INTERCREDITOR
AGREEMENT
This INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT ,
dated as of November 14, 2008, is entered into among
CITICORP USA, INC. (“ Citi ”), as administrative
agent for the Senior Lien Lenders under the Senior Lien Credit
Agreement (as defined herein) (in such capacity, the “
Senior Lien Administrative Agent ”),
OCM TEKNI-PLEX HOLDINGS II, L.P. , as
administrative agent for the Junior Lien Lenders under the Junior
Lien Credit Agreement (as defined herein) (in such capacity, the
“ Junior Lien Administrative Agent ”) and
TEKNI-PLEX, INC. , a
corporation organized under the laws of the State of Delaware (the
“ Company ”).
W I T N E S S E T H :
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Second
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of the date hereof,
(as such agreement may be amended, restated, supplemented, renewed
or otherwise modified from time to time, together with any other
agreements pursuant to which any of the Indebtedness, commitments,
obligations, costs, expenses, fees, reimbursements, indemnities or
other obligations payable or owing thereunder may be refinanced,
restructured, renewed, extended, increased, refunded or replaced,
the “ Senior Lien Credit Agreement ”), among the
Company, the Senior Lien Administrative Agent and the Senior Lien
Lenders, the Senior Lien Lenders have severally agreed to make
extensions of credit to the Borrower upon the terms and subject to
the conditions set forth therein;
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Junior Lien
Credit Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, (as such agreement
may be amended, restated, supplemented, renewed or otherwise
modified from time to time, together with any other agreements
pursuant to which any of the Indebtedness, commitments,
obligations, costs, expenses, fees, reimbursements, indemnities or
other obligations payable or owing thereunder may be refinanced,
restructured, renewed, extended, increased, refunded or replaced,
the “ Junior Lien Credit Agreement ” and
together with the Senior Lien Credit Agreement , each a “
Credit Agreement ” and collectively, the “
Credit Agreements ”), among the Company, the Junior
Lien Administrative Agent, and the Junior Lien Lenders, the Junior
Lien Lenders have severally agreed to make extensions of credit to
the Borrower upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth
therein;
WHEREAS, pursuant to each of the (i)
Security Agreement, dated as of June 10, 2005 (as such agreement
may be amended, restated, supplemented, renewed or otherwise
modified from time to time, together with any other agreements
pursuant to which any of the Indebtedness, commitments,
obligations, costs, expenses, fees, reimbursements, indemnities or
other obligations payable or owing thereunder may be refinanced,
restructured, renewed, extended, increased, refunded or replaced,
the “ Senior Security Agreement ”), between the
Company and the Senior Lien Administrative Agent (as agent on
behalf of the Senior Secured Parties) and (ii) Pledge Agreement,
dated as of June 10, 2005 (as such agreement may be amended,
restated, supplemented, renewed or otherwise modified from time to
time, together with any other agreements pursuant to which any of
the Indebtedness, commitments, obligations, costs, expenses, fees,
reimbursements, indemnities or other obligations payable or owing
thereunder may be refinanced, restructured, renewed, extended,
increased, refunded or replaced, the “ Senior Pledge
Agreement ” and together with the Senior Security
Agreement, the “ Senior Collateral Documents ”),
between the Company and the Senior Lien Administrative Agent (as
agent on behalf of the Senior Secured Parties) the Loan Parties
have granted a first-priority security interest in the Collateral
to the Senior Lien Administrative Agent for the benefit of the
Senior Secured Parties;
WHEREAS, pursuant to each of the (i)
Junior Lien Security Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, (as
such agreement may be amended, restated, supplemented, renewed or
otherwise modified from time to time, together with any other
agreements pursuant to which any of the Indebtedness, commitments,
obligations, costs, expenses, fees, reimbursements, indemnities or
other obligations payable or owing thereunder may be refinanced,
