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Exhibit
10.12
EXECUTION
COPY
SUBSIDIARY GUARANTY
AGREEMENT
dated as of July 30,
2007
among
VITA LICENSING,
INC.,
ORTHOVITA INTERNATIONAL
SERVICES, INC.,
PARTISYN CORP.,
VITA SPECIAL PURPOSE
CORP.,
as Guarantors
and
LB I GROUP INC.,
as Collateral
Agent
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| ARTICLE 1 GUARANTY |
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Section 1.01
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Guaranty
of Payment and Performance |
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Section 1.02
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Limitation on Guaranty |
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Section 1.03
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Continuance and Acceleration of Guaranteed Obligations upon
Certain Events |
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Section 1.04
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Recovered
Payments |
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Section 1.05
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Evidence
of Guaranteed Obligations |
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Section 1.06
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Binding
Nature of Certain Adjudications |
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Section 1.07
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Nature of
Guarantors’ Obligations |
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Section 1.08
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No
Release of Guarantors |
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Section 1.09
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Certain
Waivers |
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Section 1.10
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Independent Credit Evaluation |
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Section 1.11
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Release
and Subordination of Rights Against the Company, Other Guarantors
and Collateral |
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Section 1.12
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Payments
by the Guarantors |
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(a) Time,
Place and Manner |
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(b) No
Reductions |
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(c)
Indemnified Taxes |
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(d)
Authorization to Charge Accounts |
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(e)
Extension of Payment Dates |
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| ARTICLE 2 CERTAIN REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES;
COVENANTS |
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Section 2.01
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Organization; Power; Qualification; Compliance with
Laws |
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Section 2.02
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Authorization |
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Section 2.03
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Required
Consents |
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Section 2.04
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Enforceability |
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Section 2.05
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Economic
Benefits; Solvency; Balance Sheet Debts |
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Section 2.06
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New
Guarantors |
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Section 2.07
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Compliance with the Note Purchase Agreement |
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| ARTICLE 3 MISCELLANEOUS |
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Section 3.01
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Notices;
Effectiveness; Electronic Communications |
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(a)
Notices Generally |
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(b) Electronic Communications
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(c) Change of Address, Etc.
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(d) Reliance by Guaranteed
Parties
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Section 3.02
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No Waiver; Rights Cumulative
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Section 3.03
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Costs and Expenses;
Indemnification
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Section 3.04
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Amounts Payable Due upon Request for
Payment
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Section 3.05
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Remedies of the Essence
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Section 3.06
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Disclosure
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Section 3.07
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Amendments; Waivers
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Section 3.08
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Set-Off; Suspension of Payment and
Performance
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Section 3.09
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Assignments and
Participations
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(a) Assignments
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(b) Rights of Assignees and
Participants
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Section 3.10
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Successor Collateral Agents
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Section 3.11
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Jurisdiction, Etc.
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Section 3.12
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Governing Law
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Section 3.13
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Waiver of Jury Trial
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Section 3.14
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Execution in Counterparts
