Exhibit 10.3
Execution
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INTERCREDITOR
AGREEMENT
THIS INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT
(“ Intercreditor Agreement ”) dated as of
February 1, 2005, is by and between GMAC COMMERCIAL FINANCE
LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“ GMAC CF
”), as agent for the GMAC Facility Lenders defined below (in
such capacity, along with any successors and assigns acting as
agent for the GMAC Facility Debt (as defined below),
the ” GMAC Facility Agent ”) and THE BANK
OF NEW YORK, a New York banking corporation, as trustee under the
Note Agreement (as defined below) (in such capacity, the “
Trustee ”) and collateral agent for the Noteholders
(as defined below) (in such capacity, along with any successors and
assigns acting as agent for the Note Debt (as defined below),
the ” Note Agent ”).
R E C I T A L S
:
A.
GMAC Facility Agent and GMAC
Facility Lenders have entered into financing arrangements with the
GMAC Borrowers and GMAC Guarantors (as each term is hereinafter
defined), pursuant to which GMAC Facility Lenders have made
revolving credit loans to the GMAC Borrowers and may, upon certain
terms and conditions, continue to make revolving credit loans and
provide other financial accommodations to the GMAC Borrowers
secured by a security interest in the Working Capital Collateral
(as such term is hereinafter defined). GMAC Borrowers and GMAC
Guarantors may also, in the future, grant security interests in the
Note Collateral (as such term is hereinafter defined) to GMAC
Facility Agent.
B.
Pursuant to the Note Agreement (as
defined below), the Noteholders have purchased the Notes (as
defined below) issued by Edgen Acquisition Corporation, the
obligations for which were immediately assumed by Edgen Corporation
(“ Edgen ”), as successor by merger. The
Notes have been guaranteed by the Note Guarantors and secured by a
security interest in the Collateral.
C.
GMAC Facility Agent, on behalf of
GMAC Facility Lenders, and Note Agent, on behalf of itself, the
Trustee and the Noteholders, desire to enter into this
Intercreditor Agreement to (i) confirm the relative priorities
of the security interests of GMAC Facility Agent, on behalf of GMAC
Facility Lenders, and Note Agent, on behalf of itself, the Trustee
and the Noteholders, in the assets and properties of the Obligors,
and (ii) provide for the orderly sharing among them, in
accordance with such priorities, of the proceeds of such assets and
properties upon any foreclosure thereon or other disposition
thereof.
In consideration of the mutual
benefits accruing to GMAC Facility Lenders and Noteholders
hereunder and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt
and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto
do hereby agree as follows:
1.
DEFINITIONS
As used above and in this
Intercreditor Agreement, the following terms shall have the
meanings ascribed to them below:
1.1.
“ Additional Notes
” means any Notes issued under the Indenture after the date
of the Indenture, as part of the same series as the Initial
Notes.
1.2.
“ Agent ” shall
mean each of the GMAC Facility Agent and the Note Agent.
1.3.
“ Agreements ”
shall mean, collectively, the GMAC Facility Loan Documents and the
Note Documents.
1.4.
“ Collateral ”
shall mean all assets and properties of any kind whatsoever, real
or personal, tangible or intangible and wherever located, of each
Obligor, except assets and properties expressly excluded pursuant
to the GMAC Facility Loan Documents or the Note
Documents.
1.5.
“ GMAC Borrowers
” shall mean Edgen Carbon Products Group, L.L.C. and Edgen
Alloy Products Group, L.L.C., together with each of their permitted
successors and assigns, including, without limitation, any
receiver, trustee or debtor-in-possession on behalf of such Person
or on behalf of any such permitted successor or assign.
1.6.
“ GMAC Facility Debt
” shall mean any and all obligations, liabilities and
indebtedness of every kind, nature and description owing by any
Obligor to GMAC Facility Agent and the GMAC Facility Lenders
evidenced by or arising under the GMAC Facility Loan Documents,
whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, joint or
several, due or not due, primary or secondary, liquidated or
unliquidated, including principal, interest, charges, fees, costs,
indemnities and expenses, however evidenced, whether as principal,
surety, endorser, guarantor or otherwise, whether now existing or
hereafter arising, whether arising before, during or after the
initial or any renewal term of the GMAC Facility Loan Agreement or
after the commencement of any Insolvency Proceeding with respect to
any Obligor (and including, without limitation, the payment of
interest which would accrue and become due but for the commencement
of such Insolvency Proceeding whether or not such interest is
allowed or allowable in whole or in part in any such Insolvency
Proceeding).
