Exhibit 10.4
AMENDED AND RESTATED SUBORDINATION AND
INTERCREDITOR
AGREEMENT
This Amended and Restated
Subordination and Intercreditor Agreement (this “
Agreement ”) is dated as of July 31, 2007 among
PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION (the “ Bank
”), SUBORDINATED LENDER (as defined below), and
ENVIRONMENTAL TECTONICS CORPORATION , a Pennsylvania
corporation (“ Company ”).
BACKGROUND
As an inducement for Bank to continue
and increase a credit facility in favor of Company, Subordinated
Lender has agreed to enter into this Agreement to provide for the
subordination of (i) the Subordinated Indebtedness (as defined
below) and (ii) the Liens (as defined below) in the assets of
Company granted to Subordinated Lender to the prior payment of
Senior Indebtedness (as defined below) and to any Liens granted to
Bank. This Agreement restates and replaces (but does not constitute
a novation of) the existing Restated Subordination and
Intercreditor Agreement among Bank, Subordinated Lender and Company
dated as of November 16, 2006.
AGREEMENTS
NOW, THEREFORE, for good and valuable
consideration, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties
hereto agree as follows:
1. Definitions .
1.1 General Terms . For
purposes of this Agreement, the following terms shall have the
following meanings:
“ Bank ” shall
have the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph of this
Agreement and any successor, assign or other provider of the Senior
Indebtedness.
“ Collateral ”
shall mean all of the property and interests in property, tangible
or intangible, real or personal, now owned or hereafter acquired by
Company or the Guarantor in or upon which Bank and/or Subordinated
Lender at any time has a Lien, and including, without limitation,
all proceeds and products of such property and interests in
property and any guaranty by the Guarantor.
“ Company ” shall
mean Company and its successors and assigns.
“ Creditor Agreements
” shall mean, collectively, the Senior Lending Agreements and
the Subordinated Lending Agreements.
“ Creditors ”
shall mean, collectively, Bank and Subordinated Lender and their
respective successors and assigns.
“ Default ” shall
have the meaning given to the term “Default” set forth
in the Loan Agreement.
“ Distribution ”
shall mean any payment in cash or any other property (other than
securities of the Company into which the Subordinated Indebtedness
is convertible pursuant to the terms of the Subordinated Note), or
security for any such Distribution.
“ Event of Default
” shall have the meaning given to the term “Event of
Default” in any of the Senior Lending Agreements.
“ Guarantor ”
shall mean H.F. Lenfest, an individual.
“ Insolvency Event
” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.2(c)
hereof.
“ Lien ” shall
mean any mortgage, deed of trust, pledge, hypothecation,
assignment, deposit arrangement, security interest, encumbrance
(including, but not limited to, easements, rights of way and the
like), lien (statutory or other), security agreement or transfer
intended as security including, without limitation, any conditional
sale or other title retention agreement, the interest of a lessor
under a capital lease or any financing lease having substantially
the same economic effect as any of the foregoing.
“ Loan Agreement ”
shall mean the amended and restated Letter Agreement, dated as of
the date hereof, between Company and Bank, as the same may be
amended, supplemented, modified or restated from time to
time.
“ Note Purchase
Agreement ” shall mean the Convertible Note and Warrant
Purchase Agreement dated as of February 18, 2003 between
Company and Subordinated Lender, as the same has and may be
amended, supplemented, modified or restated from time to
time.
“ Person ” shall
mean an individual, a partnership, a corporation (including a
business trust), a joint stock company, a trust, an unincorporated
association, a joint venture, a limited liability company, a
limited liability partnership or other entity, or a government or
any agency, instrumentality or political subdivision thereof.
“ Secured Lender
Remedies ” shall mean any action which results in the
sale, foreclosure, realization upon, or a liquidation of any of the
Collateral including, without limitation, the exercise or any of
the rights or remedies of a “secured party” under
Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, such as, without
limitation, the notification of account debtors.
