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AMENDED AND RESTATED GUARANTEE AND COLLATERAL AGREEMENT

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Title: AMENDED AND RESTATED GUARANTEE AND COLLATERAL AGREEMENT
Governing Law: New York     Date: 4/6/2007
Industry: Apparel/Accessories    

AMENDED AND RESTATED GUARANTEE AND COLLATERAL AGREEMENT, Parties: eddie bauer holdings  inc. , eddie bauer  inc , jpmorgan chase bank  n.a
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Exhibit 10.2

EXECUTION VERSION

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED GUARANTEE AND COLLATERAL AGREEMENT

made by

EDDIE BAUER HOLDINGS, INC.,

EDDIE BAUER, INC.,
as Borrower,

and certain of its Subsidiaries

in favor of

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent

Dated as of June 21, 2005
Amended and Restated as of April 4, 2007

 


 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Page

 

SECTION 1.

 

DEFINED TERMS

 

 

2

 

1.1

 

Definitions

 

 

2

 

1.2

 

Other Definitional Provisions

 

 

5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SECTION 2.

 

GUARANTEE

 

 

5

 

2.1

 

Guarantee

 

 

5

 

2.2

 

Right of Contribution

 

 

5

 

2.3

 

No Subrogation

 

 

6

 

2.4

 

Amendments, etc. with respect to the Borrower Obligations

 

 

6

 

2.5

 

Guarantee Absolute and Unconditional

 

 

6

 

2.6

 

Reinstatement

 

 

7

 

2.7

 

Payments

 

 

7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SECTION 3.

 

GRANT OF SECURITY INTEREST

 

 

7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SECTION 4.

 

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

 

 

8

 

4.1

 

Title; No Other Liens

 

 

8

 

4.2

 

Perfected First Priority Liens

 

 

9

 

4.3

 

Perfected Second Priority Liens

 

 

9

 

4.4

 

Jurisdiction of Organization; Chief Executive Office

 

 

9

 

4.5

 

Farm Products

 

 

9

 

4.6

 

Investment Property

 

 

9

 

4.7

 

Receivables

 

 

10

 

4.8

 

Contracts

 

 

10

 

4.9

 

Intellectual Property

 

 

10

 

4.10

 

Commercial Tort Claims

 

 

11

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SECTION 5.

 

COVENANTS

 

 

11

 

5.1

 

Delivery of Instruments, Certificated Securities and Chattel Paper

 

 

11

 

5.2

 

Maintenance of Insurance

 

 

11

 

5.3

 

Payment of Obligations

 

 

11

 

5.4

 

Maintenance of Perfected Security Interest; Further Documentation

 

 

12

 

5.5

 

Changes in Name, etc.

 

 

12

 

5.6

 

Notices

 

 

12

 

5.7

 

Investment Property

 

 

12

 

5.8

 

Receivables

 

 

13

 

5.9

 

Contracts

 

 

14

 

5.10

 

Intellectual Property

 

 

14

 

5.11

 

Commercial Tort Claims

 

 

15

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SECTION 6.

 

REMEDIAL PROVISIONS

 

 

15

 

6.1

 

Certain Matters Relating to Receivables

 

 

15

 

6.2

 

Communications with Obligors; Grantors Remain Liable

 

 

16

 

6.3

 

Pledged Stock

 

 

16

 

6.4

 

Proceeds to be Turned Over To Administrative Agent

 

 

17

 

6.5

 

Application of Proceeds

 

 

17

 

6.6

 

Code and Other Remedies

 

 

18

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Page

 

6.7

 

Deficiency

 

 

19

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SECTION 7.

 

THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT

 

 

19

 

7.1

 

Administrative Agent’s Appointment as Attorney-in-Fact, etc.

 

 

19

 

7.2

 

Duty of Administrative Agent

 

 

20

 

7.3

 

Execution of Financing Statements

 

 

20

 

7.4

 

Authority of Administrative Agent

 

 

21

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SECTION 8.

