UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
Form 10-Q
For the quarterly period ended June 30, 2005
OR
( ) TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the transition period from to
Commission File No. 1-10308
Cendant Corporation
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware | 06-0918165 | |
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) |
(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number) |
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9 West 57th Street New York, NY (Address of principal executive offices) |
10019 (Zip Code) |
(212) 413-1800
(Registrants telephone number, including area code)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes [X] No [ ]
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an accelerated filer (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes [X] No [ ]
The number of shares outstanding of the issuers common stock was 1,046,323,989 shares as of June 30, 2005.
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FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
Forward-looking statements in our public filings or other public statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements were based on various factors and were derived utilizing numerous important assumptions and other important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include the information concerning our future financial performance, business strategy, projected plans and objectives. Statements preceded by, followed by or that otherwise include the words believes, expects, anticipates, intends, projects, estimates, plans, may increase, may fluctuate and similar expressions or future or conditional verbs such as will, should, would, may and could are generally forward-looking in nature and not historical facts. You should understand that the following important factors and assumptions could affect our future results and could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in such forward-looking statements:
l | terrorist attacks, such as the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York
City and Washington, D.C. and the July 2005 bombings in London, which may
negatively affect the travel industry and our financial results and which could also
result in a disruption in our business; |
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l | the effect of economic or political conditions or any outbreak or escalation of
hostilities on the economy on a national, regional or international basis and the
impact thereof on our businesses; |
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l | the effects of a decline in travel, due to political instability, adverse economic
conditions, natural disasters or otherwise, on our travel related businesses; |
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l | the effects of a decline in the volume or value of U.S. existing home sales, due
to adverse economic changes or otherwise, on our real estate related businesses; |
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l | the effects of changes in current interest rates, particularly on our real estate
franchise and real estate brokerage businesses; |
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l | the final resolution or outcome of our unresolved pending litigation relating to the
previously announced accounting irregularities (which were discovered and addressed in
1998); |
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l | our ability to develop and implement operational, technological and financial
systems to manage growing operations and to achieve enhanced earnings or effect cost
savings; |
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l | competition in our existing and potential future lines of business and the financial
resources of, and products available to, competitors; |
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l | our failure to reduce quickly our substantial technology costs and other overhead
costs, if required, in response to a reduction in revenue in any future period,
particularly with respect to our reservations systems, and in our global distribution
systems, vehicle rental and real estate brokerage businesses; |
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l | our failure to provide fully integrated disaster recovery technology solutions in
the event of a disaster or other business interruption; |
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l | our ability to successfully integrate and operate acquired and merged businesses and
risks associated with such businesses, including the acquisitions of Orbitz, Inc.,
ebookers plc and Gullivers Travel Associates, the compatibility of the operating
systems of the combining companies, and the degree to which our existing
administrative and back-office functions and costs and those of the acquired companies
are complementary or redundant; |
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l | our ability to successfully complete the divestiture of the operations of our
Marketing Services division, which remains subject to certain closing conditions
including the buyers receipt of financing, regulatory approvals and customary closing
conditions; |
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l | our ability to obtain financing on acceptable terms to finance our growth strategy
and to operate within the limitations imposed by financing arrangements and to
maintain our credit ratings; |
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l | in relation to our assets under management programs, (i) the deterioration in
the performance of the underlying assets of such programs and (ii) our inability
to access the secondary market for certain of our securitization facilities and to act
as servicer thereto, which could occur in the event that our credit ratings are
downgraded below investment grade and, in certain circumstances, where we fail to meet
certain financial ratios; |
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l | competitive and pricing pressures in the travel industry, including the car rental
and global distribution services industries; |
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l | changes in the vehicle manufacturer arrangements in our Avis and Budget car rental
business, including but not limited to the failure of the manufacturers to meet their
obligations under repurchase arrangements or changes in the credit quality of such
vehicle manufacturers, each of which could have a material adverse effect on our
results and the principal financing program for our car rental business; |
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l | filing of bankruptcy by, or the loss of business from, any of our significant
customers, including our airline customers, and the ultimate disposition of any such
bankruptcy, including the bankruptcy reorganization of UAL Corporation; |
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l | changes in laws and regulations, including changes in global distribution services
rules, telemarketing and timeshare sales regulations and real estate related
regulations, state, federal and international tax laws and privacy policy regulation;
and |
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l | changes in accounting principles and/or business practices that may result in
changes in the method in which we account for transactions and may affect
comparability between periods and changes to the estimates and assumptions that we use
to prepare our financial statements due to subsequent developments, such as court or
similar rulings and actual experience. |
Other factors and assumptions not identified above were also involved in the derivation of these forward-looking statements, and the failure of such other assumptions to be realized as well as other factors may also cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Most of these factors are difficult to predict accurately and are generally beyond our control.
You should consider the areas of risk described above in connection with any forward-looking statements that may be made by us and our businesses generally. Except for our ongoing obligations to disclose material information under the federal securities laws, we undertake no obligation to release publicly any revisions to any forward-looking statements, to report events or to report the occurrence of unanticipated events unless required by law. For any forward-looking statements contained in any document, we claim the protection of the safe harbor for forward-looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
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PART I FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Item 1. | Financial Statements |
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
To the Board of Directors and Stockholders
of Cendant Corporation
New York, New York
We have reviewed the accompanying consolidated condensed balance sheet of Cendant Corporation and subsidiaries (the Company) as of June 30, 2005, the related consolidated condensed statement of stockholders equity for the six-month period ended June 30, 2005, the related consolidated condensed statements of income for the three-month and six-month periods ended June 30, 2005 and 2004, and the related consolidated condensed statements of cash flows for the six-month periods ended June 30, 2005 and 2004. These interim financial statements are the responsibility of the Companys management.
We conducted our reviews in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). A review of interim financial information consists principally of applying analytical procedures and making inquiries of persons responsible for financial and accounting matters. It is substantially less in scope than an audit conducted in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), the objective of which is the expression of an opinion regarding the financial statements taken as a whole. Accordingly, we do not express such an opinion.
Based on our reviews, we are not aware of any material modifications that should be made to such consolidated condensed interim financial statements for them to be in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
We have previously audited, in accordance with standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), the consolidated balance sheet of the Company as of December 31, 2004, and the related consolidated statements of income, stockholders equity, and cash flows for the year then ended (not presented herein); and in our report dated February 28, 2005 (May 4, 2005 as to the effects of the discontinued operations and revised segment reporting structure described in Notes 1 and 23), we expressed an unqualified opinion (which included an explanatory paragraph with respect to the revised earnings per share calculations for all prior periods presented to include the dilutive effect of certain contingently convertible debt securities, the adoption of the fair value method of accounting for stock-based compensation and the adoption of the consolidation provisions for variable interest entities in 2003, as discussed in Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements; and an explanatory paragraph with respect to the classification of certain subsidiaries as discontinued operations, as discussed in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements) on those consolidated financial statements. In our opinion, the information set forth in the accompanying consolidated condensed balance sheet as of December 31, 2004 is fairly stated, in all material respects, in relation to the consolidated balance sheet from which it has been derived.
/s/ Deloitte & Touche LLP
New York, New York
July 29, 2005
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Cendant Corporation and Subsidiaries
Three Months Ended | Six Months Ended | |||||||||||||||
June 30, | June 30, | |||||||||||||||
2005 | 2004 | 2005 | 2004 | |||||||||||||
Revenues |
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Service fees and membership, net |
$ | 3,501 | $ | 3,267 | $ | 6,258 | $ | 5,763 | ||||||||
Vehicle-related |
1,224 | 1,119 | 2,312 | 2,120 | ||||||||||||
Other |
10 | 18 | 42 | 60 | ||||||||||||
Net revenues |
4,735 | 4,404 | 8,612 | 7,943 | ||||||||||||
Expenses |
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Operating |
2,734 | 2,576 | 4,986 | 4,626 | ||||||||||||
Vehicle depreciation, lease charges and interest, net |
373 | 284 | 697 | 593 | ||||||||||||
Marketing and reservation |
456 | 382 | 880 | 737 | ||||||||||||
General and administrative |
359 | 322 | 695 | 656 | ||||||||||||
Non-program related depreciation and amortization |
140 | 113 | 276 | 224 | ||||||||||||
Non-program related interest, net: |
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Interest expense, net |
70 | 70 | 53 | 147 | ||||||||||||
Early extinguishment of debt |
| 18 | | 18 | ||||||||||||
Acquisition and integration related costs: |
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Amortization of pendings and listings |
3 | 4 | 6 | 8 | ||||||||||||
Other |
10 | 2 | 21 | 5 | ||||||||||||
Restructuring and transaction-related charges |
2 | | 51 | | ||||||||||||
Valuation charge associated with PHH spin-off |
| | 180 | | ||||||||||||
Total expenses |
4,147 | 3,771 | 7,845 | 7,014 | ||||||||||||
Income before income taxes and minority interest |
588 | 633 | 767 | 929 | ||||||||||||
Provision for income taxes |
195 | 212 | 311 | 303 | ||||||||||||
Minority interest, net of tax |
1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | ||||||||||||
Income from continuing operations |
392 | 420 | 454 | 620 | ||||||||||||
Income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of tax |
(9 | ) | 73 | (15 | ) | 314 | ||||||||||
Gain (loss) on disposal of discontinued operations, net of tax: |
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PHH valuation and transaction-related charges |
| | (312 | ) | | |||||||||||
Gain on disposal |
4 | 198 | 179 | 198 | ||||||||||||
Net income |
$ | 387 | $ | 691 | $ | 306 | $ | 1,132 | ||||||||
Earnings per share |
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Basic |
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Income from continuing operations |
$ | 0.37 | $ | 0.41 | $ | 0.43 | $ | 0.61 | ||||||||
Net income |
0.37 | 0.68 | 0.29 | 1.11 | ||||||||||||
Diluted |
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Income from continuing operations |
$ | 0.37 | $ | 0.40 | $ | 0.42 | $ | 0.59 | ||||||||
Net income |
0.36 | 0.66 | 0.28 | 1.07 |
See Notes to Consolidated Condensed Financial Statements.
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June 30, | December 31, | |||||||
2005 | 2004 | |||||||
Assets |
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Current assets: |
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Cash and cash equivalents |
$ | 623 | $ | 467 | ||||
Restricted cash |
147 | 370 | ||||||
Receivables, net |
1,352 | 1,237 | ||||||
Deferred income taxes |
1,155 | 385 | ||||||
Assets of discontinued operations |
1,104 | 6,639 | ||||||
Other current assets |
656 | 611 | ||||||
Total current assets |
5,037 | 9,709 | ||||||
Property and equipment, net |
1,667 | 1,685 | ||||||
Deferred income taxes |
841 | 2,192 | ||||||
Goodwill |
12,164 | 11,087 | ||||||
Other intangibles, net |
3,149 | 2,608 | ||||||
Other non-current assets |
403 | 591 | ||||||
Total assets exclusive of assets under programs |
23,261 | 27,872 | ||||||
Assets under management programs: |
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Program cash |
115 | 530 | ||||||
Relocation receivables |
838 | 720 | ||||||
Vehicle-related, net |
9,151 | 7,072 | ||||||
Timeshare-related, net |
2,534 | 2,385 | ||||||
Vacation rental |
224 | 254 | ||||||
Mortgage loans held for sale |
| 1,981 | ||||||
Mortgage servicing rights, net |
| 1,608 | ||||||
Other |
8 | 148 | ||||||
12,870 | 14,698 | |||||||
Total assets |
$ | 36,131 | $ | 42,570 | ||||
Liabilities and stockholders equity |
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Current liabilities: |
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Accounts payable and other current liabilities |
$ | 4,421 | $ | 4,009 | ||||
Current portion of long-term debt |
1,313 | 739 | ||||||
Liabilities of discontinued operations |
758 | 5,274 | ||||||
Deferred income |
388 | 335 | ||||||
Total current liabilities |
6,880 | 10,357 | ||||||
Long-term debt |
3,609 | 3,591 | ||||||
Deferred income |
275 | 285 | ||||||
Other non-current liabilities |
1,224 | 1,261 | ||||||
Total liabilities exclusive of liabilities under programs |
11,988 | 15,494 | ||||||
Liabilities under management programs: |
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Debt |
3,443 | 6,219 | ||||||
Debt due to Cendant Rental Car Funding (AESOP) LLCrelated
party |
7,697 | 5,935 | ||||||
Deferred income taxes |
1,769 | 2,200 | ||||||
Other |
| 27 | ||||||
12,909 | 14,381 | |||||||
Commitments and contingencies (Note 12) |
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Stockholders equity: |
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Preferred stock, $.01 par valueauthorized 10 million
shares; none issued and outstanding |
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CD common stock, $.01 par valueauthorized 2 billion
shares; issued 1,344,368,319 and 1,333,462,545 shares |
13 | 13 | ||||||
Additional paid-in capital |
12,403 | 12,091 | ||||||
Deferred compensation |
(487 | ) | (301 | ) | ||||
Retained earnings |
5,142 | 6,179 | ||||||
Accumulated other comprehensive income |
81 | 274 | ||||||
CD treasury stock, at cost298,044,330 and 282,135,978 shares |
(5,918 | ) | (5,561 | ) | ||||
Total stockholders equity |
11,234 | 12,695 | ||||||
Total liabilities and stockholders equity |
$ | 36,131 | $ | 42,570 | ||||
See Notes to Consolidated Condensed Financial Statements.
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Six Months Ended June 30, | ||||||||
2005 | 2004 | |||||||
Operating Activities |
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Net income |
$ | 306 | $ | 1,132 | ||||
Adjustments to arrive at income from continuing operations |
148 | (512 | ) | |||||
Income from continuing operations |
454 | 620 | ||||||
Adjustments to reconcile income from continuing operations to net
cash provided by operating activities exclusive of management
programs: |
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PHH valuation charge |
180 | | ||||||
Non-program related depreciation and amortization |
276 | 224 | ||||||
Amortization of pendings and listings |
6 | 8 | ||||||
Net change in assets and liabilities, excluding the impact of
acquisitions and dispositions: |
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Receivables |
(167 | ) | (65 | ) | ||||
Income taxes and deferred income taxes |
206 | 212 | ||||||
Accounts payable and other current liabilities |
206 | 21 | ||||||
Other, net |
(5 | ) | 66 | |||||
Net cash provided by operating activities exclusive of management
programs |
1,156 | 1,086 | ||||||
Management programs: |
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Vehicle depreciation |
533 | 450 | ||||||
Amortization and impairment of mortgage servicing rights |
101 | 65 | ||||||
Net gain (loss) on mortgage servicing rights and related derivatives |
(83 | ) | 170 | |||||
Origination of timeshare-related assets |
(525 | ) | (496 | ) | ||||
Principal collection of investment in timeshare-related assets |
321 | 326 | ||||||
Origination of mortgage loans |
(2,062 | ) | (19,920 | ) | ||||
Proceeds on sale of and payments from mortgage loans held for sale |
2,150 | 19,242 | ||||||
Other |
7 | 3 | ||||||
442 | (160 | ) | ||||||
Net cash provided by operating activities |
1,598 | 926 | ||||||
Investing Activities |
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Property and equipment additions |
(193 | ) | (180 | ) | ||||
Net assets acquired, net of cash acquired, and acquisition-related
payments |
(1,589 | ) | (337 | ) | ||||
Proceeds received on asset sales |
13 | 24 | ||||||
Proceeds from dispositions of businesses, net of transaction-related
payments |
965 | 826 | ||||||
Other, net |
34 | 46 | ||||||
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities exclusive of
management programs |
(770 | ) | 379 | |||||
Management programs: |
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Decrease (increase) in program cash |
(61 | ) | 145 | |||||
Investment in vehicles |
(6,451 | ) | (5,802 | ) | ||||
Payments received on investment in vehicles |
3,879 | 3,199 | ||||||
Equity advances on homes under management |
(2,403 | ) | (2,148 | ) | ||||
Repayment of advances on homes under management |
2,285 | 2,133 | ||||||
Additions to mortgage servicing rights |
(23 | ) | (281 | ) | ||||
Cash received (paid) on derivatives related to mortgage
servicing rights, net |
44 | (109 | ) | |||||
Other, net |
(20 | ) | 45 | |||||
(2,750 | ) | (2,818 | ) | |||||
Net cash used in investing activities |
(3,520 | ) | (2,439 | ) | ||||
Financing Activities |
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Proceeds from borrowings |
6 | 19 | ||||||
Principal payments on borrowings |
(89 | ) | (1,116 | ) | ||||
Net short-term borrowings |
616 | | ||||||
Issuances of common stock |
191 | 396 | ||||||
Repurchases of common stock |
(460 | ) | (962 | ) | ||||
Payment of dividends |
(192 | ) | (144 | ) | ||||
Cash reduction due to spin-off of PHH |
(259 | ) | | |||||
Other, net |
4 | (22 | ) | |||||
Net cash used in financing activities exclusive of management programs |
(183 | ) | (1,829 | ) | ||||
Management programs: |
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Proceeds from borrowings |
6,983 | 6,871 | ||||||
Principal payments on borrowings |
(4,907 | ) | (4,905 | ) | ||||
Net change in short-term borrowings |
184 | 914 | ||||||
Other, net |
(12 | ) | (17 | ) | ||||
2,248 | 2,863 | |||||||
Net cash provided by financing activities |
2,065 | 1,034 | ||||||
Effect of changes in exchange rates on cash and cash equivalents |
(29 | ) | 38 | |||||
Cash provided by discontinued operations |
42 | 146 | ||||||
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents |
156 | (295 | ) | |||||
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period |
467 | 746 | ||||||
Cash and cash equivalents, end of period |
$ | 623 | $ | 451 | ||||
See Notes to Consolidated Condensed Financial Statements.
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Accumulated | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Additional | Other | Treasury | Total | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Common Stock | Paid-In | Deferred | Retained | Comprehensive | Stock | Stockholders' | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shares | Amount | Capital | Compensation | Earnings | Income | Shares | Amount | Equity | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Balance at January 1, 2005 |
1,333 | $ | 13 | $ | 12,091 | $ | (301 | ) | $ | 6,179 | $ | 274 | (282 | ) | $ | (5,561 | ) | $ | 12,695 | |||||||||||||||||
Comprehensive income: |
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Net income |
| | | | 306 | | | | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Currency translation adjustment, net of tax of $(23) |
| | | | | (147 | ) | | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Unrealized losses on cash flow hedges, net of tax of $(6) |
| | | | | (11 | ) | | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Unrealized losses on available-for-sale securities, net of tax of $(1) |
| | | | | (3 | ) | | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Reclassification for realized holding gains on available-for-sale
securities, net of tax of $(7) |
| | | | | (11 | ) | | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Minimum pension liability adjustment, net of tax of $(7) |
| | | | | (10 | ) | | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total comprehensive income |
124 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Net activity related to restricted stock units |
| | 169 | (186 | ) | | | 3 | 53 | 36 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Exercise of stock options |
10 | | 81 | | | | 5 | 105 | 186 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tax benefit from exercise of stock options |
| | 56 | | | | | | 56 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Repurchases of CD common stock |
| | | | | | (24 | ) | (522 | ) | (522 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Payment of dividends |
| | | | (192 | ) | | | | (192 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dividend of PHH Corporation |
| | | | (1,639 | ) | (11 | ) | | | (1,650 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Adjustment to offset PHH valuation charge included in net income |
| | | | 488 | | | | 488 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other |
1 | | 6 | | | | | 7 | 13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Balance at June 30, 2005 |
1,344 | $ | 13 | $ | 12,403 | $ | (487 | ) | $ | 5,142 | $ | 81 | (298 | ) | $ | (5,918 | ) | $ | 11,234 | |||||||||||||||||
See Notes to Consolidated Condensed Financial Statements.
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Cendant Corporation and Subsidiaries
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Unless otherwise noted, all amounts are in millions, except per share
amounts)
1. | Basis of Presentation and Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements |
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Basis of Presentation |
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Cendant Corporation is a global provider of travel and real estate services. The accompanying
unaudited Consolidated Condensed Financial Statements include the accounts and transactions of
Cendant Corporation and its subsidiaries (Cendant), as well as entities in which Cendant
directly or indirectly has a controlling financial interest (collectively, the Company). The
Company operates in the following business segments: |
l | Real Estate Servicesfranchises the real estate brokerage businesses of four
residential brands and one commercial brand, provides real estate brokerage
services, facilitates employee relocations and provides home buyers with title and
closing services. |
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l | Hospitality Servicesfacilitates the exchange of vacation ownership interests,
franchises eight lodging brands and markets vacation rental properties. |
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l | Timeshare Resortsdevelops and sells vacation ownership interests, provides
consumer financing to individuals purchasing these interests and manages resort
properties. |
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l | Vehicle Rentaloperates and franchises the Companys car and truck rental brands. |
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l | Travel Distribution Servicesprovides global distribution services for the travel
industry, corporate and consumer online travel services and travel agency services. |
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l | Mortgage Servicesprovided home buyers with mortgage lending services through
January 2005 (See Note 16 Spin-off of PHH Corporation). |
In presenting the Consolidated Condensed Financial Statements, management makes estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported and related disclosures. Estimates, by their nature, are based on judgments and available information. Accordingly, actual results could differ from those estimates. In managements opinion, the Consolidated Condensed Financial Statements contain all normal recurring adjustments necessary for a fair presentation of interim results reported. The results of operations reported for interim periods are not necessarily indicative of the results of operations for the entire year or any subsequent interim period. Certain reclassifications have been made to prior period amounts to conform to the current period presentation. These financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Companys 2004 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 1, 2005 and Current Report on Form 8-K filed on May 5, 2005.
The Company adopted the above segment reporting structure in 2005 as a result of a reevaluation performed subsequent to (i) the completion of an initial public offering (IPO) of Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Inc. (Jackson Hewitt) in June 2004, for which the Company raised approximately $770 million in proceeds; (ii) the completion of a spin-off of the Companys mortgage, fleet leasing and appraisal businesses in January 2005 in a distribution of the common stock of PHH Corporation (PHH) to the Companys stockholders (a more detailed description of this transaction can be found in Note 16Spin-off of PHH Corporation); (iii) the completion of an IPO of Wright Express Corporation (Wright Express) in February 2005, for which the Company raised approximately $965 million of proceeds; and (iv) the formal approval by the Companys Board of Directors in March 2005 to dispose of its Marketing Services division, which is comprised of the Companys individual membership and loyalty/insurance marketing businesses and of which the Company anticipates a sale will be completed during the fall of 2005.
Discontinued Operations. Pursuant to Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 144, Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets, the account balances and activities of Wright Express, the Companys fleet leasing and appraisal businesses, the Marketing Services division and Jackson Hewitt have been segregated and reported as discontinued operations for all periods presented. The Companys mortgage business cannot be classified as a discontinued operation due to the Companys participation in a mortgage origination venture that was established with PHH in connection with the spin-off. Summarized financial data for the aforementioned disposed businesses are provided in Note 2Discontinued Operations.
Management Programs. The Company presents separately the financial data of its management programs. These programs are distinct from the Companys other activities as the assets are generally funded through the issuance of debt that is collateralized by such assets. The income generated by these assets is used, in part, to repay the principal and interest associated with the debt. Cash inflows and outflows relating to the generation or acquisition of such assets and the principal debt repayment or financing of such assets are classified as activities of management programs. The Company
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believes it is appropriate to segregate the financial data of its management programs because, ultimately, the source of repayment of such debt is the realization of such assets.
Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements
Conditional Asset Retirement Obligations. On March 30, 2005, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued FASB Interpretation No. 47, Accounting for Conditional Asset Retirement Obligations (FIN 47), which clarifies that conditional asset retirement obligations are within the scope of SFAS No. 143, Accounting for Asset Retirement Obligations. FIN 47 requires the Company to recognize a liability for the fair value of conditional asset retirement obligations if the fair value of the liability can be reasonably estimated. The Company expects to adopt the provisions of FIN 47 in fourth quarter 2005, as required, and is currently assessing the impact of its adoption.
Timeshare Transactions. In December 2004, the FASB issued SFAS No. 152, Accounting for Real Estate Time-Sharing Transactions, in connection with the previous issuance of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Statement of Position No. 04-2, Accounting for Real Estate Time-Sharing Transactions (SOP 04-2). The Company expects to adopt the provisions of SFAS No. 152 and SOP 04-2 effective January 1, 2006 and anticipates recording an after tax charge in the range of $60 million to $90 million on such date as a cumulative effect of an accounting change. The Company is evaluating actions that may mitigate such impact. There is no expected impact to cash flow from the adoption.
Stock-Based Compensation. In December 2004, the FASB issued SFAS No. 123R, Share Based Payment, which eliminates the alternative to measure stock-based compensation awards using the intrinsic value approach permitted by APB Opinion No. 25 and by SFAS No. 123, Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation. The Company will adopt SFAS No. 123R on January 1, 2006, as required by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Although the Company has not yet completed its assessment of adopting SFAS No. 123R, it does not believe that such adoption will significantly affect its earnings, financial position or cash flows since the Company does not use the alternative intrinsic value approach.
2. | Discontinued Operations |
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Summarized statement of income data for discontinued operations are as follows: |
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Three Months Ended June 30, 2005 |
Marketing | ||||||||||||
Wright | Services | |||||||||||
Express (a) | Division | Total | ||||||||||
Net revenues |
$ | | $ | 333 | $ | 333 | ||||||
Loss before income taxes |
$ | | $ | (9 | ) | $ | (9 | ) | ||||
Provision for income taxes |
| | | |||||||||
Loss from discontinued operations, net of tax |
$ | | $ | (9 | ) | $ | (9 | ) | ||||
Gain on disposal of discontinued operations |
$ | 6 | $ | | $ | 6 | ||||||
Provision for income taxes |
2 | | 2 | |||||||||
Gain on disposal of discontinued operations, net of tax |
$ | 4 | $ | | $ | 4 | ||||||
(a) | Represents a payment received from Wright Express in connection
with a tax receivable agreement pursuant to which Wright Express is
obligated to make payments to the Company over a 15 year term. The
Company currently expects such payments to aggregate over $400 million.
However, the actual amount and timing of receipt of such
payments are dependent upon a number of factors, including whether
Wright Express earns sufficient future taxable income to realize the
full tax benefit of the amortization of certain assets. |
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Three Months Ended June 30, 2004 (*)
Fleet and | Marketing | |||||||||||||||||||
Jackson | Wright | Appraisal | Services | |||||||||||||||||
Hewitt | Express | Businesses | Division | Total | ||||||||||||||||
Net revenues |
$ | 25 | $ | 47 | $ | 410 | $ | 352 | $ | 834 | ||||||||||
Income before income taxes |
$ | | $ | 22 | $ | 25 | $ | 71 | $ | 118 | ||||||||||
Provision for income taxes |
| 8 | 10 | 27 | 45 | |||||||||||||||
Income from discontinued operations, net of tax |
$ | | $ | 14 | $ | 15 | $ | 44 | $ | 73 | ||||||||||
Gain on disposal of discontinued operations |
$ | 251 | $ | | $ | | $ | | $ | 251 | ||||||||||
Provision for income taxes |
53 | | | | 53 | |||||||||||||||
Gain on disposal of discontinued operations, net of tax |
$ | 198 | $ | | $ | | $ | | $ | 198 | ||||||||||
(*) | Results for Jackson Hewitt are through the date of disposition. |
Six Months Ended June 30, 2005 (*)
Fleet and | Marketing | |||||||||||||||
Wright | Appraisal | Services | ||||||||||||||
Express | Businesses (a) | Division | Total | |||||||||||||
Net revenues |
$ | 29 | $ | 134 | $ | 670 | $ | 833 | ||||||||
Income (loss) before income taxes |
$ | (7 | ) | $ | 7 | $ | 19 | $ | 19 | |||||||
Provision (benefit) for income taxes |
(3 | ) | 28 | 9 | 34 | |||||||||||
Income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of tax |
$ | (4 | ) | $ | (21 | ) | $ | 10 | $ | (15 | ) | |||||
Gain (loss) on disposal of discontinued operations |
$ | 507 | $ | (312 | ) | $ | | $ | 195 | |||||||
Provision for income taxes |
328 | | | 328 | ||||||||||||
Gain (loss) on disposal of discontinued operations, net of tax |
$ | 179 | $ | (312 | ) | $ | | $ | (133 | ) | ||||||
(*) | Results for Wright Express and the fleet and appraisal
businesses are through the dates of disposition. |
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(a) | The provision for income taxes reflects a $24 million charge
associated with separating the appraisal business from the Company in
connection with the spin-off. |
Six Months Ended June 30, 2004 (*)
Fleet and | Marketing | |||||||||||||||||||
Jackson | Wright | Appraisal | Services | |||||||||||||||||
Hewitt | Express | Businesses | Division (a) | Total | ||||||||||||||||
Net revenues |
$ | 194 | $ | 91 | $ | 782 | $ | 708 | $ | 1,775 | ||||||||||
Income before income taxes |
$ | 106 | $ | 39 | $ | 49 | $ | 131 | $ | 325 | ||||||||||
Provision (benefit) for income taxes |
42 | 14 | 20 | (65 | ) | 11 | ||||||||||||||
Income from discontinued operations, net of tax |
$ | 64 | $ | 25 | $ | 29 | $ | 196 | $ | 314 | ||||||||||
Gain on disposal of discontinued operations |
$ | 251 | $ | | $ | | $ | | $ | 251 | ||||||||||
Provision for income taxes |
53 | | | | 53 | |||||||||||||||
Gain on disposal of discontinued operations, net of tax |
$ | 198 | $ | | $ | | $ | | $ | 198 | ||||||||||
(*) | Results for Jackson Hewitt are through the date of disposition. |
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(a) | The benefit for income taxes reflects the reversal of a
valuation allowance of $121 million by TRL Group associated with
federal and state deferred tax assets, partially offset by a $13
million cash payment the Company made to TRL Group in connection with
the January 2004 contract termination transaction. |
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Summarized balance sheet data for discontinued operations are as follows:
As of | ||||||||||||||||||||
June 30, 2005 | As of December 31, 2004 | |||||||||||||||||||
Marketing | Fleet and | Marketing | ||||||||||||||||||
Services | Wright | Appraisal | Services | |||||||||||||||||
Division | Express | Businesses | Division | Total | ||||||||||||||||
Assets of discontinued operations: |
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Current assets |
$ | 407 | $ | 72 | $ | 334 | $ | 388 | $ | 794 | ||||||||||
Property and equipment, net |
102 | 37 | 36 | 84 | 157 | |||||||||||||||
Goodwill |
254 | 135 | 447 | 256 | 838 | |||||||||||||||
Assets under management programs |
| 419 | 3,958 | | 4,377 | |||||||||||||||
Other assets |
341 | 22 | 99 | 352 | 473 | |||||||||||||||
Total assets of discontinued operations |
$ | 1,104 | $ | 685 | $ | 4,874 | $ | 1,080 | $ | 6,639 | ||||||||||
Liabilities of discontinued operations: |
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Current liabilities |
$ | 733 | $ | 213 | $ | 219 | $ | 738 | $ | 1,170 | ||||||||||
Liabilities under management programs |
| 215 | 3,838 | | 4,053 | |||||||||||||||
Other liabilities |
25 | 6 | 25 | 20 | 51 | |||||||||||||||
Total liabilities of discontinued operations |
$ | 758 | $ | 434 | $ | 4,082 | $ | 758 | $ | 5,274 | ||||||||||
Summarized statement of cash flow data for discontinued operations are as follows:
Six Months Ended | ||||||||
June 30, | ||||||||
2005 | 2004 | |||||||
Net cash provided by (used in) discontinued operations for: |
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Operating activities |
$ | 187 | $ | 842 | ||||
Investing activities |
(197 | ) | (769 | ) | ||||
Financing activities |
55 | 73 | ||||||
Effect of exchange rate changes |
(3 | ) | | |||||
Cash provided by discontinued operations |
$ | 42 | $ | 146 | ||||
3. | Earnings Per Share |
The following table sets forth the computation of basic and diluted earnings per share (EPS).
Three Months Ended | Six Months Ended | |||||||||||||||
June 30, | June 30, | |||||||||||||||
2005 | 2004 | 2005 | 2004 | |||||||||||||
Income from continuing operations |
$ | 392 | $ | 420 | $ | 454 | $ | 620 | ||||||||
Income (loss) from discontinued operations |
(9 | ) | 73 | (15 | ) | 314 | ||||||||||
Gain (loss) on disposal of discontinued operations: |
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PHH valuation and transaction-related charges |
| | (312 | ) | | |||||||||||
Gain on disposal |
4 | 198 | 179 | 198 | ||||||||||||
Net income |
$ | 387 | $ | 691 | $ | 306 | $ | 1,132 | ||||||||
Basic weighted average shares outstanding |
1,050 | 1,020 | 1,052 | 1,018 | ||||||||||||
Stock options, warrants and restricted stock units (*) |
22 | 33 | 23 | 33 | ||||||||||||
Convertible debt |
| | | 5 | ||||||||||||
Diluted weighted average shares outstanding |
1,072 | 1,053 | 1,075 | 1,056 | ||||||||||||
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Three Months Ended | Six Months Ended | |||||||||||||||
June 30, | June 30, | |||||||||||||||
2005 | 2004 | 2005 | 2004 | |||||||||||||
Earnings per share: |
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Basic |
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Income from continuing operations |
$ | 0.37 | $ | 0.41 | $ | 0.43 | $ | 0.61 | ||||||||
Income (loss) from discontinued operations |
| 0.07 | (0.01 | ) | 0.31 | |||||||||||
Gain (loss) on disposal of discontinued operations: |
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PHH valuation and transaction-related charges |
| | (0.30 | ) | | |||||||||||
Gain on disposal |
| 0.20 | 0.17 | 0.19 | ||||||||||||
Net income |
$ | 0.37 | $ | 0.68 | $ | 0.29 | $ | 1.11 | ||||||||
Diluted |
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Income from continuing operations |
$ | 0.37 | $ | 0.40 | $ | 0.42 | $ | 0.59 | ||||||||
Income (loss) from discontinued operations |
(0.01 | ) | 0.07 | (0.01 | ) | 0.29 | ||||||||||
Gain (loss) on disposal of discontinued operations: |
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PHH valuation and transaction-related charges |
| | (0.29 | ) | | |||||||||||
Gain on disposal |
| 0.19 | 0.16 | 0.19 | ||||||||||||
Net income |
$ | 0.36 | $ | 0.66 | $ | 0.28 | $ | 1.07 | ||||||||
(*) | Excludes restricted stock units for which performance based
vesting criteria have not been achieved. |
The following table summarizes the Companys outstanding common stock equivalents that were antidilutive and therefore excluded from the computation of diluted EPS.
Three Months Ended | Six Months Ended | |||||||||||||||
June 30, | June 30, | |||||||||||||||
2005 | 2004 | 2005 | 2004 | |||||||||||||
Options (a) |
38 | 22 | 24 | 23 | ||||||||||||
Upper DECS (b) |
| 36 | | 37 |
(a) | The number of antidilutive options remained relatively consistent
period-over-period with the exception of 14 million options that became in-the-money
between $20.96 (the average stock price during the three months ended June 30, 2005) and
$21.32 (the average stock price during the six months ended June 30, 2005). The weighted
average exercise price for antidilutive options for the three months ended June 30, 2005 and
2004 was $25.85 and $30.07, respectively. The weighted average exercise price for antidilutive
options for the six months ended June 30, 2005 and 2004 was $28.50 and $29.95, respectively. |
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(b) | Represents the shares that were issuable under the forward purchase
contract component of the Companys Upper DECS securities prior to the settlement of such
securities on August 17, 2004, at which time the Company issued 38 million shares of
Cendant common stock. Diluted EPS for the three and six months ended June 30, 2004 does not
reflect these shares, as the Upper DECS were antidilutive during such periods (since the
appreciation price of $28.42 was greater than the average price of Cendant common stock). |
4. | Acquisitions |
Assets acquired and liabilities assumed in business combinations were recorded on the Companys Consolidated Condensed Balance Sheets as of the respective acquisition dates based upon their estimated fair values at such dates. The results of operations of businesses acquired by the Company have been included in the Companys Consolidated Condensed Statements of Income since their respective dates of acquisition. The excess of the purchase price over the estimated fair values of the underlying assets acquired and liabilities assumed was allocated to goodwill. In certain circumstances, the allocations of the excess purchase price are based upon preliminary estimates and assumptions. Accordingly, the allocations are subject to revision when the Company receives final information, including appraisals and other analyses. Revisions to the fair values, which may be significant, will be recorded by the Company as further adjustments to the purchase price allocations. The Company is also in the process of integrating the operations of its acquired businesses and expects to incur costs relating to such integrations. These costs may result from integrating operating systems, relocating employees, closing facilities, reducing duplicative efforts and exiting and consolidating other activities. These costs will be recorded on the Companys Consolidated Condensed Balance Sheets as adjustments to the purchase price or on the Companys Consolidated Condensed Statements of Income as expenses, as appropriate.
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2005 Acquisitions
Gullivers Travel Associates. On April 1, 2005, the Company completed the acquisition of Donvand Limited, which operates under the names Gullivers Travel Associates and Octopus Travel Group Limited (collectively, Gullivers). Gullivers is a wholesaler of hotel rooms, destination services, travel packages and group tours and a global online provider of lodging and destination services. Management believes that this acquisition positions the Company as a worldwide leader in the global online travel intermediary space. The preliminary allocation of the purchase price is summarized as follows:
Amount | ||||
Cash consideration |
$ | 1,202 | ||
Transaction costs and expenses |
12 | |||
Total purchase price |
1,214 | |||
Less: Historical value of assets acquired in excess of liabilities
assumed |
77 | |||
Less: Fair value adjustments |
253 | |||
Excess purchase price over fair value of assets acquired and
liabilities assumed |
$ | 884 | ||
The fair value adjustments included in the preliminary allocation of the purchase price above primarily consisted of:
Amount | ||||
Allocation
of purchase price to intangible assets (a) |
$ | 360 | ||
Deferred tax liability for book-tax basis differences |
(99 | ) | ||
Costs
associated with exiting activities (b) |
(4 | ) | ||
Other fair value adjustments |
(4 | ) | ||
$ | 253 | |||
(a) | Represents (i) $142 million of indefinite-lived trademarks
associated with the Companys exclusive right to use the Gullivers name, (ii) $185 million
of customer relationships with an estimated weighted average life of 14 years and
(iii) $33 million of other intangible assets with an estimated weighted average life of 20
years. |
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(b) | As part of the acquisition, the Companys management formally
committed to various strategic initiatives primarily aimed at creating synergies between the cost
structures of the Company and Gullivers, which will be achieved through the involuntary
termination of certain Gulliver employees. The Company formally communicated the termination of
employment to approximately 40 employees, representing a wide range of employee groups, and as of
June 30, 2005, substantially all of these employees had not yet been terminated. As a result
of these actions, the Company established personnel-related liabilities of $4 million. As of
June 30, 2005, there were no material payments against or adjustments to the initial
liabilities established. |
The following table summarizes the preliminary estimated fair values of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed in connection with the Companys acquisition of Gullivers:
Amount | ||||
Cash |
$ | 157 | ||
Other current assets |
139 | |||
Property and equipment |
54 | |||
Intangible assets |
360 | |||
Goodwill |
884 | |||
Total assets acquired |
1,594 | |||
Total current liabilities |
267 | |||
Total non-current liabilities |
113 | |||
Total liabilities assumed |
380 | |||
Net assets acquired |
$ | 1,214 | ||
The goodwill, none of which is expected to be deductible for tax purposes, was assigned to the Companys Travel Distribution Services segment. As previously discussed, the preliminary allocation of the purchase price is subject to revision as analyses are finalized. The Company continues to gather information and consult with third party experts concerning the valuation of its assets acquired and liabilities assumed (including the identified intangible assets and their associated lives). This acquisition was not significant to the Companys results of operations, financial position or cash flows.
ebookers plc. On February 28, 2005, the Company acquired ebookers plc (ebookers), a travel agency with Web sites servicing 13 European countries offering a wide range of discount and standard price travel products including airfares,
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hotels, car rental, cruises and travel insurance. Management believes that this acquisition enhances the Companys role in the global online travel intermediary space. The preliminary allocation of the purchase price is summarized as follows:
Amount | ||||
Cash consideration |
$ | 444 | ||
Transaction costs and expenses |
7 | |||
Total purchase price |
451 | |||
Less: Historical value of liabilities assumed in excess of assets
acquired |
(33 | ) | ||
Less: Fair value adjustments |
117 | |||
Excess purchase price over fair value of assets acquired and
liabilities assumed |
$ | 367 | ||
The fair value adjustments included in the preliminary allocation of the purchase price above primarily consisted of:
Amount | ||||
Allocation of purchase price to intangible assets (a) |
$ | 189 | ||
Deferred tax liability for book-tax basis differences |
(39 | ) | ||
Costs associated with exiting activities (b) |
(16 | ) | ||
Other fair value adjustments |
(17 | ) | ||
$ | 117 | |||
(a) | Represents (i) $142 million of indefinite-lived trademarks
associated with the Companys exclusive right to use the ebookers name, (ii) $36 million
of customer relationships with an estimated weighted average life of five years and (iii) $11 million
of other intangible assets with an estimated weighted average life of 10 years. |
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(b) | As part of the acquisition, the Companys management formally
committed to various strategic initiatives primarily aimed at creating synergies between the cost
structures of the Company and ebookers, which will be achieved through the involuntary
termination of certain ebookers employees and the termination of certain lease obligations. The
Company formally communicated the termination of employment to approximately 110 employees,
representing a wide range of employee groups, and as of June 30, 2005, the Company had
terminated approximately half of these employees. As a result of these actions, the Company
established personnel-related and facility-related liabilities of
$8 million each. As of June 30, 2005, cash payments of $2 million have been made
to reduce the personnel-related liability and $1 million of other adjustments were made to
reduce the facility-related liability. Accordingly, as of June 30, 2005, the remaining
balances for the personnel-related liability and the facility-related liability were $6 million
and $7 million, respectively. The Company anticipates the remainder of the
personnel-related costs will be paid in 2005 and the remainder of the lease termination costs
will be paid by 2009. |
The following table summarizes the preliminary estimated fair values of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed in connection with the Companys acquisition of ebookers:
Amount | ||||
Cash |
$ | 82 | ||
Other current assets |
30 | |||
Property and equipment |
24 | |||
Intangible assets |
189 | |||
Goodwill |
367 | |||
Other non-current assets |
15 | |||
Total assets acquired |
707 | |||
Total current liabilities |
162 | |||
Total non-current liabilities |
94 | |||
Total liabilities assumed |
256 | |||
Net assets acquired |
$ | 451 | ||
The goodwill, all of which is expected to be deductible for tax purposes, was assigned to the Companys Travel Distribution Services segment. As previously discussed, the preliminary allocation of the purchase price is subject to revision as analyses are finalized. The Company continues to gather information and consult with third party experts concerning the valuation of its assets acquired and liabilities assumed (including the identified intangible assets and their associated lives). This acquisition was not significant to the Companys results of operations, financial position or cash flows.
