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Exhibit 10.24.12.1
Loan No. 20059246003 (Pool 3)
AMENDED AND RESTATED CROSS-COLLATERALIZATION AND
COOPERATION AGREEMENT
THIS
AMENDED AND RESTATED CROSS-COLLATERALIZATION AND COOPERATION AGREEMENT (this
“Agreement”) is made as of the 13th day of October,
2005, by and between (i) ASHFORD FT. LAUDERDALE WESTON I LLC, ASHFORD FT.
LAUDERDALE WESTON II LLC and ASHFORD FT. LAUDERDALE WESTON III LLC, as
tenants-in-common, ASHFORD CENTERVILLE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, ASHFORD CRYSTAL
CITY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, ASHFORD OVERLAND PARK LIMITED PARTNERSHIP and ASHFORD
ALPHARETTA LIMITED PARTNERSHIP (collectively, the “Original Borrowers”),
(ii) ASHFORD FT. LAUDERDALE WESTON I LLC, ASHFORD FT. LAUDERDALE WESTON II
LLC and ASHFORD WESTON III LLC, as tenants-in-common, ASHFORD GAITHERSBURG
LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, ASHFORD CENTERVILLE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, NEW FORT TOWER I
HOTEL LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, NEW FORT TOWER II HOTEL LIMITED PARTNERSHIP and NEW
BEVERLY HILLS HOTEL LIMITED PARTNERSHIP (collectively, the “Pool 3
Borrowers”) and (iii) MERRILL LYNCH MORTGAGE LENDING, INC., in
its capacity as mortgage lender (“Lender”).
RECITALS
A. The
Original Borrowers and Lender entered into a certain Cross-Collateralization
and Cooperation Agreement dated as of June 17, 2005 (the “Original
Agreement”) in connection with a certain loan from Lender to Borrower
described in the Original Agreement (the “Original Loan”).
B. Lender,
the Original Borrowers and the Pool 3 Borrowers have agreed to modify the terms
of the Original Loan to, among other things, cause the Original Borrowers to
assign to the Pool 3 Borrowers, and the Pool 3 Borrowers to assume from the
Original Borrowers, all rights and obligations of the Original Borrowers in and
to the Original Loan, as modified.
C. As
a condition to modifying the terms of the Original Loan, Lender has required
that the Pool 3 Borrowers and the Original Borrowers enter into this Agreement
with Lender to amend and restate the terms of the Original Agreement in their
entirety.
D. The
Pool 3 Borrowers, under that certain Amended and Restated Promissory Note of
even date herewith given to Lender (“Note 3”), are indebted
to Lender in the original principal sum of $95,905,000 (“Loan 3”)
as governed by that certain Amended and Restated Loan Agreement of even date
herewith between the Original Borrowers, the Pool 3 Borrowers and Lender
(together with all extensions, renewals, modifications, substitutions and
amendments thereof, “Loan Agreement 3”).
E. The
Borrowers identified on Schedule 1 as the “Pool 2
Borrowers” (collectively, the “Pool 2 Borrowers”),
under that certain Promissory Note of even date herewith given to Lender
(“Note 2”), are indebted to Lender in the original principal
sum of $77,555,000 (“Loan
2”) as governed by that certain Loan Agreement of
even date herewith between the Pool 2 Borrowers and Lender (together with all
extensions, renewals, modifications, substitutions and amendments thereof,
“Loan Agreement 2”).
F. The
Borrowers identified on Schedule 1 as the “Pool 1
Borrowers” (collectively, the “Pool 1 Borrowers”),
under that certain Amended and Restated Promissory Note of even date herewith
given to Lender (“Note 1”), are indebted to Lender in the
original principal sum of $160,490,000 (“Loan 1”) as governed
by that certain Amended and Restated Loan Agreement of even date herewith
between, inter alia, the Pool 1 Borrowers and Lender (together with all
extensions, renewals, modifications, substitutions and amendments thereof,
“Loan Agreement 1”).