 

MISCELLANEOUS

 

 

21

 

8.1

 

Amendments in Writing

 

 

21

 

8.2

 

Notices

 

 

21

 

8.3

 

No Waiver by Course of Conduct; Cumulative Remedies

 

 

21

 

8.4

 

Enforcement Expenses; Indemnification

 

 

21

 

8.5

 

Successors and Assigns

 

 

22

 

8.6

 

Set-Off

 

 

22

 

8.7

 

Counterparts

 

 

22

 

8.8

 

Severability

 

 

22

 

8.9

 

Section Headings

 

 

22

 

8.10

 

Integration

 

 

22

 

8.11

 

GOVERNING LAW

 

 

23

 

8.12

 

Submission To Jurisdiction; Waivers

 

 

23

 

8.13

 

Acknowledgements

 

 

23

 

8.14

 

Additional Grantors

 

 

23

 

8.15

 

Releases

 

 

24

 

8.16

 

WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL

 

 

24

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SCHEDULES

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Schedule 1

 

Notice Addresses

 

 

 

 

Schedule 2

 

Investment Property

 

 

 

 

Schedule 3

 

Perfection Matters – Term Lender Priority Collateral

 

 

 

 

Schedule 4

 

Perfection Matters – Revolving Lender Priority Collateral

 

 

 

 

Schedule 5

 

Jurisdictions of Organization and Chief Executive Offices

 

 

 

 

Schedule 6

 

Intellectual Property

 

 

 

 

Schedule 7

 

Contracts

 

 

 

 

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AMENDED AND RESTATED GUARANTEE AND COLLATERAL AGREEMENT

          AMENDED AND RESTATED GUARANTEE AND COLLATERAL AGREEMENT, dated as of June 21, 2005 and amended and restated as of April 4, 2007, made by each of the signatories hereto (together with any other entity that may become a party hereto as provided herein, the “ Grantors ”), in favor of JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent (in such capacity, the “ Administrative Agent ”) for the banks and other financial institutions or entities (the “ Lenders ”) from time to time parties to the Term Loan Agreement, dated as of June 21, 2005 and amended and restated as of April 4, 2007 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “ Loan Agreement ”), among Eddie Bauer Holdings, Inc. (“ Holdings ”), Eddie Bauer, Inc. (the “ Borrower ”), the Lenders and the Administrative Agent.

W I T N E S S E T H :

          WHEREAS, Holdings, the Borrower, certain of the Lenders and the Administrative Agent are parties to that certain Term Loan Agreement, dated as of June 21, 2005 (as heretofore modified and supplemented and in effect immediately before giving effect to the amendment and restatement contemplated by the Loan Agreement, the “ Existing Loan Agreement ”) and the Grantors and the Administrative Agent are parties to that certain Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, dated as of June 21, 2005 (as heretofore modified and supplemented and in effect immediately before giving effect to the amendment and restatement contemplated hereby, the “ Existing Guarantee and Collateral Agreement ”);

          WHEREAS, the Borrower has requested that the Existing Loan Agreement and the Existing Guarantee and Collateral Agreement be amended and restated;

          WHEREAS, pursuant to the Loan Agreement, the Lenders have severally agreed to make $225,000,000 of loans and other extensions of credit to the Borrower upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth therein;

          WHEREAS, the Borrower is a member of an affiliated group of companies that includes each other Grantor;

          WHEREAS, the proceeds of the loans and the other extensions of credit under the Loan Agreement will be used in part to enable the Borrower to make valuable transfers to one or more of the other Grantors in connection with the operation of their respective businesses;

          WHEREAS, the Borrower and the other Grantors are engaged in related businesses, and each Grantor will derive substantial direct and indirect benefit from the making of the loans and other extensions of credit under the Loan Agreement; and

          WHEREAS, it is a condition precedent to the obligation of the Lenders to make their respective loans and other extensions of credit to the Borrower under the Loan Agreement that the Grantors shall have executed and delivered this amendment and restatement of the Existing Guarantee and Collateral Agreement to the Administrative Agent for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties;

          NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and to induce the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to enter into the Loan Agreement and to induce the Lenders to make their respective loans and other extensions of credit to the Borrower thereunder, each Grantor hereby agrees that effective on the Restatement Effective Date (as defined in the Loan Agreement), the Existing Guarantee and Collateral Agreement shall be amended and restated as follows:


 

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SECTION 1. DEFINED TERMS

     1.1 Definitions . (a) Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Loan Agreement and used herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Loan Agreement, and the following terms are used herein as defined in the New York UCC: Accounts, Certificated Security, Chattel Paper, Commercial Tort Claims, Documents, Equipment, Farm Products, Fixtures, General Intangibles, Instruments, Inventory, Letter-of-Credit Rights and Supporting Obligations.

