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COLLATERAL AGENCY AND INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT

Intercreditor Agreement

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Title: COLLATERAL AGENCY AND INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT
Governing Law: New York     Date: 3/16/2006
Industry: Personal and Household Prods.     Sector: Consumer/Non-Cyclical

COLLATERAL AGENCY AND INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT, Parties: nu skin enterprises inc , nu skin international  inc.
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COLLATERAL AGENCY AND INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT

        This COLLATERAL AGENCY AND INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT (this “ Agreement ”), dated as of October 12, 2000, is entered into among the Senior Noteholder listed on the signature pages hereof (together with assignees of such Senior Noteholder, the “ Senior Noteholders ”), the Senior Lender listed on the signature pages hereof (together with any assignees of such Senior Lender, the “ Senior Lenders ”), any Additional Creditors that may become parties to this Agreement (either directly or through their agent), and State Street Bank and Trust Company of California, N.A., in its capacity as collateral agent for the Senior Noteholders, the Senior Lenders and the Additional Creditors (the “ Collateral Agent ”).

R E C I T A L S

        A.        Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), will issue and sell to the Senior Noteholder its 3.03% Senior Notes due October 12, 2010 in the aggregate principal amount of JP¥9,706,500,000 (the “ Senior Noteholder Notes ”) pursuant to that certain Note Purchase Agreement, dated as of October 12, 2000 (as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “ Note Purchase Agreement ”), between the Company and the Senior Noteholder.

        B.        The Senior Lender (i) has made and may from time to time make loans up to an aggregate principal amount of US$10,000,000 to the Company pursuant to that certain Grid Note, dated May 24, 2000, executed by the Company in favor of the Senior Lender, and (ii) may from time to time issue letters of credit for the account of the Company pursuant to that certain Master Letter of Credit Agreement and Addendum, each dated as of August 4, 2000, between the Company and the Senior Lender (such Grid Note and Master Letter of Credit Agreement and Addendum, as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified or renewed or replaced from time to time, including any increase in the amount of the obligations thereunder, the “ Credit Documents ”).

        C.        Each of the Material Domestic Subsidiaries of the Company (together with any future Material Domestic Subsidiaries entering into a guaranty agreement with respect to the Obligations (as defined below), the “ Subsidiary Guarantors ”) have entered into a guaranty agreement pursuant to which the Subsidiary Guarantors guarantee to the Senior Lenders the payment and performance of all of the Company’s obligations under the Credit Documents (as such guaranty agreement may be modified, amended, renewed or replaced, including any increase in the amount guaranteed thereunder, the “ Bank Obligation Guaranty ”).

        D.        Pursuant to the Note Purchase Agreement, the Subsidiary Guarantors will enter into a guaranty agreement pursuant to which the Subsidiary Guarantors will guarantee to the Senior Noteholders the payment of the Noteholder Obligations and the payment and performance of all of the Company’s obligations under the Note Purchase Agreement and the Senior Notes (as such guaranty agreement may be modified, amended, renewed or replaced, including any increase in the amount guaranteed thereunder, the “ Note Obligation Guaranty ”).

 

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        E.        The Company may enter into additional note purchase agreements and/or credit agreements with investors and/or lenders which become party to this Agreement (such investors and lenders, together with the lenders referred to in the next sentence, the “ Additional Creditors ”) the obligations under which (the “ Additional Company Obligations ”) will be guaranteed by one or more of the Subsidiary Guarantors (the “ Additional Subsidiary Guaranties ”). In addition, one or more Subsidiary Guarantors may become direct obligors to lenders which become party to this Agreement and therefore are Additional Creditors, and the obligations of such Subsidiary Guarantors to such lenders (the “ Direct Subsidiary Obligations ” and together with the Additional Company Obligations, the “ Additional Obligations ”) will be guaranteed by the Company and the other Subsidiary Guarantors.

