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Exhibit
10.9
LOAN AND SECURITY
AGREEMENT
by and
between
FIFTH THIRD
BANK
as Lender
and
VALUE FINANCIAL SERVICES,
INC.
as Borrower
Dated: June 15,
2007
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
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| SECTION 1. |
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DEFINITIONS
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| SECTION 2. |
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CREDIT FACILITY
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| 2.1 |
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R EVOLVING L
OANS
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| 2.2 |
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T ERM L
OAN
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| SECTION 3. |
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INTEREST AND FEES
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| 3.1 |
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I NTEREST
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| 3.2 |
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L ATE C
HARGE
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| 3.4 |
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C HANGES
IN L AWS AND I
NCREASED C OSTS OF L
OANS
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| SECTION 4. |
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CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
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| 4.1 |
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C ONDITIONS P
RECEDENT TO I NITIAL L
OANS
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| 4.2 |
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C ONDITIONS P
RECEDENT TO A LL L
OANS
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| SECTION 5. |
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GRANT AND PERFECTION OF SECURITY
INTEREST
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| 5.1 |
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G RANT OF
S ECURITY I NTEREST
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P ERFECTION
OF S ECURITY I
NTERESTS
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| SECTION 6. |
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COLLECTION AND ADMINISTRATION
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| 6.1 |
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B ORROWER ’
S L OAN A
CCOUNT
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| 6.2 |
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S TATEMENTS
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| 6.3 |
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P AYMENTS
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| 6.4 |
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A UTHORIZATION
TO M AKE R EVOLVING L
OANS
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| 6.5 |
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U SE OF P
ROCEEDS
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| SECTION 7. |
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COLLATERAL REPORTING AND COLLATERAL
COVENANTS
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| 7.1 |
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C OLLATERAL R
EPORTING
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| 7.2 |
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A CCOUNTS C
OVENANTS
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| 7.3 |
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E QUIPMENT
AND R EAL P ROPERTY C
OVENANTS
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| 7.4 |
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P OWER OF
A TTORNEY
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| 7.5 |
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R IGHT TO
C URE
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| 7.6 |
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A CCESS T
O P REMISES
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| SECTION 8. |
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REPRESENTATIONS AND
WARRANTIES
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| 8.1 |
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C ORPORATE E
XISTENCE ; P OWER AND
A UTHORITY
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N AME ; S
TATE OF O RGANIZATION
; C HIEF E XECUTIVE O
FFICE ; C OLLATERAL L
OCATIONS
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| 8.3 |
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F INANCIAL S
TATEMENTS ; N O M
ATERIAL A DVERSE C
HANGE
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| 8.4 |
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P RIORITY
OF L IENS ; T ITLE
TO P ROPERTIES
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| 8.5 |
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T AX R
ETURNS
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| 8.6 |
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L ITIGATION
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C OMPLIANCE
WITH O THER AGREEMENTS
AND A PPLICABLE L
AWS
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| 8.8 |
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E NVIRONMENTAL C
OMPLIANCE
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| 8.9 |
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E MPLOYEE B
ENEFITS
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| 8.10 |
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B ANK A
CCOUNTS
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| 8.11 |
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I NTELLECTUAL P
ROPERTY
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| 8.12 |
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S UBSIDIARIES ; A
FFILIATES ; C APITALIZATION ; S
OLVENCY
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| 8.13 |
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L ABOR D
ISPUTES
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| 8.14 |
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R ESTRICTIONS
ON S UBSIDIARIES
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| 8.15 |
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M ATERIAL C
ONTRACTS
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| 8.16 |
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P AYABLE P
RACTICES
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A CCURACY
AND C OMPLETENESS OF I
NFORMATION
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S URVIVAL
OF W ARRANTIES ; C
UMULATIVE
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| 8.19 |
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I NVESTMENT C
OMPANY A CT ; R
EGULATION
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| 8.20 |
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R ACKETEER I
NFLUENCED AND C ORRUPT
O RGANIZATIONS A CT
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| 8.21 |
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F OREIGN A
SSETS C ONTROL R
EGULATIONS AND A NTI
-M ONEY L AUNDERING
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| SECTION 9. |
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AFFIRMATIVE AND NEGATIVE
COVENANTS
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| 9.1 |
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M AINTENANCE
OF E XISTENCE
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| 9.2 |
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N EW C
OLLATERAL L OCATIONS
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| 9.3 |
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C OMPLIANCE
WITH L AWS , R
EGULATIONS , E TC .
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| 9.4 |
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P AYMENT
OF T AXES AND C
LAIMS
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| 9.5 |
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I NSURANCE
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| 9.6 |
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F INANCIAL S
TATEMENTS AND O THER I
NFORMATION
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| 9.7 |
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S ALE OF A
SSETS , C ONSOLIDATION , A
CQUISITIONS , M ERGER , D
ISSOLUTION , E TC .
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| 9.8 |
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E NCUMBRANCES
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| 9.9 |
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N O O THER
D EBT ; N O L
IENS
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| 9.11 |
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D IVIDENDS
AND R EDEMPTIONS
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| 9.12 |
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T RANSACTIONS
WITH A FFILIATES
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| 9.13 |
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C OMPLIANCE
WITH ERISA
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| 9.14 |
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E ND OF F
ISCAL Y EARS ; F ISCAL
Q UARTERS
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| 9.15 |
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C HANGE IN
B USINESS
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| 9.16 |
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L IMITATION
OF R ESTRICTIONS A
FFECTING S UBSIDIARIES
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F INANCIAL C
OVENANTS
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| 9.18 |
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C OSTS AND
E XPENSES
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| 9.19 |
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P RIMARY D
EPOSITORY A CCOUNT
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F URTHER A
SSURANCES
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R EGULATION U
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| SECTION 10. |
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EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND
REMEDIES
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| 10.1 |
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E VENTS OF
D EFAULT
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| 10.2 |
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R EMEDIES
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| SECTION 11. |
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JURY TRIAL WAIVER; OTHER WAIVERS AND
CONSENTS;
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GOVERNING LAW
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| 11.1 |
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G OVERNING L
AW ; C HOICE OF F
ORUM ; S ERVICE OF P
ROCESS ; J URY T RIAL
W AIVER
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| 11.2 |
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W AIVER OF
N OTICES
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A MENDMENTS
AND W AIVERS
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| 11.4 |
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W AIVER OF
C OUNTERCLAIMS
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I
NDEMNIFICATION
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TERM OF AGREEMENT;
MISCELLANEOUS
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| 12.1 |
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T ERM
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I NTERPRETATIVE P
ROVISIONS
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| 12.3 |
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N OTICES
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| 12.4 |
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P ARTIAL I
NVALIDITY
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| 12.5 |
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S UCCESSORS
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| 12.6 |
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E NTIRE A
GREEMENT
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| 12.7 |
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C OUNTERPARTS , E
TC .
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| 12.8 |
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C
ONFIDENTIALITY
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REVOLVING
NOTE
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TERM
NOTE
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INDEX TO
EXHIBITS AND
SCHEDULES
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Exhibit A
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Pricing Grid
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Exhibit B
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Revolving Note
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Exhibit C
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Term Note
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Exhibit D
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Compliance Certificate
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Schedule 1.46
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Permitted Indebtedness
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Schedule 1.47
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Permitted Loans, Advances and
Investments
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Schedule 1.48
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Permitted Liens
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Schedule 5.2
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Deposit Accounts
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Schedule 8.2
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Locations
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Schedule 8.4
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Liens and Security Interests
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Schedule 8.6
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Litigation
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Schedule 8.11
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Intellectual Property
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Schedule 8.12
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Subsidiaries
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Schedule 8.15
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Material Contracts
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LOAN AND SECURITY
AGREEMENT
This Loan and Security
Agreement dated June 15, 2007, is entered into by and between
Fifth Third Bank, a Michigan banking corporation
(“Lender”) and Value Financial Services, Inc., a
Florida corporation (“Borrower”).