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Section 3.15
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Survival of Representations and
Warranties
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Section 3.16
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Severability
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Section 3.17
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Entire Agreement
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Section 3.18
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Successors and Assigns
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Section 3.19
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Delivery of Opinions
Authorized
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Section 3.20
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Force Majeure
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Section 3.21
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Consequential Damages
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Section 3.22
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No Discretion
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Section 3.23
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Note Purchase Agreement Shall
Control
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ARTICLE 4 INTERPRETATION
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Section 4.01
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Definitional Provisions
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(a) Certain Terms Defined by
Reference
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(b) Other Defined Terms
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Section 4.02
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Other Interpretive Provisions
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| Schedule 2.03 |
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Schedule
of Required Consents and Governmental Approvals |
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Form of
Guaranty Supplement |
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SUBSIDIARY GUARANTY
AGREEMENT
Dated as of July 30,
2007
In consideration of
(i) the execution and delivery of the Senior Secured Note and
Warrant Purchase Agreement, dated as of July 30, 2007 (the
“ Note Purchase Agreement ”), by and among
Orthovita, Inc., a Pennsylvania corporation (the “
Company ”), the financial institutions and other
institutional lenders listed on the signature pages thereof (the
“ Purchasers ”), and LB I Group Inc., a Delaware
corporation, as Collateral Agent and (ii) the purchase of, and
making the Loans under, each 10% Senior Secured Promissory Note,
executed by the Company in favor of each Purchaser, each of, Vita
Licensing, Inc., a Delaware corporation and Wholly-owned Subsidiary
of the Company, Orthovita International Services, Inc., a
Pennsylvania corporation and a Wholly-owned Subsidiary of the
Company, Partisyn Corp., a Delaware corporation and a Wholly-owned
Subsidiary of the Company, and Vita Special Purpose Corp., a
Delaware corporation and an indirect Subsidiary of the Company
(each a “ Guarantor ” and collectively the
“ Guarantors ”), hereby agree with LB I GROUP
INC., as Collateral Agent, acting both on its own behalf as the
Collateral Agent and as the agent for the Guaranteed Parties, as
follows (with certain terms used herein being defined in Article
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ARTICLE 1
GUARANTY
Section 1.01 Guaranty of
Payment and Performance . Each Guarantor hereby
(a) guarantees to each Guaranteed Party the due and punctual
payment, observance and performance of all Guaranteed Obligations
in accordance with their respective terms and when and as due
(whether at maturity, by reason of acceleration or otherwise), or
deemed to be due pursuant to Section 1.03 , and
(b) agrees so to pay, observe or perform the same when so due,
or deemed to be due, upon written demand by the Collateral Agent or
any Guaranteed Party.
Section 1.02 Limitation on
Guaranty . It is the intention of the Guarantors and the
Guaranteed Parties that the obligations of each Guarantor under the
Guarantor Related Documents shall be in, but not in excess of, the
maximum amount permitted by Applicable Law. To that end, but only
to the extent such obligations would otherwise be void, voidable or
otherwise unenforceable, the obligations of each Guarantor
hereunder shall be limited to the maximum amount that would not
make such obligations void, voidable or otherwise unenforceable.
Any such limitation shall be apportioned amongst the Guaranteed
Obligations of the Guaranteed Parties pro rata in accordance with
their respective amounts thereof. This Section 1.02 is
intended solely to preserve the rights of the Guaranteed Parties
under the Guarantor Related Documents to the maximum extent
permitted by Applicable Law, and neither a Guarantor nor any other
Person shall have any right under this Section 1.02
that it would not otherwise have under Applicable Law.
Section 1.03 Continuance
and Acceleration of Guaranteed Obligations upon Certain Events
. If:
(a) any Event of Default that
the Note Purchase Agreement states is to result in the automatic
acceleration of any Guaranteed Obligations shall occur;
(b) any injunction, stay or
the like that enjoins any acceleration, or demand for the payment,
observance or performance of any Guaranteed Obligations that would
otherwise be required or permitted under the Related Documents
shall become effective; or
(c) any Guaranteed
Obligations shall be or be determined to be or become discharged,
disallowed, invalid, illegal, void or otherwise unenforceable
(whether by operation of any present or future Law or by order of
any court or governmental agency) against the Credit Parties (other
than in accordance with the terms thereof);
then (i) such Guaranteed
Obligations shall, for all purposes of the Guarantor Related
Documents, be deemed (A) in the case of clause (c), to
continue to be outstanding and in full force and effect
notwithstanding the unenforceability thereof against the Credit
Parties and (B) if such is not already the case, to have
thereupon become immediately due and payable and to have commenced
bearing interest at the Default Rate and (ii) the Guaranteed
Parties to which such Guaranteed Obligations are owing may, with
respect to such Guaranteed Obligations, exercise all of the rights
and remedies under the Guarantor Related Documents that would be
available to them during an Event of Default.
