EXHIBIT 10.5
UNCONDITIONAL GUARANTY AND
SECURITY AGREEMENT
This continuing U
NCONDITIONAL
G UARANTY AND S ECURITY A GREEMENT (this “ Guaranty ”) is
entered into as of May 1, 2009, by and among A
DEPT T ECHNOLOGY I NTERNATIONAL , L TD . , a
California corporation, A DEPT T ECHNOLOGY H OLDINGS , I NC . , a
Delaware corporation, A DEPT T ECHNOLOGY C ANADA H OLDING C O . , a
Nova Scotia unlimited liability company, and A
DEPT T ECHNOLOGY C ANADA C O . , a
Nova Scotia unlimited liability company (each, a “
Guarantor ” and collectively, the “
Guarantors ”), in favor of S
ILICON V ALLEY B ANK (“ Bank ”). Capitalized terms
used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings given
them in the Loan Agreement (as defined below).
R ECITALS
A. Concurrently herewith, Bank and
Adept Technology, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“
Borrower ”), are entering into that certain Loan and
Security Agreement dated as of May 1, 2009 (as amended,
restated, or otherwise modified from time to time, the “
Loan Agreement ”) pursuant to which Bank has agreed to
make certain advances of money and to extend certain financial
accommodations to Borrower (collectively, the “ Loans
”), subject to the terms and conditions set forth
therein.
B. In consideration of the agreement
of Bank to make the Loans to Borrower under the Loan Agreement,
Guarantors are willing to jointly and severally guarantee the full
payment and performance when due by Borrower of all of
Borrower’s Obligations, all as further set forth
herein.
C. Guarantors are Subsidiaries of
the Borrower and will obtain substantial direct and indirect
benefit from the Loans made by Bank to Borrower under the Loan
Agreement.
N OW ,
T HEREFORE
, to induce Bank to enter into the Loan Agreement,
and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and
adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, and intending to be
legally bound, Guarantors hereby jointly and severally represent,
warrant, covenant and agree as follows:
A GREEMENT
Section 1.
Guaranty .
1.1 In consideration of the
foregoing, Guarantors, jointly and severally, hereby irrevocably,
absolutely and unconditionally guarantee to Bank the prompt and
complete payment and performance when due (whether at stated
maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of all Obligations.
Guarantors agree that they shall each execute such other documents
or agreements and take such action as Bank shall reasonably request
to effect the purposes of this Guaranty.
1.2 The obligations of Guarantors
under this Guaranty are independent of Borrower’s Obligations
and separate actions may be brought against each Guarantor (without
regard to whether an action is brought against Borrower or any
other Guarantor or whether Borrower or any other Guarantor is
joined in the action).
Section 2. Creation of
Security Interest.
2.1 To secure the payment and
performance of (a) all of the Obligations when due, and
(b) all of each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder, each
Guarantor hereby grants to Bank a continuing security interest in
all of such Guarantor’s right, title and interest in, and to
the Collateral (hereinafter defined), whether now owned or
hereafter acquired or arising, and all proceeds and products
thereof. “ Collateral ” means all of each
Guarantor’s right, title and interest in and to the
following:
(a) All goods, Accounts, Equipment,
Inventory, contract rights or rights to payment of money, leases,
license agreements, franchise agreements, General Intangibles,
commercial tort claims, documents, instruments (including any
promissory notes), chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic),
cash, deposit accounts, fixtures, letter-of-credit rights (whether
or not the letter of credit is evidenced by a writing), securities,
financial assets, and all other investment property, and supporting
obligations, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, wherever
located; and
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(b) all of each Guarantor’s
Books relating to the foregoing, and any and all claims, rights and
interests in any of the above and all substitutions for, additions,
attachments, accessories, accessions and improvements to and
replacements, products, and proceeds (including insurance proceeds)
of any or all of the foregoing.
2.2 Guarantors each hereby authorize
Bank to file financing statements, without notice to Guarantors,
with all appropriate jurisdictions to perfect or protect
Bank’s security interest and rights hereunder, including a
notice that any disposition of the Collateral by a Guarantor or any
other Person shall be deemed to violate the rights of Bank under
the Code. Such financing statements may indicate the Collateral as
“all assets of the Debtor” or words of similar effect,
or as being of an equal or lesser scope, or with greater detail,
all in Bank’s discretion.