G. The
Borrowers identified on Schedule 1 as the “Pool 7
Borrowers” (collectively, the “Pool 7 Borrowers”, and
together with Pool 1 Borrowers, Pool 2 Borrowers and Pool 3 Borrowers,
collectively, the “Borrowers”), under that certain Amended
and Restated Promissory Note of even date herewith given to Lender (“Note
7”, and together with Note 1, Note 2 and Note 3, collectively, the
“Notes”), are indebted to Lender in the original principal
sum of $83,075,000 (“Loan 7”, and together with Loan 1, Loan
2 and Loan 3, collectively, the “Loans”) as governed by that
certain Amended and Restated Loan Agreement of even date herewith between, inter
alia, the Pool 7 Borrowers and Lender (together with all extensions,
renewals, modifications, substitutions and amendments thereof, “Loan
Agreement 7”, and together with Loan Agreement 1, Loan Agreement 2
and Loan Agreement 3, collectively, the “Loan Agreements”).
H. Loan
1, Loan 2, Loan 3 and Loan 7 are secured, in part, by Mortgages (as defined in
the Loan Agreements) on the Properties in the respective pools of Properties
identified on Schedule 2 (each, a “Pool”, and
collectively, the “Pools”). Each of such Properties is
referred to herein as a “Property” and, collectively, as the
“Properties”. The Properties in each Pool are referred to,
respectively, as the “Pool 1 Properties”, “Pool 2
Properties”, “Pool 3 Properties” and “Pools
7 Properties”.
AGREEMENT
For
ten ($10) dollars and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and
adequacy of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:
Section 1.
Cross Collateralization Within Pool; Contribution.
(a) Each
Pool 3 Borrower acknowledges that Lender is making Loan 3 to the Pool 3
Borrowers upon the security of its collective interest in the Pool 3 Properties
and in reliance upon the aggregate of the Pool 3 Properties taken together
being of greater value as collateral security than the sum of each Pool 3
Property taken separately. Each Pool 3 Borrower agrees that each Mortgage of a
Pool 3 Property is and will be cross-collateralized and cross-
defaulted with each other
Mortgage of a Pool 3 Property so that (i) an Event of Default which
continues beyond the expiration of any applicable notice and cure periods under
any of such Mortgages shall constitute an Event of Default under each of the
other such Mortgages securing the related Note; (ii) an Event of Default
which continues beyond the expiration of any applicable notice and cure periods
under the related Loan Agreement or this Agreement shall constitute an Event of
Default under each such Mortgage; (iii) each such Mortgage shall
constitute security for the related Note as if a single blanket lien were
placed on all of the Pool 3 Properties as security for Note 3; and (iv) such
cross-collateralization shall in no event be deemed to constitute a fraudulent
conveyance.
(b) Without
limitation to any other right or remedy provided to Lender in this Agreement or
any of the other Loan Documents, each Pool 3 Borrower covenants and agrees that
(i) Lender shall have the right to pursue all of its rights and remedies
in one proceeding, or separately and independently in separate proceedings
which it, as Lender, in its sole and absolute discretion, shall determine from
time to time, (ii) Lender is not required to either marshall assets, sell
any or all of the Collateral in any inverse order or alienation, or be
subjected to any “one action” or “election of remedies”
law or rule, (iii) the exercise by Lender of any remedies against any of
the Collateral will not impede Lender from subsequently or simultaneously
exercising remedies against any other Collateral, (iv) all Liens and other
rights, remedies and privileges provided to Lender in this Agreement and/or any
other Loan Documents otherwise shall remain in full force and effect until
Lender has exhausted all of its remedies against the Collateral and all the
Collateral has been foreclosed, sold and/or otherwise realized upon and
(v) each Pool 3 Property and all Collateral as defined in Loan Agreement 3
shall be security for the performance of all each Pool 3 Borrower’s
obligations hereunder and under each of the other Loan Documents.
(c) As
a result of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, each Pool 1 Borrower
will benefit, directly and indirectly, from the obligation of each other Pool 3
Borrower to pay the related Indebtedness and perform its obligations hereunder
and under the other related Loan Documents and in consideration therefore each
Pool 3 Borrower desires to enter into an allocation and contribution agreement
among themselves as set forth in this Section 1(c) to allocate such
benefits among themselves and to provide a fair and equitable agreement to make
contributions among each Pool 3 Borrower in the event any payment is made by
any individual Pool 3 Borrower under the Loan Documents to Lender (such payment
being referred to herein as a “Contribution”, and for
purposes of this Section, includes any exercise of recourse by Lender against
any Collateral of a Pool 3 Borrower and application of proceeds of such
Collateral in satisfaction of such Borrower’s obligations, to Lender
under the Loan Documents).
