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Title: STANDBY LETTER OF CREDIT AGREEMENT
Governing Law: California     Date: 5/26/2009
Industry: Communications Equipment     Sector: Technology

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STANDBY LETTER OF CREDIT AGREEMENT

 

 

To :   WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

 

Applicant hereby requests that you, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association ("Wells Fargo"), issue in your name one or more standby letters of credit pursuant to Applications for the issuance of such Credits and the terms and conditions of this Agreement.  Each Credit will be issued at Applicant's request and for its account, and, unless otherwise specifically provided in any Loan Document, at your option.  Applicant agrees that the terms and conditions in this Agreement shall apply to each Application and the Credit issued pursuant to each Application, and to transactions under each Application, each Credit and this Agreement.

 

SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS.   As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth after each term: " Agreement " means this Standby Letter of Credit Agreement as it may be revised or amended from time to time.   " Applicant " means collectively each person and/or entity signing this Agreement as Applicant.   " Application " means your printed form titled "Application For Standby Letter of Credit" or any other form acceptable to you on which Applicant applies for the issuance by you of a Credit and/or an application for amendment of a Credit or any combination of such applications, as the context may require.   " Beneficiary " means the person or entity named on an Application as the beneficiary or any transferee of such beneficiary.   " Collateral " means the Property, together with the proceeds of such Property, securing any or all of Applicant's obligations and liabilities at any time existing under or in connection with any L/C Document and/or any Loan Document. " Commission Fee " means the per annum fee applicable to a Credit, computed at the per annum fee rate specified by you or specified in any Loan Document, charged by you at the time or times specified by you on the amount of each Credit and on the amount of each increase in a Credit for the time period each Credit is outstanding.   " Credit " means an instrument or document titled "Irrevocable Standby Letter of Credit" or "Standby Letter of Credit", or any instrument or document whatever it is titled or whether or not it is titled functioning as a standby letter of credit, issued under or pursuant to an Application, and all renewals, extensions and amendments of such instrument or document.   " Demand " means any sight draft, electronic or telegraphic transmission or other written demand drawn or made, or purported to be drawn or made, under or in connection with any Credit.   " Document " means any instrument, statement, certificate or other document referred to in or related to any Credit or required by any Credit to be presented with any Demand.   " Dollars " means the lawful currency at any time for the payment of public or private debts in the United States of America.   " Event of Default " means any of the events set forth in Section 13 of this Agreement.   " Expiration Date " means the date any Credit expires.   " Guarantor " means any person or entity guaranteeing the payment and/or performance of any or all of Applicant's obligations under or in connection with any L/C Document and/or any Loan Document.   " Holding   Company " means any company or other entity directly or indirectly controlling you.   " L/C Document " means this Agreement, each Application, each Credit, and each Demand.   " Loan Document " means each and any promissory note, loan agreement, security agreement, pledge agreement, guarantee or other agreement or document executed in connection with, or relating to, any extension of credit under which any Credit is issued.   " Maximum Rate " means the maximum amount of interest (as defined by applicable laws), if any, permitted to be paid, taken, reserved, received, collected or charged under applicable laws, as the same may be amended or modified from time to time.   " Negotiation Fee " means the fee, computed at the negotiation fee rate specified by you or specified in any Loan Document, charged by you on the amount of each Demand paid by you or any other bank specified by you when each Demand is paid.   " Payment Office " means the office specified by you or specified in any Loan Document as the office where reimbursements and other payments under or in connection with any L/C Document are to be made by Applicant.   " Prime Rate " means the rate of interest most recently announced within Wells Fargo at its principal office as its Prime Rate, with the understanding that the Prime Rate is one of Wells Fargo's base rates and serves as the basis upon which effective rates of interest are calculated for those loans making reference thereto, and is evidenced by the recording thereof after its announcement in such internal publication or publications as Wells Fargo may designate.   " Property " means all forms of property, whether tangible or intangible, real, personal or mixed.   " Rate of Exchange " means Wells Fargo's then current selling rate of exchange in San Francisco, California for sales of the currency of payment of any Demand, or of any fees or expenses or other amounts payable under this Agreement, for cable transfer to the country of which such currency is the legal tender.   " UCP " means the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits, an International Chamber of Commerce publication, or any substitution therefor or replacement thereof.   " Unpaid and Undrawn Balance " means at any time the entire amount which has not been paid by you under all the Credits issued for Applicant's account, including, without limitation, the amount of each Demand on which you have not yet effected payment as well as the amount undrawn under all such Credits.  " Wells Fargo & Company " means Wells Fargo & Company, a Delaware corporation.