Section 1.04 Recovered
Payments . The Guaranteed Obligations shall be deemed not to
have been paid, observed or performed, and each Guarantor’s
obligations under the Guarantor Related Documents in respect
thereof shall continue and not be discharged, to the extent that
any payment, observance or performance thereof by the Company or
any other guarantor, or out of the proceeds of any Collateral, is
recovered from or paid over by or for the account of any Guaranteed
Party for any reason, including as a preference or fraudulent
transfer or by virtue of any subordination (whether present or
future or contractual or otherwise) of the Guaranteed Obligations,
whether such recovery or payment over is effected by any judgment,
decree or order of any court or governmental agency, by any plan of
reorganization or by settlement or compromise by any Guaranteed
Party (whether or not consented to by the Company, any Guarantor or
any other guarantor) of any claim for any such recovery or payment
over. Each Guarantor hereby expressly waives the benefit of any
applicable statute of limitations and agrees that it shall be
liable under the Guarantor Related Documents with respect to any
Guaranteed Obligation whenever such a recovery or payment over
thereof occurs.
Section 1.05 Evidence of
Guaranteed Obligations . Entries made in good faith in the
records of each Guaranteed Party shall be prima facie evidence of
the Guaranteed Obligations owing to it and of all payments,
observances and performances in respect thereof absent manifest
error.
Section 1.06 Binding
Nature of Certain Adjudications . Each Guarantor shall be
conclusively bound by the adjudication in any action or proceeding,
legal or otherwise, involving any controversy arising under, in
connection with, or in any way related to, any of the Guaranteed
Obligations, and by a judgment, award or decree entered
therein.
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Section 1.07 Nature
of Guarantors’ Obligations . Each Guarantor’s
obligations under this Agreement (a) are absolute and
unconditional, (b) are unlimited in amount except as provided
in Section 1.02 , (c) constitute a guaranty of
payment and performance and not a guaranty of collection,
(d) are as primary obligor and not as a surety only,
(e) shall be a continuing guaranty of all present and future
Guaranteed Obligations and all promissory notes and other
documentation given in extension or renewal or substitution for any
of the Guaranteed Obligations and (f) shall be
irrevocable.
Section 1.08 No Release of
Guarantors . THE GUARANTEED OBLIGATIONS OF EACH GUARANTOR UNDER
THIS AGREEMENT SHALL NOT BE REDUCED, LIMITED OR TERMINATED, NOR
SHALL ANY GUARANTOR BE DISCHARGED FROM SUCH GUARANTEED OBLIGATIONS,
FOR ANY REASON WHATSOEVER (other than, subject to
Section 1.04 and Section 1.12 , the
payment, observance and performance of the Guaranteed Obligations),
including (and whether or not the same shall have occurred or
failed to occur once or more than once and whether or not such
Guarantor shall have received notice thereof):
(a)(i) any increase in the
principal amount of, or interest rate applicable to, (ii) any
extension of the time of payment, observance or performance of,
(iii) any other amendment or modification of any of the other
terms and provisions of, (iv) any release, composition or
settlement (whether by way of acceptance of a plan of
reorganization or otherwise) of, (v) any subordination
(whether present or future or contractual or otherwise) of, or
(vi) any discharge, disallowance, invalidity, illegality,
voidness or other unenforceability of, the Guaranteed
Obligations;
(b)(i) any failure to obtain,
(ii) any release, composition or settlement of, (iii) any
amendment or modification of any of the terms and provisions of,
(iv) any subordination of, or (v) any discharge,
disallowance, invalidity, illegality, voidness or other
unenforceability of, any other guaranties of the Guaranteed
Obligations;
(c)(i) any failure to obtain
or any release of, (ii) any failure to protect or preserve,
(iii) any release, compromise, settlement or extension of the
time of payment of any obligations constituting, (iv) any
failure to perfect or maintain the perfection or priority of any
Lien upon, (v) any subordination of any Lien upon, or
(vi) any discharge, disallowance, invalidity, illegality,
voidness or other unenforceability of any Lien or intended Lien
upon, any Collateral now or hereafter securing the Guaranteed
Obligations or any other guaranties thereof;
(d) any termination of or
change in any relationship between any Guarantor and the other
Credit Parties, including any such termination or change resulting
from a change in the ownership of such Guarantor or the other
Credit Parties or from the cessation of any commercial relationship
between such Guarantor and the other Credit Parties;
(e) any exercise of, or any
election not or failure to exercise, delay in the exercise of,
waiver of, or forbearance or other indulgence with respect to, any
right, remedy or power available to the Guaranteed Parties,
including (i) any election not or failure to exercise any
right of setoff, recoupment or counterclaim, (ii) any election
of remedies effected by the Guaranteed Parties, including the
foreclosure upon any real estate constituting Collateral, whether
or not such election affects the right to obtain a deficiency
judgment, and (iii) any election by the Guaranteed Parties in
any proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code of the application of
Section 1111(b)(2) of such Code; and
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(f) ANY OTHER ACT OR FAILURE
TO ACT OR ANY OTHER EVENT OR CIRCUMSTANCE THAT (i) VARIES THE
RISK OF ANY GUARANTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT OR (ii) BUT FOR THE
PROVISIONS HEREOF, WOULD, AS A MATTER OF STATUTE OR RULE OF LAW OR
EQUITY, OPERATE TO REDUCE, LIMIT OR TERMINATE THE OBLIGATIONS OF
ANY GUARANTOR THEREUNDER OR DISCHARGE SUCH GUARANTOR FROM ANY
THEREOF.