(i)
Each Pool 3 Borrower shall be liable under the related Loan Documents with
respect to the related Indebtedness only for such total maximum amount (if any)
that would not render its Indebtedness under the related Loan Agreement or
under any of the Loan Documents subject to avoidance under Section 548 of
the Federal Bankruptcy Code or any comparable provisions of any state law.
(ii)
In order to provide for a fair and equitable contribution among Pool 1
Borrowers in the event that any Contribution is made by an individual Pool 3
Borrower (a “Funding Borrower”), such Funding Borrower shall
be entitled to a reimbursement Contribution (“Reimbursement
Contribution”) from all other Pool 3 Borrowers for all payments,
damages and expenses incurred by that Funding Borrower in discharging any of
the Indebtedness, in the manner and to the extent set forth in this Section.
(iii)
For purposes hereof, the “Benefit Amount” of any individual
Pool 1 Borrower as of any date of determination shall be the net value of the
benefits to such Borrower from extensions of credit made by Lender to
(A) such Borrower and (B) to the other Pool 3 Borrowers under the
related Loan Documents.
(iv)
Each Pool 3 Borrower shall be liable to a Funding Borrower in an amount equal
to the (A) ratio of the Benefit Amount of such Borrower to the total
amount of related Indebtedness, multiplied by (B) the amount of such
Indebtedness paid by such Funding Borrower.
(v)
In the event that at any time there exists more than one Funding Borrower with
respect to any Contribution (in any such case, the “Applicable
Contribution”), then Reimbursement Contributions from other Pool 3
Borrowers pursuant hereto shall be allocated among such Funding Borrowers in
proportion to the total amount of the Contribution made for or on account of
the other Pool 3 Borrowers by each such Funding Borrower pursuant to the
Applicable Contribution. In the event that at any time any Pool 3 Borrower pays
an amount hereunder in excess of the amount calculated pursuant to this Section 1
above, that Borrower shall be deemed to be a Funding Borrower to the extent of
such excess and shall be entitled to a Reimbursement Contribution from the
other Pool 3 Borrowers in accordance with the provisions of this Section.
(vi)
Each Pool 3 Borrower acknowledges that the right to Reimbursement Contribution
hereunder shall constitute an asset in favor of such Borrower to which such
Reimbursement Contribution is owing.
(vii)
No Reimbursement Contribution payments payable by a Pool 3 Borrower pursuant to
the terms of this Section 1 shall be paid until all amounts then
due and payable by all Pool 3 Borrowers to Lender, pursuant to the terms of the
related Loan Documents, are paid in full in cash. Nothing contained in this Section 1
shall limit or affect in any way the Indebtedness of any Pool 3 Borrower to
Lender under the Note or any other Loan Documents.
(viii)
Each Pool 3 Borrower waives:
(A) any
right to require Lender to proceed against any other Borrower or any other
person or to proceed against or exhaust any security held by Lender at any time
or to pursue any other remedy in Lender’s power before proceeding against
Borrower;
(B) any
defense based upon any legal disability or other defense of any other Borrower,
any guarantor of any other person or by reason of the cessation or limitation
of the liability of any other Borrower or any guarantor from any cause other
than full payment of all sums payable under the Notes, this Agreement and any
of the other Loan Documents;
(C) any
defense based upon any lack of authority of the officers, directors, partners
or agents acting or purporting to act on behalf of any other Borrower or any
principal of any other Borrower or any defect in the formation of any other
Borrower or any principal of any other Borrower;
(D) any
defense based upon any statute or rule of law which provides that the
obligation of a surety must be neither larger in amount nor in any other
respects more burdensome than that of a principal;
(E) any
defense based upon any failure by Lender to obtain collateral for the
Indebtedness or failure by Lender to perfect a lien on any Collateral;
(F) presentment,
demand, protest and notice of any kind;
(G) any
defense based upon any failure of Lender to give notice of sale or other
disposition of any collateral to any other Borrower or to any other person or
entity or any defect in any notice that may be given in connection with any
sale or disposition of any Collateral;
(H) any
defense based upon any failure of Lender to comply with applicable laws in
connection with the sale or other disposition of any Collateral, including any
failure of Lender to conduct a commercially reasonable sale or other
disposition of any Collateral;
(I) any
defense based upon any use of cash collateral under Section 363 of the
Federal Bankruptcy Code;
(J) any
defense based upon any agreement or stipulation entered into by Lender with