 

SECTION 2.   HONORING DEMANDS AND DOCUMENTS.   You may receive, accept and honor, as complying with the terms of any Credit, any Demand and any Documents accompanying such Demand; provided, however, that such Demand and accompanying Documents appear on their face to comply substantially with the provisions of such Credit and are, or appear on their face to be, signed or issued by (a) a person or entity authorized under such Credit to draw, sign or issue such Demand and accompanying Documents, or (b) an administrator, executor, trustee in bankruptcy, debtor in possession, assignee for the benefit of creditors, liquidator, receiver or other legal representative or successor in interest by operation of law of any such person or entity.

 

SECTION 3. REIMBURSEMENT FOR PAYMENT OF DEMANDS.   Applicant shall reimburse you for all amounts paid by you on each Demand, including, without limitation, all such amounts paid by you to any paying, negotiating or other bank.  If in connection with the issuance of any Credit, you agree to pay any other bank the amount of any payment or negotiation made by such other bank under such Credit upon your receipt of a cable, telex or other written telecommunication advising you of such payment or negotiation, or authorize any other bank to debit your account for the amount of such payment or negotiation, Applicant agrees to reimburse you for all such amounts paid by you, or debited to your account with such other bank, even if any Demand or Document specified in such Credit fails to arrive in whole or in part or if, upon the arrival of any such Demand or Document, the terms of such Credit have not been complied with or such Demand or Document does not conform to the requirements of such Credit or is not otherwise in order.

 

SECTION 4. FEES AND EXPENSES.   Applicant agrees to pay to you (a) all Commission Fees, Negotiation Fees, cable fees, amendment fees, non-usance fees, and cancellation fees of, and all out-of-pocket expenses incurred by, you under or in connection with any L/C Document, and (b) all fees and charges of banks or other entities other than you under or in connection with any L/C Document if any Application (i) does not indicate who will pay such fees and charges, (ii) indicates that such fees and charges are to be paid by Applicant, or (iii) indicates that such fees and charges are to be paid by the Beneficiary and the Beneficiary does not, for any reason whatsoever, pay such fees or charges.  There shall be no refund of any portion of any Commission Fee in the event any Credit is used, reduced, amended, modified or terminated before its Expiration Date.

 

SECTION 5. DEFAULT INTEREST.   Unless otherwise specified in any Loan Document , or on an Application and agreed to by you, all amounts to be reimbursed by Applicant to you, and all fees and expenses to be paid by Applicant to you, and all other amounts due from Applicant to you under or in connection with any L/C Documents, will bear interest (to the extent permitted by law), payable on demand, from the date you paid the amounts to be reimbursed or the date such fees, expenses and other amounts were due until such amounts are paid in full, at a rate per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day year, actual days elapsed) which is the lesser of (a) four percent (4%) above the Prime Rate in effect from time to time, or (b) the Maximum Rate.

