Exhibit 10.14
GUARANTEE AND COLLATERAL AGREEMENT
dated and effective as of
October 5, 2004,
among
BCP CRYSTAL US HOLDINGS CORP.,
CELANESE AMERICAS CORPORATION,
THE OTHER GUARANTORS
and
DEUTSCHE BANK AG, NEW YORK BRANCH,
as Collateral Agent
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS..............................................................1
SECTION 1.01. Loan Agreement........................................................1
SECTION 1.02. Other Defined Terms...................................................1
ARTICLE II. GUARANTEE...............................................................5
SECTION 2.01. Guarantee.............................................................5
SECTION 2.02. Guarantee of Payment..................................................5
SECTION 2.03. No Limitations, etc...................................................6
SECTION 2.04. Reinstatement.........................................................8
SECTION 2.05. Agreement to Pay; Subrogation.........................................8
SECTION 2.06. Information...........................................................8
SECTION 2.07. Maximum Liability.....................................................8
ARTICLE III. PLEDGE OF SECURITIES...................................................9
SECTION 3.01. Pledge ...............................................................9
SECTION 3.02. Delivery of the Pledged Collateral...................................10
SECTION 3.03. Representations, Warranties and Covenants............................11
SECTION 3.04. [Reserved]...........................................................12
SECTION 3.05. Registration in Nominee Name; Denominations..........................12
SECTION 3.06. Voting Rights; Dividends and Interest, etc...........................13
ARTICLE IV. SECURITY INTERESTS IN PERSONAL PROPERTY................................15
SECTION 4.01. Security Interest....................................................15
SECTION 4.02. Representations and Warranties.......................................16
SECTION 4.03. Covenants 18
SECTION 4.04. Other Actions........................................................21
SECTION 4.05. Covenants Regarding Patent, Trademark and Copyright Collateral.......22
ARTICLE V. REMEDIES................................................................23
SECTION 5.01. Remedies Upon Default................................................23
SECTION 5.02. Application of Proceeds..............................................25
SECTION 5.03. Grant of License to Use Intellectual Property........................26
SECTION 5.04. Securities Act, etc..................................................26
SECTION 5.05. Registration, etc....................................................27
ARTICLE VI. INDEMNITY, SUBROGATION AND SUBORDINATION...............................27
SECTION 6.01. Indemnity and Subrogation............................................27
SECTION 6.02. Contribution and Subrogation.........................................28
SECTION 6.03. Subordination........................................................28
ARTICLE VII. MISCELLANEOUS.........................................................29
SECTION 7.01. Notices..............................................................29
SECTION 7.02. Security Interest Absolute...........................................29
SECTION 7.03. Subordinated Security Interests......................................29
SECTION 7.04. Binding Effect; Several Agreement....................................29
SECTION 7.05. Successors and Assigns...............................................30
SECTION 7.06. Collateral Agent's Fees and Expenses; Indemnification................30
SECTION 7.07. Collateral Agent Appointed Attorney-in-Fact..........................31
SECTION 7.08. GOVERNING LAW........................................................31
SECTION 7.09. Waivers; Amendment...................................................32
SECTION 7.10. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL.................................................33
SECTION 7.11. Severability.........................................................33
SECTION 7.12. Counterparts.........................................................33
SECTION 7.13. Headings.............................................................33
SECTION 7.14. Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process..........................33
SECTION 7.15. Termination or Release...............................................34
SECTION 7.16. Additional Parties...................................................34
SCHEDULES
Schedule I Subsidiary Parties
Schedule II Capital Stock; Debt Securities
Schedule III Intellectual Property
EXHIBITS
Exhibit I Form of Supplement
Exhibit II Form of Perfection Certificate
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GUARANTEE AND COLLATERAL AGREEMENT dated and effective as of
October 5, 2004 (this "AGREEMENT"), among BCP CRYSTAL US HOLDINGS CORP. (the
"TERM BORROWER"), CELANESE AMERICAS CORPORATION ("CAC"), each SUBSIDIARY PARTY a
party hereto, and DEUTSCHE BANK AG,
NEW YORK BRANCH, as Collateral Agent (in
such capacity, the "COLLATERAL AGENT") for, on a basis junior and subordinated
(in Lien only) to the First Lien Secured Parties, the Second Lien Secured
Parties (as defined below).
Reference is made to the Loan Agreement dated as of June 8, 2004
(as amended, supplemented, waived or otherwise modified from time to time, the
"LOAN AGREEMENT"), among BCP Crystal Holdings Ltd. 2, BCP Caylux Holdings
Luxembourg S.C.A. ("PARENT"), the Lenders party thereto from time to time (the
"LENDERS"), ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Senior Funding, Inc., as global coordinator, Deutsche
Bank AG,
New York Branch, as administrative agent and as collateral agent for
the Lenders, and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Senior
Funding, Inc., as joint lead arrangers.
The obligations of the Lenders to extend and to maintain credit
pursuant to the Loan Agreement are conditioned upon, among other things, the
execution and delivery on the Restructuring Date (as herein after defined) of
this Agreement. The Term Borrower, CAC and the Subsidiary Parties will derive
substantial benefits from such extensions of credit and are willing to execute
and deliver this Agreement in order to induce the Lenders to extend such credit.
Accordingly, the parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1.01. LOAN AGREEMENT. (a) Capitalized terms used in this
Agreement and not otherwise defined herein have the respective meanings assigned
thereto in the Loan Agreement. All terms defined in the
New York UCC (as defined
herein) and not defined in this Agreement have the meanings specified therein.
(b) The rules of construction specified in Section 1.02 of
the Loan Agreement also apply to this Agreement.
SECTION 1.02. OTHER DEFINED TERMS. As used in this Agreement,
the following terms have the meanings specified below:
"ACCOUNT DEBTOR" means any person who is or who may become
obligated to any Guarantor under, with respect to or on account of an Account.
"ARTICLE 9 COLLATERAL" has the meaning assigned such term in
Section 4.01.
"BAILEE" has the meaning assigned such term in Section 3.01.
"CLAIMING GUARANTOR" has the meaning assigned such term in
Section 6.02.
"COLLATERAL" means Article 9 Collateral and Pledged Collateral.
"CONTRIBUTING GUARANTOR" has the meaning assigned such term in
Section 6.02.
"CONTROL AGREEMENT" means a securities account control agreement
or commodity account control agreement, as applicable, in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent.
"COPYRIGHT LICENSE" means any written agreement, now or
hereafter in effect, granting any right to any third party under any Copyright
now or hereafter owned by any Guarantor or that any Guarantor otherwise has the
right to license, or granting any right to any Guarantor under any Copyright now
or hereafter owned by any third party, and all rights of any Guarantor under any
such agreement.
"COPYRIGHTS" means all of the following now owned or hereafter
acquired by any Guarantor: (a) all copyright rights in any work subject to the
copyright laws of the United States or any other country, whether as author,
assignee, transferee or otherwise; and (b) all registrations and applications
for registration of any such Copyright in the United States or any other
country, including registrations, supplemental registrations and pending
applications for registration in the United States Copyright Office, including
those listed on SCHEDULE III.
"EQUITY INTERESTS" has the meaning provided in the Loan
Agreement but excluding any interest otherwise included in such definition that
is not a "security" or "financial asset" under Article VIII of the
New York UCC.
"FEDERAL SECURITIES LAWS" has the meaning assigned to such term
in Section 5.04.
"FIRST LIEN COLLATERAL AGENT" means the "Collateral Agent" as
defined in the First Lien Collateral Agreement.
"FIRST LIEN COLLATERAL AGREEMENT" means that certain
Guarantee
and Collateral Agreement, dated and effective as of April 6, 2004 among,
initially, CAC, the other guarantors party thereto and Deutsche Bank AG,
New
York Branch, as collateral agent, as in effect from time to time.
"FIRST LIEN OBLIGATIONS" means "Obligations" as defined in the
First Lien Collateral Agreement.
"FIRST LIEN SECURED PARTIES" means "Secured Parties" as defined
in the First Lien Collateral Agreement.
"FIRST LIEN TERMINATION DATE" means the first date on which the
First Lien Collateral Agreement terminates pursuant to Section 7.15(a) thereof.
"GENERAL INTANGIBLES" means all "General Intangibles" as defined
in the
New York UCC, including all choses in action and causes of action and all
other intangible personal property of any Guarantor of every kind and nature
(other than Accounts) now owned or hereafter acquired by any Guarantor,
including corporate or other business records, indemnification claims, contract
rights (including rights under leases, whether entered into as lessor or lessee,
Swap Agreements and other agreements), Intellectual Property, goodwill,
registrations,
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franchises, tax refund claims and any letter of credit, guarantee, claim,
security interest or other security held by or granted to any Guarantor to
secure payment by an Account Debtor of any of the Accounts.
"GUARANTEED OBLIGATIONS" means, as to each Guarantor, all of the
Obligations not owed directly by it.
"GUARANTEED PARTY" means, with respect to all Guaranteed
Obligations, the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent and/or the Lenders
to which such Guaranteed Obligations are owed.
"GUARANTOR" means, so long as such Person is a party hereto,
each of the Term Borrower, CAC and each Subsidiary Party.
"INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY" means all intellectual and similar
property of every kind and nature now owned or hereafter acquired by any
Guarantor, including inventions, designs, Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks,
Patent Licenses, Copyright Licenses, Trademark Licenses, trade secrets, domain
names, confidential or proprietary technical and business information, know-how
or show-how and all related documentation.
"INVESTMENT PROPERTY" has the meaning assigned such term in the
New York UCC provided that the capital stock of CAMI shall not be included in
"Investments" until such time (if any) as such stock is included in the term
PLEDGED STOCK.
"LENDERS" has the meaning assigned to such term in the
preliminary statement of this Agreement.
"LOAN AGREEMENT" has the meaning assigned to such term in the
preliminary statement of this Agreement.
"LOAN DOCUMENT OBLIGATIONS" means (a) the due and punctual
payment by the Term Borrower of (i) the unpaid principal of and interest on the
Term Loans C made to the Term Borrower, when and as due, whether at maturity, by
acceleration, upon one or more dates set for prepayment or otherwise and (ii)
all other monetary obligations of the Term Borrower under the Loan Agreement and
each of the other Loan Documents, including obligations to pay fees, expense and
reimbursement obligations and indemnification obligations, whether primary,
secondary, direct, contingent, fixed or otherwise, including in the case of
clauses (i) and (ii), interest accruing during the pendency of any bankruptcy,
insolvency, receivership or other similar proceeding, regardless of whether
allowed or allowable in such proceeding and (b) the due and punctual performance
of all other obligations of the Term Borrower under or pursuant to the Loan
Agreement and each of the other Loan Documents (other than this Agreement).
"
NEW YORK UCC" means the Uniform Commercial Code as from time to
time in effect in the State of
New York.
"NOTICED EVENT OF DEFAULT" means (x) until the First Lien
Termination Date occurs, a Noticed Event of Default under and as defined in the
First Lien Collateral Agreement and (y) thereafter, any Event of Default as to
which the Administrative Agent has given the Term
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Borrower written notice that (i) such Event of Default constitutes a Noticed
Event of Default and (ii) to the extent such notice may be given without
violation of applicable law, the Collateral Agent intends, as a result of such
Event of Default (alone or among others), to exercise its rights hereunder,
provided that an Event of Default under Section 7.01(g) or (h) of the Loan
Agreement shall in any event constitute a Noticed Event of Default.
"OBLIGATIONS" means (a) the Loan Document Obligations and (b)
the due and punctual payment and performance of all the obligations of each
Guarantor under and pursuant to this Agreement.
"PATENT LICENSE" means any written agreement, now or hereafter
in effect, granting to any third party any right to make, use or sell any
invention covered by a Patent, now or hereafter owned by any Guarantor or that
any Guarantor otherwise has the right to license or granting to any Guarantor
any right to make, use or sell any invention covered by a Patent, now or
hereafter owned by any third party.
"PATENTS" means all of the following now owned or hereafter
acquired by any Guarantor: (a) all letters patent of the United States or the
equivalent thereof in any other country, and all applications for letters patent
of the United States or the equivalent thereof in any other country, including
those listed on SCHEDULE III, and (b) all reissues, continuations, divisions,
continuations-in-part or extensions thereof, and the inventions disclosed or
claimed therein, including the right to make, use and/or sell the inventions
disclosed or claimed therein.
"PERFECTION CERTIFICATE" means a certificate substantially in
the form of EXHIBIT II, completed and supplemented with the schedules and
attachments contemplated thereby, and duly executed by a Responsible Officer of
the Term Borrower.
"PLEDGED COLLATERAL" has the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 3.01.
"PLEDGED DEBT SECURITIES" has the meaning assigned to such term
in Section 3.01.
"PLEDGED SECURITIES" means any promissory notes, stock
certificates or other certificated securities now or hereafter included in the
Pledged Collateral, including all certificates, instruments or other documents
representing or evidencing any Pledged Collateral.
"PLEDGED STOCK" has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
3.01.
"SECOND LIEN SECURED PARTIES" means with respect to all
Obligations, as appropriate, (i) the Lenders, (ii) the Administrative Agent and
the Collateral Agent, (iii) the beneficiaries of each indemnification obligation
undertaken by any Guarantor under any Loan Document and (iv) the successors and
permitted assigns of each of the foregoing.
"SECURITY INTEREST" has the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 4.01.
"SENIOR PRIORITY LIENS" shall have the meaning assigned such
term in Section 4.02(c).
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"SUBSIDIARY PARTY" means, so long as a party hereto, each CAC
Guarantor Subsidiary in existence on the Restructuring Date and each other
subsidiary required to become party hereto pursuant to Section 7.16.
"SUPPLEMENT" shall mean an instrument in the form of Exhibit I
hereto.
"TRADEMARK LICENSE" means any written agreement, now or
hereafter in effect, granting to any third party any right to use any Trademark
now or hereafter owned by any Guarantor or that any Guarantor otherwise has the
right to license, or granting to any Guarantor any right to use any Trademark
now or hereafter owned by any third party.