WITNESSETH
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WHEREAS, Borrower has
requested that Lender enter into financing arrangements with
Borrower pursuant to which Lender will make a term loan and provide
a line of credit to Borrower; and
WHEREAS, Lender is
willing to make such term loan and provide such line of credit on
the terms and conditions set forth herein;
NOW, THEREFORE, in
consideration of the mutual conditions and agreements set forth
herein, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt
and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto
agree as follows:
SECTION 1.
DEFINITIONS
For purposes of this
Agreement, the following terms shall have the respective meanings
given to them below:
1.1 “Accounts”
shall mean all present and future rights of Borrower to payment of
a monetary obligation, whether or not earned by performance, which
is not evidenced by chattel paper or an instrument, (a) for
property that has been or is to be sold, leased, licensed,
assigned, or otherwise disposed of, (b) for services rendered
or to be rendered, (c) for a secondary obligation incurred or
to be incurred, or (d) arising out of the use of a credit or
charge card or information contained on or for use with the
card.
1.2 “Affiliate”
shall mean, with respect to a specified Person, any other Person
which directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries,
controls or is controlled by or is under common control with such
Person, and without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
includes (a) any Person which beneficially owns or holds
fifteen (15%) percent or more of any class of Voting Stock of
such Person or other equity interests in such Person, (b) any
Person of which such Person beneficially owns or holds fifteen
(15%) percent or more of any class of Voting Stock or in which
such Person beneficially owns or holds fifteen (15%) percent
or more of the equity interests and (c) any director or
executive officer of such Person. For the purposes of this
definition, the term “control” (including with
correlative meanings, the terms “controlled by” and
“under common control with”), as used with respect to
any Person, means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the
power to direct or cause the direction of the management and
policies of such Person, whether through the ownership of Voting
Stock, by agreement or otherwise.
1.3 “Agreement”
shall mean, this Loan and Security Agreement, as the same now
exists or may be amended, supplemented, restated, replaced, or
otherwise modified from time to time.
1.4 “Business
Day” shall mean any day other than a Saturday, Sunday, or
other day on which commercial banks are authorized or required to
close under the laws of the State of Florida, or the State of
Florida, and a day on which the Lender is open for the transaction
of business.
1.5 “Capital
Leases” shall mean, as applied to any Person, any lease of
(or any agreement conveying the right to use) any property (whether
real, personal or mixed) by such Person as lessee which in
accordance with GAAP, is required to be reflected as a Capital
Lease liability or funded indebtedness on the balance sheet of such
Person.
1.6 “Capital
Stock” shall mean, with respect to any Person, any and all
shares, interests, participations or other equivalents (however
designated) of such Person’s capital stock or partnership,
limited liability company or other equity interests at any time
outstanding, and any and all rights, warrants or options
exchangeable for or convertible into such capital stock or other
interests (but excluding any debt security that is exchangeable for
or convertible into such capital stock).
1.7 “Cash
Equivalents” shall mean, at any time, (a) any evidence
of Indebtedness with a maturity date of ninety (90) days or
less issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the
United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof;
provided , that , the full faith and credit of the
United States of America is pledged in support thereof;
(b) certificates of deposit or bankers’ acceptances with
a maturity of ninety (90) days or less of any financial
institution that is a member of the Federal Reserve System having
combined capital and unimpaired surplus of not less than
$1,000,000,000; (c) commercial paper (including variable rate
demand notes) with a maturity of ninety (90) days or less
issued by a corporation (except an Affiliate of Borrower) organized
under the laws of any State of the United States of America or the
District of Columbia and rated at least A-l by Standard &
Poor’s Ratings Service, a division of The McGraw-Hill
Companies, Inc. or at least P-1 by Moody’s Investors Service,
Inc.; (d) repurchase obligations with a term of not more than
thirty (30) days for underlying securities of the types
described in clause (a) above entered into with any financial
institution having combined capital and unimpaired surplus of not
less than $1,000,000,000; (e) repurchase agreements and
reverse repurchase agreements relating to marketable direct
obligations issued or unconditionally guaranteed by the United
States of America or issued by any governmental agency thereof and
backed by the full faith and credit of the United States of
America, in each case maturing within ninety (90) days or less
from the date of acquisition; provided , that , the
terms of such agreements comply with the guidelines set forth in
the Federal Financial Agreements of Depository Institutions with
Securities Dealers and Others, as adopted by the Comptroller of the
Currency on October 31, 1985; and (f) investments in
money market funds and mutual funds that are registered under the
Investment Company Act of 1940 as amended which invest
substantially all of their assets in securities of the types
described in clauses (a) through (e) above.
1.8 “Change of
Control” shall mean (a) the transfer (in one transaction
or a series of transactions) of all or substantially all of the
assets of Borrower to any Person or group (as such term is used in
Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act); (b) the
liquidation or dissolution of Borrower or the adoption of a plan by
the shareholders of Borrower relating to the dissolution or
liquidation of Borrower; (c) in one transaction or a series of
related transactions, the acquisition by any Person or group (as
such term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), of
beneficial ownership, directly or indirectly, of a majority of the
voting power of the total outstanding Voting Stock of
Borrower.
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1.9 “Code” shall
mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as the same now exists or
may from time to time hereafter be amended, modified, recodified or
supplemented, together with all rules and regulations thereunder or
related thereto.
1.10 “Collateral”
shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5
hereof.
1.11 “Commitment”
shall mean that certain Commitment Letter dated June 6, 2007
from Lender to Borrower as accepted and agreed to in writing by
Borrower.
1.12 “Consistent
Basis” means in reference to the application of GAAP, that
the accounting principles observed in the current period are
comparable in all material respects to those applied in the
preceding period.
1.13 “Currently
Maturing Long Term Debt” shall mean payments of principal due
within the next 360 days on any and all Indebtedness with a term
exceeding one year.
1.14 “Default”
shall mean an act, condition or event which with notice or passage
of time or both would constitute an Event of Default.
1.15 “EBITDA”
shall mean, for any Fiscal Quarter, the Borrower’s net income
before Interest Expense, taxes, depreciation, and amortization
expense, all computed in conformity with GAAP.
1.16 “Environmental
Laws” shall mean all foreign, Federal, State and local laws
(including common law), legislation, rules, codes, licenses,
permits (including any conditions imposed therein), authorizations,
judicial or administrative decisions, injunctions or agreements
between Borrower and any Governmental Authority, (a) relating
to pollution and the protection, preservation or restoration of the
environment (including air, water vapor, surface water, ground
water, drinking water, drinking water supply, surface land,
subsurface land, plant and animal life or any other natural
resource), or to human health or safety, (b) relating to the
exposure to, or the use, storage, recycling, treatment, generation,
manufacture, processing, distribution, transportation, handling,
labeling, production, release or disposal, or threatened release,
of Hazardous Materials, or (c) relating to all laws with
regard to recordkeeping, notification, disclosure and reporting
requirements respecting Hazardous Materials. The term
“Environmental Laws” includes (i) the Federal
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability
Act of 1980, the Federal Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization
Act, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, the Federal
Clean Water Act, the Federal Clean Air Act, the Federal Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (including the Hazardous and
Solid Waste Amendments thereto), the Federal Solid Waste Disposal
and the Federal Toxic Substances Control Act, the Federal
Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, and the Federal Safe
Drinking Water Act of 1974, (ii) applicable state counterparts
to such laws, and (iii) any common law or equitable doctrine
that may impose liability or obligations for injuries or damages
due to, or threatened as a result of, the presence of or exposure
to any Hazardous Materials.
