Exhibit 10.19
EXECUTION COPY
TENSAR INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT
This TENSAR INTERCREDITOR
AGREEMENT, is dated as of October 31, 2005, and entered
into by and among Tensar Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation
(“Tensar Holdings”), The Tensar Corporation,
LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (
“Tensar” ), TCO FUNDING CORP., a Delaware
corporation (“TCO”), CREDIT SUISSE, in its
capacity as agent under the First Lien Lease/Purchase Facilities
Documents (as defined below), including its successors and assigns
from time to time (the “First Lien Agent” ), and
AMERICAN CAPITAL FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., in its capacity
as agent under the Second Lien Commodities Purchase Documents (as
defined below), including its successors and assigns from time to
time (the “Second Lien Agent”). Capitalized
terms used herein but not otherwise defined herein have the
meanings set forth in Section 1 below.
R E C I T A L S
WHEREAS, Tensar Holdings,
Tensar, certain of their Subsidiaries, TCO and the First Lien Agent
have entered into the Lease Agreement and the Commodities Purchase
Agreement, in each case, dated as of the date hereof (as amended,
restated, supplemented, modified or Refinanced from time to time,
the “First Lien Lease/Purchase
Agreements”);
WHEREAS, Tensar Holdings,
Tensar, certain of their Subsidiaries, TCO and the Second Lien
Agent have entered into the Second Lien Commodities Purchase
Agreement, dated as of the date hereof (as amended, restated,
supplemented, modified or Refinanced from time to time in
accordance with terms of this Agreement, the “Second Lien
Commodities Purchase Agreement”);
WHEREAS, pursuant to
(i) the First Lien Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, Tensar
Holdings has guaranteed the First Lien Obligations (the
“First Lien Holdings Guaranty”); (ii) the
First Lien Lease/Purchase Agreements, Tensar Holdings and Tensar
have agreed to cause certain current and future Subsidiaries to
guaranty the First Lien Obligations (the “First Lien
Subsidiary Guaranty”) pursuant to the First Lien
Guarantee and Collateral Agreement; (iii) the Second Lien
Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, Tensar Holdings has guaranteed
the Second Lien Obligations (the “Second Lien Holdings
Guaranty”), and (iv) the Second Lien Commodities
Purchase Agreement, Tensar Holdings and Tensar have agreed to cause
certain current and future Subsidiaries to guaranty the Second Lien
Obligations (the “Second Lien Subsidiary
Guaranty” ) pursuant to the Second Lien Guarantee and
Collateral Agreement;
WHEREAS, the obligations of
Tensar and certain of its Subsidiaries under the First Lien
Lease/Purchase Agreements and the obligations of Tensar Holdings
and of the Subsidiary guarantors under the First Lien Guarantee and
Collateral Agreement will be secured on a first priority basis by
liens on substantially all the assets
of
Tensar, Tensar Holdings and the Subsidiary guarantors (such current
and future Subsidiaries of Tensar providing such a guaranty, the
“Guarantor Subsidiaries”), pursuant to the terms
of the First Lien Security Documents;
WHEREAS, the obligations of
Tensar and certain of its Subsidiaries under the Second Lien
Commodities Purchase Agreement, the obligations of Tensar Holdings
and of the Guarantor Subsidiaries under the Second Lien Guarantee
and Collateral Agreement will be secured on a second priority basis
by liens on substantially all the assets of Tensar, Tensar Holdings
and the Guarantor Subsidiaries, pursuant to the terms of the Second
Lien Security Documents;
WHEREAS, the First Lien
Lease/Purchase Agreements and the Second Lien Commodities Purchase
Agreement provide, among other things, that the parties thereto
shall set forth in this Agreement their respective rights and
remedies with respect to the Collateral; and
WHEREAS, in order to induce
the First Lien Secured Party to enter into the First Lien
Lease/Purchase Facilities Documents and to consent to the Grantors
incurring the Second Lien Obligations and to induce the First Lien
Secured Party and the other First Lien Claimholders to make
financial accommodations to or for the benefit of Tensar or any
other Grantor, the Second Lien Secured Party on behalf of the
Second Lien Agent and each other the Second Lien Claimholder has
agreed to the intercreditor and other provisions set forth in this
Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE, in
consideration of the foregoing, the mutual covenants and
obligations herein set forth and for other good and valuable
consideration, the sufficiency and receipt of which are hereby
acknowledged, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound,
hereby agree as follows:
SECTION 1.
