EXHIBIT 10.2
COLLATERAL AGREEMENT
made by
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES,
INC.
and
AMD INTERNATIONAL SALES AND SERVICE,
LTD.
in favor of
WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.,
as Collateral Agent
Dated as of October 24,
2006
TABLE OF
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SECTION 1.
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DEFINED TERMS
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1.1.
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Definitions
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1.2.
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Other Definitional Provisions
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SECTION 2.
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[INTENTIONALLY OMITTED]
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SECTION 3.
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GRANT OF SECURITY INTEREST
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SECTION 4.
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REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
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4.1.
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Representations in Credit Agreement
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4.2.
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Title; No Other Liens
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4.3.
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Perfected First Priority Liens
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4.4.
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Jurisdiction of Organization; Chief Executive
Office
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4.5.
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[Intentionally Omitted]
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4.6.
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[Intentionally Omitted]
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4.7.
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Pledged Equity Interests and the Spansion
Collateral Account
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4.8.
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Accounts Receivable
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SECTION 5.
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COVENANTS
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5.1.
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Covenants in Credit Agreement
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5.2.
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Delivery and Control of Instruments,
Certificated Securities, Chattel Paper, Pledged Equity Interests
and the Spansion Collateral Account
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5.3.
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Maintenance of Insurance
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5.4.
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Payment of Obligations
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5.5.
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Maintenance of Perfected Security Interest;
Further Documentation
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5.6.
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Changes in Locations, Name, etc
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5.7.
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Notices
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5.8.
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Pledged Equity Interests
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5.9.
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Accounts Receivable
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SECTION 6.
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REMEDIAL PROVISIONS
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6.1.
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Certain Matters Relating to Accounts
Receivable
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6.2.
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Communications with Obligors; Grantors Remain
Liable
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6.3.
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Pledged Equity Interests
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6.4.
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Proceeds to be Turned Over to Collateral
Agent
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6.5.
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Application of Proceeds
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6.6.
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Code and Other Remedies
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6.7.
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Registration Rights
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6.8.
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Deficiency
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SECTION 7.
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THE COLLATERAL AGENT
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7.1.
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Collateral Agent’s Appointment as
Attorney-in-Fact, etc
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7.2.
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Duty of Collateral Agent
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7.3.
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Financing Statements
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7.4.
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Authority, Immunities and Indemnities of
Collateral Agent
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SECTION 8.
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MISCELLANEOUS
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8.1.
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Amendments in Writing
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8.2.
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Notices
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8.3.
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No Waiver by Course of Conduct; Cumulative
Remedies
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8.4.
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Enforcement Expenses;
Indemnification
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8.5.
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Successors and Assigns
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8.6.
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Set-Off
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8.7.
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Counterparts
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8.8.
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Severability
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8.9.
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Section Headings
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8.10.
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Integration
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8.11.
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GOVERNING LAW
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8.12.
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Submission To Jurisdiction; Waivers
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8.13.
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Acknowledgements
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8.14.
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Additional Grantors; Supplements to
Schedules
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8.15.
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Releases
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8.16.
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WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL
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8.17.
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Secured Parties
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8.18.
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Collateral Trust Agreement; Secured
Instrument
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SCHEDULES
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Schedule 1
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Notice Addresses
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Schedule 2
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Investment Property
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Schedule 3
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Jurisdictions of Organization and Chief
Executive Offices
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Schedule 4
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Filings and Other Actions Required for
Perfection
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ANNEXES
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Annex I
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Form of Assumption Agreement
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Annex II
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Form of Acknowledgement and Consent
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Annex III
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Form of Pledge Supplement
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COLLATERAL AGREEMENT, dated as of
October 24, 2006, made by each of the signatories hereto
(together with any other entity that may become a party hereto as
provided herein, the “ Grantors ”), in favor of
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Collateral Agent for the Secured Parties
(as defined herein) under the Collateral Trust Agreement referred
to below (in such capacity and together with its successors and
assigns from time to time acting as Collateral Agent under the
Collateral Trust Agreement, the “ Collateral Agent
”).