1.7.
“ GMAC Facility Lenders
” shall mean GMAC CF, each of the other lenders now or
hereafter party to the GMAC Facility Loan Agreement, and their
successors and assigns (including any other lender or group of
lenders that at any time succeeds to or refinances, replaces or
substitutes for all or any portion of the GMAC Facility Debt at any
time and from time to time).
1.8.
“ GMAC Facility Loan
Agreement ” shall mean the Amended and Restated Loan and
Security Agreement, dated as of February 1, 2005, among the
GMAC Facility Agent, the GMAC Facility Lenders, the GMAC Borrowers
and the GMAC Guarantors, as the same now exists or may hereafter be
amended, modified, supplemented, extended, renewed or
restated.
1.9.
“ GMAC Facility Loan
Documents ” shall mean the GMAC Facility Loan Agreement
and all agreements, documents and instruments at any time executed
and/or delivered by any Obligor or any other Person with, to or in
favor of GMAC Facility Agent and the GMAC Facility Lenders in
connection therewith or related thereto, as all of the foregoing
now exist or may hereafter be amended, modified, supplemented,
extended, renewed or restated.
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1.10.
“ GMAC Guarantors
” shall mean any guarantor of the GMAC Facility Debt from
time to time, together with each of their permitted successors and
assigns, including, without limitation, any receiver, trustee or
debtor-in-possession on behalf of such Person or on behalf of any
such permitted successor or assign.
1.11.
“ Initial Notes ”
means the first $105.0 million aggregate principal amount of Notes
issued under the Note Agreement on the date of the Note
Agreement.
1.12.
“ Insolvency Proceeding
” shall mean, as to any Person, any of the following:
(i) any case or proceeding with respect to such Person under
the U.S. Bankruptcy Code or any other Federal, State or foreign
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other law affecting
creditors’ rights or any other or similar proceedings seeking
any stay, reorganization, arrangement, composition or readjustment
of the obligations and indebtedness of such Person, or
(ii) any proceeding seeking the appointment of any trustee,
receiver, liquidator, custodian or other insolvency official with
similar powers with respect to such Person or any of its assets, or
(iii) any proceeding for liquidation, dissolution or other
winding up of the business of such Person, or (iv) any
assignment for the benefit of creditors or any marshalling of
assets of such Person.
1.13.
“ Insurance Proceeds
” shall mean proceeds or payments from insurance with respect
to any loss, casualty or damage to the Collateral.
1.14.
“ Inventory ”
shall mean and include as to each Person all of such Person’s
now owned or hereafter acquired goods, merchandise and other
personal property, wherever located, to be furnished under any
contract of service or held for sale or lease, all raw materials,
work in process, finished goods and materials and supplies of any
kind, nature or description which are or might be used or consumed
in such Person’s business or used in selling or furnishing
such goods, merchandise and other personal property, all other
inventory of such Person, and all documents of title or other
documents representing them.
1.15.
“ Lenders ” shall
mean, collectively, GMAC Facility Agent, GMAC Facility Lenders,
Note Agent and Noteholders, and their respective successors and
assigns, being sometimes referred to herein individually as a
“ Lender ”.
1.16.
“ Lien ” shall
mean any mortgage, deed of trust, pledge, hypothecation,
assignment, deposit arrangement, security interest, encumbrance
(including, but not limited to, easements, rights of way and the
like), lien (statutory or other), security agreement or transfer
intended as security, including without limitation, any conditional
sale or other title retention agreement, the interest of a lessor
under a capital lease or any financing lease having substantially
the same economic effect as any of the foregoing.
1.17.