     (a) The following terms shall have the following meanings:

          “ Agreement ”: this Amended and Restated Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

          “ Borrower Obligations ”: the collective reference to the unpaid principal of and interest on the Loans and all other obligations and liabilities of the Borrower (including, without limitation, interest accruing at the then applicable rate provided in the Loan Agreement after the maturity of the Loans and interest accruing at the then applicable rate provided in the Loan Agreement after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy, or the commencement of any insolvency, reorganization or like proceeding, relating to the Borrower, whether or not a claim for post-filing or post-petition interest is allowed in such proceeding) to any Secured Lender whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, due or to become due, or now existing or hereafter incurred, which may arise under, out of, or in connection with, the Loan Agreement, this Agreement, the other Loan Documents or any other document made, delivered or given in connection with any of the foregoing, in each case whether on account of principal, interest, reimbursement obligations, fees, indemnities, costs, expenses or otherwise (including, without limitation, all fees and disbursements of counsel to the Administrative Agent or to the Lenders that are required to be paid by the Borrower pursuant to the terms of any of the foregoing agreements).

          “ Collateral ”: as defined in Section 3.

          “ Collateral Account ”: any collateral account established by the Administrative Agent as provided in Section 6.1 or 6.4.

          “ Contracts ”: the material contracts and agreements of any Grantor listed in Schedule 7 , as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, including, without limitation, (i) all rights of any Grantor to receive moneys due and to become due to it thereunder or in connection therewith, (ii) all rights of any Grantor to damages arising thereunder and (iii) all rights of any Grantor to perform and to exercise all remedies thereunder.

          “ Copyright Licenses ”: any written agreement naming any Grantor as licensor or licensee (including, without limitation, those listed in Schedule 6 ), granting any right under any Copyright, including, without limitation, the grant of such rights to manufacture, distribute, exploit and sell materials embodying any work protected by such Copyright.

          “ Copyrights ”: (i) all copyrights arising under the laws of the United States, any other country or any political subdivision thereof, whether registered or unregistered and whether published or unpublished (including, without limitation, those listed in Schedule 6 ), all registrations and recordings thereof, and all applications in connection therewith, including, without limitation, all registrations, recordings and applications in the United States Copyright Office, and (ii) the right to obtain all renewals thereof.


 

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          “ Deposit Account ”: as defined in the Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable jurisdiction and, in any event, including, without limitation, any demand, time, savings, passbook or like account maintained with a depositary institution.

          “ Foreign Subsidiary ”: any Subsidiary organized under the laws of any jurisdiction outside the United States of America.

          “ Foreign Subsidiary Voting Stock ”: the voting Capital Stock of any first tier Foreign Subsidiary.

          “ Guarantor Obligations ”: with respect to any Guarantor, all obligations and liabilities of such Guarantor which may arise under or in connection with this Agreement (including, without limitation, Section 2) or any other Loan Document to which such Guarantor is a party, in each case whether on account of guarantee obligations, reimbursement obligations, fees, indemnities, costs, expenses or otherwise (including, without limitation, all fees and disbursements of counsel to the Administrative Agent or to the Lenders that are required to be paid by such Guarantor pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Loan Document).

          “ Guarantors ”: the collective reference to each Grantor other than the Borrower.

          “ Intellectual Property ”: the collective reference to all rights, priorities and privileges relating to intellectual property, whether arising under United States, multinational or foreign laws or otherwise, including, without limitation, the Copyrights, the Copyright Licenses, the Patents, the Patent Licenses, the Trademarks and the Trademark Licenses, technology, know-how and processes, and all rights to sue at law or in equity for any infringement or other impairment thereof, including the right to receive all proceeds and damages therefrom.

          “ Intercompany Note ”: any promissory note evidencing loans made by any Grantor to Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries.

          “ Intercreditor Agreement ”: the Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of June 21, 2005, among the Grantors, the Administrative Agent and the ABL Facility Agent.