Definitions.
1.1 Defined Terms. As
used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the
following meanings:
“Affiliate”
means, with respect to a specified Person, another Person that
directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls
or is controlled by, or is under common control with the Person
specified.
“Agreed Profit”
has the meaning set forth in the Commodities Purchase Agreement and
the Second Lien Commodities Purchase Agreement, as
applicable.
“Agreement” means
this Agreement, as amended, renewed, extended, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms
hereof.
“Bankruptcy Code”
means Title 11 of the United States Code entitled
“Bankruptcy,” as now and hereafter in effect, or any
successor statute.
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“Bankruptcy Law”
means the Bankruptcy Code and any similar federal, state or foreign
law for the relief of debtors.
“Business Day”
means any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which
commercial banks in New York City are authorized or required by law
to close.
“Cap Amount” has
the meaning set forth in Section 5.3(a)(ii).
“Collateral”
means all of the assets and property of any Grantor, whether real,
personal or mixed, whether now owned or hereafter acquired,
constituting both First Lien Collateral and Second Lien
Collateral.
“Commodities Purchase
Agreement” means the Working Capital Murabaha Facility
Agreement, dated as of Effective Date, by and between the Tensar
Parties party thereto, the First Lien Secured Party and the First
Lien Agent, as the same may be amended, supplemented or modified,
renewed, extended or Refinanced from time to time in accordance
with the terms thereof and hereof.
“Comparable Second Lien
Security Document” means, in relation to any Collateral
subject to any Lien created under any First Lien Security Document,
that Second Lien Security Document which creates a Lien on the same
Collateral, granted by the same Grantor.
“Control” means
the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or
cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person,
whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract
or otherwise. The terms “Controlling” and
“Controlled” have meanings correlative
thereto.
“DIP Financing”
has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 6.1.
“Discharge of First Lien
Obligations” means, except to the extent otherwise
provided in Section 5.5, (a) payment in full in cash of
all Acquisition Cost, Murabaha Price, the Rental Rate portion of
Rent and Agreed Profit (including Rental Rate or Agreed Profit
accruing on or after the commencement of any Insolvency or
Liquidation Proceeding, whether or not such charges would be
allowed in such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding) and premium,
if any, on all Financing Obligations outstanding under the First
Lien Lease/Purchase Facilities Documents and constituting First
Lien Obligations; (b) payment in full in cash of all other
First Lien Obligations that are due and payable or otherwise
accrued and owing at or prior to the time such Acquisition Cost,
Murabaha Price, Rental Rate or Agreed Profit are paid (other than
any indemnification obligations for which no claim or demand for
payment, whether oral or written, has been made at such time) and
(c) termination or expiration of all commitments to engage in
commodities transactions and all other obligations under the First
Lien Lease/Purchase Facilities Documents.
“Disposition” has
the meaning assigned to that term in Section 5.1(a).
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“Effective Date”
means October 31, 2005.
“Financing
Obligations” means and includes all Obligations that
constitute “Financing Obligations” within the meaning
of the First Lien Lease/Purchase Agreements or the Second Lien
Commodities Purchase Agreement, as applicable.
“First Lien
Claimholders” means, at any relevant time, the holders of
First Lien Obligations at such time, including the First Lien
Secured Party and the First Lien Agent.
“First Lien
Collateral” means all of the assets and property of any
Grantor, whether real, personal or mixed, and whether now owned or
hereafter acquired, with respect to which a Lien is granted as
security for any First Lien Obligations.
“First Lien Guarantee and
Collateral Agreement” means the First Lien Guarantee and
Collateral Agreement, dated as of the Effective Date, by and among
Tensar Holdings, Tensar, each other Grantor, the First Lien Secured
Party, and the First Lien Agent, as amended, restated,
supplemented, modified, renewed, extended or Refinanced from time
to time in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement.
“First Lien Holdings
Guaranty” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals to
this Agreement.
“First Lien Lease/Purchase
Agreements” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals to
this Agreement.