“ Lien Enforcement
Action ” means (a) any action by any Lender to
foreclose on the Lien of such Person in any Collateral,
(b) any action by any Lender to take possession of, sell or
otherwise realize (judicially or non-judicially) upon any
Collateral (including, without limitation, by setoff or
notification of account debtors but excluding all remittance of
collections to blocked accounts established by or for the benefit
of the GMAC Facility Agent and/or the GMAC Facility Lenders),
and/or (c) the commencement by any Lender
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of any legal proceedings against any Obligor or
with respect to any Collateral to facilitate the actions described
in (a) and (b) above.
1.18.
“ Maximum GMAC Facility
Debt ” shall mean $25,000,000.
1.19.
“ Note Agreement
” shall mean the Indenture dated as of February 1, 2005,
among the Note Agent, the Trustee, the Noteholders, Edgen and the
guarantors party thereto from time to time, as the same now exists
or may hereafter be amended, modified, supplemented, extended,
renewed or restated.
1.20.
“ Note Collateral
” shall mean all Collateral, excluding the Working Capital
Collateral.
1.21.
“ Note Debt ”
shall mean all obligations, liabilities and indebtedness of every
kind, nature and description owing by any Obligor to the Note
Agent, the Trustee or any Noteholder evidenced by or arising under
the Note Documents, whether direct or indirect, absolute or
contingent, joint or several, due or not due, primary or secondary,
liquidated or unliquidated, including principal, interest, charges,
fees, costs, indemnities and expenses, however evidenced, whether
as principal, surety, endorser, guarantor or otherwise, whether now
existing or hereafter arising, whether arising before, during or
after the initial or any renewal term of the Note Documents or
after the commencement of any Insolvency Proceeding with respect to
any Obligor (and including, without limitation, the payment of
interest which would accrue and become due but for the commencement
of such Insolvency Proceeding, whether or not such interest is
allowed or allowable in whole or in part in any such Insolvency
Proceeding).
1.22.
“ Note Documents
” shall mean the Note Agreement and all agreements, documents
and instruments at any time executed and/or delivered by any
Obligor or any other Person with, to or in favor of the Note Agent,
the Trustee or any Noteholder in connection therewith or related
thereto, as all of the foregoing now exist or may hereafter be
amended, modified, supplemented, extended, renewed or
restated.
1.23.
“ Noteholders ”
shall mean each Person in whose name a Note is registered on the
books of the Registrar (as defined in the Note
Agreement).
1.24.
“ Note Guarantors
” shall mean any guarantor of the Note Debt from time to
time, together with each of their permitted successors and assigns,
including, without limitation, any receiver, trustee or
debtor-in-possession on behalf of such Person or on behalf of any
such permitted successor or assign.
1.25.
“
Notes ” means the 9 7/8% Senior Secured Notes due 2011
(including without limitation, Additional Notes).
1.26.
“
Obligors ” shall mean, collectively, the GMAC
Borrowers, GMAC Guarantors, Edgen and Note Guarantors, and shall
include each of their permitted successors and assigns, including,
without limitation, a receiver, trustee or debtor-in-possession on
behalf of such Person or on behalf of any such permitted successor
or assign (each individually, an “ Obligor
”).
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1.27.
“ Person ” or
“ person ” shall mean any individual, sole
proprietorship, partnership, corporation (including without
imitation, any corporation which elects subchapter S status under
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended), limited liability
company, limited liability partnership, business trust,
unincorporated association, joint stock company, trust, joint
venture, or other entity or any government or any agency or
instrumentality or political subdivision thereof.
1.28.
“
Receivables ” shall mean and include, as to any
Person, all accounts (including, without limitation, all
health-care insurance receivables), contract rights, instruments
(including promissory notes and other instruments evidencing
indebtedness owed to such Person by any Affiliate (as defined in
the GMAC Facility Loan Agreement) of such Person), documents,
chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic), general intangibles
relating to accounts, drafts and acceptances, and all other forms
of obligations owing to such Person, each of which is arising out
of or in connection with the sale, lease or other disposition of
Inventory or the rendition of services, and all guarantees and
other security therefor, whether secured or unsecured, now existing
or hereafter created, and whether or not specifically sold or
assigned to GMAC Facility Agent under the GMAC Facility Loan
Documents.
