EXHIBIT 10.98
INTERCREDITOR AND SUBORDINATION
AGREEMENT
THIS INTERCREDITOR AND SUBORDINATION
AGREEMENT (this
Agreement ), dated as of October 26, 2005,
BETWEEN:
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(1)
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WARP
TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS, INC ., a Nevada corporation (the Borrower
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(2)
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THE
SUBSIDIARIES OF THE BORROWER listed in Part 1 of Schedule 1 (the
Subsidiaries and collectively with the Borrower, the
Credit Parties );
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(3)
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THE
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS listed in Part 2 of Schedule 1 (the
Senior Lenders );
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(4)
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THE HOLDERS
OF SUBORDINATED NOTES listed in Part 3 of Schedule 1 (the
Subordinated Noteholder and together with the Senior
Lenders, the Lenders ); and
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(5)
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FORTRESS
CREDIT CORP. as
collateral agent (the Collateral Agent ) for the Senior
Lenders pursuant to a Collateral Agency Agreement dated as of
August 2, 2005 (the Collateral Agency Agreement
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WHEREAS:
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(A)
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the Borrower,
the Subsidiaries and the Senior Lenders have entered into a
US$50,000,000 credit agreement dated August 2, 2005 (as
amended, modified or supplemented, the Senior Credit
Agreement );
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(B)
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as collateral
security for the payment and performance of the Borrower’s
obligations under the Finance Documents (as defined in the Credit
Agreement) (i) the Borrower has granted to the Collateral
Agent, for the benefit of the Senior Lenders, a security interest
in certain Collateral (as defined below) pursuant to the terms and
conditions of that certain Security Agreement and certain Pledge
Agreements (as defined in the Senior Credit Agreement) entered into
(or to be entered into) between the Borrower and the Collateral
Agent (the Company Security Agreements ) and (ii) each
Subsidiary has executed or is executing a guaranty of the
Borrower’s obligations under the Finance Documents and
granting to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Senior
Lenders, a security interest in certain Collateral pursuant to the
terms and conditions of those certain Security Documents (as
defined in the Senior Credit Agreement) entered into (or to be
entered into) between each Subsidiary and the Collateral Agent (the
Senior Subsidiary Security Agreements and, collectively with
the Company Security Agreements, the Senior Security
Agreements ); and
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(C)
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the Borrower,
the Subordinated Noteholder and others have entered into a merger
agreement dated as of September 11, 2005 (the Subordinated
Merger Agreement ) and in connection with the Subordinated
Merger Agreement, in that certain promissory note dated
October 26, 2005 (the Subordinated Promissory Note )
the Borrower has agreed to pay the Subordinated Noteholder the
aggregate principal sum of US$1,750,000 together with accrued
interest.
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NOW,
THEREFORE, the parties hereto agree as follows:
The
parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
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(a)
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Unless
otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Senior Credit
Agreement and used herein shall have the meanings given to them in
the Senior Credit Agreement.
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(b)
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The following
terms shall have the following meanings:
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Agreement : this Intercreditor and Subordination
Agreement.
Collateral : any and all property from time to time subject
to security interests to secure payment or performance of the
Senior Obligations including all “Collateral” or
“Pledged Collateral” as defined in the Senior Security
Agreements.
Collection Action : shall mean (a) to demand, sue for, take
or receive from or on behalf of any Credit Party or any guarantor
of the Subordinated Obligations, by set-off or in any other manner,
the whole or any part of any moneys which may now or hereafter be
owing by any Credit Party with respect to the Subordinated
Obligations, (b) to initiate or participate with others in any
suit, action or proceeding against any Credit Party to
(i) enforce payment of or to collect the whole or any part of
the Subordinated Obligations or (ii) commence judicial enforcement
of any of the rights and remedies under the Subordinated
Transaction Documents or applicable law with respect to the
Subordinated Obligations or the Subordinated Transaction Documents,
(c) to accelerate any Subordinated Obligations, or (d) to
exercise any put option or to cause any Credit Party to honor any
redemption or mandatory prepayment obligation under any
Subordinated Transaction Document; provided, that, notwithstanding
the foregoing, in the case of the Subordinated Noteholder,
“Collection Action” shall not mean the exercise by a
Subordinated Noteholder of its right to exercise any warrants as
provided under the Subordinated Transaction Documents.