        F.        The Bank Obligation Guaranty, the Note Obligation Guaranty, any Additional Subsidiary Guaranty and any Direct Subsidiary Obligation are each hereinafter referred to as a “ Subsidiary Guaranty .” The Credit Documents, the Note Purchase Agreement and any additional note purchase agreements and/or credit agreements with investors and/or lenders which become party to this Agreement are hereinafter referred to, collectively, as the “ Senior Loan Documents .”

        G.        The Company has secured all present and future obligations to the Senior Noteholders under the Senior Noteholder Notes and the Note Purchase Agreement (all such obligations, including, without limitation, principal, interest, Make-Whole Amounts, fees and indemnities, being referred to herein as the “ Senior Noteholder Obligations ”) and all present and future obligations to the Senior Lenders, including, without limitation, principal, interest, letter of credit obligations (including Contingent L/C Obligations), break-funding amounts, fees and indemnities (the “ Senior Lender Obligations”) and may secure all Additional Obligations, pursuant to the terms of that certain Pledge Agreement dated as of the date hereof between the Company and the Collateral Agent (the “ Pledge Agreement ”) and any similar documents executed after the date hereof, as the same may be amended, supplemented or modified from time to time (the “ Security Documents ”). The Senior Noteholder Obligations, the Senior Lender Obligations and the Additional Obligations are collectively referred to as the “ Obligations ”). The Senior Noteholders, the Senior Lenders and the Additional Creditors are sometimes collectively referred to as the “ Benefitted Parties ” and individually referred to as a “ Benefitted Party .” The Pledge Agreement grants to the Collateral Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Benefitted Parties, a valid, perfected and enforceable first priority lien on and a security interest in 65% of the equity securities of certain foreign subsidiaries of the Company (hereinafter all of such collateral, together with all rights to payment under any Subsidiary Guaranty, shall be referred to collectively as the “ Collateral ”).

        H.        The Senior Noteholders, the Senior Lenders and the Additional Creditors wish to set forth their understandings and agreements regarding their respective rights and priorities with respect to amounts recovered through the exercise of any right of set off, payments received after a Triggering Event (as defined in Section 2(a), below) and proceeds of the Collateral.

        I.        Capitalized terms used herein without being defined shall have the meanings set forth in the Note Purchase Agreement.

 

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        NOW, THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged and the mutual covenants and promises set forth herein, each of the parties to this Agreement agrees as follows:

        1.     Sharing .

        (a)        The liens of the Collateral Agent relating to the Collateral shall be held by the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Benefitted Parties, and any proceeds realized in respect thereof shall be shared by the Benefitted Parties and distributed in accordance with the rights and priorities set forth in this Agreement. Any Collateral Proceeds, Triggering Event Balances, Triggering Event Payments or Setoff Proceeds (as such terms are defined in Section 2(b)) shall be shared by the Benefitted Parties and distributed in accordance with the rights and priorities set forth in this Agreement. As used herein, the term “ Triggering Event ” means (a) the occurrence and continuation of a Bankruptcy Proceeding (as defined below) with respect to the Company, any Subsidiary Guarantor or any Material Foreign Subsidiary, (b) the Collateral Agent’s receipt of a written notice that the unpaid principal amount of any of the Obligations has been declared to be then due and payable by the holder or holders thereof prior to the due date as a result of an event of default, or (c) any exercise of any right of setoff or banker’s lien by any Benefitted Party. As used herein, the term “ Bankruptcy Proceeding ” means, with respect to any Person, a general assignment of such Person for the benefit of its creditors, or the institution by or against such Person of any proceeding seeking relief as debtor, or seeking to adjudicate such Person as bankrupt or insolvent, or seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of such Person or its debts, under any law relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or relief of debtors, or seeking appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian or other similar official for such Person or for any substantial part of its property.