          “ Investment Property ”: the collective reference to (i) all “investment property” as such term is defined in Section 9-102(a)(49) of the New York UCC (other than any Foreign Subsidiary Voting Stock excluded from the definition of “Pledged Stock”) and (ii) whether or not constituting “investment property” as so defined, all Pledged Notes and all Pledged Stock.

          “ Issuers ”: the collective reference to each issuer of any Investment Property.

          “ Material Intellectual Property ”: any Intellectual Property owned by a Grantor and material to the operation of such Grantor’s business as currently conducted.

          “ New York UCC ”: the Uniform Commercial Code as from time to time in effect in the State of New York.

          “ Obligations ”: (i) in the case of the Borrower, the Borrower Obligations, and (ii) in the case of each Guarantor, its Guarantor Obligations.


 

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          “ Patent License ”: all agreements, whether written or oral, providing for the grant by or to any Grantor of any right to manufacture, use or sell any invention covered in whole or in part by a Patent, including, without limitation, any of the foregoing referred to in Schedule 6 .

          “ Patents ”: (i) all letters patent of the United States, any other country or any political subdivision thereof, and all reissues and extensions thereof, including, without limitation, any of the foregoing referred to in Schedule 6 , (ii) all applications for letters patent of the United States or any other country and all divisions, continuations and continuations-in-part thereof, including, without limitation, any of the foregoing referred to in Schedule 6 , and (iii) all rights to obtain any reissues or extensions of the foregoing.

          “ Pledged Notes ”: all promissory notes listed on Schedule 2 , all Intercompany Notes at any time issued to any Grantor and all other promissory notes issued to or held by any Grantor (other than promissory notes issued in connection with extensions of trade credit by any Grantor in the ordinary course of business).

          “ Pledged Stock ”: the shares of Capital Stock listed on Schedule 2 , together with any other shares, stock certificates, options, interests or rights of any nature whatsoever in respect of the Capital Stock of any Person that may be issued or granted to, or held by, any Grantor while this Agreement is in effect; provided that in no event shall more than 66% of the total outstanding Foreign Subsidiary Voting Stock of any Foreign Subsidiary be required to be pledged hereunder.

          “ Proceeds ”: all “proceeds” as such term is defined in Section 9-102(a)(64) of the New York UCC and, in any event, shall include, without limitation, all dividends or other income from the Investment Property, collections thereon or distributions or payments with respect thereto.

          “ Receivable ”: any right to payment for goods sold or leased or for services rendered, whether or not such right is evidenced by an Instrument or Chattel Paper and whether or not it has been earned by performance (including, without limitation, any Account).

          “ Revolving Lender Priority Collateral ”: as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement.

          “ Secured Parties ”: the collective reference to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders.

          “ Securities Act ”: the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

          “ Term Lender Priority Collateral ”: as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement.

          “ Trademark License ”: any agreement, whether written or oral, providing for the grant by or to any Grantor of any right to use any Trademark, including, without limitation, any of the foregoing referred to in Schedule 6 .

          “ Trademarks ”: (i) all trademarks, trade names, corporate names, company names, business names, fictitious business names, trade dress, service marks, logos and other source or business identifiers, and all goodwill associated therewith, now existing or hereafter adopted or acquired, all registrations and recordings thereof, and all applications in connection therewith, whether in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or in any similar office or agency of the United States, any State thereof or any other country or any political subdivision thereof, or otherwise, and all common-law rights related thereto, including, without limitation, any of the foregoing referred to in Schedule 6 , and (ii) the right to obtain all renewals thereof.


 

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     1.2 Other Definitional Provisions . (a) The words “hereof,” “herein”, “hereto” and “hereunder” and words of similar import when used in this Agreement shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement, and Section and Schedule references are to this Agreement unless otherwise specified.

     (b) The meanings given to terms defined herein shall be equally applicable to both the singular and plural forms of such terms.

     (c) Where the context requires, terms relating to the Collateral or any part thereof, when used in relation to a Grantor, shall refer to such Grantor’s Collateral or the relevant part thereof.

SECTION 2. GUARANTEE

     2.1 Guarantee . (a) Each of the Guarantors hereby, jointly and severally, unconditionally and irrevocably, guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties and their respective successors, indorsees, transferees and assigns, the prompt and complete payment and performance by the Borrower when due (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of the Borrower Obligations.