"TRADEMARKS" means all of the following now owned or hereafter
acquired by any Guarantor: (a) all trademarks, service marks, corporate names,
company names, business names, fictitious business names, trade dress, logos,
other source or business identifiers, designs and general intangibles of like
nature, now existing or hereafter adopted or acquired, all registrations thereof
(if any), and all registration applications filed in connection therewith,
including registrations and applications in the United States Patent and
Trademark Office or any similar offices in any State of the United States or any
other country or any political subdivision thereof, and all renewals thereof,
including those listed on SCHEDULE III and (b) all goodwill associated therewith
or symbolized thereby.
ARTICLE II.
GUARANTEE
SECTION 2.01. GUARANTEE. Each Guarantor unconditionally
guarantees, jointly with the other Guarantors and severally, as a primary
obligor and not merely as a surety, the due and punctual payment and performance
of its Guaranteed Obligations. Each Guarantor further agrees that its Guaranteed
Obligations may be extended or renewed, in whole or in part, without notice to
or further assent from it, and that it will remain bound upon its guarantee
notwithstanding any extension or renewal of any of its Guaranteed Obligations.
Each Guarantor waives presentment to, demand of payment from and protest to any
Person of any of its Guaranteed Obligations, and also waives notice of
acceptance of its guarantee and notice of protest for nonpayment.
SECTION 2.02. GUARANTEE OF PAYMENT. Each Guarantor further
agrees that its guarantee hereunder constitutes a guarantee of payment when due
and not of collection, and waives any right to require that any resort be had by
the Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Secured Party to any security held
for the payment of its Guaranteed Obligations or to any balance of any Deposit
Account or credit on the books of the Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien
Secured Party in favor of any Person.
SECTION 2.03. NO LIMITATIONS, ETC. (a) Except for termination
of a Guarantor's obligations hereunder as expressly provided for in Section
7.15, the obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall not be subject to any
reduction, limitation, impairment or termination for any reason, including any
claim of waiver, release, surrender, alteration or compromise, and shall not be
subject to any defense or setoff, counterclaim, recoupment or termination
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whatsoever by reason of the invalidity, illegality or unenforceability of its
Guaranteed Obligations or otherwise. Without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, the obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall not be discharged
or impaired or otherwise affected by:
(i) the failure of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral
Agent or any other Person to assert any claim or demand or to exercise
or enforce any right or remedy under the provisions of any Loan Document
or otherwise;
(ii) any rescission, waiver, amendment or modification of, or
any release from any of the terms or provisions of, any Loan Document or
any other agreement, including with respect to any other Guarantor under
this Agreement;
(iii) any default, failure or delay, willful or otherwise, in
the performance of the Obligations;
(iv) any other act or omission that may or might in any
manner or to any extent vary the risk of any Guarantor or otherwise
operate as a discharge of any Guarantor as a matter of law or equity
(other than the indefeasible payment in full in cash of all the
Obligations),
(v) any illegality, lack of validity or enforceability of
any Obligation,
(vi) any change in the corporate existence, structure or
ownership of any Loan Party, or any insolvency, bankruptcy,
reorganization or other similar proceeding affecting any Loan Party or
its assets or any resulting release or discharge of any Obligation,
(vii) the existence of any claim, set-off or other rights that
the Guarantor may have at any time against any Loan Party, the
Collateral Agent, or any other corporation or Person, whether in
connection herewith or any unrelated transactions, provided that nothing
herein will prevent the assertion of any such claim by separate suit or
compulsory counterclaim,
(viii) any law, regulation, decree or order of any
jurisdiction, or any other event, affecting any term of any of its
Guaranteed Obligations or the Collateral Agent's rights with respect
thereto, including, without limitation:
(A) the application of any such law, regulation,
decree or order, including any prior approval, which would
prevent the exchange of a foreign currency for Dollars or such
other currency in which its Guaranteed Obligations are due, or
the remittance of funds outside of such jurisdiction or the
unavailability of Dollars or any such other currency in any
legal exchange market in such jurisdiction in accordance with
normal commercial practice; or
(B) a declaration of banking moratorium or any
suspension of payments by banks in such jurisdiction or the
imposition by such jurisdiction or any governmental authority
thereof of any moratorium on, the required rescheduling or
restructuring of, or required approval of payments on, any
indebtedness in such jurisdiction; or
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(C) any expropriation, confiscation, nationalization
or requisition by such country or any governmental authority
that directly or indirectly deprives the Term Borrower of any
assets or their use, or of the ability to operate its business
or a material part thereof; or
(D) any war (whether or not declared), insurrection,
revolution, hostile act, civil strife or similar events
occurring in such jurisdiction which has the same effect as the
events described in clause (A), (B) or (C) above (in each of the
cases contemplated in clauses (A) through (D) above, to the
extent occurring or existing on or at any time after the date of
this Agreement), and
(x) any other circumstance (including without limitation,
any statute of limitations) or any existence of or reliance on any
representation by the Collateral Agent that might otherwise constitute a
defense to, or a legal or equitable discharge of, any Loan Party or the
Guarantor or any other guarantor or surety.
Each Guarantor expressly authorizes the respective Guaranteed Parties to take
and hold security for the payment and performance of its Guaranteed Obligations,
to exchange, waive or release any or all such security (with or without
consideration), to enforce or apply such security and direct the order and
manner of any sale thereof in their sole discretion or to release or substitute
any one or more other guarantors or obligors upon or in respect of its
Guaranteed Obligations, all without affecting the obligations of such Guarantor
hereunder.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, with respect to any of its
Guaranteed Obligations that, in accordance with the express terms of any
agreement pursuant to which such Guaranteed Obligations were created, were
denominated in Dollars or any currency other than the currency of the
jurisdiction where the Term Borrower is principally located, each Guarantor
guarantees that it shall pay the Collateral Agent strictly in accordance with
the express terms of such agreement, including in the amounts and in the
currency expressly agreed to thereunder, irrespective of and without giving
effect to any laws of the jurisdiction where the Term Borrower is principally
located in effect from time to time, or any order, decree or regulation in the
jurisdiction where the Term Borrower is principally located.
(b) To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, each
Guarantor waives any defense based on or arising out of any defense of the Term
Borrower or any other Loan Party or the unenforceability of its Guaranteed
Obligations or any part thereof from any cause, or the cessation from any cause
of the liability of the Term Borrower or any other Loan Party, other than the
indefeasible payment in full in cash of all its Guaranteed Obligations. The
Collateral Agent and the other Guaranteed Parties may, at their election,
foreclose on any security held by one or more of them by one or more judicial or
nonjudicial sales, accept an assignment of any such security in lieu of
foreclosure, compromise or adjust any part of the Obligations, make any other
accommodation with the Term Borrower or any other Loan Party or exercise any
other right or remedy available to them against the Term Borrower or any other
Loan Party, without affecting or impairing in any way the liability of any
Guarantor hereunder except to the extent its Guaranteed Obligations have been
fully and indefeasibly paid in full in cash. To the fullest extent permitted by
applicable law, each Guarantor waives any defense arising out of any such
election even though such election operates, pursuant to applicable law, to
impair or to
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extinguish any right of reimbursement or subrogation or other right or remedy of
such Guarantor against any Borrower or any other Loan Party, as the case may be,
or any security.
SECTION 2.04. REINSTATEMENT. Each Guarantor agrees that its
guarantee hereunder shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case
may be, if at any time payment, or any part thereof, of any of its Guaranteed
Obligations is rescinded or must otherwise be restored by the Administrative
Agent or any other Guaranteed Party upon the bankruptcy or reorganization of the
Term Borrower, any other Loan Party or otherwise.
SECTION 2.05. AGREEMENT TO PAY; SUBROGATION. In furtherance of
the foregoing and not in limitation of any other right that the Collateral Agent
or any other Guaranteed Party has at law or in equity against any Guarantor by
virtue hereof, upon the failure of the Term Borrower or any other Loan Party to
pay any Guaranteed Obligation when and as the same shall become due, whether at
maturity, by acceleration, after notice of prepayment or otherwise, each
Guarantor hereby promises to and will forthwith pay, or cause to be paid, to the
Collateral Agent for distribution to the applicable Guaranteed Parties in cash
the amount of such unpaid Guaranteed Obligation. Upon payment by any Guarantor
of any sums to the Collateral Agent as provided above, all rights of such
Guarantor against the Term Borrower, or other Loan Party or any other Guarantor
arising as a result thereof by way of right of subrogation, contribution,
reimbursement, indemnity or otherwise shall in all respects be subject to
Article VI.
SECTION 2.06. INFORMATION. Each Guarantor assumes all
responsibility for being and keeping itself informed of the financial condition
and assets of the Term Borrower and each other Loan Party, and of all other
circumstances bearing upon the risk of nonpayment of its Guaranteed Obligations
and the nature, scope and extent of the risks that such Guarantor assumes and
incurs hereunder, and agrees that none of the Collateral Agent or the other
Guaranteed Parties will have any duty to advise such Guarantor of information
known to it or any of them regarding such circumstances or risks.
SECTION 2.07. MAXIMUM LIABILITY. Anything herein or in any
other Loan Document to the contrary notwithstanding, the maximum liability of
each Guarantor hereunder and under the other Loan Documents shall in no event
exceed the amount which can be guaranteed by such Guarantor under applicable
federal and state laws relating to the insolvency of debtors (after giving
effect to the right of contribution established in Section 6.02).
ARTICLE III.
PLEDGE OF SECURITIES
SECTION 3.01. PLEDGE. As security for the payment or
performance, as the case may be, in full of its Obligations, each Guarantor
hereby assigns and pledges to the Collateral Agent (to be held until the First
Lien Termination Date by the First Lien Collateral Agent as collateral agent for
the ratable benefit of the First Lien Secured Parties and as bailee for the
Collateral Agent as collateral agent for the ratable benefit, on a basis junior
and subordinated (in Lien only) to the First Lien Secured
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Parties, on the basis set forth on the signature page executed by the First Lien
Collateral Agent (in such capacity, the "BAILEE")), its successors and assigns,
for the ratable benefit, on a basis junior and subordinated (in Lien only) to
the First Lien Secured Parties, of the Second Lien Secured Parties, and hereby
grants to the Collateral Agent, its successors and assigns, for the ratable
benefit, on a basis junior and subordinated (in Lien only) to the First Lien
Secured Parties, of the Secured Parties, a security interest in all of such
Guarantor's right, title and interest in, to and under (a) the Equity Interests
directly owned by it on the Restructuring Date (which shall be listed on
SCHEDULE II) and any other Equity Interests obtained in the future by such
Guarantor and any certificates representing all such Equity Interests (the
"PLEDGED STOCK"); PROVIDED that the Pledged Stock shall not include (i) more
than 65% of the issued and outstanding voting Equity Interests of any Foreign
Subsidiary, (ii) to the extent applicable law requires that a Subsidiary of such
Guarantor issue directors' qualifying shares, such shares or nominee or other
similar shares, (iii) any Equity Interests with respect to which the Collateral
and Guarantee Requirement or the other paragraphs of Section 5.10 of the Loan
Agreement need not be satisfied by reason of Section 5.10(d) of the Loan
Agreement, (iv) any Equity Interests of a Subsidiary to the extent that, as of
the Restructuring Date, and for so long as, such a pledge of such Equity
Interests would violate a contractual obligation binding on such Equity
Interests, (v) any Equity Interests of a Subsidiary of a Guarantor acquired
after the Restructuring Date if, and to the extent that, and for so long as, (A)
a pledge of such Equity Interests would violate applicable law or any
contractual obligation binding upon such Subsidiary and (B) such law or
obligation existed at the time of the acquisition thereof and was not created or
made binding upon such Subsidiary in contemplation of or in connection with the
acquisition of such Subsidiary (PROVIDED that the foregoing clause (B) shall not
apply in the case of a joint venture, including a joint venture that is a
Subsidiary) provided that such each Guarantor shall use its commercially
reasonable efforts to avoid any such restrictions classified in this clause (v),
(vi) any Equity Interests of a Person that is not directly or indirectly a
Subsidiary or (vii) prior to the date six months after the CA Closing Date, any
of the capital stock of CAMI and shall include such stock on and after such date
only to the extent the CAMI Sale has not been consummated prior to such six
month date; (b)(i) the debt securities listed opposite the name of such
Guarantor on SCHEDULE II, (ii) to the extent required by Section 3.02(b), any
debt securities in the future issued to, or acquired by, such Guarantor and
(iii) the promissory notes and any other instruments, if any, evidencing such
debt securities (the "PLEDGED DEBT SECURITIES"); (c) subject to Section 3.06,
all payments of principal or interest, dividends, cash, instruments and other
property from time to time received, receivable or otherwise distributed in
respect of, in exchange for or upon the conversion of, and all other proceeds
received in respect of, the securities referred to in clauses (a) and (b) above;
(d) subject to Section 3.06, all rights and privileges of such Guarantor with
respect to the securities and other property referred to in clauses (a), (b) and
(c) above; and (e) all proceeds of any of the foregoing (the items referred to
in clauses (a) through (e) above being collectively referred to as the "PLEDGED
COLLATERAL").
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the Pledged Collateral, together with all
right, title, interest, powers, privileges and preferences pertaining or
incidental thereto, unto the Collateral Agent, its successors and assigns, for
the ratable benefit, on a basis junior and subordinated (in Lien only) to the
First Lien Secured Parties, of the Second Lien Secured Parties, forever;
SUBJECT, HOWEVER, to the terms, covenants and conditions hereinafter set forth.
SECTION 3.02. DELIVERY OF THE PLEDGED COLLATERAL. (a) Each
Guarantor has, prior to the Restructuring Date, delivered to the First Lien
Collateral Agent all of the Pledged Stock owned by it on such date (with the
First Lien Collateral Agent to hold same as Bailee on
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and after the Restructuring Date to the extent the same remains outstanding) and
agrees, promptly, on and after the Restructuring Date, upon its first becoming a
Guarantor hereunder or thereafter to the extent first acquiring same (or, in the
case of the capital stock of CAMI on the date six months after the CA Closing
Date if such stock is to constitute Pledged Stock on such date), to deliver or
cause to be delivered to the Bailee (or after the occurrence of the First Lien
Termination Date, the Collateral Agent), for the ratable benefit, on a basis
junior and subordinated (in Lien only) to the First Lien Secured Parties, of the
Second Lien Secured Parties, any and all Pledged Securities then acquired or
owned by it, to the extent such Pledged Securities, in the case of promissory
notes or other instruments evidencing Indebtedness, are required to be delivered
pursuant to paragraph (b) of this Section 3.02.