“First Lien Lease/Purchase
Facilities Documents” means the Lease Agreement, the
Commodities Purchase Agreement and the Lease/Purchase Facilities
Documents (as defined in the First Lien Guarantee and Collateral
Agreement), including the First Lien Security Documents and each of
the other agreements, documents and instruments providing for or
evidencing any other First Lien Obligation, and any other document
or instrument executed or delivered at any time in connection with
any First Lien Obligations, including any intercreditor or joinder
agreement among holders of First Lien Obligations, to the extent
such are effective at the relevant time, in each case, as each may
be amended, restated, supplemented, modified, renewed, extended or
Refinanced from time to time in accordance with the provisions of
this Agreement.
“First Lien
Obligations” means, subject to clause (c) hereof,
the following:
(a) (i) all Acquisition
Cost, the Rental Rate portion of Rent, Agreed Profit and Murabaha
Price (including any Post-Petition Charges) and premium (if any) on
all financial accommodations made pursuant to the First Lien
Lease/Purchase Agreements and (ii) all guarantee obligations,
fees, expenses and other all other Obligations under the First Lien
Lease/Purchase Agreements and the other First Lien Lease/Purchase
Facilities Documents, in each case whether or not allowed or
allowable in an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding.
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(b) To the extent any payment
with respect to any First Lien Obligation (whether by or on behalf
of any Grantor, as proceeds of security, enforcement of any right
of setoff or otherwise) is declared to be a fraudulent conveyance
or a preference in any respect, set aside or required to he paid to
a debtor in possession, any Second Lien Claimholders, receiver or
similar Person, then the obligation or part thereof originally
intended to be satisfied shall, for the purposes of this Agreement
and the rights and obligations of the First Lien Claimholders and
the Second Lien Claimholders, be deemed to be reinstated and
outstanding as if such payment had not occurred. To the extent that
any Rental Rate portion of Rent, Agreed Profit, interest, fees,
expenses or other charges (including Post-Petition Charges) to be
paid pursuant to the First Lien Lease/Purchase Facilities Documents
are disallowed by order of any court, including by order of a
Bankruptcy Court in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, such
Rental Rate portion of Rent, Agreed Profit, interest, fees,
expenses and charges (including Post-Petition Charges) shall, as
between the First Lien Claimholders and the Second Lien
Claimholders, be deemed to continue to accrue and be added to the
amount to be calculated as the “First Lien
Obligations”.
(c) Notwithstanding the
foregoing, if the aggregate stated amount of Acquisition Cost and
Purchase Price outstanding under the First Lien Lease/Purchase
Agreements and the other First Lien Lease/Purchase Facilities
Documents is in excess of the Cap Amount, then only that portion of
such Acquisition Cost and Purchase Price equal to the Cap Amount
shall be included in First Lien Obligations and Rental Rate and
Agreed Profit with respect to such Acquisition Cost and Purchase
Price shall only constitute First Lien Obligations to the extent
related to Financing Obligations included in the First Lien
Obligations.
“First Lien Secured
Party” means TCO in its capacities as a party under the
First Lien Lease/Purchase Facilities Documents, together with any
successors or assigns in such capacity.
“First Lien Security
Documents” means the First Lien Guarantee and Collateral
Agreement and all other agreements, documents and instruments
pursuant to which a Lien is granted securing any First Lien
Obligations or under which rights or remedies with respect to such
Liens are governed.
“Grantors” means
Tensar, Tensar Holdings, each of the Guarantor Subsidiaries and
each other Person that has or may from time to time hereafter
execute and deliver a First Lien Security Document or a Second Lien
Security Document as a “grantor” or
“pledgor” (or the equivalent thereof).
“Guarantor
Subsidiaries” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals
to this Agreement.
“Insolvency or Liquidation
Proceeding” means (a) any voluntary or involuntary
case or proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code with respect to any
Grantor, (b) any other voluntary or involuntary insolvency,
reorganization or bankruptcy case or proceeding, or any
receivership, liquidation, reorganization or other similar case
or
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proceeding with respect to any Grantor or with respect to a
material portion of their assets, (c) any liquidation, dissolution,
reorganization or winding up of any Grantor whether voluntary or
involuntary and whether or not involving insolvency or bankruptcy
or (d) any assignment for the benefit of creditors or any
other marshalling of assets and liabilities of any Grantor.
“Lease Agreement”
means the Lease and License Financing and Purchase Option
Agreement, dated as of the Effective Date, by and among the Tensar
Parties party thereto, the First Lien Secured Party and the First
Lien Agent as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified,
renewed, extended or Refinanced from time to time from time to time
in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement.