 

SECTION 6. TIME AND METHOD OF REIMBURSEMENT AND PAYMENT.   Unless otherwise specified in this Section, in any Loan Document, or on an Application and agreed to by you, all amounts to be reimbursed by Applicant to you, all fees and expenses to be paid by Applicant to you, and all interest and other amounts due to you from Applicant under or in connection with any L/C Documents will be reimbursed or paid at the Payment Office in Dollars in immediately available funds without setoff or counterclaim (i) on demand or, (ii) at your option by your debiting any of Applicant's accounts with you, with each such debit being made without presentment, protest, demand for reimbursement or payment, notice of dishonor or any other notice whatsoever, all of which are hereby expressly waived by Applicant.  Each such debit will be made at the time each Demand is paid by you or, if earlier, at the time each amount is paid by you to any paying, negotiating or other bank, or at the time each fee and expense is to be paid or any interest or other amount is due under or in connection with any L/C Documents.  If any Demand or any fee, expense, interest or other amount payable under or in connection with any L/C Documents is payable in a currency other than Dollars, Applicant agrees to reimburse you for all amounts paid by you on such Demand, and/or to pay you all such fees, expenses, interest and other amounts, in one of the three following ways, as determined by you in your sole discretion in each case: (a) at such place as you shall direct, in such other currency; or (b) at the Payment Office in the Dollar equivalent of the amount of such other currency calculated at the Rate of Exchange on the date determined by you in your sole discretion; or (c) at the Payment Office in the Dollar equivalent, as determined by you (which determination shall be deemed correct absent manifest error), of such fees, expenses, interest or other amounts or of the actual cost to you of paying such Demand.  Applicant assumes all political, economic and other risks of disruptions or interruptions in any currency exchange.

 

SECTION 7. AGREEMENTS OF APPLICANT.   Applicant agrees that (a) unless otherwise specifically provided in any Loan Document, you shall not be obligated at any time to issue any Credit for Applicant's account; (b) unless otherwise specifically provided in any Loan Document, if any Credit is issued by you for Applicant's account, you shall not be obligated to issue any further Credit for Applicant's account or to make other extensions of credit to Applicant or in any other manner to extend any financial consideration to Applicant; (c) you have not given Applicant any legal or other advice with regard to any L/C Document or Loan Document; (d) if you at any time discuss with Applicant the wording for any Credit, any such discussion will not constitute legal or other advice by you or any representation or warranty by you that any wording or Credit will satisfy Applicant's needs; (e) Applicant is responsible for the wording of each Credit, including, without limitation, any drawing conditions, and will not rely on you in any way in connection with the wording of any Credit or the structuring of any transaction related to any Credit; (f) Applicant, and not you, is responsible for entering into the contracts relating to the Credits between Applicant and the Beneficiaries and for causing Credits to be issued; (g) you may, as you deem appropriate, modify or alter and use in any Credit the terminology contained on the Application for such Credit; (h) unless the Application for a Credit specifies whether the Documents to be presented with a Demand under such Credit must be sent to you in one parcel or in two parcels or may be sent to you in any number of parcels, you may, if you so desire, make such determination and specify in the Credit whether such Documents must be sent in one parcel or two parcels or may be sent in any number of parcels; (i) you shall not be deemed Applicant's agent or the agent of any Beneficiary or any other user of any Credit, and neither Applicant, nor any Beneficiary nor any other user of any Credit shall be deemed your agent; (j) Applicant will promptly examine all Documents and each Credit if and when they are delivered to Applicant and, in the event of any claim of noncompliance of any Documents or any Credit with Applicant's instructions or any Application, or in the event of any other irregularity, Applicant will promptly notify you in writing of such noncompliance or irregularity, Applicant being conclusively deemed to have waived any such claim of noncompliance or irregularity unless such notice is promptly given; (k) all directions and correspondence relating to any L/C Document are to be sent at Applicant's risk; (l) if any Credit has a provision concerning the automatic extension of its Expiration Date, you may, at your sole option, give notice of nonrenewal of such Credit and if Applicant does not at any time want such Credit to be renewed Applicant will so notify you at least fifteen (15) calendar days before you are to notify the Beneficiary of such Credit or any advising bank of such nonrenewal pursuant to the terms of such Credit; (m) Applicant will not seek to obtain, apply for, or acquiesce in any temporary or permanent restraining order, preliminary or permanent injunction, permanent injunction or any other pretrial or permanent injunctive or similar relief, restraining, prohibiting or enjoining you, any of your correspondents or any advising, confirming, negotiating, paying or other bank from paying or negotiating any Demand or honoring any other obligation under or in connection with any Credit; and (n) except for Applicant's obligations specifically affected by those actions or failures to act referred to in subsections (ii) and (vii) of this Section 7(n) which you have performed or approved or accepted, Applicant's obligations under or in connection with each L/C Document and Loan Document shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable, and shall be performed strictly in accordance with the terms of each such L/C Document and Loan Document under all circumstances whatsoever, including, without limitation, the following circumstances, the circumstances listed in Section 12(b) through (u) of this Agreement, and any other event or circumstance similar to such circumstances: (i) any lack of validity or enforceability of any L/C Document, any Loan Document, any Document or any agreement relating to any of the foregoing; (ii) any amendment of or waiver relating to, or any consent to or departure from, any L/C Document, any Loan Document or any Document; (iii) any release or substitution at any time of any Property held as Collateral; (iv) your failure to deliver to Applicant any Document you have received with a drawing under a Credit because doing so would, or is likely to, violate any law, rule or regulation of any government authority; (v) the existence of any claim, set-off, defense or other right which Applicant may have at any time against you or any Beneficiary (or any person or entity for whom any Beneficiary may be acting) or any other person or entity, whether under or in connection with any L/C Document, any Loan Document, any Document or any Property referred to in or related to any of the foregoing or under or in connection with any unrelated transaction; (vi) any breach of contract or other dispute between or among any two or more of you, Applicant, any Beneficiary, any transferee of any Beneficiary, any person or entity for whom any Beneficiary or any transferee of any Beneficiary may be acting, or any other person or entity; or (vii) any delay, extension of time, renewal, compromise or other indulgence granted or agreed to by you with or without notice to Applicant, or Applicant's approval, in respect of any of Applicant's indebtedness or other obligations to you under or in connection with any L/C Document or any Loan Document.

