Priority and Liens Applicable to Loan Parties Sample Clauses

The "Priority and Liens Applicable to Loan Parties" clause establishes the lender's rights to claim a security interest in the borrower’s assets and sets the order of priority among competing creditors. In practice, this clause specifies which assets are pledged as collateral, details the type of lien (such as first-priority or subordinate), and may require the borrower to avoid granting conflicting liens to other parties. Its core function is to protect the lender’s interests by ensuring that, in the event of default or bankruptcy, the lender has a clear and enforceable claim to the designated collateral ahead of other creditors, thereby reducing the lender’s risk.
Priority and Liens Applicable to Loan Parties. Subject to completion of the filings set forth in Section 7.2.18, The Borrower hereby covenants, represents and warrants that, upon the execution of this Agreement and upon the entry of the Interim Order (and when applicable, the Final Order), all Obligations of the Loan Parties: (i) pursuant to Section 364(c)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code, shall be entitled to joint and several superpriority administrative claim status in the Chapter 11 Cases; (ii) pursuant to Section 364(c)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code, shall be secured by a perfected first priority lien on all of the Debtors’ tangible and intangible property that is not subject to valid, perfected and non-avoidable liens in existence as of the Petition Date; (iii) pursuant to Section 364(c)(3) of the Bankruptcy Code, shall be secured by a perfected junior lien on all of the Debtors’ tangible and intangible property, that is subject to valid, perfected and non-avoidable liens in existence on the Petition Date or to valid liens in existence on the Petition Date that are subsequently perfected as permitted by Section 546(b) of the Bankruptcy Code (other than property that is subject to the existing liens, rights or interests that secure the obligations of the Borrower and the Guarantors under or in connection with the Pre-Petition Credit Agreement and the Pre-Petition Note Agreements, which liens, rights and interests shall be primed by the liens to be granted to the Administrative Agent as described in clause (iv) below); and (iv) pursuant to Section 364(d)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code, shall be secured by a perfected first priority, senior priming lien on all of the Debtors’ property that is subject to existing liens, rights and interests that secure the obligations of the Debtors under or in connection with the Pre-Petition Credit Agreement and the Pre-Petition Note Agreements, all of which existing liens, rights and interests (the “Primed Liens”) shall be primed by and made subject and subordinate to the perfected first priority senior liens to be granted to the Administrative Agent for its and the Lenders’ benefit, which senior priming liens in favor of the Administrative Agent shall also prime any liens granted after the Petition Date to provide adequate protection in respect of any of the Primed Liens but shall not prime valid, perfected and non-avoidable liens, if any, to which the Primed Liens are validly subject as of the Petition Date and to the extent not in violation of the agreements as to which the Pr...
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  • Priority and Liens At all times prior to the Exit Facility Conversion Date, (a) Each Grantor hereby covenants, represents and warrants that upon entry of each DIP Order, the Obligations of such Grantor hereunder and under the other Loan Documents: (i) pursuant to section 364(c)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code and subject to the Carve-Out, shall at all times constitute an allowed Superpriority Claim (excluding any avoidance activity under the Bankruptcy Code (but including the proceeds therefrom)); (ii) pursuant to section 364(c)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code and subject to the Carve-Out, shall at all times be secured by first priority, valid, binding, enforceable and perfected security interests in, and Liens upon, all unencumbered tangible and intangible property of such Grantor, including any such property that is subject to valid and perfected Liens in existence on the Petition Date, which Liens are thereafter released or otherwise extinguished in connection with the satisfaction of the obligations secured by such Liens (excluding any avoidance actions under the Bankruptcy Code (but including