Other. During 2005, the Company also acquired 13 real estate brokerage operations through its wholly-owned subsidiary, NRT Incorporated (NRT), for approximately $60 million in cash, which resulted in goodwill (based on the preliminary allocation of the purchase price) of $51 million that was assigned to the Companys Real Estate Services segment. The acquisition of real estate brokerages by NRT is a core part of its growth strategy. In addition, the Company acquired 22 other individually non-significant businesses during 2005 for aggregate consideration of approximately
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$88 million in cash, which resulted in goodwill (based on the preliminary allocation of the purchase price) of $14 million that was assigned to the Companys Travel Distribution Services ($8 million), Hospitality Services ($4 million) and Real Estate Services ($2 million) segments. These acquisitions were not significant to the Companys results of operations, financial position or cash flows.
2004 Acquisition
Orbitz, Inc. On November 12, 2004, the Company acquired Orbitz, Inc. (Orbitz), an online travel company. Management believes that the addition of Orbitz to the Companys portfolio of travel distribution businesses placed the Company in a leading position in the domestic online travel distribution business.
The preliminary allocation of the purchase price as of June 30, 2005 is summarized as follows:
Amount | ||||
Cash consideration |
$ | 1,223 | ||
Fair value of converted options |
1 | |||
Transaction costs and expenses |
35 | |||
Total purchase price |
1,259 | |||
Less: Historical value of assets acquired in excess of liabilities
assumed |
204 | |||
Less: Fair
value adjustments (*) |
423 | |||
Excess purchase price over fair value of assets acquired and
liabilities assumed |
$ | 632 | ||
(*) | Reflects an increase of $92 million from the December 31, 2004
amount. Such change principally relates to greater value assigned to identifiable intangible
assets and property and equipment. |
The fair value adjustments included in the preliminary allocation of the purchase price above primarily consisted of:
Amount | ||||
Allocation
of purchase price to identifiable intangible assets
(a) |
$ | 261 | ||
Deferred tax assets for book-tax basis differences |
465 | |||
Costs
associated with exiting activities (b) |
(15 | ) | ||
Fair value adjustments to: |
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Assets acquired |
35 | |||
Liabilities
assumed (c) |
(323 | ) | ||
$ | 423 | |||
(a) | Represents (i) $209 million of indefinite-lived trademarks
associated with the Companys exclusive right to use the Orbitz name and (ii) $52 million
of customer relationships with a weighted average life of eight years. |
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(b) | As part of the acquisition, the Companys management formally
committed to various strategic initiatives primarily aimed at creating synergies between the cost
structures of the Company and Orbitz, which will be achieved through the involuntary termination
of certain Orbitz employees. The Company formally communicated the termination of employment to
approximately 40 employees, representing a wide range of employee groups, and as of June 30,
2005, the Company had terminated substantially all of these employees. As a result of these
actions, the Company established a liability of $15 million related to personnel-related
costs. As of June 30, 2005, cash payments and other reductions of $13 million and $1 million,
respectively, of which $5 million and $1 million, respectively, was recorded
during the six months ended June 30, 2005, had been made to reduce such liability. As of June 30,
2005, the remaining balance for the personnel-related liability was $1 million. The
Company anticipates the remainder of the personnel-related costs will be paid during 2005. |
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(c) | Primarily represents (i) amounts due to former Orbitz owners
related to a pre-existing tax-sharing agreement for which the Company has determined payment is
probable as a result of its expected utilization of Orbitz tax benefits (prior to Cendants
acquisition, Orbitz had not established a liability for this tax-sharing agreement as it did not
expect to be able to utilize the associated benefits within the statutory periods) and (ii) costs
associated with certain Orbitz contracts containing above-market terms. |
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The following table summarizes the preliminary estimated fair values of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed in connection with the Companys acquisition of Orbitz:
Amount | ||||
Cash |
$ | 160 | ||
Other current assets |
72 | |||
Property and equipment |
58 | |||
Intangible assets |
261 | |||
Goodwill |
632 | |||
Other non-current assets |
513 | |||
Total assets acquired |
1,696 | |||
Total current liabilities |
103 | |||
Total non-current liabilities |
334 | |||
Total liabilities assumed |
437 | |||
Net assets acquired |
$ | 1,259 | ||
The goodwill, all of which is expected to be deductible for tax purposes, was assigned to the Companys Travel Distribution Services segment. As previously discussed, the preliminary allocation of the purchase price is subject to revision as analyses are finalized. The Company continues to gather information and consult with third party experts concerning the valuation of its assets acquired and liabilities assumed (including the identified intangible assets and their associated lives). This acquisition was not significant to the Companys results of operations, financial position or cash flows.
Acquisition
and Integration Related Costs
During the three and six months ended June 30, 2005, the Company incurred acquisition and
integration related costs of $13 million and $27 million, respectively, of which $3 million
and $6 million, respectively, represented amortization of its contractual
pendings and listings intangible assets acquired in connection with the acquisitions of real
estate brokerages. The remaining costs during the three and six months ended June 30, 2005
of $10 million and $21 million, respectively, were incurred principally to combine the
Internet booking technology of the Companys Orbitz, ebookers, Gullivers and Cheap Tickets
businesses into one common platform and to merge certain booking and distribution
functionality within the Companys recently acquired travel distribution businesses.
During the three and six months ended June 30, 2004, the Company incurred acquisition and integration related costs of $6 million and $13 million, respectively, of which $4 million and $8 million, respectively, represented amortization of its contractual pendings and listings intangible assets acquired in connection with the acquisitions of real estate brokerages. The remaining costs during the three and six months ended June 30, 2004 of $2 million and $5 million, respectively, primarily related to the integration of Budgets information technology systems with the Companys platform and the integration of real estate brokerages acquired by NRT.
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5. | Intangible Assets |
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Intangible assets consisted of: |
As of June 30, 2005 | As of December 31, 2004 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Gross | Net | Gross | Net | |||||||||||||||||||||
Carrying | Accumulated | Carrying | Carrying | Accumulated | Carrying | |||||||||||||||||||
Amount | Amortization | Amount | Amount | Amortization | Amount | |||||||||||||||||||
Amortized Intangible Assets (*) |
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Franchise agreements |
$ | 1,138 | $ | 383 | $ | 755 | $ | 1,154 | $ | 366 | $ | 788 | ||||||||||||
Customer lists |
435 | 140 | 295 | 427 | 125 | 302 | ||||||||||||||||||
Customer relationships |
284 | 14 | 270 | 43 | 1 | 42 | ||||||||||||||||||
Below market contracts acquired |
42 | 8 | 34 | 56 | 12 | 44 | ||||||||||||||||||
License agreement |
47 | 3 | 44 | 47 | 2 | 45 | ||||||||||||||||||
Other |
82 | 9 | 73 | 58 | 9 | 49 | ||||||||||||||||||
$ | 2,028 | $ | 557 | $ | 1,471 | $ | 1,785 | $ | 515 | $ | 1,270 | |||||||||||||
Unamortized Intangible Assets (*) |
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Goodwill |
$ | 12,164 | $ | 11,087 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Trademarks |
$ | 1,678 | $ | 1,338 | ||||||||||||||||||||
(*) | The change in the balance at June 30, 2005 principally relates to the
preliminary allocation of the purchase price of Gullivers, ebookers and Orbitz to intangible
assets. The Company continues to gather information and consult with third party experts
concerning the valuation and associated lives of the acquired intangible assets. |
Goodwill | Adjustments | |||||||||||||||||||
Balance at | Acquired | to Goodwill | Foreign | Balance at | ||||||||||||||||
January 1, | during | Acquired | Exchange and | June 30, | ||||||||||||||||
2005 | 2005 | during 2004 | Other | 2005 | ||||||||||||||||
Real Estate Services |
$ | 2,913 | $ | 53 | (a) | $ | | $ | 14 | (f) | $ | 2,980 | ||||||||
Hospitality Services |
1,320 | 4 | (b) | 21 | (d) | (38 | )(g) | 1,307 | ||||||||||||
Timeshare Resorts |
1,305 | | | | 1,305 | |||||||||||||||
Vehicle Rental |
2,132 | | | (3 | )(h) | 2,129 | ||||||||||||||
Travel Distribution Services |
3,353 | 1,259 | (c) | (97 | )(e) | (72 | )(g) | 4,443 | ||||||||||||
Mortgage Services |
64 | | | (64 | )(i) | | ||||||||||||||
Total Company |
$ | 11,087 | $ | 1,316 | $ | (76 | ) | $ | (163 | ) | $ | 12,164 | ||||||||
(a) | Primarily relates to the acquisitions of real estate brokerages by NRT
(January 2005 and forward). |
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(b) | Primarily relates to the acquisition of a vacation rental company
(March 2005). |
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(c) | Primarily relates to the acquisition of ebookers and Gullivers (see
Note 4Acquisitions). |
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(d) | Primarily relates to the acquisitions of Landal GreenParks (May 2004)
and Ramada International, Inc. (December 2004). |
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(e) | Primarily relates to the acquisition of Orbitz (see Note
4Acquisitions). |
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(f) | Primarily relates to earnout payments for acquisitions of real estate
brokerages by NRT and the reallocation to the Real Estate Services segment of goodwill recorded
within the Mortgage Services segment at December 31, 2004 as a result of the spin-off of PHH. |
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(g) | Primarily relates to foreign exchange translation adjustments. |
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(h) | Relates to changes in tax basis of acquired assets. |
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(i) | Represents goodwill of the Companys mortgage business, which was
disposed of on January 31, 2005 (see Note 16Spin-off of PHH Corporation). |
Amortization expense relating to all intangible assets was as follows:
Three Months Ended | Six Months Ended | |||||||||||||||
June 30, | June 30, | |||||||||||||||
2005 | 2004 | 2005 | 2004 | |||||||||||||
Franchise agreements |
$ | 9 | $ | 9 | $ | 18 | $ | 18 | ||||||||
Customer lists |
6 | 6 | 12 | 12 | ||||||||||||
Customer relationships |
9 | | 13 | | ||||||||||||
Below market contracts acquired |
1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||
License agreement |
| 1 | | 1 | ||||||||||||
Other (*) |
3 | 5 | 8 | 10 | ||||||||||||
Total |
$ | 28 | $ | 22 | $ | 53 | $ | 43 | ||||||||
(*) | Includes pendings and listings amortization expense during the three
months ended June 30, 2005 and 2004 of $3 million and $4 million, respectively, and
during the six months ended June 30, 2005 and 2004 of $6 million and $8 million,
respectively. |
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Based on the Companys amortizable intangible assets as of June 30, 2005, the Company expects related amortization expense for the remainder of 2005 and the five succeeding fiscal years to approximate $50 million, $100 million, $90 million, $80 million, $80 million and $70 million, respectively.
6. | Restructuring and Transaction-Related Charges |
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During the three and six months ended June 30, 2005, the Company recorded $2 million
and $51 million, respectively, of restructuring and transaction-related charges, of which
$2 million and $48 million, respectively, were incurred as a result of restructuring
activities undertaken following the PHH spin-off and the IPO of Wright Express and $3 million
relates to transaction costs incurred during the six months ended June 30, 2005 in
connection with the PHH spin-off. |
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Restructuring
Charges During first quarter 2005, the Company committed to various strategic initiatives targeted principally at reducing costs, enhancing organizational efficiency and consolidating and rationalizing existing processes and facilities. The more significant areas of cost reduction include the closure of a call center and field locations of the Companys truck rental business, consolidation of processes and offices in the Companys real estate brokerage business and reductions in staff within the Travel Distribution Services and Hospitality Services segments and the Companys corporate functions. In connection with these initiatives, the Company expects to record total restructuring charges of approximately $51 million, of which $44 million is anticipated to be cash, most of which the Company expects to pay during 2005. The Company recorded restructuring charges of $2 million and $48 million in the three and six months ended June 30, 2005, respectively, and estimates that throughout the remainder of 2005, its Real Estate Services segment will incur additional charges of $2 million representing facility consolidation and employee relocation costs and its Vehicle Rental segment will incur additional charges of $1 million. |
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The initial recognition of the restructuring charge and the corresponding utilization from
inception are summarized by category as follows: |
Personnel | Facility | Asset | ||||||||||||||
Related (a) | Related (b) | Impairments (c) | Total | |||||||||||||
Initial charge |
$ | 37 | $ | 9 | $ | 2 | $ | 48 | ||||||||
Cash payments |
(25 | ) | (2 | ) | | (27 | ) | |||||||||
Other
reductions (d) |
(5 | ) | | (2 | ) | (7 | ) | |||||||||
Balance at June 30, 2005 |
$ | 7 | $ | 7 | $ | | $ | 14 | ||||||||
(a) | The initial charge primarily represents severance benefits resulting from
the reductions in staff. The Company formally communicated the termination of employment to
approximately 930 employees, representing a wide range of employee groups. As of June 30,
2005, the Company had terminated approximately 900 of these employees. |
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(b) | The initial charge principally represents costs incurred in connection
with facility closures and lease obligations resulting from the consolidation of truck rental
operations. |
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(c) | The initial charge principally represents the write-off of leasehold
improvements in connection with lease terminations. |
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(d) | Other reductions to charges recorded for personnel-related costs
represent the accelerated vesting of restricted stock units previously granted to individuals who
were terminated in connection with this restructuring action. Other reductions to liabilities
established for asset impairments principally represent the write-off of leasehold improvements
in connection with lease terminations. |
Total restructuring charges are expected to be recorded as follows:
Cash | Liability | |||||||||||||||
Costs | Payments/ | as of | ||||||||||||||
Expected to | Costs | Other | June 30, | |||||||||||||
be Incurred | Incurred | Reductions | 2005 | |||||||||||||
Real Estate Services |
$ | 7 | $ | 5 | $ | (2 | ) | $ | 3 | |||||||
Hospitality Services |
5 | 5 | (3 | ) | 2 | |||||||||||
Timeshare Resorts |
1 | 1 | (1 | ) | | |||||||||||
Vehicle Rental |
9 | 8 | (2 | ) | 6 | |||||||||||
Travel Distribution Services |
11 | 11 | (8 | ) | 3 | |||||||||||
Corporate and Other |
18 | 18 | (18 | ) | | |||||||||||
$ | 51 | $ | 48 | $ | (34 | ) | $ | 14 | ||||||||
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7. | Vehicle Rental Activities |
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The components of the Companys vehicle-related assets under management programs are as
follows: |
As of | As of | |||||||
June 30, | December 31, | |||||||
2005 | 2004 | |||||||
Rental vehicles |
$ | 9,466 | $ | 6,997 | ||||
Vehicles held for sale |
27 | 49 | ||||||
9,493 | 7,046 | |||||||
Less: Accumulated depreciation |
(853 | ) | (671 | ) | ||||
Total investment in vehicles, net |
8,640 | 6,375 | ||||||
Plus: Investment in Cendant Rental Car Funding (AESOP) LLC |
329 | 349 | ||||||
Plus: Receivables from manufacturers |
182 | 348 | ||||||
Total vehicle-related, net |
$ | 9,151 | $ | 7,072 | ||||
The components of vehicle depreciation, lease charges and interest, net are summarized below:
Three Months Ended | Six Months Ended | |||||||||||||||
June 30, | June 30, | |||||||||||||||
2005 | 2004 | 2005 | 2004 | |||||||||||||
Depreciation expense |
$ | 283 | $ | 222 | $ | 533 | $ | 450 | ||||||||
Interest expense, net |
77 | 66 | 140 | 129 | ||||||||||||
Lease charges |
16 | 13 | 35 | 27 | ||||||||||||
Loss on sales of vehicles, net |
(3 | ) | (17 | ) | (11 | ) | (13 | ) | ||||||||
$ | 373 | $ | 284 | $ | 697 | $ | 593 | |||||||||
8. | Income Taxes |
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The Companys effective tax rate from continuing operations for the six months ended June 30,
2005 is 40.5%. Such rate differs from the Federal statutory rate of 35.0% primarily due to
(i) an increase associated with the non-deductibility of the $180 million valuation
charge associated with the PHH spin-off, (ii) an increase associated with a one-time tax
expense of $36 million associated with the planned repatriation of $569 million of
unremitted foreign earnings and (iii) a decrease associated with a tax benefit of $55 million
related to asset basis differences. |
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The Company expects to utilize its net operating loss carryforwards within the next 12 months
and, therefore, reclassified a substantial portion of its non-current deferred tax
assets to current deferred tax assets during 2005. |
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9. | Accounts Payable and Other Current Liabilities |
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Accounts payable and other current liabilities consisted of: |
As of | As of | |||||||
June 30, | December 31, | |||||||
2005 | 2004 | |||||||
Accounts payable |
$ | 1,345 | $ | 926 | ||||
Income taxes payable |
772 | 612 | ||||||
Accrued payroll and related |
537 | 615 | ||||||
Accrued advertising and marketing |
218 | 195 | ||||||
Accrued legal settlements |
196 | 189 | ||||||
Accrued interest |
122 | 219 | ||||||
Acquisition and integration-related |
112 | 165 | ||||||
Other |
1,119 | 1,088 | ||||||
$ | 4,421 | $ | 4,009 | |||||
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10. | Long-term Debt and Borrowing Arrangements |
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Long-term debt consisted of: |
As of | As of | |||||||||||
Maturity | June 30, | December 31, | ||||||||||
Date | 2005 | 2004 | ||||||||||
6 7/8% notes |
August 2006 | $ | 850 | $ | 850 | |||||||
4.89% notes |
August 2006 | 100 | 100 | |||||||||
61/4% notes |
January 2008 | 798 | 797 | |||||||||
61/4% notes |
March 2010 | 349 | 349 | |||||||||
73/8% notes |
January 2013 | 1,191 | 1,191 | |||||||||
71/8% notes |
March 2015 | 250 | 250 | |||||||||
Revolver borrowings (a) |
November 2009 | 284 | 650 | |||||||||
Commercial paper borrowings (b) |
975 | | ||||||||||
Net hedging gains (c) |
29 | 17 | ||||||||||
Other |
96 | 126 | ||||||||||
Total long-term debt |
4,922 | 4,330 | ||||||||||
Less: Current portion (d) |
1,313 | 739 | ||||||||||
Long-term debt |
$ | 3,609 | $ | 3,591 | ||||||||
(a) | The change in the balance at June 30, 2005 primarily represents
borrowings utilized to fund a portion of the purchase price of
Gullivers, partially offset by a repayment funded with commercial
paper borrowings. |
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(b) | The balance as of June 30, 2005 represents borrowings under the
Companys $1.0 billion commercial paper program, which the
Company commenced on April 1, 2005. The funds from this issuance
were used to refinance a portion of the then outstanding revolver
borrowings at more favorable interest rates. Such borrowings are due
between July 2005 and August 2005 and currently bear interest at a
weighted average rate of 3%. Generally, the Company refinances
maturing borrowings under this program with additional commercial
paper issuances. |
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(c) | As of June 30, 2005, this balance represents $122 million of
net gains resulting from the termination of interest rate hedges,
which will be amortized by the Company to reduce future interest
expense. Such gains are partially offset by $93 million of
mark-to-market adjustments on current interest rate hedges. As of
December 31, 2004, the balance represents $138 million of net
gains resulting from the termination of interest rate hedges,
partially offset by $121 million of mark-to-market adjustments on
current interest rate hedges. |
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(d) | The balance as of June 30, 2005 includes $975 million of
borrowings under the Companys $1.0 billion commercial paper
program and $284 million of borrowings under the Companys $3.5 billion
revolving credit facility. The balance as of December 31,
2004 includes $650 million of borrowings under the
Companys $3.5 billion revolving credit facility. |
Aggregate maturities of debt are as follows:
As of | ||||
June 30, | ||||
2005 | ||||
Within 1 year (*) |
$ | 1,313 | ||
Between 1 and 2 years |
998 | |||
Between 2 and 3 years |
803 | |||
Between 3 and 4 years |
1 | |||
Between 4 and 5 years |
341 | |||
Thereafter |
1,466 | |||
$ | 4,922 | |||
(*) | Includes $975 million of borrowings under the Companys $1.0 billion
commercial paper program and $284 million of borrowings
under the Companys $3.5 billion revolving credit facility, which
matures in 2009, as discussed below, due to the Companys intent to
repay such borrowings prior to June 30, 2006. |
At June 30, 2005, the committed credit facilities and commercial paper program available to the Company at the corporate level were as follows:
Total | Outstanding | Letters of | Available | |||||||||||||
Capacity | Borrowings | Credit Issued | Capacity | |||||||||||||
Revolving credit facility and commercial paper program (a) |
$ | 3,500 | $ | 1,259 | $ | 1,249 | $ | 992 | ||||||||
Letter of credit facility (b) |
303 | | 303 | |
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(a) | Outstanding borrowings include $975 million under the Companys
$1.0 billion commercial paper program, which are due between July
2005 and August 2005, and $284 million under the Companys $3.5 billion
revolving credit facility, which has a final maturity
date of November 2009. The $1.0 billion commercial paper program
is fully supported by the Companys $3.5 billion revolving credit
facility; accordingly, outstanding borrowings thereunder reduce
availability under the $3.5 billion revolving credit facility by
a corresponding amount. In addition to the letters of credit issued
as of June 30, 2005, the revolving credit facility contains the
committed capacity to issue an additional $501 million in letters
of credit. The letters of credit outstanding under this facility at
June 30, 2005 were issued primarily to support the Companys
vehicle rental businesses. |
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(b) | Final maturity date is July 2010. |
As of June 30, 2005, the Company also had $400 million of availability for public debt or equity issuances under a shelf registration statement.
Certain of the Companys debt instruments and credit facilities contain restrictive covenants, including restrictions on indebtedness of material subsidiaries, mergers, limitations on liens, liquidations and sale and leaseback transactions, and also require the maintenance of certain financial ratios. At June 30, 2005, the Company was in compliance with all restrictive and financial covenants. The Companys debt instruments permit the debt issued thereunder to be accelerated upon certain events, including the failure to pay principal when due under any of the Companys other debt instruments or credit facilities subject to materiality thresholds. The Companys credit facilities permit the loans made thereunder to be accelerated upon certain events, including the failure to pay principal when due under any of the Companys debt instruments subject to materiality thresholds.
11. | Debt Under Management Programs and Borrowing Arrangements |
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Debt under management programs (including related party debt due to Cendant Rental Car Funding
(AESOP) LLC) consisted of: |
As of | As of | |||||||
June 30, | December 31, | |||||||
2005 | 2004 | |||||||
Asset-Backed Debt: |
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Vehicle rental program |
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Cendant Rental Car Funding (AESOP) LLC (a) |
$ | 7,697 | $ | 5,935 | ||||
Other (b) |
1,109 | 792 | ||||||
Mortgage program (c) |
| 1,306 | ||||||
Timeshare program |
1,560 | 1,473 | ||||||
Relocation program (d) |
556 | 400 | ||||||
Vacation rental program |
218 | 251 | ||||||
11,140 | 10,157 | |||||||
Unsecured Debt: (e) |
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Term notes |
| 1,833 | ||||||
Commercial paper |
| 130 | ||||||
Other |
| 34 | ||||||
| 1,997 | |||||||
Total debt under management programs |
$ | 11,140 | $ | 12,154 | ||||
(a) | The change in the balance at June 30, 2005 principally reflects
the issuance of fixed and floating rate asset-backed notes at various
interest rates to support the acquisition of vehicles used in the
Companys vehicle rental business. |
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(b) | The change in the balance at June 30, 2005 reflects borrowings
under the Companys truck financing program and its revolving credit
agreements to support the acquisition of vehicles used in the
Companys vehicle rental business. |
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(c) | Represents a borrowing arrangement of the Companys former mortgage
business, which was spun-off with PHH in January 2005. |
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(d) | The change in the balance at June 30, 2005 principally reflects
the issuance of variable funding notes maturing in February 2006 and
additional borrowings under a conduit facility. Such increases were
partially offset by the repayment of various variable funding notes
that matured in first quarter 2005. |
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(e) | The balances at December 31, 2004 represent unsecured borrowings
of the Companys former PHH subsidiary, which was spun-off in January
2005. |
The following table provides the contractual maturities for debt under management programs (including related party debt due to Cendant Rental Car Funding (AESOP) LLP) at June 30, 2005 (except for notes issued under the Companys
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timeshare program where the underlying indentures require payments based on cash inflows relating to the corresponding assets under management programs and for which estimates of repayments have been used):
As of | ||||
June 30, | ||||
2005 | ||||
Within 1 year |
$ | 3,391 | ||
Between 1 and 2 years |
2,979 | |||
Between 2 and 3 years |
1,734 | |||
Between 3 and 4 years |
1,433 | |||
Between 4 and 5 years |
221 | |||
Thereafter |
1,382 | |||
$ | 11,140 | |||
As of June 30, 2005, available funding under the Companys asset-backed debt programs (including related party debt due to Cendant Rental Car Funding (AESOP) LLC related to the Companys management programs) consisted of:
Total | Outstanding | Available | ||||||||||
Capacity (a) | Borrowings | Capacity | ||||||||||
Vehicle rental program |
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Cendant Rental Car Funding (AESOP) LLC (b) |
$ | 8,597 | $ | 7,697 | $ | 900 | ||||||
Other (c) |
1,348 | 1,109 | 239 | |||||||||
Timeshare
program (d) |
1,971 | 1,560 | 411 | |||||||||
Relocation
program (e) |
675 | 556 | 119 | |||||||||
Vacation rental program |
223 | 218 | 5 | |||||||||
$ | 12,814 | $ | 11,140 | $ | 1,674 | |||||||
(a) | Capacity is subject to maintaining sufficient assets to collateralize
debt. |
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(b) | The outstanding debt is collateralized by approximately $8.2 billion
of underlying vehicles (the majority of which are subject to
manufacturer repurchase obligations) and related assets. |
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(c) | The outstanding debt is collateralized by approximately $1.2 billion
of underlying vehicles (the majority of which are subject to
manufacturer repurchase obligations) and related assets. |
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(d) | The outstanding debt is collateralized by approximately $2.7 billion
of timeshare-related assets. Borrowings under the Companys
asset-linked facility ($500 million) are also recourse to Cendant. |
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(e) | The outstanding debt is collateralized by $645 million of
underlying relocation receivables and related assets. |
Certain of the Companys debt instruments and credit facilities related to its management programs contain restrictive covenants, including restrictions on dividends paid to the Company by certain of its subsidiaries and indebtedness of material subsidiaries, mergers, limitations on liens, liquidations, and sale and leaseback transactions, and also require the maintenance of certain financial ratios. At June 30, 2005, the Company was in compliance with all financial covenants of its debt instruments and credit facilities related to management programs.
12. | Commitments and Contingencies |
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The June 1999 disposition of the Companys former fleet businesses was structured as a
tax-free reorganization and, accordingly, no tax provision was recorded on a majority of the
gain. However, pursuant to an interpretive ruling, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has
subsequently taken the position that similarly structured transactions do not qualify as
tax-free reorganizations under the Internal Revenue Code Section 368(a)(1)(A). If upon
final determination, the transaction is not considered a tax-free reorganization, the Company
may have to record a tax charge of up to $270 million, depending upon certain factors. Any
cash payments that would be made in connection with this charge are not expected to be
significant as the treatment of this transaction as taxable would create additional tax
deductions that the Company would use to offset the impact of any cash payment.
Notwithstanding the IRS interpretive ruling and the inherent difficulties in predicting a
final outcome, the Company believes that based upon the facts and analysis of the tax law, it
is more likely than not that its position would be sustained upon litigation of the matter. |
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The Company is involved in litigation asserting claims associated with accounting
irregularities discovered in 1998 at former CUC business units outside of the principal common
stockholder class action litigation. While the Company has an accrued liability of
approximately $65 million recorded on its Consolidated Condensed Balance Sheet as of June 30,
2005 for these claims based upon its best estimates, it does not believe that it is
feasible to predict or determine the final |
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outcome or resolution of these unresolved
proceedings. As such, an adverse outcome from such unresolved proceedings for which claims are
awarded in excess of $65 million could be material with respect to earnings in any given
reporting period. However, the Company does not believe that the impact of such unresolved
proceedings should result in a material liability to the Company in relation to its
consolidated financial position or liquidity. |
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In addition to the matters discussed above, the Company is also involved in claims, legal
proceedings and governmental inquiries related to contract disputes, business practices,
environmental issues and other commercial, employment and tax matters. Such matters include
but are not limited to: (i) various suits brought against the Companys membership
businesses, including its Trilegiant, TRL Group and Marketing Services subsidiaries, by
individual consumers and state regulatory authorities seeking monetary and/or injunctive
relief relating to the marketing of such subsidiaries membership programs and inquiries from
state regulatory authorities related to such programs and (ii) claims by the purchaser of
a business formerly owned by the Companys Avis subsidiary. The Company believes that it has
adequately accrued for such matters as appropriate or, for matters not requiring accrual,
believes that they will not have a material adverse effect on its results of operations,
financial position or cash flows based on information currently available. However, litigation
is inherently unpredictable and, although the Company believes that its accruals are adequate
and/or that it has valid defenses in these matters, unfavorable resolutions could occur, which
could have a material adverse effect on the Companys results of operations or cash flows in a
particular reporting period. |
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The Company has provided certain guarantees to subsidiaries of PHH, which, as previously
discussed, was spun-off during first quarter 2005. These guarantees relate primarily to
various real estate and product operating leases. The maximum potential amount of future
payments that the Company may be required to make under these guarantees is approximately $40 million.
At June 30, 2005, the liability recorded by the Company in connection with
these guarantees was approximately $1 million. To the extent that the Company would be
required to perform under any of these guarantees, PHH has agreed to indemnify the Company. |
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13. | Stockholders Equity |
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Dividend Payments |
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During the six months ended June 30, 2005 and 2004, the Company paid cash dividends of
$0.09 per share each quarter ($192 million in the aggregate) and $0.07 per share
each quarter ($144 million in the aggregate), respectively. |
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Share Repurchases |
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During the six months ended June 30, 2005, the Company used $269 million of available
cash and $191 million of proceeds primarily received in connection with option exercises
to repurchase $460 million (approximately 24.1 million shares) of Cendant common stock
under its common stock repurchase program. During the six months ended June 30, 2004, the
Company used $566 million of available cash and $396 million of proceeds primarily
received in connection with option exercises to repurchase approximately $962 million
(approximately 42.1 million shares) of Cendant common stock under its common stock
repurchase program. The 2004 amount is reflective of the Companys efforts to mitigate the
impact of the February 2004 conversion of its former zero coupon senior convertible contingent
notes. |
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Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income |
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The after-tax components of accumulated other comprehensive income are as follows: |
Unrealized | ||||||||||||||||||||
Unrealized | Gains (Losses) | Minimum | Accumulated | |||||||||||||||||
Currency | Gains (Losses) | on | Pension | Other | ||||||||||||||||
Translation | on Cash Flow | Available-for- | Liability | Comprehensive | ||||||||||||||||
Adjustments | Hedges | Sale Securities | Adjustment | Income (Loss) | ||||||||||||||||
Balance, January 1, 2005 |
$ | 308 | $ | 20 | $ | 16 | $ | (70 | ) | $ | 274 | |||||||||
Effect of PHH spin-off |
(12 | ) | (5 | ) | (1 | ) | 7 | (11 | ) | |||||||||||
Current period change |
(147 | ) | (11 | ) | (14 | ) | (10 | ) | (182 | ) | ||||||||||
Balance, June 30, 2005 |
$ | 149 | $ | 4 | $ | 1 | $ | (73 | ) | $ | 81 | |||||||||
Effective March 31, 2005, the Company no longer considered its investments in certain foreign subsidiaries to be essentially permanent in duration. Accordingly, the Company recorded deferred tax liabilities of approximately $32 million related to the currency translation adjustments of these subsidiaries. Currency translation adjustments of foreign subsidiaries not affected by this change continue to exclude income taxes related to indefinite investments in such foreign subsidiaries. All other components of accumulated other comprehensive income are net of tax.
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14. | Stock-Based Compensation |
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The Company recorded pre-tax stock-based compensation expense of $20 million and $42 million
during the three and six months ended June 30, 2005, respectively, and $9 million
and $15 million during the three and six months ended June 30, 2004,
respectively, related to employee stock awards that were granted or modified subsequent to
December 31, 2002. The expense recorded in the six months ended June 30, 2005 includes
$5 million related to the accelerated vesting of restricted stock units (RSUs) of
individuals who were terminated in connection with the Companys 2005 restructuring
initiatives (See Note 6 Restructuring and Transaction-Related Charges). |
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The activity related to the Companys RSU and stock option plans consisted of: |
Six Months Ended June 30, 2005 | ||||||||||||||||
RSUs | Options | |||||||||||||||
Weighted | ||||||||||||||||
Weighted | Average | |||||||||||||||
Number of | Average | Number | Exercise | |||||||||||||
RSUs | Grant Price | of Options | Price | |||||||||||||
Balance at January 1, 2005 |
16 | $ | 20.85 | 151 | $ | 17.83 | ||||||||||
Granted |
14 | 20.16 | 1 | 20.38 | ||||||||||||
Granted in
connection with the PHH spin-off (a) |
1 | * | 6 | * | ||||||||||||
Exercised |
(3 | ) | 19.02 | (16 | ) | 11.76 | ||||||||||
Canceled |
(3 | ) | 20.80 | (5 | ) | 20.40 | ||||||||||
Balance at June 30, 2005 |
25 | 20.67 | 137 | 17.67 | ||||||||||||
(*) | Not meaningful. |
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(a) | As a result of the spin-off of PHH, the closing price of Cendant
common stock was adjusted downward by $1.10 on January 31, 2005. In
order to provide an equitable adjustment to holders of its RSUs, the
Company granted incremental RSUs to achieve a balance of 1.0477 RSUs
outstanding subsequent to the spin-off for each RSU outstanding prior to
the spin-off. Additionally, the Company granted incremental options to
achieve a balance of 1.04249 options outstanding subsequent to the
spin-off for each option outstanding prior to the spin-off. The exercise
price of each option was also adjusted downward by a proportionate value.
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The following table illustrates the effect on net income and earnings per share for 2004 as if the fair value based method had been applied by the Company to all employee stock awards granted (including those granted prior to January 1, 2003 for which the Company has not recorded compensation expense):
Three Months | Six Months | |||||||
Ended | Ended | |||||||
June 30, | June 30, | |||||||
2004 | 2004 | |||||||
Reported net income |
$ | 691 | $ | 1,132 | ||||
Add back: Stock-based employee compensation expense included in
reported net income, net of tax |
6 | 9 | ||||||
Less: Total stock-based employee compensation expense determined
under the fair value based method for all awards, net of tax |
(6 | ) | (10 | ) | ||||
Pro forma net income |
$ | 691 | $ | 1,131 | ||||
Net income per share: |
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Reported Basic |
$ | 0.68 | $ | 1.11 | ||||
Diluted |
0.66 | 1.07 | ||||||
Pro Forma Basic |
$ | 0.68 | $ | 1.11 | ||||
Diluted |
0.66 | 1.07 |
As of January 1, 2005, the Company records compensation expense for all outstanding employee stock awards; accordingly, pro forma information is not presented for any period subsequent to December 31, 2004.
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15. | Segment Information |
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Management evaluates the operating results of each of its reportable segments based upon
revenue and EBITDA, which is defined as income from continuing operations before non-program
related depreciation and amortization, non-program related interest, amortization of pendings
and listings, income taxes and minority interest. The Companys presentation of EBITDA may not
be comparable to similarly-titled measures used by other companies. Presented below are the
revenue and EBITDA for each of the Companys reportable segments and the reconciliation of
EBITDA to income before income taxes and minority interest. |
Three Months Ended June 30, | ||||||||||||||||
2005 | 2004 | |||||||||||||||
Revenues | EBITDA | Revenues | EBITDA | |||||||||||||
Real Estate Services |
$ | 2,043 | $ | 393 | $ | 1,908 | $ | 383 | ||||||||
Hospitality Services |
367 | 100 | 320 | 120 | ||||||||||||
Timeshare Resorts |
436 | 73 | 381 | 58 | ||||||||||||
Vehicle Rental |
1,224 | 128 | 1,119 | 140 | ||||||||||||
Travel Distribution Services |
661 | 143 | 448 | 118 | ||||||||||||
Mortgage
Services (a) |
| | 217 | 58 | ||||||||||||
Total Reportable Segments |
4,731 | 837 | 4,393 | 877 | ||||||||||||
Corporate
and Other (b) |
4 | (36 | ) | 11 | (39 | ) | ||||||||||
Total Company |
$ | 4,735 | 801 | $ | 4,404 | 838 | ||||||||||
Less: Non-program related depreciation and amortization |
140 | 113 | ||||||||||||||
Non-program related interest expense,
net |
70 | 70 | ||||||||||||||
Early extinguishment of debt |
| 18 | ||||||||||||||
Amortization of pendings and listings |
3 | 4 | ||||||||||||||
Income before income taxes and minority interest |
$ | 588 | $ | 633 | ||||||||||||
Six Months Ended June 30, | ||||||||||||||||
2005 | 2004 | |||||||||||||||
Revenues | EBITDA | Revenues | EBITDA | |||||||||||||
Real Estate Services |
$ | 3,452 | $ | 554 | $ | 3,124 | $ | 515 | ||||||||
Hospitality Services |
762 | 225 | 651 | 246 | ||||||||||||
Timeshare Resorts |
805 | 113 | 731 | 101 | ||||||||||||
Vehicle Rental |
2,312 | 194 | 2,120 | 208 | ||||||||||||
Travel Distribution Services |
1,213 | 272 | 900 | 241 | ||||||||||||
Mortgage
Services (a) |
46 | (181 | ) | 370 | 59 | |||||||||||
Total Reportable Segments |
8,590 | 1,177 | 7,896 | 1,370 | ||||||||||||
Corporate
and Other (b) |
22 | (75 | ) | 47 | (44 | ) | ||||||||||
Total Company |
$ | 8,612 | 1,102 | $ | 7,943 | 1,326 | ||||||||||
Less: Non-program related depreciation and amortization |
276 | 224 | ||||||||||||||
Non-program related interest expense,
net (c) |
53 | 147 | ||||||||||||||
Early extinguishment of debt |
| 18 | ||||||||||||||
Amortization of pendings and listings |
6 | 8 | ||||||||||||||
Income before income taxes and minority interest |
$ | 767 | $ | 929 | ||||||||||||
(a) | Includes the results of operations of the Companys former
mortgage business prior to the spin-off. EBITDA in the six months ended
June 30, 2005 also includes a $180 million non-cash valuation
charge associated with the PHH spin-off (see Note 16Spin-off of PHH
Corporation). |
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(b) | Includes unallocated corporate overhead, the elimination of
transactions between segments and the results of operations of certain
non- strategic businesses. Additionally, the six months ended June 30,
2005 include gains of $18 million on the sale of Homestore, Inc.
common stock and the three and six months ended June 30, 2004
include gains of $8 million and $40 million, respectively, on
the sale of Homestore, Inc. common stock. |
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(c) | The 2005 amount includes the reversal of $73 million of
accrued interest associated with the resolution of amounts due under a
litigation settlement reached in 1999. |
16. | Spin-off of PHH Corporation |
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As previously discussed, on January 31, 2005, the Company completed the spin-off of its
former mortgage, fleet leasing and appraisal businesses in a tax-free distribution to the
Companys stockholders of one share of PHH common stock per every twenty shares of Cendant
common stock held on January 19, 2005. As a result, the Companys total stockholders
equity was reduced by approximately $1.65 billion during first quarter 2005 (see the
Consolidated Condensed Statement of Stockholders Equity). |
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Pursuant to SFAS No. 144, the Company was required to perform an impairment analysis
upon completion of the PHH spin-off. Accordingly, the Company recorded a non-cash impairment
charge of $488 million in first quarter 2005, to reflect the difference between PHHs
carrying value and PHHs initial market value, as determined by the average trading price of
PHH common stock on February 1, 2005. The charge was recorded as a reduction to net income
with an offsetting increase to retained earnings since the impaired assets had been disposed
of on January 31, 2005. Of the $488 million total charge, approximately $180 million
($0.17 per diluted share) was allocated to the mortgage business and, therefore,
recorded within continuing operations. The remaining charge, approximately $308 million
($0.29 per diluted share), was allocated to the fleet leasing and appraisal businesses
and, therefore, recorded within discontinued operations. There were no tax benefits recorded
in connection with these charges as such charges are not tax deductible. |
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Similarly, the Company incurred $7 million of transaction costs during first quarter 2005
associated with the PHH spin-off, of which $3 million was allocated to continuing
operations (which is recorded within the restructuring and transaction-related costs line item
on the Consolidated Condensed Statement of Income within the Mortgage Services segment) and $4 million
was allocated to discontinued operations (which is recorded within the valuation
charge associated with the PHH spin-off line item on the Companys Consolidated Condensed
Statement of Income). There were no tax benefits recorded in connection with these charges as
such charges are not tax deductible. |
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The account balances and activities of the Companys former fleet leasing and appraisal
businesses, as well as the $308 million impairment charge described above and $4 million
of transaction costs also described above, have been presented as discontinued
operations (see Note 2 Discontinued Operations for summary financial data for these
entities). However, as previously discussed, the Companys mortgage business cannot be
classified as a discontinued operation. |
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The Company has also entered into a mortgage origination venture with PHH to continue to
participate in the earnings generated from originating mortgages for customers of its real
estate brokerage and relocation businesses. PHH will manage this venture, which is expected to
commence operations in third quarter 2005. The Companys proportionate share of the ventures
results of operations will be recorded within the Real Estate Services segment. |
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17. | Subsequent Events |
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Declaration of
Dividends On July 19, 2005, the Companys Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.11 per common share payable September 13, 2005 to stockholders of record on August 22, 2005. |
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Sale of Marketing
Services Division On July 26, 2005, the Company announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Marketing Services division to Affinity Acquisition Inc. (Affinity), an affiliate of Apollo Management V, L.P. (Apollo), for approximately $1.83 billion. The consideration consists of approximately $1.7 billion of cash, as well as $125 million face value of newly issued preferred stock of Affinity and warrants that are exercisable into 7.5% of the common equity of Affinity upon the earlier of four years or the achievement by Apollo of certain investment return hurdles. The transaction is subject to certain closing conditions, including Affinitys receipt of financing, receipt of insurance and other regulatory approvals, the absence of a material adverse effect on the Marketing Services division and other customary closing conditions, and is expected to be completed in the fall of 2005. Affinity has obtained equity and debt financing commitments for the transaction, which are subject to customary conditions. |
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Item 2. Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
The following discussion should be read in conjunction with our Consolidated Condensed Financial Statements and accompanying Notes thereto included elsewhere herein and with our 2004 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Commission on March 1, 2005 and our Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on May 5, 2005. Unless otherwise noted, all dollar amounts are in millions.