“ Senior Indebtedness
” shall mean all obligations of any kind owed by Company or
the Guarantor to Bank from time to time under or pursuant to any of
the Senior Lending Agreements including, without limitation, all
principal, interest accruing thereon, charges, expenses, fees and
other sums (including all interest, charges, expenses, fees and
other sums accruing after commencement of any case, proceeding or
other action relating to the bankruptcy, insolvency or
reorganization of Company) chargeable to Company or Guarantor by
Bank, and reimbursement, indemnity or other obligations due and
payable to Bank. Senior Indebtedness shall continue to constitute
Senior Indebtedness, notwithstanding the fact that such Senior
Indebtedness or any claim for such Senior Indebtedness is
subordinated, avoided or disallowed under the federal
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Bankruptcy Code or other applicable law. Senior Indebtedness shall
also include any indebtedness of Company incurred in connection
with a refinancing of the Senior Indebtedness under the Senior
Lending Agreements if the terms and conditions of the agreements,
documents and instruments related to such refinancing, taken as a
whole, are not materially more onerous to Subordinated Lender than
those set forth in the Senior Lending Agreements, as in effect on
the date hereof. The principal portion of the Senior Indebtedness
and the principal amount subject to this Agreement shall in no
event exceed $20,000,000.
“ Subordinated Lender
” shall mean H.F. Lenfest and any other Person(s) at any time
or in any manner acquiring any right or interest in any of the
Subordinated Indebtedness.
“ Senior Lending
Agreements ” shall mean collectively the Loan Agreement
and the Loan Documents together with any other agreements,
documents and instruments at any time evidencing, securing or
related to the Senior Indebtedness, each as from time to time in
effect.
“ Subordinated
Indebtedness ” shall mean all principal, interest and
other amounts payable or chargeable in connection with the
Subordinated Note.
“ Subordinated Lending
Agreements ” shall mean, collectively, the Note Purchase
Agreement, the Subordinated Note and all promissory notes,
guaranties, agreements, documents and instruments now or at any
time hereafter executed and/or delivered by Company, Guarantor or
any other person to, with or in favor of Subordinated Lender in
connection therewith or related thereto (other than the warrants
issued simultaneously with the Subordinated Note and the documents
and agreements executed in connection therewith or related
thereto), as all of the foregoing now exist or may hereafter be
amended, modified, supplemented, extended, renewed, restated or
replaced.
“ Subordinated Note
” shall mean collectively the convertible promissory note
issued by Company to Subordinated Lender in the original aggregate
principal amount of $10,000,000 dated February 18, 2003 issued
pursuant to the Note Purchase Agreement, together with any
extensions thereof, or modifications or amendments thereto or
replacements and substitutions therefor.
1.2 Other Terms . Capitalized
terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings given to
them in the Loan Agreement.
1.3 Certain Matters of
Construction . The terms “herein”, “hereof
and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer
to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular section,
paragraph or subdivision. Any pronoun used shall be deemed to cover
all genders. Wherever appropriate in the context, terms used herein
in the singular also include the plural and vice
versa . All references to statutes and related regulations
shall include any amendments of the same and any successor statutes
and regulations. Except as expressly set forth herein, all
references to any instruments or agreements, including, without
limitation, references to any of the Creditor Agreements shall
include any and all modifications or amendments thereto and any and
all extensions or renewals thereof.
2. Covenants . Company
and Subordinated Lender hereby covenant that until the Senior
Indebtedness shall have been paid in full and satisfied in cash and
the Loan Agreement
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shall
have been terminated, all in accordance with the terms of the Loan
Agreement, each will comply with such of the following provisions
as are applicable to it:
2.1 Transfers . Subordinated
Lender covenants to cause any transferee from it of any
Subordinated Indebtedness, prior to acquiring such interest, to
execute and deliver a counterpart of this Agreement to Bank.
2.2 Subordination Provisions .
To induce Bank to enter into the Loan Agreement, notwithstanding
any other provision of the Subordinated Indebtedness to the
contrary but subject to subsection 2.2(a), any Distribution with
respect to the Subordinated Indebtedness is and shall be expressly
junior and subordinated in right of payment to all amounts due and
owing upon all Senior Indebtedness outstanding from time to time
until such time as the Senior Indebtedness has been paid in full in
cash and the Loan Agreement has been terminated.
