RESTATED GUARANTY
AGREEMENT
THIS RESTATED
GUARANTY AGREEMENT (this “Guaranty”) is made as of
November 6, 2008, 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”).
1. Plains
Marketing, L.P., a Texas limited partnership
(“Borrower”), Administrative Agent, and certain
financial institutions (“Lenders”), are parties to a
Second Restated Credit Agreement of even date herewith (as from
time to time amended, supplemented or restated, the “Credit
Agreement”), amending and restating that certain Restated
Credit Agreement dated November 19, 2004 among Borrower, Bank
of America, N.A., as administrative agent and the lenders party
thereto, as amended prior to the date hereof (the “Existing
Agreement”).
2. Guarantor
has guaranteed the obligations and indebtedness of Borrower under
the Existing Agreement pursuant to that certain Guaranty Agreement
dated November 14, 2007 by Guarantor in favor of Bank of
America, N.A., as administrative agent under the Existing Agreement
(the “Existing PAA Guaranty”).
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 under the Credit Agreement
and the Notes.
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 PAA GP LLC, 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:
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.
(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, PAA GP LLC, 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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