GUARANTEE AND COLLATERAL AGREEMENT

Exhibit 10.26

EXECUTION VERSION

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AMENDED AND RESTATED GUARANTEE AND COLLATERAL AGREEMENT dated as of December 15, 2006 (this " Agreement "), among Denny’s, Inc., a California corporation, Denny’s Realty, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (each of the foregoing individually, a " Borrower " and collectively, the " Borrowers "), Denny’s Corporation, a Delaware corporation (" Parent "), Denny’s Holdings, Inc., a New York corporation (" Denny’s Holdings "), DFO, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (" DFO "), each other Subsidiary Loan Party (as defined in the Credit Agreement) and Bank of America, N.A. (" Bank of America "), as Collateral Agent (in such capacity, the " Collateral Agent ") for the Secured Parties (as defined below).

Reference is made to (a) the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement dated as of September 21, 2004 (as amended, supplemented, waived or otherwise modified from time to time, the " Existing Guarantee and Collateral Agreement "), among the Denny’s, Inc., Denny’s Realty, LLC (formerly known as Denny’s Realty, Inc.), Parent, Denny's Holdings, DFO (formerly known as DFO, Inc.), the Collateral Agent and such other parties from time to time party thereto and (b) the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of December 15, 2006 (as amended, supplemented, waived or otherwise modified from time to time, the " Credit Agreement " ), among the Borrowers, Parent, Denny’s Holdings, and DFO, as Guarantors, the Lenders party thereto (the " Lenders "), and Bank of America, as Administrative Agent.

WHEREAS, the Borrowers have requested, among other things, to amend and restate the Existing Credit Agreement (as defined in the Credit Agreement) on the terms and conditions set forth in the Credit Agreement and the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the other parties thereto are willing to amend and restate the Existing Credit Agreement on the terms and conditions set forth in the Credit Agreement;

WHEREAS, the obligations of the Lenders to enter into the Credit Agreement and to extend credit to the Borrowers thereunder are conditioned upon, among other things, the amendment and restatement of the Existing Guarantee and Collateral Agreement in the form of this Agreement and the execution and delivery of this Agreement by the parties hereto; and

WHEREAS, Parent and the Subsidiary Loan Parties are affiliates of the Borrowers, will derive substantial benefits from the extension of credit to the Borrowers pursuant to the Credit Agreement and are willing to execute and deliver this Agreement in order to induce the Lenders to extend such credit.

NOW THEREFORE, the parties hereto agree that the Existing Guarantee and Collateral Agreement is hereby amended and restated as follows:

ARTICLE I

Definitions

Section 1.01.    Credit Agreement . (a) Capitalized terms used in this Agreement 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 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 1.03 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:

" Account Debtor " means any Person who is or who may become obligated to any Grantor under, with respect to or on account of an Account.

" Article 9 Collateral " has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.01.

" Cash Management Agreement " means any agreement or arrangement to provide cash management services, including treasury, depository, overdraft, credit or debit card, electronic funds transfer and other cash management arrangements.

" Claiming Guarantor " has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 6.02.

" Collateral " means Article 9 Collateral and Pledged Collateral.

" Collateral Agent " has the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble of this Agreement.

" Contributing Guarantor " has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 6.02.

" 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 Grantor or that any Grantor otherwise has the right to license, or granting any right to any Grantor under any copyright now or hereafter owned by any third party, and all rights of any Grantor under any such agreement.

" Copyrights " means all of the following now owned or hereafter acquired by any Grantor: (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, including those listed on Schedule III.

" Credit Agreement " has the meaning assigned to such term in the preliminary statement of this Agreement.

" Deposit Account Bank " has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.04(b).

" Deposit Account Control Agreement " means an agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit III, or any other form approved by the Collateral Agent, among a Grantor, the Collateral Agent and a Sub-Agent.

" Equity Interests " means shares of capital stock, partnership interests, membership interests in a limited liability company, beneficial interests in a trust or other equity ownership interests in a Person of whatever nature and rights, warrants or options to acquire any of the foregoing.