restructured, renewed, extended, increased, refunded or replaced,
the “ Junior Security Agreement ”), between the
Company and the Junior Lien Administrative Agent (as agent on
behalf of the Junior Secured Parties) and (ii) Junior Lien Pledge
Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, (as such agreement may be
amended, restated, supplemented, renewed or otherwise modified from
time to time, together with any other agreements pursuant to which
any of the Indebtedness, commitments, obligations, costs, expenses,
fees, reimbursements, indemnities or other obligations payable or
owing thereunder may be refinanced, restructured, renewed,
extended, increased, refunded or replaced, the “ Junior
Pledge Agreement ” and together with the Junior Security
Agreement, the “ Junior Collateral Documents ”)
the Loan Parties have granted a security interest in the Collateral
to the Junior Lien Administrative Agent for the benefit of the
Junior Secured Parties, which security interest shall be junior to
the security interest in the Collateral held by the Senior Lien
Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Senior Secured
Parties;
WHEREAS, it is the intention of the
parties that both the Senior Lien Obligations and the Junior Lien
Obligations constitute (i) “ABL Facility Obligations”
as such term is defined in, and for purposes of, the New Senior
Secured Note Indenture, (ii) “Priority Lien
Obligations” as such term is defined in, and for purposes of,
the Existing Senior Secured Note Indenture and (iii) “Senior
Debt” as such term is defined in, and for purposes of, the
Existing Subordinated Note Indenture;
WHEREAS, the Senior Lien
Administrative Agent acknowledges that (i) the Junior Lien
Administrative Agent, the Junior Lien Lenders and their respective
controlled affiliates may, from time to time, own securities or
hold indebtedness payable by the Loan Parties (collectively,
“Other Investments”) unrelated to the Junior Lien
Credit Agreement, and (ii) nothing herein shall govern the Junior
Lien Administrative Agent’s or the Junior Lien Lenders’
rights in respect of any Other Investment; and
WHEREAS, it is a condition to the
effectiveness of each of the Senior Lien Credit Agreement and the
Junior Lien Credit Agreement that the parties hereto execute and
deliver this Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the
covenants and agreements contained herein, each Administrative
Agent (in such capacity and on behalf of the Secured Parties it
represents) and each other party hereto hereby agrees as
follows:
(a) Capitalized
terms used herein but not otherwise defined are used as defined in
the Senior Lien Credit Agreement on the date hereof, as such
definitions may be amended thereafter as permitted by the Loan
Documents.
(b) As
used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the
following meanings (such meanings to be equally applicable to both
the singular and plural forms of the terms
defined):
“ Adequate Protection ” means
“ adequate protection ” under Sections 361, 362,
363 or 364 of the Bankruptcy Code and any similar concept under any
other applicable Bankruptcy Law or other Requirement of
Law.
“ Administrative Agents ”
means each of the Senior Lien Administrative Agent and the Junior
Lien Administrative Agent.
“ Applicable Administrative Agent
” means (a) prior to the Discharge of Senior Lien
Obligations, the Senior Lien Administrative Agent and (b)
thereafter, the Junior Lien Administrative Agent.
“ Bankruptcy Code ” means
title 11, United States Code.
“ Bankruptcy Law ” means each
of the Bankruptcy Code, any similar federal, state or foreign
Requirement of Law for the relief of debtors or any arrangement,
reorganization, insolvency, moratorium or assignment for the
benefit of creditors or any other marshalling of the assets and
liabilities of any Loan Party and any similar Requirements of Law
relating to or affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights
generally.
“ Collateral ” means, with
respect to any Loan Party, any property of such Loan Party subject
to a Senior Lien or Junior Lien (in each case, including any
judgment lien), including all “ Collateral ” (as
defined under each Collateral Document) of such Loan Party, and any
proceeds thereof.
“ Collateral Documents ”
means each of the Senior Collateral Documents and each of the
Junior Collateral Documents.
