FIRST PRIORITY PLEDGE AND SECURITY
AGREEMENT AND IRREVOCABLE PROXY
RESIDENTIAL FUNDING COMPANY,
LLC,
GMAC MORTGAGE, LLC
and certain of their Affiliates from time to time parties
hereto,
as Grantors
GMAC, LLC, as Lender and
Lender Agent
WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.,
as First Priority Collateral Agent
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Definitions
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Grant of
Security Interest by Borrowers, the Guarantors and Model
Home
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Grant of
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Grant of
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Grant of
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Representations
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Grantor Remains
Liable; Nature of Security Interest; Subrogation, etc.
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Collections,
etc.
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Release
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Agreements of
the Grantors
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Agreement as to
Investment Property; Voting
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Defaults and
Events of Default; Remedies
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Limitation on
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Special
Provisions Relating to the First Priority Collateral
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General
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Equity
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Foreign Pledge
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FIRST PRIORITY PLEDGE AND
SECURITY AGREEMENT
AND IRREVOCABLE PROXY
THIS FIRST
PRIORITY PLEDGE AND SECURITY AGREEMENT AND IRREVOCABLE PROXY (this
“ Agreement ”) dated as of June 4, 2008, is
among Residential Funding Company, LLC, a Delaware limited
liability company (“ RFC ”), and GMAC Mortgage,
LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“ GMAC
Mortgage ; and together with RFC, each a “
Borrower ” and collectively, the “
Borrowers ”); Residential Capital, LLC, a Delaware
limited liability company (“ ResCap ”),
Homecomings Financial, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company
(“ Homecomings ”), GMAC-RFC Holding Company,
LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“ RFC
Holdings ”), and GMAC Residential Holding Company, LLC, a
Delaware limited liability company (“ Residential
”; and each of ResCap, Homecomings, RFC Holdings, and
Residential herein a “ Guarantor ” and
collectively, the “ Guarantors ”); GMAC Model
Home Finance, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“
Model Home ”); Developers of Hidden Springs, LLC, a
Delaware limited liability company (“ Developers
”) and DOA Holding Properties, LLC, a Delaware limited
liability company (“ DOA ” and each of
Developers and DOA, herein is an “ Equity Pledgor
” and collectively, the “ Equity Pledgors
”); RFC Asset Holdings II, LLC, a Delaware limited liability
company (“ RAHI ”), and Passive Asset
Transactions, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“
PATI ”; and each of RAHI and PATI is herein a “
FABS Grantor ” and collectively, the “ FABS
Grantors ”); Residential Mortgage Real Estate Holdings,
LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“ Residential
Mortgage ”), Residential Funding Real Estate Holdings,
LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“ Residential
Funding ”), Homecomings Financial Real Estate Holdings,
LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“ Homecomings
Financial ”), and Equity Investment I, LLC, a Delaware
limited liability company (“ Equity I ”; and
each of Residential Mortgage, Residential Funding, Homecomings
Financial and Equity I is herein an “ Additional Account
Party ” and collectively, the “ Additional
Account Party ”); and each other Person that agrees to
become a “Grantor” by executing and delivering a
Joinder Agreement pursuant to Section 15 (each
Borrower, each Guarantor, Model Home, each Equity Pledgor, each
FABS Grantor, each Additional Account Party and each such other
Person is herein a “ Grantor ” and collectively,
the “ Grantors ”); GMAC, LLC, a Delaware limited
liability company, as Lender Agent and a Lender; and Wells Fargo
Bank, N.A., as first priority collateral agent (together with its
successor(s) thereto in such capacity, the “ First
Priority Collateral Agent ”) for the Lender
Parties.
WHEREAS, pursuant
to the Loan Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, among the
Borrowers, the Guarantors, and GMAC LLC, as Lender Agent and
initial Lender, and certain other financial institutions and
Persons from time to time party thereto as Lenders (as amended,
supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time, the
“ Loan Agreement ”), the Lenders thereunder have
agreed to make loans to the Borrowers;
WHEREAS, the
Guarantors have pursuant to Article XI of the Loan Agreement
guaranteed all “Obligations” as defined in the Loan
Agreement (each such guaranty so made by a Guarantor, herein its
“ Guaranty ”);
WHEREAS, as a
requirement under the Loan Agreement and the making of the Loans
under the Loan Agreement, the Grantors are required to execute and
deliver this Agreement;
First Priority Pledge and
Security Agreement
and Irrevocable Proxy
WHEREAS, each
Grantor has duly authorized the execution, delivery and performance
of this Agreement; and
WHEREAS, it is in
the best interests of each Grantor to execute this Agreement
inasmuch as each Grantor will derive substantial direct and
indirect benefits from the Loans made from time to time to the
Borrowers;
NOW, THEREFORE,
for and in consideration of any loan, advance or other financial
accommodation heretofore or hereafter made to the Borrowers and/or
the Grantors under or in connection with the Loan Agreement, and
for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and
sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto
agree as follows:
1.
Definitions . When used herein and unless the context
otherwise requires, (a) capitalized terms which are not otherwise
defined herein have the meanings assigned to such terms in
Schedule 1.01 to the Loan Agreement; (b) the terms
Account, Account Debtor, Certificated Security, Chattel Paper,
Commercial Tort Claim, Commodity Account, Commodity Contract,
Deposit Account, Document, Electronic Chattel Paper, Equipment,
Financial Assets, Fixture, General Intangibles, Goods, Health Care
Insurance Receivables, Instrument, Inventory, Investment Property,
Letter of Credit, Letter-of-Credit Rights, Money, Proceeds,
Security, Security Entitlement, Securities Account, Supporting
Obligations and Uncertificated Security have the respective
meanings assigned thereto in Article 8 or Article 9 of
the UCC (as defined below); and (c) the following terms have
the following meanings (such definitions to be applicable to both
the singular and plural forms of such terms):
Assigned
Documents means the Note Issuance Facility Deed, the Deed of
Charge, the UK Note and any other Facility Document to which
Residential Capital, LLC is a party.
Bailment
Collateral shall have the meaning given such term in the
Intercreditor Agreement.
Collateral
means, with respect to any Grantor, all property and rights of such
Grantor in which a security interest is granted pursuant to
Sections 2 , 3 , 4 and 5
.
Collateral
Control Agent shall have the meaning given such term in the
Intercreditor Agreement.
Computer
Hardware and Software means, with respect to any Grantor, all
of such Grantor’s rights (including rights as licensee and
lessee) with respect to: (a) computer and other electronic
data processing hardware, including all integrated computer
systems, central processing units, memory units, display terminals,
printers, features, computer elements, card readers, tape drives,
hard and soft disk drives, cables, electrical supply hardware,
generators, power equalizers, accessories, peripheral devices and
other related computer hardware; (b) all software programs
designed for use on the computers and electronic data processing
hardware described in clause (i) above, including, without
limitation, all operating system software, utilities and
application programs in whatsoever form (source code and object
code in magnetic tape, disk or hard copy format or any other
listings whatsoever); (c) any firmware associated with any of
the foregoing; and (d) any documentation for hardware,
software and firmware described in clauses (a), (b)
and (c) above, including, without limitation, flow charts,
logic diagrams, manuals, specifications, training materials, charts
and pseudo codes.
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Deed of
Charge means the deed of charge and assignment made on or about
the date hereof between, amongst others, the UK SPE, Residential
Capital, LLC and the Security Trustee.
Distributions means all dividends of stock, membership
interests or other ownership interests, liquidating dividends,
shares of stock resulting from (or in connection with the exercise
of) stock splits, reclassifications, warrants, options, non-cash
dividends, mergers, consolidations, and all other distributions
(whether similar or dissimilar to the foregoing) on or with respect
to any Pledged Share, Pledged Interest or other shares of capital
stock, member interest or other ownership interests or security
entitlements constituting Collateral, but shall not include
Dividends.
Dividends
means cash dividends and cash distributions with respect to any
Pledged Share or any Pledged Interest made in the ordinary course
of business and not as a liquidating dividend.
Dutch
Assets means the Dutch Memberships Interests and Dutch VFLN
Receivables.
