Exhibit 10.2
GUARANTY
THIS GUARANTY is made as of
November 16, 2007, by Plains All American Pipeline, L.P., a
Delaware limited partnership (“Guarantor”), in favor of
Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent for Lenders, as such
term is defined in the Credit Agreement described below (in such
capacity “Administrative Agent”).
RECITALS:
1. Plains Marketing, L.P., a
Texas limited partnership (“Borrower”), Administrative
Agent, and certain financial institutions (“Lenders”),
are parties to a Restated Credit Agreement dated as of
November 19, 2004, as amended by First Amendment to Restated
Credit Agreement dated as of April 20, 2005, Second Amendment to
Restated Credit Agreement dated as of May 20, 2005, Third
Amendment to Restated Credit Agreement dated as of November 4,
2005, and Fourth Amendment to Restated Credit Agreement dated as of
November 16, 2006, and supplemented by that certain Joinder
and Supplement dated June 20, 2007 (as heretofore amended,
supplemented or restated, the “Original
Agreement”).
2. Borrower, Guarantor,
Administrative Agent and Lenders are entering into a Fifth
Amendment to Restated Credit Agreement of even date herewith (the
Original Agreement, as amended by such Fifth Amendment, and as from
time to time amended, supplemented or restated, the “Credit
Agreement”).
3. Pursuant to the Credit
Agreement, LC Issuers may issue, and Lenders may participate with
respect to, Letters of Credit issued for the account of Borrower,
Lenders may advance funds to Borrower, and Borrower has agreed to
execute and deliver Notes to evidence such advances.
4. It is a condition precedent
to the issuance of Letters of Credit, and advances of funds
pursuant to the Credit Agreement, that Guarantor shall execute and
deliver to Administrative Agent a satisfactory guaranty of the
Obligations of Borrower.
5. Guarantor owns, directly or
indirectly all of the issued and outstanding partnership interests
of Borrower.
6. The board of directors of
Plains All American GP LLC, a Delaware limited liability company
and the general partner of Plains AAP, L.P., the general partner of
Guarantor, has determined that Guarantor’s execution,
delivery and performance of this Guaranty may reasonably be
expected to benefit Guarantor, directly or indirectly, and are in
the best interests of Guarantor and are necessary or convenient to
the conduct, promotion or attainment of the business of
Guarantor.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of
the premises, of the benefits which will inure to Guarantor from
Lenders’ advances of funds to Borrower under the Credit
Agreement, LC Issuers’ issuance of Letters of Credit for the
account and at the direction of Borrower under the Credit
Agreement, and of other good and valuable consideration, the
receipt and sufficiency of all of which are hereby acknowledged,
and in order to induce Lenders to advance funds to Borrower and the
LC Issuers to issue Letters of Credit for the account and at the
direction of
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Borrower
under the Credit Agreement, Guarantor hereby agrees with
Administrative Agent, for the benefit of Administrative Agent and
the other Lender Parties as follows:
AGREEMENTS
Section 1. Definitions .
Reference is hereby made to the Credit Agreement for all purposes.
All terms used in this Guaranty which are defined in the Credit
Agreement and not otherwise defined herein shall have the same
meanings and shall be subject to the same rules of construction and
interpretation when used herein as each is, from time to time,
given, construed or interpreted in the Credit Agreement. All
references herein to any Loan Document or other document or
instrument refer to the same as from time to time amended,
supplemented or restated. As used herein the following terms shall
have the following meanings:
“ Administrative Agent
” means the Person who, at the time in question, is the
“Administrative Agent” under the Credit
Agreement.
“ Obligors ” means
Borrower, Guarantor and any other endorsers, guarantors or
obligors, primary or secondary, of any or all of the
Obligations.
“ Security ” means
any rights, properties, or interests of any Lender Party under the
Loan Documents, which provide recourse or other benefits to any
Lender Party in connection with the Obligations or the non-payment
or non-performance thereof, including guaranties of the payment of
any Obligation, bonds, surety agreements, keep-well agreements,
letters of credit, rights of subrogation, rights of offset, and
other rights provided for thereunder.
Section 2. Guaranty
.
(a) Guarantor hereby
irrevocably, absolutely, and unconditionally guarantees to each
Lender Party the prompt, complete, and full payment when due, and
no matter how the same shall become due, of all Obligations of
Borrower, including but not limited to:
(i) all LC Obligations of Borrower,
including all obligations of Borrower to make reimbursements and
other payments to any LC Issuer and to Lender Parties in respect of
Letters of Credit issued at the direction of and for the account of
Borrower pursuant to the Credit Agreement; and
(ii) the Notes of Borrower, including
all principal, all interest thereon and all other sums payable
thereunder; and
(iii) all other sums payable by
Borrower under the other Loan Documents, whether for principal,
interest, fees or otherwise; and
(iv) any and all other indebtedness,
obligations or liabilities which may at any time be owed to any
Lender Party by Borrower, whether incurred heretofore or hereafter
or concurrently herewith, under or pursuant to any of the Loan
Documents, and including interest, attorneys’ fees and
collection costs as may be provided by law or in any instrument
evidencing any such indebtedness or liability.
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Without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, Guarantor’s
liability hereunder shall extend to and include all post-petition
interest, expenses, and other liabilities of Borrower described
above in this subsection (a), or below in the following subsection
(b), which would be owed by Borrower but for the fact that they are
unenforceable or not allowable due to the existence of a
bankruptcy, reorganization, or similar proceeding involving
Borrower.
