Exhibit 10.7
GUARANTEE AND
COLLATERAL AGREEMENT
dated as of
April 1,
2008,
among
MAC-GRAY
CORPORATION,
MAC-GRAY SERVICES,
INC.,
INTIRION
CORPORATION,
THE SUBSIDIARIES OF THE
BORROWERS
IDENTIFIED HEREIN
and
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
as Collateral Agent
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I
Definitions
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1
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SECTION 1.01.
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Credit
Agreement
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1
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SECTION 1.02.
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Other Defined
Terms
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1
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ARTICLE II
Guarantee
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4
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SECTION 2.01.
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Guarantee
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4
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SECTION 2.02.
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Guarantee of
Payment
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4
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SECTION 2.03.
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No
Limitations
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5
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SECTION 2.04.
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Reinstatement
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6
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SECTION 2.05.
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Agreement To Pay;
Subrogation
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6
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SECTION 2.06.
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Information
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6
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SECTION 2.07.
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Certain
Waivers
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6
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SECTION 2.08.
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Remedies
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7
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SECTION 2.09.
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Rights of
Contribution
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7
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ARTICLE III Pledge of
Securities
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7
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SECTION 3.01.
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Pledge
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7
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SECTION 3.02.
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Delivery of the
Pledged Collateral
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7
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SECTION 3.03.
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Representations,
Warranties and Covenants
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8
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SECTION 3.04.
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Certification of
Limited Liability Company and Limited Partnership
Interests
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9
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SECTION 3.05.
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Registration in
Nominee Name; Denominations
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9
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SECTION 3.06.
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Voting Rights;
Dividends and Interest
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9
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ARTICLE IV Security
Interests in Personal Property
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11
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SECTION 4.01
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Security
Interest
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11
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SECTION 4.02.
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Representations
and Warranties
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12
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SECTION 4.03.
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Covenants
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14
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SECTION 4.04.
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Other
Actions
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16
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SECTION 4.05.
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Covenants
Regarding Patent, Trademark and Copyright Collateral
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18
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ARTICLE V
Remedies
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20
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SECTION 5.01
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Remedies Upon
Default
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20
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SECTION 5.02.
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Application of
Proceeds
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21
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SECTION 5.03.
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Grant of License
to Use Intellectual Property
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21
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SECTION 5.04.
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Securities
Act
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21
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SECTION 5.05.
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Registration
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22
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ARTICLE VI Indemnity,
Subrogation and Subordination
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SECTION 6.01
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Indemnity and
Subrogation
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23
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SECTION 6.02.
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Contribution and
Subrogation
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23
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SECTION 6.03.
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Subordination
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23
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ARTICLE VII
Miscellaneous
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23
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SECTION 7.01
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Notices
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23
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SECTION 7.02.
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Waivers;
Amendment
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24
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SECTION 7.03.
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Collateral
Agent’s Fees and Expenses; Indemnification
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24
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SECTION 7.04.
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Successors and
Assigns
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24
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SECTION 7.05.
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Survival of
Agreement
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24
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SECTION 7.06.
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Counterparts;
Effectiveness; Several Agreement
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25
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SECTION 7.07.
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Severability
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25
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SECTION 7.08.
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Right of
Set-Off
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25
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SECTION 7.09.
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Governing Law;
Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process
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25
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SECTION 7.10.
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WAIVER OF JURY
TRIAL
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26
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SECTION 7.11.
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Headings
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26
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SECTION 7.12.
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Security Interest
Absolute
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26
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SECTION 7.13.
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Termination or
Release
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27
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SECTION 7.14.
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Additional
Subsidiaries
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27
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SECTION 7.15.
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Collateral Agent
Appointed Attorney-in-Fact
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27
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SECTION 7.16.