(b) Each Guarantor will cause any Indebtedness for borrowed
money having an aggregate principal amount that has a Dollar Equivalent in
excess of $10,000,000 (other than intercompany current liabilities incurred in
the ordinary course of business) owed to such Guarantor by any person to be
evidenced by a duly executed promissory note that is pledged and delivered to
the Bailee (or after the occurrence of the First Lien Termination Date, the
Collateral Agent), for the ratable benefit, on a basis junior and subordinated
(in Lien only) to the First Lien Secured Parties, of the Second Lien Secured
Parties, pursuant to the terms hereof. To the extent any such promissory note is
a demand note, each Guarantor party thereto agrees, if requested by the
Collateral Agent, after the occurrence of the First Lien Termination Date, to
immediately demand payment thereunder upon an Event of Default specified under
Section 7.01(b), (c), (f), (h) or (i) of the Loan Agreement.
(c) Upon delivery to the Bailee or Collateral Agent, as the
case may be, (i) any Pledged Securities required to be delivered pursuant to the
foregoing paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section 3.02 shall be accompanied by
stock powers or note powers, as applicable, duly executed in blank or other
instruments of transfer reasonably satisfactory to the Bailee or Collateral
Agent, as the case may be, and by such other instruments and documents as the
Bailee or Collateral Agent, as the case may be, may reasonably request and (ii)
all other property composing part of the Pledged Collateral delivered pursuant
to the terms of this Agreement shall be accompanied to the extent necessary to
perfect the security interest in or allow realization on the Pledged Collateral
by proper instruments of assignment duly executed by the applicable Guarantor
and such other instruments or documents (including issuer acknowledgments in
respect of uncertificated securities) as the Bailee or Collateral Agent, as the
case may be, may reasonably request. Each delivery (or subsequent confirmation
by a successor of the prior delivery) of Pledged Securities hereunder shall be
accompanied by a schedule describing the securities, which schedule shall be
attached hereto as SCHEDULE II and made a part of Schedule II; PROVIDED that
failure to attach any such schedule hereto shall not affect the validity of such
pledge of such Pledged Securities. Each schedule so delivered shall supplement
any prior schedules so delivered.
SECTION 3.03. REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND COVENANTS. The
Guarantors, jointly and severally, represent, warrant and covenant to and with
the Collateral Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Second Lien Secured
Parties, that:
(a) SCHEDULE II correctly sets forth the percentage of the
issued and outstanding shares of each class of the Equity Interests of
the issuer thereof represented
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by the Pledged Stock and includes all Equity Interests, debt securities
and promissory notes or instruments evidencing Indebtedness required to
be pledged hereunder in order to satisfy the Collateral and Guarantee
Requirement;
(b) the Pledged Stock and Pledged Debt Securities (solely
with respect to Pledged Debt Securities issued by a person that is not a
Subsidiary of Holdings or an Affiliate of any such subsidiary, to the
best of each Guarantor's knowledge) have been duly and validly
authorized and issued by the issuers thereof and (i) in the case of
Pledged Stock, are fully paid and nonassessable and (ii) in the case of
Pledged Debt Securities (solely with respect to Pledged Debt Securities
issued by a person that is not a Subsidiary of Holdings or an Affiliate
of any such subsidiary, to the best of each Guarantor's knowledge) are
legal, valid and binding obligations of the issuers thereof subject to
(i) the effects of bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, reorganization,
fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws affecting creditors' rights
generally, (ii) general principles of equity (regardless of whether such
enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law) and
(iii) implied covenants of good faith and fair dealing;
(c) except for the security interests granted hereunder, and
under the First Lien Collateral Agreement, each Guarantor (i) is and,
subject to any transfers made in compliance with the Loan Agreement,
will continue to be the direct owner, beneficially and of record, of the
Pledged Securities indicated on SCHEDULE II as owned by such Guarantor,
(ii) holds the same free and clear of all Liens, other than Liens
permitted under Section 6.08 of the Loan Agreement, (iii) will make no
assignment, pledge, hypothecation or transfer of, or create or permit to
exist any security interest in or other Lien on, the Pledged Collateral,
other than pursuant to a transaction permitted by the Loan Agreement and
other than Liens permitted under Section 6.08 of the Loan Agreement and
(iv) subject to the rights of such Guarantor under the Loan Documents to
dispose of Pledged Collateral, will defend its title or interest hereto
or therein against any and all Liens (other than Liens permitted under
Section 6.08 of the Loan Agreement), however arising, of all persons;
(d) except for restrictions and limitations imposed by the
CA Loan Documents, the Loan Documents or securities laws generally or
otherwise permitted to exist pursuant to the terms of the Loan
Agreement, the Pledged Collateral is and will continue to be freely
transferable and assignable, and none of the Pledged Collateral is or
will be subject to any option, right of first refusal, shareholders
agreement, charter or by-law provisions or contractual restriction of
any nature that might, in any material respect, prohibit, impair, delay
or adversely affect the pledge of such Pledged Collateral hereunder, the
sale or disposition thereof pursuant hereto or the exercise by the
Collateral Agent of rights and remedies hereunder;
(e) each Guarantor has the power and authority to pledge the
Pledged Collateral pledged by it hereunder in the manner hereby done or
contemplated;
(f) no consent or approval of any Governmental Authority,
any securities exchange or any other person was or is necessary to the
validity of the pledge effected hereby (other than such as have been
obtained and are in full force and effect);
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(g) by virtue of the execution and delivery by the
Guarantors of this Agreement, on the Restructuring Date with respect to
any Pledged Stock then held by the First Lien Collateral Agent and with
respect to any other Pledged Stock when delivered to the Bailee or
Collateral Agent, as the case may be, for the benefit of the Secured
Parties, in accordance with this Agreement, the Collateral Agent will
obtain for the benefit of the Secured Parties a legal, valid and
perfected second priority lien upon and security interest in such
Pledged Securities as security for the payment and performance of the
Obligations;
(h) each Guarantor does not own on the Restructuring Date,
any security constituting an equity interest in any Person to the extent
such security constitutes an uncertificated security and will not
acquire any such uncertificated security thereafter except to the extent
it has complied with the provisions of the third sentence of Section
4.04(c), to the extent applicable thereto; and
(i) the pledge effected hereby is effective to vest in the
Collateral Agent, for the ratable benefit, on a basis junior and
subordinated (in Lien only) to the First Lien Secured Parties, of the
Second Lien Secured Parties, the rights of the Collateral Agent in the
Pledged Collateral as set forth herein.
SECTION 3.04. [Reserved].
SECTION 3.05. REGISTRATION IN NOMINEE NAME; DENOMINATIONS. The
Collateral Agent, on behalf of the Second Lien Secured Parties, shall have the
right (in its sole and absolute discretion), after the occurrence of the First
Lien Termination Date, to hold the Pledged Securities in the name of the
applicable Guarantor, endorsed or assigned in blank or in favor of the
Collateral Agent or, if a Noticed Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, in its own name as pledgee or the name of its nominee (as pledgee or
as sub-agent). Each Guarantor will promptly give to the Collateral Agent copies
of any notices or other communications received by it with respect to Pledged
Securities registered in the name of such Guarantor.
SECTION 3.06. VOTING RIGHTS; DIVIDENDS AND INTEREST, ETC. (a)
Unless and until a Noticed Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing:
(i) Each Guarantor shall be entitled to exercise any and all
voting and/or other consensual rights and powers inuring to an owner of
Pledged Securities or any part thereof for any purpose consistent with
the terms of this Agreement, the Credit Agreement, the Loan Agreement
and the other CA Loan Documents and Loan Documents; PROVIDED that such
rights and powers shall not be exercised in any manner that could
reasonably be expected to materially and adversely affect the rights
inuring to a holder of any Pledged Securities, the rights and remedies
of any of the Bailee, the Collateral Agent or the other Second Lien
Secured Parties under this Agreement, the Loan Agreement or any other CA
Loan Document or Loan Document or the ability of the Second Lien Secured
Parties to exercise the same.
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(ii) The Collateral Agent shall promptly execute and deliver
to each Guarantor, or cause to be executed and delivered to such
Guarantor, all such proxies, powers of attorney and other instruments as
such Guarantor may reasonably request for the purpose of enabling such
Guarantor to exercise the voting and/or consensual rights and powers it
is entitled to exercise pursuant to subparagraph (i) above.
(iii) Each Guarantor shall be entitled to receive and retain
any and all dividends, interest, principal and other distributions paid
on or distributed in respect of the Pledged Securities to the extent and
only to the extent that (x) such dividends, interest, principal and
other distributions are permitted by, and otherwise paid or distributed
in accordance with, the terms and conditions of the Credit Agreement
and/or the Loan Agreement, the other Loan Documents and applicable laws
and (y) such payment on distribution is not payable directly to the
Collateral Agent pursuant to the terms of the applicable Pledged
Securities; PROVIDED that any noncash dividends, interest, principal or
other distributions that constitute Pledged Securities (whether
resulting from a subdivision, combination or reclassification of the
outstanding Equity Interests of the issuer of any Pledged Securities or
received in exchange for Pledged Securities or any part thereof, or in
redemption thereof, or as a result of any merger, consolidation,
acquisition or other exchange of assets to which such issuer may be a
party or otherwise) shall be and become part of the Pledged Collateral,
and, if received by any Guarantor, shall not be commingled by such
Guarantor with any of its other funds or property but shall be held
separate and apart therefrom, shall be held in trust for the benefit of
the Bailee and shall be forthwith delivered to the Bailee (or after the
First Lien Termination Date, the Collateral Agent) in the same form as
so received (accompanied by stock powers duly executed in blank or other
appropriate instruments of transfer satisfactory to the Collateral
Agent).
(b) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of a
Noticed Event of Default, all rights of any Guarantor to dividends, interest,
principal or other distributions that such Guarantor is authorized to receive
pursuant to paragraph (a)(iii) of this Section 3.06 shall cease, and all such
rights shall thereupon become vested, in (i) prior to the First Lien Termination
Date, the First Lien Collateral Agent and (ii) thereafter, the Collateral Agent,
with the First Lien Collateral Agent (or after the First Lien Termination Date,
the Collateral Agent) having the sole and exclusive right and authority to
receive and retain such dividends, interest, principal or other distributions.
All dividends, interest, principal or other distributions received by any
Guarantor contrary to the provisions of this Section 3.06 shall not be
commingled by such Guarantor with any of its other funds or property but shall
be held separate and apart therefrom, shall be held in trust for the benefit of
the First Lien Collateral Agent (or after the First Lien Termination Date, the
Collateral Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Second Lien Secured Parties),
and shall be forthwith delivered to the First Lien Collateral Agent (or after
the First Lien Termination Date, the Collateral Agent, for the ratable benefit
of the Second Lien Secured Parties), in the same form as so received
(accompanied by stock powers duly executed in blank or other appropriate
instruments of transfer reasonably satisfactory to the First Lien Collateral
Agent or Collateral Agent, as the case may be). Any and all money and other
property paid over to or received by the First Lien Collateral Agent or
Collateral Agent, as the case may be pursuant to the provisions of this
paragraph (b) shall be retained by the First Lien Collateral Agent or Collateral
Agent, as the case may be in an account to be established by the First Lien
Collateral
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Agent or Collateral Agent, as the case may be upon receipt of such money or
other property and to the extent received by the Collateral Agent, shall be
applied in accordance with the provisions of Section 5.02. On and after the
First Lien Termination Date once all Noticed Events of Default have been cured
or waived and the Term Borrower has delivered to the Collateral Agent, a
certificate to that effect, the Collateral Agent, to the extent it holds same,
shall promptly repay to each Guarantor (without interest) all dividends,
interest, principal or other distributions that such Guarantor would otherwise
have been permitted to retain pursuant to the terms of paragraph (a)(iii) of
this Section 3.06 and that remain in such account.
(c) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of a
Noticed Event of Default has occurred, all rights of any Guarantor to exercise
the voting and/or consensual rights and powers it is entitled to exercise
pursuant to paragraph (a)(i) of this Section 3.06, and the obligations of the
Collateral Agent under paragraph (a)(ii) of this Section 3.06, shall cease, and
all such rights shall thereupon become vested in the First Lien Collateral Agent
(or after the First Lien Termination Date, the Collateral Agent, for the ratable
benefit of the Second Lien Secured Parties), the First Lien Collateral Agent or
the Collateral Agent, as the case may be, having the sole and exclusive right
and authority to exercise such voting and consensual rights and powers; PROVIDED
that, after the First Lien Termination Date, unless otherwise directed by the
Required Lenders, the Collateral Agent shall have the right from time to time
following and during the continuance of an Event of Default to permit the
Guarantors to exercise such rights. After all Noticed Events of Default have
been cured or waived and the Term Borrower has delivered to the First Lien
Collateral Agent or the Collateral Agent, as the case may be, a certificate to
that effect, each Guarantor shall have the right to exercise the voting and/or
consensual rights and powers that such Guarantor would otherwise have been
entitled to exercise pursuant to the terms of paragraph (a)(i) above.
ARTICLE IV.