(a) Payments . Company
shall not make a Distribution on the Subordinated Indebtedness
until such time as the Senior Indebtedness shall have been paid in
full in cash and the Loan Agreement shall have been terminated;
provided , however , so long as no Default or Event
of Default shall have occurred and be continuing under the Senior
Lending Agreements, Company may pay, and Subordinated Lender may
receive, regularly scheduled payments of interest on, and principal
at the stated (but not any accelerated) maturity of, the
Subordinated Indebtedness as set forth on the date hereof in the
Note Purchase Agreement and the Subordinated Note.
Following the occurrence of an Event
of Default under the Senior Lending Agreements and receipt by
Subordinated Lender of written notice of such Event of Default from
Bank (such notice, the “ Default Notice ”),
Company shall not make a Distribution on the Subordinated
Indebtedness and Subordinated Lender shall not be entitled to
receive any such Distribution in respect of the Subordinated
Indebtedness; provided , however , that
notwithstanding the foregoing restriction, Company may pay, and
Subordinated Lender shall be entitled to receive, any then due and
payable (on a non-accelerated basis) interest payment with respect
to the Subordinated Indebtedness on the earlier to occur of
(x) the date on which all such Events of Default specified in
the Default Notice shall have been cured or waived, or (y) in
the case of an Event of Default other than with respect to the
payment when due of any Senior Indebtedness, the expiration of a
period of 180 days from delivery of the Default Notice.
Nothing herein shall limit the accrual of deferred interest or
default interest in accordance with the terms of the Subordinated
Lending Agreements.
(b) Limitation on
Acceleration . During any period described in Section 2.2
(a) hereof in which a Distribution is not permitted to be made
on Subordinated Indebtedness, Subordinated Lender shall not be
entitled to accelerate the maturity of the Subordinated
Indebtedness, exercise any Secured Lender Remedies or commence any
other action or proceeding to recover any amounts due or to become
due with respect to Subordinated Indebtedness, provided ,
however , the foregoing limitation on acceleration or
exercise of any remedies shall not be applicable following
(x) the occurrence of an Insolvency Event or
(y) following the maturity or acceleration of the Senior
Indebtedness.
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(c) Prior Payment of Senior
Indebtedness in Bankruptcy, etc . In the event of any
insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings relative to Company or
Company’s property, or any receivership, liquidation,
reorganization or other similar proceedings in connection
therewith, or, in the event of any proceedings for voluntary
liquidation, dissolution or other winding up of Company or
distribution or marshalling of Company’s assets or any
composition with creditors of Company, whether or not involving
insolvency or bankruptcy, or if Company shall cease its operations,
call a meeting of its creditors or no longer do business as a going
concern (each individually or collectively, an “Insolvency
Event”), then all Senior Indebtedness shall be paid in full
and satisfied in cash and the Loan Agreement terminated before any
Distribution shall be made on account of any Subordinated
Indebtedness. Any such Distribution resulting from an Insolvency
Event which would, but for the provisions hereof, be payable or
deliverable in respect of the Subordinated Indebtedness, shall be
paid or delivered directly to Bank until amounts owing upon Senior
Indebtedness shall have been paid in full in cash and the Loan
Agreement terminated provided that any such Distribution to Bank to
which Subordinated Lender would be entitled except for the
provisions of this Agreement shall, as between Company and
Subordinated Lender, not be deemed to be a Distribution by Company
to or on account of the Subordinated Indebtedness.
(d) Acceleration . In
the event of all Senior Indebtedness becoming due and payable,
whether by acceleration, maturity or otherwise, no Distribution
shall thereafter be made on account of the Subordinated
Indebtedness until all Senior Indebtedness shall be paid in full in
cash and the Loan Agreement shall have been terminated.
(e) Power of Attorney .