1.29.
“
Release Event ” means, individually and collectively,
a Release Event (GMAC) and/or a Release Event (Note).
1.30.
“
Release Event (GMAC) ” means (a) prior to the
occurrence of an Insolvency Proceeding by or against any Obligor:
the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default (as such term
is defined in the GMAC Facility Loan Agreement) or the taking of
any Lien Enforcement Action with respect to the Working Capital
Collateral by the GMAC Facility Agent or the GMAC Facility Lenders,
provided that any Release Event (GMAC) occurring prior to an
Insolvency Proceeding by or against any Obligor shall cease to
constitute a Release Event (GMAC) as of the occurrence of such
Insolvency Proceeding if the GMAC Facility Lenders continue making
loans or providing letter of credit accommodations (whether
pursuant to the GMAC Facility Loan Documents or otherwise) or
consent to the use of cash collateral after the occurrence of such
Insolvency Proceeding, or (b) after the occurrence of an
Insolvency Proceeding by or against any Obligor: the occurrence of
any of the following: (i) the entry of an order of a
Bankruptcy Court pursuant to Section 363 of the U.S.
Bankruptcy Code authorizing the sale of any portion of any
Obligor’s assets or (ii) the taking of any Lien
Enforcement Action described in clauses (a) and (b) of
the definition of such term with respect to Working Capital
Collateral by the GMAC Facility Agent or the GMAC Facility Lenders
or the entry of an order of a Bankruptcy Court pursuant to
Section 362 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code vacating the automatic
stay and authorizing the GMAC Facility Agent or the GMAC Facility
Lenders to take any Lien Enforcement Action with respect to Working
Capital Collateral.
1.31.
“
Release Event (Note) ” means (a) prior to the
occurrence of an Insolvency Proceeding by or against any Obligor:
the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default (as such term
is defined in the Note Agreement) or the taking of any Lien
Enforcement Action with respect to the Note Collateral by the Note
Agent or the Noteholders, provided that any Release Event
(Note) occurring prior to an Insolvency Proceeding by or against
any Obligor shall cease to constitute a Release Event (Note) as of
the occurrence of such Insolvency Proceeding if the Noteholders
consent to the use of cash collateral after the occurrence of such
Insolvency
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Proceeding, or
(b) after the occurrence of an Insolvency Proceeding by or
against any Obligor: the occurrence of any of the following:
(i) the entry of an order of a Bankruptcy Court pursuant to
Section 363 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code authorizing the sale
of any portion of any Obligor’s assets or (ii) the
taking of any Lien Enforcement Action described in clauses
(a) and (b) of the definition of such term with respect
to Note Collateral by the Note Agent or the Noteholders or the
entry of an order of a Bankruptcy Court pursuant to
Section 362 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code vacating the automatic
stay and authorizing the Note Agent or the Noteholders to take any
Lien Enforcement Action with respect to Note
Collateral.
1.32.
“ Stock
Purchase Agreement ” shall mean the Stock Purchase
Agreement, dated as of December 31, 2004, among Edgen
Acquisition Corporation, as Purchaser, Edgen, the stockholders
party thereto as Sellers, and the Sellers’ Representative (as
defined therein).
1.33.