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1.17 “Equipment”
shall mean all of Borrower’s now owned and hereafter acquired
equipment, wherever located, including machinery, data processing
and computer equipment and computer hardware and software, whether
owned or licensed, and including embedded software, vehicles,
tools, furniture, fixtures, all attachments, accessions and
property now or hereafter affixed thereto or used in connection
therewith, and substitutions and replacements thereof, wherever
located.
1.18 “ERISA”
shall mean the United States Employee Retirement Income Security
Act of 1974, together with all rules and regulations thereunder or
related thereto.
1.19 “ERISA
Affiliate” shall mean any person required to be aggregated
with Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries under Sections 414(b),
414(c), 414(m) or 414(o) of the Code.
1.20 “ERISA
Event” shall mean (a) any “reportable
event”, as defined in Section 4043 of ERISA or the
regulations issued thereunder, with respect to a Plan; (b) the
adoption of any amendment to a Plan that would require the
provision of security pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) of the
Code or Section 307 of ERISA; (c) the existence with
respect to any Plan of an “accumulated funding
deficiency” (as defined in Section 412 of the Code or
Section 302 of ERISA), whether or not waived; (d) the
filing pursuant to Section 412 of the Code or
Section 303(d) of ERISA of an application for a waiver of the
minimum funding standard with respect to any Plan; (e) the
occurrence of a “prohibited transaction” with respect
to which Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries is a
“disqualified person” (within the meaning of
Section 4975 of the Code) or with respect to which Borrower or
any of its Subsidiaries could otherwise be liable if such liability
is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect; (f) a
complete or partial withdrawal by the Borrower or any ERISA
Affiliate from a Multiemployer Plan or a cessation of operations
which is treated as such a withdrawal or notification that a
Multiemployer Plan is in reorganization; (g) the filing of a
notice of intent to terminate, the treatment of a Plan amendment as
a termination under Section 4041 or 4041A of ERISA, or the
commencement of proceedings by the Pension Benefit Guaranty
Corporation to terminate a Plan; (h) an event or condition
which might reasonably be expected to constitute grounds under
Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the
appointment of a trustee to administer, any Plan; (i) the
imposition of any liability under Title IV of ERISA, other than the
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation premiums due but not
delinquent under Section 4007 of ERISA, upon Borrower or any
ERISA Affiliate in excess of $1,000,000; and (j) any other
event or condition with respect to a Plan including any Plan
subject to Title IV of ERISA maintained, or contributed to, by any
ERISA Affiliate that could reasonably be expected to result in
liability of Borrower in excess of $1,000,000.
1.21 “Event of
Default” shall mean the occurrence or existence of any event
or condition described in Section 10.1 hereof. “Event of
Default” shall mean the occurrence or existence of any event
or condition described
1.22 “Exchange
Act” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, together
with all rules, regulations and interpretations thereunder or
related thereto.
1.23 “Executive
Officers” shall mean Borrower’s President, Chief
Financial Officer, and Vice President of Operations.
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1.24 “Fixed Charge
Coverage Ratio” shall mean (a) the sum of
Borrower’s net income plus (i) depreciation,
(ii) taxes, (iii) amortization, (iv) Interest
Expense, (v) real estate lease payments, and
(vi) equipment lease payments less cash payments for
taxes divided by (b) the sum of Borrower’s
(i) scheduled principal payments, (ii) Interest Expense,
(iii) real estate lease payments and (iv) equipment lease
payments.
1.25 “Financing
Agreements” shall mean, collectively, this Agreement, the
Notes, and all other notes, guarantees, pledge agreements, security
agreements, deposit account control agreements, investment property
control agreements, intercreditor agreements, and all other
agreements, documents and instruments now or at any time hereafter
executed and/or delivered by Borrower or any Obligor in connection
with this Agreement.
1.26 “GAAP” shall
mean generally accepted accounting principles in the United States
of America as in effect from time to time as set forth in the
opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board and
the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the
statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards
Board which are applicable to the circumstances as of the date of
determination consistently applied.
1.27 “Governmental
Authority” shall mean any nation or government, any state,
province, or other political subdivision thereof, any central bank
(or similar monetary or regulatory authority) thereof, any entity
exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or
administrative functions of or pertaining to government, and any
corporation or other entity owned or controlled, through stock or
capital ownership or otherwise, by any of the foregoing.
1.28 “Guarantor”
shall mean all domestic Subsidiaries of Borrower including, without
limitation, Value Pawn Holdings, Inc., a Tennessee
corporation.
1.29 “Hazardous
Materials” shall mean any hazardous, toxic or dangerous
substances, materials and wastes, including hydrocarbons (including
naturally occurring or man-made petroleum and hydrocarbons),
flammable explosives, asbestos, urea formaldehyde insulation,
radioactive materials, biological substances, polychlorinated
biphenyls, pesticides, herbicides and any other kind and/or type of
pollutants or contaminants (including materials which include
hazardous constituents), sewage, sludge, industrial slag, solvents
and/or any other similar substances, materials, or wastes and
including any other substances, materials or wastes that are or
become regulated under any Environmental Law (including any that
are or become classified as hazardous or toxic under any
Environmental Law).
1.30
“Indebtedness” shall mean, (without duplication) with
respect to any Person, any liability, whether or not contingent,
(a) in respect of borrowed money (whether or not the recourse
of the lender is to the whole of the assets of such Person or only
to a portion thereof) or evidenced by bonds, notes, debentures or
similar instruments; (b) representing the balance deferred and
unpaid of the purchase price of any property or services (except
(i) any such balance that constitutes an account payable to a
trade creditor (whether or not an Affiliate) created, incurred,
assumed or guaranteed by such Person in the ordinary course of
business of such Person in connection with obtaining goods,
materials or services or other accrued expenses, and (ii) any
conditional “earnout” or other deferred payments owed
or to be owed by Borrower in connection with any investment or
acquisition not prohibited by this Agreement); (c)
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all obligations as lessee under leases
which have been, or should be, in accordance with GAAP recorded as
Capital Leases; (d) any contractual obligation, contingent or
otherwise, of such Person to pay or be liable for the payment of
any indebtedness described in this definition of another Person,
including, without limitation, any such indebtedness, directly or
indirectly guaranteed, or any agreement to purchase, repurchase, or
otherwise acquire such indebtedness, obligation or liability or any
security therefor, or to provide funds for the payment or discharge
thereof, or to maintain solvency, assets, level of income, or other
financial condition; (e) all reimbursement obligations and
other liabilities of such Person with respect to surety bonds
(whether bid, performance or otherwise), letters of credit,
banker’s acceptances, drafts or similar documents or
instruments issued for such Person’s account; (f) all
indebtedness of such Person in respect of indebtedness of another
Person for borrowed money or indebtedness of another Person
otherwise described in this definition which is secured by any
consensual lien, security interest, collateral assignment,
conditional sale, mortgage, deed of trust, or other encumbrance on
any asset of such Person, whether or not such obligations,
liabilities or indebtedness are assumed by or are a personal
liability of such Person, all as of such time; and (g) all
obligations, liabilities and indebtedness of such Person {marked to
market) arising under swap agreements, cap agreements and collar
agreements and other agreements or arrangements designed to protect
such person against fluctuations in interest rates or currency or
commodity values.