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Joint and Several
Obligations of Grantors
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Schedules
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Schedule I
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Guarantors
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Schedule II
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Pledged Stock; Debt
Securities
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Schedule III
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Intellectual
Property
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Schedule IV
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Commercial Tort
Claims
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Schedule V
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Insurance
Requirements
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Schedule VI
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Deposit
Accounts
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Exhibits
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Exhibit I
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Form of
Supplement
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Exhibit II
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Form of Stock
Power
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Exhibit III
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Form of Notice of
Grant of Security Interests in Patents
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Exhibit IV
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Form of Notice of
Grant of Security Interests in Trademarks
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Exhibit V
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Form of Notice of
Grant of Security Interests in Copyrights
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GUARANTEE AND
COLLATERAL AGREEMENT dated as of April 1, 2008 (as amended,
restated, supplemented and otherwise modified from time to time,
this “ Agreement ”, among Mac-Gray Corporation
(the “ Parent Borrower ”), Mac-Gray
Services, Inc. (“ Services ”),
Intirion Corporation (together with the Parent Borrower and
Services, the “ Borrowers ”), the Subsidiaries
of the Borrowers identified herein and Bank of America, N.A., as
Collateral Agent (together with its successors in such capacity,
the “ Collateral Agent ”).
Reference is made
to the Senior Secured Credit Agreement dated as of April 1,
2008 (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from
time to time, the “ Credit Agreement ”), among
the Borrowers, the Lenders party thereto and Bank of America, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent. The Lenders
have agreed to extend credit to the Borrowers subject to the terms
and conditions set forth in the Credit Agreement. The
obligations of the Lenders to extend such credit are conditioned
upon, among other things, the execution and delivery of this
Agreement. The Guarantors are subsidiaries and 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. Accordingly, the parties
hereto agree 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 1.02 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:
“ 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.
“
Agreement ” has the meaning assigned to such term in
the preliminary statement of this Agreement.
“
Article 9 Collateral ” has the meaning assigned
to such term in Section 4.01 .
“
Claiming Party ” has the meaning assigned to such term
in Section 6.02 .
“
Collateral ” means Article 9 Collateral and
Pledged Collateral.
“
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 such
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 such 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 , and all renewals thereof.
“ Credit
Agreement ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the
preliminary statement of this Agreement.
“ Deposit
Account Control Agreement ” means any agreement approved
by the Collateral Agent in its reasonable discretion, among the
applicable Grantor, the Collateral Agent and the applicable
depositary bank.
“ Federal
Securities Laws ” has the meaning assigned to such term
in Section 5.04 .
“
Financial Asset ” has the meaning specified in
Section 8-102(a)(9) of the New York UCC.
“ General
Intangibles ” means such term as defined in the New York
UCC, including all choses in action and causes of action and all
other intangible personal property 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, Swap Agreements and other
agreements), 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.
“
Grantors ” means the Borrowers and the
Guarantors.
“
Guarantors ” means (a) the Borrowers,
(b) the Subsidiaries identified on Schedule I and
(c) each other Subsidiary that becomes a party to this
Agreement as a Guarantor after the Closing Date.
“
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, confidential or
proprietary technical and business information, know-how and
show-how.
“
License ” means any Patent License, Trademark License,
Copyright License or other license or sublicense agreement to which
any Grantor is a party, including those listed on Schedule
III .
“ 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, when and
as due, including payments in respect of reimbursement of
disbursements, interest thereon and obligations to provide Cash
Collateral and (iii) all other monetary obligations of any 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 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
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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.
“ 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 or in connection with
each Swap Agreement that (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 Swap Agreement is entered into (even if
that counterparty should subsequently cease to be a Lender (or an
Affiliate of a Lender)) and (c) the due and punctual payment
and performance of all obligations in respect of overdrafts and
related liabilities owed to the Administrative Agent (in its
individual capacity), any Lender or any of their respective
Affiliates and arising from treasury, depositary and cash
management services in connection with any automated clearinghouse
transfers of funds.
“ 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.
“ 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 .
“
Proceeds ” has the meaning specified in
Section 9-102 of the New York UCC.
“ 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, (c) the Collateral
Agent, (d) the L/C Issuer, (e) each counterparty to any
Swap Agreement with a Loan Party the obligations under which
constitute Obligations, (f) the beneficiaries of each
indemnification
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obligation undertaken
by any Loan Party under any Loan Document and (g) the
successors and assigns of each of the foregoing.