“ Collateral Enforcement Action
” means, with respect to any Secured Party, for such Secured
Party, whether or not in consultation with any other Secured Party,
to exercise, seek to exercise, join any Person in exercising or
institute or maintain or participate in any action or proceeding
with respect to, any rights or remedies with respect to any
Collateral, including (a) instituting or maintaining, or joining
any Person in instituting or maintaining, any enforcement, contest,
protest, attachment, collection, execution, levy or foreclosure
action or proceeding with respect to any Collateral, whether under
any Loan Document or otherwise, (b) exercising any right of set-off
with respect to any Loan Party, (c) exercising any right or remedy
under any Deposit Account Control Agreement, Securities Account
Control Account Agreement, Landlord Waiver, Bailee’s Letter
or similar agreement or arrangement or (d) causing (or, after the
occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default,
consenting to or requesting) any Asset Sale or other disposition of
any Collateral.
“ Comparable Junior Security
Document ” means, in relation to any Collateral subject
to any Lien created under any Senior Security Document, that Junior
Security Document that creates a Lien on the same Collateral,
granted by the same Loan Party.
“ Default Distribution Period
” means any period prior to the Discharge of Senior Lien
Obligations when any notice of default or event of default has been
delivered by the Senior Lien Administrative Agent to the Borrower
and has not been withdrawn.
“ Discharge of Senior Lien
Obligations ” means the payment in full of the Senior
Lien Obligations.
“ Insolvency Proceeding ”
means each of the following, in each case with respect to any Loan
Party or any property or Indebtedness of any Loan Party, (a)(i) any
voluntary or involuntary case or proceeding under any Bankruptcy
Law or any other voluntary or involuntary insolvency,
reorganization or bankruptcy case or proceeding, (ii) any case or
proceeding seeking receivership, liquidation, reorganization,
winding up or other similar case or proceeding, (iii) any case or
proceeding seeking arrangement, adjustment, protection, relief or
composition of any debt and (iv) any case or proceeding seeking the
entry of an order for relief or the appointment of a custodian,
receiver, trustee or other similar official, (b) any liquidation,
dissolution, reorganization or winding up, whether voluntary or
involuntary and whether or not involving any Bankruptcy Law, and
(c) any general assignment for the benefit of creditors or any
other marshalling of assets and liabilities.
“ Junior Collateral Documents
” has the meaning given such term in the
recitals.
“ Junior Lien ” means any
Lien securing any Junior Lien Obligation.
“ Junior Lien Lender ” means
any “ Lender ”, under and as defined in the
Junior Lien Credit Agreement.
“ Junior Lien Obligations ”
means the “ Secured Obligations ” (as defined in
the Junior Lien Credit Agreement ).
“ Junior Lien Loan Documents
” means the “Loan Documents” as defined in the
Junior Lien Credit Agreement (other than this Agreement), together
with any certificate, agreement, document or instrument evidencing,
modifying or governing any obligation thereunder or any other
obligation to any Junior Secured Party, including, without
limitation, the Junior Security Documents.
“ Junior Secured Party ”
means each “ Secured Party ” as defined in the
Junior Lien Credit Agreement and each other holder of Junior Lien
Obligations, in each case other than the Junior Lien Administrative
Agent.
“ Junior Security Documents ”
means the Junior Collateral Documents, the junior lien intellectual
property security agreements and each other junior lien security
document hereafter delivered to the Junior Lien Administrative
Agent granting, modifying or evidencing a Lien securing the Junior
Lien Obligations or governing or modifying rights or remedies with
respect to any such Lien.
“ Lender ” means each Senior
Lien Lender and each Junior Lien Lender.
“ Loan Documents ” means each
of the Senior Lien Loan Documents and each of the Junior Loan
Documents.
“ Loan Party ” means,
collectively, each “ Loan Party ” as defined in
each Credit Agreement.
“ Other Investment ” has the
meaning given such term in the recitals.
“ paid in full ” or “
payment in full ” means, with respect to any Secured
Obligations, the payment in full (other than as part of a
Refinancing) in cash of the principal of, accrued (but unpaid)
interest and premium, if any, on all such Secured Obligations and,
with respect to letters of credit outstanding thereunder, delivery
of cash collateral or backstop letters of credit in respect thereof
in compliance with the applicable Loan Documents, in each case,
after or concurrently with termination of all commitments
thereunder and payment in full in cash of any other such Secured
Obligations that are due and payable at or prior to the time such
principal and interest are paid.