" Federal Securities Laws " has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 5.04.

" General Intangibles " means all "General Intangibles" as defined in the New York UCC, including payment intangibles, all choses in action and causes of action and all other intangible personal property of any Grantor of every kind and nature (other than Accounts) now owned or hereafter acquired by any Grantor, including corporate or other business records, indemnification claims, contract rights (including rights under leases, whether entered into as lessor or lessee, Hedging Agreements, franchise agreements and other agreements) and rights to payment, Intellectual Property, goodwill, registrations, franchises, tax refund claims and any letter of credit, guarantee, claim, security interest or other security held by or granted to any Grantor to secure payment by an Account Debtor of any of the Accounts.

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" Grantors " means Parent, the Borrowers and the Subsidiary Loan Parties.

" Guarantors " means Parent, the Borrowers and the Subsidiary Loan Parties.

" Intellectual Property " means all intellectual and similar property of every kind and nature now owned or hereafter acquired by any Grantor, including inventions, designs, Patents, Copyrights, Licenses, Trademarks, trade secrets, domain names, confidential or proprietary technical and business information, know-how, show-how or other data or information, software and databases and all embodiments or fixations thereof and related documentation, registrations and franchises, and all additions, improvements and accessions to, and books and records describing or used in connection with, any of the foregoing.

" Investment Property " means a security, whether certificated or uncertificated, security entitlement, securities account, commodity contract or commodity account; provided that for purposes of this Agreement, the capital stock of Simeus Holdings, Inc. owned by Denny’s Holdings and scheduled on Schedule 6.04 to the Credit Agreement shall not be Investment Property.

" License " means any Patent License, Trademark License, Copyright License or other license or sublicense agreement to which any Grantor is a party, other than those license or sublicense agreements (a) in existence on the date hereof and (b) entered into after the date hereof, in each case that by their terms prohibit a grant of a security interest by such Grantor as licensee thereunder; provided that (i) in the case of clause (b), such Grantor has used commercially reasonable efforts to prevent the inclusion of such a prohibition over such license or sublicense and (ii) in the case of any licenses or sublicenses excluded pursuant to clauses (a) and (b), such licenses or sublicenses, individually or in the aggregate, are not material to the business of such Grantor. For the avoidance of doubt, any money or property received in respect of any license that is not a License shall not be excluded from the Collateral solely as a result of the exclusion of such license from the Collateral.

" Loan Document Obligations " means (a) the due and punctual payment by the Borrowers 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 Borrowers under the Credit Agreement in respect of any Letter of Credit or any Credit-Linked Deposits, when and as due, including payments in respect of reimbursement of disbursements, interest and fees thereon and obligations to provide cash collateral in respect of such Letters of Credit, and (iii) all other monetary obligations of the Borrowers to any of the Secured Parties under the Credit Agreement and each of the other Loan Documents, including obligations to pay fees, expense and reimbursement obligations and indemnification obligations, whether primary, secondary, direct, contingent, fixed or otherwise (including monetary obligations incurred 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 performance of all other obligations of the Borrowers under or pursuant to the Credit Agreement and each of the other Loan Documents and (c) the due and punctual payment and performance of all the obligations of each other Loan Party under or pursuant to this Agreement and each of the other Loan Documents.

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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.

" Obligations " means (a) Loan Document Obligations, (b) the due and punctual payment and performance of all obligations of each Loan Party under each Hedging Agreement that, in either case, if and to the extent permitted by the Credit Agreement (i) is in effect on the Closing Date with a counterparty that is a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender as of the Closing Date or (ii) is entered into after the Closing Date with any counterparty that is a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender at the time such Hedging Agreement is entered into and (c) the due and punctual payment and performance of all obligations in respect of overdrafts and other liabilities owed to the Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates or any Lender arising from treasury, depositary and cash management services in connection with any automated clearinghouse transfers of funds (including, without limitation, any Cash Management Agreements).

" 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 Grantor or that any Grantor otherwise has the right to license, is in existence, or granting to any Grantor 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 Grantor under any such agreement.