“
Security Interest ” has the meaning assigned to such
term in Section 4.01 .
“
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, and the goodwill associated therewith, 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 unconditionally guarantees, jointly with the other
Guarantors and severally, as a primary obligor and not merely as a
surety, the due and punctual payment in full when due and
performance of the Obligations. Each of the Guarantors
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 of the
Guarantors waives diligence, 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 and any requirement that the Collateral
Agent or any Secured Party exhaust any right, power or remedy or
proceed against any Person under any of the Loan Documents or any
other documents relating to the Obligations or any other agreement
or instrument referred to therein, or against any other Person
under any other guarantee of, or security for, any of the
Obligations .
SECTION 2.02.
Guarantee of Payment
. (a) Each of the Guarantors further
agrees that its guarantee hereunder constitutes a continuing
guarantee of payment in full when due (whether at stated maturity,
as a mandatory prepayment, by acceleration, as a mandatory cash
collateralization or otherwise) strictly in accordance with the
terms thereof 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. The Guarantors hereby further agree
that if any of the Obligations are not paid in full when due
(whether at stated maturity, as a mandatory prepayment, by
acceleration, as a mandatory cash collateralization or otherwise),
the Guarantors will, jointly and severally, promptly pay the same,
without any demand or notice whatsoever, and that in the case of
any extension of time of payment or renewal of any of the
Obligations, the same will be promptly paid in full when due
(whether at extended maturity, as a mandatory prepayment, by
acceleration,
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as a mandatory cash
collateralization or otherwise) in accordance with the terms of
such extension or renewal.
(b)
Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained herein, in
any other of the Loan Documents, Swap Agreements or other documents
relating to the Obligations, the obligations of each
Guarantor under this Agreement
and the other Loan Documents shall be limited to an
aggregate amount equal to the largest amount that would not render
such obligations subject to avoidance under the Debtor Relief Laws
or any comparable provisions of any applicable state law.
SECTION 2.03.
No Limitations .
(a) Except for termination of a
Guarantor’s obligations hereunder as expressly provided in
Section 7.13 , 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 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
Guarantor hereunder 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 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 release of 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; (v) any Lien granted to, or in favor
of, the Collateral Agent or any Secured Party as security for any
of the Obligations shall fail to attach or be perfected;
(vi) any of the Obligations shall be determined to be void or
voidable (including, without limitation, for the benefit of any
creditor of any Guarantor) or shall be subordinated to the claims
of any Person (including, without limitation, any creditor of any
Guarantor); or (vii) 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). Each Guarantor
expressly authorizes the Collateral Agent 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 its 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.
(b)
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 (other than
contingent indemnification obligations that survive the termination
of the Loan Documents) in cash of all the Obligations , irrespective of any other circumstance
whatsoever that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable
discharge or defense of a surety or guarantor, it being the intent
of this Section 2.03 that the obligations of the
Guarantors hereunder shall be absolute and unconditional under any
and all circumstances . The Collateral Agent and the
other Secured Parties may, at their election, foreclose on any
security held by one or more of them 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
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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.
SECTION 2.04.
Reinstatement .
Each of the Guarantors 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 Borrowers, any other Loan Party or otherwise. The
obligations of the Guarantors
under this Article II shall be automatically reinstated
if and to the extent that for any reason any payment by or on
behalf of any Person in respect of the Obligations is rescinded or
must be otherwise restored by any holder of any of the Obligations,
whether as a result of any proceedings pursuant to any Debtor
Relief Law or otherwise, and each Guarantor agrees that it will
indemnify the Collateral Agent and each Secured Party on demand for
all reasonable costs and expenses (including all reasonable
fees, expenses and disbursements of one outside law firm and
reasonably necessary special and local counsel ) incurred by the Collateral Agent or such
Secured Party in connection with such rescission or restoration,
including any such costs and expenses incurred in defending against
any claim alleging that such payment constituted a preference,
fraudulent transfer or similar payment under any Debtor Relief
Law.
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 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 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.
