EXHIBIT 10.7
AMENDED AND RESTATED SECURITY AGREEMENT
1. GRANT OF SECURITY INTEREST.
For valuable consideration, the undersigned GLOBAL WATER RESOURCES
L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company, GLOBAL WATER
MANAGEMENT, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and GLOBAL
WATER RESOURCES, INC., a Delaware corporation (each individually
and collectively, the “Debtor”), hereby grants and
transfers to WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
(“Bank”) a security interest in all of the property of
Debtor described as follows (collectively, the
“Collateral”):
(a) all accounts, deposit
accounts, contract rights, chattel paper (whether electronic or
tangible), instruments, promissory notes, documents, general
intangibles, payment intangibles, software, letter of credit
rights, health-care insurance receivables and other rights to
payment of every kind now existing or at any time hereafter
arising;
(b) all inventory, goods held
for sale or lease or to be furnished under contracts for service,
or goods so leased or furnished, raw materials, component parts,
work in process and other materials used or consumed in
Debtor’s business, now or at any time hereafter owned or
acquired by Debtor, wherever located, and all products thereof,
whether in the possession of Debtor, any warehousemen, any bailee
or any other person, or in process- of delivery, and whether
located at Debtor’s places of business or elsewhere;
(c) all warehouse receipts,
bills of sale, bills of lading and other documents of every kind
(whether or not negotiable) in which Debtor now has or at any time
hereafter acquires any interest, and all additions and accessions
thereto, whether in the possession or custody of Debtor, any bailee
or any other person for any purpose;
(d) all money and property
heretofore, now or hereafter delivered to or deposited with Bank or
otherwise coming into the possession, custody or control of Bank
(or any agent or bailee of Bank) in any manner or for any purpose
whatsoever during the existence of this Agreement and whether held
in a general or special account or deposit for safekeeping or
otherwise;
(e) all right, title and
interest of Debtor under licenses, guaranties, warranties,
management agreements, marketing or sales agreements, escrow
contracts, indemnity agreements, insurance policies, service or
maintenance agreements, supporting obligations and other similar
contracts of every kind in which Debtor now has or at any time
hereafter shall have an interest;
(f) all goods, tools, machinery,
furnishings, furniture and other equipment and fixtures of every
kind now existing or hereafter acquired, and all improvements,
replacements, accessions and additions thereto and embedded
software included therein, whether located on any property owned or
leased by Debtor or elsewhere, including without limitation, any of
the foregoing now or at any time hereafter located at or installed
on the land or in the improvements at any of the real property
owned or leased by Debtor, and all such goods after they have been
severed and removed from any of said real property; and
(g) all motor vehicles,
trailers, mobile homes, manufactured homes, boats, other rolling
stock and related equipment of every kind now existing or hereafter
acquired and all
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additions and accessories thereto, whether located on any property
owned or leased by Debtor or elsewhere;
together
with whatever is receivable or received when any of the foregoing
or the proceeds thereof are sold, leased, collected, exchanged or
otherwise disposed of, whether such disposition is voluntary or
involuntary, including without limitation, all rights to payment,
including returned premiums, with respect to any insurance relating
to any of the foregoing, and all rights to payment with respect to
any claim or cause of action affecting or relating to any of the
foregoing (collectively, “Proceeds”).
2. OBLIGATIONS SECURED. The
obligations secured hereby are the payment and performance of: (a)
all present and future Indebtedness of Debtor to Bank with respect
to that certain Thirty-Five Million and No/100 Dollar
($35,000,000.00) Revolving Line of Credit transaction as more fully
described in that certain Amended and Restated Credit Agreement of
even date herewith (the “Credit Agreement”); and
(c) all obligations of Debtor and rights of Bank under this
Agreement. The word “Indebtedness” is used herein in
its most comprehensive sense and includes any and all advances,
debts, obligations and liabilities of Debtor heretofore, now or
hereafter made, incurred or created in connection with the Credit
Agreement, whether voluntary or involuntary and however arising,
whether due or not due, absolute or contingent, liquidated or
unliquidated, determined or undetermined, and whether Debtor may be
liable individually or jointly with others, or whether recovery
upon such Indebtedness may be or hereafter becomes
unenforceable.
3. TERMINATION. This Agreement
will terminate upon the performance of all obligations of Debtor to
Bank, including without limitation, the payment of all Indebtedness
of Debtor to Bank, and the termination of all commitments of Bank
to extend credit to Debtor, existing at the time Bank receives
written notice from Debtor of the termination of this
Agreement.
4. OBLIGATIONS OF BANK. Bank has
no obligation to make any loans hereunder. Any money received by
Bank in respect of the Collateral may be deposited, at Bank’s
option, into a non-interest bearing account over which Debtor shall
have no control, and the same shall, for all purposes, be deemed
Collateral hereunder.
