Exhibit 10.4
EXECUTION COPY
ABL GUARANTEE AND COLLATERAL
AGREEMENT
dated as of August 28,
2009,
among
SPECTRUM BRANDS, INC.,
THE SUBSIDIARIES OF SPECTRUM BRANDS,
INC. FROM TIME TO TIME PARTY HERETO
and
GENERAL ELECTRIC CAPITAL
CORPORATION,
as the Collateral Agent
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ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
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SECTION 1.01.
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Credit Agreement
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SECTION 1.02.
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Other Defined
Terms
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ARTICLE II
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GUARANTEE
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SECTION 2.01.
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Guarantee
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SECTION 2.02.
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Guarantee of
Payment
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SECTION 2.03.
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Guarantee
Absolute and Unconditional
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SECTION 2.04.
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Reinstatement
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SECTION 2.05.
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Agreement to
Pay; Subrogation
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SECTION 2.06.
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Information
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SECTION 2.07.
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Limitation of
Guarantee
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ARTICLE III
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SECURITY INTERESTS IN PERSONAL
PROPERTY
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SECTION 3.01.
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Security
Interest
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SECTION 3.02.
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Representations
and Warranties
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SECTION 3.03.
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Covenants
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SECTION 3.04.
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Other
Actions
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ARTICLE IV
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REMEDIES
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SECTION 4.01.
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Remedies Upon
Default
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SECTION 4.02.
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Application of
Proceeds
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ARTICLE V
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INDEMNITY, SUBROGATION AND
SUBORDINATION
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SECTION 5.01.
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Indemnity and
Subrogation
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SECTION 5.02.
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Contribution
and Subrogation
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SECTION 5.03.
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Subordination
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ARTICLE VI
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MISCELLANEOUS
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SECTION 6.01.
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Notices
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SECTION 6.02.
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Waivers;
Amendment
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SECTION 6.03.
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Collateral
Agent’s Fees and Expenses; Indemnification
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SECTION 6.04.
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Successors and
Assigns
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SECTION 6.05.
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Survival of
Agreement
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SECTION 6.06.
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Counterparts;
Effectiveness; Several Agreement
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SECTION 6.07.
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Severability
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SECTION 6.08.
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Right of Set-Off
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SECTION 6.09.
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GOVERNING LAW; JURISDICTION
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SECTION 6.10.
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WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL
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SECTION 6.11.
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Headings
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SECTION 6.12.
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Security Interest Absolute
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SECTION 6.13.
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Termination or Release
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SECTION 6.14.
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Additional Subsidiaries
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SECTION 6.15.
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Collateral Agent Appointed
Attorney-in-Fact
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Schedules
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Schedule I
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Subsidiary Loan Parties
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Exhibits
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Exhibit I
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Form of Supplement
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Exhibit II
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Form of Perfection Certificate
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ABL GUARANTEE AND COLLATERAL
AGREEMENT dated as of August 28, 2009 (this “
Agreement ”), by and among Spectrum Brands,
Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Borrower
”), each of the Subsidiary Loan Parties, and General Electric
Capital Corporation, in its capacity as collateral agent for the
Secured Parties (in such capacity, the “ Collateral
Agent ”).
W I T N E S S E T
H:
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Credit
Agreement dated as of the date hereof (as amended, restated,
supplemented, refinanced, replaced or otherwise modified from time
to time, the “ Credit Agreement ”), among
the Borrower, the other Loan Parties, the Lenders, General Electric
Capital Corporation, as Administrative Agent, Co-Collateral Agent,
Swingline Lender, and Supplemental Loan Lender, Bank of America,
N.A., as Co-Collateral Agent and L/C Issuer, and RBS Asset Finance,
Inc., through its division RBS Business Capital, as Syndication
Agent, the Lenders and L/C Issuers have severally agreed to make
revolving extensions of credit to the Borrower upon the terms and
subject to the conditions set forth therein;
WHEREAS, each Subsidiary Loan Party
is a direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Borrower; and
WHEREAS, each Subsidiary Loan Party
will receive substantial direct and indirect benefits from the
making of the Loans, the issuance of the Letters of Credit and the
granting of the other financial accommodations to the Borrower
under the Credit Agreement and is willing to execute and deliver
this Agreement in order to induce the Lenders and the L/C Issuers
to extend such credit;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of
the premises set forth above, the terms and conditions contained
herein, and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and
sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto
hereby agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
Definitions
SECTION 1.01. Credit
Agreement . (a) Capitalized terms used in this Agreement
(including the preliminary statement hereto) and not otherwise
defined herein have the meanings specified in the Credit Agreement.