We are one of the foremost providers of travel and real estate services in the world. We operate our businesses within three divisions: Real Estate, Travel Content and Travel Distribution. Our Real Estate division has two segments: Real Estate Services and Mortgage Services; our Travel Content division has three segments: Hospitality Services, Timeshare Resorts and Vehicle Rental; and our Travel Distribution division has only one segment, Travel Distribution Services. This segment reporting structure was adopted in first quarter 2005 in connection with our strategic realignment, which is discussed in detail below, and now reflects our renewed focus on our travel and real estate services businesses. Following is a brief description of the services provided by each of our operating segments:
l | Real Estate Servicesfranchises the real estate brokerage businesses of our four
residential brands and one commercial brand, provides real estate brokerage services,
facilitates employee relocations and provides home buyers with title and closing
services. |
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l | Hospitality Servicesfacilitates the exchange of vacation ownership interests,
franchises eight lodging brands and markets vacation rental properties. |
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l | Timeshare Resortsdevelops and sells vacation ownership interests, provides
consumer financing to individuals purchasing these interests and manages resort
properties. |
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l | Vehicle Rentaloperates and franchises our car and truck rental brands. |
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l | Travel Distribution Servicesprovides global distribution services for the travel
industry, corporate and consumer online travel services and travel agency services. |
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l | Mortgage Servicesprovided home buyers with mortgage lending services (this
business was disposed of in January 2005see below for further discussion). |
In first quarter 2005, we began the final phase of our strategic realignment, which was commenced in early 2004 and undertaken to simplify our business model through exiting non-core businesses or businesses that produce volatility to our earnings inconsistent with our business model and the remainder of our core businesses. We began this strategic realignment in 2004 by completing the initial public offering of Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Inc., raising approximately $770 million of cash, and acquiring Orbitz, Inc., an online travel company. We completed the spin-off of our former mortgage, fleet leasing and appraisal businesses in a tax-free distribution of the common stock of PHH Corporation to our stockholders in January 2005. In February 2005, we completed an initial public offering of Wright Express Corporation, raising approximately $965 million of cash, and acquired ebookers plc, a travel agency. In March 2005, our Board of Directors formally approved a plan to dispose of our Marketing Services division, which is comprised of our individual membership and loyalty/insurance marketing businesses. We then completed the acquisition of Gullivers Travel Associates, a wholesaler and global online provider of hotel rooms, destination services, travel packages and group tours, in April 2005. In July 2005, we entered into a definitive agreement to sell the Marketing Services division for approximately $1.83 billion (See Note 17 to our Consolidated Condensed Financial Statements). The completion of the sale of the Marketing Services division, which we anticipate will occur during the fall of 2005, will mark the culmination of our strategic realignment.
Our management team remains committed to building long-term value through operational excellence and we are steadfast in our commitment to deploy our cash to increase stockholder value. To this end, the proceeds from the aforementioned divestitures will be or have already been reinvested to acquire strategic assets in our core travel and real estate verticals, as well as to increase our quarterly dividend and to continue to repurchase our common stock, both of which return value to our shareholders.
In the first six months of 2005, we have already used $269 million of cash, net of proceeds from option exercises, to repurchase our common stock and concurrent with the closing of the sale of our Marketing Services division, we intend to increase our repurchase target from $1.0 billion during 2005 to $2.0 billion to be completed by the end of 2006. Through the first six months of 2005, we have made dividend payments aggregating $192 million and for the third quarter of 2005, our Board has declared a quarterly cash dividend of 11 cents per share, which will reflect an increase of 22% from the first and second quarter 2005 amounts and an increase of 57% from the initial dividend payment made in first quarter 2004. While no assurances can be given, we expect to continue to periodically increase our dividend at a rate at least equal to our earnings growth.
In connection with the strategic realignment discussed above, we also performed a comprehensive review of our businesses to isolate opportunities for cost reductions and organizational efficiencies. As a result, we undertook significant restructuring activities during 2005 and incurred charges of $48 million, or $30 million net of tax (see Note 6 to our Consolidated
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Condensed Financial Statements for a detailed description of these activities). We expect to incur additional restructuring charges of $3 million throughout 2005 in connection with these activities.
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
Discussed below are our consolidated results of operations and the results of operations for each of our reportable segments. Generally accepted accounting principles require us to segregate and report as discontinued operations for all periods presented the account balances and activities of Jackson Hewitt, our fleet leasing and appraisal businesses, Wright Express, and our Marketing Services division. Although we no longer own our former mortgage services operations, we cannot classify such business as a discontinued operation due to our participation in a mortgage origination venture that was established with PHH in connection with the spin-off.
Management evaluates the operating results of each of our reportable segments based upon revenue and EBITDA, which is defined as income from continuing operations before non-program related depreciation and amortization, non-program related interest, amortization of pendings and listings, income taxes and minority interest. Our presentation of EBITDA may not be comparable to similarly-titled measures used by other companies.
Three Months Ended June 30, 2005 vs. Three Months Ended June 30, 2004
Our consolidated results of operations comprised the following:
Three Months Ended June 30, | ||||||||||||
2005 | 2004 | Change | ||||||||||
Net revenues |
$ | 4,735 | $ | 4,404 | $ | 331 | ||||||
Total expenses |
4,147 | 3,771 | 376 | |||||||||
Income before income taxes and minority interest |
588 | 633 | (45 | ) | ||||||||
Provision for income taxes |
195 | 212 | (17 | ) | ||||||||
Minority interest, net of tax |
1 | 1 | | |||||||||
Income from continuing operations |
392 | 420 | (28 | ) | ||||||||
Income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of tax |
(9 | ) | 73 | (82 | ) | |||||||
Gain on disposal of discontinued operations, net of tax |
4 | 198 | (194 | ) | ||||||||
Net income |
$ | 387 | $ | 691 | $ | (304 | ) | |||||
Net revenues and total expenses increased $331 million (8%) and $376 million (10%), respectively, in second quarter 2005 as compared with the same period in 2004. Such increases reflect the acquisitions of the following several strategic businesses during or subsequent to second quarter 2004, as well as organic growth and other items discussed below:
Contribution to | Contribution to | |||||||||
Acquired Business | Date of Acquisition | Net Revenues | Total Expenses | |||||||
Orbitz |
November 2004 | $ | 101 | $ | 89 | |||||
Gullivers |
April 2005 | 68 | 62 | |||||||
ebookers |
February 2005 | 33 | 47 | |||||||
Landal GreenParks |
May 2004 | 14 | 14 | |||||||
Real estate brokerages |
* | 55 | 53 | |||||||
$ | 271 | $ | 265 | |||||||
(*) | These businesses were acquired at various dates during or
subsequent to second quarter 2004. |
The remaining revenue increase reflects organic growth (on a comparable basis) across all our segments with the most significant contributions from our Vehicle Rental and Real Estate Services segments. Such growth also contributed to the increase in total expenses primarily to support additional volume, higher vehicle costs and additional marketing investments. Partially offsetting these revenue and expense increases was the absence of $217 million in revenue generated and $167 million in expenses incurred by our former mortgage business during second quarter 2004 (this business was disposed on January 31, 2005). Our effective tax rate for continuing operations was 33.2% and 33.5% for second quarter 2005 and 2004, respectively. As a result of the above-mentioned items, income from continuing operations decreased $28 million (7%).
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Income (loss) from discontinued operations decreased $82 million, which primarily reflects (i) a decrease of $53 million of net income generated by our Marketing Services division primarily due to a $28 million charge recorded during 2005 in connection with a breach of contract claim, (ii) a decrease of $15 million in net income generated by our former fleet leasing and appraisal businesses (since their results were included for second quarter 2004 but not in second quarter 2005) and (iii) a decrease of $14 million in net income generated by Wright Express (since its results were included for second quarter 2004 but not in second quarter 2005). We also recognized a net gain of $198 million on the disposal of Jackson Hewitt Tax Service, Inc. in second quarter 2004. As a result of the above-mentioned items, net income decreased $304 million.
Following is a discussion of the results of each of our reportable segments during second quarter:
Revenues | EBITDA | |||||||||||||||||||||||
% | % | |||||||||||||||||||||||
2005 | 2004 | Change | 2005 | 2004 | Change | |||||||||||||||||||
Real Estate Services |
$ | 2,043 | $ | 1,908 | 7 | % | $ | 393 | $ | 383 | 3 | % | ||||||||||||
Hospitality Services |
367 | 320 | 15 | 100 | 120 | (17 | ) | |||||||||||||||||
Timeshare Resorts |
436 | 381 | 14 | 73 | 58 | 26 | ||||||||||||||||||
Vehicle Rental |
1,224 | 1,119 | 9 | 128 | 140 | (9 | ) | |||||||||||||||||
Travel Distribution Services |
661 | 448 | 48 | 143 | 118 | 21 | ||||||||||||||||||
Mortgage Services |
| 217 | * | | 58 | * | ||||||||||||||||||
Total Reportable Segments |
4,731 | 4,393 | 8 | 837 | 877 | |||||||||||||||||||
Corporate and Other (a) |
4 | 11 | (36 | ) | (39 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||
Total Company |
$ | 4,735 | $ | 4,404 | 8 | 801 | 838 | |||||||||||||||||
Less: Non-program related depreciation and amortization |
140 | 113 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Non-program
related interest expense, net |
70 | 70 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Early
extinguishment of debt |
| 18 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Amortization
of pendings and listings |
3 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Income
before income taxes and minority interest |
$ | 588 | $ | 633 | ||||||||||||||||||||
(*) | Not meaningful. |
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(a) | Includes unallocated corporate overhead, the elimination of
transactions between segments and the results of operations of certain non-strategic businesses.
Additionally, the 2004 amounts include a gain of $8 million on the sale of Homestore, Inc.
common stock. |
Real
Estate Services
Revenues and EBITDA increased $135 million (7%) and $10 million (3%), respectively, in
second quarter 2005 compared with second quarter 2004 reflecting revenue growth across our real
estate franchise, real estate brokerage and relocation services businesses, although EBTIDA
margin comparisons were negatively impacted by a gain on the 2004 sale of non-core assets within
our settlement services business and the timing of marketing campaigns and certain other expenses
at our real estate brokerage business, which are discussed in greater detail below.
Royalty revenue within our real estate franchise business increased $16 million (13%) in second quarter 2005 as compared with second quarter 2004. Such growth was primarily driven by a 14% increase in the average price of homes sold and a 2% increase in the number of homesale transactions from our third-party franchisees. Royalty increases in our real estate franchise business are generally recognized with little or no corresponding increase in variable operating expenses due to the significant operating leverage within the franchise operations. In addition to royalties received from our third-party franchisees, NRT Incorporated, our wholly-owned real estate brokerage firm, continues to pay royalties to our real estate franchise business. However, these intercompany royalties, which approximated $106 million and $100 million during second quarter 2005 and 2004, respectively, are eliminated in consolidation and therefore have no impact on this segments revenues or EBITDA. Our strategy for continued growth in the real estate franchise business is to expand our global franchise base by aggressively marketing our Century 21, Coldwell Banker, Coldwell Banker Commercial, ERA and Sothebys International Realty brands.
Revenues within our real estate brokerage business increased $102 million (7%) in second quarter 2005 as compared with second quarter 2004. Such increase is partially attributable to significant acquisitions made by NRT during or subsequent to second quarter 2004, which together contributed incremental revenues and EBITDA of $55 million and $5 million, respectively, to second quarter 2005 operating results. Excluding the impact of these acquisitions, NRTs revenues increased $47 million (3%) in second quarter 2005 compared with second quarter 2004. This increase was substantially comprised of higher commission income earned on homesale transactions, which was primarily driven by a 13% increase in the average price of homes sold and partially offset by an 8% decline in the number of homesale transactions. The 13% quarter-over-quarter increase in average price is reflective of the supply of, and demand for, homes resulting in an overall increase in the sales prices of homes across the nation. We believe that the reduction in homesale transactions and, in part, the increase in
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price, is reflective of low inventories of homes available for sale in the coastal regions that NRT serves, which experienced unusually high levels of activity in second quarter 2004, and increased competition. EBITDA further reflects an increase of $34 million in commission expenses paid to real estate agents as a result of the incremental revenues earned on homesale transactions, as well as a higher average commission rate paid to real estate agents in second quarter 2005 due to the progressive nature of revenue-based agent commission schedules. Our strategy for continued growth in this business includes strategic acquisitions of real estate brokerages, the continued recruitment and retention of real estate agents and to maintain our commission rates in an increasingly competitive market through the delivery of industry-leading sales support technology and customer service.
NRT has a significant concentration of real estate brokerage offices and transactions in geographic regions where home prices are at the higher end of the U.S. real estate market, particularly the east and west coasts. The real estate franchise business has franchised offices that are more widely dispersed across the United States than our NRT real estate brokerage operations. Accordingly, operating results and homesale statistics may differ between NRT and the real estate franchise business based upon geographic presence and the corresponding homesale activity in each geographic region.
Revenues from our relocation services business increased $21 million (18%) in second quarter 2005 as compared with second quarter 2004, which was primarily driven by $9 million (47%) of higher government homesale revenues and $8 million (17%) of increased referral fees. The increase in government homesale revenues is attributable to increased home values and a higher volume of government home acquisition and closing transactions. The increase in referral fees was due to higher referral rates and transaction volume.
Revenues from our settlement services business decreased $8 million (8%) in second quarter 2005 as compared with second quarter 2004 primarily due to the absence of a $7 million gain recognized in second quarter 2004 as a result of the sale of certain non-core assets by our settlement services business.
EBITDA further reflects an increase of approximately $40 million (3%) in operating, marketing and administrative expenses (apart from NRTs significant acquisitions and real estate agent commission expenses, both of which are discussed separately above) principally resulting from (i) a $12 million increase in staffing and other personnel-related costs incurred within our relocation business to support increases in current and anticipated future volume, (ii) $7 million of higher marketing expenses primarily reflecting changes in seasonal spending patterns and the implementation of certain Internet-based strategic marketing initiatives within our brokerage operations, (iii) a $7 million increase in government homesale direct expenses incurred within our relocation services business primarily in connection with higher volume, (iv) $6 million of incremental incentive expenses at our real estate brokerage operations due to an anticipated increase in year-over-year profitability and (v) $1 million of expenses resulting from restructuring actions at our settlement services and real estate brokerage businesses.
Hospitality
Services
Revenues increased $47 million (15%), while EBITDA declined $20 million (17%), in second
quarter 2005 compared with second quarter 2004. Key revenue drivers increased across all our
Hospitality Services businesses reflecting positive industry-wide dynamics but the
period-over-period EBITDA comparison was negatively impacted by the absence of a settlement
recorded in second quarter 2004 related to a lodging franchisee receivable, as well as increased
marketing-related expenses across all our Hospitality Services businesses and the timing of
acquisitions in our vacation rental business, all of which are discussed in greater detail below.
Subscriber related revenues within our RCI timeshare exchange business increased $11 million (8%) during second quarter 2005 primarily due to a $6 million (6%) increase in exchange and subscription fee revenues and a $5 million (19%) increase in other timeshare points and rental transaction revenues. The increase in exchange and subscription fee revenues in second quarter 2005 was primarily driven by a 5% increase in the average number of worldwide subscribers and a 9% increase in the average exchange fee, partially offset by a 3% reduction in exchange transaction volume. Revenue trends reflect the continued shift in the RCI timeshare membership base toward a greater mix of points members from traditional one-week timeshare members. The increase in other timeshare points and rental transaction revenues during second quarter 2005 was principally driven by a 29% increase in points and rental transaction volume, partially offset by a 10% decrease in the average price per rental transaction. Other timeshare points transactions are those executed by points members for other than a standard, one-week stay at an RCI timeshare property. Timeshare rental transactions are rentals of unused timeshare inventory to RCI members and non-members.
Royalty, marketing and reservation fund revenues within our lodging franchise operations increased $6 million (6%) in second quarter 2005 partially due to our purchase of the exclusive rights to the Ramada International trademark in December 2004, which contributed $4 million of incremental revenues to second quarter 2005 results. The Ramada International properties also added approximately 26,000 rooms, which is approximately 5% of the total weighted average rooms available within our lodging franchise system. Apart from this acquisition, royalty, marketing and reservation fund revenues increased $2 million (2%) primarily resulting from a 7% increase in revenue per available room (RevPAR), partially offset by a 5% decrease in weighted average rooms available. The RevPAR increase reflects (i) increases in both price and occupancy principally
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attributable to an overall improvement in the economy lodging segment in which our hotel brands primarily operate, (ii) the termination of underperforming properties throughout 2004 that did not meet our required quality standards or their financial obligations to us and (iii) the strategic assignment of personnel to field locations designed to assist franchisees in improving their hotel operating performance. The decrease in weighted average rooms available reflects our termination of underperforming properties, as discussed above, and the timing of new additions and terminations to our franchise system. Additionally, our Trip Rewards loyalty program contributed $3 million of incremental revenue during second quarter 2005.
We acquired Landal GreenParks and Canvas Holidays Limited, which are both European vacation rental businesses, in May 2004 and October 2004, respectively. The operating results of Landal have been included in our results for the entire second quarter of 2005 but only for two months during second quarter 2004. The operating results of Canvas have been included in our results for the entire second quarter 2005 but for none of second quarter 2004. Accordingly, Landal and Canvas contributed incremental revenues of $14 million and $5 million, respectively, (with no incremental contributions to EBITDA) during second quarter 2005. The operations of Landal and Canvas are seasonally weakest in the first half of each calendar year and begin to improve moderately toward the latter part of the second quarter and more significantly into third quarter. Apart from these acquisitions, revenues at our European vacation rental companies increased $4 million (6%) primarily as a result of a 4% increase in cottage weeks sold, which partially reflects a shift in booking volumes from first quarter into the latter half of second quarter. European consumers appear to be booking their vacations closer to their eventual departure dates, which are heavily concentrated during the latter half of the second quarter and throughout the third quarter of each year, corresponding to the peak vacation season. As a result, we expect a greater volume of bookings during third quarter 2005 as compared with third quarter 2004.
EBITDA further reflects an increase of approximately $45 million (24%) in operating, marketing and administrative expenses (excluding the incremental expenses generated by Landal and Canvas Holidays) principally resulting from (i) $18 million of higher quarter-over-quarter bad debt expense primarily due to the absence of a $15 million settlement recorded in second quarter 2004 related to a lodging franchisee receivable, (ii) $11 million of increased marketing-related expenses across all our Hospitality Services businesses primarily to encourage bookings within our vacation rental business and to increase brand recognition within our lodging franchise business, (iii) $5 million of increased volume-related costs within our timeshare exchange and vacation rental businesses and (iv) $3 million of additional costs resulting from infrastructure expansion to support acquisition growth.
Timeshare
Resorts
Revenues and EBITDA increased $55 million (14%) and $15 million (26%), respectively, in
second quarter 2005 compared with second quarter 2004. The operating results reflect organic
growth in timeshare sales, a gain on the sale of land and increased consumer finance income.
Net sales of vacation ownership interests (VOIs) at our timeshare resorts business increased $33 million (10%) in second quarter 2005 principally driven by a 10% increase in tour flow and a 2% increase in revenue per guest. Tour flow, as well as revenue per guest, benefited in second quarter 2005 from our expanded presence in premium destinations such as Hawaii, Las Vegas and Orlando. Tour flow was also positively impacted by the opening of new sales offices, our strategic focus on new marketing alliances and increased local marketing efforts.
Revenues and EBITDA also increased $14 million and $15 million, respectively, in second quarter 2005 as a result of incremental net interest income earned on our contract receivables primarily due to growth in the portfolio and reduced net borrowing costs. Revenue and EBITDA comparisons were further impacted by $11 million of income recorded in second quarter 2005 in connection with the disposal of a parcel of land that was no longer consistent with our development plans.
EBITDA further reflects an increase of approximately $40 million (13%) in operating, marketing and administrative expenses primarily resulting from (i) $12 million of increased cost of sales and $10 million of additional commission expense, both of which are primarily associated with increased VOI sales, (ii) $11 million of additional costs incurred to fund additional staffing needs to support continued growth in the business, improve existing properties and integrate the Trendwest and Fairfield contract servicing systems and (iii) $5 million of incremental marketing spend to support sales efforts and anticipated growth in the business.
Vehicle
Rental
Revenues increased $105 million (9%), while EBITDA decreased $12 million (9%), in second
quarter 2005 compared with second quarter 2004. We experienced strong demand for vehicle rentals
throughout the quarter and expect rental volumes to continue to grow in the foreseeable future,
while EBITDA margin comparisons were negatively impacted by lower domestic rental car pricing and
comparatively higher fleet costs.
Revenues generated by our domestic car rental operations increased $69 million (8%) during second quarter 2005, which was comprised of a $56 million (7%) increase in car rental time and mileage (T&M) revenue and a $13 million (12%) increase
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in ancillary revenues. The increase in domestic T&M revenues was principally driven by a 14% increase in the number of days a car was rented, partially offset by a 6% decrease in T&M revenue per day. The increase in rental days and the reduction in pricing reflects, in part, our strategic decision to reposition the Budget car rental brand by reducing the cost structure and pricing to be more competitive with other leisure-focused car rental brands. In addition, pricing at our car rental brands was negatively impacted by competitive conditions in the domestic car rental industry resulting from higher industry-wide fleet levels, which we believe were caused by enhanced incentives offered by car manufacturers in prior periods. EBITDA also reflects an increase of $56 million in fleet depreciation and related costs primarily due to (i) an increase of 13% in the average size of our domestic rental fleet and (ii) reductions to manufacturer incentives received on our 2005 model year inventory (which was in utilization during second quarter 2005) as compared with those received on our 2004 model year inventory (which was in utilization during second quarter 2004). The $13 million increase in ancillary revenues was due primarily to a $7 million increase in counter sales of insurance and other items and a $5 million increase in gasoline revenues. EBITDA from our domestic car rental operations was also negatively impacted by (i) $19 million of additional expenses primarily associated with increased car rental volume, including vehicle maintenance and damage costs, vehicle license and registration fees, airport commissions and shuttling costs and (ii) $7 million of increased expenses associated with higher gasoline costs and a lower profit margin on the sale of gasoline.
Revenues generated by our international car rental operations increased $28 million (26%) primarily due to a $21 million (24%) increase in car rental T&M revenue and a $7 million (33%) increase in ancillary revenues. The increase in T&M revenues was principally driven by a 17% increase in the number of days a car was rented and a 7% increase in T&M revenue per day. The favorable effect of incremental T&M revenues was partially offset in EBITDA by $13 million of increased vehicle depreciation and related costs and $16 million of higher operating expenses, both principally resulting from increased car rental volume and an increase of 20% in the average size of our international rental fleet to support such volume. The increase in revenue generated by our international car rental operations includes the effect of favorable foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations of $10 million, which was principally offset in EBITDA by the opposite impact of foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations on expenses.
We are currently negotiating the purchase of our 2006 model year inventory and, based upon preliminary discussions, expect to incur increased fleet depreciation costs throughout the remainder of 2005 and 2006. Accordingly, our ability to maintain profit margins consistent with prior periods will be dependent on our ability to obtain more favorable customer pricing in response to increases in fleet costs. We implemented such a pricing program during third quarter 2005.
Budget truck rental revenues increased $8 million (6%) in second quarter 2005 primarily representing a $6 million (5%) increase in T&M revenue, which reflects a 6% increase in T&M per day. The favorable impact on EBITDA of increased T&M revenue was principally offset by $10 million of incremental vehicle depreciation and related costs resulting from a 14% increase in the average size of our truck rental fleet in anticipation of increased demand.
Travel
Distribution Services
Revenues and EBITDA increased $213 million (48%) and $25 million (21%), respectively, in
second quarter 2005 compared with second quarter 2004, reflecting the inclusion of revenues and
expenses from recent acquisitions as well as integration costs associated with those
acquisitions. Subsequent to second quarter 2004, we completed the acquisitions of Orbitz
(November 2004), Gullivers (April 2005) and ebookers (February 2005). The operating results of
these companies have been included in our results from their respective acquisition dates forward
and therefore were incremental to our results during second quarter 2005. Accordingly, Orbitz,
Gullivers and ebookers contributed incremental revenues of $101 million, $68 million and
$33 million, respectively, and EBITDA earnings (losses) of $22 million, $13 million
and ($10) million, respectively. EBITDA for second quarter 2005 also includes $8 million
of acquisition and integration related costs, the majority of which are reflected in the EBITDA
results of such acquired businesses. In addition, effective January 1, 2005, we transferred
our membership travel business to the discontinued Marketing Services segment. As a result,
revenue and EBITDA of $16 million and $4 million, respectively, generated by such
operations in second quarter 2004 were absent from this segments results in second quarter 2005.
Apart from these acquisitions and the transfer of the membership travel business, revenue and
EBITDA increased $27 million (6%) and $4 million (4%), respectively.
Our strategic focus has been to grow our business and enhance profitability by further penetrating corporate and consumer online channels, which we are accomplishing, in part, through our recent strategic acquisitions and ongoing integration efforts. We believe that combining our existing travel businesses with the acquisitions of Orbitz, Gullivers and ebookers will strengthen our position as a global travel intermediary. We have expanded our operations within the travel industry such that in addition to our role as an order taker, or transaction processor, primarily serving offline travel agencies via their use of our Galileo branded electronic global distribution system (GDS) services, we have also grown our presence as an order maker, or transaction generator, where we directly serve the end customer.
To execute our strategy, we will continue to integrate our businesses. We have already completed the migration of Cheaptickets.com and Orbitz to a common technology platform and have made progress in developing the migration plans for
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the ebookers platform. We are also merging certain booking and distribution functionality within our ebookers, Gullivers and our Travel 2/Travel 4 brands. In the United States, we will continue to promote the Orbitz, Cheap Tickets and Travelport businesses as differentiated travel brands in the leisure and corporate travel sectors. With the recent acquisitions of Orbitz, ebookers and Gullivers, we expect our integration efforts to continue through 2006, with the most significant cost savings synergies to be recognized beginning in early 2006.
Galileo, our order taker subsidiary that provides GDS services to the travel industry, experienced an overall $13 million (4%) increase in worldwide air booking fees in second quarter 2005. Such increase was comprised of a $17 million (8%) increase in international air booking fees, partially offset by a $4 million (5%) decrease in domestic air booking fees. The increase in international air booking fees was principally driven by 6% higher booking volumes, which totaled 46.1 million segments in second quarter 2005 and which primarily resulted from an increase in travel demand within the Middle East and Asia/Pacific regions. The $4 million decrease in domestic air booking fees was driven by a 9% decline in the effective yield on such bookings, partially offset by a 5% increase in booking volumes, which totaled 22.5 million segments in second quarter 2005. The domestic volume increase and effective yield decline are consistent with our pricing program with major U.S. carriers, which was designed to gain access to all public fares made available by the participating airlines. International air bookings represented approximately two-thirds of our total air bookings during second quarter 2005. Additionally, revenue at our Galileo subsidiary was further impacted by an $8 million reduction in subscriber fees resulting from fewer travel agencies leasing computer equipment from us during second quarter 2005 compared with second quarter 2004, which was substantially offset by $8 million of additional ancillary revenue, including higher fees earned on outsourcing arrangements where we provide technology services for certain airline carriers.
Revenues generated from our online order maker related businesses grew $14 million (40%) organically (excluding the impact of the aforementioned acquisitions) in second quarter 2005 compared with second quarter 2004 principally driven by a 47% increase in online gross bookings substantially at our CheapTickets.com website. The growth in online gross bookings was attributable to (i) improved site functionality resulting in greater conversion rates, (ii) enhanced content including additional online hotel offerings and (iii) more visitors resulting from increased marketing efforts.
EBITDA further reflects an increase of approximately $25 million in expenses (excluding the impact of the aforementioned acquisitions and the transfer of the membership travel business) principally resulting from (i) the absence in second quarter 2005 of a $10 million expense reduction realized in second quarter 2004 in connection with a benefit plan amendment, (ii) $8 million of additional expenses associated with developing enhanced technology and other project initiatives, (iii) $5 million of higher commission expenses attributable to higher booking volumes in the Middle East and Asia/Pacific regions and (iv) $1 million of restructuring changes incurred during second quarter 2005 as a result of actions taken to reduce staff levels in some of our order-taker related businesses and the realignment of our global sales force.
Mortgage
Services
Revenues and EBITDA decreased $217 million and $58 million, respectively, in second
quarter 2005 compared with the same period in 2004 due to the disposition of this business in
January 2005 in connection with our spin-off of PHH.
SIX MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 2005 VS. SIX MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 2004
Our consolidated results of operations comprised the following:
Six Months Ended June 30, | ||||||||||||
2005 | 2004 | Change | ||||||||||
Net revenues |
$ | 8,612 | $ | 7,943 | $ | 669 | ||||||
Total expenses |
7,845 | 7,014 | 831 | |||||||||
Income before income taxes and minority interest |
767 | 929 | (162 | ) | ||||||||
Provision for income taxes |
311 | 303 | 8 | |||||||||
Minority interest, net of tax |
2 | 6 | (4 | ) | ||||||||
Income from continuing operations |
454 | 620 | (166 | ) | ||||||||
Income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of tax |
(15 | ) | 314 | (329 | ) | |||||||
Gain (loss) on disposal of discontinued operations, net of tax: |
||||||||||||
PHH valuation and transaction-related charges |
(312 | ) | | (312 | ) | |||||||
Gain on disposal |
179 | 198 | (19 | ) | ||||||||
Net income |
$ | 306 | $ | 1,132 | $ | (826 | ) | |||||
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Net revenues and total expenses increased $669 million (8%) and $831 million (12%), respectively, in the six months ended June 30, 2005 as compared with the same period in 2004. Such increases reflect the acquisitions of the following several strategic businesses subsequent to January 1, 2004, as well as organic growth and other items, including a non-cash valuation charge related to the PHH spin-off, discussed below:
Date of | Contribution to | Contribution to | ||||||||
Acquired Business | Acquisition | Net Revenues | Total Expenses | |||||||
Orbitz |
November 2004 | $ | 196 | $ | 176 | |||||
Gullivers |
April 2005 | 68 | 62 | |||||||
ebookers |
February 2005 | 41 | 65 | |||||||
Landal GreenParks |
May 2004 | 44 | 51 | |||||||
Real estate brokerages |
* | 113 | 110 | |||||||
$ | 462 | $ | 464 | |||||||
(*) | These businesses were acquired at various dates during or
subsequent to the six months ended June 30, 2004. |
The remaining revenue increase reflects organic growth (on a comparable basis) across all our segments with the most significant contributions from our Vehicle Rental and Real Estate Services segments. Such growth also contributed to the increase in total expenses primarily to support additional volume, higher vehicle costs and additional marketing investments. Partially offsetting these revenue and expense increases was the absence of five months of revenues generated and expenses incurred by our former mortgage business, which was disposed on January 31, 2005. Our former mortgage business contributed $326 million and $274 million of revenues and expenses during the period February 1, 2004 through June 30, 2004. The increase in total expenses also reflects the following transaction-related charges recorded during 2005: (i) a $180 million non-cash impairment charge relating to the PHH spin-off and (ii) charges aggregating $51 million primarily relating to restructuring activities undertaken following the PHH spin-off and initial public offering of Wright Express. Partially offsetting these charges is a $112 million decrease in interest expense primarily relating to the reversal of $73 million of accrued interest associated with the resolution of amounts due under a litigation settlement reached in 1999, as well as an overall reduction in our average outstanding indebtedness period-over-period and debt extinguishment costs incurred in 2004. Our effective tax rate for continuing operations was 40.5% and 32.6% for the six months ended June 30, 2005 and 2004, respectively. The change in the effective tax rate for 2005 was primarily due to the non-deductibility of the valuation charge associated with the PHH spin-off and a one-time tax expense associated with the planned repatriation of foreign earnings, which was partially offset by a tax benefit related to asset basis differences. As a result of the above-mentioned items, income from continuing operations decreased $166 million (27%).
Income (loss) from discontinued operations decreased $329 million, which primarily reflects (i) $64 million in net income generated by Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Inc. prior to its disposition, (ii) a decrease of $50 million in net income generated by our former fleet leasing and appraisal businesses (since their results were included for six months in 2004 but only one month in 2005 and due to a $24 million tax-related charge recorded in 2005), (iii) a decrease of $29 million in net income generated by Wright Express (since its results were included for six months in 2004 but only through February 22, 2005 in 2005), and (iv) a decrease of $186 million in net income generated by our Marketing Services division, which principally reflects the reversal of a tax valuation allowance of $121 million in January 2004 and a $28 million charge recorded during 2005 in connection with a breach of contract claim. We also incurred a net loss on the disposal of discontinued operations of $133 million in 2005, which includes a $308 million non-cash impairment charge and $4 million of transaction costs relating to the PHH spin-off, partially offset by a net gain of $179 million recognized in connection with the IPO of Wright Express. As a result of the above-mentioned items, net income decreased $826 million.
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Following is a discussion of the results of each of our reportable segments during the six months ended June 30:
Revenues | EBITDA | |||||||||||||||||||||||
% | % | |||||||||||||||||||||||
2005 | 2004 | Change | 2005 | 2004 | Change | |||||||||||||||||||
Real Estate Services |
$ | 3,452 | $ | 3,124 | 10 | % | $ | 554 | $ | 515 | 8 | % | ||||||||||||
Hospitality Services |
762 | 651 | 17 | 225 | 246 | (9 | ) | |||||||||||||||||
Timeshare Resorts |
805 | 731 | 10 | 113 | 101 | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
Vehicle Rental |
2,312 | 2,120 | 9 | 194 | 208 | (7 | ) | |||||||||||||||||
Travel Distribution Services |
1,213 | 900 | 35 | 272 | 241 | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||
Mortgage Services |
46 | 370 | * | (181 | ) | 59 | * | |||||||||||||||||
Total Reportable Segments |
8,590 | 7,896 | 9 | 1,177 | 1,370 | |||||||||||||||||||
Corporate and Other (a) |
22 | 47 | (75 | ) | (44 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||
Total Company |
$ | 8,612 | $ | 7,943 | 8 | 1,102 | 1,326 | |||||||||||||||||
Less: Non-program related depreciation and amortization |
276 | 224 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Non-program
related interest expense, net |
53 | 147 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Early
extinguishment of debt |
| 18 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Amortization
of pendings and listings |
6 | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Income
before income taxes and minority interest |
$ | 767 | $ | 929 | ||||||||||||||||||||
* | Not meaningful. |
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(a) | Includes unallocated corporate overhead, the elimination of transactions between segments and
the results of operations of certain non-strategic businesses. Additionally, the six months ended
June 30, 2005 and 2004 include gains of $18 million and $40 million, respectively, on
the sale of Homestore, Inc. common stock. |
Real
Estate Services
Revenues and EBITDA increased $328 million (10%) and $39 million (8%), respectively, in
the six months ended June 30, 2005 compared with the same period in 2004 reflecting growth
across our real estate franchise, real estate brokerage and relocation services businesses.
Royalty revenue within our real estate franchise business increased $41 million (20%) in the six months ended June 30, 2005 as compared with the same period in 2004. Such growth was primarily driven by a 14% increase in the average price of homes sold and a 7% increase in the number of homesale transactions from our third-party franchisees. Royalty increases in our real estate franchise business are generally recognized with little or no corresponding increase in variable operating expenses due to the significant operating leverage within the franchise operations. In addition to royalties received from our third-party franchisees, NRT Incorporated, our wholly-owned real estate brokerage firm, continues to pay royalties to our real estate franchise business. However, these intercompany royalties, which approximated $179 million and $163 million during the six months ended June 30, 2005 and 2004, respectively, are eliminated in consolidation and therefore have no impact on this segments revenues or EBITDA.
Revenues within our real estate brokerage business increased $263 million (11%) in the six months ended June 30, 2005 as compared with the same period in 2004. Such increase is partially attributable to significant acquisitions made by NRT during or subsequent to the six months ended June 30, 2004 which together contributed incremental revenues and EBITDA of $113 million and $9 million, respectively, to 2005 operating results. Excluding the impact of these acquisitions, NRTs revenues increased $150 million (6%). This increase was substantially comprised of higher commission income earned on homesale transactions, which was primarily driven by a 16% increase in the average price of homes sold and partially offset by a 7% decline in the number of homesale transactions. The 16% period-over-period increase in average price is reflective of the supply of, and demand for, homes resulting in an overall increase in the sales prices of homes across the nation. We believe that the reduction in homesale transactions and, in part, the increase in price, is reflective of low inventories of homes available for sale in the coastal regions that NRT serves, which experienced unusually high levels of activity in 2004, and increased competition. EBITDA further reflects an increase of $109 million in commission expenses paid to real estate agents as a result of the incremental revenues earned on homesale transactions, as well as a higher average commission rate paid to real estate agents in 2005 due to the progressive nature of revenue-based agent commission schedules.
Revenues from our relocation services business increased $21 million (9%) in the six months ended June 30, 2005 as compared with the same period in 2004, which was primarily driven by $14 million (18%) of increased referral fees and a $7 million increase in other service fees. The increase in referral fees was driven by higher referral rates and transaction volume.
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Revenues from our settlement services business decreased $2 million (2%) in the six months ended June 30, 2005 as compared with the same period in 2004 primarily due to the absence of a $7 million gain recognized in second quarter 2004 as a result of the sale of certain non-core assets by our settlement services business, partially offset by $5 million of increased title and closing fees generated on a higher volume of homesale transactions period-over-period.
EBITDA further reflects an increase of approximately $75 million (3%) in operating, marketing and administrative expenses (apart from NRTs significant acquisitions and real estate agent commission expenses, both of which are discussed separately above) principally resulting from (i) an $18 million increase in staffing and other personnel-related costs incurred within our relocation business to support increases in current and anticipated future volume, (ii) $17 million of higher marketing expenses primarily reflecting changes in seasonal spending patterns and the implementation of certain Internet-based strategic marketing initiatives within our real estate brokerage and franchise businesses, (iii) $13 million of incremental incentive expenses at our real estate brokerage operations due to an anticipated increase in year-over-year profitability, (iv) $5 million of costs at our settlement services business related to developing and enhancing certain infrastructures that were previously maintained at, and leveraged from, our former mortgage business and (v) $5 million of expenses resulting from restructuring actions primarily at our settlement services and real estate brokerage businesses.
Hospitality
Services
Revenues increased $111 million (17%), while EBITDA declined $21 million (9%), in the six
months ended June 30, 2005 compared with the same period in 2004. Key revenue drivers
increased at our timeshare exchange and lodging franchise businesses reflecting positive
industry-wide dynamics but the period-over-period EBITDA comparison was negatively impacted by
the absence of a settlement recorded in the six months ended June 30, 2004 related to a
lodging franchisee receivable, as well as increased marketing-related expenses across all our
Hospitality Services businesses and the timing of acquisitions in our vacation rental business,
all of which are discussed in greater detail below.
Subscriber related revenues within our RCI timeshare exchange business increased $20 million (7%) in the six months ended June 30, 2005 primarily due to an $11 million (5%) increase in exchange and subscription fee revenues and an $11 million (19%) increase in other timeshare points and rental transaction revenues. The increase in exchange and subscription fee revenues in the six months ended June 30, 2005 was primarily driven by a 5% increase in the average number of worldwide subscribers and a 9% increase in the average exchange fee, partially offset by a 4% reduction in exchange transaction volume. Revenue trends reflect the continued shift in the RCI timeshare membership base toward a greater mix of points members from traditional one-week timeshare members. The increase in other timeshare points and rental transaction revenues during the six months ended June 30, 2005 was principally driven by a 22% increase in points and rental transaction volume, partially offset by a 4% decrease in the average price per rental transaction.
Royalty, marketing and reservation fund revenues within our lodging franchise operations increased $13 million (8%) in the six months ended June 30, 2005 partially due to our purchase of the exclusive rights to the Ramada International trademark in December 2004, which contributed $7 million of incremental revenues to the six months ended June 30, 2005 results. The Ramada International properties also added approximately 26,000 rooms, which is approximately 5% of the total weighted average rooms available within our lodging franchise system for the six months ended June 30, 2005. Apart from this acquisition, royalty, marketing and reservation fund revenues increased $6 million (4%) primarily resulting from an 8% increase in RevPAR, partially offset by a 4% decrease in weighted average rooms available. The RevPAR increase reflects (i) increases in both price and occupancy principally attributable to an overall improvement in the economy lodging segment in which our hotel brands primarily operate, (ii) the termination of underperforming properties throughout 2004 that did not meet our required quality standards or their financial obligations to us and (iii) the strategic assignment of personnel to field locations designed to assist franchisees in improving their hotel operating performance. The decrease in weighted average rooms available reflects our termination of underperforming properties, as discussed above, and the timing of new additions and terminations to our franchise system. Revenue and EBITDA also benefited from a $7 million gain recognized on the sale of an investment within our lodging business during the six months ended June 30, 2005. Additionally, our Trip Rewards loyalty program contributed $6 million of incremental revenue during the six months ended June 30, 2005.
We acquired Landal GreenParks and Canvas Holidays Limited, which are both European vacation rental businesses, in May 2004 and October 2004, respectively. The operating results of Landal have been included in our results for the entire six months ended June 30, 2005 but only for two months during the same period in 2004. The operating results of Canvas have been included in our results for the entire six months ended June 30, 2005 but for none of the six months ended June 30, 2004. Accordingly, Landal and Canvas contributed incremental revenues of $44 million and $15 million, respectively, and EBITDA of ($5) million and $2 million, respectively, during the six months ended June 30, 2005. The operations of Landal and Canvas are seasonally weakest in the first half of each calendar year and begin to improve moderately toward the latter part of the second quarter and more significantly into third quarter. Apart from these acquisitions, revenues at our European vacation rental companies were relatively flat. European consumers appear to be booking their vacations closer to their eventual departure dates, which are heavily concentrated during the latter half of the second quarter and throughout the third quarter of
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each year, corresponding to the peak vacation season. As a result, we expect a greater volume of bookings during third quarter 2005 as compared with third quarter 2004.
EBITDA further reflects an increase of approximately $70 million (17%) in operating, marketing and administrative expenses (excluding the incremental expenses generated by the Landal and Canvas Holidays acquisitions) principally resulting from (i) $18 million of higher year-over-year bad debt expense primarily due to the absence of a $15 million settlement recorded in the six months ended June 30, 2004 related to a lodging franchisee receivable, (ii) $20 million of increased marketing-related expenses across all our Hospitality Services businesses primarily to encourage bookings within our vacation rental business and to increase brand recognition within our lodging franchise business, (iii) $6 million of increased volume-related costs within our timeshare exchange and vacation rental businesses, (iv) $5 million of restructuring costs incurred as a result of the consolidation of certain call centers and back-office functions and (v) $5 million of additional costs resulting from infrastructure expansion to support acquisition growth.
Timeshare
Resorts
Revenues and EBITDA increased $74 million (10%) and $12 million (12%), respectively, in
the six months ended June 30, 2005 compared with the same period in 2004. The operating
results reflect organic growth in timeshare sales, a gain on the sale of land and increased
consumer finance income.
Net sales of VOIs at our timeshare resorts business increased $40 million (7%) in the six months ended June 30, 2005, principally driven by a 9% increase in tour flow and a 3% increase in revenue per guest. This revenue increase was partially offset by a $14 million decrease in higher margin upgrade sales at our Trendwest resort properties due to special upgrade promotions conducted in the first half of 2004 undertaken to mitigate the negative impact on tour flow from the Do Not Call legislation. Tour flow, as well as revenue per guest, benefited in the six months ended June 30, 2005 from our expanded presence in premium destinations such as Hawaii, Las Vegas and Orlando. Tour flow was also positively impacted by the opening of new sales offices, our strategic focus on new marketing alliances and increased local marketing efforts.