5. REPRESENTATIONS AND
WARRANTIES. Debtor represents and warrants to Bank that:
(a) Debtor’s legal name is exactly as set forth on the
first page of this Agreement, and all of Debtor’s
organizational documents or agreements delivered to Bank are
complete and accurate in every respect; (b) Debtor is the
owner and has possession or control of the Collateral and Proceeds;
(c) Debtor has the exclusive right to grant a security interest in
the Collateral and Proceeds; (d) all Collateral and Proceeds
are genuine, free from liens, adverse claims, setoffs, default,
prepayment, defenses and conditions precedent of any kind or
character, except the lien created hereby or as otherwise agreed to
by Bank, or as heretofore disclosed by Debtor to Bank, in writing;
(e) all statements contained herein and, where applicable, in
the Collateral are true and complete in all material respects;
(f) no financing statement covering any of the Collateral or
Proceeds, and naming any secured party other than Bank, is on file
in any public office; (g) where Collateral consists of rights
to payment, all persons appearing to be obligated on the Collateral
and Proceeds have authority and capacity to contract and are bound
as they appear to be, all property subject to chattel paper has
been properly registered and filed in compliance with law and to
perfect the interest of Debtor in such property, and all such
Collateral and Proceeds comply with all applicable laws concerning
form, content and manner of preparation and execution, including
where applicable Federal Reserve
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Regulation Z and any State consumer credit laws; and
(h) where the Collateral consists of equipment, Debtor is not
in the business of selling goods of the kind included within such
Collateral, and Debtor acknowledges that no sale or other
disposition of any such Collateral, including without limitation,
any such Collateral which Debtor may deem to be surplus, has been
consented to or acquiesced in by Bank, except as specifically set
forth in writing by Bank.
6. COVENANTS OF DEBTOR
(a) Debtor agrees in general:
(i) to pay Indebtedness secured hereby when due; (ii) to
indemnify Bank against all losses, claims, demands, liabilities and
expenses of every kind caused by property subject hereto;
(iii) to pay all reasonable costs and expenses, including
reasonable attorneys’ fees, incurred by Bank in the
perfection and preservation of the Collateral or Bank’s
interest therein and/or the realization, enforcement and exercise
of Bank’s rights, powers and remedies hereunder; (iv) to
permit Bank to exercise its powers; (v) to execute and deliver
such documents as Bank reasonably deems necessary to create,
perfect and continue the security interests contemplated hereby;
(vi) not to change its name, and as applicable, its chief
executive office, its principal residence or the jurisdiction in
which it is organized and/or registered without giving Bank prior
written notice thereof; (vii) not to change the places where
Debtor keeps any Collateral or Debtor’s records concerning
the Collateral and Proceeds without giving Bank prior written
notice of the address to which Debtor is moving same; and
(viii) to cooperate with Bank in perfecting all security
interests granted herein and in obtaining such agreements from
third parties as Bank reasonably deems necessary, proper or
convenient in connection with the preservation, perfection or
enforcement of any of its rights hereunder.
(b) Debtor agrees with regard to
the Collateral and Proceeds, unless Bank agrees otherwise in
writing: (i) that Bank is authorized to file financing
statements in the name of Debtor to perfect Bank’s security
interest in Collateral and Proceeds; (ii) where applicable, to
insure the Collateral with Bank named as loss payee, in form,
substance and amounts, under agreements, against risks and
liabilities, and with insurance companies reasonably satisfactory
to Bank; (iii) where applicable, to operate the Collateral in
accordance with all applicable statutes, rules and regulations
relating to the use and control thereof, and not to use any
Collateral for any unlawful purpose or in any way that would void
any insurance required to be carried in connection therewith;
(iv) not to remove the Collateral from Debtor’s
premises, except (A) for deliveries to buyers in the ordinary
course of Debtor’s business and (B) Collateral which
consists of mobile goods as defined in the Arizona Uniform
Commercial Code, in which case Debtor agrees not to remove or
permit the removal of such Collateral from its state of domicile
for a period in excess of thirty (30) calendar days; (v) to
pay when due all license fees, registration fees and other charges
in connection with any Collateral; (vi) not to permit any lien
on the Collateral or Proceeds, including without limitation, liens
arising from repairs to or storage of the Collateral, except in
favor of Bank; (vii) not to sell, hypothecate or dispose of,
nor permit the transfer by operation of law of, any of the
Collateral or Proceeds or any interest therein, except sales of
inventory to buyers in the ordinary course of Debtor’s
business; (viii) to permit Bank to inspect the Collateral at
any time upon
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