EXHIBIT 10.23
SECOND AMENDMENT TO LOAN AND
SECURITY AGREEMENT AND MODIFICATION
OF PROMISSORY NOTE
THIS SECOND AMENDMENT TO LOAN AND
SECURITY AGREEMENT AND MODIFICATION OF PROMISSORY NOTE
(this “
Amendment ”) dated as of August 1,
2009 (the “ Effective Date ”), is by
and among THERMO CREDIT, LLC , a Colorado limited liability
company, (together with its successors and assigns, “
Lender ”) and TELETOUCH COMMUNICATIONS,
INC. , a Delaware corporation (“ TCI ”),
TELETOUCH LICENSES, INC. , a Delaware corporation (“
TLI ”), and PROGRESSIVE CONCEPTS, INC. , a
Texas corporation (“ PCI ”, collectively with
TCI, TLI, and any other Person identified or named from time to
time as a “ Debtor ” under the Loan Documents,
jointly, severally and in solido , “
Debtor ”).
RECITALS
WHEREAS , Debtor and Lender entered into that certain
LOAN AND SECURITY AGREEMENT dated as of April 30,
2008 (as amended, modified, and restated from time to time, the
“ Agreement ”), pursuant to which Lender
agreed to make certain credit facilities available to Debtor on the
terms and conditions set forth therein; and
WHEREAS , in connection with the Agreement, Debtor
executed and delivered to Lender that certain PROMISSORY
NOTE dated as of even date with the Agreement, in the original
principal amount of FIVE MILLION AND NO/100 DOLLARS
($5,000,000.00) (the “ Note ”);
and
WHEREAS, in connection with the Agreement, TCI executed
and delivered to Lender that certain Deed of Trust, Security
Agreement, Assignment of Leases, Assignment of Rents, and Financing
Statement dated as of even date with the Note, naming Jack Eumont
as Trustee and Lender as Beneficiary, recorded under Clerk’s
File No. 2008-0026698 of the Official Public Records of Real
Property of Smith County, Texas, (“ Smith County Deed
of Trust ”) and covering certain real property
situated in Smith County, Texas, as more particularly described on
Exhibit “A” to the Smith County Deed of
Trust;
WHEREAS, in connection with the Agreement, PCI executed
and delivered to Lender that certain Deed of Trust, Security
Agreement, Assignment of Leases, Assignment of Rents, and Financing
Statement dated as of even date with the Note, naming Jack Eumont
as Trustee and Lender as Beneficiary, recorded under Clerk’s
File No. D208219469 of the Official Public Records of Real Property
of Tarrant County, Texas, (“ Tarrant County Deed of
Trust ” and together with the Smith County Deed of
Trust, the “ Deed of Trust ”) and
covering certain real property situated in Tarrant County, Texas,
as more particularly described on Exhibit “A” to the
Tarrant County Deed of Trust;
WHEREAS, the parties desire to amend the Agreement, the
Note, and the Deed of Trust pursuant to the terms and conditions
set forth herein;
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NOW THEREFORE
, for good and valuable
consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby
acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:
Definitions
. Capitalized terms used in this
Amendment, to the extent not otherwise defined herein, shall have
the same meanings as in the Agreement, as amended
hereby.
Amendments to Loan and Security
Agreement .
Section 1(h)(i) of the
Agreement is hereby amended in its entirety as follows:
All present and future accounts,
chattel paper (including electronic chattel paper), commercial tort
claims, commodity accounts, commodity contracts, deposit accounts,
documents, financial assets, general intangibles, health care
insurance receivables, instruments, investment property, letters of
credit, letter of credit rights, payment intangibles, securities,
security accounts, promissory notes, note receivables, and security
entitlements now or hereafter owned, held, or acquired.
Section 1(r) of the Agreement
is hereby amended in its entirety to read as follows:
“ Excluded Assets
” means the collective reference to:
(i) Any lease, license, contract,
property right or agreement to which Debtor or any Subsidiary of
Debtor is a party or any of its rights or interests thereunder
(including, without limitation, the FCC Licenses and the AT&T
Contracts and Accounts) if at any time the grant of a security
interest hereunder shall constitute or result in a breach,
termination or default under any such lease, license, contract,
property right or agreement;
(ii) the Excluded Pledged Equity
Interest; and
(iii) all equipment and fixtures
(owned by T-Mobile) of whatsoever kind and character now or
hereafter possessed, held, acquired, leased or owned, together with
all replacements, accessories, additions, substitutions and
accessions to all of the foregoing, and all records relating in any
way to the foregoing that that are utilized by TCI in any
improvements or alterations made to the premises or real property
pursuant to any lease or sublease entered into between TCI and
T-Mobile.
Sections 1(t), 1(u), and 1(v) of the
Agreement are hereby amended in their entirety as
follows:
Reserved.
