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ABL GUARANTEE AND COLLATERAL AGREEMENT dated as of August 28, 2009, among

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ABL GUARANTEE AND COLLATERAL AGREEMENT dated as of August 28, 2009, among | Document Parties: SPECTRUM BRANDS, INC. | AQUARIA, INC | AQUARIUM SYSTEMS, INC | DB ONLINE, LLC | PERFECTO MANUFACTURING, INC | ROV HOLDING, INC | ROVCAL, INC | SCHULTZ COMPANY | SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FOAM, INC | SPECTRUM BRANDS, INC | SPECTRUM JUNGLE LABS CORPORATION | SPECTRUM NEPTUNE US HOLDCO CORPORATION | Subsidiary Loan Parties | TETRA HOLDING (US), INC | UNITED INDUSTRIES CORPORATION | United Pet Group, Inc You are currently viewing:
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SPECTRUM BRANDS, INC. | AQUARIA, INC | AQUARIUM SYSTEMS, INC | DB ONLINE, LLC | PERFECTO MANUFACTURING, INC | ROV HOLDING, INC | ROVCAL, INC | SCHULTZ COMPANY | SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FOAM, INC | SPECTRUM BRANDS, INC | SPECTRUM JUNGLE LABS CORPORATION | SPECTRUM NEPTUNE US HOLDCO CORPORATION | Subsidiary Loan Parties | TETRA HOLDING (US), INC | UNITED INDUSTRIES CORPORATION | United Pet Group, Inc

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Title: ABL GUARANTEE AND COLLATERAL AGREEMENT dated as of August 28, 2009, among
Governing Law: New York     Date: 9/2/2009
Industry: Electronic Instr. and Controls     Sector: Technology

ABL GUARANTEE AND COLLATERAL AGREEMENT dated as of August 28, 2009, among, Parties: spectrum brands  inc. , aquaria  inc , aquarium systems  inc , db online  llc , perfecto manufacturing  inc , rov holding  inc , rovcal  inc , schultz company , southern california foam  inc , spectrum brands  inc , spectrum jungle labs corporation , spectrum neptune us holdco corporation , subsidiary loan parties , tetra holding (us)  inc , united industries corporation , united pet group  inc
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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

 

 

 


ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS

SECTION 1.01.

  

Credit Agreement

  

1

SECTION 1.02.

  

Other Defined Terms

  

1

ARTICLE II

GUARANTEE

SECTION 2.01.

  

Guarantee

  

5

SECTION 2.02.

  

Guarantee of Payment

  

5

SECTION 2.03.

  

Guarantee Absolute and Unconditional

  

5

SECTION 2.04.

  

Reinstatement

  

6

SECTION 2.05.

  

Agreement to Pay; Subrogation

  

6

SECTION 2.06.

  

Information

  

6

SECTION 2.07.

  

Limitation of Guarantee

  

6

ARTICLE III

SECURITY INTERESTS IN PERSONAL PROPERTY

SECTION 3.01.

  

Security Interest

  

7

SECTION 3.02.

  

Representations and Warranties

  

7

SECTION 3.03.

  

Covenants

  

8

SECTION 3.04.

  

Other Actions

  

10

ARTICLE IV

REMEDIES

SECTION 4.01.

  

Remedies Upon Default

  

12

SECTION 4.02.

  

Application of Proceeds

  

13

ARTICLE V

INDEMNITY, SUBROGATION AND SUBORDINATION

SECTION 5.01.

  

Indemnity and Subrogation

  

13

SECTION 5.02.

  

Contribution and Subrogation

  

14

SECTION 5.03.

  

Subordination

  

14

ARTICLE VI

MISCELLANEOUS

SECTION 6.01.

  

Notices

  

14

SECTION 6.02.

  

Waivers; Amendment

  

14

SECTION 6.03.

  

Collateral Agent’s Fees and Expenses; Indemnification

  

15

SECTION 6.04.

  

Successors and Assigns

  

15

SECTION 6.05.

  

Survival of Agreement

  

15

SECTION 6.06.

  

Counterparts; Effectiveness; Several Agreement

  

16

SECTION 6.07.

  

Severability

  

16


SECTION 6.08.

  

Right of Set-Off

  

16

SECTION 6.09.

  

GOVERNING LAW; JURISDICTION

  

16

SECTION 6.10.

  

WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL

  

17

SECTION 6.11.

  

Headings

  

18

SECTION 6.12.

  

Security Interest Absolute

  

18

SECTION 6.13.

  

Termination or Release

  

18

SECTION 6.14.

  

Additional Subsidiaries

  

18

SECTION 6.15.

  

Collateral Agent Appointed Attorney-in-Fact

  

19

 

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Schedules

 

Schedule I

  

Subsidiary Loan Parties

Exhibits

  

Exhibit I

  

Form of Supplement

Exhibit II

  

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


 
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