1.31 “Intellectual
Property” shall mean Borrower’s now owned and hereafter
arising or acquired; patents, patent rights, patent applications,
copyrights, works which are the subject matter of copyrights,
copyright registrations, copyright applications, trademarks,
service marks, trade names, trade styles, trademark and service
mark applications, and licenses and rights to use any of the
foregoing; all extensions, renewals, reissues, divisions,
continuations, and continuations-in-part of any of the foregoing;
all rights to sue for past, present and future infringement of any
of the foregoing; inventions, trade secrets, formulae, processes,
compounds, drawings, designs, blueprints, surveys, reports,
manuals, and operating standards; goodwill (including any goodwill
associated with any trademark or the license of any trademark);
customer and other lists in whatever form maintained; and trade
secret rights, copyright rights, rights in works of authorship,
domain names and domain name registrations; software and contract
rights relating to software, in whatever form created or
maintained.
1.32 “Interest
Rate” shall mean a rate equal to the Libor Rate plus the
Applicable Margin as set forth in Exhibit A hereto; provided
that notwithstanding anything in the Agreement to the
contrary, interest shall be payable at a rate of four percent
(4%) per annum in excess of the Interest Rate, at
Lender’s option, without notice from and after the date of
the occurrence of any Event of Default for so long as such Event of
Default is continuing as determined by Lender.
1.33 The term “Interest
Rate Determination Date” means the date this Note is closed
and initially funded, and the fifteenth business day of each
calendar month thereafter.
1.34 “Lender Payment
Account” shall mean such account of Lender as Lender may from
time to time designate to Borrower as the Lender Payment Account
for purposes of this Agreement.
1.35 “Leverage
Ratio” shall mean Funded Debt divided by EBITDA.
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1.36 The term “LIBOR
Rate” means rate per annum effective on any Interest Rate
Determination Date, which is equal to the quotient of: (a) the
rate per annum equal to the offered rate for deposits in U.S.
dollars for a one (1) month period, which rate appears on that
page of Bloomberg reporting service, or such similar service as
determined by Lender, that displays British Bankers’
Association interest settlement rates for deposits in U.S. Dollars,
as of 11:00 a.m. (London, England time) two (2) business
days prior to the Interest Rate Determination Date ; provided,
that if no such offered rate appears on such page, the rate used
for such Interest Period will be the per annum rate of interest
determined by Lender to be the rate at which U.S. dollar deposits
for the Interest Period are offered to Lender in the London
Inter-Bank Market as of 11:00 a.m. (London, England time), on the
day that is two (2) business days prior to the Interest Rate
Determination Date, divided by (ii) the percentage equal to
1.00 minus the maximum reserve percentages (including any
emergency, supplemental, special or other marginal reserves)
expressed as a decimal in effect on any day to which Lender is
subject with respect to any LIBOR loan pursuant to regulations
issued by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System with
respect to eurocurrency funding (currently referred to as
“eurocurrency liabilities” under Regulation D). This
percentage will be adjusted automatically on and as of the
effective date of any change in any reserve percentage.
1.37 “Line of
Business” shall mean Borrower’s business as the
operator of pawn shops and the originator of short term consumer
loans.
1.38 “Loans”
shall mean the Revolving Loans and the Term Loan.
1.39 “Material Adverse
Effect” shall have the meaning assigned in the Material
Contract definition.
1.40 “Material
Contract” shall mean (a) any contract or other agreement
(other than the Financing Agreements), written or oral, of Borrower
involving monetary liability of or to any Person in an amount in
excess of $100,000 in any month and (b) any other contract or
other agreement (other than the Financing Agreements), whether
written or oral, to which Borrower is a party as to which the
breach, nonperformance, cancellation or failure to renew by any
party thereto is reasonably likely to have a material adverse
effect on the business, assets, condition (financial or otherwise)
or results of operations of Borrower or the validity or
enforceability of this Agreement, any of the other Financing
Agreements, or any of the rights and remedies of Lender hereunder
or thereunder (a “Material Adverse Effect”).
1.41 “Maturity
Date” shall mean June 15, 2009, subject to annual review
by Lender during the term of this Agreement, with respect to the
Revolving Note, and June 15, 2012 with respect to the Term
Note.
1.42 “Multiemployer
Plan” shall mean a “multi-employer plan” as
defined in Section 4001 (a)(3) of ERISA which is or was at any
time during the current year or the immediately preceding six
(6) years contributed to by Borrower or any ERISA
Affiliate.
1.43 “Notes”
shall mean the Term Note and the Revolving Note.
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1.44
“Obligations” shall mean the Term Loan, any and all
Revolving Loans, all Rate Management Obligations, and all other
obligations, liabilities and indebtedness of every kind, nature and
description owing by Borrower to Lender and/or its subsidiaries or
other affiliates, including principal, interest, charges, fees,
costs and expenses, however evidenced, whether as principal,
surety, endorser, guarantor or otherwise, whether arising under
this Agreement or otherwise, whether now existing or hereafter
arising, whether arising before, during or after the initial or any
renewal term of this Agreement or after the commencement of any
case with respect to Borrower under the United States Bankruptcy
Code or any similar statute (including the payment of interest and
other amounts which would accrue and become due but for the
commencement of such case, whether or not such amounts are allowed
or allowable in whole or in part in such case), whether direct or
indirect, absolute or contingent, joint or several, due or not due,
primary or secondary, liquidated or unliquidated, secured or
unsecured, and however acquired by Lender.
1.45 “Obligor”
shall mean any guarantor, endorser, acceptor, surety or other
person liable on or with respect to the Obligations or who is the
owner of any property which is security for the Obligations, other
than Borrower.
1.46 “Permitted
Indebtedness” means any of the following:
(a) Indebtedness incurred
under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents;
(b) Indebtedness incurred in
connection with the acquisition of Equipment;
(c) Indebtedness consisting
of all obligations of Borrower or any Subsidiary (i) as lessee
under a Capital Lease or (i) under any lease which is
accounted for by the lessee as an operating lease and under which
the lessee is intended to be the “owner” of the leased
property for Federal income tax purposes;
(d) Indebtedness of Borrower
or any Obligor under derivative, swap or hedge agreements in
respect of any Indebtedness arising under this
Agreement;
(e) Indebtedness listed on
Schedule 1.46 hereof;
(f) Indebtedness arising out
of the refinancing, extension, renewal or refunding of any
Indebtedness referred to above or otherwise permitted under this
Agreement.