respect to the provision of adequate protection in any bankruptcy proceeding;
(K) any
defense based upon any borrowing or any grant of a security interest under
Section 364 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code;
(L) any
defense based upon the avoidance of any security interest in favor of Lender
for any reason;
(M) any
defense based upon any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, arrangement,
readjustment of debt, liquidation or dissolution proceeding, including any
discharge of, or bar or stay against collecting, all or any of the obligations
evidenced by the Notes or owing under any of the Loan Documents;
(N) any
defense or benefit based upon such Borrower’s, or any other
party’s, resignation of the portion of any obligation secured by the
Mortgages to be satisfied by any payment from any other Borrower or any such party;
(O) all
rights and defenses arising out of an election of remedies by Lender even
though the election of remedies, such as non-judicial foreclosure with respect
to security for the Loan or any other amounts owing under the Loan Documents,
has destroyed Borrower’s rights of subrogation and reimbursement against
any other Borrower;
(P) all
rights and defenses that such Borrower may have because any Indebtedness is
secured by real property. This means, among other things: (1) Lender may
collect from such Borrower without first foreclosing on any real or personal
property collateral pledged by any other Borrower, (2) if Lender
forecloses on any real property collateral pledged by any other Borrower, (I) the
amount of the Indebtedness may be reduced only by the price for which that
collateral is sold at the foreclosure sale, even if the collateral is worth
more than the sale price, (II) Lender may collect from such Borrower even
if any other Borrower, by foreclosing on the real property collateral, has
destroyed any right such Borrower may have to collect from any other Borrower.
This is an unconditional and irrevocable waiver of any rights and defenses such
Borrower may have because any of the Indebtedness is secured by real property;
and
(Q) except
as may be expressly and specifically permitted herein, any claim or other right
which such Borrower might now have or hereafter acquire against any other
Borrower or any other person that arises from the existence or performance of
any obligations under the Notes, this Agreement or the other Loan Documents,
including any of the following: (i) any right of subrogation,
reimbursement, exoneration, contribution, or indemnification; or (ii) any
right to participate in any claim or remedy of Lender against any other
Borrower or any collateral security therefore, whether or not such claim,
remedy or right arises in equity or under contract, statute or common law.
Section 2.
Cross-Collateralization Across Pools; Contribution; Release of
Cross-Collateralization.
(a) Until
repayment of the Indebtedness under each Loan Agreement and satisfaction of all
obligations under each Loan Agreement, each Pool 3 Borrower acknowledges and
agrees (subject to Lender’s election(s) at Lender’s sole discretion
from time to time or otherwise pursuant to Section 2(g) below):
(i) that each of the Pool 3 Properties shall
secure not only Loan 3 but
also all of the other Loans, and that the Liens of the related Loan Documents
shall constitute Liens securing not only Loan 3 but also all of the other
Loans; and (ii) that Lender would not make the Loans to the Pool 3
Borrowers unless the Pool 3 Borrowers granted liens on the Pool 3 Properties to
secure the payment of each of the Loans.
(b) Until
the date that all of the Loans shall have been paid and satisfied in full, the
Pool 3 Borrowers (i) shall have no right of subrogation with respect to
the Loans and (ii) waive any right to enforce any remedy which Lender now
has or may hereafter have against the Borrowers, any endorser or any guarantor
of all or any part of the Loans or any other individual or entity, and the Pool
3 Borrowers waive any benefit of, and any right to participate in, any security
or collateral given to Lender to secure the payment or performance of all or
any part of the Loans or any other liability of any of the other Borrowers to
Lender. Should any Pool 3 Borrower have the right, notwithstanding the
foregoing, to exercise its subrogation rights, each Pool 3 Borrower hereby
expressly and irrevocably (1) subordinates any and all rights at law or in
equity to subrogation, reimbursement, exoneration, contribution,
indemnification or set off that such Borrower may have to the payment in full in
cash of the Loans and (2) waives any and all defenses available to a
surety, guarantor or accommodation co-obligor until the Loans are paid in full
in cash. Each Pool 3 Borrower acknowledges and agrees that this subordination
is intended to benefit Lender and shall not limit or otherwise affect any
Borrower’s liability hereunder or the enforceability of any of the Loan
Agreements or the Loan Documents.