RECITALS
A. Pursuant to the Credit Agreement,
dated as of the date hereof (as amended, supplemented or otherwise
modified from time to time, the “ Credit Agreement
”), among Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., a Delaware
corporation (the “ Borrower ”), the various
financial institutions and other Persons from time to time parties
thereto (each a “ Lender ”), Morgan Stanley
Senior Funding, Inc., as administrative agent (in such capacity,
the “ Administrative Agent ”), Morgan Stanley
Senior Funding, Inc., as sole lead arranger and sole bookrunner (in
such capacity, the “ Lead Arranger ”), and
Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as syndication agent (in such
capacity, the “ Syndication Agent ”) the Lenders
have severally agreed to make extensions of credit to the Borrower
upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth
therein;
B. Pursuant to an Indenture, dated
as of October 29, 2004 (the “ Senior Notes
Indenture ”), between the Borrower and Wells Fargo Bank,
N.A., as trustee, the Borrower issued and sold its 7.75% Senior
Notes due 2012 (the “ 2012 Notes ”).
C. The Borrower, the other Grantors,
and the Collateral Agent have entered into a Collateral Trust
Agreement, dated as of the date hereof (the “ Collateral
Trust Agreement ”).
D. Upon effectiveness of the
Acquisition, the Borrower will be a member of an affiliated group
of companies that includes each other Grantor;
E. The proceeds of the extensions of
credit under the Credit Agreement and the proceeds under the
Specified Hedge Agreements will be used in part to enable the
Borrower to make valuable transfers to one or more of the other
Grantors in connection with the operation of their respective
businesses;
F. The Borrower and the other
Grantors are engaged in related businesses, and each Grantor will
derive substantial direct and indirect benefit from the making of
the extensions of credit under the Credit Agreement and the
providing of financial accommodation under the Specified Hedge
Agreements; and
G. It is a condition precedent to
the obligation of the Lenders to make their respective extensions
of credit to the Borrower under the Credit Agreement and of the
Qualified Counterparties to provide financial accommodation under
the Specified Hedge Agreements that the Grantors shall have
executed and delivered this Agreement to the Collateral Agent for
the benefit of the Secured Parties.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of
the premises and to induce the Agents and the Lenders to enter into
the Credit Agreement and to induce the Lenders to make their
respective extensions of credit to the Borrower thereunder and to
induce the Qualified Counterparties to enter into the Specified
Hedge Agreements and provide financial accommodation, each Grantor
hereby agrees with the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the
Secured Parties, as follows:
SECTION 1. DEFINED TERMS
1.1. Definitions .
(a) Unless otherwise defined herein,
terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein shall have
the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement, and the
following terms are used herein as defined in the New York UCC (and
if defined in more than one Article of the New York UCC, shall have
the meaning given in Article 8 or 9 thereof): Accounts,
Certificated Security, Chattel Paper, Deposit Account, Electronic
Chattel Paper, Instruments, Letter-of-Credit Rights, Payment
Intangibles, Records, Supporting Obligations, Tangible Chattel
Paper and Uncertificated Security.
(b) The following terms shall have
the following meanings:
“ 2012 Notes: ”
as defined in the second recital.
“ 2012 Notes
Obligations ”: all obligations under the 2012 Notes and
the Senior Notes Indenture.
“ Accounts Receivable
”: all (i) Accounts, (ii) Chattel Paper,
(iii) to the extent arising from goods or other property sold,
leased, licensed, assigned or otherwise disposed of, or services
rendered or to be rendered (A) Payment Intangibles and
(B) Instruments, and (iv) to the extent not otherwise
covered above, all other rights to payment, whether or not earned
by performance, for goods or other property sold, leased, licensed,
assigned or otherwise disposed of, or services rendered or to be
rendered, regardless of how classified under the New York UCC
together with all of Grantors’ rights, if any, in any goods
or other property giving rise to such right to payment and all
Collateral Support and Supporting Obligations related thereto and
all Receivables Records.
“ Agreement ”:
this Collateral Agreement, as the same may be amended, amended and
restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to
time.
“ Borrower ”: as
defined in the preamble.
