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Title:

Credit Agreement

Entities:

Barclays Bank plc; National Westminster Bank plc; Open Joint Stock Co Vimpel Communications; Telenor ASA; Vimpel-Communications

Date:

2003

Size:

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Price:

$54

ID:

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CREDIT AGREEMENT


between

Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG

and

Nordea Bank Sweden AB (publ)

as Lenders

and

Nordea Bank Sweden AB (publ)

as Agent and Security Beneficiary

and

Open Joint Stock Company Vimpel-Communications

as Borrower




TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Clauses

 

 

Page


1.     DEFINITIONS

3

 

 

2.     CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

8

 

 

3.     LOANS

11

 

 

4.     INTEREST

12

 

 

5.     REPAYMENT AND PREPAYMENT

12

 

 

6.     PAYMENTS

13

 

 

7.     FEES AND EXPENSES

14

 

 

8.     REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

16

 

 

9.     COVENANTS

18

 

 

10.    INFORMATION

20

 

 

11.   EVENTS OF DEFAULT

21

 

 

12.   INDEMNITIES AND INCREASED COSTS

24

 

 

13.   RIGHTS, REMEDIES AND WAIVERS

25

 

 

14.   UNCONDITIONAL PAYMENTS

25

 

 

15.   MISCELLANEOUS

25

 

 

16.   THE AGENT, THE SECURITY BENEFICIARY AND THE LENDERS

28

 

 

17.   LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

34

 

 

18.   CURRENCY INDEMNITY

35

 

 

19.   ARBITRATION, APPLICABLE LAW AND JURISDICTION

35

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exhibits;

 

 

 

Exhibit 1:     Form of Pledge of Equipment Agreement

 

 

 

Exhibit 2:     Certified Copy of the Signed Bond Loan Agreement

 

 

 

Exhibit 3:     Drawdown Notice

 

 

 





This credit agreement (the Credit Agreement) is made on January 15, 2003 between

Nordea Bank Sweden AB (publ), a public company incorporated under the laws of Sweden and having its registered office at Hamngatan 10, SE-105 71 Stockholm, Sweden, and Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG, a stock corporation incorporated under the laws of Germany and having its registered office at Am Tucherpark 16, 80538 Munich, Federal Republic of Germany (jointly referred as the Lenders and each a Lender), including its successors and permitted assigns;

Nordea Bank Sweden AB (publ), a public company incorporated under the laws of Sweden and having its registered office at Hamngatan 10, SE-105 71 Stockholm, Sweden, as agent (the Agent) for the Lenders and security beneficiary (the Security Beneficiary)

and

Open Joint Stock Company Vimpel-Communications, a Russian open joint stock company having its legal address at 10, bldg. 14, 8 Marta str., Moscow 127083 Russian Federation (the Borrower).

BACKGROUND

Whereas the Supplier (as defined below) and the Borrower (as defined below) have entered into the Supply Contract (as defined below), pursuant to which the Supplier has delivered and will deliver telecommunication equipment to the Borrower as specified therein; and

Whereas the Lenders have agreed to make available a credit to the Borrower in the amount of USD 35,700,000 for the purpose of financing (in the form of reimbursements repayable in installments) of up to 85% the Contract Price (as defined below) for the delivery of the Equipment (as defined below) under the Supply Contract upon the terms and conditions set forth herein.

NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS AGREED as follows:

1.

DEFINITIONS

1.1

In this Credit Agreement:

Acceptance Reimbursable Amount with respect to a particular item or group of items of Equipment under the Supply Contract means 10% of the portion of the Contract Price attributable to such Equipment under the Supply Contract.

Account means the account number 40702840400001001001 of the Borrower, opened pursuant to clause 3.3 of this Credit Agreement with ING Bank (Eurasia) ZAO Moscow, Russia (SWIFT code: INGBRUMM).

Affiliate has, for the purposes of clause 9.2 (f) of this Credit Agreement, the meaning specified in the Bond Loan Agreement.


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Bond Loan Agreement means that certain Loan Agreement dated April 23, 2002 between the Borrower and J.P. Morgan AG.

Business Day means a day on which banks and foreign exchange markets are generally open for business in Stockholm, New York, London, Munich and Moscow.

Change of Ownership means the occurrence of any circumstance, other than an issuance of voting shares in which Telenor ASA and other entities owned, directly or indirectly, by Telenor ASA elects not to participate, by which Telenor ASA ceases to own, directly or indirectly, at least 25% of the voting shares of the Borrower.

Commitment means, in relation to a Lender, the obligation of such Lender to make available a credit up to the aggregate principal amount of USD 17,850,000.

Contract Price means the total purchase price in the amount of USD 42,000,000 to be paid to the Supplier for the Equipment under the Supply Contract.

Debt has the meaning given to the term Indebtedness in the Bond Loan Agreement.

Default means an Event of Default or any event or circumstance which with the giving of notice and/or the passage of time and/or the making of any determination of materiality or fulfilment of any other applicable condition (or any combination of the foregoing) may constitute an Event of Default.

Delivery Reimbursable Amount with respect to a particular item or group of items of Equipment under the Supply Contract means 75% of the portion of the Contract Price attributable to such Equipment under the Supply Contract.

Drawdown Date means the date of each Drawing.

Drawdown Notice means a notice from the Borrower to the Lender requesting a Drawing under this Credit Agreement in respect of Acceptance Reimbursable Amounts or Delivery Reimbursable Amounts, as the case may be, such notice to be substantially in the form of Exhibit 3 hereto.

Drawdown Period means the period commencing on the date of this Credit Agreement and ending on whichever is the earliest of (i) February 20, 2004, (ii) the day on which the Loan is equal to the Total Commitments, and (iii) the termination of any Commitment in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Credit Agreement.

Drawing means a borrowing of the whole or a portion of the Total Commitments by the Borrower under this Credit Agreement. An individual drawing may not be for an amount less than the lesser of (i) USD500,000, and (ii) the then unfunded portion of the Total Commitments. The maximum amount of drawings made by the Borrower may not exceed twenty (20) drawings, provided that the Agent shall charge the Borrower an additional fee of USD1,500 for administration of each drawing in excess of twenty (20) drawings.


 

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