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Section 1(ee) of the Agreement
is hereby amended in its entirety as follows:
“ Indebtedness ”
means (i) all indebtedness, obligations, and liabilities of
Debtor to Lender of any kind or character, now existing or
hereafter arising, whether direct, indirect, related, unrelated,
fixed, contingent, liquidated, unliquidated, joint, several and in
solido, or joint and several and in solido, under the Note, this
Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, (ii) all accrued
but unpaid interest on any of the indebtedness described in
(i) above, (iii) all obligations of Obligors to Lender
under the Loan Documents, (iv) all costs and expenses
reasonably incurred by Lender in connection with the enforcement of
all or any part of the indebtedness and obligations described in
(i), (ii) and (iii) above or the protection or
preservation of, or realization upon, the Collateral securing all
or any part of such indebtedness and obligations, including without
limitation all reasonable attorneys’ fees, and (v) all
renewals, extensions, modifications and rearrangements of the
indebtedness and payment obligations described in (i), (ii),
(iii) and (iv) above.
Section 1(hh) of the Agreement
is hereby amended in its entirety as follows:
“ Loan Documents
” means this Agreement, the Note, the Account Control
Agreement, and the other agreements, instruments and documents
evidencing, securing, governing, guaranteeing or pertaining to the
Loans.
Section 1(mm”) is hereby
added to the Agreement as follows:
“ Material Transaction
” means, a settlement or transaction or the functional
equivalent of any of the foregoing that has a Material Adverse
Affect on the operations of the Debtor (including without
limitation, the scale of operations) or the Collateral.
Section 1(mm’) is hereby
added to the Agreement as follows:
“ Material Transaction
Deposit Condition ” means, the payment of proceeds
directly from the parties or parties to a Material Transaction
other than Debtor into an escrow account for the sole benefit of
Lender all of the proceeds of that Material Transaction and
otherwise in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the
Lender.
Section 1(mm) of the Agreement
is hereby amended in its entirety as follows:
“ Monthly Step Down
” shall mean, for each month, commencing with December, 2009,
an amount equal to the average principal balance outstanding of
Non-Account Loans for that month divided by sixty (60).
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Section 1(nn”) is hereby
added to the Agreement as follows:
“ Non-Account Borrowing
Base Component ” means the sum of items (1), (2), (3),
(4), (6), and (7) of the Borrowing Base.
Section 1(nn’) is hereby
added to the Agreement as follows:
“ Non-Account Loans
” means Loans made under this Agreement based on the
Non-Account Borrowing Base Component.
Section 1(nn) of the Agreement
is hereby amended in its entirety as follows:
“ Note ” means,
collectively, any promissory note evidencing all or part of the
Indebtedness from time to time (as any such Note may be amended,
modified or restated from time to time), including but not limited
to that certain Promissory Note dated as of the Closing Date,
executed by Debtor in favor of Lender, in the original principal
amount of $5,000,000.00 as increased to $18,000,000.00.
Section (a’) is hereby added
to the Agreement as follows:
“ Account Control
Agreement ” means, that certain letter agreement dated
August 1, 2009 by and among Bank of Texas, Debtor, and
Lender.
Section 1(vv’) is hereby
added to the Agreement as follows:
“ Second Amendment
” means that certain Second Amendment to Loan and Security
Agreement (‘ Second Amendment ”) by and
between Lender and Debtor dated as of August 1,
2009.
The first sentence of
Section 2(b) of the Agreement is hereby amended in its
entirety as follows:
Debtor hereby agrees that Debtor is
JOINTLY SEVERALLY AND IN SOLIDO liable for, and hereby absolutely
and unconditionally guarantees to Lender and its successors and
assigns, the full and prompt payment (whether at stated maturity,
by acceleration or otherwise) and performance of, all Indebtedness
owed or hereafter owing to Lender by Debtor.
The first sentence of
Section 2(c) of the Agreement is hereby amended in its
entirety as follows:
Subject to the terms and conditions
set forth in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, Lender
hereby agrees to lend to Debtor an aggregate sum not to exceed at
any time the lesser of (i) an amount equal to the Borrowing
Base existing at such time or (ii)
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(A) EIGHTEEN MILLION AND NO/100
DOLLARS ($18,000,000.00) minus (B) the Reducing Loan
Availability at such time (the “ Revolving Credit
Facility ”), on a revolving basis from time to time
during the period commencing on the date hereof and continuing
until January 31, 2012, or such other date as may be
established by a written instrument between Debtor and Lender from
time to time (the “ Revolving Credit Maturity
Date ”).