Section 1.09 Certain
Waivers . Each Guarantor waives:
(a) any requirement, and any
right to require, that any right or power be exercised or any
action be taken against the Company, any other Guarantor or any
Collateral for the Guaranteed Obligations;
(b) all defenses to, and all
setoffs, counterclaims and claims of recoupment against, the
Guaranteed Obligations that may at any time be available to the
Company or any other Guarantor;
(c)(i) notice of acceptance
of and intention to rely on the Guarantor Related Documents,
(ii) notice of the issuance of any Notes, the making or
renewal of any Loans under the Note Purchase Agreement and of the
incurrence or renewal of any other Guaranteed Obligations,
(iii) notice of any of the matters referred to in
Section 1.08 and (iv) all other notices that may
be required by Applicable Law or otherwise to preserve any rights
against the Guarantors under this Agreement, including any notice
of default, demand, dishonor, presentment and protest;
(d) diligence;
(e) any defense based upon,
arising out of or in any way related to (i) any claim that any
sale or other disposition of any Collateral for the Guaranteed
Obligations was not conducted in a commercially reasonable fashion
or that a public sale, should the Guaranteed Parties have elected
to so proceed, was, in and of itself, not a commercially reasonable
method of sale, (ii) any claim that any election of remedies
by the Guaranteed Parties, including the exercise by the Guaranteed
Parties of any rights against any Collateral, impaired, reduced,
released or otherwise extinguished any right that a Guarantor might
otherwise have had against the Company or any other guarantor or
against any Collateral, including any right of subrogation,
exoneration, reimbursement or contribution or right to obtain a
deficiency judgment, (iii) any claim based upon, arising out
of or in any way related to any of the matters referred to in
Section 1.08 and (iv) any claim that the Guarantor
Related Documents should be strictly construed against the
Guaranteed Parties; and
(f) ALL OTHER DEFENSES UNDER
APPLICABLE LAW THAT WOULD, BUT FOR THIS CLAUSE (f), BE AVAILABLE TO
ANY GUARANTOR AS A DEFENSE AGAINST OR A REDUCTION OR LIMITATION OF
ITS OBLIGATIONS UNDER THIS AGREEMENT.
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Section 1.10
Independent Credit Evaluation . Each Guarantor has
independently, and without reliance on any information supplied by
the Guaranteed Parties, taken, and will continue to take, whatever
steps it deems necessary to evaluate the financial condition and
affairs of the Credit Parties, and the Guaranteed Parties shall
have no duty to advise the Guarantors of information at any time
known to them regarding such financial condition or
affairs.