1.47 “Permitted
Investments” means each of the following:
(a) direct obligations of, or
obligations the principal of and interest on which are
unconditionally guaranteed by, the United States of America (or by
any agency thereof to the extent such obligations are backed by the
full faith and credit of the United States of America), in each
case maturing not more than one year from the date of acquisition
thereof;
(b) investments in commercial
paper maturing not more than one year from the date of acquisition
thereof and having, at such date of acquisition, the highest credit
rating obtainable from Standard & Poors or from
Moody’s Investment Services, Inc.;
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(c) investments in
certificates of deposit, banker’s acceptances and time
deposits maturing not more than one year from the date of
acquisition thereof issued or guaranteed by or placed with, and
money market deposit accounts issued or offered by, any domestic
office of any financial institution organized under the laws of the
United States of America or any State thereof that has a combined
capital and surplus and undivided profits of not less than
$500,000,000;
(d) fully collateralized
repurchase agreements with a term of not more than 30 days for
securities described in clause (a) above (without regard to
the limitation on maturity contained in such clause) and entered
into with a financial institution satisfying the criteria described
in clause (c) above;
(e) marketable direct
obligations issued by any state of the United States of America or
any political subdivision of any such state or any public
instrumentality thereof maturing within one year from the date of
acquisition thereof and, at the time of acquisition, having one of
the two highest ratings obtainable from either Standard &
Poors or from Moody’s Investment Services, Inc.;
(f) investments in money
market funds, substantially all the assets of which are comprised
of securities of the types described in clauses (a) through
(e) above;
(g) investments in money
market funds access to which is provided as part of any
“sweep” account;
(h) investments acquired by
Borrower or any Subsidiary (i) in exchange for any other
investment held by such Person in connection with or as a result of
a bankruptcy, workout, reorganization or recapitalization of the
issuer of such other investment, or (ii) as a result of a
foreclosure by such Person with respect to any secured investment
or other transfer of title with respect to any secured investment
in default; provided , that , the original of any
such stock or instrument evidencing such obligations shall be
promptly delivered to Lender, upon Lender’s request, together
with such stock power, assignment or endorsement by Borrower as
Lender may request;
(i) investments in any
Subsidiary including without limitation any acquisitions permitted
hereunder;
(j) to the extent not
permitted by the foregoing clauses, existing investments in any
Subsidiaries (and any increases thereof attributable to increases
in retained earnings);
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(k) investments of Borrower
or any Subsidiary in derivative, swap or hedge agreements in
connection with Indebtedness arising under this
Agreement;
(l) investments of any Person
which are outstanding at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary
as a result of an acquisition permitted hereunder, but not any
increase in the amount thereof;
(m) any other investments
(whether in the form of cash or contribution of property, and if in
the form of a contribution of property, such property shall be
valued for purposes of this clause at the fair value thereof as
reasonably determined by the relevant Loan Party) in any
corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture
or other business entity, which is not itself a Subsidiary of a
Borrower or owned or controlled by any director, officer or
employee of a Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, not otherwise
permitted by the foregoing clauses, made after the date of this
Agreement, shall be permitted to be incurred if (i) no Event
of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, or would result
therefrom, and (ii) the aggregate cumulative amount of such
investments after the date of this Agreement does not exceed
$500,000;
(n) Cash or Cash
Equivalents;
(o) Obligations of account
debtors to Borrower arising from accounts which are past due
evidenced by a promissory note made by such account debtor payable
to Borrower;
(p) the endorsement of
instruments for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of
business;
(q) loans to employees in the
ordinary course of business, not to exceed $50,000.00
and
(r) to the extent not
permitted by the foregoing clauses, the existing loans, advances
and investments described on Schedule 1.47 hereto and any
refinancing thereof; provided that , as to any such
loans and advances, (i) Borrower shall not, directly or
indirectly, amend, modify, alter or change the terms of such loans
and advances or any agreement, document or instrument related
thereto in a manner adverse to Borrower except as otherwise
permitted in any collateral assignment or pledge to Lender
applicable to such loan or advance, and (ii) Borrower shall
furnish to Lender all notices or demands in connection with such
loans and advances either received by Borrower or on its behalf,
promptly after the receipt thereof, or sent by Borrower or on its
behalf, concurrently with the sending thereof, as the case may
be;
1.48 “Permitted
Lien” means any of the following:
(a) liens or encumbrances for
taxes not yet delinquent or which are being contested in good faith
by appropriate proceedings, provided that adequate
reserves in accordance with GAAP (and in the good faith judgment of
the management of such Obligor with respect thereto are maintained
on the books of such Obligor;
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(b) liens or encumbrances in
respect of property or assets imposed by law in the ordinary course
of business, such as carrier’s, warehousemen’s,
processor’s mechanics’, materialmen’s,
repairmen’s, landlord’s or similar encumbrances which
do not in the aggregate materially detract from the value of such
property or assets or materially impair the use thereof in the
operation of the business of such Person or which are being
contested in good faith by such Person, by appropriate proceedings
diligently instituted and conducted and without danger of any
material risk to the Collateral and such reserve or other
appropriate provision, if any, as shall be required in conformity
with GAAP shall have been made therefor;
(c) liens, encumbrances,
pledges or deposits in connection with workers’ compensation,
unemployment and social security;
(d) deposits, liens or
encumbrances, to secure the performance of tenders, bids, sales,
trade and government contracts, leases, statutory obligations,
surety, appeal bonds and supersedes, warranty, advance payment,
appeal, customs, performance and return-of-money bonds and other
obligations of a like nature in the ordinary course of business
whether pursuant to statutory requirements, common law or
consensual arrangements;
(e) any lien or encumbrance,
UCC financing statement, interest or title of a lessor under any
lease entered into in the ordinary course of business; or any
interest or title of any lessee under any leases or subleases of
real property;
(f) rights of consignors of
goods, whether or not perfected by the filing of a financing
statement under the UCC;
(g) liens and encumbrances
arising from judgments, decrees or attachments with respect to
which execution has been stayed, with respect to which payment in
excess of any applicable deductible is covered by insurance or a
bond, or in circumstances not constituting an Event of Default
hereunder;
(h) liens or encumbrances
created by this Agreement or the other loan documents executed in
connection herewith;
(i) liens and encumbrances
listed on Schedule 1.48, annexed hereto.
1.49 “Person” or
“person” shall mean any individual, sole
proprietorship, partnership, corporation (including any corporation
which elects subchapter S status under the Code), limited liability
company, limited liability partnership, business trust,
unincorporated association, joint stock corporation, trust, joint
venture or other entity or any government or any agency or
instrumentality or political subdivision thereof.
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1.50 “Plan” means
an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA)
covered by Title IV of ERISA or subject to the minimum funding
standards under Section 412 of the Code which Borrower
sponsors, maintains, or to which it makes, is making, or is
obligated to make contributions, or in the case of a Multiemployer
Plan has made contributions at any time during the immediately
preceding six (6) plan years.
1.51 “Rate Management
Agreement” means any agreement, device or arrangement
providing for payments which are related to fluctuations of
interest rates, exchange rates, forward rates, or equity prices,
including, but not limited to dollar-denominated or cross- currency
interest rate exchange agreements, forward currency exchange
agreements, interest rate cap or collar protection agreements,
forward rate currency or interest rate options, puts and warrants,
and any agreement pertaining to equity derivative transactions
(e.g., equity or equity index swaps, options, caps, floors, collars
and forwards), including without limitation any ISDA Master
Agreement between Borrower and Bank or any affiliate of Fifth Third
Bancorp, and any schedules, confirmations and documents and other
confirming evidence between the parties confirming transactions
thereunder, all whether now existing or hereafter arising, and in
each case as amended, modified or supplemented from time to
time.
1.52 “Rate Management
Obligations” means any and all obligations of Borrower to
Bank or any affiliate of Fifth Third Bancorp, whether absolute,
contingent or otherwise and howsoever and whensoever (whether now
or hereafter) created, arising, evidenced or acquired (including
all renewals, extensions and modifications thereof and
substitutions therefore), under or in connection with (i) any
and all Rate Management Agreements, and (ii) any and all
concellations, buy-backs, reversals, terminations or assignments of
any Rate Management Agreement.
1.53 “Real
Property” shall mean all now owned and hereafter acquired
real property of Borrower, including leasehold interests, together
with all buildings, structures, and other improvements located
thereon and all licenses, easements and appurtenances relating
thereto, wherever located.