SECURITY INTERESTS IN PERSONAL PROPERTY
SECTION 4.01. SECURITY INTEREST. (a) As security for the payment
or performance, as the case may be, in full of the Obligations, each Guarantor
hereby assigns and pledges to the Collateral Agent, its successors and assigns,
for the ratable benefit, on a basis junior and subordinated (in Lien only) to
the First Lien Secured Parties, of the Second Lien Secured Parties, and hereby
grants to the Collateral Agent, its successors and assigns, for the ratable
benefit, on a basis junior and subordinated (in Lien only) to the First Lien
Secured Parties, of the Second Lien Secured Parties, a security interest (the
"SECURITY INTEREST") in all right, title and interest in or to any and all of
the following assets and properties now owned or at any time hereafter acquired
by such Guarantor or in which such Guarantor now has or at any time in the
future may acquire any right, title or interest (collectively, the "ARTICLE 9
COLLATERAL"):
(i) all Accounts;
(ii) all Chattel Paper;
(iii) all cash and Deposit Accounts;
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(iv) all Documents;
(v) all Equipment;
(vi) all General Intangibles;
(vii) all Goods;
(viii) all Instruments;
(ix) all Inventory;
(x) all Investment Property;
(xi) all Letter-of-Credit Rights;
(xiii) all Commercial Tort Claims;
(xiii) all books and records pertaining to the Article 9
Collateral; and
(xiv) to the extent not otherwise included, all proceeds,
Supporting Obligations and products of any and all of the foregoing and
all collateral security and guarantees given by any person with respect
to any of the foregoing.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, this Agreement shall
not constitute a grant of a security interest in (a) any vehicle covered by a
certificate of title or ownership, (b) any assets (including Equity Interests)
with respect to which the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement or the other
paragraphs of Section 5.10 of the Loan Agreement need not be satisfied by reason
of Section 5.10(d) of the Loan Agreement, (c) any assets to the extent that, as
of the Closing Date, and for so long as, such grant of a security interest would
violate a contractual obligation or applicable law binding on such asset, (d)
any property of any Person acquired by a Guarantor after the Closing Date
pursuant to Section 6.04(l) of the Credit Agreement, if, and to the extent that,
and for so long as, (A) such grant of a security interest would violate
applicable law or any contractual obligation binding upon such property and (B)
such law or obligation existed at the time of the acquisition thereof and was
not created or made binding upon such property in contemplation of or in
connection with the acquisition of such Subsidiary (PROVIDED that the foregoing
clause (B) shall not apply in the case of a joint venture, including a joint
venture that is a Subsidiary) PROVIDED that each Guarantor shall use its
commercially reasonable efforts to avoid any such restriction described in this
clause (d), or (e) any Letter of Credit Rights to the extent any Guarantor is
required by applicable law to apply the proceeds of a drawing of such Letter of
Credit for a specified purpose.
(b) Each Guarantor hereby irrevocably authorizes the
Collateral Agent at any time and from time to time to file in any relevant
jurisdiction any initial financing statements (including fixture filings) with
respect to the Article 9 Collateral or any part thereof and amendments thereto
that contain the information required by Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial
Code of each applicable jurisdiction for the filing of any financing statement
or amendment, including (i) whether such Guarantor is an organization, the type
of organization and any organi-
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zational identification number issued to such Guarantor, (ii) in the case of a
financing statement filed as a fixture filing, a sufficient description of the
real property to which such Article 9 Collateral relates and (iii) a description
of collateral that describes such property in any other manner as the Collateral
Agent may reasonably determine is necessary or advisable to ensure the
perfection of the security interest in the Article 9 Collateral granted under
this Agreement, including describing such property as "all assets" or "all
property". Each Guarantor agrees to provide such information to the Collateral
Agent promptly upon request.
The Collateral Agent is further authorized to file with the
United States Patent and Trademark Office or United States Copyright Office (or
any successor office or any similar office in any other country) such documents
as may be necessary or advisable for the purpose of perfecting, confirming,
continuing, enforcing or protecting the Security Interest granted by each
Guarantor, without the signature of any Guarantor, and naming any Guarantor or
the Guarantors as debtors and the Collateral Agent as secured party.
(c) The Security Interest is granted as security only and
shall not subject the Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Secured Party
to, or in any way alter or modify, any obligation or liability of any Guarantor
with respect to or arising out of the Article 9 Collateral.
SECTION 4.02. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES . The Guarantors
jointly and severally represent and warrant to the Collateral Agent and the
Second Lien Secured Parties that:
(a) Each Guarantor has good and valid rights in and title to
all material Article 9 Collateral with respect to which it has purported
to grant a Security Interest hereunder and has full power and authority
to grant to the Collateral Agent the Security Interest in such Article 9
Collateral pursuant hereto and to execute, deliver and perform its
obligations in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, without the
consent or approval of any other person other than any consent or
approval that has been obtained and is in full force and effect.
(b) The Perfection Certificate has been duly prepared,
completed and executed and the information set forth therein, including
the exact legal name of each Guarantor, is correct and complete, in all
material respects, as of the Restructuring Date. Uniform Commercial Code
financing statements (including fixture filings, as applicable) or other
appropriate filings, recordings or registrations containing a
description of the Article 9 Collateral have been prepared by the
Collateral Agent based upon the information provided to the Collateral
Agent in the Perfection Certificate for filing in each governmental,
municipal or other office specified in SCHEDULE 7 to the Perfection
Certificate (or specified by notice from the Term Borrower to the
Collateral Agent after the Restructuring Date in the case of filings,
recordings or registrations required by Section 5.10 of the Loan
Agreement), and constitute all the filings, recordings and registrations
(other than filings required to be made in the United States Patent and
Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office in order to
perfect the Security Interest in Article ▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ issued Patents and applications, United States registered
Trademarks and applications and United States registered Copyrights)
that are necessary to publish notice of and protect the validity of and
to establish a legal, valid and perfected security interest in favor of
the Collateral Agent (for
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the ratable benefit, on a basis junior and subordinated (in Lien only)
to the First Lien Secured Parties, of the Second Lien Secured Parties)
in respect of all Article 9 Collateral in which the Security Interest
may be perfected by filing, recording or registration in the United
States (or any political subdivision thereof) and its territories and
possessions, and no further or subsequent filing, refiling, recording,
rerecording, registration or reregistration is necessary in any such
jurisdiction, except as provided under applicable law with respect to
the filing of continuation statements or amendments. Each Guarantor
represents and warrants that a fully executed agreement in the form
hereof (or a short form hereof which form shall be reasonably acceptable
to the Collateral Agent) containing a description of all Article ▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ issued Patents (and Patents for
which United States applications are pending), United States registered
Trademarks (and Trademarks for which United States registration
applications are pending) and United States registered Copyrights (and
Copyrights for which United States registration applications are
pending) has been delivered to the Collateral Agent for recording with
the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States
Copyright Office pursuant to 35 U.S.C. Section 261, 15 U.S.C. Section
1060 or 17 U.S.C. Section 205 and the regulations thereunder, as
applicable, and reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent, to protect
the validity of and to establish a legal, valid and perfected security
interest in favor of the Collateral Agent, for the ratable benefit, on a
basis junior and subordinated (in Lien only) to the First Lien Secured
Parties, of the Second Lien Secured Parties, in respect of all Article 9
Collateral consisting of the foregoing in which a security interest may
be perfected by recording with the United States Patent and Trademark
Office and the United States Copyright Office.
(c) The Security Interest constitutes (i) a legal and valid
security interest in all the Article 9 Collateral securing the payment
and performance of the Obligations, (ii) subject to the filings
described in Section 4.02(b), a perfected security interest in all
Article 9 Collateral in which a security interest may be perfected by
filing, recording or registering a financing statement or analogous
document in the United States (or any political subdivision thereof) and
its territories and possessions pursuant to the New York UCC or other
applicable law in such jurisdictions and (iii) a security interest that
shall be perfected in all Article 9 Collateral in which a security
interest may be perfected upon the receipt and recording of this
Agreement with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the
United States Copyright Office, as applicable. The Security Interest is
and shall be prior to any other Lien on any of the Article 9 Collateral,
other than (i) the Liens created pursuant to the First Lien Collateral
Agreement and (ii) the Liens expressly permitted pursuant to Section
6.08 of the Loan Agreement or arising by operation of law (all such
senior priority liens, the "SENIOR PRIORITY LIENS").
(d) The Article 9 Collateral is owned by the Guarantors free
and clear of any Lien, other than the Senior Priority Liens. None of the
Guarantors has filed or consented to the filing of (i) any financing
statement or analogous document under the New York UCC or any other
applicable laws covering any Article 9 Collateral, (ii) any assignment
in which any Guarantor assigns any Article 9 Collateral or any security
agreement or similar instrument covering any Article 9 Collateral with
the United States Patent and Trademark Office or the United States
Copyright Office or (iii) any assignment in which any Guarantor assigns
any Article 9 Collateral or any security agreement or similar
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instrument covering any Article 9 Collateral with any foreign
governmental, municipal or other office, which financing statement or
analogous document, assignment, security agreement or similar instrument
is still in effect, except, in each case, for the Senior Priority Liens.
(e) None of the Guarantors holds any Commercial Tort Claim
individually in excess of $1,000,000 as of the Restructuring Date except
as indicated on the Perfection Certificate.
(f) All Accounts have been originated by the Guarantors and
all Inventory has been acquired by the Guarantors in the ordinary course
of business.
SECTION 4.03. COVENANTS. (a) Each Guarantor agrees promptly to
notify the Collateral Agent in writing of any change (i) in its corporate name,
(ii) in its identity or type of organization or corporate structure, (iii) in
its Federal Taxpayer Identification Number or organizational identification
number or (iv) in its jurisdiction of organization. Each Guarantor agrees
promptly to provide the Collateral Agent with certified organizational documents
reflecting any of the changes described in the immediately preceding sentence.
Each Guarantor agrees not to effect or permit any change referred to in the
first sentence of this paragraph (a) unless all filings have been made, or are
reasonably concurrently made, under the applicable Uniform Commercial Code or
otherwise that are required in order for the Collateral Agent to continue at all
times following such change to have a valid, legal and perfected second priority
security interest in all the Article 9 Collateral, for the ratable benefit, on a
basis junior and subordinated (in Lien only) to the First Lien Secured Parties,
of the Second Lien Secured Parties. Each Guarantor agrees promptly to notify the
Collateral Agent if any material portion of the Article 9 Collateral owned or
held by such Guarantor is damaged or destroyed.
(b) Subject to the rights of such Guarantor under the Loan
Documents to dispose of Collateral, each Guarantor shall, at its own expense,
take any and all actions necessary to defend title to the Article 9 Collateral
against all persons and to defend the Security Interest of the Collateral Agent,
for the ratable benefit, on a basis junior and subordinated (in Lien only) to
the First Lien Secured Parties, of the Second Lien Secured Parties, in the
Article 9 Collateral and the priority thereof against any Lien not expressly
permitted pursuant to Section 6.08 of the Loan Agreement.
(c) Each Guarantor agrees, at its own expense, to execute,
acknowledge, deliver and cause to be duly filed all such further instruments and
documents and take all such actions as the Collateral Agent may from time to
time reasonably request to better assure, preserve, protect and perfect the
Security Interest and the rights and remedies created hereby, including the
payment of any fees and taxes required in connection with the execution and
delivery of this Agreement, the granting of the Security Interest and the filing
of any financing statements (including fixture filings) or other documents in
connection herewith or therewith. If any amount payable under or in connection
with any of the Article 9 Collateral that is in excess of $10,000,000 shall be
or become evidenced by any promissory note or other instrument, such note or
instrument shall be promptly pledged and delivered to the Bailee (or after the
First Lien Termination Date, the Collateral Agent), for the ratable benefit, on
a basis junior and
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subordinated (in Lien only) to the First Lien Secured Parties, of the Second
Lien Secured Parties, accompanied by executed instruments of transfer reasonably
satisfactory to the Collateral Agent.
(d) After the occurrence of an Event of Default after the
First Lien Termination Date, and during the continuance thereof, the Collateral
Agent shall have the right to verify under reasonable procedures the validity,
amount, quality, quantity, value, condition and status of, or any other matter
relating to, the Article 9 Collateral, including, in the case of Accounts or
Article 9 Collateral in the possession of any third person (following notice to
the Term Borrower of its intention to do so), by contacting Account Debtors or
the third person possessing such Article 9 Collateral for the purpose of making
such a verification. The Collateral Agent shall have the right to share any
information it gains from such inspection or verification with any Second Lien
Secured Party.
(e) If the First Lien Termination Date has occurred, at its
option at any time which an Event of Default exists, the Collateral Agent may
discharge past due taxes, assessments, charges, fees, Liens, security interests
or other encumbrances at any time levied or placed on the Article 9 Collateral
and not permitted pursuant to Section 6.08 of the Loan Agreement, and may pay
for the maintenance and preservation of the Article 9 Collateral to the extent
any Guarantor fails to do so as required by the Loan Agreement or this
Agreement, and each Guarantor jointly and severally agrees to reimburse the
Collateral Agent on demand for any reasonable payment made or any reasonable
expense incurred by the Collateral Agent pursuant to the foregoing
authorization; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that nothing in this Section 4.03(e) shall be
interpreted as excusing any Guarantor from the performance of, or imposing any
obligation on the Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Secured Party to cure or
perform, any covenants or other promises of any Guarantor with respect to taxes,
assessments, charges, fees, Liens, security interests or other encumbrances and
maintenance as set forth herein or in the other Loan Documents.
(f) Each Guarantor (rather than the Collateral Agent or any
Second Lien Secured Party) shall remain liable for the observance and
performance of all the conditions and obligations to be observed and performed
by it under each contract, agreement or instrument relating to the Article 9
Collateral and each Guarantor jointly and severally agrees to indemnify and hold
harmless the Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Secured Parties from and
against any and all liability for such performance.
(g) None of the Guarantors shall make or permit to be made
an assignment, pledge or hypothecation of the Article 9 Collateral or shall
grant any other Lien in respect of the Article 9 Collateral, except as expressly
permitted by the Loan Agreement. None of the Guarantors shall make or permit to
be made any transfer of the Article 9 Collateral and each Guarantor shall remain
at all times in possession of the Article 9 Collateral owned by it, except as
permitted by the Loan Agreement.