Collateral Enforcement Action
: shall mean any action by the
Subordinated Noteholder to (a) exercise or seek to exercise
any rights or exercise any remedies with respect to any Collateral,
(b) institute any action or proceeding with respect to such
rights or remedies, including, any action of foreclosure or
(c) contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding,
postpetition financing, use of cash collateral or action brought by
the Collateral Agent or any Senior Noteholder or to any other
exercise by the Collateral Agent or any Senior Noteholder of any
rights and remedies under any Senior Transaction
Documents.
Insolvency Event : (a) any Credit Party commences any case,
proceeding or other action (i) under any existing or future
law of any jurisdiction, domestic or foreign, relating to
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, conservatorship or relief
of debtors, seeking to have an order for relief entered with
respect to it, or seeking to adjudicate it a bankrupt or insolvent,
or seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, winding-up,
liquidation, dissolution, composition or other relief with respect
to it or its debts, or (ii) seeking appointment of a receiver,
trustee, custodian, conservator or other similar official for it or
for all or any substantial part of its assets, or any Credit Party
making a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors; or
(b) there being commenced against any Credit Party any case,
proceeding or other action of a nature referred to in clause
(a) above which (i) results in the entry of an order for
relief or any such adjudication or appointment or (ii) remains
undismissed, undischarged or unbonded for a period of 60 days;
or (c) there being commenced against any Credit Party or any
of its subsidiaries any case, proceeding or other action seeking
issuance of a warrant of attachment, execution, distraint or
similar process against all or any substantial part of its assets
which results in the entry of an order for any such relief which
shall not have been vacated, discharged, or stayed or bonded
pending appeal within 60 days from the entry thereof; or
(d) any Credit Party taking any action in furtherance of, or
indicating its consent to, approval of, or acquiescence in, any of
the acts set forth in clause (a), (b) or (c) above; or
(e) any Credit Party generally not paying, or being unable to
pay, or admitting in writing its inability to pay, its debts as
they become due.
Senior Event of Default : any “Event of Default” under any
Finance Document.
Senior Obligations : each obligation and liability
whether:
(a) present or future, actual, contingent
or unliquidated; or
(b) owed jointly or severally (or in any
other capacity whatsoever),
of any Obligor to any Finance Party under or in
connection with any Finance Document is a Senior
Obligation.
Senior Security Documents
: all documents and instruments, now
existing or hereafter arising, which create or purport to create a
security interest in property to secure payment or performance of
the Senior Obligations including the Senior Security
Agreements.
Subordinated Obligations
: each obligation and liability
whether:
(a) present or future, actual, contingent
or unliquidated; or
(b) owed jointly or severally (or in any
other capacity whatsoever),
of any Credit Party to the Subordinated
Noteholder under or in connection with any Subordinated Transaction
Document is a Subordinated Obligation.
Subordinated Transaction Documents
: the Subordinated Promissory Note
and all other documents that from time to time evidence the
Subordinated Obligations or secure payment or performance
thereof.
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(c)
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The words
“hereof,” “herein” and
“hereunder” and words of similar import when used in
this Agreement shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to
any particular provision of this Agreement, and section and
paragraph references are to this Agreement unless otherwise
specified.
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(d)
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The meanings
given to terms defined herein shall be equally applicable to both
the singular and plural forms of such terms.
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(e)
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The words
(i)“includes” and “including” are not
limiting; (ii) “or” is not exclusive; (iii)
“all” includes “any” and “any”
includes “all” and means “any one or more”;
(iv) references to any instrument, document, mortgage,
assignment or agreement of any kind includes any amendments,
restatements or modifications; (v) headings are for
convenience only, and do not affect the meaning of any provision;
and (vi) references to the consent, satisfaction, acceptance,
discretion, judgment, option, requirement or approval (or
variations of those terms) of Collateral Agent or any Senior
Noteholder are, unless otherwise specifically indicated, to be
interpreted as if followed by the phrase “in its absolute
discretion”.
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(a)
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Each Credit
Party and the Subordinated Noteholder agrees, for itself and each
future holder of the Subordinated Obligations, that the
Subordinated Obligations are expressly “subordinate and
junior in right of payment” (as that phrase is defined in
paragraph 2(b)) to all Senior Obligations.
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(b)
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“Subordinate and junior in right of
payment” means, for purposes of paragraph 2(a), that (i) no
part of the Subordinated Obligations shall have any claim to the
assets of any Credit Party on a parity with or prior to the claim
of the Senior Obligations; and (ii) unless and until the
Senior Obligations have been paid in full, then, without the
express prior written consent of the Collateral Agent, no
Subordinated Noteholder will take, demand or receive from any
Credit Party, and no Credit Party will make, give or permit,
directly or indirectly, by setoff, redemption, purchase or in any
other manner, any payment of (of whatever kind or nature, whether
in cash, property, securities or otherwise) the Subordinated
Obligations provided, however, that so long as an Event of Default
has not occurred and is continuing, (i) the Borrower may make, and
the Subordinated Noteholder may receive, regularly scheduled
payments (not prepayments) of interest on the Subordinated
Promissory Note in accordance with the terms thereof determined on
a non-accelerated basis (without giving effect to any default rate
of interest thereunder) and (ii) the Borrower may prepay the
Subordinated Obligations in full out of the proceeds of any new
equity contributions made in the Borrower which were not intended
to be used in connection with the financing of an Acquisition to
the extent such equity contributions are sufficient to prepay the
Subordinated Obligations and may partially prepay the Subordinated
Obligations if such proceeds are not sufficient to pay the
Subordinated Obligations in full.
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(c)
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The expressions
“prior payment in full,” “payment in full,”
“paid in full” and any other similar terms or phrases
when used in this Agreement shall mean the irrevocable and
indefeasible payment in full, in immediately available funds, of
all of the Senior Obligations. The phrase “equity
contributions” shall mean any capital raise that is not a
Senior Obligation or required as a condition to any Advance under
the Senior Credit Agreement.
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3.
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ADDITIONAL
PROVISIONS CONCERNING SUBORDINATION
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(a)
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The
Subordinated Noteholder and each Credit Party agree that upon the
occurrence of any Insolvency Event:
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(i)
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all Senior
Obligations shall be paid in full before any payment or
distribution of whatever kind or nature is made with respect to the
Subordinated Obligations; and
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(ii)
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any payment or
distribution of assets of any Credit Party, whether in cash,
property or securities (other than as permitted under clause (a)(1)
of this Section 3), to which the Subordinated Noteholder would
be entitled except for the provisions hereof, shall be paid or
delivered by such Credit Party, or any receiver, trustee in
bankruptcy, liquidating trustee, disbursing agent or other Person
making such payment or distribution, directly to the Collateral
Agent, to the extent necessary to pay in full all Senior
Obligations, before any payment or distribution of any kind or
nature shall be made to the Subordinated Noteholder.
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(b)
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Upon the
occurrence of any Insolvency Event:
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(i)
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the
Subordinated Noteholder irrevocably authorizes and empowers the
Collateral Agent (A) to demand, sue for, collect and receive
every payment or distribution on account of the Subordinated
Obligations payable or deliverable in connection with such event or
proceeding and give acquittance therefor, (B) to file claims
and proofs of claim in any statutory or non-statutory proceeding if
the Subordinated Noteholder has not demonstrated to the
satisfaction of the Collateral Agent, no later than 30 days
prior to the applicable bar date, that such Subordinated Noteholder
has filed an appropriate claim or proof of claim, and (C) to
take such other actions, in its own name as Collateral Agent, or in
the name of the Subordinated Noteholder or otherwise, as the
Collateral Agent may deem necessary or advisable for the
enforcement of the provisions of this Agreement; provided, however,
that the foregoing authorization and empowerment imposes no
obligation on the Collateral Agent to take any such
action;
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(ii)
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the
Subordinated Noteholder shall take such action, duly and promptly,
as the Collateral Agent may request from time to time (A) to
collect the Subordinated Obligations for the account of the
Collateral Agent and (B) to file appropriate proofs of claim
in respect of the Subordinated Obligations; and
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(iii)
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the
Subordinated Noteholder shall execute and deliver such powers of
attorney, assignments or proofs of claim or other instruments as
the Collateral Agent may request to enable the Collateral Agent to
enforce any and all claims in respect of the Subordinated
Obligations and to collect and receive any and all payments and
distributions which may be payable or deliverable at any time upon
or in respect of the Subordinated Obligations.
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(c)
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If any payment
or distribution, whether consisting of money, property or
securities, shall be collected or received by the Subordinated
Noteholder in respect of the Subordinated Obligations, except
payments permitted to be made at the time of payment as provided in
paragraph 2(b), such Subordinated Noteholder shall forthwith
deliver the same to the Collateral Agent, in the form received,
duly indorsed to the Collateral Agent, if required, to be applied
to the payment or prepayment of the Senior Obligations until the
Senior Obligations are paid in full. Until so delivered, such
payment or distribution shall be held in trust by such Subordinated
Noteholder as the property of the Collateral Agent, segregated from
other funds and property held by the Subordinated Noteholder.