“ Post-Petition Financing ”
means any financing obtained by any Loan Party during any
Insolvency Proceeding or otherwise pursuant to any Bankruptcy Law
on terms and conditions acceptable to the Senior Lien
Administrative Agent, including any such financing obtained by any
Loan Party under Section 364 of the Bankruptcy Code or consisting
of any arrangement for use of cash collateral held in respect of
any Secured Obligation under Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code, in
each case or any similar provision of any Bankruptcy
Law.
“ Post-Petition Interest ”
means all interest accruing or that would have accrued, whether as
a result of the classification of the Junior Lien Obligations and
the Senior Lien Obligations as one secured claim with respect to
the Collateral (and not separate classes of senior and junior
secured claims) or otherwise, after the commencement of any
Insolvency Proceeding, irrespective of whether a claim for
post-filing or post-petition interest is allowed in any such
Insolvency Proceeding.
“ Post-Petition Securities ”
means any debt Securities or other Indebtedness received in full or
partial satisfaction of any claim as part of any Insolvency
Proceeding.
“ Recovery ” has the meaning
given such term in Section
3.6 (Reinstatement) hereof.
“ Refinancing ” means, with
respect to any Indebtedness, any other Indebtedness (including
under any Post-Petition Securities received on account of such
Indebtedness) issued as part of a refinancing, extension, renewal,
defeasance, amendment, restatement, modification, supplement,
restructuring, replacement, exchange, refunding or repayment
thereof.
“ Requisite Junior Lenders ”
means the “ Requisite Lenders ” under and as
defined in the Junior Lien Credit Agreement .
“ Requisite Senior Lenders ”
means the “ Requisite Lenders ” under and as
defined in the Senior Lien Credit Agreement .
“ Secured Obligation ” means
any Senior Lien Obligation and any Junior Lien
Obligation.
“ Secured Party ” means each
Senior Secured Party and each Junior Secured
Party.
“ Senior Collateral Documents
” has the meaning given such term in the
recitals.
“ Senior Lien ” means any
senior Lien on the property of any Loan Party securing any Senior
Lien Obligation, including any such Lien previously released or
otherwise terminated but later reinstated, to the extent so
reinstated.
“ Senior Lien Lender ” means
any “ Lender ” or “ Issuer ”,
as defined in the Senior Lien Credit Agreement.
“ Senior Lien Obligations ”
means (a) the “ Secured Obligations ” (under and
as defined in the Senior Lien Credit Agreement ); (b) all
extensions of credit under any Post-Petition Financing; (c) any
payment made to any other Person other than a Loan Party to
acquire, satisfy or otherwise discharge any claim for the purpose
of maintaining, preserving or protecting any Collateral, any Senior
Lien or, to the extent such payment is made by any Senior Secured
Party, any Junior Lien; and (d) any Post-Petition Interest on any
obligation described in any of clauses (a), (b) and (c)
above; provided , however , that to the
extent any payment with respect to the Senior Lien Obligations
(whether by or on behalf of any Loan Party, as proceeds of
security, enforcement of any right of set-off or otherwise) is
declared to be fraudulent or preferential in any respect, set aside
or required to be paid to a debtor in possession, trustee, receiver
or similar Person, then the obligation or part thereof originally
intended to be satisfied shall be deemed to be reinstated and
outstanding as if such payment had not occurred.
“ Senior Lien Outstandings ”
means, at any time, the sum of, in each case to the extent
outstanding as Senior Lien Obligations (including as part of a
Post-Petition Financing or a Refinancing), (a) the aggregate
principal amount of all loans (including any Loans) then
outstanding and (b) the Letter of Credit Obligations then
outstanding.
“ Senior Lien Loan Documents
” means the “Loan Documents” as defined in the
Senior Lien Credit Agreement (other than this Agreement), together
with any certificate, agreement, document or instrument evidencing,
modifying or governing any obligation thereunder or any other
obligation to any Senior Secured Party including, without
limitation, the Senior Security Documents.