        (b)        Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein, any Collateral Proceeds, Triggering Event Balances, Triggering Event Payments or Setoff Proceeds which are to be remitted to any Benefitted Party on account of Obligations which are Contingent L/C Obligations (as defined below) shall be remitted to the Collateral Agent to be held in a separate cash collateral account (the “ L/C Account ”) by the Collateral Agent and distributed by the Collateral Agent only in accordance with this Section 1(b). In the event, and upon the condition that, any Contingent L/C Obligation becomes an absolute obligation of the Company upon the honoring of a draw under any Letter of Credit (as defined below), upon receipt of written direction from the applicable Benefitted Party, the Collateral Agent shall withdraw from the L/C Account and shall pay over to the Benefitted Party (or issuing bank on behalf of such Benefitted Party) that honored such draw an amount equal to the Withdrawal Amount (as defined below) with respect to the amount of such draw together with interest on such Withdrawal Amount at the rate earned while on deposit in the L/C Account. In the event that the Collateral Agent receives written notice that any Contingent L/C Obligation lapses on account of the expiration or other termination of the applicable Letter of Credit, an amount equal to the Withdrawal Amount with respect to such lapsed Contingent L/C Obligation, together with interest on account of such amount at the rate earned while on deposit in the L/C Account, shall be released from the L/C Account and shall be distributed by the Collateral Agent to the Benefitted Parties in accordance with clause “ third ” of Section 2(c). As used herein “ Withdrawal Amount ” means the product of (a) the quotient of (i) the amount of a Contingent L/C Obligation which has then become an absolute obligation on account of a draw or the amount of a Contingent L/C Obligation which

 

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has lapsed on account of the expiration or termination of the applicable Letter of Credit, as the case may be, over (ii) the total amount of all Contingent L/C Obligations, and (b) the total amount then deposited in the L/C Account.

        As used herein, the term “ Contingent L/C Obligations ” means any and all contingent obligations of the Company to reimburse the issuers of Letters of Credit for drawings under such Letters of Credit.

        As used herein, the term “ Letter of Credit ” means a letter of credit issued by a Benefitted Party, or an issuing bank on behalf of a Benefitted Party, for the account of the Company or any of the Subsidiary Guarantors pursuant to the Credit Documents or any additional credit agreements with lenders which become party to this Agreement.

2.

 

Cash Collateral Account; Application of Proceeds



(a)

 

The Collateral Agent has established an interest-bearing demand deposit cash collateral account subject to the lien and security interest created by the Security Documents (the “ Cash Collateral Account ”) in the name of the Collateral Agent into which the proceeds, payments and amounts described in subsections (b)(i), (b)(ii), (b)(iii) and (b)(iv) below shall be deposited and from which only the Collateral Agent may effect withdrawals. Such amounts shall be held by the Collateral Agent in the Cash Collateral Account and shall be distributed from time to time by the Collateral Agent in accordance with Section 2(c) below.



(b)

 

The following proceeds, payments and amounts shall be deposited and held by the Collateral Agent in the Cash Collateral Account and shall be distributed from time to time by the Collateral Agent in accordance with Section 2(c) below:



(i)

 

any proceeds of any collection, recovery, receipt, appropriation, realization or sale of any or all of the Collateral or the enforcement of the Security Documents (the “ Collateral Proceeds ”) received by the Collateral Agent or any Benefitted Party;



(ii)

 

any amounts held in the Cash Collateral Account at the time a Triggering Event occurs (the “ Triggering Event Balances ”);



(iii)

 

any payments received or otherwise realized by any Benefitted Party in respect of any Obligations on or after the date on which a Triggering Event has occurred (the “ Triggering Event Payments ”); and



(iv)

 

any amounts received or recovered by any Benefitted Party through any exercise of any right of setoff or banker’s lien at any time on or after the occurrence of a Triggering Event (whether by law, contract or otherwise) (the “ Setoff Proceeds ”).



         Each Benefitted Party agrees to deliver any Collateral Proceeds, any Triggering Event Balances, any Triggering Event Payments and any Setoff Proceeds to the Collateral Agent within two (2) Business Days after receipt (other than pursuant to subsection (c) below) of such Collateral Proceeds, Triggering Event Balances, Triggering Event Payments or Setoff Proceeds.

