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This excerpt taken from the WYN 8-K filed Jul 19, 2006.

New Borrowing Facilities

We entered into borrowing arrangements for a total of $2,000 million, comprised of a $300 million term loan facility, an $800 million interim loan facility and a $900 million revolving credit facility. At or prior to the distribution, we expect to draw $1,360 million against those facilities and issue approximately $70 million in letters of credit, leaving approximately $570 million available to provide liquidity for additional letters of credit and for working capital and ongoing corporate needs. All of the approximately $1,360 million of debt we expect to incur will be transferred to Cendant solely to repay a portion of Cendant’s corporate debt (including its existing asset-linked facility relating to certain of the assets of Cendant’s Hospitality Services (including Timeshare Resorts) businesses). Our interest rate under these facilities will be based on a spread over LIBOR, tied to our credit ratings as determined by Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s. Based on our recently issued ratings of BBB and Baa2 by Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s, respectively, that rate will be at LIBOR plus 55 basis points.

Historically, Cendant has borrowed under its existing asset-linked facility relating to certain of the assets of Cendant’s Hospitality Services (including Timeshare Resorts) businesses, which borrowings amounted to $600 million, $575 million and $550 million at June 30, 2006, March 31, 2006 and December 31, 2005, respectively. These Cendant borrowings have been reflected in our accompanying historical combined financial statements. We expect that Cendant will repay the then-outstanding balance of these borrowings at the time of our separation with a portion of our initial borrowings of $1,360 million.

The interim loan facility ranks pari passu with our unsecured debt except with respect to maturity as the interim facility has a one-year term and the revolving credit facility and term loan facility has five-year terms. Subject to market conditions, we intend to replace the interim loan facility in its entirety with a combination of public, senior unsecured medium-term (a duration of between 3 and 10 years), non-convertible, fixed and/or floating rate bonds. In the event of a sale of Travelport is completed, we intend to use a portion of the proceeds contributed to us to pay down the interim facility; in addition, the receipt of such proceeds would likely result in our issuing a proportionally smaller amount of the bonds described above. The remainder of the proceeds from a sale of Travelport, if any, will be used to repay other debt.

The new facilities include affirmative covenants, including the maintenance of specific financial ratios. These financial covenants consist of a minimum interest coverage ratio of at least 3.0 times as of the measurement date and a maximum leverage ratio not to exceed 3.5 times on the measurement date. The interest coverage ratio is calculated by dividing EBITDA (as defined in the credit agreement) by Interest Expense (as defined in the credit agreement), excluding interest expense on any Securitized Indebtedness and on Non-Recourse Indebtedness (as the two terms are defined in the credit agreement), both as measured on a trailing 12 month basis preceding the measurement date. The leverage ratio is calculated by dividing total Consolidated Total Indebtedness (as defined in the credit agreement) excluding any Securitization Indebtedness and any Non-Recourse Secured debt as of the measurement date by EBITDA as measured on a trailing 12 month basis preceding the measurement date. Negative covenants in the new credit facilities include limitations on indebtedness of material subsidiaries; liens; mergers, consolidations, liquidations, dissolutions and sales of substantially all assets; and sale and leasebacks. Events of default in the new credit facilities include nonpayment of principal when due; nonpayment of interest, fees or other amounts; violation of covenants; cross payment default and cross acceleration (in each case, to indebtedness (excluding securitization indebtedness) in excess of $50 million); and a change of control (the definition of which permits our separation from Cendant).

We currently expect the aggregate amount of our pro forma indebtedness, after giving effect to the separation and distributions and the application of proceeds from the sale of Travelport, to be at least $946 million excluding the vacation ownership securitization program described in detail below.

 

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