1.54
“Receivables” shall mean all of the following now owned
or hereafter arising or acquired property of Borrower: (a) all
Accounts; (b) all interest, fees, late charges, penalties,
collection fees and other amounts due or to become due or otherwise
payable in connection with any Account; (c) all payment
intangibles of Borrower and other contract rights, chattel paper,
instruments, notes, and other forms of obligations owing to
Borrower, whether from the sale and lease of goods or other
property, licensing of any property (including Intellectual
Property or other general intangibles), rendition of services or
from loans or advances by Borrower or to or for the benefit of any
third person (including loans or advances to any Affiliates or
Subsidiaries of Borrower) or otherwise associated with any
Accounts, Inventory or general intangibles of Borrower (including,
without limitation, choses in action, causes of action, tax
refunds, tax refund claims, any funds which may become payable to
Borrower in connection with the termination of any Plan or other
employee benefit plan and any other amounts payable to Borrower
from any Plan or other employee benefit plan, rights and claims
against carriers and shippers, rights to indemnification, business
interruption insurance and proceeds thereof, and casualty or any
similar types of insurance and any proceeds thereof.
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1.55 “Records”
shall mean all of Borrower’s present and future books of
account of every kind or nature, purchase and sale agreements,
invoices, ledger cards, bills of lading and other shipping
evidence, statements, correspondence, memoranda, credit files and
other data relating to the Collateral or any account debtor,
together with the tapes, disks, diskettes and other data and
software storage media and devices, file cabinets or containers in
or on which the foregoing are stored (including any rights of
Borrower with respect to the foregoing maintained with or by any
other person).
1.56 “Reserves”
shall mean as of any date of determination, such amounts as Lender
may from time to time establish and revise in good faith reducing
the amount of Revolving Loans which would otherwise be available to
Borrower under the lending formula(s) provided for herein:
(a) to reflect events, conditions, contingencies or risks
which, as determined by Lender in good faith, adversely affect, or
would have a reasonable likelihood of adversely affecting, either
(i) the Collateral or any other property which is security for
the Obligations or its value, (ii) the assets, business or
prospects of Borrower or any Obligor or (iii) the security
interests and other rights of Lender in the Collateral (including
the enforceability, perfection and priority thereof) or (b) to
reflect Lender’s good faith belief that any collateral report
or financial information furnished by or on behalf of Borrower or
any Obligor to Lender is or may have been incomplete, inaccurate or
misleading in any material respect or (c) in respect of any
state of facts which Lender determines in good faith constitutes a
Default or an Event of Default. The amount of any Reserve
established by Lender shall have a reasonable relationship to the
event, condition or other matter which is the basis for such
reserve as determined by Lender in good faith.
1.57 “Revolving Loan
Limit” shall mean $17,000,000.
1.58 “Revolving
Loans” shall mean the loans now or hereafter made by Lender
to or for the benefit of Borrower on a revolving basis (involving
advances, repayments and readvances) as set forth in
Section 2.1 hereof.
1.59 “Revolving
Note” shall have the meaning assigned in
Section 2.1.
1.60 “Solvent”
shall mean, at any time with respect to any Person, that at such
time such Person (a) is able to pay its debts as they mature
and has (and has a reasonable basis to believe it will continue to
have) sufficient capital (and not unreasonably small capital) to
carry on its business consistent with its practices as of the date
hereof, and (b) the assets and properties of such Person at a
fair valuation (and including as assets for this purpose at a fair
valuation all rights of subrogation, contribution or
indemnification arising pursuant to any guarantees given by such
Person) are greater than the Indebtedness of such Person, and
including subordinated and contingent liabilities computed at the
amount which, such person has a reasonable basis to believe,
represents an amount which can reasonably be expected to become an
actual or matured liability (and including as to contingent
liabilities arising pursuant to any guarantee the face amount of
such liability as reduced to reflect the probability of it becoming
a matured liability). The determination of whether a Person is
Solvent shall take into account all such Person’s properties
and liabilities regardless of whether, or the amount at which, any
such property or liability is included on a balance sheet of such
Person prepared in accordance with GAAP, including
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properties such as contingent
contribution or subrogation rights, business prospects,
distribution channels and goodwill. The determination of the sum of
a Person’s properties at a fair valuation or the present fair
saleable value of a Person’s properties shall be made on a
going concern basis, unless at the time of such determination the
liquidation of the business in which such properties are used or
useful is in process or is demonstrably imminent. In computing the
amount of contingent or unrealized properties or contingent or
unliquidated liabilities at any time, such properties and
liabilities will be computed at the amounts which, in light of all
the facts and circumstances existing at such time, represent the
amount that reasonably can be expected to become realized
properties or matured liabilities, as the case may be. In computing
the amount that would be required to pay a Person’s probable
liability on its existing debts as they become absolute and
matured, reasonable valuation techniques, including a present value
analysis, shall be applied using such rates over such periods as
are appropriate under the circumstances, and it is understood that,
in appropriate circumstances, the present value of contingent
liabilities may be zero.
1.61 “Subordinated
Debt” shall mean all Indebtedness fully subordinated to debt
of Borrower to Lender.
1.62 “Subsidiary”
or “subsidiary” shall mean, with respect to any Person,
any corporation, limited liability company, limited liability
partnership or other limited or general partnership, trust,
association or other business entity of which an aggregate of at
least a majority of the outstanding Capital Stock or other
interests entitled to vote in the election of the board of
directors of such corporation (irrespective of whether, at the
time, Capital Stock of any other class or classes of such
corporation shall have or might have voting power by reason of the
happening of any contingency), managers, trustees or other
controlling persons, or an equivalent controlling interest therein,
of such Person is, at the time, directly or indirectly, owned by
such Person and/or one or more subsidiaries of such
Person.
1.63 “Term Loan”
shall mean the term loan made by Lender to Borrower as provided in
Section 2.2 hereof.
1.64 “Term Note”
shall have the meaning assigned in Section 2.2.
1.65 “UCC” shall
mean the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of
Florida, and any successor statute, as in effect from time to time
(except that terms used herein which are defined in the Uniform
Commercial Code as in effect in the State of Florida on the date
hereof shall continue to have the same meaning notwithstanding any
replacement or amendment of such statute except as Lender may
otherwise determine).
1.66 “Voting
Stock” shall mean with respect to any Person, (a) one
(1) or more classes of Capital Stock of such Person having
general voting powers to elect at least a majority of the board of
directors, managers or trustees of such Person, irrespective of
whether at the time Capital Stock of any other class or classes
have or might have voting power by reason of the happening of any
contingency, and (b) any Capital Stock of such Person
convertible or exchangeable without restriction at the option of
the holder thereof into Capital Stock of such Person described in
clause (a) of this definition.
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SECTION 2. CREDIT
FACILITY
2.1 Revolving
Loans.
(a) Subject to and upon the
terms and conditions contained herein, Lender agrees to make
Revolving Loans to Borrower from time to time in amounts requested
by Borrower up to the Revolving Loan Limit. The Revolving Loans are
(i) evidenced by a Revolving Note duly executed and delivered
by Borrower to Lender concurrently herewith in the form attached
hereto as Exhibit B (the “Revolving Note”);
(ii) to be repaid, together with interest and other amounts on
the Maturity Date or earlier in accordance with the Revolving Note,
this Agreement and the other Financing Agreements; and
(iii) secured by all of the Collateral.
(b) Except in Lender’s
discretion, the aggregate amount of the Revolving Loans outstanding
at any time shall not exceed the Revolving Loan Limit. In the event
that the outstanding amount of any component of the Revolving Loans
exceeds the amount available pursuant to the Revolving Loan Limit,
such event shall not limit, waive or otherwise affect any rights of
Lender in that circumstance or on any future occasions and Borrower
shall, upon demand by Lender, which may be made at any time or from
time to time, immediately repay to Lender the entire amount of any
such excess(es) for which payment is demanded.