Following payment in full of the Senior Obligations, Collateral
Agent will remit to the Subordinated Noteholder as promptly as
practicable, to the extent of the Subordinated Noteholder’s
interest therein, all payments or distributions paid (by the
Subordinated Noteholder) to and held by Collateral Agent in excess
of the Senior Obligations as provided in Section 4(e) of this
Agreement.
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(d)
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Until the
Senior Obligations are paid in full, the Subordinated Noteholder
shall not take any Collection Action or Collateral Enforcement
Action with respect to the Subordinated Obligations.
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(a)
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Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained in any Finance Document or any
Subordinated Transaction Document and irrespective of:
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(i)
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the time, order
or method of attachment or perfection of the security interests
created by any Senior Security Document;
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(ii)
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the time or
order of filing or recording of financing statements or other
documents filed or recorded to perfect security interests in any
Collateral;
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(iii)
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anything
contained in any filing or agreement to which the Collateral Agent
or the Subordinated Noteholder now or hereafter may be a party;
and
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(iv)
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the rules for
determining perfection or priority under the Uniform Commercial
Code or any other law governing the relative priorities of secured
creditors;
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any
security interest in any Collateral pursuant to any Senior Security
Document has and shall have priority, to the extent of any unpaid
Senior Obligations, over any security interest in such Collateral
pursuant to any Subordinated Transaction Document.
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(b)
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So long as the
Senior Obligations have not been paid in full and any Senior
Security Document remains in effect, whether or not any Insolvency
Event has occurred,
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(i)
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the
Subordinated Noteholder will not take any Collateral Enforcement
Action; and
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(ii)
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the Collateral
Agent (or behalf of the Senior Lenders) and, subject to the
Collateral Agency Agreement, any Senior Lenders shall have the
exclusive right to enforce rights and exercise remedies with
respect to the Collateral and Collateral Agent shall not be
required to marshal any Collateral.
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(c)
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In exercising
rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the Collateral
Agent (on behalf of the Senior Lenders) and, subject to the
Collateral Agency Agreement, the Senior Lenders may enforce the
provisions of the Senior Security Documents and exercise remedies
thereunder and under any other Finance Documents, all in such order
and in such manner as it or they may determine in the exercise of
its or their sole business judgment. Such exercise and enforcement
shall include the rights to sell or otherwise dispose of
Collateral, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or
disposition and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a
secured lender under the Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable
jurisdiction. In conducting any public or private sale under the
Uniform Commercial Code, the Collateral Agent shall give the
Subordinated Noteholder such notice of such sale as may be required
by the applicable Uniform Commercial Code; provided, however, that
10 days’ notice shall be deemed to be commercially
reasonable notice.
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(d)
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When all Senior
Obligations have been paid in full and the Senior Security
Documents no longer are in effect, subject to the requirements of
the Collateral Agency Agreement, the Subordinated Noteholder shall
have the right to enforce the provisions of the Subordinated
Promissory Note and exercise remedies thereunder.
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(e)
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Any money,
property or securities realized upon the sale, disposition or other
realization by the Collateral Agent upon all or any part of the
Collateral, or otherwise received by Collateral Agent under any
provision of this Agreement shall be applied by the Collateral
Agent in the following order:
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(i)
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first, to the
payment of any and all expenses incurred by the Collateral Agent on
and after the date of this Agreement in connection with the
performance of its duties under this Agreement for which
reimbursement has not been made by the Company;
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(ii)
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second, to the
Senior Lenders in an amount equal to each such Lender’s
pro-rata share of accrued but unpaid interest on the Senior
Obligations;
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(iii)
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third, to the
Senior Lenders in an amount equal to each such Lender’s
pro-rata share of the unpaid principal balance of the Senior
Obligations and any other unpaid Senior Obligations;
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(iv)
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fourth, to each
Senior Lender in an amount equal to all other amounts then owing to
each such Senior Lender under any Finance Document; and
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(v)
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fifth, any sums
remaining after such applications and disbursements shall be paid
to such Persons entitled thereto or as a court of competent
jurisdiction shall direct.
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(f)
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The Collateral
Agent’s rights with respect to the Collateral include the
right to release any or all of the Collateral from the liens under
any Senior Security Document in connection with any sale of all or
any portion of the Collateral notwithstanding that the net proceeds
of any such sale may not be used to permanently prepay any Senior
Obligations or Subordinated Obligations. The Subordinated
Noteholder is hereby deemed to have consente
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