Exhibit 10-26
AMENDED AND RESTATED
SUPER- PRIORITY DIP
NOTE
$4,000,000
New York, New York
Issue
Date: April 21, 2008
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned,
Lexington Precision Corporation and Lexington Rubber Group, Inc.,
each a Delaware corporation and a debtor in possession
(collectively, the “ Debtors ”), hereby jointly
and severally and unconditionally promise to pay to the order of
Lubin Partners, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, William
B. Connor and ORA Associates, LLC, a New York limited liability
company (collectively, the “ Holders ”), the
aggregate principal sum of Four Million Dollars ($4,000,000), to be
allocated among the Holders as follows:
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Lubin Partners, LLC
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$2,000,000
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William B. Connor
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$1,500,000
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ORA Associates, LLC
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$500,000
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1.
Payment of Principal and
Interest . The principal
amount of this Note shall be paid on the earliest of (i) December
31, 2009, (ii) the date upon which the Debtors’ use of Cash
Collateral (as defined in the Second Cash Collateral Order)
terminates, (iii) the effective date of a confirmed chapter
11 plan of reorganization in the Chapter 11 Cases, 1
(iv) the conversion of any of the Chapter 11 Cases to cases under
chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code, (v) the appointment of a chapter
11 trustee in any of the Chapter 11 Cases or the appointment of an
examiner with expanded powers to operate or manage the financial
affairs, the business or the reorganization of any Debtor and (vi)
the date of acceleration by the Holders pursuant to Section 7
hereof (such date, the “ Stated Maturity Date
”). The Debtors also promise to pay interest on this
Note on the first business day of each month (in arrears) and upon
the date this Note matures or otherwise becomes due and payable at
the rate of LIBOR plus 7% per annum with a LIBOR floor of 3% per
annum (computed on the basis of a 360 day year for the actual
number of days lapsed); provided that any principal amount
not paid when due, and to the extent permitted by applicable law,
any interest not paid when due, in each case whether at Stated
Maturity Date, by required prepayment, declaration, acceleration or
demand or otherwise (both before as well as after judgment), shall
bear interest payable upon demand at the rate that is 2% per annum
in excess of the rate of interest otherwise payable upon this Note.
All payments hereunder, including any prepayment, shall be
made to the Holders on a pro rata basis based on the respective
principal amounts owed to each Holder.
1 Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined
shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in Section 9
hereof.
2.
Optional Prepayment
. Debtors shall have the right at
any time or from time to time and without premium or penalty, to
voluntarily prepay all or any portion of this Note. Each
prepayment shall be accompanied by the payment of accrued and
unpaid interest on the amount being prepaid, through the date of
prepayment. Any amounts prepaid hereunder may not be
reborrowed.
3.
Lender Fee . Pursuant to the Final Borrowing Order, the
Debtors have paid to the Holders a fee in cash in the aggregate
amount of $80,000, which was allocated to the Holders pro rata
based upon their funding commitment. No additional fees are
payable.
4.
Use of Proceeds
. The proceeds of this Note shall
be used by the Debtors to the extent Cash Collateral (as defined in
the Second Cash Collateral Order) is insufficient to fund working
capital requirements and general corporate purposes relating to the
Debtors’ post-petition operations and for other expenditures
as authorized in the DIP Extension Order or the Second Cash
Collateral Order or as otherwise authorized by the Bankruptcy
Court; provided that no portion of the proceeds shall be
used, directly or indirectly, to (a) finance or make any payment or
prepayment to any Person with respect to a Prepetition Indebtedness
unless authorized by an order of the Bankruptcy Court; or (b)
finance in any way any investigation, adversary action, suit,
arbitration, proceeding or other litigation of any type against the
Holders (in their capacity as Holders). The Debtors shall use
the entire amount of the proceeds in accordance with this Section
4; provided , however , that nothing herein shall in
any way prejudice the Holders from objecting, for any reason, to
any requests, motions or applications made in the Bankruptcy Court,
including any applications for interim or final allowances of
compensation for services rendered or reimbursement of expenses
incurred under Sections 105(a), 330 or 331 of the Bankruptcy Code,
by any party in interest; and provided , further ,
that Debtors shall not use the proceeds for any purpose that is
prohibited under the Bankruptcy Code. The proceeds of this
Note have been deposited and shall be held in the bank account at a
bank that has been approved by the Office of the United States
Trustee for the Southern District of New York as an authorized bank
depository (the “ DIP Account ”) as described in
the Final Borrowing Order and no other funds or cash collateral of
the Debtors shall be co-mingled with the proceeds of this Note or
deposited in the DIP Account.
5.