SECTION 2.07.
Certain Waivers .
Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that (a) the guaranty
given hereby may be enforced without the necessity of resorting to
or otherwise exhausting remedies in respect of any other security
or collateral interests, and without the necessity at any time of
having to take recourse against any Borrower hereunder or against
any collateral securing the Obligations or otherwise, (b) it
will not assert any right to require the action first be taken
against any Borrower or any other Person (including any
co-guarantor) or pursuit of any other remedy or enforcement any
other right and (c) nothing contained herein shall prevent or
limit action being taken against any Borrower hereunder, under the
other Loan Documents or the other documents and agreements relating
to the Obligations or from foreclosing on any security or
collateral interests relating hereto or thereto, or from exercising
any other rights or remedies available in respect thereof and the
exercise of any such rights and completion of any such foreclosure
proceedings shall not constitute a discharge of the
Guarantors’ obligations hereunder unless as a result thereof,
the Obligations shall have been paid in full and the commitments
relating thereto shall have expired or been terminated, it being
the purpose and intent that the Guarantors’ obligations
hereunder be absolute, irrevocable, independent and unconditional
under all circumstances.
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SECTION 2.08.
Remedies .
The Guarantors agree that, to the fullest extent
permitted by law, as between the Guarantors, on the one hand, and
the Collateral Agent and the Secured Parties, on the other hand,
the Obligations may be declared to be forthwith due and payable to
the extent provided in Section 8.01 of the Credit Agreement
(and shall be deemed to have become automatically due and payable
in the circumstances provided in Section 8.01 of the Credit
Agreement) for purposes of this Article II ,
notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition
preventing such declaration (or preventing the Obligations from
becoming automatically due and payable) as against any other Person
and that, in the event of such declaration (or the Obligations
being deemed to have become automatically due and payable), the
Obligations (whether or not due and payable by any other Person)
shall forthwith become due and payable by the Guarantors for
purposes of this Article II . The Guarantors
acknowledge and agree that the Obligations are secured in
accordance with the terms hereof and that the Secured Parties may
exercise their remedies hereunder in accordance with the terms
hereof.
SECTION 2.09.
Rights of Contribution
. The Guarantors
hereby agree as among themselves that, in connection with payments
made hereunder, each Guarantor shall have a right of contribution
from each other Guarantor in accordance with applicable Law.
Such contribution rights shall be subordinate and subject in right
of payment to the Obligations until such time as the Obligations
have been irrevocably paid in full (other than contingent
indemnification obligations that survive the termination of the
Loan Documents) and the commitments relating thereto shall have
expired or been terminated, and none of the Guarantors shall
exercise any such contribution rights until the Obligations have
been irrevocably paid in full (other than contingent
indemnification obligations that survive the termination of the
Loan Documents) and the commitments relating thereto shall have
expired or been terminated.
ARTICLE III
Pledge of Securities
SECTION 3.01.
Pledge . 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 ratable
benefit of the Secured Parties, and hereby grants to the Collateral
Agent, its successors and assigns, for the ratable 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, which, as of
the Closing Date are listed on Schedule II , and any other
Equity Interests obtained in the future by such Grantor and the
certificates, if any, representing all such Equity Interests (the
“ Pledged Stock ”); provided that the
Pledged Stock shall not include more than 65% of the issued and
outstanding voting Equity Interests of any Foreign Subsidiary,
(b) the debt securities owned by it, which, as of the Closing
Date are listed opposite the name of such Grantor on Schedule
II and any debt securities in the future issued to such Grantor
and the promissory notes and any other instruments 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, (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 (e) above being collectively
referred to as the “ Pledged Collateral ”).
SECTION 3.02.
Delivery of the Pledged
Collateral . (a) Each Grantor
agrees promptly to deliver or cause to be delivered to the
Collateral Agent any and all certificated Pledged Securities.
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(b)
Each Grantor will cause any Indebtedness for borrowed money owed to
such Grantor by any Person to be evidenced by a duly executed
promissory note that is pledged and delivered to the Collateral
Agent, together with any necessary undated indorsement executed in
blank, pursuant to the terms hereof.