“ Borrower Credit Agreement
Obligations ”: the unpaid principal of and interest on
the Loans and all other obligations and liabilities of the Borrower
to any Agent, Lender or Indemnitee, whether direct or indirect,
absolute or contingent, due or to become due or now existing or
hereafter incurred, which may arise under, out of, or in connection
with, the Credit Agreement, this Agreement or the other Loan
Documents or any other document made, delivered or given in
connection therewith or pursuant thereto, in each case whether on
account of principal, interest, reimbursement obligations, fees,
indemnities, costs, expenses (including, without limitation,
attorney’s fees and legal expenses) or otherwise (including
interest accruing at the then applicable rate provided in the
Credit Agreement after the maturity of the Loans and interest
accruing at the then applicable rate provided in the Credit
Agreement after the commencement of any bankruptcy case or
insolvency, reorganization, liquidation or like proceeding relating
to the Borrower, whether or not a claim for post-filing or
post-petition interest is allowed in such proceeding and all
expense reimbursement and indemnity obligations arising or incurred
as provided in the Loan Documents after the commencement of any
such case or proceeding, whether or not a claim for such
obligations is allowed in such case or proceeding).
“ Borrower Obligations
”: the collective reference to (i) the Borrower Credit
Agreement Obligations, (ii) the Borrower Hedge Agreement
Obligations and (iii) all other obligations and liabilities of
the Borrower, whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent,
due or to become due, or now existing or hereafter incurred, which
may arise under, out of, or in connection with, this Agreement
(including, without limitation, all fees and disbursements of
counsel to the Secured Parties that are required to be paid by the
Borrower pursuant to the terms of the Credit Agreement or this
Agreement.
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“ Borrower Hedge Agreement
Obligations ”: the collective reference to all
obligations and liabilities of the Borrower (including, without
limitation, interest accruing at the then applicable rate provided
in any Specified Hedge Agreement after the filing of any petition
in bankruptcy, or the commencement of any insolvency,
reorganization, liquidation or like proceeding, relating to the
Borrower, whether or not a claim for post-petition interest is
allowed in such proceeding) to any Qualified Counterparty, whether
direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, due or to become due or
now existing or hereafter incurred, which may arise under, out of,
or in connection with, any Specified Hedge Agreement or any other
Loan Document entered into with any Secured Party or any other
document made, delivered or given in connection therewith or
pursuant thereto, in each case whether on account of principal,
interest, reimbursement obligations, fees, indemnities, costs,
expenses or otherwise (including, without limitation, all fees and
disbursements of counsel to the Qualified Counterparty that are
required to be paid by the Borrower pursuant to the terms of any
Specified Hedge Agreement or any other Loan Document); provided,
that any release of Collateral effected in the manner permitted by
the Credit Agreement shall not require the consent of holders of
obligations under the Specified Hedge Agreements.
“ Collateral ”:
as defined in Section 3.
“ Collateral Account
”: any collateral account established by the Collateral Agent
as provided in Section 6.1 or 6.4.
“ Collateral Support
”: all property (real or personal) assigned, hypothecated or
otherwise securing any Collateral and including any security
agreement or other agreement granting a lien or security interest
in such real or personal property.
“ Collateral Trust
Agreemen t”: as defined in the third recital.
“ Control Party
”: as defined in the Collateral Trust Agreement.
“ Event of Default
”: an “Event of Default” under any Secured
Instrument.
“ Foreign Subsidiary Voting
Stock ”: the voting Capital Stock of any Foreign
Subsidiary.
“ Intercompany Note
”: any promissory note evidencing loans or other monetary
obligations owing to any Grantor by any Group Member.
“ Investment Property
”: the collective reference to (i) all Pledged Equity
Interests and (ii) all Pledged Notes.
“ Issuers ”: the
collective reference to each issuer of any Investment Property
purported to be pledged hereunder.
“ New York UCC ”:
the Uniform Commercial Code as from time to time in effect in the
State of New York.
“ Obligations ”:
the Borrower Obligations and the 2012 Notes Obligations.
