Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. announced on July 3, 2024, with certain subsidiaries of the Company as guarantors, the lenders party to the Credit Agreement, and Axos Bank, as administrative agent, entered into the Second Amendment to Credit Agreement (the Second Amendment), to that certain Credit Agreement dated as of January 18, 2024 (as amended, restated, modified and/or supplemented from time to time, the Credit Agreement). Pursuant to the Second Amendment, Axos and the Lenders party to the Credit Agreement consented to the Company?s engagement in certain specified sales of the assets of specified subsidiaries of the Company, and agreed that the consummation of any Specified Transaction would not result in an event of default under the Credit Agreement. As a condition to the forgoing consent and agreements, the Company agreed to apply the net cash proceeds from the Specified Transactions in the following order, irrespective of the order of consummation of the Specified Transactions: to the repayment of revolving loans under the Credit Agreement, in an aggregate amount equal to $10,000,000 (the Specified Revolver Paydown); to the repayment of liabilities in respect of the certain pension plans of the Company and its subsidiaries, in an aggregate amount equal to $15,000,000; to the repayment of letter of credit borrowings or advances, or if no such amounts are outstanding, to the cash collateralization of existing letter of credit obligations, in an aggregate amount equal to $10,000,000; to PNC Bank, National Association, in an amount not exceeding $1,600,000 in connection with the repayment and/or cash collateralization of certain existing facilities; to the repayment of revolving loans under the Credit Agreement, in an aggregate amount equal to $54,000,000 (which amounts may be reborrowed in whole or in part to the extent permitted under the Credit Agreement at such time and may be used for purposes permitted under the Credit Agreement, including for working capital needs); to the repayment of the Company?s 8.125% Senior Notes due 2026, 6.50% Senior Notes due 2026 or any additional unsecured senior notes issued under the Company?s unsecured notes indenture, in an aggregate amount equal to $193,000,000; and the remainder to be retained by the Company in accounts subject to finance working capital, capital expenditures and acquisitions and for general corporate purposes (including the payment of fees and expenses).

The Second Amendment further amended the Credit Agreement by sunsetting the option to increase the amounts available to be borrowed based on inventory in the borrowing base under the Credit Agreement following the Specified Revolver Paydown, and extended the maturity date under the agreement from August 30, 2025 to October 31, 2025 in the event that the Indebtedness under any of the Company?s unsecured notes has not been refinanced pursuant to a permitted refinancing under the agreement. The maturity date otherwise remains January 18, 2027. The Company paid an amendment fee of $50,000 to Axos in consideration of the Second Amendment.

Certain of the lenders under the Credit Agreement, as well as certain of their respective affiliates, may perform for the Company and its subsidiaries, various commercial banking, investment banking, lending, underwriting, trust services, financial advisory and other financial services, for which they may receive customary fees and expenses.