“Lien” means any
lien (including judgment liens and liens arising by operation of
law), mortgage, pledge, assignment, security interest, charge or
encumbrance of any kind (including any agreement to give any of the
foregoing, any conditional sale or other title retention agreement,
and any lease in the nature thereof) and any option, call, trust,
UCC financing statement or other preferential arrangement having
the practical effect of any of the foregoing.
“Murabaha Price”
has the meaning set forth in the Commodities Purchase Agreement and
the Second Lien Commodities Purchase Agreement, as
applicable.
“Obligations”
means any and all obligations of every nature of each Grantor from
time to time owed to any First Lien Claimholder, Second Lien
Claimholder or any of them or their respective Affiliates under the
First Lien Lease/Purchase Facilities Documents, or the Second Lien
Commodities Purchase Facility Documents, including obligations with
respect to the payment of (a) any Acquisition Cost, Murabaha
Price, the Rental Rate portion of Rent, Agreed Profit, or premium
on any Financing Obligations, or any other liability, including the
Rental Rate portion of Rent, Agreed Profit or interest accruing
after the filing of a petition initiating any proceeding under the
Bankruptcy Code, (b) any fees, indemnification obligations,
expense reimbursement obligations or other liabilities payable
under the documentation governing any Financing Obligations, or
(c) any obligation to post cash collateral in respect of any
other obligations.
“Outstanding
Amount” has the meaning set forth in
Section 6.1.
“Person” or
“Persons” means any natural person, corporation,
limited liability company, trust, joint venture, association,
company, partnership, governmental authority or other entity.
“Pledged
Collateral” has the meaning set forth in
Section 5.4.
“Post-Petition
Charges” means the Rental Rate portion of Rent, Agreed
Profit, interest, fees, expenses and other charges that pursuant to
the First Lien Lease/Purchase Agreements or the Second Lien
Commodities Purchase Agreement, continue to accrue after the
commencement of any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, whether
or not such Rental Rate portion of Rent, Agreed Profit, interest,
fees, expenses
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and
other charges are allowed or allowable under the Bankruptcy Law or
in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding.
“Purchase Price”
has the meaning set forth in the Commodities Purchase Agreement and
the Second Lien Commodities Purchase Agreement, as
applicable.
“Recovery” has
the meaning set forth in Section 6.5.
“Refinance”
means, in respect of any Financing Obligations, to refinance,
extend, renew, defease, amend, modify, supplement, restructure,
replace, refund or repay, or to issue other Financing Obligations,
in exchange or replacement for, such Financing Obligations in whole
or in part. “Refinanced” and
“Refinancing” shall have correlative
meanings.
“Rent” has the
meaning set forth in the Lease Agreement.
“Rental Rate” has
the meaning set forth in the Lease Agreement.
“Second Lien
Claimholders” means, at any relevant time, the holders of
Second Lien Obligations at such time, including the Second Lien
Secured Party and the Second Lien Agent.
“Second Lien
Collateral” means all of the assets and property of any
Grantor, whether real, personal or mixed, and whether now owned or
hereafter acquired, with respect to which a Lien is granted as
security for any Second Lien Obligations.
“Second Lien Commodities
Purchase Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the
Recitals.
“Second Lien Commodities
Purchase Facility Documents” means the Second Lien
Commodities Purchase Agreement and each of the other security and
other agreements, documents, and instruments providing for or
evidencing any obligation of the Tensar Parties in respect thereof
and any security granted therefor, and any other document or
instrument executed or delivered at any time in connection with the
obligations of the Tensar Parties thereunder, as each may be
amended, restated, supplemented, modified, renewed, extended or
Refinanced, from time to time in accordance with the provisions of
this Agreement.
“Second Lien Guarantee and
Collateral Agreement” means the Second Lien Guarantee and
Collateral Agreement, dated as of the Effective Date, by and among
Tensar Holdings, Tensar, each other Grantor, the Second Lien Agent
and the Second Lien Secured Party, as amended, restated,
supplemented, modified, renewed, extended or Refinanced from time
to time in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement.
“Second Lien Holdings
Guaranty” has the meaning assigned to that term in the
Recitals to this Agreement.