“ Organizational
Documents ”: as to any Person, its certificate or
articles of incorporation and by-laws if a corporation, or its
certificate of formation and its partnership agreement if a
partnership, its limited liability company agreement if a limited
liability company, or other organizational or governing documents
of such person.
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“ Pledge Supplement : a
Pledge Supplement, substantially in the form of Annex
III.
“ Pledged Alternative
Equity Interests ”: (a) all participation or other
interests in any equity or profits of any Pledged Company at any
time issued or granted to or owned, held or acquired by any Grantor
and (b) all participation or other interests in any equity or
profits of any business entity that was created or acquired after
the Closing Date at any time issued or granted to or owned, held or
acquired by any Grantor, and including in each case the
certificates, if any, representing such interests and any interest
of such Grantor in the entities on the books of the Issuer of such
interests or on the books and records of any securities
intermediary pertaining to such interests, and all dividends,
distributions, cash, warrants, rights, options, instruments,
securities and other property or proceeds from time to time
received, receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of or in
exchange for any or all of such interests and any other warrant,
right or option to acquire any of the foregoing; provided ,
however , that Pledged Alternative Equity Interests shall
not include any Pledged Notes, Pledged Stock, Pledged Partnership
Interests, and Pledged LLC Interests; provided
further that in no event shall more than 65% of the total
voting power of the outstanding Foreign Subsidiary Voting Stock of
any Foreign Subsidiary be subject to the security interests granted
hereby.
“ Pledged Company
”: each of AMD US Finance, Inc., AMD Saxony Holding GmbH, AMD
Saxony LLC, AMD International Sales & Service, Ltd.,
Advanced Micro Devices (Singapore) Pte Ltd and Advanced Micro
Devices Sdn.Bhd.
“ Pledged Equity
Interests ”: all Pledged Stock, Pledged LLC Interests,
Pledged Partnership Interests and Pledged Alternative Equity
Interests.
“ Pledged LLC Interests
”: (a) all interests owned, directly or indirectly, by
any Grantor in any Pledged Company that is a limited liability
company (including those listed on Schedule 2) at any time issued
or granted to or owned, held or acquired by any Grantor and
(b) all interests owned, directly or indirectly, by any
Grantor in any limited liability company that was created or
acquired after the Closing Date at any time issued or granted to or
owned, held or acquired by any Grantor, including in each case the
certificates, if any, representing such limited liability company
interests and any interest of any Grantor on the books and records
of such limited liability company or on the books and records of
any securities intermediary pertaining to such interest and all
dividends, distributions, cash, warrants, rights, options,
instruments, securities and other property or proceeds from time to
time received, receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of or
in exchange for any or all of such limited liability company
interests and any other warrant, right or option to acquire any of
the foregoing; provided that in no event shall more than 65%
of the total voting power of the outstanding Foreign Subsidiary
Voting Stock of any Foreign Subsidiary be subject to the security
interests granted hereby.
“ Pledged Notes
”: all indebtedness for borrowed money owed to any Grantor by
a Group Member including, without limitation, all Intercompany
Notes at any time issued to or owned, held or acquired by any
Grantor (including those listed on Schedule 2).
“ Pledged Partnership
Interests ”: (a) all interests owned, directly or
indirectly, by any Grantor in any Pledged Company that is a general
partnership, limited partnership, limited liability partnership or
other partnership (including those listed on Schedule 2) at any
time issued or granted to or owned, held or acquired by any Grantor
and (b) all interests owned, directly or indirectly, by any
Grantor in any general partnership, limited partnership, limited
liability partnership or other partnership that was created or
acquired after the Closing Date at any time issued or granted to or
owned, held or acquired by
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any Grantor, including, in each case, the
certificates, if any, representing such partnership interests and
any interest of such Grantor on the books and records of such
partnership or on the books and records of any securities
intermediary pertaining to such interest and all dividends,
distributions, cash, warrants, rights, options, instruments,
securities and other property or proceeds from time to time
received, receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of or in
exchange for any or all of such partnership interests and any other
warrant, right or option to acquire any of the foregoing:
provided that in no event shall more than 65% of the total
voting power of the outstanding Foreign Subsidiary Voting Stock of
any Foreign Subsidiary be subject to the security interests granted
hereby.