Dutch
Membership Interests means 65% of any and all rights, claims (
vorderingsrechten ) and interests of each of Residential
Funding Company, LLC and GMAC-RFC Holding Company, LLC in their
capacity as member ( lid ) of GMAC RFC International
Holdings Coöperatief U.A. under or in connection with their
membership ( lidmaatschap ).
Dutch VFLN
Receivables means any and all rights and claims (
vorderingsrechten ) (including but not limited to a right of
recourse ( regres ) or subrogation ( subrogatie ))
whether present or future, whether actual or contingent, of
Residential Capital, LLC under or in connection with (i) the
VFLN Agreement entered into by and between, amongst others, the
Residential Capital, LLC, GX CE Funding B.V. and Stichting Security
Trustee GX CE Funding, (ii) each VFLN Note and (iii) the VFLN
Trust Deed.
Excluded
Assets means, with respect to any Grantor and to the extent
such Property does not constitute Primary Collateral, the following
Property: (a) Goods securing purchase money indebtedness or
capital lease obligations to the extent such purchase money
indebtedness or capital lease obligations prohibit the granting of
a security interest on such assets; (b) voting capital stock
of controlled foreign corporations (as defined in the Internal
Revenue Code) in excess of sixty-five percent (65%) of the voting
rights of such corporations including without limitation GMAC-RFC
Australia Pty Limited and GMAC RFC International Holdings
Coöperatief U.A. (or any other controlled foreign corporation
identified in writing by a Grantor to the First Priority Collateral
Agent); (c) any asset, including any account, note, contract,
lease, financing arrangement, general intangible, equity
investment, interests in joint ventures or other agreement to the
extent that the grant of a security interest therein would violate
applicable Requirements of Law, result in the invalidation thereof
or provide any party thereto with a right of termination or default
with respect thereto or with respect to any Bilateral Facility to
which such asset is subject as of the Closing Date (in each case,
after giving effect to applicable provisions of the UCC and other
applicable Requirements of Law and principles of equity);
(d) any trademark applications filed in the United States
Patent and Trademark Office on the basis of such Grantor’s
“intent-to-use” such trademark, unless and until
acceptable evidence of use of the trademark had been filed with the
United States Patent and Trademark Office pursuant to Section 1(c)
or 1(d) of the Lanham Act (15 U.S.C. 1051, et seq.) to the extent
that granting a lien in such trademark application prior to such
filing would adversely affect the enforceability of validity of
such trademark application; (e) proceeds and
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products of any
and all of the foregoing excluded assets described in clause
(a) through (d) above only to the extent such proceeds
and products would constitute property or assets of the type
described in clause (a) through (d) above; and
(f) the Exempt Cash Reserve Account and any proceeds and
products thereof.
General
Intangibles means, with respect to any Grantor, all of such
Grantor’s “general intangibles” as defined in the
UCC and, in any event, includes (without limitation) all of such
Grantor’s licenses, franchises, tax refund claims, guarantee
claims, security interests and rights to
indemnification.
Intellectual
Property means all past, present and future: trade secrets and
other proprietary information; rights in customer lists;
trademarks, service marks, business names, trade names, domain
names, designs, logos, and/or other source and/or business
identifiers and the goodwill of the business relating thereto and
all registrations or applications for registrations which have
heretofore been or may hereafter be issued thereon throughout the
world (including without limitation the tradename
“DITECH”); copyrights (including, without limitation,
copyrights for computer programs) and copyright registrations or
applications for registrations which have heretofore been or may
hereafter be issued throughout the world; inventions (whether or
not patentable); patent applications and patents; industrial
designs, industrial design applications and registered industrial
designs; rights in license agreements related to any of the
Intellectual Property and income therefrom; the right to sue for
all past, present and future infringements of any of the foregoing;
all common law and other rights throughout the world in and to all
of the foregoing; and the right to obtain all reissues, extensions
or renewals of the foregoing.
Intercreditor
Agreement means that certain Intercreditor Agreement, dated on
or before June 6, 2008 as of the date hereof, among Wells
Fargo Bank, N.A., in its capacity as First Priority Collateral
Agent, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., in its capacity as Second Priority
Collateral Agent, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., in its capacity as Third
Priority Collateral Agent, the Lender Agent and the other parties
thereto.
Lender
Parties shall have the meaning given such term in the Loan
Agreement.
Non-Tangible
Collateral means, with respect to any Grantor, collectively,
such portion of such Grantor’s Collateral that constitutes
Accounts, Chattel Paper, Deposit Accounts, Documents, General
Intangibles, Payment Intangibles, Investment Property,
Letter-of-Credit Rights, Letters of Credit and Supporting
Obligations.
Note Issuance
Facility Deed means the note issuance facility deed made on or
about the date hereof between, amongst others, Residential Capital,
LLC and the UK SPE.
Obligations means the Obligations (as defined in the Loan
Agreement).
Pledged
Interest Issuer means each Person identified in
Item B of Attachment I hereto as the Pledged
Interest Issuer.
Pledged
Interests means all member interests, general or limited
partnership interests or other ownership interests of any Pledged
Interest Issuer described in Item B of Attachment
I hereto, whether now existing or hereafter arising (other than
Excluded Assets); all other member interests,
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general or
limited partnership interests or other ownership interests issued
by any Pledgor’s Subsidiaries (other than Excluded Assets)
that is hereafter from time to time pledged as Collateral under
this Agreement by a Pledgor; all registrations, certificates,
articles or agreements governing or representing any such
interests; all options and other rights, contractual or otherwise,
at any time existing with respect to such interests; all
distributions, cash, instruments and other property now or
hereafter received, receivable or otherwise distributed in respect
of or in exchange for any or all of such interests; and all
proceeds of the foregoing.
Pledged Note
Issuer means each Person identified in Item D of
Attachment I hereto as the issuer of the Pledged Note
identified opposite the name of such Person.
Pledged Note
Lien means any and all liens or security interests securing the
obligation of a Pledged Note Issuer evidenced by the applicable
Pledged Note, and all collateral subject to such liens and security
interests.
Pledged
Notes means all of the promissory notes described in
Item D of Attachment I hereto, and all other
promissory notes of any Pledged Note Issuer, issued by a Pledged
Note Issuer, as such promissory notes, in accordance with
Section 11(j) , are amended, restated, modified or
supplemented from time to time; any promissory note of any Pledged
Note Issuer taken in extension or renewal thereof or substitution
therefor; all instruments or agreements governing or representing
all or any of such notes; all rights, contractual or otherwise, at
any time existing with respect to such notes; all distributions,
cash, instruments and other property now or hereafter received,
receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of or in exchange
for any or all of such notes; and all proceeds of the
foregoing.
Pledged
Property means all Pledged Interests, all Pledged Notes, all
Pledged Shares, all other securities, all assignments of any
amounts due or to become due, all other instruments which are now
being delivered by any Pledgor to the First Priority Collateral
Agent or the Collateral Control Agent or may from time to time
hereafter be delivered by any Pledgor to the First Priority
Collateral Agent or Collateral Control Agent for the purpose of
pledge under this Agreement or any other Facility Document, and all
proceeds of any of the foregoing.
Pledged Share
Issuer means each Person identified in Item A of
Attachment I hereto as the issuer of the Pledged Shares
identified opposite the name of such Person.
Pledged
Shares means all shares of capital stock of any Pledged Share
Issuer, whether now existing or hereafter arising (other than
Excluded Assets), and all other shares of capital stock of any
direct Subsidiary of a Pledgor that is hereafter from time to time
pledged as Collateral under this Agreement by a Pledgor; all
registrations, certificates, articles, or agreements governing or
representing any such interest; all options and other rights,
contractual or otherwise, at any time existing with respect to all
or any of such shares; all distributions, cash, instruments and
other property now or hereafter received, receivable or otherwise
distributed in respect of or in exchange for any or all of such
shares; and all proceeds of the foregoing.
Pledgor
means any Borrower, any Guarantor, any Equity Pledgor or Model
Home.
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Property
means any interest in any kind of property or asset, whether real,
personal or mixed, or tangible or intangible, including, without
limitation, cash, securities, accounts and contract
rights.
Security
Trustee means Deutsche Trustee Company Limited in its capacity
as security trustee for the Secured Creditors (as defined in the
English Security Documents) .