" Patents " means all of the following now owned or hereafter acquired by any Grantor: (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, including those listed on Schedule III; 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 Financial Officer and a legal officer of the Borrowers.

" Pledged Collateral " has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.01.

" Pledged Debt Securities " has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.01.

" Pledged Securities " means any promissory notes, stock certificates or other securities now or hereafter included in the Pledged Collateral, including all certificates, instruments or other documents representing or evidencing any Pledged Collateral.

" Pledged Stock " has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.01.

" Secured Parties " means (a) the Lenders (and any Affiliate of any Lender to which any obligation referred to in clause (c) of the definition of the term "Obligations" is owed), (b) the Administrative Agent (and any Affiliate of the Administrative Agent to which any obligation referred to in clause (c) of the definition of the term "Obligations" is owed), (c) the Collateral Agent, (d) each Issuing Bank, (e) each counterparty to any Hedging Agreement entered into with a Loan Party the obligations under which constitute Obligations, (f) the beneficiaries of each indemnification obligation undertaken by any Loan Party under any Loan Document and (g) the successors and assigns of each of the foregoing.

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" Security Interest " has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.01.

" Sub-Agent " means a financial institution that has delivered to the Collateral Agent an executed Deposit Account Control 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 Grantor or that any Grantor otherwise has the right to license, or granting to any Grantor any right to use any trademark now or hereafter owned by any third party, and all rights of any Grantor under any such agreement.

" Trademarks " means all of the following now owned or hereafter acquired by any Grantor: (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, designs and 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, including those listed on Schedule III; (b) all goodwill associated therewith or symbolized thereby; and (c) all other assets, rights and interests that uniquely reflect or embody such goodwill.

ARTICLE II

Guarantee

Section 2.01.    Guarantee . Each Guarantor hereby ratifies and affirms its unconditional guarantee made under Section 2.01 of the Existing Guarantee and Collateral Agreement and, for the avoidance of doubt, hereby unconditionally guarantees, jointly with the other Guarantors and severally, as a primary obligor and not merely as a surety, the due and punctual payment and performance of the Obligations. Each Guarantor further agrees that the Obligations may be extended or renewed, in whole or in part, without notice to or further assent from it, and that it will remain bound upon its guarantee notwithstanding any extension or renewal of any Obligation. Each Guarantor waives presentment to, demand of payment from and protest to the Borrowers 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 Guarantor 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 Borrowers or any other Person.

Section 2.03.    No Limitations, Etc . (a) Except for termination of a Guarantor’s obligations hereunder as expressly provided in Section 7.15, the obligations of each Guarantor 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, and shall not be subject to any defense or setoff, 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 Guarantor hereunder shall not be discharged or impaired or otherwise affected by (i) the failure of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party to assert any claim or demand or to exercise or enforce any right or remedy under the provisions of any Loan Document or otherwise; (ii) any rescission, waiver, amendment or modification of, or any release from any of the terms or provisions of, any Loan Document or any other agreement, including with respect to any other Guarantor under this Agreement; (iii) the failure to perfect any security interest in, or the release of, any security held by the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party for the Obligations; (iv) any default, failure or delay, wilful or otherwise, in the performance of the Obligations; (v) any other act or omission that may or might in any manner or to any extent vary the risk of any Guarantor or otherwise operate as a discharge of any Guarantor as a matter of law or equity (other than the indefeasible payment in full in cash of all the Obligations) or (vi) any law or regulation of any jurisdiction or any other event affecting any term of a guaranteed obligation. Each Guarantor expressly authorizes the Secured Parties to take and hold security 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 guarantors or obligors upon or in respect of the Obligations, all without affecting the obligations of any Guarantor hereunder.

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(b)    (i) To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, each Guarantor waives any defense based on or arising out of any defense of the Borrowers 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 Borrowers or any other Loan Party, other than the indefeasible payment in full in cash of all the Obligations. The Collateral Agent may, at its election, foreclose on any security held by it 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 Borrowers or any other Loan Party or exercise any other right or remedy available to them against the Borrowers or any other Loan Party, without affecting or impairing in any way the liability of any Guarantor 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 Guarantor 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 Guarantor against the Borrowers or any other Loan Party, as the case may be, or any security.