“ Pledged Stock
”: (a) all shares, stock certificates, options,
interests or rights of any nature whatsoever in respect of the
Capital Stock of any Pledged Company (including those listed on
Schedule 2) at any time issued or granted to or owned, held or
acquired by any Grantor and (b) all shares, stock
certificates, options, interests or rights of any nature whatsoever
in respect of the Capital Stock of any Person created or acquired
after the Closing Date at any time issued or granted to or owned,
held or acquired by any Grantor, including, in each case, the
certificates, if any, representing such shares and any interest of
such Grantor in the entries on the books of the Issuer of such
shares or on the books and records of any securities intermediary
pertaining to such shares, and all dividends, distributions, cash,
warrants, rights, options, instruments, securities and other
property or proceeds from time to time received, receivable or
otherwise distributed in respect of or in exchange for any or all
of such shares and any other warrant, right or option to acquire
any of the foregoing; provided that in no event shall more
than 65% of the total voting power of the outstanding Foreign
Subsidiary Voting Stock of any Foreign Subsidiary be subject to the
security interests granted hereby.
“ Proceeds ”: all
“proceeds” as such term is defined in
Section 9-102(a)(64) of the New York UCC, including, in any
event, all dividends, returns of capital and other distributions
and income from Investment Property and all collections thereon and
payments with respect thereto.
“ Receivables Records
”: (i) all original copies of all documents, instruments
or other writings or electronic records or other Records evidencing
the Accounts Receivable, (ii) all books, correspondence,
credit or other files, Records, ledger sheets or cards, invoices,
and other papers relating to Accounts Receivable, including,
without limitation, all tapes, cards, computer tapes, computer
discs, computer runs, record keeping systems and other papers and
documents relating to the Accounts Receivable, whether in the
possession or under the control of Grantor or any computer bureau
or agent from time to time acting for Grantor or otherwise,
(iii) all evidences of the filing of financing statements and
the registration of other instruments in connection therewith, and
amendments, supplements or other modifications thereto, notices to
other creditors or agents thereof, and certificates,
acknowledgments, or other writings, including, without limitation,
lien search reports, from filing or other registration officers,
(iv) all credit information, reports and memoranda relating
thereto and (v) all other written or non-written forms of
information related in any way to the foregoing or any Accounts
Receivable.
“ Secured Instrument
”: as defined in the Collateral Trust Agreement.
“ Secured Parties
”: as defined in the Collateral Trust Agreement.
“ Securities Act
”: the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
“ Senior Notes
Indenture ” is defined in the second recital.
“ Subordination
Agreement ”: Subordination Agreement, dated
April 20, 2004, among the Borrower, AMD Fab 36 Holding Gmbh,
AMD Fab 36 Admin Gmbh, Leipziger Messe Gmbh, Fab 36 Beteiligungs
Gmbh, AMD Fab 36 LLC, LB Beteiligungsgesellschaft MBH, AMD Fab 36
Limited
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Liability Company & Co. KG, ABN AMRO
Bank N.V., Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft, Deutsche Bank Luxembourg
S.A., Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, KFW, Landesank
Hessen-Thuringen Girozentrale, Landesbank Sachsen Girozentrale,
Dresdner Bank Luxembourg S.A., as Facility Agent, Dresdner Bank AG
In Berlin, as Security Agent, and the Financial Institutions party
thereto.
“ UETA ”: the
Uniform Electronic Transaction Act, as in effect in the applicable
jurisdiction.
1.2. Other Definitional
Provisions .
