WAIVER, CONSENT
AND FOURTH AMENDMENT AGREEMENT
This WAIVER,
CONSENT AND FOURTH AMENDMENT AGREEMENT (this
“Agreement”) is entered into as of this 6th day of
March, 2006, by and among Digital Recorders, Inc., Digital Audio
Corporation and TwinVision of North America, Inc. (collectively,
“Borrowers”) and LaSalle Business Credit, LLC
(“LaSalle”). Unless otherwise specified herein,
capitalized terms used in this Agreement shall have the meanings
ascribed to them in the Loan Agreement (as hereinafter
defined).
WHEREAS, the
Borrowers and LaSalle are parties to that certain Loan and Security
Agreement dated as of November 6, 2003, (as amended, the
“Loan Agreement”);
WHEREAS, an
Event of Default occurred under Section 15(b) of the Loan Agreement
as a result of the Borrowers’ failure to maintain the
required EBITDA to Fixed Charge ratio for the 12-month period ended
December 31, 2005 (the “Existing
Default”);
WHEREAS, the
Borrowers have requested that LaSalle waive the Existing Default
and amend the Loan Agreement upon the terms and conditions set
forth herein; and
WHEREAS,
LaSalle has agreed to waive the Existing Default and amend the Loan
Agreement on the terms and conditions set forth herein.
NOW, THEREFORE,
in consideration of the mutual execution hereof and other good and
valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is
hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as
follows:
SECTION 1.
Limited Consent. In the event the Borrowers receive the cash equity
infusion described in Section 6 hereof on or prior to
March 21, 2006, notwithstanding anything in the Loan Agreement
to the contrary, absent the occurrence and continuance of an Event
of Default other than the Existing Default, the Borrowers may
deposit such cash in their disbursement account at Wachovia Bank
and utilize such cash to pay their ordinary course
expenses.
SECTION 2.
Limited Waiver of LaSalle. LaSalle hereby waives the Existing
Default.
SECTION 3.
Amendments to Loan Agreement. The parties agree to amend the Loan
Agreement as set forth in this Section 2.
(a) Section 2(a) of the Loan Agreement
is hereby amended by deleting the clause (iv) and the proviso
at the end of the first paragraph thereof and replacing them with
the following:
(iv) such
reserves as Lender elects, in its sole discretion determined in
good faith, to establish from time to time, including, without
limitation, a reserve of One Million Two Hundred Thousand and
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Dollars
($1,200,000.00) plus an additional Ten Thousand and No/100 Dollars
($10,000.00) per week on Friday of each week, beginning with the
week ended Friday, March 3, 2006;
provided, that
(x) the sum of the advances to all Borrowers with respect to
clauses (ii) and (iii) above shall at no time exceed
Three Million Five Hundred Thousand and No/100 Dollars
($3,500,000.00) and (y) the Revolving Loan Limit shall in no
event exceed Three Million Eight Hundred Thousand and No/100
Dollars ($3,800,000.00) less the then- outstanding principal
balance of the Term Loan (the “Maximum Revolving Loan
Limit”) except as such amount may be increased or decreased
by Lender, in its sole discretion.
(b) Section 4(a) of the Loan Agreement
is hereby amended by deleting the first sentence thereof and
replacing it with the following: Each Loan shall bear interest at
the rate of three and three quarters percent (3-3/4%) per annum in
excess of the Prime Rate in effect from time to time, payable on
the last Business Day of each month in arrears.
(c) Section 10 of the Loan Agreement
is hereby amended by deleting such Section in its entirety and
replacing it with the following:
THIS AGREEMENT
SHALL BE IN EFFECT FROM THE DATE HEREOF UNTIL JUNE 30, 2006 (THE
“ORIGINAL TERM”) UNLESS ACCELERATED PURSUANT TO SECTION
16 HEREOF. If the term of this Agreement expires, then
(i) Lender shall not make any additional Loans on or after the
date identified as the date on which the Liabilities are to be
repaid; and
(ii) this
Agreement shall terminate on the date thereafter that the
Liabilities are paid in full. At such time as Borrowers have repaid
all of the Liabilities and this Agreement has terminated, each
Borrower shall deliver to Lender a release, in form and substance
satisfactory to Lender, of all obligations and liabilities of
Lender and its officers, directors, employees, agents, parents,
subsidiaries and affiliates to such Borrower, and if such Borrower
is obtaining new financing from another lender, such Borrower shall
deliver such lender’s indemnification of Lender, in form and
substance satisfactory to Lender, for checks which Lender has
credited to such Borrower’s account, but which subsequently
are dishonored for any reason or for automatic clearinghouse or
wire transfers not yet posted to such Borrower’s account. If,
during the term of this Agreement, Borrowers prepay all of the
Liabilities from any source other than income from the ordinary
course operations of Borrower’s business and this Agreement
is terminated, Borrowers jointly and severally agree to pay to
Lender as a prepayment fee, in addition to the payment of all other
Liabilities, an amount equal to (i) three percent (3%) of the
Maximum Loan Limit if such prepa
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