Servicing
Contract means any agreement, whether titled a “servicing
agreement,” a “pooling and servicing agreement,”
a “sale and servicing agreement,” or otherwise,
pursuant to which any Grantor is obligated to perform collection,
enforcement or foreclosure services with respect to, or to maintain
and remit any funds collected from, persons obligated on any
mortgage loan or pool of mortgage loans.
Significant
Subsidiary means any Subsidiary of the ResCap (or group of
Subsidiaries as to which a specified condition applies) which meets
any of the following conditions:
(a) ResCap’s
and its other Subsidiaries’ proportionate share of the total
assets (after intercompany eliminations) of the Subsidiary exceeds
10 percent of the total assets of ResCap and its Subsidiaries
on a consolidated basis as of the end of the most recently
completed fiscal year; or
(b) the
Subsidiary’s income from continuing operations before income
taxes, extraordinary items and cumulative effect of a change in
accounting principle exceeds 10 percent of such income of ResCap
and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis for the most recently
completed fiscal year.
For purposes of
this definition, a Subsidiary shall mean a Person that is
controlled by ResCap directly or indirectly through one or more
intermediaries. For purposes of making any determination or
calculations, this definition shall be interpreted in accordance
with the rules and instructions of Rule 1-02 of
Regulation S-X under the Securities Act of 1933 as in effect
on the Closing Date.
Trust Deed
means that certain trust deed entered into by and between, amongst
others, GX CE Funding and the Security Trustee GX CE Funding in
relation to the VFLN Agreement.
UCC means
the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in the
State of New York; provided that, as used in
Section 10(a) hereof, “ UCC ” shall
mean the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in
any applicable jurisdiction.
UK Note
means the notes issued to Residential Capital, LLC from time to
time by the UK SPE pursuant to the Note Issuance Facility Deed
(there being only one note outstanding at any time).
UK Note
Related Security means all Liens created in favor of the
Security Trustee by the UK SPE in connection with the issuance of
the UK Note.
UK Pledged
Shares means the UK Pledged Shares in each UK Pledged Shares
Company which are held by Residential Funding Company, LLC and
represented by the certificates listed in
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Item C of Attachment I hereto and which
represent 65% of the UK Pledged Shares held by Residential Funding
Company, LLC in the relevant UK Pledged Shares Company together
with all other shares and other assets, including any moneys and
other Derivative Rights (as defined in the English Security
Documents) from time to time charged to the First Priority
Collateral Agent.
UK Pledged
Shares Companies means:
(a) GMAC-RFC
Holdings Limited a company incorporated in England and Wales
(registered number 03471082) whose registered office is at Eastern
Gate, Brants Bridge, Bracknell, Berkshire RG12 9BZ (“ GMAC
Holdings ”);
(b) GMAC-RFC
Europe Limited a company incorporated in England and Wales
(registered number 03987700) whose registered office is at Eastern
Gate, Brants Bridge, Bracknell, Berkshire RG12 9BZ; (“
GMAC Europe ”); and
(c) RFC
Investments Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales
(registered number 03488658) whose registered address is at Eastern
Gate, Brants Bridge, Bracknell, Berkshire RG12 9BZ (“ RFC
Investments ”),
and UK Pledged
Share Company means any of them.
UK SPE
means Viaduct No. 7 Limited.
VFLN
Agreement means that certain variable funding loan note
agreement dated June 4, 2008 and entered into by and between,
amongst others, Residential Capital, LLC, GX CE Funding B.V. and
Stichting Security Trustee GX CE Funding.
VFLN Note
means any note issued by GX CE Funding B.V. to Residential Capital,
LLC under or pursuant to the VFLN Agreement.
2. Grant
of Security Interest by Borrowers, the Guarantors and Model
Home . As security for the prompt payment in full in cash and
performance of all Obligations, each of the Borrowers and the
Guarantors and Model Home and each other Grantor (other than a
Grantor that is an Equity Pledgor, an FABS Grantor or an Additional
Account Pledgor) hereby pledges to the First Priority Collateral
Agent for the benefit of the Lender Parties, and hereby grants a
continuing security interest to the First Priority Collateral Agent
for the benefit of the Lender Parties in, all of each such
Borrower’s or Guarantor’s or Model Home’s or any
such other Grantor’s right, title and interest, in, to, and
under, whether now or hereafter existing, owned or acquired and
wherever located and howsoever created, arising or evidenced, all
of the following:
(a) all Assets
including, without limitation, all Financial Asset-Backed
Securities, Servicing P&I Advances, Servicing T&I Advances,
Mortgage Loans and Incremental Advances of a type specified in, or
otherwise described in Schedule VI to this Agreement,
and all other Property described in Schedule VI to this
Agreement;
(b) Accounts,
including Health Care Insurance Receivables;
(c) Chattel Paper,
including Electronic Chattel Paper;
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(d) Commercial
Tort Claims described on Schedule V hereto, as such
schedule may be supplemented from time to time by any applicable
Grantor in accordance with this Agreement;
(e) Computer
Hardware and Software and all rights with respect thereto,
including, without limitation, any and all rights in licenses,
options, warranties, service contracts, program services, test
rights, maintenance rights, support rights, improvement rights,
renewal rights and indemnifications, and any substitutions,
replacements, additions or model conversions of any of the
foregoing;
(h) Financial
Assets, including, without limitation, (A) all Deposit
Accounts and Securities Accounts in which any Financial Assets are
carried or credited, and all Investment Property (including all
Security Entitlements), Instruments, Money, and other property on
deposit therein or credited thereto, and all permitted investments
acquired with funds on deposit in or carried in or credited to such
Deposit Accounts or Securities Accounts, (B) all agreements,
contracts, documents and instruments evidencing, arising from,
relating to or other otherwise delivered pursuant to or in
connection with Financial Assets, (C) all cash and funds
delivered to a Grantor (or its bailee or agent) in respect of such
Financial Assets and any collateral securing the same, and
(D) to the extent not included in the foregoing, all Accounts,
Chattel Paper, Deposit Accounts, Documents, General Intangibles,
Payment Intangibles, Instruments, Investment Property,
Letter-of-Credit Rights, Letters of Credit, Supporting Obligations,
and Money, consisting of, arising from, or relating to or delivered
pursuant to, any of the foregoing;
(i) General
Intangibles (including, without limitation, all Payment Intangibles
and all rights, titles and interests in the English Security
Documents, the Dutch Security Documents and the Mexican Security
Documents);
(j) Goods
(including, without limitation, all its Equipment, Fixtures and
Inventory), together with all embedded software, accessions,
additions, attachments, improvements, substitutions and
replacements thereto and therefor;
(l) Intellectual
Property;
(m) (i)
(A) all issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of each
Pledged Share Issuer identified in Item A of
Attachment I hereto, (B) all other Pledged Shares
issued from time to time, (C) all Pledged Notes of each
Pledged Note Issuer identified in Item D of
Attachment I hereto (including, without limitation, the
English Note and the Dutch Note), (D) all other Pledged Notes
issued from time to time, (E) all Pledged Note Liens,
(F) all issued and outstanding member interests, general or
limited partnership interests or other ownership interests of each
Pledged Interest Issuer
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identified in
Item B of Attachment I hereto, (G) all
other Pledged Interests issued from time to time, (H) all
other Pledged Property, whether now or hereafter delivered to the
First Priority Collateral Agent in connection with this Agreement,
and (I) all Dividends, Distributions, interest, and other
payments and rights with respect to any Pledged Property;
(ii) all Sales Proceeds Accounts and all funds, properties and
assets (including financial assets) deposited therein or carried in
or credited thereto, and (iii) to the extent not included in
the foregoing clause (m)(i) , all other Investment Property
(including, without limitation, Commodity Accounts, Commodity
Contracts, Securities (whether Certificated Securities or
Uncertificated Securities), Security Entitlements and Securities
Accounts);
(n)
Letter-of-Credit Rights and Letters of Credit;
(o) Money (of
every jurisdiction whatsoever);
(q) UK Pledged
Shares and UK Notes;
(r) Supporting
Obligations;
(t) Investment
Property; and
(u) to the extent
not included in the foregoing, all other personal assets and
property of any kind or description;
together with
all books, records, writings, data bases, information and other
property relating to, used or useful in connection with, or
evidencing, embodying, incorporating or referring to any of the
foregoing, all claims and/or insurance proceeds arising out of the
loss, nonconformity or any interference with the use of, or any
defect or infringement of rights in, or damage to, any of the
foregoing, and all Proceeds, products, offspring, rents, issues,
profits and returns of and from, and all distributions on and
rights arising out of, any of the foregoing;
provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the “
Collateral ” described in this Section 2
shall not include Excluded Assets.