All terms defined in the New York UCC (as defined herein) and not
defined in this Agreement or in the Credit Agreement have the
meanings specified therein; the term “instrument” shall
have the meaning specified in Article 9 of the New York
UCC.
(b) The rules of construction
specified in Section 1.02 of the Credit 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:
“ ABL Collateral
” means any and all of the following assets and property of
any Loan Party, whether real, personal or mixed: (a) all
Accounts (other than Accounts arising under contracts for the sale
of Non-ABL Collateral) and related Records; (b) all Chattel
Paper; (c) all Deposit Accounts and all cash, checks and other
negotiable instruments, funds and other evidences of payment held
therein (but not any identifiable Proceeds of Non-ABL Collateral);
(d) all Inventory; (e) solely to the extent evidencing,
governing, securing or otherwise related to the items referred to
in the preceding clauses (a), (b), (c) and (d), all Documents,
General Intangibles (other than Intellectual Property),
Instruments, Investment
Property and Letter of Credit Rights;
(f) all books and records related to the foregoing; and
(g) all Proceeds, including insurance Proceeds, 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
clause (g) of the immediately preceding sentence, “ABL
Collateral” shall not include any assets referred to in
clauses (a) through (j) and (l) of the definition of
“Non-ABL Collateral” that are not included in clause
(e) above. All capitalized terms used in this definition and
not defined elsewhere in this Agreement have the meanings assigned
to them in the New York UCC.
“ Account
” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9-102
of the New York UCC.
“ Account Debtor
” means any Person who is or who may become obligated to any
Loan Party under, with respect to or on account of an
Account.
“ Borrower
” has the meaning assigned to such term in the preliminary
statement to this Agreement.
“ 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 Loan Party or that such
Loan Party otherwise has the right to license, or granting any
right to any Loan Party under any copyright now or hereafter owned
by any third party, and all rights of such Loan Party under any
such agreement.
“ Copyrights
” means all of the following now owned or hereafter acquired
by any Loan Party: (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, recordings, supplemental registrations and pending
applications for registration in the United States Copyright
Office.
“ Credit
Agreement ” has the meaning assigned to such term in
the preliminary statement to this Agreement.
“ Intellectual
Property ” means all intellectual and similar
property of every kind and nature now owned or hereafter acquired
by any Loan Party, including inventions, designs, Patents,
Copyrights, Licenses, Trademarks, trade secrets, confidential or
proprietary technical and business information, know-how, show-how
or other proprietary data or information, rights in software and
databases and rights in all embodiments or fixations thereof and
rights in related documentation, registrations and franchises, and
all additions, improvements and accessions to any of the
foregoing.
“ Inventory
” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9-102
of the New York UCC.
“ Lender Party
” means each Lender, each Agent, each Arranger, each L/C
Issuer, each Secured Hedging Counterparty and each of their
respective Affiliates (including any Person that is a Lender, an
Agent, an Arranger or an L/C Issuer (or that is such an Affiliate)
as of the Closing Date but subsequently ceases to be a Lender, an
Agent, an Arranger or an L/C Issuer (or such an Affiliate), as the
case may be, if such Person provides any cash management services
to any Loan Party or is a counterparty to any Secured Hedging
Agreement).
“ License
” means any Patent License, Trademark License, Copyright
License or other license or sublicense agreement to which any Loan
Party is a party.
“ Loan Parties
” means, collectively, the Borrower and the Subsidiary Loan
Parties.
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“ New York UCC
” means the Uniform Commercial Code as from time to time in
effect in the State of New York.
“ Non-ABL
Collateral ” means any and all of the following
assets and property of any Loan Party, whether real, personal or
mixed: (a) all Investment Property; (b) all Documents;
(c) all General Intangibles; (d) all Intellectual
Property; (e) all Equipment; (f) all real property
(including both fee and leasehold interests) and fixtures;
(g) all Instruments; (h) all insurance; (i) all
Letter of Credit Rights; (j) all Commercial Tort Claims;
(k) all other assets and property not constituting ABL
Collateral; (1) all books and records related to the
foregoing; and (m) all Proceeds, including insurance Proceeds,
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 the foregoing, “Non-ABL
Collateral” shall not include any assets or property included
in clause (e) of the definition of “ABL
Collateral” or any assets or property excluded pursuant to
the terms of the Term Collateral Documents. All capitalized terms
used in this definition and not defined elsewhere in this Agreement
have the meanings assigned to them in the New York UCC.
