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Exhibit 10.2
Execution Version
GUARANTY
GUARANTY, dated as of May 1, 2006 (this "Guaranty"), by each of
the
entities listed on the signature pages hereof or that becomes a
party hereto
pursuant to Section 24 (Additional Guarantors) hereof (each a
"Subsidiary
Guarantor" and individually a "Guarantor"), in favor of the
Administrative
Agent, each Lender, each Issuer and each other holder of an
Obligation (as each
such term is defined in the Credit Agreement referred to below)
(each, a
"Guarantied Party" and, collectively, the "Guarantied
Parties").
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Credit Agreement dated as of May __,
2006
(together with all appendices, exhibits and schedules thereto and
as the same
may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from
time to time,
the "Credit Agreement"; capitalized terms used herein but not
otherwise defined
herein shall have the meanings provided to them in the Credit
Agreement) among
WCI Steel Acquisition, Inc. (the "Borrower"), the Lenders and
Issuers party
thereto and Citicorp USA, Inc., as agent for the Lenders and
Issuers (in such
capacity, the "Administrative Agent"), the Lenders and Issuers have
severally
agreed to make extensions of credit to the Borrower upon the terms
and subject
to the conditions set forth therein;
WHEREAS, each Guarantor is a direct or indirect Subsidiary of
the
Borrower;
WHEREAS, each Guarantor will receive substantial direct and
indirect
benefits from the making of the Loans, the issuance of the Letters
of Credit and
the granting of the other financial accommodations to the Borrower
under the
Credit Agreement; and
WHEREAS, a condition precedent to the obligation of the Lenders
and
the Issuers to make their respective extensions of credit to the
Borrower under
the Credit Agreement is that the Guarantors shall have executed and
delivered
this Guaranty for the benefit of the Guarantied Parties.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises set forth above,
the
terms and conditions contained herein, and other good and
valuable
consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby
acknowledged, the
parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
SECTION 1 GUARANTY
(a) To induce the Lenders to make the Loans and the Issuers to
issue
Letters of Credit, each Guarantor hereby absolutely,
unconditionally and
irrevocably guarantees, jointly with the other Guarantors and
severally, as a
primary obligor and not merely as a surety, the full and punctual
payment when
due and in the currency due, whether at stated maturity or earlier,
by reason of
acceleration, mandatory prepayment or otherwise in accordance
herewith or any
other Loan Document, of all the Obligations, whether or not from
time to time
reduced or extinguished or hereafter increased or incurred, whether
or not
recovery may be or hereafter may become barred by any statute of
limitations,
whether or not enforceable as against the Borrower, whether now or
hereafter
existing, and whether due or to become due, including principal,
interest
(including interest at the contract rate applicable upon default
accrued or
accruing after the commencement of any proceeding under the
Bankruptcy Code, or
any applicable provisions of comparable state or foreign law,
whether or not
such interest is an allowed claim in such
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proceeding), reasonable fees and costs of collection. This Guaranty
constitutes
a guaranty of payment and not of collection.
(b) Each Guarantor further agrees that, if (i) any payment made
by
Borrower or any other Person and applied to the Obligations is at
any time
annulled, avoided, set aside, rescinded, invalidated, declared to
be fraudulent
or preferential or otherwise required to be refunded or repaid, or
(ii) the
proceeds of Collateral are required to be returned by any
Guarantied Party to
the Borrower, its estate, trustee, receiver or any other party,
including any
Guarantor, under any bankruptcy law, equitable cause or any other
Requirement of
Law, then, to the extent of such payment or repayment, any such
Guarantor's
liability hereunder (and any Lien or other Collateral securing such
liability)
shall be and remain in full force and effect, as fully as if such
payment had
never been made. If, prior to any of the foregoing, this Guaranty
shall have
been cancelled or surrendered (and if any Lien or other Collateral
securing such
Guarantor's liability hereunder shall have been released or
terminated by virtue
of such cancellation or surrender), this Guaranty (and such Lien or
other
Collateral) shall be reinstated in full force and effect, and such
prior
cancellation or surrender shall not diminish, release, discharge,
impair or
otherwise affect the obligations of any such Guarantor in respect
of the amount
of such payment (or any Lien or other Collateral securing such
obligation).
