest on or fees in respect of any Loans in which the Participant is participating or increase any Commitments with respect thereto, or # postpone the date fixed for any payment of principal (including the extension of the final maturity of any Loan or the date of any mandatory prepayment, other than pursuant to [Section 3.5]), interest or fees in which the Participant is participating. In the case of any such participation, the Participant shall not have any rights under this Credit Agreement or the other Credit Documents (the Participant’s rights against the selling Lender in respect of such participation to be those set forth in the participation agreement with such Lender creating such participation) and all amounts payable by the Borrowers hereunder shall be determined as if such Lender had not sold such participation; provided, however, that such Participant shall be entitled to receive additional amounts under Sections 3.9, 3.12, 3.13 and 3.14 to the same extent that the Lender from which such Participant acquired its participation would be entitled to the benefit of such cost protection provisions (it being understood that the Participant shall be required to provide the documentation required under Section 3.13(g) as if it were a Lender and that the Participant shall be subject to the provisions of Section 3.15 regarding mitigation as if it were a Lender).

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 a holding company, investment vehicle or trust for, or owned and operated for the primary benefit of a natural person, a Defaulting Lender 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 Commitment and/or the Loans (including such Lender’s participations in L/C Obligations and/or Swing Line Loans) 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, the Lenders and the L/C Issuers shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, each Lender shall be responsible for the indemnity under [Section 11.04(c)] without regard to the existence of any participation.

Participations. Any Lender may at any time, without the consent of, or notice to, any Borrower or Agent, sell to one or more Persons (other than any Borrower or any Borrower’s Affiliates and, so long as no Specified Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, any Disqualified Institution) participating interests in its Loan, commitments or other interests hereunder (any such Person, a “Participant”). In the event of a sale by a Lender of a participating interest to a Participant, # such Lender’s obligations hereunder shall remain unchanged for all purposes, # Borrowers and Agent shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations hereunder, and # all amounts payable by each Borrower shall be determined as if such Lender had not sold such participation and shall be paid directly to such Lender. Each Borrower agrees that if amounts outstanding under this Agreement are due and payable (as a result of acceleration or otherwise), each Participant shall be deemed to have the right of set-off in respect of its participating interest in amounts owing under this Agreement to the same extent as if the amount of its participating interest were owing directly to it as a Lender under this Agreement; provided, however, that such right of set-off shall be subject to the obligation of each Participant to share with Lenders, and Lenders agree to share with each Participant, as provided in Section 11.5.

Participations. Any Lender may at any time, without the consent of, or notice to, the Borrower, any other Loan Party, any L/C Issuer, the Swing Line Lender 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, a Defaulting Lender 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 Commitment and/or the Loans (including such Lender’s participations in L/C Obligations and/or Swing Line Loans) 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 other Loan Parties, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the L/C Issuers shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, each Lender shall be responsible for the indemnity under [Section 11.04(c)] without regard to the existence of any participation.

Participations. Immediately upon the issuance of each 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 Bank that is the issuer thereof or the Lenders, each Revolving Lender shall be deemed to have purchased and the applicable Issuing Bank shall be deemed to have sold a participation in such Letter of Credit equal to such Revolving Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the aggregate amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit. In consideration and in furtherance of the foregoing, each Revolving Lender hereby absolutely and unconditionally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of such Issuing Bank, such Revolving Lender’s Applicable Percentage of each LC Disbursement made by such Issuing Bank and not reimbursed by the Borrower on the date due as provided in paragraph # of this Section 2.05, or of any reimbursement payment required to be refunded to the Borrower for any reason. Each Revolving Lender acknowledges and agrees that its acquisition of 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 or extension of any Letter of Credit or the occurrence and continuance of a Default or any reduction or termination of the Revolving Commitments, and that each payment required to be made by it under the preceding sentence shall be made without any offset, abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever.

Participations. Any Lender may at any time, without the consent of, or notice to, the Borrowers 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 by or for the primary benefit of one or more natural persons, any Person previously identified in writing to the Administrative Agent or such Lender by the Lead Borrower as a competitor of a Loan Party or any Subsidiary or the or the Borrowers or any of the Borrowers’ 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 Commitment and/or the Loans (including such Lender’s participations in L/C Obligations and/or Swing Line Loans) owing to it); provided that # such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, # where such rights and obligations relate to a U.K. Facility, the Participant is U.K. Qualifying Lender; # the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the L/C Issuer shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement and # the consent of the Lead Borrower shall be required solely in connection with any Participation by a Defaulting Lender or any Lender that has breached its obligations hereunder or under any Loan Document. 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 and shall not give the Participant any consent, notice or other rights with respect to such enforcement, amendments, modifications or waivers; provided that such agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, waiver or other modification described in the first proviso to [Section 11.01] (other than clauses (a) and (b) that affects such Participant and would require such Participant’s consent if such Participant were a Lender under the applicable Facility. Subject to subsection # of this Section, the Borrowers agree that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of [Sections 3.01, 3.04 and 3.07]7] to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to [Section 11.06(b)]. To the extent permitted by law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of [Section 11.08] as though it were a Lender, provided such Participant agrees to be subject to [Section 2.13] as though it were a Lender.