“ Obligations
” means (a) the due and punctual payment by the Borrower
of (i) the principal of and interest (including interest
accruing during the pendency of any bankruptcy, insolvency,
receivership or other similar proceeding, regardless of whether
allowed or allowable in such proceeding) on the Loans, when and as
due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, upon one or more dates
set for prepayment or otherwise, (ii) each payment required to
be made by the Borrower under any Loan Document in respect of any
Letter of Credit, when and as due, including payments in respect of
reimbursement of L/C Disbursements, interest thereon (including
interest accruing during the pendency of any bankruptcy,
insolvency, receivership or other similar proceeding, regardless of
whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding) and obligations to
provide cash collateral and (iii) all other monetary
obligations of the Borrower to any of the Secured Parties under the
Credit Agreement and each of the other Loan Documents, including
obligations to pay fees, expense reimbursement obligations and
indemnification obligations, whether primary, secondary, direct,
contingent, fixed or otherwise (including monetary obligations
incurred, and any interest thereon accruing, during the pendency of
any bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other similar
proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such
proceeding), (b) the due and punctual payment of all the
monetary obligations of each other Loan Party under or pursuant to
the Credit Agreement and each of the other Loan Documents
(including monetary obligations incurred, and any interest thereon
accruing, during the pendency of any bankruptcy, insolvency,
receivership or other similar proceeding, regardless of whether
allowed or allowable in such proceeding), (c) the due and
punctual payment and performance of all monetary obligations of
each Loan Party under each Secured Hedging Agreement (whether such
Secured Hedging Agreement is in effect on the Closing Date or
entered into after the Closing Date, other than any such Secured
Hedging Agreement with respect to which the Lender Party that is
the counterparty thereto (or, in the case of a Secured Hedging
Agreement provided or arranged by the Administrative Agent or an
Affiliate thereof, the Administrative Agent) shall have agreed in
writing that such Secured Hedging Agreement shall be deemed not to
be a “Secured Hedging Agreement” for purposes of this
clause (c) (a copy of such writing to be delivered to the
Collateral Agent)), and, and (d) the due and punctual payment
and performance of all monetary obligations of each Loan Party to
any Lender Party in respect of cash management services (including
treasury, depository, overdraft, credit or debit card (including
non-card e-payable services), electronic funds transfer and other
cash management arrangements) (other than cash management services
provided after (i) the principal of each Loan and all L/C
Disbursements, interest and fees payable under the Credit Agreement
have been paid in full, (ii) all Commitments under the Credit
Agreement have been reduced to zero, (iii) no L/C Issuer shall
have any obligation to issue Letters of Credit under the Credit
Agreement and no Letter of Credit shall be outstanding (other than
any Letter of Credit the obligations under which have been cash
collateralized in full or supported in full by letters of credit of
other banks naming the applicable L/C Issuer as the beneficiary, in
each case, in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the applicable
L/C Issuer) and (iv) all amounts payable under Cash Management
Obligations (which
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existed prior to such date) and Secured Hedging
Agreements have been paid in full (other than any such amounts
which have been cash collateralized in full or supported in full by
letters of credit in a manner satisfactory to the Collateral
Agent)).
“ 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 on which a patent, now or hereafter owned by any Loan
Party or that any Loan Party otherwise has the right to license, is
in existence, or granting to any Loan Party any right to make, use
or sell any invention on which a patent, now or hereafter owned by
any third party, is in existence, and all rights of any Loan Party
under any such agreement.
“ Patents
” means all of the following now owned or hereafter acquired
by any Loan Party: (a) all letters patent of the United States
or the equivalent thereof in any other country, all registrations
and recordings thereof, and all applications for letters patent of
the United States or the equivalent thereof in any other country,
including registrations, recordings and pending applications in the
United States Patent and Trademark Office or any similar offices in
any other country and (b) all reissues, continuations,
divisions, continuations-in-part, renewals 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 Borrower.
“ Proceeds
” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9-102
of the New York UCC.
“ Secured
Parties ” means (a) the Lenders, (b) the
Administrative Agent, (c) the Co-Collateral Agents (including
the Collateral Agent), (d) the Syndication Agent, (e) the
Arranger, (f) the L/C Issuers, (g) the Secured Hedging
Counterparties and Lender Parties to whom any of the Obligations
are owed and (h) the permitted successors and assigns of each
of the foregoing.