(ii)    Each Guarantor waives any right it may have to require the Collateral Agent or the Lenders to proceed against any Borrower or any other Guarantor, proceed against or exhaust any security held from any Borrower or any other Guarantor, or pursue any other remedy in their respective power to pursue, as well as any defense based on any claim that Guarantor’s obligations exceed or are more burdensome than those of any Borrower. To the extent that the laws of the State of California may be deemed to apply to the Guarantees, the rights which each Guarantor hereby waives include all rights of subordination, reimbursement, indemnification and contribution and any other rights and defenses that are or may become available to such Guarantor by reason of Section 2787 to 2855, inclusive, of the California Civil Code; provided that these waivers shall not limit the express rights of the Guarantors that are set forth in Sections 6.01 and 6.02 hereof.

(iii)    Each Guarantor understands and acknowledges that if the Collateral Agent forecloses judicially or nonjudicially against any real property security for the Obligations, such foreclosure could impair or destroy any right or ability that any Guarantor may have to seek reimbursement, contribution or indemnification for any amounts paid by such Guarantor under its Guarantee. To the extent that the laws of the State of California may be deemed to apply to the Guarantees, each Guarantor further understands and acknowledges that, in the absence of this waiver, such potential impairment or destruction of the Guarantor’s rights, if any, may entitle the Guarantor to assert a defense to its Guarantee based on California Code of Civil Procedure §580d as interpreted in Union Bank v. Gradsky , (1968) 265 CA 2d 40, 71 CR 64, on the grounds, among others, that a lender should be estopped from pursuing a guarantor when the lender’s election to foreclose has impaired or destroyed the guarantor’s rights of subrogation, reimbursement, contribution or indemnification rights. By execution of this Agreement, each Guarantor intentionally, freely, irrevocably, and unconditionally: (A) waives and relinquishes that defense and agrees that such Guarantor will be liable under its Guarantee even though the Collateral Agent had foreclosed judicially or nonjudicially against any real or personal property collateral for the Obligations or any of the Guarantees; and (B) agrees that such Guarantor will not assert that defense in any action or proceeding which the Collateral Agent or the Lenders may commence to enforce its Guarantee. Without limiting the foregoing, each Guarantor waives all rights and defenses arising out of an election of remedies by the Collateral Agent or the Lenders, even though that election of remedies, such as nonjudicial foreclosure with respect to security for a guaranteed obligation, has destroyed such Guarantor’s rights of subrogation and reimbursement against the principal or another Guarantor by the operation of Section 580d of the California Code of Civil Procedure.

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(iv)    To the extent that the laws of the State of California may be deemed to apply to the Guarantees, each Guarantor intentionally, freely, irrevocably and unconditionally waives and relinquishes all rights which may be available to it under any provision of California law or under any California judicial decision, including Section 580a and 726(b) of the California Code of Civil Procedure, to seek to limit the amount of any deficiency judgment or other judgment which may be obtained against such Guarantor under its Guarantee to not more than the amount by which the unpaid Obligations guaranteed hereby exceed the fair market value or fair value of any real or personal property securing said Obligations, including, without limitation, all rights to an appraisement of, judicial or other hearing on, or other determination of the value of said property.

(v)    To the extent that the laws of the State of California may be deemed to apply to the Guarantees, and without limiting any of the other waivers and provisions set forth herein, if the debt of any Borrower or another Guarantor’s Guarantee is secured by real property, each Guarantor hereby intentionally, freely, irrevocably and unconditionally waives all rights and defenses that Guarantor may have because the debt of such Borrower or another Guarantor’s Guarantee is secured by real property; this means, among other things: (A) the Collateral Agent and the Lenders may collect from that Guarantor without first foreclosing on any real or personal property collateral pledged by any Borrower or another Guarantor; (B) the amount of the Obligations may be reduced only by the price for which that collateral is sold at the foreclosure sale, even if the collateral is determined to be worth more than the sale price; and (C) the Collateral Agent and the Lenders may collect from that Guarantor even if the Collateral Agent, by foreclosing on the real property collateral, has destroyed any right the Guarantor may have to collect from such Borrower or another Guarantor. This is an unconditional and irrevocable waiver of any rights and defenses that such Guarantor may have under circumstances where the debt of any Borrower or another Guarantor’s Guarantee is secured by real property. These rights and defenses include, but are not limited to, any rights or defenses based upon Section 580a, 580b, 580d or 726 of the California Code of Civil Procedure.