“
Working Capital Collateral ” shall mean all
Receivables and Inventory of the Obligors, wherever located and
whether now in existence or hereafter arising, together with all of
each Obligor’s right, title and interest in and to
(i) all merchandise returned or rejected by Customers (as
defined in the GMAC Facility Loan Agreement), relating to or
securing any of the Receivables; (ii) all of each
Obligor’s rights as a consignor, a consignee, an unpaid
vendor, mechanic, artisan, or other lienor, including
stoppage in transit, setoff, detinue, replevin, reclamation
and repurchase; (iii) all supporting obligations and all
additional amounts due to any Obligor from any Customer relating to
the Receivables; (iv) all supply agreements and agreements
with Customers with respect to Receivables and Inventory,
indemnification claims under the Acquisition Documents (as defined
in the GMAC Facility Loan Agreement) solely to the extent relating
to Receivables and Inventory, and warranty claims relating to any
Inventory; (v) if and when obtained by any Obligor, all real
and personal property of third parties in which such Obligor has
been granted a lien or security interest as security for the
payment or enforcement of Receivables; (vi) commercial tort
claims solely to the extent related to any of the foregoing; and
(vii) all Term Intercompany Notes (as defined in the GMAC
Facility Loan Agreement) required under the terms of
Section 6.11(ii) of the GMAC Facility Loan Agreement to
be secured by the security agreement described in such Section; all
of each Obligor’s ledger sheets, ledger cards, files,
correspondence, records, books of account, business papers,
computer software (owned by any Obligor or in which it has an
interest), computer programs, tapes, disks and documents relating
to any of the foregoing; and all proceeds and products of all of
the foregoing in whatever form, including, but not limited to:
cash, deposit accounts (whether or not comprised solely of
proceeds), certificates of deposit, Insurance Proceeds (including
hazard, flood and credit insurance), negotiable instruments and
other instruments for the payment of money, chattel paper, security
agreements, documents, eminent domain proceeds, condemnation
proceeds and tort claim proceeds.
1.34.
All terms defined in the Uniform
Commercial Code as in effect in the State of New York, unless
otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set forth
therein. All references to any term in the plural shall
include the singular and all references to any term in the singular
shall include the plural.
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2.
SECURITY INTERESTS; PRIORITIES;
REMEDIES
2.1.
GMAC Facility Agent hereby
acknowledges that Note Agent, for the benefit of itself, the
Trustee and the Noteholders, has been granted Liens upon all of the
Collateral pursuant to the Note Documents to secure the Note
Debt. Note Agent hereby acknowledges that GMAC Facility
Agent, for the benefit of the GMAC Facility Lenders, (a) has
been granted Liens upon all of the Working Capital Collateral
pursuant to the GMAC Facility Loan Documents to secure the GMAC
Facility Debt and (b) may, at the option of one or more
Obligors, be granted Liens upon the Note Collateral pursuant to the
GMAC Facility Loan Documents to secure the GMAC Facility
Debt.
2.2.
Notwithstanding the order or time of
attachment, or the order, time or manner of perfection, or the
order or time of filing or recordation of any document or
instrument, or other method of perfecting a Lien in favor of each
Agent in any Collateral, and notwithstanding any conflicting terms
or conditions which may be contained in any of the Agreements, the
Liens of GMAC Facility Agent with respect to the Working Capital
Collateral to the extent that such Liens secure the GMAC Facility
Debt have and shall have priority over the Liens of Note Agent with
respect to the Working Capital Collateral and such Liens are and
shall be junior and subordinate to the Liens of GMAC Facility Agent
with respect to the Working Capital Collateral to the extent that
such Liens secure the GMAC Facility Debt, in each case to the
extent such Liens of GMAC Facility Agent are valid, perfected and
enforceable. Notwithstanding the order or time of attachment,
or the order, time or manner of perfection, or the order or time of
filing or recordation of any document or instrument, or other
method of perfecting a Lien in favor of each Agent in any
Collateral, and notwithstanding any conflicting terms or conditions
which may be contained in any of the Agreements, the Liens of Note
Agent with respect to the Note Collateral to the extent that such
Liens secure the Note Debt have and shall have priority over the
Liens of GMAC Facility Agent with respect to the Note Collateral
and such Liens are and shall be junior and subordinate to the Liens
of Note Agent with respect to the Note Collateral to the extent
that such Liens secure the Note Debt, in each case to the extent
such Liens of Note Agent are valid, perfected and
enforceable.
2.3.
The priorities of the Liens provided
in Section 2.2 shall not be altered or otherwise affected by
any amendment, modification, supplement, extension, renewal,
restatement, replacement or refinancing of the GMAC Facility Debt
or the Note Debt, nor by any action or inaction which any of the
Lenders may take or fail to take in respect of the
Collateral. GMAC Facility Agent agrees not to subordinate, or
otherwise voluntarily relinquish the benefits of, its Lien in any
Working Capital Collateral to the Lien, indebtedness or claim of
any other creditor of any Obligor without the prior written consent
of Note Agent. Note Agent agrees not to subordinate, or
otherwise voluntarily relinquish the benefits of, its Lien in any
Note Collateral to the Lien, indebtedness or claim of any other
creditor of any Obligor without the prior written consent of GMAC
Facility Agent.