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“Second Lien
Obligations” means all Obligations outstanding under the
Second Lien Commodities Purchase Agreement and the other Second
Lien Commodities Purchase Facility Documents. “Second Lien
Obligations” shall include all Agreed Profit or interest
accrued or accruing (or which would, absent commencement of an
Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, accrue) after commencement of
an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding in accordance with the rate
specified in the relevant Second Lien Commodities Purchase Facility
Document whether or not the claim for such Agreed Profit or
interest is allowed as a claim in such Insolvency or Liquidation
Proceeding.
“Second Lien Secured
Party” means TCO in its capacities as a party under the
Second Lien Commodities Purchase Facilities Documents, together
with any successors or assigns in such capacity.
“Second Lien Security
Documents” means the Second Lien Guarantee and Collateral
Agreement and all other agreements, documents and instruments
pursuant to which a Lien is granted securing any Second Lien
Obligations or under which rights or remedies with respect to such
Liens are governed.
“Standstill
Period” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.1
hereof.
“Subsidiary”
means, with respect to any Person (herein referred to as the
“parent”), any corporation, partnership, limited
liability company, association or other entity (a) of which
securities or other ownership interests representing more than 50%
of the equity or more than 50% of the ordinary voting power or more
than 50% of the general partnership interests are, at the time any
determination is being made, owned, controlled or held, or
(b) that is, at the time any determination is made, otherwise
Controlled, in either case by the parent or one or more
subsidiaries of the parent or by the parent and one or more
subsidiaries of the parent.
“TCO” has the
meaning set forth in the Recitals to this Agreement.
“Tensar” has the
meaning set forth in the Recitals to this Agreement.
“Tensar Holdings”
has the meaning set forth in the Recitals to this Agreement.
“Tensar Parties”
shall mean Tensar Holdings and each of its Subsidiaries.
“Uniform Commercial
Code” or “UCC” means the Uniform
Commercial Code (or any similar or equivalent legislation) as in
effect in any applicable jurisdiction.
1.2 Terms Generally.
The definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the singular
and plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may
require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine,
feminine and neuter forms. The words “include”,
“includes” and “including” shall be deemed
to be followed by the phrase “without limitation.” The
word “will” shall be construed to have the same meaning
and
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effect
as the word “shall”. Unless the context requires
otherwise (a) any definition of or reference to any agreement,
instrument or other document herein shall be construed as referring
to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to
time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified, (b) any
reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such
Person’s successors and assigns, (c) the words
“herein”, “hereof” and
“hereunder”, and words of similar import, shall be
construed to refer to this Agreement in its entirety and not to any
particular provision hereof, (d) all references herein to
Exhibits or Sections shall be construed to refer to Exhibits or
Sections of this Agreement and (e) the words
“asset” and “property” shall be construed
to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all
tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash,
securities, accounts and contract rights.
SECTION 2. Lien
Priorities.
2.1 Relative
Priorities . Notwithstanding the date, time, method, manner or
order of grant, attachment or perfection of any Liens securing the
Second Lien Obligations granted on the Collateral or of any Liens
securing the First Lien Obligations granted on the Collateral and
notwithstanding any provision of the UCC, or any other applicable
law or the Second Lien Commodities Purchase Facility Documents
(other than this Agreement) or any defect or deficiencies in, or
failure to perfect or lapse in perfection of, the Liens securing
the First Lien Obligations or any other circumstance whatsoever,
the Second Lien Secured Party, on behalf of itself and the Second
Lien Claimholders, hereby agrees that: (a) any Lien on the
Collateral securing any First Lien Obligations now or hereafter
held by or on behalf of the First Lien Secured Party or any First
Lien Claimholders or any agent or trustee therefor, regardless of
how acquired, whether by grant, possession, statute, operation of
law, subrogation or otherwise, shall be senior in all respects and
prior to any Lien on the Collateral securing any of the Second Lien
Obligations; and (b) any Lien on the Collateral securing any
Second Lien Obligations now or hereafter held by or on behalf of
the Second Lien Secured Party, any Second Lien Claimholders or any
agent or trustee therefor regardless of how acquired, whether by
grant, possession, statute, operation of law, subrogation or
otherwise, shall be junior and subordinate in all respects to all
Liens on the Collateral securing any First Lien Obligations. All
Liens on the Collateral securing any First Lien Obligations shall
be and remain senior in all respects and prior to all Liens on the
Collateral securing any Second Lien Obligations for all purposes,
whether or not such Liens securing any First Lien Obligations are
subordinated to any Lien securing any other obligation of Tensar,
any other Grantor or any other Person.