“ Senior Secured Party ”
means each “ Secured Party ” under and as
defined in the Senior Lien Credit Agreement , each lender, issuer,
agent and other secured party under any Post-Petition Financing and
each other holder of Senior Lien Obligations, in each case other
than the Senior Lien Administrative Agent.
“ Senior Security Documents ”
means the Senior Collateral Documents, the Senior Lien intellectual
property security agreements and each other Senior Lien security
document hereafter delivered to the Senior Lien Administrative
Agent granting, modifying or evidencing a Lien securing the Senior
Lien Obligations or governing or modifying rights or remedies with
respect to any such Lien.
“ Uniform Commercial Code ”
or “ UCC ” means the Uniform Commercial Code of
the State of New York, as amended.
1.2.
Certain Other Terms . The terms “ herein,
” “ hereof, ” “ hereto
” and “ hereunder ” and similar terms
refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular
Article, Section, subsection or clause in this Agreement. In the
computation of time periods, unless otherwise specified, the word
“ from ” means “ from and including
” and each of the words “ to ” and “
until ” means “ to but excluding ”
and the word “ through ” means “ to and
including ”. The term “ including ”
means “ including without limitation ” except
when used in the computation of time periods. References herein to
an Annex, Schedule, Article, Section, subsection or clause refer to
the appropriate Annex or Schedule to, or Article, Section,
subsection or clause in this Agreement. References herein to any
section or clause in any Loan Document shall include references to
any successor section or clause in any successor Loan Document.
Where the context requires, provisions relating to any Collateral,
when used in relation to any Loan Party, shall refer to such Loan
Party’s Collateral or any relevant part thereof. All
references to any Loan Party shall include such Loan Party as
debtor and debtor-in-possession and any receiver or trustee for
such Loan Party in any Insolvency Proceeding. Any reference in this
Agreement to any Loan Document shall include all appendices,
exhibits and schedules thereto, and, except to the extent expressly
provided herein, all effective amendments, restatements,
supplements and other modifications thereto, in each case permitted
hereunder. References in this Agreement to any statute shall be to
such statute as amended or modified and in effect from time to
time.
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Section 2.
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Lien Priorities
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2.1.
Subordination . Notwithstanding the date, manner or order of
grant, attachment or perfection of any Senior Lien or Junior Lien
and notwithstanding any provision of the UCC or any other
applicable Requirement of Law or any Loan Document or any other
circumstance whatsoever:
(a) any
Senior Lien on any Collateral, whether now or hereafter existing
and regardless of how acquired or created, shall be senior and
prior to any Junior Lien on such Collateral and shall remain so,
whether or not such Senior Lien is junior or subordinate to any
other obligation or any Lien securing any other obligation;
and
(b) any
Junior Lien on any Collateral, whether now or hereafter existing
and regardless of how acquired or created, whether by grant,
statute, operation of law, subrogation or otherwise, shall be
junior and subordinate in all respects to all Senior Liens on such
Collateral.
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2.2.
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Contesting Liens and Priorities;
Marshalling
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(a)
Contesting Liens and Priorities . No Secured Party or Loan
Party shall (and no Junior Secured Party or Loan Party shall direct
the Junior Lien Administrative Agent to, and each Junior Secured
Party and Loan Party hereby waives, to the fullest extent permitted
by applicable Requirements of Law, any right it might have to)
raise any objection to or otherwise contest, and no Secured Party
or Loan Party shall support any other Person in raising any
objection to or otherwise contesting, whether or not as part of any
Collateral Enforcement Action or Insolvency Proceeding or in any
resulting or related action or proceeding, the priority, validity
or enforceability of any Senior Lien, including the priority set
forth herein with respect to any Junior Lien, without the consent
of the Senior Lien Administrative Agent.
(b)
Marshalling . No Junior Secured Party shall, prior to the
Discharge of Senior Lien Obligations, assert, demand, request,
plead or otherwise claim the benefit of, any marshalling,
appraisal, valuation and any other right that may otherwise be
available under applicable Requirement of Law with
respect to any Collateral to a creditor in its capacity
as beneficiary of a Junior Lien on such
Collateral.