Revenue and EBITDA also increased $28 million in the six months ended June 30, 2005 as a result of incremental net interest income earned on our contract receivables primarily due to growth in the portfolio and reduced net borrowing costs. Revenue and EBITDA comparisons were further impacted by $11 million of income recorded in second quarter 2005 in connection with the disposal of a parcel of land that was no longer consistent with our development plans. The year-over-year revenue and EBITDA comparisons were further impacted by the absence of a $4 million gain recognized in first quarter 2004 in connection with the sale of a third-party timeshare financing operation and $3 million of revenue generated by such operations in 2004 prior to the sale date.
EBITDA further reflects an increase of approximately $60 million (10%) in operating, marketing and administrative expenses primarily resulting from (i) $11 million of increased cost of sales and $14 million of additional commission expense, both of which are primarily associated with increased VOI sales, (ii) $13 million of additional costs incurred to fund additional staffing needs to support continued growth in the business, improve existing properties and integrate the Trendwest and Fairfield contract servicing systems and (iii) $11 million of incremental marketing spend to support sales efforts and anticipated growth in the business.
Vehicle
Rental
Revenues increased $192 million (9%), while EBITDA decreased $14 million (7%), in the six
months ended June 30, 2005 compared with the same period in 2004. We experienced strong
demand for vehicle rentals throughout the first half of 2005 and expect rental volumes to
continue to grow in the foreseeable future, although EBITDA margin comparisons have been
negatively impacted by lower domestic rental car pricing and comparatively higher fleet costs.
Revenues generated by our domestic car rental operations increased $127 million (8%) during the six months ended June 30, 2005, which was comprised of a $103 million (7%) increase in car rental T&M revenue and a $24 million (12%) increase in ancillary revenues. The increase in domestic T&M revenues was principally driven by a 12% increase in the number of days a car was rented, partially offset by a 5% decrease in T&M revenue per day. The increase in rental days and the reduction in pricing reflects, in part, our strategic decision to reposition the Budget car rental brand by reducing the cost structure and pricing to be more competitive with other leisure-focused car rental brands. In addition, pricing at our car rental brands was negatively impacted by competitive conditions in the domestic car rental industry resulting from higher industry-wide fleet levels, which we believe were caused by enhanced incentives offered by car manufacturers in prior periods. EBITDA also reflects an increase of $56 million in fleet depreciation and related costs primarily due to (i) an increase of 12% in the average size of our domestic rental fleet and (ii) reductions to manufacturer incentives received on our 2005 model year inventory (which was in utilization during the six months ended June 30, 2005) as compared with those received on our 2004 model year inventory (which was in utilization during the six months ended June 30, 2004). The $24 million increase in ancillary revenues was due primarily to a $10 million increase in gasoline revenues and a $10 million increase in counter sales of insurance and other items. We also received a $6 million settlement during first quarter 2005 from an airport authority in connection with the
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mandated relocation of an Avis car rental site at such airport. EBITDA from our domestic car rental operations was also negatively impacted by (i) $60 million of additional expenses primarily associated with increased car rental volume, including vehicle maintenance and damage costs, vehicle license and registration fees, airport commissions and shuttling costs and (ii) $13 million of increased expenses associated with higher gasoline costs and a lower profit margin on the sale of gasoline.
Revenues generated by our international car rental operations increased $48 million (21%) primarily due to a $34 million (19%) increase in car rental T&M revenue and a $14 million (29%) increase in ancillary revenues. The increase in T&M revenues was principally driven by a 15% increase in the number of days a car was rented and a 3% increase in T&M revenue per day. The favorable effect of incremental T&M revenues was partially offset in EBITDA by $20 million of increased vehicle depreciation and related costs and $27 million of higher operating expenses, both principally resulting from increased car rental volume and an increase of 18% in the average size of our international rental fleet to support such volume. The increase in revenue generated by our international car rental operations includes the effect of favorable foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations of $15 million, which was principally offset in EBITDA by the opposite impact of foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations on expenses.
Budget truck rental revenues increased $18 million (8%) in the six months ended June 30, 2005 primarily representing a $15 million (7%) increase in T&M revenue, which reflects a 4% increase in T&M per day and a 3% increase in rental days. The favorable impact on EBITDA of increased T&M revenue was principally offset by (i) $18 million of incremental vehicle depreciation and related costs resulting from a 17% increase in the average size of our truck rental fleet in anticipation of increased demand and (ii) $6 million of restructuring costs incurred during first quarter 2005 in connection with the closure of a reservation center and unprofitable Budget truck rental locations.
Travel
Distribution Services
Revenues and EBITDA increased $313 million (35%) and $31 million (13%), respectively, in
the six months ended June 30, 2005 compared with the same period in 2004, reflecting the
inclusion of revenues and expenses from recent acquisitions as well as integration costs
associated with those acquisitions. Subsequent to the six months ended June 30, 2004, we
completed the acquisitions of Orbitz (November 2004), Gullivers (April 2005), ebookers (February
2005) and another online travel business (April 2004). The operating results of these companies
have been included in our results from their respective acquisition dates forward and therefore
were incremental to our results during the six months ended June 30, 2005. Accordingly,
Orbitz, Gullivers, ebookers and the other online travel business contributed incremental revenues
of $196 million, $68 million, $41 million and $11 million, respectively, and
EBITDA earnings (losses) of $36 million, $13 million, ($17) million and $5 million,
respectively. EBITDA for the six months ended June 30, 2005 also includes $19 million
of acquisition and integration-related costs, the majority of which are reflected in the
EBITDA results of such acquired businesses. In addition, effective January 1, 2005, we
transferred our membership travel business to the discontinued Marketing Services segment. As a
result, revenue and EBITDA of $31 million and $4 million, respectively, generated by such
operations during the six months ended June 30, 2004 were absent from this segments results
during the same period in 2005. Apart from these acquisitions and the transfer of the membership
travel business, revenue increased $28 million (3%) and EBITDA declined $2 million (1%),
respectively.
Galileo, our order taker subsidiary that provides GDS services to the travel industry, experienced an overall $9 million (1%) increase in worldwide air booking fees in the six months ended June 30, 2005 over the comparable period in 2004. Such increase was comprised of a $13 million (3%) increase in international air booking fees, partially offset by a $4 million (3%) decrease in domestic air booking fees. The increase in international air booking fees was principally driven by a 2% increase in the effective yield and 1% higher booking volumes, which totaled 90.4 million segments for the six months ended June 30, 2005 and primarily resulted from an increase in travel demand within the Middle East and Asia/Pacific regions. The $4 million decrease in domestic air booking fees was driven by an 8% decline in the effective yield on such bookings, partially offset by a 6% increase in booking volumes, which totaled 47.3 million segments for the six months ended June 30, 2005. The domestic volume increase and effective yield decline are consistent with our pricing program with major U.S. carriers, which was designed to gain access to all public fares made available by the participating airlines. International air bookings represented approximately two-thirds of our total air bookings during the six months ended June 30, 2005. Additionally, revenue at our Galileo subsidiary was further impacted by a $12 million reduction in subscriber fees resulting from fewer travel agencies leasing computer equipment from us during the six months ended June 30, 2005 compared with the six months ended June 30, 2004, which was partially offset by $5 million of additional ancillary revenue, including higher fees earned on outsourcing arrangements where we provide technology services for certain airline carriers.
Revenues generated from our online order maker related businesses grew $26 million (42%) organically (excluding the impact of the aforementioned acquisitions) during the six months ended June 30, 2005 compared with the same period in 2004 principally driven by a 51% increase in online gross bookings substantially at our CheapTickets.com website. The growth in online gross bookings was attributable to (i) improved site functionality resulting in greater conversion rates, (ii) enhanced content including additional online hotel offerings and (iii) more visitors resulting from increased marketing efforts.
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EBITDA further reflects an increase of approximately $30 million in expenses (excluding the impact of the aforementioned acquisitions and the transfer of the membership travel business) principally resulting from (i) the absence in 2005 of a $21 million expense reduction realized in the six months ended June 30, 2004 in connection with a benefit plan amendment, (ii) $11 million of restructuring charges incurred during the six moths ended June 30, 2005 as a result of actions taken to reduce staff levels in some of our order-taker related businesses and the realignment of our global sales force, (iii) $10 million of additional expenses associated with developing enhanced technology and other project initiatives and (iv) $5 million of higher commission expenses attributable to higher booking volumes in the Middle East and Asia/Pacific regions. Such amounts were partially offset by (i) $9 million of expense savings on network communications and equipment maintenance and installation due, in part, to reduced subscriber volume and (ii) $6 million of cost savings realized at our existing travel services businesses resulting from cost containment initiatives within our offline travel agency operations undertaken in 2004.
Mortgage Services
Revenues and EBITDA decreased $324 million and $240 million, respectively, in the six
months ended June 30, 2005 compared with the same period in 2004. As a result of the
spin-off, the six months ended June 30, 2005 consists of only one month of activity while the
six months ended June 30, 2004 consists of six months. Our mortgage operations generated
revenue and EBITDA of $326 million and $64 million, respectively, for the five-month
period ended June 30, 2004. For the month of January, revenue increased $2 million and
EBITDA decreased $176 million in 2005 compared with 2004. The EBITDA reduction was primarily
due to an expected non-cash impairment charge of $180 million recorded in January 2005 to
reflect a portion of the difference between the carrying value and market value of PHH as a
result of the spin-off.
FINANCIAL CONDITION, LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES
We present separately the financial data of our management programs. These programs are distinct from our other activities as the assets are generally funded through the issuance of debt that is collateralized by such assets. The income generated by these assets is used, in part, to repay the principal and interest associated with the debt. Cash inflows and outflows relating to the generation or acquisition of such assets and the principal debt repayment or financing of such assets are classified as activities of our management programs. We believe it is appropriate to segregate the financial data of our management programs because, ultimately, the source of repayment of such debt is the realization of such assets.
FINANCIAL CONDITION
June 30, | December 31, | |||||||||||
2005 | 2004 | Change | ||||||||||
Total assets exclusive of assets under management programs |
$ | 23,261 | $ | 27,872 | $ | (4,611 | ) | |||||
Total liabilities exclusive of liabilities under management programs |
11,988 | 15,494 | (3,506 | ) | ||||||||
Assets under management programs |
12,870 | 14,698 | (1,828 | ) | ||||||||
Liabilities under management programs |
12,909 | 14,381 | (1,472 | ) | ||||||||
Stockholders equity |
11,234 | 12,695 | (1,461 | ) |
Total assets exclusive of assets under management programs decreased approximately $4.6 billion primarily due to (i) the spin-off of PHH, which reduced assets by approximately $5.6 billion, (ii) the sale of Wright Express, which (excluding proceeds received on the sale) reduced assets by $685 million and (iii) a reduction of $581 million in our net deferred tax asset principally due to utilization of our net operating loss carryforwards during 2005. These decreases were partially offset by (i) approximately $1.6 billion and $707 million of assets acquired in connection with our acquisitions of Gullivers and ebookers, respectively, (See Note 4 to our Consolidated Condensed Financial Statements) and (ii) an increase of $156 million in cash and cash equivalents (see Liquidity and Capital ResourcesCash Flows for a detailed discussion).
Total liabilities exclusive of liabilities under management programs decreased approximately $3.5 billion primarily due to (i) the spin-off of PHH, which reduced liabilities by approximately $4.4 billion and (ii) the sale of Wright Express, which reduced liabilities by $434 million. These decreases were partially offset by (i) net incremental borrowings of $609 million under our revolving credit facility and commercial paper program which were utilized to fund a portion of the purchase price of Gullivers (see Note 4 to our Consolidated Condensed Financial Statements) and (ii) $380 million and $256 million of liabilities that we assumed in connection with our acquisitions of Gullivers and ebookers, respectively (See Note 4 to our Consolidated Condensed Financial Statements).
Assets under management programs decreased approximately $1.8 billion primarily due to the spin-off of PHH, which had approximately $4.2 billion of assets. This decrease was partially offset by approximately $2.3 billion of net additions to our vehicle rental fleet reflecting current and projected increases in demand.
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Liabilities under management programs decreased approximately $1.5 billion primarily due to the spin-off of PHH, which had approximately $3.4 billion of liabilities. This decrease was partially offset by approximately $2.1 billion of additional borrowings to support the growth in our vehicle rental fleet described above. See Liquidity and Capital ResourcesFinancial ObligationsDebt Under Management Programs for a detailed account of the change in our debt related to management programs.
Stockholders equity decreased approximately $1.5 billion primarily due to (i) the $1.65 billion dividend of PHHs equity to our shareholders, (ii) our repurchase of $522 million (approximately 24 million shares) of Cendant common stock and (iii) $192 million of cash dividend payments. Such decreases were partially offset by (i) the $488 million valuation charge associated with the PHH spin-off (which is included in both the $1.65 billion PHH dividend and in the 2005 net income), (ii) net income of $306 million for the six months ended June 30, 2005 and (iii) $242 million related to the exercise of employee stock options (including a $56 million tax benefit). See Note 16 to our Consolidated Condensed Financial Statements for a description of the effect of the PHH spin-off.
LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES
Our principal sources of liquidity are cash on hand and our ability to generate cash through operations and financing activities, as well as available funding arrangements and committed credit facilities, each of which is discussed below.
CASH FLOWS
Six Months Ended June 30, | ||||||||||||
2005 | 2004 | Change | ||||||||||
Cash provided by (used in): |
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Operating activities |
$ | 1,598 | $ | 926 | $ | 672 | ||||||
Investing activities |
(3,520 | ) | (2,439 | ) | (1,081 | ) | ||||||
Financing activities |
2,065 | 1,034 | 1,031 | |||||||||
Effects of exchange rate changes |
(29 | ) | 38 | (67 | ) | |||||||
Cash provided by discontinued operations |
42 | 146 | (104 | ) | ||||||||
Net change in cash and cash equivalents |
$ | 156 | $ | (295 | ) | $ | 451 | |||||
During the six months ended June 30, 2005, we generated $672 million more cash from operating activities in comparison with the same period in 2004. This change principally reflects the spin-off of our former mortgage business, which generated $88 million of cash from program activities in 2005 and used $678 million in 2004.
We used approximately $1.1 billion more cash in investing activities during the six months ended June 30, 2005 compared with the six months ended June 30, 2004. Such change primarily reflects the use of approximately $1.3 billion more cash to fund acquisitions in 2005 (principally Gullivers and ebookers), partially offset by $139 million of additional proceeds received in 2005 in connection with dispositions. Capital expenditures, which increased by $13 million during the six months ended June 30, 2005 as compared with the six months ended June 30, 2004, are anticipated to be in the range of $450 million to $500 million for 2005.
We generated approximately $1.0 billion more cash from financing activities during the six months ended June 30, 2005 in comparison with the same period in 2004. Such change principally reflects (i) a reduction of approximately $1.0 billion in cash used to settle corporate indebtedness (including the payment of $778 million to repurchase $763 million of our 6.75% notes in 2004 that formed a portion of the Upper DECS and $345 million to retire our former 11% senior subordinated notes in 2004), (ii) net incremental short-term borrowings of $609 million under our $3.5 billion revolving credit facility and $1.0 billion commercial paper program, which were utilized to fund a portion of the purchase price of Gullivers in April 2005 and (iii) a decrease of $297 million in cash used for repurchases of Cendant common stock (net of proceeds received on the issuance of Cendant common stock), which primarily reflects our efforts in first quarter 2004 to mitigate the impact of the conversion of our former zero coupon senior convertible contingent notes. Such inflows were partially offset by activities of our management programs, which provided $615 million less cash in the six months ended June 30, 2005 due to the spin-off of our former mortgage business and greater borrowing activity in our timeshare business during the six months ended June 30, 2004. See Liquidity and Capital Resources Financial Obligations for a detailed discussion of financing activities during 2005.
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DEBT AND FINANCING ARRANGEMENTS
Corporate indebtedness consisted of:
As of | As of | |||||||||||||
Maturity | June 30, | December 31, | ||||||||||||
Date | 2005 | 2004 | Change | |||||||||||
6 7/8% notes |
August 2006 | $ | 850 | $ | 850 | $ | | |||||||
4.89% notes |
August 2006 | 100 | 100 | | ||||||||||
6 1/4% notes |
January 2008 | 798 | 797 | 1 | ||||||||||
6 1/4% notes |
March 2010 | 349 | 349 | | ||||||||||
7 3/8% notes |
January 2013 | 1,191 | 1,191 | | ||||||||||
7 1/8% notes |
March 2015 | 250 | 250 | | ||||||||||
Revolver
borrowings (a) |
November 2009 | 284 | 650 | (366 | ) | |||||||||
Commercial
paper
borrowings (b) |
975 | | 975 | |||||||||||
Net hedging
gains (c) |
29 | 17 | 12 | |||||||||||
Other |
96 | 126 | (30 | ) | ||||||||||
$ | 4,922 | $ | 4,330 | $ | 592 | |||||||||
(a) | The change in the balance at June 30, 2005 primarily
represents borrowings utilized to fund a portion of the purchase
price of Gullivers, partially offset by repayments funded with
commercial paper proceeds. |
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(b) | The balance as of June 30, 2005 represents borrowings
under our $1.0 billion commercial paper program, which we
commenced on April 1, 2005. The funds from this issuance
were used to refinance a portion of our then-outstanding
revolver borrowings at more favorable interest rates. Such
borrowings are due between July 2005 and August 2005 and
currently bear interest at a weighted average rate of 3%.
Generally, we refinance maturing borrowings under this program
with additional commercial paper issuances. |
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(c) | As of June 30, 2005, this balance represents $122 million
of net gains resulting from the termination of interest
rate hedges, which we will amortize to reduce future interest
expense. Such gains are partially offset by $93 million of
mark-to-market adjustments on current interest rate hedges. As
of December 31, 2004, the balance represents $138 million
of net gains resulting from the termination of interest
rate hedges, partially offset by $121 million of
mark-to-market adjustments on current interest rate hedges. |
The following table summarizes the components of our debt under management programs (including related party debt due to Cendant Rental Car Funding (AESOP) LLC (formerly, AESOP Funding II L.L.C.):
As of | As of | |||||||||||
June 30, | December 31, | |||||||||||
2005 | 2004 | Change | ||||||||||
Asset-Backed Debt: |
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Vehicle rental program |
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Cendant Rental Car Funding (AESOP) LLC (a) |
$ | 7,697 | $ | 5,935 | 1,762 | |||||||
Other (b) |
1,109 | 792 | 317 | |||||||||
Mortgage
program (c) |
| 1,306 | (1,306 | ) | ||||||||
Timeshare program |
1,560 | 1,473 | 87 | |||||||||
Relocation program (d) |
556 | 400 | 156 | |||||||||
Vacation rental program |
218 | 251 | (33 | ) | ||||||||
11,140 | 10,157 | 983 | ||||||||||
Unsecured Debt: (e) |
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Term notes |
| 1,833 | (1,833 | ) | ||||||||
Commercial paper |
| 130 | (130 | ) | ||||||||
Other |
| 34 | (34 | ) | ||||||||
| 1,997 | (1,997 | ) | |||||||||
Total debt under management programs |
$ | 11,140 | $ | 12,154 | $ | (1,014 | ) | |||||
(a) | The change in the balance at June 30, 2005 principally
reflects the issuance of fixed and floating rate asset-backed
notes at various interest rates to support the acquisition of
vehicles used in our vehicle rental business. |
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(b) | The change in the balance at June 30, 2005 reflects
borrowings under our truck financing program and our revolving
credit agreements to support the acquisition of vehicles used in
our vehicle rental business. |
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(c) | Represents a borrowing arrangement of our former mortgage
business, which was spun-off with PHH in January 2005. |
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(d) | The change in the balance at June 30, 2005 principally
reflects the issuance of variable funding notes maturing in
February 2006 and additional borrowings under a conduit
facility. Such increases were partially offset by the repayment
of various variable funding notes that matured in first quarter
2005. |
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(e) | The balances at December 31, 2004 represent unsecured
borrowings of our former PHH subsidiary, which was spun-off in
January 2005. |
The following table provides the contractual maturities for debt under management programs (including related party debt due to Cendant Rental Car Funding (AESOP) LLC) at June 30, 2005 (except for notes issued under our timeshare program where the underlying indentures require payments based on cash inflows relating to the corresponding assets under management programs and for which estimates of repayments have been used):
As of | ||||
June 30, | ||||
2005 | ||||
Within 1 year |
$ | 3,391 | ||
Between 1 and 2 years |
2,979 | |||
Between 2 and 3 years |
1,734 | |||
Between 3 and 4 years |
1,433 | |||
Between 4 and 5 years |
221 | |||
Thereafter |
1,382 | |||
$ | 11,140 | |||
At June 30, 2005, we had approximately $2.7 billion of available funding under our various financing arrangements (comprised of approximately $1.0 billion of availability at the corporate level and approximately $1.7 billion available for use in our management programs). As of June 30, 2005, the committed credit facility and commercial paper programs at the corporate level included:
Total | Outstanding | Letters of | Available | |||||||||||||
Capacity | Borrowings | Credit Issued | Capacity | |||||||||||||
Revolving credit facility and commercial paper program (*) |
$ | 3,500 | $ | 1,259 | $ | 1,249 | $ | 992 | ||||||||
Letter of credit facility |
303 | | 303 | |
(*) | Outstanding borrowings include $975 million under our
$1.0 billion commercial paper program and $284 million
under our $3.5 billion revolving credit facility. The $1.0 billion
commercial paper program is fully supported by our
$3.5 billion revolving credit facility; accordingly,
outstanding borrowings thereunder reduce availability under the
$3.5 billion revolving credit facility by a corresponding
amount. In addition to the letters of credit issued as of June 30,
2005, the revolving credit facility contains the
committed capacity to issue an additional $501 million in
letters of credit. The letters of credit outstanding under this
facility as of June 30, 2005 were issued primarily to
support our vehicle rental business. |
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As of June 30, 2005, available funding under our asset-backed debt programs related to our management programs consisted of:
Total | Outstanding | Available | ||||||||||
Capacity (a) | Borrowings | Capacity | ||||||||||
Vehicle rental program |
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Cendant Rental Car Funding (AESOP) LLC (b) |
$ | 8,597 | $ | 7,697 | $ | 900 | ||||||
Other (c) |
1,348 | 1,109 | 239 | |||||||||
Timeshare program (d) |
1,971 | 1,560 | 411 | |||||||||
Relocation program (e) |
675 | 556 | 119 | |||||||||
Vacation rental program |
223 | 218 | 5 | |||||||||
$ | 12,814 | $ | 11,140 | $ | 1,674 | |||||||
(a) | Capacity is subject to maintaining sufficient assets to
collateralize debt. |
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(b) | The outstanding debt is collateralized by approximately
$8.2 billion of underlying vehicles (the majority of which
are subject to manufacturer repurchase obligations) and related
assets. |
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(c) | The outstanding debt is collateralized by approximately
$1.2 billion of underlying vehicles (the majority of which
are subject to manufacturer repurchase obligations) and related
assets. |
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(d) | The outstanding debt is collateralized by approximately
$2.7 billion of timeshare-related assets. Borrowings under
our asset-linked facility ($500 million) are also recourse
to us. |
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(e) | The outstanding debt is collateralized by $645 million
of underlying relocation receivables and related assets. |
At June 30, 2005, we also had $400 million of availability for public debt or equity issuances under a shelf registration statement.
We believe that access to our existing financing arrangements is sufficient to meet liquidity requirements for the forseeable future.
LIQUIDITY RISK
Our liquidity position may be negatively affected by unfavorable conditions in any one of the
industries in which we operate. Additionally, our liquidity as it relates to management programs
could be adversely affected by (i) the deterioration in the performance of the underlying
assets of such programs and (ii) the impairment of our ability to access the principal
financing program for our vehicle rental subsidiaries if General Motors Corporation or Ford Motor
Company should not be able to honor its obligations to repurchase the related vehicles. Access to
our credit facilities may be limited if we were to fail to meet certain financial ratios.
Additionally, we monitor the maintenance of required financial ratios and, as of June 30,
2005, we were in compliance with all financial covenants under our credit and securitization
facilities.
Currently our credit ratings are as follows:
Moody's | ||||||
Investors | Standard | Fitch | ||||
Service | & Poor's | Ratings | ||||
Senior unsecured debt |
Baa1 | BBB+ | BBB+ | |||
Commercial paper |
P-2 | A-2 | F-2 |
Moodys Investors Service, Standard & Poors and Fitch Ratings have assigned a stable outlook to our senior unsecured credit ratings. A security rating is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold securities and is subject to revision or withdrawal by the assigning rating organization. Each rating should be evaluated independently of any other rating.
CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS
Our future contractual obligations have not changed significantly from the amounts reported
within our Current Report on Form 8-K filed on May 5, 2005 with the exception of our
commitment to purchase vehicles, which decreased from the amount previously disclosed by
approximately $3.8 billion to approximately $1.8 billion at June 30, 2005 as a result
of purchases during the six months ended June 30, 2005. Any changes to our obligations
related to corporate indebtedness and debt under management programs are presented above within
the section entitled Liquidity and Capital ResourcesFinancial Obligations and also within Notes 10
and 11 to our Consolidated Condensed Financial Statements.
ACCOUNTING POLICIES
The majority of our businesses operate in environments where we are paid a fee for a service
performed. Therefore, the results of the majority of our recurring operations are recorded in our
financial statements using accounting policies that are not particularly subjective, nor complex.
However, in presenting our financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting
principles, we are required to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported
therein. Several of the estimates and assumptions that we are required to make pertain to matters
that are inherently uncertain as they relate to future events. Presented within the section
entitled Critical Accounting Policies of our 2004 Annual Report on Form 10-K are the
accounting policies that we believe require subjective and/or complex judgments that could
potentially affect 2005 reported results (financial instruments, income taxes and goodwill). As
previously discussed, our former mortgage business was spun-off with PHH in January 2005.
Accordingly, our results of operations for periods subsequent to January 31, 2005 will not be
subject to the uncertainty inherent in valuing the former mortgage servicing rights asset. There
have been no other significant changes to those accounting policies or our assessment of which
accounting policies we would consider to be critical accounting policies.
We plan to adopt the following recently issued standards as required:
l | FASB Interpretation No. 47, Accounting for Conditional Asset Retirement
Obligations and FSP No. 143-1, Accounting for Electronic Equipment Waste
Obligations |
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l | SFAS No. 152, Accounting for Real Estate Time-Sharing Transactions and
Statement of Position No. 04-2, Accounting for Real Estate Time-Sharing
Transactions |
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l | SFAS No. 123R, Share Based Payment |
For detailed information regarding any of these pronouncements and the impact thereof on our business, see Note 1 to our Consolidated Condensed Financial Statements.
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Item 3. Quantitative And Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risks |
We assess our market risk based on changes in interest and foreign currency exchange rates utilizing a sensitivity analysis that measures the potential impact in earnings, fair values, and cash flows based on a hypothetical 10% change (increase and decrease) in interest and foreign currency rates. We used June 30, 2005 market rates to perform a sensitivity analysis separately for each of our market risk exposures. The estimates assume instantaneous, parallel shifts in interest rate yield curves and exchange rates. We have determined, through such analyses, that the impact of a 10% change in interest and foreign currency exchange rates and prices on our earnings, fair values and cash flows would not be material.
Item 4. Controls and Procedures |
(a) | Disclosure Controls and Procedures. Our management, with the participation of our Chief
Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, has evaluated the effectiveness of our
disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and
15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act)) as
of the end of the period covered by this quarterly report. Based on such evaluation, our
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that, as of the end of
such period, our disclosure controls and procedures are effective. |
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(b) | Internal Controls Over Financial Reporting. There have been no changes in our internal
control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and
15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) during the fiscal quarter to which this report relates
that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal
control over financial reporting except as described below. |
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During the quarter ended June 30, 2005, we began implementing integration activities related
to our acquisitions of ebookers plc and Gullivers Travel Associates, which were consummated on
February 28, 2005 and April 1, 2005, respectively. Total revenues and total assets
related to these two acquisitions were $109 million for the six months ended June 30,
2005 and approximately $2.1 billion as of June 30, 2005, respectively. Each of these
companies, headquartered outside of the United States, was accustomed to operating under less
stringent financial reporting and operating control frameworks, compared to Cendants (including
reporting deadlines, application of U.S. GAAP, general computer controls, extent of process
documentation, etc.). We have begun analysis to identify areas where changes in process, systems
and documentation may be necessary, as part of their inclusion in our Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404
assessment, and have begun implementing various steps to strengthen their control
environments over the remainder of 2005. |
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PART II OTHER INFORMATION
Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds |
(c) Below is a summary of our Cendant common stock repurchases by month for the quarter ended June 30, 2005:
Approximate | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Number of Shares | Dollar Value of | |||||||||||||||||||||
Total Number | Purchased as Part of | Shares that May | ||||||||||||||||||||
of Shares | Average Price | Publicly Announced | Yet Be Purchased | |||||||||||||||||||
Period | Purchased | Paid per Share | Plan (b) | Under Plan | ||||||||||||||||||
April
1 30, 2005 |
4,027,107 | $ | 20.37 | 4,027,107 | $ | 1,112,428,247 | ||||||||||||||||
May
1 31, 2005 |
3,415,113 | $ | 20.73 | 3,415,113 | $ | 1,061,587,654 | ||||||||||||||||
June 1
30, 2005 (a) |
6,399,000 | $ | 22.11 | 6,399,000 | $ | 954,637,779 | ||||||||||||||||
Total |
13,841,220 | $ | 21.26 | 13,841,220 | $ | 954,637,779 | ||||||||||||||||
(a) | Includes 2,885,000 shares purchased for which the
trade date occurred during June 2005 while settlement occurred
in July 2005. |
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(b) | Our share repurchase program, which does not have an
expiration date, was first publicly announced on October 13,
1998 in the amount of $1 billion and has been increased from
time to time and each such increase has been publicly announced,
including an increase to include all stock option exercise
proceeds in the program. In July 2005 our Board of Directors
further increased the program by $500 million. No shares
were purchased outside our share repurchase program during the
periods set forth in the table above. |
Item 5. Other Information |
Our Board of Directors has considered the advisory severance proposal submitted by the Trowel Trades S&P Index Fund, which received majority approval at our 2005 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. Our Board determined that our existing severance agreement policy was in the best interest of all stockholders and our company. Our existing policy limits future severance arrangements to 2.99 times the sum of an executives base salary plus target bonus unless extraordinary circumstances exist and the arrangement is approved by our independent directors. Extraordinary circumstances exist only if we determine that it is necessary to exceed the threshold to obtain the services of an executive officer to be hired from outside of Cendant and when the benefits to our company of obtaining such individuals services outweigh the potential harm to stockholders of exceeding the threshold. Our board determined that if it changed our policy to the proposed policy, which required stockholder approval for all future severance arrangements (including for those of people hired from outside of Cendant) exceeding 2.99 times the sum of the executives base salary, we could be put at a competitive disadvantage because, among other things, the proposal would create significant uncertainty and delay in finalizing severance arrangements until after the arrangement is approved by our stockholders, which could hinder our flexibility to attract, motivate and retain the best outside executive talent in todays competitive environment and in the future.
Item 6. Exhibits |
See Exhibit Index.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
CENDANT CORPORATION | |||
Date: August 2, 2005 |
/s/ Ronald L. Nelson President and Chief Financial Officer |
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Date: August 2, 2005 |
/s/ Virginia M. Wilson Executive Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer |
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Exhibit Index
Exhibit No. | Description | |
3.1
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Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Companys Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2004). | |
3.2
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Amended and Restated By-Laws of the Company (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Companys Current Report on Form 8-K dated October 20, 2004). | |
10.1
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Series 2005-4 Supplement dated as of June 1, 2005 between Cendant Rental Car Funding (AESOP) LLC and The Bank of New York, as trustee and as Series 2005-4 Agent to Second Amended and Restated Base Indenture dated as of June 3, 2004 between Cendant Rental Car Funding (AESOP) LLC, as Issuer and The Bank of New York, as Trustee (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Companys Current Report on Form 8-K dated June 7, 2005). | |
10.2
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WTH Funding Limited Partnership Fourth Amended and Restated Limited Partnership Agreement among Aviscar Inc., Budgetcar Inc., STARS Trust and Bay Street Funding Trust dated April 20, 2005. | |
10.3
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Form of Partnership Agreement (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Companys Current Report on Form 8-K dated May 26, 2005). | |
10.4
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Form of Lease (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Companys Current Report on Form 8-K dated May 26, 2005). | |
10.5
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Form of Guaranty (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Companys Current Report on Form 8-K dated May 26, 2005). | |
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2004 Performance Metric Long Term Incentive Plan, Amended and Restated as of July 19, 2005 (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10 to the Companys Current Report on Form 8-K dated July 22, 2005). | |
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Statement Re: Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges. | |
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Letter Re: Unaudited Interim Financial Information. | |
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Certification of Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to Rules 13(a)-14(a) and 15(d)-14(a) Promulgated Under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. | |
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Certification of Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to Rules 13(a)-14(a) and 15(d)-14(a) Promulgated Under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. | |
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Certification Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. |
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EXHIBIT 10.2
WTH FUNDING LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
FOURTH AMENDED AND RESTATED LIMITED
PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT
AVISCAR INC.
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BUDGETCAR INC.
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STARS TRUST
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BAY STREET FUNDING TRUST
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WTH FUNDING LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
FOURTH AMENDED AND RESTATED LIMITED PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT
THIS AGREEMENT made as of the 20th day of April, 2005.
B E T W E E N:
AVISCAR INC.,
a corporation incorporated under the laws of Canada,
(hereinafter called the Avis General Partner),
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BUDGETCAR INC.,
a corporation existing under the laws of Canada,
(hereinafter called the Budget General Partner, and collectively with the Avis General Partner, the General Partners),
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BNY TRUST COMPANY OF CANADA,
a trust company incorporated under the laws of Canada and registered to carry on the business of
a trust company in each of the provinces of Canada, in its capacity as trustee of STARS TRUST, a
trust established under the laws of the Province of Ontario,
(hereinafter called the STARS Limited Partner),
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MONTREAL TRUST COMPANY OF CANADA, a trust company incorporated under the laws of Canada and registered to carry on the business of a trust company in each of the provinces in Canada, in its capacity as trustee of BAY STREET FUNDING TRUST, a trust established under the laws of the Province of Ontario,
(hereinafter called the Bay Street Limited Partner, and collectively with the STARS Limited Partner, the Limited Partners).