(h) None of the Guarantors will, after the First Lien
Termination Date and without the Collateral Agent's prior written consent, grant
any extension of the time of payment of any Accounts included in the Article 9
Collateral, compromise, compound or settle the same for less than the full
amount thereof, release, wholly or partly, any person liable for the payment
thereof or allow any credit or discount whatsoever thereon, other than
extensions, credits,
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discounts, compromises or settlements granted or made in the ordinary course of
business and consistent with its past practices (it being agreed that nothing in
this clause (h) shall prohibit sales of receivables permitted by Section 6.05(g)
of the Credit Agreement).
(i) Each Guarantor irrevocably makes, constitutes and
appoints the Collateral Agent (and all officers, employees or agents designated
by the Collateral Agent) as such Guarantor's true and lawful agent (and
attorney-in-fact) for the purpose, after the First Lien Termination Date has
occurred and during the continuance of an Event of Default, of making, settling
and adjusting claims in respect of Article 9 Collateral under policies of
insurance, endorsing the name of such Guarantor on any check, draft, instrument
or other item of payment for the proceeds of such policies of insurance and for
making all determinations and decisions with respect thereto. After the
occurrence of the First Lien Termination Date, in the event that any Guarantor
at any time or times while an Event of Default exists fails to obtain or
maintain any of the policies of insurance required hereby or to pay any premium
in whole or part relating thereto, the Collateral Agent may, without waiving or
releasing any obligation or liability of the Guarantors hereunder or any Event
of Default, in its sole discretion, obtain and maintain such policies of
insurance and pay such premium and take any other actions with respect thereto
as the Collateral Agent reasonably deems advisable. All sums disbursed by the
Collateral Agent in connection with this Section 4.03(i), including reasonable
attorneys' fees, court costs, expenses and other charges relating thereto, shall
be payable, upon demand, by the Guarantors to the Collateral Agent and shall be
additional Obligations secured hereby.
SECTION 4.04. OTHER ACTIONS. In order to further ensure the
attachment, perfection and priority of, and the ability of the Collateral Agent
to enforce, after the occurrence of the First Lien Termination Date, for the
ratable benefit, on a basis junior and subordinated (in Lien only) to the First
Lien Secured Parties, of the Second Lien Secured Parties, the Collateral Agent's
security interest in the Article 9 Collateral, each Guarantor agrees, in each
case at such Guarantor's own expense, to take the following actions with,
respect to the following Article 9 Collateral:
(a) INSTRUMENTS AND TANGIBLE CHATTEL PAPER. If any Guarantor
shall at any time hold or acquire any Instruments or Tangible Chattel
Paper evidencing an amount in excess of $10,000,000, such Guarantor
shall forthwith endorse, assign and deliver the same to the Bailee (or
after the First Lien Termination Date, the Collateral Agent),
accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed
in blank as the Bailee or Collateral Agent, as the case may be, may from
time to time reasonably request.
(b) CASH ACCOUNTS. No Guarantor shall grant Control of any
Deposit Account to any Person other than (x) prior to the occurrence of
the First Lien Termination Date, the First Lien Collateral Agent and (y)
after the occurrence of the First Lien Termination Date, the Collateral
Agent.
(c) INVESTMENT PROPERTY. Except to the extent otherwise
provided in Article III, if any Guarantor shall at any time hold or
acquire any Certificated Security, such Guarantor shall forthwith
endorse, assign and deliver the same to the Bailee (or if after the
First Lien Termination Date, the Collateral Agent), accompanied by such
instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as the
Bailee or Collateral
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Agent, as the case may be, may from time to time reasonably specify. If
any security now or hereafter acquired by any Guarantor is
uncertificated and is issued to such Guarantor or its nominee directly
by the issuer thereof, upon the Collateral Agent's reasonable request if
the First Lien Termination Date has occurred and while an Event of
Default exists, such Guarantor shall promptly notify the Collateral
Agent of such uncertificated securities and pursuant to an agreement in
form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent,
either (i) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from
the Collateral Agent as to such security, without further consent of any
Guarantor or such nominee, or (ii) cause the issuer to register the
Collateral Agent as the registered owner of such security. If at any
time after the occurrence of the First Lien Termination Date any
security or other Investment Property, whether certificated or
uncertificated, representing an Equity Interest in a third party and
having a fair market value in excess of $10,000,000 now or hereafter
acquired by any Guarantor is held by such Guarantor or its nominee
through a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, such
Guarantor shall promptly notify the Collateral Agent thereof and, at the
Collateral Agent's request and option, pursuant to a Control Agreement
in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent,
either (A) cause such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary,
as applicable, to agree, in the case of a securities intermediary, to
comply with entitlement orders or other instructions from the Collateral
Agent to such securities intermediary as to such securities or other
Investment Property or, in the case of a commodity intermediary, to
apply any value distributed on account of any commodity contract as
directed by the Collateral Agent to such commodity intermediary, in each
case without further consent of any Guarantor or such nominee, or (B) in
the case of Financial Assets or other Investment Property held through a
securities intermediary, arrange for the Collateral Agent to become the
entitlement holder with respect to such Investment Property, for the
ratable benefit of the Second Lien Secured Parties, with such Guarantor
being permitted, only with the consent of the Collateral Agent, to
exercise rights to withdraw or otherwise deal with such Investment
Property. The Collateral Agent agrees with each of the Guarantors that
the Collateral Agent shall not give any such entitlement orders or
instructions or directions to any such issuer, securities intermediary
or commodity intermediary, and shall not withhold its consent to the
exercise of any withdrawal or dealing rights by any Guarantor, unless an
Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or, after giving effect
to any such withdrawal or dealing rights, would occur. The provisions of
this paragraph (c) shall not apply to any Financial Assets credited to a
securities account for which the Collateral Agent is the securities
intermediary.
(d) COMMERCIAL TORT CLAIMS. If any Guarantor shall at any
time hold or acquire a Commercial Tort Claim in an amount reasonably
estimated to exceed $10,000,000, such Guarantor shall promptly notify
the Collateral Agent thereof in a writing signed by such Guarantor,
including a summary description of such claim, and grant to the
Collateral Agent in writing a security interest therein and in the
proceeds thereof, all upon the terms of this Agreement, with such
writing to be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
Collateral Agent.
SECTION 4.05. COVENANTS REGARDING PATENT, TRADEMARK AND
COPYRIGHT COLLATERAL. (a) Each Guarantor agrees that it will not knowingly do
any act or omit to do any act
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(and will exercise commercially reasonable efforts to prevent its licensees from
knowingly doing any act or knowingly omitting to do any act) whereby any Patent
that is material to the normal conduct of such Guarantor's business may become
prematurely invalidated or dedicated to the public, and agrees that it shall
take commercially reasonable steps with respect to any material products covered
by any such Patent as necessary and sufficient to establish and preserve its
rights under applicable patent laws.
(b) Each Guarantor will, and will use its commercially
reasonable efforts to cause its licensees or its sublicensees to, for each owned
Trademark necessary to the normal conduct of such Guarantor's business, (i)
maintain such Trademark in full force free from any adjudication of abandonment
or invalidity for non-use, (ii) maintain the quality of products and services
offered under such Trademark on all material respects, (iii) display such
Trademark with notice of federal or foreign registration or claim of trademark
or service ▇▇▇▇ as required under applicable law and (iv) not knowingly use or
knowingly permit its licensees' use of such Trademark in violation of any
third-party rights.
(c) Each Guarantor will, and will use its commercially
reasonable efforts to cause its licensees or its sublicensees to, for each work
covered by a material Copyright necessary to the normal conduct of such
Guarantor's business that it publishes, displays and distributes, use copyright
notice as required under applicable copyright laws.
(d) Each Guarantor shall notify the Collateral Agent
promptly if it knows that any Patent, Trademark or Copyright material to the
normal conduct of such Guarantor's business may imminently become abandoned,
lost or dedicated to the public, or of any materially adverse determination or
development, (excluding office actions and similar determinations or
developments in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, United States
Copyright Office, any court or any similar office of any country), regarding
such Guarantor's ownership of any such material Patent, Trademark or Copyright
or its right to register or to maintain the same.
(e) Each Guarantor, either itself or through any agent,
employee, licensee or designee, shall (i) inform the Collateral Agent on a
semi-annual basis of each application by itself, or through any agent, employee,
licensee or designee, for any Patent with the United States Patent and Trademark
Office and each registration of any Trademark or Copyright with the United
States Patent and Trademark Office, the United States Copyright Office or any
comparable office or agency in any other country filed during the preceding
six-month period, and (ii) upon the reasonable request of the Collateral Agent,
execute and deliver any and all agreements, instruments, documents and papers as
the Collateral Agent may reasonably request to evidence the Collateral Agent's
security interest in such Patent, Trademark or Copyright.
(f) Each Guarantor shall exercise its reasonable business
judgment in any proceeding before the United States Patent and Trademark Office,
the United States Copyright Office or any comparable office or agency in any
other country with respect to maintaining and pursuing each material application
relating to any Patent, Trademark and/or Copyright (and obtaining the relevant
grant or registration) material to the normal conduct of such Guarantor's
business and to maintain (i) each issued Patent and (ii) the registrations of
each Trademark and each Copyright, in each case that is material to the normal
conduct of such Guarantor's business, including, when applicable and necessary
in such Guarantor's reasonable business judgment,
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timely filings of applications for renewal, affidavits of use, affidavits of
incontestability and payment of maintenance fees, and, if any Guarantor believes
necessary in its reasonable business judgment, to initiate opposition,
interference and cancellation proceedings against third parties.
ARTICLE V.
REMEDIES
SECTION 5.01. REMEDIES UPON DEFAULT. At any time after the
occurrence of the First Lien Termination Date, upon the occurrence and during
the continuance of a Noticed Event of Default, each Guarantor agrees to deliver
each item of Collateral to the Collateral Agent on demand, and it is agreed that
the Collateral Agent shall have the right to take any of or all the following
actions at the same or different times: (a) with respect to any Article 9
Collateral consisting of Intellectual Property, on demand, to cause the Security
Interest to become an assignment, transfer and conveyance of any of or all such
Article 9 Collateral by the applicable Guarantors to the Collateral Agent or to
license or sublicense, whether general, special or otherwise, and whether on an
exclusive or a nonexclusive basis, any such Article 9 Collateral throughout the
world on such terms and conditions and in such manner as the Collateral Agent
shall determine (other than in violation of any then-existing licensing
arrangements to the extent that waivers thereunder cannot be obtained) and (b)
with or without legal process and with or without prior notice or demand for
performance, to take possession of the Article 9 Collateral and without
liability for trespass to enter any premises where the Article 9 Collateral may
be located for the purpose of taking possession of or removing the Article 9
Collateral and, generally, to exercise any and all rights afforded to a secured
party under the applicable Uniform Commercial Code or other applicable law.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that the
Collateral Agent shall have the right, subject to the mandatory requirements of
applicable law, to sell or otherwise dispose of all or any part of the
Collateral at a public or private sale or at any broker's board or on any
securities exchange, for cash, upon credit or for future delivery as the
Collateral Agent shall deem appropriate. The Collateral Agent shall be
authorized in connection with any sale of a security (if it deems it advisable
to do so) pursuant to the foregoing to restrict the prospective bidders or
purchasers to persons who represent and agree that they are purchasing such
security for their own account, for investment, and not with a view to the
distribution or sale thereof. Upon consummation of any such sale of Collateral
pursuant to this Section 5.01 the Collateral Agent shall have the right to
assign, transfer and deliver to the purchaser or purchasers thereof the
Collateral so sold. Each such purchaser at any such sale shall hold the property
sold absolutely, free from any claim or right on the part of any Guarantor, and
each Guarantor hereby waives and releases (to the extent permitted by law) all
rights of redemption, stay, valuation and appraisal that such Guarantor now has
or may at any time in the future have under any rule of law or statute now
existing or hereafter enacted.
The Collateral Agent shall give the applicable Guarantors 10
Business Days' written notice (which each Guarantor agrees is reasonable notice
within the meaning of Section 9-612 of the New York UCC or its equivalent in
other jurisdictions) of the Collateral Agent's intention to make any such sale
of Collateral. Such notice, in the case of a public sale, shall state the time
and place for such sale and, in the case of a sale at a broker's board or on a
securities exchange, shall state the board or exchange at which such sale is to
be made and the
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day on which the Collateral, or portion thereof, will first be offered for sale
at such board or exchange. Any such public sale shall be held at such time or
times within ordinary business hours and at such place or places as the
Collateral Agent may fix and state in the notice (if any) of such sale. At any
such sale, the Collateral, or the portion thereof, to be sold may be sold in one
lot as an entirety or in separate parcels, as the Collateral Agent may (in its
sole and absolute discretion) determine. The Collateral Agent shall not be
obligated to make any sale of any Collateral if it shall determine not to do so,
regardless of the fact that notice of sale of such Collateral shall have been
given. The Collateral Agent may, without notice or publication, adjourn any
public or private sale or cause the same to be adjourned from time to time by
announcement at the time and place fixed for sale, and such sale may, without
further notice, be made at the time and place to which the same was so
adjourned. In the case of any sale of all or any part of the Collateral made on
credit or for future delivery, the Collateral so sold may be retained by the
Collateral Agent until the sale price is paid by the purchaser or purchasers
thereof, but the Collateral Agent shall not incur any liability in the event
that any such purchaser or purchasers shall fail to take up and pay for the
Collateral so sold and, in the case of any such failure, such Collateral may be
sold again upon notice given in accordance with provisions above. At any public
(or, to the extent permitted by law, private) sale made pursuant to this Section
5.01, any Second Lien Secured Party may bid for or purchase for cash, free (to
the extent permitted by law) from any right of redemption, stay, valuation or
appraisal on the part of any Guarantor (all such rights being also hereby waived
and released to the extent permitted by law), the Collateral or any part thereof
offered for sale and such Second Lien Secured Party may, upon compliance with
the terms of sale, hold, retain and dispose of such property in accordance with
Section 5.02 hereof without further accountability to any Guarantor therefor.