SECTION 2 LIMITATION OF GUARANTY
Any term or provision of this Guaranty or any other Loan Document
to
the contrary notwithstanding, the maximum aggregate amount of the
Obligations
for which any Subsidiary Guarantor shall be liable shall not exceed
the maximum
amount for which such Subsidiary Guarantor can be liable without
rendering such
Subsidiary Guarantor's obligations under this Guaranty or any other
Loan
Document, as it relates to such Subsidiary Guarantor, subject to
avoidance under
applicable law relating to fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent
transfer
(including Section 548 of the Bankruptcy Code or any applicable
provisions of
comparable state law) (collectively, "Fraudulent Transfer Laws"),
in each case
after giving effect (a) to all other liabilities of such Subsidiary
Guarantor,
contingent or otherwise, that are relevant under such Fraudulent
Transfer Laws
(specifically excluding, however, any liabilities of such
Subsidiary Guarantor
in respect of intercompany Indebtedness to the Borrower to the
extent that such
Indebtedness would be discharged in an amount equal to the amount
paid by such
Subsidiary Guarantor hereunder) and (b) to the value as assets of
such
Subsidiary Guarantor (as determined under the applicable provisions
of such
Fraudulent Transfer Laws) of any rights to subrogation,
contribution,
reimbursement, indemnity or similar rights held by such Subsidiary
Guarantor
pursuant to (i) applicable Requirements of Law, (ii) Section 3
(Contribution) of
this Guaranty or (iii) any other Contractual Obligations providing
for an
equitable allocation among such Subsidiary Guarantor and other
Subsidiaries or
Affiliates of the Borrower of obligations arising under this
Guaranty or other
guaranties of the Obligations by such parties.
SECTION 3 CONTRIBUTION
To the extent that any Subsidiary Guarantor shall be required
hereunder to pay a portion of the Obligations exceeding the greater
of (a) the
amount of the economic benefit actually received by such Subsidiary
Guarantor
from the Revolving Loans and the other financial accommodations
provided to the
Borrower under the Loan Documents and (b) the amount such
Subsidiary Guarantor
would otherwise have paid if such Subsidiary Guarantor had paid the
aggregate
amount of the Obligations (excluding the amount thereof repaid by
the Borrower
and the Borrower) in the same proportion as such Subsidiary
Guarantor's net
worth at the date enforcement is sought hereunder bears to the
aggregate net
worth of all the Subsidiary Guarantors at the date
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enforcement is sought hereunder, then such Guarantor shall be
reimbursed by such
other Subsidiary Guarantors for the amount of such excess, pro
rata, based on
the respective net worths of such other Subsidiary Guarantors at
the date
enforcement hereunder is sought.
SECTION 4 AUTHORIZATION; OTHER AGREEMENTS
The Guarantied Parties are hereby authorized, without notice to,
or
demand upon, any Guarantor, which notice and demand requirements
each are
expressly waived hereby, and without discharging or otherwise
affecting the
obligations of such Guarantor hereunder (which obligations shall
remain absolute
and unconditional notwithstanding any such action or omission to
act), from time
to time, to do each of the following:
(a) supplement, renew, extend, accelerate or otherwise change the
time
for payment of, or other terms relating to, the Obligations, or any
part of
them, or otherwise modify, amend or change the terms of any
promissory note or
other agreement, document or instrument (including the other Loan
Documents) now
or hereafter executed by the Borrower and delivered to the
Guarantied Parties or
any of them, including any increase or decrease of principal or the
rate of
interest thereon;
(b) waive or otherwise consent to noncompliance with any provision
of
any instrument evidencing the Obligations, or any part thereof, or
any other
instrument or agreement in respect of the Obligations (including
the other Loan
Documents) now or hereafter executed by the Borrower and delivered
to the
Guarantied Parties or any of them;
(c) accept partial payments on the Obligations;
(d) receive, take and hold additional security or collateral for
the
payment of the Obligations or any part of them and exchange,
enforce, waive,
substitute, liquidate, terminate, abandon, fail to perfect,
subordinate,
transfer, otherwise alter and release any such additional security
or
collateral;
(e) settle, release,
compromise, collect or otherwise liquidate the
Obligations or accept, substitute, release, exchange or otherwise
alter, affect
or impair any security or collateral for the Obligations or any
part of them or
any other guaranty therefor, in any manner;
(f) add, release or substitute any one or more other
guarantors,
makers or endorsers of the Obligations or any part of them and
otherwise deal
with the Borrower or any other guarantor, maker or endorser;