WHEREAS the Avis General Partner and The Trust Company of Bank of Montreal (predecessor trustee of STARS Trust) entered into a limited partnership (the Partnership) under the name WTH Funding Limited Partnership pursuant to a Limited Partnership Agreement dated June 5, 1997, as amended by amending agreements dated March 30, 1998, May 31, 1999 and July 7, 2000, as amended and restated by an amended and restated limited partnership agreement dated November 28, 2001, as further amended by an amending agreement dated November 26, 2002, as further amended and restated by a second amended and restated limited partnership agreement dated August 5, 2003, as amended by an amending agreement dated May 31, 2004, as further amended and restated by a third amended and restated limited partnership agreement dated November 30, 2004 (as amended and restated, the Original Agreement) to carry on a business for profit; namely, the ownership and rental, as lessor, of Vehicles on the terms hereinafter set forth;
AND WHEREAS the General Partners and the STARS Limited Partner have agreed that Bay Street Limited Partner will become an additional limited partner of the Partnership and to further amend and restate the Original Agreement on the terms and conditions set out herein;
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NOW THEREFORE THIS AGREEMENT WITNESSES that, in consideration of the respective covenants and agreements hereinafter contained, the parties hereto covenant and agree as follows:
ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS
1.1 | Definitions |
For all purposes of this Agreement, except as otherwise expressly provided herein or unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms have the following meanings:
Accumulation Date means:
(a) | in respect of the Series 2003-1 Bonds, March 20, 2006 unless the STARS
Limited Partner and the General Partners agree that they do not wish the
Accumulation Date for the Series 2003-1 Bonds to occur on such date, in which
case the Accumulation Date for the Series 2003-1 Bonds shall be such date after
March 20, 2006 as the STARS Limited Partner and the General Partners designate
in writing as the Accumulation Date for the Series 2003-1 Bonds; and |
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(b) | in respect of any other series of Bonds, the date specified as the Accumulation
Date in the series supplement to the trust indenture pursuant to which such series
of Bonds is issued; |
Act means the Limited Partnerships Act (Ontario);
Additional Amount has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 9.7(c);
Additional General Partner has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 8.3(a);
Affiliate means, when used with reference to a specified Person, any Person who directly or indirectly controls or is controlled by or is under common control with the specified Person and for these purposes control means the right to elect a majority of the board of directors of a Person that is a corporation or the governing authority of a Person that is not a corporation, whether through the ownership of voting securities or by contract or otherwise;
Agreement means this Agreement of limited partnership, including the Schedules hereto, as it exists at the date hereof and as it may from time to time be supplemented or amended as herein provided;
Alternate Rate means, for the Bay Street Limited Partner and any Remittance Period during which any Portion of the Bay Street Limited Partners Funded Amount is being funded under its Liquidity Agreement, an interest rate per annum specified as the Alternate Rate in the letter agreement dated the date hereof between the Avis General Partner and the Bay Street Securitization Agent;
Amortized Avis Taxable Amount means, initially, nil and, subsequently, the sum of the amounts determined pursuant to Subsection 4.13(b)(ii) and part B of Subsection 4.14(b) for all prior Fiscal Periods until such time (the Class 16 Date") as such sum is greater than 98% of the Avis Taxable Adjustment at which time the Amortized Avis Taxable Amount shall mean the Avis Taxable Adjustment;
Annual Notional Return in respect of a General Partner, means an amount equal to the sum of the Notional Returns for each of the Settlement Periods in the related Fiscal Period for such General Partner;
Annual Relative Revenue Contribution for any Fiscal Period and for any General Partner means the proportion of the sum of Rental Revenues generated through the operations of such General Partner on behalf of the Partnership for all of the Settlement Periods in the related Fiscal Period over the total aggregate Rental Revenues for all of the Settlement Periods in the related Fiscal Period;
Applicable Law means all statutes, laws, by-laws, regulations, ordinances, orders and rules and requirements of government or other public authorities having jurisdiction, and all amendments thereto, at any time and from time to time in force;
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Applicable Yield Rate means for the Bay Street Limited Partners Funded Amount and any Remittance Period, (a) with respect to any Portion of the Bay Street Limited Partners Funded Amount outstanding during such Remittance Period that is funded through the issuance of Notes of the Bay Street Limited Partner, the Commercial Paper Rate for such Remittance Period, and (b) with respect to any Portion of Bay Street Limited Partners Funded Amount outstanding during such Remittance Period that is funded under its Liquidity Agreement, the Alternate Rate for such Remittance Period;
Approved Dealers means Vehicle dealers to whom Manufacturers sell new Vehicles for resale;
Assignment and Assumption Agreement means the assignment and assumption agreement entered into by the Avis General Partner and the Partnership on January 8, 1998 pursuant to which the Avis General Partner sold, assigned and transferred to the Partnership, and the Partnership purchased from the Avis General Partner, the Purchased Assets (as defined therein);
Auditors means Deloitte & Touche, Chartered Accountants or any other national firm of chartered accountants of recognized standing appointed by the General Partners as auditor for the Partnership for the time being, whether or not such firm of chartered accountants is regularly retained by a General Partner;
Available Aggregate Call Amount means the aggregate of the Available Call Amounts for each Limited Partner;
Available Call Amount means, in respect of a Limited Partner, the amount by which (a) the sum of $350,000,000 and the aggregate Principal Amount of Bonds issued by such Limited Partner outstanding at such time exceeds (b) the balance of the Limited Partners Capital Account of such Limited Partner at such time; provided that on and after the occurrence of a Funding Termination Event for such Limited Partner, the Available Call Amount for such Limited Partner shall be deemed to be zero;
Avis or Budget System Member means a licensee of the General Partners or one of the Affiliates of the General Partners authorized to operate its own rental vehicle business in Canada under the Avis or Budget name;
Avis GP Adjustment has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 4.13(b);
Avis Taxable Adjustment means an amount equal to the aggregate net book value under Canadian GAAP of the Vehicles owned by the Partnership less the aggregate of the undepreciated capital cost (as defined in subsection 13(21) of the Income Tax Act (Canada)), determined as if the Fiscal Period ended on the day immediately preceding the day that Budget became a General Partner of the Partnership and on the assumption that the maximum capital cost allowance has been claimed, of each class of Vehicles of the Partnership all as determined on the date immediately preceding the date that the Budget General Partner became a General Partner of the Partnership;
Bay Street Securitization Agent means Scotia Capital Inc.;
Best means A.M. Best Company, Inc.;
BMO means Bank of Montreal and its successors and assigns;
Bond Accumulation Amount means:
(a) | in respect of the Series 2003-1 Bonds, the Principal Amount for the Series 2003-1
Bonds divided by 4 or, if the STARS Limited Partner and the General
Partners have designated the Accumulation Date for the Series 2003-1 Bonds to be
a date after March 20, 2006, by such number of Remittance Dates in the period
commencing after such date until and including the Expected Final Payment Date (as
such term is defined in the series supplement to the trust indenture pursuant to
which the Series 2003-1 Bonds are issued); and |
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(b) | in respect of any other series of Bonds with an Accumulation Date, the amount
specified as the Bond Accumulation Amount in the series supplement to the trust
indenture pursuant to which such series of Bonds is issued; |
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Bond Interest Amount means, (a) in respect of each series of Bonds with an Accumulation Date and which are outstanding during a Remittance Period, the amount of accrued and unpaid interest outstanding on such series of Bonds in respect of such Remittance Period, provided that if the next occurring Interest Payment Date is in the immediately following Remittance Period, the Bond Interest Amount for such series of Bonds shall be equal to the amount of the accrued and unpaid interest on such series of Bonds for such Remittance Period less the Interest Earned Amount for such series of Bonds for the period since the previously occurring Interest Payment Date or in the case of the first Interest Payment Date for such series of Bonds, for the period since the date of issue of such series of Bonds and (b) in respect of each series of Bonds with a Controlled Amortization Date and which are outstanding during a Remittance Period, the amount of accrued and unpaid interest outstanding on such series of Bonds in respect of such Remittance Period;
Bond Interest Earned Amount means, in respect of each series of Bonds, the aggregate net investment income (net of investment losses) earned by the relevant Limited Partner on the aggregate Bond Payment Amount for such series of Bonds received by it pursuant to Section 4.7(b)(iv) after the Accumulation Date for such series of Bonds;
Bond Outstanding Amount means, in respect of each series of Bonds, the amount obtained when the aggregate amounts paid to the relevant Limited Partner pursuant to Section 4.7(b)(iv) in respect of the Bond Payment Amount for such series of Bonds is subtracted from the Principal Amount for such series of Bonds;
Bond Payment Amount means, (a) in respect of each series of Bonds with an Accumulation Date, (i) on any Remittance Date other than the Expected Final Payment Date for such series of Bonds an amount equal to the sum of the Bond Accumulation Amount for such series of Bonds for such Remittance Date plus any existing Deficit Bond Accumulation Amount for such series of Bonds, and (ii) on the Remittance Date occurring on the Expected Final Payment Date for such series of Bonds, the amount referred to in (i) above less the Bond Interest Earned Amount for such series of Bonds and (b) in respect of each series of Bonds with a Controlled Amortization Date, the aggregate of the Controlled Amortization Amount for such series of Bonds and any existing Deficit Controlled Amortization Amount for such series of Bonds for each Remittance Date after such Controlled Amortization Date;
Bonds means any series of bonds (which, for greater certainty, shall not include Notes or funding under a Liquidity Agreement) issued by a Limited Partner to fund portions of such Limited Partners capital contributions from time to time;
Business Day means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday and a day when chartered banks are not open for business in Toronto, Ontario;
Canadian GAAP means Canadian generally accepted accounting principles applicable to the undertaking of the Partnership or the General Partners, as the case may be, applied on a basis consistent with prior periods;
Capital Accounts means, collectively, the General Partners Capital Account for each General Partner and the Limited Partners Capital Account for each Limited Partner;
Capital Call has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 3.3(a);
Capital Call Notice has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 3.3(a);
Chrysler means DaimlerChrysler Canada Ltd. and its Canadian Affiliates;
Class 16 Date has the meaning ascribed thereto in the definition of Amortized Avis Taxable Amount;
Commercial Paper Rate means, for the Bay Street Limited Partner and any Remittance Period during which any Portion of the Bay Street Limited Partners Funded Amount is being funded with the proceeds of Notes of the Bay Street Limited Partner, the rate per annum (expressed as a percentage and an interest yield equivalent and calculated on the basis of a 365-day year and the actual days elapsed) equal to the weighted average of the interest rates or discount rates (converted to interest bearing equivalent rates per annum) paid or payable by the Bay Street Limited Partner in respect of Notes of the Bay Street Limited Partner outstanding during such Remittance Period that are allocated, in whole or in part, by the Bay Street Limited Partner to fund or maintain such Portion of the Bay Street Limited Partners Funded Amount during such
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Remittance Period, in each case, rounded to the nearest one hundredth of one percent (with 0.005 per cent being rounded upward), as determined by the Bay Street Limited Partner and reported to the Avis General Partner;
Contract means any agreement, indenture, contract, lease, deed of trust, licence, option, instrument or other commitment whether written or oral;
Controlled Amortization Amount means, in respect of any series of Bonds with a Controlled Amortization Date, the amount specified as the Controlled Amortization Amount in the series supplement to the trust indenture pursuant to which such series of Bonds is issued;
Controlled Amortization Date means, in respect of any series of Bonds with a Controlled Amortization Date, the date specified as the Controlled Amortization Date in the series supplement to the trust indenture pursuant to which such series of Bonds is issued;
Current Book Value means, in respect of a Partnership Vehicle at any time, its Original Book Value less accumulated Depreciation at such time;
DBRS means Dominion Bond Rating Service Limited;
Declaration means the declaration of partnership filed and recorded in respect of the Partnership pursuant to the Act;
Deficit Bond Accumulation Amount means, in respect of each series of Bonds with an Accumulation Date, (a) on the first Remittance Date after the Accumulation Date for such series of Bonds, the excess, if any, of the Bond Accumulation Amount for such series of Bonds payable on such Remittance Date over the amount paid to the relevant Limited Partner pursuant to Section 4.7(b)(iv) on such Remittance Date in respect of such series of Bonds, and (b) on each subsequent Remittance Date after the Accumulation Date for such series of Bonds, the excess, if any, of the Bond Accumulation Amount for such series of Bonds payable on such Remittance Date plus any then existing Deficit Bond Accumulation Amount for such series of Bonds, over the amount paid to the relevant Limited Partner pursuant to Section 4.7(b)(iv) on such Remittance Date in respect of such series of Bonds;
Deficit Controlled Amortization Amount means, in respect of each series of Bonds with a Controlled Amortization Date, (a) on the first Remittance Date after the Controlled Amortization Date for such series of Bonds, the excess, if any, of the Controlled Amortization Amount for such series of Bonds payable on such Remittance Date over the amount paid to the relevant Limited Partner pursuant to Section 4.7(b)(iv) on such Remittance Date in respect of such series of Bonds, and (b) on each subsequent Remittance Date after the Controlled Amortization Date for such series of Bonds, the excess, if any, of the Controlled Amortization Amount for such series of Bonds payable on such Remittance Date plus any then existing Deficit Controlled Amortization Amount for such series of Bonds, over the amount paid to the relevant Limited Partner pursuant to Section 4.7(b)(iv) on such Remittance Date in respect of such series of Bonds;
Depreciation means, when used in reference to a Partnership Program Vehicle, the daily depreciation charge set forth by an Eligible Manufacturer in the applicable Repurchase Agreement, and, when used in reference to a Partnership Non-program Vehicle, depreciation at a rate to be determined from time to time by the General Partners in accordance with Canadian GAAP but in no event less than 2% per month applied on a straight line basis to the Original Book Value of such Partnership Non-program Vehicle;
Designated Representative has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 1.11;
Dollar or $, in respect of all amounts referred to in this Agreement, unless otherwise expressly stated, shall mean Canadian dollars;
Eligible Institution means a depositary institution which at all times (a) has either (i) a long-term unsecured debt rating of at least AA (low) or an equivalent rating from the Rating Agency or an equivalent rating from Moodys and S&P or such lower rating as the Rating Agency may approve or (ii) a short-term rating of at least R-1 (middle) or an equivalent rating from the Rating Agency, or a rating of P-1 from Moodys and A-1+ from S&P or such lower rating as the Rating Agency may approve, or (b) has its
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obligations with respect to the relevant matter guaranteed by an institution with either of the ratings referred to in (a)(i) or (ii);
Eligible Investments means book-based securities, negotiable instruments or securities maturing not later than the Business Day preceding the next succeeding Remittance Date after such date represented by instruments in bearer or registered form which evidence any of:
(a) | direct obligations of, or obligations fully guaranteed as to the timely payment of
principal and interest by, the Government of Canada; |
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(b) | direct obligations of, or obligations fully guaranteed as to the timely payment of
principal and interest by, the government of a province of Canada; |
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(c) | direct obligations of, or obligations fully guaranteed as to the timely payment of
principal and interest by banks or trust companies chartered or licensed under the
laws of Canada or any province thereof which bank or trust company has a short-term
debt rating of at least R-1 (middle) or an equivalent rating from the Rating
Agency, or a rating of P-1 from Moodys and A-1+ from S&P; |
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(d) | commercial paper and any other securities having, at the time of the investment or
contractual commitment to invest therein, a rating of at least R-1 (middle) or
an equivalent rating from the Rating Agency, or a rating of P-1 from Moodys and
A-1+ from S&P; |
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(e) | notes issued and bankers acceptances accepted by, overnight repurchase agreements
with and call loans to, any bank or trust company referred to in (c) above; |
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(f) | term deposits with an entity, the short-term debt or deposits of which have a
rating of at least R-1 (middle) or an equivalent rating from the Rating Agency,
or a rating of P-1 from Moodys and A-1+ from S&P; and |
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(g) | any other class of investments approved in writing by the Rating Agency (other
than those set out in (a) to (f) above), |
provided, however, that the aggregate amount of Eligible Investments that may be represented by the securities of any single issuer (other than obligations of or fully guaranteed by the Government of Canada) shall not exceed the greater of (i) $1,000,000 and (ii) 10% of total Eligible Investments. For greater certainty, if otherwise qualified in accordance with the foregoing clauses of this definition, securities of a Limited Partner, a Securitization Agent, Bank of Montreal, The Bank of Nova Scotia and any Affiliate of the foregoing are Eligible Investments;
Eligible Manufacturer means any of Chrysler, Ford or GM or any additional Manufacturer approved in writing from time to time by each Securitization Agent and the Rating Agency (a) whose unsecured long-term debt is rated BBB or its equivalent or higher by two or more of the Rating Agency, S&P and Moodys, or (b) if its unsecured long-term debt is not so rated, where a General Partner has at its own expense obtained credit enhancement satisfactory in form, source and amount to each Securitization Agent and the Rating Agency in respect of the credit exposure to the Partnership represented by Repurchase Agreements with that Manufacturer;
Estimation Date means, the first day of each Settlement Period, provided that if such day is not a Business Day, the Estimation Date shall occur as the next Business Day;
Estimation Report means a monthly report provided by the General Partners to each Limited Partner substantially in the form of Schedule A;
Estimation Reserve means, in respect of any Settlement Period, an amount equal to 10% of the sum of estimated Depreciation, Net Loss on Dispositions and Funding Required Amount contained in the Estimation Report for such Settlement Period; provided, however, that Estimation Reserve shall never be less than zero, and, provided, further, that if for any three out of 12 consecutive Settlement Periods the Estimation Test exceeds zero, then thereafter the Estimation Reserve shall be equal to the product of (a) the greater of
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(i) 10% and (ii) 150% of the largest Estimation Test in the preceding 12 months and (b) the sum of estimated Depreciation, Net Loss on Dispositions and Funding Required Amount contained in the Estimation Report for such Settlement Period;
Estimation Test means, in respect of any Settlement Period, the result (expressed as a percentage) of the following calculation (but never less than zero):
([DS + LDS GDS] A) ÷ A,
where:
A equals (DE + NLDE);
DE means the estimated Depreciation contained in the Estimation Report for such Settlement Period;
NLDE means the aggregate estimated Net Loss on Dispositions contained in the Estimation Report for such Settlement Period;
DS means Depreciation within such Settlement Period;
LDS means Loss on Dispositions within such Settlement Period; and
GDS means Gain on Dispositions within such Settlement Period;
ETA means Excise Tax Act (Canada);
Excluded Capital means, in respect of a General Partner at any time, the aggregate of (a) all capital contributions made or deemed to be made by such General Partner pursuant to Section 3.3(g) prior to such time and (b) all amounts paid by the Partnership prior to such time in respect of transfer fees, license fees, registration fees or other similar government fees or charges and transfer Taxes (other than VAT) in connection with the transfer of the relevant assets pursuant to a Licensee Vehicle Assignment Agreement where the vendor thereunder is a General Partner;
Expenses means the aggregate of all costs and expenses of the Partnership, including:
(a) | all Organizational Expenses and expenses incurred to maintain the registrations or
qualifications of the Partnership under Applicable Law or to obtain or maintain
exemptions under such laws; |
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(b) | all applicable Taxes; |
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(c) | all costs and expenses of, or incidental to, the preparation and dispatch to
Partners of all cheques, reports, circulars, financial statements, forms and
notices, and any other documents which in the opinion of the General Partners,
acting reasonably, are necessary or desirable in connection with the business and
administration of the Partnership; |
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(d) | all costs and expenses incidental to the preparation of amendments to this
Agreement as referred to in Section 7.2; |
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(e) | any costs and expenses of litigation involving the Partnership and the amount of
any judgment or settlement paid in connection therewith, excluding, however, the
costs and expenses of litigation, judgment or settlement in which the conduct of any
General Partner is found to have violated the standard of conduct required by Section 5.2,
the costs and expenses of such litigation, judgment or settlement being
for the personal account of the General Partners; |
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(f) | reasonable audit fees of the Partnership; and |
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(g) | any other costs and expenses in connection with the administration of the
Partnership that may be authorized by this Agreement; |
Fiscal Period means the fiscal period of the Partnership as determined in accordance with Section 2.5;
Fleet Report means a report concerning the Partnership Vehicles substantially in the form of Schedule B;
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Ford means Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited and its Canadian Affiliates;
Fuel Revenues means all monetary receipts (other than sales, value added and other similar Taxes collected on behalf of a governmental authority) from the sale of fuel to customers and by customers choosing the prepaid gas option, all in connection with the rental by such customer of a Partnership Vehicle;
Funded Amounts means, collectively, the General Partners Funded Amount for each General Partner and the Limited Partners Funded Amount for each Limited Partner;
Funding Discount Amount means, in respect of a Remittance Date and the related Remittance Period:
(a) | in respect of the STARS Limited Partner: |
(i) | the product of: |
(A) | the sum of: |
(I) | the weighted average amount of the STARS Limited Partners
Funded Amount (excluding any amounts funded through the issuance
of Bonds) that was outstanding during such Remittance Period;
and |
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(II) | the excess, if any of (i) the STARS Limited Partners
Funding Discount Amount for the preceding Remittance Date over
(ii) the amount that was actually distributed to the STARS
Limited Partner in respect of such Funding Discount Amount on
such preceding Remittance Date; |
(B) | the weighted average discount rate or interest rate at which such
Notes were issued, plus the Program Fee Rate; and |
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(C) | the ratio obtained by dividing the number of days in such Remittance
Period by 365; and |
(ii) | any amounts paid or payable by the STARS Limited Partner during or in
respect of such Remittance Period pursuant to any Hedging Transaction in
respect of such Notes less any amount paid to or owing to the STARS Limited
Partner during such Remittance Period pursuant to any Hedging Transaction in
respect of such Notes; and |
(b) | in respect of the Bay Street Limited Partner, the sum of the following amounts: |
(i) | for each Portion of the Bay Street Limited Partners Funded Amount funded
through the issuance of Notes during such Remittance Period, the product of: |
(A) | the sum of: |
(I) | the weighted average amount of such Portion of the Bay Street
Limited Partners Funded Amount that was outstanding during such
Remittance Period; and |
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(II) | the excess, if any of (i) the Bay Street Limited Partners
Funding Discount Amount for such Portion of the Bay Street
Limited Partners Funded Amount and the preceding Remittance Date
over (ii) the amount that was actually distributed to the Bay
Street Limited Partner in respect of such Funding Discount Amount
on such preceding Remittance Date; |
(B) | the Applicable Yield Rate plus the Program Fee Rate for such Portion
of the Bay Street Limited Partners Funded Amount and such Remittance
Period; and |
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(C) | the ratio obtained by dividing the number of days in such Remittance
Period by 365; and |
(ii) | for each Portion of the Bay Street Limited Partners Funded Amount funded
under its Liquidity Agreement, the product of: |
(A) | the sum of: |
(I) | the weighted average amount of such Portion of the Bay Street
Limited Partners Funded Amount that was outstanding during such
Remittance Period; and |
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(II) | the excess, if any of (i) the Bay Street Limited Partners
Funding Discount Amount for such Portion of the Bay Street
Limited Partners Funded Amount and the preceding Remittance Date
over (ii) the amount that was actually distributed to the Bay
Street Limited Partner in respect of such Funding Discount Amount
on such preceding Remittance Date; |
(B) | the Applicable Yield Rate plus the Program Fee Rate for such Portion
of the Bay Street Limited Partners Funded Amount and such Remittance
Period; and |
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(C) | the ratio obtained by dividing the number of days in such Remittance
Period by 365; and |
(iii) | any amounts paid or payable by the Bay Street Limited Partner during or in
respect of such Remittance Period pursuant to any Hedging Transaction in
respect of the Limited Partners Funded Amount of the Bay Street Limited
Partner less any amount paid to or owing to the Bay Street Limited Partner
during such Remittance Period pursuant to any Hedging Transaction in respect
of the Limited Partners Funded Amount of the Bay Street Limited Partner; |
Funding Required Amount means, in respect of a Remittance Period or a Settlement Period, the aggregate Funding Discount Amount for all Notes or funding under the Liquidity Agreements outstanding during such period and the aggregate accrued interest on all series of Bonds outstanding during such period;
Funding Termination Event means, in respect of a Limited Partner, the occurrence of (a) the Normal Course Termination Date for such Limited Partner, (b) a Liquidity Event in respect of such Limited Partner, (c) the breach of the covenant contained in subsection 5.2(i) which breach continues for five Business Days after a Settlement Date and provided that within 30 days of the occurrence of such breach the General Partners at their own expense have obtained for the benefit of the Partnership credit enhancement that is not satisfactory in form, source and amount to the Securitization Agent for such Limited Partner and such Securitization Agent has provided notice of such determination to the General Partners and the other Limited Partner, or (d) a material adverse change since the date hereof in the financial condition or operations of a General Partner or the Partnership which, in the opinion of the Securitization Agent for such Limited Partner, after consultation with the Rating Agency and which opinion has been communicated in writing to the General Partners and the Limited Partners, could reasonably be expected to result in a General Partner being unable to satisfy its obligations hereunder, becoming a bankrupt, or seeking the protection of Insolvency Legislation;
Gain on Dispositions means, for any period, the amount, if any, by which Proceeds of Disposition received by the Partnership in such period exceed the Current Book Value of the subject Vehicles;
General Motors means General Motors of Canada Limited and its Canadian Affiliates;
General Partners Capital Account and General Partners Capital Accounts have the meanings ascribed thereto in Section 3.5(b);
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General Partners Capital Commitment has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 3.3(e);
General Partners Funded Amount means, in respect of the Avis General Partner or the Budget General Partner, as applicable, at any time, the General Partners Capital Account for such General Partner at such time (calculated on the assumption that all Net Income of the Partnership up to such time has been allocated to the Partners at such time), minus the Excluded Capital for such General Partner at such time, minus the amount of any capital contributed by such General Partner pursuant to Section 4.8 prior to such time;
Gross-Up has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 9.5;
Grossed-Up Payment has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 9.5;
GP Financial Statements means the balance sheet of the Avis General Partner as at December 31, 2004 and the statements of income, retained earnings and sources and application of funds for the Avis General Partner for the period beginning January 1, 2004 and ending December 31, 2004;
GP Losses for any Settlement Period means the aggregate of the losses allocated pursuant to subparagraphs 4.11(a)(i) and (ii) for such Settlement Period;
GST means all amounts payable pursuant to Section 165(1) of the ETA;
HST means all amounts payable pursuant to Section 165(2) of the ETA;
Hedge Counterparty means a counterparty under a Hedging Transaction;
Hedge Payables means all net amounts, other than Hedge Unwinding Costs, payable by the Partnership under Hedging Transactions to Hedge Counterparties;
Hedge Receipts means all net amounts paid to the Partnership under Hedging Transactions, including amounts as a result of the termination of all or a portion of a Hedging Transaction;
Hedge Unwinding Costs means any net amounts required to be paid by the Partnership, including any unwinding costs, as a result of the termination of all or a portion of a Hedging Transaction;
Hedging Transaction means any rate swap transaction, basis swap, forward rate transaction, interest rate option, foreign exchange transaction, cap transaction, floor transaction, collar transaction, currency swap transaction, cross-currency rate swap transaction, currency option, letter of credit or any other hedging transaction (including any option with respect to any of these transactions) or any combination of such transactions;
Indemnified Amounts has the meaning described thereto in Section 9.1;
Indemnified Parties has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 9.1;
Insolvency Legislation means the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (Canada), the Companies Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada) and any other Applicable Law under which indebtedness may be compromised;
Interest Earned Amount means, in respect of a series of Bonds for any period, the aggregate net investment income (net of any investment losses) earned during such period by the relevant Limited Partner in respect of any Bond Interest Amount for such series of Bonds paid to such Limited Partner pursuant to Section 4.6(c)(ii);
Interest Funding Account means, in respect of each series of Bonds, an account established in the name of the Limited Partner issuing such Bonds at the Eligible Institution determined by such Limited Partner, which account will be separate and segregated from the other assets of such Limited Partner, shall bear interest and which shall be designated as the Interest Funding Account for such series of Bonds;
Interest Payment Date means, in respect of each series of Bonds, each date specified as an Interest Payment Date in the series supplement to the trust indenture pursuant to which such series of Bonds is issued;
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Licensee Vehicle Assignment Agreement means, where the vendor is a General Partner, an agreement to be entered into between the Partnership and such General Partner in the form set out in Schedule J with such modifications as may be approved in writing by the Rating Agency, and where the vendor is an Avis or Budget System Member, an agreement to be entered into between the Partnership and such Avis or Budget System Member in the form set out in Schedule K, with such modifications as may be approved by the Rating Agency;
Licensee Vehicles means any Vehicles owned by (a) Avis or Budget System Members or (b) a General Partner where such Vehicles have been acquired, directly or indirectly, by such General Partner from Avis or Budget System Members;
Limited Partners Capital Account and Limited Partners Capital Accounts have the meanings ascribed thereto in Section 3.5(c);
Limited Partners Funded Amount means, with respect to a Limited Partner and at any time, the aggregate amount (without duplication) of the funds that have been contributed by such Limited Partner to the Partnership as capital pursuant to Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.7(a) and 4.8 prior to such time minus all amounts (without duplication) distributed or paid to such Limited Partner as a return of capital pursuant to Sections 4.7(b)(v), 4.7(b)(vi), 4.8 and 8.5(b)(vi) prior to such time, provided that if the Limited Partners Funded Amount shall have been reduced by any distribution or payment and thereafter all or a portion of such distribution or payment is rescinded or must otherwise be returned for any reason, such Limited Partners Funded Amount shall be increased by the amount of such rescinded or returned distribution or payment, as though it had not been made;
Limited Partnership Interest means, in respect of a Limited Partner, the interest of such Limited Partner in the Partnership;
Liquidity Agreement means, in respect of the STARS Limited Partner, the liquidity agreement in respect of STARS Trust dated as of June 30, 1997 between STARS Trust, BMO and the banks and other financial institutions whose names appear on Schedule I to such agreement, as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time and, in respect of the Bay Street Limited Partner, means the liquidity asset purchase agreement dated as of April 20, 2005 between The Bank of Nova Scotia and the other banks and other financial institutions party thereto from time to time, as liquidity purchasers, The Bank of Nova Scotia, as liquidity agent, and the Bay Street Limited Partner, as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time;
Liquidity Event means, in respect of a Limited Partner, the expiry of the Liquidity Agreement to which such Limited Partner is a party following the reasonable best efforts of the STARS Securitization Agent or the Bay Street Securitization Agent, as applicable, to renegotiate that agreement and the STARS Securitization Agent or the Bay Street Securitization Agent, as applicable, giving notice in writing to the General Partners and the other Limited Partner of such expiry;
Loss on Dispositions means, for any period, the amount, if any, by which Proceeds of Disposition received by the Partnership in such period are less than the Current Book Value of the subject Vehicles and, when a Vehicle is written off as a result of theft, fire, accident or act of God and the General Partners fail to make the additional capital contribution required by Section 5.7 in respect thereof, the amount of the write-off;
Manufacturer means any of Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, Nissan, Toyota and any additional manufacturer of Vehicles;
Miscellaneous Add On Revenues means all monetary receipts (other than sales, value added and other similar Taxes collected on behalf of a governmental authority) from customers in respect of additional products and services relating to the renting by such customer of a Partnership Vehicle, including such monetary receipts arising from child safety seats, ski racks, additional driver approvals and similar products and services;
Moodys means Moodys Investors Service, Inc.;
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Net Income or Net Loss means, in respect of any period, respectively, the net income or net loss of the Partnership in respect of such period, as determined in accordance with Canadian GAAP;
Net Loss on Dispositions means, in respect of any Settlement Period, the sum of:
(NLDP x VDP) + (NLDNP x VDNP)
where:
NLDNP means the greatest NLSPNP in the last 12 consecutive Settlement Periods;
NLDP means the greatest NLSPP in the last 12 consecutive Settlement Periods;
VDP means the number of Partnership Program Vehicles that the General Partners estimate to be disposed of in such Settlement Period;
NLSPP means the quotient of (a) Loss on Dispositions less Gain on Dispositions for all Partnership Program Vehicles disposed of within a Settlement Period divided by (b) the number of Partnership Program Vehicles disposed of within such Settlement Period, provided, however,that NLSPP shall not be less than zero;
NLSPNP means the quotient of (a) Loss on Dispositions less Gain on Dispositions for all Partnership Non-program Vehicles disposed of within a Settlement Period divided by (b) the number of Partnership Non-program Vehicles disposed of within such Settlement Period, provided, however, that NLSPNP shall not be less than zero; and
VDNP means the number of Partnership Non-program Vehicles that the General Partners estimate to be disposed of in such Settlement Period;
Nissan means Nissan Canada, Inc.;
Normal Course Termination Date means:
(a) | in respect of the STARS Limited Partner, April 30, 2010,
subject to the extension of that date until April 30, 2011 if on or before October 31,
2009 the General Partners request an extension by notice in writing to the
STARS Limited Partner and the STARS Limited Partner on or before December 31, 2009
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(b) | in respect of the Bay Street Limited Partner, April 30,
2010, subject to the extension of that date until April 30, 2011 if on or before
October 31, 2009 the General Partners request an extension by notice in writing to
the Bay Street Limited Partner and the Bay Street Limited Partner on or before December 31,
2009 notifies the General Partners in writing that it agrees to such extension; |
Notes means, (a) in respect of the STARS Limited Partner, short-term debt obligations of the STARS Limited Partner with a maximum weighted average 42 days until maturity, issued by the STARS Limited Partner from time to time to fund certain of the STARS Limited Partners capital contributions to the Partnership and (b) in respect of the Bay Street Limited Partner, short-term debt obligations of the Bay Street Limited Partner, issued by the Bay Street Limited Partner from time to time to fund certain of the Bay Street Limited Partners capital contributions to the Partnership;
Notional Return has the meaning ascribed thereto in subparagraph 4.10(d)(i);
One Way Fee Revenues means all monetary receipts (other than sales, value added and other similar Taxes collected on behalf of a governmental authority) from customers returning a Partnership Vehicle to a rental location other than the rental location from which such Partnership Vehicle was rented;
Option Closing Date has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 8.4(c);
Option Purchase Price has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 8.4(c);
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Organizational Expenses means all fees, costs and expenses incurred in respect of the formation and organization of the Partnership and its registration and qualification under Applicable Law;
Original Book Value means, in respect of a Partnership Vehicle, the full cash purchase price to the Partnership of such Vehicle, without any allowance for trade-in of a Vehicle and without deduction for cash allowances or rebates from the relevant Manufacturer unless such cash allowances or rebates reduce the purchase price of Vehicles under the relevant Repurchase Agreement, in which case Original Book Value shall be reduced by the amount of such allowance or rebate. For greater certainty, full cash purchase price does not include VAT or any amounts paid by the Partnership in respect of transfer fees, license fees, registration fees or other similar government fees or charges and transfer Taxes but does include, if applicable, up to but not in excess of $300 per Vehicle, in the case of a Partnership Program Vehicle, and $500, in the case of a Partnership Non-program Vehicle, in aggregate for dealer mark-up, pre-delivery inspection, air conditioning tax, weight tax, battery tax, gas guzzler tax and other similar costs and taxes. Where a Partnership Vehicle has been purchased by the Partnership from an Avis or Budget System Member or from a General Partner, Original Book Value for the purposes of calculating Depreciation means the full cash purchase price paid by the Partnership to the Avis or Budget System Member or the relevant General Partner, as the case may be;
Parent means Cendant Corporation;
Parent Guarantee means the amended and restated guarantee dated the date hereof made by the Parent in favour of each Limited Partner pursuant to which the Parent guarantees certain of the General Partners obligations hereunder;
Partners means, collectively, the Avis General Partner, the Budget General Partner, the STARS Limited Partner, the Bay Street Limited Partner and the Additional General Partner (if any);
Partnership means WTH Funding Limited Partnership, a partnership organized under the laws of the Province of Ontario as a limited partnership;
Partnership Interest Option Notice has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 8.4(c);
Partnership Non-program Vehicle means a Partnership Vehicle that is not a Partnership Program Vehicle;
Partnership Program Vehicle means a Partnership Vehicle eligible for repurchase under a Repurchase Agreement;
Partnership Vehicle means a Vehicle owned by the Partnership;
Payout Date means a Tranche Date for Notes issued by the STARS Limited Partner on which the General Partners have notified each Limited Partner that some or all of the aggregate Limited Partners Funded Amounts for all Limited Partners is to be repaid in accordance with subsections 4.7(b)(v) or (vi); provided however, (a) a Payout Date shall occur no more frequently than weekly, unless an additional Payout Date is requested by the General Partners and approved by each of the Limited Partners, (b) the date hereof shall be a Payout Date, (c) the closing date for the issuance of any series of Bonds shall be a Payout Date and (d) during any period in which the Deficit Bond Accumulation Amount or the Deficit Controlled Amortization Amount is greater than zero, a Payout Date may not occur;
Payout Excess shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 3.3(f);
Payout Report means a report substantially in the form of Schedule C provided by the General Partners to each Limited Partner pursuant to Section 4.2;
Payout Reporting Date means, in respect of a Payout Date, the day which is two Business Days prior to such Payout Date;
Person includes an individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, association, syndicate, trust, unincorporated organization or other entity or any trustee, executor, administrator or other legal representative;
PNV Excess has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 5.4(d);
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Portion of the Bay Street Limited Partners Funded Amount means, each portion of the aggregate of the Bay Street Limited Partners Funded Amount comprising or invested in its Limited Partners Capital Account, which portions shall equal, in the aggregate, the then outstanding Funded Amount for the Bay Street Limited Partner, and each portion of which and the amount thereof which shall be determined by reference to its source of funding through the issuance of the Bay Street Limited Partners Notes or under the Liquidity Agreement for the Bay Street Limited Partner;
Principal Amount means, in respect of each series of Bonds, the aggregate initial principal amount outstanding under such series of Bonds;
Principal Funding Account means, in respect of each series of Bonds, an account established in the name of the Limited Partner issuing such Bonds at the Eligible Institution determined by such Limited Partner, which account will be separate and segregated from the other assets of such Limited Partner, shall bear interest and which shall be designated as the Principal Funding Account for such series of Bonds;
Proceeds of Disposition means the cash or other monetary consideration received by the Partnership from the sale of Partnership Vehicles, including from insurance in respect of Partnership Vehicles written off by the Partnership as a result of theft, fire, accident or act of God;
Program Fee Rate means, (a) in respect of any Notes issued by the STARS Limited Partner, the rate specified as such in the letter agreement dated the date hereof between the Avis General Partner and the STARS Securitization Agent and, (b) in respect of the Bay Street Limited Partner and any Portion of the Bay Street Limited Partners Funded Amount, the rate specified as the Program Fee Rate for the Bay Street Limited Partner in the letter agreement dated the date hereof between the Avis General Partner and the Bay Street Securitization Agent;
Program Negotiation Vehicles has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 5.4(a);
Purchase Right has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 8.4(c);
Purchased Assets shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in the Assignment and Assumption Agreement;
QST means all amounts payable pursuant to an act respecting Quebec Sales Tax;
Qualified PMSI means a purchase money security interest (PMSI) in a Partnership Vehicle granted by the Partnership to, or reserved by, an Approved Dealer or Manufacturer (a holder") under terms that the PMSI will expire automatically upon payment by the Partnership to the holder of the full cash purchase price of the Vehicle, which payment must be made according to the agreement under which the PMSI arises within 30 days of the date when the PMSI arose;
Rating Agency means Dominion Bond Rating Service Limited and its successors and, at any particular time after the date hereof, may include any other nationally recognized credit rating agency or agencies then authorized by the STARS Securitization Agent or the Bay Street Securitization Agent to rate securities issued by the relevant Limited Partner;
Relative Revenue Contribution for any Settlement Period and for any General Partner means the proportion of Rental Revenues generated through the operations of such General Partner on behalf of the Partnership for such Settlement Period over the total aggregate Rental Revenues for such Settlement Period;
Remittance Date means the 20th day of each calendar month, provided if such day is not a Business Day, the Remittance Date shall occur on the next Business Day;
Remittance Period means the period beginning on a Remittance Date and ending on the day prior to the next occurring Remittance Date, provided that the first Remittance Period after the amendment and restatement contemplated herein will begin on the date hereof and end on the day prior to the next occurring Remittance Date; for any Remittance Date, the related Remittance Period is the Remittance Period ending on the day immediately prior to such Remittance Date;
Rental Account has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 4.6(a);
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Rental Account Prepaid Amount has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 4.5;
Rental Revenues means all monetary receipts (other than sales, value added and other similar Taxes collected on behalf of a governmental authority) received after January 1998 from time and kilometre charges for the rental of Partnership Vehicles, all Fuel Revenues, all Miscellaneous Add On Revenues and all One Way Fee Revenues, as provided for in the relevant Vehicle Rental Agreements, whether in the form of remittances from credit card or debit card issuers, cash payments, bank drafts, cheques, wire transfers or otherwise;
Repurchase Agreements means any agreements entered into between the Partnership and Eligible Manufacturers or Approved Dealers or assigned to the Partnership pursuant to which such Eligible Manufacturers or Approved Dealers will be obligated to purchase Partnership Vehicles from the Partnership which have been approved in writing by the Rating Agency;
Securitization Agents means, collectively, the Bay Street Securitization Agent and the STARS Securitization Agent, and Securitization Agent means either one of them;
S&P means Standard & Poors Ratings Group;
Selling Limited Partner has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 8.4(c);
Servicer has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 8.3(e);
Settlement Date means the second Business Day prior to the Remittance Date;
Settlement Period in respect of any Settlement Date, means the most recently completed calendar month prior to such Settlement Date;
Settlement Report means a monthly report substantially in the form of Schedule D provided by the General Partners to each Limited Partner pursuant to Section 4.3;
STARS Securitization Agent means BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc.;
Successor Corporation has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 2.8(c);
Tax or Taxes includes all present and future taxes, surtaxes, duties, levies, imposts, rates, fees, assessments, withholdings and other charges of any nature (including income, corporate, capital (including large corporations), net worth, sales, consumption, use, transfer, goods and services, value-added, stamp, registration, franchise, withholding, payroll, employment, health, education, excise, business, school, property, occupation, customs, anti-dumping and countervailing taxes, surtaxes, duties, levies, imposts, rates, fees, assessments, withholdings and other charges) imposed by any national, federal, provincial, territorial, state, colonial, municipal, local, foreign or other governmental authority, together with any penalties, fines, interest or other additions on, to, in lieu of, for non-collection of or in respect of such taxes, surtaxes, duties, levies, imposts, rates, fees, assessments, withholdings and other charges;
Tax Credit has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 9.5;
Taxable Income or Tax Loss means, in respect of any Fiscal Period, respectively, the amount of net income or loss of the Partnership for such period as determined by the General Partners (and reviewed by the Auditors) in accordance with the provisions of the Income Tax Act (Canada) (including the amount of the taxable capital gain or allowable capital loss from the disposition of each capital property of the Partnership as determined by the General Partners in accordance with the provisions of the Income Tax Act (Canada));
Temporary GP Contributions means amounts contributed to the Partnership by a General Partner on a temporary basis from time to time pending Capital Calls to fund the purchase of Partnership Vehicles up to but not in excess of the Original Book Value of such Vehicles and not required to make the aggregate balance of the General Partners Capital Accounts equal in value to the General Partners Capital Commitment;
Toyota means Toyota Canada Inc.;
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Tranche means an issuance of Notes by the STARS Limited Partner used to fund the making of a Capital Call or to refund or repay any such Notes at maturity;
Tranche Date means the day on which a Tranche matures or otherwise becomes due and payable; provided however, if at any time a Trigger Event has occurred, the Tranche Date for all Tranches of Notes issued after the date of such occurrence shall be a Remittance Date;
Trigger Event has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 8.1;
Utilization Fee means, in respect of the STARS Limited Partner, the fee specified as such in the letter agreement dated the date hereof between the Avis General Partner and the STARS Securitization Agent, and in respect of the Bay Street Limited Partner, the fee specified as such in the letter agreement dated the date hereof between the Avis General Partner and the Bay Street Securitization Agent;
VAT means, collectively, GST, HST and QST and any amounts payable under any similar value-added Tax legislation in any jurisdiction in Canada;
VAT Account has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 4.8;
Vehicle means an automobile, minivan, sport utility vehicle, truck, van or service vehicle having an Original Book Value not greater than $90,000, in the case of automobiles, minivans and sport utility vehicles and $115,000, in the case of trucks, vans and service vehicles;
Vehicle Account has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 4.7(a);
Vehicle Account Prepaid Amount has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 4.5; and
Vehicle Rental Agreements means the agreements pursuant to which a General Partner, as agent for an undisclosed principal, rents Partnership Vehicles to retail, commercial and leisure customers, substantially in the form of the agreements used by such General Partner for such purposes prior to the date hereof.
1.2 | Other Rules of Interpretation |
For all purposes of this Agreement, except as otherwise expressly provided herein or unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) | any reference to a designated Article, Section or other subdivision or to a
Schedule is to the designated Article, Section or other subdivision of or Schedule
to this Agreement; |
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(b) | the words herein, hereof and hereunder and other words of similar import
refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or
other subdivision of or Schedule to this Agreement; |
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(c) | the headings are for convenience of reference only and do not form part of this
Agreement and are not intended to interpret, define or limit the scope, extent or
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(d) | the word including is not to be construed to limit a general statement, term or
matter to the items set forth following such word but rather refers to all other
items or matters that could reasonably fall within the scope of such general
statement, term or matter; |
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(e) | any reference herein to a particular percentage of Partnership Vehicles is a
reference to a percentage of the aggregate Current Book Value of such Vehicles at
the relevant time and not to a percentage of the number of such Vehicles; |
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(f) | all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to
them by, and all calculations to be made hereunder are to be made in accordance with
Canadian GAAP as it may exist from time to time; |
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(g) | any reference to a statute is a reference to such statute and to the regulations
made pursuant thereto, with all amendments made thereto and in force from time to
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(h) | any reference to an entity is also a reference to any entity that is a successor
to such entity, provided that all restrictions on assignability and transfer set
forth herein are complied with; |
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(i) | any reference to an approval, authorization or consent of a party means the
written approval, written authorization or written consent of such party; and |
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(j) | words importing the masculine gender include the feminine or neuter gender and
words in the singular include the plural, and vice versa. |
1.3 | Strict Performance of Covenants |
The failure of any party to seek redress for a violation of, or to insist upon strict performance of, any provision hereof shall not prevent a subsequent act, which would have originally constituted a violation of such provision or any other provision hereof, from having the effect of an original violation of such provision or any other provision hereof.
1.4 | Non-Business Days |
Unless expressly provided otherwise, whenever payment to be made hereunder shall be stated to be made or any action to be taken hereunder shall be stated to be required to be taken on a day other than a Business Day, such payment shall be made or such action shall be taken on the next succeeding Business Day and, in the case of the payment of any monetary amount, the extension of time shall be included for the purposes of the computation of interest, if any, thereon.
1.5 | Governing Law |
This Agreement and the application or interpretation hereof shall be governed exclusively by its terms and by the laws of the Province of Ontario and each Partner irrevocably attorns to the jurisdiction of the courts of the Province of Ontario.
1.6 | Time of Essence |
Time shall be of the essence hereof.
1.7 | Currency |
Unless otherwise indicated, all dollar amounts referred to in this Agreement are expressed in Canadian dollars, and all payments to be made under this Agreement shall be made in such currency.
1.8 | Entire Agreement |
This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior agreements, understandings, negotiations and discussions, whether written or oral. There are no conditions, covenants, agreements, representations, warranties or other provisions, expressed or implied, collateral, statutory or otherwise, relating to the subject matter hereof except as herein provided.
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1.9 | Schedules |
The following are the Schedules to this Agreement:
Schedule A
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| Form of Estimation Report | ||
Schedule B
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| Form of Fleet Report | ||
Schedule C
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| Form of Payout Report | ||
Schedule D
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| Form of Settlement Report | ||
Schedule E
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| Litigation | ||
Schedule F
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| Insurance | ||
Schedule G
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| Form of Capital Call | ||
Schedule H
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| Form of Additional General Partner Acknowledgement | ||
Schedule I
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| Conditions Precedent for Purchase of Licensee Vehicles | ||
Schedule J
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| Form of Licensee Vehicle Assignment Agreement General Partner | ||
Schedule K
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| Form of Licensee Vehicle Assignment Agreement Avis or Budget System Member | ||
Schedule L
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| Budget General Partner Liabilities | ||
Schedule M
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| Form of Opinion for Licensee Vehicle Purchases |
1.10 | Joint and Several Liability |
The obligations and liabilities of the General Partners hereunder shall be joint and several.
1.11 | One Voice Rule |
The General Partners shall at all times jointly appoint one of them to act as the agent and designated representative of the General Partners hereunder (the Designated Representative). The General Partners hereby appoint the Avis General Partner to be the Designated Representative. The General Partners may, upon notice to each Limited Partner, change the Designated Representative. All actions to be taken, documents to be executed, determinations or estimates to be made, notices or reports to be provided or such other matters to be undertaken by the General Partners hereunder shall be taken, executed, made, provided or undertaken by the Designated Representative and shall be binding on the General Partners. Each Limited Partner shall be entitled to rely on the actions, executions, determinations, estimates, notices or reports of the Designated Representative without further inquiry. All notices or reports to be provided by a Limited Partner to the General Partners hereunder may be provided solely to the Designated Representative. The General Partner who is not the Designated Representative hereby nominates, constitutes and appoints the Designated Representative as its agent and true and lawful attorney to act on its behalf with full power and authority in its name, place and stead for the purposes of this Section 1.11.
1.12 | Limited Partners |
For greater certainty, the obligations and liabilities of each Limited Partner hereunder shall be several and no Limited Partner shall be entitled to take any actions on behalf of the other Limited Partner.
ARTICLE 2
CONTINUANCE OF PARTNERSHIP AND RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARTNERS
2.1 | Continuance |
The General Partners and the Limited Partners hereby confirm the continuance of a limited partnership under the Act. The rights, restrictions and liabilities of the Partners shall be as provided in the Act except as herein otherwise expressly provided.
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2.2 | Name |
The name of the Partnership shall continue to be WTH Funding Limited Partnership or such other name or names as the General Partners may from time to time deem appropriate to comply with the laws of any jurisdiction in which the Partnership may carry on business. The Partnership may use as a French language name Société en commandité de financement WTH.
2.3 | Business of Partnership |
The Partnership shall carry on the business of (i) purchasing, owning and renting Vehicles throughout Canada and (ii) selling Vehicles that it has owned as rental Vehicles. The Partnership shall be further authorized to exercise all powers ancillary and incidental thereto or reasonably in furtherance thereof and not specifically excluded by the terms of this Agreement. The Partnership shall not carry on any business not permitted by this Section 2.3.
2.4 | Principal Place of Business |
The principal place of business of the Partnership shall be 1 Convair Drive East, Etobicoke, Ontario M9W 6Z9, or such other address within the Province of Ontario as the General Partners, after giving not less than 30 days notice to each Limited Partner, may designate.
2.5 | Fiscal Period |
The first Fiscal Period of the Partnership shall commence on December 5, 1997 and end on December 31, 1997 and thereafter each Fiscal Period shall commence on January 1 and end on December 31 of each calendar year or such other date as determined by the General Partners and approved by each Limited Partner, acting reasonably. For greater certainty, a Limited Partner may refuse to approve a change of the Fiscal Period if such change would have an adverse tax or administrative impact on such Limited Partner.
2.6 | Title to Partnership Assets |
Title to the assets of the Partnership, whether real, personal or mixed and whether tangible or intangible, shall be deemed to be owned by the Partnership as an entity, and no Partner, individually or collectively, shall have any ownership interest in such Partnership assets or any portion thereof. Title to any or all of the assets of the Partnership shall be held in the name of the Partnership or, in the case of Vehicles purchased by the Partnership pursuant to Licensee Vehicle Assignment Agreements where the vendor is a General Partner or if the holding of title by the Partnership is prohibited by Applicable Law, a General Partner. Each of the General Partners hereby declares and warrants that any Partnership assets for which legal title is held in the name of a General Partner shall be held by the relevant General Partner, as agent in trust for the Partnership for the use and benefit of the Partnership in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement. All assets of the Partnership shall be recorded as property of the Partnership on its books and records, irrespective of the name in which legal title to such Partnership assets is held.