     (b) Anything herein or in any other Loan Document to the contrary notwithstanding, the maximum liability of each Guarantor hereunder and under the other Loan Documents shall in no event exceed the amount which can be guaranteed by such Guarantor under applicable federal and state laws relating to the insolvency of debtors (after giving effect to the right of contribution established in Section 2.2).

     (c) Each Guarantor agrees that the Borrower Obligations may at any time and from time to time exceed the amount of the liability of such Guarantor hereunder without impairing the guarantee contained in this Section 2 or affecting the rights and remedies of the Secured Parties hereunder.

     (d) The guarantee contained in this Section 2 shall remain in full force and effect until all the Borrower Obligations and the obligations of each Guarantor under the guarantee contained in this Section 2 shall have been satisfied by payment in full.

     (e) No payment made by the Borrower, any of the Guarantors, any other guarantor or any other Person or received or collected by any Secured Party from the Borrower, any of the Guarantors, any other guarantor or any other Person by virtue of any action or proceeding or any set-off or appropriation or application at any time or from time to time in reduction of or in payment of the Borrower Obligations shall be deemed to modify, reduce, release or otherwise affect the liability of any Guarantor hereunder which shall, notwithstanding any such payment (other than any payment made by such Guarantor in respect of the Borrower Obligations or any payment received or collected from such Guarantor in respect of the Borrower Obligations), remain liable for the Borrower Obligations up to the maximum liability of such Guarantor hereunder until the Borrower Obligations are paid in full.

     2.2 Right of Contribution . Each Guarantor hereby agrees that to the extent that a Guarantor shall have paid more than its proportionate share of any payment made hereunder, such Guarantor shall be entitled to seek and receive contribution from and against any other Guarantor hereunder which has not paid its proportionate share of such payment. Each Guarantor’s right of contribution shall be subject to the terms and conditions of Section 2.3. The provisions of this Section 2.2 shall in no respect limit the obligations and liabilities of any Guarantor to the Secured Parties, and each Guarantor shall remain liable to the Secured Parties for the full amount guaranteed by such Guarantor hereunder.


 

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     2.3 No Subrogation . Notwithstanding any payment made by any Guarantor hereunder or any set-off or application of funds of any Guarantor by any Secured Party, no Guarantor shall be entitled to be subrogated to any of the rights of any Secured Party against the Borrower or any other Guarantor or any collateral security or guarantee or right of offset held by any Secured Party for the payment of the Borrower Obligations, nor shall any Guarantor seek or be entitled to seek any contribution or reimbursement from the Borrower or any other Guarantor in respect of payments made by such Guarantor hereunder, until all amounts owing to the Secured Parties by the Borrower on account of the Borrower Obligations are paid in full. If any amount shall be paid to any Guarantor on account of such subrogation rights at any time when all of the Borrower Obligations shall not have been paid in full, such amount shall be held by such Guarantor in trust for the Secured Parties, segregated from other funds of such Guarantor, and shall, forthwith upon receipt by such Guarantor, be turned over to the Administrative Agent in the exact form received by such Guarantor (duly indorsed by such Guarantor to the Administrative Agent, if required), to be applied against the Borrower Obligations, whether matured or unmatured, in such order as the Administrative Agent may determine.

     2.4 Amendments, etc. with respect to the Borrower Obligations . Each Guarantor shall remain obligated hereunder notwithstanding that, without any reservation of rights against any Guarantor and without notice to or further assent by any Guarantor, any demand for payment of any of the Borrower Obligations made by any Secured Party may be rescinded by such Secured Party and any of the Borrower Obligations continued, and the Borrower Obligations, or the liability of any other Person upon or for any part thereof, or any collateral security or guarantee therefor or right of offset with respect thereto, may, from time to time, in whole or in part, be renewed, extended, amended, modified, accelerated, compromised, waived, surrendered or released by any Secured Party, and the Loan Agreement and the other Loan Documents and any other documents executed and delivered in connection therewith may be amended, modified, supplemented or terminated, in whole or in part, as the Administrative Agent (or the Required Lenders or all Lenders, as the case may be) may deem advisable from time to time, and any collateral security, guarantee or right of offset at any time held by the Administrative Agent or any Lender for the payment of the Borrower Obligations may be sold, exchanged, waived, surrendered or released. No Secured Party shall have any obligation to protect, secure, perfect or insure any Lien at any time held by it as security for the Borrower Obligations or for the guarantee contained in this Section 2 or any property subject thereto.