Residential
Capital, LLC agrees with the First Priority Collateral Agent and
undertakes to pledge or, as the case may be, to pledge in advance
the Dutch VFLN Receivables. Each of Residential Funding Company,
LLC and GMAC-RFC Holding Company, LLC agrees with the First
Priority Collateral Agent and undertakes to pledge or, as the case
may be, to pledge in advance the respective Dutch Membership
Interests.
3. Grant
of Security Interest by Equity Pledgors . As security for the
prompt payment in full in cash and performance of all Obligations,
each of the Equity Pledgors hereby pledges to the
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First Priority
Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Lender Parties, and hereby
grants a continuing security interest to the First Priority
Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Lender Parties in, all of
each such Equity Pledgor’s right, title and interest, in, to,
and under, whether now or hereafter existing, owned or acquired and
wherever located and howsoever created, arising or evidenced, all
of the following:
(a) all Pledged
Shares of each Pledged Share Issuer identified in
Item A of Attachment I hereto;
(b) all other
Pledged Shares issued by any Pledged Share Issuer and pledged
hereunder by any Equity Pledgor from time to time;
(c) all promissory
notes, if any, of each Pledged Note Issuer identified in Item
D of Attachment I hereto;
(d) all other
Pledged Notes, if any, issued by any Pledged Note Issuer from time
to time;
(e) all Pledged
Note Liens, if any;
(f) all Pledged
Interests of each Pledged Interest Issuer identified in
Item B of Attachment I hereto;
(g) all other
Pledged Interests issued by any Pledged Interest Issuer and pledged
hereunder by any Equity Pledgor from time to time;
(h) all Dividends,
Distributions, interest, and other payments and rights with respect
to any Pledged Shares or Pledged Interests;
(i) all Deposit
Accounts and all Property deposited or carried therein or credited
thereto; and
(j) all Securities
Accounts and all Property (including all Investment Property and
Financial Assets) deposited or carried therein or credited thereto,
and all permitted investments acquired with funds on deposit in or
carried in or credited to such Securities Accounts;
together with
all books, records, writings, data bases, information and other
property relating to, used or useful in connection with, or
evidencing, embodying, incorporating or referring to any of the
foregoing, all claims and/or insurance proceeds arising out of the
loss, nonconformity or any interference with the use of, or any
defect or infringement of rights in, or damage to, any of the
foregoing, and all Proceeds, products, offspring, rents, issues,
profits and returns of and from, and all distributions on and
rights arising out of, any of the foregoing;
provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the “
Collateral ” described in this Section 3
shall not include Excluded Assets.
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4. Grant
of Security Interest by FABS Grantors . As security for the
prompt payment in full in cash and performance of all Obligations,
each of the FABS Grantors hereby pledges to the First Priority
Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Lender Parties, and hereby
grants a continuing security interest to the First Priority
Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Lender Parties in all of
each such FABS Grantor’s right, title and interest, in, to,
and under, whether now or hereafter existing, owned or acquired and
wherever located and howsoever created, arising or evidenced, all
of the following:
(a) all Financial
Assets, including without limitation all Financial Asset-Backed
Securities;
(b) all Deposit
Accounts and Securities Accounts in which any Financial Assets are
carried or credited, and all Investment Property (including all
Security Entitlements), Instruments, Money, and other Property on
deposit or carried therein or credited thereto, and all permitted
investments acquired with funds on deposit in or carried in or
credited thereto, and in any event the Securities Accounts
identified opposite such FABS Grantor’s name on
Schedule X hereto;
(c) all
agreements, contracts, documents and instruments evidencing,
arising from, relating to or other otherwise delivered pursuant to
or in connection with Financial Assets;
(d) all cash and
funds delivered to FABS Grantor (or its bailee or agent) in respect
of such Financial Assets and any collateral securing the same;
and
(e) to the extent
not included in the foregoing, all Accounts, Chattel Paper, Deposit
Accounts, Documents, General Intangibles, Payment Intangibles,
Instruments, Investment Property, Letter-of-Credit Rights, Letters
of Credit, Supporting Obligations, and Money, consisting of,
arising from, or relating to or delivered pursuant to, any of the
foregoing;
together with
all books, records, writings, data bases, information and other
property relating to, used or useful in connection with, or
evidencing, embodying, incorporating or referring to any of the
foregoing, all claims and/or insurance proceeds arising out of the
loss, nonconformity or any interference with the use of, or any
defect or infringement of rights in, or damage to, any of the
foregoing, and all Proceeds, products, offspring, rents, issues,
profits and returns of and from, and all distributions on and
rights arising out of, any of the foregoing;
provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the “
Collateral ” described in this Section 4
shall not include Excluded Assets.
5. Grant
of Security Interest by Additional Account Parties . As
security for the prompt payment in full in cash and performance of
all Obligations, each of the Additional Account Parties hereby
pledges to the First Priority Collateral Agent for the benefit of
the Lender Parties, and hereby grants a continuing security
interest to the First Priority Collateral Agent for the benefit of
the Lender Parties in all of each such Additional Account
Party’s right, title and interest, in, to, and
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under, whether
now or hereafter existing, owned or acquired and wherever located
and howsoever created, arising or evidenced, all of the
following:
(a) all Deposit
Accounts identified opposite such Additional Account Party’s
name on Schedule X hereto and any Property deposited or
carried therein or credit thereto and any replacement account
therefor; and
(b) all Proceeds,
products, offspring, rents, issues, profits and returns of and
from, and all distributions on and rights arising out of, any of
the foregoing;
provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the “
Collateral ” described in this Section 5
shall not include Excluded Assets.
6.
Representations and Warranties .