Section 1.11 Release and
Subordination of Rights Against the Company, Other Guarantors and
Collateral . (a) All rights that any Guarantor may at any
time have against the Company, any other Credit Party or any
Collateral for the Guaranteed Obligations (including rights of
subrogation, exoneration, reimbursement and contribution and
whether arising under Applicable Law or otherwise), and all
obligations that the Company or any other Credit Party may at any
time have to such Guarantor, arising by virtue of such
Guarantor’s obligations under such Guarantor’s Related
Documents, any payment made pursuant thereto or the exercise by the
Guaranteed Parties of their rights with respect to the Collateral
are hereby expressly subordinated to the prior payment, observance
and performance in full of the Guaranteed Obligations. Each
Guarantor hereby agrees not to enforce any of the rights, or
attempt to obtain payment or performance of any of the obligations,
subordinated pursuant to this Section 1.11 until the
Guaranteed Obligations have been paid, observed and performed in
full, except that such prohibition shall not apply to routine acts,
such as the giving of notices and the filing of continuation
statements, necessary to preserve any such rights. If any amount
shall be paid to or recovered by any Guarantor (whether directly or
by way of setoff, recoupment or counterclaim) on account of any
right or obligation subordinated pursuant to this
Section 1.11, such amount shall be held in trust by such
Guarantor for the benefit of the Guaranteed Parties, not commingled
with any of such Guarantor’s other funds and forthwith paid
over to the Collateral Agent, in the exact form received, together
with any necessary endorsements, to be applied and credited
against, or held as security for, the Guaranteed Obligations and
the obligations of such Guarantor under the Guarantor Related
Documents.
(b) Each Guarantor hereby
agrees not to assert or enforce (whether by or in a legal or
equitable proceeding or otherwise) any, “claims” (as
defined in Section 101(4) of the Bankruptcy Code) against the
Company and any other Credit Party prior to the payment in full of
all Guaranteed Obligations, whether arising under Applicable Law or
otherwise, to which such Guarantor is or would at any time be
entitled, including any such claims to which such Guarantor may be
entitled as a result of any right of subrogation, exoneration or
reimbursement, provided , that the foregoing shall not
prohibit any Guarantor from receiving, so long as no Event of
Default is continuing, regularly scheduled payments from the
Company or any other Credit Party in respect of any debts,
liabilities or other Obligations owed to such Guarantor by the
Company or such other Credit Party arising other than as a result
of this Agreement or any payment made hereunder by any
Guarantor.
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Section 1.12 Payments by
the Guarantors . (a) Time, Place and Manner . All
payments due to any Guaranteed Party under this Agreement shall be
made to the Collateral Agent at the Collateral Agent’s Office
and distributed in accordance with Section12 of the Note Purchase
Agreement.
(b) No Reductions .
All payments due any Guaranteed Party under the Guarantor Related
Documents shall be made by the Guarantors thereunder without any
reduction or deduction whatsoever, including any reduction or
deduction for any set-off, recoupment, counterclaim (whether, in
any case, in respect of an obligation owed by such Guaranteed Party
to the Guarantors, the Company or any other guarantor and, in the
case of a counterclaim, whether sounding in tort, contract or
otherwise) or Tax, except for any withholding or deduction for
Taxes required to be withheld or deducted under Applicable
Law.
(c) Indemnified Taxes
. (i) If any Indemnified Tax is required to be withheld or
deducted from, or is otherwise payable by the Guarantors in
connection with, any payment to any Guaranteed Party under the
Guarantor Related Documents, each Guarantor (A) shall, if
required, withhold or deduct the amount of such Indemnified Tax
from such payment and, in any case, pay such Indemnified Tax to the
appropriate taxing authority in accordance with Applicable Law and
(B) shall pay to such Guaranteed Party such additional amounts
as may be necessary so that the net amount received by such
Guaranteed Party with respect to such payment, after withholding or
deducting all Indemnified Taxes required to be withheld or
deducted, is equal to the full amount payable under the Guarantor
Related Documents. If any Indemnified Tax is withheld or deducted
from, or is otherwise payable by the Guarantors in connection with,
any payment payable to any Guaranteed Party under the Guarantor
Related Documents, each Guarantor shall, as soon as possible after
the date of such payment, furnish to such Guaranteed Party the
original or a certified copy of a receipt for such Indemnified Tax
from the applicable taxing authority. If any payment due to any
Guaranteed Party under the Guarantor Related Documents is or is
expected to be made without withholding or deducting therefrom, or
otherwise paying in connection therewith, any Indemnified Tax
payable to any taxing authority, each Guarantor shall, within 30
days after any request from any Guaranteed Party, furnish to such
Guaranteed Party a certificate from such taxing authority, or an
opinion of counsel acceptable to such Guaranteed Party, in either
case stating that no Indemnified Tax payable to such taxing
authority
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