(a) No
Loan Party shall grant, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to grant,
any new Junior Lien on any of its property (in each case, other
than customary rights of set-off to Junior Secured Parties bound by
this Agreement) unless such Loan Party or, as the case may be, such
Subsidiary has granted, through documentation in form and substance
satisfactory to the Senior Lien Administrative Agent, a Senior Lien
on such property in favor of the Senior Lien Administrative Agent
for the benefit of the Senior Secured Parties as security for the
Senior Lien Obligations.
(b) No
Loan Party shall grant, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to grant,
any new Senior Lien on any of its property (in each case, other
than customary rights of set-off to Senior Secured Parties bound by
this Agreement) unless such Loan Party or, as the case may be, such
Subsidiary has granted, through documentation in form and substance
satisfactory to the Junior Lien Administrative Agent, a Junior Lien
on such property in favor of the Junior Lien Administrative Agent
for the benefit of the Junior Secured Parties as security for the
Junior Lien Obligations.
(c) To
the extent any Collateral shall be subject to any Junior Lien
securing any Junior Lien Obligation for the benefit of any Junior
Secured Party and such Collateral is not subject to a Senior Lien
securing the Senior Lien Obligations to the same extent (after
giving effect to transactions scheduled to occur concurrently with
the grant of such Second Lien), then such Junior Secured Party
shall, upon demand by and at the option of the Senior Lien
Administrative Agent, either (i) release such Junior Lien, (ii)
ensure that the Loan Parties grant a Senior Lien on such Collateral
in favor of the Senior Lien Administrative Agent for the benefit of
the Senior Secured Parties as security for the Senior Lien
Obligations or (iii) assign a first priority Senior Lien in such
Collateral to the Senior Lien Administrative Agent for the benefit
of the Senior Secured Parties as security for the Senior Lien
Obligations. Prior to such release, grant or assignment, such
Junior Secured Party shall act as sub-agent of the Senior Lien
Administrative Agent for the sole purpose of perfecting the Lien on
such Collateral, and the Senior Secured Parties shall thereby be
deemed to have a first-priority Senior Lien on such Collateral for
all purposes.
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Section 3.
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Payments and Application of
Proceeds
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3.1.
Optional and Scheduled Payments . Except as set forth
in Section 3.2 (Insurance and other Net Cash
Proceeds) and Section
3.4 (Payment Over) , prior to
the Discharge of Senior Lien Obligations, (i) the Senior Secured
Parties may receive and retain all payments in respect of any
Senior Lien Obligation (including from Collateral) and (ii) the
Junior Secured Parties may receive and retain all payments not
prohibited by the Senior Lien Credit Agreement in respect of any
Junior Lien Obligation (including from Collateral) unless such
payments are from Collateral or proceeds of Collateral (x) received
during a Default Distribution Period or (y) received as a result of
any Collateral Enforcement Action or any other action taken in
contravention of this Agreement.
3.2.
Insurance and other Net Cash Proceeds . Notwithstanding the
foregoing Section
3.1 but subject
to Section 3.3 (Application of
Proceeds) , all
proceeds of any insurance policy covering the Collateral (but only
to the extent of such coverage), awards granted in any condemnation
or similar proceeding
affecting the Collateral and all other “
Net Cash Proceeds ” (as defined in either Credit
Agreement) of Collateral received by any Secured Party at any time
shall be applied first to the extent provided in the Senior Lien
Loan Documents (taking into account any reinvestment provision
therein) and then, if applicable, to the extent provided in the
Junior Lien Credit Agreement.
3.3.
Application of Proceeds . Prior to the Discharge of Senior
Lien Obligations, any Collateral or proceeds of Collateral received
by either Administrative Agent or any Secured Party in connection
with any Collateral Enforcement Action or during any Default
Distribution Period or any other payment required to be applied as
set forth in this section pursuant to Section
3.4 (Payment Over) shall be
applied first, to repay the Senior Lien Obligations in the order
set forth in the Senior Lien Credit Agreement until such
obligations are paid in full and then, to repay the Junior Lien
Obligations in the order set forth in the Junior Lien Credit
Agreement until such obligations are paid in full
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3.4.