(a) As used herein and in any
certificate or other document made or delivered pursuant hereto,
(i) accounting terms relating to any Group Member not defined
in Section 1.1 and accounting terms partly defined in
Section 1.1, to the extent not defined, shall have the
respective meanings given to them under GAAP, (ii) the words
“include”, “includes” and
“including” shall be deemed to be followed by the
phrase “without limitation”, (iii) the word
“incur” shall be construed to mean incur, create,
issue, assume, become liable in respect of or suffer to exist (and
the words “incurred” and “incurrence” shall
have correlative meanings), and (iv) the words
“asset” and “property” shall be construed
to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all
tangible and intangible assets and properties of every type and
nature, and (v) references to agreements or other Contractual
Obligations shall, unless otherwise specified, be deemed to refer
to such agreements or Contractual Obligations as amended,
supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time
(subject to any applicable restrictions hereunder).
(b) The words “hereof,”
“herein”, “hereto” 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
Schedule references are to this Agreement unless otherwise
specified.
(c) The meanings given to terms
defined herein shall be equally applicable to both the singular and
plural forms of such terms.
(d) Where the context requires,
terms relating to the Collateral or any part thereof, when used in
relation to a Grantor, shall refer to such Grantor’s
Collateral or the relevant part thereof.
(e) The expressions “payment
in full,” “paid in full” and any other similar
terms or phrases when used herein with respect to any Obligation
shall mean (A) the payment in full of such Obligation in cash
in immediately available funds and (B) with respect to
obligations under the Specified Hedge Agreements with any Qualified
Counterparty, such obligations are secured by a collateral
arrangement reasonably satisfactory to the Qualified Counterparty
in its sole discretion.
SECTION 2. [INTENTIONALLY
OMITTED].
SECTION 3. GRANT OF SECURITY
INTEREST
Each Grantor hereby grants to the
Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a
security interest in all of the following property now owned or at
any time hereafter acquired by such Grantor or in which such
Grantor now has or at any time in the future may acquire any right,
title or interest (collectively, the “ Collateral
”), as collateral security for the prompt and complete
payment and performance when due (whether at the stated maturity,
by acceleration or otherwise) of all Obligations:
(a) all Accounts
Receivable;
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(b) all proceeds and products from
the direct or indirect sale of the Capital Stock of
Spansion;
(c) the Spansion Collateral Account,
if and when the same is created pursuant to Section 6.11 of
the Credit Agreement;
(d) all Investment
Property;
(e) all Supporting Obligations and
products of any and all of the foregoing and all security interests
or other liens on personal or real property securing or in any
respect relating to any of the foregoing;
(f) all books and records
(regardless of medium) pertaining to any of the foregoing;
and
(g) all Proceeds of any of the
foregoing;
provided that the security interest granted hereunder
shall not cover and the term “Collateral” shall not
include any of the following: (A) Capital Stock of Fab 36,
(B) as of the date hereof, Capital Stock of 1252986 Alberta
ULC or any Subsidiary of the Borrower that is not a Material
Subsidiary owned by a Grantor, and after the date hereof with
respect to after-acquired or after-created Subsidiaries, Capital
Stock of any Subsidiary that is not a Material Subsidiary,
(C) Capital Stock which is specifically excluded from the
definitions of Pledged Alternative Equity Interests, Pledged LLC
Interests, Pledged Partnership Interests and Pledged Stock by
virtue of the proviso to such definitions, (D) any
Intercompany Note or other obligation (x) that is not issued
by either a Subsidiary that is an Issuer as of the date hereof or
after the date hereof that is not a Material Subsidiary or
(y) that is issued by Fab 36 that by its terms or by the terms
of the Subordination Agreement does not permit the grant of a
security interest in such Intercompany Note or other obligations;
provided that no prohibition on the grant of a security
interest shall be effective if it were bargained for by any Grantor
with the intent of avoiding compliance with this Agreement, and
(E) any Intercompany Note evidencing a loan or other extension
of credit made by a Grantor to any Foreign Subsidiary to the extent
that a pledge or Lien to the Collateral Agent with respect to such
Intercompany Note would create an increased tax liability for any
Grantor; provided that no Intercompany Note shall be
excluded from the security interest granted hereunder if it was
entered into with the intent of avoiding compliance with this
Agreement; provided , further , that the security
interest granted hereby shall attach at all times to all proceeds
of such property if such proceeds are otherwise Collateral
hereunder.