the proceeds therefrom)). (iii) pursuant to section 364(c)(3) of the Bankruptcy Code and subject to the Carve-Out, shall at all times be secured by junior, valid, binding, enforceable and perfected security interests in, and Liens upon, all (A) property of each of the Loan Parties’ estates that, on the Petition Date, was subject to a valid and perfected Lien (other than the Liens securing the Prepetition Indebtedness) or becomes subject to a valid Lien perfected (but not granted) after the Petition Date to the extent such post-Petition Date perfection in respect of prepetition claims is expressly permitted under the Bankruptcy Code (the “Permitted Prior Liens”), (B) property of each of the Grantors’ estates that is subject to valid rights of setoff, and (C) property of each of the Grantors’ estates that is subject to such other Liens as are expressly permitted under Sections 6.02(c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i) or (o) of the Credit Agreement (such Liens described in this clause (C), along with the Permitted Prior Liens, the “DIP Permitted Liens”); provided that the Liens granted under the Loan Documents shall not be subject or subordinate to (1) notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Loan Documents or the DIP Orders, any DIP Permitted Lien or security interest that is avoided and preserved for the benefit of the Grantors and their estates, (2) except as provided in the DIP Orders and the Loan Documents, any Liens arising after the Petition Date including, any Liens or security interests granted in favor of any federal, state municipal or other governmental unit, commission, board or court for any liability of the Grantors; or (3) any intercompany or affiliate Liens of the Grantors; and (iv) pursuant to section 364(d)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code and subject only to the Carve-Out and clause (iii) above, shall at all times be secured by first priority, priming, valid, binding, enforceable and perfected security interests in, and Liens upon, all the Prepetition Collateral. (b) The Secured Parties’ Liens and Superpriority Claims as described herein and Section 2.26(a) of the Credit Agreement shall have priority over any claims arising under section 506(c) of the Bankruptcy Code, and shall be subject and subordinate only to (i) the Carve-Out and (ii) to the extent provided in the Term Loan/Revolving Facility Intercreditor Agreement, the Liens securing the Obligations under and as defined in the Revolving Facility Credit Agreement in respect of the Revolving Facility First Lien Collateral. Except as set forth herein or in the Term Loan/Revolving Facility Intercreditor Agreement, no other claim having a priority superior to or pari passu with that granted to Secured Parties by the Interim Order and Final Order, whichever is then in effect, shall be granted or approved while any Obligations under this Agreement remain outstanding. (c) Except for the Carve-Out, no costs or expenses of administration shall be imposed against Administrative Agent, Lenders, any other Secured Party or any of the Collateral under sections 105 or 506(c) of the Bankruptcy Code, or otherwise, and each of the Grantors hereby waives for itself and on behalf of its estate in bankruptcy, any and all rights under sections 105 or 506(c) of the Bankruptcy Code, or otherwise, to assert or impose or seek to assert or impose, any such costs or expenses of administration against Administrative Agent, the Lenders or any other Secured Party. (d) Except for the Carve-Out, the Superpriority Claims shall at all times be senior to the rights of each Grantor, any chapter 11 trustee and, subject to section 726 of the Bankruptcy Code, any chapter 7 trustee, or any other creditor (including, without limitation, post-petition counterparties and other post-petition creditors) in the Chapter 11 Cases or any subsequent proceedings under the Bankruptcy Code, including, without limitation, any chapter 7 cases (if any of the Grantor’s cases are converted to cases under chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code). (e) Notwithstanding any failure on the part of any Grantor or the Collateral Agent or the Lenders to perfect, maintain, protect or enforce the Liens and security interests in the Collateral granted hereunder, the Interim Order and the Final Order (when entered) shall automatically, and without further action by any Person, perfect such Liens and security interests against the Collateral (if and to the extent perfection may be achieved by the entry of the DIP Financing Orders).