“ Security
Interest ” has the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 3.01(a).
“ Subsidiary Loan
Parties ” means (a) the Subsidiaries identified
on Schedule I and (b) each other Subsidiary that becomes a
party to this Agreement as a Subsidiary Loan Party after the
Closing Date.
“ Term Collateral
Documents ” has the meaning assigned to such term in
the ABL Intercreditor Agreement.
“ Term Liens
” has the meaning assigned to such term in the ABL
Intercreditor Agreement.
“ 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 Loan Party or that any
Loan Party otherwise has the right to license, or granting to any
Loan Party any right to use any trademark now or hereafter owned by
any third party, and all rights of any Loan Party under any such
agreement.
“ Trademarks
” means all of the following now owned or hereafter acquired
by any Loan Party: (a) all trademarks, service marks, trade
names, corporate names, company names, business names, fictitious
business names, trade styles, trade dress, logos, other source or
business identifiers and other general intangibles of like nature,
now existing or hereafter adopted or acquired, all registrations
and recordings thereof, and all registration and recording
applications filed in connection therewith, including registrations
and registration 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 extensions or renewals thereof and (b) all goodwill
associated therewith or symbolized thereby.
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ARTICLE II
Guarantee
SECTION 2.01. Guarantee
. Each Loan Party unconditionally guarantees, jointly with the
other Loan Parties and severally, as a primary obligor and not
merely as a surety, the due and punctual payment and performance of
the Obligations. Each Loan Party further agrees that the
Obligations may be extended or renewed, in whole or in part, or
amended or modified, without notice to or further assent from it,
and that it will remain bound upon its guarantee notwithstanding
any extension or renewal, or amendment or modification, of any
Obligation. Each Loan Party waives presentment to, demand of
payment from and protest to the Borrower or any other Loan Party of
any of the Obligations, and also waives notice of acceptance of its
guarantee and notice of protest for nonpayment.
SECTION 2.02. Guarantee of
Payment . Each Loan Party 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 Secured Party to any security
held for the payment of the Obligations or to any balance of any
deposit account or credit on the books of the Collateral Agent or
any other Secured Party in favor of the Borrower or any other
Person.
SECTION 2.03. Guarantee
Absolute and Unconditional . (a) Except for termination of a
Loan Party’s obligations hereunder as expressly provided in
Section 6.13, the obligations of each Loan Party 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 of any Obligations, and shall
not be subject to any defense or set-off, counterclaim, recoupment
or termination whatsoever by reason of the invalidity, illegality
or unenforceability of the Obligations or otherwise. Without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, the obligations of each
Loan Party hereunder, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable
Law, shall not be discharged or impaired or otherwise affected by
(i) the failure of the Collateral Agent or any other Secured
Party to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any right or
remedy under the provisions of any Loan Document, any Secured
Hedging Agreement or otherwise; (ii) any rescission, waiver,
amendment or modification of, or any release from any of the terms
or provisions of, any Loan Document, any Secured Hedging Agreement
or any other agreement, including with respect to any other Loan
Party under this Agreement; (iii) the release of, or any
impairment of or failure to perfect any Lien on or security
interest in, any security held by the Collateral Agent or any other
Secured Party for the Obligations or any of them; (iv) any
default, failure or delay, willful or otherwise, in the performance
of the Obligations; or (v) any other act or omission that may
or might in any manner or to any extent vary the risk of any Loan
Party or otherwise operate as a discharge of any Loan Party as a
matter of law or equity (other than the indefeasible payment in
full in cash of all the Obligations). Each Loan Party expressly
authorizes the Secured Parties to take and hold security in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement, the other Loan
Documents and any Secured Hedging Agreement for the payment and
performance of the 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 Loan Parties or obligors upon or in respect of
the Obligations, all without affecting the obligations of any Loan
Party hereunder.
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(b) To the fullest extent permitted
by applicable Law, each Loan Party waives any defense based on or
arising out of any defense of the Borrower or any other Loan Party
or the unenforceability of the Obligations or any part thereof from
any cause, or the cessation from any cause of the liability of the
Borrower or any other Loan Party, other than the indefeasible
payment in full in cash of all the Obligations. The Collateral
Agent and the other Secured Parties may, at their election,
foreclose on any security held by one or more of them in accordance
with the terms of this Agreement, the other Loan Documents and any
Secured Hedging Agreement 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 Borrower or any other Loan Party
or exercise any other right or remedy available to them against the
Borrower or any other Loan Party, without affecting or impairing in
any way the liability of any Loan Party hereunder except to the
extent the Obligations have been fully and indefeasibly paid in
full in cash. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law,
each Loan Party waives any defense arising out of any such election
even though such election operates, pursuant to applicable Law, to
impair or to extinguish any right of reimbursement or subrogation
or other right or remedy of such Loan Party against the Borrower or
any other Loan Party, as the case may be, or any
security.