 

SECTION 8.   COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS AND REGULATIONS.   Applicant represents and warrants to you that no Application, Credit or transaction under any Application and/or Credit will contravene any law or regulation of the government of the United States or any state thereof.  Applicant agrees (a) to comply with all federal, state and foreign exchange regulations and other government laws and regulations now or hereafter applicable to any L/C Document, to any payments under or in connection with any L/C Document, to each transaction under or in connection with any L/C Document, or to the import, export, shipping or financing of the Property referred to in or shipped under or in connection with any Credit, and (b) to reimburse you for such amounts as you may be required to expend as a result of such laws or regulations, or any change therein  or in the interpretation thereof by any court or administrative or government authority charged with the administration of such laws or regulations.

 

SECTION 9. TAXES, RESERVES AND CAPITAL ADEQUACY REQUIREMENTS.   In addition to, and notwithstanding any other provision of any L/C Document or any Loan Document, in the event that any law, treaty, rule, regulation, guideline, request, order, directive or determination (whether or not having the force of law) of or from any government authority, including, without limitation, any court, central bank or government regulatory authority, or any change therein or in the interpretation or application thereof, (a) does or shall subject you to any tax of any kind whatsoever with respect to the L/C Documents, or change the basis of taxation of payments to you of any amount payable thereunder (except for changes in the rate of tax on your net income); (b) does or shall impose, modify or hold applicable any reserve, special deposit, assessment, compulsory loan, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation insurance or similar requirement against assets held by, deposits or other liabilities in or for the account of, advances or loans by, other credit extended by or any other acquisition of funds by, any of your offices; (c) does or shall impose, modify or hold applicable any capital adequacy requirements (whether or not having the force of law); or (d) does or shall impose on you any other condition; and the result of any of the foregoing is (i) to increase the cost to you of issuing or maintaining any Credit or of performing any transaction under any L/C Document, (ii) to reduce any amount receivable by you under any L/C Document, or (iii) to reduce the rate of return on your capital or the capital of the Holding Company to a level below that which you or the Holding Company could have achieved but for any imposition, modification or application of any capital adequacy requirement (taking into consideration your policy and the policy of the Holding Company, as the case may be, with respect to capital adequacy), and any such increase or reduction is material (as determined by you or the Holding Company, as the case may be, in your or the Holding Company's sole discretion); then, in any such case, Applicant agrees to pay to you or the Holding Company, as the case may be, such amount or amounts as may be necessary to compensate you or the Holding Company for (A) any such additional cost, (B) any reduction in the amount received by you under any L/C Document, or (C) to the extent allocable (as determined by you or the Holding Company, as the case may be, in your or the Holding Company's sole discretion) to any L/C Document, any reduction in the rate of return on your capital or the capital of the Holding Company.