2.4.
Subject to Sections 2.2 and 2.9, (w)
after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of
Default (as defined in the GMAC Facility Loan Documents) of which
GMAC Facility Agent has provided written notice to the Note Agent
in accordance with Section 4.7 (provided that the foregoing
notice shall be deemed to have been given automatically upon
Edgen’s issuance of a Change of Control Offer (as defined in
Section 4.10 of the Note
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Agreement)), (x) after the occurrence and during
the continuance of an Event of Default (as defined in the Note
Documents) of which Note Agent has provided written notice to GMAC
Facility Agent in accordance with Section 4.7, (y) after the
exercise of remedies by GMAC Facility Agent and/or Note Agent
and/or (z) after the acceleration by the GMAC Facility Agent of any
GMAC Facility Debt or the acceleration by Note Agent or any
Noteholder of any Note Debt,(A) (i) all proceeds of
Working Capital Collateral and (ii) all Insurance Proceeds in
connection with a casualty event with respect to Working Capital
Collateral shall each be applied to the GMAC Facility Debt prior to
the application of any such proceeds to the Note Debt; and
(B) (i) all proceeds of Note Collateral and
(ii) Insurance Proceeds in connection with a casualty event
with respect to Note Collateral shall each be applied to the Note
Debt prior to the application of any such proceeds to the GMAC
Facility Debt; provided , however , that in all other
cases such proceeds shall be applied (I) with respect to Working
Capital Collateral, as set forth in the GMAC Facility Loan
Agreement, and (II) with respect to Note Collateral, as set forth
in the Note Agreement. All proceeds of (x) the Working
Capital Collateral received by GMAC Facility Agent or the GMAC
Facility Lenders after the GMAC Facility Debt has been paid in full
in cash and the GMAC Facility Loan Documents have been irrevocably
terminated shall be forthwith paid over, in the funds and currency
received, to the Note Agent for application to the Note Debt
(unless otherwise required by law) and (y) the Note Collateral
received by Note Agent after the Note Debt has been paid in full in
cash shall be forthwith paid over, in the funds and currency
received, to the GMAC Facility Agent for application to the GMAC
Facility Debt (but only to the extent that the GMAC Facility Agent
has a Lien therein and unless otherwise required by law). For
purposes of this Section 2.4, payments made by the Obligors to
Note Agent and the Noteholders in respect of the Note Debt with
proceeds of loans by GMAC Facility Lenders to GMAC Borrowers shall
not be construed to constitute proceeds of Working Capital
Collateral.
2.5.
Neither Agent shall be responsible
to the other Agent for perfecting or maintaining the perfection of
any Lien in and to any item constituting the Collateral in which
the other Agent has been granted a Lien. The foregoing
provisions of this Intercreditor Agreement are intended solely to
govern the respective Lien priorities as between the Agents and
shall not impose on either Agent any obligations in respect of the
disposition of proceeds of any Collateral which would conflict with
prior perfected claims therein in favor of any other Person or any
order or decree of any court or governmental authority or any
applicable law. Subject to the terms of this Intercreditor
Agreement, Note Agent agrees that it will not contest (and will not
support any other Person in contesting) the validity, perfection,
priority or enforceability of the Liens of GMAC Facility Agent in
the Collateral and GMAC Facility Agent agrees that it will not
contest (and will not support any other Person in contesting) the
validity, perfection, priority or enforceability of the Liens of
Note Agent in the Collateral.
2.6.
In the event that either Agent
shall, in the exercise of its rights under its Agreements or
otherwise, receive possession or control of any books and records
of any Obligor which contain information identifying or pertaining
to any Collateral in which the other Agent has been granted a Lien,
the Agent shall notify the other Agent that it has received such
books and records and shall, as promptly as practicable thereafter,
make available to the Agent such books and records for inspection
and duplication, provided that all reasonable out-of-pocket
expenses incurred by the Agent in connection with making such books
and records available to the other Agent shall be paid by the
recipient Agent.