Section 2.04.    Reinstatement . Each Guarantor 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 Administrative Agent or any other Secured Party upon the bankruptcy or reorganization of the Borrowers, any other Loan Party or otherwise.

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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 Guarantor by virtue hereof, upon the failure of the Borrowers 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 Guarantor 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 Guarantor of any sums to the Collateral Agent as provided above, all rights of such Guarantor against the Borrowers or any other Guarantor arising as a result thereof by way of right of subrogation, contribution, reimbursement, indemnity or otherwise shall in all respects be subject to Article VI.

Section 2.06.    Information . Each Guarantor assumes all responsibility for being and keeping itself informed of the Borrowers’ 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 Guarantor assumes and incurs hereunder, and agrees that none of the Collateral Agent or the other Secured Parties will have any duty to advise such Guarantor of information known to it or any of them regarding such circumstances or risks.

ARTICLE III

Pledge of Securities

Section 3.01.    Pledge . Each Grantor hereby ratifies and affirms its pledge, assignment and grant of security interests made pursuant to Section 3.01 of the Existing Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, and, for the avoidance of doubt, as security for the payment or performance, as the case may be, in full of the Obligations, each Grantor hereby assigns and 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 in all of such Grantor’s right, title and interest in, to and under (a) the shares of capital stock and other Equity Interests owned by it and listed on Schedule II and any other Equity Interests obtained in the future by such Grantor and the certificates representing all such Equity Interests (the " Pledged Stock "); provided that the Pledged Stock shall not include (i) more than 65% of the issued and outstanding voting Equity Interests of any Foreign Subsidiary, (ii) to the extent applicable law requires that a subsidiary of such Grantor issue directors’ qualifying shares, such qualifying shares or (iii) any Equity Interests received by Denny’s Holdings in respect of shares of Series A Cumulative Convertible Preferred Stock of Simeus Holdings, Inc. to the extent that, on the date such Equity Interests are received, the Equity Rights Agreement entered into as of August 30, 2001, by and among Simeus Holdings, Inc. and Denny’s Holdings restricts the pledge of such Equity Interests; (b)(i) the debt securities listed opposite the name of such Grantor on Schedule II, (ii) any debt securities in the future issued to such Grantor and (iii) the promissory notes and any other instruments, if any, evidencing such debt securities (the " Pledged Debt Securities "); (c) all other property that may be delivered to and held by the Collateral Agent pursuant to the terms of this Section 3.01; (d) subject to Section 3.06, all payments of principal or interest, dividends, cash, instruments and other property from time to time received, receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of, in exchange for or upon the conversion of, and all other Proceeds received in respect of, the securities referred to in clauses (a) and (b) above and the property referred to in clause (c) above; (e) subject to Section 3.06, all rights and privileges of such Grantor with respect to the securities and other property referred to in clauses (a), (b), (c) and (d) above; and (f) all Proceeds of any of the foregoing (the items referred to in clauses (a) through (f) above being collectively referred to as the " Pledged Collateral "). 

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TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the Pledged Collateral, together with all right, title, interest, powers, privileges and preferences pertaining or incidental thereto, unto the Collateral Agent, its successors and assigns, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, forever; subject , however , to the terms, covenants and conditions hereinafter set forth.

Section 3.02.    Delivery of the Pledged Collateral .

(a)    Each Grantor agrees promptly to deliver or cause to be delivered to the Collateral Agent certificates, instruments and other documents representing or evidencing any Pledged Securities having a value in excess of $10,000.