     2.5 Guarantee Absolute and Unconditional . Each Guarantor waives any and all notice of the creation, renewal, extension or accrual of any of the Borrower Obligations and notice of or proof of reliance by any Secured Party upon the guarantee contained in this Section 2 or acceptance of the guarantee contained in this Section 2; the Borrower Obligations, and any of them, shall conclusively be deemed to have been created, contracted or incurred, or renewed, extended, amended or waived, in reliance upon the guarantee contained in this Section 2; and all dealings between the Borrower and any of the Guarantors, on the one hand, and the Secured Parties, on the other hand, likewise shall be conclusively presumed to have been had or consummated in reliance upon the guarantee contained in this Section 2. Each Guarantor waives diligence, presentment, protest, demand for payment and notice of default or nonpayment to or upon the Borrower or any of the Guarantors with respect to the Borrower Obligations. Each Guarantor understands and agrees that the guarantee contained in this Section 2 shall be construed as a continuing, absolute and unconditional guarantee of payment without regard to (a) the validity or enforceability of the Loan Agreement or any other Loan Document, any of the Borrower Obligations or any other collateral security therefor or guarantee or right of offset with respect thereto at any time or from time to time held by any Secured Party, (b) any defense, set-off or counterclaim (other than a defense of payment or performance) which may at any time be available to or be asserted by the Borrower or any other Person against any Secured Party, or (c) any other circumstance whatsoever (with or without notice to or knowledge of the Borrower or such Guarantor) which constitutes, or might be construed to constitute, an equitable or legal discharge of the Borrower for the Borrower Obligations, or


 

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of such Guarantor under the guarantee contained in this Section 2, in bankruptcy or in any other instance. When making any demand hereunder or otherwise pursuing its rights and remedies hereunder against any Guarantor, any Secured Party may, but shall be under no obligation to, make a similar demand on or otherwise pursue such rights and remedies as it may have against the Borrower, any other Guarantor or any other Person or against any collateral security or guarantee for the Borrower Obligations or any right of offset with respect thereto, and any failure by any Secured Party to make any such demand, to pursue such other rights or remedies or to collect any payments from the Borrower, any other Guarantor or any other Person or to realize upon any such collateral security or guarantee or to exercise any such right of offset, or any release of the Borrower, any other Guarantor or any other Person or any such collateral security, guarantee or right of offset, shall not relieve any Guarantor of any obligation or liability hereunder, and shall not impair or affect the rights and remedies, whether express, implied or available as a matter of law, of any Secured Party against any Guarantor. For the purposes hereof “demand” shall include the commencement and continuance of any legal proceedings.

     2.6 Reinstatement . The guarantee contained in this Section 2 shall continue to be effective, or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment, or any part thereof, of any of the Borrower Obligations is rescinded or must otherwise be restored or returned by any Secured Party upon the insolvency, bankruptcy, dissolution, liquidation or reorganization of the Borrower or any Guarantor, or upon or as a result of the appointment of a receiver, intervenor or conservator of, or trustee or similar officer for, the Borrower or any Guarantor or any substantial part of its property, or otherwise, all as though such payments had not been made.

     2.7 Payments . Each Guarantor hereby guarantees that payments hereunder will be paid to the Administrative Agent for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties without set-off or counterclaim in Dollars at the Funding Office.

SECTION 3. GRANT OF SECURITY INTEREST

          Each Grantor hereby assigns and transfers to the Administrative Agent, and hereby grants to the Administrative Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties, a security interest in, all of the following property now owned or at any time hereafter acquired by such Grantor or in which such Grantor now has or at any time in the future may acquire any right, title or interest (collectively, the “ Collateral ”), as collateral security for the prompt and complete payment and performance when due (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of such Grantor’s Obligations:

     (a) all Accounts;

     (b) all Chattel Paper;

     (c) all Contracts;

     (d) all Deposit Accounts;

     (e) all Documents (other than title documents with respect to Vehicles);

     (f) all Equipment;

     (g) all Fixtures;

     (h) all General Intangibles;


 

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     (i) all Instruments;