 

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        (c)     The Collateral Agent shall distribute the proceeds described in subsections (b)(i), (b)(ii), (b)(iii) and (b)(iv) above which are held in the Cash Collateral Account to the Collateral Agent and the Benefitted Parties in accordance with the following priorities:

 

         first , to the reasonable costs and expenses of the Collateral Agent incurred in connection with the maintenance of the Cash Collateral Account and any collection, recovery, receipt, appropriation, legal proceeding (whether by or against any such party), realization or sale of any or all of the Collateral or the enforcement of the Security Documents;



 

         second , after payment in full of all amounts set forth in item first , to the Benefitted Parties in payment of any and all amounts owed to the Benefitted Parties for reimbursement of amounts paid by them to the Collateral Agent in accordance with Section 4(g) pro rata in proportion to such amounts owed to such Benefitted Parties;



 

         third , after payment in full of all amounts set forth in item second , to the payment and permanent reduction of the principal amount of the outstanding Obligations and the Contingent L/C Obligations, pro rata , based on the proportion that the principal amount of such outstanding Obligations and Contingent L/C Obligations held by each Benefitted Party at such time bears to the sum of the principal amount of all such Obligations and Contingent L/C Obligations;



 

         fourth , after payment in full of all amounts set forth in item third , to the payment and permanent reduction of the amount of the outstanding Obligations representing interest, pro rata, based on the proportion that such outstanding Obligations representing interest held by each Benefitted Party at such time bears to the sum of all such Obligations representing interest;



 

         fifth , after payment in full of all amounts set forth in item fourth , to the payment and permanent reduction of all other outstanding Obligations not representing principal, Contingent L/C Obligations or interest, pro rata, based on the proportion that such outstanding Obligations not representing principal, Contingent L/C Obligations or interest held by each Benefitted Party at such time bears to the sum of all such Obligations not representing principal, Contingent L/C Obligations or interest; and



 

         sixth , after payment in full of all amounts set forth in item fifth , to or at the direction of the Company or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct.



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        The Collateral Agent shall make such distributions promptly after the deposit of any Collateral Proceeds, Triggering Event Balances, Triggering Event Payments or Setoff Proceeds into the Cash Collateral Account. A Benefitted Party’s pro rata share of the Obligations on any distribution date shall be determined by assuming that all Obligations are denominated in U.S. Dollars based upon the quoted spot rate at which the Collateral Agent’s principal office offers to exchange any applicable currency for U.S. Dollars at 11:00 A.M. (local time at such principal office) on the Business Day preceding such distribution date (the “ Applicable Exchange Rate ”). For any distribution, the Collateral Agent shall exchange the relevant portion of such distribution into the applicable currency and make each such distribution in the applicable currency.

        3.     Payment of Obligations; Distributions Recovered .

        (a)     The Company and each of the Subsidiary Guarantors agree that any amounts received by a Benefitted Party and delivered by such Benefitted Party to the Collateral Agent pursuant to the terms of this Agreement will not be deemed to be a payment in respect of any Obligations owing to such Benefitted Party until such Benefitted Party receives its pro rata share of such amount from the Collateral Agent and then only to the extent of the actual payment and receipt of such pro rata share.

        (b)     Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, in each case in which any proceeds (or the value thereof) or payments are recovered as a preferential or otherwise voidable payment (whether by a trustee in bankruptcy or otherwise) from the party (the “ Distributor ”) which distributed those proceeds to another party or parties under this Agreement, each party (a “ Distributee ”) to whom any of those proceeds were ultimately distributed shall, upon the Distributor’s notice of the recovery to the Distributee, return to the Distributor an amount equal to the Distributee’s ratable share of the amount recovered, together with a ratable share of interest thereon to the extent the Distributor is required to pay interest thereon computed on the amount to be returned from the date of the recovery. For purposes of this Agreement, “ proceeds ” means any payment (whether made voluntarily or involuntary) from any source, including, without limitation, any offset of any deposit or other indebtedness, any security (including, without limitation, any guaranty or any collateral) or otherwise.

        4.     The Collateral Agent .

        (a)     By execution and delivery hereof, each Benefitted Party hereby appoints State Street Bank and Trust Company of California, N.A. as Collateral Agent and its representative hereunder and under the Security Documents and authorizes the Collateral Agent to act as such hereunder and thereunder on behalf of each such Benefitted Party. The Col


 
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