(b)    Each Grantor will cause any Indebtedness for borrowed money (other than trade debt incurred in the ordinary course of business) owed to such Grantor by any Person in excess of $10,000 in principal amount to be evidenced by a duly executed promissory note that is pledged and delivered to the Collateral Agent pursuant to the terms hereof.

(c)    Upon delivery to the Collateral Agent, (i) any Pledged Securities shall be accompanied by stock powers duly executed in blank or other instruments of transfer satisfactory to the Collateral Agent and by such other instruments and documents as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request to perfect its security interest therein and (ii) all other property composing part of the Pledged Collateral shall be accompanied by proper instruments of assignment duly executed by the applicable Grantor and such other instruments or documents as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request to perfect its security interest therein. Each delivery of Pledged Securities shall be accompanied by a schedule describing the securities, which schedule shall be attached hereto as Schedule II and made a part hereof; provided that failure to attach any such schedule hereto shall not affect the validity of such pledge of such Pledged Securities. Each schedule so delivered shall supplement any prior schedules so delivered.

Section 3.03.    Representations, Warranties and Covenants . The Grantors jointly and severally represent, warrant and covenant to and with the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, that:

(a)    Schedule II correctly sets forth the percentage of the issued and outstanding shares of each class of the Equity Interests of the issuer thereof represented by such Pledged Stock and includes all Equity Interests, debt securities and promissory notes required to be pledged hereunder in order to satisfy the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement;

(b)    the Pledged Stock and Pledged Debt Securities have been duly and validly authorized and issued by the issuers thereof and (i) in the case of Pledged Stock issued by a corporation, are fully paid and nonassessable, (ii) in the case of Pledged Debt Securities other than Pledged Debt Securities issued by Parent, any Borrower or any other Subsidiary, to the knowledge of the Grantor pledging any such Pledged Debt Securities, are legal, valid and binding obligations of the issuers thereof and (iii) in the case of Pledged Debt Securities issued by Parent, any Borrower or any other Subsidiary, are legal, valid and binding obligations of the issuer thereof;

(c)    except for the security interests granted hereunder, each Grantor (i) is and, subject to any transfers made in compliance with the Credit Agreement, will continue to be the direct owner, beneficially and of record, of the Pledged Securities indicated on Schedule II as owned by such Grantor, (ii) holds the same free and clear of all Liens, other than Liens created by this Agreement and Permitted Liens, (iii) will make no assignment, pledge, hypothecation or transfer of, or create or permit to exist any security interest in or other Lien on, the Pledged Collateral, other than Liens created by this Agreement and Permitted Liens and (iv) will defend its title or interest hereto or therein against any and all Liens (other than Liens created by this Agreement and Permitted Liens), however arising, of all Persons;

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(d)    except for restrictions and limitations imposed by the Loan Documents, the Pledged Collateral is and will continue to be freely transferable and assignable (subject to restrictions imposed under applicable law), and none of the Pledged Collateral is or will be subject to any option, right of first refusal, shareholders agreement, charter or by-law provisions or contractual restriction of any nature that might prohibit, impair, delay or otherwise affect the pledge of such Pledged Collateral hereunder, the sale or disposition thereof pursuant hereto or the exercise by the Collateral Agent of rights and remedies hereunder;

(e)    each Grantor has the power and authority to pledge the Pledged Collateral pledged by it hereunder in the manner hereby done or contemplated;

(f)    no consent or approval of any Governmental Authority, any securities exchange or any other Person was or is necessary to the validity of the pledge effected hereby (other than such as have been obtained and are in full force and effect);

(g)    by virtue of the execution and delivery by the Grantors of this Agreement, when any Pledged Securities are delivered to the Collateral Agent in accordance with this Agreement, the Collateral Agent will obtain a legal, valid and perfected first priority lien upon and security interest in such Pledged Securities as security for the payment and performance of the Obligations; and

(h)    the pledge effected hereby is effective to vest in the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, the rights of the Collateral Agent in the Pledged Collateral as set forth herein.