(c) Borrower may from time to
time request Revolving Loans and each such request from Borrower
shall specify the amount of the Revolving Loan requested. Subject
to the terms and conditions contained herein, two (2) Business
Days after receipt by Lender of such a request from Borrower, such
Loan shall be made, provided , that , (i) no
Default or Event of Default shall exist or have occurred and be
continuing, (ii) no party hereto shall have sent any notice of
termination of this Agreement, (iii) Borrower shall have
complied with such customary procedures as are established by
Lender and specified by Lender to Borrower from time to time for
requests by Borrower for Loans, and (iv) Lender shall have
determined that the Interest Rate can be readily determined as of
the date of the request. Any request by Borrower for Revolving
Loans shall be irrevocable.
2.2 Term Loan . Lender
is making a Term Loan to Borrower in the original principal amount
of $20,000,000. The Term Loan is (a) evidenced by a Term Note
in such original principal amount duly executed and delivered by
Borrower to Lender concurrently herewith in the form attached
hereto as Exhibit C (the “Term Note”); (b) to be
repaid, together with interest and other amounts, in accordance
with the Terra Note, this Agreement and the other Financing
Agreements; and (c) secured by all of the
Collateral.
SECTION 3. INTEREST AND
FEES
3.1 Interest
.
(a) Borrower shall pay to
Lender interest on the outstanding principal amount of the Loans at
the Interest Rate. All interest accruing hereunder on and after the
date of any Event of Default or termination hereof shall be payable
on demand.
(b) Interest shall be payable
by Borrower to Lender monthly in arrears not later than the
fifteenth day of each calendar month and shall be calculated on the
basis of a three hundred sixty (360) day year and actual days
elapsed. The interest rate shall increase or
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decrease by an amount equal to each
increase or decrease in the Libor Rate effective on the first day
of the month after any change in such Libor Rate is announced based
on the Libor Rate in effect on the last day of the month in which
any such change occurs. In no event shall charges constituting
interest payable by Borrower to Lender exceed the maximum amount or
the rate permitted under any applicable law or regulation, and if
any such part or provision of this Agreement is in contravention of
any such law or regulation, such part or provision shall be deemed
amended to conform thereto.
3.2 Late Charge .
Borrower shall pay to Lender a late charge equal to five percent
(5%) of each payment of principal and/or interest which is not
paid on or before the date on which it is due.
3.3 Fees .
(a) Commitment Fees .
On the date hereof, the Borrower shall pay to Bank a fee of
$68,000.00 with respect to the Revolving Loan and $50,000.00 with
respect to the Term Loan.
(b) Unused Fee for
Revolving Credit. As consideration for making the Revolving
Credit available, Borrower shall pay to Bank an unused fee from the
date hereof to the Revolving Credit Maturity Date, equal to the
product of the unused portion of the Revolving Credit Loan Amount,
multiplied by the applicable “Unused Fee” rate set
forth in attached Exhibit A. Such fee shall be computed on the
basis of the average daily unused portion of the then existing
Revolving Loan Amount and shall be payable quarterly in
arrears.
3.4 Changes in Laws and
Increased Costs of Loans . If after the date hereof, either
(i) any change in, or in the interpretation of, any law or
regulation is introduced, including, without limitation, with
respect to reserve requirements, applicable to Lender or any
banking or financial institution from whom Lender borrows funds or
obtains credit (a “Funding Bank”), or (ii) a
Funding Bank or Lender complies with any future guideline or
request from any central bank or other Governmental Authority, or
(iii) a Funding Bank or Lender determines that the adoption of
any applicable law, rule or regulation regarding capital adequacy,
or any change therein, or any change in the interpretation or
administration thereof by any Governmental Authority, central bank
or comparable agency charged with the interpretation or
administration thereof has or would have the effect described
below, or a Funding Bank or Lender complies with any request or
directive regarding capital adequacy (whether or not having the
force of law) of any such authority, central bank or comparable
agency, and in the case of any event set forth in this clause
(iii), such adoption, change or compliance has or would have the
direct or indirect effect of reducing the rate of return on
Lender’s capital as a consequence of its obligations
hereunder to a level below that which Lender could have achieved
but for such adoption, change or compliance (taking into
consideration the Funding Bank’s or Lender’s policies
with respect to capital adequacy) by an amount deemed by Lender to
be material, and the result of any of the foregoing events
described in clauses (i), (ii) or (iii) is or results in
an increase in the cost to Lender of funding or maintaining the
Loans, then Borrower shall from time to time upon demand by Lender
pay to Lender additional amounts sufficient to indemnify Lender
against such increased cost on an after-tax basis (after taking
into account applicable deductions and credits in respect of the
amount indemnified). A certificate as to the basis and amount of
such increased cost shall be submitted to Borrower by Lender and
shall be conclusive, absent manifest error.
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SECTION 4. CONDITIONS
PRECEDENT
4.1 Conditions Precedent
to Initial Loans . Each of the following is a condition
precedent to Lender making the initial Loans hereunder:
(a) Lender shall have
received, in form and substance satisfactory to Lender, all
releases, terminations and such other documents as Leader may
request to evidence and effectuate the termination by any existing
lenders other than Permitted Indebtedness to Borrower of their
respective financing arrangements with Borrower and the termination
and release by it or them, as the case may be, of any interest in
and to any assets and properties of Borrower and each Obligor, duly
authorized, executed and delivered by it or each of them,
including, but not limited to, UCC termination statements for all
UCC financing statements previously filed by it or any of them or
their predecessors, as secured party and Borrower or any Obligor,
as debtor;
(b) all requisite corporate
action and proceedings in connection with this Agreement and the
other Financing Agreements shall be satisfactory in form and
substance to Lender, and Lender shall have received all information
and copies of all documents, including records of requisite
corporate action and proceedings which Lender may have requested in
connection therewith, such documents where requested by Lender or
its counsel to be certified by appropriate corporate officers or
Governmental Authority (and including a copy of the certificate of
incorporation of Borrower certified by the Secretary of State (or
equivalent Governmental Authority) which shall set forth the same
complete corporate name of Borrower as is set forth herein and such
document as shall set forth the organizational identification
number of Borrower, if one is issued in its jurisdiction of
incorporation);
(c) no material adverse
change shall have occurred in the assets, business or prospects of
Borrower since the date of the Commitment and no change or event
shall have occurred which would impair the ability of Borrower or
any Obligor to perform its obligations hereunder or under any of
the other Financing Agreements to which it is a party or of Lender
to enforce the Obligations or realize upon the
Collateral;
(d) Lender shall have
completed a review of the Records and such other information with
respect to the Collateral as Lender may require;
(e) Lender shall have
received, in form and substance satisfactory to Lender, all
consents, waivers, acknowledgments and other agreements from third
persons which Lender may deem reasonably necessary or desirable in
order to permit, protect and perfect its security interests in and
liens upon the Collateral or to effectuate the provisions or
purposes of this Agreement and the other Financing
Agreements;
(f) Lender shall have
received evidence, in form and substance satisfactory to Lender,
that Lender has a valid perfected first priority security interest
in all of the Collateral that can be perfected by a UCC filing with
Borrower’s state of incorporation (other than Permitted
Liens);
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(g) Lender shall have
received and reviewed lien and judgment search results for the
jurisdiction of incorporation or organization of Borrower, the
jurisdiction of the chief executive office of Borrower and all
jurisdictions in which assets of Borrower are located, which search
results shall be in form and substance satisfactory to
Lender;
(h) Lender shall have
received evidence of insurance and loss payee endorsements required
hereunder and under the other Financing Agreements, in form and
substance satisfactory to Lender, and certificates of insurance
policies and/or endorsements naming Lender as loss
payee;
(i) Lender shall have
received, in form and substance satisfactory to Lender, such
opinion letters of counsel to Borrower and Guarantors with respect
to the Financing Agreements and such other matters as Lender may
request;
(j) Lender shall have
received, in form and substance satisfactory to Lender, a guarantee
of the Obligations from each Guarantor;
(k) Lender shall have
received in form and substance satisfactory to Lender, a Stock
Pledge Agreement in form and substance satisfactory to Lender from
Borrower as to the shares of Value Pawn Holdings, Inc., a Tennessee
corporation;
(l) Lender shall have
received in form and substance satisfactory to Lender a pro forma
opening balance sheet and solvency certificate of
Borrower;
(m) the other Financing
Agreements and all instruments and documents hereunder and
thereunder shall have been duly executed and delivered to Lender,
in form and substance satisfactory to Lender.