SECTION 2.04.
Reinstatement . Each Loan Party 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
Obligation is rescinded or must otherwise be restored by the
Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party upon the bankruptcy or
reorganization of the 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 Secured Party has at law or in equity against any Loan Party
by virtue hereof, upon the failure of the Borrower or any other
Loan Party to pay any Obligation when and as the same shall become
due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, after notice of
prepayment or otherwise, each Loan Party hereby promises to and
will forthwith pay, or cause to be paid, to the Collateral Agent
for distribution to the applicable Secured Parties in cash the
amount of such unpaid Obligation. Upon payment by any Loan Party of
any sums to the Collateral Agent as provided above, all rights of
such Loan Party against the Borrower or any other Loan Party
arising as a result thereof by way of right of subrogation,
contribution, reimbursement, indemnity or otherwise shall in all
respects be subject to Article V.
SECTION 2.06.
Information . Each Loan Party assumes all responsibility for
being and keeping itself informed of the Borrower’s and each
other Loan Party’s financial condition and assets, and of all
other circumstances bearing upon the risk of nonpayment of the
Obligations and the nature, scope and extent of the risks that such
Loan Party assumes and incurs hereunder, and agrees that neither
the Collateral Agent nor any of the other Secured Parties will have
any duty to advise such Loan Party of information known to it or
any of them regarding such circumstances or risks.
SECTION 2.07. Limitation of
Guarantee . Any term or provision of this Agreement, any other
Loan Document or any Secured Hedging Agreement to the contrary
notwithstanding, the maximum aggregate amount of the Obligations
for which any Loan Party shall be liable shall not exceed the
maximum amount for which such Loan Party can be liable without
rendering this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any Secured
Hedging Agreement, as it relates to such Loan Party, subject to
avoidance under applicable law relating to fraudulent conveyance or
fraudulent transfer (including Section 548 of the Bankruptcy
Code or any applicable provisions of comparable state law)
(collectively, “ Fraudulent Transfer Laws
”), in each case after giving effect (a) to all other
liabilities of such Loan Party, contingent or otherwise, that are
relevant under such Fraudulent Transfer Laws (specifically
excluding, however, any liabilities of such Loan Party in respect
of intercompany Indebtedness to the Borrower to the extent that
such Indebtedness would be discharged in an amount equal to the
amount paid by such Loan Party hereunder) and (b) to the value
as assets of such Loan Party (as determined under the applicable
provisions of such Fraudulent Transfer Laws) of any rights to
subrogation, contribution, reimbursement,
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indemnity or similar rights held by such Loan
Party pursuant to (i) applicable Requirements of Law,
(ii) Article V of this Agreement or (iii) any other
Contractual Obligations providing for an equitable allocation among
such Loan Party and other Subsidiaries or Affiliates of the
Borrower of obligations arising under this Agreement or other
guaranties of the Obligations by such parties.
ARTICLE III
Security Interests in Personal
Property
SECTION 3.01. Security
Interest . (a) As security for the payment or performance when
due, as the case may be, in full of the Obligations, each Loan
Party hereby pledges to the Collateral Agent, its successors and
assigns, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and hereby grants
to the Collateral Agent, its successors and assigns, for the
benefit of the Secured Parties, a security interest (the “
Security Interest ”) in, all right, title or
interest in, to and under any and all of the ABL Collateral now
owned or at any time hereafter acquired by such Loan Party or in
which such Loan Party now has or at any time in the future may
acquire any right, title or interest.
(b) Each Loan Party hereby
irrevocably authorizes the Collateral Agent at any time and from
time to time to file in any relevant jurisdiction any initial
financing statements with respect to the ABL Collateral or any part
thereof and amendments thereto and continuations thereof 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 whether such Loan
Party is an organization, the type of organization and any
organizational identification number issued to such Loan Party.