2.7 | Representation and Warranties of General Partners |
Each of the General Partners represents and warrants to each Limited Partner that:
(a) | Organization. Each General Partner is a corporation validly existing under the
laws of Canada and has the corporate power to own or lease its property, to carry on
its business as now being conducted by it and to enter into this Agreement and to
perform its obligations hereunder. Each General Partner is duly qualified as a
corporation to do business in each province of Canada in which it owns or leases any
material property or conducts any material business. |
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(b) | Authorization. This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by
each General Partner and is a legal, valid and binding obligation of such General
Partner, enforceable against such General Partner by each Limited Partner in
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terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy,
insolvency and other laws affecting the rights of creditors generally and except
that equitable remedies may be granted only in the discretion of a court of
competent jurisdiction. |
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(c) | No Violation. The execution and delivery of this Agreement by each General Partner
and the consummation of the transactions herein provided for will not result in the
breach or violation of any of the provisions of, or constitute a default under, or
conflict with or cause the acceleration of any obligation of such General Partner
under (i) any Contract to which such General Partner is a party or by which it
is or its properties are bound, (ii) any provision of the constating documents
or by-laws or resolutions of the board of directors (or any committee thereof) or
shareholders of such General Partner, (iii) any judgment, decree, order or award
of any court, governmental body or arbitrator having jurisdiction over such General
Partner, (iv) any licence, permit, approval, consent or authorization held by
such General Partner necessary to the operation of such General Partners business,
or (v) any Applicable Law, which breach, violation, default, conflict or
acceleration could reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the
ability of such General Partner to carry out its obligations hereunder. |
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(d) | No Litigation, Etc. There are no actions, suits, proceedings or investigations
commenced or, to the knowledge of each General Partner after due inquiry,
contemplated or threatened against or affecting such General Partner at law or in
equity before or by any governmental department, commission, board, bureau, court,
agency, arbitrator or instrumentality, domestic or foreign, of any kind, which in
any case would prevent or hinder the consummation of the transactions contemplated
by this Agreement or which could reasonably be expected to have a material adverse
effect on the ability of such General Partner to carry out its obligations hereunder
other than as set out in Schedule E. |
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(e) | GP Financial Statements. The GP Financial Statements have been prepared in
accordance with Canadian GAAP and the GP Financial Statements present fairly and
disclose in all material respects the financial condition, assets and liabilities of
the Avis General Partner as at the respective dates of the GP Financial Statements
and the sales, earnings and results of operations for the Avis General Partner for
the respective periods covered by the relevant GP Financial Statements. There has
been no material adverse change in the results of operations, financial position or
condition of the Avis General Partner since the date of the most recent balance
sheet for the Avis General Partner forming part of the GP Financial Statements. |
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(f) | Obligations and Liabilities. Each General Partner does not have any material
obligations or liabilities of any kind whatsoever, whether accrued, contingent or
otherwise, other than: |
(i) | obligations or liabilities disclosed on, reflected in or provided for in
the GP Financial Statements, in the case of the Avis General Partner, or
Schedule L, in the case of the Budget General Partner; and |
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(ii) | obligations or liabilities incurred in the ordinary course of business
of the Avis General Partner since December 31, 2004, none of which has
been materially adverse to the nature of the Avis General Partners
business, results of operations, assets, financial position or condition. |
(g) | Compliance with Applicable Laws. Each General Partner has conducted and is
conducting its business in compliance with all Applicable Laws of each jurisdiction
in which any material portion of its business is carried on and has all required
licences, permits, registrations and qualifications under the laws of each such
jurisdiction to carry on its business, except to the extent that failure to so
conduct its business or to have such licences, permits, registrations or
qualifications could not reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on
the ability of such General Partner to carry out its obligations hereunder. |
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(h) | Business Premises. Each General Partner has provided to each Limited Partner a
list of all business premises from which such General Partner (or a franchisee or
licensee thereof which is an Avis or Budget System Member) carries on the business
of renting Vehicles and such General Partner has a valid leasehold or fee interest
in all such premises operated by such General Partner (or license in the case of
premises at certain airports) and neither such General Partner nor the lessor,
sub-lessor or licensor of such premises, as the case may be, is in breach of any
material provision of any agreement pursuant to which such General Partner occupies
any such premises. |
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(i) | Communications and Computer Systems. Each General Partners communications and
computer systems are adequate for the conduct of the Partnerships business and the
use thereof by such General Partner does not infringe the rights of any other Person. |
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(j) | No Strikes, Work Stoppages, Etc. Each General Partner is not experiencing any
strike, work stoppage, slow-down or other material interference with or impairment
of its business by labour, and, to such General Partners knowledge, no such strike,
work stoppage, slow-down or other material interference or impairment is threatened.
Each General Partner is not a party to or the subject of any unfair labour practice
complaint and is not a party to or the subject of any prosecution, order or
complaint relating to employment standards or human rights before any governmental
agency. |
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(k) | Insurance. The casualty loss and third party liability insurance carried by each
General Partner in respect of its business, business premises and Vehicles is as
described in Schedule F. Such insurance is provided by third party underwriters
whose claims paying ability or similar measure is rated not lower than A (low) (or
such lower rating as may be approved by the Rating Agency) or the equivalent by as
many of DBRS, S&P, Moodys and Bests as rate it or, if such ability or other
measure is not rated by at least one of DBRS, S&P, Moodys and Bests, whose
profitability ranking has the highest rating from T.R.A.C. Insurance Services Ltd.
Each General Partner self insures against the first $1,000,000 of claims relating to
third party liability and collisions, has at its own expense made such self
insurance available to the Partnership and has taken adequate reserves in respect of
such self insurance. |
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(l) | Consents and Approvals. There is no requirement to make any filing with, give any
notice to or to obtain a licence, permit, certificate, registration, authorization,
consent or approval of, any governmental or regulatory authority as a condition to
the lawful consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, except
for notifications, consents and approvals which have been given or obtained, as the
case may be. There is no requirement under any Contract to which any General Partner
is a party or by which it is bound to give any notice to, or to obtain the consent
or approval of, any party to such Contract, relating to the consummation or
transactions contemplated by this Agreement, except for notifications, consents and
approvals which have been given or obtained, as the case may be. |
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(m) | Solvency, Etc. Each General Partner is not insolvent and has not: (i)
admitted its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due or failed to
pay its debts generally as they become due, (ii) proposed a compromise or
arrangement to its creditors, (iii) had any petition for a receiving order or
bankruptcy filed against it, (iv) consented to have itself declared bankrupt or
wound up, (v) consented to have a receiver, liquidator or trustee appointed over
any part of its assets, (vi) had any encumbrancer take possession of any of its
property, (vii) had any execution or distress become enforceable or become
levied upon any of its property which could reasonably be expected to have a
material adverse effect on the ability of such General Partner to carry out its
obligations hereunder, or (viii) had any unsatisfied judgment outstanding
against it for more than 15 days which could reasonably be expected to have a
material adverse effect on the ability of such General Partner to carry out its
obligations hereunder. |
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(n) | Ownership and Control. Each General Partner is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary
of, and is controlled in fact by, the Parent. |
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(o) | Residency. Each General Partner is not a non-resident of Canada for purposes of
the Income Tax Act (Canada). |
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(p) | VAT Registrations. The Avis General Partner is a registrant for purposes of the
ETA and the QST whose registration numbers are 105750632 and 1000099321,
respectively. The Budget General Partner is a registrant for purposes of the ETA and
the QST whose registration numbers are 88064 3820 RT0001 and 1086666192 TQ0001,
respectively. |
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(q) | Full Disclosure. Neither this Agreement nor any document to be delivered by the
General Partners nor any certificate, report, statement or other document furnished
by the General Partners to a Limited Partner, the STARS Securitization Agent, the
Bay Street Securitization Agent or the Rating Agency in connection with the
negotiation of this Agreement contains or will contain any untrue statement of a
material fact or omits or will omit to state a material fact necessary to make the
statements contained herein or therein not misleading in light of the circumstances
under which the statements were made. |
2.8 | Covenants of General Partners |
Each General Partner covenants and agrees with each Limited Partner that:
(a) | Corporate Existence. Each General Partner shall maintain its corporate existence
in good standing. |
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(b) | Compliance with Applicable Laws. Each General Partner shall in the conduct of the
Partnerships business comply with all Applicable Laws and obtain and maintain in
good standing all licences, permits, qualifications and approvals from any and all
governments and governmental agencies in any jurisdiction in which it carries on
business except to the extent that failure to so comply, obtain or maintain does not
materially affect the business or financial condition of the Partnership. |
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(c) | No Reconstruction, Reorganization, Etc. Each General Partner shall not enter into
any transaction (whether by way of reconstruction, reorganization, arrangement,
consolidation, amalgamation, merger, transfer, sale, lease or otherwise) whereby all
or any material part of the undertaking, property and assets of such General Partner
would become the property of any Person other than such General Partner or, in the
case of any amalgamation involving such General Partner, of the continuing company
resulting therefrom, unless all of the following conditions are met: |
(i) | such other Person or continuing company is a body corporate (herein called
the Successor Corporation); |
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(ii) | the Successor Corporation executes, prior to or contemporaneously with the
consummation of such transaction, such agreements supplemental hereto and any
other instruments as are satisfactory to each Limited Partner, acting
reasonably, and the Rating Agency and, in the opinion of counsel to each
Limited Partner, necessary or advisable, to evidence the assumption by the
Successor Corporation of all obligations and liabilities of the Person
entering into such transaction; |
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(iii) | immediately after the consummation of such transaction, no condition or
event shall exist which constitutes or which would, after the lapse of time
or the giving of notice or both, constitute a Trigger Event hereunder;
and |
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(iv) | such transaction is upon such terms as to preserve substantially and not to
impair materially any of the rights or powers of each Limited Partner
hereunder; |
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and whenever the conditions of this clause have been duly observed and performed, the
Successor Corporation shall be entitled to all of the benefits to which such General Partner is
entitled hereunder. |
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(d) | Ownership and Control. Each General Partner shall at all times during the term
hereof be a direct or indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of, and controlled in fact
by, the Parent. |
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(e) | No Liabilities. Each General Partner shall not, without the prior written consent
of each Limited Partner and the Rating Agency, have incurred or incur any
liabilities or enter into any obligations for or on behalf of the Partnership, other
than those arising under or contemplated by this Agreement, the Assignment and
Assumption Agreement, any Licensee Vehicle Assignment Agreements and/or any other
Contract contemplated hereby or thereby or those arising in the normal course of the
business of the Partnership, provided that, for greater certainty, this Section 2.8(e)
shall not restrict in any manner whatsoever the conduct of the business or
affairs of such General Partner unrelated to the Partnership. |
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(f) | No Defaults. Each General Partner shall promptly notify the Rating Agency and each
Securitization Agent of any defaults of which it is aware under this Agreement, the
Assignment and Assumption Agreement, any Licensee Vehicle Assignment Agreements, the
Parent Guarantee or any Repurchase Agreement. |
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(g) | Vehicle Dealer Registrations. The General Partners shall cause the Partnership to
be registered as a vehicle dealer under any applicable motor vehicle dealer,
highway traffic or other legislation where such registration is reasonably
determined by the General Partners to be necessary or desirable. Such registrations
are to be made promptly and, in any event, within 90 days of the date hereof in
respect of jurisdictions in which the Partnership carries on business as of the date
hereof, and within 60 days from the date on which the Partnership commences to
carry on business in respect of any other jurisdiction. |
2.9 | Representations and Warranties of Limited Partners |
Each Limited Partner represents and warrants to the General Partners, on a several basis and in respect of itself only, that:
(a) | Organization. Such Limited Partner is a trust validly formed and existing under
the laws of the Province of Ontario and it has the power and authority to enter into
this Agreement and to perform such Limited Partners obligations hereunder. The
trustee of such Limited Partner is a corporation validly existing under the laws of
Canada and is duly qualified to act as trustee of such Limited Partner. |
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(b) | Authorization. This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by
such Limited Partner and is a legal, valid and binding obligation of such Limited
Partner, enforceable against such Limited Partner by the General Partners in
accordance with its terms, except that enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy,
insolvency and other laws affecting the rights of creditors generally and except
that equitable remedies may only be granted in the discretion of a court of
competent jurisdiction. |
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(c) | No Violation. The execution and delivery of this Agreement by such Limited Partner
and the consummation of the transactions herein provided for will not result in the
breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, or conflict with or cause the
acceleration of any obligation of such Limited Partner under (a) the declaration
of trust of such Limited Partner, (b) any Contract to which such Limited Partner
is a party or by which it is bound, (c) any judgment, decree, order or award of
any court, governmental body or arbitrator having jurisdiction over such Limited
Partner, or (d) any Applicable Law, which breach, violation, default, conflict
or acceleration could reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on
the ability of such Limited Partner to carry out its obligations hereunder. |
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(d) | Consents and Approvals. There is no requirement for such Limited Partner to make
any filing with, give any notice to or obtain any licence, permit, certificate,
registration, authorization, consent or approval of, any government or regulatory
authority as a condition to the lawful consummation of the transactions contemplated
by this Agreement, except for filings, notifications, consents and approvals which
have been made, given or obtained, as the case may be. |
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(e) | Residency. Such Limited Partner is not a non-resident of Canada for the purposes
of the Income Tax Act (Canada). |
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(f) | Investment Canada. Such Limited Partner is not a non-Canadian within the meaning
of the Investment Canada Act. |
2.10 | Covenants of Limited Partners re Liquidity Agreements |
Each Limited Partner covenants and agrees to provide the General Partners with written notice of (a) the expiry date of its Liquidity Agreement as of the date hereof, (b) the renewal or extension of the expiry date of its Liquidity Agreement within 10 Business Days of such renewal or extension and (c) any failure by the liquidity agent and/or lenders or liquidity providers or purchasers, as applicable, under its Liquidity Agreement to accept a request by such Limited Partner to extend the current expiry date of its Liquidity Agreement within 10 Business Days of such Limited Partner becoming aware of such failure and, in any event, at least 150 days prior to the current expiry date of its Liquidity Agreement.
2.11 | Limitations of Authority of Limited Partners |
The Limited Partners shall not be entitled to:
(a) | take part in the control of the business of the Partnership; |
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(b) | execute any document which binds or purports to bind the Partnership or any other
Partner as such; |
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(c) | purport to have the power or authority to bind the Partnership or any other
Partner as such; |
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(d) | undertake any obligation or responsibility on behalf of the Partnership; |
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(e) | bring any action for partition or sale or otherwise in connection with any
interest in any property of the Partnership, whether real or personal, or register
or permit to be filed or registered or remain undischarged, against any property of
the Partnership, any lien or charge; or |
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(f) | commence against the Partnership any proceedings under Insolvency Legislation. |
2.12 | Power of Attorney |
Each Limited Partner hereby irrevocably nominates, constitutes and appoints each of the General Partners as such Limited Partners agent and true and lawful attorney to act on its behalf with full power and authority in its name, place and stead to execute, swear to, acknowledge, deliver and record or file as and where required:
(a) | the Declaration, any amendment to the Declaration and any other instrument
required to qualify, continue and keep in good standing the Partnership as a limited
partnership, or otherwise to comply with the laws of any jurisdiction in which the
Partnership may carry on business or own or lease property in order to maintain the
limited liability of the Limited Partners and to comply with the Applicable Law of
such jurisdiction; |
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(b) | any instrument, and any amendment to the Declaration, necessary to reflect any
amendment to this Agreement; |
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(c) | any instrument required to record with any governmental or regulatory authority
the dissolution and termination of the Partnership; and |
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(d) | any instrument required in connection with any election that may be made under
fiscal legislation in any jurisdiction in which the Partnership is carrying on
business or where such Limited Partner resides. |
The power of attorney granted herein is irrevocable and is a power coupled with an interest and extends to the successors and assigns of each Limited Partner. Each Limited Partner agrees to be bound by any representation or action made or taken by any of the General Partners pursuant to this power of attorney and hereby waives any and all defences which may be available to contest, negate or disaffirm the action of the General Partners taken in good faith under this power of attorney, provided that the General Partners do not incur any liability on behalf of, or take any action which may result in any liability to, such Limited Partner.
2.13 | Unlimited Liability of General Partners |
The General Partners shall have unlimited liability for the debts, liabilities and obligations of the Partnership and the General Partners shall be jointly and severally liable for all such debts, liabilities and obligations.
2.14 | Limited Liability of Limited Partners |
Subject to the provisions of the Act, the liability of each Limited Partner for the debts, liabilities and obligations of the Partnership at any relevant time shall be limited to such Limited Partners Capital Account at that time and any amount paid or required at such time to be paid by such Limited Partner as additional capital contributions to the Partnership pursuant to the terms hereof and such Limited Partner shall not be liable for any further claims, assessments or contributions to the Partnership.
2.15 | Other Activities of Limited Partners |
Each Limited Partner may hold an interest in any other limited partnership that holds property and carries on a business similar to or competitive with the business and properties of the Partnership and such Limited Partner shall not be required to account to or shall be liable to the General Partners or the Partnership by reason thereof; provided, however, that such Limited Partner shall not hold a general partnership interest in any such other limited partnership except where such Limited Partner has determined, acting reasonably, that to do so is necessary to preserve or protect its limited partnership interest in such other limited partnership.
2.16 | Compliance with Applicable Laws |
On request by the General Partners, each Limited Partner shall immediately execute such certificates and other instruments necessary to comply with any Applicable Law of any jurisdiction for the continuation and good standing of the Partnership.
2.17 | Additional Covenants of the Limited Partners |
(a) | Each Limited Partner shall during the term hereof maintain its existence as a
validly constituted trust and shall remain a resident of Canada for purposes of the
Income Tax Act (Canada). |
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(b) | Neither Limited Partner shall divulge, except to its agents and employees on a
need to know basis or as required by law, the confidential business of the General
Partners or of the Partnership. Information shall not be confidential for the
purposes of this Section 2.17 if it becomes generally available to the public
from a source other than such Limited Partner or becomes known to such Limited
Partner from a source other than the General Partners or the other Limited Partner
and their representatives provided that such source, so far as is known |
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to such Limited Partner, is not bound by a contractual or other obligation of
confidentiality to the General Partners, the other Limited Partner or the
Partnership. |
2.18 | Survival of Representations, Warranties and Covenants |
The representations, warranties and covenants contained in this Agreement and in all certificates and documents delivered pursuant to or contemplated by this Agreement shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement and shall continue for the applicable limitation period notwithstanding the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor any investigation made by on behalf of the Party entitled to the benefit thereof.
ARTICLE 3
CAPITAL CONTRIBUTIONS, HEDGING AND CAPITAL ACCOUNTS
3.1 | Initial Capital Contributions |
(a) | The initial capital contribution of the Avis General Partner was $1.00. The
initial capital contribution of the STARS Limited Partner was $9.00. |
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(b) | The Budget General Partner made a capital contribution of $1.00 on November 30,
2004. |
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(c) | The Bay Street Limited Partner shall make a capital contribution of $128,900,000
on the date hereof. Notwithstanding any other provisions hereof, such capital
contribution by the Bay Street Limited Partner shall not be deposited into the
Vehicle Account and such capital contribution shall be distributed by the
Partnership to the STARS Limited Partner on the date hereof as a return of capital. |
3.2 | Capital Contributions on January 8, 1998 |
On January 8, 1998:
(a) | the Avis General Partner made a capital contribution in an amount equal to 52.3%
of the fair market value of the Purchased Assets on January 8, 1998 which was
satisfied by the transfer from the Avis General Partner to the Partnership of
Purchased Assets pursuant to the Assignment and Assumption Agreement; and |
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(b) | the STARS Limited Partner made a capital contribution in an amount equal to 47.7%
of the fair market value of the Purchased Assets on January 8, 1998. Such
capital contribution was made contemporaneously with the capital contribution of the
Avis General Partner referred to in Section 3.2(a) and was satisfied by the
delivery to or to the order of the Partnership of a certified cheque, bank draft or
wire transfer. The Partnership used the STARS Limited Partners capital contribution
to satisfy the cash portion of the purchase price of the Purchased Assets under the
Assignment and Assumption Agreement. |
3.3 | Additional Capital Contributions |
(a) | If there does not exist a Trigger Event which is continuing, the General Partners
may call for additional capital contributions to the Partnership (a Capital Call)
from the Limited Partners in an amount that does not exceed the Available Aggregate
Call Amount by giving to each Limited Partner a notice in the form of the notice
contained in Schedule G hereto (a Capital Call
Notice), provided that no
Capital Calls shall be made from a Limited Partner on or after a Funding Termination
Event in respect of such Limited Partner. If the Capital Call is made prior to a
Funding Termination Event in respect of each Limited Partner, each Limited Partner
shall be required to contribute to the Partnership an amount equal to 50% of such
Capital Call (provided that such required amount shall not exceed the Available Call
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Termination Event in respect of one of the Limited Partners, the other Limited
Partner shall be required to contribute to the Partnership an amount equal to 100%
of such Capital Call (provided that such required amount shall not exceed the
Available Call Amount for such Limited Partner). If a Limited Partner fails to
contribute all or a portion of such required proportion of a Capital Call, the other
Limited Partner may, but, subject to the preceding sentence, shall not be required
to, contribute all or a portion of the amount such Limited Partner failed to
contribute. A Capital Call shall be made solely for the purposes of (i) repaying
to a General Partner any Temporary GP Contributions made by such General Partner or
to refinance the acquisition by a General Partner of all or a portion of a Limited
Partnership Interest pursuant to Section 8.4, (ii) funding purchases of
Vehicles up to but not in excess of their Original Book Value, (iii) repaying to
a General Partner a Payout Excess for such General Partner pursuant to subsection 3.3(f)
and (iv) repaying to a General Partner a PNV Excess for such General
Partner pursuant to subsection 5.4(d). Subject to subsections 3.3(f) and 5.4(d),
a Capital Call must be not less than $5,000,000 and in increments of $100,000 above
that amount. A Capital Call Notice must be delivered to each Limited Partner not
later than 4:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on the second Business Day prior to the day
(which must be a Business Day) when the additional capital contribution is to be
paid. Each Limited Partner shall only be obligated to fund its relevant proportion
of a Capital Call by issuing Notes or, in the case of the Bay Street Limited
Partner, under its Liquidity Agreement, and shall deposit the proceeds of such
issuance of Notes or, in the case of the Bay Street Limited Partner, such funding
under its Liquidity Agreement, in immediately available funds, to the Vehicle
Account not later than the close of business (Toronto time) on the date indicated in
the Capital Call Notice. For greater certainty, the proceeds of any funding under a
Liquidity Agreement that has been obtained to repay Notes of a Limited Partner shall
not be deposited to the Vehicle Account. No more than five Capital Calls can be made
in any calendar month, provided that one additional Capital Call may be made in any
calendar month if requested by the General Partners and approved by each of the
Limited Partners. A Capital Call for the purpose of repaying to a General Partner a
Payout Excess for such General Partner pursuant to subsection 3.3(f) may only be
made on a Remittance Date. |
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(b) | The balance of each Limited Partners Capital Account shall not at any time exceed
an amount equal to the sum of $350,000,000 plus the aggregate Principal Amount of
Bonds issued and outstanding by such Limited Partner at the time of determination. |
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(c) | Subject to subsection 5.4(c), for each Capital Call called from the Limited
Partners, either General Partner shall make, simultaneously with the payment from
the Limited Partners, a capital contribution by way of immediately available funds
deposited to the Vehicle Account, such that, for each $1.00 called from the Limited
Partners, such General Partner shall make a contribution of (i) $0.0930 where
the $1.00 called from the Partners was used to fund (A) the purchase of
Partnership Program Vehicles or (B) the repayment to such General Partner of
that portion of any Temporary GP Contribution used to fund the purchase of
Partnership Program Vehicles, and (ii) $0.1750 where the $1.00 called from the
Partners was used to fund (A) the purchase of Partnership Non-program Vehicles
or (B) the repayment to such General Partner of that portion of any Temporary GP
Contribution used to fund the purchase of Partnership Non-program Vehicles. If a
General Partner would be entitled to have repaid to it a Temporary GP Contribution
or a PNV Excess at a time when such General Partner would be obligated to make a
capital contribution pursuant to this subsection 3.3(c), such General Partner
may credit its Temporary GP Contribution or PNV Excess against the capital
contribution that it would otherwise be obligated to make. |
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(d) | Each General Partner may in its discretion, at any time, make additional capital
contributions to the Partnership, including capital contributions credited to a
General Partner as consideration for sales made by such General Partner pursuant to
a Licensee Vehicle Assignment Agreement. |
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(e) | Either General Partner shall contribute at all times up to and including the day
of occurrence of a Trigger Event, but not after such day, sufficient capital to the
Partnership from time to time by way of additional capital contribution so that the
aggregate of the General Partners Capital Accounts for the General Partners
(calculated on the assumption that all Net Income of the Partnership up to the
particular time has been allocated to the Partners at such time) shall be equal to
at least the product of (A) the sum of (X) the product of 9.30% and the
percentage of Partnership Vehicles that are Partnership Program Vehicles, (Y) the
product of 9.30% and the percentage of Partnership Vehicles that are
Program Negotiation Vehicles and (Z) the product of 17.50% and the percentage of
Partnership Vehicles that are Partnership Non-program Vehicles times (B)
the total capital of the Partnership other than capital contributed by the Partners
pursuant to Section 4.8 and Excluded Capital, such product being referred to in
this Agreement as the General Partners Capital Commitment. |
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(f) | If (i) any distribution or distributions are made to the Limited Partners in
any Remittance Period pursuant to paragraph 4.7(b)(vi) and (ii) no Trigger
Event has occurred and is continuing, on the next occurring Remittance Date after
such Remittance Period, the General Partners may make a Capital Call on the Limited
Partners (such Capital Call, as between the Limited Partners, to be effected in
accordance with subsection 3.3(a)) for an amount equal to the amount that would
have been distributed to the General Partners pursuant to paragraph 4.7(b)(vi)
had the amount of such distribution or distributions been made to all Partners pro
rata according to their respective Funded Amounts at the time of such distribution
or distributions (the Payout Excess) and the proceeds may be used to distribute to
the General Partners an amount equal to the Payout Excess, provided that following
such distribution to the General Partners the aggregate balance of the General
Partners Capital Accounts shall continue to be equal to or greater than the General
Partners Capital Commitment. |
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(g) | If the purchase price under any Licensee Vehicle Assignment Agreement where the
vendor is a General Partner is increased pursuant to Section 2.2 thereof, the
relevant General Partner shall be deemed to have made an additional capital
contribution as of the date of such Licensee Vehicle Assignment Agreement in an
amount equal to such increase. For greater certainty, the Partnership shall not be
required to pay any cash amounts to a General Partner in respect of any such
increase in purchase price and the Limited Partners shall not make any additional
capital contributions in respect of any such increase in purchase price. |
3.4 | Hedging Transactions |
After being advised by a Limited Partner in writing at any time that the effective rate of interest on the Notes issued by such Limited Partner or funding obtained by such Limited Partner under its Liquidity Agreement exceeds 8% per annum, the General Partners shall promptly, and in any event within two Business Days cause the Partnership to enter into Hedging Transactions to ensure that, after giving effect to such Hedging Transactions, the effective interest rate on the Notes issued or such funding obtained by the Limited Partners after the occurrence of a Trigger Event shall not exceed 10% per annum. The General Partners may cancel one or more Hedging Transactions and enter into one or more new Hedging Transactions; provided, however, that the cancellation of any Hedging Transactions and the entering into of any new Hedging Transactions does not cause the effective interest rate on the Notes issued or such funding obtained by the Limited Partners to exceed 10% per annum after the occurrence of a Trigger Event. Each Hedging Transaction that the Partnership is to enter into under this Section 3.4 must be approved by the STARS Securitization Agent, the Bay Street Securitization Agent and the Rating Agency. The General Partners shall be responsible for all costs and expenses associated with all such Hedging Transactions and the counterparty to all such Hedging Transactions shall have a long-term debt rating of at least AA (low) or an equivalent rating from the Rating Agency or an equivalent rating from Moodys and S&P or such lower rating as the Rating Agency may approve.
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3.5 | Capital Accounts |
(a) | The General Partners will establish separate accounts on the books of the
Partnership for each Limited Partners Capital Account and each General Partners
Capital Account. |
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(b) | As used herein, General Partners Capital Account means, for each General
Partner, at any time, the amount, if any, by which the aggregate dollar value of: |
(i) | the cash and other consideration that has been contributed pursuant hereto
by such General Partner to the Partnership as capital at or prior to such
time, including capital contributions credited to a General Partner as
consideration for sales made by such General Partner pursuant to a Licensee
Vehicle Assignment Agreement, and |
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(ii) | any amount allocated to such General Partner from Net Income in respect of
any Settlement Period at or prior to that time, |
exceeds the aggregate of
(iii) | the cash that has been distributed to such General Partner at or prior to
such time, |
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(iv) | any amount allocated to such General Partner from Net Loss in respect of
any Settlement Period at or prior to such time, and |
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(v) | the portion of any amount distributed to the Limited Partners at or prior to
such time pursuant to subparagraphs 4.6(c)(viii) and 4.7(b)(vii)(C) as
allocated between the General Partners by the General Partners; |
and General Partners Capital Accounts means the General Partners Capital Accounts for all General Partners.
(c) | As used herein, Limited Partners Capital Account means, for each Limited
Partner, at any time, the amount, if any, by which the aggregate of: |
(i) | the cash that has been contributed pursuant hereto by such Limited Partner
to the Partnership as capital at or prior to such time, plus |
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(ii) | any amount allocated to such Limited Partner from Net Income in respect of
any Settlement Period at or prior to that time, plus |
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(iii) | any amount by which the aggregate of the amounts by which each General
Partners Capital Account is reduced at or prior to such time as set out in
subsection 3.5(b)(v), |
exceeds the aggregate of
(iv) | the cash that has been distributed to such Limited Partner at or prior to
such time, plus |
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(v) | the portion of any amount allocated to such Limited Partner from Net Loss in
respect of any Settlement Period at or prior to such time; |
and Limited Partners Capital Accounts means the Limited Partners Capital Accounts for all Limited Partners.
3.6 | Capital Commitments to Be Ongoing |
No Partner will have any right to withdraw any amount or receive any distribution from the Partnership except as expressly provided for in this Agreement.
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3.7 | No Interest Payable on Accounts |
No Partner will have the right to receive interest on any credit balance in its Capital Account. No Partner shall be liable to pay interest to the Partnership on any capital returned to such Partner or on any negative balance in its Capital Account.
3.8 | Negative Balance of Capital or in Capital Accounts |
The interest of a Partner in the Partnership will not terminate by reason of there being a negative or zero balance in such Partners Capital Account.
3.9 | Licensee Vehicles |
(a) | Any Capital Calls made by the General Partners for the purpose of funding the
purchase by the Partnership of Licensee Vehicles which are owned or which were
previously owned by any one Licensee or its Affiliates with an aggregate purchase
price in the amount of $20,000,000 or more shall be subject to the satisfaction of
the conditions precedent set forth in Schedule I. |
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(b) | All purchases by the Partnership of Licensee Vehicles shall be pursuant to a
Licensee Vehicle Assignment Agreement. The General Partners shall provide a copy of
each Licensee Vehicle Assignment Agreement to the Rating Agency and each
Securitization Agent forthwith after the execution thereof. |
ARTICLE 4
CASH MANAGEMENT, DISTRIBUTIONS AND INCOME ALLOCATIONS
4.1 | Estimation Report |
Not later than 12:00 noon (Toronto time) on each Estimation Date, the General Partners shall provide to each Limited Partner an Estimation Report in respect of the Settlement Period commencing on the Estimation Date containing (a) the General Partners best estimates of Rental Revenues, Expenses, Depreciation and Net Loss on Dispositions (if any) for such Settlement Period, (b) each Limited Partners best estimate of the Funding Required Amount in respect of the Notes and Bonds issued or funding obtained by it under its Liquidity Agreement for such Settlement Period, and (c) the amount of the Estimation Reserve for such Settlement Period.
4.2 | Payout Report |
Not later than 12:00 noon (Toronto time) on each Payout Reporting Date, the General Partners shall provide to each Limited Partner a Payout Report setting out the amount of funds that the General Partners have determined are to be distributed by the Partnership to the Limited Partners from the Vehicle Account (including all proceeds from the issuance of Bonds by a Limited Partner) on such Payout Date in accordance with Section 4.7 and used by the Limited Partners to repay Notes or make distributions under its Liquidity Agreement.
4.3 | Settlement Report, Estimates and Determinations |
(a) | Not later than 12:00 noon (Toronto time) on each Settlement Date, the General
Partners shall provide to each Limited Partner a Settlement Report containing the
Rental Revenues, Expenses, Depreciation, Proceeds of Dispositions, Loss on
Dispositions (if any) and Gain on Dispositions (if any) in respect of the related
Settlement Period, and the aggregate Funding Discount Amount for each Limited
Partner and the aggregate Bond Interest Amount for all series of Bonds, in each case
for the Remittance Period ending in the current Settlement Period. No later than 3:00 p.m.
(Toronto time) on the Business Day prior to the Settlement Date, (i) the
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in the Settlement Report of the Funding Discount Amount for the Notes issued by the
STARS Limited Partner and the aggregate Bond Interest Amount for all series of Bonds
issued by the STARS Limited Partner, in each case for the Remittance Period ending
in the current Settlement Period and the Utilization Fee for the STARS Limited
Partner for such Remittance Period and (ii) the Bay Street Limited Partner shall
give notice to the General Partners for inclusion in the Settlement Report of the
aggregate Funding Discount Amount for the Bay Street Limited Partner and the
aggregate Bond Interest Amount for all series of Bonds issued by the Bay Street
Limited Partner, in each case for the Remittance Period ending in the current
Settlement Period and the Utilization Fee of the Bay Street Limited Partner for such
Remittance Period. The Funding Discount Amount provided by each Limited Partner
shall be calculated using an estimate of the applicable funding costs, if necessary,
for the remaining days in such Remittance Period; provided, however, that each
calculation of the Funding Discount Amount for the following Remittance Period shall
be adjusted as provided in subsection 4.3(b). |
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(b) | As part of the notice given by each Limited Partner pursuant to subsection
4.3(a), each Limited Partner shall, if such Limited Partner used an estimate of the
Funding Discount Amount pursuant to subsection 4.3(a) with respect to the
immediately preceding Remittance Period, compute the actual Funding Discount Amount
for such Remittance Period, and (i) if the actual Funding Discount Amount so
computed is greater than the estimated Funding Discount Amount for such immediately
preceding Remittance Period, the Funding Discount Amount for the current Remittance
Period shall be increased by the amount of such difference, and (ii) if the
actual Funding Discount Amount so computed is less than the estimated Funding
Discount Amount for such immediately preceding Remittance Period, the Funding
Discount Amount for the current Remittance Period shall be decreased by the amount
of such difference. |
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(c) | Within the first two Business Days of each calendar month, each Limited Partner
shall provide to the General Partners a determination of the Funding Discount Amount
for the Notes issued or funding obtained by such Limited Partner under its Liquidity
Agreement and the aggregate Bond Interest Amount for all series of Bonds issued by
such Limited Partner, in each case for the preceding Settlement Period. |
4.4 | Collections of Rental Revenues |
Subject to the following sentence, the General Partners shall deposit all Rental Revenues into the Rental Account as promptly as possible upon receipt, and, in any event, no later than the first Business Day following receipt. So long as no Trigger Event has occurred and is continuing, notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, the General Partners may make a single deposit of Rental Revenues into the Rental Account no later than 12:00 noon (Toronto time) on each Remittance Date. All deposits of Rental Revenues into the Rental Account shall be in immediately available funds.
4.5 | Prepayments |
So long as the General Partners are entitled to remit Rental Revenues on a monthly basis, as opposed to a daily basis, pursuant to Section 4.4, the General Partners shall deposit (a) into the Rental Account (i) on each Estimation Date, an amount equal to two-thirds of the sum of the estimated Funding Required Amount and the Estimation Reserve contained in the most recently delivered Estimation Report and (ii) on each Remittance Date, an amount equal to one-third of the sum of the estimated Funding Required Amount and Estimation Reserve contained in the current Estimation Report (any such deposit on either an Estimation Date or a Remittance Date being referred to herein as a Rental Account Prepaid Amount) and (b) into the Vehicle Account (i) on each Estimation Date, an amount equal to two-thirds of the sum of the estimated Depreciation and Net Loss on Dispositions (if any) contained in the most recently delivered Estimation Report and (ii) on each Remittance Date, an amount equal to one-third of the sum of the estimated Depreciation and Net Loss on Dispositions (if any) contained in the current Estimation Report
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(any such deposit on either an Estimation Date or a Remittance Date being referred to herein as a Vehicle Account Prepaid Amount); provided, however, that no such deposit shall be required to be made into the Rental Account or the Vehicle Account on a Remittance Date to the extent that the amount which would otherwise be required to be deposited has been reserved pursuant to subparagraph 4.6(c)(vi) or subparagraph 4.7(b)(vii)(D), respectively.
