(a) This Agreement may be executed by one or more of the parties to this Agreement on any number of separate counterparts (including by facsimile or other electronic image scan transmission), and all of said counterparts taken together shall be deemed to constitute one and the same instrument. A set of the copies of this Agreement signed by all the parties shall be lodged with the Borrower and the Administrative Agent. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Agreement by facsimile or in electronic ( e.g. , “pdf” or “tif”) format shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement.