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EXECUTION COPY
EXHIBIT 10.3
INTERCREDITOR AND SUBORDINATION AGREEMENT
This Intercreditor and Subordination Agreement is entered into
as of
April 1, 2005, among ABLECO FINANCE LLC in its capacity as the
Senior Lender (as
hereinafter defined) and the Term Loan B Lender (as hereinafter
defined) and
Tudor BVI Global Portfolio Ltd., Raptor Global Portfolio Ltd.,
and Tudor
Arbitrage Partners L.P. (collectively, the "Tudor Noteholders")
and EFG
Eurofinancial Investment Company (the "EFG Noteholder", and
together with the
Tudor Noteholders, each a "Junior Noteholder" and collectively,
the "Junior
Noteholders"), in light of the following:
RECITALS
A. enherent Corp., a Delaware corporation (the "Parent"),
and
each Subsidiary of the Parent listed as a borrower on the
signature pages
thereto (together with the Parent, each a "Borrower" and
collectively, the
"Borrowers") are entering into that certain Amended and Restated
Financing
Agreement dated as of the date hereof (as amended, restated,
supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time, including any replacement
agreement
therefor, the "Senior Loan Agreement").
B. Concurrently herewith, as security for the prompt payment
and
performance of the Senior Indebtedness (as hereinafter defined),
each Borrower
is entering into certain security agreements, pledge agreements,
collateral
assignments and other security documents (collectively, the
"Senior Security
Documents") pursuant to which each Borrower is granting a lien
on and a security
interest in all of its assets (the "Collateral") to the Senior
Lender.
C. Concurrently herewith, the Borrowers are making those
certain
Subordinated Notes, dated the date hereof (the "Junior Notes"),
in favor of the
EFG Noteholder and the Tudor Noteholders, which Junior Notes are
being made in
respect of a Preferred Stock Agreement, dated October 28, 2004
by and between
the Parent and the Junior Noteholders pursuant to which each
Junior Noteholder
has agreed to tender its Series A Preferred Stock of the Parent
in exchange for
common stock of the Parent and a Junior Note.
D. Concurrently herewith, (i) as security for the prompt
payment
and performance of the Junior Indebtedness (as hereinafter
defined), each
Borrower is entering into certain security agreements and pledge
agreements (the
"Junior Security Documents") pursuant to which each Borrower is
granting a lien
on and a security interest in all of its assets to the Junior
Noteholders.
E. The Senior Lender, the Term Loan B Lender, and the Junior
Noteholders wish to agree as to the priority of the repayment of
the Senior
Indebtedness (as hereinafter defined) and the Junior
Indebtedness (as
hereinafter defined), and the rights of each with respect
thereto, and as to
their respective liens upon and security interests in the
Collateral (as
hereinafter defined) and as to certain other rights, priorities,
and interests
as between and among the Senior Lender and the Junior Creditors
(as hereinafter
defined).
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AGREEMENT
In consideration of the foregoing, the mutual covenants
contained
herein, and for other good and valuable consideration, the
receipt of which the
Senior Lender and the Junior Noteholders hereby acknowledge, the
Senior Lender
and the Junior Noteholders hereby agree as follows:
1. Definitions and Rules of Construction.
(a) Definitions. The following terms, as used in this
Agreement,
shall have the following meanings:
"Accounts" and "Investment Property" shall have the meanings
assigned to them under Article 9 of the UCC.
"Agreement" means this Intercreditor and Subordination
Agreement together with any and all amendments, extensions,
modifications,
riders, addenda, exhibits, and schedules hereto.
"Bankruptcy Case" means any proceeding commenced by or
against
any Obligor, under any provision of the Bankruptcy Code or under
any other
federal or state bankruptcy or insolvency law, including
assignments for the
benefit of creditors, formal or informal moratoria,
compositions, extensions
generally with its creditors, or proceedings seeking
reorganization,
arrangement, or other similar relief, and all converted or
succeeding cases in
respect thereof.
"Bankruptcy Code" means the United States Bankruptcy Code
(11
U.S.C. Section 101, et seq.), as amended, and any successor
statute.
"Books" means any Obligor's now owned or hereafter acquired
books and records (including all of its Records indicating,
summarizing, or
evidencing its assets (including the Collateral) or liabilities,
all of its
Records relating to its business operations or financial
condition, and all of
its goods or General Intangibles related to such
information).
"Borrower" and "Borrowers" have the meanings set forth in
the
Preamble to this Agreement.
"Business Day" means any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday
or
other day on which national banks are authorized or required to
close.
"Collateral" means all of each Obligor's presently existing
and hereafter acquired personal property, including, without
limitation, such
Obligor's Accounts, Books, deposit accounts, Equipment, General
Intangibles,
Inventory, Investment Property and Negotiable Collateral; all
proceeds and
insurance proceeds of the foregoing; all money or other assets
of each Obligor
that now or hereafter come into the possession, custody, or
control of a Secured
Creditor; and the proceeds and products, whether tangible or
intangible, of any
of the foregoing, including proceeds of insurance covering any
or all of the
foregoing, and any and all Accounts, Books, Equipment, General
Intangibles,
Inventory, Investment Property, Negotiable
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Collateral, money, deposit accounts, or other tangible or
intangible property
resulting from the sale, exchange, collection, or other
disposition of any of
the foregoing, or any portion thereof or interest therein.
"Collateral Agency and Intercreditor Agreement" means the
Collateral Agency and Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of the
date hereof, by
and among Tudor BVI Portfolio Ltd. as agent for the Junior
Noteholders, the
Junior Noteholders and Borrowers.
"Controlling Junior Creditors" means at any time the Junior
Creditors holding at least 51% of the outstanding principal
balance of the
Junior Indebtedness, excluding, however, any Junior Noteholder
that owns an
equity interest in any Borrower of any form or type.
"Documents" means, collectively, the Senior Documents and
the
Junior Documents.
"EFG Note" means that certain subordinated secured
promissory
note made by Parent in favor of EFG Eurofinancial Investment
Company dated April
1, 2005 in the original principal amount of $187,500.
"Equipment" means all of Obligors' now owned or hereafter
acquired right, title, and interest with respect to equipment
(including gaming
equipment), machinery, machine tools, motors, furniture,
furnishings, fixtures,
vehicles (including motor vehicles), vessels, tools, parts,
goods (other than
consumer goods, farm products, or Inventory), wherever located,
including all
attachments, accessories, accessions, replacements,
substitutions, additions,
and improvements to any of the foregoing.
"General Intangibles" means all of each Obligor's now owned
or
hereafter acquired right, title, and interest with respect to
general
intangibles (including payment intangibles, contract rights,
rights to payment,
rights arising under common law, statutes, or regulations,
choses or things in
action, goodwill, patents, trade names, trademarks,
servicemarks, copyrights,
blueprints, drawings, purchase orders, customer lists, monies
due or recoverable
from pension funds, route lists, rights to payment and other
rights under any
royalty or licensing agreements, infringement claims, computer
programs,
information contained on computer disks or tapes, software,
literature, reports,
catalogs, money, deposit accounts, insurance premium rebates,
tax refunds, and
tax refund claims), and any and all supporting obligations in
respect thereof,
and any other personal property other than goods, Accounts,
Investment Property,
and Negotiable Collateral.
"Inventory" means all of each Obligor's now owned or
hereafter
acquired right, title, and interest with respect to inventory,
including goods
held for sale or lease or to be furnished under a contract of
service, goods
that are leased by any Obligor as lessor, goods that are
furnished by any
Obligor under a contract of service, and raw materials, work in
process, or
materials used or consumed in any Obligor business.
"Junior Creditors" mean each Junior Noteholder and the Term
Loan B Lender.
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"Junior Documents" means the EFG Note, the Tudor Notes, the
Junior Security Documents, the Collateral Agency and
Intercreditor Agreement and
the Term Loan B Documents.
"Junior Indebtedness" means any and all presently existing
or
hereafter arising indebtedness, claims, debts, liabilities,
obligations,
interest, fees and expenses of the Obligors owing to (i) each
Junior Noteholder
pursuant to the Junior Documents and (ii) the Term Loan B Lender
in respect of
the Term Loan B Indebtedness, in each case, whether direct or
indirect, whether
contingent or of any other nature, character, or description
(including all
interest and other amounts accruing after commencement of any
Bankruptcy Case,
and any interest and other amounts that, but for the provisions
of the
Bankruptcy Code, would have accrued and become due or otherwise
would have been
allowed), and any refinancings, renewals, refundings, or
extensions of such
amounts.
"Junior Noteholder" has the meaning set forth in the
preamble
to this Agreement.
"Junior Notes" means, collectively, the EFG Note and the
Tudor
Notes.
"Junior Security Documents" has the meaning set forth in the
Recitals to this Agreement.
"Loan Documents" has the meaning set forth for such term in
the Senior Loan Agreement.
"Negotiable Collateral" means all of each Obligor's now
owned
and hereafter acquired
right, title, and interest with respect to letters of
credit,
letter of credit rights, instruments, promissory notes, drafts,
documents, and
chattel paper (including electronic chattel paper and tangible
chattel paper),
and any and all supporting obligations in respect thereof.
"Obligors" means collectively each Borrower.
"Paid in Full" means the indefeasible final payment in full
in
cash of all such Senior Indebtedness in accordance with the
Senior Documents
with respect to such Senior Indebtedness and such payment shall
not be subject
to defeasance, disgorgement, repayment or return for any reason
whatsoever.
"Pro Rata Share" means, with respect to any Junior
Creditor's
share of Collateral proceeds after the Senior Indebtedness has
been Paid in
Full, the percentage obtained by dividing (i) the amount due and
owing to such
Junior Creditor with respect to its portion of the Junior
Indebtedness then
outstanding, by (ii) the aggregate amount due and owing to all
of the Junior
Creditors with respect to all outstanding Junior
Indebtedness.
"Record" means information that is inscribed on a tangible
medium or which is stored in an electronic or other medium and
is retrievable in
perceivable form.
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"Secured Creditor" means any of the Senior Lender or the
Junior Creditors, or any successor or assignee of any of them,
or any future
holder of Senior Indebtedness or Junior Indebtedness,
respectively.
"Secured Creditor Remedies" means any action by a Secured
Creditor in furtherance of the sale, foreclosure, realization
upon, or the
repossession or liquidation of any of the Collateral, including,
without
limitation: (i) the exercise of any remedies or rights of a
"Secured Creditor"
under Article 9 of the UCC, such as, without limitation, the
notification of
account debtors; (ii) the exercise of any remedies or rights as
a mortgagee or
beneficiary (or by the trustee on behalf of the beneficiary),
including, without
limitation, the appointment of a receiver, or the commencement
of any
foreclosure proceedings or the exercise of any power of sale,
including, without
limitation, the placing of any advertisement for the sale of any
Collateral;
(iii) the exercise of any remedies available to a judgment
creditor; (iv) the
exercise of any rights of forfeiture, recession or repossession
of any assets,
or (v) any other remedy available in respect of the Collateral
available to such
Secured Creditor under any Document to which it is a party or
under applicable
law, provided that Secured Creditor Remedies shall not include
any action taken
by a Secured Creditor solely to (A) correct any mistake or
ambiguity in any
Documents or (B) remedy or cure any defect in or lapse of
perfection of the lien
of a Secured Creditor in the Collateral.
"Secured Creditors' Indebtedness" means, collectively, the
Senior Indebtedness and the Junior Indebtedness.
"Senior Documents" means, collectively, the Senior Loan
Agreement, the Senior Security Documents, any other Loan
Document and any other
document instrument or agreement now existing or in the future
entered into
evidencing, documenting, securing or otherwise relating to the
Senior
Indebtedness or the Collateral, together with, to the extent not
prohibited by
Section 14(a) of this Agreement, any amendments, replacements,
substitutions, or
restatements thereof.
"Senior Indebtedness" means any and all presently existing
or
hereafter arising indebtedness, claims, debts, liabilities,
obligations,
interest, expenses and fees of the Obligors owing to the Senior
Lender under the
Senior Documents, whether direct or indirect, whether contingent
or of any other
nature, character, or description (including all interest and
other amounts
accruing after commencement of any Bankruptcy Case, and all
interest and other
amounts that, but for the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code,
would have accrued
and become due or otherwise would have been allowed), and any
refinancings,
renewals, refundings, replacements, or, to the extent permitted
in Section 14(a)
hereof, extensions of such amounts, provided, that, for purposes
of this
Agreement, the term "Senior Indebtedness" shall not include the
Term Loan B
Indebtedness or any refinancing, renewal, refunding,
replacement, or extension
thereof.
"Senior Lender" has the meaning set forth in the preamble to
this Agreement and shall include all subsequent holders of the
Senior
Indebtedness, including any lender or group of lenders that any
time refinances,
renews, refunds or replaces the Senior Indebtedness.
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"Senior Loan Agreement" has the meaning set forth in the
Recitals to this Agreement.
"Senior Security Documents" has the meaning set forth in the
Recitals to this Agreement.
"Specified Collateral" has the meaning set forth in Section
12
of this Agreement.
"Term Loan B" has the meaning set forth for such term in the
Senior Loan Agreement.
"Term Loan B Documents" means, collectively, the Senior Loan
Agreement, the Senior Security Documents, any other Loan
Document and any other
document instrument or agreement now existing or in the future
entered into
evidencing, documenting, securing or otherwise relating to the
Term Loan B
Indebtedness or the Collateral as it relates to the Term Loan B
Lender, together
with, to the extent not prohibited by Section 14(a) of this
Agreement, any
amendments, replacements, substitutions, or restatements
thereof.
"Term Loan B Indebtedness" means any and all presently
existing or hereafter arising indebtedness, claims, debts,
liabilities,
obligations, interest, expenses and fees of the Obligors owing
to the Term Loan
B Lender pursuant to the Senior Documents with respect to the
Term Loan B.
"Term Loan B Lender" means ABLECO Finance LLC solely in its
capacity as the holder of the Term Loan B Indebtedness.
"Tudor Notes" means those certain subordinated secured
promissory notes, each dated April 1, 2005, made by Parent (i)
in favor of Tudor
BVI Global Portfolio Ltd. in the original principal amount of
$731,776.32, (ii)
in favor of Raptor Global Portfolio Ltd., in the original
principal amount of
$455,953.87, and (iii) in favor of Tudor Arbitrage Partners L.P.
in the original
principal amount of $224,769.81.
"UCC" means the Uniform Commercial Code as adopted in the
State of New York, or in such other jurisdiction as governs the
perfection of
the liens and security interests in the Collateral for the
purposes of the
provisions hereof relating to such perfection or effect of
perfection.
(b) UCC Definitions. All other capitalized terms used in
this Agreement that are defined in the UCC shall have the
meanings given to them
in the UCC unless otherwise expressly defined herein.
(c) Other Definitional Provisions. When used in this
Agreement: (i) the words "herein," "hereof," and "hereunder" and
words of
similar import shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not
to any provision
of this Agreement; (ii) the words "include," "includes," and
"including" are not
limiting; the word "or" has, except where otherwise required by
the context, the
inclusive meaning represented by the phrase "and/or"; (iii)
unless otherwise
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specified, the words "Section," "Schedule" and "Exhibit" refer
to Sections of,
and Schedules and Exhibits to, this Agreement unless otherwise
specified; and
(iv) the singular number includes the plural, and vice versa,
whenever the
context so requires.
2. Subordination of Junior Indebtedness.
2.1 Blockage of Payments to the Junior Noteholders. (a) No
payment in cash or other property or otherwise (excluding
securities that are
subordinated to the Senior Indebtedness to the same extent as,
or more deeply
than, the Junior Indebtedness is subordinated to the Senior
Indebtedness
pursuant to this Agreement) on account of any Junior
Indebtedness owing to any
Junior Creditor shall be made by or on behalf of the Obligors,
and the Junior
Creditors will not ask, demand, sue for, take, or receive any
such payment,
directly or indirectly, from or on behalf of the Obligors, if at
the time of
such payment or immediately after giving effect thereto there
shall have
occurred and be continuing an Event of Default (as defined in
any Senior Loan
Document).
(b) If at any time following a blockage of payments to the
Junior Creditors pursuant to paragraph (a) of this Section 2.1
(the "Payment
Blockage Period"), the Junior Creditors are no longer prohibited
from receiving
any payments with respect to the Junior Indebtedness by Section
2.1(a), the
Junior Creditors shall be entitled to receive, upon the
expiration of the
applicable Payment Blockage Period, all payments with respect to
the Junior
Indebtedness that have been blocked, and any late payment
charges, together with
any default interest to the extent provided for by the
applicable Junior
Documents provided that, notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained in
the Junior Documents, the Borrowers shall be permitted to pay
and the applicable
Junior Creditor shall be entitled to receive, only accrued
interest on and
scheduled principal amortization payments in respect of the
Junior Indebtedness
pursuant to the terms of the applicable Junior Documents as in
effect on the
date hereof.
(c) Nothing contained in this Section 2.1 shall be deemed to
prohibit or restrict the Junior Creditors from exercising its
rights and
remedies not prohibited under this Agreement, so long as any
payment or
distribution of cash, assets or securities of any Obligor
received by any such
Junior Creditor pursuant to such exercise of rights and remedies
prior to all
Senior Indebtedness being Paid in Full shall be held by the
applicable Junior
Creditor in trust for and paid over to the Senior Lender for
application to the
Senior Indebtedness until such Senior Indebtedness is Paid in
Full.
2.2 Prohibition of Payments of Junior Indebtedness on
Acceleration or in Bankruptcy Case. (a) Upon (i) any
acceleration of the
principal amount due on any Junior Indebtedness or (ii) any
payment or
distribution of assets of any Obligor, of any kind or character,
whether in
cash, property or securities, following commencement of a
Bankruptcy Case, all
amounts due or to become due upon all Senior Indebtedness shall
first be Paid in
Full, before any payment is made on account of any of the Junior
Indebtedness;
and following commencement of a Bankruptcy Case, any payment or
distribution of
assets of any Obligor of any kind or character, whether in cash,
property or
securities, to which any Junior Creditor would be entitled,
except for the
provisions hereof, shall be paid by any Obligor or any other
person making such
payment or distribution, or by the applicable Junior Creditor if
received by
them,
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directly to the Senior Lender, to the extent necessary to result
in all
Senior Indebtedness being Paid in Full, before any payment or
distribution is
made to the Junior Creditors.
(b) In any Bankruptcy Case by or against any Obligor,
(i) the Senior Lender may, and is hereby irrevocably
authorized and empowered (in its own name or in the name of the
applicable
Junior Creditors or otherwise), but shall have no obligation,
to, (A) demand,
sue for, collect and receive every payment or distribution
referred to in this
Section 2.2 and give acquittance therefor and (B) file claims
and proofs of
claim in respect of the Junior Indebtedness and take such other
action
(including, without limitation, voting the Junior Indebtedness
or enforcing any
security interest or other lien securing payment of the Junior
Indebtedness) as
the Senior Lender may reasonably deem necessary or advisable for
the exercise or
enforcement of any of the rights or interests of the Senior
Lender hereunder,
provided that the Senior Lender may only file claims and proofs
of claims in
respect of the Junior Indebtedness (except for the Junior
Indebtedness owing to
the Senior Lender in respect of the Term Loan B Indebtedness) if
(1) the Junior
Noteholders have failed to file such claims and proofs of claim
and (2) there
shall remain not more than 30 days before such action is barred,
prohibited or
otherwise cannot be taken; and
(ii) the Junior Creditors will duly and promptly take
such action as the Senior Lender may reasonably request (A) to
collect the
Junior Indebtedness for the account of the Senior Lender and to
file appropriate
claims or proofs of claim with respect thereto, (B) to execute
and deliver to
the Senior Lender such powers of attorney, assignments or other
instruments as
the Senior Lender may request in order to enable it to enforce
any and all
claims with respect to, and any security interests and other
liens securing
payment of, the Junior Indebtedness, and (C) to collect and
receive for the
account of the Senior Lender any and all payments or
distributions which may be
payable or deliverable upon or with respect to the Junior
Indebtedness.
2.3 Payments Held in Trust/Turnover. In the event that,
notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment or distribution of
assets of any
Obligor, whether in cash, property or securities, prohibited by
this A
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