(c) Each
Pool 3 Borrower agrees that any and all claims of such Borrower against any
Borrowers in any of the other Pools or any endorser or any guarantor of all or
any part of the Loans (collectively, the “Crossed Obligors”)
with respect to any obligations, liabilities or indebtedness now or hereafter
owing by the Crossed Obligors, or any of them, to such Borrower, or otherwise
existing or claimed to be owed or to exist on the part of any of the Crossed
Obligors, or against any of their respective properties (collectively, the
“Crossed Party Obligations”) shall be subordinate and
subject in right of payment to the prior payment, in full and in cash, of all
of the Loans. Notwithstanding any right of any Borrower to ask, demand, sue
for, take or receive any payment from any of the Crossed Obligors, all rights,
liens and security interests of each Borrower, whether now or hereafter arising
and howsoever existing, in and to any assets of any of the Crossed Obligors
shall be and are subordinated to the rights of Lender in those assets under the
Loan Documents relating to each Loan or otherwise, and no Borrower shall, until
the date that all of the Loans shall have been paid and satisfied in full,
(i) assert, collect, sue upon, or enforce all or any part of the Crossed
Party Obligations; (ii) commence or join with any other creditors of any
of the Crossed Obligors in commencing any bankruptcy, reorganization,
receivership or insolvency proceeding against any of the Crossed Obligors;
(iii) take, accept, ask for, sue for, receive, set off or demand any
payments upon the Crossed Party Obligations; or (iv) take, accept, ask
for, sue for, receive, demand or allow to be created liens, security interests,
mortgages, deeds of trust or pledges of or with respect to any of the assets of
any of the Crossed Obligors in favor of or for the benefit of such Borrower.
(d) If
all or any part of the assets of any of the Crossed Obligors, or the proceeds
thereof, are subject to any distribution, division or application to the
creditors of such
Crossed Obligor, whether
partial or complete, voluntary or involuntary, and whether by reason of
liquidation, bankruptcy, arrangement, receivership, assignment for the benefit
of creditors or any other action or proceeding, or if the business of any such
Crossed Obligor is dissolved or if substantially all of the assets of any such
Crossed Obligor are sold, then, and in any such event (such events being herein
referred to as an “Crossed Obligor Insolvency Event”), any
payment or distribution of any kind or character, either in cash, securities or
other property, which shall be payable or deliverable to any Pool 3 Borrower
upon or with respect to any Crossed Party Obligations shall be paid or
delivered directly to the Lender for application on the Loans, due or to become
due, until the Loans shall have been fully paid and satisfied (in cash). Should
any payment, distribution, security or instrument or proceeds thereof be
received by any Pool 3 Borrower upon or with respect to the Crossed Party
Obligations after any Crossed Obligor Insolvency Event and prior to the payment
in full and satisfaction of all of the Loans, such Borrower shall receive and
hold the same in trust, as trustee, for the benefit of Lender and shall
forthwith deliver the same to Lender in precisely the form received (except for
the endorsement or assignment of such Borrower where necessary), for
application to any of the Loans, due or not due, and, until so delivered, the
same shall be held in trust by such Borrower as the property of Lender. If such
Borrower fails to make any such endorsement or assignment to Lender, Lender or
any of its officers or employees is irrevocably authorized to make the same.
Each Pool 3 Borrower agrees that until the Loans have been paid in full (in
cash) and satisfied, no Pool 3 Borrower will assign or transfer to any
individual or entity (other than Lender) any claim such Borrower has or may
have against any Crossed Obligor.
