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GUARANTEE AND COLLATERAL AGREEMENT

Guarantee Agreement

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Title: GUARANTEE AND COLLATERAL AGREEMENT
Governing Law: New York     Date: 4/7/2008
Industry: Personal Services     Sector: Services

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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

 

ARTICLE I Definitions

1

SECTION 1.01.

Credit Agreement

1

SECTION 1.02.

Other Defined Terms

1

ARTICLE II Guarantee

4

SECTION 2.01.

Guarantee

4

SECTION 2.02.

Guarantee of Payment

4

SECTION 2.03.

No Limitations

5

SECTION 2.04.

Reinstatement

6

SECTION 2.05.

Agreement To Pay; Subrogation

6

SECTION 2.06.

Information

6

SECTION 2.07.

Certain Waivers

6

SECTION 2.08.

Remedies

7

SECTION 2.09.

Rights of Contribution

7

ARTICLE III Pledge of Securities

7

SECTION 3.01.

Pledge

7

SECTION 3.02.

Delivery of the Pledged Collateral

7

SECTION 3.03.

Representations, Warranties and Covenants

8

SECTION 3.04.

Certification of Limited Liability Company and Limited Partnership Interests

9

SECTION 3.05.

Registration in Nominee Name; Denominations

9

SECTION 3.06.

Voting Rights; Dividends and Interest

9

ARTICLE IV Security Interests in Personal Property

11

SECTION 4.01

Security Interest

11

SECTION 4.02.

Representations and Warranties

12

SECTION 4.03.

Covenants

14

SECTION 4.04.

Other Actions

16

SECTION 4.05.

Covenants Regarding Patent, Trademark and Copyright Collateral

18

ARTICLE V Remedies

20

SECTION 5.01

Remedies Upon Default

20

SECTION 5.02.

Application of Proceeds

21

SECTION 5.03.

Grant of License to Use Intellectual Property

21

SECTION 5.04.

Securities Act

21

SECTION 5.05.

Registration

22

ARTICLE VI Indemnity, Subrogation and Subordination

23

SECTION 6.01

Indemnity and Subrogation

23

SECTION 6.02.

Contribution and Subrogation

23

SECTION 6.03.

Subordination

23

ARTICLE VII Miscellaneous

23

SECTION 7.01

Notices

23

SECTION 7.02.

Waivers; Amendment

24

SECTION 7.03.

Collateral Agent’s Fees and Expenses; Indemnification

24

SECTION 7.04.

Successors and Assigns

24

SECTION 7.05.

Survival of Agreement

24

SECTION 7.06.

Counterparts; Effectiveness; Several Agreement

25

SECTION 7.07.

Severability

25

SECTION 7.08.

Right of Set-Off

25

SECTION 7.09.

Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process

25

SECTION 7.10.

WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL

26

SECTION 7.11.

Headings

26

SECTION 7.12.

Security Interest Absolute

26

 



 

SECTION 7.13.

Termination or Release

27

SECTION 7.14.

Additional Subsidiaries

27

SECTION 7.15.

Collateral Agent Appointed Attorney-in-Fact

27

SECTION 7.16.

Joint and Several Obligations of Grantors

28

 



 

Schedules

 

Schedule I

 

Guarantors

Schedule II

 

Pledged Stock; Debt Securities

Schedule III

 

Intellectual Property

Schedule IV

 

Commercial Tort Claims

Schedule V

 

Insurance Requirements

Schedule VI

 

Deposit Accounts

 

Exhibits

 

Exhibit I

 

Form of Supplement

Exhibit II

 

Form of Stock Power

Exhibit III

 

Form of Notice of Grant of Security Interests in Patents

Exhibit IV

 

Form of Notice of Grant of Security Interests in Trademarks

Exhibit V

 

Form of Notice of Grant of Security Interests in Copyrights

 



 

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 ”):

 

(i)

 

all Accounts;

 

 

 

(ii)

 

all Chattel Paper;

 

 

 

(iii)

 

all cash and Deposit Accounts;

 

 

 

(iv)

 

all Documents;

 

 

 

(v)

 

all Equipment;

 

 

 

(vi)

 

all General Intangibles;

 

 

 

(vii)

 

all Instruments;

 

 

 

(viii)

 

all Inventory;

 

 

 

(ix)

 

all Investment Property;

 

 

 

(x)

 

Letter of Credit rights;

 

 

 

(xi)

 

all commercial tort claims against any Grantor (as identified on Schedule IV hereto);

 

 

 

(xii)

 

all books and records pertaining to the Article 9 Collateral; and

 

 

 

(xiii)

 

to the extent not otherwise included, all Proceeds and products of any and all of the foregoing and all

collateral security and guarantees given by any Person with respect to any of the foregoing;

 

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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