2.3 All certificates and all
promissory notes and instruments evidencing securities (the “
Pledged Securities ”) shall be delivered to and held
by or on behalf of Bank, pursuant hereto. All certificated Pledged
Securities shall be listed on
Schedule A hereto and shall be accompanied by duly executed
instruments of transfer or assignment undated and in blank, all in
form and substance satisfactory to Bank. All uncertificated Pledged
Securities shall be subject to a Control Agreement in form and
substance satisfactory to Bank.
Section 3. Representations
and Warranties. Guarantors hereby represent and warrant
that:
(a) Each Guarantor (i) is a
corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing
under the laws of its state of incorporation, as disclosed on the
Perfection Certificates; (ii) is duly qualified to do business
and is in good standing in every jurisdiction where the nature of
its business requires it to be so qualified; (iii) has all
requisite power and authority to execute and deliver this Guaranty
and each other Loan Document executed and delivered by such
Guarantor pursuant to the Loan Agreement or this Guaranty and to
perform its obligations thereunder and hereunder; (iv) is a
wholly-owned Subsidiary of Borrower; (v) as of the date hereof
does not own any Subsidiaries other than as set forth in its
Perfection Certificate; and (vi) hereby represents that all
information concerning such Guarantor set forth on any Perfection
Certificate is accurate and complete in all material respects as of
the date hereof.
(b) The execution, delivery and
performance by each Guarantor of this Guaranty (i) are within
each Guarantor’s powers and have been duly authorized by all
necessary action; (ii) do not contravene any Guarantor’s
charter documents or, in any material respect any law or any
contractual restriction binding on or affecting any Guarantor or by
which any Guarantor’s property may be affected; (iii) do
not require any authorization or approval or other action by, or
any notice to or filing with, any governmental authority or any
other Person under any material indenture, mortgage, deed of trust,
lease, agreement or other instrument to which any Guarantor is a
party or by which any Guarantor or any of its property is bound,
except such as have been obtained or made; and (iv) do not
result in the imposition or creation of any Lien upon any property
of any Guarantor, other than the Liens created pursuant to
Section 2 hereof.
(c) This Guaranty is a valid and
binding, joint and several obligation of Guarantors, enforceable
against each Guarantor in accordance with its terms, except as the
enforceability thereof may be subject to or limited by bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, arrangement, moratorium or other
similar laws relating to or affecting the rights of creditors
generally.
(d) There is no action, suit or
proceeding affecting any Guarantor pending or, to the knowledge of
any Responsible Officer (for purposes hereof the reference to
Borrower in the definition of “Responsible Officer”
shall be deemed a reference to Guarantors), threatened in writing
before any court, arbitrator, or governmental authority, domestic
or foreign, which may have a material adverse effect on the ability
of any Guarantor to perform its obligations under this
Guaranty.
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(e) Guarantors’ obligations
hereunder are not subject to any offset or defense against Bank or
Borrower of any kind.
(f) The incurrence of
Guarantors’ obligations under this Guaranty will not cause
any Guarantor to (i) become insolvent; (ii) be left with
unreasonably small capital for any business or transaction in which
such Guarantor is presently engaged or plans to be engaged; or
(iii) be unable to pay its debts as such debts
mature.
(h) Guarantors have good title to
the Collateral, free of Liens except Permitted Liens. Except as
reflected in any reserves for obsolete inventory included in the
Borrower’s most recent consolidated balance sheet provided to
Bank, all Inventory is in all material respects of good and
marketable quality, free from material defects. As of the date
hereof, no Guarantor has any deposit accounts other than the
deposit accounts with Bank and deposit accounts described in such
Guarantor’s Perfection Certificate delivered to Bank in
connection with the Loan Agreement.
(i) Except as disclosed in the
Guarantors’ Perfection Certificates or as approved by Bank in
writing, the Collateral is not in the possession of any third party
bailee (such as a warehouse). Except as hereafter disclosed to Bank
in writing by Guarantors, none of the components of the Collateral
shall be maintained at locations other than as provided in
Guarantors’ Perfection Certificates. In the event that
Guarantors, after the date hereof, intend to store or otherwise
deliver any portion of the Collateral to a bailee, then Guarantors
will first receive the written consent of Bank and such bailee must
acknowledge in writing that the bailee is holding such Collateral
for the benefit of Bank.