2.2 Prohibition on
Contesting Liens. Each of the Second Lien Secured Party, for
itself and on behalf of each Second Lien Claimholdcr, and the First
Lien Secured Party, for itself and on behalf of each First Lien
Claimholder, agrees that it will not (and hereby waives any right
to) contest or support any other Person in contesting, in any
proceeding (including any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding),
the priority, validity, perfection or enforceability of any Lien
held by or on behalf of any of the First Lien Claimholders in the
First Lien Collateral or by or on behalf of any of the Second Lien
Claimholders in the Second Lien Collateral, as the case may be, or
the provisions of this Agreement; provided that nothing in
this Agreement shall be construed to prevent or
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impair
the rights of the First Lien Secured Party or any First Lien
Claimholder to enforce this Agreement, including the provisions of
this Agreement relating to the priority of the Liens securing the
First Lien Obligations as provided in Sections 2.1 and
3.1.
2.3 No New Liens. So
long as the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has not occurred,
whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been
commenced by or against Tensar or any other Grantor, the parties
hereto agree that Tensar Holdings and Tensar shall not, and shall
not permit any other Grantor to (a) grant or permit any
additional Liens on any asset or property to secure any Second Lien
Obligation unless it has granted or concurrently grants a Lien on
such asset or property to secure the First Lien Obligations or
(b) grant or permit any additional Liens on any asset or
property to secure any First Lien Obligations unless it has granted
or concurrently grants a Lien on such asset or property to secure
the Second Lien Obligations. To the extent that the foregoing
provisions are not complied with for any reason, without limiting
any other rights and remedies available to the First Lien Secured
Party and/or the First Lien Claimholders, the Second Lien Secured
Party, on behalf of Second Lien Claimholders, agrees that any
amounts received by or distributed to any of them pursuant to or as
a result of Liens granted in contravention of this Section 2.3
shall be subject to Section 4.2.
2.4 Similar Liens and
Agreements. The parties hereto agree that it is their intention
that the First Lien Collateral and the Second Lien Collateral be
identical. In furtherance of the foregoing and of Section 8.9,
the parties hereto agree, subject to the other provisions of this
Agreement:
(a) upon
request by the First Lien Secured Party or the Second Lien Secured
Party, to cooperate in good faith (and to direct their counsel to
cooperate in good faith) from time to time in order to determine
the specific items included in the First Lien Collateral and the
Second Lien Collateral and the steps taken to perfect their
respective Liens thereon and the identity of the respective parties
obligated under the First Lien Lease/Purchase Facilities Documents
and the Second Lien Commodities Purchase Facility Documents;
and
(b) that
the documents and agreements creating or evidencing the First Lien
Collateral and the Second Lien Collateral and guarantees for the
First Lien Obligations and the Second Lien Obligations shall be in
all material respects the same forms of documents other than with
respect to the first lien and the second lien nature of the
Obligations thereunder.
SECTION 3.
Enforcement.
3.1 Exercise of Rights and
Remedies.
(a) Until
the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or
not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by
or against Tensar or any other Grantor, the Second Lien Secured
Party and the Second Lien Claimholders:
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(i)
will not exercise or seek to exercise any rights or remedies
(including setoff, the right to credit bid their debt and any
actions as agent or in connection with the exercise of rights
pursuant to a power of attorney or otherwise) with respect to any
Collateral or institute any action or proceeding with respect to
such rights or remedies (including any action of foreclosure);
provided that if an Event of Default (as defined in the
Second Lien Commodities Purchase Agreement (as in effect on the
date hereof)) has occurred and for so long as such Event of Default
is continuing, subject at all times to the provisions of
Sections 2.1 and 4, after expiration of a 120-day period (the
“ Standstill Period ”) which shall commence on
the date of receipt by the First Lien Secured Party of the written
declaration of the Second Lien Secured Party of such Event of
Default and written demand by the Second Lien Secured Party to
Tensar for the accelerated payment of all Second Lien Obligations
(unless Tensar or any other Grantor is subject to an Insolvency or
Liquidation Proceeding by reason of which such declaration and the
making of such demand is stayed, in which case, commencing on the
date of the commencement of such Insolvency or Liquidation
Proceeding), the Second Lien Secured Party may take action to
enforce its Liens on the Second Lien Collateral (including the
institution of any action or proceeding with respect to its rights
or remedies with respect to any Second Lien Collateral) upon prior
written notice to Tensar and the First Lien Secured Party, but only
so long as the First Lien Secured Party is not diligently pursuing
in good faith the exercise of its enforcement rights or remedies
against, or diligently attempting to vacate any stay or enforcement
of its Liens on, all or any material portion of the
Collateral;
(ii)
will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding
or action brought by the First Lien Secured Party or any First Lien
Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Secured Party
or any First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating
to the First Lien Collateral or otherwise; or
(iii)
subject to their rights under clause (a)(i) above, will not object
to the forbearance by the First Lien Secured Party or the First
Lien Claimholders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure
proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or
remedies relating to the First Lien Collateral.