(g) apply to the Obligations any payment or recovery (x) from
the
Borrower, from any other guarantor, maker or endorser of the
Obligations or any
part of them or (y) from any Guarantor in such order as provided
herein, in each
case whether such Obligations are secured or unsecured or
guaranteed or not
guaranteed by others;
(h) apply to the Obligations any payment or recovery from any
Guarantor of the Obligations or any sum realized from security
furnished by such
Guarantor upon its indebtedness or obligations to the Guarantied
Parties or any
of them; and
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(i) refund at any time any payment received by any Guarantied Party
in
respect of any Obligation, and payment to such Guarantied Party of
the amount so
refunded shall be fully guaranteed hereby even though prior thereto
this
Guaranty shall have been cancelled or surrendered (or any release
or termination
of any Collateral by virtue thereof), and such prior cancellation
or surrender
shall not diminish, release, discharge, impair or otherwise affect
the
obligations of any Guarantor hereunder in respect of the amount so
refunded (and
any Collateral so released or terminated shall be reinstated with
respect to
such obligations);
even if any right of reimbursement or subrogation or other right or
remedy of
any Guarantor is extinguished, affected or impaired by any of the
foregoing
(including any election of remedies by reason of any judicial,
non-judicial or
other proceeding in respect of the Obligations that impairs any
subrogation,
reimbursement or other right of such Guarantor).
SECTION 5 GUARANTY ABSOLUTE AND UNCONDITIONAL
Each Guarantor hereby waives any defense of a surety or guarantor
or
any other obligor on any obligations arising in connection with or
in respect of
any of the following and hereby agrees that its obligations under
this Guaranty
are absolute and unconditional and shall not be discharged or
otherwise affected
as a result of any of the following:
(a) the invalidity or unenforceability of any of the Borrower's
obligations under the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document
or any other
agreement or instrument relating thereto, or any security for, or
other guaranty
of the Obligations or any part of them, or the lack of perfection
or continuing
perfection or failure of priority of any security for the
Obligations or any
part of them;
(b) the absence of any attempt to collect the Obligations or any
part
of them from the Borrower or other action to enforce the same;
(c) failure by any Guarantied Party to take any steps to perfect
and
maintain any Lien on, or to preserve any rights to, any
Collateral;
(d) any Guarantied Party's election, in any proceeding
instituted
under chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, of the application of
Section
1111(b)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code or any applicable provisions of
comparable
state or foreign law;
(e) any borrowing or grant of a Lien by the Borrower, as debtor
in
possession, or extension of credit, under Section 364 of the
Bankruptcy Code or
any applicable provisions of comparable state or foreign law;
(f) the disallowance, under Section 502 of the Bankruptcy Code, of
all
or any portion of any Guarantied Party's claim (or claims) for
repayment of the
Obligations;
(g) any use of cash collateral under Section 363 of the
Bankruptcy
Code;
(h) any agreement or stipulation as to the provision of
adequate
protection in any bankruptcy proceeding;
(i) the avoidance of any Lien in favor of the Guarantied Parties
or
any of them for any reason;
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(j) any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, arrangement,
readjustment of debt, liquidation or dissolution proceeding
commenced by or
against the Borrower, any Guarantor or any of the Borrower's other
Subsidiaries,
including any discharge of, or bar or stay against collecting, any
Obligation
(or any part of them or interest thereon) in or as a result of any
such
proceeding;
(k) failure by any Guarantied Party to file or enforce a claim
against
the Borrower or its estate in any bankruptcy or insolvency case or
proceeding;
(l) any action taken by any Guarantied Party if such action is
authorized hereby;
(m) any election following the occurrence of an Event of Default
by
any Guarantied Party to proceed separately against the personal
property
Collateral in accordance with such Guarantied Party's rights under
the UCC or,
if the Collateral consists of both personal and real property, to
proceed
against such personal and real property in accordance with such
Guarantied
Party's rights with respect to such real property;
(n) any change in the corporate existence, ownership or structure
of
the Borrower or any other Loan Party;
(o) any defense, set-off or counterclaim (other than a defense
of
payment or performance) which may at any time be available to or be
asserted by
any Guarantor or any other Person against any Guar