(j) Guarantors jointly and severally
covenant, warrant, and represent to Bank that the security interest
granted herein is and shall at all times continue to be a first
priority perfected security interest in the Collateral (subject
only to Permitted Liens that may have superior priority to
Bank’s Lien under this Guaranty)
(k) Guarantors jointly and severally
covenant, warrant, and represent to Bank that all representations
and warranties contained in this Guaranty shall be true at the time
of each Guarantor’s execution of this Guaranty. Guarantors
expressly agree that any misrepresentation or breach of any
warranty, in any material respect, contained in this Guaranty shall
be deemed material hereunder and under the Loan
Agreement.
Section 4. General
Waivers. Each Guarantor
waives:
(a) Any right to require Bank, prior
to demanding payment or performance from such Guarantor under this
Guaranty, to (i) proceed against Borrower or any other person;
(ii) proceed against or exhaust any security or
(iii) pursue any other remedy. Bank may exercise or not
exercise any right or remedy it has against Borrower or any
security it holds (including the right to foreclose by judicial or
nonjudicial sale) without affecting any Guarantor’s liability
hereunder.
(b) Any defenses based upon any
disability or other defense of Borrower or upon the cessation of
Borrower’s liabilities.
(c) Any setoff, defense or
counterclaim against Bank.
(d) Any defense based upon the
absence, impairment or loss of any right of reimbursement or
subrogation or any other rights against Borrower. Until
Borrower’s Obligations to Bank have been paid, no Guarantor
has any right of subrogation or reimbursement or other rights
against Borrower.
(e) Any right to enforce any remedy
that Bank has against Borrower.
(f) Any right to participate in any
security held by Bank.
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(g) Any demand for performance,
notice of nonperformance or notice of new or additional
indebtedness incurred by Borrower to Bank. Each Guarantor is
responsible for being and keeping itself informed of
Borrower’s financial condition.
(h) The benefit of any act or
omission by Bank which directly or indirectly results in or aids
the discharge of Borrower from any of the Obligations by operation
of law or otherwise.
(i) The benefit of California Civil
Code Section 2815 permitting the revocation of this Guaranty
as to future transactions and the benefit of California Civil Code
Sections 2809, 2810, 2819, 2839, 2845, 2848, 2849, 2850, 2899 and
1432 with respect to certain suretyship defenses.
Section 5.
Covenants . Guarantors
jointly and severally covenant and agree to the
following:
(a) If any Guarantor shall acquire a
commercial tort claim, such Guarantor shall promptly notify Bank in
a writing signed by such Guarantor of the general details thereof
and grant to Bank in such writing a security interest therein and
in the proceeds thereof, all upon the terms of this Guaranty, with
such writing to be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to
Bank.
(b) Each Guarantor shall:
(i) use commercially reasonable efforts to protect, defend and
maintain the validity and enforceability of its intellectual
property; (ii) promptly advise Bank in writing of material
infringements of its intellectual property; and (iii) not
allow any intellectual property owned by such Guarantor and
material to such Guarantor’s business to be abandoned,
forfeited or dedicated to the public without Bank’s written
consent unless Guarantors shall reasonably determine that such
intellectual property is not of material value or has no business
value and such abandonment, forfeiture or dedication would not
result in a Material Adverse Change.
(c) Except as may be otherwise
expressly provided herein, each Guarantor shall make any payments
and do any act necessary or convenient to protect the Collateral
and the value of Bank’s interest therein. If any Guarantor
fails to pay any amount or furnish any required proof of payment to
third persons as required hereunder, Bank may make all or part of
the payment. Any amounts paid by Bank are Bank Expenses and
immediately due and payable, bearing interest at the then highest
applicable rate on the Credit Extensions under the Loan Agreement,
and secured by the Collateral. No payments by Bank are an agreement
to make similar payments in the future or Bank’s waiver of
any Event of Default.
(d) Guarantors shall, upon obtaining
ownership of any additional stock of a Subsidiary or stock
otherwise required to be pledged to Bank pursuant to the Loan
Agreement or any other Loan Document, which stock is not already
Pledged Securities, promptly (and in any event within 5 Business
Days) revise Schedule A in respect of any such additional stock,
which revision shall immediately be deemed to be a pledge of such
stock to Bank provided, however, that in no event shall any
Guarantor be required to pledge more than 66% of the total combined
voting power of all capital stock of all classes of a Subsidiary
not organized under the laws of a state of the United States of
America if a pledge of greater than 66% would, by itself, result in
a deemed dividend to the Guarantors under Section 956 of the
Internal Revenue Code, as amended, or any similar successor
section. Guarantors shall promptly deliver (or cause to be
delivered) to Bank such stock certificates together with duly
executed instruments of transfer or assignment undated and in blank
or, in the case of uncertificated securities, promptly deliver (or
cause to be delivered) to Bank a duly executed control agreement
covering such uncertificated securities, all in form and substance
satisfactory to Bank.