4.6 | Rental Account |
(a) | The Avis General Partner has opened and the General Partners will manage for and
in the name of the Partnership at BMO account no. 0002-1314-711, hereinafter
referred to as the Rental Account. All monies deposited to the Rental Account
shall have the status of trust monies held for and on behalf of the Partnership and,
for greater certainty, shall not be the property of any General Partner. BMO shall
be required specifically to acknowledge that it has no right of set-off in respect
of the Rental Account. The General Partners shall deposit all Rental Revenues as
received to the Rental Account in accordance with Section 4.4. The General
Partners shall deposit all Hedge Receipts as received to the Rental Account. |
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(b) | On the date hereof, the General Partners shall distribute cash from the Rental
Account to the STARS Limited Partner in an amount equal to the aggregate of all
accrued and unpaid Funding Discount Amounts and Utilization Fees, in each case in
respect of all periods up to but excluding the date hereof. |
(c) | Subject to Section 8.5, on each Remittance Date the General Partners (or the
Additional General Partner if one has been appointed pursuant to Section 8.3)
shall distribute cash from the Rental Account (including all cash transferred from
the Vehicle Account to the Rental Account on such Remittance Date pursuant to
subparagraph 4.7(b)(vii)(A) or (B)), as follows and in the following priority: |
(i) | first, to pay the Expenses or to reimburse the General Partners with respect
to amounts paid on account of the Expenses; |
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(ii) | second, on a pro rata basis in accordance with the respective amounts below: |
(A) | to pay to each Limited Partner, the aggregate of (x) the Funding
Discount Amount for such Limited Partner for the related Remittance
Period, together with the amount (if any) representing the aggregate of
the Funding Discount Amount for such Limited Partner for prior
Remittance Periods not yet paid to such Limited Partner and (y) the
Bond Interest Amount for all series of Bonds that have been issued by
such Limited Partner and are outstanding for the related Remittance
Period, together with the amount (if any) representing the aggregate of
the Bond Interest Amount for all series of Bonds that have been issued
by such Limited Partner and are outstanding for prior Remittance Periods
not yet paid to such Limited Partner, on a pro rata basis based on the
respective amounts required to be paid to each Limited Partner pursuant
to this Section 4.6(c) on such Remittance Date; each Limited Partner
shall allocate such aggregate amount received by it to clauses (x) and
(y) on a pro rata basis based on the respective amounts of
clauses (x) and (y), and the amount allocated to clause (y) shall
be deposited by such Limited Partner into the Interest
Funding Account for the relevant series of Bonds; and |
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(B) | to the extent not paid by the General Partners as required pursuant to
Section 3.4, to pay to Hedge Counterparties any Hedge Payables; |
(iii) | third, to pay to each Limited Partner its Utilization Fee for such
Remittance Period, together with the amount (if any) representing the
Utilization Fees in respect of prior Remittance Periods not yet paid to such
Limited Partner, on a pro rata basis based on |
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the respective amounts of unpaid Utilization Fees owing to each Limited Partner on such Remittance Date; |
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(iv) | fourth, if the Settlement Report for the prior Settlement Period indicates
that Depreciation for such Settlement Period is greater than the estimate of
Depreciation contained in the Estimation Report for the same period, an
amount equal to such excess shall be transferred to the Vehicle Account; |
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(v) | fifth, if the Settlement Report for the prior Settlement Period indicates
that Loss on Dispositions (if any) less Gains on Dispositions (if any) for
such Settlement Period exceeds the Net Loss on Dispositions (if any) contained
in the Estimation Report for the same period, the amount of such excess shall
be transferred to the Vehicle Account; |
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(vi) | sixth, (A) an amount equal to the Rental Account Prepaid Amount
deposited by the General Partners into the Rental Account on the immediately
preceding Estimation Date and (B) an amount equal to the Rental Account
Prepaid Amount required to be deposited by the General Partners into the
Rental Account on such Remittance Date, will be reserved in the Rental
Account for distribution on the following Remittance Date in accordance with
this subsection 4.6(c); |
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(vii) | seventh, an amount equal to the Vehicle Account Prepaid Amount to be paid
by the General Partners on such Remittance Date shall be transferred to the
Vehicle Account; |
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(viii) | eighth, if there are insufficient funds in the Vehicle Account to satisfy
the payment to be made to the Limited Partners pursuant to Section 4.7(b)(iv),
then all remaining amounts in the Rental Account will be
transferred to the Vehicle Account and used to make such payment, and the
aggregate amount of the General Partners Capital Accounts shall be reduced
by the amount of such payment with the specific amount of the reduction of
each General Partners Capital Account being allocated between the General
Partners by the General Partners; |
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(ix) | ninth, to the extent not paid by the General Partners as required pursuant
to Section 3.4, to pay to Hedge Counterparties any Hedge Unwinding Costs;
and |
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(x) | last, to pay to the General Partners the balance on a pro rata basis based
on the amounts in their respective Capital Accounts at such time. |
(d) | Notwithstanding subsection 4.6(c), insofar as Expenses consist of VAT payable
upon the purchase of Partnership Vehicles, the General Partners shall pay such
Expenses directly from the VAT Account when the VAT Account is not commingled with
the Rental Account or from the Rental Account when the Rental Account and the VAT
Account are commingled, or may first transfer the necessary amounts from the Rental
Account or the VAT Account, as the case may be, to the Vehicle Account to be
remitted with the purchase of new Vehicles. |
4.7 | Vehicle Account |
(a) | The Avis General Partner has opened and the General Partners will manage for and
in the name of the Partnership at BMO account no. 0002-1314-703, hereinafter
referred to as the Vehicle Account. All monies deposited to the Vehicle Account
shall have the status of trust monies held for and on behalf of the Partnership and,
for greater certainty, shall not be the property of any General Partner. BMO shall
be required specifically to acknowledge that it has no right of set-off in respect
of the Vehicle Account. There shall be deposited directly to the Vehicle Account (i) all
Proceeds of Disposition and (ii) all capital contributions of the
Partners in the form of cash and all proceeds of all issuances of Bonds (which shall
be deemed to be a capital contribution by the relevant Limited Partner). |
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(b) | Subject to Section 8.5, the General Partners (or the Additional General
Partner if one has been appointed pursuant to Section 8.3) shall distribute cash
from the Vehicle Account as follows: |
(i) | to pay to a General Partner from time to time an amount equal to any
Temporary GP Contributions made by such General Partner which have not been
previously repaid; |
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(ii) | to pay a General Partner from time to time an amount equal to any PNV
Excess for such General Partner which has not been previously repaid; |
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(iii) | to pay Approved Dealers, a General Partner or Avis or Budget System
Members from time to time for Vehicles purchased for the Partnership; |
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(iv) | on each Remittance Date after the occurrence of the Accumulation Date or
the Controlled Amortization Date, as applicable, in respect of a series of
Bonds, the Bond Payment Amount for such series of Bonds shall be distributed
to the relevant Limited Partner and deposited by such Limited Partner into
the Principal Funding Account for such series of Bonds; |
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(v) | on each Payout Date that is the date on which a series of Bonds has been
issued, all proceeds from such issuance of Bonds deposited to the Vehicle
Account shall be distributed to the Limited Partners on a pro rata basis based
on the outstanding Funding Amount for each Limited Partner (excluding any
amounts funded through the issuance of Bonds) on such Payout Date; |
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(vi) | on each Payout Date that is not (i) the date hereof, (ii) the date
on which a series of Bonds has been issued or (iii) a Payout Date for
which any related Deficit Bond Accumulation Amount or Deficit Controlled
Amortization Amount, as applicable, in respect of a series of Bonds is
greater than zero, and for which the General Partners have specified that
they have determined, acting reasonably, that some or all of the cash in the
Vehicle Account will not be required to fund the purchase of Vehicles
required to be paid for in the Settlement Period in which the Payout Date
occurs and that the General Partners desire that such cash be distributed to
the Limited Partners, such cash shall be distributed to the Limited Partners
on a pro rata basis based on the outstanding Funding Amount for each Limited
Partner (excluding any amounts funded through the issuance of Bonds) on such
Payout Date; provided, however, that such payments shall be limited to an
amount that does not result in a Limited Partners Funded Amount being less
than the aggregate Bond Outstanding Amount for all series of Bonds issued by
it, after giving effect to such distributions, the Limited Partners Funded
Amount of a Limited Partner shall not be less than zero and the STARS Limited
Partner shall not be paid an amount in excess of the STARS Limited Partners
Funded Amount that has been funded through the issuance of Notes maturing on
such Payout Date; for greater certainty, the amount paid to the Bay Street
Limited Partner shall not exceed its pro rata share on the basis described
above; |
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(vii) | on each Remittance Date, in the priority set out below: |
(A) | first, if the Settlement Report for the prior Settlement Period
indicates that Depreciation for such Settlement Period is less than the
estimate of Depreciation contained in the Estimation Report for the same
period, an amount equal to such deficiency shall be transferred to the
Rental Account; |
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(B) | second, if the Settlement Report for the prior Settlement Period
indicates that Loss on Dispositions (if any) less Gains on Dispositions
(if any) for such Settlement Period is less than the Net Loss on
Dispositions contained |
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in the Estimation Report for the same period, the amount of such deficiency shall be transferred to the Rental Account; |
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(C) | third, if after the transfer of amounts from the Vehicle Account to
the Rental Account pursuant to subparagraphs 4.7(b)(vii)(A) and (B),
there are insufficient funds in the Rental Account to satisfy the
payments to be made to the Limited Partners pursuant to paragraph 4.6(c)(ii),
then any cash in the Vehicle Account will be transferred to
the Rental Account and used to make such payments, and the aggregate
amount of the General Partners Capital Accounts shall be reduced by the
amount of such payments with the specific amount of the reduction of
each General Partners Capital Account being allocated between the
General Partners by the General Partners; |
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(D) | fourth, (x) an amount equal to the Vehicle Account Prepaid Amount
deposited by the General Partners into the Vehicle Account on the prior
Estimation Date and (y) an amount equal to the Vehicle Account
Prepaid Amount required to be deposited by the General Partners into the
Vehicle Account on such Remittance Date, will be reserved in the Vehicle
Account for distribution on the following Remittance Date in accordance
with this subsection 4.7(b); and |
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(E) | fifth, provided that each of the Deficit Bond Accumulation Amount and
the Deficit Controlled Amortization Amount is equal to zero, if the
General Partners determine, acting reasonably, that some or all of the
balance of the cash in the Vehicle Account will not be required to fund
the purchase of Vehicles required to be paid for in the Settlement
Period in which the Remittance Date occurs, the amount of such cash as
allocated between the General Partners by the General Partners shall be
paid to each General Partner as a return of capital to the extent that
such payment would not result in the aggregate balance in the General
Partners Capital Accounts being reduced to an amount below the General
Partners Capital Commitment. |
4.8 | VAT Account |
The Avis General Partner has opened and the General Partners will manage for and in the name of the Partnership at BMO account no. 0002-1314-690, hereinafter referred to as the VAT Account. All monies deposited to the VAT Account shall have the status of trust monies held for and on behalf of the Partnership and, for greater certainty, shall not be property of any General Partner. BMO shall be required specifically to acknowledge that it has no right of set-off in respect of the VAT Account. The General Partners shall deposit to the VAT Account all amounts collected by the Partnership on behalf of a governmental authority in respect of VAT as a result of the rental or sale of Vehicles by the Partnership or the provision of any other goods or services by the Partnership and any amount received by the Partnership from a governmental authority as a refund of VAT. The General Partners shall be entitled to disburse from the VAT Account any amount owed to a governmental authority in respect of VAT collected by the Partnership and any amount owed to a Person as VAT in respect of the purchase of Vehicles or any other goods or services acquired by the Partnership. If there are insufficient funds in the VAT Account to fund any required remittance or payment of VAT and there has not occurred a Trigger Event which is continuing, the General Partners may, at the same time as a Capital Call referred to in paragraph 3.3(a)(ii), require each Limited Partner to make a capital contribution equal to that Limited Partners share of such shortfall (calculated, as between the General Partners and the Limited Partners, pro rata based on the portion of the Funded Amount attributable to the General Partners, on the one hand, and the Limited Partners, on the other hand, and as between the Limited Partners, to be effected in accordance with subsection 3.3(a)) provided that the General Partners make a capital contribution at the same time in an amount equal to their share of such shortfall, with each General Partner contributing to such shortfall on a basis to be determined by the General Partners. If a
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Trigger Event has occurred and is continuing, the General Partners shall be solely responsible for making capital contributions to the VAT Account to cover any shortfall. The General Partners shall cause the Partnership to return to the Partners in cash all amounts so contributed on the earliest Remittance Date from amounts deposited into the VAT Account, including in respect of input tax credits claimed by the Partnership; all such amounts shall be distributed to the Limited Partners on a pro rata basis based on the outstanding Funded Amount for each Limited Partner (excluding any amounts funded through the issuance of Bonds) until such time as each Limited Partner has had returned to it all amounts contributed by it pursuant to this Section 4.8. Provided that a Trigger Event has not occurred and is continuing, the funds to be deposited into the VAT Account may be co-mingled with the funds deposited into the Rental Account and/or the Vehicle Account, subject to the maintenance of separate accounting records in respect of each of the VAT Account, the Rental Account and the Vehicle Account.
4.9 | Eligible Investments |
Pending the distribution required or allowed herein, the General Partners may use funds in the Rental Account, the Vehicle Account and the VAT Account to purchase Eligible Investments for the Partnership. The General Partners agree to ensure that amounts on deposit in such accounts shall be available in same day funds on the Business Day immediately preceding each Remittance Date (except that any amounts used to purchase Eligible Investments issued by BMO shall be available in same day funds on the Remittance Date).
4.10 | Periodic Allocation of Net Income |
Net Income in respect of any Settlement Period will be allocated as at the end of such period as follows:
(a) | first, where an amount of Net Loss has previously been allocated to a Limited
Partner and has not been recovered by such Limited Partner pursuant to the operation
of this provision, to such Limited Partner, provided that if both Limited Partners
have not recovered previously allocated Net Losses, Net Income allocated pursuant to
this subsection 4.10(a) shall be allocated as between the Limited Partners, for
each period in respect of which Net Losses were previously allocated and commencing
with the earliest of such periods, on the same basis as the related Net Losses were
allocated between the Limited Partners for each of such periods; |
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(b) | second, where an amount of Net Loss has previously been allocated to a General
Partner and has not been recovered by such General Partner pursuant to the operation
of this provision, to such General Partner, provided that if both General Partners
have not recovered previously allocated Net Losses, Net Income allocated pursuant to
this subsection 4.10(b) shall be allocated as between the General Partners on
the same basis as the related Net Losses were allocated between the General Partners
at the time that such Net Losses were allocated; |
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(c) | third, to the Limited Partners up to the cumulative amount distributed to the
Limited Partners pursuant to subsections 4.6(c) and 4.6(c)(ii) to the extent not
previously allocated to the Limited Partners pursuant to the operation of this
provision; and |
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(d) | fourth, to the General Partners as to the remainder on the following basis: |
(i) | each of the General Partners will receive an amount equal to a 15%
annualized rate of return computed on a monthly basis based upon the then
current amount of their respective General Partners Capital Account (the
Notional Return), provided that if there is insufficient Net Income to
generate such return, then each General Partner will receive Net Income on a
pro rata basis based upon the relative amount of such General Partners
Capital Account to the General Partners Capital Accounts; and |
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(ii) | the remainder to each General Partner on a pro rata basis based upon the
Relative Revenue Contribution of such General Partner for such Settlement
Period. |
4.11 | Periodic Allocation of Net Loss |
Net Loss in respect of any Settlement Period will be allocated as at the end of such period as follows:
(a) | first, to the General Partners up to a maximum amount equal to the aggregate of: |
(i) | the aggregate Capital Accounts of the General Partners immediately prior to the end of the related Settlement Period, and |
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(ii) | the aggregate of any amounts that the General Partners contribute to the
Partnership as capital (other than such amounts that have already been
included in (i) above) on or before the Remittance Date in respect of the
related Settlement Period to cover the Net Loss in respect of the related
Settlement Period; |
with such amount being allocated as between the General Partners on the basis that each General Partner will receive its allocation in accordance with the following formula:
((A + B + C) x D) B
where:
A = the GP Losses for such Settlement Period
B = such General Partners Notional Return for such Settlement Period
C = the other General Partners Notional Return for such Settlement Period
D = the Relative Revenue Contribution for such General Partner for such Settlement Period
(b) | second, to the Limited Partners as to the remainder, on a pro rata basis based on
the amount of the Limited Partners Capital Account of each Limited Partner. |
4.12 | Fiscal Period Allocation of Net Income or Net Loss |
Net Income or Net Loss in respect of any Fiscal Period will be allocated as at the end of such Fiscal Period as follows:
(a) | where the Partnership has earned Net Income in respect of the Fiscal Period, there
shall be allocated to each General Partner or each Limited Partner, as the case may
be, the amount by which |
(i) | the aggregate of the amounts allocated to such Person pursuant to
Section 4.10 in respect of Settlement Periods ending in the Fiscal
Period |
exceeds
(ii) | the aggregate of the amounts allocated to such Person pursuant to Section 4.11
in respect of Settlement Periods ending in the Fiscal Period, |
but the aggregate amount so allocated shall not exceed the Net Income in respect of such Fiscal Period; and
(b) | where the Partnership has realized Net Loss in respect of the Fiscal Period, there
shall be allocated to each General Partner or each Limited Partner, as the case may
be, the amount by which |
(i) | the aggregate of the amounts allocated to such Person pursuant to
Section 4.11 in respect of Settlement Periods ending in the Fiscal
Period |
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exceeds
(ii) | the aggregate of the amounts allocated to such Person pursuant to Section 4.10
in respect of Settlement Periods ending in the Fiscal Period, |
but the aggregate amount so allocated shall not exceed the Net Loss in respect of such Fiscal Period.
Where the Partnership has Net Income for a Fiscal Period, no loss shall be allocated to any Partner in respect of such Fiscal Period. Where the Partnership has Net Loss for a Fiscal Period, no income shall be allocated to any Partner in respect of such Fiscal Period.
4.13 | Allocation of Taxable Income |
Taxable Income in respect of any Fiscal Period will be allocated as at the end of such Fiscal Period as follows:
(a) | first, to each of the Limited Partners up to the amount of Net Income allocated to
each of them in respect of the Fiscal Period pursuant to subsection 4.12(a);
and |
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(b) | second, to the General Partners as to the remainder, on the following basis: |
(i) | first, each of the General Partners will receive its Annual Notional
Return, provided that if there is insufficient Taxable Income to generate
such return, then each General Partner will receive Taxable Income on a
pro rata basis based upon the relative amount of such General Partners
Capital Account to the General Partners Capital Accounts; and |
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(ii) | second, to the Avis General Partner, an amount (the Avis GP Adjustment)
equal to: |
(A B) x C
where:
A = | Avis Taxable Adjustment |
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B = | Amortized Avis Taxable Amount |
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C = | capital cost allowance rate for Class 16 as listed in Schedule II
of regulations to the Income Tax Act (Canada) |
provided that in respect of the Fiscal Period in which the Class 16 Date occurs the amount to the Avis General Partner hereunder shall be the Avis Taxable Adjustment less the sum of the amounts determined pursuant to subparagraph 4.13(b)(ii) for all prior Fiscal Periods and in respect of each Fiscal Period thereafter the amount to the Avis General Partner hereunder shall be nil; and
(iii) | the remainder to each General Partner on a pro rata basis based upon the
Annual Relative Revenue Contributions of such General Partner for such
Fiscal Period. |
Where the Partnership has Taxable Income for a Fiscal Period, no loss shall be allocated to any Partner in respect of such Fiscal Period. Where the Partnership has Taxable Loss for a Fiscal Period, no income shall be allocated to any Partner in respect of such Fiscal Period.
4.14 | Allocation of Tax Loss |
Tax Loss in respect of any Fiscal Period will be allocated as at the end of such Fiscal Period as follows:
(a) | first, to each of the Limited Partners up to the amount of Net Loss allocated to
each of them in respect of the Fiscal Period pursuant to subsection 4.12(b);
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(b) | second, as to the remainder, to each of the General Partners in accordance with
the following formula: |
The greater of nil and ((A + B + C) x D) E
where:
A = | the Tax Losses for such Fiscal Period which have not been allocated
pursuant to subsection 4.14(a) |
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B = | the Avis General Partners Annual Notional Return for such Fiscal
Period plus the Avis GP Adjustment |
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C = | the Budget General Partners Annual Notional Return for such Fiscal
Period |
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D = | the Annual Relative Revenue Contribution for such General Partner
for such Fiscal Period |
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E = | in respect of the Avis General Partner, B and, in respect of the
Budget General Partner, C |
Where the Partnership has Taxable Income for a Fiscal Period, no loss shall be allocated to any Partner in respect of such Fiscal Period. Where the Partnership has Taxable Loss for a Fiscal Period, no income shall be allocated to any Partner in respect of such Fiscal Period.
4.15 | Certain Funds to be Held in Trust |
In the event that the Partnership receives any amounts to which the Partnership is not entitled, the Partnership shall hold such amounts in trust for the Person who is entitled to such amounts free of any encumbrance and shall return such amounts to such Person as soon as reasonably practicable.
ARTICLE 5
BUSINESS AND OPERATIONS OF THE PARTNERSHIP
5.1 | Authority of the General Partners |
Except as otherwise provided herein, the General Partners are authorized to carry on the business of the Partnership, with full power and authority to administer, manage, control and operate the business of the Partnership, and have all power and authority to do any act, take any proceeding, make any decision and execute and deliver any instrument, deed, agreement or document necessary for or incidental to carrying out the business of the Partnership for and on behalf of and in the name of the Partnership. No Person dealing with the Partnership will be required to inquire into the authority of the General Partners to do any act, take any proceeding, make any decision or execute and deliver any instrument, deed, agreement or document for and on behalf of or in the name of the Partnership.
5.2 | Powers and Duties of General Partners |
(a) | In managing the business and affairs of the Partnership, the General Partners
shall utilize their own employees, business premises, owned or leased, and
communications and computer systems and these shall not be, and shall not be held
out to be, the employees, premises or systems of the Partnership. |
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(b) | The General Partners shall exercise their powers and discharge their duties under
this Agreement honestly, in good faith and in the best interest of the Partnership
and in connection therewith shall exercise the degree of care, diligence and skill
that a reasonably prudent Person would exercise in comparable circumstances, but
subject to the foregoing shall not be liable to the Limited Partners for any act,
omission or error in judgment made in good faith. |
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(c) | Neither the General Partners nor any Affiliate of the General Partners shall carry
on any activities outside the Partnership in a manner detrimental to the interests
of the Partnership. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, neither the
General Partners nor any Affiliate of the General Partners shall, directly or
indirectly own, invest in or operate a rental car business or businesses in Canada
which compete with the car rental business of the Partnership provided that the
Budget General Partner may have an interest in the Budget Vancouver licensee or such
other entities that each Limited Partner approves, acting reasonably. |
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(d) | Unless a different standard is required by the terms of this Agreement, the
General Partners shall manage the business and affairs of the Partnership in a
manner consistent with the management by the Avis General Partner of its vehicle
rental business prior to June 1, 2004. |
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(e) | Without limiting the generality of Section 5.1, the General Partners shall
have the full power and authority to, and shall, on behalf and in the name of the
Partnership: |
(i) | acquire, insure and sell Vehicles; |
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(ii) | operate the Rental Account, the Vehicle Account and the VAT Account; |
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(iii) | pay the Expenses; |
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(iv) | commence or defend any action or proceeding in connection with the
Partnership (but where such action involves Vehicle Rental Agreements,
the General Partners may or may not, as appears more beneficial to the
Partnership, commence and defend actions in the name of the Partnership); |
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(v) | file on behalf of the Partnership returns required by any governmental
or like authority and make all related remittances and receive all
related refunds and credits; |
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(vi) | maintain as valid and effective all registrations, qualifications,
licences and permits necessary or desirable for the Partnership in the
conduct of its business; and |
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(vii) | do such other things as are in furtherance of or incidental to the
business of the Partnership or that are provided for in this Agreement. |
(f) | The General Partners shall take all actions required to qualify, continue and keep
in good standing the Partnership as a limited partnership and to maintain the
limited liability of each Limited Partner in each jurisdiction where the Partnership
may carry on business or own property and to cause the Partnership to be registered
as a motor vehicle dealer in those provinces of Canada where it is necessary or
advisable for the Partnership to be so registered. |
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(g) | The General Partners shall enter into Vehicle Rental Agreements in their own names
on behalf of the Partnership as undisclosed principal. |
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(h) | The General Partners shall, (i) in the conduct of the affairs of the
Partnership, put all Approved Dealers, Manufacturers and other Persons with whom the
Partnership does business in its own name on notice that each Limited Partner is not
liable for the obligations of the Partnership, and (ii) include in all Contracts
entered into in the name of the Partnership a notice or other provision to the
effect that the Partnership is a limited partnership (each of which conditions may
be satisfied by contracting in the name of the Partnership as a limited partnership). |
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(i) | The General Partners shall ensure that at all times (i) at least 80% of the
Partnership Vehicles are Partnership Program Vehicles, (ii) no more than 5%
of the Partnership Vehicles are manufactured by Nissan and no more than 10% of
the Partnership Vehicles are manufactured by Toyota, (iii) no more than 1%
of the Partnership Vehicles are manufactured by any one Manufacturer other than
Chrysler, Ford, GM or another Eligible Manufacturer, Nissan or Toyota, (iv) no
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than 1% of the Partnership Program Vehicles have been purchased from either a Nissan
or Toyota Approved Dealer which has entered into a Repurchase Agreement pursuant to
which such Vehicles may be repurchased, and (vi) the average Original Book Value
of the Partnership Vehicles is not more than $40,000; for the purposes of this
subsection 5.2(i), any reference to a particular percentage of Partnership
Program Vehicles or Partnership Vehicles is a reference to a percentage of the
aggregate of (i) the Current Book Value of such Vehicles and (ii) the
amount of receivables from Eligible Manufacturers and Nissan and Toyota Approved
Dealers then outstanding in respect of the repurchase of Partnership Program
Vehicles or Partnership Vehicles, as the case may be, pursuant to Repurchase
Agreements with such Eligible Manufacturers and Nissan and Toyota Approved Dealers. |
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(j) | in buying Vehicles for the Partnership, other than pursuant to the Assignment And
Assumption Agreement, the General Partners shall (i) buy only Vehicles produced
by Manufacturers and only of the current model year or the immediately preceding
model year, (ii) buy Vehicles only from (A) Approved Dealers or
Manufacturers or (B) Avis or Budget System Members or the General Partners
pursuant to a Licensee Vehicle Assignment Agreement, (iii) buy from
Manufacturers and Approved Dealers only new Vehicles and only against a
Manufacturers invoice, (iv) buy from Avis or Budget System Members or the
General Partners pursuant to a Licensee Vehicle Assignment Agreement only Vehicles
that were new Vehicles when purchased by the relevant licensee and that have had no
intermediate owners (except for the General Partners or Affiliates of the relevant
Avis or Budget System Member) and in respect of which the Manufacturers invoice of
the relevant licensee is delivered, (v) buy Vehicles from Avis or Budget System
Members or pursuant to a Licensee Vehicle Assignment Agreement for a purchase price
that is (A) in the case of Partnership Program Vehicles, equal to the
depreciated value ascribed to each Vehicle as at the date of such purchase pursuant
to the applicable Repurchase Agreement, with a reasonable allowance for age, mileage
and damage to such Vehicle, and (B) in the case of Partnership Non-program
Vehicles, the fair market value of each Vehicle (which shall approximate the
original cash purchase price paid by the relevant Avis or Budget System Member for
such Vehicle less depreciation at a rate in accordance with Canadian GAAP but in no
event less than 2% per month applied on a straight line basis, with a reasonable
allowance for age, mileage and damage to such Vehicle) and (vi) ensure that
title to all Vehicles bought for the Partnership is registered in the name of either
the Partnership or a General Partner in accordance with Section 2.6. |
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(k) | The General Partners covenant and agree that in operating the business of the
Partnership they shall at all times in all material respects comply with and perform
each term, condition, representation, warranty and covenant required to be complied
with or performed by the lessor under each Vehicle Rental Agreement and will not
take or omit to take any action that would cause any failure by the Partnership to
so comply with and perform in all material respects each term, condition,
representation, warranty and covenant required to be performed by the lessor under
each Vehicle Rental Agreement. |
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(l) | The General Partners shall do or cause to be done all such acts and things as a
reasonable and prudent operator of a Vehicle rental business would do in order to
maintain, use, operate and manage the property, assets and undertaking of such
business which are necessary or of advantage to the proper conduct of the business. |
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(m) | The General Partners shall at their own expense maintain the Partnership
Vehicles in good repair, working order and condition and, in the case of a Vehicle
subject to a Repurchase Agreement, to the standard required by the relevant
Repurchase Agreement. |
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(n) | The General Partners shall indemnify and hold harmless the Partnership against any
obligation of the Partnership to reimburse a Manufacturer for any allowance or
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(o) | The General Partners shall at their own expense provide insurance for the business
of the Partnership and for the Partnership Vehicles, in respect both of losses
and third party liability, as set out in Schedule F and shall pay all premiums
on such insurance on a timely basis and shall maintain fully funded all escrow or
trust accounts required to be funded by the terms of such insurance. Third party
underwriters of such insurance shall meet the credit standard set out in subsection 2.7(k).
The General Partners shall indemnify and hold the Partnership harmless
against all claims, losses and expenses within the deductible amounts (including,
for greater certainty, self insured amounts) under such insurance policies. |
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(p) | Each General Partner shall continue to (i) self insure against the first
$1,000,000 of claims relating to third party liability and collisions, (ii) at
its own expense make such self insurance available to the Partnership and (iii)
maintain adequate reserves in respect of such self insurance. |
5.3 | Restrictions on Operations and Activities |
The General Partners will manage and conduct all aspects of the day-to-day operations and other activities of the Partnership, subject, however, to the following restrictions:
(a) | the Partnership shall not have employees; |
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(b) | the Partnership shall not own or lease real property; |
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(c) | the Partnership shall not borrow money (although it may buy Vehicles on the
ordinary payment terms of Approved Dealers or Manufacturers); |
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(d) | the Partnership shall not create, give or suffer to exist any mortgage, lien,
charge, encumbrance or security interest over its assets except that it may give
Qualified PMSIs to Approved Dealers or Manufacturers; |
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(e) | the General Partners shall use all commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that
Partnership Vehicles are not used (i) in any manner that would cause such
Vehicles to become ineligible for repurchase under a Repurchase Agreement, (ii) in
any manner that could subject such Vehicles to confiscation, or (iii) for any
illegal purposes; and |
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(f) | the Partnerships sole assets shall be (i) cash and Eligible Investments in
the Rental Account, the Vehicle Account and the VAT Account, (ii) receivables
from credit card issuers, the General Partners, Vehicle rental customers,
Manufacturers and governmental authorities, (iii) Vehicles, (iv) Vehicle
Rental Agreements, (v) Repurchase Agreements and agreements that would
constitute Repurchase Agreements except for the fact that they have not been
approved in writing by the Rating Agency, (vi) contractual rights to buy
Vehicles from Approved Dealers, and (vii) insurance policies. |
5.4 | Program Negotiation Vehicles |
(a) | It is recognized that the Partnership may purchase between October 1 in any
year and March 31 of the following year Vehicles of the upcoming model year
manufactured by an Eligible Manufacturer whose current model year Vehicles are
subject to a Repurchase Agreement and from whom the Partnership has received (i) a
letter of undertaking stating that the Eligible Manufacturers will repurchase
Vehicles of the upcoming model year sold by such Eligible Manufacturer to the
Partnership which qualify for repurchase pursuant to a Repurchase Agreement with
such Eligible Manufacturers the terms of which are in the process of being finalized
and (ii) a draft of the repurchase agreement for the upcoming model year which
the Eligible Manufacturer has indicated it is willing to enter into. Such Vehicles
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shall deliver a signed copy of any such letter of undertaking to each Securitization Agent
and the Rating Agency as soon as reasonably practicable and, in any event, prior to
the Partnership purchasing Program Negotiation Vehicles from the relevant Eligible
Manufacturer. |
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(b) | Subject to the following sentence, Program Negotiation Vehicles shall be deemed to
be Partnership Program Vehicles for the purposes of subsection 5.2(i) hereof and
the definition of Depreciation. If a Repurchase Agreement between the Partnership
and an Eligible Manufacturer in respect of vehicle models for a particular year is
not entered into by February 28 of such year or, if such Repurchase Agreement has
been entered into by February 28 of such year but the Rating Agency has notified the
Partnership in writing within 30 days of receipt of a signed copy of such
Repurchase Agreement that it is not satisfied with the terms and conditions of such
Repurchase Agreement, then thereafter for all purposes hereof all of the Partnership Vehicles
covered by such Repurchase Agreement shall be deemed to be Partnership
Non-program Vehicles. |
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(c) | When and to the extent the General Partners make a Capital Call for the purpose of
funding the purchase of Program Negotiation Vehicles, for every $1.00 called from
the Partners, any General Partner must make, simultaneously with the payment from
the Limited Partners, an additional capital contribution by way of immediately
available funds deposited to the Vehicle Account of $0.0930. |
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(d) | If a Repurchase Agreement between the Partnership and an Eligible Manufacturer in
respect of vehicle models for a particular year is entered into prior to February 28
of such year and the Rating Agency has not notified the Partnership in writing
within 30 days of receipt of a signed copy of such Repurchase Agreement that it
is not satisfied with the terms and conditions of such Repurchase Agreement, then
thereafter for all purposes hereof the Partnership Vehicles covered by such
Repurchase Agreement shall be deemed to be Partnership Program Vehicles and the
relevant General Partner shall be entitled to a distribution from the Partnership of
the amount, without interest, by which its additional capital contribution in
respect of the Program Negotiation Vehicles was greater than it would have been had
such Vehicles been Partnership Program Vehicles when purchased (the
PNV Excess).
For the purpose of making a distribution under this subsection 5.4(d), the
General Partners may, if there exists no Trigger Event which is continuing, make a
Capital Call on each Limited Partner for an amount up to the PNV Excess (such
Capital Call, as between the Limited Partners, to be effected in accordance with
subsection 3.3(a)) and the proceeds may be used to distribute to the relevant
General Partner an amount equal to the PNV Excess for such General Partner provided
that the aggregate balance in the General Partners Capital Accounts shall continue
to be equal to or exceed the General Partners Capital Commitment. For greater
certainty, this subsection 5.4(d) does not increase the number of times (five
per calendar month) when the Limited Partners may be called upon to make Capital
Calls. A Repurchase Agreement entered into by the Partnership after the occurrence
of a Trigger Event which is continuing shall not be effective for the purposes of
this subsection 5.4(d) unless it shall have been approved by the Rating Agency,
the Bay Street Securitization Agent and the STARS Securitization Agent. |
5.5 | Commingling of Partnership Assets |
Subject to any monthly remittance of Rental Revenues pursuant to Section 4.4, the funds and assets of the Partnership shall not be commingled with the funds or assets of any other Person (including those of the General Partners).
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5.6 | Fees of the General Partners |
The General Partners shall not be entitled to any fees as general partners of the Partnership. As compensation for managing the Partnership and providing certain products and services, the General Partners shall receive the Net Income allocated to them in accordance with Section 4.10.
5.7 | Written-Off or Salvage Partnership Vehicles |
The General Partners hereby covenant and agree that if any Partnership Vehicle is damaged, whether by theft, fire, accident or act of God, and (a) the extent of such damage results in the value of such Partnership Vehicle being less than the Current Book Value thereof and (b) as a result of such damage such Partnership Vehicle is no longer able to generate Rental Revenue, one of the General Partners shall make a cash capital contribution in an amount equal to the Current Book Value of such Partnership Vehicle. Such capital contribution shall be effected by such General Partner depositing such amount to the Vehicle Account no later than the next occurring Remittance Date.
ARTICLE 6
BOOKS AND RECORDS AND PROVISION OF INFORMATION
6.1 | Books of Account |
The General Partners will keep and maintain full, complete and accurate books of account and records of the business of the Partnership. The Partnership books shall be kept at the principal office from time to time of the Avis General Partner. During the existence of the Partnership and for a period of three years thereafter, such books of account and records shall be made available for inspection by each Limited Partner or its duly authorized representatives during normal business hours at the principal office of the Avis General Partner.
6.2 | Annual Report and Income Tax Information |
(a) | In addition to the reports required by Article 4, within 60 days after the
end of each Fiscal Period, the General Partners shall deliver to each Limited
Partner: |
(i) | an annual report in respect of such Fiscal Period containing: |
(A) | unaudited financial statements of the Partnership as at the end of,
and for, such Fiscal Period (prepared in accordance with Canadian GAAP
except as otherwise required by the terms of this Agreement), with
comparative financial statements as at the end of, and for, the
immediately preceding Fiscal Period, if any, containing a balance
sheet, a statement of income, a statement of changes in financial
position and a statement of Partners equity; |
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(B) | a report on allocations and distributions to Partners; and |
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(C) | such other information as in the opinion of the General Partners is
material to the business of the Partnership; and |
(ii) | information concerning the amount of Taxable Income or Tax Loss and credits
and charges to capital accounts allocated to each Limited Partner and such
other information as is necessary to enable such Limited Partner to file
income tax returns and partnership returns with respect to such Limited
Partners income or loss from the Partnership in respect of such Fiscal
Period. |
(b) | Within 105 days of the end of each Fiscal Period, the General Partners shall
deliver to each Limited Partner the statements referred to in subparagraphs 6.2(a)(i)(A)
and (B) with a report of the Auditors thereon. |
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6.3 | Fleet Reports |
On each Settlement Date, the General Partners will make available a Fleet Report to each Limited Partner.
6.4 | Financial Reports of the Partnership |
The General Partners shall deliver to each Limited Partner within 60 days of the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters of each Fiscal Period a copy of the unaudited income and cash flow statements and the unaudited balance sheet of the Partnership as at and for the period then ended.
6.5 | Financial Reports of the General Partners and CCRG Canada ULC |
Each General Partner shall deliver to each Limited Partner within 60 days of the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal period of such General Partner a copy of the unaudited income and cash flow statements and the unaudited balance sheet of such General Partner as at and for the period then ended and, as soon as available but not later than 105 days after the end of each fiscal period of such General Partner, a copy of the income and cash flow statements and the balance sheet of such General Partner as at and for the period then ended. Each General Partner shall cause CCRG Canada ULC to deliver to each Limited Partner within 60 days of the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal period of CCRG Canada ULC a copy of the unaudited income and cash flow statements and the unaudited balance sheet of CCRG Canada ULC as at and for the period then ended and, as soon as available but not later than 105 days after the end of each fiscal period of CCRG Canada ULC, a copy of the audited income and cash flow statements and the audited balance sheet of CCRG Canada ULC as at and for the period then ended.
6.6 | Repurchase Agreements |
The General Partners shall provide to the STARS Securitization Agent, the Bay Street Securitization Agent and the Rating Agency copies of all Repurchase Agreements entered into by the Partnership promptly after they have been entered into by the Partnership and, in any event within 30 days after they have been entered into by the Partnership.
ARTICLE 7
PARTNERSHIP GOVERNANCE
7.1 | Powers Exercisable by the Limited Partners |
In addition to all other powers conferred upon them by this Agreement:
(a) | each Limited Partner may appoint an Additional General Partner to the Partnership
in accordance with subsection 8.3(a); |
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(b) | the Limited Partners (acting together) may waive any default on the part of the
General Partners on such terms as the Limited Partners may determine and release it
from any claims in respect thereof; |
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(c) | the Limited Partners (acting together) may continue the Partnership if the
Partnership would otherwise be terminated by operation of the Act; |
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(d) | the Limited Partners (acting together) may consent to any compromise or
arrangement by the Partnership with any creditor or creditors, or class or classes
of creditors, or with the holders of any shares or securities of the General
Partners; |
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(e) | the Limited Partners (acting together) may waive any or all of the restrictions
set out in Section 5.3, provided that if one of the Limited Partners does not
agree to waive any of such restrictions and the Limited Partnership Interest of
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(f) | each Limited Partner may extend its Normal Course Termination Date, |
but, except with the consent of the Rating Agency, the Limited Partners may not exercise any of these powers if the result of so doing would be to cause a lowering of the Rating Agencys rating of the Notes.
7.2 | Amendment to Partnership Agreement |
This Agreement may be amended by mutual agreement of the General Partners and each Limited Partner and, if the amendment is material, the Rating Agency, provided that such amendment, whether initiated by the General Partners or a Limited Partner, may not in any manner allow a Limited Partner to take part in the control of the business of the Partnership.
7.3 | Assignment of Partnership Interests |
No Partner may sell, exchange, transfer, assign, pledge, hypothecate or otherwise dispose of or subject to any charge, lien, security interest or other encumbrance all or any part of its interest in the Partnership except with the consent of the other Partners in their absolute discretion. Notwithstanding the foregoing:
(a) | a Limited Partner may pledge its Limited Partnership Interest as security for
Notes and Bonds issued by it; |
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(b) | a Limited Partner may, subject to the rights of the General Partners in Section 8.4,
if a Trigger Event occurs and is continuing, transfer the whole or any
part of its Partnership Interest without the consent of the other Partners, who
shall be obligated for all purposes hereof to recognize such transfer, subject to
the condition that each such transferee pursuant to this subsection 7.3(b)
shall agree in writing with the other Partners to become a Partner and be bound by
the provisions of this Agreement; and |
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(c) | the Bay Street Limited Partner may at any time grant to one or more banks or other
institutions (each a Liquidity Purchaser) party to the Liquidity Agreement for the
Bay Street Limited Partner participating interests in this Agreement and the Bay
Street Limited Partners Limited Partnership Interest. In the event of any such
grant by the Bay Street Limited Partner of a participating interest to a Liquidity
Purchaser, the Bay Street Limited Partner shall remain responsible for the
performance of its obligations hereunder. Each of the General Partners and the other
Limited Partners agree that each Liquidity Purchaser shall be entitled to the
indirect benefits of all representations, warranties, covenants, agreements and
indemnities of each of the General Partners and other Limited Partners made or
contained in this Agreement through the Bay Street Limited Partner, all of which may
be enforced by the Bay Street Limited Partner for the benefit of itself and such
participants. For greater certainty, no such Liquidity Purchasers shall have any
direct rights hereunder. |
ARTICLE 8
TRIGGER EVENTS AND DURATION OF PARTNERSHIP
8.1 | Trigger Events |
Each of the following shall be a Trigger Event hereunder:
(a) | if the average of the ratio of (i) the Rental Revenues for a Settlement Period
to (ii) the sum of (A) Depreciation and Loss on Dispositions (if any) for
such Settlement Period and (B) the aggregate Funding Required Amount for the
Remittance Period ending in such Settlement Period, minus (C) Gain on
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(x) three consecutive Settlement Periods is less than 1.35:1 or (y) for 12 consecutive Settlement
Periods is less than 1.6:1; |
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(b) | if the aggregate balance in the General Partners Capital Accounts at the end of a
Settlement Period is less than the General Partners Capital Commitment and remains
so for three Business Days after the next occurring Settlement Date; |
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(c) | the breach of the covenant contained in subsection 5.2(i) which breach
continues for five Business Days after a Settlement Date; provided, however, that if
such breach is caused by a Manufacturer ceasing to be an Eligible Manufacturer, then
such breach will not constitute a Trigger Event if within 30 days of its
occurrence the General Partners at their own expense have obtained for the benefit
of the Partnership credit enhancement satisfactory in form, source and amount to the
Rating Agency, the STARS Securitization Agent and the Bay Street Securitization
Agent in respect of those Partnership Vehicles that are subject to Repurchase
Agreements with such Manufacturer, and provided further that if the Securitization
Agent for one of the Limited Partners is not satisfied as to such form, source and
amount of credit enhancement, such Limited Partner shall provide notice of such
determination to the General Partners and the other Limited Partner (provided that
both Limited Partners are offered identical inducements or consideration in
connection with the relevant determinations), and such breach shall only constitute
a Trigger Event if the Limited Partnership Interest of the Limited Partner that is
related to the Securitization Agent providing such notice has not been purchased by
the applicable Option Closing Date in accordance with Section 8.4; |
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(d) | a General Partner making any unauthorized payment from the Rental Account, the
Vehicle Account or the VAT Account and failing to restore such payment within two
Business Days of becoming aware of it; |
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(e) | the failure by a General Partner to observe any other covenant herein which
failure could reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the
Partnership, provided that if such breach of covenant is capable of being remedied,
it shall not constitute a Trigger Event unless it remains unremedied for five
Business Days after receipt of written notice from a Limited Partner; |
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(f) | the inaccuracy when made of a representation or warranty of a General Partner
herein which inaccuracy could reasonably be expected to have a material adverse
effect on the Partnership, provided that if such inaccuracy is capable of being
remedied, then it shall not constitute a Trigger Event unless it remains unremedied
for five Business Days after receipt of written notice from a Limited Partner; |
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(g) | the occurrence of a material adverse change since the date hereof in the financial
condition or operations of a General Partner or the Partnership which, in the
opinion of the STARS Securitization Agent or the Bay Street Securitization Agent,
after consultation with the Rating Agency and which opinion has been communicated in
writing to the General Partners and the other Limited Partner, could reasonably be
expected to result in a General Partner (i) being unable to satisfy its
obligations hereunder, (ii) becoming a bankrupt, or (iii) seeking the
protection of Insolvency Legislation, provided that if the Securitization Agent for
one of the Limited Partners provides such written communication, such occurrence
shall only constitute a Trigger Event if the Limited Partnership Interest of the
Limited Partner that is related to the Securitization Agent providing such written
notice has not been purchased by the applicable Option Closing Date in accordance
with Section 8.4; |
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(h) | a General Partner failing to pay when due any obligation (the underlying
obligation) for a sum certain in excess of $2,000,000 and such failure continuing
for three Business Days after (i) written notice to such General Partner from
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owed if there is no grace period applicable to the underlying obligation or (ii) the expiry of any grace period
applicable to the underlying obligation; |
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(i) | a General Partner or the Partnership failing generally to pay its debts as they
become due or admitting its inability to do so or making a general assignment for
the benefit of creditors or being adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent or seeking the
protection of Insolvency Legislation; |
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(j) | proceedings being taken by a third party against a General Partner or the
Partnership under Insolvency Legislation or a receiver being appointed over, or
execution being levied against, any material portion of the assets of such General
Partner or the Partnership, unless such proceedings are withdrawn or terminated with
prejudice to the applicant within 30 days of having been commenced; |
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(k) | any Notes being rated lower than R-1 (high) or its equivalent by the Rating
Agency or the STARS Securitization Agent or the Bay Street Securitization Agent
giving notice in writing to the General Partners that the Rating Agency has given
notice to it or the relevant Limited Partner that, unless the Partnership or the
ownership by such Limited Partner of its Limited Partnership Interest is
terminated, the Rating Agency will reduce the rating on any Notes below R-1 (high) or
its equivalent; |
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(l) | any series of Bonds being rated lower than AAA or its equivalent by the Rating
Agency or the STARS Securitization Agent or the Bay Street Securitization Agent
giving notice in writing to the General Partners that the Rating Agency has given
notice to it or the relevant Limited Partner that, unless the Partnership or the
ownership by such Limited Partner of its Limited Partnership Interest is
terminated, the Rating Agency will reduce the rating on any series of Bonds below
AAA or its equivalent; |
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(m) | the occurrence of an Event of Default as such term is defined in the Parent
Guarantee; |
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(n) | if at any time the Shareholders Equity of a General Partner is less than
$20,000,000 (for the purposes hereof, Shareholders Equity means the sum of (i) share
capital, (ii) contributed and other surplus and (iii) retained
earnings, minus the sum of (iv) goodwill and (v) other intangible assets);
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(o) | if the Normal Course Termination Date or a Liquidity Event has occurred in respect
of a Limited Partner and the relevant portion of the Limited Partnership Interest
of such Limited Partner has not been purchased by a General Partner
pursuant to Section 8.4(b) on such Normal Course Termination Date or the day on
which such Liquidity Event has occurred (provided that the Trigger Event shall occur
on the day immediately following such Normal Course Termination Date or the day on
which such Liquidity Event has occurred). |
The General Partners shall be required to give to each Limited Partner and the Rating Agency written notice forthwith upon becoming aware of the existence of a Trigger Event (other than one described in subsection (g), (k), (l) or (o) of Section 8.1). The General Partners shall be obligated to notify each Limited Partner, each Securitization Agent and the Rating Agency forthwith upon learning of the occurrence of any material adverse change in the financial condition or operations of a General Partner or the Partnership. Each Limited Partner shall be required to give the other Limited Partner and the Rating Agency written notice forthwith upon becoming aware of the existence of a Trigger Event.