(c)
Upon delivery to the Collateral Agent, (i) any certificated
Pledged Securities shall be accompanied by undated stock powers,
substantially in the form of Exhibit II hereto, 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 and (ii) all other
property comprising 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. 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 units of each class of the Equity Interests
of the issuer thereof represented by the 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, are not
subject to any preemptive rights, warrants, options or other rights
to purchase of any Person, or equity holder, voting trust or
similar agreements outstanding with respect thereto, except to the
extent not prohibited under the Loan Documents, and (i) in the
case of Pledged Stock of issuers that are corporations, are fully
paid and nonassessable and (ii) in the case of Pledged Debt
Securities, are legal, valid and binding obligations of the issuers
thereof; provided , however , that to the extent the
Pledged Stock and Pledged Debt Securities are issued by Persons
which are not Subsidiaries, each representation and warranty made
in this clause (b) is made only to the Grantor’s
knowledge;
(c)
except for the security interests granted hereunder, each of the
Grantors (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 other than
sales, dispositions and other transfers not prohibited by the
Credit Agreement, (ii) holds the same free and clear of all
Liens, other than Liens created by this Agreement, Permitted
Encumbrances and transfers made in compliance with the Credit
Agreement, (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, Permitted Encumbrances
and transfers made in compliance with the Credit Agreement,
(iv) will defend its title or interest thereto or therein
against any and all Liens (other than the Lien created by this
Agreement and Permitted Encumbrances), however arising, of all
Persons whomsoever and (v) has good and indefeasible title to
the Pledged Securities and, to such Loan Party’s knowledge,
there exists no “adverse claim” within the meaning of
Section 1-203 of the New York UCC;
(d)
except for restrictions and limitations imposed by the Loan
Documents or securities laws generally, the Pledged Collateral is
and will continue to be freely transferable and assignable, and
none of
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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 of the Grantors 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 of the Pledged Collateral effected hereby
(other than such as have been obtained and are in full force and
effect); and
(g)
by virtue of the execution and delivery by the Grantors of this
Agreement, when any certificated 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.
SECTION 3.04.
Certification of Limited Liability Company
and Limited Partnership Interests .
Each interest in any limited liability company or limited
partnership in which any Grantor holds more than a 50% interest in
the voting and total equity interests 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 certificated 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. Each Grantor will promptly give to the Collateral
Agent copies of any material notices or other communications
received by it in its capacity as holder of and 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 certificated Pledged Securities for
certificates of smaller or larger denominations for any purpose
consistent with this Agreement.
SECTION 3.06.
Voting Rights; Dividends and
Interest . (a) Unless and until an
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and the
Collateral Agent shall have notified the Grantors that their rights
under this Section 3.06 are being suspended:
(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 or the rights and remedies of any of the Collateral
Agent or the other Secured Parties under this Agreement or the
Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document or the ability of the
Secured Parties to exercise the same.
(ii)
The Collateral Agent shall execute and deliver to each Grantor, or
cause to be executed and delivered to such Grantor, all such
proxies, powers of attorney and other instruments as such Grantor
may reasonably request for the purpose of enabling such Grantor to
exercise the voting and/or consensual rights and powers it is
entitled to exercise pursuant to subparagraph
(i) above.
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(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, if certificated, 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, after the Collateral Agent shall have notified the
Grantors of the suspension of their rights under paragraph
(a)(iii) of this Section 3.06 , then 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 upon demand 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 8.02 of the Credit Agreement. After all
Events of Default have been cured or waived, the Collateral Agent
shall promptly repay to each Grantor (without interest) all
dividends, interest, principal or other distributions that such
Grantor would otherwise be permitted to retain pursuant to the
terms of paragraph (a)(iii) of this Section 3.06
and that remain in such account.