(e) [Reserved.]
(f) Except as may be permitted by
the Loan Agreement, each Guarantor shall not (i) engage in any
business other than the businesses currently engaged in by such
Guarantor or any business reasonably related, complementary or
incidental thereto or reasonable extensions thereof;
(ii) liquidate or dissolve (other than a dissolution or
liquidation into Borrower or another Guarantor); (iii) cease
to be a direct or indirect wholly-owned Subsidiary of Borrower;
(iv) create any new Subsidiaries (other than wholly-owned
Subsidiaries), (v) merge or consolidate with any other Person
(other than wholly-owned Subsidiaries or Borrower); (vi) add
any new offices or business locations, including warehouses without
at least 10 days prior written notice to Bank; (vii) change
its jurisdiction of organization, or its organizational structure
or type, or its legal name or any organizational number
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assigned by its jurisdiction of
organization, unless it gives Bank at least 10 days prior written
notice; and (viii) convey, sell, lease, transfer or otherwise
dispose of all or any part of its business or property, other than
Transfers permitted by Section 5(h) of this Guaranty or
Section 7.1 of the Loan Agreement. For purposes hereof, a
“wholly-owned” Subsidiary of a Person shall include any
Subsidiary that would be a wholly-owned Subsidiary of such Person
but for a statutory share or similar minority interest granted to
another Person in compliance with applicable law.
(g) Guarantors will not permit any
Collateral not to be subject to the first priority security
interest granted herein to Bank (subject only to Permitted Liens
that may have superior priority to Bank’s security interest
hereunder).
(h) Guarantors shall not convey,
sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of (collectively,
“ Transfer ”), or permit any of their
Subsidiaries to Transfer, all or any part of any Guarantor’s
or any such Subsidiary’s business or property, except for
Transfers (i) of Inventory in the ordinary course of business;
(ii) of worn-out or obsolete Equipment or obsolete Inventory;
(iii) between Borrower and any Guarantor or among Guarantors;
and (iv) in connection with Permitted Liens and Permitted
Investments (where such terms shall have the meaning given to them
in the Loan Agreement, except that all references to Borrower shall
be read to refer to Guarantors and all references to
Section 7.1 of the Loan Agreement shall refer to this
Section 5(h)).
(i) Guarantors shall not permit or
suffer any Change in Control or enter into any transaction or a
series of transactions in which the stockholders of a Guarantor who
were not stockholders immediately prior to the first such
transaction own more than 25% of the voting stock of such Guarantor
immediately after giving effect to such transaction or related
series of such transactions (other than by the sale of
Borrower’s equity securities in a public
offering).
(j) From the date hereof and
continuing through the termination of this Guaranty, Guarantors
shall make available to Bank, without expense to Bank, each
Guarantor’s books and records, and each Guarantor’s
officers, employees and agents, to the extent that Bank may deem
any of them reasonably necessary to prosecute or defend any
third-party suit or proceeding instituted by or against Bank with
respect to any Collateral or relating to any Guarantor.
(k) Guarantors shall maintain all of
their, and all of their Subsidiaries’, primary domestic
operating and other deposit accounts and securities accounts with
Bank or one of Bank’s Affiliates. Guarantors shall not
maintain any Collateral Account except pursuant to the terms of
this subsection (k) and subsection (l) below.
(l) Guarantors shall provide Bank 5
days written notice before any Guarantor establishes any Collateral
Account at or with any bank or financial institution other than
Bank or one of Bank’s Affiliates. In addition, for each
Collateral Account that any Guarantor at any time maintains,
Guarantors shall cause the applicable bank or financial institution
(other than Bank) at or with which any such Collateral Account is
maintained to execute and deliver a Control Agreement or other
appropriate instrument with respect to such Collateral Account to
perfect Bank’s Lien in such Collateral Account. The
provisions of this subsection shall not apply to deposit accounts
exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage
and benefit payments to or for the benefit of any Guarantor’s
employees and identified to Bank by Guarantors as such.
(m) Guarantors shall timely pay when
due all property and other taxes, assessments and government
charges or levies imposed upon, and all claims (including claims
for labor, materials and supplies) against, the Collateral, except
to the extent the validity thereof is being contested in good faith
and adequate reserves are being maintained in connection
therewith.
(n) Guarantors shall, at any time
and from time to time, execute and deliver such further instruments
and take such further action as ma