(b) If Borrower shall for any
reason fail to pay any Obligation, described in Section 2(a),
as and when such Obligation shall become due and payable, whether
at its stated maturity, as a result of the exercise of any power to
accelerate, or otherwise, Guarantor will, forthwith upon demand by
Administrative Agent, pay such Obligation in full to Administrative
Agent for the benefit of each Lender Party to whom such Obligation
is owed.
(c) If Guarantor fails to pay
any obligation as described in the immediately preceding
subsections (a) or (b), Guarantor will incur the additional
obligation to pay to Lender Parties, and Guarantor will forthwith
upon demand by Administrative Agent pay to Lender Parties, the
amount of any and all expenses, including reasonable fees and
disbursements of Lender Parties’ counsel and of any experts
or agents retained by Lender Parties, which Lender Parties may
incur as a result of such failure.
(d) As between Guarantor and
Lender Parties, this Guaranty shall be considered a primary and
liquidated liability of Guarantor.
(e) No past, present or future
director, officer, partner, employee, incorporator, manager,
stockholder, unitholder or member of Guarantor, Plains AAP, L.P. or
Plains All American GP LLC shall have any liability for any
Obligations arising under or by virtue of this Guaranty, including
the Obligations described in Section 2(a) hereof, or for any claim
based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such Obligations or their
creation. Each Lender Party waives and releases all such liability.
The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the making
of the Notes and this Guaranty.
Section 3. Unconditional
Guaranty .
(a) No action which any Lender
Party may take or omit to take in connection with any of the Loan
Documents (other than as required by Section 11), any of the
Obligations (or any other indebtedness owing by Borrower to any
Lender Party), or any Security, and no course of dealing of any
Lender Party with any Obligor or any other Person, shall release or
diminish Guarantor’s obligations, liabilities or agreements
hereunder, affect this Guaranty in any way, or afford Guarantor any
recourse against any Lender Party, regardless of whether any such
action or inaction may increase any risks to or liabilities of any
Lender Party or any Obligor or increase any risk to or diminish any
safeguard of any Security. Without limiting the foregoing,
Guarantor hereby expressly agrees that Administrative Agent and the
other Lender Parties may, from time to time, without notice to or
the consent of Guarantor, do any or all of the following:
(i) Amend, change or modify, in whole
or in part, any one or more of the Loan Documents (except an
amendment to a Loan Document to which Guarantor is a party to the
extent such amendment requires the consent of Guarantor) and give
or refuse to give any waivers or other indulgences with respect
thereto.
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(ii) Neglect, delay, fail, or refuse
to take or prosecute any action for the collection or enforcement
of any of the Obligations, to foreclose or take or prosecute any
action in connection with any Security or Loan Document, to bring
suit against any Obligor or any other Person, or to take any other
action concerning the Obligations or the Loan Documents.
(iii) Accelerate, change, rearrange,
extend, or renew the time, rate, terms, or manner for payment or
performance of any one or more of the Obligations (whether for
principal, interest, fees, expenses, indemnifications, affirmative
or negative covenants, or otherwise).
(iv) Compromise or settle any unpaid
or unperformed Obligation or any other obligation or amount due or
owing, or claimed to be due or owing, under any one or more of the
Loan Documents.
(v) Take, exchange, amend, eliminate,
surrender, release, or subordinate any or all Security for any or
all of the Obligations, accept additional or substituted Security
therefor, and perfect or fail to perfect any Lender Party’s
rights in any or all Security.
(vi) Discharge, release, substitute
or add Obligors.
(vii) Apply all monies received from
Obligors or others, or from any Security for any of the
Obligations, as provided in the Credit Agreement, without in any
way being required to marshall Security or assets or otherwise to
apply all or any part of such monies upon any particular
Obligations.
(b) No action or inaction of any
Obligor or any other Person, and no change of law or circumstances,
shall release or diminish Guarantor’s obligations,
liabilities or agreements hereunder, affect this Guaranty in any
way, or afford Guarantor any recourse against any Lender Party,
other than the complete and final payment of the Obligations and
the termination of all Letters of Credit and of all commitments of
the Lender Parties under the Credit Agreement. Without limiting the
foregoing, the obligations, liabilities and agreements of Guarantor
under this Guaranty shall not be released, diminished, impaired,
reduced, or affected by the occurrence of any or all of the
following from time to time, even if occurring without notice to or
without the consent of Guarantor:
(i) Any voluntary or involuntary
liquidation, dissolution, sale of all or substantially all assets,
marshalling of assets or liabilities, receivership,
conservatorship, assignment for the benefit of creditors,
insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, or composition
of any Obligor or any other proceedings involving any Obligor or
any of the assets of any Obligor under laws for the protection of
debtors, or any discharge, impairment, modification, release, or
limitation of the liability of, or stay of actions or lien
enforcement proceedings against, any Obligor, any properties of any
Obligor, or the estate in bankruptcy of any Obligor in the course
of or resulting from any such proceedings.
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(ii) The failure by any Lender Party
to file or enforce a claim in any proceeding described in the
immediately preceding subsection (i) or to take any other
action in any proceeding to which any Obligor is a party.
(iii) The release by operation of law
of any Obligor from any of the Obligations or any other obligations
to any Lender Party.
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