     (j) all Intellectual Property;

     (k) all Inventory;

     (l) all Investment Property other than the Capital Stock of the Securitization Subsidiaries and any dividends from the Securitization Subsidiaries payable to Holdings in respect of the Securitization Note;

     (m) all Letter-of-Credit Rights;

     (n) all Commercial Tort Claims with respect to Brookstone Company, Inc. , et al. , Plaintiffs (Eddie Bauer, Inc.) v. Pyramid Company of Hadley , et al. , Defendants, pending before the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (Case No. 96-CV-1215-NAM-GLS);

     (o) all other property not otherwise described above (except for any property specifically excluded from any clause in this section above, and any property specifically excluded from any defined term used in any clause of this section above);

     (p) all books and records pertaining to the Collateral; and

     (q) to the extent not otherwise included, all Proceeds, Supporting Obligations and products of any and all of the foregoing and all collateral security and guarantees given by any Person with respect to any of the foregoing;

           provided, however , that notwithstanding any of the other provisions set forth in this Section 3, this Agreement shall not constitute a grant of a security interest in any property to the extent that such grant of a security interest is prohibited by any Requirements of Law of a Governmental Authority, requires a consent not obtained from any Governmental Authority pursuant to such Requirement of Law or is prohibited by, or constitutes a breach or default under or results in the termination of or requires any consent not obtained under, any contract, license, agreement, instrument or other document evidencing or giving rise to such property or, in the case of any Investment Property, Pledged Stock or Pledged Note, any applicable shareholder or similar agreement, except to the extent that such Requirement of Law or the term in such contract, license, agreement, instrument or other document or shareholder or similar agreement providing for such prohibition, breach, default or termination or requiring such consent is ineffective under applicable law.

SECTION 4. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

          To induce the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to enter into the Loan Agreement and to induce the Lenders to make their respective loans and other extensions of credit to the Borrower thereunder, each Grantor hereby represents and warrants to the Secured Parties that:

     4.1 Title; No Other Liens . Except for the security interest granted to the Administrative Agent for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties pursuant to this Agreement and the other Liens permitted to exist on the Collateral by the Loan Agreement (including the Liens granted to secure the obligations under the ABL Facility Agreement), such Grantor owns each item of the Collateral free and clear of any and all Liens or claims of others. No effective financing statement or other public notice with respect to all or any part of the Collateral is on file or of record in any public office, except such as have been filed in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties, pursuant to


 

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this Agreement or as are permitted by the Loan Agreement (including the Liens granted to secure the obligations under the ABL Facility Agreement). For the avoidance of doubt, it is understood and agreed that any Grantor may, as part of its business, grant licenses to third parties to use Intellectual Property owned or developed by a Grantor. For purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, such licensing activity shall not constitute a “Lien” on such Intellectual Property. Each Secured Party understands that any such licenses may be exclusive to the applicable licensees, and such exclusivity provisions may limit the ability of the Administrative Agent to utilize, sell, lease or transfer the related Intellectual Property or otherwise realize value from such Intellectual Property pursuant hereto.

     4.2 Perfected First Priority Liens . The security interests in the Term Lender Priority Collateral granted pursuant to this Agreement (a) upon completion of the filings and other actions specified on Schedule 3 (which, in the case of all filings and other documents referred to on such Schedule 3, have been delivered to the Administrative Agent in completed and duly executed form) will constitute valid perfected security interests in all of the Term Lender Priority Collateral in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties, as collateral security for such Grantor’s Obligations, enforceable in accordance with the terms hereof and the Intercreditor Agreement against all creditors of such Grantor and any Persons purporting to purchase any Term Lender Priority Collateral from such Grantor and (b) are prior to all other Liens on the Term Lender Priority Collateral in existence on the date hereof except for Liens permitted by the Loan Agreement which have priority over the Liens on the Term Lender Priority Collateral.