(a) Each
Grantor represents and warrants that:
(i) no financing
statement (other than any which may have been filed on behalf of
the First Priority Collateral Agent or in connection with Liens
expressly permitted by the Loan Agreement (“ Permitted
Liens ”)) covering any of the Collateral is on file in
any public office, except those financing statements identified on
Schedule VI(a) hereto;
(ii) such Grantor
is and will be the lawful owner of all Collateral, free of all
Liens and claims whatsoever, other than the security interest
hereunder and Permitted Liens, except those Liens and claims
identified on Schedule VI(a) hereto, with full power
and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and perform
such Grantor’s obligations hereunder, and to subject the
Collateral to the security interest hereunder and (ii) none of
the Collateral of such Grantor that constitutes Collateral is
subject to any Liens other than Permitted Liens;
(iii) all
information with respect to the Collateral and Account Debtors set
forth in any schedule, certificate or other writing at any time
heretofore or hereafter furnished by such Grantor to the First
Priority Collateral Agent or any Lender Party is and will be true
and correct in all material respects as of the date specified
therein (or, if no date is so specified, as of the date
furnished);
(iv) such
Grantor’s true legal name as registered in the jurisdiction
in which such Grantor is organized or incorporated, jurisdiction of
organization or incorporation, federal employer identification
number, organizational identification number, if any, as designated
by the state of its organization, formation or incorporation, chief
executive office and principal place of business are as set forth
on Schedule I hereto (and such Grantor has not
maintained its chief executive office and principal place of
business at any other location at any time after January 1,
2003 except as otherwise disclosed in writing to the First Priority
Collateral Agent and Lender Agent);
(v) each other
location where such Grantor maintains a place of business is set
forth on Schedule II hereto or as otherwise disclosed
in writing to the First Priority Collateral Agent and Lender
Agent;
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(vi) except as
disclosed on Schedule III hereto, such Grantor is not
now known and during the five years preceding the date hereof has
not previously been known by any trade name;
(vii) except as
disclosed on Schedule III hereto, during the five years
preceding the date hereof such Grantor has not been known by any
legal name different from the one set forth on the signature page
of this Agreement nor has such Grantor been the subject of any
merger or other corporate reorganization;
(viii)
Schedule IV hereto contains a complete listing of all
of such Grantor’s material Intellectual Property which is
subject to a registration;
(ix)
Schedule V hereto contains a complete listing of all of
such Grantor’s Commercial Tort Claims in excess of
$10,000,000 in value;
(x)
Schedule VII hereto identifies all direct Subsidiaries
of each Borrower, Guarantor and Equity Pledgor;
(xi)
Schedule IX hereto lists all Bailment Collateral the
Grantor is required to deliver to the First Priority Collateral
Agent and Lender Agent as of the Closing Date, such
Schedule IX to be updated at any time additional
Bailment Collateral may be so delivered;
(xii) such Grantor
is a corporation, limited partnership or limited liability company
as specified in Schedule I hereto and is duly
organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of
the state of its incorporation, formation or
organization;
(xiii) the
execution and delivery of this Agreement, the grant of the security
interest, proxy and other rights granted herein and the performance
by such Grantor of its obligations hereunder are within such
Grantor’s corporate, partnership or limited liability company
powers, have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate,
partnership or limited liability company action, have received all
necessary governmental approvals (if any shall be required), and do
not and will not contravene or conflict with any provision of law
or of the charter or by-laws or other organizational documents of
such Grantor or any judgment, order or decree, which is binding
upon such Grantor and will not cause a breach, default or event of
default under of any agreement, indenture, instrument or other
document to which such Grantor is a party;
(xiv) this
Agreement is a legal, valid and binding obligation of such Grantor,
enforceable in accordance with its terms, except that the
enforceability of this Agreement may be limited by bankruptcy,
insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, fraudulent transfer,
reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws now or hereafter
in effect relating to creditors’ rights generally and by
general principles of equity (regardless of whether enforcement is
sought in a proceeding in equity or at law);
(xv) such Grantor
has not performed any act which might prevent the First Priority
Collateral Agent from enforcing any of the terms of this Agreement
or which could limit the First Priority Collateral Agent in any
such enforcement;
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(xvi) no
Collateral is in the possession of any Person (other than such
Grantor or a custodian, securities intermediary or account bank
appointed by such Grantor) asserting any claim thereto or security
interest therein (other than Permitted Liens), except that the
First Priority Collateral Agent or its designee or agents may have
possession of Collateral as contemplated pursuant to the Facility
Documents;
(xvii) this
Agreement creates a valid security interest in the Collateral,
securing the payment of the Obligations, and all filings and other
actions necessary to perfect and protect such security interest
have been duly taken and such security interest shall be a first
priority security interest as to all Collateral (except for
Permitted Liens and except, as to priority, to the Liens evidenced
by the financial statements specified in Schedule VI(a)
).
(xviii) in the
case of any Pledged Shares constituting Collateral, all of such
Pledged Shares are duly authorized and validly issued, fully paid,
and non-assessable, and constitute all of the issued and
outstanding shares of capital stock of each Pledged Share Issuer
owned by the Pledgor set forth across from the name of such Pledged
Share Issuer on Attachment I hereto, except as otherwise set
forth thereon;
(xix) in the case
of each Pledged Note and the Pledged Note Liens, all of such
Pledged Notes and Pledged Note Liens, if any, have been duly
authorized, executed, endorsed, issued and delivered, and are the
legal, valid and binding obligation of the issuers thereof, and are
not in default; and
(xx) in the case
of any Pledged Interests constituting Collateral, such Pledged
Interests constitute one hundred percent (100%) of the
Pledgor’s interest in the Pledged Interest Issuer (other than
Excluded Assets) and the percentage of the total membership,
partnership or other equity interests in the Pledged Interest
Issuer indicated on Attachment I , except as otherwise set
forth thereon. The Pledged Interests indicated on Attachment
I are duly registered in the permanent ownership records of the
respective Pledged Interests Issuer, and such registration is
maintained in the principal office of such issuer. Such
registration continues valid and genuine and has not been altered.
All Pledged Interests have been duly authorized and validly issued,
are fully paid and non-assessable, and were not issued in violation
of the preemptive rights, if any, of any Person or of any agreement
by which any Pledgor is bound. All documentary, stamp or other
taxes or fees owing in connection with the registration, issuance,
transfer or pledge of Collateral have been paid. No restrictions or
conditions exist with respect to the registration, transfer, voting
or pledge of any Pledged Interests (other than usual or customary
securities laws or ERISA restrictions). All requisite formalities
for the granting of a security interest in the Pledged Interests
required pursuant to the organizational documents of the Pledgors
or the Pledged Interest Issuer have been complied with on or prior
to the execution and delivery of this Agreement. Each Pledgor
represents that, as of the date hereof, none of the Pledged
Interests is dealt with or traded on any securities exchange or in
any securities market.
(b) RFC
represents and warrants, with respect to the UK Pledged Shares,
that:
(i) it is the sole
legal and beneficial owner of the UK Pledged Shares free from all
Liens other than Permitted Liens;
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(ii) the UK
Pledged Shares are fully paid;
(iii) there are no
moneys or liabilities outstanding or payable in respect of the UK
Pledged Shares or any of them;
(iv) it is
lawfully entitled to create the security over the UK Pledged Shares
constituted by this Agreement in favor of the First Priority
Collateral Agent;
(v) together the
UK Pledged Shares constitute 65% of the issued share capital of
each Company; and
(vi) the UK
Pledged Shares are fully transferable to the First Priority
Collateral Agent (or any other person as the First Priority
Collateral Agent shall direct) without restriction and in
particular in respect of any pre-emption rights or restrictions in
the articles of association of any UK Pledged Shares Company all
appropriate waivers have been obtained in respect of them from all
other shareholders of that UK Pledged Shares Company, which are
unconditional, irrevocable and legally binding and
enforceable.
7.
Grantor Remains Liable; Nature of Security Interest;
Subrogation, etc .
(a) Anything
herein to the contrary notwithstanding, (i) each Grantor shall
remain liable under the contracts and agreements included in the
Collateral to the extent set forth therein, and will perform all of
its duties and obligations under such contracts and agreements to
the same extent as if this Agreement had not been executed,
(ii) the exercise by the First Priority Collateral Agent of
any of its rights hereunder shall not release any Grantor from any
of its duties or obligations under any such contracts or agreements
included in the Collateral, and (iii) neither the First Priority
Collateral Agent nor any other Lender Party shall have any
obligation or liability under any contracts or agreements included
in the Collateral by reason of this Agreement, nor shall the First
Priority Collateral Agent nor any Lender Party be obligated to
perform any of the obligations or duties of any Grantor thereunder
or to take any action to collect or enforce any claim for payment
assigned hereunder.
(b) This
Agreement shall in all respects be a continuing, absolute,
unconditional and irrevocable grant of security interest, and shall
remain in full force and effect until all Obligations have been
paid in full in cash and all Commitments have terminated. All
rights of the Lender Parties and the security interests granted to
the First Priority Collateral Agent (for its benefit and the
benefit of each other Lender Party) hereunder, and all obligations
of the Grantors hereunder, shall, in each case, be absolute,
unconditional and irrevocable irrespective of (i) any lack of
validity, legality or enforceability of any Facility Document,
(ii) the failure of any Lender Party (A) to assert any
claim or demand or to enforce any right or remedy against any
Grantor or any other Person under the provisions of any Facility
Document or otherwise, or (B) to exercise any right or remedy
against any other guarantor of, or collateral securing, any
Obligations, (iii) any change in the time, manner or place of
payment of, or in any other term of, all or any part of the
Obligations, or any other extension, compromise or renewal of any
Obligations, (iv) any reduction, limitation, impairment or
termination of any Obligations (except until all Obligations have
been paid in full in cash and all Commitments have terminated) for
any reason, including any claim of waiver, release, surrender,
alteration or compromise, and shall not be subject to (and each
Grantor hereby waives
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any right to or
claim of) any defense or setoff, counterclaim, recoupment or
termination whatsoever by reason of the invalidity, illegality,
nongenuineness, irregularity, compromise, unenforceability of, or
any other event or occurrence affecting, any Obligations or
otherwise, (v) any amendment to, rescission, waiver, or other
modification of, or any consent to or departure from, any of the
terms of any Facility Document, (vi) any addition, exchange or
release of any Collateral of the Obligations, or any surrender or
non-perfection of any Collateral, or any amendment to or waiver or
release or addition to, or consent to or departure from, any other
guaranty held by any Lender Party securing any of the Obligations,
or (vii) any other circumstance which might otherwise
constitute a defense available to, or a legal or equitable
discharge of, any Grantor or any other Grantor, any surety or any
guarantor.