Section 2(d)(i)(4) of the
Agreement is hereby amended in its entirety as follows:
Sixty percent (60.00%) of
Debtor’s Eligible Inventory;
Section 2(d)(i)(5) of the
Agreement is hereby amended by deleting “and” following
the “;”
Section 2(d)(i)(6) of the
Agreement is hereby amended by adding “and” following
the “;”
Section 2(d)(i)(7) is hereby
added to the Agreement as follows:
Eighty-five percent (85.00%) of
the amount of Debtor’s Eligible Notes; provided that in no
event shall the aggregate amount of Debtor’s Eligible Notes
exceed $1,000,000;
The following is hereby added at the
end of Section 2(d)(i) of the Agreement as follows:
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no
event shall the Non-Account Borrowing Base Component exceed more
than 33.3% of the amount computed in clause (ii) of the first
sentence of Section 2(c).
Section 2(d)(viii) is hereby
added to the Agreement as follows:
“ Eligible Notes
” means, at any time, all notes receivable owned by Debtor
(and in the possession of Debtor) created in the ordinary course of
business and have been approved in writing in advance by Lender and
satisfy the following conditions:
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(1)
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The note
receivable is payable in U.S. Dollars by the maker;
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(2)
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The note
receivable shall be ineligible if the maker is domiciled in any
country other than the United States of America;
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(3)
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No payment
default exists under the note receivable;
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(4)
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The note
receivable is not subject to any setoff, counterclaim, defense,
dispute, recoupment, or negative adjustment other than normal
discounts for prompt payment (provided, however, that the portion
of any such note that is not subject to any such setoff,
counterclaim, defense, dispute, recoupment, or negative adjustment
shall be an Eligible Note);
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(5)
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The maker is
not insolvent or the subject of any bankruptcy or insolvency
proceeding and has not made an assignment for the benefit of
creditors, suspended normal business operations, dissolved,
liquidated, terminated its existence, ceased to pay its debts
generally as they become due, or suffered a receiver or trustee to
be appointed for any of its assets or affairs;
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(6)
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The note
receivable shall be ineligible if and to the extent the aggregate
of all note receivables issued by the maker when taken together
with such note receivable, exceeds $500,000.
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Section 2(h)(ii) of the
Agreement is hereby amended by deleting the “and”
following the “;” at the end of such
Section 2(h)(ii).
Section 2(h)(iii) of the
Agreement is hereby amended by deleting the “.” at the
end of such Section 2(h)(iii) and substituting “;”
in place thereof.
Sections 2(h)(iv) and 2(h)(v) are
hereby added to the Agreement as follows:
(iv) A commitment fee (“
Commitment Fee B ”) equal to 1.875% of the
amount set forth in clause (A) of the first sentence of
Section 2(c) less $93,062.50. An amount equal to $41,937.50 of
Commitment Fee B shall be due and payable on or before the
execution and delivery of the Second Amendment, $135,000.00 of
Commitment Fee B shall be due and payable on or before
August 1, 2010, and $67,500.00 of Commitment Fee B shall be
due and payable on or before August 1, 2011; and
(v) A monitoring fee on the amount
set forth in clause (A) of the first sentence of
Section 2(c) from the effective date of the Second Amendment
to and including the Revolving Credit Maturity Date, at the rate of
one tenth of one percent (0.10%) per month based on a 30 day month
and the actual number of days elapsed.
Section 4(c) of the Agreement
is hereby amended in its entirety as follows:
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Setoff. If an Event of Default shall
have occurred and be continuing, Lender shall have the right to set
off and apply against the Indebtedness in such manner as Lender may
determine, at any time and without notice to Debtor, any and all
deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final)
or other sums at any time credited by or owing from Lender to
Debtor whether or not such Indebtedness is then due. As further
security for such Indebtedness, Debtor hereby grants to Lender a
security interest in all money, instruments, and other Property of
Debtor now or hereafter held by Lender, including, without
limitation, Property held in safekeeping. In addition to
Lender’s right of setoff and as further security for the
Indebtedness, Debtor hereby grants to Lender a security interest in
all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or
final) and other accounts of Debtor now or hereafter on deposit
with or held by Lender and all other sums at any time credited by
or owing from Lender to Debtor. The rights and remedies of Lender
hereunder are in addition to any other rights and remedies
(including, without limitation, other rights of setoff) which
Lender may have.
Section 8(c) of the Agreement
is hereby amended in its entirety as follows:
Loans and Guarantees. Debtor will
not make loans to or guarantee any Debt of any other Person, other
than (i) the Loans outstanding on the Closing Date as set
forth on Schedule 8(c) hereto, (ii) loans or advances to
employees of Debtor not to exceed an aggregate principal amount of
FIFTY THOUSAND AND NO/100 DOLLARS ($50,000.00) outstanding at any
time, (iii) loans or advances constituting Intercompany Debt
permitted under Section 8(b)(ii) or Subordinated Debt
permitted under Section 8(b)(xiv