(b) Until
the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or
not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by
or against Tensar or any other Grantor, subject to
Section 3.1(a)(i), the First Lien Secured Party and the First
Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to enforce rights,
exercise remedies (including set-off and the right to credit bid
their debt) and make determinations regarding the release,
disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without
any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Secured
Party or any Second Lien Claimholder. In exercising rights and
remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Secured
Party and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of
the First Lien Lease/Purchase Facilities Documents and exercise
remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they
may determine in the exercise of
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their
sole discretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the
rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose
of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection
with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and
remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured
creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable
jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding
the foregoing, the Second Lien Secured Party and any Second Lien
Claimholder may:
(i)
file a claim or statement of interest with respect to the Second
Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation
Proceeding has been commenced by or against Tensar or any other
Grantor;
(ii)
take any action (not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on
the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights
of any First Lien Secured Party or the First Lien Claimholders to
exercise remedies in respect thereof) in order to create, perfect,
preserve or protect its Lien on the Collateral;
(iii)
file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition
to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made
by any Person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of
the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims
secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with
the terms of this Agreement;
(iv)
vote on any plan of reorganization, file any proof of claim, make
other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each
case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect
to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral;
(v)
(i) may impose a late payment at the Default Rate, as
described in Section 3.1 of the Second Commodities Purchase
Agreement and (ii) may demand accelerated payment of any and
all of the Second Lien Obligations and may file and pursue any
lawsuit to collect the Second Lien Obligations to the extent that
such demand, filing, and pursuit would be remedies available to any
unsecured creditor of Tensar;
(vi)
exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the
Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the
extent permitted by Section 3.l(a)(i); and
(vii)
present a cash bid at any Section 363 hearing or with respect
to any other Collateral disposition.
The Second
Lien Secured Party, on behalf of itself and the Second Lien
Claimholders, agrees that it will not take or receive any
Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the
exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off) with respect to
any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the
Discharge of
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First
Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in
Section 3.1(a)(i). Without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations
has occurred, except as expressly provided in Section 3.1(a),
Section 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the
Second Lien Secured Party and the Second Lien Claimholders with
respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral
pursuant to the Second Lien Security Documents for the period and
to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the
proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien
Obligations has occurred as set forth herein.
(d) Subject
to Sections 3.1(a) and (c) and Section 6.3(b):
(i) the
Second Lien Secured Party, for itself and on behalf of the Second
Lien Claimholders, agrees that the Second Lien Secured Party and
the Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would
hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Lease/Purchase
Facilities Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder,
including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition
of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(ii)
the Second Lien Secured Party, for itself and on behalf of the
Second Lien Claimholders, hereby waives any and all rights it or
the Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or
otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Secured
Party or the First Lien Claimholders seek to enforce or collect the
First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien
Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken
in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action
or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Secured Party
or First Lien Claimholders is adverse to the interest of the Second
Lien Claimholders; and
(iii)
the Second Lien Secured Party hereby acknowledges and agrees that
no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the Second Lien
Security Documents or any other Second Lien Commodities Purchase
Facility Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to
restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien
Secured Party or the First Lien Claimholders with respect to the
Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien
Lease/Purchase Facilities Documents.
(e) Except
as otherwise specifically set forth in
Sections 3.1(a) and (d), the Second Lien Secured Party
and the Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies
as unsecured creditors against Tensar or any other Grantor that has
guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations
in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Commodities
Purchase Facility Documents and applicable law (including, without
limitation, filing any pleadings, objections, motions or agreements
in connection therewith); provided that in the event that
any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in
respect of any Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its
rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien
Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of
this Agreement for all
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purposes
(including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) as the other
Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this
Agreement.