  • Other Financing Statements and Liens Except as otherwise permitted under Section 9.06 of the Credit Agreement, without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent (granted with the authorization of the Lenders as specified in Section 11.09 of the Credit Agreement), no Securing Party shall file or suffer to be on file, or authorize or permit to be filed or to be on file, in any jurisdiction, any financing statement or like instrument with respect to the Collateral in which the Administrative Agent is not named as the sole secured party for the benefit of the Lenders.

  • Creation, Perfection and Priority of Liens The execution and delivery of the Collateral Documents by Loan Parties, together with (i) the actions taken to date pursuant to the Existing Credit Agreement and subsections 4.1I, 6.8 and 6.9 hereof and (ii) the delivery to Collateral Agent of any Pledged Collateral not delivered to Collateral Agent at the time of execution and delivery of the applicable Collateral Document (all of which Pledged Collateral has been so delivered) are effective to create or to continue in favor of Collateral Agent for the benefit of Beneficiaries, as security for the respective Secured Obligations, a valid First Priority Lien on all of the Collateral (except as indicated in the applicable Collateral Document), and all filings and other actions necessary or desirable to perfect and maintain the perfection and First Priority status of such Liens have been duly made or taken and remain in full force and effect, other than the filing of any UCC financing statements and PTO filings delivered to Collateral Agent on the Effective Date for filing (but not yet filed), the periodic filing of UCC continuation statements in respect of UCC financing statements filed by or on behalf of Collateral Agent and the amendments or modifications to the Mortgages described in subsection 6.9(D) or permitted alternatives thereto.

  • Material Agreements and Liens (a) Part A of Schedule 3.11 is a complete and correct list of each credit agreement, loan agreement, indenture, purchase agreement, guarantee, letter of credit or other arrangement providing for or otherwise relating to any Debt or any extension of credit (or commitment for any extension of credit) to, or Guarantee by, the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, outstanding on the date hereof the aggregate principal or face amount of which equals or exceeds (or may equal or exceed) $5,000,000, and the aggregate principal or face amount outstanding or that may become outstanding under each such arrangement is correctly described in Part A of said Schedule 3.11. (b) Part B of Schedule 3.11 is a complete and correct list of each Lien securing Debt of any Person outstanding on the date hereof the aggregate principal or face amount of which equals or exceeds (or may equal or exceed) $5,000,000 and covering any Property of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, and the aggregate Debt secured (or that may be secured) by each such Lien and the Property covered by each such Lien is correctly described in Part B of said Schedule 3.11.

  • Perfection and Priority of Liens Receipt by the Administrative Agent of the following, all in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent: (i) searches of Uniform Commercial Code filings in the jurisdiction of formation of each Loan Party or where a filing would need to be made in order to perfect the Administrative Agent’s security interest in the Collateral, copies of the financing statements on file in such jurisdictions and evidence that no Liens exist other than Permitted Liens; (ii) UCC financing statements for each appropriate jurisdiction as is necessary, in the Administrative Agent’s sole discretion, to perfect the Administrative Agent’s security interest in the Collateral; (iii) all certificates evidencing any certificated Equity Interests pledged to the Administrative Agent pursuant to the Pledge Agreements, together with duly executed in blank and undated stock powers (or equivalent documents in any applicable jurisdiction) and other customary deliverables in connection with security over Equity Interests attached thereto; (iv) evidence (in a form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) that no restrictions on the transfer of any shares which are charged pursuant to the Pledge Agreements exist in the Organization Documents of the issuer of such shares save as otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent; (v) searches of ownership of, and Liens on, the Intellectual Property of each Loan Party in the appropriate governmental offices; (vi) duly executed notices of grant of security interest in the form required by the Security Agreement as are necessary, in the Administrative Agent’s sole discretion, to perfect the Administrative Agent’s security interest in the Intellectual Property of the Loan Parties; (vii) subject to Section 7.21, in the case of any personal property Collateral located at a premises leased by a Loan Party, such Collateral Access Agreements as may be reasonably required by the Administrative Agent; (viii) such Deposit Account Control Agreements as shall be necessary to cause the Loan Parties to be in compliance with Section 7.16; and (ix) a duly executed promissory note with respect to the obligations under the Intercompany Irish Credit Facility, together with a duly executed in blank allonge.