(e) Subject
to the provisions of Section 2(g), to the extent that any
collection upon any of the Loans is made by Lender from one of the Borrowers or
the Properties in a Pool other than Pool 3 or other assets of the Borrowers
other than the Pool 3 Borrowers (a “Crossed Loans Collection”)
which, taking into account all other Crossed Loans Collections then previously
or concurrently made by such Borrower, exceeds the amount which otherwise would
have been collected from such Borrower if each Borrower had paid the portion of
the Loans satisfied by such Crossed Loans Collection in the same proportion as
such Borrower’s Allocable Amount (as defined below) (as determined
immediately prior to such Crossed Loans Collection) bore to the aggregate
Allocable Amounts of each Borrower as determined immediately prior to the
making of such Crossed Loans Collection, then, following payment in full in
cash of the Loans, such Borrower shall be entitled to receive contribution and
indemnification payments from, and be reimbursed by, each other Borrower for
the amount of such excess, pro rata based upon their respective Allocable
Amounts in effect immediately prior to such Crossed Loans Collection. As of any
date of determination, the “Allocable Amount” of any
Borrower shall be equal to the maximum amount of the claim which could then be
recovered from such Borrower under the related Loan Documents without rendering
such claim voidable or avoidable under Section 548 of Chapter 11 of
the Bankruptcy Code or under any applicable state Uniform Fraudulent Transfer
Act, Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act or similar statute or common law. The
foregoing provision shall be for the benefit of each of the Borrowers and
Lender, but shall be subject to modification as provided in Section 2(g)
below and to amendment by agreement of the Borrowers and Lender. This Section 2(e)
is intended only to define the relative rights of the Borrowers, and nothing
set forth in this Section 2(e) is intended to or shall impair the
liens and
security interests of any of
the Loan Agreements or the related Loan Documents or the obligations of the
Borrowers thereunder. Each Pool 3 Borrower acknowledges that the rights of
contribution and indemnification under this Section 2(e) constitute
assets of the Borrowers to which such contribution and indemnification is
owing.
(f) Each
Pool 3 Borrower hereby consents and agrees to each of the following, and agrees
that such Borrower’s obligations under its Loan Agreement and the other
Loan Documents and the Liens created under its Loan Agreement and the other
Loan Documents securing the Loans shall not be released, diminished, impaired,
reduced or adversely affected by any of the following, and waives any common
law, equitable, statutory or other rights (including without limitation rights
to notice) that such Borrower might otherwise have as a result of or in
connection with any of the following:
(ix)
Any renewal, extension, increase, modification, alteration or rearrangement of
all or any part of the Loans, the Loan Documents, or other document,
instrument, contract or understanding between the Borrowers and Lender, or any
other parties, pertaining to the Loans or any failure of Lender to notify such
Borrower of any such action.
(x)
Any adjustment, indulgence, forbearance or compromise that might be granted or
given by Lender to the Borrowers.
(xi)
The insolvency, bankruptcy, arrangement, adjustment, composition, liquidation,
disability, dissolution or lack of power of any of the Borrowers or any other
party at any time liable for the payment of all or part of the Loans; or any
dissolution of any of the Borrowers, or any sale, lease or transfer of any or
all of the assets of any of the Borrowers, or any changes in the shareholders,
partners or members of any of the Borrowers; or any reorganization of any of
the Borrowers.
(xii)
The invalidity, illegality or unenforceability of all or any part of the Loans,
or any document or agreement executed in connection therewith, for any reason
whatsoever, including without limitation the fact that (A) the Loans, or
any part thereof, exceeds the amount permitted by law, (B) the act of
creating the Loans or any part thereof is ultra vires, (C) the officers or
representatives executing the Loan Documents or otherwise creating the Loans
acted in excess of their authority, (D) the Loans violate applicable usury
laws, (E) the Borrowers have valid defenses, claims or offsets (whether at
law, in equity or by agreement) which render the Loans wholly or partially
uncollectible from the Borrowers, (F) the creation, performance or
repayment of the Loans (or the execution, delivery and performance of any
document or instrument representing part of the Loans or executed in connection
with the Crossed Loans, or given to secure the repayment of the Loans) is
illegal, uncollectible or unenforceable, or (G) any of the Loan Documents
have been forged or otherwise are irregular or not genuine or authentic, it
being agreed that each Borrower shall remain liable hereon regardless of
whether any other Borrower or
any other person be found not liable on the Loans or any part thereof for any
reason.
(xiii) Any full or partial release of the liability of the Borrowers on the Loans, or any part thereof, or of any co-guarantors, or any other person or entity now or hereafter liable, whether directly or indirectly, jointly, severally, or jointly and severally, to pay, perform, guarantee or assure the payment of the Loans, or any part thereof, it being recognized, acknowledged and agreed by each Borrower that such Borrower has not been induced to enter into its Loan Agreement, this Agreement or the other Loan Documents on the basis of a contemplation, belief, understanding or agreement that other parties will be liable to pay or perform the Loan or such Borrower’s obligations under its Loan Agreement, this Agreemen