For purposes hereof, a written agreement to purchase the Collateral or any
portion thereof shall be treated as a sale thereof; the Collateral Agent shall
be free to carry out such sale pursuant to such agreement and no Guarantor shall
be entitled to the return of the Collateral or any portion thereof subject
thereto, notwithstanding the fact that after the Collateral Agent shall have
entered into such an agreement all Events of Default shall have been remedied
and the Obligations paid in full. As an alternative to exercising the power of
sale herein conferred upon it, the Collateral Agent may proceed by a suit or
suits at law or in equity to foreclose this Agreement and to sell the Collateral
or any portion thereof pursuant to a judgment or decree of a court or courts
having competent jurisdiction or pursuant to a proceeding by a court-appointed
receiver. Any sale pursuant to the provisions of this Section 5.01 shall be
deemed to conform to the commercially reasonable standards as provided in
Section 9-610(b) of the New York UCC or its equivalent in other jurisdictions.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, at law or otherwise,
the Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Secured Parties shall have no rights or
remedies under this Section 5.01 prior to the First Lien Termination Date.
SECTION 5.02. APPLICATION OF PROCEEDS. The Collateral Agent
shall promptly apply the proceeds, moneys or balances of any collection or sale
of Collateral effected pursuant to Section 5.01, as well as any proceeds, moneys
or balances of all collections or sales of Collateral effected pursuant to the
First Lien Collateral Agreement and paid over to the Collateral Agent pursuant
to Section 5.02 THIRD thereof, or any Collateral consisting of cash and held by
the Collateral Agent, as follows:
FIRST, to the payment of all costs and expenses incurred by the
Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent in connection with such
collection or sale or otherwise in
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connection with this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any of the
Obligations, including all court costs and the fees and expenses of its
agents and legal counsel, the repayment of all advances made by the
Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any
other Loan Document on behalf of any Guarantor and any other costs or
expenses incurred in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy
hereunder or under any other Loan Document;
SECOND, to the ratable payment of the Obligations, and
THIRD, once all Obligations have been paid in full, to the
Guarantors, their successors or assigns, or as a court of competent
jurisdiction may otherwise direct.
The Collateral Agent shall have absolute discretion as to the time of
application of any such proceeds, moneys or balances in accordance with this
Agreement. Upon any sale of Collateral by the Collateral Agent (including
pursuant to a power of sale granted by statute or under a judicial proceeding),
the receipt of the purchase money by the Collateral Agent or of the officer
making the sale shall be a sufficient discharge to the purchaser or purchasers
of the Collateral so sold and such purchaser or purchasers shall not be
obligated to see to the application of any part of the purchase money paid over
to the Collateral Agent or such officer or be answerable in any way for the
misapplication thereof.
SECTION 5.03. GRANT OF LICENSE TO USE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY.
Solely for the purpose of enabling the Collateral Agent to exercise rights and
remedies under this Agreement after the First Lien Termination Date at such time
as the Collateral Agent shall be lawfully entitled to exercise such rights and
remedies, each Guarantor hereby grants to (in the Collateral Agent's sole
discretion) a designee of the Collateral Agent or the Collateral Agent, for the
ratable benefit of the Second Lien Secured Parties, an irrevocable, nonexclusive
license (exercisable without payment of royalty or other compensation to any
Guarantor) to use, license or sublicense any of the Article 9 Collateral
consisting of Intellectual Property now owned or hereafter acquired by such
Guarantor, wherever the same may be located, and including, without limitation,
in such license reasonable access to all media in which any of the licensed
items may be recorded or stored and to all computer software and programs used
for the compilation or printout thereof. The use of such license by the
Collateral Agent may be exercised, at the option of the Collateral Agent, while
an Event of Default exists; PROVIDED that any license, sublicense or other
transaction entered into by the Collateral Agent in accordance herewith shall be
binding upon the Guarantors notwithstanding any subsequent cure of an Event of
Default.
SECTION 5.04. SECURITIES ACT, ▇▇▇.▇▇ view of the position of the
Guarantors in relation to the Pledged Collateral, or because of other current or
future circumstances, a question may arise under the Securities Act of 1933, as
now or hereafter in effect, or any similar federal statute hereafter enacted
analogous in purpose or effect (such Act and any such similar statute as from
time to time in effect being called the "FEDERAL SECURITIES LAWS") with respect
to any disposition of the Pledged Collateral permitted hereunder. Each Guarantor
understands that compliance with the Federal Securities Laws might very strictly
limit the course of conduct of the Collateral Agent if the Collateral Agent were
to attempt to dispose of all or any part of the Pledged Collateral, and might
also limit the extent to which or the manner in which any subsequent transferee
of any Pledged Collateral could dispose of the same. Similarly, there may
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be other legal restrictions or limitations affecting the Collateral Agent in any
attempt to dispose of all or part of the Pledged Collateral under applicable
Blue Sky or other state securities laws or similar laws analogous in purpose or
effect. Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that in light of such
restrictions and limitations, the Collateral Agent, to the extent it then may
act under Section 5.01, in its sole and absolute discretion, (a) may proceed to
make such a sale whether or not a registration statement for the purpose of
registering such Pledged Collateral or part thereof shall have been filed under
the Federal Securities Laws or, to the extent applicable, Blue Sky or other
state securities laws and (b) may approach and negotiate with a single potential
purchaser to effect such sale. Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that any
such sale might result in prices and other terms less favorable to the seller
than if such sale were a public sale without such restrictions. In the event of
any such sale, the Collateral Agent shall incur no responsibility or liability
for selling all or any part of the Pledged Collateral at a price that the
Collateral Agent, in its sole and absolute discretion, may in good ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇
reasonable under the circumstances, notwithstanding the possibility that a
substantially higher price might have been realized if the sale were deferred
until after registration as aforesaid or if more than a single purchaser were
approached. The provisions of this Section 5.04 will apply notwithstanding the
existence of a public or private market upon which the quotations or sales
prices may exceed substantially the price at which the Collateral Agent sells.
SECTION 5.05. REGISTRATION, ETC.Each Guarantor agrees that,
after the occurrence of the First Lien Termination Date upon the occurrence and
during the continuance of an Event of Default, if for any reason the Collateral
Agent desires to sell any of the Pledged Collateral at a public sale, it will,
at any time and from time to time, upon the written request of the Collateral
Agent, use its commercially reasonable efforts to take or to cause the issuer of
such Pledged Collateral to take such action and prepare, distribute and/or file
such documents, as are required or advisable in the reasonable opinion of
counsel for the Collateral Agent to permit the public sale of such Pledged
Collateral. Each Guarantor further agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless
the Administrative Agent, each other Second Lien Secured Party, any underwriter
and their respective officers, directors, affiliates and controlling persons
from and against all loss, liability, expenses, costs of counsel (including
reasonable fees and expenses of legal counsel to the Collateral Agent of, and
claims (including the costs of investigation) that they may incur insofar as
such loss, liability, expense or claim arises out of or is based upon any
alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any prospectus (or any
amendment or supplement thereto) or in any notification or offering circular, or
arises out of or is based upon any alleged omission to state a material fact
required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements in any thereof
not misleading, except insofar as the same may have been caused by any untrue
statement or omission based upon information furnished in writing to such
Guarantor or the issuer of such Pledged Collateral by the Collateral Agent or
any other Second Lien Secured Party expressly for use therein. Each Guarantor
further agrees, upon such written request referred to above, to use its
commercially reasonable efforts to qualify, file or register, or cause the
issuer of such Pledged Collateral to qualify, file or register, any of the
Pledged Collateral under the Blue Sky or other securities laws of such states as
may be reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent and keep effective, or cause
to be kept effective, all such qualifications, filings or registrations. Each
Guarantor will bear all costs and expenses of carrying out its obligations under
this Section 5.05. Each Guarantor acknowledges that there is no adequate remedy
at law for failure by it to comply with the provisions of this Section 5.05
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only and that such failure would not be adequately compensable in damages and,
therefore, agrees that its agreements contained in this Section 5.05 may be
specifically enforced.
ARTICLE VI.
INDEMNITY, SUBROGATION AND SUBORDINATION
SECTION 6.01. INDEMNITY AND SUBROGATION. In addition to all such
rights of indemnity and subrogation as the Guarantors may have under applicable
law (but subject to Section 6.03), the Term Borrower agrees that (a) in the
event a payment shall be made by any Guarantor under this Agreement in respect
of any Obligations of the Term Borrower that has been incurred by it as the
Borrower, the Term Borrower shall indemnify such Guarantor for the full amount
of such payment and such Guarantor shall be subrogated to the rights of the
person to whom such payment shall have been made to the extent of such payment
and (b) in the event any assets of any Guarantor shall be sold pursuant to this
Agreement or any other Security Document to satisfy in whole or in part an
Obligation of the Term Borrower that has been incurred by it as the Borrower,
the Term Borrower shall indemnify such Guarantor in an amount equal to the
greater of the book value or the fair market value of the assets so sold.
SECTION 6.02. CONTRIBUTION AND SUBROGATION. Each Guarantor (a
"CONTRIBUTING GUARANTOR") agrees (subject to Section 6.03) that, in the event a
payment shall be made by any other Guarantor hereunder in respect of any
Obligation or assets of any other Guarantor shall be sold pursuant to any
Security Document to satisfy any Obligation and such other Guarantor (the
"CLAIMING GUARANTOR") shall not have been fully indemnified by the Term Borrower
of such Obligation as provided in Section 6.01 or otherwise, the Contributing
Guarantor shall indemnify the Claiming Guarantor in an amount equal to the
amount of such payment or the greater of the book value or the fair market value
of such assets, as applicable, in each case multiplied by a fraction of which
the numerator shall be the net worth of such Contributing Guarantor on the date
hereof and the denominator shall be the aggregate net worth of all the
Guarantors on the date hereof (or, in the case of any Guarantor becoming a party
hereto pursuant to Section 7.16, the date of the supplement hereto executed and
delivered by such Guarantor). Any Contributing Guarantor making any payment to a
Claiming Guarantor pursuant to this Section 6.02 shall be subrogated to the
rights of such Claiming Guarantor under Section 6.01 to the extent of such
payment.
SECTION 6.03. SUBORDINATION. (a) Notwithstanding any provision
of this Agreement to the contrary, all rights of the Guarantors under Sections
6.01 and 6.02 and all other rights of indemnity, contribution or subrogation of
the Guarantor under applicable law or otherwise shall be fully subordinated to
the indefeasible payment in full in cash of the Obligations. No failure on the
part of the Term Borrower or any Guarantor to make the payments required by
Sections 6.01 and 6.02 (or any other payments required under applicable law or
otherwise) shall in any respect limit the obligations and liabilities of any
Guarantor with respect to its obligations hereunder, and each Guarantor shall
remain liable for the full amount of the obligations of such Guarantor
hereunder.
(b) Each Guarantor hereby agrees that all Indebtedness and
other monetary obligations owed by it to any other Guarantor or any Subsidiary
shall be subordinated to the
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indefeasible payment in full in cash of the Obligations in the manner set forth
in [Exhibit H] to the Loan Agreement.
ARTICLE VII.
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 7.01. NOTICES. All communications and notices hereunder
shall (except as otherwise expressly permitted herein) be in writing and given
as provided in [Section 9.01] of the Loan Agreement. All communications and
notices hereunder to any Subsidiary Party shall be given to it in care of the
Term Borrower, with such notice to be given as provided in [Section 9.01] of the
Loan Agreement.
SECTION 7.02. SECURITY INTEREST ABSOLUTE. All rights of the
Collateral Agent hereunder, the Security Interest, the security interest in the
Pledged Collateral and all obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall be
absolute and unconditional irrespective of (a) any lack of validity or
enforceability of the Loan Agreement, any other Loan Document, any agreement
with respect to any of the Obligations or any other agreement or instrument
relating to any of the foregoing, (b) any change in the time, manner or place of
payment of, or in any other term of, all or any of the Obligations, or any other
amendment or waiver of or any consent to any departure from the Loan Agreement,
any other Loan Document or any other agreement or instrument, (c) any exchange,
release or non-perfection of any Lien on other collateral, or any release or
amendment or waiver of or consent under or departure from any guarantee,
securing or guaranteeing all or any of the Obligations or (d) any other
circumstance that might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a
discharge of, any Guarantor in respect of the Obligations or this Agreement.
SECTION 7.03. SUBORDINATED SECURITY INTERESTS. The security
interests of the Second Lien Secured Parties in the Collateral are hereby, and
shall continue to be, subject , junior and subordinated in all respects to the
security interests of the First Lien Secured Parties in the Collateral in each
case to the extent, and in the manner, set forth herein. The foregoing shall
apply notwithstanding (i) the actual date and time of execution, delivery,
recordation, filing or perfection of any security interests granted with respect
to the First Lien Obligations, or the lien (whether perfected or unperfected)
thereof, and (ii) any instance wherein the First Lien Obligations or any claim
for the First Lien Obligations is subordinated, avoided or disallowed, in whole
or in part, under Title II of the United States Code or other applicable federal
or state law. The Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Secured Parties shall
have no rights to enforce or realize upon any Collateral except as expressly set
forth herein and hereby waive any right of enforcement or realization they might
otherwise have at law or otherwise.
SECTION 7.04. BINDING EFFECT; SEVERAL AGREEMENT. This Agreement
shall become effective on the Restructuring Date as to any party to the
Agreement that has executed a counterpart hereof and delivered same to the
Administrative Agent (assuming the Collateral Agent has executed a counterpart
hereof and also returned same to the Administrative Agent). This Agreement will
thereafter become effective as to any other party to this Agreement when a
counterpart hereof executed on behalf of such party shall have been delivered to
the Administrative Agent and a counterpart hereof shall have been executed on
behalf of the
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Collateral Agent, and, in each case, thereafter shall be binding upon such party
and the Collateral Agent and their respective permitted successors and assigns,
and shall inure to the benefit of such party, the Collateral Agent and the other
Second Lien Secured Parties and their respective permitted successors and
assigns, except that no party shall have the right to assign or transfer its
rights or obligations hereunder or any interest herein or in the Collateral (and
any such assignment or transfer shall be void) except as expressly contemplated
by this Agreement or the Credit Agreement. This Agreement shall be construed as
a separate agreement with respect to each party and may be amended, modified,
supplemented, waived or released with respect to any party without the approval
of any other party and without affecting the obligations of any other party
hereunder.