 

SECTION 10.   COLLATERAL.   In addition to, and not in substitution for, any Property delivered, conveyed, transferred or assigned to you under any Loan Document as security for any or all of Applicant's obligations and liabilities to you at any time existing under or in connection with any L/C Document or any Loan Document, Applicant grants to you a security interest in and to the following Collateral, whether or not any such Collateral is in your possession or control or the possession or control of your agents or correspondents or in transit to, or set apart for, you or your agents or correspondents, until such time as all Applicant's obligations and liabilities to you at any time existing under or in connection with each L/C Document and each Loan Document have been fully paid and discharged, all as security for such obligations and liabilities, (a) all Applicant's  property, claims, demands, right, title and interest in and to the balance of each of Applicant's deposit accounts with you now or at any time hereafter existing, and all evidences of such deposit accounts, (b) all Property belonging to Applicant or in which it may have an interest, now or at any time hereafter delivered, conveyed, transferred, assigned, pledged or paid to you or your agents or correspondents in any manner whatsoever, whether as security or for safekeeping or otherwise, including, without limitation, any items received for collection or transmission, and the proceeds of such items, whether or not such Property is in whole or in part released to Applicant on trust or bailee receipt or otherwise, and (c) where Applicant is more than one person or entity, all right, title and interest of each of Applicants in and to all the Property which any of Applicants may now or hereafter obtain as security for the obligations of any one or more of Applicants to one or more of the others of Applicants arising under or in connection with the transaction to which any Credit relates.  Further, in addition to, and not in substitution for, any Property delivered, conveyed, transferred or assigned to you under any Loan Document as security for any or all of Applicant's obligations and liabilities to you at any time existing under or in connection with any L/C Document or any Loan Document, Applicant agrees to deliver, convey, transfer and assign to you on demand, as security, Property of a value and character satisfactory to you, (i) if you at any time feel insecure about Applicant's ability or willingness to repay any amounts which you have paid or may pay in the future on any Demand or in honoring any other of your obligations under or in connection with any Credit, or (ii) without limiting the generality of the foregoing, if any temporary or permanent restraining order, preliminary or permanent injunction, or any other pretrial or permanent injunctive or similar relief is obtained restraining, prohibiting or enjoining you, any of your correspondents, or any advising, confirming, negotiating, paying or other bank from paying or negotiating any Demand or honoring any other obligation under or in connection with any Credit.  Applicant agrees that the receipt by you or any of your agents or correspondents at any time of any kind of security, including, without limitation, cash, shall not be deemed a waiver of any of your rights or powers under this Agreement.  Applicant agrees to sign and deliver to you on demand, all such deeds of trust, security agreements, financing statements and other documents as you shall at any time request which are necessary or desirable (in your sole opinion) to grant to you an effective and perfected security interest in and to any or all of the Collateral.  Applicant agrees to pay all filing and recording fees related to the perfection of any security interest granted to you in accordance with this Section.  Applicant hereby agrees that any or all of the Collateral may be held and disposed of as provided in this Agreement by you.  Upon any transfer, sale, delivery, surrender or endorsement of any Document or Property which is or was part of the Collateral, Applicant will indemni


 
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