Superpriority Nature of
Obligations . All
obligations of the Debtors under this Note (including the
obligation to pay principal, interest, fees, costs, charges,
commissions and expenses) shall be paid as provided herein when
due, without defense, offset, reduction or counterclaim, and shall
constitute allowed claims to the full extent thereof against the
Debtors arising under Section 364(c)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code, and
senior to any and all other claims, including, without limitation,
all administrative expenses or other claims arising under sections
105, 326, 328, 330, 331, 503(b), 506(c), 507(a), 507(b), 726, 1113
or 1114 of the Bankruptcy Code; provided , however ,
that notwithstanding the foregoing, the DIP Super-Priority Claim
shall be junior, subordinate, and subject to the Adequate
Protection Claim, the Prepetition Senior Secured Debt, the Senior
Lender Prepetition Liens, the Carve-Out, and the Adequate
Protection Lien (all as defined in the Second Cash Collateral
Order). Subject to the Carve-Out, the Adequate Protection
Liens (as defined in Second Cash Collateral Order), the Prepetition
Senior Secured Debt (as defined in the Second Cash Collateral
Order) and the Adequate Protection Claim (as defined in the Second
Cash Collateral Order), the DIP Super-Priority Claim will at all
times be senior to any unsecured claims of any creditor or other
entity in this and any subsequent
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case under the Bankruptcy Code.
With the exception of the Carve-Out, the Adequate Protection
Liens, the Prepetition Senior Secured Debt, and the Adequate
Protection Claim, no cost or expense of administration or any
claims in this case, including those resulting from or incurred
after any conversion of this case pursuant to Section 1112 of the
Bankruptcy Code shall rank prior to, or on parity with, the DIP
Super-Priority Claims.
6.
Covenants. Each of the Debtors covenant and agree that
until this Note is paid in full, neither of the Debtors shall,
without the prior written consent of the Required
Holders:
(a)
Asset Sales . enter into any transaction of merger or
consolidation, or liquidate, wind-up or dissolve itself (or suffer
any liquidation or dissolution), or convey, sell, lease or
sub-lease (as lessor or sublessor), transfer or otherwise dispose
of, in one transaction or a series of transactions, all or any part
of its business, property or assets, whether now owned or hereafter
acquired, other than sales of inventory and equipment in the
ordinary course of business and sales of obsolete equipment or
equipment that is no longer required in the business; provided , however , that the Debtors
shall be permitted to sell, in one transaction or a series of
transactions, all or any part of its business, property or assets,
whether now owned or hereafter acquired, provided that the proceeds
of such sale (less all costs, expenses and fees related thereto)
shall be subject to the priorities set forth in the Second Cash
Collateral Order and the DIP Extension Order.
(b)
Chapter 11 Claims
. unless
all obligations under this Note have been indefeasibly paid in full
in cash, incur, create, assume, suffer or permit any claim or
encumbrance against it or any of its property or assets in any
Chapter 11 Case (other than the Existing Secured Claims, the
Carve-Out, the Adequate Protection Claim, and the Insurance Premium
Financing) to be pari passu with or senior to the claims of the
Holders against such Debtor in respect of the obligations
hereunder, or apply to the Bankruptcy Court for authority to do so;
or
(c)
Limitation on Payments Related to
Prepetition Obligations .
(i) make any payment or prepayment on or redemption or
acquisition for value of any Prepetition Indebtedness or other
pre-Petition Date obligations of such Debtor, (ii) pay any interest
on any Prepetition Indebtedness of such Debtor, including, without
limitation, by way of depositing with the trustee with respect
thereto money or securities before due for the purpose of paying
when due (whether in cash, in kind, in securities or otherwise), or
(iii) make any payment or create or permit any lien pursuant to
Section 361 of the Bankruptcy Code (other than the Adequate
Protection Liens (as such term is defined in the Second Cash
Collateral Order), or apply to the Bankruptcy Court for the
authority to do any of the foregoing; provided that the
Debtors may make payments as permitted in the DIP Extension Order
or the Second Cash Collateral Order, or as authorized in any other
order of the Bankruptcy Court, including, for example, making
Adequate Protection Payments (as such term is defined in the Second
Cash Collateral Order).
7.
Events of Default
. Notwithstanding the provisions of
Section 362 of the Bankruptcy Code and without application or
motion to, or order from, the Bankruptcy Court, if any of the
following conditions or events (“ Events of Default
”) shall occur:
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(a)
Failure to Make Payments When
Due . Failure by the
Debtors to pay any installment of principal on this Note when due
or pay any installment of interest within 3 business days of when
due, whether at stated maturity, by acceleration, by notice of
voluntary prepayment, by mandatory prepayment or otherwise; or
failure by the Debtors to pay any fee or any other amount due under
this Note within three days after the date due;
(b)
Chapter 11 Cases
. With respect to the Chapter 11
Cases, (i) the entry of an order authorizing any