SECTION 7.05. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS. Whenever in this Agreement
any of the parties hereto is referred to, such reference shall be deemed to
include the permitted successors and assigns of such party; and all covenants,
promises and agreements by or on behalf of any Guarantor or the Collateral Agent
that are contained in this Agreement shall bind and inure to the benefit of
their respective permitted successors and assigns.
SECTION 7.06. COLLATERAL AGENT'S FEES AND EXPENSES;
INDEMNIFICATION. (a) The parties hereto agree that the Collateral Agent shall be
entitled to reimbursement of its expenses incurred hereunder as provided in
Section 9.05 of the Loan Agreement.
(b) Without limitation of its indemnification obligations
under the other Loan Documents, each Guarantor jointly and severally agrees to
indemnify the Collateral Agent and the other Indemnitees (as defined in Section
9.05 of the Loan Agreement) against, and hold each Indemnitee harmless from, any
and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and related expenses, including
reasonable counsel fees, charges and disbursements, incurred by or asserted
against any Indemnitee arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of,
(i) the execution, delivery or performance of this Agreement or any other Loan
Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or thereby, the
performance by the parties hereto and thereto of their respective obligations
thereunder or the consummation of the Transactions and other transactions
contemplated hereby, (ii) the use of proceeds of the Loans or (iii) any claim,
litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, or to
the Collateral, whether or not any Indemnitee is a party thereto; PROVIDED that
such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that
such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or related expenses result primarily
from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee (treating for
the purposes of this Section 7.06(b) only any Second Lien Secured Party and its
Related Parties as a single Indemnitee).
(c) Any such amounts payable as provided hereunder shall be
additional Obligations hereunder. The provisions of this Section 7.06 shall
remain operative and in full force and effect regardless of the termination of
this Agreement or any other Loan Document, the consummation of the transactions
contemplated hereby, the repayment of any of the Obligations, the invalidity or
unenforceability of any term or provision of this Agreement or any other Loan
Document, or any investigation made by or on behalf of the Collateral Agent or
any other Second Lien Secured Party. All amounts due under this Section 7.06
shall be payable on written demand therefor (accompanied by a reasonably
detailed computation of the amounts to be paid).
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SECTION 7.07. COLLATERAL AGENT APPOINTED ATTORNEY-IN-FACT. Each
Guarantor hereby appoints the Collateral Agent the attorney-in-fact of such
Guarantor for the purpose, if the First Lien Termination Date has occurred,
during the continuance of an Event of Default, of carrying out the provisions of
this Agreement and taking any action and executing any instrument that the
Collateral Agent may deem necessary or advisable to accomplish the purposes
hereof, which appointment is irrevocable and coupled with an interest. Without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, if and only if the First Lien
Termination Date has occurred, the Collateral Agent shall have the right, upon
the occurrence and during the continuance of a Noticed Event of Default, with
full power of substitution either in the Collateral Agent's name or in the name
of such Guarantor, (a) to receive, endorse, assign or deliver any and all notes,
acceptances, checks, drafts, money orders or other evidences of payment relating
to the Collateral or any part thereof; (b) to demand, collect, receive payment
of, give receipt for and give discharges and releases of all or any of the
Collateral; (c) to ask for, demand, ▇▇▇ for, collect, receive and give
acquittance for any and all moneys due or to become due under and by virtue of
any Collateral; (d) to sign the name of any Guarantor on any invoice or ▇▇▇▇ of
lading relating to any of the Collateral; (e) to send verifications of Accounts
to any Account Debtor; (f) to commence and prosecute any and all suits, actions
or proceedings at law or in equity in any court of competent jurisdiction to
collect or otherwise realize on all or any of the Collateral or to enforce any
rights in respect of any Collateral; (g) to settle, compromise, compound, adjust
or defend any actions, suits or proceedings relating to all or any of the
Collateral; (h) to notify, or to require any Guarantor to notify, Account
Debtors to make payment directly to the Collateral Agent; and (i) to use, sell,
assign, transfer, pledge, make any agreement with respect to or otherwise deal
with all or any of the Collateral, and to do all other acts and things necessary
to carry out the purposes of this Agreement, as fully and completely as though
the Collateral Agent were the absolute owner of the Collateral for all purposes;
PROVIDED, that nothing herein contained shall be construed as requiring or
obligating the Collateral Agent to make any commitment or to make any inquiry as
to the nature or sufficiency of any payment received by the Collateral Agent, or
to present or file any claim or notice, or to take any action with respect to
the Collateral or any part thereof or the moneys due or to become due in respect
thereof or any property covered thereby. The Collateral Agent and the other
Second Lien Secured Parties shall be accountable only for amounts actually
received as a result of the exercise of the powers granted to them herein, and
neither they nor their officers, directors, employees or agents shall be
responsible to any Guarantor for any act or failure to act hereunder, except for
their own gross negligence or willful misconduct.
SECTION 7.08. GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND
OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES UNDER THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE
WITH AND GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
SECTION 7.09. WAIVERS; AMENDMENT. (a) No failure or delay by the
Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any Lender in exercising any
right, power or remedy hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall operate
as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right,
power or remedy, or any abandonment or discontinuance of steps to enforce such a
right, power or remedy, preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the
exercise of any other right, power or remedy. The rights, powers and remedies of
the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Lenders hereunder and
under
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the other Loan Documents are cumulative and are not exclusive of any rights,
powers or remedies that they would otherwise have. No waiver of any provision of
this Agreement or consent to any departure by any Loan Party therefrom shall in
any event be effective unless the same shall be permitted by paragraph (b) of
this Section 7.09, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in
the specific instance and for the purpose for which given. Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, the making of a Loan shall not be construed as a
waiver of any Default or Event of Default, regardless of whether the
Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any Lender may have had notice or
knowledge of such Default or Event of Default at the time. No notice or demand
on any Loan Party in any case shall entitle any Loan Party to any other or
further notice or demand in similar or other circumstances.
(b) Neither this Agreement nor any provision hereof may be
waived, amended or modified except pursuant to an agreement or agreements in
writing entered into by the Collateral Agent and the Loan Party or Loan Parties
with respect to which such waiver, amendment or modification is to apply (or, at
its election, by the Term Borrower on behalf of all such Loan Parties), subject
to any consent required in accordance with Section 9.08 of the Loan Agreement.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in
Section 7.09, (i) no waiver, amendment or modification may be made (directly or
indirectly) with respect to Articles III, IV and V, Section 7.03 and any other
provision of this Agreement relating to the Liens created hereunder in respect
of the Collateral may be entered into without the written consent of the First
Lien Collateral Agent and (ii) any amendment, waiver or modification of any of
the provisions of the First Lien Collateral Agreement relating to the granting,
maintenance or enforcement if Liens shall constitute an amendment, waiver or
modification of the respective provision of this Agreement without the consent
of the Collateral Agent, any Loan Party or any Second Lien Secured Party;
PROVIDED that any amendment, waiver or modification the effect of which would
eliminate or terminate the Liens granted to the Second Lien Secured Parties
pursuant to this Agreement shall not be effective without the agreement in
writing of the Collateral Agent and the Loan Parties as provided in Section
7.09(b) above. It is hereby acknowledged that the First Lien Collateral Agent
and the other First Lien Secured Parties are third party beneficiaries with
respect to all provisions of this Agreement subordinating the Liens created
hereunder to the Liens for the benefit of the First Lien Secured Parties and
limiting the rights and remedies of the Collateral Agent and Second Lien Secured
Parties in respect of the Collateral.
SECTION 7.10. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY
WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE
TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN RESPECT OF ANY LITIGATION DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING
OUT OF, UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS.
EACH PARTY HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY
OTHER PARTY HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD
NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND
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(B) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER
INTO THIS AGREEMENT BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND
CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION 7.10.
SECTION 7.11. SEVERABILITY. In the event any one or more of the
provisions contained in this Agreement or in any other Loan Document should be
held invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, the validity, legality
and enforceability of the remaining provisions contained herein and therein
shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby. The parties shall endeavor
in good-faith negotiations to replace the invalid, illegal or unenforceable
provisions with valid provisions the economic effect of which comes as close as
possible to that of the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions.
SECTION 7.12. COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be executed in
two or more counterparts, each of which shall constitute an original but all of
which when taken together shall constitute but one contract, and shall become
effective as provided in Section 7.04. Delivery of an executed counterpart to
this Agreement by facsimile transmission shall be as effective as delivery of a
manually signed original.
SECTION 7.13. HEADINGS. Article and Section headings and the
Table of Contents used herein are for convenience of reference only, are not
part of this Agreement and are not to affect the construction of, or to be taken
into consideration in interpreting, this Agreement.
SECTION 7.14. JURISDICTION; CONSENT TO SERVICE OF PROCESS. (a)
Each party to this Agreement hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for
itself and its property, to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of any New York State
court or federal court of the United States of America sitting in New York City,
and any appellate court from any thereof, in any action or proceeding arising
out of or relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Documents, or for
recognition or enforcement of any judgment, and each of the parties hereto
hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that all claims in respect of any
such action or proceeding may be heard and determined in such New York State or,
to the extent permitted by law, in such federal court. Each of the parties
hereto agrees that a final judgment in any such action or proceeding shall be
conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or
in any other manner provided by law. Nothing in this Agreement shall affect any
right that the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, or any Lender may
otherwise have to bring any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or
any other Loan Document against any Guarantor, or its properties, in the courts
of any jurisdiction.
(b) Each party to this Agreement hereby irrevocably and
unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent it may legally and effectively do
so, any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of
any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or
any other Loan Document in any New York State or federal court. Each of the
parties hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by
law, the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action or
proceeding in any such court.
(c) Each Guarantor not a party to the Credit Agreement
hereby appoints BCP Crystal US Holdings Corp. at ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇
as its agent for service of
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process, such appointment to be on the same basis as set forth in Section
9.15(c) of the Credit Agreement.
SECTION 7.15. TERMINATION OR RELEASE. (a) This Agreement, the
guarantees made herein, the Security Interest and all other security interests
granted hereby shall terminate on the first date when all the Obligations have
been indefeasibly paid in full in cash.
(b) A Subsidiary Party shall automatically be released from
its obligations hereunder and the security interests in the Collateral of such
Subsidiary Party shall be automatically released upon the consummation of any
transaction permitted by the Loan Agreement as a result of which such Subsidiary
Party ceases to be a Subsidiary of the Term Borrower; PROVIDED that the Required
Lenders shall have consented to such transaction (to the extent such consent is
required by the Loan Agreement) and the terms of such consent did not provide
otherwise.
(c) Upon any sale or other transfer by any Guarantor of any
Collateral that is permitted under the Loan Agreement to any person that is not
a Guarantor, or upon the effectiveness of any written consent to the release of
the security interest granted hereby in any Collateral pursuant to Section 9.08
of the Loan Agreement, the security interest in such Collateral shall be
automatically released.
(d) In connection with any termination or release pursuant
to paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of this Section 7.15, the Collateral Agent shall
execute and deliver to any Guarantor, at such Guarantor's expense, all documents
that such Guarantor shall reasonably request to evidence such termination or
release. Any execution and delivery of documents pursuant to this Section 7.15
shall be without recourse to or warranty by the Collateral Agent.
SECTION 7.16. ADDITIONAL PARTIES. On the date occurring after
the Restructuring Date on which a Person first becomes a Domestic Subsidiary,
such Person shall, to the extent required by Section 5.10 of the Loan Agreement,
become a party hereto as a Guarantor. Upon execution and delivery by the
Collateral Agent and any such Person of a Supplement, such Person shall become a
Guarantor hereunder with the same force and effect as if originally named as a
Guarantor herein. The execution and delivery of a Supplement shall not require
the consent of any other party to this Agreement. The rights and obligations of
each party to this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect
notwithstanding the addition of any new party to this Agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed this
Agreement as of the day and year first above written.
BCP CRYSTAL US HOLDINGS CORP.
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇
Title: President
CELANESE AMERICAS CORPORATION
By: /s/ ▇.▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇.▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: VP Law, PEO & Secretary
By: /s/ M.E. Grom
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Name: M.E. Grom
Title: VP Finance, PFO & Treasurer
CELANESE ACETATE LLC
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇
Title: VP Controller & PFO
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
-----------------------------------------
Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: VP & Secretary
CELANESE CHEMICALS, INC.
By: /s/ ▇.▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇.▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Vice President
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: VP & Controller
CELANESE FIBERS OPERATIONS, LTD.
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
-----------------------------------------
Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: VP & Secretary
By: /s/ ▇.▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇.▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: VP & Assistant Secretary
CELANESE HOLDINGS, INC.
By: /s/ ▇.▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇.▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: VP & PEO
By: /s/ M.E. Grom
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Name: M.E. Grom
Title: VP & Treasurer
CELANESE INTERNATIONAL
CORPORATION
By: /s/ ▇.▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇.▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Vice President
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: VP & Controller
CELANESE LTD.
By: CELANESE INTERNATIONAL
CORPORATION, General Partner
By: /s/ ▇.▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇.▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Vice President
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇
-----------------------------------------
Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: VP & Controller
CELANESE OVERSEAS CORPORATION
By: /s/ ▇.▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇.▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: VP & PEO
By: /s/ M.E. Grom
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Name: M.E. Grom
Title: VP & Treasurer
CELANESE PIPE LINE COMPANY
By: /s/ D.A. Spathakis
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Name: D.A. Spathakis
Title: VP & Assistant Secretary
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: VP & Controller
CELTRAN, INC.
By: /s/ D.A. Spathakis
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Name: D.A. Spathakis
Title: VP & Assistant Secretary
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: VP & Controller
CELWOOD INSURANCE COMPANY
By: /s/ D.A. Spathakis
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Name: D.A. Spathakis
Title: Vice President
By: /s/ ▇.▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇.▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Vice President
CNA FUNDING LLC
By: /s/ M.E. Grom
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Name: M.E. Grom
Title: President
By: /s/ ▇.▇. ▇▇▇
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Name: ▇.▇. ▇▇▇
Title: Vice President
CNA HOLDINGS, INC.