Each Loan Party agrees to provide such information to the
Collateral Agent promptly upon request. Without limiting the
foregoing, each Loan Party hereby irrevocably authorizes the
Collateral Agent at any time and from time to time to file in any
relevant jurisdiction financing statements that describe the ABL
Collateral as “all assets, whether now owned or hereafter
acquired” of such Loan Party, or words of similar effect as
being of an equal or lesser scope or with greater detail. Each Loan
Party also ratifies its authorization for the Collateral Agent to
file in any relevant jurisdiction any initial financing statements
or amendments thereto if filed prior to the date hereof.
(c) The Security Interest is granted
as security only and shall not subject the Collateral Agent or any
other Secured Party to, or in any way alter or modify, any
obligation or liability of any Loan Party with respect to or
arising out of the ABL Collateral (other than the duties expressly
created hereunder).
SECTION 3.02.
Representations and Warranties . The Loan Parties jointly
and severally represent and warrant to the Collateral Agent and the
other Secured Parties that:
(a) Each Loan Party has good and
valid rights in and title to the ABL 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, for
the benefit of the Secured Parties, the Security Interest in such
ABL 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, except to the extent that the failure to have such rights,
title, power or authority could not, individually or in the
aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
(b) The Perfection Certificate has
been duly prepared, completed and executed and the information set
forth therein, including the exact legal name and place of
organization of each Loan Party, is correct and complete as of the
Closing Date. The Uniform Commercial Code financing statements or
other appropriate filings, recordings or registrations prepared by
the Collateral Agent based upon the
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information provided to the Collateral Agent in
the Perfection Certificate for filing in each governmental,
municipal or other office specified in Schedules 2A and 2B to the
Perfection Certificate (or specified by notice from the Borrower to
the Collateral Agent after the Closing Date in the case of filings,
recordings or registrations required by Section 6.13 of the
Credit Agreement), are all the filings, recordings and
registrations that are necessary to publish notice of, perfect and
protect the validity of and to establish a legal, valid and
perfected security interest in favor of the Collateral Agent, for
the benefit of the Secured Parties, in respect of all ABL
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.
(c) The Security Interest
constitutes (i) a legal and valid security interest in all the
ABL Collateral securing the payment and performance of the
Obligations and (ii) subject to the filings described in
Section 3.02(b), a perfected security interest in all ABL
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
Uniform Commercial Code or other applicable Law in such
jurisdictions. The Security Interest is and shall be prior to any
other Lien on any of the ABL Collateral, other than Permitted Liens
(but not Term Liens) that have priority as a matter of
law.
(d) The ABL Collateral is owned by
the Loan Parties free and clear of any Lien, except for Permitted
Liens. None of the Loan Parties has filed or consented to the
filing of (i) any financing statement or analogous document
under the Uniform Commercial Code or any other applicable Law
covering any ABL Collateral or (ii) any assignment in which
any Loan Party assigns any ABL Collateral or any security agreement
or similar instrument covering any ABL 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 Permitted
Liens.
SECTION 3.03. Covenants
. (a) Each Loan Party agrees to maintain, at its own cost and
expense, such complete and accurate records with respect to the ABL
Collateral owned by it as is consistent with its current practices
and its reasonable business judgment, and, at such time or times as
the Collateral Agent may reasonably request, promptly to prepare
and deliver to the Collateral Agent an updated schedule or
schedules in form and detail reasonably satisfactory to the
Collateral Agent showing the identity, amount and location of any
and all ABL Collateral.
(b) Each Loan Party shall, at its
own expense, take any and all actions consistent with its current
practices and its reasonable business judgment to defend title to
the ABL Collateral against all Persons and to defend the Security
Interest of the Collateral Agent in the ABL Collateral and the
priority thereof against any Lien that is not a Permitted
Lien.
(c) Each Loan Party 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 or
other documents in connection herewith or therewith. If any amount
payable under or in connection with any of the ABL Collateral shall
be or become evidenced by any promissory note or other instrument,
such note or instrument shall be promptly pledged and delivered to
the Collateral Agent, duly endorsed in a manner reasonably
satisfactory to the Collateral Agent.
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(d) The Collateral Agent and such
Persons as the Collateral Agent may reasonably designate shall have
the right to inspect the ABL Collateral, all records related
thereto (and to make extracts and copies from such records) and the
premises upon which any of the ABL Collateral is located, to
discuss the Loan Parties’ affairs with the officers of the
Loan Parties and their independent accountants and to verify under
reasonable procedures, in accordance with and as provided by
Section 6.11 of the Credit Agreement, the validity, amount,
quality, quantity, value, condition and status of, or any other
matter relating to, the ABL Collateral. In the case of Accounts or
othe