(c) Until one
year and one day after all Obligations have been paid in full in
cash and all Commitments have terminated, each Grantor hereby
irrevocably waives any claim or other rights which it may now or
hereafter acquire against any Borrower, any other Grantor or any
other Grantor that arise from the existence, payment, performance
or enforcement of such Grantor’s obligations under this
Agreement or any other Facility Document, including any right of
subrogation, reimbursement, exoneration or indemnification, any
right to participate in any claim or remedy of any Lender Party
against any Borrower, any other Grantor or any other Grantor or any
Collateral which any Lender Party now has or hereafter acquires,
whether or not such claim, remedy or right arises in equity, or
under contract, statute or common law, including the right to take
or receive from any Borrower, any Grantor or any other Grantor,
directly or indirectly, in cash or other property or by set-off or
in any manner, payment or security on account of such claim or
other rights. If any amount shall be paid to any Grantor in
violation of the preceding sentence and the Obligations shall not
have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash or all Commitments have
not been terminated, then such amount shall be deemed to have been
paid to such Grantor for the benefit of, and held in trust for, the
First Priority Collateral Agent (on behalf of the Lender Parties),
and shall forthwith be paid to the First Priority Collateral Agent
to be credited and applied upon the Obligations, whether matured or
unmatured. Each Grantor acknowledges that it will receive direct
and indirect benefits from the financing arrangements contemplated
by the Loan Agreement and that the waiver set forth in this
Section 7(c) is knowingly made in contemplation of such
benefits.
(d) Except as
otherwise provided in the Loan Agreement, if any Lender Party may,
under applicable Requirements of Law, proceed to realize its
benefits under this Agreement or the other Facility Documents
giving any Lender Party a lien upon any Collateral, either by
judicial foreclosure or by non-judicial sale or enforcement, such
Lender Party may, at its sole option, determine which of its
remedies or rights it may pursue without affecting any of its
rights and remedies under this Agreement. If, in the exercise of
any of its rights and remedies, any Lender Party shall forfeit any
of its rights or remedies, including its right to enter a
deficiency judgment against any Grantor or any other Grantor or any
other Person, whether because of any applicable Requirements of Law
pertaining to “election of remedies” or the like, each
Grantor hereby consents to such action by such Lender Party and
waives any claim based upon such action, even if such action by
such Lender Party shall result in a full or partial loss of any
rights of subrogation that such Grantor might otherwise have had
but for such action by such Lender Party.
8.
Collections, etc . Until such time during the existence of
an Event of Default as the First Priority Collateral Agent shall
notify such Grantor of the revocation of such power and authority,
each Grantor (a) will, at its own expense, endeavor to
collect, as and when due, all
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amounts due
under any of the Non-Tangible Collateral, including the taking of
such action with respect to such collection as the First Priority
Collateral Agent may reasonably request or, in the absence of such
request, as such Grantor may deem advisable; and (b) may
grant, in the ordinary course of business, to any party obligated
on any of the Non-Tangible Collateral, any rebate, refund or
allowance to which such party may be lawfully entitled, and may
accept, in connection therewith, the return of Goods, the sale or
lease of which shall have given rise to such Non-Tangible
Collateral. The First Priority Collateral Agent, however, may, at
any time that an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing,
whether before or after any revocation of such power and authority
or the maturity of any of the Obligations, notify any party
obligated on any of the Non-Tangible Collateral to make payment or
otherwise render performance to or for the benefit of the First
Priority Collateral Agent and enforce, by suit or otherwise the
obligations of any such party obligated on any Non-Tangible
Collateral. In connection therewith, the First Priority Collateral
Agent may surrender, release or exchange all or any part thereof,
or compromise or extend or renew for any period (whether or not
longer than the original period) any indebtedness thereunder or
evidenced thereby. Upon request of the First Priority Collateral
Agent following the occurrence and during the continuation of an
Event of Default, each Grantor will, at its own expense, notify any
party obligated on any of the Non-Tangible Collateral to make
payment to the First Priority Collateral Agent of any amounts due
or to become due thereunder.
9.
Release . Collateral shall from time to time be released
from the security interest created by this Agreement pursuant to
and in accordance with the provisions of the Loan Agreement. Upon
any such release, the Lender Agent will, at the Grantors’
joint and several expense, cause the First Priority Collateral
Agent to deliver to the relevant Grantor, without any
representations, warranties or recourse of any kind whatsoever,
such released Collateral held by the First Priority Collateral
Agent or Collateral Control Agent hereunder, and execute and
deliver to the Grantor such documents as such Grantor shall
reasonably request to evidence such release.
10.
Agreements of the Grantors . (a) Each
Grantor:
(i) will execute
such financing statements (or any equivalent filings in the United
Kingdom and the Netherlands) and other documents (and pay the cost
of filing or recording the same in all public offices reasonably
determined to be appropriate by the First Priority Collateral Agent
or the Lender Agent) and do such other acts and things (including,
without limitation, delivery to the First Priority Collateral Agent
of any Instruments and Certificated Securities which constitute
Collateral), all as the First Priority Collateral Agent or the
Lender Agent may from time to time reasonably request, to establish
and maintain a valid perfected security interest in the Collateral
(free of all other liens, claims and rights of third parties
whatsoever, other than Permitted Liens) to secure the payment of
the Obligations (and each Grantor authorizes the First Priority
Collateral Agent and the Lender Agent to file, without limitation,
any financing statement (or any equivalent filings in the United
Kingdom and the Netherlands) that (i) indicates the Collateral
(x) as “all property” or “all assets”
of such Grantor or words of similar effect, regardless of whether
any particular asset in the Collateral falls within the scope of
Article 9 of the UCC of the jurisdiction wherein such
financing statement is filed, or (y) as being of an equal or
lesser scope or with greater detail, and (ii) contains any
other information required by Section 5 of Article 9 of
the UCC of the jurisdiction wherein such financing statement is
filed regarding the sufficiency or filing office acceptance of any
financing statement (or any equivalent filings
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in the United
Kingdom and the Netherlands), including (x) whether such
Grantor is an organization, the type of organization and any
organizational identification number issued to such Grantor and
(y) in the case of a financing statement (or any equivalent
filings in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands) filed as a
fixture filing or indicating Collateral as as-extracted collateral
or timber to be cut, a sufficient description of real property to
which the Collateral relates;
(ii) will keep all
its records regarding Collateral at, and will not maintain any
place of business at any location other than, its address(es) shown
on Schedules I and II hereto or at such other
addresses of which such Grantor shall have given the First Priority
Collateral Agent and the Lender Agent not less than
30 days’ prior written notice;
(iii) will not
change its state of organization or incorporation and will not
change its name, identity or corporate structure or its
organizational identification number for the state of its
incorporation, formation or organization, in each case such that
any financing statement filed to perfect the First Priority
Collateral Agent’s interests under this Agreement would
become seriously misleading, unless such Grantor shall have given
the First Priority Collateral Agent and the Lender Agent not less
than 30 days’ prior notice of such change (
provided that this Section 10(a)(iii) shall not
be deemed authorize any change or transaction prohibited under the
Loan Agreement) and shall have taken or will timely take all action
necessary to maintain continued perfection and priority of the
security interest created hereunder following such
change;
(iv) to the extent
practicable, will keep its records concerning the Collateral in
such a manner as will enable the First Priority Collateral Agent or
its designees to determine at any time the status of the
Collateral;
(v) to the extent
practicable, will furnish the First Priority Collateral Agent such
information as is available to such Grantor concerning such
Grantor, the Collateral and the Account Debtors as the First
Priority Collateral Agent may from time to time reasonably
request;
(vi) will permit
the First Priority Collateral Agent, the Lender Agent and their