(f) Except
as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and
(d) and Section 4, nothing in this Agreement shall
prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Secured Party or any Second
Lien Claimholders of the required payments of Murabaha Price,
Agreed Profit and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien
Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect
result of the exercise by the Second Lien Secured Party or any
Second Lien Claimholders of rights or remedies as a secured
creditor (including set-off) or enforcement in contravention of
this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them. Nothing in this
Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or
remedies the First Lien Secured Party or the First Lien
Claimholders may have with respect to the First Lien
Collateral.
3.2 Actions Upon
Breach . If any Second Lien Claimholder, in contravention of
the terms of this Agreement, in any way takes, attempts to or
threatens to take any action with respect to the Collateral
(including any attempt to realize upon or enforce any remedy with
respect to this Agreement), or fails to take any action required by
this Agreement, this Agreement shall create an irrebutable
presumption and admission by such Second Lien Claimholder that
relief against such Second Lien Claimholder by injunction, specific
performance and/or other appropriate equitable relief is necessary
to prevent irreparable harm to the First Lien Claimholders, it
being understood and agreed by the Second Lien Secured Party on
behalf of each Second Lien Claimholder that (i) the First Lien
Claimholders’ damages from its actions may at that time be
difficult to ascertain and may be irreparable, and (ii) each
Second Lien Claimholder waives any defense that the First Lien
Claimholders cannot demonstrate damage and/or be made whole by the
awarding of damages.
SECTION 4. Payments
.
4.1 Application of
Proceeds . So long as the Discharge of First Lien Obligations
has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation
Proceeding has been commenced by or against Tensar or any other
Grantor, any Collateral or proceeds thereof received in connection
with the sale or other disposition of, or collection on, such
Collateral upon the exercise of remedies shall be applied by the
First Lien Secured Party to the First Lien Obligations then due and
owing in such order as specified in the relevant First Lien
Lease/Purchase Facilities Documents. Upon the Discharge of the
First Lien Obligations, the First Lien Secured Party shall deliver
to the Second Lien Secured Party any Collateral and proceeds of
Collateral held by it in the same form as received, with any
necessary endorsements or as a court of competent jurisdiction may
otherwise direct to be applied by the Second Lien Secured Party to
the Second Lien Obligations.
4.2 Payments Over . So
long as the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has not occurred,
whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been
commenced by or against Tensar or any other Grantor, any Collateral
or proceeds thereof (together with assets or proceeds subject to
Liens referred to in the final sentence of
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Section 2.3) received by the Second Lien Secured Party or any
Second Lien Claimholders in connection with the exercise of any
right or remedy (including set-off or recoupment) relating to the
Collateral in contravention of this Agreement shall be segregated
and held in trust and forthwith paid over to the First Lien Secured
Party for the benefit of the First Lien Claimholders in the same
form as received, with any necessary endorsements or as a court of
competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct. The First Lien Secured
Party is hereby authorized to make any such endorsements as agent
for the Second Lien Secured Party or any such Second Lien
Claimholders. This authorization is coupled with an interest and is
irrevocable until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations. So long
as the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has not occurred, if in
any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding the Second Lien Secured
Party or any Second Lien Claimholders shall receive any
distribution of money or other property in respect of the
Collateral, such money or other property shall be segregated and
held in trust and forthwith paid over to the First Lien Secured
Party for the benefit of the First Lien Claimholders in the same
form as received, with any necessary endorsements. Any Lien
received by the Second Lien Secured Party or any Second Lien
Claimholders in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding shall be
subject to the terms of this Agreement.
4.3 Certain Agreements
with respect to Unenforceable Collateral . In addition to the
rights and obligations of the First Lien Secured Party, the Second
Lien Secured Party, the First Lien Claimholders and Second Lien
Claimholders set forth herein, in the event that in any Insolvency
or Liquidation Proceeding a determination is made that Liens
encumbering any Collateral are not enforceable for any reason, then
the Second Lien Secured Party and the Second Lien Claimholders
agree that any distribution or recovery they may receive with
respect to, or allocable to, the value of such Collateral or any
proceeds thereof shall (for so long as the Discharge of the First
Lien Obligations has not occurred) be segregated and held in trust
and forthwith paid over to the First Lien Secured Party for the
benefit of the First Lien Claimholders in the same form as received
without recourse, representation or warranty (other t
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