4.2 Conditions Precedent
to All Loans . Each of the following is an additional condition
precedent to Lender making Loans to Borrower, including the initial
Loans and any future Loans:
(a) all representations and
warranties contained herein and in the other Financing Agreements
shall be true and correct with the same effect as though such
representations and warranties had been made on and as of the date
of the making of each such Loan and after giving effect thereto,
except to the extent that such representations and warranties
expressly relate solely to an earlier date (in which case such
representations and warranties shall have been true and accurate on
and as of such earlier date);
(b) no law, regulation,
order, judgment or decree of any Governmental Authority shall
exist, and no action, suit, investigation, litigation or proceeding
shall be pending or threatened in any court or before any
arbitrator or Governmental Authority, which (i) purports to
enjoin, prohibit, restrain or otherwise affect (A) the making
of the Loans, or (B) the consummation of the transactions
contemplated pursuant to the terms hereof or the other Financing
Agreements or (ii) has or could reasonably be expected to have
a Material Adverse Effect on the assets, business or prospects of
Borrower or would impair the ability of Borrower to perform its
obligations hereunder or under any of the other Financing
Agreements or of Lender to enforce any Obligations or realize upon
any of the Collateral;
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(c) Lender shall have
received, in form and substance satisfactory to Lender, a guarantee
of the Obligations from each Guarantor; and
(d) no Default or Event of
Default shall exist or have occurred and be continuing on and as of
the date of the making of such Loan and after giving effect
thereto.
SECTION 5. GRANT AND PERFECTION OF
SECURITY INTEREST
5.1 Grant of Security
Interest . To secure payment and performance of all
Obligations, including, without limitation, the Term Loan and
Revolving Loans, Borrower hereby grants to Lender a continuing
security interest in, a lien upon, and a right of set off against,
and hereby assigns to Lender as security, all personal property and
interests in property and fixtures of Borrower, whether now owned
or hereafter acquired or existing, and wherever located (together
with all other collateral security for the Obligations at any time
granted to or held or acquired by Lender, collectively, the
“Collateral”), including:
(a) all Accounts;
(b) all general intangibles,
including, without limitation, all Intellectual
Property;
(c) all goods, including,
without limitation, Inventory and Equipment;
(d) all chattel paper
(including all tangible and electronic chattel paper);
(e) all instruments
(including all promissory notes);
(f) all
documents;
(g) all deposit
accounts;
(h) all letters of credit,
banker’s acceptances and similar instruments and including
all letter-of-credit rights;
(i) all supporting
obligations and all present and future liens, security interests,
rights, remedies, title and interest in, to and in respect of
Receivables and other Collateral, including (i) rights and
remedies under or relating to guaranties, contracts of suretyship,
letters of credit and credit and other insurance related to the
Collateral, (ii) rights of stoppage in transit, replevin,
repossession, reclamation and other rights and remedies of an
unpaid vendor, lienor or secured party, (iii) goods described
in invoices, documents, contracts or instruments with respect to,
or otherwise representing or evidencing, Receivables or other
Collateral, including returned, repossessed and reclaimed goods,
and (iv) deposits by and property of account debtors or other
persons securing the obligations of account debtors;
(j) all (i) investment
property (including securities, whether certificated or
uncertificated, securities accounts, security entitlements,
commodity contracts or commodity accounts) and (ii) monies,
credit balances, deposits and other property of Borrower now or
hereafter held or received by or in transit to Lender or its
Affiliates or at any other depository or other institution from or
for the account of Borrower, whether for safekeeping, pledge,
custody, transmission, collection or otherwise;
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(k) all commercial tort
claims;
(l) to the extent not
otherwise described above, all Receivables;
(m) all Records;
and
(n) all products and proceeds
of the foregoing, in any form, including insurance proceeds and all
claims against third parties for loss or damage to or destruction
of or other involuntary conversion of any kind or nature of any or
all of the other Collateral.
This Agreement shall also
serve as a “Security Agreement” within the meaning of
that term as used in the Uniform Commercial Code as adopted and in
force from time to time in the State of Florida, and shall be
operative and effective as a Security Agreement in addition to, and
not in substitution for, any other Security Agreement executed by
Borrower in connection with the extension of credit or loan
transaction secured hereby. Borrower agrees to and shall, upon the
request of Lender, execute and deliver to Lender, in form
satisfactory to Lender, such financing statements, descriptions of
property and such further assurances as Lender, in its sole
discretion, may from time to time consider necessary to create,
perfect, continue, and preserve the lien and encumbrances hereof
and the security interest granted herein upon and in such
Collateral. Lender, at the expenses of Borrower, may or shall cause
such statements, descriptions, and assurances to be recorded and
re-recorded, filed and refiled, at such times and in such places as
may be required or permitted by law to so create, perfect and
preserve the lien and encumbrances hereof upon all of said
collateral. In addition to any other rights and remedies contained
in this Agreement or any other documents executed in connection
with the Obligations, Lender shall have all the rights and remedies
of a secured party under the Uniform Commercial Code as adopted and
in force from time to time in the State of Florida or other
applicable law, all of which rights shall be cumulative and
nonexclusive, to the extent permitted by law.
5.2 Perfection of Security
Interests.
(a) Borrower irrevocably and
unconditionally authorizes Lender (or its agent) to file at any
time and from time to time such financing statements with respect
to the Collateral naming Lender or its designee as secured party
and Borrower as debtor, as Lender may require, and including any
other information with respect to Borrower or otherwise required by
part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such
jurisdiction as Lender may determine, together with any amendment
and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall
apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the
date hereof. Borrower hereby ratifies and approves all financing
statements naming Lender or its designee as secured party and
Borrower as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any
amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or
on behalf of Lender prior to the date hereof and ratifies and
confirms the authorization of Lender to file such financing
statements (and amendments, if any). Borrower hereby authorizes
Lender to adopt on behalf of Borrower any symbol required for
authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the
description of the collateral in any financing statement naming
Lender or its designee as the secured party and Borrower as
debtor
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includes assets and properties of
Borrower that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether
hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or
otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless
be deemed authorized by Borrower to the extent of the Collateral
included in such description and it shall not render the financing
statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise
affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the
Collateral. In no event shall Borrower at any time file, or permit
or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination
statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or
continuation with respect thereto) naming Lender or its designee as
secured party and Borrower as debtor.
(b) Borrower does not have
any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth on
Schedule 5.2.
(c) Borrower shall take any
other actions reasonably requested by Lender from time to time to
cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, subject to
Permitted Liens, and the ability of Lender to enforce, the security
interest of Lender in any and alt of the Collateral, including,
without limitation, executing, delivering and, where appropriate,
filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under
the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that
Borrower’s signature thereon is required therefor.
SECTION 6. COLLECTION AND
ADMINISTRATION
6.1 Borrower’s
Lo a n Account . Lender shall maintain one or more loan
account
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