Section 3.04.    Certification of Limited Liability Company and Limited Partnership Interests . Each interest in any limited liability company or limited partnership controlled by any Grantor and pledged hereunder shall be represented by a certificate, shall be a "security" within the meaning of Article 8 of the New York UCC and shall be governed by Article 8 of the New York UCC.

Section 3.05.    Registration in Nominee Name; Denominations . The Collateral Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, shall have the right (in its sole and absolute discretion) to hold the Pledged Securities in its own name as pledgee, the name of its nominee (as pledgee or as sub-agent) or the name of the applicable Grantor, endorsed or assigned in blank or in favor of the Collateral Agent. Upon Collateral Agent’s request, each Grantor will promptly give to the Collateral Agent copies of any notices or other communications received by it with respect to Pledged Securities registered in the name of such Grantor. The Collateral Agent shall at all times have the right to exchange the certificates representing Pledged Securities for certificates of smaller or larger denominations for any purpose consistent with this Agreement.

Section 3.06.    Voting Rights; Dividends and Interest, etc . (a) Unless and until an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing:

(i)    Each Grantor shall be entitled to exercise any and all voting and/or other consensual rights and powers inuring to an owner of Pledged Securities or any part thereof for any purpose consistent with the terms of this Agreement, the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents; provided that such rights and powers shall not be exercised in any manner that could materially and adversely affect the rights inuring to a holder of any Pledged Securities, the rights and remedies of any of the Collateral Agent or the other Secured Parties under this Agreement, the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document or the ability of the Secured Parties to exercise the same.

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(ii)    Subject to paragraphs (b) and (c) of this Section 3.06, the Collateral Agent authorizes each Grantor to exercise the voting and/or consensual rights and powers it is entitled to exercise pursuant to subparagraph (i) above and to receive the cash dividends it is entitled to receive pursuant to subparagraph (iii) below.

(iii)    Each Grantor shall be entitled to receive and retain any and all dividends, interest, principal and other distributions paid on or distributed in respect of the Pledged Securities to the extent and only to the extent that such dividends, interest, principal and other distributions are permitted by, and otherwise paid or distributed in accordance with, the terms and conditions of the Credit Agreement, the other Loan Documents and applicable laws; provided that any noncash dividends, interest, principal or other distributions that would constitute Pledged Stock or Pledged Debt Securities, whether resulting from a subdivision, combination or reclassification of the outstanding Equity Interests of the issuer of any Pledged Securities or received in exchange for Pledged Securities or any part thereof, or in redemption thereof, or as a result of any merger, consolidation, acquisition or other exchange of assets to which such issuer may be a party or otherwise, shall be and become part of the Pledged Collateral, and, if received by any Grantor, shall not be commingled by such Grantor with any of its other funds or property but shall be held separate and apart therefrom, shall be held in trust for the benefit of the Collateral Agent and shall be forthwith delivered to the Collateral Agent in the same form as so received (with any necessary endorsement).

(b)    Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, all rights of any Grantor to dividends, interest, principal or other distributions that such Grantor is authorized to receive pursuant to paragraph (a)(iii) of this Section 3.06 shall cease, and all such rights shall thereupon become vested in the Collateral Agent, which shall have the sole and exclusive right and authority to receive and retain such dividends, interest, principal or other distributions. All dividends, interest, principal or other distributions received by any Grantor contrary to the provisions of this Section 3.06 shall be held in trust for the benefit of the Collateral Agent, shall be segregated from other property or funds of such Grantor and shall be forthwith delivered to the Collateral Agent in the same form as so received (with any necessary endorsement). Any and all money and other property paid over to or received by the Collateral Agent pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph (b) shall be retained by the Collateral Agent in an account to be established by the Collateral Agent upon receipt of such money or other property and shall be applied in accordance with the provisions of Section 5.02. After all Events of Default have been cured or waived and the Borrowers have delivered to the Collateral Agent a certificate to that effect, the Collateral Agent shall promptly repay to each Grantor (w