Payment Over . To the extent received by any Secured Party
prior to the Discharge of Senior Lien Obligations, all Collateral
or proceeds of Collateral (including proceeds of any insurance
policy covering Collateral) received in connection with any
Collateral Enforcement Action or in violation of any provision of
this Agreement, including Section
3.1(ii) (Optional and Scheduled Payments)
and Section
3.2 (Insurance and other Net Cash Proceeds)
,
shall be segregated and held in trust and forthwith paid over to
the Senior Lien Administrative Agent to be held for the benefit of
the Senior Secured Parties or for application to the Senior Lien
Obligations as set forth in Section
3.3 (Application of Proceeds) , in each
case in the same form as received and with any necessary
endorsement or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise
direct.
3.5.
Subrogation . To the extent any Junior Secured Party makes a
payment to any Senior Secured Party, such Junior Secured Party
shall be subrogated to the rights of such Senior Secured
Party; provided , however , that no
Junior Secured Party shall assert, enforce or exercise (whether
directly or through the Junior Lien Administrative Agent) against
any Person prior to the Discharge of Senior Lien Obligations any
right of subrogation it may have obtained from any Senior Secured
Party or otherwise as a result of any payment hereunder, whether or
not such payment is required or permitted under this
Agreement.
3.6.
Reinstatement . If any Senior Lien Lender is required, in
any Insolvency Proceeding or otherwise, to turn over or otherwise
pay to the estate of any Loan Party any amount (a “
Recovery ”), then the Senior Lien Obligations shall be
reinstated to the extent of such Recovery and the Senior Lien
Lenders shall be entitled to the Discharge of Senior Lien
Obligations with respect to all such recovered amounts. If this
Agreement shall have been terminated prior to such Recovery, this
Agreement shall be reinstated in full force and effect, and such
prior termination shall not diminish, release, discharge, impair or
otherwise affect the obligations of the parties hereto from such
date of reinstatement with respect to such reinstated Senior Lien
Obligations.
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Section 4.
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Exercise of Junior Lien
Remedies
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4.1.
Standstill of Remedies . Prior to the Discharge of Senior
Lien Obligations, whether or not any Insolvency Proceeding has been
commenced by or against any Loan Party, no Junior Secured Party
shall do (and no Junior Secured Party shall direct the Junior Lien
Administrative Agent to do) any of the following without the
consent of the Requisite Senior Lenders:
(a) take
any Collateral Enforcement Action or commence, seek to commence or
join any other Person in commencing, any Insolvency Proceeding;
or
(b) object
to, contest or take any other action that is reasonably likely to
hinder, (i) any Collateral Enforcement Action of any Senior Secured
Party, (ii) any release of Collateral permitted under
Section 7 (Release of
Collateral) , whether or
not done in consultation with or with notice to any Junior Secured
Party or (iii) any decision by any Senior Secured Party to forbear
or refrain from bringing or pursuing any such Collateral
Enforcement Action or to effect any such release.
4.2.
Rights of Junior Secured Parties as Unsecured Creditors .
Except as otherwise expressly provided in this
Section 4 , nothing in
this Section
4 is intended to modify any right to demand or sue
for payment or any other right or remedy that any Junior Secured
Party may have as an unsecured creditor against the Loan Parties in
accordance with the terms of the Junior Lien Loan Documents and
applicable Requirements of Law and each Junior Secured Party may
take any action (or direct the Junior Lien Administrative Agent to
take any action) to create, perfect or preserve Junior Liens not
inconsistent with any provision of this Agreement and not adverse
to the priority of such Junior Liens or the Senior
Liens; provided , however , that, in
the event any Junior Secured Party becomes a judgment lien creditor
or otherwise obtains any Lien as a result of its enforcement of its
rights as an unsecured creditor, such judgment lien and the
Collateral subject thereto shall be subject to all terms and
conditions of this Agreement, and such judgment lien shall be a
Junior Lien and shall be junior and sub