     4.3 Perfected Second Priority Liens . The security interests in the Revolving Lender Priority Collateral granted pursuant to this Agreement (a) upon completion of the filings and other actions specified on Schedule 4 (which, in the case of all filings and other documents referred to on such Schedule 4, have been delivered to the Administrative Agent in completed and duly executed form) will constitute valid perfected security interests in all of the Revolving Lender Priority Collateral in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties, as collateral security for such Grantor’s Obligations, enforceable in accordance with the terms hereof against all creditors of such Grantor and any Persons purporting to purchase any Revolving Lender Priority Collateral from such Grantor and (b) are prior to all other Liens on the Revolving Lender Priority Collateral in existence on the date hereof except for (x) Liens securing the ABL Facility and (y) Liens permitted by the Loan Agreement which have priority over the Liens on the Revolving Lender Priority Collateral.

     4.4 Jurisdiction of Organization; Chief Executive Office . On the date hereof, such Grantor’s jurisdiction of organization, identification number from the jurisdiction of organization (if any), and the location of such Grantor’s chief executive office or sole place of business or principal residence, as the case may be, are specified on Schedule 5 . Such Grantor has furnished to the Administrative Agent a certified charter, certificate of incorporation or other organizational document, as applicable, and long-form good standing certificate as of a date which is recent to the date hereof.

     4.5 Farm Products . None of the Collateral constitutes, or is the Proceeds of, Farm Products.

     4.6 Investment Property . (a) The shares of Pledged Stock pledged by such Grantor hereunder constitute all the issued and outstanding shares of all classes of the Capital Stock of each Issuer owned by such Grantor or, in the case of Foreign Subsidiary Voting Stock, if less, 66% of the outstanding Foreign Subsidiary Voting Stock of each relevant Issuer.

     (b) All the shares of the Pledged Stock have been duly and validly issued and are fully paid and nonassessable.


 

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     (c) Each of the Pledged Notes constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of the obligor with respect thereto, enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to the effects of bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally, general equitable principles (whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law) and an implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing.

     (d) Such Grantor is the record and beneficial owner of, and has good and marketable title to, the Investment Property pledged by it hereunder, free of any and all Liens or options in favor of, or claims of, any other Person, except the security interest created by this Agreement and the Liens granted to secure the obligations under the ABL Facility Agreement.

     4.7 Receivables . (a) To the best of each Grantor’s knowledge, no amount payable to such Grantor under or in connection with any Receivable is evidenced by any Instrument or Chattel Paper which has not been delivered to the Administrative Agent, except, at any time when the ABL Facility remains outstanding, any such Instrument or Chattel Paper which evidences Receivables in respect of Revolving Lender Priority Collateral which have been delivered to the ABL Facility Agent.

     (b) To the best of each Grantor’s knowledge, none of the obligors on any Receivables is a Governmental Authority.

     4.8 Contracts . (a) Except as could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, each Contract is in full force and effect and constitutes a valid and legally enforceable obligation of the parties thereto, subject to the effects of bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally, general equitable principles (whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law) and an implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing.

     (b) Neither such Grantor nor (to the best of such Grantor’s knowledge) any of the other parties to the Contracts is in default in the performance or observance of any of the terms thereof in any manner that, in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

     (c) The right, title and interest of such Grantor in, to and under the Contracts are not subject to any defenses, offsets, counterclaims or claims that, in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

     (d) To the best of each Grantor’s knowledge, no amount payable to such Grantor under or in connection with any Contract is evidenced by any Instrument or Chattel Paper which has not been delivered to the Administrative Agent.

     (e) To the best of each Grantor’s knowledge, none of the parties to any Contract is a Governmental Authority.

     4.9 Intellectual Property . (a) Schedule 6 lists all registered Intellectual Property and all Material Intellectual Property subject to pending applications owned by such Grantor in its own name on the date hereof.

     (b) On the date hereof, all Material Intellectual Property is valid, subsisting, unexpired and enforceable, has not been abandoned and does not infringe the intellectual property rights of any other Person.


 

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     (c) Except as set forth in Schedule 6 , on the date hereof, none of the Intellectual Property is the subject of any exclusive licensing or franchise agreement pursuant to which such Grantor is the licensor or franchisor.

     (d) No holding, decision or judgment has been rendered by any Governmental Authority which limits, cancels or questions the validity of, or such Grantor’s rights in, any Intellectual Property owned or licensed by such Grantor in any respect that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

     (e) Except as described in Schedule 3.9 to the Loan Agreement, no material action or proceeding is pending, or, to the knowledge of such Grantor, threatened, on the date hereof (i) seeking to limit, cancel or question t


 
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