SECTION 4. REPRESENTATIONS AND
WARRANTIES
Each Grantor hereby represents and
warrants to each Secured Party that:
4.1. Representations in Credit
Agreement . In the case of each Grantor (other than the
Borrower), the representations and warranties set forth in
Section 4 of the Credit Agreement as they relate to such
Grantor or to the Loan Documents to which such Grantor is a party,
each of which is hereby incorporated herein by reference, are true
and correct, and each Secured Party shall be entitled to rely on
each of them as if they were fully set forth herein;
provided that each reference in each such representation and
warranty to the Borrower’s knowledge shall, for the purposes
of this Section 4.1, be deemed to be a reference to such
Grantor’s knowledge.
4.2. Title; No Other Liens .
Except for the security interest granted to the Collateral Agent
for the benefit of the Secured Parties pursuant to this Agreement
and the other Liens permitted to
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exist on such Grantor’s Collateral by the
Credit Agreement, such Grantor owns each item of Collateral granted
by it free and clear of any and all Liens or claims of others. No
financing statement or other public notice with respect to all or
any part of the Collateral is on file or of record in any public
office, except such as have been filed in favor of the Collateral
Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, pursuant to this
Agreement or in respect of Liens that are permitted by the Credit
Agreement or any other Loan Document or for which termination
statements will be delivered on the Closing Date.
4.3. Perfected First Priority
Liens .
(a) Upon completion of the filings
and other actions specified on Schedule 4 (which, in the case of
all filings and other documents referred to on said Schedule, have
been delivered to the Collateral Agent in completed and, where
required, duly executed form) and the obtaining and maintenance of
“control” (within the meaning of Section 8-106,
9-104 and 9-107 of the New York UCC) by the Collateral Agent of the
Spansion Collateral Account and any Letter-of-Credit Rights which
are part of the Supporting Obligations, the security interests
granted in Section 3 will constitute valid perfected security
interests in all of the Collateral in favor of the Collateral
Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, as collateral
security for the Obligations, enforceable in accordance with the
terms hereof against all creditors of such Grantor and any Persons
purporting to purchase any such Collateral from such Grantor and is
and will be prior to all other Liens on such Collateral except for
Liens permitted by the Credit Agreement which have priority over
the Liens on such Collateral by operation of law. Without limiting
the foregoing and except as otherwise permitted or provided in
Section 5 hereof, each Grantor has taken all actions necessary
to establish the Collateral Agent’s “control”
(within the meanings of Sections 8-106 and 9-106 of the New York
UCC) over any portion of the Investment Property constituting
Certificated Securities or Uncertificated Securities (each as
defined in the New York UCC).
(b) Each Grantor consents to the
grant by each other Grantor of the security interests granted
hereby and the transfer of any Capital Stock or Investment Property
to the Collateral Agent or its designee following an Event of
Default and to the substitution of the Collateral Agent or its
designee or the purchaser upon any foreclosure sale as the holder
and beneficial owner of the interest represented
thereby.
4.4. Jurisdiction of
Organization; Chief Executive Office . On the date hereof, such
Grantor’s exact legal name, jurisdiction of organization,
organizational identification number from the jurisdiction of
organization (if any), and the location of such Grantor’s
chief executive office or sole place of business or principal
residence, as the case may be, are specified on Schedule 3. On the
date hereof, such Grantor is organized solely under the law of the
jurisdiction so specified and has not filed any certificates of
domestication, transfer or continuance in any other jurisdiction.
Except as otherwise indicated on Schedule 3, the jurisdiction of
such Grantor’s organization or formation is required to
maintain a public record showing the Grantor to have been organized
or formed. On the date hereof, except as specified on Schedule 3,
such Grantor has not changed its name, jurisdiction of
organization, chief executive office or sole place of business or
its corporate or organizational form in any way (e.g. by merger,
consolidation, change in corporate form or otherwise) within the
past five years and has not within the last five years become bound
(whether as a result of merger or otherwise) as grantor under a
security agreement entered into by another person, which
(x) has not heretofore been terminated or (y) is in
respect of a Lien that is not permitted by the Credit Agreement.
