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CURRENT REPORT
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Item 1.01. Entry Into a Material Definitive Agreement.
On May 5, 2020, Tripadvisor, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Tripadvisor”), Tripadvisor Holdings, LLC, a Massachusetts limited liability company (“Holdings”), and Tripadvisor LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, entered into the Second Amendment (the “Second Amendment”), among Tripadvisor, Holdings, Tripadvisor LLC, the other Borrowers party thereto, the Lenders party thereto, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent and London Agent, BofA Securities, Inc., BMO Capital Markets Corp., BNP Paribas Securities Corp., SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc., and U.S. Bank National Association, as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners; Bank of America, N.A., BMO Capital Markets Corp., BNP Paribas Securities Corp., SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc. and U.S. Bank National Association, as Co-Syndication Agents; and Barclays Bank PLC, Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Co-Documentation Agents. The Second Amendment modifies the Credit Agreement dated as of June 26, 2015 (as amended by the First Amendment dated May 12, 2017 and the Second Amendment, the “Amended Credit Agreement”), among Tripadvisor, Holdings, Tripadvisor LLC, the other Borrowers from time to time party thereto, the Lenders from time to time party thereto, the Administrative Agent and London Agent. All defined terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the Amended Credit Agreement.
The Second Amendment, among other things:
| ● | Suspends the leverage ratio covenant for each fiscal quarter ending after the effective date of the Second Amendment and ending prior to September 30, 2021 (or such earlier date as may be elected by Tripadvisor in its sole discretion) (such period, the “Leverage Covenant Holiday”); |
| ● | adds a minimum liquidity covenant, which requires that Tripadvisor and its wholly owned subsidiaries to maintain $150,000,000 of unrestricted cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments less deferred merchant payables plus available revolver capacity, and which shall apply solely during the Leverage Covenant Holiday; |
| ● | increases the interest rate margins applicable to revolving loans outstanding and increases the commitment fee on unused revolving commitments, in each case, during any period commencing with the effective date of the Second Amendment and through the Leverage Covenant Holiday; and |
| ● | decreases the aggregate amount of revolving loan commitments available under the Amended Credit Agreement from $1.2 billion to $1.0 billion. |
In connection with the Second Amendment and as collateral to secure the obligations of Tripadvisor and its subsidiaries under the Amended Credit Agreement, Tripadvisor and certain of its subsidiaries have pledged, and granted security interests and liens in and on, substantially all of their respective tangible and intangible assets (including accounts receivable, contract rights and other general intangibles, intellectual property, inventory, equipment, goods, instruments and equity interests and other investment property, and intercompany indebtedness), in each case, subject to customary exceptions. The foregoing pledges, security interests and liens will remain in effect until the Collateral Release Date (as defined in the Amendment).
The Amended Credit Agreement includes restrictions on the ability of Tripadvisor and its subsidiaries to incur additional indebtedness, repurchase shares, and make investments, dispositions, dividends and other payments, with certain exceptions as more specifically described in the Amended Credit Agreement.
The Amended Credit Agreement contains customary events of default. If an event of default occurs and is continuing, then, among other things, the lenders may declare any outstanding obligations under the Amended Credit Agreement to be immediately due and payable and exercise rights and remedies against the collateral.
Except as amended by the Second Amendment, the remaining terms of the Credit Agreement remain in full force and effect. The foregoing description of the Second Amendment does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Second Amendment filed as Exhibit 10.1 to Tripadvisor’s Current Report on Form 8-K (File No. 001-35362), filed with the Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on May 7, 2020, and is incorporated herein by reference.
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Item 2.03. Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant.
See the discussion set forth in Item 1.01, “Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement,” of this Current Report on Form 8-K, which discussion is incorporated herein by this reference.
Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits
Exhibit No. | Description | |
10.1 | ||
101.INS | Inline XBRL Instance Document - the instance document does not appear in Interactive Data File because its XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document. | |
101.SCH | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document | |
101.CAL | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document | |
101.DEF | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document | |
101.LAB | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document | |
101.PRE | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document | |
104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101) |
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
Date: May 8, 2020
LIBERTY TRIPADVISOR HOLDINGS, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Wade Haufschild | |
Name: Wade Haufschild | ||
Title: Vice President | ||
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