(c)
Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of
Default, after the Collateral Agent shall have notified the
Grantors of the suspension of their rights under paragraph
(a)(i) of this Section 3.06 , all rights of any
Grantor to exercise the voting and consensual rights and powers it
is entitled to exercise pursuant to paragraph (a)(i) of this
Section 3.06 and the obligations of the Collateral
Agent under paragraph (a)(ii) 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 exercise such voting and consensual rights and
powers; provided that, unless otherwise directed by the
Required Lenders, the Collateral Agent shall have the right from
time to time following and during the continuance of an Event of
Default to permit the Grantors to exercise such rights.
(d)
Any notice given by the Collateral Agent to the Grantors suspending
their rights under paragraph (a) of this
Section 3.06 (i) may be given by telephone if
promptly confirmed in writing, (ii) may be given to one or
more of the Grantors at the same or different times and
(iii) may suspend the rights of the Grantors under paragraph
(a)(i) or paragraph (a)(iii) in part without suspending
all such rights (as specified by the Collateral Agent in its sole
and absolute discretion) and without waiving or
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otherwise affecting the
Collateral Agent’s rights to give additional notices from
time to time suspending other rights so long as an Event of Default
has occurred and is continuing.
ARTICLE IV
Security Interests in Personal
Property
SECTION 4.01
Security Interest
. (a) As
security for the payment or performance, as the case may be, in
full when due, whether by lapse of time, acceleration, mandatory
prepayment or otherwise of the Obligations, each Grantor hereby
assigns and pledges to the Collateral Agent, its successors and
assigns, for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties, and hereby
grants to the Collateral Agent, its successors and assigns, for the
ratable benefit of the Secured Parties, a security interest (the
“ Security Interest ”) in all right, title or
interest in or to any and all of the following assets and
properties 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
“ Article 9 Collateral ”):
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Accounts;
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(ii)
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all Chattel
Paper;
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(iii)
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all cash and Deposit
Accounts;
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(iv)
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Documents;
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(v)
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all
Equipment;
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all General
Intangibles;
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Instruments;
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(viii)
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Inventory;
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(ix)
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all Investment
Property;
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(x)
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Letter of Credit
rights;
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(xi)
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all commercial tort
claims against any Grantor (as identified on Schedule IV
hereto);
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(xii)
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all books and records
pertaining to the Article 9 Collateral; and
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(xiii)
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to the extent not
otherwise included, all Proceeds and products of any and all of the
foregoing and all
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collateral security and
guarantees given by any Person with respect to any of the
foregoing;
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Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained herein, the security interests
granted under this Agreement shall not extend to and the definition
of Collateral and Article 9 Collateral shall not include any
permit, lease, license, contract or instrument now or hereafter in
effect of a Grantor if the grant of a security interest in such
permit, lease, license, contract or instrument in a manner
contemplated by this
Agreement, under the terms thereof or under applicable Law, is
prohibited and would result in the
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termination thereof or
give the other parties thereto the right to terminate, accelerate
or otherwise materially and adversely alter such Grantor’s
rights, titles and interests thereunder (including upon the giving
of notice or the lapse of time or both); provided, however that
(A) such security interest, to the extent severable, shall
attach immediately to any portion of such permit, lease, license, contract or
instrument that does not result in any of the consequences
specified above; and (B) the foregoing exclusion shall not in
any way limit, impair or otherwise affect the Collateral
Agent’s continuing liens upon rights or interests of the
Grantors in or to (I) monies due or to become due in respect
of such permit, lease, license, contract or instrument or
(II) any and all proceeds from the sale, transfer, assignment,
license, lease or other disposition of such permit, lease, license,
contract or instrument (provided that this requirement shall not
constitute consent by the Collateral Agent or any Secured Party to
any such sale, transfer, assignment, license, lease or other
disposition that is prohibited by the Loan Documents).
(b)
Each Grantor hereby irrevocably authorizes the Collateral Agent at
any time and from time to time to file in any relevant jurisdiction
any initial financing statements (including fixture filings) with
respect to the Article 9 Collateral or any part thereof and
amendments thereto that (i) indicate the Collateral as all
assets of such Pledgor, and (ii) 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 (A) whether such Grantor is an
organization, the type of organization and any organizational
identification number issued to such Grantor and (B) in the
case of a fina
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