Such Grantor has furnished to the Collateral Agent its
Organizational Documents as in effect as of a date which is recent
to the date hereof and long form good standing certificate as of a
date which is recent to the date hereof.
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4.5. [Intentionally
Omitted].
4.6. [Intentionally Omitted].
Investment Property and the Spansion Collateral Account .
(a) Schedule 2 hereto (as such schedule may be amended
or supplemented from time to time) sets forth under the headings
“Pledged Stock,” “Pledged LLC Interests”
and “Pledged Partnership Interests,” all of the Pledged
Stock, Pledged LLC Interests and Pledged Partnership Interests,
respectively, owned by any Grantor and pledged hereunder and such
Pledged Equity Interests constitute the percentage of issued and
outstanding shares of stock, percentage of membership interests,
percentage of partnership interests or percentage of beneficial
interest of the respective issuers thereof indicated on such
schedule. Schedule 2 hereto (as such schedule may be amended
or supplemented from time to time) sets forth under the heading
“Pledged Notes” all of the Pledged Notes owned by any
Grantor and pledged hereunder. When created, the Spansion
Collateral Account will be a Deposit Account and the Borrower will
be the sole customer of the Spansion Collateral Account and it will
not consent to any person other than the Collateral Agent having
“control” (within the meanings of Section 9-104 of
the New York UCC) over, or any other interest in, the Spansion
Collateral Account, or any property credited thereto.
(b) The shares of Pledged Equity
Interests pledged by such Grantor hereunder constitute all of the
issued and outstanding shares of all classes of Capital Stock in
each Pledged Company owned by such Grantor or, in the case of
Voting Stock of any Excluded Foreign Subsidiary, if less, 65% of
the total voting power of the outstanding Voting Stock of each
relevant Pledged Company.
(c) All the shares of the Pledged
Equity Interests pledged hereunder have been duly and validly
issued and are fully paid and nonassessable.
(d) The Pledged LLC Interests and
Pledged Partnership Interests pledged hereunder (i) are not
traded on securities exchanges or in securities markets,
(ii) are not “investment company securities” (as
defined in Section 8-103(b) of the New York UCC and
(iii) do not provide, in the related operating or partnership
agreement, as applicable, or on the certificates, if any,
representing such Pledged LLC Interests or Pledged Partnership
Interests, as applicable, or otherwise that they are securities
governed by the Uniform Commercial Code of any
jurisdiction.
(e) Such Grantor is the record and
beneficial owner of, and has good and marketable title to, the
Investment Property pledged by it hereunder, free of any and all
Liens or options in favor of, or claims of, any other person,
except Liens permitted to exist on the Collateral by the Credit
Agreement, and there are no outstanding warrants, options or other
rights to purchase, or shareholder, voting trust or similar
agreements outstanding with respect to, or property that is
convertible into, or that requires the issuance or sale of, any
Pledged Equity Interests pledged hereunder.
4.8. Accounts Receivable
.
(a) No amount payable to such
Grantor under or in connection with any Accounts Receivable in
excess of $1,000,000 is evidenced by any Instrument or Chattel
Paper which has not been delivered to the Collateral Agent or
constitutes Electronic Chattel Paper that has not been subjected to
the control (within the meaning of Section 9-105 of the New
York UCC) of the Collateral Agent.
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SECTION 5. COVENANTS
Each Grantor covenants and agrees
with the Secured Parties that, from and after the date of this
Agreement until the Collateral is released pursuant to
Section 8.15(a):
5.1. Covenants in Credit
Agreement . Such Grantor shall take, or refrain from taking, as
the case may be, each action that is necessary to be taken or not
taken, so that no breach of the covenants in the Credit Agreement
pertaining to actions to be taken, or not taken, by such Grantor
will result.
5.2. Delivery and Control of
Instruments, Certificated Securities, Chattel Paper, Investment
Property, Letter-of-Credit Rights that are Supporting Obligations
and the Spansion Collateral Account .
(a) Upon the occurrence and during
the continuation of a Default or Event of Default, if any of the
Collateral of such Grantor is or shall become evidenced or
represented by any Instrument or Tangible Chattel Paper,
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