designees, from time to time, on reasonable notice and at
reasonable times and intervals during normal business hours (or at
any time without notice if a Default has occurred and is
continuing) to inspect, audit and make copies of and extracts from
all records and all other papers in the possession of such Grantor
pertaining to the Collateral and the Account Debtors, and will,
upon request of the First Priority Collateral Agent during the
existence of a Default and to the extent practicable, deliver to
the First Priority Collateral Agent all of such records and
papers;
(vii) will not
sell, lease or assign any Collateral except as permitted by the
Facility Documents or create or permit to exist any Lien on any
Collateral other than Permitted Liens;
(viii) without
limiting the provisions of Section 7.01(j) of the Loan
Agreement, will at all times keep all of its Inventory and other
Goods insured under policies maintained
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with reputable,
financially sound insurance companies against loss, damage, theft
and other risks to such extent as is customarily maintained by
companies similarly situated, and cause all such policies to
provide that loss thereunder shall be payable to the First Priority
Collateral Agent as its interest may appear (it being understood
that (A) so long as no Default shall be continuing, the First
Priority Collateral Agent shall deliver any proceeds of such
insurance which may be received by it to such Grantor and
(B) upon the occurrence and during the continuance of a
Default shall be continuing, the Lender Agent may direct (in
writing) the First Priority Collateral Agent to apply any proceeds
of such insurance which may be received by it toward payment of the
Obligations, whether or not due, in such order of application as
the Lender Agent may determine) and such policies or certificates
thereof shall, if the First Priority Collateral Agent so requests,
be deposited with or furnished to the First Priority Collateral
Agent;
(ix) will keep all
of the Collateral granted by such Grantor, Deposit Accounts and
Investment Property in the United States or at such other locations
outside of the United States as may be specified in writing to the
Lender Agent;
(x) will promptly
notify the Lender Parties in writing upon incurring or otherwise
obtaining a Commercial Tort Claim which is claiming damages in
excess of $10,000,000 (or any lesser amount specified in writing by
the Lender Agent or the First Priority Collateral Agent, if a
Default has occurred and is continuing) after the date hereof
against any third party, and concurrently with deliver to the
Lender Agent, in form and substance satisfactory to the Lender
Agent, a supplement to Schedule V sufficiently
identifying such Commercial Tort Claim for purposes of
Section 9-108 of the UCC;
(xi) will promptly
notify the Lender Parties in writing upon becoming the beneficiary
under any letter of credit in excess of $10,000,000 (or any lesser
amount specified in writing by the Lender Agent or the First
Priority Collateral Agent, if a Default has occurred and is
continuing) and, at the request of the First Priority Collateral
Agent, pursuant to an agreement in form and substance satisfactory
to the First Priority Collateral Agent, either (A) arrange for
the issuer and any confirmer or other nominated person of such
letter of credit to consent to an assignment to the First Priority
Collateral Agent of such letter of credit or (B) arrange for
the First Priority Collateral Agent to become the transferee
beneficiary of such letter of credit;
(xii) will
promptly notify the Lender Parties in writing if such Grantor holds
or acquires an interest in any Electronic Chattel Paper and, at the
request of the First Priority Collateral Agent, take such action as
the First Priority Collateral Agent or the Lender Agent may
reasonably request to vest control, under Section 9-105 of the
UCC, of such Electronic Chattel Paper in the First Priority
Collateral Agent or the Collateral Control Agent;
(xiii) if any
Grantor (i) obtains any rights to any additional Intellectual
Property constituting Collateral which is registered with the
United States Copyright Office or the United States Patent &
Trademark Office or (ii) becomes entitled to the benefit of
any additional Intellectual Property constituting Collateral or any
renewal or extension thereof, including any reissue, division,
continuation, or continuation-in-part of any Intellectual Property
constituting Collateral which is registered with the United States
Copyright Office
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or the United
States Patent & Trademark Office, or any improvement on any
Intellectual Property constituting Collateral which is registered
with the United States Copyright Office or the United States Patent
& Trademark Office, such Grantor will notify the First Priority
Collateral Agent in writing and use commercially reasonable efforts
to cause a short form security agreement in favor of the First
Priority Collateral Agent to be filed in the United States
Copyright Office or the Unites States Patent & Trademark
Office, as the case may be, with respect to such Intellectual
Property; provided that this covenant shall not apply to
“off-the-shelf” license rights of any Grantor in any
Intellectual Property or any other license rights that are not
material to such Grantor;
(xiv) acknowledges
and agrees that it is not authorized to file any financing
statement in favor of the First Priority Collateral Agent without
the prior written consent of the First Priority Collateral Agent
and that it will not do so without the prior written consent of the
First Priority Collateral Agent, subject to such Grantor’s
rights under Section 9-509(d)(2) of the UCC;
(xv) agrees that
no Grantor will take any action to grant or perfect a Lien in favor
of the Second Priority Collateral Agent (as defined in the
Intercreditor Agreement) or Third Priority Collateral Agent (as
defined in the Intercreditor Agreement) in any asset without first
taking such action in favor of the First Priority Collateral Agent
or Collateral Control Agent as directed by the Lender
Agent;
(xvi) will
facilitate the realization of the Collateral and the exercise of
all powers, authorities and discretions vested by this Agreement in
the First Priority Collateral Agent; and
(xvii) shall in
particular promptly execute all transfers, conveyances,
assignments, assurances which the First Priority Collateral Agent
may reasonably request in order to preserve or protect its interest
in the Collateral.
Any expenses
incurred in protecting, preserving or maintaining any Collateral
shall be borne jointly and severally by the Grantors. Upon the
occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default, the
First Priority Collateral Agent shall have the right to bring suit
to enforce any or all of the Intellectual Property or licenses
thereunder, in which event the applicable Grantor shall at the
request of the First Priority Collateral Agent do any and all
lawful acts and execute any and all proper documents reasonably
requested by the First Priority Collateral Agent or the Lender
Agent in aid of such enforcement and such Grantor shall promptly,
upon demand, reimburse and indemnify the First Priority Collateral
Agent and Lender Agent for all costs and expenses incurred by
either of them in the exercise of their rights under this
Section 10 . Notwithstanding the foregoing, the First
Priority Collateral Agent shall have no obligation or liability
regarding the Collateral or any proceeds thereof by reason of, or
arising out of, this Agreement.
(b) Each of
RFC and RFC Holding (i) shall execute a written declaration as
referred to in clause 19.12 of the articles of association (
statuten ) of GMAC RFC International Holdings
Coöperatief U.A pursuant to which it terminates its membership
( lidmaatschap ) of GMAC RFC International Holdings
Coöperatief U.A., subject to the occurrence of an Event of
Default or the delivery of a notice in accordance with
Section 8.02 (Remedies) of the Loan Agreement and
(ii)
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shall not
revoke such written declaration or otherwise take any action that
results in such written declaration being nullified or declared
null and void.
(c) ResCap
acknowledges and agrees that (a) it shall (1) not waive
any rights under nor amend, novate, repudiate, rescind or otherwise
terminate or permit to be terminated any Assigned Document without
the prior written consent of the First Priority Collateral Agent;
(2) diligently pursue any remedies available to it for any
breach of, or in respect of any claim in relation to, any Assigned
Document; (3) deposit the UK Note and any UK Note Related
Security issued in relation to a UK Note pursuant to Clause 8.2
(New Note Certificate) of the Note Issuance Facility Deed with the
First Priority Collateral Agent or the Collateral Control Agent and
(4) procure that the UK SPE complies with its obligations
under Clause 8.2 (New Note Certificate) of the Note Issuance
Facility Deed, including, without limitation, granting a power of
attorney in favor of the First Priority Collateral Agent or the
Collateral Control Agent in a form set out in Schedule 9 to
the Note Issuance Facility Deed; and (b) all payments received
by it in connection with the UK Note, including the proceeds of any
redemption of the UK Note whether as a result of a disposal of any
assets or otherwise, shall be deposited into an account specified
by the First Priority Collateral Agent from time to time in
accordance with Section 4.02 of the Loan Agreement.
11.