8.2 | Effect of a Trigger Event |
(a) | Upon the occurrence of a Trigger Event: |
(i) | the General Partners shall not make any further Capital Calls or
purchase additional Vehicles for the Partnership; |
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(ii) | the General Partners shall immediately at their own expense cause to
be redelivered to the province in Canada where they registered any
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outside Canada and no Partnership Vehicle shall be rented for a one-way rental for drop-off outside of
Canada; |
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(iii) | the General Partners shall
sell the Partnership Vehicles and the other
assets of the Partnership and wind up the business of the Partnership in an
orderly manner as expeditiously as practicable but in any event within six months
of the date of the Trigger Event; and |
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(iv) | distributions of cash from the Partnership to the Partners will be
made only as permitted by Section 8.5. |
(b) | The fact that a breach of a
General Partners covenant hereunder may constitute,
or may entitle a Limited Partner to declare, a Trigger Event shall not be construed
as a waiver of, or disentitle the Limited Partners from, other remedies at law or in
equity. |
8.3 | Additional General Partner |
(a) | If a Trigger Event under subsection (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i),
(j), (k), (l), (m) or (n) of Section 8.1 has occurred and is continuing, and if
the General Partners have not exercised their right under Section 8.4, either
Limited Partner shall be entitled to appoint an additional general partner to the
Partnership (the Additional General Partner") who shall serve in addition to the
General Partners; provided, however, that at no time shall there be more than one
Additional General Partner appointed. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, if a
Trigger Event described in subsection 8.1(c) is a result solely of a
Manufacturer ceasing to be an Eligible Manufacturer, then such a Trigger Event shall
not give rise to a right of a Limited Partner to appoint an Additional General
Partner. Any Additional General Partner appointed in accordance with this Section 8.3
shall neither be (i) a non-resident within the meaning of the Income
Tax Act (Canada) nor (ii) a partnership that is not a Canadian partnership
under subsection 102(1) of the Income Tax Act (Canada). Upon its appointment,
the Additional General Partner shall agree in writing with each of the Limited
Partners to become a general partner of the Partnership and to be bound by the
provisions of this Agreement in the form attached hereto as Schedule H, make a
capital contribution to the Partnership of at least $10.00 and carry out the
functions that, in the absence of the Additional General Partners appointment, the
General Partners would be obligated to carry out hereunder after a Trigger Event. In
so doing, the Additional General Partner shall be bound to act in the best interest
of the Partnership. The income entitlement of the Additional General Partner shall
be set at a commercially marketable rate not to exceed 2% of the liquidation
proceeds of Partnership Vehicles. Prior to appointing an Additional General
Partner, the Limited Partner seeking to appoint such Additional General Partner
shall obtain the approval of the other Limited Partner, such approval not to be
unreasonably withheld. |
(b) | Upon appointment of the Additional General Partner, the Additional General Partner
shall control the Rental Account, the Vehicle Account, the VAT Account and all other
assets of the Partnership, to the exclusion of the General Partners. For greater
certainty, the General Partners will be entitled, after the appointment of an
Additional General Partner, to the distributions payable to the General Partners
under subsections 4.6(c) and 4.7(b). |
(c) | Upon the appointment of the Additional General Partner, the General Partners agree
to do all things and to take all steps to immediately effect the transfer of the
management, control, administration and operation of the Partnership and assets,
books, records and accounts thereof to the Additional General Partner, including the
execution and delivery of all deeds, certificates, declarations and other documents
which may be necessary or desirable to effect such change and to assign, transfer
and convey all of the undertaking, property and assets of the Partnership to the
Additional General Partner. Upon the appointment of an Additional General Partner,
the Partnership shall release and hold harmless the General Partners from any costs,
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result of or arising out of events which occur in relation to the Partnership after
such appointment. |
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(d) | Each General Partner hereby irrevocably nominates, constitutes and appoints each
Limited Partner, with full power of substitution, as such General Partners agent
and true and lawful attorney to act on its behalf with full power and authority in
its name, place and stead to execute, swear to, acknowledge, deliver and record or
file as and where required any document that the Additional General Partner
determines to be necessary or desirable, in its sole opinion, in connection with the
assignment from the General Partners to the Additional General Partner of the
undertaking, property and assets of the Partnership as contemplated by subsection 8.3(c),
including the assignment from the General Partners to the Additional
General Partner of registered ownership of the Partnership Vehicles. The power of
attorney granted herein is irrevocable and is a power coupled with an interest and
extends to the successors and assigns of the General Partners. The General Partners
agree to be bound by any representation or action made or taken by either Limited
Partner pursuant to this power of attorney and hereby waive any and all defences
which may be available to contest, negate or disaffirm the action of each Limited
Partner taken in good faith under this power of attorney. The Limited Partners
agree, as between them, that, unless they otherwise agree, neither Limited Partner
will act under the powers of attorney granted by this subsection 8.3(d) without
the approval of the other. |
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(e) | The Additional General Partner may (subject to the last sentence of this subsection 8.3(e))
retain one or more agents, managers or servicers (collectively, a
Servicer) to assist the Additional General Partner in carrying out its functions
and responsibilities hereunder but the compensation of the Servicer shall be the
sole responsibility of the Additional General Partner and shall not be a Partnership
Expense and the appointment by the Additional General Partner of a Servicer shall
not relieve the Additional General Partner of any liabilities hereunder. |
8.4 | Certain Purchase Rights |
(a) | If a Trigger Event (except a Trigger Event pursuant to Sections 8.1(c), 8.1(g)
or 8.1(o), in each case only where the Limited Partnership Interest of the
relevant Limited Partner has not been purchased in accordance with this Section 8.4)
has occurred and is continuing, the General Partners (or such other Person as
may be designated by a General Partner) shall have the right, exercisable in
accordance with this Section 8.4, to purchase all, but not less than all, of the
Limited Partnership Interests from both Limited Partners. |
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(b) | If: |
(i) | a Limited Partner fails to make an additional capital contribution
required to be made pursuant to Section 3.3(a) or a Limited Partner
fails to deposit any funds required to be deposited by it to the Vehicle
Account pursuant to Sections 3.3(a) or 4.7(a), in each case within
two Business Days of the day on which such capital contribution is
required to be made or such funds are to be deposited to the Vehicle
Account, as applicable; |
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(ii) | a Limited Partner fails to comply with Sections 2.16 or 2.17(a),
in each case within five Business Days of the day on which such Limited
Partner is first provided with notice of such non-compliance; |
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(iii) | the Normal Course Termination Date or a Liquidity Event occurs in respect
of a Limited Partner; |
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(iv) | any of the circumstances described in Section 9.7(a), (b) or
(c) will result in continuing payments to a Limited Partner of
Additional Amounts pursuant to Section 9.7 such that the aggregate
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will exceed 0.25% of the Limited Partners Funded Amount for such Limited Partner as at the date
of such change in circumstance; |
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(v) | a Limited Partner fails to provide its consent, agreement to or waiver
of a matter contemplated by Sections 7.1(c), 7.1(e), 8.1(c) or 8.1(g)
within five Business Days of the other Limited Partner providing such
consent, agreement or waiver, provided that both Limited Partners are
offered identical inducements or consideration for providing such
consent, agreement or waiver; or |
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(vi) | there occurs a Funding Termination Event referred to in clauses (c) or
(d) of the definition thereof, |
the General Partners (or such other Person as may be designated by a General Partner) shall have the right, exercisable in accordance with this Section 8.4, to purchase (A) in the case of (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) above, the portion of the Limited Partnership Interest of such Limited Partner that has been funded through the issuance of Notes or under its Liquidity Agreement or (B) in the case of (v) and (vi) above, all, but not less than all, of such Limited Partners Limited Partnership Interest.
(c) | The General Partners may exercise their rights pursuant to Sections 8.4(a) or
(b) (a Purchase Right) by delivering to the relevant Limited Partner or the
Limited Partners, as applicable (in either case, each a
Selling Limited Partner),
written notice (the Partnership Interest Option
Notice) of the exercise of the
Purchase Right not later than three Business Days after the occurrence of the
relevant event giving rise to such Purchase Right (except for an exercise of the
Purchase Right pursuant to subsection 8.4(b)(iii), in which case the Partnership
Interest Option Notice must be provided not later than five Business Days prior to
the relevant Normal Course Termination Date or the expiry of the relevant Liquidity
Agreement, as applicable). The Partnership Interest Option Notice must specify the
General Partner (or such other Person as may be designated by such General Partner)
who will purchase the Limited Partnership Interest of the Selling Limited Partner.
If the exercise of the Purchase Right is pursuant to Section 8.4(a), the
Partnership Interest Option Notice shall be delivered contemporaneously to both
Limited Partners and the Option Closing Date shall be the same date for both Limited
Partners. Delivery of a Partnership Interest Option Notice shall constitute a
binding agreement of purchase and sale pursuant to which the Selling Limited Partner
shall sell to the specified General Partner (or such other Person as may be
designated by such General Partner) and the specified General Partner (or such other
Person as may be designated by such General Partner) shall purchase from the Selling
Limited Partner, the Limited Partnership Interest of the Selling Limited Partner for
an aggregate purchase price (the Option Purchase Price) equal to (A) in the
case of an exercise of the Purchase Right pursuant to Sections 8.4(b)(i), (ii),
(iii) or (iv), the portion of the Limited Partners Funded Amount of the Selling
Limited Partner that has been funded through Notes issued or under its Liquidity
Agreement plus all unpaid, accrued and unaccrued Funding Required Amount (in each
case, calculated to the applicable maturity dates) in respect of Notes issued or
funding under its Liquidity Agreement by the Selling Limited Partner to fund its
Limited Partners Funded Amount that are outstanding as of the date of closing of
the transaction (the Option Closing Date) or (B) in the case of an exercise of
the Purchase Right pursuant to Sections 8.4(a) or 8.4(b)(v) or (vi), the Limited
Partners Funded Amount of the Selling Limited Partner plus any unpaid, accrued and
unaccrued Funding Required Amount (in each case, calculated to the applicable
maturity dates, or to the next Remittance Date in the case of Bonds) in respect of
Notes and Bonds issued or funding under its Liquidity Agreement by the Selling
Limited Partner to fund its Limited Partners Funded Amount that are outstanding as
of the date of the Option Closing Dates. In addition, the General Partners shall pay
for any costs and expenses associated with the unwinding of all or a portion of a
Hedging Transaction entered into by the Limited Partnership pursuant to section 3.4
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exercised pursuant to subsections 8.4(b)(i), (ii), (iii) or (iv), the
Selling Limited Partner shall remain a Limited Partner hereunder and shall continue
to be entitled to its rights hereunder, including the right to be paid applicable
amounts pursuant to Sections 4.6 and 4.7 until such time as its Limited
Partners Capital Account becomes zero, at which time such Selling Limited Partner
shall cease to be a Limited Partner hereunder. |
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(d) | The Option Closing Date shall occur on the fifth Business Day following receipt of
the Partnership Interest Option Notice by the Selling Limited Partner (except
for an exercise of the Purchase Right pursuant to subsection 8.4(b)(iii), in
which case the Option Closing Date shall occur on the Normal Course Termination Date
or the date on which the Liquidity Event occurs, as applicable). At closing and
against payment to the Selling Limited Partner of the Option Purchase Price in cash
or by bank draft or certified cheque, the Selling Limited Partner shall transfer to
the specified General Partner (or such other Person as may be designated by such
General Partner) all or a portion, as applicable, of its Limited Partnership
Interest free and clear of all encumbrances and shall deliver to the specified
General Partner: |
(i) | executed copies of such assignments pertaining to such purchase and in
such form as may be reasonably required by the specified General Partner;
and |
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(ii) | such other documents or instruments of conveyance or further assurance
as may be reasonably required by the specified General Partner. |
(e) | If agreed to by the Limited Partner that is not the Selling Limited Partner, such
Limited Partner may be the Person designated by the General Partner to purchase all
or a portion of the Limited Partnership Interest from the Selling Limited Partner
pursuant to this Section 8.4. Any other Person designated by a General Partner
to purchase all or a portion of the Limited Partnership Interest from the Selling
Limited Partner pursuant to this Section 8.4 must be approved by the other
Limited Partner and, if only a portion of the Limited Partnership Interest is being
purchased from the Selling Limited Partner, by the Selling Limited Partner, such
approvals not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed, provided that no such approval
shall be required if such designated Person is an Affiliate of a General Partner. |
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(f) | If a Trigger Event has occurred and is continuing, on the Option Closing Date and
prior to giving effect to the purchase and sale of all or a portion, as applicable,
of the Limited Partnership Interest on such date, all funds on deposit in the Rental
Account and the Vehicle Account shall be applied pursuant to and in accordance with
Section 8.5. |
8.5 | Distribution of Amounts in Accounts Upon Trigger Event |
After the occurrence of a Trigger Event, the General Partners (or the Additional General Partner if one has been appointed pursuant to Section 8.3) shall distribute cash from the Rental Account and from the Vehicle Account as follows:
(a) | from the Rental Account on each Remittance Date in the following priority: |
(i) | first, to pay the expenses of liquidation and the debts and liabilities
of the Partnership to its creditors or to make due provision for the
payment thereof; |
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(ii) | second, if an Additional General Partner has been appointed pursuant
to Section 8.3, to pay to the Additional General Partner its income
entitlement for the Remittance Period ending on such Remittance Date,
together with the amount (if any) representing the income entitlement of
the Additional General Partner for prior Remittance Periods not yet paid
to the Additional General Partner; |
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(iii) | third, if the Settlement Report for the prior Settlement Period indicates
that the sum of Depreciation and Loss on Dispositions (if any) for such
Settlement Period exceeds Gain on Dispositions (if any) for such Settlement
Period, an amount equal to such excess shall be transferred to the Vehicle
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required to be transferred to the Vehicle Account pursuant to this paragraph 8.5(a)(iii) in respect of
prior Settlement Periods not yet transferred to the Vehicle Account; |
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(iv) | fourth, to pay to each Limited Partner the amounts required to be paid
to it pursuant to subsection 4.6(c)(ii) on such date, on a pro rata
basis based on the respective amounts payable to each Limited Partner
pursuant to subsection 4.6(c)(ii) on such Remittance Date; and |
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(v) | last, to pay to the General Partners the balance on a pro rata basis
based on the amounts in their respective Capital Accounts at such time. |
(b) | from the Vehicle Account on each Remittance Date in the following priority: |
(i) | first, to pay any portion of the expenses of liquidation and the debts
and liabilities of the Partnership to its creditors or to make due
provision for the payment thereof not paid or provided for payment
pursuant to paragraph 8.5(a)(i); |
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(ii) | second, if an Additional General Partner has been appointed pursuant
to Section 8.3, to pay to the Additional General Partner any
amounts required to be paid to such Additional General Partner which
have not been paid pursuant to paragraph 8.5(a)(ii); |
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(iii) | third, to pay to each General Partner as a return of capital an amount
equal to any Temporary GP Contributions for such General Partner which have
not been previously repaid; |
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(iv) | fourth, to pay to each General Partner as a return of capital an amount
equal to any Payout Excess or PNV Excess for such General Partner which
has not been previously repaid, if and to the extent that after payments
pursuant to this paragraph 8.5(b)(iv) the aggregate balance of the
General Partners Capital Accounts would not be less than the General
Partners Capital Commitment; |
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(v) | fifth, to pay to the Limited Partners any amounts required to be paid to
the Limited Partners pursuant to subsection 4.6(c)(ii) which have not
been paid pursuant to subsection 8.5(a)(iv), on a pro rata basis
based on such remaining unpaid amounts owing to each Limited Partner; |
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(vi) | sixth, to pay to the Limited Partners, pro rata, based on their
respective Limited Partners Funded Amounts, an amount equal to the
lesser of: |
(A) | the amount available to be distributed to the Limited Partners under
this Section 8.5(b)(vi); and |
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(B) | the aggregate of the Limited Partners Funded Amount of each Limited
Partner; |
(vii) | seventh, if an Additional General Partner has been appointed pursuant
to Section 8.3, to pay to the Additional General Partner an amount
equal to its capital account; and |
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(viii) | last, to pay to the General Partners the balance on a pro rata basis
based on the amounts in their respective Capital Accounts at such time. |
For greater certainty, if any distributions are made pursuant to this Section 8.5, Sections 4.10 to 4.14 shall continue to be applicable, subject to such modifications as may reasonably be required in the circumstances having regard to the respective entitlements of the Partners.
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8.6 | Negative Balance in Capital Account of General Partners |
Neither the Partnership nor a Limited Partner shall have a claim against the General Partners with respect to any negative (i.e., debit) balance in its capital account except to the extent the assets of the Partnership are insufficient to pay debts, liabilities and obligations of the Partnership upon the winding-up of the business of the Partnership.
8.7 | Return of Capital |
Except as provided in this Agreement, no Partner shall have the right to demand or receive a return of Capital in a form other than cash, but nothing herein shall prohibit a return of Capital in a form other than cash.
8.8 | Dissolution of Partnership |
Unless otherwise agreed to by the Partners, the Partnership shall be terminated on the dissolution of the Partnership. The dissolution of the Partnership shall only commence on March 30 of the year following:
(a) | the winding-up of the Partnership; or |
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(b) | the date upon which the balance of each Limited Partners Capital Account is zero,
provided that the General Partners at their option may, following such date,
continue and not dissolve the Partnership with one of them or a third party as
limited partner. |
8.9 | Liquidation of the Partnerships Assets |
In connection with the dissolution of the Partnership, the General Partners (or the Additional General Partner if one has been appointed pursuant to Section 8.3) shall act as a receiver and liquidator of the assets of the Partnership and shall settle the accounts of the Partnership and liquidate its assets, if any.
8.10 | Termination of this Agreement |
Upon the completion of the liquidation of the assets of the Partnership and the distribution of all the Partnership assets pursuant to Section 8.5, the General Partners (or the Additional General Partner if one has been appointed pursuant to Section 8.3) shall execute and record any notice of dissolution prescribed by the Act as well as any other documents required to effect the dissolution of the Partnership and shall satisfy all applicable formalities of Applicable Law. The effective date of the dissolution of the Partnership shall be the date of such notice of dissolution.
ARTICLE 9
INDEMNIFICATION
9.1 | Indemnification by the General Partners |
Without limiting any other rights which the Limited Partners may have hereunder or under Applicable Law, each General Partner hereby agrees to indemnify each Limited Partner and its respective trustees, employees, officers, directors, agents and assigns (collectively, the Indemnified Parties) from and against any and all damages, losses, claims, liabilities and related costs and expenses, including reasonable legal fees and disbursements, and any costs associated with the appointment of an Additional General Partner (all of the foregoing being collectively referred to as Indemnified Amounts) awarded against or reasonably incurred by any of the Indemnified Parties arising out of or as a result of (a) the liability of such Limited Partner not being limited in the manner provided in Section 2.14 (unless the liability of such Limited Partner is not so limited as a result of any act or omission of such Limited Partner) or (b) a breach or violation of this Agreement by a General Partner, excluding, however, damages, losses, claims, liabilities, costs and expenses resulting from gross negligence or wilful misconduct on the part of such Limited Partner. The obligations of
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each General Partner under this Section 9.1 shall survive any termination of this Agreement. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, but subject to the exclusions referenced in (a) and (b), each General Partner shall indemnify the Indemnified Parties for Indemnified Amounts awarded or incurred as aforesaid relating to or resulting from:
(i) | reliance on any representation, warranty or statement made by a General
Partner (or any of its officers) under, in or in connection with this
Agreement, any officers certificate or any information or report delivered by
the General Partners pursuant hereto or thereto, which shall have been false,
incorrect or inaccurate in any material respect when made; |
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(ii) | the failure by a General Partner to comply with any Applicable Law with
respect to any Partnership Vehicle or Vehicle Rental Agreement or the
non-conformity of any Vehicle Rental Agreement with any Applicable Law; |
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(iii) | any claim for personal injury, death, property damage or product liability
which may arise by reason of, result from or be caused by, or relate to the
use, operation, maintenance or ownership of, the Partnership Vehicles;
and |
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(iv) | any material failure of a General Partner to perform its covenants or
obligations in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement. |
9.2 | Notification of Potential Liability |
Each of the Partners will, upon learning of potential situations involving possible liability under this Article 9, promptly notify the other Partners thereof but a failure to notify by a Limited Partner shall excuse a General Partner from its liability hereunder to such Limited Partner only if and to the extent that such General Partner can demonstrate that the amount of its liability to such Limited Partner would have been less if it had been given prompt notice thereof.
9.3 | Litigation |
At the request of a Limited Partner, each General Partner shall, at its expense, co-operate with such Limited Partner in any action, suit or proceeding brought by or against such Limited Partner (and, at the request of the General Partners, such Limited Partner shall, at the General Partners expense, co-operate with the General Partners in any action, suit or proceeding brought by or against a General Partner) relating to any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, any Partnership Vehicles or Vehicle Rental Agreements (other than an action, suit or proceeding by one Partner against the other). In addition, each General Partner agrees to notify each Limited Partner and each Limited Partner agrees to notify the General Partners, at the General Partners expense, promptly upon learning of any pending or threatened action, suit or proceeding, if the judgment or expenses of defending such action, suit or proceeding would be covered by Section 9.1 and (except for an action, suit or proceeding by one Partner against another Partner) to consult with such Limited Partner, concerning the defence and prior to settlement; provided, however, that if (a) the General Partners shall have acknowledged that Section 9.1 would cover any judgment or expenses in any action, suit or proceeding, and (b) in the sole determination of such Limited Partner, the General Partners have the financial ability to satisfy such judgment or expenses, then such General Partner shall have the right, on behalf of such Limited Partner but at such General Partners expense, to defend such action, suit or proceeding with counsel selected by such General Partner, and shall have sole discretion as to whether to litigate, appeal or enter into an exclusively monetary settlement. If the expenses of defending any action, suit or proceeding against the Limited Partners would be covered by Section 9.1, the Limited Partners shall conduct the defence through the same legal counsel acceptable to both Limited Partners, provided that a Limited Partner may employ separate legal counsel if representation by the same legal counsel would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interests between the Limited Partners.
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9.4 | Tax Indemnity |
Each General Partner agrees to defend and to save the Indemnified Parties harmless from and against any and all liabilities arising out of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement with respect to or resulting from any delay in paying or any omission to pay any Taxes otherwise required under this Agreement to be paid or withheld and remitted by or on behalf of such General Partner on its own behalf, on behalf of a Limited Partner, on behalf of the Partnership or on behalf of any Vehicle rental customers. If such General Partner shall be required by Applicable Law to deduct or withhold any Taxes from or in respect of any sum payable by or on behalf of the Partnership to a Limited Partner hereunder or in connection with the execution, delivery, filing and recording hereof and of the other documents to be delivered hereunder and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, or if a Limited Partner shall be required to pay any Taxes in respect of any sum received by such Limited Partner from the Partnership hereunder:
(a) | the sum payable to such Limited Partner shall be increased as may be necessary (or
an amount shall be owed to such Limited Partner) so that, after all required
deductions, withholdings or payments in respect of such Taxes have been made, such
Limited Partner receives or retains an amount equal to the sum that such Limited
Partner would have received or retained had no such deductions, withholdings or
payments been made; |
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(b) | such General Partner shall make such deductions or withholdings; and |
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(c) | such General Partner shall pay forthwith the full amount deducted or withheld to
the relevant taxation authority or other authority in accordance with Applicable Law
and will provide to such Limited Partner copies of such forms as are required to be
provided to such authority evidencing the payment by such General Partner. |
For greater certainty, it is hereby acknowledged by the parties hereto that the General Partners shall not be liable to indemnify the Indemnified Parties under this Section for any Taxes payable by, or required to be withheld by, the General Partners on account of Taxes payable on the income of a Limited Partner, Taxes payable by virtue of the non-resident status of a Limited Partner, Taxes payable on the capital of a Limited Partner or Taxes payable by reason of any breach of this Agreement by a Limited Partner.
9.5 | Tax Credit |
If a payment (a Grossed-Up Payment) made by a General Partner includes an amount (a Gross-Up) referred to in Section 9.4, and the relevant Limited Partner is able to apply for or otherwise take advantage of any tax credit, deduction in computing income or similar benefit by reason of any withholding or deduction made by such General Partner in respect of the Grossed-Up Payment (such credit, deduction or benefit hereinafter being referred to as a Tax Credit), then such Limited Partner will, at the expense of the General Partners, use reasonable endeavours to obtain the Tax Credit and, if it realizes the Tax Credit (whether by way of reducing taxes payable, receiving a tax refund, or otherwise), such Limited Partner shall, subject to the provisos to this Section 9.5, pay to such General Partner such amount, if any (not exceeding the Gross-Up) as is determined in the discretion of such Limited Partner to be equal to the net after-tax value to such Limited Partner of such part of the Tax Credit as is reasonably attributable to such withholding or deduction having regard to all dealings giving rise to similar credits, deductions or benefits in relation to the same tax period and to the cost of obtaining the same. Any such reimbursement shall be conclusive evidence of the amount due to such General Partner and shall be accepted by it in full and final settlement of its rights of reimbursement hereunder; provided that notwithstanding the foregoing, (a) nothing herein contained shall interfere with the right of such Limited Partner to arrange its tax affairs in whatever manner it deems fit and, in particular, such Limited Partner shall not be under any obligation to claim relief from its profits or similar tax liability in respect of any such deduction or withholding in priority to any other relief, claims, credits or deductions available to it, and (b) such Limited Partner shall not be obligated to disclose to the General Partners any information regarding its tax affairs or tax computations; provided, further, that if, as a result of (i) an audit of such Limited Partner by its auditors or by a taxing authority, or (ii) any change to the affairs of such Limited Partner or to the available information concerning such affairs, which change is relevant to the determination that reimbursement with respect to a Tax Credit is payable to such General Partner hereunder,
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such Limited Partner determines, in its discretion, that any such payment made by such Limited Partner to such General Partner hereunder would not have been made had such Limited Partner known the results of such audit or anticipated such change, or would have been made in a smaller amount, then such General Partner shall pay to such Limited Partner the amount of such payment which such Limited Partner so determines to have been an overpayment.
9.6 | Survival |
It is expressly acknowledged and agreed by the parties hereto that the obligations of the General Partners under this Article 9 shall survive the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and, notwithstanding the occurrence of such events, shall continue in full force and effect.
9.7 | Change in Circumstances |
If at any time:
(a) | the introduction of or any change (including any change by way of imposition or
increase of any reserve requirements) in or in the interpretation or administration
of any Applicable Law by any court or governmental authority, in each case made
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(b) | the compliance by a Limited Partner, any liquidity agent or lender or liquidity
purchaser under the relevant Liquidity Agreement or the STARS Securitization Agent
or the Bay Street Securitization Agent, as applicable, or any of their respective
Affiliates (each, an Affected Person), with any changed or introduced guideline,
direction or request, or any change in the interpretation or administration thereof,
made after the date hereof from or by any governmental authority or professional
self-regulating or governing body (including, for greater certainty, the Office of
the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Canada, the Board of Governors of the
United States Federal Reserve System or any other body or entity governing
accounting treatment or reserve requirements) (whether or not having the force of
law); or |
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(c) | any Affected Person is required pursuant to any legal or regulatory requirement,
request, direction or guideline, or change in the interpretation or administration
thereof (including with respect to reserve, deposit, capital adequacy or similar
requirements), from or by any governmental authority or other body described in (b) above,
to post or allocate additional capital to that which is maintained by
any such Affected Person and any such posting or allocation of additional capital
(or any portion thereof) is determined by the Affected Person to be due to, related
to or as a result of the Affected Persons direct or indirect (including through the
provision of liquidity support for the Notes) obligations under or related to this
Agreement, |
has the effect of:
(i) | (A) increasing the costs, expenses or liabilities of any Affected Person
(including as a result of a change in the Affected Persons capital position),
as such costs, expenses or liabilities relate to the making or funding of
capital contributions hereunder or maintaining such Limited Partners Capital
Account or paying for, or maintaining or funding its commitments under, the
relevant Liquidity Agreement, (B) reducing the rate of return (on capital
or otherwise) to any Affected Person in connection with, or as a result of
such Affected Person either having to raise additional capital or incurring a
deteriorated capital position as a result of the making or funding of capital
contributions hereunder or maintaining such Limited Partners Capital Account
or paying for, or maintaining or funding its commitments under, the relevant
Liquidity Agreement, or (C) requiring the payment of any Taxes on or
calculated with reference to the capital or debt of any Affected Person; or |
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(ii) | reducing the amount of any Funding Discount Amount or Bond Interest Amount;
or |
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(iii) | requiring any Affected Person to make a payment it would not otherwise
have been required to make, |
the Partnership shall, from time to time upon demand by the relevant Limited Partner, pay to such Limited Partner or the applicable Affected Person, simultaneously with the payment of the Funding Discount Amount or the Bond Interest Amount, as the case may be, the amount of any such increased costs incurred, expenses or liabilities incurred, reduction in amounts received or receivable, reduction in rate of return or required payment made or to be made (the Additional Amount). Such Limited Partner shall deliver to the Partnership a certificate setting forth its computation of such Additional Amount, which computation may utilize such averaging and attribution methods that such Limited Partner or the applicable Affected Person, acting reasonably, believes to be fair. Upon becoming aware thereof, such Limited Partner shall promptly notify the Partnership of any event or circumstance which could result in any payment being required to be made to such Limited Partner pursuant to this Section 9.7.
ARTICLE 10
GENERAL
10.1 | Amendments and Waivers |
Except as otherwise specifically provided for herein, no amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or consent to any departure by any party herefrom shall be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by the other party or parties and, if material, by the Rating Agency and then such waiver shall only be effective in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which it was given. To the extent that any such amendment, waiver or consent is not material, notice thereof shall be provided to the Rating Agency as soon as practicable after such amendment is made or such waiver or consent is given.
10.2 | Further Assurances |
Each of the parties shall, at the expense of the requesting party, promptly do all such acts and things and shall execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, all such documents, instruments, indentures, certificates and agreements as may be reasonably necessary or desirable to give effect to the provisions of and intent of this Agreement.
10.3 | No Waiver; Remedies Cumulative |
No failure on the part of any party to exercise and no delay in exercising any right hereunder, or under any agreement, indenture, document or instrument delivered pursuant hereto or in connection herewith shall operate as a waiver thereof nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right hereunder or thereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right. Remedies herein and therein provided are cumulative and not exclusive of any remedies provided by Applicable Law.
10.4 | Notices |
Any notice, report, communication, payment or demand required or permitted to be given or made hereunder shall be in writing and shall be sufficiently given or made for all purposes if delivered personally or transmitted by telecopy or fax to the party or to an officer of the party to whom the same is directed, addressed as follows:
(a) | if to the Avis General Partner, addressed to it at: |
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Aviscar Inc. 1 Convair Drive East Etobicoke, ON M9W 6Z9 |
Attention: | Controller |
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Fax No.: | (416) 213-8505 |
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with a copy to:
Cendant Car Rental Group, Inc. 6 Sylvan Way Parsippany, N.J. USA 07054 |
Attention: | Chief Financial Officer |
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Fax No.: | (973) 496-5115 |
and |
Attention: | Legal Department |
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Fax No.: | (973) 496-3444 |
and a copy to:
Cendant Corporation 1 Campus Drive Parsippany, New Jersey 07054 |
Attention: | Treasurer |
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Fax No.: | (973) 496-5852 |
(b) | if to the Budget General Partner, addressed to it at: |
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Budgetcar Inc. 1 Convair Drive East Etobicoke, ON M9W 6Z9 |
Attention: | Controller |
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Fax No.: | (416) 213-8505 |
with a copy to:
Cendant Car Rental Group, Inc. 6 Sylvan Way Parsippany, N.J. USA 07054 |
Attention: | Chief Financial Officer |
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Fax No.: | (973) 496-5115 |
and |
Attention: | Legal Department |
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Fax No.: | (973) 496-3444 |
and a copy to:
Cendant Corporation 1 Campus Drive Parsippany, New Jersey 07054 |
Attention: | Treasurer |
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Fax No.: | (973) 496-5852 |
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(c) | if to the STARS Limited Partner, addressed to it at: |
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STARS Trust c/o BNY Trust Company of Canada Suite 1101, 4 King Street West Toronto, ON M5H 1B6 |
Attention: | George Bragg, President and Chief Executive Officer |
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Fax No.: | (416) 360-1711 |
and |
Attention: | Patricia Benjamin, Assistant Treasurer and Trust Officer |
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Fax No.: | (416) 360-1711 |
with a copy to the STARS Securitization Agent, addressed to it at:
BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc. 1 First Canadian Place 3rd Floor Podium Toronto, ON M5X 1H3 |
Attention: | Executive Managing Director, Securitization and Structured Finance |
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Fax No.: | (416) 359-1910 |
(d) | if to the Bay Street Limited Partner, addressed to it at: |
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Bay Street Funding Trust c/o Montreal Trust Company of Canada 100 University Avenue 11th Floor Toronto, Ont. M5J 2Y1 |
Attention: | Account Administrator |
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Fax No.: | (416) 981-9777 |
with a copy to the Bay Street Securitization Agent, addressed to it at:
Scotia Capital Inc. 68th Floor, Scotia Plaza 40 King Street West P.O. Box 4085, Station A Toronto, Ontario M5W 2X6 |
Attention: | Director, Securitization |
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Fax No.: | (416) 945-4534 |
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(e) | and if to the Rating Agency, addressed to it at: |
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Dominion Bond Rating Service Limited 200 King Street West Suite 1304 Sun Life Centre, West Tower P.O. Box 34 Toronto, ON M5H 3T4 |
Attention: | Executive Vice President Structured Finance |
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Fax No.: | (416) 593-8432 |
Any such notice that is given by personal delivery shall be deemed to have been received on the day of actual delivery thereof and any notice given by telecopy or fax shall be deemed to have been received on the first Business Day after the transmittal thereof. A Partner may change its address or fax number by giving written notice of such change to the other Partners.
10.5 | Limited Partner Not a General Partner |
If any provision of this Agreement has the effect of imposing upon a Limited Partner any of the liabilities or obligations of a general partner under the Act, such provision shall be of no force and effect. The intention of the parties hereto in entering into this Agreement is to form a limited partnership and to be in relation as between themselves and toward others of general partners (Parties of the First Part and Second Part) and limited partners (Parties of the Third Part and Fourth Part) and not general partners and general partners and not debtors and creditors and not agents and principals and not trustees and beneficiaries (except that in renting Partnership Vehicles, the General Partners will be the agent of the Partnership as undisclosed principal).
10.6 | Limitation of Liability and Capacity |
The obligations or liabilities of the Limited Partners under this Agreement shall be satisfied only out of the property or assets of STARS Trust or Bay Street Funding Trust and no resort shall be had to the property or assets of BNY Trust Company of Canada or any of their shareholders, directors, officers, employees or agents or any of the beneficiaries of STARS Trust or Bay Street Funding Trust (other than the property or assets of such trusts). BNY Trust Company of Canada is entering into this Agreement on behalf of STARS Trust in its capacity as trustee of STARS Trust, and this Agreement shall enure to the benefit of and be binding upon the successors of BNY Trust Company of Canada in its capacity as trustee of STARS Trust. Montreal Trust Company of Canada is entering into this Agreement on behalf of Bay Street Funding Trust in its capacity as trustee of Bay Street Funding Trust, and this Agreement shall enure to the benefit of and be binding upon the successors of Montreal Trust Company of Canada in its capacity as trustee of Bay Street Funding Trust.
10.7 | Counterparts |
This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts with the same effect as if all parties hereto had all signed the same document. All counterparts and adopting instruments shall be construed together and shall constitute one and the same agreement.
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10.8 | Binding Effect |
This Agreement shall be binding upon and enure to the benefit of the parties hereto and, to the extent permitted hereunder, their respective successors and assigns.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF the parties have executed this Agreement in the City of Toronto in the Province of Ontario on this 20th day of April, 2005.
AVISCAR INC. |
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by: | /s/ David Calabria | ||||
Name: | David Calabria | ||||
Title: | Assistant Treasurer | ||||
by: | /s/ Mark E. Costello | ||||
Name: | Mark E. Costello | ||||
Title: | Assistant Secretary | ||||
BUDGETCAR INC. |
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by: | /s/ Edward P. Bertero | ||||
Name: | Edward P. Bertero | ||||
Title: | Sr. Vice President and Treasurer | ||||
by: | /s/ Paul Gallagher | ||||
Name: | Paul Gallagher | ||||
Title: | Assistant Secretary | ||||
BNY TRUST COMPANY OF CANADA, as trustee of STARS TRUST (with liability limited to the assets of the trust) by its securitization agent, BMO NESBITT BURNS INC. |
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by: | /s/ Jerry Marriott | ||||
Name: | Jerry Marriott | ||||
Title: | Vice President | ||||
by: | /s/ Chris Romano | ||||
Name: | Chris Romano | ||||
Title: | Managing Director | ||||
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MONTREAL TRUST COMPANY OF CANADA, as trustee of BAY STREET FUNDING TRUST (with liability limited to the assets of the trust) by its administrator, SCOTIA CAPITAL INC. |
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by: | /s/ Doug Noe | ||||
Name: | Doug Noe | ||||
Title: | Director | ||||
by: | |||||
Name: | |||||
Title: |
We hereby acknowledge and consent to this Agreement.
DOMINION BOND RATING SERVICE LIMITED |
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by | /s/ Greg Nelson | |||
Name: | Greg Nelson | |||
Title: | Executive Vice President | |||
Exhibit 12
Cendant Corporation and Subsidiaries
COMPUTATION OF RATIO OF EARNINGS TO FIXED CHARGES
(Dollars in millions)
Six Months Ended June 30, | ||||||||||
2005 | 2004 | |||||||||
Earnings before fixed charges: |
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Income before income taxes and minority interest |
$ | 767 | $ | 929 | ||||||
Plus: | Fixed charges |
423 | 483 | |||||||
Amortization of capitalized interest |
3 | 3 | ||||||||
Less: | Minority interest in pre-tax income of subsidiaries that
have not incurred fixed charges |
| 6 | |||||||
Capitalized interest |
3 | 3 | ||||||||
Earnings available to cover fixed charges |
$ | 1,190 | $ | 1,406 | ||||||
Fixed charges (a): |
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Interest, including amortization of deferred financing costs (b) |
$ | 350 | $ | 411 | ||||||
Interest portion of rental payment |
73 | 72 | ||||||||
Total fixed charges |
$ | 423 | $ | 483 | ||||||
Ratio of earnings to fixed charges |
2.81x | 2.91x | ||||||||
(a) | Consists of interest expense on all indebtedness (including amortization of
deferred financing costs and capitalized interest) and the portion of operating
lease rental expense that is representative of the interest factor. Interest expense
on all indebtedness is detailed as follows: |
Six Months Ended June 30, | ||||||||||
2005 | 2004 | |||||||||
Related to the debt under management programs incurred by the Companys vehicle rental business | $ | 148 | $ | 131 | ||||||
All other | 202 | 280 |
(b) | Does not include interest expense from discontinued operations of $11 million
and $42 million for the six months ended June 30, 2005 and 2004,
respectively. |
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Exhibit 15
July 29, 2005
Cendant Corporation
9 West 57th Street
New York, New York
We have made reviews, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), of the unaudited interim financial information of Cendant Corporation and subsidiaries for the periods ended June 30, 2005 and 2004, as indicated in our report dated July 29, 2005; because we did not perform an audit, we expressed no opinion on that information.
We are aware that our report referred to above, which is included in your Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2005, is incorporated by reference in Cendant Corporations Registration Statement Nos. 333-11035, 333-17323, 333-17411, 333-20391, 333-23063, 333-26927, 333-35707, 333-35709, 333-45155, 333-45227, 333-49405, 333-78447, 333-86469, 333-51586, 333-59246, 333-65578, 333-65456, 333-65858, 333-83334, 333-84626, 333-86674 and 333-87464 on Form S-3 and Registration Statement Nos. 33-74066, 33-91658, 333-00475, 333-03237, 33-58896, 33-91656, 333-03241, 33-26875, 33-75682, 33-93322, 33-93372, 33-80834, 333-09633, 333-09637, 333-30649, 333-42503, 333-34517-2, 333-42549, 333-45183, 333-47537, 333-69505, 333-75303, 333-78475, 333-51544, 333-38638, 333-64738, 333-71250, 333-58670, 333-89686, 333-98933, 333-102059, 333-22003, 333-114744, 333-120557, and 333-124925 on Form S-8.
We also are aware that the aforementioned report, pursuant to Rule 436(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, is not considered a part of the Registration Statements prepared or certified by an accountant or a report prepared or certified by an accountant within the meaning of Sections 7 and 11 of that Act.
/s/ Deloitte & Touche LLP
New York, New York
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Exhibit 31.1
CERTIFICATIONS
I, Henry R. Silverman, certify that:
1. | I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of Cendant Corporation; |
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2. | Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material
fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of
the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the
period covered by this report; |
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3. | Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included
in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of
operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this
report; |
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4. | The registrants other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and
maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules
13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in
Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have: |
a) | Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure
controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that
material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated
subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly
during the period in which this report is being prepared; |
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b) | Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal
control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide
reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the
preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles; |
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c) | Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrants disclosure controls and
procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of
the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by
this report based on such evaluation; and |
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d) | Disclosed in this report any change in the registrants internal control over
financial reporting that occurred during the registrants most recent fiscal
quarter (the registrants fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report)
that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the
registrants internal control over financial reporting; and |
5. | The registrants other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most
recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrants
auditors and the audit committee of the registrants board of directors (or persons
performing the equivalent functions): |
a) | All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation
of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to
adversely affect the registrants ability to record, process, summarize and report
financial information; and |
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b) | Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees
who have a significant role in the registrants internal control over financial
reporting. |
Date: August 2, 2005
/s/ HENRY R. SILVERMAN
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Exhibit 31.2
I, Ronald L. Nelson, certify that:
1. | I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of Cendant Corporation; |
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2. | Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material
fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of
the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the
period covered by this report; |
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3. | Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included
in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of
operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this
report; |
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4. | The registrants other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and
maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules
13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in
Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have: |
a) | Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure
controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that
material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated
subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly
during the period in which this report is being prepared; |
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b) | Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal
control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide
reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the
preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles; |
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c) | Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrants disclosure controls and
procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of
the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by
this report based on such evaluation; and |
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d) | Disclosed in this report any change in the registrants internal control over
financial reporting that occurred during the registrants most recent fiscal
quarter (the registrants fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report)
that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the
registrants internal control over financial reporting; and |
5. | The registrants other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most
recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrants
auditors and the audit committee of the registrants board of directors (or persons
performing the equivalent functions): |
a) | All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation
of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to
adversely affect the registrants ability to record, process, summarize and report
financial information; and |
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b) | Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees
who have a significant role in the registrants internal control over financial
reporting. |
Date: August 2, 2005
/s/ RONALD L. NELSON
PRESIDENT AND CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Exhibit 32
CERTIFICATION OF CEO AND CFO PURSUANT TO
18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350,
AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO
SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
In connection with the Quarterly Report of Cendant Corporation (the Company) on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2005, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the Report), Henry R. Silverman, as Chief Executive Officer of the Company, and Ronald L. Nelson, as Chief Financial Officer of the Company, each hereby certifies, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that, to the best of his knowledge:
(1) | The Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and |
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(2) | The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects,
the financial condition and results of operations of the Company. |
/S/ HENRY R. SILVERMAN
HENRY R. SILVERMAN
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
AUGUST 2, 2005
/S/ RONALD L. NELSON
RONALD L. NELSON
PRESIDENT AND CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
AUGUST 2, 2005