By: /s/ ▇.▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇.▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: VP Law, PEO & Secretary
By: /s/ M.E. Grom
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Name: M.E. Grom
Title: VP Finance, PFO & Treasurer
FKAT LLC
By: /s/ ▇.▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇.▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: VP & PEO
By: /s/ M.E.Grom
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Name: M.E. Grom
Title: VP & Treasurer
TICONA CELSTRAN, INC.
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: VP & Principal Executive Officer
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
-----------------------------------------
Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: VP & Secretary
TICONA FORTRON INC.
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: VP & Principal Executive Officer
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
-----------------------------------------
Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: VP & Secretary
TICONA LLC
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
-----------------------------------------
Name: ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: VP & Principal Executive Officer
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
-----------------------------------------
Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: VP & Secretary
TICONA POLYMERS, INC.
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
-----------------------------------------
Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: VP & Secretary
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: VP & Principal Executive Officer
DEUTSCHE BANK AG, NEW YORK
BRANCH, as Collateral Agent
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇
-----------------------------------------
Name: ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Vice President
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Director
DEUTSCHE BANK AG, NEW YORK BRANCH,
as Bailee
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Vice President
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Director
SCHEDULE I to
the
Guarantee and
Collateral Agreement
SUBSIDIARY PARTIES
BCP Crystal US Holdings Corp.
Celanese Americas Corporation
Celanese Acetate LLC
Celanese Chemicals, Inc.
Celanese Fibers Operations, Ltd.
Celanese Holdings, Inc.
Celanese International Corporation
Celanese Ltd.
Celanese Overseas Corporation
Celanese Pipe Line Company
Celtran, Inc.
Celwood Insurance Company
CNA Funding LLC
CNA Holdings, Inc.
FKAT LLC
Ticona Celstran, Inc.
Ticona Fortron Inc.
Ticona LLC
Ticona Polymers, Inc.
SCHEDULE II to
the
Guarantee and
Collateral Agreement
EQUITY INTERESTS
NAME OF DOMESTIC STOCK
SUBSIDIARY LOAN CERTIFICATE NUMBER OF PERCENTAGE OF
PARTY ISSUER NUMBER SHARES EQUITY INTERESTS
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1 BCP Crystal US Holdings Celanese Americas Common 5 7,501,130 100% (of Common)
Corp. Corporation
1A BCP Crystal US Holdings Celanese Americas Common, Series A-4 3,000,000 100% (of Common,
Corp. Corporation A Series A)
2 BCP Crystal US Holdings BCP Crystal US 2 LLC Membership N/A N/A 100%
Corp. Interests
3 BCP Crystal US Holdings BCP Caylux Holdings Limited N/A 1,358 100% (65%
Corp. Luxembourg S.C.A. Partners' pledged)
shares
4 BCP Crystal US Holdings BCP Caylux Holdings Series A N/A 15,048,000 100% (65%
Corp. Luxembourg S.C.A. Convertible pledged)
Preferred
Equity
Certificates
5 BCP Crystal US Holdings BCP Caylux Holdings Series B N/A 4,446,227 100% (65%
Corp. Luxembourg S.C.A. Convertible pledged)
Preferred
Equity
Certificates
6 BCP Crystal US Holdings BCP Caylux Holdings Ordinary N/A 1 100%
Corp. Ltd. 1 (65% pledged)
7 BCP Crystal US Holdings BCP Crystal Ordinary N/A 1 100%
Corp. (Cayman) Ltd. 1 (65% pledged)
NAME OF DOMESTIC STOCK
SUBSIDIARY LOAN CERTIFICATE NUMBER OF PERCENTAGE OF
PARTY ISSUER NUMBER SHARES EQUITY INTERESTS
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8 Celanese Acetate LLC Celanese S.A. N/A 63 64,999 65%
(Belgium)
Celanese Far East N/A 9 1,299 65%
Ltd. (China/Hong
Kong)
Amcel International Common 5 12,000 100%
Co, Inc.
Celanese Fibers 3 100 100%
Operations, Ltd. Common
9 Celanese Americas CNA Holdings, Inc. Common 1 10,000 100%
Corporation Grupo Celanese S.A. B-2 000003 109,278,583 65% of 11.61%
(Mexico)
10 Celanese Chemicals, Inc. 177461 N/A 6 2,210 65%
Canada, Inc.
(Canada)
Celanese Ltd. Partners hip N/A N/A 99%
interests
Celanese Pipe Line Common 3 500 100%
Company
Ticona Polymers, Common 1 1 100%
Inc.
Celanese Argentina Ordinary 18,001 6,000 65% of 50%
S.A.
Clear Lake Menthol Partnership N/A N/A
Partners, L.P. interests
▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇
Operations, Ltd.
NAME OF DOMESTIC STOCK
SUBSIDIARY LOAN CERTIFICATE NUMBER OF PERCENTAGE OF
PARTY ISSUER NUMBER SHARES EQUITY INTERESTS
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12 Celanese Holdings, Inc. Celanese Chemicals, Common 1 1 100%
Inc.
Celanese Common 2 1 100%
International
Corporation
US PET Film, Inc. Common 2 100 100%
Ticona GUR Common 1 1 100%
Services, Inc.
▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ Ltd. N/A N/A 65%
Corporation (Japan)
Celtran, Inc. Common 2 1,000 100%
Celanese Korea ▇/▇ ▇/▇ ▇▇%
▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ (▇▇▇▇▇)
Celanese Ltd. Partnership N/A N/A 1%
interest
Celanese Brasil N/A N/A 65% of 11.10%
Ltda.
Celanese Argentina Ordinary 12.001 6,000 65% of 50%
S.A.
14 Celanese Ltd. None None None None None
15
Celanese Overseas HNA Acquisition Class A; CA-4; 405,315,739; 65% of 82.17%
Corporation Inc. (Canada) Class B CB-5 405,315,739
16 Celanese Pipe Line None None None None None
Company
17 Celtran, Inc. None None None None None
NAME OF DOMESTIC STOCK
SUBSIDIARY LOAN CERTIFICATE NUMBER OF PERCENTAGE OF
PARTY ISSUER NUMBER SHARES EQUITY INTERESTS
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18 Celwood Insurance None None None None None
Company
▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇
20 CNA Holdings, Inc. Celanese Overseas Common 1 2,500 100%
Corporation
HNA Acquisition, Class A; CA-6; 6,696,725; 65% of 1.36%
Inc. (Canada) Class B CB-7 6,696,725
Grupo Celanese S.A. B-2 000014 646,053,739 65% of 68.63%
(Mexico)
FKAT LLC Member N/A N/A 100%
Interests
NAME OF DOMESTIC STOCK
SUBSIDIARY LOAN CERTIFICATE NUMBER OF PERCENTAGE OF
PARTY ISSUER NUMBER SHARES EQUITY INTERESTS
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20 CNA Holdings, Inc. Celanese Holdings, Common 1 1 100%
(continued) Inc.
▇▇▇▇▇▇ Insurance Common 24 155,000 65%
Ltd. (Bermuda)
Celwood Insurance Common 003 100,000 100%
Company
Celanese Acetate LLC Member N/A N/A 100%
Interests
Eocom, Inc. Common 1 10 100%
Ticona Fortron Inc. Common 1 100 100%
Ticona LLC Member N/A N/A 100%
Interests
Ticona Celstran, Common Voting 116 2,995,203 90% of common
Inc. voting stock
Separation Products Member
LLC Interests N/A N/A 100%
Celanese Services Member
LLC Interests N/A N/A 100%
Celanese de
Venezuela S.A. N/A N/A 65% of 100%
(Venezuela)
Celanese do Brasil
Ltda. N/A N/A 65% of 88.90%
21 FKAT LLC Tenedora Tercera de Fixed Capital; N/A; N/A 2,999; 65% of 100%
Toluca (Mexico) Variable 4,223,875,096.00
Capital
NAME OF DOMESTIC STOCK
SUBSIDIARY LOAN CERTIFICATE NUMBER OF PERCENTAGE OF
PARTY ISSUER NUMBER SHARES EQUITY INTERESTS
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22 Ticona Celstran, Inc. None None None None None
23 Ticona Fortron Inc. None None None None None
24 Ticona LLC None None None None None
25 Ticona Polymers, Inc. Ticona Celstran, Common Voting 80; 79 15,393; 317,406 10% of common
Inc. voting shares
Ticona Celstram Inc. Common 4;5 186,711; 2,661 100% of common
Non-Voting non-voting shares
Ticona Services, Common 1 1 100%
Inc.
Ticona Polymers Common 1 1 100%
▇▇▇▇▇, Inc.
CNA Membership N/A N/A 100%
Funding LLC Interests
EXHIBIT I
to
Guarantee and
Collateral Agreement
SUPPLEMENT NO. __ dated as of (this "SUPPLEMENT"), to the
Guarantee and Collateral Agreement dated as of October 5, 2004 (the "COLLATERAL
AGREEMENT"), among CELANESE AMERICAS CORPORATION and the other Guarantors party
thereto and DEUTSCHE BANK AG, NEW YORK BRANCH as Collateral Agent (in such
capacity, the "COLLATERAL AGENT") for, on a basis junior and subordinated (in
Lien only) to the First Lien Secured Parties, the Second Lien Secured Parties
(as defined herein).
A. Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined
herein shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Collateral
Agreement.
B. Section 7.16 of the Collateral Agreement provides that
additional Persons will become Guarantors under the Collateral Agreement by
execution and delivery of an instrument in the form of this Supplement. The
undersigned Person (the "NEW GUARANTOR") is executing this Supplement to become
a Guarantor.
Accordingly, the Collateral Agent and the New Guarantor agree as
follows:
SECTION 1. In accordance with Section 7.16 of the Collateral
Agreement, the New Guarantor by its signature below becomes a Guarantor under
Collateral Agreement with the same force and effect as if originally named
therein as a Guarantor, and the New Guarantor hereby (a) agrees to all the terms
and provisions of the Collateral Agreement applicable to it as a Guarantor and
(b) represents and warrants that the representations and warranties made by it
as a Guarantor thereunder are true and correct, in all material respects, on and
as of the date hereof. In furtherance of the foregoing, the New Guarantor, as
security for the payment and performance in full of the Obligations, does hereby
create and grant to the Collateral Agent, its successors and assigns, for the
ratable benefit of, on a basis junior and subordinated (in Lien only) to the
First Lien Secured Parties, the Second Lien Secured Parties, their successors
and assigns, a security interest in and Lien on all the New Guarantor's right,
title and interest in and to the Collateral of the New Guarantor. Each reference
to a "Guarantor" in the
Guarantee and Collateral Agreement shall be deemed to
include the New Guarantor. The Collateral Agreement is hereby incorporated
herein by reference.
SECTION 2. The New Guarantor represents and warrants to the
Collateral Agent and the other Second Lien Secured Parties that this Supplement
has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by it and constitutes its
legal, valid and binding obligation, enforceable against it in accordance with
its terms, subject to (i) the effects of bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium,
reorganization, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws affecting creditors'
rights generally, (ii) general principles of equity (regardless of whether such
enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law) and (iii)
implied covenants of good faith and fair dealing.
SECTION 3. This Agreement may be executed in two or more
counterparts, each of which shall constitute an original but all of which when
taken together shall constitute
but one contract. This Supplement shall become effective when (a) the Collateral
Agent shall have received a counterpart of this Supplement that bears the
signature of the New Guarantor and (b) the Collateral Agent has executed a
counterpart hereof.
SECTION 4. The New Guarantor hereby represents and warrants that
(a) set forth on SCHEDULE I attached hereto is a true and correct schedule of
the location of any and all Article 9 Collateral of the New Guarantor, (b) set
forth on SCHEDULE II attached hereto is a true and correct schedule of all the
Pledged Securities of the New Guarantor and (c) set forth under its signature
hereto, is the true and correct legal name of the New Guarantor, its
jurisdiction of formation and the location of its chief executive office.
SECTION 5. Except as expressly supplemented hereby, the
Collateral Agreement shall remain in full force and effect.
SECTION 6. THIS SUPPLEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE
PARTIES UNDER THIS SUPPLEMENT SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND GOVERNED
BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
SECTION 7. In the event any one or more of the provisions
contained in this Supplement should be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable in
any respect, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining
provisions contained herein and in the Collateral Agreement shall not in any way
be affected or impaired thereby. The parties shall endeavor in good-faith
negotiations to replace the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions with
valid provisions the economic effect of which comes as close as possible to that
of the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions.
SECTION 8. All communications and notices hereunder shall be in
writing and given as provided in Section 7.01 of the Collateral Agreement.
SECTION 9. The New Guarantor agrees to reimburse the Collateral
Agent for its reasonable out-of-pocket expenses in connection with this
Supplement, including the reasonable fees, disbursements and other charges of
counsel for the Collateral Agent.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the New Guarantor and the Collateral Agent
have duly executed this Supplement to the Collateral Agreement as of the day and
year first above written.
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[NAME OF NEW GUARANTOR]
By:
---------------------------------
Name:
Title:
Legal Name:
Jurisdiction of Formation:
Location of Chief Executive Office:
DEUTSCHE BANK AG, NEW YORK BRANCH,
as Collateral Agent
By:
---------------------------------
Name:
Title:
By:
---------------------------------
Name:
Title:
[DEUTSCHE BANK AG, NEW YORK BRANCH,
as Bailee
By:
---------------------------------
Name:
Title:
By:
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Name:
Title: ]
SCHEDULE I to
Supplement No.___
to the
Guarantee and
Collateral Agreement
LOCATION OF ARTICLE 9 COLLATERAL
Description Location
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SCHEDULE II to
Supplement No. __
to the
Guarantee and
Collateral Agreement
PLEDGED SECURITIES OF THE NEW GUARANTOR
EQUITY INTERESTS
Number of Issuer Number and Class of Percentage of
Certificate Registered Owner Equity Interest of Equity Interests
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DEBT SECURITIES
Issuer Principal Amount Date of Note Maturity Date
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OTHER PROPERTY