Agreement as to Investment Property; Voting .
(a) All
certificates or Instruments, if any, representing or evidencing any
Primary Collateral, including any Pledged Property, shall be
delivered to and held by or on behalf of (and, in the case of the
Pledged Notes, endorsed to the order of) the Collateral Control
Agent pursuant hereto, shall be in suitable form for transfer by
delivery, and shall be accompanied by all necessary endorsements or
instruments of transfer or assignment, duly executed in blank;
provided that notes evidencing individual residential
mortgage loans included in Primary Collateral need not be so
delivered before September 15, 2008; and provided
further that notes evidencing individual residential
mortgage loans that are not included in Primary Collateral need not
be so delivered.
(b) To the
extent any of its Primary Collateral constitutes a
“certificated security” (as defined in
Section 8-102(a)(4) of the UCC), each Grantor shall take such
other actions as necessary to grant “control” (as
defined in Section 8-106 of the UCC) to the First Priority
Collateral Agent over such Collateral.
(c) Not later
than the Account Transfer Date, to the extent any of its Collateral
constitutes an “uncertificated security” (as defined in
Section 8-102(a)(18) of the UCC) with a Carrying Value of
$10,000,000 or more, each Grantor shall take and cause the
appropriate Person (including any issuer, entitlement holder or
securities intermediary thereof) to take all actions necessary to
grant “control” (as defined in Section 8-106 of
the UCC) to the Collateral Control Agent over such Collateral
including, without limitation, causing delivery of such Collateral
or causing the issuer of such Collateral, as appropriate, to agree
to comply with the instructions originated by the Collateral
Control Agent without further consent by the registered owner
thereof;
(d) Not later
than the Account Transfer Date, to the extent any of its Collateral
constitutes a “security entitlement” or a
“securities account” (as such terms are defined in
Sections 8-102(a)(17) and 8-501(a), respectively, of the UCC), each
Grantor shall take and cause the appropriate Person (including any
securities intermediary thereof) to take all actions necessary
to
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grant
“control” (as defined in Section 8-106 of the UCC)
to the Collateral Control Agent over such Collateral including,
without limitation, causing to be delivered to the Collateral
Control Agent an agreement, in form and substance satisfactory to
the Lender Agent, executed by the securities intermediary thereof
whereby such securities intermediary agrees (i) that it will
comply with entitlement orders originated by the Collateral Control
Agent without further consent by such Grantor or any other Person
with respect to all such Collateral (it being understood that such
agreement may provide that at all times when such securities
intermediary has not been notified by the Collateral Control Agent
to the contrary, the securities intermediary may comply with
entitlement orders of such Grantor), (ii) to subordinate any
security interest it may have in and to all such Collateral to the
security interest of the Collateral Control Agent therein, and
(iii) that it will not agree with any Person other than the
Collateral Control Agent in any manner that would grant such Person
“control” over any such Collateral without the Lender
Agent’s prior written consent.
(e) Each
Pledgor will, from time to time upon the request of the Collateral
Control Agent or the First Priority Collateral Agent, promptly
deliver to the Collateral Control Agent such stock powers,
instruments, and similar documents, satisfactory in form and
substance to the Lender Agent and the First Priority Collateral
Agent, with respect to the Collateral as the Collateral Control
Agent or the First Priority Collateral Agent may reasonably request
and will, from time to time upon the request of the Collateral
Control Agent or the First Priority Collateral Agent after the
occurrence of any Default, promptly transfer any Pledged Shares,
Pledged Interests or other shares of common stock, member interests
or other ownership interests constituting Collateral into the name
of any nominee designated by the Lender Agent.
(f) Subject
to clause (g) below , each Pledgor will, at all times,
keep pledged to the First Priority Collateral Agent or Collateral
Control Agent, as the case may be, pursuant to the Intercreditor
Agreement, all Pledged Shares, Pledged Interests and all other
shares of capital stock, member interests or other ownership
interests constituting Collateral, and all securities, security
entitlements and securities accounts constituting Collateral,
Dividends and Distributions with respect thereto, all Pledged
Notes, all interest, principal and other proceeds received by the
First Priority Collateral Agent with respect to the Pledged Notes,
all Pledged Note Liens and all other Collateral and other
securities, instruments, security entitlements, financial assets,
investment property, proceeds, and rights from time to time
received by or distributable to a Pledgor in respect of any
Collateral.
(g) In the
event that any Dividend or Distribution is to be paid on any
Pledged Share or any Pledged Interest or any payment of principal
or interest is to be made on any Pledged Note at a time when no
Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, such Dividend,
Distribution or payment may be paid directly to the relevant
Grantor. If any Event of Default has occurred and is continuing,
then any such Dividend, Distribution or payment shall be paid
directly to the First Priority Collateral Agent in accordance with
Section 11(h) .
(i) following the
occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default,
promptly upon receipt thereof by any Pledgor and without any
request therefor by the First Priority Collateral Agent, to deliver
(properly endorsed where required hereby or requested by the First
Priority Collateral Agent) to the First Priority Collateral Agent
all Dividends,
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Distributions,
all interest, all principal, all other cash payments, and all
proceeds of the Collateral, all of which shall be held by the First
Priority Collateral Agent as additional Collateral for use in
accordance with Section 12(f) ; and
(ii) after any
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and the
First Priority Collateral Agent has notified the relevant Pledgor
of the First Priority Collateral Agent’s intention to
exercise its voting power under this clause (ii) ,
(A) the First Priority Collateral Agent may exercise (to the
exclusion of such Pledgor) the voting power and all other
incidental rights of ownership with respect to any Pledged Shares,
Pledged Interests or other shares of capital stock, member
interests or other ownership interests constituting Collateral and
EACH PLEDGOR HEREBY GRANTS THE FIRST PRIORITY COLLATERAL AGENT AN
IRREVOCABLE PROXY, EXERCISABLE UNDER SUCH CIRCUMSTANCES, TO VOTE
THE PLEDGED SHARES, THE PLEDGED INTERESTS AND SUCH OTHER
COLLATERAL, WITH SUCH PROXY TO REMAIN VALID UNTIL THE PAYMENT IN
FULL IN CASH OF ALL OBLIGATIONS, THE TERMINATION OR EXPIRATION OF
ALL COMMITMENTS; and (B) promptly to deliver to the First
Priority Collateral Agent such additional proxies and other
documents as may be necessary to allow the First Priority
Collateral Agent to exercise such voting power;
(i) All
Dividends, Distributions, interest, principal, cash payments, and
proceeds and all rights under the UK Note and the UK Note Related
Security which may at any time and from time to time be held by a
Pledgor but which such Pledgor is then obligated to deliver to the
First Priority Collateral Agent, shall, until delivery to the First
Priority Collateral Agent, be held by such Pledgor separate and
apart from its other property in trust for the First Priority
Collateral Agent. The First Priority Collateral Agent agrees that
unless it has received written notice from the Lender Agent or any
Lender that an Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing and the First Priority Collateral Agent shall have given
the notice referred to in Section 11(h)(ii) , such Pledgor
shall have the exclusive voting power with respect to any shares of
capital stock, member interests or other ownership interest
(including any of the Pledged Shares, Pledged Interests or UK
Pledged Shares) constituting Collateral and the First Priority
Collateral Agent shall, upon the written request of such Pledgor,
promptly deliver (at the Grantors’ joint and several expense)
such proxies and other documents, if any, as shall be reasonably
requested by such Pledgor which are necessary to allow such Pledgor
to exercise voting power with respect to any such share of capital
stock, member interests or other ownership interests (including any
of the Pledged Shares, Pledged Interests or UK Pledged Shares)
constituting Collateral; provided , however , that no
vote shall be cast, or consent, waiver, or ratification given, or
action taken by any Pledgor that could reasonably be expected to be
adverse in any material respect to the interests of the First
Priority Collateral Agent and the other Lender Parties or be
inconsistent with or violate any provision of the Loan Agreement or
any other Facility Document (including this Agreement).
(j) No
Pledgor will, without the prior written consent of the Lender
Agent: (A) enter into any agreement amending, supplementing,
or waiving in any material respect any provision of any Pledged
Note, any Pledged Note Lien or any UK Pledg
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