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2.7.
Subject to the terms and conditions
set forth in this Intercreditor Agreement, GMAC Facility Agent
shall have the exclusive right to manage, perform and enforce its
rights and remedies with respect to the Working Capital Collateral,
to exercise and enforce all privileges and rights with respect
thereto according to its discretion and the exercise of its
business judgment, including, without limitation, the exclusive
right to take or retake control or possession of such Working
Capital Collateral and to hold, prepare for sale, process, sell,
lease, dispose of, or liquidate such Working Capital Collateral.
Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Intercreditor
Agreement, Note Agent shall have the exclusive right to manage,
perform and enforce its rights and remedies with respect to the
Note Collateral, to exercise and enforce all privileges and rights
with respect thereto according to its discretion and the exercise
of its business judgment, including, without limitation, the
exclusive right to take or retake control or possession of such
Note Collateral and to hold, prepare for sale, process, sell,
lease, dispose of, or liquidate such Note Collateral.
2.8.
(A)
Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained in any of the Agreements but subject to
Sections 2.9 and 2.10, prior to the time when GMAC Facility
Lenders shall have received payment in full of all GMAC Facility
Debt in cash and the GMAC Facility Loan Documents shall have been
irrevocably terminated, during the continuance of a Release Event
(GMAC) only the GMAC Facility Agent and the GMAC Facility Lenders
shall have the right to restrict or permit, or approve or
disapprove, the sale, transfer or other disposition of the Working
Capital Collateral. In addition, the Obligors and the Lenders agree
that any Asset Sale (as such term is defined in the Note Agreement)
with respect to the sale, casualty or other disposition of Working
Capital Collateral requiring a mandatory redemption of the Note
Debt under Section 4.11 of the Note Agreement shall also
require a mandatory prepayment under Section 2.13 of the GMAC
Facility Loan Agreement.
(B)
Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained in any of the Agreements but subject to
Sections 2.9 and 2.10, prior to the time when Noteholders
shall have received payment in full of all Note Debt in cash,
during the continuance of a Release Event (Note) only the Note
Agent and the Noteholders shall have the right to restrict or
permit, or approve or disapprove, the sale, transfer or other
disposition of the Note Collateral.
2.9.
(A) Note Agent shall, at any
time during the continuance of a Release Event (GMAC):
(a)
upon the request of the GMAC
Facility Agent with respect to the Working Capital Collateral
identified in such request as set forth below (which request shall
specify the proposed terms of the sale and the type and amount of
consideration to be received in connection therewith), release or
cause to be released, or otherwise terminate or cause to be
terminated, its Liens on such Working Capital Collateral, to the
extent such Working Capital Collateral is to be sold or otherwise
disposed of either by (i) the GMAC Facility Agent or its
agents, or (ii) any Obligor with the consent of the GMAC
Facility Agent or the GMAC Facility Lenders;
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(b)
deliver such
release documents as the GMAC Facility Agent may reasonably require
(which shall be prepared by the GMAC Facility Agent at its expense)
in connection therewith; provided that:
(i)
such release
shall not extend to or otherwise affect any of the rights of the
Note Agent and the Noteholders to the proceeds from any such sale
or other disposition of Working Capital Collateral, except to the
extent such proceeds are applied in accordance with
Section 2.9(A)(b)(ii),
(ii)
the GMAC Facility
Agent and the GMAC Facility Lenders Lender shall promptly apply
such proceeds as specified in the GMAC Facility Loan
Agreement,
(iii)
if any such sale
or disposition results in a surplus after application of the
proceeds to the GMAC Facility Debt, such surplus shall be paid to
the Note Agent, the Trustee and the Noteholders, and
(iv)
no such release
documents shall be delivered (A) to any Obligor or
(B) more than two (2) business days prior to the date of
the closing of the sale or disposition of such Working Capital
Collateral; provided , further , that if the closing
of the sale or disposition of such Working Capital Collateral
i