Subordinated Lender shall have the right to participate in any
bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings, subject to the terms and
conditions of this Section 2.2(e). To enable Bank to assert
and enforce its rights hereunder upon the happening of any
Insolvency Event and until all amounts owing upon Senior
Indebtedness shall have been paid in full in cash and the Loan
Agreement terminated, Bank or any person whom it may designate is
hereby irrevocably appointed attorney in fact for Subordinated
Lender with full power to act in the place and stead of
Subordinated Lender solely for such purpose, including the right to
make, present, file and vote such proofs of claim against Company
on account of all or any part of the Subordinated Indebtedness as
Bank may deem advisable and to receive and collect any and all
distributions or other payments in respect of the Subordinated
Indebtedness made thereon and to apply the same on account of the
Senior Indebtedness. In the event that Bank or its designee fails
to file a proof of claim with respect to the Subordinated
Indebtedness in any bankruptcy proceeding relative to Company prior
to the date which is ten (10) days prior to any claims bar
date in such proceeding, Subordinated Lender may file such proofs
of claim with respect to the Subordinated Indebtedness.
Subordinated Lender will execute and deliver to Bank such
instruments as may be required by Bank to enforce any and all
Subordinated Indebtedness, to effectuate the aforesaid power of
attorney and to effect collection of any and all distributions or
other payments in respect of the Subordinated Indebtedness which
may be made at any time after the occurrence of an Insolvency
Event, on account thereof, and Subordinated Lender hereby
irrevocably appoints Bank as the lawful attorney and agent of
Subordinated Lender to execute financing statements on behalf of
Subordinated Lender and hereby further authorizes Bank to file such
financing statements in any appropriate public office.
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(f) Knowledge; Delivery of
Default Notice . Subordinated Lender shall not at any time be
charged with knowledge of any Event of Default under the Senior
Lending Agreements or on such account be prohibited from receiving
or retaining any payment of monies or from taking any action
regarding acceleration or the exercise of remedies, unless and
until Subordinated Lender shall have received the Default Notice;
provided , however , any “default” or
“event of default” under the Subordinated Note and/or
Subordinated Lending Agreements shall automatically constitute an
Event of Default under the Senior Lending Agreements so that
payments received by Subordinated Lender following any such
occurrence shall not be retained irrespective of the lack of
receipt by Subordinated Lender of a Default Notice, unless
the Event of Default is waived by such Holder of Subordinated
Indebtedness or satisfied or cured by Company.
Each Default Notice shall be deemed
to be properly given by Bank or other holder of Senior Indebtedness
to Subordinated Lender if such Default Notice is delivered in
accordance with Section 4.10 hereof.
(g) Payments Held in
Trust . Should any Distribution or the proceeds thereof, in
respect of the Subordinated Indebtedness, be collected or received
by Subordinated Lender or any Affiliate (as such term is defined in
Rule 405 of Regulation C adopted by the Securities and
Exchange Commission pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933) of
Subordinated Lender at a time when Subordinated Lender is not
permitted to receive any such Distribution or proceeds thereof
pursuant to the terms hereof, then Subordinated Lender will
forthwith deliver, or cause to be delivered, the same to Bank in
precisely the form held by Subordinated Lender (except for any
necessary endorsement) and until so delivered, the same shall be
held in trust by Subordinated Lender, or any such Affiliate, as the
property of Bank and shall not be commingled with other property of
Subordinated Lender or any such Affiliate.
(h) Subrogation .
Subject to the prior payment in full in cash of the Senior
Indebtedness and the termination of the Loan Agreement, to the
extent that Bank has received any Distribution on the Senior
Indebtedness which, but for this Agreement, would have been applied
to the Subordinated Indebtedness, the rights of Subordinated Lender
shall be subrogated to the then or thereafter rights of Bank
including, without limitation, the right to receive any
Distribution made on the Senior Indebtedness (as if the Senior
Indebtedness had not been paid in full or the Loan Agreement
terminated) until the principal of, interest on and other charges
due under the Subordinated Indebtedness shall be paid in full; and,
for the purposes of such subrogation, no Distribution to Bank to
which the Subordinated Lender would be entitled except for the
provisions of this Agreement shall, as between Company, its
creditors (other than Ban
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